Michael Bay needs a steadicam
August 21, 2005Went to see The Island yesterday, since it arrived at the cheap theater just a few weeks after hitting the regular theaters. It’s the story of a couple clones who learn they exist simply to be harvested whenever the original needs a new part. It’s also perhaps the most disappointing movie of the summer.
Clearly the director Michael Bay needs to stop using the hand-held camera so much. In several of the scenes he kept trying to use the hand-held camera to give the movie some velocity, instead he just made me dizzy and nauseous. I’m gonna start a telethon to raise money so we can buy him a steadicam and some lessons on how to use it.
And for GOd’s sake quite cutting between cameras so often. Hold a scene a little so I can figure out what’s going on before you cut to a different, more confusing angle. What a waste of screen talent–Buscemi, Michael Duncan Clarke, Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, they’re all thrown up onto the screen and not given an opportunity to act because Bay keeps changing the camera angles on everybody.
I’m gonna just stop going to any Michael Bay film from now on. Until somebody proves to me that he’s learned how to use the steadicam.
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