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by ogogmad 1404 days ago
To me, this seems subjective and grouchy. It might be that when you were growing up, things were a certain way, and now they're a bit different. You have a minor aesthetic disagreement. Some people like the shaky cam.
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You may like the shakey cam, and that's fine naturally, but claiming age has something to do with it is weird. It is also unfair to call me grouchy.

All I know is that shakey cam is incredibly unreal to me. I have never, in my entire life, experienced scenarios where my vision was like a shakey cam, and I say this as someone with a history of racing, stunt driving, and a variety of athletic activities which jostles one about.

When in such real life situations, my body senses motion, my brain sorts it out, and there is no shakey cam effect.

I liken it to making a sound track for a movie, but imagine two people talking, while someone randomly cranks the audio up and down, and changes the aurial position of the speaker randomly.

Sure, that's going to create tension and stress in the movie goer too, but it draws one out of immersion, and is just lazy work.

Intensity can be created with real actual intensity, the shakey cam is a crutch.

The only people who like shaky can are those who haven't experienced real, well choreographed, action sequences that are clear and visible.

It works in some scenarios but really has been used a lot, likely predominantly, to obscure unreality.