No shortage of people on IMDB credited as "colorist - digital color correction" for 4-5 feature films in a year.

The issue isn't production pace, but favoring a blue-tinted desaturated gritty aesthetic over a comic book inspired vibrant one.

Also, naming "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" as a precedent for the trend of heavily color graded films is a bit misleading. Color grading is _required_ for film processing, and lots of filmed features made aesthetic use of it. What was unique about Pleasantville (1998) and "OBWAT?" (2000) is the were the first features to do it digitally, rather than by color timing in film development.

They should quit chasing Amy and get back to work.

Earliest one I can think of is The Matrix

Hi I make movies and work heavily in post.

Absolutely this trend started with Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

While color timing was always a thing, OBWAT was the first use of DI ( digital intermediate) which made the process a thing DPs and directors could supervise and direct in real time, changing the CC process from a general look and continuity pass to something much more involved and subject to much more thought.

This was the first time color timing was used to drastically rethink the look of a movie.

The Matrix was not a DI film.

I bet Matrix 2 & 3 were - they went back to the first one and changed it to look like them.

It's so different it's not even close -

https://youtu.be/gtktg9hbC_g

Hmm, they inversed the color schemes.

Original had the matrix bright and colorful while the real world was bleak and the redo was with the real world being colorful while the matrix was bleak.

Brilliant analogy, Bus.

Homerbola claims another victim

The virus can remain in the testicles and eyeballs for years...

'Homerbola'

Hah! That's a 5!

Just give The Dark Knight the credit it deserves as a cinematic break through. It is by far one of the most influential films ever made.

lol no.

IMDB Top 250: #4
Rotten Tomatoes: 94% from critics and audiences
Box office: Over a billion dollars
Academy Awards: 8 Noms, 2 wins.
101 other awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Th e_Dark_Knight

Cena's post has logical arguments supported by evidence; SlowRo and brasag post "lol no".

Cena wins!

This is also part of the reason why Trump won. I'll bet if Trump were having a rally and someone yelled, "Dude, Where's My Car? is the greatest film ever!" Trump would say, "I agree, Dude, Where's My Car? is an amazing film. One of the best. Incredible film." Whereas, Hillary would start yammering on about how children need to be exposed to more foreign and black and white movies.

"If elected President, I will see to it that Dude, Where's My Car? get's the accolades and credit it deserves as a cinematic masterpiece. I will force AFI to include it on it's Top 100 list, and I'll make it part of the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. It will also take the Academy Award for best picture from American Beauty."

I can agree with the last point. American Beauty hasn't aged well. In retrospect it shouldn't have won best picture.

And then Hillary would bomb the countries who made those foreign black and white movies.

Only country Trump wants to bomb is Iran, and their film industry sucks.

ahaha we've really set you off this time mate huh? :^]

No, you didn't.

Are we all still pretending they're not the same person?

Pretty sure SolBag and BawRo are two different people, dude.

Anyways, it's all about the MHGA Mindset. It's about how Donald Trump, and Superhero movies, are going to Make Hollywood Great Again.

Comics have always embraced the Heroic Realism of 20th century Americana: Duty, Obedience, Government, Progressivism, Sacrifice for the collective good, Violence metted out against the enemies of our ideology and our way of life. All attempts to infect American superheros with the cynical, degenerate spirit of entartete kunst - like Watchmen, or dumb hipster comics like Persepolis - have failed. The Prometheans, Marvel and DC, have been freed of the shackles of print. They rise above, elevating our culture, and now that China has developed a taste for Hollywood blockbusters, there is nothing crappy films like Amelie can do to stop them!

I'm like 5 different people on this site apparently, depending on which raving idiot you ask.

amelie- aka "fisher price my first foreign film"

They both have the exact same shtick, pony-obsession, and 90% of their comments are endlessly replying to each other.

thanks! i can't claim to have come up with it though

movies fucking suck now

I want to see LIGHT

this seems reasonable. fantastic beasts had "scuff-up" looking black values.

Quoting this video will definitely get you the poon.

"color grading... first used in O Brother, Where Art Thou"



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"Digital cinematography can look amazing" [shot of Pacific Rim]






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His whole readjustment experiment around 3:40 really id a good job of demonstrating how you can take something whose color balance looks like it was shot on beta and make it look like an antidepressant commercial from 1999.

Using Jpiter Ascending as a counterpoint. I'm done.



Can we please have a "turd polishing" tag?

This guy's entire argument is he thinks the contrast knob should be turned up.

Boner, he made a good case. What's your plan? Should we use film like the Lumiere brothers did? Wake up man, it's 2016.

It's uncanny his ability to be objectively wrong about subjective opinions.

Yup, for capeshit it's not at all bad! The humour falls flat IMHO but if you're a Doc Strange fan it's a fairly enjoyable cinematic outing.

Capeshit? That's a pretty derogatory label for the genre that saved Hollywood.

Not sure what it even means, but sounds kinda racist.

u sound kinda racist

Since around the 00s, it seems like only every other Cohen movie is great. For every Fargo, we get a Burn After Reading, The Lady Killers, or Hail Caesar.

Basically every time they star an A-lister it ends up being a C movie.

Also I really fucking hate George Clooney.