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Anyone struggle with the dark filming?


At times in the movie, I had a difficult time seeing. The scenes were extremely dark.

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I noticed that too. I think the DP forgot to take the lense cap off the camera.

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I saw it at home on Blu-ray and it never seemed that way to me. Except for the inside scenes which were supposed to be rather dark.

TxMike
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I really liked the film as a whole, but was frustrated with the excessively dark scenes. I get making a stylistic choice to have things look a certain way, but it too often became genuinely confusing as to what was happening, or what people even looked like......it really came to a head in the climactic scene, we needed a bit more clarity there. I like Green as a director and I'm not sure what happened; he generally seems very in control of his visual style so I'm inclined to assume it was deliberate but it wound up being a major drawback to an otherwise excellent film for me. I would love to ask him why it wound up that way.


You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.

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Much too dark, distracting.

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Nope, everything was perfectly clear.



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Some scenes were so dark I couldn't see anything. My copy isn't Blu-ray, though.

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The Blu ray was clear on my viewing.

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