strong movie opinion
I think certain trends in color design have rendered many recent movies nearly unwatchable (or at least just a lot less fun to watch than they could be).
They always just ignore the storytelling potential of color and make everything blue and orange in post which makes the whole thing drab and soupy. You need all the other colors to provide contrast and direct attention. Red is so important since it's the color that attracts the most attention, and a lot of times people just leave it out of their palette completely.
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It's normal in film making to talk about diegetic vs. non-diegetic sound (sound that exists within the world of the movie and can be heard by the characters vs. sound that only exists for the sake of the audience). But I don't really hear people apply the same concepts to color. The way movies are colored sometimes feels like if a movie had a really loud musical score but whenever anything in the movie looks like it should make a noise it's completely silent. Sure you can set an overall mood with music, but a vital connection to the actual action in the film is totally missing.
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An amazing example of this is the film Schindler's List, though it definitely takes it to an extreme, rather than the more subtle ways that it definitely still holds true.