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).
Has it? BR 2049 is pretty colorful, depending where they are of course. But yeah, color grading is one thing that can really put me off even though a movie was good. If I see even a glimpse of a movie/TV show with teal/orange thing going on, not going to watch it.
I guess that movie was pretty colorful, although it was more because of heavy tinting than because of high saturation in general. But besides that movie, my point about most sci-fi looking way too dull still stands. Also, it’s pretty ironic that the same person who directed BR2049 also directed Dune, the movie I was complaining about in the first place.