The Argonaut wrote:Yeah, that's really what separates great television from schlock. Arms stay folded
Of course a show can be great even with those kinds of mistakes. Character development is much more important. No one will watch a show if they don’t care about the characters. Storyline and plot probably come next.
From a production stand point, avoiding jump cuts is media aesthetics 101. Prior to Breaking Bad, humans seemed incapable of making a television show unless they settled for bad edits.
What a bizarre take. I've never seen anyone so preoccupied with jump cuts.
Avoiding jump cuts is not "media aesthetics 101." Jump cuts can be (and often are) an aesthetic choice as much as anything (see: Godard and the Nouvelle Vague)
Breaking Bad is full of inconsistent / haphazard composition and wonky handheld shots which to my eye are much worse problems than the occasional jump cut. Just one aspect in which Better Call Saul, which is full of gorgeous and precise compositions, is superior.
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
Simple Torture wrote:So years ago I started watching Breaking Bad, but I never got past season 3. Recently started rewatching and just finished season 2.
As a surprise to no one, I never got further than the end of Season 2.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I apologize for creating confusion. It was not my intention to suggest that artistic, preplanned, intentional jump cuts should be considered bad edits.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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