I was just watching the cloverfield paradox for the first time yesterday, which is a pretty shit movie to be honest and one of the things that stuck out as particularly bad to me was their non-diegetic use of those red RGB flood lights just coming in at random moments that both weren't particularly well coordinated towards moments of emotional impact, and also, was completely unmotivated by the story or world.
It occurred to me that i had seen this before on many projects J.J. Abrams was associated with, in addition to the anamorphic bokeh and abuse of lens flares... But i had never really seen such a lazy, overly obvious example of it in practice.
And then, as i was finishing the latest season of Altered Carbon on netflix, it occurred to me that the neon sci-fi world provided some of the best examples of motivated RGB lighting in recent memory that just had this really gorgeous cinematic effect that in many cases helped to mirror the mindset of the characters.
Are there any other examples you guys can think of where RGB lighting was used where it absolutely shouldn't have been, or the wrong color was used lazily by shit filmmakers? Or examples of times where it was used extremely well? Obviously this is a great new tool we have as filmmakers, but i don't think we should just become lazy with how we use it for storytelling just because it looks cool.
