Batman Begins

Went to see the movie last night and absolutely loved it and definitely the best Batman movie out of any so far. As a word of advice, don't sit too close to the screen or it'll be so muddled you won't be able to make out what's going on.

To digress, I think this is a real problem with the way movies get shot these days. In the "olden days" a director would frame up a shot by looking through the camera and his director of photography would shoot it for him and somehow, it made it to the big-screen with all of the important story-telling details entact. Over the last couple of decades, directors have come from the world of music videos where their shots are designed for a smaller (television) screen. Most every director nowadays even watches a miniature video screen as each shot is captured. Then when they move to post-production, thanks to digital video editing, the entire picture is cut while watching small video screens. The end result is a movie that looks fantastic on your home t.v. set, but macro'd out, disjointed, and crammed full of jump cuts in a proper movie theater. (It was exactly this problem I had with The Bourne Supremacy, which I hated in the theater but loved at home.)

Comments

[bubba jones]

I wish Batman would end! I'm sorry...this character isn't timeless.....shove it back into the comic book from which it escaped....right along with Superman and the X-Men things....but don't mess with the Hulk....you wouldn't like him when he's mad.

Another thing...why would you sit in a dark theater for 2 hours squinting just to make out what's on the dark screen?

I'd rather be squinting through my eyes in a dark bar after drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel's!

Hey...at least at that point you'd know why everything looked "muddled".

What do I know....my name is Bubba!

[Magnus]

I guess the only solution is to cut films on a big screen, or rather, using a projector. You could have like a sound-stage, only the cutter would be separated from the picture (s)he sees by the kind of window that would eliminate outside light to make the picture as correct as possible. The best projectors are quite capable of functioning like that in my opinion. Sounds like a good idea? It's a good way to inflate your budget by a few tens of thousands, anyway.