[quote]Razamataz wrote:
I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but the shakey camera work during action sequences needs to end. The climax of ‘The Hunger Games’ looks like the camera man has Parkinson’s and you can’t follow the action at all. [/quote]
I agree. What? Is shaking a camera supposed to heighten the suspense? Well, it doesn’t work. What happened to creative editing and shooting.
Case in point. Elevator scene in Die Hard 3. WTF happened? Couldn’t follow the action to save my life. If it was shot and executed well, it could have been a cool scene, but it looked sloppy to me.
If the bad guy is driving during a high speed chase/shootout, the thug in the passenger seat always gets shot, and to show how callous he is EVEN TO HIS OWN HENCHMEN, the bad guy will open the passenger door and kick out the passenger at high speed.
It’s not like the car is going to go any faster without the passenger, and the dying passeneger would even offer a handy bullet shield against anyone trying to shoot at him from the passenger side of the car…so WHYYYY?!
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
I’m sure it’s been mentioned, but the shakey camera work during action sequences needs to end. The climax of ‘The Hunger Games’ looks like the camera man has Parkinson’s and you can’t follow the action at all. [/quote]
I agree. What? Is shaking a camera supposed to heighten the suspense? Well, it doesn’t work. What happened to creative editing and shooting.
Case in point. Elevator scene in Die Hard 3. WTF happened? Couldn’t follow the action to save my life. If it was shot and executed well, it could have been a cool scene, but it looked sloppy to me. [/quote]
I think it’s supposed to create tension and cover up the sloppy choreography. But in the case of ‘The Hunger Games’, I think it’s because the teenage girls that enjoy reading about kids getting brutally murdered don’t actually want to see it.
I had an arguement at work with a guy because I said that shaky cam was silly and how they’d use it on cop shows during a foot chase to show the action.
I said it was silly because your vision doesn’t shake like that when you run, unless your neck is broken…he disagreed. It was pretty stupid. I almost wanted to tell him we should go outside and run down the street and see if our vision shook as much as the camera does.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I had an arguement at work with a guy because I said that shaky cam was silly and how they’d use it on cop shows during a foot chase to show the action.
I said it was silly because your vision doesn’t shake like that when you run, unless your neck is broken…he disagreed. It was pretty stupid. I almost wanted to tell him we should go outside and run down the street and see if our vision shook as much as the camera does.[/quote]
LOL
I agree, but if you want to be that literal as a viewer, consider that some POVs in films would never be realistic for a viewer. I mean Spiderman is shot from vantage points only a bird would experience, yet we get to follow right behind Spidey as he swoops from the top of a skyscraper down over the street, etc.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I had an arguement at work with a guy because I said that shaky cam was silly and how they’d use it on cop shows during a foot chase to show the action.
I said it was silly because your vision doesn’t shake like that when you run, unless your neck is broken…he disagreed. It was pretty stupid. I almost wanted to tell him we should go outside and run down the street and see if our vision shook as much as the camera does.[/quote]
LOL
I agree, but if you want to be that literal as a viewer, consider that some POVs in films would never be realistic for a viewer. I mean Spiderman is shot from vantage points only a bird would experience, yet we get to follow right behind Spidey as he swoops from the top of a skyscraper down over the street, etc.
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I like to call that Gods eye view. Some movies can draw me in and make me feel like the character but most I just feel like the all mighty looking in on things seeing and knowingnall but can not intervene
I like to watch those science shows on National Geographic or Discovery channel about space, the solar system, the universe etc.
They are usually very basic. I mean half the stuff you’ve already heard on other shows like it years ago.
But when they talk about something simple…like how sometimes asteroids from our solar system’s asteroid belt will bump into each other and perhaps throw some debris toward the center of the solar system and some of this may cross the earth’s path.
Easy to understand right? But then they have to drag out the tired old pool table analogy and the presenter (be it Carl Sagan, Brian Greene or even Morgan Freeman) will say “This pool table is space, these balls are asteroids.blah blah blah”
I mean if we couldn’t understand it when you just plain old told us what happened I don’t think we’re the kind of people that would be watching this show.
I like to watch those science shows on National Geographic or Discovery channel about space, the solar system, the universe etc.
They are usually very basic. I mean half the stuff you’ve already heard on other shows like it years ago.
But when they talk about something simple…like how sometimes asteroids from our solar system’s asteroid belt will bump into each other and perhaps throw some debris toward the center of the solar system and some of this may cross the earth’s path.
Easy to understand right? But then they have to drag out the tired old pool table analogy and the presenter (be it Carl Sagan, Brian Greene or even Morgan Freeman) will say “This pool table is space, these balls are asteroids.blah blah blah”
I mean if we couldn’t understand it when you just plain old told us what happened I don’t think we’re the kind of people that would be watching this show.[/quote]
LOL!
Especially the ones hangin’ out in bars all night playing pool drunk.
I like to watch those science shows on National Geographic or Discovery channel about space, the solar system, the universe etc.
They are usually very basic. I mean half the stuff you’ve already heard on other shows like it years ago.
But when they talk about something simple…like how sometimes asteroids from our solar system’s asteroid belt will bump into each other and perhaps throw some debris toward the center of the solar system and some of this may cross the earth’s path.
Easy to understand right? But then they have to drag out the tired old pool table analogy and the presenter (be it Carl Sagan, Brian Greene or even Morgan Freeman) will say “This pool table is space, these balls are asteroids.blah blah blah”
I mean if we couldn’t understand it when you just plain old told us what happened I don’t think we’re the kind of people that would be watching this show.[/quote]
what bugs me is they always use the 2d model of the solar system. Suitable for grade 2, but come on!
The bad singalong in a bar like Tom Cruise doing you’ve lost that loving feeling in top gun. I saw the despicable Katherine Heigl do Benny and the Jets in 27 Dresses, and all I could think was, “they better be paying me in cash” after this scene.
Pretty much every time they show military people they are war hungry lunatics.
Can’t remember the last time I saw a four star general that wasn’t interested in nuking everything or an Omaha Beach scenario where casualties where just a means to an end.
[quote]JLone wrote:
Pretty much every time they show military people they are war hungry lunatics.
Can’t remember the last time I saw a four star general that wasn’t interested in nuking everything or an Omaha Beach scenario where casualties where just a means to an end. [/quote]
So right! I knew an old retired war veteran general (in fact we affectionately called him General) that was probably one of the most soft-spoken gentlemen I ever knew. No matter what was going on in the world, he never ranted on about what the US should or shouldn’t be doing. Always conducted himself with reverence and restraint.
[quote]BCFlynn wrote:
The bad singalong in a bar like Tom Cruise doing you’ve lost that loving feeling in top gun. I saw the despicable Katherine Heigl do Benny and the Jets in 27 Dresses, and all I could think was, “they better be paying me in cash” after this scene.
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Ugh! I HATE those scenes. I always squirm when one plays, and I always wonder how much the actors do as well for having to play those parts.
[quote]JLone wrote:
Pretty much every time they show military people they are war hungry lunatics.
Can’t remember the last time I saw a four star general that wasn’t interested in nuking everything or an Omaha Beach scenario where casualties where just a means to an end. [/quote]
So right! I knew an old retired war veteran general (in fact we affectionately called him General) that was probably one of the most soft-spoken gentlemen I ever knew. No matter what was going on in the world, he never ranted on about what the US should or shouldn’t be doing. Always conducted himself with reverence and restraint.
[quote]BCFlynn wrote:
The bad singalong in a bar like Tom Cruise doing you’ve lost that loving feeling in top gun. I saw the despicable Katherine Heigl do Benny and the Jets in 27 Dresses, and all I could think was, “they better be paying me in cash” after this scene.
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Ugh! I HATE those scenes. I always squirm when one plays, and I always wonder how much the actors do as well for having to play those parts.
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Akin to those are the movies where the mother and her kids bond by singing to some Motown song in the house…perhaps in pajamas and using hair brushes for microphones.
[quote]JLone wrote:
Pretty much every time they show military people they are war hungry lunatics.
Can’t remember the last time I saw a four star general that wasn’t interested in nuking everything or an Omaha Beach scenario where casualties where just a means to an end. [/quote]
So right! I knew an old retired war veteran general (in fact we affectionately called him General) that was probably one of the most soft-spoken gentlemen I ever knew. No matter what was going on in the world, he never ranted on about what the US should or shouldn’t be doing. Always conducted himself with reverence and restraint.
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That’s because 99% of generals get promoted from combat arms positions and have actually shot someone and been shot at.
I have a VERY hot temper, but my predisposition to violence dropped 99% from having been in combat.
