Modern films often rely heavily on dynamic visual techniques like spinning camera angles, rapid cuts, and flashing lights to create intensity or heighten drama. While these effects can be visually striking, they can also overwhelm the audience, making scenes feel chaotic or disorienting. For some viewers, this sensory overload detracts from the storytelling, as it shifts focus from the narrative to the spectacle. In contrast, older films often used steadier, more deliberate camerawork (so much nicer), allowing the story and characters to take centre stage. This grounded approach not only felt more immersive but also avoided the unintended consequence of inducing motion sickness, which some modern techniques can provoke. I have found that films from 2000 have more spinning cameras, car chases, and so many special effects that it is just full of stuff and have no storyline.
Last night I watched the Julia Roberts film about the end of the world, they spun the camera round SO much I felt sick!
I keep going back to the 80s movies, like, Ruthless People, or Weird science et al.
PLEASE movie makers quit making us so sick.
Is it just me?
JH
Julan62 