What do you think about colorizing old movies?
Do they look better in Black&White or is colorizing an improvement?

So much better in B&W!
Stephen Humphrey Bogart, Bogey's son, once said (about the colorized version of Casablanca): "if you're going to colorize Casablanca, why not put arms on the Venus de Milo?"
And in my eyes, he's right.  

--Last edited by Jellybean on 2009-02-24 07:58:37 --

Well it can vary...
Could you imagine Rebel without a cause in b&w? The James Dean's jacket wasn't the importance nowadays....

But Casablanca would be very strange with colors... the same thing occurs with Chaplin's movies. I prefer Wild one e Breakfest at Tiffany's in black and white.    

While certain movies, such as the Charlie Chaplin and the Buster Keaton films, as well as the old, original 1930's version of the film King Kong look far better in black and white, I believe that most of the films made in the 1950's, the 1960's and beyond, look far, far better in color than in black and white. Georgy Girl, which came out in the mid-1960's, as well as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which came out in the late 1960's, which are black and white, are  exceptions.  So is The Last Picture Show, which is also an exception.

Hmmm......not entirely sure about that, Rachael.  Since I've never seen Wild One, I really can't compare it with anything, but I think that Breakfast at Tiffany's looks fine in color.  I wonder if The Birds might've been better filmed in black and white, though.

Oops...my bad.  I mean Raphael.  Sorry for the typo on my above post.

dont like them when they color the b&w movies stop.