Whenever I watch old movies the characters always have a different tone than they have now. It seems to have changed somewhere from the 2000s. Is it just me or did something change?
Whenever I watch old movies the characters always have a different tone than they have now. It seems to have changed somewhere from the 2000s. Is it just me or did something change?
I know exactly what you mean, for example the production quality between What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Liar Liar (1995) is significant. Although I didn’t notice it at the time, a lot of late 90s or early 2000s movies had this same sort of production style that looks like it was filmed in 1983 but with 2000s clothes like the American Pie series, IKWYDLS, and Old School. But Bring It On had the newer aesthetic.
I have two rough metrics of grainy and dusty that I use for this. Grainier movies are usually film and poor quality at that. Like Ferris Buellers Day Off is film but advanced production quality for its time and thus not so grainy. Dusty movies are more about the degree of western/prairie motifs like wood shacks, dirt roads, unkempt grasslands and dilapidated fences. Both grainy and dusty movies tend to have muffled audio and very formal speech, ie The Sound of Music.