10 Recent Movies That Made INSANE Choices
For better or worse, these movies took some WILD swings.
Any film is nothing less than the summation of thousands of small artistic choices made by the filmmaker and their collaborators - that is, their cast, the cinematographer, visual effects artists, sound designers, and so on.
And making enough good or "correct" choices that you deliver a movie that entertains the masses is no easy feat, especially given the tendency for modern audiences to nitpick films to death. Thanks for that, CinemaSins.
But sometimes filmmakers make single creative decisions that are undeniably unhinged - artistic choices which are tough for anyone else but them to fully explain or justify.
And that's certainly true of these 10 movies, each of which did something totally bonkers and wildly unexpected, for better or worse.
From peculiar aesthetic choices which were arguably more distracting than appealing, to insane conceptual decisions, wild casting picks, and everything else in between, nobody can accuse these movies of just doing the safest, most boring thing possible.
These movies range from good to terrible to somewhere in-between, but perhaps probably be commended - even begrudgingly - for daring to take a swing, even though it might've been fundamentally misguided...
10. Lens Flares Everywhere - In the Lost Lands
While few were likely expecting much from Paul W.S. Anderson's new dark fantasy film In the Lost Lands - even with source material penned by the great George R.R. Martin - Anderson basically went above and beyond to make the film as visually garish as possible.
Even if you can forgive how relentlessly plastic and fake the digital backgrounds throughout the movie look, Anderson's big aesthetic faux pas was to drown almost every frame of the movie in an eyesore-inducing number of lens flares.
Pretty much every single light source featured in the film gives off a prominent flare, and given that many scenes contain dozens of lights, we end up with the screen basically flooded with these distracting artefacts.
It's enough to make J.J. Abrams' infamous penchant for lens flares seem positively restrained, and is a strong enough choice that it's far more likely to be remembered than anything that actually happens in the film's story.
Never do this again, Paul, please.