Why Movies Don't Look Like Movies Anymore

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  @tobydapunk · 9 months ago (edited)

  What I noticed about 70s - 90s films is how profusely characters would appear sweaty and dirty

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• JE

  @jeffcarlin5866 · 9 months ago (edited)

  My biggest gripe these days is not the visuals of a movie...but the audio. I hate how loud movies are and how muffled the dialogue is.

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  @SilverSkalitz6265 · 10 months ago

  I call it the "Well-fix-it-in-post" effect. Directors for the most part aren't putting the planning into shots, and the results are telling.

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• NO

  @NothingIsKnown00 · 9 months ago (edited)

  Older movies were more about showing you a scene, then letting your eyes wander between characters, objects, and events. Modern movies tend to shift your attention where the director wants it. To the character talking, to the important event. So your brain kinda shuts down. It passively lets the movie SHOW you the important points in every scene.

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• JJ

  @jj8888z · 9 months ago

  the reasons: <br>1. contrast<br>2. contrast<br>3.contrast<br>4. bad taste<br>5. Netflix messing with your production &nbsp; &nbsp; (they actively ask you for the edit session and source files and they will decide how&apos;s gonna look) , that if you want to get the deal<br>6. lighting<br>7. contrast.

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• T-

  @T-zw3uk · 9 months ago

  I find contemporary media exhausting because the camera is constantly moving and the sound envelope is over saturated.

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• FI

  @fionnmurray2368 · 9 months ago

  A few years ago (I can&apos;t remember exactly when, but it was before Covid), I showed my brother (7 years my junior) Terminator 2. He remarked that he was so used to action films shot in the &quot;chaos cinema&quot; style (lots of jittery handheld cam, extremely rapid cuts, post-production blurring etc.), that it was a genuine novelty for him to watch an action film shot and edited in such a way that the viewer is easily able to discern what&apos;s going on and where the characters are positioned relative to one another in space.

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• YE

  @YeahItsThatBad · 10 months ago

  I know this video is mostly about visuals, but there is also a similar thing going on in the audio of modern films. So many movies today contain dialogue that is impossible to hear. Back in 90&apos;s and early 2000&apos;s people didn&apos;t like to read subtitles, the only people who used them were people who actually had trouble hearing. But today most people turn on the subtitles by default for all movies and tv shows. You can barely understand what any one is saying!

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• AB

  @AbraKadabera · 9 months ago

  Old movies are &quot;glitchy&quot; because they were shot on film, and each particular frame ever slightly shifts while rolling.

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• RO

  @robertpearson8798 · 9 months ago

  I trained a young man where I worked who said that he didn’t like watching older movies because he didn’t like bad acting. I tried to explain to him that styles of acting change over time but he was convinced that nobody knew what they were doing until just a few years ago. Personally, I miss the days when the actors didn’t whisper and mumble and dialog wasn’t overpowered by music and sounds. I shouldn’t need to read subtitles to understand a language that I’m fluent in. He said that he always watches things with subtitles on as well.

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  @RudyBoy · 10 months ago

  I think what kids mean by old movies being &quot;glitchy&quot; is a lack of heavy stabilazation in every single movement of the camera

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  @dq405 · 10 months ago

  It can be depressing to watch a 1940s Technicolor film by Powell &amp; Pressburger, or even a 1960s colour film by David Lean or Stanley Kubrick, and then to switch over to the grey visual porridge of movies today. Films have developed cataracts.

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