ELI5, Why do larger things appear to fall much slower, does it appear slower or is it actually slow?

Question

I was watching some ‘end of the world’ movies, and quite a few of them seem to a have a shot of a massive skyscraper collapsing. But this look very slow almost as if in slow motion. Even in movies that show perspective of insects, human actions are much slower ( the pest killer scene in the ant bully)

So is this just a weird thing movies implement to make it look cool or is this an actual phenomenon and why does it occur?

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Is it just me, or do airplanes look super slow irl too? Even when they’re near the ground and not far away.