Me as a kid: I can’t wait for video games to look like moviesMe as an adult: why the fuck does every movie look like a video game

[daojoan@mastodon.social]

Me as a kid: I can’t wait for video games to look like movies
Me as an adult: why the fuck does every movie look like a video game

[capnthommo@c.im]

@Daojoan oh god yes. I see so many 'based on the popular video game' movies. Too many. And the small handful I've looked at have been truly dreadful, all VFX no plot. Bangs and whistles

[timwardcam@c.im]

@Daojoan Amélie is the one that confused me. I *think* only the one obvious scene is CGI, but pretty much the whole film looks like it could be.

[sv1@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan 1990: "Computers will soon be as easy to use as telephones"
2010: "Phones have become so complicated that nobody can ever use but a few of the features"

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan a game could never get away with the mess of overly-close and shaky shots that movies do. A game has to functionally convey what's going on around you, so that you can react to it.

Meanwhile, a movie is just conveying "what's going on right now is so amazing and intense that no camera can contain it! But if the camera were able to stop for a second and take in all the cool shit that's happening, gosh your head would explode!"

[pouakai@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan
Me as an adult:
Why the world I live becomes even crazier than movie and video game?

[deelux_fiat@todon.nl]

@Daojoan Too many car chases and cgi spectacles.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@rotopenguin @Daojoan Only vaguely related but I used to play a game on the playstation 3 called Earth Defense Force 2025, which sort of proved your point wrong. Extremely chaotic, yet also extremely fun.

No doubt there was a method to the madness when the studio was making the game but I suspect the method involved embracing the chaos to an unusual degree.

Anyways, my point here is that it was fun as hell and I enjoyed reminiscing about it just now.