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Watching a really bad B movie Keanu Reeves was tricked into doing in 2000, The Watchers. One of the clearest tells is that the background score sounds very dated for the time. Like 1970s or something. You can get away with cheap production and hokey effects but bad music kills.
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I wonder to what extent “bad” in a rapidly evolving medium like film is simply “dated.” Unlike text, film seems to be a extra prone to this. It’s not like a mannered style but more like using an old-fashioned font.
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I was just literally saying something along those lines about TV shows:
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Also (concretely) the fastest and most immediate tell of the IQ of a show — or at least whether there’s any intelligent life there at all — is the use of sound. This includes score but also silence — I can overhear a first scene someone else is watching and be drawn in. Or not.
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I wonder to what extent “bad” in a rapidly evolving medium like film is simply “dated.” Unlike text, film seems to be a extra prone to this. It’s not like a mannered style but more like using an old-fashioned font.
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