Please Stop Doing This

Only #3 has anything to do with writers. Your points should be aimed mostly at directors. Even #6 has little to do with the writers. The studios and producer fire writers who try to get some plot into their CGI-laden superhero movie; look at all the "writer" credits on those movies.

Writers don't choose the lighting, writers don't design the props, writers don't choose camera movement, writers don't decide how actors perform.

6. Do you mean if one is made or if you go see it? If your bags aren't packed (Cambodia is beautiful) then just don't see one. Easy to do.

Why is 'spinning parts' in a time travel machine stupid? Seems most believable to me, since I can imagine the physics of, say, a magnetic field, or a mini-cyclotron to manufacture an Einstein-Rosen bridge.

That works for me much better than someone merely flipping a switch or whatever you are suggesting. Whatever are you suggesting?

Aimed mostly at critics, but includes other spectators, too.

1. Stop watching other people's movies.
2. Make your own movies. (bonus note)

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What is the line between writers and directors? Does the writer say "insert scary lighting cliche here", or does the director decide that?

The actual fields would have to be "spinning" at millions, billions, or trillions of times per second. That is done with electric fields - just like in an electric motor or induction cooker or microwave. Does your microwave spin to cook food?

My microwave doesn't send Johnnycakes through time, so I don't see how the comparison stands up to scrutiny.

Seeing as time machines are fictional, there really is no argument that "it wouldn't work that way", and to most people it seems some sort of rotational apparatus makes sense.

I agree on horror movies having flickering lights. I was watching Alien the other day. There are flickering lights when the ship is counting down to self destruct. Okay so maybe flickering lights happen during the countdown for some reason.

But then later, after Ripley escapes in the smaller escape ship, the lights in that ship start flickering when the Alien appears... for no reason!

by Windsun33 » Fri Oct 21 2016 12:40:20
What is the line between writers and directors? Does the writer say "insert scary lighting cliche here", or does the director decide that?
The director decides on lighting. The writer does not. The writer writes what is happening. The director decides how to shoot it. Don't blame the writer if the director chooses flickering lights.