12 Ways 2015 Movies Definitely Made You Dumber

2. Taken 3's Terrible Editing Induced Worldwide Seizures

If you saw Taken 3, especially in cinemas, there's a good chance you came out with a splitting headache and a feeling of sensory disorientation at what you had just seen, unable to answer basic math questions and wondering why any filmmaker would willingly subject an audience to this visual atrocity. Putting aside all of its storytelling faults, the third Taken is rendered irredeemably awful due to its horrendously unappealing direction and editing, with up to 4 or 5 shots sometimes being crammed into one second of film, largely in order to disguise Liam Neeson's age and make the action seem more "frantic". It makes it literally painful to watch, and aside from wondering how a near-$50 million Hollywood movie could look so slapdash, the mental impairment and anguish caused by the smattering of images should probably be grounds for a class action lawsuit. We all lost a few IQ points the day we saw this movie.