Originally posted by denimfanatic:
There were alot of great movies in the the 1990's. Its not
that easy to make a great movie anyway, but there are a couple
since 2000, [b]LOTR,Pianist,
eternal sunshine,Amelie,
requiem for a dream is fantastic. Donnie
darko, Crash from last year,big
fish, City of god, I dont really think
its been declining, you just gotta know what to watch. But yeah
theres alot more crap nowadays.[/b]
The 90s shows were generally more violent, more stunts and
explosion and interesting characters.More beautiful women. The best
part is the violence and stunts were really done using real-scale
props, more down to earth methods with actors diving or hanging on
cliffs keeping the audience on the edge of their seats . They do
this by showing progressive shots of the scenes..one moment the
actor solves an obstacle only to be outdone by another bigger
problem accompanied by dramatic music and the appropriate
cinematography
The Island , a 2000s show had stunts using CG ..leaves a bad taste
because they dont even look real like before , most of the time 2
couples running from baddie or some micro robots looking for them
does not have any scope for stunts creativity..The CG part in
movies nowadays are seem to get worse .. no creativity at all ..A
select few directors like Spielberg had done new things wif the
holographic effects in Minority Report deserves special
mention..Again only some can do new things.
I particularly do not like the colour and lighting schemes in the
movies nowadays, they are not using "natural light" like before.
They are artificially enhanced using methods like silver grading ,
Colour blur and a variety of new enhancing techniques in post
production. Called digital cinematography , it gives the look of
the Sky captain and the world of tommorrow.Although these
techniques should be reserved for old movies being remastered , it
is fine Natural lighting takes much planning and effort to get it
right whereas digital cinematograpahy is a lazy filmaker's
paradise. Their excessive use damages the look of the film itself.
the lighting in dfferent parts of the scene will not overlap to
create a natural look but will rather be more location
specific
