• MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    God I hate this. Few things will turn me off a show quicker than those ridiculous filters they use. I’ve been to Mexico, it’s not sepia toned.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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      4 hours ago

      Mexico is actually very colourful in the cities, it’s really beautiful! US / Canada is concrete gray in comparison.

      I think the US media made Mexico yellow to make themselves feel better tbh.

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      9 hours ago

      I first noticed this extreme in the movie Traffic, and it hasn’t gotten much more subtle.

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      16 hours ago

      Its like the cinema version of brown-n-bloom from games of the 7th console generation. Filmographers discovered digital filters as a new tool so of course they are they going to use the new toy everywhere.

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        6 hours ago

        It’s depressing how some of those games could have looks so colorful and great preHDR in consoles. Look to little big planet, or viva pinata.

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            8 hours ago

            There are places where it’s used well. The Matrix, for example. Someone elseThread said Max Max: Fury Road, and I agree on that. Those are… at the moment… the only two that aren’t abominations of decolouring, though.

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              15 minutes ago

              I don’t think the first three Matrix films are color-graded. The first one for sure is merely tinted. The process doesn’t seem to exist before O Brother, Where Art Thou. At least it wasn’t applied to whole films.

              But yeah, Mad Max gets a pass for being all desert and sky. When someone has mango skin and key-lime eyes in a Miss Marple episode, fuck off.