it's often crazy to put on a foreign film and see vibrant colors. it's almost like a religious experience. who knew green looked like green? american color graders are just like 'lets turn the brightness down to barely being able to see anything on the screen.'

I'd settle for muted colors if things were lit at all at this point. So many movies feel like they filmed in an abandoned warehouse at midnight with all the lights turned off.

A movie video essayist I watch did a good video I share with non cinema folks about the lack of colors in marvel movies.

You might enjoy it: Why do Marvel movies look kind of ugly?

I thought the main point of OLED was blacker blacks. But, I don't have one.

And, yes, the trend of applying an overall color and contrast wash to different scenes in a movie, and entire movies, has gone too far.

It's even more stupid when you consider the availability of HDR and Dolby Vision.

Suddenly you have access to high quality color mapping features thst formerly relied on you using expensive film to ensure you get all the colors you want, both pre and post processing.

But then you just take a dump all over it with an awful color grade that makes using HDR almost pointless.

I went with TCL MiniLED which has awesome contrast and deep blacks due to their newer backlight tech so it's essentially a poor man's OLED, and the films that actually used HDR/DV to their advantage look absolutely stunning. MI7's opening with the submarine looks awesome with the contrast of the characters and their deep red and green displays illuminating the scene.

There's a whole separate subcategory of this complaint titled, "Color Grading Fucking Up Re-Releases."

I think one of the LoTR editions is grossly color-graded, and streaming Buffy The Vampire Slayer will give you color grading in conflict with the narrative, but you'll likely be too distracted by the bizarre framing to notice.

Slight digression: "The demon that eats colors" would be an interesting addition to Magic: The Gathering, if it doesn't exist already in some form

Pazuzu rose to the position of chief post-editing demon around 2015 when Takihi, "the demon who eats beautiful actresses' clothing" retired/was cancelled under mysterious circumstances. His most ardent worshippers refer to this event as "Gamergate"

I saw Rebel One in theaters. The inky blacks of space were turned into a staticky grey, which I didn't notice until the end of the movie when they got back to the beautiful anthracite that is the entire reason I want to see things happen in outer space.

Got any screenshots for examples?