Are movies trying too hard to be like video games?

[SvennoJ]

RolStoppable said:

the_dengle said:

This is probably meant to be a joke or something, but for years my parents have been complaining that poorly-implemented CGI, especially during action sequences, "looks like a video game."

Like, since long before games had any business being compared to film-quality CGI.

On that note, it's interesting that "looks/feels like a video game" is used as an insult in regards to movies, while "this is (almost) like a movie" and the buzzword "cinematic" are used as positives in regards to video games.

It depends. I love Children of Man which gives me a half-life 2 like vibe. Looks and feels like the HL2 universe. Yet everything that happens in the movie is rooted in believable physics.
I love Wreck-it-Ralph, basically a movie video game.
I accept the crazy antics in The Avengers, it's a comic book come to life after all.
Yet when a movie tries to be serious and resorts to video game mechanics they lose me.

For games it's not b&w either. Feels like your in a movie is vastly different from feels like you're watching a movie.