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Action scenes ruined by shaky cam


Another movie ruined by hand held shaky cam and jump cut editing.

Sigh.

When will producers, directors, and cinematographers learn that annoying imagery is not entertaining?

Making a movie into ugly radio is counter productive, as well as boring. If they are too cheap to buy a tripod, just fade to black, boost the audio, and then come back to a steady shot.

Hacks.

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Tony Scott is 67 by the way. I looked that up just because I was wondering about it. And he makes all this shaky camera **** that is more like the work of a 14 year old who's forgotten to take his ADHD medication. What the hell, there's no good material here to ruin anyway...

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Maybe he was holding the camera himself?

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