Quote from: Alien³ on May 26, 2015, 09:36:55 AM
It's like the Indominus is a made up animal or something ![Tongue :P](https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/Smileys/fugue/tongue.png)
And that's actually the kind of incredibly poor, lazy reasoning we get behind the scenes. Dinosaurs can't actually be cloned and the reality is we know very, very little about them -- but that didn't stop the team on the first movie putting in years of research into animal movement to ground their entirely
unreal animals in reality
![Smiley :)](https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/Smileys/fugue/smiley.png)
QuoteTrevorrow has masterfully brought this franchise back, in a smart and refreshing way. JP has a specific style and the film-makers have tapped into it perfectly for JW. I'm interested to know where you're coming from here...
I have to see the movie to judge the effects, but you can say he's "masterfully" done
anything...?
I'm talking about his actual direction. Directing a movie is not about coming up with cool set-pieces or orchestrating large spectacles, it's in everything. If you want to know how good a director is, look at how he films the most cinematically dull thing possible -- two people talking. Great directors make it interesting, poor ones resort to basic coverage.
Treverrow is the latter.
This is from his first movie. As you can see from the comments, this is many people's favourite scene. From a directing standpoint, however, it is
incredibly boring. It's the same three shots for
three minutes. It would not have broke the bank or the schedule to at least quickly lock off a close-up of the girl's face, without the guy, to show her reactions and emotions, seeing as it's the key part of the scene. Or a slow track in on her over the course of the scene. Or literally
anything other than just repeat three shots.
From a directing standpoint, it's
quantifiably bad.
"It's his first movie!"
I'll be fair, this has a lot to do with the writing, but this scene is just really, really dull. It's standard coverage of two people talking. Again, nothing in the camera, the editing, or even the blocking of the scene is helping tell this story. If you muted this scene, you would learn
nothing, not just because there's no dialogue.
Compare to:
http://youtu.be/fEc_1Zun-FM?t=47sIf you mute that scene, you obviously won't know that they're going to a freakin' dinosaur park (Not that you do even
with audio), but you understand exactly how the dynamics of the scene are changing through blocking, through acting, through reaction shots, etc.
I know that seems overly harsh considering the movie's not out yet, but they're releasing scenes, and those scenes should be able to communicate
something, even out of context, through more than just dialogue. That's what good direction is all about: using
all of the tools of filmmaking to tell an engaging story, even when it
is just two people talking.