Stalker (Сталкер) Eight Reasons Why The Hero's Journey Sucks. Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness. Those of you who watch a lot of Hollywood movies may have noticed a certain trend that has consumed the industry in the last few years. It is one of the most insidious and heinous practices that has ever overwhelmed the industry.
Am I talking about the lack of good scripts? Do I speak of the dependency of a few mega-blockbuster hits to save the studios each year, or of the endless sequels and television retreads? No, I am talking about something much more dangerous, much deadlier to the health of cinema. I speak of course, of THE COLOR GRADING VIRUS THAT IS TEAL & ORANGE!!! This is the insidious practice of color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange like this: Or this: So how did we get here, you may ask. The Cohen brothers ushered in the new era of digital color grading with their excellent 2000 film, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou. " This was the first feature film to be entirely scanned into a computer, a process known as "Digital Intermediary", or DI.
Doomsday Movie Directory - over 400 end of the world movies. The Quiet Earth 1985 In praise of the sci-fi corridor. There's a moment in every geek's life when one goes for the 'communal hug' on a pet-subject and finds oneself unexpectedly out in the cold. The piano player stops playing. The landlord shakes his head as his eyes head heavenward, and he slinks away to rearrange the crisps. The lonely sound of a misdirected dart is all that haunts the otherwise silent pub. And it's definitely time to get your anorak. "You like what...? " Corridors in science-fiction movies. I wasted too much of my childhood and youth imitating and developing the superb production sketches of Ron Cobb, Syd Mead, Ralph McQuarrie and many others. Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another.
Here's what started me off... The designs that Roger Christian synthesised from Ron Cobb's prolific and extraordinary conceptual sketches for Alien (1979) are lingered over lovingly at the start of the movie.