Over on PJ Media we have Whittle and Klavan discussing the sad state of the Oscars. Both of these guys are movie buffs, and both admitted that they had NOT seen most/all of the Oscar nominated movies. In short, this years crop of flicks was too boring for them to watch.
Whittle brought up the pacing of today's CGI based flick. Too intense. The classic flicks would start off slow, follow the hero around, meet his associates, ride around the ranch, get acquainted stuff. The movie would work up a a climax (a stampede, a car chase, a battle, and then end. Whittle says the modern flicks just go from one climax scene to another, non stop action, and the audience doesn't have time, or breath, to take much of it in.
Whittle is onto something here. And it was Raiders of the Lost Ark that started this trend. Just action scene piled upon action scene.
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