10 Movie Crazes You Forgot Were A Thing

When filming a fight/battle scene a camera man will quickly find out that it is quite difficult to stay steady with an assortment of flailing actors/extras buzzing around them. The usage of the effect has attracted its fair share of hate over the years but it's fair to say that it more than contributes to the intense and unpredictable nature of most of the scenes it is used in.

We're at a point in cinema now where action films have lent so hardly on the trope that it almost feels unusual if a fight scene is shot in a stable way. Think about it, it's hard to differenciate between which action films that do and do not use this way of shooting as for the most part, we've gotten so used to 'shaky cam', it's no longer just a craze, it's the norm.

The sheer effort and dedication that goes into choreographing an intimate fight between two actors or stunt men, is then stitched together with the added variable of a hand held camera man who has to try and keep up and not lose the fine work that has been formulated.