Bryan Mills jumps a fence
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a stock example of overly fast cutting and shaky-cam action filmmaking.
What it is
A very short clip from Taken 3 of Liam Neeson's character jumping a fence, edited with extremely rapid cuts.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Critical nostromo · 2020-11 · on “David Fincher’s Impossible Eye”
> The camera moved at the same speed as Affleck, gliding with unvarying smoothness, which is exactly how Fincher likes his shots to behave. I appreciate this so much. There’s a lot of shaky cam out there and it often gives me motion sickness or confuses my understanding of the scene. It also feels like a cheap trick directors use to create faux excitement, or to cover up sloppy filmmaking. Fincher movies are easy to watch and understand visually. He does a lot of wide shots and long shots without sloppy cuts. In Panic Room he did a single shot (although CGI) that lasted several minutes and showed the viewer around the entire set in a single uninterrupted view. It was glorious. I wish this ap