I have two particular examples of this. The one that made wanna put this on here was when I just rewatched Mad Max Fury Road, that movie is pretty much perfect on every level but there’s just one shot that moment irks me. At the end of the first big action sequence, going through the tornadoes Max stops Nux from blowing up their vehicle and thus are both thrown from the car and flip and somersault at back-snapping speed multiple times right next to a flipping car. It’s filmed in a way where the only response you can have is “they’re dead”. And I just can’t help but think why? Especially when it’s CGI so they’ve intentionally made it look like they should be dead. There is no way the director, visual effects artists and editors can’t see it.
And similarly in The Batman, but sticks out even more so because the rest of the film is so serious, is when Battinson throws himself off the police building to do a wing suit. I love the idea but again for some reason they decided to make his landing look like he should be a bloody smear on the pavement below. He absolutely clatters into a vehicle, then on the ground and rolls along the floor with nothing breaking his speed. It just looks so weird to see him get up and just limp off like that didn’t just eviserate his insides.
What moments in movies make you question why they made odd filming choices?