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At least Paul Greengrass stopped the shaky cam.


This didn't feel like one of his movies.

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My film production professor felt strongly that shaky cam is lazy filmmaking. That struck a chord with me, and with movies using so much shaky cam since then, it's been like the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

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What's your professor's credentials?

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Many years in television production including senior roles, and he finally went for the PhD and became a professor. Yes film and television are different beasts, but aesthetic concepts still apply either way.

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"What's you professor's credentials?"

As if someone has to have "credentials" to recognize that shaky cam is an irritating technique to create a fake sense of excitement. Credentialism is the dolt's crutch.

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I get it. It's "fake" action. The action isn't happening on screen, just in the camera. I do like his Bourne movies though.

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Thank goodness. The first thing I did when I heard this was a Paul Greengrass movie was read up whether it was a shaky-cam movie. Didn’t feel sitting through another headache-inducing Bourne Supremacy-style queasy-cam fest.

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But it's a Tom Hanks movie, so I assume it's wholesome and uplifting? (That's irony, folks.)

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Good point. I honestly forgot he directed this.

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