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curiousorigins · 1 year

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Man, I just really miss when they bothered lighting things on TV Shows and in Movies. Like the shadows were beautiful and everything had more depth.

Now they just brighten up everything use fills and like add shadows after.

It looks cruddy. Maybe because with all the post-darkening it's too much work to make them move when things move? Like they're doing their best, but nothing beats a scene that was lit properly in the first place.

I'm watching a no-name B-Horror Movie from 2005 (This was right before they started lighting everything cruddy and doing it in post.) And I'm 3 minutes in and it's just so much more beautiful than what's on TV and what's in Movies today. Like I can think of one movie that had particularly good lighting, and that's "Ready or Not". Probably because it was an Indie Movie and the people were filming in a historical place and were required to light it very carefully. (Similar to what happened with Woman on Fire which was also quite beautiful and an indie film.)

#Lighting #Horror Movies #TV and Films are legitimately so much uglier and it's harder to see everything than before.#Same with Sound stuff.#Like it's become so much about the Studio making them fix everything in POST so they can rush rush on set.#And they've destroyed the artistry of it.#Like they might as well be shooting everything in Green Screen Sound Stages with an Insane amount of lights #With how things Looks #And it's not the Vis Dev Artists' fault or the POST people.#They start out with a crappy base and they can only build it so much.#I mean they're not even doing focus right anymore on so many movies!#It's literally because of Studios Greed.#Same reason why there's like only 1 interesting movie that comes out in American Cinema Wide Release #That isn't a remake a sequel/continuation or Based on a Book.#Hollywood doesn't take risks anymore.#Big Fish -one of my favorite movies of the modernish era wouldn't be made today.#It's too weird and interesting and risky.

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