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Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore (A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.) (www.youtube.com)
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A few comments that can give an idea what the video is about

Watched this earlier this morning and it was a great in depth video. It’s not digital vs film. Biggest complaints seem to be everything being shot with shallow depth of field, which is the current cinematic fashion.

Biggest issue though is everything being shot as evenly, and blandly, as possible to make it easier to change everything in post, rather than making sure everything looks as great as possible in camera.

”We’ll fix it in post” is the worst thing that happened to cinematography. Edit: Yeah not just that but the same mentality has been detrimental to all creative work.

Great watch and fully agree. Always blows my mind that Jurassic Park from 1993 looks so much better than the modern day Jurassic World films.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guy seems insightful enough for me to take seriously but I'd much rather watch two of those films than his 3.5 review. Looked in the comments briefly and did not see it but is there a list somewhere?

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

The list is in the description of the video.

He does plenty of smaller video essays, but this was something he’d been working up to for a while.