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Obnoxious camera shake during action scenes

posted 3 years ago by MovieElephant (346)
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Literally unwatchable.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I haven't seen the movie since it was in theaters. But, I checked out the highway scene. At first the shaking camera was reasonable. Anything exposed to the road had a shake.

But then they started dating side to side and doing fast zoom in/zoom out shots. Like you said, it's obnoxious.

[–] Valerian (10000) 4 months ago

I call it zig-zag-zoom cinematography.

[–] [deleted] 4 months ago

I love that name!

[–] MikeCable (1777) 4 months ago

2005... I think this was when camera-shake became quite a thing at the time.

I remember satire TV shows doing parodies of it.