Colorized Movies...Your Opinions...

[Pyrrho]

Originally Posted by starcycle

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Hell, I think it's outrageous that they even "computerized" the original Star Trek series with gaudy CGI. Retouching some skin blotches and flaws in the film and that kind of thing to RESTORE the original is one thing, but adding something completely new and different is way out of line, in my opinion. Not to mention presumptuous. Like I said, if we had taken that approach with Shakespeare's plays or other art work, a lot of it wouldn't even be recognizable today. I think that does a massive disservice to the historical record as well as to the artist.

In the case of Star Trek, you can buy it either with or without the new CGI. I saw some of the episodes in HD on TV, and decided I did not like the new effects, so I bought the DVDs that have the original effects. I can tell you, however, why they did the CGI and that is because the original effects do not have the same picture clarity as the normal picture. You see, the original was filmed, so it can be made into true HD, but when the effects were originally made, they planned on just showing it on TV, not at a cinema, so the clarity and so forth of the effects were done to be good enough for analog NTSC TV only.

Now, I do agree that they should have tried to make the new effects more like the original, but, still, in this case, you can buy the original if you want the original. (Actually, you get the original picture, but you don't get the original sound, which annoys me. It is fine that they remastered the sound in surround sound, but I wish they also included the original mono track. Since DVDs allow for multiple soundtracks, there is no good reason for them to have left it off.)