Regal/Cineworld to close all US and UK cinemas

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2 pointschristoph3 comments

Most people agree that TV and movies died some time before 2007.

My belief is that low-cost CGI that turns movie photography into comic-book level realism ruins the impression of reality in modern movies and grates on your immersion levels.

A poor-quality real explosion using only an ounce of explosive is far more realistic than 99% of CGI explosions. And don't talk to me how miraculously unscathed cars, trucks, and buses can roll about without suffering any structural damage. Anybody who's seen a vehicle that's been involved in an accident can tell that movies are all bullshit.

I deliberately stopped going to movies around 2000. I knew that, no matter how much a movie was hyped in the advertisements, it would be garbage to watch.

I agree but I'd add that cheap digital shooting brought the cost down from film-tier to video-tier for takes and shoots. That, CGI, and its handmaiden, green screening, have all contributed to a film making culture that knows that reshoots, retakes, and taking 300 takes of every scene is basically how things can be done. And if something's gone wrong you can fix it in post. The ultimate effect is a haunting, soulless empty feeling, like a movie is a pantomime of what could have been even at the best.

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