This popped in my feed today
Vox also has an article and video entitled: "It’s not you - movies are getting darker."
Blame technology for how often you can’t see anything.
www.vox.com
Here's another article on the topic:
>>>We’ve all been there. You tune into a show, often something in the fantasy or sci-fi genre, and you end up squinting at the screen because you can hardly make out what’s happening.
Game Of Thrones is a notorious repeat offender (the season-eight episode “The Long Night” is often cited as one of the most egregious examples of this), but it’s not the only show or movie doing this. From
The Batman to
Daredevil to
Ozark to
The Mandalorian, the same complaints come up again and again. Is this a creative trend, the result of technical advances, or just bad filmmaking? We reached out to some experts for answers, and while it turns out to be a combination of all three, it seems that viewers also share some of the blame for the way they’re watching this content on their home screens.<<<
Why it's so hard to see what's happening on your favorite movies and shows
www.avclub.com
A lot of The Mandalorian is too dark for my taste, but it might be dark on purpose:
>>>YouTube channel
HDTVTest is known for doing quality analysis of the HDR implementations in popular media like films, games, and TV shows, and
it found that Disney+'s
The Mandalorian live-action
Star Wars series is the latest in a long line of high-profile content that is just SDR wrapped up in an HDR package. The show has none of the actual benefits of HDR and a number of additional downsides, such that viewers might actually prefer to disable HDR on their TVs when viewing. . . . The test found that at no point did any part of the image in
The Mandalorian—even highlights like blaster fire, a forge of molten metal, or the Sun—appear at more than 200 cd/m². . . . "I think it will give people a really bad HDR experience," said HDTVTest's host in the
Mandolorian test video, "And they may be disillusioned about HDR, because proper HDR is truly transformative."<<<
Perhaps part of the problem is "The Volume" used to film it:
>>>“
The Volume” is ILM’s innovative replacement for greenscreen, employed throughout
The Mandalorian,
The Book of Boba Fett, and
Obi-Wan Kenobi. It uses a massive, curved LED screen to create photorealistic backdrops, circumventing the need for outdoor locations or extensive physical sets. As the camera moves within the Volume, the perspective and light sources shift to encourage the sensation of exploring a real environment. . . . Actors and directors understandably prefer the Volume over greenscreen, describing it as
impressively immersive and (from a practical perspective) a huge time-saver when envisioning what a scene will look like. The resulting visual product, however, is a mixed blessing.<<<
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/star-wars-disney-the-volume-obi-wan/
Like the song says:
Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement
And Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station To Station?
And Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication