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coz you get lost in the details. 7 41.18%
coz it helps you sleep. 1 5.88%
it's not fascinating, it's boring. 3 17.65%
coz gives you time to think about the images you're watching. 4 23.53%
it's fascinating only if you're a sigur ros fan. 1 5.88%
I only watch slow-mo-replays in sports games/animal docs. 2 11.76%
coz it builds up tension/suspance/other feelings 4 23.53%
coz it's a nice display of technology 3 17.65%
it's a waste of film. 2 11.76%
write your opinion in a post instead of just voting, you kind reader. 6 35.29%
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Old 01.04.2008, 05:53 AM   #1
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Old 01.04.2008, 05:55 AM   #2
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Because it's a shock to the senses.

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Old 01.04.2008, 05:57 AM   #3
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Old 01.04.2008, 05:59 AM   #4
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Old 01.04.2008, 06:02 AM   #5
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because you get to see things you that would never get to see with your normal eyes
same reason why drugs are fun :P
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Old 01.04.2008, 07:32 AM   #6
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Old 01.04.2008, 07:33 AM   #7
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I don't know if slow motion is fascinating, except that in that it gives the opportunity to inspect the details that get missed at full speed.

But do you find that there is music that when you visualise it being played, you always see it in slow motion? I can't think of titles at the moment, but there's a song by Dinosaur Jr and one by Queens Of The Stone Age [edit - "In My Head", I think] that, when I hear them, I always visualise a video in slow motion.
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Old 01.04.2008, 07:37 AM   #8
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Is the song by Dinosaur Jr either 'Yeah, We Know' or 'Not The Same'? They both fit a slow-mo visualisation.
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Old 01.04.2008, 07:44 AM   #9
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Is the song by Dinosaur Jr either 'Yeah, We Know' or 'Not The Same'? They both fit a slow-mo visualisation.
After a bit of research, no, it's "Budge". It's quite a fast song, but for some reason it has a slow-motion feel to me - possibly J Mascis' vocal delivery.
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Old 01.04.2008, 08:12 AM   #10
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this is why slo mo is cool.....

right here....
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Old 01.04.2008, 08:32 AM   #11
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Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor make me feel nauseated with slow motion, particularly on songs like GSBE's 'The Dead Flag Blues', which is an exercise in trying to create an epic from the perspective of concealed pompous musicians.

There are pieces by Alan Curves and Ernst Reijseger or La Monte Young that wonderfully display an ability of making the listener's visual imagination first entranced and then slowly moving, amongst others people.

An example in rock music is a particularly mean version of VU's 'Sister Ray' by Lou Reed on a bootleg called 'Whatever Happened To Dick and Steve' where Reed slows down his singing mid-song in a totally demented and ridiculous way, thus hitting on the listener's visualisation of the lyrics in an unexpected way. He does the same on the original version of the song, but I prefer it on this bootleg because it is a more early-70's rock version of the song with this weird bit of singing and playing in the middle.
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Old 01.04.2008, 11:02 AM   #12
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slow motion in films is the single most over-used and trite camera trick to add "meaning" or seemingly add "meaning" to a scene devoid of it. I think it is a cheap and easy trick and it sucks when I see it in movies too much.
I love wes anderson but that fucker does this every ten minutes, put on some hoary old chestnut from the 70's AM radio and have his characters walk somewhere in slow motion.

I HATE IT!
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Old 01.04.2008, 11:07 AM   #13
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Old 01.04.2008, 11:58 AM   #14
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There's a gracefulness to the rhythm and flow of slow motion that, if done right, is not unlike ballet or a line of prose from a Nabakov novel. Everything is in balance, and yet unfolding.
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do it slo mo and it fools the human brain into thinking it is "graceful" and "elegant" and "meaningful"....BULSHIT I say!!!

You could have footage of Preznit Dubya blowing his nose into a handkerchief, and if you do it in slow moption, someone will see it and cry because they were "so moved"

HA! I say!
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Just because it "fools the human brain" doesn't mean it's bullshit. Everything fools the human brain. You fool.
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bullshit I say!!!!!

true meaning is gathered utilizing intelligence and wisdom and savvy, not implied by a movie TRICK!

read up on it! everyone from bergman to hitchcock to eastwood to spielberg knows slo mo in film is a cheap trick
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Okay, so it's cheap. It works.
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Well, even lighting is, but if it's done properly, why bash it "prejudicially" (<--?) ? I understand what you mean, but you're generalize a bit too much, eh!
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Okay, so it's cheap. It works.

the same three chord changes that are used in nearly every single romantic song "work" too, but that does not mean it is not BULLSHIT.
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