Viewers “raging” over camera’s dead pixels in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead
May 27, 2021
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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For movie watchers, there’s nothing more upsetting than settling in to watch the latest overhyped movie only to turn on your fancy, way-too-big, expensive TV to discover you’ve got dead pixels on your screen. They just sit there, taunting you, spoiling your viewing experience.
That’s the experience felt by quite a few people who sat down to watch the new Zack Snyder Netflix movie Army of the Dead. At least, it was until they realised that those dead pixels weren’t on their TV, but in-camera, recorded for all time in the movie itself, turning their dispair into “rage”.
I’ve yet to see the movie myself, but the reports indicate that the first dead pixel issue arises quite early on in the film with one of its establishing scenes involving Dave Bautista’s character discussing a plot point that I’m not going to mention with a well-to-do billionaire. One Twitter user described it best with the caption “Army of the Dead Pixel”.
Army of the Dead Pixel pic.twitter.com/H14f40CHdB
— Paul Doherty (@thepauldoherty) May 24, 2021
The fault is not visible in every scene – which would make sense. Productions like this generally don’t rely on a single camera to shoot everything, and the issue is probably just with a single camera out of however many they did end up using to shoot the film.
Though I did think my new LG OLED was broken after watching Army of the Dead! Cant believe a film could be released with a few hit pixels like that. I was raging at first!
— Simon Edwards (@Turak64) May 24, 2021
Despite the dead pixel issue (and its two-and-a-half-hour runtime), the film seems to have largely seen quite favourable reviews, offering descriptions such as “Dawn of the Dead meets Ocean’s Eleven” – which were both pretty decent movies.
Army of the Dead was super fun. Even more fun when I realized that dead pixel issue wasn't my TV so I could relax a little bit.
— keithkrebs (@keithkrebs) May 23, 2021
It is quite surprising that Zack (or somebody, anybody) didn’t spot these during the editing process and fix them in post before the final film went out.
[via The Independent]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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28 responses to “Viewers “raging” over camera’s dead pixels in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead”
The attack of the dead pixels.
Army of the dead pixels
This should be very low on the list of complaints about this movie.
“quite a few people”
Links to 3 tweets.
Was it really worth writing an article?
Depends… Was it really worth commenting?
There are only three tweets because we assume our viewership are smart enough to know how Twitter works to see the replies and find more. :)
Now you know why Nolan prefers IMAX film cameras. No dead pixels.
But they are noisier and harder to work with especially in tight areas. The dead pixels was not the cameras it was something on Netflix end. This is not the first time their content experienced this.
Ahmad Syukri Salleh
people have way too much time lol
Which “Army of the Dead” movie? The original or the recent one that stole the title & story?
oh, the humanity
Feels like I see dead pixels more often than not, these days
I’m really surprised editing software doesn’t automatically detect dead pixels and interpolate around them.
I definitely noticed, especially toward the end of the movie. Thought something was wrong with my tv until I tracked that it moved depending on which shot.
Boring movie if you spot dead pixel
Who cares.
I mean has any of the “raging” complainer watched pre-HD content? I remember snowy pictures using rabbit ears… so I’m ok with a few dead pixels. R E L A X
some people seem to be watching movies to complain this days how de hell did u notice that ? u guys seem to using lens to spot out every mistake of a movie
Good thing I read this… I was planning replacing my TV tomorrow after watching this movie a couple of hours ago. I thought it was my old TV finally giving out. What a save!! ??
Who cares?
Reggie Paul You do, apparently. You cared enough to comment. :)
just wait until these kids discover films filmed on film…
Boohoo I liked it
Thought my tv was fucked ?
Thank god lol thought my TV was on the out ?
Not as bad as noticing a dirty screen in a theater.
Plagiarized ‘Aliens ‘ should be the issue. Dead pixels should be at the bottom of the list on this craptacular movie.
A really stupid thing to be upset about