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."
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Heh, I’m game!
I’ll bring the Roy Orbison records and the flood lamp. :-)
Took a girl to see this movie when it came
out.Was bored to death at first,but by the
end was enjoying it.Only time I have seen it.
Macinac Island is a great place to visit and
see this hotel...also love all the chocolate shops.
Art Bell and George Noory both love this film. Both could talk about the implications of the vignettes for HOURS, and have done so. The hook for them was the notion of time travel and pasts’ relation to the future.
It was a good date flick.
I think that it is not possible to travel to our past, I think we would actually be traveling to the past of another timeline, maybe one we created when we went there but it will not be the same world. If you get my point.
Critics laughed and sneered; yet audiences were moved to tears. How to explain this?
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Critics also hated Led Zeppelin, The Beatles etc...
Critics naturally try to justify their life work, which involves looking at or listening to entertainment, by building it up to seem to be something deep and meaningful. It ain’t. The ridiculous over intellectualization of stupid pretentious crap is often the result.
Roger Ebert and others hated Blade Runner when it came out.
Later, when it was issued without the voiceover narration, the critics used that as an excuse to finally join the popular fans of the film.
I’d trust the reviews of people who PAID to eat their meal or see a movie, obtain a book or record, etc. than those who take the freebies for granted, pushing weak (or overpriced) crud while panning something that may actually satisfy.
beautiful soundtrack. It helped make the move.
It wasn’t my kind of movie but I do agree that critics are generally idiots.
It was my late mother’s favorite film. I cannot hear the theme song without losing it like a little girl.
I often confuse it with Time After Time (HG Wells vs. Jack The Ripper).
Both were in heavy rotation on cable about the same time.
Never saw it... a friend ranted and raved how great it was, he even played the soundtrack cassette tape often... someone explained the movie to me... I liked the Time Traveller's Wife... I might like this one, but just never watched it... no time for that sorta stuff.
Movie & book critics are irrelevant to me.
I buy based on what works for me.
I loved that movie. The music was so haunting.
John Barry was a genius.
Well the definition of a critic is someone who see’s how it’s done, knows how it’s done but can’t do it themselves.
Right. That variations on a theme by Paganini was great.
Agreed. I watch it about once a year; it never grows old.
Vaguely remember the movie now that I see the poster. Never saw it, never knew about its cult status.
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