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12-21-2008, 01:10 PM
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Colorized Movies...Your Opinions...
I've personally never cared for them.But I watched a colorized version of the original 1951 THE THING and wow was it nicely done...added a new dimension to the movie.
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12-21-2008, 01:31 PM
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I'm sure that the technology for this process has come a little way since I last watched one. But, I think B&W preserves many things that make great movies great.
Modern movies are sometimes shot in B&W for effect, of which I'm sure there are many opinions as to why.
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12-21-2008, 01:52 PM
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I don't think any great B&W movies gain anything from being colourized (Colorized for you Yanks). Shooting B&W was very different then shooting colour, and the look they went with just wouldn't work in colour.
i mean, can you imagine The Third Man in colour? Also, another problem is the fact that they really don't know what colour a lot of things really were. I guess the most famous example is Frank Sinatra being given brown eyes....
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12-21-2008, 07:42 PM
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only if done with crayons...
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12-21-2008, 07:43 PM
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The filmmaker did the film in B&W for a reason - whatever that reason might have been. I think it's just monumental arrogance to mess with someone else's art by assuming the film will be "better" in "color". All the colorized films I ever saw looked like pure D shite. Can you imagine Dr. Strangelove, A Touch of Evil or Casablanca in that crappy chalky so-called "color"? I cringe at the mere thought.
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12-21-2008, 08:01 PM
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Hate 'em, don't mess with a good thing. Also hate the fully restored color films. Both attempts make the image unreal.
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12-22-2008, 10:25 AM
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No Mr Lime would not look right in color.
Great black and white: Paths of glory. Spy who came in from the cold.
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12-22-2008, 02:24 PM
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I was looking for a copy of Hitchcocks "Strangers on a Train" could only find colourised, refused to buy it
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12-22-2008, 02:47 PM
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Other memorable B&W movies that would gain nothing and lose a lot from
colorization: To Kill a Mocking Bird Psycho (the real 1960 thing) The Elephant Man Another example of a basically useless technology that is trying to make money for its inventors...
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12-22-2008, 02:52 PM
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Urgh. Many years ago, when it was the new thing, I was only able to find a film I wanted to rent in a colourized videotape. Some adjustment to the TV controls and I had it back to black and white.
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12-22-2008, 02:55 PM
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Leave 'Em Be!
I distinctly remember an acquaintance making a stupid remark walking out of the theater about how he didn't like Schindler's List because it was filmed in B&W. I never understood that guy.
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