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If you think that's bad, I've even heard people say that the original Star Wars movie is too slow and boring for them to sit through. As for 2001, it is a very

If you think that's bad, I've even heard people say that the original Star Wars movie is too slow and boring for them to sit through. As for 2001, it is a very meaningful film to me, but it does not surprise me that kids would have trouble with it. I think you really need to be an adult, and be prepared to think and put your own interpretation on it, in order to appreciate it.

ashark 9y ago
> If you think that's bad, I've even heard people say that the original Star Wars movie is too slow and boring for them to sit through. This is how we get the JJ "uh oh, two characters talked for more than 30 seconds, better cap this bit with an action scene even if it does precisely nothing to provide characterization, exposition, or advance plot" Abrams school of film-ruining.
- ambrosite 9y ago
  Don't get me started on JJ; I still haven't been able to get through any of his Star Trek films. The same person who said the original Star Wars is slow and boring also said that he cannot watch any movie that was made before the year 2000, because filmmaking styles have changed too much and he finds all of the older films boring. Personally, I have trouble watching anything that was made after 2000.
  - ashark 9y ago
    Hey, at least this era gave us the improbably-awesome Mad Max: Fury Road. In any sane universe that would've made every other action filmmaker go "oh, that's how you write and film engaging modern-feeling action that's meaningful to the film itself and its characters and, therefore, to the audience. If it's possible to keep that up for practically an entire film—and, apparently, it is—I can and must do it in my action scenes". We don't live in a sane universe, unfortunately. But at least we have MM:FR.
    - nasredin 9y ago
      Fury Road felt like you unknowingly did a large amount of very potent crack cocaine. I needed several minutes to cool down after that movie ended.
bornonline1 9y ago
Original sw (and other old movies with action sequences especially) feel more like plays on film instead of naturally flowing movies.
- ashark 9y ago
  Probably just an effect of longer shot lengths (some modern action films are under two seconds average shot length) and not being able to color-correct the hell out of every individual scene separately. Both made possible (or practical, anyway) by digital editing. Without them films tend to be more naturalistic. And like your average stage play they leave you space to think about what you're watching. You want actually stage-like films you have to go back farther. Wide shots galore, with stage-style blocking. Check out the opening scene of the original Ocean's 11.

ashark 9y ago

> If you think that's bad, I've even heard people say that the original Star Wars movie is too slow and boring for them to sit through. This is how we get the JJ "uh oh, two characters talked for more than 30 seconds, better cap this bit with an action scene even if it does precisely nothing to provide characterization, exposition, or advance plot" Abrams school of film-ruining.

ambrosite 9y ago
Don't get me started on JJ; I still haven't been able to get through any of his Star Trek films. The same person who said the original Star Wars is slow and boring also said that he cannot watch any movie that was made before the year 2000, because filmmaking styles have changed too much and he finds all of the older films boring. Personally, I have trouble watching anything that was made after 2000.
- ashark 9y ago
  Hey, at least this era gave us the improbably-awesome Mad Max: Fury Road. In any sane universe that would've made every other action filmmaker go "oh, that's how you write and film engaging modern-feeling action that's meaningful to the film itself and its characters and, therefore, to the audience. If it's possible to keep that up for practically an entire film—and, apparently, it is—I can and must do it in my action scenes". We don't live in a sane universe, unfortunately. But at least we have MM:FR.
  - nasredin 9y ago
    Fury Road felt like you unknowingly did a large amount of very potent crack cocaine. I needed several minutes to cool down after that movie ended.

bornonline1 9y ago

Original sw (and other old movies with action sequences especially) feel more like plays on film instead of naturally flowing movies.

ashark 9y ago
Probably just an effect of longer shot lengths (some modern action films are under two seconds average shot length) and not being able to color-correct the hell out of every individual scene separately. Both made possible (or practical, anyway) by digital editing. Without them films tend to be more naturalistic. And like your average stage play they leave you space to think about what you're watching. You want actually stage-like films you have to go back farther. Wide shots galore, with stage-style blocking. Check out the opening scene of the original Ocean's 11.