I know 100% that people will argue with me over this, but I miss when movies were professionally lit, when actors were intentionally blocked, and when more than teal, orange and beige were allowed to be on the screen. The medium has something to do with it--film made a lot of these things fundamentally necessary--but I think it's more complex than just that. The last few years' movies are just not pleasant to look at, with very few exceptions, and the change occurred sometime around 2015.

"Fix it in post" happened. There's less planning and more CGI.

Quentin Leonetti

@electret@merveilles.town

I’m not sure it’s “less planning”. But they definitely abuse cgi. It became the tool for everything instead of having a toolbox of many different things. Vanilla for all, no other flavours allowed.

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