H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper through Time? First Time Watching Time After Time Movie Reaction
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My first time watching Time After Time (1979). The sheer concept of this film has me so hyped! Adventure! Suspense! Romance! Join the fun as H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper through time (and space?) I hope you enjoyed my Time After Time movie reaction & commentary
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Original Movie: Time After Time (1979)
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I'm still tickled that this concept exists! What are YOUR thoughts on Time After Time?
I would imagine you could classify this film as fantasy?
I wish the historical bits were more accurate. And the time travel special effects were a let down after seeing The Time Machine.
Best time travel movie,Time Crimes!!
@@philstone6129 timecrimes is great (though it does itself no favors with a poster that looks like a horror movie). But it's not as mind twisting as Predestination.
You should watch The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. It's a Sherlock Holmes movie based on a book by Nicholas Meyer, who wrote and directed Time After Time.
Meyer also directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and co-wrote Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which also involves time travel.
Author Kim Newman has as lot if historical mash ups in his books. They often involve historical and fictional characters. I'm current reading one of his books that has Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in 30s Hollywood where monsters exist.
This is one of my absolute favorite movies from my childhood, I watched it constantly on HBO when I was a kid. RIP to the great David Warner. Him and Malcolm McDowell are awesome in this movie.
Ditto. I still laugh when I think about that Scottish place, McDoogal's. 😁
@@MikeySea676 und tea!!!🤣👍
Same. In the late 70s/early 80s, HBO and the Movie Channel were the only two premium channels, and they didn't run 24 hours. VCRs weren't as commonplace, so they ran many of the same popular movies just about every day so people could catch them. But for kids after school or on vacation, it meant watching gems like this multiple times. It's become one of my all-time favorites as well.
Totally. Since it was PG they played it A LOT. Back then (at least on HBO) they didn’t show R films till 8pm or after so it was in heavy rotation daytime. Anyway. We had a VCR super early but this show was on so often I never felt the need to record it. I’ll never forget having a “sick” day and this came on one afternoon. I was like “SCORE!”
Born in ‘71… find it so crazy how many people fell in love with this flick during its run on HBO during the early 80s. I’ve seen it countless times. Just like The Thing and Escape from New York. David Warner was my favorite actor at the time because of this and Tron. He had such a unique vibe… RIP
Malcolm Mcdowell (most famous for A Clockwork Orange), and Mary Steenburgen fell in love on the set of this film and were married for ten years and had a couple of kids. Their chemistry really does shine in the movie which is one reason it is so appealing. I really love Mary... it's kind of funny she plays almost the same role in this as she does in Back to the Future 3, including the similar scenes where she has to be convinced that time travel is real. If you can find a copy of the movie Cross Creek she is quite wonderful in that one.
All true. I just want to add that they got Malcolm McDowell to record a commentary track for the DVD decades later. He seemed genuinely moved by the sight of himself and Mary falling in love onscreen, even though the marriage had ended by then. He had not seen the movie for many years, and said that it reminded him of a treasured period in his life, and he could see why viewers have remained fond of it over the years.
I also love the revelation elsewhere on the DVD commentary that Mary Steenburgen hadn't been their original idea of Amy at all -- they had imagined a fast-talking San Francisco semi-hippie type, and instead they chose a slow-talking Southern Lady, because she was clearly the best for the role. And of course she's now inseparable from the whole charm of the movie.
A while ago Steenburgen said in an interview "Thank god for that movie. I have kids because of it!"
"Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur."
Yeah, well, come to 2022! RIP David Warner.
Fun Fact: The movie's title inspired Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" song title many years later.
Quick Adaptation Fact: According to Nicholas Meyer from the commentary track for the DVD and Blu-ray release of the film, the author of the novel presented Meyer with 55 pages of his unpublished novel and asked Meyer to critique his work. Meyer liked the premise and immediately optioned the story so he could write a screenplay based on the material and develop the story his own way.
Coin Enthusiast Fact: The guinea was a coin minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold (in 1816, the guinea was replaced by the pound as the unit of currency, and the word became a colloquial term). In 1979, gold was worth $459 per ounce, so each guinea was worth a little more than $100; it is more likely that John Stevenson (David Warner) would have gone to a coin store than to a bank to exchange his money.
Great facts as always!
I love Jack’s monologue to Wells in the hotel room. RIP to David Warner who played Jack and passed in the last couple of weeks.
You should consider “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” and “The Day After”. All great films from this film’s director and writer.
And Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home, where the Enterprise crew gets their own time-travel taste of 20th century San Francisco.
@@ericjanssen394 A great film but it was directed by Leonard Nimoy not Nicolas Meyer.
Nicholas Meyer also wrote the book The Seven Percent Solution, which is a fantastic Sherlock Holmes story that was adapted into a quite good movie.
I didn't know he died
Great movie. David Warner was so awesome. Sadly he just passed away Sunday. He's in Straw Dogs which is definitely a movie to see at least once (very violent however).
Oh wow I didn’t realize. So sad.
Yes, he was a very interesting actor. You can see him in TOM JONES (as Blifel) and as MORGAN! with Vanessa Redgrave.
The adorable Mary Sternburgen was married to Malcolm McDowell for a while.
@@CasualNerdReactions Warner was also in THE OMEN...and one of it's most famous scenes. I last saw him in MARY POPPINS RETURNS. R.I.P.
I absolutely loved this movie when it came out. And it is wildly underappreciated. McDowell, Warner, and Steenburgen were at their best, playing characters that seemed to be written for them.
A rare movie where Malcolm Mcdowell is a good guy.
I adore his performance as a good guy in this one. By all accounts a lovely man; nice to see him get to play that occasionally
Rest In Peace, David Warner. He was one of the most brilliant actors, primarily as villains, in cinema.
I watched this when I was a kid on HBO, numerous times... every time it was on, I watched it. What tripped me out was years later watching 'A Clockwork Orange ' and seeing Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge, a VERY different character to H.G. Wells, which was ironically made before this film. I actually count this as my all-time favorite time travel film with the BTTF Trilogy a very close second. A lot of that is because as a kid who loved science fiction, I read quite a bit of H.G. Wells...and I loved the sheer concept of Wells against the Ripper across time.
Yep! That was Mary Steenburgen from 'Back To The Future, Part III'. In fact, this film was the main reason she was cast in that. She has a similar scene in each one.
Offstage, during the filming Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell fell in love in real life. They were married for 10 years and had kids together. Mary is now married to Ted Danson (Cheers, The Good Place), and Malcolm has also remarried. The next film she made after this was 'Melvin and Howard ' in 1980, and she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
The Sherlock Holmes quip in the hotel room scene is telling...Nicholas Meyer, before this film, did a Sherlock Holmes movie called 'The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ' adapting the screenplay from his own novel, and earning an Oscar nomination. That film was about Holmes (Nicol Williamson) dealing with his cocaine addiction with the help of Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) while dealing with Moriarty (Lord Laurence Olivier). Dr. Watson was played by Robert Duvall. It's a fun movie, too.
"Dealing" with Moriarty is understatement. He really tested Holmes!
This movie was directed by Nicholas Mayer Who wrote the Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven Percent Solution, and wrote and directed Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
Mary Steenburgen got the part in Back to the Future 3 because of this role. She even talks about HG Wells in that movie.
I love this movie! Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen were married in real life after they made the movie.
Glad you watched the original Time Machine with Rod Taylor before watching this, so you could appreciate the scene of all the friends gathered together at the beginning where the protagonist of the story reveals the existence of the time machine.
Yes! Honestly, had I not watched that, I’m not sure I’d have even heard of this one.
So happy to see someone react to this! I love this film. It didn't make much noise at the box office (at least here in the USA) but it's wonderful. And it's so nice to see McDowell play the hero for a change!
I haven't seen this movie since 79 & I was 10 yrs old. Watched it few times on HBO. Thanks for taking me back!
R.I.P David Warner,An institution and one of the most prolific actors of the last 50 years.Tron was the first film I saw at the cinema on my own and I was a fan ever since.
Can I just say, one of my favorite things about your channel is that I can genuinely believe it is your first time seeing all these films? When other reacters drop titles like Jurassic Park and Star Wars I sometimes question how they don't know ANYTHING even just from cultural osmosis. But you're dropping titles like Time After Time? Yeah, I believe you've never seen that. I imagine only classic movie buffs like me (and those who were around when it came out) have seen that movie.
Thanks! It’s really important to me to be as genuine as possible. I’m going to experiment occasionally with rewatching films from time to time, but I’ll always make it clear it isn’t my first time. I started with The Terminator and honestly I’m thrilled because I was shocked at how little I remembered. It was a blast.
One reason is that he often reacts to films that most reactors don't watch and may not be as iconic as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future. It's definitely hard to believe people can go into those movies knowing nothing.
There was a reaction to The Empire Strikes Back I appreciated. It was two girls and when got to Vader's big reveal, they were all "WHAT? I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!". Then they stopped and said that was BS. There was, of course, no way they couldn't have known.
@@CasualNerdReactions In that same spirit, I bet you haven't seen Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). Gripping nuclear techno thriller about military AI gone amok. It's probably the next good big budget AI story filmed after 2001: a Space Odyssey, as I think of it, though its nuclear scenario is on a par with Strangelove or Fail Safe. Told with dead earnest realism. With Eric Braden ("Titanic", "Escape from the Planet of the Apes") as Dr Charles Forbin, featuring Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William ("The Trouble With Tribbles") Schallert.
Colossus is one of those science fiction stories which is completely unnerving because one could easily imagine something like the scenario depicted actually coming to pass, without too much of a stretch beyond what our current technology can do.
THe Terminator (1984) classic future noir. Will you be doing BLade RuNNeR? and MetrOPOLis the 1927 version. Any notions of doing Total RecaLL (1990). Not the remake please. ThankZ CNR.@@CasualNerdReactions
War Games (1983) another A.i gone kukoo. Would like to see a reaction to Logan's Run (1976), an A.i that runs an underground domed city, THX-1138 (1971) same plot but scarier if not incomprehensible, (needs multiple viewing to crack the egg, but there's no maguffin). And lastly the most realistic is The Andromeda Strain (1971) is probably to close for comfort. There was a tv version as well.@@AlanCanon2222
Did you notice at the end that, when Wells removes the key that will send the Ripper into oblivion, the Ripper sort of nods, as though acknowledging that it's for the best?
legit my favorite moment in the film. he knows he's a monster and that it needs to end.
You win the internet for reacting to this. Thanks!
Haha thanks!
interesting interview with Malcom about this film. He did it right after he did Caligula. He hated doing Caligula and loved this one.
Love this movie. Merging Jack the Ripper with time travel....brilliant.
Honestly, the concept along is worth the ticket.
@@CasualNerdReactions and a perfect explanation of why they never found out who he was/caught him.
Thanks for reacting to these obscure Classics and top notch movies . There are so many brilliant movies that other reactors are overlooking . Kudos for looking outside the box
remember when this first came out, was a crazy concept even then. Chasing Jack the ripper thru history. Great reaction.
such a lovely movie, Malcolm McDowell is so wonderful, I love how he portrays such a sweet innocence in the 'new' world. If you have not seen, I highly recommend Being There ('79).
Mary Steenburgen starred in the often overlooked 80s mystery/thriller "Dead of Winter". You should check it out. I think you might enjoy it.
I absolutely love this movie. Growing up and watching this on VHS, HBO amd The Movie Channel. This is just a fun movie for me attached with great memories.
The actor, David Warner, that played Jack the Ripper passed away last week.
Finally someone watched this. i LOVE this film, saw it in the theater many times. Such a great fillm.
Thanks so much for reacting to this film, it's an underrated gem. I saw it as a kid when it came out in 1979 and it still has a place in my heart as a wonderfully romantic little sci-fi movie. RIP David Warner, one of the best villainous character actors of all time.
I saw this when it first came out in the theater 1979 and loved it.
I saw this as a kid and it cemented David Warner as a bad guy and Malcom McDowell as a good guy to me. Which about gave me whiplash when watching them play against “type” with Warner playing Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol & McDowell in a Clockwork Orange.
I love Miklos Rozsa's score! It's one of my favorites of his. It reminds me of his score for George Pal's "The Power" (1967). There's another sci-fi film you may find interesting.
Your post-film remarks were hilarious. There's no reason for this movie to be as good as it is! The premise is so hilarious, they just make it work! You said it: fun. Wasn't a hit or anything, it was just a movie that played on cable a lot in the early 80s. To this day, I associate David Warner with Jack The Ripper! And seeing Malcom McDowell in a role so different from his wild, over-the-top character in "A Clockwork Orange" is a real treat. The guy is not known for his "straightlaced", "reserved" roles! LOVED this reaction!
In the '70s the 9-1-1 system wasn't in place. You had to pay for the phone call. Even after 9-1-1 came about you had to have a coin to get a dial tone in a pay phone. Calling 9-1-1 you got your money back.
I'm quite pleased that you did this one. I thought that I was the only one who had seen this one. :)
Another great choice. This is one of my favorites starring some of my favorite actors Malcolm McDowell, David Warner (who died very recently), and Mary Steenburgen. An interesting take on Jack The Ripper.
I suggested this movie and am glad you posted it. it featured two of the best British actors ever.just looking through their movie history could keep you busy for quite a while. i wish i could travel back in time and have my blue Honda(exactly like the one in the movie) again.
Great suggestion! I love this movie
With the nineteenth century personages of Jack The Ripper (real) and Sherlock Holmes (fictional) being mentioned in this underrated gem, brings to mind a good film from the same year, "Murder By Decree", that pits Holmes against Jack The Ripper- starring Christopher Plummer (Holmes), James Mason (Dr. Watson), Donald Sutherland, Susan Clark, Genevieve Bujold, David Hemmings & Sir John Gielgud..Directed by Bob Clark, who helmed two very different Christmas classics, "A Christmas Story"('83) & "Black Christmas"('74)..it's a well done story if you like your 'Ripper' tales tinged with conspiracy theories. It was so fun to watch "Time After Time" with you! 👍👏
Great reaction, Chris!! It's funny that you wondered if these two kids would wind up together, because they got married the next year after they made this film
Woo hoo! That’s awesome. 👏
So glad did this movie, it's such a sleeper classic and your reaction is Great! . . . . And I'm super excited that you know who Shaun Spencer is! 🤗😄👍
Haha thanks for the comment!
Also the amazing music is by Miklos Rozsa. Who did Golden voyage of Sinbad, El CID and Ben Hur
I'm so very glad to see someone finally react to this wonderful movie, and you were great! (By the way, I'm from San Francisco and I've always loved the way the movie uses this city.)
YAAAASSSSSS … You are watching one of my favorite movies EVER!
Top 5 all time favorite for me. So glad to see a fun reaction to it. You're a really entertaining reactor. Thanks for doing this one.
David Warner, may he rest in peace, was always a great bad guy. I love this movie.
Such a great sci-fi concept with such engaging acting all around and yes the late, great David Warner is perfectly venal as Jack. Such a fantastic character actor who relished in his vilainry - this is truly his finest hour. You need to see THE OMEN (the original) in which he is very pivitol.
Omg I could hug u for this! Besides the fact ur one of my favs😉 - I couldn’t remember what this movie was called & loved it as a kid! We went to England in ‘87 to visit family & I made everyone do the Jack the Ripper tour bc of this movie😂. So thanks for reacting to it😘
It’s so annoying trying to remember a movie, but can’t find it! Glad I could help.
What, what, what is happening right now, you're reacting to this movie? Amazing! I must wait HOURS to sit down and watch but I'm VERY excited for this.
Edit, hours later: Yay, you liked it! My favorite part is the foot chase when you said "excellent use of the city of San Francisco." Foot chase, makes sense because neither of them can drive so they can't go around San Francisco at a hundred miles an hour like Steve McQueen did. Also, love how funny it is, even though it's also a story about Jack the Ripper.
Haha yes! The foot chase was so much fun.
R.I.P. David Warner
If you haven't seen the movie Somewhere in Time, please react to it
Awesome! Thanks for reacting to Time After Time! The 3 leads were so memorable.
Nicholas Meyer's novel, "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," kicked off the
Sherlockian pastiche boom of the 1970s, which, arguably, continues to this day and is at least partially responsible for the current spate of adaptations.
Another classic from my childhood. I haven't even thought about this one in years.
Nice review of a fondly remembered SciFi movie! If you come back to the genre, I'd like to nominate what I consider to be one of its best examples: "The Andromeda Strain"
RIP David Warner, phenomenal actor!
Oh I’m so glad you reacted to this movie. It’s such a fun idea! I always would watch it when it came on TV.
One of my faves from the ancient 70's. Thanks for reviewing. I believe McDonald's sued them for using their name without permission
and the "MacDougalls" was badly edited in here in the subsequent releases. I also had a crush on Mary.
Malcolm McDowell is so sweet in this movie and Mary Steenburgen is priceless which just makes this movie so much harder for me to watch because David Warner is SO. DAMN. EFFECTIVE.
The first Mary Steenbergen movie I saw was a great favorite: The suspense/thriller "Dead of Winter" (1987).
This was awesome! Thank you for this treat
11:25 "Far superior to that Scottish place where I breakfasted." "Scottish?" "McDoogalls."
Thank you for including that bit, it's my favorite quote from this film.
Haha it’s a GREAT line!
I'm loving seeing so many of my favorites that no one else has reacted to on your channel! This is great! I've always loved this movie. I'm a bid reader and HG Wells fan, was always interested in the mystery around the Ripper Murders too, great concept for a movie! Love it! ♥️ I'm loving your channel! Keep it up dude!!!
Thanks, Dawn! Appreciate your comments.
If "John" had just smoked that joint.. "Jack the Pizza Eater."
I have a copy of this film - it's an underrated gem.
What an absolutely fun film all around. I saw it when it came out and it has always been a favorite of mine. I agree with other commentators that you do hit films that so many others miss, as well as doing older, earlier films. For another fun take on fantasy you should watch The Purple Rose of Cairo or Harvey. For drama/horror you should watch M or Mad Love, both of which star the great Peter Lorre.
I have always loved this film, and I saw it when it was first released in 1979 with my grandmother who was into Jack The Ripper tales
Jack the Ripper going into oblivion, into the abyss was a fitting end I think.
This is a favorite of mine. All time travel movies are good but this one is great. It's funny, and it keeps the violence off screen. It's also the most satisfying time travel movie, due to its ending. Even the director's commentary was highly entertaining; Meyer goes into detail about the relationship of gravity and the Earth's orbit to time travel and time travel movies. He also opened my eyes to the word "fortuitous" and how he has David Warner use the word the way everyone in movies uses it: as a stroke of good luck due to an accident. After the movie he found out that "fortuitous" does not refer to a happy accident. That would be serendipity. Fortuitous simply refers to an accident. It only sounds like the accident results in good fortune.
And Malcolm McDowell is great!! Somehow he's believable as a pacifist yet courageous in the face of danger. He also manages to make himself look small and vulnerable. And this is the actor whose career began in A Clockwork Orange, portraying a young hoodlum who is the embodiment of evil and joyous villainy; his character took immense pleasure in rape and physical violence. He's having such a good time as a thug that you struggle to remember that he's a bad guy. During the rape and crippling of a couple during a home invasion, he exuberantly performs "Singing In The Rain," even timing the physical blows (punches) to coincide with the song's beats. Critics said that no one onscreen had been evil with as much cheerful gusto since Jimmy Cagney in the 1930s. He was utterly charismatic then and utterly charismatic in this movie, as the man of peace. What happened to his career I don't know, but he should have been a superstar or at least a very well-known character actor. His pure joy saved Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange from being just another superb but cold and antiseptic great movie. McDowell makes it a masterpiece. HG Wells is not a showy role, but he makes this rather small movie into a blockbuster.
Can't say enough good things about this movie and its cast.
Said I couldn't say enough. In 1976, Nicholas Meyer wrote but did not direct The Seven Per Cent Solution, one of the very best Sherlock Holmes movies. Ever. Dr. Watson finally convinces Holmes to get help with his cocaine addiction. And to whom does Watson turn for help? Sigmund Freud, played by Alan Arkin. A young and generally mocked doctor just beginning to explore the mind Sigmund Freud.
He explains how he wound up in the U.S. 8 hrs difference. (The rotation of the earth.)
Malcolm was great in an early British film called "If..."
And of course the famous Clockwork Orange
One of my favorite films! RIP David Warner.
It's a lovely film, and timely in that David Warner who plays JTR just passed away. The director also made the two best STAR TREK movies and he's written some fun Sherlock Holmes stories of his own.
very very good movie ! i watched this in the cinema at its time ... the real H.G. Wells was a genius about litterature/science/history
One of my favorite films ever; great reactions too. Even if some of the plot moments don't hold up as well in retrospect, the brilliant acting sells it all.
One of my favorite movies!!
1970s San Francisco is as much a character in this movie as any of the ones played by actors.
I couldn't believe when I saw the title to this reaction! I saw the 2nd half years ago and was never able to find a copy to watch. PS NICE PSYCH REFERENCE!!!!
I love this movie, I watched it most recently upon the passing of David Warner who is definitely my favorite cinematic Jack the Ripper.
“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells..(Thanx so much for watching this)..Take care..xx
That’s such a marvelous quote.
@@CasualNerdReactions It's my favorite one from him. I have all of his books. And Malcolm McDowell, David Warner R.I.P, are two of my favorite actors. So this was a treat for me.. Thanx again.😊..xx
the time machine, in 1979, is in the museum in San Francisco. That is why he is there and not in London.
saw this flick way back , liked it a lot. thanks I was lookin to get a DVD couldn't remember the title or anything.
One of my all-time favorite movies. I'm surprised it hasn't been remade!
I heard there was a short lived tv show!
@@CasualNerdReactionsIt wasn’t very good which was surprising because Nicholas Meyer was involved.
Ah man I knew you'd enjoy this. Great movie, very entertaining and the cast are top-notch. It's great that you cover these sort of brilliant yet underappreciated films.
Definitely a blast to check out a film I’d never have thought to see otherwise.
@@CasualNerdReactions You're doing important work mate - respect.
Shout out to David Warner. Great as Jack. So many movies. Usually villains (he was even Billy Zane's henchman in TITANIC!)...
...But my favorite performance of David's may be his touching role as Bob Cratchit in 1984's A CHRISTMAS CAROL with George C. Scott. I highly recommend that version of the holiday classic.
HEY Chris!! I finally got to another one of my favorites that you reacted to. Love love love this movie!! Time movies are a favorite "what if" kinda movies, and have been for so long. I always wished I could go back to a certain time in my own life..."what if".
~Dawne
Mary Steenburgen has beeen in two time travel (this and Back to the Future 3), as has David Warner (this and Time Bandits).
Good choice. This is by the guy that wrote and directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Ooh was just having a conversation about the Star Trek films on Patreon 🤔
Also David Warner appeared in star trek as 4 different characters!!
So this looks a LOT more charming and fun than I expected; movies I dug as a kid tend to be underwhelming in my drab middle-age. Now I have to go see the whole movie again!
McDowell and Steenbergen got married after this film.
BTW, they moved the time machine for the exhibit in San Francisco. That's why he ended up there. It's like the 1960 movie. It moves through time, not space. If you physically move it, you travel to wherever they moved it to.
Of all the movies you mention in the comments below, no one mentions him in Tron, and Time Bandits. He played Evil in TB brilliant
This is a very good movie. I haven't seen it in a long time.
SO amazing that you watched this. It’s almost overlooked in great 70s sci-fi films.
Definitely overlooked, I hadn’t even heard of it!
Loved this take on the story
I loved this movie growing up. Time travel romances were the thing then.
OMGG!!!! This is one of my favorite films! And is so underrated, like, nobody talks about this movie enough. That was a great reaction! Fun fact: Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen met during this film and got married very soon after. They had two children together during the 80s.
Humans will eventually accept that linear time is an illusion. Here tis: You know when you are totally embraced by the moment, the ride, the negation of time due to passionate involvement in the task at hand? The crescendo of a guitar solo, the swirls of brushwork and color, the sheer beauty of mathmatics, the setting sun, where time stops. Time is plastic, malleable, subject to the perceiver. What a cast.
Interesting thoughts! Oddly enough I just finished watching the film Arrival and it adds a different dimension to your words haha.
I used to have that same Honda in green
The beautiful music score was done by composer Miklos Rozsa who's work goes back to classis movies from the 30's. He has done dozens of movies everyone has heard of. Check out his IMdB and be amazed at his talent !
The music for King of Kings is like an extension of Ben-HUR. Both are very similar yet unique to each film. Both incredibly amazing to listen to. According to Miklos his best work was EL CID.
The music for Time After Time does not seem to fit well with this movie. I think Bernard Herrmann would have been a better fit. Here's a fun story Keith B. about Miklos:
"In 1968, Miklos was asked to score The Green Berets, after Elmer Bernstein turned it down due to his political beliefs. Rózsa initially declined the offer, saying, "I don't do Westerns." However, he agreed to compose the score after being informed, "It's not a Western, it's an 'Eastern'."
I love that he gives the police the name Sherlock Holmes. He probably thinks it’s such an outdated reference that the cops wouldn’t understand the significance.
What a freakin great movie
Yes! Great moment lol.
-- RIP David Warner
-- Also, it's such a fun turn of tables that decades later, Mary Steenburgen would fall in love with another time traveller, but this time in reverse - Doc Brown from the future. (she seems to have a type)
It could be considered Historical Sci Fi. Because there are factual elements mixed with fiction.