NewbSaibot United States. Mar 24 2014 01:08. Posts 4946
So I finally got me one of them newfangled 120 hurts television sets, the kind that gives everything the "soap opera" effect as it has been coined. Holy shit this thing is wild, I spent all afternoon watching random shit on netflix upscaled to 120hz and it's sooooo weeeiiirrrddd looking. I cant tell if I like it or hate it. On one hand the picture comes in so insanely clear you can actually follow the eyelashes and pores on peoples faces as they move around on screen. But of course it also exposes flaws in the production and makes every movie set look just like, well a movie set. Suddenly the whole show is completely fake and you know you're watching a movie instead of this portal into another world. Peter Jackson and James Cameron are signing off on this saying it'll be the next big thing. Apparently the 1st Hobbit movie was filmed like this but I never saw it. Going back to "normal" movie mode of like 24fps or whatever was consistently jarring. Even movies I have already seen in their original format were suddenly jittery looking as all hell, almost as if the original was completely fucked up and needs to be recut. It's like "damn is your camera broken?" kind of filming. After about 5 minutes or so I'd get used to it again, and of course the scenery would seem much more realistic, since the missing frames kind of help blur out the details that you catch when you're running at 60fps.
The one truly fascinating thing was watching documentaries. Since documentaries are usually filmed at a slightly higher frame rate anyway, the transition simply made even an HD documentary transformed into like a SUPER HD documentary. Then it dawned on me, if they could make movies look as good as a documentary, by having the utmost in background details and realism (you know, the kind of things that already exist naturally in a documentary because it's not supposed to be staged), then movies would become like REAL FUCKIN LIFE YO!!! And I dont mean movies filmed to look like a documentary, like Cloverfield or Blair Witch or whatever. I just mean if set designers just made sure to include enough detail that the scenes literally looked exactly like they would in real life, we will be taken into the next echelon of fantasy from any filmmaker who can execute this. I just imagine the budgets would have to be even higher since you would need hundreds of people polishing each set to make it real. Which by the way is probably a failure in and of itself since it's the very act of staging a set that creates an inherit bias of falsehood. The best real set is a REAL set. Either that, or they just start filming in real locations that have already been "lived in" to create the fine detail and micro chaos necessary to make it convincing to the human eye.
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