Please add "Shaky Camera"to the Movie ratings

[ZIROK]

I stopped going to Theaters a long time ago because the Hollywood started to get obsessed with this effect of Shaking/zooming/and swinging the Camera around all over the place and non Stop in some Movies ,because it really bothers me. Its ok to use in some action scenes or a fight scene etc .but some Movies it never stops. Two people could be sitting at a table and the Camera is just shaking/shaking/shaking and doing that annoying zooming in/out thing.
The films without (or use it when sparingly)it are relaxing but engaging to watch like Oblivion or Pacific Rim or 300
So I decide to stop wasting my Money having to leave the Movie early (I give em about 20-30minutes). I was talked into seeing the new Tom Hanks movie and walked in about 15 minutes. I wanted to see Superman so bad I bought it knowing the shake was bad and I had to force myself to watch it once. Well its in the local library now. same goes for a lot of TV shows also so I don't watch many of them. I confront people about it and no one seems to really enjoy it .
but anyway ,Admins , when you do a Bluray review a Shaky Camera rating would be nice. How much, what percentage of the Movie. etc.
BTW this seem to be an American Movie thing,foreign movies don't use it so much.

[madlost1]

Sorry but just wow.

[ZIROK]

Be sorry for Hollywood and their lack or imagination using the same "blair witch Project effect" over and over and over and over.
How refreshing it was to watch 300 where they used slow motion to depict fast action. Or Oblivion where they used 360 degree Projectors and almost no Green screens. My rule of thumb is the more they use that effect the worse the plot is so they have to try to keep your brain engaged somehow.

[MEB]

When we showed 'Captain Phillips' in the Booth Bijou last week, after about 30 minutes, one of our guests had to move farther away from the screen because she was getting seasick!

Now THAT'S a sign of a big screen and realism in the movies!

Sorry that shaky cam bothers you. I barely notice it, frankly. And I get seasick (on ships) fairly easily.

I recommend you never go on a cruise or other boat that gets out on the open ocean!

Mark

[Spitfrnd]

Originally Posted by MEB

When we showed 'Captain Phillips' in the Booth Bijou last week, after about 30 minutes, one of our guests had to move farther away from the screen because she was getting seasick!

Now THAT'S a sign of a big screen and realism in the movies!

Sorry that shaky cam bothers you. I barely notice it, frankly. And I get seasick (on ships) fairly easily.

I recommend you never go on a cruise or other boat that gets out on the open ocean!

Mark

How is that a sign of realism? Technically your guest may not have been sea sick but rather suffered from some other visual motion induced nausea. That does not mean that the image that caused it was more "real" just that it was a trigger for the poor person's symptoms. Frankly, this is a POV issue. If you believe that the correct POV for a movie is represent by excessive close-ups and camera shaking, perhaps it means you should sit in the front row more often. The really bad thing about this trend is that it imposes an "artificial POV on all audience members, regardless of their preference and sensitivities and it is total un-necessary and distracting at best. Whatever else it is, it does not contribute to realism unless you think not seeing something clearly is more realistic.