+ I can legally watch a whole lot of movies (yay Netflix!). I can also illegally watch almost anything that ever existed in video form. Favorites include old propaganda relating to drugs or war (seriously, Disney and Warner Bros. made some interesting pieces).
+/- Thanks to tiny digital video cameras and cell phone cameras, anything you do or say can be recorded by anyone. It's a lesson celebrities have learned the hard way.
+/- On one hand, it's cool that we get sharper images. On the other, there are drawbacks to using digital video rather than film in terms of contrast and lighting. According to wikipedia, "Film handles highlighting differently." Electronics vendors constantly market "high-high-superhigh" definition type equipment. There seems to be something of a battle in the film world. I'm not expert, but on a whole I find movies shot with digital equipment to be usually ugly, with the exception of Sin City and Grindhouse both of which were very stylized. I'm not expert, though. Hm. For example, in the new Star Wars I think it tended to excentuate the "video game" look of the movie. The older Star Wars did not seem hyperaware about its special effects and looks so much better to me. Maybe the entertainment industry has some sort of evil plan to get Americans to buy expensive entertainment systems to better view the new film techniques.
- This is incredibly off-topic but YouTube has the stupidest commenters on the internet. Examples: "I think that the snake does'nt got any thees and poisen. BUT STILL WHAT A STUPID PEAPLE!" "your the reason dianasors went exstixnt"
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