Almost every single movie released since the turn of this century has washed out colour or tinted all blue or all brown. It is getting tiresome, irritating and hard on the eyes. I believe this is done digitally in processing in Avid. Some movies benefit from this but not every single bleeding film!
Compare the new Robin Hood with the earlier technicolor hollywood versions and you'll see what I mean.
The 70s and early 80s used film stock that was a little heavy on the browns and throughout the 80s this improved until we got faithful colour reproduction. In the 90s most films had bright, vibrant colours, The Fifth Element for example.
Obviously when you have reached the top the only way is down so now we have to suffer with monochrome!
He wrote me sad Mother’s Day stories. He’d always kill me in the stories and tell me how bad he felt about it. It was enough to bring a tear to a mother’s eye.
—Connie Zastoupil, U. S. mother of Quentin Tarantino, director of film Pulp Fiction. Rolling Stone, p. 76 (December 29, 1994)
Another thing they do is to make it all dark around the edges and over exposed in the point of interest. A sort of viginetting. If these were done optically it wouldn't be so bad but the digital effects are so obvious, distracting and downright ugly.
A good example is the last Rocky film. Here they over exposed the film so all highlights were blown then "corrected" the exposure on Avid. It looks horrible.
Please this isn't the 20s. I want colour along with my sound. Or is sound the next to go. One step forward 60 years back.
Oh absolutly, those are other things I hate. Speaking too quietly. Music being louder than the dialogue. At home I have to turn the centre speaker up to hear what they are saying. All actors should get theatre training I think.
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
—Robert Bresson (b. 1907)
I hate all that over exagerrated hand held stuff. The camera operator should be sacked if he/she can't hold it steady. What happened to steadycams anyway?
Like I say when you've reached the best movies can be, the peak of story, effects, camera, sound, etc. the only way is down.
Is hollywood dying?.