{"id":1614,"date":"2011-03-22T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/time-to-declare-war-on-the-shaky-camera\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T02:00:31","slug":"time-to-declare-war-on-the-shaky-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/time-to-declare-war-on-the-shaky-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to declare war on the shaky camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The obnoxiously photographed “Battle: Los Angeles” shows how utterly bankrupt a movie technique has become<\/p>\n

How to describe the aggressive dreadfulness of “Battle: Los Angeles,” maybe the worst-directed Hollywood movie I’ve ever seen? Incompetent doesn’t do the trick, because it implies an inability to master basic craft. That’s not the case here. “Battle: Los Angeles” takes one of the more controversial cinematography fads of recent years — the “shaky camera and shallow focus equals ‘reality'” fad — to noxious new levels of excess. The movie is the work of professionals who decided to make their film look bad on purpose…<\/p>\n

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The obnoxiously photographed “Battle: Los Angeles” shows how utterly bankrupt a movie technique has become How to describe the aggressive dreadfulness of “Battle: Los Angeles,” maybe the worst-directed Hollywood movie I’ve ever seen? Incompetent doesn’t do the trick, because it implies an inability to master basic craft. That’s not the case here. “Battle: Los Angeles” … Continue reading “Time to declare war on the shaky camera”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}