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The only colorized films I've seen that were as good or even improved have been: THINGS TO COME LAUREL & HARDY'S BABES IN TOYLAND (which was originally intended to be a color film) THE CRIMSON...
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A quick sampler look at excerpted bits of colorized films found on YouTube, the 1933 KING KONG included, shows they never restored the prints. They just colored over the scratches and dirt and dust...
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Ah but Legend does restore them. I've seen the King Kong colorisation, and it looks horrible.
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Kongu is Kingu wrote: Ah but Legend does restore them. If they also release every one of them in a true restored black&white version (not a color bleached greytone and richness skewed version of...
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Quote: "So todmichel, does this mean that all the millions of Godzilla fans through out the world, who grew to love Gozilla movies after seeing only the Americanized versions, are also idiots?" Of...
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Sid Terror wrote:If they were required to do a full restoration as part of the deal, at the same time they did their nasty colorizing, and included BOTH versions (the beautiful restored B&W...
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As far as I'm aware, Legend is the only game in town. Other colorisations still circulating are just recycled 80s transfers - the Hal Roach Night Of The Living Dead colorisation, made so Romero could...
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todmichel wrote: Of course not, but they were the victims of a moron (the US distributor) who apparently thought they were too stupid to understand the original movie just as it was - a foreign,...
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Quote: "Really, is it any different from the alternate versions of FPI, which feature actors unique to the territory of the edit? (part of the orginal productions I know but even so)." Of course, it's...
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todmichel wrote: , not a pitiful travesty of a film like "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", That sounds more like a statement than an opinion.Thank goodness we have a superior intellect such as...
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The Mighty Bongo wrote:todmichel wrote: , not a pitiful travesty of a film like "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", That sounds more like a statement than an opinion.Thank goodness we have a superior...
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todmichel wrote:Sid Terror wrote:There are still tons of films on decaying nitrate film stock that should be transferred before they are lost forever, but there just isn't the money for it. That...
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Buzz Dixon wrote:The only colorized films I've seen that were as good or even improved have been: THINGS TO COME LAUREL & HARDY'S BABES IN TOYLAND (which was originally intended to be a color...
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Kongu is Kingu wrote:Americanisations of foreign movies tend not to work, but one has to remember that they were intended for a distribution market that was primarily interested in US product (look at...
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The Mighty Bongo wrote:Thank goodness we have a superior intellect such as yourself, to tell everyone else on the planet what films we should ,and should not enjoy.He's French; it's what they do....
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Godziwolf wrote:The Mighty Bongo wrote:Thank goodness we have a superior intellect such as yourself, to tell everyone else on the planet what films we should ,and should not enjoy.He's French; it's...
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todmichel wrote: The Mighty Bongo wrote: todmichel wrote: , not a pitiful travesty of a film like "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", That sounds more like a statement than an opinion.Thank goodness we...
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Kongu is Kingu wrote: Tampering with a movie varies hugely on what the tampering is, and what is done with the original. So, I'm more cross about the new FX in Star Trek, because the originals are OOP...
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marbpl2 wrote:Kongu is Kingu wrote: Tampering with a movie varies hugely on what the tampering is, and what is done with the original. So, I'm more cross about the new FX in Star Trek, because the...
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