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Topic subjectRE: They do use that slow down effect quite a bit, but it didn't bother me.
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82992, RE: They do use that slow down effect quite a bit, but it didn't bother me.
Posted by Sponge, Wed Mar-07-07 02:57 PM
>I guess because the effect allows you to see the fights more
>clearly and graphically. I mean it's not some arbitrary shit,
>when they slow shit down it's to show you, in the clearest of
>detail, how one swing of the sword cuts one dude's arm off,
>another dude's head and another cat's hand, full-on with huge
>splatters of blood.

I was wondering if they overused it for expressive and aesthetic purposes because some clips have them jumping/flying and falling back in slow-mo which is unlike the examples of the functional purpose that you stated above (i.e., clarity of detail).

Maybe it's integral to the Miller source?