I first noticed in the the last Godzilla movie. I think like 90% of the Godzilla scenes were at night, and poorly lit.
You know I'm watching the movie to see Godzilla right? I'm not there to hear a fun CGI flick, I'm there to see one. (And yes I know that movie had a lot of other problems, but if I could have just seen more of the neat CGI I think I wouldn't mind it so much.)
The first Pacific Rim was kinda guilty of this. Watching Captain Marvel and the first ~20 minutes are guilty of this. I know there are more I can't think of right now.
And it's not like it's the 90s, where CGI was in its infancy and could use dark lighting to hide blemishes/poorly rendered stuff. It's 2019, things can look pretty great when well lit.
I have no doubt Godzilla could have looked pretty great in the daytime. And at least I would have gotten some eye candy out of an otherwise pretty forgettable movie. But when like 90% of Godzilla's screen time had a 50% black screen, well what the fuck is there to enjoy about that? Let me see the damn monster I came here to see.
Anyway yeah, this start of Captain Marvel where it's super dark to start reminded me of this and it's annoying.
Submitted March 12, 2019 at 10:38AM by theotheranotherother https://ift.tt/2CigBJi