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an IMDb user wrote:For the record, I only watched Les Vampires due to being on the list of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, which I am most diligently working my way through. I find its inclusion in the first place to be rather dubious, due to it being a serial and not a film proper, but I am a completionist and thus watched it anyways.

I was bored every minute of this outdated 7-hour-long snoozefest. I have no bias against silent films, but just because this is an early work of cinema does not forgive it from being a slowly plodding march of dull cliches. Seeing Irma Vep in form fitting clothing was the only thing even mildly interesting in the whole work.

It was one of the most difficult things I've ever forced myself to watch. At least it's silent, which allowed me to be productive in listening to about 7-8 albums from the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list while Les Vampires caused my eyes to glaze over. I don't vote on serials (because I use my IMDb vote history to keep track of the number of feature films I've seen), but if I did then Les Vampires would certainly get an emphatic 1 from me.

It was one of the most difficult things I've ever forced myself to watch. At least it's silent, which allowed me to be productive in listening to about 7-8 albums from the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list while Les Vampires caused my eyes to glaze over.

At least it's silent, which allowed me to be productive in listening to about 7-8 albums from the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list and getting completely plastered on drinks I made from the 1001 Cocktails You Must Quaff Before You Die. Before long, I could no longer tie the laces on numbers 357 through 381 from the 1001 (2002?) Shoes You Must Wear Before You Die and was throwing up in 1.29% of my 1001 Receptacles You Must Use As Vases Before You Die. Thank God I hadn't gotten around to actually putting any of the 1001 Flowers You Must Cultivate Before You Die in them (I'm up to dahlias. Thanks for asking.) Anyways, now I gotta take a dump. Position 967. Nearly there!

carax09 wrote:He's probably from Kansas, or wherever it is that they teach Completionism in the public schools.

knives wrote:Prepare the walls, banging a coming. Only up to

Spoiler

White Dog

, but yeesh.

And then an old man gets dizzy spells, cows are tended to, and grocery shopping is done. The crawling pace (elongated further without the presence of a soundtrack) of Revanche (Revenge, which the film eventually turns into a story of) under director Götz Spielmann may test even the most disciplined of foreign film buff. The numerous scenes of Alex cutting and chopping wood are meant to build tension, but instead just bloat the film’s running time. How long can we really watch a man dice logs into a circular saw if we know he won’t lose an arm?

random idiot wrote:How long can we really watch a man dice logs into a circular saw if we know he won’t lose an arm?

Brian C wrote: I thought the same thing watching Bright Star. How long can we really watch a developing romance if we know the guy won't turn into a sadistic rapist?

knives wrote:

"Filmmaker's intentions" was a claim made up by the anti-colorization movement of the 80s. As Ray Harryhausen has said on many occasions, most old B&W movies were made that way because IT WAS CHEAPER (period). Very, very, very few were intentionally made that way. "Filmmaker's intentions" was a buzzphrase that meant "if we had anything to do with a film at all (no matter how large or small) and you colorize it and increase its sales, we will object unless you pay us another royalty for the same picture". It was all about money...

Oh I whole heartedly agree; ALL movies should be converted to color.
And they can start with the worst offender of them all; The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition with Digital Copy and Amazon Exclusive Set of 4 Collectible 8x10 Character Posters). It is unbearable to watch the horrible sepia tinted beginning and ending; ridiculous! I enjoin everyone to boycott this movie until this egregious error has been corrected! I mean, "What were they thinking?"

Like Honest I, too, believe that all black and white films should be colorized The original film is not destroyed even when a colorized version is made so if the films were available in both black and white as well as color I'm sure that this would create a new lease of life for them and also create a great deal of money for those who are able to provide this option.
Everyone knows that a huge number of "old" movies had great story lines and were extremely well photographed and presented as is verified by the number of people who still prefer to watch these films in spite of their only being available in black and white. Who can we convince that colorization is what a great number of film fans would love,
can we begin a campaign to push for it ?

If you are a fan of the film, I Remember Mama, you will be happy to know that it has been colorized. I ordered it and called up a few friends to view it. They all applauded at the end of the film. Everyone had many complimentary comments. One in particular was that many of the facial expressions of the actors could be more clearly seen when in color. And that is a big part of acting is what the actor conveys with his or her face.

CRT wrote:I wish Carol Reed was still alive, I could ask him if he would have made "The Third Man" in color had he had the money.

swo17 wrote:

... And that is a big part of acting is what the actor conveys with his or her face.

Jennifer L, of blessed memory wrote:u know how old movie go with acting