I've been aware of this "style" for a couple of years now, but never had it taken me so out of a movie like this time. It doesn't really fit a movie set in the ealry 80's.
Everytime Abel was on screen he had orange skin! Pretty much like the Yellow Bastard from Sin City. If the actors had been wearing clown's noses the whole time, it would have been less annoying.
I agree. The colorgrading on this otherwise well-made movie was a bit too the extreme side. It did put me off more than a few times during the movie.
shareI found the teal and orange so extreme that it was distracting.
Also, their color 'correction' was inconsistent. In some scenes, the blue NYC cop cars would really pop. In others, they were a more realistic, normal blue. In one scene, the door of their house was vibrant teal. In the next it was just a light blue.
Sometimes the people on screen looked like Oompa Loompas. Like the scene where the main character confronts the fat bald guy in the barber shop. At one point, it was so blown out that I could see artifacts in the man's face!
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I bet the mayority of viewers don't even realise this. Or maybe they'll just think "there's something off"... it can be done more subtle.
I mean, take a look at the trailer and posters for the new MAD MAX... an orgy in teal and orange. I don't think this trend is going to stop anytime soon.