I've noticed the same thing too - the tones used for the sky and sea aren't very suggestive of a Pacific ambience.
As for the "movie-style" filter, I am not sure why this was implemented. My graphics card has a built-in option to produce a black and white movie-type output - if I wanted this feature I (and anyone else with a reasonably modern card) could enable it on my own. IMHO the resources that were used for this might have been better spent elsewhere...
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