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See? There are so many play scenes in movies that I’m mixing them up.
There’s so much room to do cool, subtle, innovative things with color that I can’t even bring myself to see movies that do it the obvious, cliche ways.
This one elicits a reaction somewhere between :rolleyes: and projectile vomiting for me. The last thing I wanted at my high school basketball games were for my parents to show up–they might hear the dirty conversations I have with my teammates and their being there put pressure on me, too. (Thank God they didn’t know anything about basketball or it would’ve been even worse.) So scenes like this make me completely disengage from the movie.
I loved the twist in that movie. I thought it worked really well in the context of what happened beforehand, especially Cutter’s testimony at the beginning of the movie.
I hate this proliferation of trilogies. It seems like the “more is better” rationale is leading to an excess of tired filmmaking. I mean, why have one good movie when you can have three barely-mediocre movies? :rolleyes:
Queen Bruin, don’t even get me started on Rocky Balboa.
Ah yes, the sixth part in the increasingly inaccurately-named trilogy of Rocky “movies.”
Or actors :mad: . Compare American Pie (any one except Naked Mile) and Porkys (any one).
I’m fed up with the ‘cast of billions because CGI means we can’ phenomenon. ‘Hey Mr. Director, if you want a scene featuring thousands of people / delegates / soldiers / boats (or whatever) you can have it, because all we have to do is crunch some more numbers in the render farm.’
Yep, but just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should, or that it will look like anything except indulgent overkill for its own sake.
I don’t hate the trend, but I think the swords and sandals are beyond played out by now–that, and the racing of fast cars.
I find the rushing wind “SWOOP” noise when a camera pans suddenly to be overdone lately. I seem to remember that it started on TV, maybe mostly in comedies, but Scorcese did one in “The Departed” that jumped out at me.
Sir Rhosis
The hellish Grinch who stole Christmas movie a few years ago had the competing-over-Christmas-decorations scenes. It was one shitty bit in a shitacular shitstravaganza–who would have guessed that someone would try to expand it into an entire movie?
And then there was some horrid-looking thing a couple years ago in which a college-aged daughter is unexpectedly coming home for Christmas, forcing her parents into a decorating frenzy that appeared to be in competition with neighbors.
I think you’re right: it’s a trend, and a mindboggingly irritating one.
Daniel
I agree with ianzin on the one billion CGI enemies. I particularly hate when the handful of heroes faces a billion CGI enemies. LOTR did this and I hated it. They are facing literally thousands of enemies. After the first wave, there would be nothing left of the fellowship except for a greasy stain on the ground. A million against 12 is heroic, it’s just stupid.
Also, I’m sick of comic books and graphic novels turned into movies (also video games into movies). Enough. A NY times reviewer wrote a while back that he is tired of pretending that these films are deep and dark when they are actually embarassingly sophmoric.
20,000 to 2
and we killed them both!
d&r
I had had Rocky Balboa conveniently wiped from my mind until you mentioned it! 
Actually, lissener was talking about The Illusionist, and I believe you’re referring to The Prestige.
They are both movies about magicians with a rivalry, and the movies came out about the same time, so it’s easy to confuse the titles.
The Will Ferrell adult jackass films - Talledega Nights, and now the ice-skating one. Ol’ Will is becoming the Rob Schneider of the 00s. Take a cue from Adam Sandler and get out of the game while you can.
I’m tired of computer-animated cartoons. It just means there are more of the annoying things. I liked it when it took years to put together a Disney flick!
Speaking of which… I know it’s a kid thing primarily, but I’ve had my fill of movies that either a) have a superimposed talking mouth on an animal, or b) have lifelike representations of animals that are overly humanized (Happy Feet and its ilk). I think kids look at penguins in the zoo nowadays and wonder why they don’t have Spanish accents and dance.
I couldn’t agree more, but the 15 year-old boys that make the cinema a profitable industry seem to think otherwise.
I just saw a trailer for Spiderman Ad Infinitum, and I couldn’t help thinking that doing imperfect CGI is much worse than doing no CGI at all.
There’s a filming technique I’ve seen a lot of lately, I don’t know what it’s called, but I think they double each frame of film in a particular scene (mostly action scenes), which causes the picture to look jerky. I first remember noticing it in 28 Days Later, probably because of the way it made the rain look, but they also did it in the Hills Have Eyes remake (which I loved, by the way—they kept everything that was good about the original and made it more intense, and with much better actors). I don’t mind this technique (and even liked it in 28 Days Later), but I can’t help but think that it’s going to look awfully dated in twenty years.
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OK. I haven’t seen The Illusionist. Sorry lissener. Thanks Waenara.
I third the point about CGI battle scenes. On top of that, I’m also a little tired of the ‘big speech before the battle’ scene.
He wasn’t, and Magneto doesn’t say he was, just that he had the chance. That he did.
The whole CGI thing. Not just the billions of enemies, but the “monster with ridiculously flexible and stretchable physique just because we couldn’t do it with animatronics” thing and basically anything they do just because they can. Like that “wobbly watery substance” effect (like the underwater city in The Phantom Menace) - an effect with no real-world counterpart, done just because computers make it look good.