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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
worst editing in movies
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for this list we're looking at movie
scenes from the past 60 years that
failed to achieve their desired effect
due to mistakes or poor decisions made
in post-production
number 10. alex cross vs picasso alex
cross
tyler perry plays james patterson's fbi
hero in this 2012 adaptation
which culminates in a final face-off
with the villainous picasso
inside a crumbling theater it's a fight
to behold for all the wrong reasons
this sloppy sequence boasts infrequent
and mismatched editing
low frame rate slow motion and overuse
of shaky cam shots
it's a tough scene to watch and it's not
the only one
an earlier scene in picasso's home
features an obvious mirrored shot
among others that feel either too fast
or too slow for what is meant to be
conveyed
you can go ahead and cross this one off
your watch list number nine
the misfits bohemian rhapsody so tell me
what makes queen any different from all
the other wannabe rock stars i meet
love it or hate it the production of
this freddy mercury biopic was a bit of
a nightmare
and for that reason we are able to give
this one a bit of a pass
how bohemian rhapsody was not only
nominated but
won the oscar for best film editing is
inexcusable in our eyes though
you would think that a basic scene of
dialogue between queen band members
would take some relatively simple
editing right
instead what we get here is edit
whiplash where we're thrown to a
different band member every few seconds
what more every band wants more every
band's not queen we understand wanting
to invoke the frantic editing styles
most commonly seen in music videos but
this is just taking it too far
number eight the painting manos the
hands of fate
look at this there's no doubt about it
harold warren's cult horror classic is a
mess from start to finish
the sound mixing and editing is amateur
at best but the real horror can be found
in the movie's first half
inside the mysterious torgo's house a
sinister portrait of his dark master is
frequently shown
in awkwardly lengthy and unbroken shots
the longest of which lasts for a painful
19 seconds
oh mike i'm scared he has the meanest
look it may have been deliberate trying
to produce the same discomfort in the
audience that the characters feel
but age has not been kind and today
the only reaction it provokes is awkward
laughter
it seems that angley took the idea of
bringing a comic book to life on the big
screen a little too literally
the marvel giant's box office gamma bomb
suffers from an overly dark tone
and poorly aged cgi but the most
frequent problem hands down
is the stylized panel editing during
scene transitions and throughout the
movie the filmmakers chose to overlay
shots on top of each other
to resemble panels from a comic book it
did not work
most of the transitions look like
presets from any off-the-shelf editing
software
and the results were far too cartoonish
and clashed with the already established
bleak tone
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number six the entire movie samurai cop
if you have anything against me then
book me otherwise as they
say get the hell out of my face even for
a direct-to-video action flick from the
90s
it's difficult to know where to begin
with this one
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even ignoring the lazy writing amateur
acting and low production value
this cult film barely holds itself
together
the movie clearly had no final sound mix
as evidenced by the blatant contrast of
background noise
on almost any cut between two shots
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what's even worse the movie has no
creativity in how it's pieced together
an actor delivers terribly dubbed lines
before cutting to another actor
delivering
their own terribly dubbed lines rinse
and repeat
throw in a few juvenile standard action
sequences and
voila samurai cup
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we are not an established gang yet
number five
the boardroom sequence battlefield earth
i am honored
by your visit this new millennium
science fiction flop is panned enough
for its cheesy acting
and reliance on crazy camera angles but
its time in post did not do it any
favors
the film is excessive in its use of slow
motion extensive wipes and sudden cuts
between characters
a scene featuring turl confronting his
superiors demonstrates this shoddy
editing at its worst
you must be looking forward to getting
off this disgusting excuse of a planet
i just want to do whatever serves the
corporation best sir with a regular slow
motion and repeating dialogue throughout
the intent was to emphasize turl's
torment by his peers
but the effect just feels pointless and
comes off as
annoying the film was so unwatchable
that early audiences reportedly suffered
from migraines
mind-blowing sci-fi indeed are you not
aware
that i graduated top of my class quite
an accomplishment
number four mismatched shots
transformers
dark of the moon
michael bay is the man when it comes to
adrenaline pumping action scenes
but he doesn't take the same care
everywhere else and his movies suffer
for it
the quieter scenes in his third
transformer flick showcase timing that
always feels slightly
off i'm weighing deep wang
deep wang there are needless angle
changes
as if attempting to keep the same
momentum as the action sequences
several scenes feature takes that don't
even seem to match up
clearly low attention to detail is the
issue in one scene
baenco forgot to digitally add an
autobot into shia labeouf's hands
less than meets the eye number 3 brian
mills jumping offense
taken 3. he's headed west liam neeson's
third outing as america's most extreme
dad was full of movement
but this eight-second splice in
particular boasts a ridiculous 15
alternative angles of brian mills
hopping over
offense in such a fast-paced franchise
like this
editing on this level just ends up
feeling like over compensation for a
lack of quality action
this is emphasized even further by the
tense score running underneath the shots
the forced implication of high stakes
onto such an arbitrary feat
results in a level of absurdity you
might find in hot fuzz
really 15 shots you can't help but think
it should have only
taken three
number two the laundromat scene domino
ed what did you do before your bounty
hunter
tony scott's retelling of bounty hunter
domino harvey's life is littered with
periodic freeze frames and slow motion
but for many the exposition-filled
laundromat scene stands out most for the
wrong reasons
it features a variety of excessive angle
changes without meaning or purpose
as if trying to add action to a quiet
sequence the final product is a movie
scene with the pacing of a television
commercial
hurrying to get all its information
across in a limited allotted time
tony scott has since acknowledged that
he didn't quote let the movie breathe
enough
and was quote overcome by the insanity
of that world
we are inclined to agree what you're
looking at
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
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number one the basketball scene catwoman
one-on-one who me and her
in a superhero movie about halle berry
using cat powers to stop an evil
cosmetics company
yup that is the plot the last thing we
need is a montage of her
shooting hoops with her boyfriend this
scene is cut together without any real
focus or direction
to the sounds of mystique's scandalous
and resembles nothing more than a poorly
edited music video
like many other scenes in the movie the
cuts are hella jarring
at times reaching a staggering rate of
eight cuts in four seconds
serving to confuse viewers rather than
wow them
failing to highlight our heroine's
newfound confidence this is one montage
that should have been
scratched can we have our ball back
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