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[BudBaxter]

Originally Posted by UnionJackMix

Really really will never understand why people insist of putting color where there was none. Movies in black and white, tv shows in black and white, photos in black and white. Do people really have nothing better to do that mess around with original works trying to alter them or update them?
I just don't get it. Maybe someone has a plausible explanation? (other than milking the public for another version)

I imagine some TV executive decided 'the kids' wouldn't watch old fashioned black & white movies, so colourisation was the answer.

Quite why any serious movie lover would want one in their collection, let alone choose to watch them over the original is beyond me.

I seem to recall Ted Turner being quite keen on it in the 80s, leading to the classic Gremlins 2 gag; "Tonight on the Clamp Cable Network: Casablanca! Now in full colour, with a happier ending!"