John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)

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Sterling

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For every good Bourne scene with shaky cam you have travesties like basically the entire Transformer's franchise.
 
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Lanx

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come on dawg, we all know what we're getting into when we want to watch JW3, cuz JW2 had fucking bullet proof dress shirt plot armor.

I'm sure we all just want good believable action that won't make us vomit, faciliated by fucking NEO!
 
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Drinsic

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Shaky cam can be great in the right circumstance. When a scene is chaotic and frenetic it does a great job of showing that. It also does a great job of seperating good cinematographers and bad ones.
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Unless it's some gimmicky first person view or there's a goddamn earthquake, shakey cam isn't necessary. You want me to feel like I'm right there? Cool, I don't suddenly convulse just because shit's going down around me, fuck off with the shakey cam. Your second point is correct though.
 
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Drinsic said:
Unless it's some gimmicky first person view or there's a goddamn earthquake, shakey cam isn't necessary. You want me to feel like I'm right there? Cool, I don't suddenly convulse just because shit's going down around me, fuck off with the shakey cam. Your second point is correct though.
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in very specific circumstances, it works fine. if, for example, the main character is getting mugged. let's say this scene is supposed to set up the character feeling helpless, confused, like things are happening too fast. the police want them to identify the mugger, but everything was so chaotic that they can't remember. or perhaps this scene is meant to setup the victim to make a lifestyle change so as not to be the victim anymore.

i'm absolutely not advocating for shaky cam to be a regular thing. it sucks. but sometimes the story teller might WANT to make the audience feel a certain way. i guess i'm advocating shaky cam as part of a story telling tool, not to hide mistakes or cheap effects.

Edit: also, was that anjelica houston? good lord, do you guys remember when she was hot?
 
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Ravishing

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How did Keanu Reeves become the best action star of our generation?

Feb 17th will mark the 20th anniversary of Bill & Ted btw.
 
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Lanx

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please let her die quick
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Void

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Ravishing said:
How did Keanu Reeves become the best action star of our generation?

Feb 17th will mark the 20th anniversary of Bill & Ted btw.
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I love Keanu. Even more than I love the person I'm going to say. But I think it could be argued that Keanu is #2, behind the fucking juggernaut that is Tom Cruise.
 
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Setting up John Wick 4 I see. Halle Wick.


Can’t wait.
 
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Ambiturner

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come on dawg, we all know what we're getting into when we want to watch JW3, cuz JW2 had fucking bullet proof dress shirt plot armor.

I'm sure we all just want good believable action that won't make us vomit, faciliated by fucking NEO!
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Bulletproof suits are a real thing
 
Ishad

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Ravishing said:
How did Keanu Reeves become the best action star of our generation?

Feb 17th will mark the 20th anniversary of Bill & Ted btw.
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30th anniversary. And to answer the question Speed which turns 25 in June.
 
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Ravishing

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Ishad said:
30th anniversary. And to answer the question Speed which turns 25 in June.
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Yea, 30, thanks.

And holy shit I forgot Speed which I watched 1000x lol.

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I love Keanu. Even more than I love the person I'm going to say. But I think it could be argued that Keanu is #2, behind the fucking juggernaut that is Tom Cruise.
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I was expecting you to say Arnold, Stallone, or Bruce Willis... but Tom Cruise? lol nahhhh...

I'm talking the pure action movies with someone steamrolling baddies. Jet Li and Matt Damon might be contenders for current gen, but Keanu has The Matrix, Constinople, Ronin, and John Wick, he's gotta be #1 current gen. And Arnold, Stallone, Willis are the previous gen
 
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Ravishing said:
How did Keanu Reeves become the best action star of our generation?

Feb 17th will mark the 20th anniversary of Bill & Ted btw.
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He's a hard working mofo, he puts in the work to actually look legit, his training for John Wick 1 and 2 was nuts and it paid off.



 
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Lanx

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He's a hard working mofo, he puts in the work to actually look legit, his training for John Wick 1 and 2 was nuts and it paid off.



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Yea NEO and Cruise are about the only ones that put in the work to look awesome
 
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Yea NEO and Cruise are about the only ones that put in the work to look awesome
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Yeah, Cruise is nutjob but have to give him a lot of credit too. Between Last Samurai and Collateral he really started to change my opinion of him and then he started doing all the crazy stunts for MI and of course the Reacher movies.
 
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