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The entire concept of cinemas is obsolete and I can't wait for the last one to go out of business.

CGI shouldn't win cinematography or even special effects awards.

Both of those things used to be collaborative skills. Multiple people working together to make a great composition on the screen. (director, cinematographer, set designer, costumer, prop-maker, foley artist, actor, etc...)

A great shot in CGI requires a computer and rendering time. It's not the same.

If you can do everything with a computer, than none of your special effects are special by definition.

Oh...You've got spiderman framed above buildings high in the sky in Into the Spider Verse? Great...cool shot...but took nothing to actually create it.

If you tell me that to get that shot you had professional stunt people doing wire work, a complex camera rig, two helicopters and high-speed camera? THAT is the special in special effect.

Made it in a computer? It's meaningless.

I don't think anyone has "cared" about SW since the prequels (besides children, ofc, I was one of them!), tbh.

What is considered film expertise today is a joke. This applies to all mediums, but especially in cinema you see it all the time that a person who has watched popular, top-rated Hollywood movies is considered very knowledgeable. Yeah, it doesn't matter, especially in a private group, but it's a cringing pain in the ass to listen to these people talk about movies.

I don't really care if people are on their phones if it's on low brightness