I suggest "Johnny got his gun".
Any creature saw it?

Yes.. This human seen it.
No I did not like it. I consider it an anti war propaganda movie.
Are you asking about it from a cinema perspective?


Johnny Got His Gun 1971:

http://youtu.be/lA0IlDhITkQ/

Johnny Got His Gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun/

the wiki link is no good...

Johnny Got His Gun (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)/


OK, try it now , tap the top of the list... " Film "

ok, this film came up into my mind as first,
(i loved it, in case someone would ask),and this question because once upon at time I recommended a movie in b&w a guy of 23 or 24 years old,
so he said "it sounds nice" then I added that it was in "grey".
and guess what, he said that he would never watch it.
The color was more important than the film itself.
it's just ridiculous I think
thanks for yours answers
P.S. sorry for the mistakes I did in my english

yup, my place when ever i bring them home

ahhh these teenagers ;)
P.S. but "50 shades of Grey" they do love ;)

I hated it when they started 'colorizing' old black & white movies.
Sometimes it really ruins it.
Like the old Betty Davis movie "Jezebel " her dress was 'black' in reality, but they say it is 'red' in the movie. Colorizing... Destroyed the story & the illusion & our imagination.

Younger people were raised & spoiled by special effects.
My generation & older.. It is the characters / personalites & the plot, human behavior etc.

Not the star or what is flashing or flying thru the air or who is naked or the gore

boobs and violence is good in any movie...

Oy Vey !
Both can be implied & not neither needs to be too graphic.
The more that is shown... The poorer the script & the worst the actors.

Although, I do love war movies..
Old ones. Raised on those. And I watch action/ drama, movies more than any other type. (Unless it is an ego feeder... for soneone who can't act....like Tom Cruise )

There are two black and white movies made in the past 35 years that are WAY better than Johnny Got His Gun.


Schindler's List
Raging Bull

Johnny Got His Gun, was an example.

Schindler's List
I have the deluxe, with the facts afterwards & testimonies.
I actually watched it yesterday... probably for the 50 the time.

Raging Bull, I never seen.

Oh I am on board with these choices, two of my all time favorites for sure.

It is an absolutely brutal and brilliant movie. I believe it is De Niro and Scorcese's best. I can't think of a better movie made in the 80's.

I love all kinds of good films. Got a partial collection of Bogey classics. And even though it's packed with some rather dreadful nonsense, I still love things like Gunga Din.

Some colorization is better than others. I'm not a fanatic that everything that WAS B&W has to stay that way. They weren't all filmed in B&W because they wanted them that way, after all.

Early efforts at colorization were the worst. It took them a while both to refine the software, and to recognize that they had to colorize EVERYTHING ON THE SCREEN for it to work, including coloring the whites white, the greys grey, and the blacks black. When they tried at first to leave things like nun's costumes or book pages untreated, the film ended up looking as though someone spilled vegetables all over it in a spotty mess.

Some later efforts were better, and didn't detract from the films.

I've seen that people who grew up with wild color all the time, often also got programmed to think that Black and White signals stupidity, thick-headedness, and generally backwards thinking. However, the ones I've known who came to appreciate the acting, the dialogue, and the interesting plotting of even the better modern films, were then able to recognize the value of the old B&W stuff too. So it's not hopeless for EVERY young person.

Oh, and I never saw Johnny Got His Gun. I read the book though, and even though I was an anti-Vietnam protester at the time, I thought it was more or less an unpleasant experience. Basically a story of a soldier waking up in a hospital and learning only gradually just how completely shattered his body is. I had no desire to see a film about it as well.

Sort of anti-war, if you think that a true-ish story of the horrors of war is identical with anti-war propaganda, which I don't. Anti-war stuff, are films that claim that war ONLY kills, maims, and enriches bad guys. Just showing how truly awful it is even for the heroes, is just reality.

oh I've watched lots of old movies

I love B&W movies, I'm a huge fan of cinema period, no matter how it was shot or when it was made.

One of the more recent B&W films I've enjoyed was Nebraska. Two post-color films that I thought made very effective use of B&W were Shadow Of The Vampire (2000), and The Call of Cthulhu (2005)- which was done as a silent film.
Another recent one I loved was Escape From Tomorrow, which was filmed at both Disney World, and Disney Land without either park's permission. Surreal and creepy.

Before color film, I think there were B&W films that are classics, but still would have been just as good had they been made in color. Then there are films from that era that used B&W to help create their atmosphere, and they would not be the same in color. This especially with the horror films of the time- the Universal monster movies, and definitely the Val Lewton produced horror films (Cat People, The Body Snatcher, Isle Of The Dead, I Walked With A Zombie)
Also Vampyr from 1932 is a visual experience because of the B&W photography and its use of shadows.
The early days of color, some films were shot in B&W because it was cheaper. The original Night Of The Living Dead I think would still be just as good had it been shot in color. But Carnival Of Souls (1962), and Dementia (1955) wouldn't be as effective if they weren't in B&W.