Not Digital, Not Yet
Monday, September 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, Hayley and I saw the movie Get Smart. I’m aware it’s been out for a while, but see I grew up on get smart, and watching the comercials, Steve Correl is no Max Smart. so I saw it and tried to keep an open mind.
well I’ve got one word of advice for Hollywood, Don’t go Digital!
Get smart was filmed on a glorified sitcom high def camera and frankly, it looked it.
2 major problems I see, they shot it in 30 fps it looked like and than tried to down convert to 24 to try to keep high res frams, however, it looks cheesy! especially the darks.
I’m not saying Digital isn’t inevitable, because I know, the whole world is going that way, it’s cheeper, easier, and in many cases harder to screw up. but that’s just it, it’s easier to make movies now than ever before. Being so easy we have absolute crap coming out of hollywood. The good movies seem to come from Indy film makers (good for you).
So why am I ranting about digital (becaue is keep touching this issue than taking tangets)? because digital is what us low end people use, becasue we can’t afford 32mm film, let alone the camera, we can’t afford to even develop said film. However you can! keep doing it. Digital isn’t ready for the big screen, it still looks bad.
Unless this is a sign that hollywood uses digital on films that they just don’t care about, than by all means just let us know, we’ll avoid them!
It’s just frustrating to pay for a movie ticket and than get made for TV quality movies.
Please up the annie on this one please!
5 Comments to Not Digital, Not Yet
I haven’t seen Get Smart yet, so I can’t completely answer this but frame rate and poor darks have nothing to do with film vs digital. Just poor movie making.
And where did you see the movie? Poor projector maybe? Is it even possible to tell if the frame rate has been adjusted? Digital is just fine. You’ve heard of Red before right?
I saw it at movies, 8 and yes I understand the projector could be bad, but the film looks cheesy. Dark is where film and digital go their own ways. you’ll have to see it just to understand. especially on your TV, you’ll see it loud and clear.
Go watch Son of Rambow that movie totally rocks and you can just sit back and enjoy.
Matt! I didn’t notice a thing, but I think I told you that already!
You’re such a nerdo. And, I am VERY interested in how to turn the videos, so are my sisters! 
September 15, 2008