Movies I Can't Stand
Uneccessary (and usually inferior) remakes of classic 4 or 5 star movies!
Uneccessary (and usually inferior) big screen verisons of Classic TV shows!
Eddie Murphy's "Sanitized Family Films"
Steve Martin's "Sanitized Family Films"
Also, the overuse of "hand-held" movie cameras in so many movies and TV shows. Meant to give a film or TV show a "realsitic" or "documentary" look, it is a great tool, but it is being far too often. I hope this "trend" subsides and it used only for certain scenes.
For example, just watch the greatest action sequence ever filmed...the chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959). No hand-helds used in those sequences. The actors, the horses, the chariots supply the excitement...not a herky-jerky camera. Trust me, if they ever remade it today, hand-helds would be very prevelant. Come to think of it, they could not afford to remake it nowadays...it would just be CGI!!!
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