There are so many crises in the world that it can be hard to keep track of who is shilling for what. From children's hospitals to pet shelters to global warming to electoral politics, it's easy to tune out the celebrity activism because there's so much of it and so little of it is related to anything celebrities actually do.
So it was refreshing to see Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie push for a cause near and dear to my heart: the end of motion smoothing.
What is motion smoothing, you might ask. Well, let's let Maverick himself explain the wickedness that is "video interpolation": Motion smoothing essentially gives pictures exactly that - smoother motion, an effect generated by the television "guessing" how an image should look between frames.
The effect is unnatural to eyes trained to receive images at 24 frames per second. As Cruise and McQuarrie note in their video, the effect essentially makes film look a bit like a daytime soap opera or telenovela.
The few viewers who have seen films shot at 48 frames per second, such as the Hobbit movies, have experienced something similar.