It still makes me laugh
I'm writing on four hours sleep, but I think I've got my head together enough to write a little something about this movie. I'd want to say this movie was trying to bank off the Back to the Future craze, but this thing came out almost a decade after. I guess it just took nine years to get through to the final draft of the script and to get all the main casting out of the way.
Briefly, in case this movie hasn't been seen by whoever is reading this, the plot involves a man who builds a time machine and the complications that result based on his stupidity. It involves these "chasers" and some people being "chased" and the role of the media and big business in the life of a man that simply wants to...well...I'm not sure what he wants to do, but I think it involves making the world a better place. And that's always a good thing, so you can't blame him for trying.
I enjoyed thinking of the trouble that the makers had to go through in the production of this movie. Such things as bad sound effects, artificial dubbing of villains' voices, and thousands upon thousands of grey shirts to show the passage of time (Go Castleton!!); these are the things we rarely take time to notice. The special visual effects of traveling through time are a thing right out of the 80s. It's a shame that this movie is about five years late for that bandwagon.
Perhaps it can be categorized as a "cult film", but I'm sure whatever cult that saw wisdom in this has long since fallen off the face of the Earth. I guess it could be "science fiction", but I'm hesitant to say that because it could all plausibly happen in the world that we live in today, so instead I'm calling a piece of crap. But seriously, I'm sure that the Giancola family had a good time making it (check out the full credits, it seems to be a family affair), and for anyone who likes to hear some guy who thinks he's a scientist talk about tangents and other wacky ideas ("Pretend that you're this spoon.") I recommend this movie.
One last thing: Is that really Lisa Kudrow?
Briefly, in case this movie hasn't been seen by whoever is reading this, the plot involves a man who builds a time machine and the complications that result based on his stupidity. It involves these "chasers" and some people being "chased" and the role of the media and big business in the life of a man that simply wants to...well...I'm not sure what he wants to do, but I think it involves making the world a better place. And that's always a good thing, so you can't blame him for trying.
I enjoyed thinking of the trouble that the makers had to go through in the production of this movie. Such things as bad sound effects, artificial dubbing of villains' voices, and thousands upon thousands of grey shirts to show the passage of time (Go Castleton!!); these are the things we rarely take time to notice. The special visual effects of traveling through time are a thing right out of the 80s. It's a shame that this movie is about five years late for that bandwagon.
Perhaps it can be categorized as a "cult film", but I'm sure whatever cult that saw wisdom in this has long since fallen off the face of the Earth. I guess it could be "science fiction", but I'm hesitant to say that because it could all plausibly happen in the world that we live in today, so instead I'm calling a piece of crap. But seriously, I'm sure that the Giancola family had a good time making it (check out the full credits, it seems to be a family affair), and for anyone who likes to hear some guy who thinks he's a scientist talk about tangents and other wacky ideas ("Pretend that you're this spoon.") I recommend this movie.
One last thing: Is that really Lisa Kudrow?
- sirensotitan
- Aug 28, 2001