I think I was probably about 8 or 9 when this film came thru White Bear Lake Minnesota. It seemed to have been ceaselessly promoted on local television and my friends and I had been playing out the scenes we saw in the commercial for weeks beforehand in the wooded vacant lot next to my house.
Dinosaurs, mastodons, Pterodactyls... this movie had it all. When we finally saw it in the theater we loved it and it remained one of the top 2 or 3 pictures that really stand out from those years. But I only saw it that once. I often wondered about it over the years, but was never sure of the title. Maybe I just dreamed it?
Finally seeing "Journey" again on DVD 40 years later, I'm aware of many lapses and shortcomings in the film that I never noticed when I was 8. The grafting of the New York City bookends onto the original Czech film is a marvel of economy and Ed Wood style film-making, but what the hey... it worked for me when I was 8.
I have no idea what a child today would think of this film. I would hope they'd enjoy it. I would hope they would find excitement in identifying with the boys in the film. But I don't know... you can't count on today's kids to make allowances for the production standards of 1950's Czech film making.
My biggest complaint is that the (pirate?) DVD i watched has a whole scene with the dialog wildly out of sync. Not just careless dubbing out of sync, but WAYYY out of sync.
Dinosaurs, mastodons, Pterodactyls... this movie had it all. When we finally saw it in the theater we loved it and it remained one of the top 2 or 3 pictures that really stand out from those years. But I only saw it that once. I often wondered about it over the years, but was never sure of the title. Maybe I just dreamed it?
Finally seeing "Journey" again on DVD 40 years later, I'm aware of many lapses and shortcomings in the film that I never noticed when I was 8. The grafting of the New York City bookends onto the original Czech film is a marvel of economy and Ed Wood style film-making, but what the hey... it worked for me when I was 8.
I have no idea what a child today would think of this film. I would hope they'd enjoy it. I would hope they would find excitement in identifying with the boys in the film. But I don't know... you can't count on today's kids to make allowances for the production standards of 1950's Czech film making.
My biggest complaint is that the (pirate?) DVD i watched has a whole scene with the dialog wildly out of sync. Not just careless dubbing out of sync, but WAYYY out of sync.