Ryan McAvoy said:
Just that what's out now will soon date. As you said the over saturated visual eye-sore like films like 'The Kings Speech', 'Skyfall' etc will date very quickly. Digital Graders are just excited by their new toys and will learn to not tinker wih every shot til the faces are half orange/half blue in time. They'll realise that the rich, wam and realistic palettes of 70s and 80s films like SW, 'The Godfather' and 'Raiders' are infact timeless.
Maybe. I've been waiting a long time for 70's film pacing to come back, and my conclusion is it's gone for good. Maybe a single film will get close (Lone Star had great pacing, for example). But you're right--some of these things are certain to lose their novelty in the long run. I just can't be sure which ones. I certainly hope "films with more than two colors" isn't a description used in history books to describe how films from the latter twentieth century are visually unique...