THE THREE STOOGES: Looks like Sony is putting color where it don't belong

Looks like Sony is putting color where it don't belong

Oh no, colorization is back.....
As long as the B&W version is offered I don't mind.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=11758

 

Ugh! Not again...

Gary

 

Who's asking for them to be colourized?????
Surely not Stooges fans!

 

Yay... fake colors are back...

 

Damn!

 

Did anyone like colorization the first time?

 

YUK! YUK! YUK!

:-jon

 

Sheesh. Why put money into something like that?!

 

I still remember Popeye's colourized cartoons. They looked like a pastel-color feast!

I thought the madness would stop with "Gone with the wind". Seems I was wrong.

 

I can't believe this!!

It'll be the same thing all over again; I can just see Sony defending their actions with the same cockiness that Ted Turner did with his film libraries ("I think the movies look better in color, pal, and they're my movies." -- remember that?)

 

Weird. I remember a classic movie being colourized and everyone complaining about it. It was made by Turner. I was pretty sure it was Gone with the Wind...

 

Nope, GWTW is color 100% ... not colorized.

 

Javier....perhaps you were thinking of Casablanca.

 

Maltese Falcon was colorized by Turner. It looked so ridiculous. Pastel colors in a film noir genre flick. Pale pink, mauve, pale green.

There is a work around. Adjust the color on the tv to monochrome. Not ideal, but till the madness stops.

 

..and they have the nerve to release the same shorts that are available on the current rip-off DVD's! I'm tired of paying a premium price! at $24.95 list, there's not much of a discount window...I'm expecting a BOX SET when I purchase my last individual DVD release!
Can't see any reason to colorize them...other than CASH!...

 

That made me sick.

Several public-domain films suffered from it as well. "It's A Wonderful Life" (which was PD at the time) was colorized not one but two separate times, each by a different company. I still remember that when that first version originally aired here in L.A., the local news that immediately followed led off with a story about its controversial nature. It featured a Jimmy Stewart interview where he was saying how disillusioning these transformations are, taking viewers away from the original visual integrity of the films. That says it all right there.

 

**** it is. I wouldn't pay money have it. I love black and white.

 

I wish we could find out who was responsible for this, as he/she has a noogie comin'.

 

Why can't they take the colors that were on the set at the time from color photo's and colorize straight from those colors? Skin tones look horrible in colorized productions. Why can't they dupe the skin color from a color photo from the actors and zip it into the frame and colorize it that way?
I have to admit that I enjoyed the colorized version of "All You Need is Love" for the Beatles Anthology. The process has probably improved since then. There were a lot of color photos of the set they shot from and they went by those photos to colorize the B&W footage.
I know this is going to cause some controversy, but I would love to see AHDN colorized, if they used the latest and greatest of technology and went by color pictures from the set for authenticness. And the sound would be the original, restored mono that is already available but has not been issued.

 

And Turner wasn't the only guilty party when it came to colorization. Fox also got into the act and wrecked "Miracle on 34th Street." Disney took it upon themselves to colorize several of their live-action classics including, "The Absent Minded Professor," "Son of Flubber" and "the Shaggy Dog." I really hope that this Stooges disc does not usher in a new wave of colorized films. sheesh!

Gary

 

A few months ago, Hallmark played a colorized version of Angel And The Badman. It was a double whammy, because not only did the color look awful (it always is), there were lots of things they left in black and white. It literally gave me a headache.

 

You should see the colorized Laurel & Hardy films from Cabin Fever issued several years ago.

Not only is the color BAD, but it resembles pastel color as opposed to say technicolor.

Evan

 

Stan Laurel wished that March of The Wooden Soldiers was in color the first time, and Stan would years later get his wish granted and have it colorized.