Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > Just like Transformers, which I couldn't stand. 

> I thought the second Transformers was at the same time both mind-numbingly 
> stupid and highly entertaining.

  I liked both Transformers movies, but in the second one the camera work
and editing bothered me. Way, way too many close-up shots of (often really
blurred) action scenes, making them really confusing, almost to the point
of causing a headache and dizziness.

  I think I know what the director was trying to do with that style of
filming (ie. make the viewer feel like being in the middle of the battle
rather than a ghost spectator floating somewhere, watching the battles
from afar), but that style just didn't work very well, at least not in
this case. It worked well in films like Saving Private Ryan, but the
execution was rather poor in this case (perhaps because the action is
*too* fast-paced to be filmed from so close), so it just didn't work.
A more traditional approach at filming action scenes could have made the
film better, IMO.

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