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Would all films be better without colour ?

Old films are so much better than the modern rubbish. A good story beats special effects every time.

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    I don't like anything black and white except for the twilight zone I always watch the marathons

  • 2 years ago

    No, just better use of the special effects instead of just using special effects for showing off + being more picky with what you watch.

    The space battle with the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact is brilliant for showing off the screen of a home cinema system: Blackness of space showing off the quality of the screen's black levels, then the phaser blasts + exploding ships to show off the colour quality.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DCOpG1oNE

    (So is the Death Star battle scene from the original Star Wars movie for similar reasons)

    "Monsters University" is another fairly good example.... a kids movie that's kind of like "National Lampoon's Animal House" but with animated monsters..... even the trailer looks pretty stunning when you can find a good HD quality stream of it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq37M9TSqec (better than a lot of movies for grown-ups)

    Then there's "Crocodile Dundee"... a great pair of movies... probably wouldn't be quite so good without the colour showing off the Australian Outback at it's best.

  • Marli
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    No. The colour in the middle of The Wizard of Oz made that movie special. I first saw the film on a black and white t.v. set. A good film, yes. But so were reruns of I Love Lucy. When I saw it on a colour t.v. set, it was marvelous. The flames bracketing OZ's throne. The ruby slippers. The Witch's green skin. Wonderful.

    Now Citizen Kane is better in shades of grey. So is Casablanca. Kane is like an old newsreel and Casablanca was set in a dictatorship. Colour would have spoiled the feeling of survival, desperation and despair.

    Gone with the Wind used colour well. The greys and reds and greens in the harsh times and all that super abundant colour in the merry scenes.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    It is not the addition of color but the lack of good dialog, character building and plot that make today's movies inferior and there are exceptions but the good movies don't do as well at the box office as the ones that are often all action and no story.

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  • 2 years ago

    I don't think so

  • 2 years ago

    Not all of them.

  • Cogito
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    No. Some black and white movies were brilliant, but the whole point of a movie is to be realistic - convincing. Colour is not the same as special effects.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    No. It has no effect on the quality of a movie.

    And most old movies were crap. You just think old movies were better because we only remember the good ones. I mean, there was a movie called "Teenagers from outer space."

  • ?
    Lv 5
    2 years ago

    Bumblebee

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