Tres, did you not read my post? I wasn't vague. I listed and described two specific examples — one bad, one forgiveable (even if I didn't hunt them down and link them, because finding brief clips from long movies & shows online legally is rather difficult), and also explained when and why the mechanism bothers me based on the initial editing role established in the film as experience vs. storytelling to the audience.
Also, yes I fucking know Finding Nemo, but ya linked two different clips and didn't mention which had the transition you meant or when it occurred in which of them (and I still don't know why you linked two if only one has it). C'mon, man!
It SEEMS like you're referring to the bit in the second clip (from 1:25 - 1:44) where they use a match cut from Nemo's egg to the moon, and then to the sun to show the passage of time specific to the character. — If so, that's a match cut using a fade, which is both a well-established film technique as a storytelling mechanism for passage of time, AND done specifically to be as visually subtle a transition as possible by visually linking between the two scenes, AND is done in the opening when the relationship between the editor and audience is being established.
This is the complete opposite of what bothers me, because it isn't obvious or effects-heavy and matches the storytelling and editing.
I can't find footage of the Spider-Man 2 "water-ripple-effect-and-cut-to-Doc-Oc's-ocean-side-shack" one that really grinds my gears (I'm not a huge fan of the original Spidey films so I haven't watched them in ages), but I'm also pretty sure that one of those movies also does a scene transition that zooms into the spider on his costume's chest and fades out the background to change scenes, which is equally egregious, and might as well just be a goddamn star wipe. They suck because they pop up, stand out, don't serve the storytelling, and don't match the subtlety of the editing used in the rest of the film, where the editor's presence is otherwise unnoticeable.
Unlike Scott Pilgrim or something that has a SHITTON of heavy, obvious edits — those're used consistently throughout the film as that's a part of it's comic book narrative structure. Hell, every episode of Sherlock is a clusterfuck of obvious edits, but both of those match the editor as a part of the storytelling that's consistent throughout the movie/show, AND both of them are done really well and established early on, so they don't stand out, but just exist as the structure. Likewise, my type of immersion in those films is different than ones with editing that is functionally invisible. Storytelling vs. experience.
I DID manage to hunt down the one from the second episode of Legion (which is one of the few examples where it's obviously a scene moving to a new scene, but forgiveable because of the way it's used), which is from 4:05 - 4:22
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