margot
@margot

god this is so true, i STILL mainly just go to movies for matinees or half price days, or art houses, p much nothing else.

and like, i enjoy a big budget spectacle as much as the next girl but it’s SO over saturated, and most of it is cgi so it doesn’t usually even feel that impressive compared to older movies with practical effects! so what ends up happening a lot is that there’s mostly movies i don’t care enough about to see, then when there IS something i’m interested in, it’s out of the theaters after like a week or two bc they have to make room for the big budget cgi stuff or the latest kids franchise entry. it’s totally at odds with what would actually get me to go in regularly

(source: someone who used to go to the movies every week almost without fail)



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this cinematic overreliance on same-y cgi does kinda feel like cinema's late 80s/early 90s General MIDI moment. like when everything is midi Power Toms and the fakest string synths, its no longer impressive the way it was in the 70s when you had to have the best engineers and hire a damn orchestra. when every set is The Volume and every background a screensaver, why go see the new marvel flick?

yeah exactly. like once in a while is fine! but i feel like more and more i see ppl being more impressed by less realistic practical effects in older movies, bc you can TELL that someone had to pull that stuff off for real