Maybe one can draw a comparison between the critics of the 1880s complaining about “harsh blue and garish lilac”, and the current complaints about movies being

Maybe one can draw a comparison between the critics of the 1880s complaining about “harsh blue and garish lilac”, and the current complaints about movies being color-graded to teal and orange (“Seriously, I weep for cinema of this dark age. I think twenty years from now people will look at films of this era and say "My God - what were they smoking??!?” ---http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...). In both cases, the colors are striking and beautiful, or depending on your tastes, cheap and garish.