MovieChat Forums > The Get Down (2016) Discussion > Not bad show but the pacing is so weird....

Not bad show but the pacing is so weird. I don't know if I'm ...


watching a TV show or a music video. Not every scene needs to have music.

I feel like the scenes don't naturally flow one to the next.

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A number of movies (especially in the "Blaxploitation era) had similar pacing, which I think helped the get down really stand out as an authentic piece of art. You'll really notice this in its transitional scenes.

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The pacing is typical of Baz Luhrmann's stuff, I think. He bounces around with manically edited moments in all his movies

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