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yo, what's your favourite [movie] (thread)

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I like hfr but 24 frames is a valid style with decades of visual language built around it

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  • CabezoneCabezone Registered User regular
    You can say that about every advance in any kind of media. Eventually 24fps will be the "arthouse" framerate.

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    Okay

    But right now, in 2015, 48fps looks like dogshit

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  • CabezoneCabezone Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    Yeah, all advancements start out rough. It'll be a long while till people learn how to film with it. HD changed how television does makeup and sets, all kinds of stuff.

    It would probably be easier if it started in television.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular


    Kong: Skull Island in 2017
    Godzilla 2 in 2018
    Godzilla vs. Kong in 2020

    Hooooooooooo boy. Kong's gonna be big.

    Godzilla 2 will probably include Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah if their Comic-Con announcement last year was anything to go by.

    if anything happens between now and 2020 that prevents me seeing Godzilla fight King Kong, I will be so miffed

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Hfr is not a new technology

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk2yuCc5c-I

    Oh yeah, someone mentioned He-Man earlier in the thread and I forgot to post this.

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    I dunno, 48 frames just looks ridiculous. It's entirely arbitrary but damn it looks like hot nonsense at 48 frames

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Like people were thrilled about sound and color and HD, they became standards not long after affordable availability

    Hfr has been affordably available to filmmakers for decades

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Of the many reasons I don't want to watch The Hobbit, HFR is high up on that list

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Most youtube videos are 30 frames, and youtubers can upload 60 fps videos if they want to.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Cabezone wrote: »
    There's no reason to stick to 24fps except it's what people are used to. It was a limit of technology, it wasn't picked because it looked awesome. Eventually we will move onto higher FPS, kids will love it, and older people will grumble about how old fashioned is better.

    no it looks bad because it exposes the fakeness of sets

    like it is in fact actively worse in some/most cases

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I mean I think the hobbit effects look bad at 24 too

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    I remember seeing the Hobbit in 48fps and freaking out at the first logo

    my parents looked at me like I was having a fit

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    I remember seeing the Hobbit in 48fps and freaking out at the first logo

    my parents looked at me like I was having a fit

    To be fair... Your parents look at you like that a lot

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  • Diablo FettDiablo Fett Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Like people were thrilled about sound and color and HD, they became standards not long after affordable availability

    Hfr has been affordably available to filmmakers for decades

    yeah this isn't some bold new technology that is paving the way for the future of cinema

    it only came about because of the resurgence in 3D movies, which seems to be mostly dying out again. there's no actual benefit to shooting in HFR and it actively puts a lot of people off

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I do want to see folks figure out a new visual language for hfr

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  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    I won't watch any film that dips bellow 60fps. I also overclock my local cinema to get uncapped framerates.

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  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    Lars wrote: »
    Wait, it's set after Dino Charge and will open with a battle involving the Dino Charge Rangers, before the torch is passed to a new team...but according to that casting announcement that new team has a teenage Kimberly as the pink ranger?

    Hmm...and they're talking about Scorpina invading the Morphing Grid which now apparently can connect the past to the future.

    They're going to pull a JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot, aren't they? Unless one of these articles is confused.

    Actually, it was announced via the Power Rangers Instagram and FB page, and all it says is

    "Naomi Scott is the Pink Ranger

    It’s official! #NaomiScott will play the #PinkRanger in the @PowerRangersMovie! Coming in 2017…"

    The idea that she's Kimberly is from supposedly leaked casting descriptions. All we know officially is that she's the Pink Ranger

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    I do want to see a high framerate movie in its entirety at some point

    But only so I can say I saw a piece of forgotten cinema history years down the road

    Like saying I saw CINERAMA when it was a thing

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I do want to see a high framerate movie in its entirety at some point

    But only so I can say I saw a piece of forgotten cinema history years down the road

    Like saying I saw CINERAMA when it was a thing

    Cinerama was fucking dope tho

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I do want to see a high framerate movie in its entirety at some point

    But only so I can say I saw a piece of forgotten cinema history years down the road

    Like saying I saw CINERAMA when it was a thing

    Cinerama was fucking dope tho

    Doper than high frame rate certainly

    But not dope enough to last!

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  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    HFR cinema? pfft

    ultra low framerate cinema is where it's really at

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anMLFwHFqs

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Like people were thrilled about sound and color and HD, they became standards not long after affordable availability

    Hfr has been affordably available to filmmakers for decades

    Well, took only about four decades to get sound and color, and I imagine we were on a steady upward march to HD for a long while. Framerate, on the other hand, has been locked since the thirties. That's a massive hump to get over.

    I bet if we took a bunch of babies and only let them watch movies in 48 fps for years, then make them shift to 96 fps, they'd suddenly have all the same objections you lot are having now.

    I mean, wasn't the only reason they made 24 fps the standard was because it was the cheapest option in the thirties?

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    Cabezone wrote: »
    There's no reason to stick to 24fps except it's what people are used to. It was a limit of technology, it wasn't picked because it looked awesome. Eventually we will move onto higher FPS, kids will love it, and older people will grumble about how old fashioned is better.

    no it looks bad because it exposes the fakeness of sets

    like it is in fact actively worse in some/most cases

    Why does it expose fakeness? What changes, exactly?

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    It makes them look real, and fiction relies on verisimilitude, not reality.

    HFR video makes on location stuff look cheap and fake too.

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  • CabezoneCabezone Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    Every "fault" listed so far applies to HD as well. 24fps was a somewhat arbitrary choice.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    It makes them look real, and fiction relies on verisimilitude, not reality.

    HFR video makes on location stuff look cheap and fake too.

    I would think that HFR making real things "look cheap and fake" would be evidence enough that it's just in your head and a matter of familiarity.

    Like, TOS footage from the 60s used in Deep Space Nine episodes in the 90s looked fake because of all the extra detail, and they had to fix up the footage on computers.

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    Cabezone wrote: »
    Every "fault" listed so far applies to HD as well. 24fps was a somewhat arbitrary choice.

    I think its the scale of the effect. And was an arbitrary choice, but there is generations whose visual coding of what constitutes a film relies on it, and with HD it depends on what kind of film uses it, and the effect still isnt as distracting. As well our impressions from TV shows and home recordings inform how we interpret that frame rate. It could change over time, but I think the effect is much much more pronounced than HD and 48fps comes with a lot of other cues that signal "bad quality"

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    TrippyJing wrote: »
    Cabezone wrote: »
    There's no reason to stick to 24fps except it's what people are used to. It was a limit of technology, it wasn't picked because it looked awesome. Eventually we will move onto higher FPS, kids will love it, and older people will grumble about how old fashioned is better.

    no it looks bad because it exposes the fakeness of sets

    like it is in fact actively worse in some/most cases

    Why does it expose fakeness? What changes, exactly?

    I remember reading an article that said something about the motion blur at 24fps being able to hide some of the physical tricks that set and prop designers use.

    I'll see if I can find that again.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    A higher framerate offers more visual information per second, but this is not necessarily desirable when paired with cinematography designed for a lower framerate

    A higher resolution does not have the same issues because the motion of the camera, actors, and props stay the same, they just appear in greater detail. We know that nobody complains about HD

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Okay, it's not the article I originally read, but this one's pretty in-depth all the same

    http://accidentalscientist.com/2014/12/why-movies-look-weird-at-48fps-and-games-are-better-at-60fps-and-the-uncanny-valley.html

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  • FroThulhuFroThulhu Registered User regular
    Wait, everybody stop talking about framrates

    Those Power Rangers clips just lead me to watch the Green Ranger vs Ryu

    I feel better about life

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    There is indeed nothing particularly special about 24 besides the fact that it's what film has evolved around

    I don't like that jackson just chose to double it for his hfr

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Basically, there's nothing inherently wrong with a higher framerate for film. You just have to plan your movie around the higher detail your audience will be able to see.

    Also, while I was looking for that article, my search led me to a piece written by Roger Ebert--God bless him--in 1999 wherein he poo-poos digital projectors.

    http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/start-the-revolution-without-digital

    I got to the part about an array of 20 18-gig hard drives and thought, "Oh, right, hard drives used to be tiny over a decade ago."

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  • Diablo FettDiablo Fett Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    There is indeed nothing particularly special about 24 besides the fact that it's what film has evolved around

    that's not really true, though. it's not just an arbitrary choice, there's actual science behind it beyond just limited technology

    and the HD argument makes no sense because HD has nothing to do with framerate, just resolution. In fact, standard HD framerate on pretty much all internet streaming services is still 23.98

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Youtube does 24, 30, 48 and 60 fps, but it's up the uploader.

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    At the time, they needed to standardize in order to sync up the film and the audio, and the cheapest option was 24.

    And the HD argument does makes sense, from a certain perspective. You can find talk online from people who switched from CRTs to HDTVs and suddenly everything looked all fake and weird to them.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    -Tal wrote: »
    I do not think it is a very controversial postulate that far fewer people have a problem with HD than HFR

    Yeah.

    I actually thought I had trouble with HD, but it turned out to be HFR that I hated. HD was totally alright.

    HFR just kept making everything look like Canadian soap operas. To the point where once, when I saw a movie on TV in HFR, I asked why everyone was watching Degrassi.

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