The Big Screen vs The Small Screen

[GirlyGirlMask]

Quote Originally Posted by bendk

What keeps me out of the theater more than anything is that they will list a movie as starting at 2:00 PM, and then it doesn't start until almost 2:30. They force you to watch nearly a half an hour of commercials first. The last movie I saw at the theater was Blade Runner 2049. It was a fine film, but a little longish. I bet I was in the theater for three hours. That's a bit much.

Yes, I know. And the trailers...every movie is the same thing. It's like there is a formula and they all have it down to a science. The movies all look the same, and the trailers all look (and sound) the same. Bass drops, tubas blaring, crappy electronic music one of my kids could have written on a casio keyboard. Barf.

[GirlyGirlMask]

Quote Originally Posted by bendk

What keeps me out of the theater more than anything is that they will list a movie as starting at 2:00 PM, and then it doesn't start until almost 2:30. They force you to watch nearly a half an hour of commercials first. The last movie I saw at the theater was Blade Runner 2049. It was a fine film, but a little longish. I bet I was in the theater for three hours. That's a bit much.

Blade Runner 2049 was a fine film, no doubt. That's an example of Hollywood getting it right, and I did see that in a theater with my friend, who is a huge fan of the original. It was worth the price of admission. Not perfect, but worth seeing on the big screen.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

I think you might be right about the template thing.

However samey old Hollywood films might be, they had superior photography to current Hollywood.

Perhaps worse than obviously fake cgi creatures and characters is that films digitally cut and paste backgrounds like collage, in all sorts of genres. You might not be able to tell that plane isn't really there or that the background is made up of several different locations with numerous edits but the fact that they can't accurately do the lighting of the environment will make a difference to your immersion. And the actors might be reacting to their surroundings better if they were in the same place as the one that ends up on screen.
In old films, even if the sets were fake, the shadows were all real (matte paintings and some other special effects excepted) and there was a greater sense of real spaces being inhabited.