I get why people love animated films and there are countless great ones like Spirited Away, Incredibles, Wall-E, the original Pinnochio. The strength with most animated films are its ability to tell very compelling narratives, but where it falters is in cinematic style. The problem is most people only care about the narrative so they tend to overrate many animated films like Nemo or ice Age. Most animated films do not compare to any great live-action films when it comes to the cinematic experience. They are just straightforwardly told without much spent on editing, form. Live action films will always give its directors more freedom to work with camera movement or mise-en scene to give a movie a better visual style. There are definitely some great animated films that pay attention to its visual style like Fantastic Mr Fox, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, but they do not compare to any great live-action film.
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>Animation films are never on the same level as Live-Action films
You’re right, they’re far above!!
That’s so interesting. I feel the complete opposite, at least with movies up until the last almost decade or so. Especially when we take cgi into the equation.
Can you go back and watch all of Satoshi Kon’s films (Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Paprica), Ghost in the Shell 1995… then report back here?
So why haven’t you actually mentioned any of these ‘great live action’ movies for comparisons sake?
Love Death Robots is consistently destroying every live action tv show out there for me. Literally the best series in the world since the first season, miles above all the regurgitated, low effort, unoriginal and generic live-action slops we are getting.
>They are just straightforwardly told without much spent on editing, form. Live action films will always give its directors more freedom to work with camera movement or mise-en scene to give a movie a better visual style.
This is straight up insane. Animated films give the director complete freedom of mise en scene and framing, since it’s animated. Unless you’re talking about stop motion animation, the fact that it’s all drawings or computer generated means that the director is limited only by their imagination, rather than by the physical space and physics of the real world. A director can achieve things in animation that would be completely impossible in live-action filming. The idea that live action film offers more freedom is absurd.
This feels like the opinion of someone with very little experience of animation. “just straightforwardly told”? Spirited Away “falters” in cinematic style?
Take your upvote and gtfo.
Upvote for unpopular, that’s for sure. To be honest, fancy camerawork is cool and all, but it is honestly overrated. Story execution is vastly more important than if something looks good (which visuals is debatable as a beautifully animated film doesn’t care about camera angles or ‘visual style’). There are also movies that cannot be replicated in live action, no matter how hard one tries (looking at you, Disney remakes).