Three emoticons, yet not one kernel of truth!
2 actually since the other one came from the quote of yours I put up.
So it seems you can't count either.
Really? Let's put that to the test. I'll take one of my "shaky cam movies" (Captain Phillips) and you take Windtalkers.
How underhanded you are. You go out of your way to pick a movie that didn't do well at the box office and you think you proved something with that? Why don't you compare it with a movie like John Woo's Broken Arrow? The movie made $150 million at the worldwide box office in 1996 which when adjusted to 2012 inflation numbers would be $216 million (which would be even more if it were done against 2013 inflation numbers). That beats Captain Phillips.
If we are going to start talking about box office numbers, why don't we talk about Paul Greengrass' box bomb Green Zone?
And what kind of an idiot uses box office numbers to argue a film's quality? Under this stupid logic Michael Bay is a master film maker.
Let's talk about how people have literally gotten sick thanks to director's like Paul Greengrass and his shaky cam garbage. Roger Ebert got so many letters sent in about Paul Greengrass' shaky cam that he decided to just dedicate a whole post to putting in some samples of on a post at his website:
We here at the website have received so many letters about the editing style of the Bourne movies that we felt obligated to share a sampling.
David J Swift, Jackson WY: Is there a cinematographer's joke in “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007)? The entire movie shake-a-shakes with an incessant Queasy-Cam affectation -- except for one shot. This shot is a POV of Jason peering through a hand-held zillion-power scope to read 12-point type on a document a few hundred feet distant. If there was one shot in the movie should realistically vibrate, it's this one. Care to ask the powers-that-be if this is an inside joke?
Bill Holm, Westford MA: My son (home for Hollywood, he's a film editor, and a huge film buff) and I saw “The Bourne Ultimatum” last night. While we liked the story line, and the acting was great, the constant cuts every few seconds, herky-jerky hand held camera work, and pointless pans and zooms were all a terrible distraction. Somewhere in that movie were some great action scenes, but one could barely make out what was going on. You should warn your viewers about movies like this. They should be rated MS, for motion sickness.
Chris Howard, Fort Collins CO: The latest Bourne movie, “Bourne Ultimatum,” was OK but not as good as the first one. The biggest problem was the shaky-camera gimmick. In the first movie everything was clear and I could tell that they were really driving that poor little car down some stairs, or the fighting guys were really swinging their arms. It felt like, if I could just slow it down I would see some amazing stuff, like Jackie Chan's quick hands stuff. This last movie, they could have been doing jumping jacks while the camera jerked all around, and I would never have known. It seems to me they were just lazy and didn't want to learn all of the fancy moves so they just stood around and made the camera do all the moving. I had to sit about 4 rows back from the front of the theatre. Maybe if I had been further back the shaky camera wouldn't have been so annoying. I may give the movie another try when it comes out on DVD. Maybe.More here:
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/shake-rattle-and-bourneShaky cam is so bad that it literally makes people sick and has had medics write articles on how to help those that might get sick from watching a movie with shaky cam:
http://www.insidershealth.com/article/how_to_beat_movie_motion_sicknes s/1136
In fact, an entire website was created in order to keep track of shaky cam movies to warn those that might get physically sick when watching them:
http://movie-hurl.com/From the website:
Movie-induced motion-sickness (I will refer to it as movie-sickness) is a recent phenomenon in my experience. I recall enjoying movies across a wide variety of genres for most of my life without ever once having a nauseous reaction. However, in recent years, a number of directors have adopted a new cinematographic technique colloquially known as shaky camera or hand-held camera. These directors think they can be really cool by eschewing classic mounted and steadicam cameras in favor of deliberately shaky, seemingly cheap, hand-held cameras, much like an amateur shoulder-mounted or hand-held camcorder. They have a top 10 worst shaky cam movies and two of them belong to your lord Paul Greengrass.
You claim shaky cam is so great yet it makes people sick from watching it.... literally!
. . . and I get the last word because
You don't get the last word. I do.
I debunked you in each and every turn and I did just now again. You got frustrated and threw that horrible attempt at running away. You think putting me on "ignore" gives you the last word? How if I am still writing? Here's the thing, little boy. Everyone else will be able to read what I wrote and will see you for the loser that you are who got debunked and got exposed for the coward and clown that you are. You're such an idiot.
Run away, Wimp Lo. It's time for little children like you to go to bed.
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