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May 1, 2020 · Dolly Shot. Zoom. Dolly Zoom. Whip Pan. Tracking. 5. Cohesive Production Value. Production value includes all the elements that create the film’s world, including props, sets, visual effects, and sound design. High production value means all these elements work together to create a sum that’s larger than its parts.
- Thomas Oconnor
- Movies can be objectively bad. We’ve all seen bad movies. Movies that don’t make sense, movies with flat, unlikeable characters, movies where you can’t tell what’s going on in a given scene due to poor editing and camera work.
- You’re allowed to like bad movies. As I write this, I’m sitting just out of arm’s length from a carefully curated collection of DVDs and Blu-Rays. It contains many fine, high-quality pieces of cinema, like most of Kubrick’s filmography, some Herzog, genre classics like Back to the Future and Die Hard.….
- Criticism is not an attack. This is important. This is SO important, you have no idea. Accepting this truth, if you haven’t already, may be one of the most important truths you can accept.
- Some opinions are worth more than others. Critics often get asked “Who are YOU to decide what’s good and what’s bad? What gives YOU the right?”. There are a lot of answers, but ultimately the one to bear in mind is this: movie critics, especially the successful ones, are people who know a LOT about movies.
A lot of what makes a bad movie is subjective, sure, but there are solid reasons behind labeling something good or bad (usually). There is a science behind dissecting movies for those of us who are movie nerds in the same way there is a science behind understanding and enjoying art, food, literature, or 80’s lunchboxes.
For me at least, since movies are entertainment and culture statements at their core, what makes a movie truly bad is 1. being boring, and 2. having a stupid message or an obvious one. An obvious movie can at least be entertaining, like in the case of Elysium. But boring movies are nonredeemable in my opinion! 2. Reply.
May 10, 2023 · Some suggestions for a “bad” movie. This is a movie that: Proselytizes. Evades the moral questions it prompts. Has story problems. Shifts genres to fix its story problems. Uses transitions to avoid story issues. Uses promiscuous narrative POV to avoid storytelling issues and to prompt maximum titillation.
- Peter Markham
Nov 21, 2018 · Or maybe, the movie has bad sound. For the film Saving Private Ryan, sound designer Gary Rydstrom brought the horrors of World War II back to life using real-life sounds from weapons fired during ...
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Jan 27, 2014 · But just last month, we witnessed the release of 47 Ronin, which was a perfect example of. a movie that’s just bad, rather than “so bad it’s good.” 47 Ronin had a lot of the right ...
