Blog/Article about the changing color palette in films

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

An interesting (if whiny) article about how filmmakers are limiting their color spectrum:
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html

Or in example.. from this:

or this:

[akiratubo]

The article is spot on.  Almost every movie made today seems to be tinted blue or green.  If not, the colors are for some reason washed out and muted.  I hate either approach.  Give me actual colors, damn it!

Video games are guilty of this, too.  Everything is brown and grey.  Everything.  Even if you're in a jungle or forest, it's still brown and grey.  I think one of the reasons Nintendo Wii and DS games sell hand over fist is because they actually use *gasp* colors.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I like games with more color... even scary games.   
The real world has color, and I can believe a more colorful world, even if its less rendered (like the Wii).    I'd like to se emore realism in movies, rather than the stylized stuff this article talks about. Avatar, for its faults wasn't too bad about this. 
-Ed

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

You might be right about that, i was just thinking the vividness of the colors... not the grey muddiness, of say the Harry Potter image above.
-Ed

[odinn7]

Holy sh*t! I thought it was just my TV....

Seriously though, I have been hating this style of filming for a long time. I'm sick of everything being washed out in so many movies. I miss the days when a movie had a wide color spectrum like real life.

[akiratubo]

Oops, accidentally deleted my post about Avatar.     I'm not even drunk.  WTF?

[The Gravekeeper]

Ah yes, the infamous "teal and orange." Of course, this isn't the only overused colour palette in films. Got a movie set in the desert? Everything is yellow all the time. Cyberpunky movie? It's green, just like The Matrix. Horror? You're looking at a lot of blue.