- Dear M. Night,
scenes where a largish number of extras group together doing mostly nothing but "focus" on and follow developments in a protagonist's unfolding personal drama, like talking on the phone to her kids who are facing danger do not work.
you gave us unexpected helpings of such scenes in lady in the water and the village. These in terms of drama do not cut it anymore in terms of believability , since you're a "realist" gothic director would exclude this bullshit from the threshold for sus. of disbelief.
Secondly, they are distracting. even if well played by the extras no one expects a dozen people let alone more to stand around following the conversation of a poor woman in distress on a cell phone no less.
No seriously, drop the sentimentality. Sure give us the hard facts , the drama/action events but don't pause and linger after each one to pout and try to show and savour rather academic emotion. Our emotions are intelligent and elicit themselves by themselves. they don't need these outdated methods to be evoked.
- There was the scientific gaffes which got a thorough drubbing in many filmgoer reviews websites . but one of the criticisms can be overlooked like we had to do in "The ruins" (2007) which is the speed of an evolving plant action , a central premise to the story.
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