I know this is an old and generally disliked opinion, but I'm doing a Marvel Cinematic Universe marathon and I find slightly jarring how cheap many of these movies look.
Guardians is the only one that looks great and like a proper big studio production, but the rest? They look like those Resident Evil movies, almost TV show quality, even good movies like Winter Soldier or Civil War has this bland direct to dvd look, that setpiece with Cap taking out that jet thing has to be one of the ugliest looking setpieces ever.
The airport fight isnt much better, maybe is the lighting I dont know.
In Avengers there is this scene where Loki is talking to the chitauri-dude is especially weird. His costume looks cheap, the background looks like styrofoam and the galaxy looks very green-screen.
The intro scene is notoriously bad where it looks like an abandoned factory they shot with the cheapest cameras available, also the image of a norse god escaping in a truck like a common thug is pretty amusing, I mean ¿really? this is the big bad guy for your big ensemble movie? some looney tunes s*** right there.
So who's to blame?
I mean, you have Disney money as back up, at this point MCU films feel like two hours TV episodes that continues into another cheaply made TV episode.
A movie lit and shot by a person who at least vaguely knew what they were doing.
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Look at the beautiful orange tones wash over Daniel Craig's body as he prepares to get his balls crushed by some rope club thing.
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Amazing angle. One guy in the center and the torture guy moving in from the darkness, the whole front of his face and body are lit like you would want somebody who gets payed to for the job to light them.
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Even torture is enjoyable when you look this good.
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A movie lit under the **** it we just need a light over her head principle. Best represented on primetime cable news channels. No mood, no color grading, no nothing. Remember to light the torture devices though. Forgot about those.
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Scarlett on the phone with her last call pleading for at least some decent lighting on her face.
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I would argue that Age of Ultron broke the mold and was made glossy and sexy looking, but ultimately it wasn't as good as the "cheaper" looking installments in the mcu. The reason for marvel's success are its stories and characters, not cinematography.
My biggest WTF moment in Marvel came in the recent Civil War movie with the hologram of a "young" Tony Stark.
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I really liked that scene. It really gave us some insight on Tony and his wishes to reconcile with his Dad that was taken from him.
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