filmlover Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I hope those of you who haven't seen it will stick around to watch it tonight or DVR it. Great Technicolor sequences on Earth...and then... (Alternate title for this film is Stairway to Heaven.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audreyforever Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I'll let you in on a secret....I'VE NEVER SEEN IT!!! But, after much anticipation, my DVR will be recording it tonight Thanks for the reminder filmlover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 You're in for a treat. It is the only trial-in-heaven movie I find bearable to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 You mean you don't like *The Story of Mankind* ? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I've read the plot and this movie is a lot like the stories of "Out-of-body" or "near death experiences". Generally its a person flying towards a bright light at the end of a long tunnel, not a broad escalator (no big rush to get there??) With stories of people experiencing this phenomenon, I wonder is this where the producer got the idea? Like in real life, the movie never states if one was really in heaven or "the other world" or not. Interesting in that this movie comes after World War II when airmen got to tell their stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Yes. Sadly, I must admit. I know it will come as a shock to the many who admire that dearly beloved classic of the cinematic art that anyone could not be devoted to it as they are. Wretch that I am, such a severe physical reaction comes over me when I watch it, that to preserve the color of my carpet, I must refrain absolutely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I had enough of this thing, LOL .. That's heaven?? Hell's not looking so bad. There is not an alien abduction, acid trip, out of body experience tale that can compare to this. If Dante Alighieri was alive to see this, he would had incorporated it into his "Divine Comedy" and would be a level in Dante's Inferno reserve for Hollywood producers to spend eternity. ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audreyforever Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Around 9:30 last night I flipped to TCM to cathc a glimpse of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and I mean WOW! the colors are so balanced and in-line I thought it was a modern movie for a second! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbefree25 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Darn, sorry I missed Stairway to Heaven. Didn't you like The Devil and Daniel Webster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 You can always play the game. Strange twist in that the movie got me interested in buying it. http://www.quasarelectronics.com/3005-stairway-to-heaven-game.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 > {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:}{quote}Around 9:30 last night I flipped to TCM to cathc a glimpse of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and I mean WOW! the colors are so balanced and in-line I thought it was a modern movie for a second! If it was a modern movie, it would have had a green or amber tint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainingViolets101 Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 How right you are ....the Harry Potter films and the Twilight series look as if they were photographed through a green lens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I always phrase a great-looking color film as appearing as if it came out of the lab yesterday. That's because so many of them do appear these days as terribly faded, especially the ones done in DeLuxe Color. What they do to color films these days turns me off completely. It's not that I'm a nostalgist who insists that everything made "in my day" was better that what comes out now, but it does bother me that so many color films made me think that I'm looking at it with sunglasses on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Speaking of tinted scenes, the most highly criticised was the luridly *purple* tinted scenes in "Battlefeild Earth" (2000). A word was created only for it *Psychlo-centric.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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