Hi Mr. Chronos. The cliff shot is not a huge thing, but after I see theDisney logo at the start of anything Pixar, I’m ready to think the worst.
I don’t think cliff shots are a good way to show scenic beauty. They’re a way to surprise the audience. It’s a very dramatic effect, and like anything dramatic it gets trite pretty quick.
–An extreme facial close-up of someone reacting to a big plot twist.
–Heros striding away, as a building blows up behind them.
–A object being thrust directly at the camera …in a 3-D film.
Dramatic, but now cliched. Same thing with a cliff fly-over. Historically those sequences are shot with a helicopter, but with computer animation there’s a new world of camera angles to be explored. No need to embrace the old cheese.
OK, I can see that if you think of the purpose of the camera-off-a-cliff as being to surprise the audience, then it would clearly suffer from over-use, since it’s not surprising any more. I never thought of it that way, though.
Trailer looks good. I’m stoked about seeing a real celtic story.
Argent Towers, there are some feature being produced by American studios for adults but by and large they aren’t going to the big screen. I just streamed Batman: Under the Red Hood on netflix and was very surprised at the plot and storyline. The body count rivals most action movies and plenty of characters die and are killed in frame. Not a kids movie.
Unboxed sort of spoiler below
The film starts with the Joker beating Robin to within inches of his life with a crowbar. On screen.
In one scene the Joker is being hired by another crime syndicate character. He suddenly grabs a gun, mows down everyone in the room except the boss and his assistant and then requests addtional men for help. “I’ll need some men. But not these men, these one’s are dead.”