Shaky-Cam

Damn. Thanks for posting this. I'm not able to watch shaky cam movies either. I had heard this was a good movie but now I know not to watch it :(

People who have any of the aforementioned three issues going on who still watch a found footage or other first person movie and then complain are dumb as bags of hammers and have brought any and all dissatisfaction on themselves. Sympathy = false, understanding = false, tldr; by the end of whine line #1 = true.

I am one of those who cannot watch this type cinematography due to a medical conditon. I appreciate your post because now I know to avoid this one. So... Thanks!😀

AMEN! I couldn't watch this due to the shaky cam. So I can't give my opinion on how good it is or not. But it gives me a headache.


I also thought of one aspect of shaky cam that makes it totally unrealistic in it's effort to be realistic. Picture yourself shooting something with your i-phone or camcorder. Suddenly, something horrible and scary is before you...not in the distance...not happening to someone else....coming at YOU. Do they want us to believer that the person breathing heavy and screaming is actually holding up a camera and recording instead of dropping it and getting the h out of there?

So just shoot the darn movie regularly, because not for one moment do I feel like the person behind the camera.

So what if that means certain people can't watch it. There are people that can't play video games because they get photosensitive seizures. Does that mean that we should no longer have video games because some people out there can't play them?. Honestly, that is one of the most ridiculous arguments I have seen to date regarding the use of handheld camera's.

Personally, I don't have a problem with handheld camera's. In fact, if done really well its a HIGHLY effective method of filmmaking. What I have a problem with these days is the whole "Chaos Cinema" style that has infected pretty much the entire modern action film/horror film market. "Chaos Cinema" is a term that was originally coined by Matthias Stork and it refers to films that use an ungodly number of camera's and camera angles and the director just winds up piecing together the scenes from all of the footage in post production. Michael Bay is a perfect example of this style of filmmaking. It has frantic editing, crazy camera movements and Is basically an all out assault on your senses. One of the aspects of hand held filmmaking that I really enjoy is that they don't tend to have that frantic editing, which I find to be a thousand times more annoying than even bad hand held/shaky camera work. The cuts/scenes tend to be FAR longer with hand held flms. You can literally get a cut every second with a lot of modern action films. People shooting hand held tend to use FAR FAR fewer camera's which result in much longer takes and more standard camera angles. IMO, its a much more pure method of shooting than what we see in today's "Chaos Cinema"

Like everything dealing with filmmaking, there are people out there that are really good at what they do, people that are so so at what they do and people that just aren't good at all. That is equally true in front of the camera as it is behind the camera. The biggest problem with handheld filmmaking is that its the fastest and cheapest method of shooting films so you get a LOT of amateur work in this genre. For every quality film that really uses hand held camera's well, you have at least 4-5 that have very mediocre to downright horrid use of handheld camera's. Its unfortunate, but it is what it is. I normally just stop watching a film if it has really bad hand held camera's and you can usually tell within the first 5-10 minutes if the person behind the camera sucks or knows what thier doing.

Again, as long as you have people who know what thier doing in regards to hand held camera's, it can be a highly effective method of shooting and I for one really enjoy these kinds of films when they are well done. Of course, like everything else in Hollywood, when its done poorly it's can absolutely ruin a film. As for suggesting that hand held films shouldn't be called films....well, that is nothing short of laughable. If you really want people to take your opinions seriously, you should really leave comments like that at the door. Your entitled to your subjective opinions so if you don't like hand held then so be it, but to suggest that they shouldn't be called films is just downright absurd.

Still Shooting With Film!

i don't understand people who complain about shaky cam when this genre is called found footage. i'm not backing this movie, didn't really like it myself, but how the hell do you expect these kind of films to be shot? in slow motion??

a found footage movie will ALWAYS have shaky cam because it's shot from first-person view. you can't expect them to hold the camera still every god damn second.