Why ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER looks so good

Another underrated part of good looking movies is the set design. So much of these slop we get fed these days have little set design, so much empty room and giant space with nothing to fill them.

100% - one of the best DP’s in the world once told me good cinematography is 90% a good location, and of course set dec is part of that.

Right, when you remember those old Harry Potter movies, like the first one and then you watch Wednesday for example; similar audiences, the latter feels so lifeless and so ugly and boring and forgettable

The dojo scene ,where Leo and Benicio are standing in complete darkness genuinly surprised me ,watching the use of rainbow lens flare and the lengthy dissolve transitions was just a treat, gotta see it again in imax.

Love this vid. So true and can’t wait. And yes we have to get back to grit. The big swings on the “silver screen”…and the night scenes are so important. Vistavision (such as seeing it at vista theater in Los Angeles “feels” wrong - but it’s so beautiful and so good. And we have gotten complacent with tv and how it looks. Will def check ur other videos (more). Thanks for the share

Thank you for this. From the first shot, the colours, the light, as cliche as it sounds, I felt I was watching something with a soul.

I truly dislike black rabbit’s cinematography. Also, great great great video 🫡

Super looking forward to seeing this film

Beautiful. Part of the “TV” effect is also compression. AV1 invented by Netflix can’t handle film grain, it actually bloats the file size. So streaming tv/films incentivized look even MORE similar and uninteresting. Vista/70mm os polar opposite. your insight on celluloid and cinetography driven by the scene is vital

not sure I believe that (have heard this before) and Yedlin has also talked about it. Succession, Severance - both have beautiful grain levels - and plenty of pre streaming are movies look great on Netflix.

There is a chance that some of that grain isn’t from the scan but actually digitally recreated, to avoid the bloating issue. And how do those versions compare to a high bitrate disc? Usually the latter contains more of the print.

personally haven’t seen a difference. OBAA isn’t particularly grainy anyways though. I agree that grain can sometimes cause blotching but it doesn’t seem to a big issue. half of Instagram is halation/grainy film emulation now.

Film emulation is like a vegan wanting their meatless nuggets to taste like chicken. The AV1 thing is absolutely real you can test it. 2 clips identical size codec etc, but if one is an old grainy film, its size will actually be bigger after AV1 encoding. A Fincher style clean digital? Half size.

you've lost me friend.

AV1 was invented to optimize for streaming, not viewing. 70mm Vista is the holy grail. 70mm filter on digital video, a plastic holy grail. I’m convinced this compression is at the core of your point that the line between TV and Cinema is being erased.

It’s taste. Has nothing to do with tech, other than tech making us lazier and lazier. Sensors can see everything. LED lighting is cheap and powerful.

Now I can see the movie

PTA spoke about the night scenes in Repo Man and how the night scenes look so good, he got close in Licorice but here it’s so perfect

LOVED IT!

Thank you for this video, it made me go see it. Really a great experience. I think I laughed for a minute straight when he fell off the roof.

@HighDefDiscNews It’s super woke, unfortunately. Main hero is an antifa bomber. Bad guy is white male.

This video is a testament to why I love your content

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