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#1)Scenes where crowd extras inappropriately stare at the principal(s) as if to say, "Hey, that's De Niro!" Or else, they have inappropriate expressions, such as smiling and laughing (all the while following the camera's eye) as they storm an embassy (or military objective) to attack the inhabitants;
#2) Microphone visible at top edge of screen. This happened in TWO big budget Hollywood movies in the cuts I saw: "War of the Roses; "As Good as it Gets."
Both cases are inexcusable, especially #2: don't these guys run "dailies" or edit films anymore?
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will transport you right out of your "suspension of disbelief" just as seeing a modern penny transported Christopher Reeves back to his modern hum-drum life in Somewhere in Time.What makes me turn off a movie (turn off a movie-movie turn offs...same difference) is a musical sequence, especially if it involves two or more characters getting cute with each other, or one character getting cute with herself while looking in a mirror. Maybe the cutsie musical sequence is a new version of what was formerly an intermission...it adds nothing to the picture, and allows you the time to get a drink or go to the powder room.
Muriel's Wedding had a couple of them.
Any Julia Roberts film will have one.Other turn offs....overacted scenes
and violence and gore just for the sake of an "r" rating
and stingy people :o)
mp
roger ebert posed that as a movie rule one time - something like, where a group of female characters are cooking in the kitchen, someone will inevitably turn on the radio and ...
riding in a car
washing the car
watering the yard
hanging the laundry
getting ready for bed
fixing a car
going shopping
trying on new clothes
cookingThey fall into a couple of categories:
(Bad)
The characters don't know the music is playing, and are doing something cute like prancing about the beach or having a pillow a pillow fight(Really Bad)
The characters Know the music is playing and they are being fun and daring...perhaps they are singing out loud, in a convertible full of twenty somethings with the top rolled down and their hair blowing in the wind.(The Worst)
The character know the music is playing, and one or more of the characters will pick up a hair brush and pretend to be a singer, sometimes you see this while people are in their nightgowns (I think Tom Cruise-Risky Business started this one). Sometimes you see them wearing wigs or dress up clothes.mp
visible boom mikes at the top of the screen are the fault of the projectionist, not the filmmakers. films (i.e., on reels) often contain an extra 30% or so on top and bottom of the picture you see and need to be properly matted by the projectionist to remove the junk on top and bottom. sometimes the projectionist frames it a little too high or low.
Actually, most films do not have very much extra image area outside of the "Frame". I was a projectionist for over 10 years, and I can only think of 1 or 2 instances where there was more than a few percent extra image area. Most flat movies have black bars on the film just like a widescreen movie on a 4:3 tv. Scope movies are Anomorphic and the image fills the entire frame. Typically moving the frame up or down only 1-5% will make the frame line visible, and then the image will roll over to the top or bottom.
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