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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 840363" data-attributes="member: 812">I liked everything about Dark City except the ending. I really really really wish somebody would come up with a way to have two characters engage in a battle of wills that doesn't involve them just staring at each other and pretending to struggle. It always looks goofy.Otherwise, yeah, Dark City gets thumbs-up from me.Piratecat: I'll get you for that.RangerWickett: You know, you're probably right. It still bugs me every time I see it. The way Pippin's arms cycle just LOOKS phony. Drives me crazy.Doc Midnight: Since I know you're hip to the whole big honkin' fight scene thing, I just have to share what first triggered my Matrix hate. First time I saw the film (and I was pretty excited before I saw it), first scene, CA Moss jumps up and FREEZE WOW SUPER COOL CRANK IT AROUND YEAH BABY YEAH I'M SO INTO THIS AND NOW! START THE KICK NOWand they cut.I couldn't believe it. They cut out of the wrap-around freeze-frame to a close-up of a foot hitting a chest. My jaw dropped. It seemed so obvious to me that what you do is hold the shot, start the action running IN THE SAME SHOT, and let her send the bad guy flying. That cut, for me, killed the moment.They did it a couple more times in the film and I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. Why would you cut out of that?Hollywood fight scenes = overcutting. It's a fact.Sorry, just a bee in me bonnet.</blockquote>