Movies are considered the ultimate form of visual entertainment
This perception irks me. In part because higher, true-to-life framerates are considered inferior to the sluggish framerates preferred by film.
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My attention span is not that long.
also i dont care about framerates that much , i dont really notice the difference unless somethings really chugging
but only some movies
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Hear me out on this. We watch movies to be entertained, no? Barring documentaries (which tend to be shot at higher framerates in general anyway), film is seen as a way to escape our reality for one/two/three hours and enter a different one.
We bought a Sharp TV a few weeks back, and to test it out I put The Avengers on it via Netflix, but something was off about it. The film moved like it was shot on video because of some weird setting the TV turned on by default; as a result, it seemed unnatural. It may be the uncanny valley coming into play; we've come to expect movies to move the way they do at 24fps, so seeing anything significantly higher looks off unless it's a fully animated film or a documentary. I think Peter Jackson came under some fire for shooting The Hobbit in 42fps because of this phenomenon; I haven't seen the movies, but if they felt the way The Avengers did I could understand the sentiment.
I dunno, though. Just a weird teenager's two cents.
For me, going to the cinema is a rare treat, and is usually a social thing; I'll go with friends, or with family, but not alone. It's something special.
Whereas the TV is something that I'll put on while I'm eating lunch if I'm at home on my own and there's no-one around to talk to, you know? I kind of take it for granted.
Most dramas and sitcoms use filmized filters to make themselves appear more like movies do, if they themselves aren't outright shot on film. Disney Channel is a great example of this-- watching stuff from their That's So Raven/The Suite Life of Zack and Cody era (c. 2005), you can tell they're shot on video; nowadays, with stuff like Liv & Maddie or (Aliroz's favorite) Jessie, not so much.
I'm not denying that there is a difference. I'm guessing it's one of those things where it becomes obvious once you're tuned into it, like audio quality or bad kerning, but I'm just not.
(That applies to both Disney Channel and framerates.)
The Hobbit's done pretty well for itself, so we'll probably see more movies of its kind as time and technology move forward.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
although i would have preferred something closer to the book
Movies in general are not very interesting to me. I am going to say something that is undefensible but it's just my opinion: I find that movies are very samey. They're always about presenting this really (supposedly) epic plot and being oh so grand and such. Yet it's supposed to all work out in the course of two to three hours. I'm supposed to go from having no knowledge of something to caring deeply about everything in the course of that time, I guess?
One of my favorite pacings in TV shows, it turns out -- albeit one that is a little frustrating to deal with -- is actually one where you have a sort of setting premise presented in early episodes which is changed (dramatically, often) several episodes. It gives a chance to become comfortable with the baseline setting and characters, and gives meaning to the sense of change.
Movies just...happen too fast.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
and Robot and Frank
and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
and Hot Fuzz
and Gravity
That said, even for those movies that are comedies, their structure still feels broadly similar to that of an epic serious movie, in terms of pacing.
Also, I'm just not much of a fan of tacking on romance subplots onto things, and romance subplots are like, all the rage, all the time, when it comes to movies.
And after a while, it's almost like, you have to have that almost silly confluence of big problems for the protagonist, and one of them almost has to be a romantic interest. No matter how it ends.
But yeah, they feel kinda samey. Maybe it's due to the ones I've seen. I dunno.
Now sometimes I do like formulas. Like Law & Order episodes. But there the fun is seeing how it deviates. And there's a built-in setting-based reason for the formulaic structure, as opposed to trying to force the same sort of story progression out of every setting there is.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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