but it's hard to watch movies with dark scenes because of it

The HDR feature of the monitor is great for dark scenes in a movie

This uses an algorithm to make standard definition content into HDR.Here is a dark scene that when HDR is off the person’s face is very bright, and as you chose for

This is only visible when displaying dark scene/

And while it can make colors really pop, and can get very bright, this monitor really doesn't do all that well, handling darker scenes

No detail is lost but things can end up looking a little milky when the scene goes really dark

However, if there is some differentiation still apparent in the dark black and bright white scenes, the HDR function will help pull them out of the background so you can differentiate the hidden person or scene in the dark background.

The stuff I watched in 4k looked great when the scenes were bright, but in any darkness at all it got hard to see