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The article does complain about it. The author says today's films have an overall level of unreality. Even when the CGI is good enough that you don't actively n
by munificent 5y ago
The article does complain about it. The author says today's films have an overall level of unreality. Even when the CGI is good enough that you don't actively notice it, every scene emits a subconscious level of fakeness that pervades the whole film.
- handoflixue 5y agoIf you asked me to name a movie that had a clear pervasive fakeness, I would never have thought "The Wolf of Wall Street". Conversely, I routinely feel like MCU movies are guilty of this. So it seems to be less "CGI always reads out as fake" and more how you're using it.
- munificent 5y ago> I would never have thought "The Wolf of Wall Street". For what it's worth, I would have. Part of the reason you don't notice it is that they all have this sheen of unreality, so it's hard for any particular film to stand out. They're all color corrected to hell.
- dragonwriter 5y agoOn one level this is subjective, but even to the extent that I might grant the author to have a point about current film having a “subconscious level of fakeness”, it is only in contrast to older film persistently hitting you over the head with fakeness. If you grew up with it, sure, you learned to expect and accept it and so maybe it didn't break immersion most of the time, but not because it wasn't obviously unreal, but because it was obviously unreal in a way that you expected in cinema from experience.