/tv/ - Movies and Television

Here's scenario I thought up last night that got me jivin':
AI-created films will eventually become so advanced that their quality will be indistinguishable from normal digital cinematography. Filmmakers will panic, but they will eventually settle on the narrative that they must return to analog film with zero digital post-production "enhancements", not only because that's something AI can't do, but also because analog film looks better and has a richer, more artistic, and more high quality look. Many will call this second point a desperate cope at first, but it's actually true. Digital is poison to cinema (and to animation and music production as well, but that's for another time). There has never been a good looking digitally shot/color graded film.
>But what about-
No, it's trash.
>But you don't even know what I was going to-
Doesn't matter. It's still trash.
This will usher in a new era of kino like we haven't seen in at least 30 years. Not just because 100% analog cinema looks better. It's also much harder to do, which means filmmakers will either have stop being so lazy or be weeded out. The main reason for the decline in cinema is not actually because of hamfisted political propaganda (even modern cinema that's mostly apolitical is noticeably poor quality these days), but because advances in digital cinematography have made film making very easy, which in turn has made filmmakers lazy and more accepting of lower standards to justify said laziness. "It's good enough," "It doesn't have to be perfect" and all that. That's why even directors like Ridly Scott, who once made amazing kino, can only make slop now. Having to work harder sharpens the mind in all areas and never working hard dulls it in all areas.
>But digital/AI films are able/will be able to reproduce that classic film look
No they won't. If it were possible it would have happened already. They've been trying to recreate that look for decades and it still hasn't happened because digital/AI is built around the notion that the pinnacle of artistic excellence is uniform consistency and exact mathematical precision. In reality, the thousands of minor, random inconsistencies that only analog film can give add countless layers of richness to the look of a film.
>But most people don't really care about any of this.
Wrong. Most people I've spoken to about this subject agree that analog film looks better. Even zoomers born after 2000. The ones who insist otherwise or say nobody cares are midwit film buffs who want to appear like they know a lot about cinema, when they're really just parroting the things lazy filmmakers say to justify their continued (and hopefully doomed) laziness.

I don't if this prediction is going to happen; I don't even know for sure if AI videos will ever actually be able to equal normal digital cinematography. But if it ever does advance to that point, I hope it leads to an analog renaissance in the way I've described.