Movies: Black and White OR Colorzied? Sub-titles OR dubbed in your language?

Question

and why please...
Thank you!

Answer 1

Good black and white cinematography is beautiful; colorization makes it look like bad TV. And I would rather hear the original soundtrack. I feel like I'm only getting half the performance if I can't hear the actors' actual voices, and dubbing always sounds a bit wooden. Reading subtitles is distracting for about the first thirty seconds and then becomes virtually subliminal.

Answer 2

I'm very anti-colorization and anti-dubbing. My reasoning is that the film should be viewed as it was made.

With black and white films, they did specific lighting and costume designs to "read" the best -- and in film noir, the use of shadows was very important. I remember seeing part of "Casablanca" colorized, and all those mysterious shadowed areas in Rick's Cafe were gone -- it looked like a brightly lit room at Disneyland. Ghastly! There's nothing wrong with black & white -- just look at the film makers who continue to occasionally use it for effect, such as on the films "Schindler's List" and "Young Frankenstein."

As for dubbing, I just like to hear the original language; it gives the film flavor. Subtitles are a very minor distraction -- you just read them briefly, then bounce your eye's back to the actors. Your brain really is capable of processing this as a very seamless procedure.

Answer 3

Black and white if they were meant to be- and subtitles. I hate dubbed movies- it reminds me of watching Gamera movies or something. It always makes me laugh, and I can't take a movie seriously if it's badly dubbed. Which it always is!!

Answer 4

Black and white...it just looks better. NO dubbing...that is a ridiculous thing to do...makes me giggle though. So, blk/wht subtitles. :)

Answer 5

By colorized do you mean the work of that imbecile Turner? If so, black and white.
As for foreign films, I like them subbed.