Top Ten Cinematography Travesties

[PaulClements]

Ok so we've had some opinions on the Top Ten Cinematography Masterpieces, what about the Top Ten Cinematography Travesties???

[Ruairi Robinson]

Ok so we've had some opinions on the Top Ten Cinematography Masterpieces, what about the Top Ten Cinematography Travesties???

Pick any ten Irish movies.

[Tom Lowe]

Half the pretentious handheld shit on the Sundance Channel for starters. ;)

[Ace]

Pick any ten Irish movies.

There are irish movies? I kid I kid.

[PaulClements]

I seem to find it alot harder to think of the 10 worst than the ten best... I guess that's because there is far more scope for failure than there is for success! Plus if it's crap then it barely gets seen.

[Ace]

I seem to find it alot harder to think of the 10 worst than the ten best... I guess that's because there is far more scope for failure than there is for success! Plus if it's crap then it barely gets seen.

I thinkso too. I think any piece of film making that gets made is an accomplishment in itself and deserves due credit regardless. Hence I dont think anything would really count as a travesty.

My Kudos goes out to anyone who attempts to share his/her mind with an audience.

[Rogelio Salinas]

I know that they are not the DPs, but some of Michael Bay's (Peephole shot of Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys) and Baz Luhrman's (Most of Moulin Rouge and some of Romeo and Juliet) movies use some of the most obnoxious shots I have seen on film, but I am looking forward to Transformers though.

[Ace]

I know that they are not the DPs, but some of Michael Bay's (Peephole shot of Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys) and Baz Luhrman's (Most of Moulin Rouge and some of Romeo and Juliet) movies use some of the most obnoxious shots I have seen on film, but I am looking forward to Transformers though.

Micheal Bay comes from the advertising world, hence the stylized commercial looking shots.

I wonder what particular obnoxious shots you are referring to?

[P Andersson]

My Kudos goes out to anyone who attempts to share his/her mind with an audience.

i agree totally

i think the biggest travesty of cinematography is that it has been too expensive to make a movie with good image quality, everything needed to be funded, that has just changed with cheap HD cameras from canon HV20 at 1100 dollars to RED at around 20.000 for a functioning package, now anybody can make a film

[Ace]

i agree totally

i think the biggest travesty of cinematography is that it has been too expensive to make a movie with good image quality, everything needed to be funded, that has just changed with cheap HD cameras from canon HV20 at 1100 dollars to RED at around 20.000 for a functioning package, now anybody can make a film

See, I think that the "crap" cinematography of the HD's and DV's have an inherit aesthetic within themselves which is great as long as it doesn't try to be something it isn't. But the problem I see with these type of films is not so much the delivery but talent in front of the lens.. A crappy actor with pimples and bad makeup, unstyled hair, will affect the 'perceived' cinematography more than anything I can imagine.