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I wonder if there's truth to the whole iPad generation thing.
I know a highschooler that won't watch anything from before 2000, won't watch lotr for other reasons like broken attention span.
A marathon of the extended editions is exactly what they need. Phone locked away during viewing.
Did this with my 16yo a couple months back. She was sick last week and marathoned them again on her own.
I was so proud
You should be!
It's honestly one of my favourite marathons to do on a cold winter weekend, excited for my annual viewing :)
Yeah, back in uni I used to do one with my friends at least once a year. We'd get about 10 people crammed into a room with a monitor, bring an unhealthy amount of snacks, plan to start at 9am, have tech issues till 11 or 12, and then watch until midnight or 1am with a break for pizza in the evening. It was great.
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I find myself dreading watching anything made after 2010.
I'm not saying everything is bad, or that everything that was earlier was good. But dang...it seems like a good 90% chance the modern movie or TV show is just a bunch of flashy and disruptive CG, incredibly fast editing to try to compete with cell phones for attention, tons of with clips and one-liners. Everything is poorly lit, the dialogue is inaudible, and all the other sound is way too loud.
And I don't think it's just "things were better back when I was a teenager" bias. I can still find older movies with those some annoying traits earlier, 2010 is just the arbitrary cutoff I'm using here. And I can look back at movies from before I was born, like Hitchcock movies, and see how much better they are at handling a lot of those things.
Everything is poorly lit, the dialogue is inaudible, and all the other sound is way too loud.
The thing you're noticing is that they're mastering movies for home theater setups and then everyone else gets a bad re-encode.
When you're watching a non-HDR 1080p version with Stereo sound using streaming services' low quality streaming codecs you're missing a lot more than if you had a HDR1400 4k OLED and a 7.1 Atmos setup with a Blu-ray encode of the movie.
The problem is that now there is just such a large gap between 'smartphone on a slow connection' and '$80,000 home theater' that it's hard to make content that pushes the latter while still being viewable on the former.
Well I'm watching my own Blu-ray and dvd rips on my own Jellyfin server.
And it's like that in theaters too- parts of things are way too dark, but also with HDR parts are way too blindingly bright. Which causes my pupils to constrict and males it even harder to see the dark parts. When I turn HDR off at home it's better, but the dark parts are still too dark.
I think it's an overall obsession with hyper-realism and spectacle. Make the bright lights seem as bright as possible. Make the loud parts seem as loud as possible. There are trillions of dollars fighting for your attention and movies want to do what they can to get a piece of that. So dynamic range, in all ways, is being pushed past the point of comfort, and even further past the point of realism.
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That's like saying "I refuse to drink wines older than 2000." Just because it's old doesn't mean it's good. But, some of the old ones are very, very good.
If it's old and people still enjoy consuming it, it's probably good. If it's new and people consume it, it's still unproven. The thing about "classics" isn't that anything old is a classic. Anything that stands the test of time is. Old music wasn't better we just stopped listening to the bad songs. Old books aren't better, we just stopped reading the bad ones. Old movies aren't better, we just stopped watching the bad ones.
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All the movies are older than me :3
I'm 36 and those movies were even boring at the time. Decent stories, but I would never go out of my way to watch them. If you must, watch them once and then move on with your life. I literally can't watch them when people I know want to watch them. It's like torture. Or just read the books.
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i thought they released new movies all the time
At least LOTR has not been rebooted every 5-10 years like some Marvel/DC movies.
Even if there's probably someone itching to make a gritty reboot of LOTR.
LotR has been done a few times. The Peter Jackson one is just so good that no one wants to be compared to it though. I'd argue that even Peter Jackson's The Hobbit felt so bad because the LotR trilogy was so good. (It was also just bad, but the comparison made it feel even worse.)
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I mean, look at the source material. One's an epic saga the other's a monthly brochure at the magazine corner shop.
I guess, it fits.
Lol im definitely calling them monthly brochures from now on
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