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post #1 of 3
8/19/11 at 7:45pm
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Inspired by the "Bad Cinematography" thread, what are some examples of terribly edited films? As I mentioned in the other thread, Tony Scott's "let's put all of the footage in a blender" style in Man on Fire and Domino drives me up the wall, straining to be hyper-kinetic and edgy but serving only to distract from the story. See if you can keep track of how many jump cuts, slo-mo cutaways and filters he crams into this scene from Man on Fire, which seems more like a Final Cut Pro demo than an actual film:

 


What other films have been atrociously edited?

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post #2 of 3
8/19/11 at 8:59pm

I'm just going to go ahead and tell the inevitable Departed poster to just not.

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post #3 of 3
8/19/11 at 9:15pm

I think "Man on Fire" works.   It works in much the same way "Natural Born Killers" works.   Yeah it's busy and flashy but I think the style fits the story.   It's hard to pinpoint bad editing in mainstream movies since most are cut pretty decently but one that jumped out to me was Conan the Barbarian 2011.   There's a scene where Conan and his crew fought off some enemies on the ship and literally a split second later, everyone is celebrating with rousing music going on.   There wasn't that little bit of time to breathe.   Also the fight scenes were incomprehensible but I don't know if that's the raw footage or the editing.   A little of both I think.

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