Colorized or Black and White?
I myself like both..
shareB&W, no contest.
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Black and white!
Colorized version = something was added in after the film was made.
I am in love with the colorized version. I'm not usually a big fan of old movies being colorized, but they did a great job with this one. It's like watching a whole new movie.
shareI agree with you, with this film they made it look how it would have looked if it had originally been shot in colour.
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Same here. I've seen a few coloured black and white movies - Red River, Laurel and Hardy movies... and they look don't good at all.
They did a great job with It's A Wonderful Life though. And it's the colour version that made me a fan of the movie.
B&W definitely
shareI saw a showing at a movie theater several years ago. Before the movie they announced that since it was a digital copy we had the coice of colorized or b&w. The whole audience yelled black & white. Not a single person called for colorized.
shareBlack and White FTW
shareI never saw it in color until I bought the Blu Ray version. I'm old school like a lot of posters here but it's spectacular! In color in HD Blu Ray! I watch both with the same enthusiasm!
shareI worked on the colour version.
shareReally, McNamara-bill? I think you folk did a wonderful job!
I understand people wanting films the way they were first shot, and I have a definite appreciation for period b&w myself. But the colourised version of this film (on the Blu-ray release from Paramaount) is wondrous; it reminds me of vintage hand-tinted photos, which makes me smile, but it's also quite nuanced and ingenious. Personally, I'm really glad for the job you did. Thank you!
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.