When I was young I used to love movies.
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When I was young I used to love movies. For years now, I just I can’t stand to watch them anymore. I feel an intense loss at this.
There a lot of reasons, some I can’t really vocalize. Lack of immersion is a big one. When I sit in a theater, I am intensely aware that I am watching a movie the entire time. Modern movies have sterile sets, bad lighting, and just constant jump cutting. The amount of time there is in movies of just two characters close-up and cutting back and forth in was obviously multiple takes stitched together is just nauseating.
None of these criticisms are new, and doesn’t cover how bad writing has gotten. I just listen to people talk about movies and I just can’t bring myself to get into it. It causes too much pain. -
When I was young I used to love movies. For years now, I just I can’t stand to watch them anymore. I feel an intense loss at this.
There a lot of reasons, some I can’t really vocalize. Lack of immersion is a big one. When I sit in a theater, I am intensely aware that I am watching a movie the entire time. Modern movies have sterile sets, bad lighting, and just constant jump cutting. The amount of time there is in movies of just two characters close-up and cutting back and forth in was obviously multiple takes stitched together is just nauseating.
None of these criticisms are new, and doesn’t cover how bad writing has gotten. I just listen to people talk about movies and I just can’t bring myself to get into it. It causes too much pain.@NullNowhere I’ve felt like this for a while now, and then my local theater did a retrospective of every film by a director from about 50 years ago. What a difference! Something has been lost, I wonder if irrevocably.
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@NullNowhere I’ve felt like this for a while now, and then my local theater did a retrospective of every film by a director from about 50 years ago. What a difference! Something has been lost, I wonder if irrevocably.
It is very stark. The look of older movies is so very different.
I kinda worry about an aesthetic contradiction I’ve seen among some of my friends. They grew up only on newer movies, and while they dislike newer movies for many of the reasons I do, they struggle with older films because of how different they look - they also violate their conception of what a movie ‘should’ look like, even though they don’t like the look. Is that not strange?
I hope it’s not irrevocably lost, but so much of it seems to just have fallen out from the change in film making as a process in which so much power and thought is given to post production. That strikes me as very hard to walk back.
