Rank #4: 2008 | Crime/Drama film | 2h 32m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Batman The Dark Knight is considered to be one of the best Action/Adventure films around and certainly stand out from any other film releases of the same genre. With over $1 billion in revenue worldwide, it is the 26th-highest grossing film of all time, unadjusted for inflation. The film received eight Academy Award nominations; it won the award for Best Sound Editing and Ledger was posthumously awarded Best Supporting Actor. This due to the film's excellent choreography of stunts and acting that most of the fight scenes are so gripping to for the audience. Nolan also used IMAX 70 mm film cameras which helped to achieve better resolution than standard 65 mm film. The additional 5 mm are for 4 additional magnetic strips holding six tracks of sound, which overall improves the sound quality and could be the reason why Nolan received Best Sound Editing. Although Alex and I do not have access to this type of equipment, it has still made us think twice about the importance of sound quality. Especially since this was a severe flaw we had in our Opening Sequence at AS.
Batman The Dark Knight is considered to be one of the best Action/Adventure films around and certainly stand out from any other film releases of the same genre. With over $1 billion in revenue worldwide, it is the 26th-highest grossing film of all time, unadjusted for inflation. The film received eight Academy Award nominations; it won the award for Best Sound Editing and Ledger was posthumously awarded Best Supporting Actor. This due to the film's excellent choreography of stunts and acting that most of the fight scenes are so gripping to for the audience. Nolan also used IMAX 70 mm film cameras which helped to achieve better resolution than standard 65 mm film. The additional 5 mm are for 4 additional magnetic strips holding six tracks of sound, which overall improves the sound quality and could be the reason why Nolan received Best Sound Editing. Although Alex and I do not have access to this type of equipment, it has still made us think twice about the importance of sound quality. Especially since this was a severe flaw we had in our Opening Sequence at AS.
Inception
Rank #14: 2010 | Fantasy/Mystery | 2h 28m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Inception was directed by the same director who directed "Batman: The Dark Knight" which was Christopher Nolan. The use of CGI is excellent in this film due to the narrative of the film exploring the themes of dreams. Nolan's reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the film's $100 million in advertising expenditure. The narrative on the other is very complex and can be difficult to follow for some viewers, which as I mentioned before is something Alex and I have to avoid because we should aim to have a simple narrative which can be determined by the actors.
Rank #18: 1999 | Fantay/Action | 2h 30m
Directors: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
The Matrix is one of the most renown science fiction films of today. This film mainly gained popularity for its amazing visual effects and cinematography. The Matrix is known for popularizing an effect called "bullet time", which is a technique that heightens the perception of certain characters represented by allowing the action within a shot to progress in slo-motion whilst the camera appears to move through the scene at a normal speed. What I particularly like about this action films is the narrative because the ending allows the audience to think of an ending for themselves due to the film's relation with religious or philosophical themes.
After researching in detail 3 excellent examples of films from IMDb's list of top 100 greatest films, this has aided my research in finding out what characteristics make these 3 the greatest. They all have excellent story plots, films like The Dark Knight and Inception lead the narrative into a clear direction, whereas the Matrix leads its narrative for the audience to decide. On the other hand, Inception and Matrix use a heavy extent of CGI which is something The Dark Knight does not use to film their action sequences. My next set of research will now be looking at the characteristics of the greatest British Action/Adventure films since the majority of the ones selected on IMDb's list are American, but also because our film will be in fact British as we will not have the same budget to replicate the style of American Films.
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