Another reason NOT to watch contemporary movies

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2005)

I'll be honest up front and admit I couldn't watch all of Batman Begins. Why? Like almost all movies these days the editing is absolutely p!ss poor.
Five minutes into the film I started getting vertigo from how quickly the editing jumped around. Film should be a window into other times or a door onto worlds that don't exist. The craft of the director and editor should help to immerse the audience into a new place and keep the story and action clear. BUT movies these days are more like some hyper trailer for a good movie instead of being a good movie. Sure, I could take issue with the bad directing, acting, and story of Batman Begins but it's the way-too-quick editing style of today's films that keeps me out of the theaters. Characters on screen couldn't even finish a sentence without being cut away from.
Why does Hollywood think everybody has the attention span of a house fly? It's this lowest-common-denominator thinking that will continue to make people dumber and dumber. If nothing else it will surely keep avid movie fans like myself out of the theaters and away from new DVDs.