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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by NikolaNovak on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:48AM (#27106546)
Second that; Hobbit in particular seemed like a mid-budget British made-for-TV show. I get that it's all psychological, that I'm used to deliberate Hollywood motion-blur look... but I still couldn't bear it.

But clearly we learned something or there was something special about Hobbit, because that hasn't necessarily been my experience with all 4k / high-frame shows or movies...

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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by stormbrew on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:26AM (#27107047)
I think to a large extent people overestimated how much this feeling, specifically in the Hobbit films, came from the high frame rate vs. how much came from other artistic, creative, and budget choices they made.

I saw them in both normal frame rate and HFR as they were coming out and it looked kinda low-budget, weirdly lit/color corrected, and generally just clunkier than the LotR films did in the moment.

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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by ConceptJunkie on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:35PM (#27109293)
It didn't help that the movies were way more CGI-heavy and cartoony compared to the LotR movies.
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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by bscphil on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:52PM (#27125059)
Well said. I don't think you need to refer to HFR to explain why The Hobbit films look "fake". It's hard to imagine this clip (at 24 fps) looking any worse in HFR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCswVszTEx0
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