Yay! Shaky Cam!

Rating: 1/10 (16 August 2015)

Dear movie makers, you suck, the majority of you suck and you know why, you and your movies have sucked for the longest time and your audiences know it too. Shaky cam ISN'T the reason your movies suck, your movies would still suck even if you didn't use shaky cam because you probably think it's a cute cool effect (hint: it's not). Shaky cam does suck though and when you use it, good or bad you aren't doing your movie any favors.
It's sad that after all these years these movie makers just cant seem to fathom exactly why shaky cam sucks but I'll try to explain. When I watch a movie and the shaky cam starts up I am distracted by it so much that I start to pick on all the other flaws the movie has that I otherwise would have ignored because the movie maker has manged to immerse me in the fictional world they created. Which brings me to Elysium.
Elysium could have been a good movie but shaky cam in addition to other flaws makes this yet another movie that sucks to add to the crap pile. We've seen all these elements before in Sci-fi movies and Elysium certainly doesn't do any of them better. The biggest problem (besides the shaky cam (I rly hate shaky cam)) is that the whole story goes down the crapper at the end. It made no sense. Although Kruger was already established as a psycho there was no reason to "bring him back to life" and then go on a rampage other than yet another excuse to use more shaky cam. He kills Delacourt which had been established as the "Emperor Palpatine" of the "Not a Death Star but a Life Star" but then the movie ham-fistedly‎ tries to position her as someone who has realised the error of her ways in the last few seconds before she dies. It makes no sense. It would have made more sense for Kruger to realise the error of his ways and then kill her and that could have been achieved if this character was a bit different to begin with, like if they made him a neutral mercenary rather than a psycho, which made no sense either... see, this is what I think about when a movie starts using shaky cam, thanks shaky cam!