The first counter-thought about that would instantly be something like this "It's just a movie", "relax and enjoy the fun".
My argument would be: I can't relax and enjoy, because the colors on the giant canvas I'm focusing my eyes on are totally off putting, to say exactly they destroy the sense of believe.
If one thing pulls you out of a movie, the latest thing to do so should be the actual visuals.
One can say a movie is 50% visuals and 50% sound.
The eyes however do a much larger part occupying the brain. Say every color takes a part of brain-power, there are 3 colors and the millions of various shades the brain can calculate out of those.
According to that I would say; 75% of the sensory experience in a movie is visuals.
The story does not take brain-power in the context of being sensory, but is instead processed solely by logic.
A story can be a wonderful in modern movies, still.
There are movies I really looked forward to watching; i.e. Interstellar, Jurassic World, Mad Max. The reason and solely so I can't watch those movies, are the colors.
I can no longer commit myself to a movie when I'm constanly flooded by a flash of un-natural colors.
A movie should never be just a movie, but a complex piece of art that's a masterful combination of various elements.
The argument of just being a movie is so futile that it does not even count.
Say that to Spielberg, say that to yourself and you go watch a porn, because it's still a movie after all.
In reality every little detail does indeed count.
The other point being; that if it's just a movie anyway, everyone is condemning himself from making any critique at all.
Constantly I feel under-involved and reduced to a sensory idiot.
It feels like trying to walk, while someone is forcing you to use a clutch.
Those colors that are imposed generally in modern blockbuster movies, not just blockbusters but actually every, dam, single movie.
One can strife off the genre to the artfilm genre or independent, comedy, drama and post-apocalyptic movies, they all look the same.
And the same is nor a overstatement or bold generalization. It is the absolut unmasked truth.
This would not be a problem actually if there would still be variety - but at is has become a absolute degree of measure, a guideline or chart of how to present a movie that nobody dare can leave and is absolutely constrained to, no exclusivity from ever.
Not even the new Star Wars movie seems to be able leaving this cage.
Jurassic World could not.
Indiana Jones 4 did and every future movie, without any denial will.
Expect there will soon be a change, that does not seem realistic at all.
No, I cannot watch a movie when someone is telling me the whole story from the beginning. I can't watch a movie if I'm basically insulted to ever use my brain on my own for one moment.
The eyesight of a human being has evolved during the past several million years.
A perfectly developed tool to process visual information that is so darn accomplished it can perceive depth, motion and finest variations of color-shades.
It is so precise that it is able distinguishing living beings from static backgrounds, in nearly every possible light-condition.
Now I'm steadily being dumbed down and guided by so called emotive color-choices, artistic expressions and visual crutches.
As if the picture is constantly trying to remind me of how to distuingish a human being from say a tree, some foliage or various background.
It's like mommy trying to tell you "be careful of the dangers in this world", "teacher trying to ask you the solution of 1+1".
Thank you very much, modern movie! -- I'm capable of processing the visual information myself. Thank you for making me feel like a underdeveloped stupid fool.
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This is not even the film-makers fault, but the producers. The more money involved, the more likely the color-choice will be in control be the share-holders.
Producers are automatically going for that look they see in every other movie, the circle endlessly continues. They are so scared that they are completely deluded of making a sane decision.
This is absolutely the same that happened those past 20 years in the music-industry.
When mixing-engineers were forced to make the mix a little bit louder, just make it sound like everybody else's, point being that jealousy of a louder mix forces you to sacrifice the overall quality to just become a little bit louder. So every year the mainstream increased by a few dB until they reached the level of unrecoverable damage to the material.
The analogy is striking. Modern colors are almost completely deprived of any colors, the whole spectrum is compressed to two colors only; teal and orange.
This is no way a artistic choice but a total constraint of variety.
It's become so bad that movies are literally black and white again, expect teal and orange.
The last movie I'm aware off that dares to try something different from the omni-present, dominating teal and orange look, is the latest project by Quentin Tarantino -- The Hateful Eight
See this page for information:
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/449851-the-hateful-eight-to-premiere-in-70mm-on-christmas-day#/slide/1
Now here is a man that dares trying to be different, doing his own thing. So un-deluded that he is using a rare format of filming not being used the past 50 years, in 70mm.
He is trying to outfit 50 cinemas with the proper equipment to even being able presenting the movie.
This movie is going for natural 100% unbiased visuals.
And people are praising Quintin Tarantino's work over and over. They literally applaud the genious of his film.
Take that for being stuck up, Hollywood. You are a giant coward.
How about getting unstuck and just trying to use natural colors for once?
courtesy www.comingsoon.net
