Someone was saying they liked it because it's new and fresh. Okay, that's cool.
But it's only new and fresh for Alias. Doesn't 24 do that for their show? NYPD Blue for theirs?
I like Alias for it's inventiveness but the camera directions in the "boardroom" was ridiculous. I felt like I was watching an amateur indy film whose cameraman was, as someone else put it, on way too much coffee.
Also, what's with Sloane's ugly glasses? They spend so much on the awesome special effects you'd think the budget could call for better spectacles! LOL.
Yes 24 and NYPD Blue do it. But this time, it brought a whole new sense of urgency and tension to the boardroom. I mean, these briefings aren't supposed to be quiet and calm and steady. They are supposed to be twisty, tense, almost choppy. (The same thing happened to The Bourne Supremacy, which I loved. It adds a whole new world of tension to the movie)
OMG I SO AGREE I hate the glasses! Please they are like YELLOW and round and look TERRIBLE!!!
Having the camera appear to move rapidly during fight scenes to give the illusion that the fight is sporadic but in fact its quite the opposite. The actors hardly touch each other let alone land a punch, but to make it appear that they do and that their actions are faster than in reality, you have chopping editing and such.
It makes no difference. If we can't see what's going on, how exciting is that? Jackie Chan and The Matrix movies are exciting, WHY? Because you can see the cool moves going on and it all turns out amazing. I know ALIAS isn't going to do stuff like that because heck, it would take forever, but DO NOT cut as much! I think that the only respectable fight scenes in ALIAS were the Pilot Garage Sequence, the fight in "Prelude" from Season 3, and the plane fight in "Phase One". Why? Because they minimalized the "cutting" from camera to camera. By doing this, we get a better understanding of the moves and can get more into it. Plus, it's still exciting, in a more clear way.
Plus, what good are the choreographers if they direct a huge fight and never get any credit for it because they camera makes it so that you don't have any idea what's going on?
I'm not complaining that the fighting is bad. It's still intense and spectacular, but there IS room for improvement