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Arnie.d
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Film grain is not your enemy.
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17-Jan-2008, 12:53 PM
Originally posted by: Johnboy3434
Originally posted by: Arnie.d
There is no way to remove film grain without having bad side effects. It's as simple as that. Some may take that for granted, I think it looks stupid.

Let's say you could make King Kong look like it was shot today with a digital camera, it would just look silly with the old "special effects" and in color (which btw would be just a guess of what it would have looked like).

Newsflash, dude: King Kong looks silly without all those enhancements. Decreasing the grain could at least impress people when you tell them it's 75 years old.

What will look more silly, a 75 year old grainy b&w movie with 75 year old special effects or a movie that appears like it was shot yesterday with 75 year old special effects.
How do you want to impress people with a 75 year old movie if it's not the same movie?

Originally posted by: Arnie.d
Or Gone With The Wind with it's beautiful typical Technicolor colors. You want to color correct it to todays standards? You will destroy the film!


The whole point of colorizing a film is so you won't have to watch it in monochrome. Recoloring an already colored film would be a waste of money.

Oh come on! You would remove the grain to make it look modern and leave the weird colors as they are? And I didn't say recolor, I said color correct (which would only take a fraction of the time and money compared to coloring a b&w movie)..