Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Ghost of Colorized Movies Past

FXM is showing the colorized version of the 1951 A Christmas Carol non-stop this Christmas, and when Jacob Marley's ghost first appears, I thought he was going to claim to be the Ghost of Colorized Movies Past, surely the most terrifying ghost of all to classic movie fans everywhere. And this ghost would be forced to carry along with it a chain made of all the clamshell VHS tape cases and VHS tapes from all the colorized classic movies, all held together with tangles of video tape, as a punishment for making those movies so needlessly unwatchable when they were already perfect in black & white. (A suitable punishment if you ask me, and hopefully one humiliating enough to prevent others from following the same path.)