Sentences with phrase «shaky cam in»

Those who complained about shaky cam in The Hunger Games will find the camera more steady, and those who chafed at the obvious budgetary limits will find that Francis Lawrence had more money to work with.

Not exact matches

Far too much shaky cam and fading in and out.

On this week's episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky talk Jason Bourne, the fifth entry in the superspy franchise, which reunites star Matt Damon with shaky - cam maestro Paul Greengrass.

Director Adam Wingard's (V / H / S, V / H / S 2) technique is rife with overused shaky - cam effects in order to give the semblance of tension, though not even the most tremulous of moments can cover up for the fact that this family just can not emote convincingly a look of sheer terror when their own beloved wives, sons or daughters are being butchered in front of their very eyes.

The usage of shaky cam was in no way intolerable.

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (his first feature), announced via a trailer in January, and out less than two months later, it bears scant similarity to the first film — gone is the found - footage shaky - cam device.

This was before the era of shaky bungee cam filmmaking, and, in retrospect, it seems like a bonus that you can actually tell what is going on during all of the action.

Initially the shaky - cam, Cloverfield approach to an alien invasion seems to work... until an action scene kicks in.

Cowperthwaite's direction is specific and confident, especially in one extremely complex battle scene where — unlike in a lot of films nowadays that over-rely on shaky - cams and quick - cuts — you can tell what is happening, who is doing what, and why.

That said, Evans has made a very competent film featuring some excellently choreographed fights and not a shaky - cam in sight.

Too earnest to ironically indulge in the narrative's familiar pulpy beats and too uncertain about the strength of this material to play it straight, Fleischer aims for a muddled middle, jazzing up Beall's faux - hardboiled dialogue with slow - motion shootouts and shaky HD - cam pursuits that only remind us of how much better Public Enemies turned out.

And in fairness to [Paul W.S.] Anderson's champions, most of them praise the director not on any highfalutin philosophical grounds, but rather for his spatially coherent action sequences staged with a minimum of the shaky - cam aesthetics and nerve - jangling editing that have become the dominant m.o. of the post-MTV Hollywood blockbuster.

These scenes are expertly staged, jettisoning the shaky cam and fast cutting tactics that have defined action movies in recent years.

King's direction is bright, crisp, and cheerful, never getting bogged down in unnecessary subplots and never succumbing to shaky - cam or fast cuts, not even during chase scenes.

It looks good when the shaky - cam subsides, the adult actors are wonderful (Donald Sutherland and Stanley Tucci really sell how corrupt, evil, and smart this ruling society is), and little touches like the cannon fire or the «what would I do in this situation?»

Based on this early footage, Gilroy has traded in the frantic shaky cam and kinetic editing that director Paul Greengrass favored in Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum, in favor of the steadier, but still exhilarating approach of Doug Liman in Bourne Identity.

Refreshingly absent of shaky cam, Fuqua masterfully sets up each battle and never loses track of the territory in which it takes place.

In the studio with The Beach Boys, Pohlad draws on his documentary experience to play shaky - cam fly on the wall.

Shot in Bourne - series shaky cam, which shouldn't be a surprise, as cinematographer Oliver Wood (Surrogates, Talladega Nights) had been the director of photography for that trilogy, Safe House delivers plenty of grit, grain, and ultra-close shots of the main actors looking tense.

Most of the slow - mo effects and shaky cam stuff (used to great effect to match the frenetic pace in the fridge gunfight scene) were gone by the time the martial arts happened.

Sure, there are 15 minutes of epic planet collisions, beautiful shots of two people riding horses under low - lying fog, and people looking moody with a planet imposed in the sky, but most of the movie's running time is terrible shaky - cam that can't even keep itself stable on its characters, often shaking off to the walls of a room and refocusing abruptly.

Someone triggers something during the dimly lit, night visioned, shaky cam cliché - addled proceedings because soon voices in his head start whispering.

Martel is obviously a sophisticated filmmaker, but she alienated me greatly in La Cienaga and The Holy Girl with her shaky - cam — not to be confused with the Michael Mann school of trying to catch gorgeous momentary accidents or the Assayas school of nervous energy, but far more thematically related.

The two most screechingly annoying camera techniques used in modern action films are the following: (1) the blurred motion shot, and (2) the shaky - cam in - your - face battle shot.

When it was first released in 1999, The Blair Witch Project was like nothing most audiences had seen before — but now, shaky - cam fare is hardly a rare commodity.

You know I thought this was gonna be another shaky cam found footage movie and had zero interest in seeing another one of those.

That film had no stars and was shot in a shaky - cam home - video style; here, there are no such cinematography tricks, with a much more traditional use of camera.

He didn't mess around with all that shaky cam bollox, instead he let us see heroes beating the crap out of each other in glorious detail.

Despite the fact that we found numerous shaky - cam versions in all their glorious YouTube quality, this one had us standing on edge so we just had to wait for a nice, clean and undeniably amazing version of the VGAs debut trailer of the new and modernized Medal of Honor, developed by EALA and DICE and published by EA.