Watched Hacksawridge
Mel Gibson should never try to impersonating Spielberg, what a disaster. I have no idea how it got rated so high on rotten tomatoes. I've never seen such lazy/bad directing in a while out of a top end movie. This movie lives and dies on it's cast and the premise. What a god damn disservice to the people that actually went to war.
Someone needs to tell Mel Gibson how to do linear movie directing, because the angles are all over the place.
Normally, the good guys always go from left to right in a scene. It's so that the brain of the viewer subconsciously doesn't have to focus on what's going on rather then having to think about what's going on. Mel Gibson didn't do this, instead he just filmed scenes from what ever angle he saw fit. Which made it confusing and brought me out of the moment completely.
When doing combat scenes particularly when you are doing a chaotic combat scene, lower the damn frame rate. If forces the brain to try to puzzle things together, rather then the brain already processing it fast and then I can focus on the ****** stunt workers/****** set design.
When you are doing animation and you do not have the budget to do a scene where let's say you need a navy to fire from it's cannons. Don't zoom in and show us a scene of the boat in poorly rendered CG. Takes the viewer out of the movie.
If you are going to use CG for the blood don't be inconsistent, either put it on the screen as a cheap B-movie thriller would do or don't. Don't half ass it and do it in one scene. Also if you are going to copy and paste the CG of bullet impacts in body don't use the same god damn animation right after eachother.
If you are going to use the same exact clip of soldiers shooting don't try to cheap out and instead of filming 2 takes, just take the previous take and invert the image and use that for the next god damn cut. Mel did it twice!!!! Once he did it by reusing footage of a explosion in a tunnel and fire engulfing the tunnel, then he used that exact same footage just inverted it in right after eachother. How cliche is that.
Also, don't give me racist caricatures of native americans.
What an awfully made movie, I bet the people rating this movie couldn't see how badly this movie was made instead they just saw the premise and bought in because they are flag waivers. Seriously, what a bad movie. I felt bad laughing at some of the scenes, what a disservice to a great story.
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