Are high frame rates the future for movies?

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Doug Trumbull says high frame rates really are the future of cinema | What Hi-Fi? (whathifi.com)

 

[Fincher]

You mean that thing from the Hobbit movies and Gemini Man? Yeah, I don't like that. I haven't taken a poll or anything, but I suspect it's like "fetch" from Mean Girls, that they'll keep trying to push it and audiences just won't respond.

 

[Kane52630]

See, I didn't think it completely worked in the Hobbit films, but it did for Gemini Man which had more real world location shots.

 

[psylockolussus]

Doug Trumbull says high frame rates really are the future of cinema | What Hi-Fi? (whathifi.com)

No. Films are different from videogames.

If it is the future, we would have seen a few years ago with a dozen of blockbusters. The only movie I can remember that had a higher frame rate was the Hobbit and the reaction to the soap opera frame rate look wasn't received well.

 

[metaphysician]

I certainly hope not. The fundamental issue is that movies, as an artform, have developed a whole toolbox of tricks to make films look good under certain restraints, like the framerate of the film. Changing that for high frequency recording would require both developing a whole new bag of tricks, *and* retraining the audience in how to watch movies. That would take decades, most likely. And for what benefit? Slightly greater visibility in certain high speed scenes, which probably aren't being actually shot these days anyway?

 

[The Shape]

I sure hope not.