Like the original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones, etc.
35mm is the standard for films. I wonder what all of the classic films would look like if 70mm was the standard.
I get its prohibitively expensive which is why it's rare for a film to do it.
It's just fun to imagine if 70mm was the standard used by basically every film.
The only reason not to film digital is if you enjoy grain, which is objectively an imperfection.
People might say that 23.976 fps is objectively an imperfection, but those that have seen 60 fps film footage knows it utterly destroys that movie magic feel. It turns movies into gaudy soap opera effect garbage even though 60 fps is closer to what our eyes can see.
Likewise when I see a movie shot on certain film stocks like what Logan's run was shot on, it's beautiful and has an intangible quality to it that I've never experienced with digital movies. I think digital is completely charmless. If I were a movie star in the modern age, I'd never really feel like a movie star because of the way modern movies look. Even modern movies that are shot on film have an almost digital look to them because the film stocks don't have interesting characteristics and the characteristics they do have are probably destroyed in the post process so it looks like every other modern movie.
I don't want a grainy film noise ridden picture, but being shot on film which has film grain doesn't necessarily mean the film is grainy looking. Many movies shot on film are pristine.
Take the difference between Goodfellas and Casino. Both shot on film, but Goodfellas is grainy and Casino is pristine.
But both look far better than modern movies because there's charm and style in how the picture looks that modern movies lack.
Film grain and 23.976fps can be easily replicated digitally, just like the compressed audible range of vinyl can easily be replicated on CD.
You like the aesthetic? Ok, cool. But it's not objectively better, and it's literally technically inferior to modern tech.
That's a rather good point. Hadn't really thought about it like that for some reason.