A friend and I went to buy tickets to it, online, but it was all sold out, at both theaters we checked. In Los Angeles proper there were only two theaters showing it and only one screening at night. So not much availability. We even checked the next closest theatre in Baldwin Hills. They had a...
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"When it's done, it's wrong. When it isn't, it's not wrong."
That's not a fact. It's your opinion.
In the case of your second response, that's just more obfuscation that has nothing to do with the original "why" question I asked...and I think you know it.
And its not inherent that all b&w productions are colorized either. You do like to obfuscate the questions.
If you look at what I wrote, I asked "why." You're making an assumption about whether I care or not and and then making a statement rather than answering the question asked, More...
If you mean deleting some pages isn't altering, fine. But there are quite a few examples of elimination.
Then why should I care about your feelings about it?
Have you ever listened to audio books? And are you seriously telling me that when an author writes something to be read he imagines someone else could be reading it to them? And Reader's Digest condensing books isn't changing the text, either, it's eliminating/editing it
Where did I say "you"...
Original intent? Books were never meant to be condensed (like the Reader's Digest versions) nor to be listened to in audio versions, but there you have it. Movies weren't meant to be viewed on television screens or on cell-phone sized screens. Movies and TV shows weren't originally even...
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A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".
Or...if you...
Colorization has always been around. They were hand colorizing silent movies in the 1920's. Computerized colorization has been around since the 1970's. There are people who say they don't like to watch anything in b&w, but there are also people who say they don't like to watch old movies and...