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Old (2021)
Worst cinematography I've ever seen in a major movie
Something very bad must have been happening on set of in postproduction - otherwise I cannot explain how this bad camerawork could make it to screen:
There is a dialog between two people, but the 2nd one is at the edge of the frame - not full in, not full out. A similar thing happens later with a nose tip one second before the edit. This is terrible, amateur like framing.
There are pans and zooms into literally nowhere without any trace of a visual concept.
In the scenes with more action and moving camera, the camera is uncoordinated and makes very sudden correction movements, like the dolly operator had it's own mind about how the scene should be shot.
It feels like they have recorded in a wider frame format and cut it down in post or they have been forced to take b-roll shots and false takes instead of the approved ones.
If any of this was by intension, Shyamalan should get a nice smart phone and start his TikTok channel. No need for the big screen anymore.
Away (2020)
Who wrote the scripts? Why?
After forcing myself through 9 episodes, I have to agree to the bad reviews.
I understand that the series is not about a mars mission, spacecrafts and sci/fi, but about the social stress from isolation of the loved ones, and social stress from group dynamics and t3echnical issues.
But the scenarios, which are used to create those social stress are so far from being believable, it's hard to understand how this could actually pass all production steps and came to screen.
The daughter behaves like an average teenager, yet both of her parents are in leading positions of the NASA. Her mother is a jet pilot and astronaut since when she was born, her father is a lead engineer. It's hard to believe that this is the first time she had to deal with life drama while her mother isn't there.
She is probably 14 and in all those years, her mother only had one topic: Mars. That's the environment she grew up in. Demanding her to stay just some hours before takeoff, is something a she would never ask for in this situation. This is not how she was socialized.
She rather learned from child on, that her parents have to fulfill duties, if she liked it or not.
This is just one example, how the social stress in this show didn't work, if you just think about it for one or two seconds.
All the technical issues, which are used to create group stress to the crew, are beyond any technical understanding.
The solar panel is one of the critical system, but it's designed in a way it can fail so easily, like there is nobody at NASA who can mill a groove? What is the purpose of this steel rope anyway?
And the water system, the most critical system on board, is just described as a 4000 pieces puzzle. In order to repair it, they need to do a "heart surgery" and one of the crew members have to memorize every screw and part, like they don't can make photos while disassembling. All they have is a 3D exploded view like in an Ikea manual.
I would buy all of this, but even the most complex system follows a logic. Somebody has made up this water system, thought about how it works and what does it take to write a service manual - let it be larger than the plot holes - and give it to the crew to they can fix it? You have such in every airliner, I think.
Nothing in this show makes any sense. This is just a soap opera in space with unbelievable characters and a lot of tears.