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The tinted look.

posted 15 years ago by Hysteria28
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Was is it with all the movies these days being shot with a bleached tinted look ?. It is so retarded and spoils the enjoyment of the movie. The first movie didn't have it. Some may think it's cool, but I don't.

[–] Fumbled 15 years ago

example screen cap?

[–] Hysteria28 15 years ago

Could you please tell me more.

[–] Fumbled 15 years ago

I meant I don't get what you're talking about. Do you have an example picture?

[–] Hysteria28 15 years ago

Compare the picture quality of 'fast and furious' to ' The fast and the furious'. There is a difference. I'm referring to the picture filter.

[–] Derek_Smart 14 years ago

I know what you mean. A lot of recent movies use this. I also noticed that Mousehunt and Con Air (both from 1997. Maybe it's because I watched them in HD though? I don't know.) used this filter as well since they were aired in the past couple of days.

[–] thenikesquad 14 years ago

i know exxxxactly wat u mean, i think atleast.
i think gone in sixty seconds didnt have it either
i think the new tinted look takes it away from the realness

[–] Hysteria28 14 years ago

The texas chainsaw massacre from 2006 had it too. It seems to be some new breakthrough in presenting movies. I don't think so. It ruined it for this movie. Scenes which are shot in dark surroundings can be difficult to make out.

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[–] Hysteria28 14 years ago

Are you sure ?. It was present throughout the entire movie.

[–] super16g 14 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean. I do remember Cohen saying that for the first movie he really wanted the cars to "pop" so they even went so far as to repaint people's houses on that one street beige so the cars' coloring would stand out.

I haven't listed to the director's narrative for any of the other films.

[–] Hysteria28 14 years ago

The entire movie carried the yellow bleached look. It is a color filter of some sort that they use.

[–] rfa_93 14 years ago

It's the new craze of color-scheming in Hollywood.

Also, I saw an interview where Justin Lin pointed out that they intentionally created different color schemes for Dom and Brian.

Brian's always in cool color-tones, while Dom is surrounded by reds and oranges.

[–] brifitz1980 12 years ago

It's become such a big thing because of new digital technology. Used to be that if you wanted to have stylized lighting scheme it required you to be a perfectionist like James Cameron (think Terminator 2 & it's lighting schemes in different scenes.)

Back in those days you needed precise lighting setups, camera filters and a lot of understanding about color correction to get those effects. Now thanks to digital technology even movies that were shot on film are color corrected digitally. They scan the film into the computer during editing and than color correction is basically Photoshop with a timeline. With just a few mouse clicks you can make your outdoor scenes orange tinted and your institutional sequences cold blue. You can even go frame-by-frame and tint a character's face different from the background.