Are we ***really*** judging the cinematography of an entire film based off one shot in a **fricking elevator?**
Sorry, the lighting of the old elevator shot isn’t great either. There’s no great way to light an elevator, it’s a elevator. Just the same way that there’s no good way to light a bathroom.
The original pops more cause it has a dark background.
Gojira_massive_dong on
I need a cinematographer to weigh in if this dude is right. I saw the video and makes sense, but im not a filmmaker
cyPersimmon9 on
“the Death of Cinematography” might be a touch dramatic, but it’s a good video essay
crab_bastard666 on
I remember a lot of bad looking blue and grey movies in those decades he’s talking about but maybe he’s watching them with literal rose tinted glasses and doesn’t notice
VaishakhD on
It changes from movie to movie, nothing to see here. There are still movies that look good and still that look ass.
Eistod on
Newer movies look terrible as they are mostly shot like on “portrait mode” the entire time. The background are so blurred.. the lighting makes it just worse.
MortimerCanon on
wasn’t there just another one of these videos saying netflix/steamer movies don’t know how to put things into focus?
AfraidoftheLark on
I saw Wake Up Dead Man in theaters. Rian Johnson’s compositions/framings are punchy and sometimes beautiful, but the Hallmark-esque sheen of it all didn’t really make for a “theatrical experience.” (Or not the one I was looking for, anyway.) I don’t mind stylized movies, including the fussiness of Wes Anderson, but with notable exceptions this one seemed stylized toward digestible blandness.
Like even when a certain character gets covered head to toe in muck, the movie still looked pristine and scrubbed clean of any life or messiness. And there’s an attractive little bedroom/garrison in the movie but there’s not a spot of dust or lived-in texture. It looks like an IKEA showroom.
I know people are looking for such ambience with these mystery movies, but I feel like he cranked the coziness setting a little too high.
Bleichman on
Is this some kind of new trend? Youtubers saying modern movies look bad then cherry pick som new movies that look like shit with a great classic movie? Obviously most old unsignificant movies with bad cinematography are mostly forgotten now.
linkexer on
Yeah, man. I need an annoying weekly-upload YouTuber to reiterate a surface level observation made by a million redditors about the types of movies I already was not going to watch.
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Are we ***really*** judging the cinematography of an entire film based off one shot in a **fricking elevator?**
Sorry, the lighting of the old elevator shot isn’t great either. There’s no great way to light an elevator, it’s a elevator. Just the same way that there’s no good way to light a bathroom.
The original pops more cause it has a dark background.
I need a cinematographer to weigh in if this dude is right. I saw the video and makes sense, but im not a filmmaker
“the Death of Cinematography” might be a touch dramatic, but it’s a good video essay
I remember a lot of bad looking blue and grey movies in those decades he’s talking about but maybe he’s watching them with literal rose tinted glasses and doesn’t notice
It changes from movie to movie, nothing to see here. There are still movies that look good and still that look ass.
Newer movies look terrible as they are mostly shot like on “portrait mode” the entire time. The background are so blurred.. the lighting makes it just worse.
wasn’t there just another one of these videos saying netflix/steamer movies don’t know how to put things into focus?
I saw Wake Up Dead Man in theaters. Rian Johnson’s compositions/framings are punchy and sometimes beautiful, but the Hallmark-esque sheen of it all didn’t really make for a “theatrical experience.” (Or not the one I was looking for, anyway.) I don’t mind stylized movies, including the fussiness of Wes Anderson, but with notable exceptions this one seemed stylized toward digestible blandness.
Like even when a certain character gets covered head to toe in muck, the movie still looked pristine and scrubbed clean of any life or messiness. And there’s an attractive little bedroom/garrison in the movie but there’s not a spot of dust or lived-in texture. It looks like an IKEA showroom.
I know people are looking for such ambience with these mystery movies, but I feel like he cranked the coziness setting a little too high.
Is this some kind of new trend? Youtubers saying modern movies look bad then cherry pick som new movies that look like shit with a great classic movie? Obviously most old unsignificant movies with bad cinematography are mostly forgotten now.
Yeah, man. I need an annoying weekly-upload YouTuber to reiterate a surface level observation made by a million redditors about the types of movies I already was not going to watch.