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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* ''[[Avatar (
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]]'' is so completely packed with it from start to finish that the saturated colors and imagery of the alien environment actually outplays everything else.
* ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'' is essentially a movie of [[
▲* ''[[Titanic (Film)|Titanic]]'' gives us shots of the exquisitely designed first class areas of the ship. (And jaw-dropping scenes of the same gorgeous rooms being decimated)
* ''[[S. Darko]]'' has ridiculously good Scenery Porn for an otherwise terrible movie.▼
▲* ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'' is essentially a movie of [[Terry Gilliam (Creator)|Terry Gilliam]]'s wildest scenes imaginable. Pretty.
▲* ''[[S Darko]]'' has ridiculously good Scenery Porn for an otherwise terrible movie.
* ''[[
▲* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''
* Same with [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s ''[[Barry Lyndon]]''.{{context|reason=How did 'Barry Lyndon' make use of 'Voyager' probe data?}}▼
▲* ''[[Two Thousand Ten the Year We Make Contact]]'' made excellent use of the ''Voyager'' probes' photographic record of the Jovian system.
* ''[[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert|The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert]]'' is full of Scenery Porn describing the three protagonists' trip towards Alice Springs. Guilty also of [[Costume Porn]], with both during the climb to Kings Canyon.
▲* Same with [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s ''[[Barry Lyndon]]''.
* ''[[The
* ''[[Bram
▲* ''[[Bram Stokers Dracula (Film)|Bram Stokers Dracula]]''. Studio interiors of [[Victorian London]], especially the rose-filled garden, bathed in rich colours and looked really... fantastic. Great [[Costume Porn]], too.
* Hammer Horror, namely their Gothic films has sumptuously lush and dazzlingly clean London and Transylvania.
* ''[[Cast Away]]'': There was considerable Scenery Porn in this [[Tom Hanks]] vehicle. The film spends a lot of time focusing on how isolated his character is, trapped on the island -- hence there is much time for the camera to celebrate the landscape. Most of the views looking out to sea are CGI-enhanced: the location itself was in the middle of a chain of islands all visible from the beach.
* ''[[Field of Dreams]]'': The producers went out of their way to ensure the most beautiful shots, by building the actual field on two adjoining properties to allow for uninhibited sunset shots, and sometimes breaking a single scene up over several days to ensure "Magic Hour" effects
* ''[[
** This is true of many Chinese historical dramas on film and TV. A feast for the eyes, you needn't understand the language or what's going on.
* [[Terrence Malick]] ostensibly built his career on Scenery Porn. His movies may either be brilliant explorations of the scope and depth of man's existence or boring as box of rocks. However, no one can doubt the sheer awe-inspiring beauty of his films. See:
** ''Badlands''
** ''[[
** ''[[The Thin Red Line]]''
** ''[[The New World]]''
** ''[[
* ''[[The Fall (
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** This is directly mocked in ''[[
** From the trailer, it's seems that the prequel to LOTR, ''[[The Hobbit (
* In a surprise move, ''[[Eragon (
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' movies;, again filmed in New Zealand. There's a reason films from New Zealand use this trope though. The Narnia films also had scenes shot in the Czech Republic and elsewhere.
* Ditto the much older ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture
* ''[[Star Trek III:
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Another Ridley Scott film: ''[[Legend (
* ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. ''Three solid minutes'' of beautiful shots of the Austrian mountains, with pretty, birdlike instrumentals in the background, has got to be the ''definitive'' example of Scenery Porn.
* Gus Van Sant's ''[[
* ''[[Sunshine (
* In this vein, ''[[Under the Tuscan Sun]]'' mainly exists to make yuppies think that Tuscany is very, very pretty.
* While [[George Lucas]] is not a very good character director, he does know how to impress with his wide pans over alien landscapes in ''[[
* The parts of the ''[[James Bond (
** The drive through France and Switzerland in ''[[
** The spectacular aerial footage of Japan in ''[[
** The Swiss Alps in ''[[
** The train ride into Montenegro in ''[[
* The David Niven movie of ''[[Around the World
** This movie is just one of many from the 1950s-1960s that indulged in this. At the time, the advent of television was pulling enough people from movie theaters that gimmicks like widescreen photography were put into play, and filmmakers needed to fill that space somehow...
** All of [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Voyages Extraordinaires|Les Voyages Extraordinaires]]'' are like this, and therefore each corresponding [[Film of the Book]] tends to follow suit.
* ''[[
** [[The Western]] genre in general is prone to this, ranging from John Ford's films (of which ''The Searchers'' was just one of many) to [[New Old West]] variants like ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]''.
*** ''[[True Grit]]'' is chock-full of this -- big, sweeping shots of beautiful Western scenery.
** ''[[Dances
** ''[[The Proposition]]'', although the landscape in question is the barren [[Land Down Under|Australian outback]]. Still beautiful, in its own way.
** Generally, any film shot outdoors in the American West, the [[Land Down Under|Australian Outback]], or New Zealand, will almost inevitably make use of the scenery for at least ''one'' establishing shot.
** Even the comic Western ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'' is beautiful to look at, with lots of extraneous shots of snow-capped mountains, streams, deserts, plains, etc.
* For all the Scenery Porn of John Ford's Westerns (thanks to Monument Valley), his non-Westerns such as ''[[How Green Was My Valley]]'' and ''[[The Quiet Man]]'' provide tons of it as well.
* The films of [[David Lean]] (especially ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'' and ''[[Doctor Zhivago (
* Just about any [[
* Used gratuitously in ''[[Mamma Mia!]]''.
* ''[[The Adventures of Milo and Otis]]'' is filled with shots of gorgeous farmland, {{color|blue|water}}falls and forests, nicely complemented by adorable puppies and kittens.
* [[Tim Burton]]'s films are full of this, with his ''[[Batman (
* [[Joel Schumacher]]'s entries in that series attempted this but were too garish and implausible for their own good.
* [[Christopher Nolan]]'s ''[[
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (
* ''[[
* ''[[What Dreams May Come]]'''s title alone suggests how much of the movie is spent just showing off CGI vistas of the afterlife. From a mountain range made out of paint, to angels flying around classical cities perched on cliffs flowing with {{color|blue|water}}falls, to a bleak hell filled with giant shipwrecks and littered with crawling bodies. Justified since in that movie's mythos, Heaven is whatever you imagine it to be, and to [[Robin Williams]]' character that means living in his wife's beautiful landscape paintings.
* ''[[
* ''[[Russian Ark]]'', a single take film encompassing thirty three rooms of the impossibly gorgeous Hermitage Museum, is arguably ''100%'' Scenery Porn. It also reaches similar heights of art Porn, history Porn, and [[Gorgeous Period Dress|costume Porn]].
* The Coen Brothers do this in almost all of their movies in order to establish the era and area their movie is taking place in, but it's especially notable in ''[[Fargo]]'' and ''[[No Country for Old Men]]''.
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* One of the many attributes of an [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film. He liked to make sure you knew that this was a real place, putting emphasis on noteworthy landmarks or monuments.
* Jarringly averted in ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'', which was set in Hawaii. There was hardly any Scenery Porn. In fact, if not for the fact that it's repeatedly mentioned (and odd little things like [[Mila Kunis]]' kukui-nut leis) it could have been any hotel in any tropical area.
* The ''[[Hellboy (
* Basically ''every'' movie produced and directed by [[Guillermo
* [[Wuxia]] examples: ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'', ''[[Hero (
** The latter two were made by the visionary (pun intended) director [[Zhang Yimou]], for whom Scenery Porn is a [[Signature Style]]. He can get breathtaking vistas out of a movie about four concubines that takes place exclusively in a single house (''[[Raise the Red Lantern]]'').
* Walerian Borowczyck, whose softcore erotic films tend towards this trope. A good example is the short film ''La Marée'' (''The Tide''), from ''Immoral Tales'', which features two young cousins taking a cycle ride to a white-cliffed beach in northern France.
* The ''Emmanuelle'' series of films also frequently mix softcore porn with Scenery Porn.
* The ''[[Twilight (
* The road trip sequence at the end of ''[[Elizabethtown]]'' qualifies and is pretty much designed specifically to be gorgeous by the love interest so it will keep the protagonist's mind off his depression.
* [[Akira Kurosawa]] is a master of this trope. Try seeing ''[[
* Several scenes in ''[[
* ''[[Hard Candy]]'' was directed by David Slade, who had primarily done music videos in the past. It shows; even though almost all of the movie takes place in a few rooms, it ''looks'' absolutely stunning, with saturated colors and narrow focus-planes.
* ''[[
* The [[Koyaanisqatsi|Qatsi]] trilogy and Baraka are mostly Scenery Porn and [[Awesome Music]], although there's a good bit of shots of people without much interesting scenery behind them as well.
* ''Jeremiah Johnson''
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* ''Renegade'' (a.k.a. ''Blueberry'') features a great deal of breathtaking panoramas often shot from sweeping helicopters.
* Every single shot of Bernardo Bertolucci's ''[[The Conformist]]''.
* The extended shots of Chicago in ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
* Pretty much any film by [[Wong Kar
** ''Days of Being Wild'' -- ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'' for the Hong Kong set.
** ''[[Chungking Express]]''
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** ''2046'' -- so long-delayed that the [[Gallows Humor]] of the production crew was the film [[Irony|would be completed in 2046]].
* [[Michael Bay]], for all his [[Strictly Formula]], has admitted as such that around an hour into every movie he makes, there's a dramatic slow-motion sequence. These, as well as some other parts of his movies, often have ''awesome'' scenery.
* ''[[Dead
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' had a very inviting London. And ''not a single frame of it'' is the real thing.
* ''[[
* While not generally considered the best of the series, ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street|A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 4 The Dream Master]]'' and ''[[Freddys Dead the Final Nightmare]]'' are visually ''by far'' the most stunning.
* [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[
* ''[[The Fountain]]''. Throughout the entire film, you find it hard to pay attention to the astronaut's story because you're gawking at the visuals. Then, at the end, the conquistador {{spoiler|reaches the tree}} and you're treated to an even ''more'' arresting vista.
* The documentary ''Winged Migrations'' consists almost entirely of birds, Scenery Porn, and [[Crowning Music of Awesome|the most gorgeous music they could find]]. Also in the bird-watching genre; the icy landscapes in ''[[March Of The Penguins]]'' are bewitching (if not quite inviting.)
* The movies ''[[Jean De Florette]]'' and [[Sequel]] ''[[Manon
* Martial-art action movie ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]'' contains absolutely beautiful panoramic shots of China, a mixture of realistic, and fantasy-based.
* Nancy Meyers' films often are full of Scenery Porn. ''[[The Holiday]]'' uses shots of a house in LA and a cottage to compensate for the woefully awful story.
* ''Giant'', which begins with wide sweeping shots of the green Maryland countryside which then contrasts with the beautiful desolation of Texas.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* [[Slasher Flick]] ''[[
* ''[[
** Stephen Soderbergh's 2002 version isn't a great film, but it is worth watching for the panning shots of the eponymous planet's surreal oceans, coupled with Cliff Martinez's beautiful soundtrack.
** The original 1972 film was one of the most expensive films to come out of the Soviet Union, and as a result, it is about 30% artistic montage. There is a beautiful sequence filmed of a man driving down a highway (filmed in Tokyo) that goes on for a solid five minutes, with no dialogue.
* Rob Marshall's ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]'' is a beautiful example and one for [[Costume Porn]]. Although the filming took place in California, it was still a breathtaking choice to portray still-traditional Kyoto, Japan. All the cinematography was breathtaking and almost made up for the fact that it was kind of a mediocre film anyway.
* Unlike many other conservationist documentaries, the French movie ''Oceans'' skips the statistics and goes straight to outrageously beautiful views of marine life, shot from impossible angles, with very little narrative.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Bird People in China]]'' showcases some of China's beautiful mountain scenery.
* ''[[Nick and
* ''[[Prince of Persia:
* ''[[The Duellists]]'' has some of the most beautiful naturally-captured vistas and scenery shots ever caught on film.
* ''[[
* Establishing shots in ''Northfork''.
* ''[[Baraka]]'' is a non-narrative film which contains nothing but Scenery Porn.
* Starting with ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' the ''[[Harry Potter (
** In ''Order of the Phoenix'', there are many shots of the Ministry of Magic atrium, which gets wrecked at the end of the film.
* ''[[
* The Indonesian film ''Denias, Senandung di Atas Awan'' is filled with beautiful shot of the landscapes of Irian Jaya (Papua) including the snow covered [http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t287/rilham2/puncakJaya.jpg Jayawijaya mountains]. In one scene, we are treated to all of it from sweeping helicopters, truly breathtaking.
* The eco movie ''Home'' is essentially 90 minutes of high octane Scenery Porn to make sure you sit through the entire lecture.
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* ''[[Don Juan Demarco]]'': Every sexual escapade the title character ([[Johnny Depp]]) describes takes place in a beautiful locale; a picturesque Mexican village, a richly adorned palace, an idyllic tropical island. (And of course Johnny himself is easy on the eyes.)
* ''Never Cry Wolf'': ''Loads'' of gorgeous Alaskan landscapes. For that matter, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything filmed in Alaska/ the Yukon that doesn't qualify for this trope.
* ''[[Thor (
* ''[[
* ''Silk'' (2007): filmed in Japan and Italy and containing many sweeping establishing shots of places all around the world as the main character travels from Europe to Asia to fetch silkworms.
* Almost any [[Bollywood]] romance film. Seriously, you can turn the sound off and just watch.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* As the title suggests, the romantic comedy ''A Walk in the Clouds'' is arguably nothing but this. Even the scene of the vineyards burning is gorgeous.
* Also used extensively in ''[[The Beach]]'', especially the scenes at the eponymous beach (which is the real beach at the Thai island Koh Phi Phi.)
* ''[[
* The Land Of Light, Nebula M78 in ''[[
* ''[[American Graffiti]]''. The combination of the cameras used to film it, the classic cars, neon street signs, and time period architecture all make for a very nice nostalgic visual treat.
* ''[[Amelie]]'' is very well known for its distinct visual style.
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