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Twiddle
06-29-2009, 03:38 AM
i DON'T REALLY CARE IF ANYONE IS FOR OR AGAINT COLORIZING FILMS, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THE EARLY CLASSICS IN COLOR. IF THEY DID IT RIGHT WITH A LOT OF CARE i THINK IT WOULD BE COOL...
The_Return
06-29-2009, 04:35 AM
...you're kidding, right?
God, I hope so.
neverending
06-29-2009, 07:22 AM
Troll.......
zwoti
06-29-2009, 07:29 AM
i DON'T REALLY CARE IF ANYONE IS FOR OR AGAINT COLORIZING FILMS, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THE EARLY CLASSICS IN COLOR. IF THEY DID IT RIGHT WITH A LOT OF CARE i THINK IT WOULD BE COOL...
no, you're wrong.
you hear me ted turner!!!! you hear me :mad:
Are you Twiddle Dee.....or Twiddle Dumb?
ManchestrMorgue
06-29-2009, 01:26 PM
Are you Twiddle Dee.....or Twiddle Dumb?
I think it's Twiddle Dumb. Or Twiddle Dumber.
VampiricClown
07-03-2009, 04:53 PM
That would kill them....
i DON'T REALLY CARE IF ANYONE IS FOR OR AGAINT COLORIZING FILMS, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THE EARLY CLASSICS IN COLOR. IF THEY DID IT RIGHT WITH A LOT OF CARE i THINK IT WOULD BE COOL...
if you don't CARE why are you bothering to tell us? (and you could work on the spelling as well bub)
Doc Faustus
07-06-2009, 06:54 AM
Creature From the Black Lagoon is probably the only one I'd like to see in color. As lush as the black and white is, it looks like it's made for color.
VampiricClown
07-06-2009, 08:08 AM
Creature From the Black Lagoon is probably the only one I'd like to see in color. As lush as the black and white is, it looks like it's made for color.
No............
Creature From the Black Lagoon is probably the only one I'd like to see in color. As lush as the black and white is, it looks like it's made for color.
creature from the teal lagoon
Doc Faustus
07-06-2009, 10:18 AM
If it wasn't as lazy as Turner's Kong it might look good. Colorization just hasn't been there as an option because the colors always sucked. I'm sure nowadays they could use colors that were true to form. I think certain fifties sci fi movies might be cool, just as a DVD feature or something. Only showing colorized things or colorizing everything is of course stupid. If somebody colorized Vampyr or Eyes Without a Face for example, it would suck, but color was often not used because it wasn't an option budgetwise instead of for artistic reasons. I'm sure a lot of directors who couldn't afford color film would be thrilled to see what their movies would have looked like if they had the means. The colorized It Came From Beneath the Sea looks awesome and Harryhausen was glad to see it.
neverending
07-06-2009, 10:44 AM
Perhaps we should go back and colorize the paintings from Picasso's blue period, because- you know- he didn't have the budget to paint with more colors...
Doc Faustus
07-06-2009, 10:54 AM
Good point. I'm not suggesting it as a default, but as an exploration and I certainly wouldn't want it to be with Ted Turner's pallet. I don't want a chatreuse Godzilla or a magenta colossal man any more than you do, my friend.
VampiricClown
07-06-2009, 11:15 AM
Perhaps we should go back and colorize the paintings from Picasso's blue period, because- you know- he didn't have the budget to paint with more colors...
I was trying to think of a way to word it, and I was drawing a blank.
My point exactly.
The films would lose something. Not just in quality, but in the atmosphere. When it's in black and white, it leaves a lot to your imagination. If it's colored in, you suddenly realize, that maybe it wasn't as fantastic and magical as it was before.
Not to mention, the dark, black and white, is what gave these movies their original feeling. The unknown.
but lots of early films (silent) were color- they hand painted the frames
crabapple
07-07-2009, 11:56 PM
I have said this before, elsewhere--I like the colorized King Kong a lot--it could be done better, nowadays, but I don't disagree with most of the color choices, overall, I think they work.
And definitely, the added color adds demarcation to the different elements of the scenes--the dirt, the trees, the vines, Kong, humans. humans' clothing, and so on. Totally aside from the color choices themselves, these demarcations allow the brain to "decode" the elements of the scenes more easily than is possible if the image is all in gray scale. This in turn allows the viewer to appreciate a lot of details that are simply muddy shadows in black and white.
In the case of King Kong, which is a pioneering effects film that offered up loads of carefully composed scenes featuring multiple layers of elements (humans, sets, puppets, glass paintings, miniatures, etc.), colorization allows the viewer a different avenue of appreciating and analyzing the shots and their artistry.
It doesn't replace the black and white (original) version; it would not presume to. But interested parties with an open mind should go to Amazon.com, search on "king kong in color," and check out a VHS tape. I love the damn colorized version of King Kong. I watch it as often as the original version.
Try it! Then knock it if you must.
ManchestrMorgue
07-09-2009, 11:53 PM
The colourised Frankenstein looked horrible. The monster way way too... green. Just looked stupid. Corpses are not lime green. Unless it is a martian's corpse I guess.
But it wasn't. He was human! Dumb fucks!
crabapple
07-10-2009, 09:22 AM
The monster way way too... green. Just looked stupid. Corpses are not lime green. Dumb fucks!
Corpses ARE lime green. ALL of them! Every single freaking one of them! Except the ones that are neon green.
ManchestrMorgue
07-10-2009, 12:49 PM
Corpses ARE lime green. ALL of them! Every single freaking one of them!
Corpses of dead limes perhaps :)