okay, the person from the dumps thing really gets to me, he/she's acting as if their word is final and if we go against it, our film will be utter shit. Where does he/she get the right to do that? i hate it when people mouth off and say that kinda stuff. The hitchcock zoom, though it can be used a bit too much sometimes, he/she's basically saying that no matter how interesting your way of using it may be, you should never use merely because it has been used by others. And that Kung Fu crack really set me off, fair enough, i've never seen it, but that's not my point, i'm pissed that he/she is saying that just because the dream sequence has been used badly before, that it is now and forever will be horrible and therefore never touched with even a 10 foot pole.
from what i gather, they're trying to say that we shouldn't use our imaginations but rather follow their guidelines and thusly make a thousand films which are more or less the same thing, which he/she can then use as examples on his list.
god, that list just really got to me... i need to go cool off...