Essay: Why Are So Many Modern Action Movies Terrible?

[Frank W. Baker]

A video essay, on Salon.com, blasts shaky camerawork and fast cutting, and urges filmmakers to get back to basics

[Meri Robie-Craven]

The Vimeo link is broken. Do you have another source for the Chaos Cinema essay? It does look interesting.

[Frank W. Baker]

try this one

http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/archives/video_essay_matthias_...

[Holly Caudill]

Thanks for sharing, Frank. 

 

I teach film study to juniors and seniors and was just going to show The Dark Knight. It will be great to have this resource to show students how too much action makes the movie unpleasant to watch.  I love the fact that it incorporates some classic movie scenes and gives examples of effective action shots and chaos action shots.