Colourised Films

[maturin]

Originally Posted by PaulPlowman Who on Earth thought that going to the effort of colourising Plan 9 from Outer Space would make it more appealing to anyone? The only reason that it's so well known is because it's so bad. What were they trying to do, make it even worse?

Perhaps that really was their cunning plan.... It makes as much sense as any other reason.
By the same 'logic' the remake of The Producers should have been in black and white.



Richard

[lordtednfs]

Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett List of colourised films. I am appalled.

I find it hard enought to get my family to watch a really decent b+w movie, maybe they would watch a colourized version, but I for one would not.

I once tried to watch a colourized version of It's A Wonderful Life and it totally took away the magic and the meaning of the movie, you could feel and really see the despair in James Stuart's face when watching it in b+w but not in colour. Let's hope they don't try to "destroy" real gems by colourizing them.

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Hooked off the line

[Sweeney Todd]

quote: "Some of the films on the list, which includes the technicolored The Birds!, would benefit from colour. However, the process produces some less than satisfactory results, which is presumably why it gets such a bad press."

I disagree.
Colorization has a bad press because the single idea to colorize a b&w movie is an obscenity, period.

[Windthrop]

B & W films are lit differently to colour films and therefore it is never going to look quite right when the films are doctored. I amy have said this before, so at the risk of repeating myself, I think it would be better if money was used to clean up films and provide the best copies available be the original colour or B & W. Digitally enhancing poor existing copies of films, to make them look as they would have new, I am fully behind.

[batman]

Originally Posted by Windthrop B & W films are lit differently to colour films and therefore it is never going to look quite right when the films are doctored. I amy have said this before, so at the risk of repeating myself, I think it would be better if money was used to clean up films and provide the best copies available be the original colour or B & W. Digitally enhancing poor existing copies of films, to make them look as they would have new, I am fully behind.

I second that.

[CaptainWaggett]

I assume that by the time of The Birds, Hitch could have used colour if he'd wanted to. But he didn't so it's colourization is as ludicrous as a colourized Lady Vanishes or Blackmail would be.

[batman]

The Birds is a colour film ..... that's why it's inclusion in the 'colourised' list is so funny!

[CaptainWaggett]

Oops! My excuse is I've only seen it on telly years ago and I've always remembered it in b/w. It looked really scary...

[Joenoir]

Originally Posted by Sweeney Todd quote: "Some of the films on the list, which includes the technicolored The Birds!, would benefit from colour. However, the process produces some less than satisfactory results, which is presumably why it gets such a bad press." I disagree. Colorization has a bad press because the single idea to colorize a b&w movie is an obscenity, period.

And I thought I had grumpy and opinionated down to a fine art!

[batman]

I wonder what The Dark Man would look like in colour?

[CaptainWaggett]

I don't understand why A Matter of Life and Death keeps slipping into boring old b/w. Surely that would benefit from colourization?

[Joenoir]

Originally Posted by batman I wonder what The Dark Man would look like in colour?

Sorry, Bats, I don't think Max Reed's acting skills can be improved through colorization!

[batman]

Originally Posted by Joenoir Sorry, Bats, I don't think Max Reed's acting skills can be improved through colorization!

That's true .... you can't improve on perfection!

[Joenoir]

Originally Posted by batman That's true .... you can't improve on perfection!

If I ever make a return to the stage, I'm booking you as my agent!

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett I don't understand why A Matter of Life and Death keeps slipping into boring old b/w. Surely that would benefit from colourization?

Maybe they ran out of money part way through?

Steve