Buy Green Zone Director Paul Greengrass a Tri-Pod Already!
Please, please, please join me in a rally to give Paul Greengrass a tri-pod for his movie camera. Why? Because I really enjoy Matt Damon in the movies, and evidently Matt enjoys working with director Paul Greengrass.
Greengrass uses that fancy-pants hand held camera to 'bring you into the action.' The shaky frame jumps from person to person, coffee cup to designer window blinds, back to close-up on kicking boot. Enough already! I had to leave The Bourne Ultimatum half-way through because I was nauseous.
And I wasn't the only person taking deep gulps of cleansing air in the lobby. Several other patrons joined me and we had a group discussion on how the annoying camera work had ruined the film. I took a Dramamine and rented the DVD because I like the actor and story that much.
I couldn't even watch the trailer for Paul Greengrass's latest film: Green Zone. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Shaky camera on Matt Damon, back to door, back to floor, back to...uh, I felt my lunch coming up.
I haven't seen The Hurt Locker because I heard the Academy Award winning-director Kathyrn Bigelow used the same hand-held camera method. I don't know if watching The Hurt Locker would be as annoying as watching The Bourne Ultimatum, but I can't risk it. (Although, I was able to sit through The Hurt Locker trailer.)
My husband and I manage to see a movie maybe every two months. I can't risk my rare movie watching experience on something that will make me angry, not to mention sick. So why is the movie Green Zone tanking at the box office? I can only speak for myself, but I will actively avoid any movie directed by Paul Greengrass.
The good news: Paul says he won't direct the last Bourne movie. The bad news, Matt Damon is opting out too. I will miss you Matt, but I'm really looking forward to watching an entire Bourne movie without spending the whole time asking, "what just happened?"
I'm an intelligent, forty-year-old woman, Mr. Greengrass. Stop wasting money on fancy stunts that could have been filmed on a green screen for all the perspective you give the audience. And please stop forcing me to look at coffee cups and window blinds and earlobes. Trust your audience enough to let them make their own decisions. Green Zone trailer below, watch at your own risk.
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