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agree.

I hacked a Panasonic GH1 to use 24fps in 2014. My newer camera, the GX85 includes this frame rate by default. Movies look more dreamlike in 24fps, due to the magic number of resetting some cycle every 5 seconds (24 frames in 5 seconds is 120 frames). Seinfeld was also filmed in 24fps. Maybe the jokes sounded funnier becaue of that? I don't know, but I enjoy playing games at 20- 30fps more than 60fps for the cinematic effect.

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The difference with games is that they generally don't have motion blur, every frame is sharp like a photo, so at low framerates like 30 you can see a distracting judder from the series of low fps sharp frames which you don't see in movies. At high framerates your eyes will naturally see blur in the same way your eyes see your hand waving as blurry even though there is theoretically infinite frames.

Some of this is also just learned and cultural. 24fps looks like movies because movies are 24fps and you have learned to make that association. In the same way certain color grades and aspect ratios look cinematic, just because that's a reinforced association rather than an inherent fact.

agreed, there is a memory aspect to it too. That said, there is something about this video that looks funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-15YADeyg (I made this last year)

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