Jer ClarkeMar 16
JA Westenberg
Me as a kid: I can’t wait for video games to look like movies
Me as an adult: why the fuck does every movie look like a video game
Mar 14 at 11:24amTypefully
Show threadStoneface VimesMar 14
@Daojoan oh god yes. I see so many 'based on the popular video game' movies. Too many. And the small handful I've looked at have been truly dreadful, all VFX no plot. Bangs and whistles
Aristotle's Poetics. First, foremost and always. Plot. Plot. Plot. Sod the effects, if the story doesn't cut it then it's a waste of time. Think of it, Medea, Oedipus Tyrannus. They capture and hold the attention like a magnet. And traditionally no scenery or effects. You don't even see the action and deaths because they're never shown.
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEMar 14
@Daojoan Amélie is the one that confused me. I *think* only the one obvious scene is CGI, but pretty much the whole film looks like it could be.
Show threadSveinn í FelliMar 14
@Daojoan 1990: "Computers will soon be as easy to use as telephones"
2010: "Phones have become so complicated that nobody can ever use but a few of the features"
Show threadDarwin WoodkaMar 14

@sv1 @Daojoan

I just want a phone to use to call people but now nobody wants to be called.

I mean if I want to text people I can do that on the computer...

Show threadROTOPE~1 ⭐️Mar 14

@Daojoan a game could never get away with the mess of overly-close and shaky shots that movies do. A game has to functionally convey what's going on around you, so that you can react to it.

Meanwhile, a movie is just conveying "what's going on right now is so amazing and intense that no camera can contain it! But if the camera were able to stop for a second and take in all the cool shit that's happening, gosh your head would explode!"

Show threadan actual busMar 14

@rotopenguin @Daojoan Only vaguely related but I used to play a game on the playstation 3 called Earth Defense Force 2025, which sort of proved your point wrong. Extremely chaotic, yet also extremely fun.

No doubt there was a method to the madness when the studio was making the game but I suspect the method involved embracing the chaos to an unusual degree.

Anyways, my point here is that it was fun as hell and I enjoyed reminiscing about it just now.

Show threadMre. Dartigen [maker mode]Mar 14
@Daojoan Personally, I find it's the frame rates. Parts of movies that are supposed to look like a video game don't because they're still at 24 or 30 FPS. High-framerate movies (or sequences where the framerate increases) look like video games because they're at 60FPS, and they suddenly don't have motion blur (I turn off motion blur in video games because for some reason it gives me eyestrain, yet motion blur in movies is fine.)
Show threadDee Lux FiatMar 14
@Daojoan Too many car chases and cgi spectacles.
Show threadBarry Cook 🇨🇦Mar 14
@Daojoan - on a similar front, why are there so many comic books - a medium, characters and storylines originally created for prepubescent children - being made into major movies and TV shows geared towards adults?
Peter Pan Syndrome?
Show threadInternet RandoMar 14

@bazcook @Daojoan

It's always amusing, in an "I'm sorry your world view's been so limited" way when people don't realize comic books haven't been "just for kids" for almost as long as there've been comic books.

Check out Transmetropolitan or Watchmen (as random examples), and widen your perspective on just *why* there are *SO MANY* comic books, and always has been.

Show threadBarry Cook 🇨🇦Mar 14
@mousey @Daojoan - oh, I’m aware of ‘graphic novels’, but I’m talking about those comics largely featured in North America. Those of the Superhero genre (arguably initially promoting ‘The American Way’ propaganda - which is kinda fun as Superman’s co-creator was Canadian), or along the lines of Archie, Veronica, etc (also promoting what is ‘right’).
Now they all make it to the screens for adults but in transition most all seem deeply damaged / psychopaths…
Show threadInternet RandoMar 14

@bazcook @Daojoan Well, deeply damanged psychopaths is an apt theme of movie industry executives, corporate executives in general, and now, sadly the executive branch of my stupid fucking government.

It's not my favorite theme either. =(

Show threadDarwin WoodkaMar 14

@Daojoan

Me: I cant wait for video games to stop all being first person shooters and for movies to be about something other than shooting people

Show threadRiccardo MoriMar 14
@Daojoan @nicklockwood Same here.
Show threadbradmeeMar 14
@Daojoan, honestly, I thought I was the only one noticing it, recently watched Havoc, and despite being a good film, it was very much like GTA V Night graphics throughout the entire thing