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[soc_puppet]

Just got back from Captain Marvel, and may I just say:

Won't everyone please knock it off with the GODDAMN FUCKING SHAKY CAM

Also mild ematophobia warning for the final after-the-credits scene, but you may be able to guess and/or anticipate what it is from watching the rest of the movie and this tidbit of info, so you don't necessarily need to watch it.

Otherwise, absolutely fantastic film, would see again, but would prefer on the small screen so I don't get nauseous. Also want at least fifty more like it but with even more diverse casts, please get on that Hollywood.

(It's not nearly as bad as some other films I can name - I spent Bourne Supremacy with my head in my lap, and had to walk out of Hunger Games during the reaping - but the shaky cam does come in some pretty emotionally intense scenes, and I did not sit up high enough in the theater for that.)



Side note, saw the Dumbo trailer; at one point, Dumbo does indeed have a black feather to hold. Pretty sure there's going to be at least one crow in there now, though I hope to heaven someone in the production knows how to treat the issue respectfully. The fact that it's a Tim Burton picture does not fill me with hope :/

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[alexseanchai]

Good points

[soc_puppet]

Shaky cam needs to go awaaaaaaay T-T

[mesotablar]

This is the BEST review of Captain Marvel I have seen. You are the only one that has mentioned the one massive thing that hugely influences my enjoyment of a movie.

Shaky cam needs to be added into the warnings for classification
....or destroyed with fire

[soc_puppet]

Ugh, right? I can understand its use for a few seconds at a time, maybe after some sort of explosion or huge impact, and excuse it (but not watch it) when the film/episode in question is "found footage" style (Cloverfield, Blair Witch), but in general? I am 100% on the "destroy it in a fire" train. Whole scenes of professional-style movies DO NOT need to be done in shaky cam.

[mesotablar]

I don't think "found footage" style is an excuse any more, maybe in the beginning, like the original Blair Witch when handi-cams were pretty much it for video recording. But fixed cameras are everywhere now! security cameras, web cams, road cameras, dash cams. Unfriended and the Paranormal Activity series use found footage style and nothing is lost because they don't use shaky cam. (well okay, there is a bit of shaky cam, generally at the end of the Paranormal Activity movies)

[soc_puppet]

An excellent point supported by info I was unaware of; also, come to think of it, I recall seeing some YouTube videos or something where the picture manages to focus on the subject and the frame goes shaky, which seems like it would make a relatively simple fix to the issue as well. I am now willing to grandfather in some older primarily shaky cam movies, but am drawing the line at anything set in, say, 2010 or later. (Until I can look up proper info, and possibly even then.)

[mesotablar]

oh, I haven't heard about that sort of technology. I'll have to see if I can find some of those Youtube vids.

Two older movies that you might be able to enjoy on the small screen are the Spanish zombie movies REC (2007) and REC 2 (2009). Mostly stabilised shoulder camera, or 'helmet' cameras. There is some shaky work during action scenes or when the cameras are damaged (realism, yay!) (where there is no real point of action that you need to track so looking away is fine and it doesn't last long) but overall it is quite stable.
forget I said anything. A friend just showed me a clip and the camera work is much much shakier than I had remembered. It has this whole low-budget-community-show vibe but there is plenty of tossing the camera around.

[soc_puppet]

Ugh, probably just as well I tend to prefer animated stuff, then.

Just saw a bit of the first episode of What We Do In The Shadows and it had a bit of shaky cam going on as well; it was fairly well interspersed with still images and non-shaky interview portions, but I think I may have to blanket avoid faux documentary style shows as well :/