Re: James Bond 23...a disaster in the making?
The problem with the action scenes in Quantum Solace isn't in the camerawork, staging or writing. All of those are well done. It doesn't really even have that much shakycam.
The action scenes are incoherent because they have been edited disastrously bad. They are way too often just series of 6-12 frame shots. A 1-second shot is a luxury in that film.
Director decides how a film is edited (And producers as well).
It's not too uncommon that directors andeditors get blinded to their work, and they start editing faster and faster - They know what the shots contain, so it's easier for them to follow the action. But that's why you show your cut to other people, and there are also other tricks in the book to avoid this (Occasionally playing your scenes as mirror-images helps you to watch them with fresh eyes).
Even the drama scenes in the film are generally edited waaaaayyy too fast.
If the film would have been 10 minutes longer, it would have felt much shorter than it felt now.
It's still hard for me to believe that they screwed up the film so bad in post. There is a good action film in there somewhere, it just needs a major re-edit.
The problem with the action scenes in Quantum Solace isn't in the camerawork, staging or writing. All of those are well done. It doesn't really even have that much shakycam.
The action scenes are incoherent because they have been edited disastrously bad. They are way too often just series of 6-12 frame shots. A 1-second shot is a luxury in that film.
Director decides how a film is edited (And producers as well).
It's not too uncommon that directors andeditors get blinded to their work, and they start editing faster and faster - They know what the shots contain, so it's easier for them to follow the action. But that's why you show your cut to other people, and there are also other tricks in the book to avoid this (Occasionally playing your scenes as mirror-images helps you to watch them with fresh eyes).
Even the drama scenes in the film are generally edited waaaaayyy too fast.
If the film would have been 10 minutes longer, it would have felt much shorter than it felt now.
It's still hard for me to believe that they screwed up the film so bad in post. There is a good action film in there somewhere, it just needs a major re-edit.
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