I don’t think this is just Netflix movies, it is almost every movie shot today. The problem is everything digital cameras and modern lenses are too “perfect.” O

I don’t think this is just Netflix movies, it is almost every movie shot today. The problem is everything digital cameras and modern lenses are too “perfect.” On top of that there is a trend towards extremely bright color grading. And then when you run that and put it on a brand new HDR tv it all looks a bit insane. Clean perfect lenses with clean digital images displayed on blindingly bright HDR TVs. Different films and older lenses create different looks. Film studios will still rent old lenses to get certain looks and a lot of serious filmmakers are adamant about using film only. Hell, even the director of Anchorman 2 talks about how he doesn’t like the look of the movie compared to the first because he was convinced to shoot digitally. And you know what, I thought the same thing watching that movie. Some cinematographers seem to have figured out how to make digital look like a lot like film, but that has to be a very conscious choice.