When I am the increasingly demented ruler of Earth

[james_davis_nicoll]

There will be terrible consequences for filmmakers who cannot justify their poorly lit films. Terrible consequences.

Once they are dealt with, all the gratuitous jerky-cam users can also expect a midnight visit from the James Got a Headache Trying to Watch Your Damn Film Police.

Something I realized watching Snow White and the Huntman: today, CGI means movies don't have to hire Little People any more, as regular actors can just be morphed through special effects. I wonder how long it will take for CGI to be used to eliminate other groups from casting calls?

Comments

[kowh.livejournal.com]

Also the people who have no idea how to balance audio tracks and put music and/or sfx to 11, and dialog down to 5.

You can't even fix that when watching at home, either you can hear the dialog, or the music/sfx is deafening. I want to relax and suspend my disbelief, not miss things and constantly twiddle the volume.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

This this this this THIS THIS THIS. With freaking bloody fracking BELLS on. *ahem*

[tandw.livejournal.com]

Even though my hearing isn't that bad, I use closed captioning a lot to compensate for that very thing.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

I do as well. Just watched Eastern Promises for the umpteenth time and had to have the volume almost maxed out for dialogue, then down to 50% for music. I'd say at least half the DVDs I watch or rent are like this. Seems the older DVDs aren't so bad about it; I just watched Joanna, Modesty Blaise, Island of Doomed Men and none had that volume issue.

Hmm. A hypothesis may have been born.

[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

TV shows too. I tend not to notice that much but my sister *hates*. She stopped watching Criminal Minds, granted the kind of music was part of it. I've also noticed some tv channels have the problem, which seems strange.