I watched Gemini Man on my new OLED at 60fps and it was definitely a new experience. Since my brain is so used to 24fps content, it looked weird, as mentioned almost too crisp. It certainly does look good though. I think viewing a lot more HFR content like that I'd eventually get used to it and enjoy it better, with regular content being ugly.
Kinda of how I feel about HDR content. It's hard to go back now.
That weirdness will go away as you realise that the higher the frames per second the more closely the content matches reality. Then it comes down to how much you notice (and whether it's annoying or not) any potential interpolation artifacts during fast motion. An object oscillating back and forth can do that if the movement of the object changes direction between frames. Of course, that isn't a problem for anything natively filmed at 60 FPS or 120 FPS.
It's just amazing how well the human brain has been trained (like Pavlov with his dog) to think that 24 FPS for movies looks more realistic when it only looks realistic in the sense that humans have been conditioned to think that 24 FPS in movies is even remotely realistic.
Sure as some people have mentioned the whole un-reality of 24 FPS in movies might help to hide the un-realness of sets, lighting, makeup, imperfect CGI, etc. but it's still all highly unrealistic.
Having motion and clarity that more closely matches how we visually perceive the world can make it more difficult to hide the tricks used in films to try to manufacture certain scenes, but it's still (IMO) significantly better visually than having to view it through a lens that is so disjointed due to low FPS.
I haven't been to a theater since the last Lord of the Rings movie in 2003. So, now whenever I actually see any content presented at 24 FPS, it's jarringly bad and incredibly unrealistic and 30 FPS content isn't any better.
I talked at length with a film director who does his own cinematography recently about his choice of 24 FPS while trying to convince him to try releasing his films at 60 FPS. The conversation boils down the key points from what I got out of it.
- He understands that 60 FPS (or even 48 FPS) would provide a more realistic look for his films and allow them to more closely mirror what people see when they see things in day to day life.
- He deliberately sticks to 24 FPS because while it's not a realistic presentation he likes the artistic look of 24 FPS for artistic films because it's what he grew up watching.
- If he was making a slice of life movie, a documentary, a biography, filming someone's wedding, etc. he'd choose 60 FPS because it would be superior to 24 FPS in all ways, but since he focuses on artistic content he feels that because 24 FPS is so disconnected from reality it helps the artistic presentation of his films.
It was a very interesting talk that covered more than that, but those are just the points relevant to this discussion.
This thread reminds me of when some people I know in RL stated that they hated 1080p for movies and TV shows because the extra clarity made things look worse ... made them not look "real". Whenever I remind them of those words, they can't believe they actually said them.
Regards,
SB
