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January 10, 2012 3:46 PM

Has your life becomes choppy, condensed, and full of zooms? You may have Edgar Wright Syndrome
posted by The Whelk (20 comments total)

No, but I speak in an annoying fake English accent.
posted by goethean at 3:50 PM on January 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Heh.

Looking forwards to Ant Man and the next Apocalypse film.
posted by Artw at 3:51 PM on January 10, 2012

In a rare instance of me agreeing with a Youtube comment they are totally right about the 180 degree line there.
posted by Artw at 3:53 PM on January 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

THAT VIDEO LACKED ZOOMS
posted by Sticherbeast at 3:54 PM on January 10, 2012 [3 favorites]

Attention amateur editors - there are ways you can, and times you should, break the 180 rule. This does not qualify.
posted by nathancaswell at 4:03 PM on January 10, 2012

Yeah. Needs more contra zoom.
posted by howfar at 4:03 PM on January 10, 2012

I liked it cause it made it look like he was talking to himself.
posted by The Whelk at 4:04 PM on January 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Has your life become sun-sensitive, Texan and full of rock instrumentals? You may have Edgar Winter Syndrome.
posted by klangklangston at 4:54 PM on January 10, 2012 [5 favorites]

Sex being drawn out to 3 seconds -- yeah, right.
posted by anothermug at 4:55 PM on January 10, 2012 [2 favorites]

Fantastic. There are times where that would come in handy though.
posted by bryanthecook at 7:19 PM on January 10, 2012

Has your life become full of an unending series of pulp novels? You may have Edgar Rice Burroughs Syndrome.
posted by moss at 7:51 PM on January 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Our kitten is choppy and full of zooms. He used to be condensed too, but we got lazy about leaving his food out all day and now he's expanded somewhat.
posted by nebulawindphone at 8:37 PM on January 10, 2012 [2 favorites]

Has your life become full of an unending series of pulp novels? You may have Edgar Rice Burroughs Syndrome.

Unless endless grief is shovelled on to you, then you know it's Lester Dent Syndrome.
posted by Artw at 8:51 PM on January 10, 2012

What do you call that syndrome where you meander and drift vacantly through the days like a run-down and failing automaton; where your hopes and ambitions have withered and died; where the things that used to give you pleasure and solace now seem dessicated and worthless; and where your nights are a tiring and tormented stumble across an obstacle course of bizarre and stress-inducing dreamscapes and periods of enervated wakefulness? Does that syndrome have a name? Because it can have mine if it doesn't.
posted by Decani at 9:26 PM on January 10, 2012

"Being a new parent"?
posted by Artw at 9:28 PM on January 10, 2012

Nah, I imagine that's probably much worse, Artw.
posted by Decani at 9:41 PM on January 10, 2012

The shrieking howls in the dead of night...
posted by Artw at 10:00 PM on January 10, 2012

Isn't this really that thing they for some reason called "Hip hop montage" back in the nineties? I remember this both from Aronofsky and Ritchie.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 11:51 PM on January 10, 2012

It's Smash cutting. I'm not sure who was the first to really start overusing it, but my bet would be on Guy Ritchie rather than Wright.
posted by P.o.B. at 1:10 AM on January 11, 2012

Or not! Like Joakim Ziegler linked to, it's Fast Cutting. Aronofsky used it a few times early on.
posted by P.o.B. at 1:19 AM on January 11, 2012