Honestly, I disagree with the overall conclusions of the video. Older films are shot as though you’re watching a stage production, and to a modern audience, it feels incredibly antiquated. Films have been doing close-ups and establishing pan shots for so long that it’s just… film-making now. Back in the 50s they were figuring things out. Nowadays, we have 100 years of film technique to look to, and it’s shown us that these techniques are the most engaging way to show audiences a movie.
It’s more the pretentious film student angle. Nowadays, movies are too ‘pop culture’ in their editing, not like those old classics that are filmed like they’re performing a play… which they essentially are.
I’ll give points that examples like La La Land where they sit talking to each other for 6+ minutes with only face closeups and no other actions is frankly unforgivable movie directing. But that seems more cherry picked than an overall trend.
The worst offender I can think of is “Bohemian Rhapsody”. There is a scene where the record company exec meets Queen for the first time, and the frantic shots and cuts - what they focus on - make no sense whatsoever, creating a hollow tension to the point of being distractingly annoying. Shooting a regular dramatic scene like it was Michael Bay doing one of his headache-inducing Transformers action chaos sequence. Yet this mediocre thing won the Oscar for Best Editing, of all things!
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