Have you ever watched a movie, and you almost liked it, but it fell just short of the mark?
Go into the settings of your video player and turn the saturation down to 0. It will make the movie black and white. There's a very good chance that it will make the movie absolute kino.
The most famous example is Johnny Mnemonic. In color, it's a shitty 90's sci-fi movie. In black and white, it looks like it was made in 1949 by John Huston or something. I've tried it with a few other movies, and it worked on a lot of them as well. The Beast Of War (1988) is mediocre in color, and fantastic in grayscale, with the stark deserts and the shadowy tank.
This trick works best on 80's and 90's movies. If the movie's too new, it won't work. It also won't work if the movie is fricking shit; you can only polish a turd so much.
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The same scene in color
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MEDS right now
Are you a cuck who never learned how to torrent movies, or are you a moron too stupid to watch movies that aren't in color?
Don't you that you moron. Color movies aren't meant to be viewed in bnw. BnW movies are graded correctly with the correct grey scale.
If a color movie is made well and the cinematographer has any kind of training or talent, it follows certain rules with contrast and lighting, and making it black and white highlights the craftwork that went into making the movie.
Watching 1917 in B&W right now because I didn't really feel it when it came out. It's good, it's kind of like the first half of Paths of Glory.
Oh, and the random brown people are much less noticable. Another good reason.
I'm into it
i like to turn the sound down then turn the subtitles on to turn it into s silent movie. talkies were a mistake!
This but unironically
The transition to sound set movies back years. Late silent pictures were masterpieces with complex action scenes and massive sets, and early sound pictures were people standing around a couple of rooms yelling into a microphone.
this is a known thing for The Mist. I think there is a directors cut or something thats in black and white
I can see that. Fog, clouds, smoke, and flames look fricking great in black and white.
isn't black and white until the end reveal?
The movie's theatrical release was in color, afterwards the director says he envisioned it being black and white so their is a B&W version on the DVD as a 'Director's Preferred Edition'. I believe the color or lack thereof is consistent throughout both versions.
its pretty neat comparingn the two trailers
the bw one looks better
Drive and Assassination of Jesse James don't work btw
for some reason Fury Road got a bluray release where there was a b&w version, it's absolutely pointless
heard this about Raiders of the Lost Ark and can confirm it works
>B&W film
>255 colours instead of 16,581,375 or whatever
>filesize isn't 50mb
why
filesize is only determined by bitrate
The color data in consumer video is not only downscaled to a quarter of the resolution, but it's typically more compressed as well, so removing it doesn't save you as much as you'd expect.
This is the kind of fresh takes we need more of on this board
Go to color filters under settings in your OS and switch it to grayscale. The whole computer experience and internet is way better in black and white
what were them 'web safe colours'
remember when there 'web safe colours'? mental
Yeah it was a decent way to have everyone see a similar internet
even in the 00s (10s?) there was a website called 'do websites need to look the same in every browser' dot com or something like that
joke was of course that it looked different in Safari, Opera, whatever
we all laughed at that 'series of tubes' bloke going on about your 'own personal internet' but to this day people have Cinemaphile extensions when it should have stayed the same, forever.
Indiana Jones 1 is absolutely KINO in black and white
There's also the john wick point blank movie that's excellent as well
I watched American Psycho in black and white. I might do LOTR next, then Twin Peaks.
The black and white version of fury road is absolute kino. You can see the silent movie inspiration.
the sneeder cut obviously
The Phantom should be watched exclusively in black and white
Logan, Wolverine, and I believe Parasite had B&W home releeses
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