I ran across this 4-year-old blog entry recently, and it's ruined movie-watching for me.
 
Except for extreme cases (e.g. Three Kings, The Matrix, Oh Brother Where Art Thou) I'd never really paid much attention to color manipulation. Now I see it everywhere, how digital TV and movie production has drifted further and further from reality.
 
Of course there's an obvious analogy here to the evolution of music production in the digital age.

I wonder how they would film St. Paddy's Day...
 
Sad stuff.  No wonder I never watch movies anymore!

So that's why I love them two colors so dang much. I'll swan!

I remember sometime in the mid to late 90's remarking that almost every music video had this kind of deep bottle green tinge to it. You can see an example in the video for Cher's "Believe" from 1998. 
 
I've also noticed that virtually all movie posters have the same kind of Photoshop processing. It's a kind of gold shimmer which makes everyone look like a wax dummy. In fact this generic processing on everything is part of what made me become so thoroughly bored of mainstream media. 

I watch mostly sci-fi ...not "real" color and auto tune soundtracks...why not?
 
I get enough "real" 10 hours a day and get paid for that because it sucks so bad.
 
 

I'd noticed, and it became even more obvious after I watched the making of Underworld - where it made sense to use this kind of colour treatment, imho. But yeah, they now systematically abuse it.
 
Monkey see monkey do.

The most obvious one being....
 

 
 
I'd never really noticed tbh, but then again I can't remember the last "new" film I felt compelled to watch.

Just wait till someone has an idea to fake Eastman Color... We'll be in for 30 years of abuse of that.

This fooling with color is the least of it. Films like "The Three Hundred: have lifted the Photoshop effect brushes to create a gouache comic book presentation with hybrid human/cybernetic actors. And more and more real actors are starring with a cybernetic cast. "The Life of Pi" is not the end of the trend that started with  "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." This kind of "visual wizardry" has begun to take on the instant cliché quality of the Cher vocal distortion effect in popular vocal music.
 
On the other hand, why should  a movie made for entertainment look "realistic." When all film makers had was black and white they did some amazingly inventive things with plain old light bulbs. The luminous quality of some of the most respected black and white films is highly praised by people who never felt the need to ask, "Where the heck is that light coming from?" And this stuff goes back to the Renaissance masters, whose paintings clearly did not always depict the source of light accurately.

If it's a choice that the director and cinematogropher make, I'm usually OK with it.  Just like they may also choose to go with monochrome if it fits the story.  If it's just another gimmick like some films use 3-D, I'll probably hate it.