Solution: stop watching jewvies.
I have direct experience: These asshats will use an expensive steady-cam that requires a trained operator, and then add the shaky effect during post-production because they think it's cool. Not joking.
It covers up everything that looks like shit. Cheap effects, sets, props, etc. No worries about good cinematography if you're going to jostle the frame around constantly.
This has been an issue for more than a decade. Did you just start watching movies? The reasons for it have been discussed for years.
OK. Enlighten me.
Oh jez there's must be a million videos on YT that have touched on this topic. Off the top of my head:
- Style choice. The Bourne films are a good example of this. When it's done well it 'can' heighten the sense of action and urgency, but at the cost of clarity and focus.
- Lazy film making.
- Incompetent film making.
- Additional esoteric film geek reasons that are probably debatable and that I forget anyhow.
IMO it's most commonly a combination of 2 & 3 but the film maker explains it as a style choice.
I don't have much of an opinion on this but I will say that your explanation still fits just fine in his theory.
My theory is the current crop of people making movies grew up playing videos games when the internet was even crappier than it is now. I'm surprised in the middle of action scenes the screen doesn't freeze, and a banner doesn't appear --BUFFERING--.
The worst example of this shaky cam is the movie Elysium during the Sharlto Copley & Matt Damon fight scene at the end.
That movie sucked ass anyway. Pretty anti-White premise in the first place.
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