Do not adjust your TV!
Netflix users came together on social media to agree: there’s something off about Zack Snyder‘s Army of the Dead on the streaming platform.
According to users across Twitter and Reddit, some scenes appeared to have “dead” pixels, or completely white spaces, across the screen.
A Reddit user gave more detail of the situation: “It is not visible in every scene, as only one of the (I estimate three) cameras has a faulty sensor. For example, you can clearly see it in Dave Bautista’s reverse shot when he sits down in the diner at the beginning of the movie.”
Viewers noted that the “dead pixels” increase as the film goes on, and some complained that it made the viewing experience distracting. Others joked that the movie should be called Army of the Dead Pixels.
It may not be solely the movie’s fault: Reddit users pointed out that this has happened with Extraction and Jupiter’s Legacy, among other shows, via Variety.
A graphics expert at a top visual effects company said it was “highly unlikely” they would have missed the pixels in post-production.
“If auto-processing was not available for the given camera settings or was turned off to keep the workflow as ‘analog’ as possible, it would likely preserve these dead pixels,” the expert said to Variety.
At the same time, Zack Snyder just spoke out about the movie and potential spinoffs.