Just enjoy the ride
Added 11/19/2008
I like time travel stories, alot. This story has a great premise and is generally well executed. There are spots where it drags, but you can see the need to set up the next sequence requires slow spots -- as with any story, it can't all be action and excitement to be compelling and believable, right?
So there are a few spots where the dialogue is stilted, but overall it is a quiet little tale told very well.
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Vintage Season
Added 9/27/2008
A made for television science fiction time-travel film that does a good job bringing C.L. Moore's classic story Vintage Season to the screen. A much better job here than with her story The Last Mimzy. A smaller budget has a way of making the director work harder to do the film but often makes for a better movie, as in this case. I wonder what the film would have been with a bigger budget with a theatrical release.
If you like time travel films this is a good one. Find a copy of the original story and see what a great writer can do with this theme.
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3 and a half starts for First Twohy film
Added 8/24/2008
By now David Twohy should be a trademark. A kind of Spielberg for B movies. But it isn't. Not yet at least. This man has been directing consistently good genre films for some years now ("The Arrival", "Pitch Black", "Below", "Chronicles of Riddick") so when I found that its first one was still there unwatched, I immediately took to find the piece and give it a go.
What a nice story! Full of logical holes if you have mastered your Doc Brown technique, but what a nice tale nevertheless! Jeff Daniels plays an Inn owner that receives the visit of tourists from a strange place, that came just to be witness to a big event. That's enough information for you. Enjoy the tone of the story, its little town that looks from Capra seen by Spielberg or Dante, that nice orange-yellow glow that pervades so many 1980's films (despite this being done in 1992). Next Twohy movie, I will be in line at the theater.
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Disaster in filmmaking
Added 7/17/2008
Horrible acting, a swiss cheese plot (including the laughable final scene), and childish special effects make this a sci-fi snoozer.
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Better than Expectations.
Added 5/20/2008
It would have been 5-stars if they would not have over-stretch the uneventful first-half. The production is modest, but the story is very good. And the cast do a good job. A reviewer in this page called it "Like A long Twilight Zone Episode", and that just about sums it up.
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Just enjoy the ride
Added 11/19/2008
I like time travel stories, alot. This story has a great premise and is generally well executed. There are spots where it drags, but you can see the need to set up the next sequence requires slow spots -- as with any story, it can't all be action and excitement to be compelling and believable, right?
So there are a few spots where the dialogue is stilted, but overall it is a quiet little tale told very well.
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Vintage Season
Added 9/27/2008
A made for television science fiction time-travel film that does a good job bringing C.L. Moore's classic story Vintage Season to the screen. A much better job here than with her story The Last Mimzy. A smaller budget has a way of making the director work harder to do the film but often makes for a better movie, as in this case. I wonder what the film would have been with a bigger budget with a theatrical release.
If you like time travel films this is a good one. Find a copy of the original story and see what a great writer can do with this theme.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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3 and a half starts for First Twohy film
Added 8/24/2008
By now David Twohy should be a trademark. A kind of Spielberg for B movies. But it isn't. Not yet at least. This man has been directing consistently good genre films for some years now ("The Arrival", "Pitch Black", "Below", "Chronicles of Riddick") so when I found that its first one was still there unwatched, I immediately took to find the piece and give it a go.
What a nice story! Full of logical holes if you have mastered your Doc Brown technique, but what a nice tale nevertheless! Jeff Daniels plays an Inn owner that receives the visit of tourists from a strange place, that came just to be witness to a big event. That's enough information for you. Enjoy the tone of the story, its little town that looks from Capra seen by Spielberg or Dante, that nice orange-yellow glow that pervades so many 1980's films (despite this being done in 1992). Next Twohy movie, I will be in line at the theater.
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