Modern movie posters are all orange and blue

Slashfilm has a fascinating post that points out how modern movie posters are all in shades of orange and blue, and they offer lots of examples to illustrate the point. Once you realize it, you notice it everywhere. And it's not just the posters using these colors, it happens in the actual movies too. Almost every blockbuster these days features orange-people and washed-out blue-ish backgrounds. A few decades from now, people will probably think the movies we see today, with their weird colors, crude CGI effects and bewildering ubiquity of Shia LaBeuof, are really tough to watch.

If you want to learn more about this peculiar graphic phenomenon, and learn to apply the technique to your own home movies, Stu Maschwitz has a tutorial on the subject.

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