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Related: https://x.com/culture_crit/status/1892322753887285455

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the slow death of cinema lighting, cinematography, and colour grading since ~ the netflix era has been a profound loss for film culture. we have truly lost so much.

watch any half-ass movie from the 90s and it looks like a marty scorsese masterpiece compared to the slop produced by today's hollywood and streaming production companies

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speaking of marty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7R3Wx7h-Fc

Just watched this last night! Seems like HDR is the culprit.

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it's much more complex than this but a factor for sure!

Just watched this last night! Seems like HDR is the culprit. https://youtu.be/EwTUM9cFeSo?si=IXoYJ0dYvUPZN6Tz

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there is so much to unpack here, perhaps I will write up a deep dive

so agree on this…also film camera in general created such magic, that everything now just looks like a stupid ad.

Going to Wicked to see they drained the color and most of the steampunk on a miscalibrated sound system so I could barely hear the orchestra...

Vittorio Storaro and Gordon Willis. I drop down and die when I watch their cinematography

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In our on going saga of Netflix destroys all... Netflix is now worth more than Disney, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount combined (by a margin of a whole Warner Bros + Paramount too). 

To make matters worse for everyone else, Netflix is just getting their ad offering underway, while everyone else is pretty maxed out. The old guard are all currently in some stage of trying to chop off their linear tv offerings too. This'll cut down on cost, but at the expense of a big portion of their own ad offerings. 

Netflix's moat is only likely to widen as their $18B spend for 2025 and distribution to some 300M subscribes will continue to make them the first stop to shop movies/tv. 

And then there are live events, which Netflix is just dipping their toes into.. Old guard will be lucky to survive without merging with each other. 

But what they really need is an offering that Netflix can't match like a reinvention of the filmmaking process for all... 
Old guard. /filmatree will soon help reverse the tide

You aren’t imagining it - ZIRP killed the legacy

But it was broken before Netflix to be fair

You aren’t imagining it - ZIRP killed the legacy

But it was broken before Netflix to be fair  

https://warpcast.com/tcw/0xbd96a7d8

Hoping it's just a phase and we revert back to better cinema standards/themes

It looks like this when you watch on tv. I realized that recently because I use a video projector and a good screen at home and went to a friend's and wanted to show a fun part on a Netflix series. It really looked like a glossy ad on the 4k tv where it was smooth and cinema on my 2k laser projector.

I never knew what it was about the Netflix films that looked different. Now I know lol