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Comment by dontlaugh

6 hours ago

If films shot at a decent enough frame rate, people wouldn’t feel the need to try to fix it. And snobs can have a setting that skips every other frame.

Similar is the case for sound and (to a much lesser extent) contrast.

Viewers need to be able to see and hear in comfort.

So true, everybody else is wrong and you're right.

  • Getting headaches from low frame rate is rare, I guess. I only know a few others with this problem.

    But preferring high frame rate is common, as evidenced by games and the many people who use TV interpolation features.

If you think this is about snobbery, then I'm afraid you've completely misunderstood the problem.

This is more comparable to color being turned off. Sure, if you're completely colorblind, then it's not an issue. But non-colorblind people are not "snobs".

Or if dialog is completely unintelligible. That's not a problem for people who don't speak the language anyway, and would need subtitles either way. But people who speak English are not "snobs" for wanting to be able to understand dialog spoken in English.

I've not seen a movie filmed and played back in high frame rate. It may be perfectly fine (for me). In that case it's not about the framerate, but about the botched interpolation.

Like I said in my previous comment, it's not about "art".

  • There is no such thing as the soap opera effect. Good quality sets and makeup and cameras look good at 24 or 48 or 120 fps.

    People like you insisting on 24 fps causes people like me to unnecessarily have to choose between not seeing films, seeing them with headaches or seeing them with some interpolation.

    I will generally choose the latter until everything is at a decent frame rate.