DOUGLAS TRUMBULL RETURNS

I love you, Mr. Miller.

I'm very interested in seeing a narrative film using a higher projected frame-rate.  I've always wondered if such a film would no longer FEEL like 'film.'  Is a higher frame rate going to give me the feeling of watching video?  Is it going to be similar to the shitty smooth-motion on certain HDTV modes? 

Enough of this snobbish refusal of new technologies. 

Doesn't matter if they're used or misused...

Technologies still evolve. 

It's what they do.

Instruments change.

New ways replace the old ones.

Things move on.

You will be forgotten.

Deal with it.

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Originally Posted by danko 

You will be forgotten.

 

The rapidly interest-accruing index fund I set up years ago to one day finance carving my name into the moon begs to differ.

HIgher frame rate is to me much more interesting than 3D. This stupid fixation with 24 frames per second is very irritating.

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Originally Posted by danko 

Enough of this snobbish refusal of new technologies. 

Doesn't matter if they're used or misused...

Technologies still evolve. 

It's what they do.

Instruments change.

New ways replace the old ones.

Things move on.

You will be forgotten.

 

Deal with it.

To an extent I agree. Appreciating old technologies and ways of doing things is fine and important, but at the same time I find it kind of depressing the way the default attitude to technological experimentation and evolution from film fans tends to be utter disdain.

My main problem with 3D/whatever the next flavour-of-the-month advancement is is that it's another blow against the democratization of cinema. We've reached  a point where people can load a few digital cameras into the back of their car and shoot a movie, where even the cultiest of films can find their way onto yor TV set, where the poorest and cheapest of film-makers can still get their stories seen if they're good enough. This push to promote the biggest, bestest, most expensive technologies going as the "future of film" feels like it runs counter to that.

The thing is, that democratization of cinema only came about thanks to the same drive to push technology forward, and in all likelihood it'll only become easier for people to realise their ambitions on smaller budgets.

I don't see 3D handheld digital camcorders becoming affordable for the common man any time soon.

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Originally Posted by Andrew Merriweather 

I don't see 3D handheld digital camcorders becoming affordable for the common man any time soon.

The common man didn't have access to personal computers 40 years ago, nor to cellphones 20 years ago (nor to affordable *2D* handheld digital camcorders, for that matter).

Again, this is how it goes with technologies.