I think it’s that the image is too sharp, revealing too much detail in the fabric, where the original LotR trilogy are very soft (in a good way). Modern lenses pushing for sharpness and clarity make a lot of things look cheap or hyper-real in an immersion breaking way, in my opinion.
Does that jacket look more modern than it should, or is it just me?
This movie is going to be dumb, but this is a strange criticism imho.
I don’t actually mean it to be too critical, it’s just the first thought I had when seeing this image.
I think it’s that the image is too sharp, revealing too much detail in the fabric, where the original LotR trilogy are very soft (in a good way). Modern lenses pushing for sharpness and clarity make a lot of things look cheap or hyper-real in an immersion breaking way, in my opinion.
That could definitely be it.