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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4792171" data-attributes="member: 32740">Shaky cam doesn't make me ill - it makes me IRRITATED.&nbsp; It goes hand in hand with lightning fast cuts and the two combined make it impossible to follow any action.&nbsp; I'm no film editor but it sure does seem to me that it gives editors an excuse for being really bad at their jobs.&nbsp; At the end of some sequences I can literally say, &quot;Wow!&nbsp; Something very frantic just happened.&nbsp; I'd better pay attention now so I can figure out what it WAS!&quot;&nbsp;These are techniques that can be and have been used to good effect, but are indeed VASTLY overused.&nbsp; There are far too many filmmakers who are so wrapped up in what they CAN do that they don't stop to think about what they SHOULD do.&nbsp; Some movies are getting to be like staring into a strobe light for 90 minutes, but like others I'm either getting numb to it or it's actually used more tolerably in Trek, because I didn't notice it.&nbsp; I was too busy enjoying the movie to ANALYZE it, so that says that for me at least it was actually working.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 4792171, member: 32740"] Shaky cam doesn't make me ill - it makes me IRRITATED. It goes hand in hand with lightning fast cuts and the two combined make it impossible to follow any action. I'm no film editor but it sure does seem to me that it gives editors an excuse for being really bad at their jobs. At the end of some sequences I can literally say, "Wow! Something very frantic just happened. I'd better pay attention now so I can figure out what it WAS!" These are techniques that can be and have been used to good effect, but are indeed VASTLY overused. There are far too many filmmakers who are so wrapped up in what they CAN do that they don't stop to think about what they SHOULD do. Some movies are getting to be like staring into a strobe light for 90 minutes, but like others I'm either getting numb to it or it's actually used more tolerably in Trek, because I didn't notice it. I was too busy enjoying the movie to ANALYZE it, so that says that for me at least it was actually working. [/QUOTE]

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