A Holiday Classic
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Miracle on 34th Street
shulma2002 — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 05:32 PM)
Such a great holiday film with a subtle criticism of how the meaning of Christmas has been commercialized. Great acting by all but re-makes to shame as the film was perfect as original except for being filmed in black & white. A heartwarming film in the category of It's A Wonderful Life.
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FlushingCaps — 10 years ago(December 21, 2015 09:43 PM)
Shulma, I agree with all you said except for the part about black & white. That doesn't hurt it at all.
Tonight I caught a minute or so of the colorized version on AMC and thought it hard to concentrate because it looked so hokey. The people getting ready for the parade were all in bright colors, while the background characters and buildings appeared to only be in shades of gray. Each of the people in color appeared to have exactly the same hue to their skin. It looked comically surreal. -
!!!deleted!!! (47421091) — 9 years ago(December 12, 2016 10:26 AM)
This wasn't the best conversion to color, but I prefer the colorized version anyway. I'd like to see them try again. I've seen more recent colorization efforts that were excellent.
Color or not, probably my favorite Christmas movie.