When I saw the headline "Moviegoers warned of Babel sickness," I laughed, not out of schadenfreude, but vindication. Read the full post.
May 2
2007
08:56 PM ET
Viewers are literally sick of 'Babel'
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Any of the 3-D movies of late, like “Spy Kids 3″, “Polar Express” and “Meet the Robinsons”, always give me a headache … and sometimes not because of the 3-D.
Speed 2…since it was on a cruise ship.
I’ve gotten sick in movies a lot- I can’t count how many movies I’d had to listen to with my eyes shut. It’s always the handi-cam movies- Bourne Supremacy, Blair Witch, Go, and the like. At home though, I’m fine with movies but get sick playing 1st person shooters.
The Thomas Crowne Affair had some swirly aerial camera shots right in the middle that almost did me in. I had to shut my eyes until they were done with the glider scenes.
Bourne Supremacy!
That made me motion sick in the theater. There were points where I had to focus on the chair in front of me. But again, on my TV (especially my small one) I was totally fine.
Friday Night Lights, the TV series! I hear it’s a brilliant show, but between the annoyance factor of not being able to keep my focus on whoever’s in the foreground (I know, I know, artistic choice) and my actual motion sickness with the handheld and the change/lack of focus, the dialogue sometimes just off-camera … I get physically sick. So, I am not one of those who watch the best drama of last season.
Not exactly sure what causes it… I worked at a movie theatre when The Blair Witch Project came out and I remember numerous occasions of puke clean-up in the aisles, just outside the theatre door and on the way to the bathroom. Thank God I never had to clean any of it up. But you’re definitely not alone Mr. Susman; it does happen.
I got a queasy feeling during Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, was that just me?
I agree with people who say The Bourne Supremacy. How can you watch that movie in theatres and not feel nauseous!?
When I saw Twister, the only seats my friends and I could get were in the front row. I was fine until the very end when they show you the inside of the tornado. That made me so dizzy I thought I might puke.
The last few Tony Scott films, starting with “Man On Fire”. I skipped “Deja Vu” in theaters partly because I didn’t want to sit through constant Parkinson’s disease camerawork and a load of extreme zooming close-ups right up Denzel’s nostrils.
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Anything with those wandering handheld shots makes me queasy. I wish directors would get a clue that the trendiness of wobbly handheld shots is way over and overdone. I think the first season of “Lost” was using unsteady shots and watching it in HD definitely made me nauseous at times. I almost stopped watching it.
I get motion sick in movies quite often, to varying degrees. Felt kind of lousy after Hot Fuzz, for which we were in the front of the second section at Emagine… so, pretty close. And I’d eaten at Buffalo Wild Wings, so take that into account.
The two worst experiences that I can recall were The Paper – crazy camera work – and, believe it or not, I Am Sam. I had to leave that one, actually. Not that I was really enjoying it anyway. Great soundtrack, though!
The second Bourne movie made my wife and me motion sick. But the worst was Blair Witch Project. I went straight home at 4 in the afternoon and slept until about 11 the next morning. I couldn’t even see straight. My wife drove us home. She watched a different movie.