This is not a joke. I was at a premier showing tonight, and my immediate thought was how disasterously unsafe this movie is for my photosensitive epilepic friends. @markingatlightspeed I’m tagging you with this specifically because this would be extremely dangerous for you to watch.
There are multiple scenes in this movie with full-screen, black-and-white flashing strobe effects. They all happen without warning, and last anywhere between a few seconds to more than two minutes. In a darkened movie theater, this means the likelihood of a seizure could be VERY HIGH if you are sensitive to these effects.
If you have photosensitive epilepsy or another disorder that is triggered by strobe lights, I would highly recommend you DO NOT SEE THE INCREDIBLES 2 IN THEATERS. Wait until the movie’s released on digital/Bluray, and you can watch it in a fully-lit room, with someone with you who will be able to help if the strobe effects do trigger a seizure.
Please stay safe.
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Why do filmmakers do this – especially in a wide-release movie marketed to kids? It’s fairly well known that strobe effects can cause seizures. There is no reason for them to be ignorant on this point.
If this isn’t something you learn in your first year at film school, it should be.
If they’re relying on strobe effects to make a scene “exciting,” then the screenplay is weak.
In this movie, the strobe stuff is (minorish spoilers below)
Because of a villain who hypnotizes people with the ‘classic’ black-and-white spiral patterns and flashing lights on screens. There are several scenes where the effect is meant to be sort of an all-consuming thing, filling the entire movie screen, as if attempting to hypnotize the audience. It’s very dramatic, very effective, and perfectly fits the aesthetic. I’m not sure they could have gotten the same effect without the strobe effects.
Basically, look away when emphasis is made of a screen, and in the scene where glasses are seen in a room of the villain’s hideout.
I hope they at least tried. And they should really have put a warning in somewhere, actually embedded into the footage. The theater I go to put a sign on the door, but there’s no warning actually attached to the film that would be unavoidably seen.
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