Good movie! HORRIBLE Directing and cinematography!!!

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2012)

Great casting and costumes!! By why, oh why, did the director jump the camera around so much!! It was almost a joke how much he did it. It ruined the movie experience for me. It brought it down from a 8/10 to a 6/10. And I like hand held camera movies when done right. I loved Cloverfield and Chronicle. This wasn't just a hand held shaking camera, it was out of focus at times, zooming in from all crazy angles, jumping around every second. The worst part is the director did it on purpose!!! Look at this quote from the director describing to Sodenberg, who was filming a sequence for him, on how to copy his style.
Transcription of secret tape of Ross explaining Hunger Games cinematography asethetic to Soderbergh: "Just pretend that the camera is a bouncing rubber ball on LSD, and that you have this weird compulsion for closeups. You know what I mean? You're trying to follow the action and you do follow it but almost in an accidental, stumbling-around way. All you gotta remember is close-ups, close-ups and more close-ups. And constantly bouncy, bouncy, bouncy. Just keep bouncing, man...in fact, forget the rubber ball thing. Pretend that the camera is a f%ing basketball...okay? A f#%ing basketball with a obsession for closeups. Do that and you can't go wrong."
You got to be kidding me. What a sh muck.
Hopefully it won't seem as bad when seen on a smaller screen at home.