Have never seen it; will have to give it a watch.
Have never seen it; will have to give it a watch.
It’s a great picture, have seen it several times and has a good cast. Yes the title is misleading but it’s a good watch.
TLADOCB is a beautiful film, start-to-finish, helped by the superb score by Allan Gray.
My kids usually groaned when I asked to watch Colonel Blimp yet again. It doesn’t move terribly fast. But when one of them experienced delayed, and ultimately unrequited, love as a young adult, she asked for that film. She got it at last, and now it’s one of her favorites.
Colonel Blimp and IKWIG are two of the finest romance films ever made, IMHO. You couldn’t do better for a brief escape back into a better age.
The Library of Congress has a film restoration building complex in Culpeper VA. When they finish working on one, they often play the film in their own theatre. I saw “Col. Blimp” there and enjoyed it, though my GF at the time, fell asleep pretty quickly.
OK, I’ll give it watch.
Recommend Moon - a very stark, simple, and moving Sci Fi flick, the Ipcress File, a great Brit spy flick, and Gattica a far too overlooked Sci Fi/alternate history romp.
I’ve never seen the movie but after finding some clips on Youtube I was impressed by the moral dilemma presented in the movie: do you adopt the despicable tactics of your enemy or do you surrender with the knowledge that you are an honorable person and will not stoop to the level of your enemy. This was played out in a clip that I have seen regarding the Nazis. And I think that it can be played out in real life anywhere. For example, do Republicans adopt the vicious tactics of the Democrats or do they not and lose honorably? It can be played out with pacifists: do pacifists not fight and retain their moral superiority (and let evil not only destroy themselves but their family and friends) or do they fight and feel like they have betrayed themselves? It is an interesting question.
Personally, I feel that by adopting evil tactics you don’t necessarily become totally evil: evil has not now taken over your whole being. Further, there is also the possibility forgiveness for the evils you have reluctantly done. The person who does not move but sticks adamantly to his morality could also perhaps be described as an egotist. Like the pacifist, he saves his soul but the people around him suffers. So it is a conundrum...
This has always been my least favorite Powell/Pressburger movie. My husand likes it very much. I prefer I Know Where I’m Going and Black Narcissus.
Alistair MacLean referenced the character in his early novels.
OK everybody - I kept my word and found a DVD of this turkey on e-bay and watched the whole movie.
It was slow-moving, oddly paced, cartoonish in its characters and it took enormous force of will to finish it.
Why did you like it?