Black and white films are no different from color films, despite how society thinks of them. Many of my friends think that black and white movies are somehow inferior, just because old movies aren't as good as new movies. But, some of the best movies are black and white, like Psycho and Back in the days when filmmakers filmed in back and white, they didn't have the technology available to film in color. So, the color palette are indicative of the time period. Each time period has great movies and bad movies, and the films are not graded based on color, they are graded based on depth and plot. Thus, I appreciate black and white films, just like I appreciate color, but I don't feel like they're a genre of movies or that people should think of them any differently than other films.