Posted on 11/15/2013 3:42:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Message to high-brow movie critics and cultural elites: Stay away from the Grand Hotel on Michigan's Mackinac Island this weekend. No cynicism allowed! Not among the nearly 800 "time travelers" who arrived on Friday at the historic Grand Hotel -- the start of a three-day gathering during which they'll dress up in period garb and (in their minds) transport themselves back to 1912.
The fanciful journey has been an annual ritual for 23 years now, bringing together incurable romantics from all over the country, and even abroad. It's a celebration of the 1980 movie "Somewhere in Time"-- a bittersweet love story involving time travel and shot mostly in and around the majestic 126-year-old Grand Hotel.
The film's message: love is eternal.
Critics hated "Somewhere in Time." Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that the film had the year's highest "giggle content," and "does for time-travel what the Hindenburg did for dirigibles." Deriding the film's "romantic idealism," Roger Ebert asked in the Chicago Sun-Times whether it wasn't "a little futile to travel 68 years backward into time for a one-night stand."
Yet "Somewhere in Time" is now a beloved cult classic -- all of which underscores the amusing perception gap that often exists between ordinary movie audiences and cultural elites (and especially movie critics). But that's not news to Jo Addie, an antiques dealer in the Chicago area, who is president of the "Somewhere in Time" fan club and editor of its quarterly magazine. "You could hardly imagine a critic putting words to paper saying they truly love a movie like "Somewhere in Time," she wrote in an e-mail message. "It would have them losing their 'credibility' or their 'edge'. "Somewhere in Time" is not for the jaded or cynical."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Thanks for the info about it being from matheson. Fan of duel here.
>No chemistry between the two main characters.
I agree. That made it seem weird to me.
“O love this movie, and “The Lakehouse” with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.”
Yes, I like them both too! I always love Keanu Reeves as long as his hair is short.
Doesn’t “somewhere in time” involve a penny, or something like that?
i think I read the story it is based on, but I think it was called “Time and Time Again”, but I might have things mixed up.
I heard not too long ago that, well let me just say “experts” because I’m not clear on if it was scientists or what, anyway these experts think time travel may be possible, but only to the future.
I didn’t hear if they said they thought you could come back to the present.
lol.
Yes, I travel forward in time all the time.
lol
No do-overs probably
better time travel movie from the same era
Time After Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY7Vz17STok
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But it would fill in everything for her.
That singular coin would tell her where he was from, where he had gone, and how she could see him again.
It gave her love the strength to endure 60 some odd years with no hope of seeing him any time before then.
I have a unique connection to this movie. In 1968 I attended Mackinac College for a year and my job while there was theater manager and projectionist at the movie theater at the college. . . which was the theater in which Jane Seymour would later, or earlier in fictional time, be performing for Christopher Reeves in the movie. When I was working there it was quite a bit shabbier looking than what it was in the movie.
The movie made it appear that the theater was just a couple of hundred feet from the Grand Hotel, if not attached to the hotel. It actually is located about a mile away, on the other end of the island from the hotel,
In fact, in addition to being the projectionist, I was in charge of the complex attached to the theater which included the world’s second largest sound stage! To give you an idea of the size of this building, one of the sixteen movies filmed there in the 1950s required a nighttime airplane landing scene. . . they were not getting good success at the local airport filming what the director wanted so they dismantled a Ford Trimotor, re-assembled it in the soundstage and taxied it around the floor inside to get the shot with the right lighting! Somewhere in Time’s indoor scenes were all shot in that sound stage.
He DID make a good comic book character!
“I travel forward in time all the time.”
Ha ha! True, I never thought of it that way. Maybe that’s what they meant!
oh well, I said on another thread I’m like that Congressman from Oregon who thought “Portlandia” was a reality show.
Very true! It ties together seamlessly with the beginning of the movie when she finds him and says ‘come back to me’. I really enjoy going back over this movie.
There is a lot of spiritual symbolism in the movie. I always thought of the Christopher Plummer character as a metaphor for the devil. He was always acting as an obstacle to Richard, trying to use fear and intimidation to deny Richard his dream. Richard could see through the illusion of the obstacle and achieve his miracle. Really very much like we have to deal with obstacles to achieve what we want in life. Faith gives us the strength. These spiritual connections are maybe what turned the secularist critics off so much about this movie.
He brought the coin back with him. How did she know?
It strikes us at the heart to have a movie that touches our heart and spirit and lights our imaginations to what is a miracle. I love this film, too. :)
It strikes us at the heart to have a movie that touches our heart and spirit and lights our imaginations to what is a miracle. I love this film, too. :)
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Ever seen “The Enchanted April”?
If you like this one you’d probably like it, too.
It’s not fantasy, but a “natural miracle” movie, and it’s gorgeously filmed.
Interesting!
Thanks for posting!
It’s true and that’s pretty much what he said. “That’s us, that’s how we are” He said he watched 3 episodes before he figured it out.
I gotta give him credit for admitting it, he must have a pretty good sense of humor, esp. for a lefty.
I bet he has been getting grief from his peeps after that too. lol
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