The Orange & Teal Age of Hollywood

I've read up on this before, and yes, it's kind of everywhere. Over use or mis use of digital color correction is IMHO a big problem these days

All Michael Bay films take place between 5pm & 5:30pm. Fact.

Too true Nooj.

And this thread makes me miss Paul McCartney.

You don't remember Paul McCartney the Chewer would regularly rail against the colour palette of modern films?

He may have been a loon but he also talked a bunch of sense occasionally.

McCartney was hilarious, I miss his knack for kitschy silliness. He was also about a million times more interesting than the dull people who thought he was trolling by not conforming to what 'good' movie lovers are supposed to think. I didn't agree with him that much but he usually had an interesting point of view.

I feel that the use of these colors no longer has meaning. It's not about evoking a mood, it's jut to make everything pop and look slick, even when some films  would benefit from a more natural color pallet. Directors no longer have to put in effort to achieve these colors, so they just do it thoughtlessly with no greater purpose. Everything just ends up looking the same. At least the magic hour look evokes a specific time of day. So many films are just shot in unnatural, unearthly hues now

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Originally Posted by mcnooj82 

I wasn't really active when he was, so I read most of McCartney's posts from going back to old threads.  Maybe it was different for those who actually posted back then at the time, but I couldn't get enough of his posts.

I remember the post Devin finally banned him for (until he left), from some Star Trek thread. It was just a headshot of John De Lancie coupled with an almost identical headshot of him wearing the Q headdress, with the subtitle "A true chameleon..." in huge hot pink letters, or something like that. Something about that fucking cracked me up, not least the fact that it apparently pissed Devin off so much.

This isn't very on topic.