Yeah, I watched through to the end of season 3 no problem, but was reluctant to get back in after all that business with Angels son. I finally did Season 4 and… well it wasn’t much better (just plain weird), but season 5 seems to be getting back on track, less of the weird, more of the cool.

Angel is a great show and season 5 is the best of the whole series

enjoy

District 9, starts off with the documentary look, but slowly the lines between documentary and normal film weave in and out.
Its done with such skillful editing that you don’t notice it…

I think the Cloverfield similarity came up in the initial reviews due to the fast paced realism of the film. The shaky cam feeling of nausea doesn’t happen while watching this.
Your safe to see the film!!!!

But I get what you mean Dentist, I think mine, and most peoples issues tend to come from the actual shaking. Giving a film or TV show a hand held feel (somewhat like a documentarian, where they’re always one step behind with where the camera is meant to be pointed and where to zoom) is, I think, fine if it serves a purpose (like The Office), but I don’t think it’s entirely required to give something a sense of realism and actual shaking as if someone’s holding a camera phone is just plain annoying.

Of course it can be overused for its own sake, and can lead to a few dissatisfied actors. When This Life was first shown and the hand-held camera was still something of a novelty in drama, Jack Davenport said of one of his scenes, “There I was emoting for England, and the camera was on my bloody elbow…”

I found the likes of Cloverfield and the rapid-cut closeups of Transformers worked a lot better for me on a smaller TV screen. I was going to say the same of Blair Witch, but actually that’s better not watched at all.

Luke and Leia’s Love Child, Dead Set was made for E4 – offshoot of Channel 4, which shows Big Brother in the UK. Even had the real host Davina McCall zombied-up! Quite terrifying she was too, in fact… Writer Charlie Brooker is mainly a TV critic (hence the subject matter) with a wonderful turn of phrase. Lots of Romero references, although Simon Pegg had a good-natured dig at it for going with “fast-moving” zombies.

Glad to hear that District 9 dosen’t have the shakey cam throughout the whole film. That’s what was keeping me from seeing it.

Cloverfield made me want to throw a beating on someone.

Yeah, in regards to shakey-cam, I’m not a fan, but at least in an action scene it makes a bit of sense. What drives me NUTS is on TV cop shows where it’s just two people in a room talking and the camera is doing that. I don’t know about you but when I’m talking to someone I don’t bob and weave.

Vic

Yeah, it was the Miniseries that arrived at my door today, I’ll be delving into it in a couple of days (honestly didn’t expect it to arrive this early, I’ve got the rest of Angel season 5 to go through yet… another series I got into really late).

As for the other stuff… I’ll look into it as an when I get there. :p

And yeah, District 9, from the trailer and short film it seems like they have a documentary feel without the shaky-cam, which just makes much more sense.

So much more believable and cool than hangin from the light and spinning, that was just dumb… But we got some stupid director that sees the world as a cartoon apparently…