Has This YouTuber Finally Managed to Describe Why Modern Movies Often Look So Bad?

Image sources (in order of posting): Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Modern cinema looks bad. It might feel like an increasingly cliché and tired thing to say, and it’s a point of view we’ve certainly put across here more than a few times, but that’s for a very good reason: Yes, there are exceptions, of course, but it can’t be denied that if you took a random visual sample of any mainstream movie from 2025 and compared it one taken from 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, or, frankly, even 2015, you would be able to see an undeniable shift to a particular visual quality and style that cuts across genres and creative teams and that we had never seen so much of before.

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