seriously like 16mm quality is much better, it all depends on the equipment you use. warren miller uses 16mm and the shots look incredible, same goes for MSP and PBP.  Sometimes, yes, it can look kind of gritty, redtape for example is mostly shot on 16mm (except they used the GL1 in a couple shots i think, not possitive) and ya it has a destinctly different look then other 16mm films, but thats not to say that since there was one movie like that, that all 16mm shots look shitty.