Why movies today look so dark today, in theaters and at home (polygon.com)

Interesting, but could also be related to the OLED modern television, that handles way better the dark and contrast.

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> For people who are really passionate about film as a medium, and respect what a delicate process image-making is, that shouldn’t be too big of an ask.

Director's cut is for those people, let that edition be hardly visible; the rest shouldn't suffer

The real problem are the disgusting sound mixes that make you not hear voices and have your ears explode when a car passes by.

A trend with Real consequences : I so often check my computer screen luminosity. As a side note I find sound level on YouTube and netflix very low. I don't remember having to turn all the sound slider from the youtube or Netflix player to my speaker to the max in the past. Now I have to do it systematicaly, and I don't have any audition problem.

Pacific Rim and a recent Godzilla had their fight scenes in the dark, so in those cases I'd surmise it's to conceal CGI shortcomings.