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I don't agree with the OP's reasoning (Kubrick was famous for doing take after take until he got the scene just right, regardless of the cost of film) I do ultimately agree that films have lost something this century. There is a huge overreliance on CGI that means it's very rarely impressive looking anymore (though the Star Wars TV shows use of the Volume does look very good IMO) There's little sense of awe and worse, it's painfully obvious these days that most scenes aren't even being shot on location, with heavy use of green screen technology. So the set doesn't exist, half the characters don't exist and most action scenes are just pixels crashing into other pixels. I appreciate guys like Nolan and Cruise for trying to do as much as they can for real.

Additionally while sometimes digital cinematography can look perfectly fine, a lot of the time it can look very flat, dim or smudgy looking. Give me the look of film any day of the week.