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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 290843" data-attributes="member: 2795">Re: Re: For me....How nice.&nbsp; Now I have the attention span of a fruit fly.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There is too much padding in his movies.&nbsp; Slow pans to just set up a scene, walking scenes with no dialogue or plot relevance, et cetera.&nbsp;&nbsp; My POV is that he put these things in to help the slower members of the audience catch up to the tightly-woven structure of the plot, but for me such &quot;down time&quot; tends to become dull.&nbsp; It's not that there needs to be action for action's sake, but there needs to be something going on.&nbsp; I also dislike the fill-in-the-story flashback sequences, such as in &quot;Sixth Sense&quot; when Ghost Bruce finally realizes what's going on and then we, the audience, get treated to a heavy-handed montage of earlier scenes.&nbsp; I recall the same basic technique in &quot;Unbreakable&quot; (which I actually thought the better of the two films).I'm a relatively bright guy.&nbsp; I seldom need things I've been watching closely explained to me.&nbsp; This is why, while I may watch a presidential debate, I never watch the post-debate commentary.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 290843, member: 2795"] [b]Re: Re: For me....[/b] How nice. Now I have the attention span of a fruit fly. :) There is too much padding in his movies. Slow pans to just set up a scene, walking scenes with no dialogue or plot relevance, et cetera. My POV is that he put these things in to help the slower members of the audience catch up to the tightly-woven structure of the plot, but for me such "down time" tends to become dull. It's not that there needs to be action for action's sake, but there needs to be something going on. I also dislike the fill-in-the-story flashback sequences, such as in "Sixth Sense" when Ghost Bruce finally realizes what's going on and then we, the audience, get treated to a heavy-handed montage of earlier scenes. I recall the same basic technique in "Unbreakable" (which I actually thought the better of the two films). I'm a relatively bright guy. I seldom need things I've been watching closely explained to me. This is why, while I may watch a presidential debate, I never watch the post-debate commentary. :) [/QUOTE]

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