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Dudley Manlove	Last Man on earth in COLOUR!!!	Lead	[-]
Jan 19 12 8:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey, i dont know if this has been mentioned before here... but wow this is amazing. In colour uncut and letterboxed........ can it get any better for this film? And the colour does not take anything away from the tone of the decaying feel of the film and seettings at all. If anything it makes it look even grimier and more decrepid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAJ0ZjRmr4
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CapnDunsel		#1	[-]
Jan 20 12 4:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	wow, that's kinda cool. Actually it's creepier, at least in the beginning - the color adds realism. The greenish hue for the dead are abit much. With the color, they could have done the scene in the book (similar to the color "Man who knew too much") where Neville touches the woman's face and scrapes away makeup, revealing her deathly pallor (unless I'm completely misremembering the book).
vayapues		#2	[-]
Jan 20 12 6:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thx for the link, Dudley. I like it very much. It has a similar sort of muted, slightly unnatural look that everybody's tripping over themselves to do nowadays (& for once, it's very appropriate here). Interesting: Those spare, cheaply "American"-styled studio interiors of Neville's house have the same chilly air of banality & decay as those in George Romero's great 1968 film. Fun to see Vincent very atypically cast (but doing fine) as a practical-minded Action Man. I haven't seen LAST MAN in ages, but this certainly primes me to have an extended look one o' these days.
The Batman of Gotham		#3	[-]
Jan 20 12 7:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is what the DVD looks like. I bought it for Christmas a couple of years ago. - GJS
CapnDunsel		#4	[-]
Jan 20 12 8:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Batman, thanks for mentioning there was a color dvd release (the youtube video was HQ TV). The Amazon listing is the same as Dudley's thread title -- in Color! http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Earth-Black-White/dp/B001BSBBNK
Dudley Manlove		#5	[-]
Jan 21 12 3:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah the opening is (to me) much creepier, and as mentioned the interior of his house is amazing. It really looks lived in. Some great smudges and marks on his walls and a (now blue) generator in his living room that i had never even noticed properly- lol and its right in the foreground! Its amazing how well this film had been progressively treated by fans, companies and critics alike over the last decade or so. The first time i saw this on Video, wow that was a horrid blurry, cut/blurry and cropped experience.
Joe Karlosi		#6	[-]
Jan 21 12 9:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Color? They should have said " --- In BROWN!" "Guy named Squeamy got thrown from the fifth floor. He's deader'n a mackerel."
Crow T Robot		#7	[-]
Jan 21 12 6:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The color is - OK. Nothing to write home about. I've yet to see one colorized movie that looks like it was filmed in color. Legend's versions of The Giant Gila Monster, The Killer Shrews, March of The Wooden Soldiers, Plan 9 From Outer Space and all the rest just don't look natural. Skin tones are the worst. They are an improvement over the colorization from the 80s, but it's still not all that great.
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DougGorius		#8	[-]
Jan 22 12 3:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Modern colorizations like this one tend to have an incredibly subdued color palette, not unlike modern cinema on the whole.
Dudley Manlove		#9	[-]
Jan 22 12 7:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well yeah the colour is subdued to be sure, but it fits the tone of the film.
Wich2		#10	[-]
Jan 22 12 10:05 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>I've yet to see one colorized movie that looks like it was filmed in color.< Crow, the only one I've seen that does actually achieve that, is Legend's HOLIDAY INN.
John Bernhard		#11	[-]
Jan 22 12 10:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dudley Manlove wrote: In colour uncut and letterboxed........ There are additional scenes in the original Italian version ( it's on DVD ) not present in the English print, just for the record.
CapnDunsel		#12	[-]
Jan 22 12 2:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I found some minor info about the longer Italian release - a single dvd and 2-disc Collector's Edition from Ripley's Home Video (available but not widely sold in US since it's Pal R2): http://mufi.it/search/movie-dvds/simple/?oneline=The+Last+Man+On+Earth http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=L%27Ultimo+Uomo+Della+Terra&x=17&y=17 An imdb observation: The 2008 DVD release by Ripley's Home Video in Italy restores not only the mother-with-crying-baby shots from the end scene of the film (as in the US MGM release), but also two lengthy sequences earlier in the film. The first is a flashback scene where Virginia consoles a tearful Morgan after the funeral of their daughter Kathy, while the second is a conversation between Morgan and Ruth after her she has changed into some of Virginia's clothes. Both scenes reinforce Morgan's utter devotion to his deceased wife and help to clarify his descent from a lively and vibrant family man to the grim loner, himself only one step away from the living dead. Last Edited By: CapnDunsel Jan 23 12 8:42 AM. Edited 4 times.
Jameson281		#13	[-]
Jan 22 12 4:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CapnDunsel wrote: I found some minor info about the longer Italian release - Collector's Edition from Ripley's Home Video (available but not widely sold in US since it's Pal R2): http://mufi.it/movie-dvds/the-last-man-on-earth_1.html http://www.amazon.com/LUltimo-Uomo-Della-Terra-Dvd/dp/B002RM7WHI An imdb observation: The 2008 DVD release by Ripley's Home Video in Italy restores not only the mother-with-crying-baby shots from the end scene of the film (as in the US MGM release), but also two lengthy sequences earlier in the film. The first is a flashback scene where Virginia consoles a tearful Morgan after the funeral of their daughter Kathy, while the second is a conversation between Morgan and Ruth after her she has changed into some of Virginia's clothes. Both scenes reinforce Morgan's utter devotion to his deceased wife and help to clarify his descent from a lively and vibrant family man to the grim loner, himself only one step away from the living dead. Interesting; I didn't know about the longer Italian cut. As for the colorized version . . . Blecchhh! I'll stick with black & white, thank you very much.
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