Usually the wrongness is orange and teal. Check the date of this blog post.

Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

March 14, 2010

Zack Snyder boldly went in a new far more horrible dimension. Apparently the entire movie makes it seem that the characters are in a fish bowl lit by purple and green lights. I only watched ~5m so far. I muted it and fast-forwarded to see how much more of this shit I'd have to watch before the palette changed to something sane. I figured I'd have to watch 5 more minutes tops. I figured wrongly. The whole thing? That's crazy.

I hoped this movie would be mindless fun. If I was lucky - it would be so bad it's good. I expect I'll watch ~10m and give up on it.

Color grading

Color grading is a post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing of altering the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices. Various attributes of an image such as contrast, color, saturation, detail, black level, and white balance may be enhanced whether for motion pictures, videos, or still images.

Color grading and color correction are often used synonymously as terms for this process and can include the generation of artistic color effects through creative blending and compositing of different layer masks of the source image. Color grading is generally now performed in a digital process either in a controlled environment such as a color suite, and is usually done in a dim or dark environment.

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In Hollywood, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the first film to be wholly digitally graded.

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Edit 1

I started watching it again and I had to pause it after just a minute and take a screengrab. It's a far better example of the problem. I changed the image to that.

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Edit 2

I grabbed this rip.

Rebel Moon Part One A Child Of Fire 2023 1080p NF WEB-DL DDP5.1 Atmos DV HEVC-CMRG

TIL...

  • DV = Dolby Vision
  • HEVC = High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
  • CMRG = [The release group?]
  • AlicePraxis
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    5 months ago

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    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Dovi is supposed to fail over to hdr10, idk why webrips are really bad about that.

      • AlicePraxis
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        5 months ago

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      • koberulz@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        That's true for disc, which has to be widely compatible, but not for streaming where you can easily throw up either an HDR10 or DV stream based on the user's equipment.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Does it look like your screenshot? Because that looks like dovi metadata not processing properly. But also all dovi screenshots looks like that so not sure if that's what you viewed or not.

    Apparently the entire movie makes it seem that the characters are in a fish bowl lit by purple and green lights.

    Check your player settings or get an HDR10 version. If you see purple and green it means the dovi metadata isn't being processed and the hdr10 passthrough failed. Not color grading but the tonemapping is completely failing on your setup for some reason.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      I don't understand the tech stuff but you're probably right and the rip and/or my system is screwing things up.

  • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    For a while there was a bug with Chromecast ultra, Netflix, and some Samsung TVs where all Netflix HDR content would be purple and green like this. That was back in like 2019.

    I watched a whole ass movie like that thinking it was just a stylistic choice lol.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    the trailer doesn't look like that for the record

    update: so I just checked on actual netflix and it hast the kind of ugly muddy brown color grading that so many "gritty" movies have these days but it's definitely not green and purple

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      If you interested - in other sub-threads people are explaining what my issue surely is. Dovi [Dolby Vision] something-something. HDR10 something-something.

      • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        who's got time for all that

        anything fancier than a DVD is bourgeois decadence

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          11 months ago

          Up until a few minutes ago - I thought "encoding" (avi, mp4, etc) was all I needed to know.

          I grabbed this rip...

          Rebel Moon Part One A Child Of Fire 2023 1080p NF WEB-DL DDP5.1 Atmos DV HEVC-CMRG

          And now I have learned I have to avoid DV. I'll probably avoid googling "High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)" and avoid rips with that too.

          • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            ugh it's silly on the audio side too

            5.1? Atmos? I got two speakers, one for each ear

  • culpritus [any]
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    11 months ago

    I just got a webrip of it out of curiosity, and I noticed this as well when checking the quality. If the whole thing looks like this, that is sadly hilarious. Maybe this is Zach's vision of a unique noir vibe for sci fi?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      Maybe this is Zach's vision of a unique noir vibe for sci fi?

      Ah! That's got to be it. He wanted to make a Star Wars ripoff but give it deniability. The lead character is a woman. Instead of a Landspeeder - she plows with a space horse. But Zach must have decided the movie needed a vastly different visual look too. So he made it green and purple space noir.

      • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Snyder's elevator pitch: "Okay, so, like... Star Wars. But hornier."