re: Finally watched Last of the Mohicans

The only movie Arkansas folk like is deliverance

Whut?

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The first two shots are just nice scenery, the third is basic.

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For the first shot, what's going on here? They are in the middle of running away from battle, so they have the characters run towards the film, angled up and across so it gives unique perspective. Not only that they show, in full, how the Indians are organized to watch them. And, it has a good mix of actors and color, with the color of the mountain, the water, the green and the actors juxtaposed against that. It's a good shot.

The second shot is iconic, as the director isolates the two most important people in the film . -The Last of the Mohicans and the Indiana that aligns himself with British forces, - against the backdrop of mountains and Blue Sky.

The third is far from basic. It may seem basic because opposing forces standing against each other is a common shot for sure, but the colors, the flags, the smoke....it makes it look like an 18th Century painting, which was the point. It was very successful on that point.

See here, Battle of Yorktown painting:

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USEyourCURDS

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Bravo.

This is clearly a troll. I down voted anyway.

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Freauxzen

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It had some good shots, don't get me wrong, it's just nothing special. Like another poster said, it's just not memorable. If I'm at a bar talking about movies with great cinematography and brought up Last of the Mohicans, I would probably be asked to leave.

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It had some good shots, don't get me wrong, it's just nothing special. Like another poster said, it's just not memorable. If I'm at a bar talking about movies with great cinematography and brought up Last of the Mohicans, I would probably be asked to leave.

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No one said it had the greatest cinematography of all time, and no, when talking about cinematography, LotM is not in the first 50 films I would personally mention. But you said:

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Cinematography? LOL

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Which is different. Additionally, just because the cinematography isn't the greatest cinematography of all time, doesn't make the cinematography "LOL" worthy. It's still very good, far above average camera work.

When it comes to "greatest of all time" in any aspect/feature/category of film, there are usually a handful of worthy subjects with some outlier interesting cases. I would easily say 99.99999% of films don't fall into 2-3 of those categories simultaneously, but again, this does not necessarily reduce the "greatness" of a particular film.

It seems like you think people slot LoTM into the Casablanca/Godfather/Pick Your Hitchcock/The Good the Bad the Ugly Tier of films, and I don't think that many people do.

Additionally, you should say "I don't think Last of the Mohicans is as good as people think it is...." then presented some facts, rather than "Why do so many people say this is a good movie?" and "Cinematography? LOL." Your implication is that LotM is a bad movie, which is either 1) Troll or 2) Completely Unwarranted and generally incorrect "opinion"

You know how I know you're gay?

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Why do so many people say this is a good movie?

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I've never been able to figure that one out. It's pretty bad.

i give some credence to being overrated, but i would stop at saying it's not good. for the early 90's it was very good. my wife watched it with me recently and she really hated it outside of the last 15 minutes. i disagreed, but picked on some pretty bad things that i would have missed for nostalgia's sake.

i think the problem is wooden acting by a lot of roles in there and it's towards the bottom of DDLs barrel.

to say cinematography or score wasn't good is madness though. beautifully filmed and scored. i'd honestly put the last 15 minutes against almost any other 15 minutes in film in that regard.