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ChainsawAsh
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The Thread for CGi haters list movies you think were ruined by too much use of cgi. Not enough old school stuff
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1-Jul-2009, 4:00 AM

So, back on topic:

Just saw Public Enemies, which was shot digitally, and man is that film ugly.  The only other time I've ever seen edge enhancement in a theater is on the IMAX version of The Dark Knight - it was visible on the 35mm scenes after they were filtered to look sharper to better match the 70mm senes (a mistake in my opinion).  But there were edge enhancement halos throughout this entire movie.

On top of that, there was intense ghosting during almost any motion, and there was visible video noise (I guess that's the new film grain, eh?  Too bad it looks hideous) throughout ... ugh I'm too tired to complain anymore, and I don't really remember the more specific problems I had with the image.  Maybe these problems wouldn't have been so pronounced if I'd seen it projected digitally, but the Kerasotes theater here in Michigan City doesn't have a digital projector (which I'm generally happy about).

At least the movie itself was decent.