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Bond fans: "Ew. SPECTRE looked so awful. That brown/yellow piss color ruined it!"
Also Bond fans: "TENET is what a Bond film should look like."
The colouring and tone of Spectre was very classic, small-scale spy espionage which ended up downplaying the more larger than life sequences of the movie.
Valid issues with Spectre for sure. I suppose it just didn't bother me as much. It was maybe a little heavy in Mexico where it could have benefitted more from the colours of Dia Los Muertos, but I was happy with the feeling it created in Morocco.
I think the reason for that is bond film's are realistic spy film's, Tenet on the other hand seems to be a bit sc-fi or time traveling concept from what i have heard. There should be a limit to Color Grading in realistic film's. We can't expect something like this in a bond film, even though both film's (SF/Blade runner) had the same Cinematographer.
That's a bit of a stretch.
Maybe, but compared to Tenet and Blade Runner, they certainly are.
Apples and oranges, I think. And certainly not a valid example as to why a certain style of colour grading should not be utilised, in my opinion. If it were, all genre films would look the same.
Edit: to clarify, I don't think Tenet and Spectre look all that similar, based on the trailer.
I'm not saying Bond films are 100% realistic of course, but somewhere in between and closer to John LeCarre than Philip K Dick.
Apples and oranges in the sense that they are different genres, I think. There is very little realism in Spectre, irrespective of what you are comparing it to. It's not a "realistic spy film", no matter what way you cut it. Very few Bond films are.
Glad we agree on the rest though :)
Well, all I can really say to this without going wildly off-topic is that Blade Runner and Tenet also have overlapping genre trappings (with both of them being sci-fi in the broadest sense) and yet they look completely different. But, if you ask me, a sentient robot (these days, at least) is no more fantastical than a gentleman spy driving around in a gadget laden prototype car that costs a million pounds. However, I guess that just depends on your point of view on all things technological.
But I digress - considering we had the same thoughts on everything else, I think we're looking at the same painting - the same information - just from slightly different angles @NickTwentyTwo! An interesting conversation.
I haven't gone back and looked at it, but I got the impression it's very blue and cold. It's certainly more stylised than most movies.
It also leans on modernism fairly heavily: there's quite a lot in the way of more brutalist concrete mid-century stuff in there, whereas Spectre was very classical (the crater base and snowy institute aside). That's a production design decision rather than cinematography of course, but it all goes down the same hole
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I need to stop posting on here, keep going off topic lol, would rather talk about Bond :P
Well it is a Bond board, that seems reasonable! :)
They all die at the end of the trailer.
;)