Constantly zoomed in way too much, and constantly moving the camera from side to side, following every little movement of the characters.
This is not smart. It doesn't make you feel like you are part of it. It doesn't do one single good thing for the movie. It's just a lame failed attempt at making the camera style interesting.
Agree. Horrible amateurish camerawork. Take a look at "Gun Crazy" 1949 B-movie. Some brilliant camerawork on a low-budget production. Then look at this film with a 10 million budget and the zoom in and out shaky camera. Totally detracted from the story. Directors such as this need to dump the gimmicks and focus on the plot of their films.
shareIt's a new trend in filmmaking which makes them feel like they're "doing something different" when in reality it's jarring and a sign of amateurish camera work. That style of camera work was the worst thing about the otherwise amazing "Battlestar Galactica" series.
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This is really nothing new with the mumblecore genre. I mean, I'm not a huge fan of it either. Too bad people haven't seen more Duplass bros movies or other mumblecore films.
I don't think so. There's a lot of hand-held shakiness in the mumblecore genre, but this is the first time I've seen the zoom-in and zoom-out that's so annoying on shows like The Office, and in an extreme case, TMZ. It did seem to subside later in the movie.
I, for one, actually thought it was used very effectively in Battlestar Galactica - the worst thing about that show, was the obvious lack of direction and purpose from the show-runners in the later seasons.
As for this movie, the cinematography really was jarring at places, especially at first. Maybe they felt it would be a bold move, to try to utilize a style normally reserved for a completely different type of movie, but in this case, it felt out of place.
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It was done intentionally to make the film feel more real. At least that is my guess. I think it was supposed to feel as if we were watching a documentary.
shareI hated how it was filmed. Pretty much the whole time all I could think of was yj camera person, an why they thought they had to zoom in on EVERYTHING, instead of getting into the film.
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This is what I don't understand -- every time a post like this comes up for various films and TV shows, there is universal agreement. Everyone hates this style. Why can filmmakers not realize that?!
sharefirst thing i noticed aswell. and it went on throughout the whole film, absolutely terrible.
shareIt seems like few people here have seen a Duplass Brothers movie before. I'm not saying I like it either, but this is how they shoot their movies, they still retain the "mumblecore" style of shaky, amateurish camerawork. In other words, the "horrible camera work" is completely intentional, it's their style.
Again, I like the content of the some of the Duplass brothers' work, including this movie, but I think they can ease up on the constantly moving camera as well.
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