Re:Over-reliance on CGI in movies
by mordymoop on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:28PM
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Yeah, I don’t think anybody except thr OP has ever complained about Dune not feeling visually weighty and powerful, so it almost comes off as a disingenuous criticism of the film. OP is comparing stills from two movies and essentially pointing out that one is obviously digitally color-graded and the other is obviously filmed on celluloid and not color-graded. The difference is obvious in a side-by-side comparison. However, if you actually watch Dune beginning to end, your brain accepts the color palette as part of the visual language, you don’t even notice it.
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OP didn't complain about it not feeling "weighty and powerful", but feeling less real:
> digital post-processing seems to have ruined Villeuneve’s more realistic vision
> the complex colors of the world have been bleached out
And I agree – Dune definitely feels less real, less believable. Dreamy, in fact. And I think it plays into that, they use the blandness as a strength, creating a feeling of bleak otherness.