[Oscar Rivera]

I know this thread is really old but thought it was really interesting that I sould put my two cents

This is just my opinion and a personal belief
But I believe that 24fps has a more cinematic feel for several reasons that I came to think over time:

First one and the very basic is that when they started determining the frame speed in the old film era, is because they came to the conclusion that the best approach of moving pictures that is the closest to real life speed and pace was 24 filmed images per second and I think it stayed like that for as long as the industry kept when they were shooting film, I think that we became very accustomed to link the idea of cinema with a 24fps feel, another reason that I believe that was the choice is because it is really close to what the human eye/brain perceives reality with its vision. When we see rapid movement of things we perceive it with some strobe effect to it, and 24fps can achieve that, whereas with 30 fps is more smooth because the images are being received by an electronic camera which processes light and motion in a very artificial way which the human eye cant perceive naturally. Another reason is aesthetics, it’s kind of like the question of what assets can make something look cheap or classy by style, in this case, our brains and our eyes are used to the fact that whenever there has been a “good movie” and a “well produced” or acclaimed movie, it has that 24fps characteristic attached to it, whereas we are also used to seeing cheap , bad quality works usually shot for TV with a lesser than perfect quality that has been shot generally in 30fps so our brains immediately relate the cheap factor to 30fps and associate class to a 24fps production. Just like anything in the visual arts realm, it is a matter of perception and what people have accepted over time.