Yes, we're all agreed the ending is wonky.  Doesn't invalidate what they got right.

I remember liking COLLATERAL but I remember almost no specifics about the film itself. Only that it's one of the few cases I didn't mind the "video look," and the part of the chase sequence at the train station was cut in a really confusing way.

It was shot digital with an open shutter. It has the same effect as those "motion smoothing" televisions of making things look and feel like they were shot on a video camera (associated with being more "real" since people record their real lives with video) rather than film.

Lol

let me give it a try, and correct me if I get it wrong...if you shoot 24 fps with a video camera, but your shutter is set at 1/24th; you'll have that video look that you see in Public Enemies.  If you change your shutter to 1/48th, you'd get the more cinematic look.  Every Video camera, even the Red One, has a scanning rate for the sensor; which is essentially expressed in FPS; and they have a shutter speed setting.  The shutter speed is completely independent from the FPS.  It's confusing at first, but once you get a little into it, it begins to make sense both practically and mathematically. 

In film, you have both FPS and shutter angle.  And shutter angle is a whole 'nother can of worms...

I thought he explained it pretty well too.  Just seems like from the Jackie Chan image that someone was still confused...  So I tried to explain it a different way for Kyle's sake.  Whether I did or not is up for debate...

Let's see if this works.

: dorkman : (without the spaces)

Holden, that's fucking genius! Thankfully, there's a 'Preview reply' button as having that much awesomness on the one page may splode the internet

(although, the pic is that big, it would probably go onto the next page but I just couldn't take that chance, dammit!)

: holden :

I thought it was fitting.