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horrible camera work

posted 20 years ago by ShannenDoherty
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This movies' camera work was horrible. Whoever was the camera guy, needs to do himself a favor and quit his job and go do something easy like painting someone's bathroom. This movie was so stupid.

[–] stewiefan201 19 years ago

I know, it looked like it was filmed on a camcorder. It was a pretty bad movie too.

[–] darkenchantment-1 17 years ago

only certain shots had that "effect" on it... you need to understand more about how movies are made before you go round saying stuff like that.

[–] venombyte2002 19 years ago

The movie i thought was great who ever said that a movie has to have a perfect film apparently you have never filmed a movie its hard work and the movie wasnt stupid it was a great movie i thought

[–] Abpolitics1 19 years ago

This movie was great, In the trailer scene where he steps in after giving the peace offering to the two in the trailer. He pulls Mike out of the bed and the camera shooting was hillarious, it was the cheapest shoot ever! But I liked that in the movie and thought it was funny. I gave this movie a ten, it has a great plot and was great altogether.

[–] Jinxy88 19 years ago

I liked it it was good
i saw it b4 the first one and liked it better.

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[–] voodooloa_812 17 years ago

The first movie seriously SUCKED, #2 is exactly that

sh*t, sh*t, sh*tty, sh*t, sh*t.

I wouldn't exactly blame the camera man for the lame arsed story line.

[–] cjstimpy2 16 years ago

What was the deal with the video camera? I mean come on, thats simply unacceptable. There's film equipment rental houses all over the place, couldn't they find a better camera than that?

Please someone who worked on this movie get on this message board and explain what happened with the cameras.

[–] pain93 16 years ago

What was the deal with the video camera?

Becuase this was just a made for TV movie, I am sure the productions budget was not very high, there fore, they wanted to go as cheap as possible, thus having the 'video' camera effect, which is common on soap operas, which are usually low budget. It wasn't filmed with a video camera, it was still filmed with a good camera, just not as good as it gets.

I don't mind the camera effect at all.

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[–] jakeconhale 13 years ago

I minded, if for no other reason that it was inconsistant. If the camera remained consistant within scenes, sure, that would work, but not changing from dark to flat/washed out every other angle change.

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[–] darkenchantment-1 12 years ago

you're an idiot, aren't you? idiot...

obviously they had the camera equipment to shoot it properly, so it's clear that this "video camera effect" is JUST AN EFFECT!! do you understand what an effect is?

this effect was just for artistic expression, and you clearly couldn't even see it for what it was.. how dumb are you?

[–] runbyfruiting 12 years ago

Calm down buddy, did you work on this film or something? It did look pretty bad.

[–] Xcalat3 15 years ago

More than horrible

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