"What's all that stuff on the picture?" "That's GRAIN."

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by thegline

Me, I love film grain. Even when it "shouldn't" be there, I love it; it makes movies look that much more dreamlike, more like a painting and less like a photo, and sometimes that's exactly what you want.

I popped in 28 Days, then spent an hour freaking out that my player and/or TV had smoked. Switched to the other rig, same thing...I could have sworn the disc had some voodoo file on it that burned the guts out of my electronics.

Then I went to some reviews, saw it was filmed that way, and lost my temper.

Film grain is like rust on a vintage fighter plane.