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This is actually my biggest problem with 'Glass Onion'. Sure, it also has a weaker script than 'Knives Out', but visually, everything feels "plastic". In 'Knives Out', you could feel the light fog that clothed the Thrombey residence. You almost smell the leather on the chairs. In 'Glass Onion', the setting feels like the set of a sitcom.
Maybe it's the difference in equipment. TV shows, especially the live audience ones, tend to film with several cameras at the same time to amp production speed, but obviously not several IMAX or Alexas. I'm also almost certain part of it is the frame rate. Even regular movies on TVs that automatically generate frames between the actual frames to technically be 60fps look really weird
Simply the taste of the creators of that movie. That is the look they were going for and they were happy with it. There are no overlords demanding something look a certain way. It is certainly not an equipment problem either
Just like the 2008 Housing Stock Market. These movies will fall. They are putting too much money into them without receiving a break. Smaller independent Film Companies like A24 and NEON are actually doing great. RU-vid and other resources are allowing independent filmmakers to get their films seen. The reckoning will happen. Just wait.
I was waiting for someone to cover this issue.But apart from the points in the video I want to add one more aspect that is Color Grading. A filmmakers obsession with Cyan color tone can be a reason. No blue is pure Blue, No white is pure white, No green is pure green. They're all Cyan...
Thank you! I was waiting for the video to mention this. A lot of Netflix content, especially their movies (a few notable exceptions, as noted, notwithstanding) all seem to have the same color grading! It's not bad, in and of itself, but it is needlessly overused and gives a lot of their productions a generic look and feel.
I had to cancel my Netflix because the cost to value ratio wasn’t there for me. They release a lot of mindless junk. The obsession with big name actors with shitty stories boggles my mind. I preferred it when they had a nice selection of broadcast ip, that I could binge.
Still prefer them to other streaming platforms for supporting creators worldwide and not just going for big stars/showrunners like Apple has been doing.
There is a lot of amazing Netflix content made by extremely talented people (there's also a lot of duds). Even if they devalued cinema a bit, I remember what tv shows and tv movies looked like before Netflix, and it's night and day. Considering the limited high quality cinematic experiences instead of endless franchise reboots, there are serious artsy quirky films I can watch from all over the world that Netflix played a hand in
You barely mention color grading/correction and camera lenses which are arguably more the most contributing factors to the tone or look of visual presentation.
Are we really still discussing film vs digital in 2024? Come on. This feels so 2014. This 2k alexa netflix thing is in the past at least for two years with the 35 and even longer with the lf. I don't even know if it makes a relevant point in 2024. Netflix is not as bad on shot sizes like TV was back in the day. Just think of how soap operas were lit and shot compared to any modern series... Although I agree that set their set designs look poor on some movies/series I don't think this is related with shot sizes, the problem to me is budget/amount of movies needed. I feel we are reliving that forties and fifties hollywood flood of movies that had to be released each week to keep people entertained but on digital and in a more massive scale. What really annoys me on netflix is the data driven agenda that they make sure to stamp in every possible "piece of content" in every genre...
Gotta be honest. It was never a thought. The only time I notice anything wrong is when a 4k/8k tv makes movies look like they remove the cinematic filter and it looks like you're on set watching the actors live.
I just realized why despite having Netflix I can only watch it a couple of times a week and I always go back to my old movies on Blu-ray and dvd instead. I’m visually bored. As an illustrator watching the same visual style over and over and over and over again as it happens with streaming , bores me to death. The lack of visual environments and the focus on close ups all time is not something that excites me that much. I prefer to go back to real movies than watch content. And I don’t watch movies on small devices either. That makes no sense. Tv or theater.
Great content! Never noticed the set design aspect. Painfully to say but makes so much sense, but I don't know, I just can't understand how someone would watch 2 hours of a film in their phone but ok.... Also, really enjoyed the whole Film vs Digital debate
Hey great video !! Could you perhaps let me know the track you used in the background in the end of the video ? Would mean the world to be if you could tell
Glad this video exists. When I speak with my friends and family they think I’m just complaining for no reason. I think they just don’t notice. Which is probably a better way to live tbf. I remember the Kanye West short movie for MBDTF and saying I love the colour grading and skin tones and my mate said I’m lost it looks normal.
Where can I find whole films that have been dyed and colour graded like you do?? I think it looks awesome. I watch many black and white films, but they would undoubtedly be better this way.
Kinda out of topic. I think modern K-Drama is the only one who has similiar style as Netflix. Some South Korean dan Japanese movie too. South Korean TV and cable channels can produce the same cinematography quality as Netflix, and they also had several titles with good quality stories outside the love stories before Squid Game. I think that's what made Netflix decide to produce Kingdom and Squid Game so well even though both titles were just series.
This video was the first time I heard Dune was somehow a Netflix production? It's Warner Brothers and pretty famously premiered on Max during the pandemic.
They’ve taken some good films - particularly they cloned Tyrone, imo - and fucked them to the point that no one believes that they are cinema when they should have been considered as such
Remember when Netflix attempted to add an option to watch movies/series speeded up? That's the pinacle of showing how much non of this is art for Netflix, strictly 100% content...
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The title is Netflix but the topic is digital vs film. It's like the digital camera was invented by Netflix. Even Martin Scorsese makes his films with digital cameras. The same goes for other titles.
If you believe then can you tell me if my Feature-Length film looks gritty. Because I tried making it look gritty even though a digital film. I see you're a DVD and Blue-Ray Collector. (I subbed by the way.)
the set design reasoning is a lame excuse for low budget people watch on small smartphone screen yes, but people also own fkin 65" 4k tv at home to binge watch many people also own projectors these days
You realize that the Sony Venice you’re talking about have the same exact amount of color information right? LMAO athey are all CMOS sensors with bayer arrays, capable of 444 RAW. BTW stranger things was shot on the Alexa mini LF lol its literally featured in your video. Please do some research before spreading misinformation that confuses people.
The Netflix effect is the reason I couldn’t watch Red Notice and 6 Underground. Well and maybe the story and dead acting. Especially Red Notice no chemistry.
God I am so sick of AI-narrated videos. Is it that hard to record the script you wrote? This is a good topic, but I turned the video off as soon as I heard the awkward timing of an AI narrator. Lazy.
I BEG non-filmmakers here, DO NOT take this video seriously. It is absolutely uninformed reporting. The looks of these shows are defined by the creators, not Netflix. While it's true they have technical specs that must be met in terms of what camera you shoot on, this has no effect on the "look" of an image to a seasoned filmmaker. A camera is simply a capture device, and the "look" of said image is defined by what is in front of the camera, the production design, the lens, the lighting and finally how that image is treated in post-production. You can make any digital camera look like film, it is not more expensive to shoot "higher contrast images". Comapre the look of The Irishman, Stranger Things, Ripley, and Dark and tell me they all have a "Netflix" look. How could you even look at the images presented in this video that are on Netflix, and say that they all look the same? Of course you can find similar looking products on the service, sometimes there are levels of movies that are churned out in haste for "content", but that is not a look inherit to Netflix in anyway. Certain genres will have a "look" mid-budget rom-coms, horror, and sci-fi all have a built in visual language that audiences have come to expect. Also, I have a feeling that this entire video was written and voiced by AI which might explain the absolute lazy writing and reporting. I could go on and on here but please just hear me out, to regular audiences, do not listen to this crap. It's all over RU-vid. Just ignore and move on.
Your comment has valid points, but most of the things you’ve mentioned in this comment are also mentioned in the video. “The looks of these shows are defined by the creators, not Netflix.” stated in the video at 14:20 “what camera you shoot on, this has no effect on the "look" of an image to a seasoned filmmaker” stated in the video at 8:09 “You can make any digital camera look like film” although this is not completely true, you can make it look similar to film, which is stated in the video at 6:57. This video is not about how all Netflix productions look the same, it’s about why some of them look similar, which is linked to things you mentioned that define a visual look - set design, cinematography and so on. (Which we also talk about in the video)
@@movieluts Thank you for pointing all that out. If the last sentence of your reply is truly your intent, you still cannot pin any similarity of look of shows on Netflix itself. That's misleading at best to uniformed viewers.
@@nathanielregier thank you for your point of view. Some points in the video are more linked to streaming platforms in general, and not just Netflix (which we could have put more emphasize on in the video, and I agree with you there), like the minimalistic set design and cinematography because people working on the movies are asked to considered the small screen size.
