04-02-2002, 06:12 PM
HyBriD Wrote:It IS awesome and you HAVE to watch it. It's got some of the best quotes ever.igh: ............braveheart. ive never seen it. heard it was awesome though.
The reason I'm responding though is in regards to how popular it is, yet no one talks about the HORRIBLE post-production editing that was done in that movie.
It's so bad, it's like they did it on purpose.
There are two scenes that I can think of that really stand out.
The first one is in one of the battle scenes. They keep cutting back and forth between the Scots and the English running towards each other at the beginning of the battle. They must have shown Mel Gibson about 6 different times in the span of 15 seconds. Each time, he had a different weapon. It varied from having a sword a sword in his hand, to have a sword on his back and nothing in his hands, to having an axe in his hand, a mace, and an AK-47.
The second one was probably the worst ever. It's in the scene where he's talking to the princess chick in her little tent. She's got this white vail over her face and it's got a chin strap. There were probably 50 different shots of her during the conversation, and every time, the vail was in a different position on her chin. Sometimes it was very tight, sometimes, it was all stretched and frayed. It was just so rediculous, that I can never focus on that scene.
But it's still one of my favorite movies. I'm just in awe that no one ever talks about it, since the editing in those scene was just atrocious