(no subject)

Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse is now out on digital release so I can finally see it. I was worried about the warnings of strobe lighting effects and computer-glitch style effects. They weren't kidding. Even the opening where they show the production company info like 'Paramont Studios' and 'Sony Studios' was full of flickers and strobes. I'd have tapped out. Is all that really necessary for the pre-film images?

I doubt they wasted a frame. The opening was likely to get people used to the look and feel of the film. Most films do something to adjust people's eyes and ears before a film. They remind them that more notes exist than we usually hear. For all that people walk around with massive music collections plugged into their ears, the overwhelming amount of music listening we do in modern society is very compressed. The Hamilton Soundtrack in .wav on actually good headphones is a radically different experience than youtube, MP3, earpods, etc. So, I get the point of calibrating one's audience before a film. In a film like this, the intro was likely important to how the audience received the film.

But still, was that really necessary? I had to put a thick piece of paper over my screen.

I've finally seen the Spider film people have been talking about constantly for months

( Read more... )