This week news broke (in a particularly slow news month) that Christopher Nolan will be releasing his new film Interstellar two days early on film. Not Digital but real film the black film reel you can hold in your hand: "real film."
Christopher Nolan is very much the type that wants to preserve film, as do many other filmmakers such as J.J Abrams and Quentin Tarantino. Now I can understand why these men would like to preserve real, able to hold film. Just like I can understand the use of practical effects over CG effects. Practical effects look way better than CG effects and movies do look better on film than on Digital. Yet after seeing a movie like Gravity which was shot digitally with clearly a lot CG effects it made me wonder when will that line between film/digital film and practical/CG effects will become much more blurred or at the very least the same.
Digital filming and CG effects have come along way and while we are far from reaching a point where the line does become blurred (I still hate CG skies when they are unnecessary) we have gotten a lot better with CG effects when used properly. Now people will bring up things like the Star Wars prequels, the hobbit trilogy or Green lantern but I ask to look at films such as Gravity, the rebooted planet of the apes movies, Jurassic park, The Maze Runner & even Interstellar itself which uses a lot of CG too. CG effects used properly can look just as real as practical effects. CG effects will only advance and in the next ten or twenty years expect them to get so good to the point of where we really don't need practical effects anymore.
Now on the note of Digital filming that has gotten a lot better as time passes. That's the thing about all of this- time. As time goes on and more technological advances are made the use of real film and practical effects become smaller, because that's the way our future is heading. Heck in twenty or so years just watching films as we know it will change. More people stream stuff online or at home then they do flip on a channel or go to the movies. Recently Adam Sandler made a deal with netflix to make four movies which in all honesty more people would stay at home and see that than go at and pay twenty bucks to see his movies. So in a few years real film will become not really that practical anymore.
Yet the question is, is it practical now?
Looking at it now, not really. I think digital film making has advance passed CG effects more comfortably and now a days people can hardly tell the difference between the two. I know I barely tell anymore. While I get his nostalgia for film, nostalgia for anything has it's down sides as not being able to have things change and move forward which from the looks of things might be soon.
That's my two cents on the matter and tomorrow expect a review of Gone Girl (Saw it, liked it, too tired to right anything now, see you later.)
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