these sets took us to places beyond our
wildest dreams
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
best movie sets everything’s perfectly
all right now we’re fine we’re all fine
here now thank you how are you
for this list we are taking a look at
the most impressive atmospheric and
creative sets in motion pictures that
practically make their environments feel
inhabitable
number 10 Diagon Alley the Harry Potter
franchise welcome Harry to Diagon Alley
JK Rowling built one of the most magical
and carefully constructed worlds in all
of fiction with her phenomenal creation
of Harry Potter the film adaptations of
her novels did a miraculous job of
bringing the Wizarding World to fruition
the liveliest location being diagonally
there’s really bit your quills mere ink
nor were there all your bits and bobs
we’re doing your wizardry between
Gringotts wizarding Bank Weasleys Wizard
wheezes Ollivanders wand shop and an
assortment of other bustling
establishments packed into every corner
there’s simply too much to behold with
one pair of eyes I still need a wallet
if only this were a theme park we could
actually explore oh wait Kabhi Kabhie
happy birthday
number nine the Great Wall of Babylon
intolerance
computer-generated imagery maybe a
faster more efficient way of envisioning
fantastical world in modern cinema but
this method usually lacks the personal
touch of handmade sets
this makes an epic like intolerance all
the more special
produced in an era without shortcuts
this silent picture masterfully built
the Great Wall of Babylon from the
ground up
the size and scope of this set truly
make you feel just how huge DW
Griffith’s revolutionary magnum opus is
providing an early example of why film
is the ultimate visual storytelling
medium number 8 the tesseract
interstellar I think prospects are at
the edge of what might sustain human
life in addition to being one of this
generations finest storytellers
Christopher Nolan is one of the few
modern visionaries to primarily rely on
practical sets we must confront the
reality of interstellar travel we must
reach far beyond our own lifespans
Nolan’s team of art directors had
already blown our minds with the
zero-gravity hallway in Inception
and Bane’s underground layer in the Dark
Knight Rises new spirit
Oh your buddy
but Nolan’s crowning achievement has to
be interstellar
tesseract yeah because the both beams
are closing the tesseract the essence of
a mirror maze meets MC Escher’s
relativity in this ingenious set which
carves out its place between the past
present and future where science logic
and gravity are defied don’t you get it
yet tars and that beings there us
I’ve been doing for math I do it for me
number seven the derelict spaceship
alien okay sorry must go on we have to
go on for a film that emits a
claustrophobic vibe alien often seems
grander than space itself much of this
can be attributed to the film’s imposing
sets the most haunting of which is a
crashed alien spacecraft housing a
fossilized space jockey and a litter of
alien eggs the set designers tell us so
little about the ships misty origins
while also telling us so much through
visuals utilizing miniatures glass
paintings and life-sized environments
the filmmakers engage us in a fraction
of a much bigger universe where no one
can hear you scream
number six metropolis
the sheer spectacle of this silent
picture will leave you speechless from
start to finish
it’s hard to think of a film that looks
so high-tech and yet so biblical almost
like a futuristic Garden of Eden
everything moves like clockwork as if
the inventive sets are part of one giant
machine occupied by a million tiny
citizens whether observing the dystopian
worker city below the Earth’s surface or
the alleged utopian city above
metropolis is a constant wonder on the
eyes that’s fortunately been greatly
restored for our viewing pleasure
number five the Death Star Star Wars
Episode four a new hope standby alert
that’s no moon that’s not a moon in
building this impressive Space Station
the Star Wars production designers make
the audience feel all the power this
Imperial Space Station encompasses
through their daunting sets since you
are reluctant to provide us with the
location of the rebel base I have chosen
to test this stations destructive power
on your home planet of Alderaan although
we see a great deal of the Death Star’s
interior and exterior it still seems
like we’ve only scratched the basis
surface by the explosive climax of Star
Wars
convincingly huge and overwhelmingly
destructive is just one tiny little
problem with this triumph of
intergalactic architecture they
seriously couldn’t just cover that
exhaust vent
number four the Shire the Lord of the
Rings franchise
after decades of being deemed unfilmable
JRR Tolkien’s epic world of fantasy was
fully realized in live action through
the visionary direction of Peter Jackson
yo lay a wizard is never late Frodo
Baggins while the Lord of the Rings has
no shortage of amazing sights
we’re singling out the environment we’d
like to inhabit the most the Shire life
and the wide world goes on much as it
has this past day his own comings and
goings scarcely a none of the existence
problems tranquil quaint and welcoming
this home to the Hobbit seems detached
from the larger problems plaguing
middle-earth what news at the outside
voice tell me everything it’s the ideal
place to settle down and live in peace
of course if you’re seeking adventure
there’s an immense world waiting out
there off the shy has been invited
number three the grand budapest hotel
who are you I’m zero sir the new lobby
boy wes anderson has a one-of-a-kind
gift for transporting audiences to
worlds that are whimsically improbable
and remarkably believable at the same
time why do you want to be a lobby boy
well who wouldn’t at the grand Budapest
sir
it’s an institution very good part of
that is because his sets always appear
so energetic colorful and passionate you
see there are still faint glimmers of
civilization left in this barbaric
slaughterhouse that was once known as
humanity while Anderson’s The Life
Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a true
artistic achievement the main setting in
the grand Budapest hotel is practically
alive but otherwise your foot draped in
pink this old fashioned palace atop a
hill is decorated like a delicious
pastry using models and full-scale sets
Anderson envisions a nostalgic
Wonderland we’d all love to check into
how people never provides information of
that kind you’re a stone wall understood
number two discovery one 2001 a Space
Odyssey
while we’ve credited a few
groundbreaking sci-fi sets on this list
none proved more influential than the
discovery one in 2001 a Space Odyssey on
the heels of countless B movies many of
which looked fairly cheesy Stanley
Kubrick strove to create the most
detailed futuristic tool imaginable I’m
sorry Dave
I don’t have enough information he
succeeded with a spaceship that broke
new ground for art direction and special
effects you really believe that the
astronauts aboard are running on the
centrifuges walls and floating at Hal
9000 processor core
I’m afraid on cinemas timeline of
evolution it’s a landmark and a turning
point
before we visit our top pick a woman
being prepared here are some honorable
mentions
the armies of my lord Klaus Julius
Caesar advancing even now without
opposition upon Alexandria Caius Julius
Caesar
number one Titanic through painstaking
research and a two hundred million
dollar budget James Cameron settled for
nothing less than perfection in taking
audiences back to the Titanic playing
Cameron’s Labor’s paid off with a
cinematic triumph that’s every bit as
gigantic as its title suggests the
prison is the size of Titanic now I
wanted to marvel at her speed we must
give them something new to print
realized through glorious interiors
larger-than-life models and a
jaw-dropping full-scale reconstruction
of the Titanic’s exterior every set
piece feels 100% authentic
the art direction embodies all the
majesty dominance and beauty of the
actual Titanic which only makes it more
tragic when the cold dark sea claims the
supposedly unsinkable ship
do you agree with our list what’s your
favorite movie set what a piece of junk
for more entertaining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
wildest dreams
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
best movie sets everything’s perfectly
all right now we’re fine we’re all fine
here now thank you how are you
for this list we are taking a look at
the most impressive atmospheric and
creative sets in motion pictures that
practically make their environments feel
inhabitable
number 10 Diagon Alley the Harry Potter
franchise welcome Harry to Diagon Alley
JK Rowling built one of the most magical
and carefully constructed worlds in all
of fiction with her phenomenal creation
of Harry Potter the film adaptations of
her novels did a miraculous job of
bringing the Wizarding World to fruition
the liveliest location being diagonally
there’s really bit your quills mere ink
nor were there all your bits and bobs
we’re doing your wizardry between
Gringotts wizarding Bank Weasleys Wizard
wheezes Ollivanders wand shop and an
assortment of other bustling
establishments packed into every corner
there’s simply too much to behold with
one pair of eyes I still need a wallet
if only this were a theme park we could
actually explore oh wait Kabhi Kabhie
happy birthday
number nine the Great Wall of Babylon
intolerance
computer-generated imagery maybe a
faster more efficient way of envisioning
fantastical world in modern cinema but
this method usually lacks the personal
touch of handmade sets
this makes an epic like intolerance all
the more special
produced in an era without shortcuts
this silent picture masterfully built
the Great Wall of Babylon from the
ground up
the size and scope of this set truly
make you feel just how huge DW
Griffith’s revolutionary magnum opus is
providing an early example of why film
is the ultimate visual storytelling
medium number 8 the tesseract
interstellar I think prospects are at
the edge of what might sustain human
life in addition to being one of this
generations finest storytellers
Christopher Nolan is one of the few
modern visionaries to primarily rely on
practical sets we must confront the
reality of interstellar travel we must
reach far beyond our own lifespans
Nolan’s team of art directors had
already blown our minds with the
zero-gravity hallway in Inception
and Bane’s underground layer in the Dark
Knight Rises new spirit
Oh your buddy
but Nolan’s crowning achievement has to
be interstellar
tesseract yeah because the both beams
are closing the tesseract the essence of
a mirror maze meets MC Escher’s
relativity in this ingenious set which
carves out its place between the past
present and future where science logic
and gravity are defied don’t you get it
yet tars and that beings there us
I’ve been doing for math I do it for me
number seven the derelict spaceship
alien okay sorry must go on we have to
go on for a film that emits a
claustrophobic vibe alien often seems
grander than space itself much of this
can be attributed to the film’s imposing
sets the most haunting of which is a
crashed alien spacecraft housing a
fossilized space jockey and a litter of
alien eggs the set designers tell us so
little about the ships misty origins
while also telling us so much through
visuals utilizing miniatures glass
paintings and life-sized environments
the filmmakers engage us in a fraction
of a much bigger universe where no one
can hear you scream
number six metropolis
the sheer spectacle of this silent
picture will leave you speechless from
start to finish
it’s hard to think of a film that looks
so high-tech and yet so biblical almost
like a futuristic Garden of Eden
everything moves like clockwork as if
the inventive sets are part of one giant
machine occupied by a million tiny
citizens whether observing the dystopian
worker city below the Earth’s surface or
the alleged utopian city above
metropolis is a constant wonder on the
eyes that’s fortunately been greatly
restored for our viewing pleasure
number five the Death Star Star Wars
Episode four a new hope standby alert
that’s no moon that’s not a moon in
building this impressive Space Station
the Star Wars production designers make
the audience feel all the power this
Imperial Space Station encompasses
through their daunting sets since you
are reluctant to provide us with the
location of the rebel base I have chosen
to test this stations destructive power
on your home planet of Alderaan although
we see a great deal of the Death Star’s
interior and exterior it still seems
like we’ve only scratched the basis
surface by the explosive climax of Star
Wars
convincingly huge and overwhelmingly
destructive is just one tiny little
problem with this triumph of
intergalactic architecture they
seriously couldn’t just cover that
exhaust vent
number four the Shire the Lord of the
Rings franchise
after decades of being deemed unfilmable
JRR Tolkien’s epic world of fantasy was
fully realized in live action through
the visionary direction of Peter Jackson
yo lay a wizard is never late Frodo
Baggins while the Lord of the Rings has
no shortage of amazing sights
we’re singling out the environment we’d
like to inhabit the most the Shire life
and the wide world goes on much as it
has this past day his own comings and
goings scarcely a none of the existence
problems tranquil quaint and welcoming
this home to the Hobbit seems detached
from the larger problems plaguing
middle-earth what news at the outside
voice tell me everything it’s the ideal
place to settle down and live in peace
of course if you’re seeking adventure
there’s an immense world waiting out
there off the shy has been invited
number three the grand budapest hotel
who are you I’m zero sir the new lobby
boy wes anderson has a one-of-a-kind
gift for transporting audiences to
worlds that are whimsically improbable
and remarkably believable at the same
time why do you want to be a lobby boy
well who wouldn’t at the grand Budapest
sir
it’s an institution very good part of
that is because his sets always appear
so energetic colorful and passionate you
see there are still faint glimmers of
civilization left in this barbaric
slaughterhouse that was once known as
humanity while Anderson’s The Life
Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a true
artistic achievement the main setting in
the grand Budapest hotel is practically
alive but otherwise your foot draped in
pink this old fashioned palace atop a
hill is decorated like a delicious
pastry using models and full-scale sets
Anderson envisions a nostalgic
Wonderland we’d all love to check into
how people never provides information of
that kind you’re a stone wall understood
number two discovery one 2001 a Space
Odyssey
while we’ve credited a few
groundbreaking sci-fi sets on this list
none proved more influential than the
discovery one in 2001 a Space Odyssey on
the heels of countless B movies many of
which looked fairly cheesy Stanley
Kubrick strove to create the most
detailed futuristic tool imaginable I’m
sorry Dave
I don’t have enough information he
succeeded with a spaceship that broke
new ground for art direction and special
effects you really believe that the
astronauts aboard are running on the
centrifuges walls and floating at Hal
9000 processor core
I’m afraid on cinemas timeline of
evolution it’s a landmark and a turning
point
before we visit our top pick a woman
being prepared here are some honorable
mentions
the armies of my lord Klaus Julius
Caesar advancing even now without
opposition upon Alexandria Caius Julius
Caesar
number one Titanic through painstaking
research and a two hundred million
dollar budget James Cameron settled for
nothing less than perfection in taking
audiences back to the Titanic playing
Cameron’s Labor’s paid off with a
cinematic triumph that’s every bit as
gigantic as its title suggests the
prison is the size of Titanic now I
wanted to marvel at her speed we must
give them something new to print
realized through glorious interiors
larger-than-life models and a
jaw-dropping full-scale reconstruction
of the Titanic’s exterior every set
piece feels 100% authentic
the art direction embodies all the
majesty dominance and beauty of the
actual Titanic which only makes it more
tragic when the cold dark sea claims the
supposedly unsinkable ship
do you agree with our list what’s your
favorite movie set what a piece of junk
for more entertaining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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