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"They Shall Not Grow Old"
An unbelievably good movie -- here's the trailer. The Imperial War Museum got the director of the Lord of the Rings series to work on their century-old WWI footage, on the condition that the entire film must consist of real footage, improved as best his team could. No talking heads, no modern re-enactors. They did an unbelievable job, improving resolution, turning early movies' slow frame rates into modern speed, colorizing, using lip readers to tell them what people were saying and then creating a sound track with that speech (speakers chosen to match the proper local accents).
It's here in Tucson through Tuesday. Oh, and, they managed to make some of it 3-D (but only some showings have that).
UPDATE: you can find tickets on Fandango. Just input your zip code at the top right menu.
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Saw it. Incredible and well worth watching as this is great film making.
Spooky part of this film it's story line is pre-Battle of Somme, working up to the Somme. You see the transition of non-soldiers into soldiers and see Order of Battle forming, knowing 9 of 10 of these mean will be wounded or killed.
At this place in History its like a Shakespeare tragedy. You know the story. You know what's to happen. Yet you pray for a different ending.
I'm always the proverbial day late and dollar short. Show times, locations, or a DVD formatted for the USA seem to be unavailable or closely held secrets. Is this at other theaters in the US? Is there a secret list somewhere? It seems like a stupid way to market a movie.
I saw it It was very good NO political leaning I really liked the focus on the soldiers Their day to day activities and survival or non survival in the trenches The footage of the attacks was very well done It got a good view of action even though the filmers were not running with the troops
Saw it, really emphasizes how shitty (sometimes literally) the reality of war is, and how societies do a great job leaning on their boys to go to war and forget about them when they come home. I appreciated the observation of one WW 1 veteran’s interview where he said these boys were the refuse fallen out of our industrialization (meaning our overpopulation from agrarian-mode reproduction trends when industrialization hadn’t ). It was a very impactful film and well done.
The 3D (for me) really shown when at the beginning the original B&W film was letterboxed, and the letterboxing was set on the first plane and the footage back on second or third, so it looked like you could “climb into” the letterboxing and be there. That was cool, as it opened up gradually into the retouched footage, which was a work of art.
Going to see it tonight, I have been looking forward to seeing this since it was first announced last year and have every expectation that it will live up to all the hype.
And I have tickets to go see it again tomorrow. Looking forward to it.
It will be in general release later this spring...not sure when. And no doubt a DVD will be available.
I'mm not sure why this was not eligible for an Academy Award (it certainly deserves one, IMHO) but since it wasn't, they're in no big hurry to release it in the US.
The only movie I saw last year...and well worth it!
When I saw it the theater was packed - every seat filled, with young, old, male, female, all races...and everyone was silent through the movie, and the documentary afterwards.
I've been looking to see when it will be replayed..worth seeing again!