“What are you doing so deep in the jungle?”
September 15, 2015 8:57 AM Subscribe
The Jungle Book [YouTube] [Trailer] First trailer for Jon Favreau's live-action Disney adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'. Cast includes Scarlett Johansson as 'Kaa', Bill Murray as 'Baloo', Ben Kingsley as 'Bagheera', Idris Elba as 'Shere Khan', Lupita Nyong'o as 'Raksha', Christopher Walken as 'King Louie', and Neel Sethi as 'Mowgli'.
For a movie based on a movie full of talking animals, they waited until the very end to show one talking animal.
Right on.
posted by Atreides at 9:02 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
Right on.
posted by Atreides at 9:02 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
They already did this twenty years ago.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:07 AM on September 15, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:07 AM on September 15, 2015 [5 favorites]
wenestvedt I don't know about the singing, but never forget that Walken can dance.
posted by Wretch729 at 9:07 AM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Wretch729 at 9:07 AM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]
I think this looks much better than I expected, but man do I get my hackles up at them calling this "live-action"; train a snake to talk or GTFO.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:07 AM on September 15, 2015 [29 favorites]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:07 AM on September 15, 2015 [29 favorites]
I hope Jon Favreau continues his cameo streak by just being in the background of one of the shots.
posted by DynamiteToast at 9:08 AM on September 15, 2015
posted by DynamiteToast at 9:08 AM on September 15, 2015
I think Walken will be just fine as King Louie as long as Favreau reins him in and we don't get another disaster along the lines of Captain Hook in Peter Pan.
posted by holborne at 9:08 AM on September 15, 2015
posted by holborne at 9:08 AM on September 15, 2015
Mod note: A few comments deleted. Replaced non-working link with working one; carry on.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 9:24 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 9:24 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
I can't wait for the live-action adaptation of Talespin!
posted by FJT at 9:26 AM on September 15, 2015 [19 favorites]
posted by FJT at 9:26 AM on September 15, 2015 [19 favorites]
I can't wait for the live-action adaptation of Talespin!
Just replace Jude Law with a bear in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, problem solved, instant TaleSpin.
posted by Fizz at 9:28 AM on September 15, 2015 [23 favorites]
Just replace Jude Law with a bear in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, problem solved, instant TaleSpin.
posted by Fizz at 9:28 AM on September 15, 2015 [23 favorites]
It's live action, in that they used a camera and shot some stuff, but it looks like a lot of CGI and not much reality.
posted by The River Ivel at 9:30 AM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by The River Ivel at 9:30 AM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]
My random thought was since Disney owns Lucas to just expy an Indiana Jones character or have Baloo be the Indy character so that he can fly across the world and fight animal Nazis!
posted by FJT at 9:31 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by FJT at 9:31 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
What's with the gigantic arm?
posted by timdiggerm at 9:34 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by timdiggerm at 9:34 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
I didn't realize Lena Headey was in the 90s live-action version. I'll have to watch that again.
posted by cazoo at 9:35 AM on September 15, 2015
posted by cazoo at 9:35 AM on September 15, 2015
My random thought was since Disney owns Lucas to just expy an Indiana Jones character or have Baloo be the Indy character so that he can fly across the world and fight animal Nazis!
Please don't give the people writing Once Upon a Time any ideas, thank you.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:35 AM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]
Please don't give the people writing Once Upon a Time any ideas, thank you.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:35 AM on September 15, 2015 [3 favorites]
The problem with adapting this film, is that as entertaining as talking animals and beautiful locations are, there's that disturbing Orientalist aspect of the book/film that still permeates. "Oooh...look at the exotic animals and wild-Indian wolf/boy." I realize its from a Colonialist time-period, but it still makes me feel uneasy.
posted by Fizz at 9:36 AM on September 15, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by Fizz at 9:36 AM on September 15, 2015 [6 favorites]
While what I said up above is true, I still think this will be a beautiful film. It has a solid cast.
posted by Fizz at 9:46 AM on September 15, 2015
posted by Fizz at 9:46 AM on September 15, 2015
Oh.
I've clicked this link expecting real animals, dubbed by humans. So this trailer left me slightly disappointed. :/
posted by bigendian at 9:50 AM on September 15, 2015
I've clicked this link expecting real animals, dubbed by humans. So this trailer left me slightly disappointed. :/
posted by bigendian at 9:50 AM on September 15, 2015
So wait, they gave Louis Prima's awesome singing-and-blowing role to Christopher Walken? What the hell, Favreau?!
I don't think it's a musical is it?
Why is King Louie so damned big? Would that make more sense if I'd read the book?
posted by DigDoug at 9:53 AM on September 15, 2015
I don't think it's a musical is it?
Why is King Louie so damned big? Would that make more sense if I'd read the book?
posted by DigDoug at 9:53 AM on September 15, 2015
After all these years, I'm still unaccountably annoyed by the trailer cliche of fading to black every 1.5 seconds, which appears to annoy nobody else I've ever mentioned it to. It makes me feel like I'm having a stroke. Or the projector is.
posted by Flexagon at 9:55 AM on September 15, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by Flexagon at 9:55 AM on September 15, 2015 [9 favorites]
It's a bit difficult to disassociate Scarlet Johansson's voice from "Her" voice-over role and it causes a bit of confusion:
"What 'Siri' has to do with 'The Jungle Book' ??"
posted by usertm at 10:04 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
"What 'Siri' has to do with 'The Jungle Book' ??"
posted by usertm at 10:04 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
You didn't need to write that Bill Murray was playing Baloo. All you had to say was Bill Murray was in the film and it was slightly better odds that he was playing Baloo and not King Louie. Actually, with the added information that Christopher Walken was in the film, it pretty much guaranteed Murray was playing Baloo, because he was either Kaa or King Louie...
Holy Shit, we could have done this as one of those supermarket check out line logic puzzle books!
posted by Nanukthedog at 10:10 AM on September 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
Holy Shit, we could have done this as one of those supermarket check out line logic puzzle books!
posted by Nanukthedog at 10:10 AM on September 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
Pretty rehash of the original Disney abridged story. Very little to do with the source material.
Probably has the same problems as the troubled Disney cartoon discussed in the blue a few weeks back I think?
Quite the lineup, though.
posted by clvrmnky at 10:32 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
Probably has the same problems as the troubled Disney cartoon discussed in the blue a few weeks back I think?
Quite the lineup, though.
posted by clvrmnky at 10:32 AM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
Just replace Jude Law with a bear in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, problem solved, instant TaleSpin.
The Ursine Edit...
posted by Apocryphon at 10:32 AM on September 15, 2015
The Ursine Edit...
posted by Apocryphon at 10:32 AM on September 15, 2015
You can rent the house where Kipling wrote the Jungle Book.
posted by IndigoJones at 10:42 AM on September 15, 2015
posted by IndigoJones at 10:42 AM on September 15, 2015
Man, my brain is still off. I clicked through somehow expecting a Jon Favreau live-action (of course! why not?) Disney adaptation of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
posted by klangklangston at 10:49 AM on September 15, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by klangklangston at 10:49 AM on September 15, 2015 [8 favorites]
That's not live action. That's CGI with a human occasionally darting through the scenes, but don't blink or you might miss the human.
posted by Beholder at 10:55 AM on September 15, 2015
posted by Beholder at 10:55 AM on September 15, 2015
Disney adaptation of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Would watch.
posted by brennen at 11:06 AM on September 15, 2015 [8 favorites]
Would watch.
posted by brennen at 11:06 AM on September 15, 2015 [8 favorites]
I still don't understand why there are orangutans in India. Unless! Maybe King Louie is actually a surviving Sivapithecus who managed to keep hiding in the Siwalik hills even though the rest of his kind went extinct during the Miocene.? It looked like there were rhesus macaques, though, and gibbons, and maybe Hanuman langurs. This has always bothered me. Why did Kipling even write about orangutans???!? I don't think he ever spent a significant amount of time in Indonesia. And, between hanuman langurs, gibbons, and rhesus macaques, there are enough vaguely goofy, vaguely menacing primates actually located on the Indian subcontinent to satisfy all your primate needs without resurrecting Miocene apes.
posted by ChuraChura at 11:13 AM on September 15, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by ChuraChura at 11:13 AM on September 15, 2015 [7 favorites]
NO DON KARNAGE NO PEACE
posted by robocop is bleeding at 11:25 AM on September 15, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by robocop is bleeding at 11:25 AM on September 15, 2015 [7 favorites]
ChuraChura: And, between hanuman langurs, gibbons, and rhesus macaques, there are enough vaguely goofy , vaguely menacing primates actually located on the Indian subcontinent to satisfy all your primate needs without resurrecting Miocene apes.
*sigh* If marmosets were from India I would have had an excuse to post this [SLYT, natch], but sadly I do not.
posted by wenestvedt at 11:31 AM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
*sigh* If marmosets were from India I would have had an excuse to post this [SLYT, natch], but sadly I do not.
posted by wenestvedt at 11:31 AM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
Yeah, as I understand it the actor playing Mowgli is literally the only piece of live action in this. That said, I think the CG looks damn good, and to the extent it doesn't look totally photorealistic I think that might serve the film well.
posted by brundlefly at 11:37 AM on September 15, 2015
posted by brundlefly at 11:37 AM on September 15, 2015
I think the CG looks damn good, and to the extent it doesn't look totally photorealistic
We've come a long way since Jumanji...
posted by Fizz at 12:21 PM on September 15, 2015
We've come a long way since Jumanji...
posted by Fizz at 12:21 PM on September 15, 2015
We've come a long way since Jumanji ...
I can't remember where, but recently I joked about making a sequel titled 2manji: This Time the Fur Will Look Okay.
posted by brundlefly at 12:27 PM on September 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
I can't remember where, but recently I joked about making a sequel titled 2manji: This Time the Fur Will Look Okay.
posted by brundlefly at 12:27 PM on September 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
So...the framing for this will be Moglwi as an old man relating his wondrous tale to a 20-something reporter who sees the world as disenchanted?
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 12:28 PM on September 15, 2015
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 12:28 PM on September 15, 2015
Oh, wait. They already made that film.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 12:34 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 12:34 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
There was a moment when watching the preview when I thought, "I want to see this." It will never happen. Without a child I just can't enjoy children's movies even the good ones. There have been a lot of good movies that have come out since my daughter became a teenager that I will never see, movies like "Up." Eh. Maybe I willl have a grandchild one day and we will watch them together.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 12:53 PM on September 15, 2015
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 12:53 PM on September 15, 2015
Watching the trailer, I realized I only remember two things from the cartoon: The song "Bare (bear?) Necessities"....and that tiger was evil!
posted by mortimore at 1:11 PM on September 15, 2015
posted by mortimore at 1:11 PM on September 15, 2015
The best children's movie is a movie that is excellent for everyone.
I routinely see animated movies all the time by my lonesome and absolutely enjoy them (to varying degrees). I even enjoyed How to Train Your Dragon 2 despite the quite too young for the movie audience member who kept kicking my seat, then alternatively, climbing halfway over it to stare at me until his mother hauled him back to reset the clock of reminding me how he was seated behind me.
posted by Atreides at 1:11 PM on September 15, 2015
I routinely see animated movies all the time by my lonesome and absolutely enjoy them (to varying degrees). I even enjoyed How to Train Your Dragon 2 despite the quite too young for the movie audience member who kept kicking my seat, then alternatively, climbing halfway over it to stare at me until his mother hauled him back to reset the clock of reminding me how he was seated behind me.
posted by Atreides at 1:11 PM on September 15, 2015
When I first heard about the casting for this film I assumed that it would be scarjo's head CGI'd onto a creepy sexy tittysnake body and I am pretty glad this is not actually the case.
posted by poffin boffin at 1:21 PM on September 15, 2015
posted by poffin boffin at 1:21 PM on September 15, 2015
also i would have gone with indira varma instead tbh.
posted by poffin boffin at 1:22 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by poffin boffin at 1:22 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
We're in for an abundance of Jungle Book movies, Andy Serkis is also making a movie called Jungle Book: Origins due out in 2017 with Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan.
Heh, he's Khan again.
posted by drwicked at 1:38 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
Heh, he's Khan again.
posted by drwicked at 1:38 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
....and that tiger was evil!
Well Shere Khan is CEO of a company that basically controls the entire economy in Cape Suzette.
posted by Fizz at 1:44 PM on September 15, 2015 [5 favorites]
Well Shere Khan is CEO of a company that basically controls the entire economy in Cape Suzette.
posted by Fizz at 1:44 PM on September 15, 2015 [5 favorites]
Well Shere Khan is CEO of a company that basically controls the entire economy in Cape Suzette.
This also explains why the Occupy Cape Suzette movement was mostly eaten.
As an aside. What a great job that show did of world-building. Air Pirates! Cliff Gunners! The Great War! Tiger-run Zaibatsu!
I'm still slightly bitter that cloud surfing isn't really a thing, though. You lied to me Kit!
posted by leotrotsky at 2:02 PM on September 15, 2015 [6 favorites]
This also explains why the Occupy Cape Suzette movement was mostly eaten.
As an aside. What a great job that show did of world-building. Air Pirates! Cliff Gunners! The Great War! Tiger-run Zaibatsu!
I'm still slightly bitter that cloud surfing isn't really a thing, though. You lied to me Kit!
posted by leotrotsky at 2:02 PM on September 15, 2015 [6 favorites]
As an aside. What a great job that show did of world-building. Air Pirates! Cliff Gunners! The Great War! Tiger-run Zaibatsu!
Thinking back, that show was also fairly progressive considering the medium and time it was created. Even though Shere Khan was the chief economic powerhouse in that city, Rebecca 'Becky' Cunningham was Baloo's boss. That's a nice female empowered touch (for the 90s and Disney) to show a smart and powerful woman who owns and operates her own business.
posted by Fizz at 2:50 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
Thinking back, that show was also fairly progressive considering the medium and time it was created. Even though Shere Khan was the chief economic powerhouse in that city, Rebecca 'Becky' Cunningham was Baloo's boss. That's a nice female empowered touch (for the 90s and Disney) to show a smart and powerful woman who owns and operates her own business.
posted by Fizz at 2:50 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
Man, I have got to make peace with CGI somehow. I've seen some great CGI, but mostly it just looks fake and weird to me and it's making movies increasingly hard to watch.
I saw that trailer for whatever that new movie is with Joseph Gordon Levitt walking the tightrope over the WTC, and all I could think was, "He's obviously not really up high anywhere, he's obviously not really over the WTC (because it doesn't exist anymore) and basically they're asking me to buy a ticket to watch Joseph Gordon Levitt greenscreened into a cutscene from a video game. No thanks."
Maybe this Jungle Book remake will be great. But watching the trailer, everything had that too-crisp, gravity-free CGI look. Even the kid looks like CGI because they've tweaked his lighting and run him through filters and done all kinds of stuff so he blends in with the CGI.
I think about the difference between something like this and Spike Jonze's version of Where the Wild Things Are. My understanding is that the Wild Things were huge puppet suits (done by the Henson people) with CGI faces, in real environments. However the hell they did it, the results were stunning and I never for a moment got pulled out of the story because I was noticing how fake the light looked or how glassy their eyes were. They just looked real, because the CGI was kept to a minimum and what was there was used very well. Or look at Babe, with talking pigs and sheep and stuff, using real animals. Everybody loved Babe! Get a real damn animal or put somebody in a suit! If you make the entire tiger out of pixels, your movie is gonna look like goddamned Life of Pi, and nobody wants that.
I really think that this whole era of movies is going to date very badly. People will remember some classics, maybe some of the indie stuff will survive us. But mostly people are going to look at our CGI blockbusters and flinch.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:21 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
I saw that trailer for whatever that new movie is with Joseph Gordon Levitt walking the tightrope over the WTC, and all I could think was, "He's obviously not really up high anywhere, he's obviously not really over the WTC (because it doesn't exist anymore) and basically they're asking me to buy a ticket to watch Joseph Gordon Levitt greenscreened into a cutscene from a video game. No thanks."
Maybe this Jungle Book remake will be great. But watching the trailer, everything had that too-crisp, gravity-free CGI look. Even the kid looks like CGI because they've tweaked his lighting and run him through filters and done all kinds of stuff so he blends in with the CGI.
I think about the difference between something like this and Spike Jonze's version of Where the Wild Things Are. My understanding is that the Wild Things were huge puppet suits (done by the Henson people) with CGI faces, in real environments. However the hell they did it, the results were stunning and I never for a moment got pulled out of the story because I was noticing how fake the light looked or how glassy their eyes were. They just looked real, because the CGI was kept to a minimum and what was there was used very well. Or look at Babe, with talking pigs and sheep and stuff, using real animals. Everybody loved Babe! Get a real damn animal or put somebody in a suit! If you make the entire tiger out of pixels, your movie is gonna look like goddamned Life of Pi, and nobody wants that.
I really think that this whole era of movies is going to date very badly. People will remember some classics, maybe some of the indie stuff will survive us. But mostly people are going to look at our CGI blockbusters and flinch.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:21 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
I saw that trailer for whatever that new movie is with Joseph Gordon Levitt walking the tightrope over the WTC, and all I could think was, "He's obviously not really up high anywhere, he's obviously not really over the WTC (because it doesn't exist anymore) and basically they're asking me to buy a ticket to watch Joseph Gordon Levitt greenscreened into a cutscene from a video game. No thanks."
Not to completely derail, but you should watch the documentary Man on Wire, upon which that upcoming film is based, it's amazing and the footage is breath-taking.
posted by Fizz at 3:34 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
Not to completely derail, but you should watch the documentary Man on Wire, upon which that upcoming film is based, it's amazing and the footage is breath-taking.
posted by Fizz at 3:34 PM on September 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
Without a child I just can't enjoy children's movies even the good ones. There have been a lot of good movies that have come out since my daughter became a teenager that I will never see, movies like "Up."
Up is not a children's movie.
posted by Faint of Butt at 5:37 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
Up is not a children's movie.
posted by Faint of Butt at 5:37 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
Well, if somebody actually takes an actor up someplace really high, the results can be terrifying and fascinating. Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd stunts can still make an audience gasp, and while I didn't see it I've been told that the stuff in that Mission Impossible movie were Tom Cruise is swinging around on a skyscraper in Dubai is pretty amazing. But judging by the trailer for the JGL movie, it just looks like he's not really there so there's no sense of jeopardy. And that "not really there" quality is spreading all over movies now, so you have scenes in the normal world, scenes that could have been shot in a real place under a real sun, filmed against greenscreen and then CGI'ed all to hell and THEN run through the gross orange and teal color filters. Ugh!
I like good sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters and I'm not saying everything needs to be some little indie drama. But these days I'm seeing way too many movie trailers that don't look any more like movies than the game walkthrus on Youtube. I watch a trailer for a Transformers movie and it's like PewDiePie should be shouting over it.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:50 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
I like good sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters and I'm not saying everything needs to be some little indie drama. But these days I'm seeing way too many movie trailers that don't look any more like movies than the game walkthrus on Youtube. I watch a trailer for a Transformers movie and it's like PewDiePie should be shouting over it.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:50 PM on September 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
Man, I have got to make peace with CGI somehow. I've seen some great CGI, but mostly it just looks fake and weird to me and it's making movies increasingly hard to watch.
Bad CG drives me crazy. But I've noticed that a lot of CG that looks crappy on my TV and computer monitor isn't nearly as horrible on a giant projection. Maybe the over saturation works better when it's projected?
posted by DigDoug at 5:54 PM on September 15, 2015
Bad CG drives me crazy. But I've noticed that a lot of CG that looks crappy on my TV and computer monitor isn't nearly as horrible on a giant projection. Maybe the over saturation works better when it's projected?
posted by DigDoug at 5:54 PM on September 15, 2015
Why did Kipling even write about orangutans???!?
You'll be pleased to know that he didn't. King Louie is only in the Disney version.
posted by timdiggerm at 6:00 PM on September 15, 2015 [5 favorites]
You'll be pleased to know that he didn't. King Louie is only in the Disney version.
posted by timdiggerm at 6:00 PM on September 15, 2015 [5 favorites]
I'm only interested in a Jungle Book film if it's directed by Werner Herzog. And has Nic Cage in it somewhere.
posted by buriednexttoyou at 10:39 PM on September 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by buriednexttoyou at 10:39 PM on September 15, 2015 [4 favorites]
Between this, Star Wars, and Mira Nair's upcoming chess movie, I'm pleased that Disney has apparently decided to just go ahead and put Lupita Nyong'o in everything they do.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 12:33 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 12:33 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
Who will play Karnage? I MUST KNOW!
It is I, the spectaculous Don Karnage! My bloodthirsty horde is on an intercept course with you. We will be shooting you and looting you in precisely...checks watch... Ten minutes. Felicitations!posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 4:31 AM on September 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
You can win it in a minute when you spin it spin it spin it
posted by Ziggy500 at 4:32 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Ziggy500 at 4:32 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
Someday, perhaps in a better, slightly more literate world, someone will make a film based on Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book".
posted by evilDoug at 6:27 AM on September 16, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by evilDoug at 6:27 AM on September 16, 2015 [4 favorites]
Yeah, the Jungle Book is uneven, but a lot of fun. Many good characters and stories to choose from.
Disney ought to make a movie based on that work. I bet it's even in the public domain, so they won't have to option it.
posted by clvrmnky at 6:40 AM on September 16, 2015
Disney ought to make a movie based on that work. I bet it's even in the public domain, so they won't have to option it.
posted by clvrmnky at 6:40 AM on September 16, 2015
Bad CG drives me crazy. But I've noticed that a lot of CG that looks crappy on my TV and computer monitor isn't nearly as horrible on a giant projection. Maybe the over saturation works better when it's projected?
Digital cinema has a wider color gamut than your HDTV, so it's possible that it makes a big difference to your eyes. I don't see a whole lot of difference, though (I think it's the weightlessness in general that gets me, even more than the too-crisp lighting and lack of depth), and the result is I've checked out of the majority of summer blockbusters, which is a genre I used to really enjoy.
Fury Road tho.
posted by Mothlight at 2:33 PM on September 16, 2015
Digital cinema has a wider color gamut than your HDTV, so it's possible that it makes a big difference to your eyes. I don't see a whole lot of difference, though (I think it's the weightlessness in general that gets me, even more than the too-crisp lighting and lack of depth), and the result is I've checked out of the majority of summer blockbusters, which is a genre I used to really enjoy.
Fury Road tho.
posted by Mothlight at 2:33 PM on September 16, 2015
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