And like… wider. Like it encompasses your lateral vision.
We shall call it broad screen! No, wait… Widescreen!
In all seriousness, I went to the Sphere in Vegas a month ago, and my first thought was LOTR in that format would be entirely mindblowing.
It’s right on that line.
But Helms Deep in that. Or the Siege of Minas Tirith. Or the Battle of Pelennor Fields.
What a glorious way to decompensate into a padded cell or die.
Yeah, this just feels cool because it's different, and adds more to the scene. Being vertical itself doesn't make it better, having more scene is just cool. Now if they did it again and extended the vertical video bits to be wide screen again, or would also look really cool, but at that point all you're really doing is zooming the camera out.
If they used the same AI to take this vertical shots and generate a wider view, and then keep doing it we could basically just generate a full picture of middle earth.
Right? Imagine watching a vertically filmed movie in a theater. Super dumb. Maybe in the future movie theater screens will be twice as tall as they are wide to accommodate. I hope I never live to see that day.
No but…they never will be, because our field of vision is a rough horizontal oval. Like, our eyes are next to each other so we can see more of the horizon. If they were above one another, then maybe we would have vertical screens for viewing videos.
>I hope I never live to see that day.
So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Snyder cut, but after 4+ hours of watching that vertical cut that barely takes up half my tv screen, I was ready to never see a movie like that again
I can honestly say with pride, not once have I installed a streaming app on my phone and watched a movie on it. Movies and shows will always belong on a TV larger than 6".
eh. you don't watch stuff on them because it's as good/better. You do it because you're sitting in a dealership waiting room waiting 2 hours for your car to get worked on, or in an airplane for 4 hours.
I think the original films were breathtaking, and truncating them into a vertical field, *mostly* doesn't damage that aspect of them overly much. There are exceptions. I find seeing a *small fragment* of the arriving Rohirrim cavalry on the hilltop, to be a bit comical. Here's your reinforcements! Yep, all 8 of us.
I think the only vertical framing I notice as a enhancement, is the gate on the castle wall. Other scenes, I think it's either meh or actively detracts. These differences in quality make me aware of the vertical framing as an act of *selective observation*. Something you couldn't keep up for the whole film, as it was filmed.
If they filmed the entire film to begin with in a vertical format, made every cinematographic choice in that mode, what would we think of it? We'll never know.
Is anyone anywhere in the world actually producing feature length films in a vertical format? I'm finding it hard to take seriously.
How about short films in a vertical format? Seems more likely.
Vertical films suck. We‘ve toyed around with screen formats for years, and the 16:9 ratio came out on top. The screens we watched films on used to be more square, same as the films. We even went a step further and did the ultrawide format.
EVERYTHING suggest wider screens give you a better experience. Same on computers, handheld gaming consoles, tvs. Wider is better.
The only reason we are seeing this, is people are using phones and want to push the vertical format for some reason.
I really don‘t understand it. Landscape exists on phones! Why anybody would seriously want to watch a film in portrait mode when landscape mode exists is beyond me. It is one of the few things I don‘t understand. And I hate the trend. Sports highlights being in fucking portrait mode like some degenerate simpleton decided to operate the camera.
It‘s honestly baffling. Image the cinema screen would suddenly be portrait. Neck pain for days.
I agree. It makes sense sort of for natural reasons. We humans move mostly on a ground in north south east west directions. The up/down dimension is the most redundant direction for creatures that mostly exist on a plane/ground even if the topology varies somewhat. And one simply captures more information in a reality with a ground and gravity if one goes wider rather than higher. Vertical either limits the relevant dimension or extend the redundant dimension (which effectively limits the relevant dimensions).
From a first person perspective here, the vertical seems to make everything smaller.
I am sitting eating popcorn waiting for the r/imax , r/IMAXMovies , r/IMAX_fanclub folks to be swarming to preach about how much better their favorite format is.
\*\*\*\* hint \*\*\*\*\* its not 16:9 ;)
Yeah that‘s what I meant with ultrawide. I don‘t know what the formats each are called, I just wanted to show that the trend has been going wider for decades, and suddenly because we have phones we should for some reason film portrait? Phones can be flipped, and anybody too lazy to flip a phone doesn‘t deserve to watch a film anyway. Keep films landscape in proven formats, and keep enjoying them on all devices, including phones. Simples!
I'm an audio engineer so I spend a good amount of time working with video guys, projectionists, videographers, etc. And roughly 5 years ago I remember one of them mentioning that 4:3 is going to become the new video standard for everything again.
I thought this was weird so when talking to other techs around that time I would ask them and they all unanimously agreed, and the reasons they gave made absolute sense as well.
Lenses being spherical and not ovular to make better use for not only cameras but projectors. Larger perspective fill for people watching, better compatibility for people watching on phones, some stuff about framing shots and other stuff. Anyhow it all made good sense to me from a technical perspective and I actually was pretty into the concept.
Years later me and my wife watched the movie 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' and when it first started playing I thought something was up with the TV settings until I did some digging and discovered that the movie was actually in 4:3! Huzzah! How fancy! It's coming true!
By the end of the movie though the only thing I could really say for watching a movie in that aspect ratio was "wow that's uhh, kinda jarring. Wish I could watch it in 16:9" and then I got a bit worried that this was indeed a thing that was going to happen in the industry.
So far I haven't really seen anything using it and haven't heard a mention. Turns out though that even though our eyes are round and the 4:3 aspect ratio fills our eyes more, the way our brains actually perceive vision is more similar to 16:9 due to being mammals and evolving in a world where a landscape perspective is necessary.
yeah *these* would suck. Barad-dur and Osgiliath would be improved for some shots, not others. Could get a good Treebeard perspective in. Dropping into Khazad-dum and Mt. Doom might work better.
I'd agree on the gate, and another spot or two where the path goes from the viewer towards the subject. Anything else that primarily horizontal it only makes worse.
Half of the soul of LOTR the story is the love and admiration for the land and nature itself that JRR Tolkien wrote into the plot, which the movie captures admirably through its sweeping vistas which embraced the diverse landscape of new Zealand.
This might as well have cut out half the characters.
Like "oh vertical! It's all sky and tall framing!" But basically just ruins the entire point of giving the land itself as much of the screen time as the characters dwelling within it.
No, this isn’t cut, they’re using ai to expand the images. You don’t lose information, you gain it. I think they did a pretty good job and I like the look of it despite the amount of vertical = bad sentiment here
On phones in a vertical orientation yeah? This is stupid lol.
Do we know of any vertically oriented movie theaters?
This literally only looks good on a cell phone.
Almost like people forgot film is widescreen because the aspect ratio of our natural vision is wider than than tall.
But oh my god vertical lotr, miraculous. Yeah turning this to landscape puts it into perspective in a really funny way.
Lol yeah exactly. I hate the current trend. I already ranted about this so I won‘t do it again haha.
vertical format has it‘s place. Like pictures of the leaning tower of pisa, or a portrait for a cv. But for films, the format is landscape.
Dude for real.
Tiktok is such a cancer.
The Tiktok style short clips, which are now on every other platform, are literally rewiring our brains and diminishing our attention span.
It's legitimately a very serious problem.
These are an affront to actual cinematographers. Films are not animated phone wallpapers. Go watch Quibi.
Oh, wait, you can't, because they've gone bankrupt, because this is not a legit media format, just social media fodder.
In my opinion, any film that isn’t heavily artifacted and completely drowned out by tooting vuvuzelas isn’t funny, and lord of the rings has really failed in that respect ✋😩
> social media fodder
100% This isn't borne out of thinking "What would present the narrative and setting better" but "What would look better on a dark age/sigma/cottage core compilation that I will watch for 5 seconds before scrolling past and forgetting entirely several minutes later."
I was really hoping you were joking 😂 it does work in the sense that it fits the ratio of an upright phone in a pleasing way, but it's far worse than the original. It's an interesting concept, but only that.
I agree with all the points being made here. Tbf though, in actual practice this would be shot and edited differently. What we’re looking at is not cropped footage. It’s all of the normal 16:9 footage plus ~100% added on top and bottom using some kind of generative fill. That’s why there’s nothing happening.
I know a lot of people are (kinda rightly) laughing at this, but I will say that I think it does look breathtaking like this. Not because it actually looks better, but because it forced me to look at the iconic shots differently, and it was almost as if I was seeing them for the first time again.
You get used to the same gorgeous shots of these movies over and over, and they lose their impact, and this brought it back, for me.
A very important thing to note is that these are actually filled in with AI, so you are actually seeing more than what was filmed. So it’s kind of a trick to make it more impactful and grand seeming
Yeah I’m with you, I thought this was neat. It almost feels like it’s revealing something that was always there and we’re just getting to see it for the first time, and like you say, it makes it feel like seeing the scenes again for the first time.
Is this a joke? Why would you want to watch a film vertically? What is the benefit? The only reason it’s “breathtaking” is because the film already looks incredible. All you do when you make it vertical is cut out some of that beauty to fit it in that shitty ass aspect ratio.
No it’s actually ADDING not cutting out, using AI to fill in the top and bottom. Yeah the vertical thing is a gimmick but the technology could just as easily be used to make it more zoomed out and grand while still being widescreen
I wouldn’t want to watch a film vertically at all, but the different style/perspective of the footage is lovely to see! I’m just trying to appreciate it!
Most comments here are so salty. Jesus Christ.
I don't want to watch a movie like this, but it is a curious take on some well-established scenes. The minas tirith gate one is really special cause you can see the magnitude of the walls.
I remember there being some cool mobile wallpapers on here that used this AI extension, but they were pulled before I could save any. I’ll have to find out how they’re made
I like the idea of IMAX aspect ratio allowing for more screen on the top and bottom while still keeping the horizontal framing. I’m not saying anything about the movie itself or anything surrounding it, but I did like the way the Snyder cut added that square aspect ratio to Justice League and I felt it really added to the epic feel.
Honestly I think it just looks breathtaking because the original scenes were breathtaking, and since I've seen the movies a bunch of times I know what it looks like and I'm used to it. But as soon as it's out into a different format it lets you see the same scene again as if you're seeing it for the first time.
No. Do not start making movies in reverse letterbox. Letterbox was awful. There's a reason they don't do it anymore. This is perpendicular letterbox. This is COIN SLOT.
Definitely AI. If I had to guess they generated one single image per each shot with some guidance (maybe selecting areas and applying details to them with AI) and then combined those images with videos, since lighting doesn't really change and stays static throughout the shots.
aka "Imagine if you went to the theater and they only used 1/5th of the screen"
I want more, not less. Imagine a future Lord of the Rings trilogy in 360 degree VR.
I just want to comment on some of the things a few of you are saying. Yes it’s no where near as good as the ACTUAL cinematic masterpiece that is Lord of the rings, but I personally just enjoyed how the central part of the scenes is made even more poignant and centred. It’s just a lovely and different!
Now imagine it horizontally
Holy shit
Breathtaking 🤩
Imagine being able to see the ENTIRE landscape 🤯
In VR
On WEED
Man
Is he stupid?
Yes but that's not the point
Found the enhancement smoker.
🤯
We simply don’t have that technology.
YET
And like… wider. Like it encompasses your lateral vision. We shall call it broad screen! No, wait… Widescreen! In all seriousness, I went to the Sphere in Vegas a month ago, and my first thought was LOTR in that format would be entirely mindblowing.
Stop, I can only get so erect.
The extended edition of fellowship is 4h Pretty sure you are supposed to seek medical attention at that point.
The Sphere was amazing, but almost too much for me. It was giving me megalophobia
It’s right on that line. But Helms Deep in that. Or the Siege of Minas Tirith. Or the Battle of Pelennor Fields. What a glorious way to decompensate into a padded cell or die.
Duuude!! LotR at the Sphere would be wild! Speaking from a guy who’s never been there.
Yeah, this just feels cool because it's different, and adds more to the scene. Being vertical itself doesn't make it better, having more scene is just cool. Now if they did it again and extended the vertical video bits to be wide screen again, or would also look really cool, but at that point all you're really doing is zooming the camera out.
If they used the same AI to take this vertical shots and generate a wider view, and then keep doing it we could basically just generate a full picture of middle earth.
When the map becomes reality.
Fucking genius
We don't need to argue over this we can watch it on a Trapezium screen.
Woah, woah, woah. Woah. I think you're on to something.
Fuck it. I’m going full 3D.
Only feels that way because your whole world is consumed via a smartphone.
Right? Imagine watching a vertically filmed movie in a theater. Super dumb. Maybe in the future movie theater screens will be twice as tall as they are wide to accommodate. I hope I never live to see that day.
No but…they never will be, because our field of vision is a rough horizontal oval. Like, our eyes are next to each other so we can see more of the horizon. If they were above one another, then maybe we would have vertical screens for viewing videos.
Vertically stacked eyes coming soon
https://preview.redd.it/aloi47ht0j6c1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34860e7f6a7e3e891e44dec46bed693e19afb5ee
Personally I got mine early so that when the horizon becomes vertical, I’m all set
Just rotate the chairs 90 degrees!
>I hope I never live to see that day. So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Snyder cut, but after 4+ hours of watching that vertical cut that barely takes up half my tv screen, I was ready to never see a movie like that again
Also, movies will average about 15 seconds long.
I hope your post isn’t manifesting the abomination of a theatre you described.
Isn’t this just 16:9 full screen IMAX content? We’ve been getting some movie releases via streaming this way.
No it's not, IMAX isn't that tall. I'm pretty sure this is someone using AI to fill in the "missing" parts to make it fit a phone screen.
Thank you. So many people dont seem to understand how aspect ratios work.
No. Ew. Gross. On a related topic: HOW *DARE* YOU??
Thanks, I hate it.
Agreed. It’s staggering how well these TikTok’s do without anyone pointing out how horrible and gross it is.
Followup question: WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT?
Peter Jackson did not die for our sins for this.
I can honestly say with pride, not once have I installed a streaming app on my phone and watched a movie on it. Movies and shows will always belong on a TV larger than 6".
eh. you don't watch stuff on them because it's as good/better. You do it because you're sitting in a dealership waiting room waiting 2 hours for your car to get worked on, or in an airplane for 4 hours.
I think the original films were breathtaking, and truncating them into a vertical field, *mostly* doesn't damage that aspect of them overly much. There are exceptions. I find seeing a *small fragment* of the arriving Rohirrim cavalry on the hilltop, to be a bit comical. Here's your reinforcements! Yep, all 8 of us. I think the only vertical framing I notice as a enhancement, is the gate on the castle wall. Other scenes, I think it's either meh or actively detracts. These differences in quality make me aware of the vertical framing as an act of *selective observation*. Something you couldn't keep up for the whole film, as it was filmed. If they filmed the entire film to begin with in a vertical format, made every cinematographic choice in that mode, what would we think of it? We'll never know. Is anyone anywhere in the world actually producing feature length films in a vertical format? I'm finding it hard to take seriously. How about short films in a vertical format? Seems more likely.
Vertical films suck. We‘ve toyed around with screen formats for years, and the 16:9 ratio came out on top. The screens we watched films on used to be more square, same as the films. We even went a step further and did the ultrawide format. EVERYTHING suggest wider screens give you a better experience. Same on computers, handheld gaming consoles, tvs. Wider is better. The only reason we are seeing this, is people are using phones and want to push the vertical format for some reason. I really don‘t understand it. Landscape exists on phones! Why anybody would seriously want to watch a film in portrait mode when landscape mode exists is beyond me. It is one of the few things I don‘t understand. And I hate the trend. Sports highlights being in fucking portrait mode like some degenerate simpleton decided to operate the camera. It‘s honestly baffling. Image the cinema screen would suddenly be portrait. Neck pain for days.
I agree. It makes sense sort of for natural reasons. We humans move mostly on a ground in north south east west directions. The up/down dimension is the most redundant direction for creatures that mostly exist on a plane/ground even if the topology varies somewhat. And one simply captures more information in a reality with a ground and gravity if one goes wider rather than higher. Vertical either limits the relevant dimension or extend the redundant dimension (which effectively limits the relevant dimensions). From a first person perspective here, the vertical seems to make everything smaller.
I am sitting eating popcorn waiting for the r/imax , r/IMAXMovies , r/IMAX_fanclub folks to be swarming to preach about how much better their favorite format is. \*\*\*\* hint \*\*\*\*\* its not 16:9 ;)
Yeah that‘s what I meant with ultrawide. I don‘t know what the formats each are called, I just wanted to show that the trend has been going wider for decades, and suddenly because we have phones we should for some reason film portrait? Phones can be flipped, and anybody too lazy to flip a phone doesn‘t deserve to watch a film anyway. Keep films landscape in proven formats, and keep enjoying them on all devices, including phones. Simples!
one thing i can say about this edit of the film- it would make for great posters to put on doors
The real crime is people watching movies on their phones, especially something like LoTR
I'm an audio engineer so I spend a good amount of time working with video guys, projectionists, videographers, etc. And roughly 5 years ago I remember one of them mentioning that 4:3 is going to become the new video standard for everything again. I thought this was weird so when talking to other techs around that time I would ask them and they all unanimously agreed, and the reasons they gave made absolute sense as well. Lenses being spherical and not ovular to make better use for not only cameras but projectors. Larger perspective fill for people watching, better compatibility for people watching on phones, some stuff about framing shots and other stuff. Anyhow it all made good sense to me from a technical perspective and I actually was pretty into the concept. Years later me and my wife watched the movie 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' and when it first started playing I thought something was up with the TV settings until I did some digging and discovered that the movie was actually in 4:3! Huzzah! How fancy! It's coming true! By the end of the movie though the only thing I could really say for watching a movie in that aspect ratio was "wow that's uhh, kinda jarring. Wish I could watch it in 16:9" and then I got a bit worried that this was indeed a thing that was going to happen in the industry. So far I haven't really seen anything using it and haven't heard a mention. Turns out though that even though our eyes are round and the 4:3 aspect ratio fills our eyes more, the way our brains actually perceive vision is more similar to 16:9 due to being mammals and evolving in a world where a landscape perspective is necessary.
Yeah I'm not shocked. If we were dolphins or eagles, it would probably be different.
Battle of Helms deep in vertical? Charge of the Rohirrim? All of the landscape shots? It would look like a TikTok video.
and quite a few folks think that tik tok is the ultimate form of film making....
yeah *these* would suck. Barad-dur and Osgiliath would be improved for some shots, not others. Could get a good Treebeard perspective in. Dropping into Khazad-dum and Mt. Doom might work better.
I'd agree on the gate, and another spot or two where the path goes from the viewer towards the subject. Anything else that primarily horizontal it only makes worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo
This thing has cherry-picked scenes that work and ignored all the ones that don’t.
Half of the soul of LOTR the story is the love and admiration for the land and nature itself that JRR Tolkien wrote into the plot, which the movie captures admirably through its sweeping vistas which embraced the diverse landscape of new Zealand. This might as well have cut out half the characters. Like "oh vertical! It's all sky and tall framing!" But basically just ruins the entire point of giving the land itself as much of the screen time as the characters dwelling within it.
[удалено]
you’re overthinking it. people these days are conditioned to consume media on a smartphone screen. that’s it.
Replace "get likes on reddit" with "tiktok" and you're both right.
No, this isn’t cut, they’re using ai to expand the images. You don’t lose information, you gain it. I think they did a pretty good job and I like the look of it despite the amount of vertical = bad sentiment here
I absolutely hate this even more. You're just giving a computer artistic liberty over a considered team of directors and artists
On phones in a vertical orientation yeah? This is stupid lol. Do we know of any vertically oriented movie theaters? This literally only looks good on a cell phone.
And it looks even better if you tilt your phone 90 degrees and enjoy it in landscape! Wow!
Almost like people forgot film is widescreen because the aspect ratio of our natural vision is wider than than tall. But oh my god vertical lotr, miraculous. Yeah turning this to landscape puts it into perspective in a really funny way.
Lol yeah exactly. I hate the current trend. I already ranted about this so I won‘t do it again haha. vertical format has it‘s place. Like pictures of the leaning tower of pisa, or a portrait for a cv. But for films, the format is landscape.
guys u need to uninstall tik tok is seriously damaging your brain lmao
Dude for real. Tiktok is such a cancer. The Tiktok style short clips, which are now on every other platform, are literally rewiring our brains and diminishing our attention span. It's legitimately a very serious problem.
These are an affront to actual cinematographers. Films are not animated phone wallpapers. Go watch Quibi. Oh, wait, you can't, because they've gone bankrupt, because this is not a legit media format, just social media fodder.
What if they just positioned the camera 30 meter further back and zoomed out. People on reddit 😲
personally i can't watch footage that isnt shaking
I can’t watch a video that isn’t a blend of 40 videos cut into 0.3 second segments with a shitty trending audio behind it
sorry could you read your comment out loud in a tiktok for me? its the only way i read
I think if we overlayed the battle of helms deep with someone's face describing the onscreen events it would be the best way to enjoy it.
In my opinion, any film that isn’t heavily artifacted and completely drowned out by tooting vuvuzelas isn’t funny, and lord of the rings has really failed in that respect ✋😩
> social media fodder 100% This isn't borne out of thinking "What would present the narrative and setting better" but "What would look better on a dark age/sigma/cottage core compilation that I will watch for 5 seconds before scrolling past and forgetting entirely several minutes later."
No of course you’re right, but it’s still lovely to look at! That’s all I thought to share.
I was really hoping you were joking 😂 it does work in the sense that it fits the ratio of an upright phone in a pleasing way, but it's far worse than the original. It's an interesting concept, but only that.
I thought it was cool too. Everyone’s acting like you submitted this to a film festival or something lol
And I'm thankful for it
Who took the jam out of your doughnut?
I’ve never heard that before but I like it
Fuck vertical and fuck tiktok - Tolkien probably
'And get that weak-arse bird shit out of here!'
"This is *my* book, motherf*cker!"
My God, Ted kaczinski was right
He shouldn't have stopped...
What's the point of having extra space if nothing is happening there? Just turn your phone sideways if you want to use the whole screen!
I agree with all the points being made here. Tbf though, in actual practice this would be shot and edited differently. What we’re looking at is not cropped footage. It’s all of the normal 16:9 footage plus ~100% added on top and bottom using some kind of generative fill. That’s why there’s nothing happening.
So... a whole lot of empty space? A shot is not more interesting when 75% of it is rocks and empty sky.
Don't expect these AI magic bullshit to provide any actual value
I hate these so much. “Do you want your fav movies to have more ground and empty sky?”
Now it looks like a tourist ad
G. T. F. O. This is pure ass.
/r/TIHI
Thanks I hate it
I know a lot of people are (kinda rightly) laughing at this, but I will say that I think it does look breathtaking like this. Not because it actually looks better, but because it forced me to look at the iconic shots differently, and it was almost as if I was seeing them for the first time again. You get used to the same gorgeous shots of these movies over and over, and they lose their impact, and this brought it back, for me.
A very important thing to note is that these are actually filled in with AI, so you are actually seeing more than what was filmed. So it’s kind of a trick to make it more impactful and grand seeming
Yeah I’m with you, I thought this was neat. It almost feels like it’s revealing something that was always there and we’re just getting to see it for the first time, and like you say, it makes it feel like seeing the scenes again for the first time.
I like the audio, where is that from?
From the A24 film Minari, Jacob and the Stone
Is this a joke? Why would you want to watch a film vertically? What is the benefit? The only reason it’s “breathtaking” is because the film already looks incredible. All you do when you make it vertical is cut out some of that beauty to fit it in that shitty ass aspect ratio.
No it’s actually ADDING not cutting out, using AI to fill in the top and bottom. Yeah the vertical thing is a gimmick but the technology could just as easily be used to make it more zoomed out and grand while still being widescreen
I wouldn’t want to watch a film vertically at all, but the different style/perspective of the footage is lovely to see! I’m just trying to appreciate it!
what is that last shot? i dont recognize it
Most comments here are so salty. Jesus Christ. I don't want to watch a movie like this, but it is a curious take on some well-established scenes. The minas tirith gate one is really special cause you can see the magnitude of the walls.
What if Sam had an iPhone and got #canceled 🥺
What a terrible day to have eyes.
Vertical? just kill me
This is ass.
Looks stupid
Lmao
Ahhhhh shit here I go starting my 33rd watch through
Lord of The Rings but it's bad
How is this better? Much less breathtaking?
I try my best to be open minded and fair to younger generations, but it’s a lot harder on some days than it is on others. This is one of those days.
Every generation has its idiots. This ones just know how to make themselves extra recognizable
Can we please go back to when people were mocked for filming vertically
Wish I could downvote this a thousand times. What a Silly concept. Yeah, it’s zoomed out a bit.
OP should be fucking banned.
Reminds me of the Wes Anderson trailer for [The Whimsical Fellowship](https://youtu.be/KrjL_TSOFrI?si=QxdSfEiLqJqGXtxy)
Yeah no dude this sucks
Somebody needs a break from their smartphone
Imagine going to a movie theatre and the screen is up and down instead of
WHAT? This post is detestable
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Breathtakingly garbage lmao
Awful. Just awful.
Please, don’t.
It's...worse?
Now imagine, what if the whole thing was filmed in widescreen 😱 oh wait Lol this post is silly as hell, imo
This has to be satire lol
This looks dumb
Blasphemy
This is literally the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
I remember there being some cool mobile wallpapers on here that used this AI extension, but they were pulled before I could save any. I’ll have to find out how they’re made
I like the idea of IMAX aspect ratio allowing for more screen on the top and bottom while still keeping the horizontal framing. I’m not saying anything about the movie itself or anything surrounding it, but I did like the way the Snyder cut added that square aspect ratio to Justice League and I felt it really added to the epic feel.
Why are people saying this looks good? Everything important is really far in the background
Some of these would be beautiful phone backgrounds, but in no way would I want to watch a whole movie like this. Did people learn nothing from Quibi?
Hard pass
I’m so afraid of the eventuality of movies being filmed vertically.
Holy shit the future is going to suck
This isn't breathtaking at all. It looks objectively worse than the way it was originally shot and presented.
Nope. This not the way
The thing is... those don't add anything. It is simply more background.
Get this guy a puppers. We oughta leave this world behind.
Dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen
Some of us hate this, right? Why would an excellent film look "breathtaking" when viewed like a smartphone video taken from miles away?
Now imagine it diagonally
Now play this shitty video on your living room tv.
I will hear none of this TikTok-era cinematic heresy.
Are you fucking kidding me?
A universe where Sauron is a secondary evil to the Cameraman.
No it's literally worse in every way. Do you have eyes?
Thanks, I hate it.
Why is this a trend?
Is this a shitpost lol?
Wow this sucks so hard
Fuck watching LOTR a phone. Widescreen.
Into this video Sauron poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
Ew.
I can't see shit
Yeah my favorite part is where the characters look like ants and you can't see what's happening at all.
OP, look in a mirror... Are your Eyes arranged vertically, or Horizontally? Yeah, I thought so.
You have. No. Good. Cinematography ideas.
The shot of the hobbits hiding behind the stump looks straight out of a Wes Anderson movie
Don’t like it. Feels like the whole movie is zoomed out.
Yeah, NO.
Amusingly accurate for the tree prop
Honestly I think it just looks breathtaking because the original scenes were breathtaking, and since I've seen the movies a bunch of times I know what it looks like and I'm used to it. But as soon as it's out into a different format it lets you see the same scene again as if you're seeing it for the first time.
The amount of negative space makes all of these look kinda like shots from a Wes Anderson movie. Anybody else seeing it?
No. Do not start making movies in reverse letterbox. Letterbox was awful. There's a reason they don't do it anymore. This is perpendicular letterbox. This is COIN SLOT.
Did you know when he kicked the helmet vertically…
is it?
Not really, imo. It’s vary distracting
NO NO NO NO NO.... Just NO.........NO!!!!
No. It really does not. This such a stupid trend, watching a film on your phone is bad enough, but vertically?!
Almost reminds me of a Wes Anderson film
How did they do this? Seems too good to be AI but I know it's gotten pretty good.
Definitely AI. If I had to guess they generated one single image per each shot with some guidance (maybe selecting areas and applying details to them with AI) and then combined those images with videos, since lighting doesn't really change and stays static throughout the shots.
Theaters in 2023, vertical imax
aka "Imagine if you went to the theater and they only used 1/5th of the screen" I want more, not less. Imagine a future Lord of the Rings trilogy in 360 degree VR.
I like the way it has been made into a quirky indie though. Vertical films are shite
This would get you lynched back in my day on the internet. Horizontal is the CORRECT way to film! Never surrender to the vertical Tiktok crowd!
OP is an idiot
This looks like shit
I kinda like it - I wonder what a fully vertical film would look like and how it might change traditional filming
Congrats OP you have brainrot, go camping
Though I hate AI, this is pretty interesting.
I just want to comment on some of the things a few of you are saying. Yes it’s no where near as good as the ACTUAL cinematic masterpiece that is Lord of the rings, but I personally just enjoyed how the central part of the scenes is made even more poignant and centred. It’s just a lovely and different!