Shooting HANNAH AND HER SISTERS with a hand-held camera. I was seasick after the second reel and had to leave the theater.
As I recall the hand-held camera work in HANNAH AND HER SISTERS really startled some people at the time, although it seems tame compared to the shake 'em-up & spin 'em-out cameras used today. A lot of people find the shaky camera in the BOURNE films completely off-putting. That and hyper-fast cutting.
It's been years but I recall Woody's HUSBANDS AND WIVES having much more jarring hand-held camerawork. (I guess he was getting a little experimental in the 90s, between that and the jump cuts in DECONSTRUCTING HARRY.)
You're right of course. It was HUSBANDS AND WIVES. I really need to get Woody's films on DVD.
What do you think of the hand-held camera work in JAWS?
Richard
I really have nothing to say about it. Like everything else in JAWS, it works perfectly and doesn't take me out of the film.
Well, that's what I mean. The hand-held camera was employed by necessity, not design, on JAWS and it works perfectly. It also facilitates some remarkable compositions they would not have been able to get with sticks on the boat. Like that exterior shot outside the window looking at Roy Schieder inside the cabin with the rope and buoys hurling out into the water reflected in the windowpane. The more I think about what Spielberg and Butler accomplished under those adverse conditions the more I appreciate the hand-held camera work. It's no easy task to hold a camera steady with the ocean rocking beneath you for weeks at a time (and it's a perfect thriller). More recent films that employ a shaky and spinning camera to convey "reality" are shot on dry land don't have the excuse.
I don't care. Jessica Alba is a total doll no matter what color she dyes her hair.
It's the blue contacts that skeeve me out. It's like she's auditioning for a role in White Chicks 2...
Honestly, there are only a million blonde, white girls in Alba's age range who could have played Sue Storm (who is BLONDE and WHITE), so why cast a Latina actress? It's like forcing a square peg into a round hole. when you have dozens of round pegs to choose from.
And on that note...how about the "Racebending" in The Last Airbender?
Another pet peeve is the casting choice of Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in the musical "Paint Your Wagon". Two of my favorite actors but in a musical?
I'll disagree with you up to the point of saying that I expected to hate Lee Marvin in this movie, but ended up thinking he was high-larious doing the comedy portions.
Having the city of New York as a stand-in for Metropolis in the Superman films. We're told it's Metropolis, but we constantly see familiar landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center towers and Grand Central Station reminding us that it's NY.
- Vanessa not being punished for what, essentially, amounted to rape in the next-to-last scene of 40 Days and 40 Nights. Again, I ask, what's funny about that?
See also Isla Fisher's character doing the same thing to either Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson in alleged comedy Wedding Crashers (I hated that movie so much I can't even be bothered to look up which one it was). If she looked less like Isla Fisher and more like Ursula from The Little Mermaid more people would have suddenly decided that female-on-male rape isn't funny at all.
Having the city of New York as a stand-in for Metropolis in the Superman films. We're told it's Metropolis, but we constantly see familiar landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center towers and Grand Central Station reminding us that it's NY.
At least they used an actual American city - it certainly beats having Milton Keynes play Metropolis in the fourth one!
Somone mentioned Jar Jar already, and we've had many threads about this in the past, but I'd like to give old George an extra kick in the pants for not letting John Milius write those prequels, the way he really would have loved to do. The 1977 episode was nominated for Best Screenplay. That time he had the youthful wisdom to get his film school friends Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz to help with the writing.
She was so stunning back in the day, and so shocking to look at now. 
