So the movie premiered on HBO last night, and I tuned in and cranked up the colour saturation to its maximum, and even though it’s just a minor detail, the viewing experience was a much improved one for me.
Seriously, this movie looks waaaaayyy better with boosted colours.
Yeah, the extremely desaturated dead-looking color grading is probably one of my biggest problems with the movie (along with the pointless spaceship montages). I don’t get why “real is brown” has become such a big thing with sci-fi and fantasy: pretty much the only modern show of that genre that actually looks alive is The Expanse (and even then it only looks half-alive).
George Miller commented on this when making Mad Max: Fury Road, saying he deliberately went against the trend of sci-fi and post-apocalyptic movies having drab, muted colours by making his latest entry in the Mad Max series as colourful as possible.