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Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon (1973)

March. 14,1973
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5.2
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G
| Adventure Fantasy Drama Music

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

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Linbeymusol
1973/03/14

Wonderful character development!

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Cortechba
1973/03/15

Overrated

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Teringer
1973/03/16

An Exercise In Nonsense

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Senteur
1973/03/17

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

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Michael Stever
1973/03/18

Just watched, 'Lost Horizon.' Wow! Am intrigued by its history, and the apparent deluge of hostility that was not only projected at it commercially, but between Bacharach himself and his collaborative partner. It's ironic that a film trying to perpetuate a sense of good will, and enlighten folks to see past the traditional rat-race BS of life, would find itself so 'plagued' in its own right. Callousness, and apathy are the REAL culprits here. Believe it or not there's a LOT to like about 'Lost Horizon,' further Bert Bacharach and his collaborative partner Hal David never produced a single, bad piece of music. The wisdom perpetuated in this film, is LEGION. Be wary who you give your heart away to, friends. This film IS in many ways, like a SPECTACULAR crash, (of sorts) but to pigeonhole it 'merely' as a failure is WAY off base. What it IS, is a movie that plays BY ITS OWN RULES, and is produced with an INCREDIBLE VISUAL FLAIR, memorable tunes and charming choreography, and a sweeping scope that says "To Hell with the rest of you, who don't get us."

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Cruise
1973/03/19

I watched this when it first came out, 6 times in fact. I was at the idealistic, questioning age, a Bacharach-David fan (still am) and we were still romanticising the 60's, flower power, the mystical East and the peace movement. Musicals at the movies was common.Home computers and the internet was still years away and opinioms and reviews seldom went beyond your circle of friends. Perhaps that wasn't such a bad thing.I have since learned just how poorly it performed at the box. So I found a copy online and watched it again, curious as to how I would appreciate it some 45 years later. I was older, wiser and sadly more cynical in my old age. But I sat through it, setting aside thoughts that many in the cast were deceased and Burt Bacharach's tunes were no longer played even in elevators.The verdict? It is a charming film. Like many old films, it was a time capsule of a more idealistic and simpler world. The set were well made (no CGIl, the plot simple, the music fun and bouncy and the players a mixed bag of talents delivering dialog that today would be all but remedial.However, enjoy it I did and the message while hopeful is no less applicable today as it was then. We are still lost without any solutions to the global turmoil and suffering and we still look to the distant horizon for guidance and salvation. We have lamentably made little to no progress in 45 years.

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Sober-Friend
1973/03/20

I have not seen the original "Lost Horizon". I just watched this one. I was not a hater of this film and was willing to watch this with an open mind. For years I have herd this was the worse musical of all time. I think that is far from the truth, I think people that have said that have never seen "Grease 2". This film tells the story of a group of travelers whose airplane is hijacked while fleeing a bloody revolution. The aeroplane crash lands in an unexplored area of the Himalayas, where the party is rescued and taken to the lamasery of Shangri-La. Miraculously, Shangri-La, sheltered by mountains on all sides, is a temperate paradise amid the land of snows. Perfect health is the norm, and inhabitants live to very old age while maintaining a youthful appearance. One of the main problems with this film is that many scenes are not needed. There is lots of scenes where people are just walking and saying nothing. Songs also go on way too long. Now the songs are not great but they are out of place. I think the film needed different song writers. For some reason the songs felt like they were meant for a different film.The cast is okay but this is a musical. Most of the actors can't sing (They were dubbed) but they also can't dance. You can't get away that.Maybe someone might have the guts to try to make a musical out of the source material again. I would love to see them try ti make a decent musical out of it. If someone does make another musical (With a different songs and score) then please remember to start off a musical with a song and no wait 30 minutes for it!

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bkoganbing
1973/03/21

The 1973 Lost Horrizon has an honored place on Michael Medved's Fifty Worst films of all time. I don't think it's quite that bad, but given the budget for this film on purely financial terms it has to be in the record setting elite.I think the biggest problem was making this a musical remake. The songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David are some of the worst ever put in a film score. Worse than that they seem totally just grafted into the film and add nothing to the flow of the plot.Probably in a straight dramatic version Peter Finch would have been a marvelous substitution for the incomparable Ronald Colman for whom the Frank Capra 1937 version gave a him a role he was born to play. But I think that when doing a musical it might be a good idea to have both leads actually be singers. Both he and Liv Ullman were dubbed. James Shigeta who did do the film version of Flower Drum Song, Sally Kellerman and Bobby Van who actually was a musical performer did their own work.Lost Horrizon also is a story set during the time when the British actually had an empire. The lead character James Conway is a Cecil Rhodes type character, but with the best of his character and as the British liked to see themselves in their imperial days. Big mistake to have updated the story to the present. They did not update the character of Conway.Lost Horrizon is a passably entertaining film, but hardly worth the time and the money spent on it.

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