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Originally Posted by willravel
3) The impossible to watch fight scenes.
If you're a fan of action movies like I am, you know that there is actually much substance to be had in fight scenes. The Luke/Vader light-saber battle in Empire Strikes Back spoke in many layers about each of their roads leading to that point and the dramatic shift in their relationship from simply enemies to father and son. And you could see it in when they did battle. The father testing the son, the son lashing out at his great enemy... it was really wonderful. Batman Begins? Basically the camera is shaking and shifting all over creation so much that you have no clue what's going on. If I didn't know any better, I'd think that they simply put the camera inside an old industrial tire and rolled it down a rocky hillside. And what makes it even worse? In the extra features on the DVD or HD DVD, they go to a lot of trouble to explain that Christian Bale was a fantastic fighter and that he was able to use his photographic memory to perfectly imitate these moves he was getting from world class professionals. WHAT? WHERE?!
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Personally I loved the 'where the fuck is he?' style of fight scenes. It really seems to be one of those things that either you love it or you hate it. Unfortunately you hate it and you are wrong for hating it.

(kidding)