I have retinal damage. About 50% of my right eyeball doesn't work, and the fovea of my left eyeball is distorted so I can't focus properly.
This means it takes me twice as long to synthesize a visual field as someone with good eyes.
The cinematographic style of the LoTR movies -- and most current action or SF movies, for that matter -- is incredibly restless and changes rapidly, with lots of shaky camera work and very short scenes. I'm physically unable to see what's going on -- it's just a muddy blur.
LoTR has lots of lovely tracking shots across elf-infested New Zealand, but the combat tends to switch perspective a lot, so that's not going to work well for you.
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Date: 2011-10-28 04:59 pm (UTC)http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32314
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Date: 2011-10-28 08:40 pm (UTC)I didn't realise you avoided video for a physical reason - I was just assuming it didn't do much for you.
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Date: 2011-10-30 08:37 am (UTC)This means it takes me twice as long to synthesize a visual field as someone with good eyes.
The cinematographic style of the LoTR movies -- and most current action or SF movies, for that matter -- is incredibly restless and changes rapidly, with lots of shaky camera work and very short scenes. I'm physically unable to see what's going on -- it's just a muddy blur.
This does not aid one's enjoyment of a movie ...
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Date: 2011-10-30 08:42 am (UTC)LoTR has lots of lovely tracking shots across elf-infested New Zealand, but the combat tends to switch perspective a lot, so that's not going to work well for you.
Thank goodness for books!
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Date: 2011-10-29 03:51 am (UTC)Second Breakfast
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