Manipulators
Flying on a nice shiny Air Canada Embraer 190 yesterday I had the time to watch an inflight movie, so finally got around to seeing Vantage Point.
(I think I already know the answer to this, but…) Is it just me rooting for somebody to die when they make stupid decisions in movies, even if they’re traumatized little girls running across a busy road to their mommy? And that they show the murdering terrorist having time to make the exact wrong choice for his character, entirely unmotivated by a single frame of film that came before… It would’ve been so much more fun to watch if he’d made the pragmatic, logical decision…
And what the hell is it with misuse of video switchers in movies? Don’t some of the people working on film come from a *telecommunications* and film background, having had actually used a switcher for at least 5 minutes in college? You *switch* (hence the name video SWITCHer) cameras during a newscast (and just about everything else–except to occasionally mix things up during a concert–maybe), you do not do a fucking dissolve or Video Toaster wipe every take. Sheesh, I thought it was well established that the T-bar was only used TO FIRE THE DEATH STAR!
All that said, I liked the movie better than I thought I would. It was a good enough movie that I was pissed it wasn’t even better.