It’s not about better or worse. These filters aren’t useful in every film. It’s style. Some styles will work better for some movies than others. The color pale

It’s not about better or worse. These filters aren’t useful in every film. It’s style. Some styles will work better for some movies than others. The color palette, the lenses used, lighting, color grading, music and, yes, film grain are all things filmmakers use to subtly guide your experience watching a movie. It’s like the wallpaper in a meeting room - you can have any meeting in any room, but a second date in a corporate white meeting room will feel sterile and bad. Digital cameras with digital CG have a certain look. If your movie is set in the 80s but it has that crisp modern netflix look, it’ll feel kinda wrong. High quality filters like these prime the audience just as much as 80s costumes and 80s music.