Re: Movies with bad editing

Watching anything critically will make you better. Pick something like a soap opera and watch it with the sound off. Soaps are an intersting case because due to the incredibly short timelines they work on, much of it is live-switched, then if needed somebody does a quick erpair in non-linear. Try watching with the sound off and calling the camera shots out loud at the poitn *you* think they should happen. See if you soon pick up the director's rythm or if you stay divergent. Either way teaches you something.

Mym wife often catches me watching something bad on TV and invariably I tell her that A: it makes me feel superior knowing I could do that better and B: it is a fun exercise to learn from other's mistakes as well as their good work, to think about how I would approach the same problem differently.