Somewhere In Time - any Browncoat softies out there?

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MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:55 PM

What! Some "chick flicks" are great!

"A Walk In The Clouds" is a very good film. Its engaging, and well acted, and the casting is spot on. I especially liked Anthony Quinn in it.

I admit to watching Somewhere in Time becaue Jane Seymour was so freaking HOT! Still is, actually, but man alive, was she beautiful in that movie. I thought it was touching, and I kinda identified with Christopher Reeve...Not the time travelling bit, but the being so very nervous that everything go just right when you meet that someone.

Time After Time is one of my favorite films. Any movie that has both Malcolm McDowell and David Warner has to be good, and this one delivers. As a matter of fact, there is a scene in Wonderfalls that is an homage to Time After Time. What? Haven't watched Wonderfalls? Go GET IT!!!

I have a few questions about Christopher Plummer in Somewhere In Time. Is it me, or did he seem to be a little too "knowledgeable" about Reeve in that movie. I realize he was just trying to protect/keep Elise for himself, and that's where the warning that "someone is coming" came from. He meant a man in general that would grab Elise's affections and end her stage career. But, this guy seemed a little too cool in the face of things. Has anyone read the story on which its based, because I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he knew everything about Reeve, where/when he came from, etc.

Umm...I also liked (in the way of chick(y) flicks...Addicted to Love, Simply Irresistible, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Serendipity and many, many others...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

ODDNESS2HER

Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:06 PM

Guilty.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:15 PM

manwithpez wrote:

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Umm...I also liked (in the way of chick(y) flicks...Addicted to Love, Simply Irresistible, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Serendipity and many, many others...

Only seen: The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Serendipity from those you listed but I always end up feeling cheated with these kinds of films... I wanted to make one where the guy puts in all the effort of romancing his true love and it looks like he's going to be with the girl in the end, but then some stud comes along and whisks her away for ever, leaving 'our' hero alone and rejected.

Ok so it's not upbeat - but at least it's truthful.

That said 'Some Kind of Wonderful and 'The Sure Thing' always stood the test of time for me. I thought those two were cool.

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THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:28 PM

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That said 'Some Kind of Wonderful and 'The Sure Thing' always stood the test of time for me. I thought those two were cool.

ditto.

Not a huge SIT fan. Sorry, maybe it's just a guy flick disguised as a chick flick.

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MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:08 PM

Who want to go to the movies to see the truth? I mean besides documentary enthusiasts. I go to the movies to get away from it all!!!

And that's what these flicks help me do. And, besides, I tend to not categorize movies in a "chick flick" subcategory, because a good movie is a good movie. If anything, Somewhere In Time is refreshing in the way it portrays time travel. No hopped up machines going 88mph here!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:19 PM

I like the way time travel is portrayed in SIT. I just didn't love the movie. I'm sorry.

I do like Time After Time. Am I redeemed at all?

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MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:25 PM

The search for redemption is not necessary! And, Time After Time is vastly superior to Somewhere in Time (Even if Matheson did write it). I'm a big Jack The Ripper enthusiast anyway...Wait...never mind...any way you try to say that you find Jack the Ripper interesting, you're going to come off like a psychopath.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:32 PM

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I'm a big Jack The Ripper enthusiast anyway...Wait...never mind...any way you try to say that you find Jack the Ripper interesting, you're going to come off like a psychopath.

You a psychopath? Naw. How many times have you seen Jack's Back?

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MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:36 PM

Again with the crushes...First Hawke and now Spader...well, actually, I saw most of it for the first time the other night, but I fell asleep...it was 3 in the mornin' though.

Just to satsify your curiosity, but my favorite Spader performance was in 2 Days In The Valley...not a great movie, but he was great in it.

One Minute...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:39 PM

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
Who want to go to the movies to see the truth?

On occaisions... me. At least emotional truth that I can bind my own experinces to. Not always of course. That'd be frightfully dull.

I don't think of Somewhere in Time as a romantic comedy either, as I stated earlier to me it's a wonderful tragic love story. One that I'm also happy has fantasy undertones and that thankfully doesn't, as I stated earlier, use blue lightening to visually inform us we're jumping back and forth through time.

Oh and I too love Time after Time. :) that's just pure entertainment.

But I just prefer films to have some semblance of 'emotional' truth, which I find lacking in many romantic comedies. Often we're just subjected to key landmark emotions that fly contrary to human feelings.

I'm all for fantasy I wouldn't be here otherwise.

Cheers
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