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Shaky cam. sigh

posted 10 years ago by filmtvwatcher
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Does anybody actually enjoy shaky cam in fight/action scenes? All it does for me is make it hard to see what's happening. It's irritating. I wish directors would stop using it.

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[–] ttaskmaster 10 years ago

I love it - It obscures how crap the film is and makes it hard to see what a waste of the extortionate ticket price the whole thing has been!! 

[–] filmtvwatcher 10 years ago

lol

[–] fishpiechips 10 years ago

I just watched this pile of... a great, steaming... well I really wanted to justify spending over 2 hours watching this dross.

Shaky cam from the start, badly lit mushy coloured memory recollections. At least the first film with Arnie was FUN!

Pretty much all the characters in this remake are disposable, especially those poor 'sentinel' robots! Why is a ROBOT punching digits on a keypad on its wrist to access anything? Why are they moving like humans and pausing to think before doing anything in a fight scene and get pulled apart by a puny human?

What happened to Mars? Everyone sort of forgot about that! Was Homer Simpson in charge of the script?

[–] filmtvwatcher 10 years ago

It was about as underwhelming as remakes get.

[–] darthsitkur 9 years ago

It drives me crazy, though public enemies and the expendables 1 and 2 used it in a way so you could still see what was going on and that was cool, but other than that, it drives me crazy, and it ruined the hunger games movie along with the stupid PG-13 rating

[–] Strazdamonas 9 years ago

producers enjoy them a lot. this means that you can have no choreography and film everything in first take since noone will be able to see whats going on anyway.

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