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It's very strange and quite heavy-handed IMO. It's like a fisheye effect with some extreme falloff.

There's a trend in film and TV at the moment for making stuff look like it's shot on crappy old lenses – chromatic aberration, distortion, lens blur, etc – because it's "characterful". I assume it's a reaction to the perfect, clean look of modern digital cameras, but it's likely to horribly date stuff made now in about 10 years.

imo streaming wrecks this stuff. Watching The Batman in theaters and bluray, it’s a cool aesthetic. Tried watching it on HBO Max once and the compression makes it all muddy. Same with any overly dark moments. Parts of The Killer where it relied on limited lighting got crushed in the low bitrate stream.