One thing I’ve noticed with newer movies is they do a lot more “tell, don’t show” than old movies.
For example, compare the live action Disney Cinderella to the original animated version. The live action version is mostly a voiceover telling the story of Cinderella. They literally say “Her stepsisters weren’t very good at art or music” and then have a scene showing them being bad at art and music. The animated version spent the first 20 minutes or so like a Tom & Jerry cartoon.
And this is across movies. I watched Predator recently and there wasn’t a lot of exposition about how they’re there to fight communists or whatever. You pick that up in snippets of dialog in between the action.
It really does feel like movies are dumbing down.
I feel like Dune was a good outlier to this. It’s the only movie I’ve seen in theater in the last few years and I really enjoyed not having everything explained to me
In comparison, the old Dune film used a lot of voice over
That’s such a good point. I really appreciated how it wasn’t scared to let viewers figure things out.
But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?
I mean it was filmed 25 years ago, I guess it depends on your definition of ‘modern’
Can confirm. I was an extra in these movies and now I’m on first name terms with all the local osteopaths.
