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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2440660" data-attributes="member: 1057">-Volume that's too loud.  Yes, certain moments in a film should be loud, and those are o.k., but the entire film doesn't need to be 100 dB.  I take ear plugs to Metallica concerts to prevent tinnitis.  Maybe I should start taking them to the movies.-People who talk during the film.  I'm with Shepherd Book on this one.-Showing all the funny clips in the preview hoping to get butts in seats only to find that there's nothing else funny in the comedy film.  Thanks, I saw the preview, could've skipped the $10 for the movie that's not funny the way the clips were.-Just about anything where the names Michael Bay or Joel Schumacher appear in the credits.-"In a world . . . "  This just makes me tired now.-Obligatory nu-metal chord burst intro for the explosion/action sequence/underwater catastrophe bubble burst/frenzied kiss in a preview or actual film.-My own "too-high" expectations.  I really, really need to lower them, if I'm going to enjoy the movies.  Don't know if this is just "getting older" disease, or what.Fair enough.  I like the realism, when it works for the film.  I go to some movies to be entertained.  I go to others because I'm hoping to see something realistic, or something about a subject I am interested in, and in those cases, I think the versimilitude helps, such as in the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and the whole of Blackhawk Down, in which case I think the camera work helps me realize the craziness (crazier than I could ever imagine, and still nowhere near crazy as it really was) of the situation.  I might get enterainment, or something to think about, or a historical period to investigate further, or a particular artistic expression out of those films, too, but part of what I like is the realism.  In the case of those kinds of films, I think the camera work serves the film.  I'm sorry you had to leave Ryan due to illness and that it detracted your experience of the (first 20 minutes of) film (the story that followed definitely deviated from the "realism," for sure).I think it's just a particular stylistic trend in certain kinds of film expression at the moment.  It probably won't last forever, as other trends come along to replace it, and it will eventually come back, as the trend becomes nostalgic, or filmmakers get tired of the new trends.  I would guess there are many movies out there that don't use that technique.  Heck, maybe you could start the revolution and lobby for, or make, films that don't rely on that technique to tell a story!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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