I think I might have integrated shaky cam into my life, so it doesn't make much of a difference, below a certain amount. Kind of like when bon asked me if I get brain freeze. Uh, I get headaches when I drink hot drinks too, it's nothing special for cold.
On the other hand, when Katniss
blew up the supplies for the cornucopia --
the accompanying sound effect almost made me want to bleed from my nose. It was just like my tinnitus cranked up to 12. Much more of it and I might have started gagging, honestly. I'm glad they cut it when I did. My eyes were already crossing.
The only other time it's been nearly so bad was in the second Bourne movie, but even then I didn't need to leave the theater.
That *was* the last time I noticed it, and it made me sickSICKsick. Completely horrible. Ugh.
That *was* the last time I noticed it, and it made me sickSICKsick. Completely horrible. Ugh.
Yeah, I had to lie down for a couple hours after that movie, but then again I was forced to sit in the front row.
But that's why I've only ever seen the 3rd one on the laptop.
It doesn't really make me sick, it makes me a little dizzy and headachey. Mostly I just shut my eyes or look away until I think a scene is over. I didn't see the last two-thirds of the
tracker jacker
scene for that reason.
I found Hunger Games to be much less nauseating when I was sitting halfway up the stadium seats than when I was in the first few rows.
Yeah, I never sit in the first few rows anymore--either I get there early or I'm seeing a movie that's been out for a while.
I wound up in the front row for the original Hitcher, and was high as a kite, too. Good times.
Due to my (so-called) friends, I've fallen out of the habit of sitting in front of the walkway across the theatre. But I used to like being that close, and my eyes could deal. I currently love sitting on the first row back-not the one that's in the walkway, but the one where you can put your feet up, if you pick the right seat, on the metal bar in front of the usually empty space where a wheelchair-using patron would be sitting.
I don't like the shaky-cam, both because it makes me feel a little sick AND I think it's lazy film-making. Used sporadically, I don't hate it, but relying on it is a huge mistake.
Not enough of one to make me dislike the movie, or really any movie that uses it, but enough of one to make me harumph with gusto.
