War films and Blue filters - give it a rest! (1 Viewer)

[Patrick Sun]

Who else is getting sick and tired of the use of blue filters used to shoot war time scenes?

It seems just about every new war film uses the blue filters to show the bleakness and harshness of war. I'm tired of the technique. Please go back to the unfiltered look, I'd like to see what color the uniforms really looked like back then.

 

[Patrick McCart]

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams. - Willy Wonka (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

 

[Coressel]

What recent war film besides BHD relied heavily on blue hues?

 

[Patrick Sun]

Gladiator (the initial fight scenes), Hart's War.

 

[Guy_K]

Traffic did this as well.
It's a film about the war on drugs

 

[andreasingo]

I have noticed that too and I'm tired to death of it!

STOP THE MADNESS!

 

[Michael Reuben]

the unfiltered look

Unless you're talking about shooting "Dogma" style, I don't think there is such a thing. Getting images to look "natural" takes a lot of artifice.

M.

 

[Andrew_Sch]

I like filters. That is all.