Is it guys walking for 9 hours?
I saw it. Incredibly moving.
Actually has a weird Wizard of Oz touch...the footage is in grainy black and white until they get shipped off to war. Once the soldiers arrive at the front lines, it transforms into restored HD color.
I downloaded it from a British torrent site when it aired on UK TV. It’s excellent. They even used lip readers to re-create what the soldiers were saying on the old films they used. I had a great uncle who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France. He was killed two months before the Armistice, and is buried in a British Military Cemetery near Boulogne.
Why was the USA even part of that AT ALL...?
Needless and stupid, sorta like us mucking around in Syria.
NONE OF OUR BIZ.
I have my ticket for next week. The first showing was sold out yesterday.
It was excellent. Go, if you have the chance!
Saw it last night. Very impressive. Be sure to stay for Peter Jackson’s description afterwards of how they fixed the lighting and the speed, colorized it, and put audio to the action. Truly a labor of love for him and his team.
Why is it only showing for two days? Will there be a general release later, or does it go to museums or the BBC? If it’s a limited release and then restricted distribution, I’ll have to hustle to get tickets. But if it will be generally available, timing is not urgent.
Ugggh, I have to be out of town on the 27th, I so have to see this!
I saw it last night. It was excellent. And, by the way, you should stick around for the “making of” short that follows the credits of the main show.
I saw this yesterday and I loved it. When it came to life in colour…….words fail me.
The December 27 showing is on its way to getting sold out. Get your tickets right away if you want to go.
https://www.fathomevents.com/events/they-shall-not-grow-old
BTT reminder that it’s only showing at 1PM ET tomorrow. At least I can see it at a choice of a few theaters locally.
Most Fathom events here are only showing at only one theater in the area.
When can I get the DVD?
I saw a 2D presentation of this today. Usually, I can’t abide 3D films becuase I get motion sick, but in this case it was a big mistake. It seems they converted the footage to 3D and then back into 2D, instead of taking the more logical approach and making a decent 2d cut of the film then converting to 3D. What 2D viewers ended up with was a mess of blurry, stretched and distorted imagery (especially faces), and was so full of visual artifacts that it made highly compressed first generation cell phone video look attractive by comparison. Some scenes even had an odd “boiling” look to them where the background squiggled for no apparent reason. Oddly, in this version of the film the best looking footage was the “unrestored” black and white footage at the beginning and the end. If you get a chance to see it in a theater, be sure to see it in 3D. 2D was an afterthought.
I should add that the sound effects and lip-reading were pretty impressive most of the time, however.