Wobbly hand-held camera filming in the dark. Just great. Thanks, movie.
In a sense, the fact that the camera wobbles doesn't matter much, coz the movie is shot mostly in the dark, with faint glimmers of light (usually just flashlights). Wobbling is pretty much invisible in the dark so as far as I was concerned the wobbling didn't bother me during the invisible scenes - which took up 80% of the movie btw.
Hundreds of cameramen and future cinematographers spend years learning how to work the camera, having a steady hand and an eye for lighting - but then one day they get their first movie job and what does the director tell them? "Please wobble as much as you can, and no, we won't have any lighting, just pitch-black darkness". Yeah, why let the viewers see the action? What do THEY matter?
This idiotic myth about the hand-held wobble giving movies more realism has got to stop. You want more realism? How about working on better scripts. Not that any kind of change in how the camera is operated would have saved this dull turkey. It's clichés galore, strictly fluff.
We have a heroine who is so daft that she actually goes into a building suspected of contamination, just so she can pick a few clues relating to some 17th-century plague-priests. The fact that this moron is played by Gina Philips is just about the only good thing about the movie, and she's the only reason I downloaded this crap in the first place.
Many modern movies suffer from an overuse of computers, which are recklessly abused when directors go into a colour-changing frenzy. TSH is basically all dark green. This dull flick would have actually profited from realistic, natural colours, not fake hues of computer-generated green, which just end up making it bland-looking and very stereotypical of this age.
The way the four London yobs enter the building is ludicrous. I didn't quite understand that. Did they actually think the building was a functioning hospital? Sure yobos are dumb, but surely not that dumb.
In a sense, the fact that the camera wobbles doesn't matter much, coz the movie is shot mostly in the dark, with faint glimmers of light (usually just flashlights). Wobbling is pretty much invisible in the dark so as far as I was concerned the wobbling didn't bother me during the invisible scenes - which took up 80% of the movie btw.
Hundreds of cameramen and future cinematographers spend years learning how to work the camera, having a steady hand and an eye for lighting - but then one day they get their first movie job and what does the director tell them? "Please wobble as much as you can, and no, we won't have any lighting, just pitch-black darkness". Yeah, why let the viewers see the action? What do THEY matter?
This idiotic myth about the hand-held wobble giving movies more realism has got to stop. You want more realism? How about working on better scripts. Not that any kind of change in how the camera is operated would have saved this dull turkey. It's clichés galore, strictly fluff.
We have a heroine who is so daft that she actually goes into a building suspected of contamination, just so she can pick a few clues relating to some 17th-century plague-priests. The fact that this moron is played by Gina Philips is just about the only good thing about the movie, and she's the only reason I downloaded this crap in the first place.
Many modern movies suffer from an overuse of computers, which are recklessly abused when directors go into a colour-changing frenzy. TSH is basically all dark green. This dull flick would have actually profited from realistic, natural colours, not fake hues of computer-generated green, which just end up making it bland-looking and very stereotypical of this age.
The way the four London yobs enter the building is ludicrous. I didn't quite understand that. Did they actually think the building was a functioning hospital? Sure yobos are dumb, but surely not that dumb.