As a video guy, most people think that I would be annoyed by  continuity errors in movies and tv shows – you know, when the gun is on the table in one shot, then cut to a different angle and it’s gone.  Those type of things don’t bother me much though.  I know mistakes get made and I guess I’m not that anal.  What REALLY bugs me though, is the laziness of writers who let their characters solve a case by using their computer to zoom in on the killer’s reflection in the victim’s eyeball.  This video is a nice example:

I can forgive Star Trek, since they’re in the distant future, but the rest are supposed to be in the “real world”.  Here’s a good parody of the technique from Red Dwarf:

Thanks Gizmodo

December 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized