Alderaan said:

Ronster said:

I really think they should scrap the documentary hand held style shaky cam and just realize it's just not needed... It's not an improvement.

Overt camerawork can be effective in some stories, but not in epics. A mythological narrative like Star Wars needs a certain gravitas to it, but it gets stripped away if the filmmaker goes for a more "real" look.

And yet the space battles in SW were shot and edited to emulate WWII dogfight footage... precisely because Lucas wanted an element of dynamic realism that had never been seen in a sci fi film before.

The new stuff is simply following that philosophy with modern filmmaking tools...