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Well Pangor it sounds you had one bad teacher there. (putting it mildly, I don't want to get a warning). <br /> <br /> Hmmmmm, irritating things??????????? I think my list would have to include the reality tv, their pointless, irrelevent and iirritating. Also I would have to point out all soap dramas. I think that television programmes have gone down hill a lot lately. <br /> <br /> Taz

Well, Big Brother Australia 2005 just finished.... and now Australian Idol has started <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> Because of other members of the household (who shall remain nameless <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> ) watch it, I have to listen to idiots who can't sing torture a few songs and then get all worked up and indignant when one of the judges tells them they can't sing! <br /> <br /> A word to the wise for Idol contestants around the World: "Just because your mum/dad/best-friend/sister/brother/dog/cat/etc tells you you sing like the angels themselves doesn't mean it's true. Deal with it!" <br /> <br /> Hmmmmm, enough now. <br /> <br /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_hand.gif" alt="" />

Quality of television programming is one thing that does irritate me too. When I think of all the great programs that were once on the air that can be used as patterns for today's producers, writers, actors etc to aspire to, all we get are second rate programming called "hits" and those horible reality programs. <br /> <br /> Pangor

I also don't like badly dubbed Hercules movies. The musclemen should be able to grunt in their native languages . . .

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lmao.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lmao.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> Years ago an Australia movie was made called 'Hercules Returns'. It was about a movie theatre on the verge of going broke and they spend all their money on hiring the greatest latest blockbuster film, but they get shafted and end up with an old Hercules movie instead. So the theatre workers dub over the sound track and make it increadibly funny! <br /> <br /> The film was made by a bunch of Aussie stand-up comedians and I laughed myself silly. <br /> <br /> Best dubed Hercules film ever. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" />

It sounds like a riot!

Making the color in black and white films. Someone spoke once of putting the color in La Belle et la bàªte. That would be a tragedy

It would be worse than a tragedy to do that to Cocteau's beautiful film - it would be a catastrophic blasphemy . . .

I have a couple of tapes of films that were colorized. When I bought those tapes, we had a black and white television, so it was not an issue for us. Then when we got a color television, I found that I did like how those tapes looked. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/very_sad.gif" alt="" /> When I play them, I turn the color off on my television. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> I don't know if it was ever done, I read of a plan by someone to colorize metropolis! Can you image a silent film of its importance colorized? <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/crybaby2.gif" alt="" /> I hope they didn't really do it. <br /> <br /> Pangor

Colorizing Metropolis is almost as bad as colorizing The Beauty and the Beast! That said, the DVD version of Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera has the color tones of the original presentation digitally remastered. It's really quite remarkable . . .

Yes, like the Wizard of OZ. The original movie was color, while in the land of OZ, it was very vivid almost too overstaturated; while in Kansas it was sepiatoned. Over the years that was lost, many versions were only black and white. Other had faded colors and the sepia tone was replaced with regular black and white. There was a restoration effort the produced a copy with the original look. It is nice. <br /> <br /> The reminds me of "Lost Horizon" the version staring Ronald Coleman. Over the years because of wear, breakage, and censorship, so much of that film was lost. A restoration project was able to recover all but a a few minutes of the audio and considerbly less of the the video. They use still images of the person speaking during the segement were the audio was recovered but not the visual part. <br /> <br /> Lawrence of Arabia was also almost lost. <br /> <br /> Pangor

I love the old films of the black and white. They seem to make the audience see the drama the much differently

You love the old films of the black and white. What do you like about the old films of the black and white so much?

I like the light and the contrast as much

I quite agree, Anouk. There was a certain purity about the older films when they were shot in black and white. Cheers

I recently got a DVD copy of Metropolis that has a lot of extra footage I had never seen before. The idea of it being colourised makes me ill. It is what it is... and what it represent is history. <br /> <br /> I hate this 're-imaging' and dumbing-down of classic films, etc to appeal to a mass maket that has been raised on MTV, video games and with short attention spans. <br /> <br /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/crybaby2.gif" alt="" />

[i:f0b0d1ff2c]Citizen Cane[/i:f0b0d1ff2c] [i:f0b0d1ff2c]Rebecca[/i:f0b0d1ff2c], [i:f0b0d1ff2c]The Ghost and Mrs. Muir[/i:f0b0d1ff2c], and [i:f0b0d1ff2c]A Christmas Carol[/i:f0b0d1ff2c] (with Alister Sim as Scrooge) are some black and white classics, that I could not imagine having as powerful an impact color. A modern remake of each of them have been made and were compared to the originals. <br /> <br /> I would wlecome new films being shot in black and white when it enhances the story. But I think that the people in the industry don't think there are enough of us to make it profitable for them, so they don't. <br /> <br /> Pangor

Speaking of cinema: though I admire Kenneth Branagh greatly, I really do wish someone else would produce a film based on a Shakespeare play, for a change. Perhaps another Sir Anthony Hopkins production? Cheers

I confess that I loved Branagh's version of Much Ado About Nothing, as well as Hamlet. But wouldn't it be fun to see Jim Carrey do Macbeth?

A Christmas carol with Alistar Sim, I remember it well, an excellent film. I remember watching some old Laurel and Hardy films some years ago that had been colourised the film lost all its charm. Films that have been made in black and white should be kept that way. <br /> Taz

I have the "Music Box", colorized. I fade out the color and increase the contrast, it is not the same, but is much better than in color. <br /> <br /> I have another, I forget the name at the moment. Laurel and Hardy are building a house. I think this one was colorized by Hal Roach Jr.'s company. There is a scene in it that is funny because it was colorized. The scene is a converstation between the two of them, during with the image switches between them. With each cut, their overalls kept changing colors, from deep jeans blue, to faded olive drab, to khaki tan and back again. If you look at the picture with the color faded, it seems to me that overals they were wearing to film the scene were engine men overalls, the off-white/grey with tiny blue piping, like the old time outfits of railroad engine crews. <br /> <br /> <br /> Pangor

My favourite Laurel and Hardy film is Way out west.

My copy of that one is in the original Black and White! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> Panogr

An excellent film, I think it has to have been their best one. <br /> Taz

Yeah. Al Pacino. Al Pacino bugs me

I can see why, my dear fellow. Cheers

Yeah

Just wanted to tell that the second season of Big Brother started yesterday : most of the participians are totally illeterated , one of them is naked and have to stay naked till the end of the show (No, it's not a woman <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_whistle.gif" alt="" /> ) , and the others can't build a simple sentence correctly. This IS irritating! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_doh.gif" alt="" />

You are only up to the second season of big brother there? Is it a local version or an export fom America? Here they are about to start Big Brother 5 or is it Big Brother 6? I have not been following those program so I am not certain which number is current. If that is what normal "real people" are like, we are all in trouble! <br /> <br /> Pangor

It's a local version. You mean these who took part of the american version 2 were illeterated too , and there was a naked one? This show is just stupid they're going to make these 15 "real people" (which are as I said very mediocre) paint the house , fishing in a pool and take care of animals such as sheep and hens in order to get food and cook it. I seriously doubt they can do this. It's stupid even for an agricultular show. I'll not be surprised if a new agricultural show starts soon... <br /> We are in Big Trouble !

I seem to remember advertisements where one of the people in and early American version dressed like a chicken and running around the yard with a hen. To night they had the newest one on, we were watching a tape and caught just a few minutes of that show while getting everything ready. Wow, all I heard was a lot of noise as several people were all talking at that same time! I could not understand any of what they were saying, but then I was not really listening. <br /> <br /> All I can say is that if I were locked in with those people, forget about winning money, I would very soon be willing to pay to get out of there. <br /> <br /> Pangor