Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
I never read the books but what bothered me tremendously about the movies was the mucked up colors and digital grading. It looked so unnatural that it took me out of the movie. It was like having a different one of the component RGB cables not connected every 10 minutes.
Some of the digital re-coloring was a bit overdone and sloppy, but I'm pretty sure that, in general, I'd rather have the movie with it than without it. Though I agree with your later statement that Legend is a beautiful film to watch from a visual standpoint (as well as others).
Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
Some scenes (usually overbrightened and having that painful Enya singing) were way overdramaticized.
The camera work during the fight scenes was atrocious. Don't give me this crap about trying to convey chaos, watch the battle scenes in slow motion. Notice how rarely the camera shows anything in frame much less in focus.
I never read the books but what bothered me tremendously about the movies was the mucked up colors and digital grading. It looked so unnatural that it took me out of the movie. It was like having a different one of the component RGB cables not connected every 10 minutes.
Some of the digital re-coloring was a bit overdone and sloppy, but I'm pretty sure that, in general, I'd rather have the movie with it than without it. Though I agree with your later statement that Legend is a beautiful film to watch from a visual standpoint (as well as others).
Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
Some scenes (usually overbrightened and having that painful Enya singing) were way overdramaticized.
The camera work during the fight scenes was atrocious. Don't give me this crap about trying to convey chaos, watch the battle scenes in slow motion. Notice how rarely the camera shows anything in frame much less in focus.
Enya is pretty good if you ask me, but I agree about the overdramatization. Too many of the scenes lacked all sense of subtlety in the way movement was portrayed or in the way emotional reactions like pain or worry were portrayed. It's as if Jackson believes his audience is too stupid to recognize anything that isn't as obvious as he can make it (the Star Wars prequels were also this way).
And I hate much of the combat filmwork. What's so spectacular about seeing nothing but a soldier's chest as the camera twists and we pretend he's being hurt by Sauron's giant mace?