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Summary: Wonderful love story.
Review: Somewhere In Time is the greatest love story I have ever seen. Christopher Reeve (very handsome) and Jane Seymour were the perfect couple to play Elise and Richard. The music is simply wonderful and the location is beautiful. This love story never gets old.
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Summary: A closet fan comes out....
Review: Back in 1979, when I was living in Michigan, I had been aware that a movie with Christopher Reeve was being shot on Mackinac Island. Many in the state of Michigan eagerly anticipated the release of the movie, "Somewhere in Time." When the movie came to the market, however, it was pounded by some of the most vicious, virulent critical attacks I have ever seen. "Somewhere in Time" was quickly withdrawn. Later I also heard that the same thing had happened to the film in my native land of Japan. I never had a chance to view it.Some five years later I came across "Somewhere in Time" on a cable channel and sat down and watched it, by myself. When the end credit came rolling up, I sat there first in disbelief, and was then overwhelmed by self-doubt. Is this the same movie those critics tore apart five years back? Is this the same film that was withdrawn faster than I could say Jack Robinson, so that there was no time to even go to the theater? What is this? "Somewhere in Time" has captured me completely, and I'm now shaking and crying! But right away I started feeling that there had to be something wrong with me for liking this movie when all those experts clearly loathed it. I must keep secret the fact that I found the film gentle, honest, evocative, classically romantic in every sense, with an engrossing chemistry between Chris Reeve and Jane Seymour. I cannot let people know that I like it! They will all laugh, and I will lose all credibility as a movie lover. So I went into a closet. Soon after I was in Japan, working. I noticed that there had to be more than one closet fan of "Somewhere in Time" in the area, as its video was frequently out for rental. Later, I read an article in a Japanese film magazine that "Somewhere in Time," after the hideous first release there, went into secondary theaters and art houses, where it became one of the greatest hits the Japanese movie market had seen, earning a nickname of "Masterpiece of the Mirage." Folks, I have come out. Wimpy as this may appear, I no longer feel any shame in proclaiming, as a man, that this "chick flick of all chick flicks" is one of my favorite movies of all time. No, technically the movie is not perfect. But it is a movie that speaks from the heart, and reaches into the heart, presented with an exquisitely delicate touch. It surely touched my heart deeply. And I now know I am but one of millions who were so touched by the film that the critics so mercilessly had torn to pieces.
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Summary: a gentle movie
Review: It is like that Cary Grant , Deborah Carr movie. You can pick holes in it all day, BUT, it still is one that makes you view it again and again. So what if Raphsody of Paginni wasn't written until about 12 years after the year that the movie was set in, it is as haunting as the movie.
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Summary: The music is great, but...
Review: The soundtrack of this movie is very good including its version of the "18th Variation on a Theme from A Raphsody of Paginni" by Rachmaninoff. However, casting Christopher Reeves opposite Jayne Seymour is a real mistake. Specifically, Seymour can act; Reeves cannot. This story, like all time-travel stories, includes the unavoidable time paradox that, in the end, requires thinking people to relegate it to the same trash-heap with cotton candy, snow cones, copies of "Love Story" and other cloying materials. This movie also happens, in my opinion, to be the chick flick to end all chick flicks.
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Summary: Guilty Pleasure #_______
Review: Oh boy is this film ham-fisted. If I here that damn theme-piece one more time I'm riping speaker cable out! It's naratively and directorially clumsy and while the acting is acceptable given the material the actors are really nothing more than clothes hangers (OK Camille Pagalia was right) Despite it all the movie has its charm, and a couple of nifty ideas, which make this film watchable despite the cringing. The thing with Matheson (What Dreams May Come) romances is that they are absolutely basic. Love is the ONLY important factor, and everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING is subservient to love. This leads to plot-holes and stories that while passionate, are narratively not as satisfying as they could be. Matheson IS a good writer, and he does think through his stuff so its not that he is being lazy I think, I simply believe that for him love may be the most powerful force, and if thats the case, then he is a very very fortunate man.
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Summary: My Favorite - No other love stories have matched it yet...
Review: Like most of the other reviewers, this movie is my absolute favorite and I immediately bought the VHS version plus the sound track when it became available. However, due to a transfer to Europe, I now have a problem since I am not able to view it any longer since my version is VHS and here videos/machines are in PAL format only and the DVD version currently available is for US and Canada. Is there ever a possibility of getting a PAL version (my preference) since DVD is still too costly here? I am wondering if someone (Amazon?) can tell me if I can just 'convert' my VHS version to PAL on my own (if possible) without infringement of copyrights, etc.? I'm desperate! Will also buy the book by Richard Matheson to complete the 'set'.
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Summary: memorable
Review: i introduce my then 8 years old daughter to this movie 6 years ago and even after watching Titanic 8 times she would tell you that this movie it's her favorite of all times so far.she ,being an actor herself at the san diego school of creative and performing arts she would know better to affirm that this movie it's memorable. and although we don't own it we rent it 10 times a year at least!
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Summary: This movie about time travel is definitely timeless!
Review: Although I agree with some of the other reviewers that there were some lost opportunities in the film, the plot was something that I can never forget. And the music and senery is wonderful. I can watch it over and over again--my first time was in the mid-'80s in high school. I just rented this here in Japan with the Japanese subtitles to show my Japanese girlfriend, and she loved it. I can only hope I can find out where to buy the Japanese subtitle one. If you know, please email me. Check out the book that started the film "Bid Time Return". I hope they can remake this like they did the film Titantic.
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Summary: Pleases all ages
Review: This is a family favorite. My husband -- in his 70's -- "hates tearjerkers," but loves this one. My son loves it. Needless to say, everyone female in the family weeps over it and adores Chris Reeve. Whether you think of it as fantasy or science fiction (could it happen?), you find yourself unable to turn it off. Just incidentally, it's a beautiful film to look at, interesting photographic handling of some gorgeous scenery as well as gorgeous people. It looks like a photo from your grandmother's attic.
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Summary: "Is it You" I cherish these words.
Review: I saw this movie back in 1980. I went to see it 8 times and took so many people with me. It is my favorite film, I wish at times I was from that era. It is a movie that I tell everybody to see at least once in their life time. And the music is awesome. It is the movie that I share in my life with that special love.
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