Somewhere In Time - any Browncoat softies out there?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:50
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You need to talk, Stuntboy!
Its one of the few movies I remember seeing prior to my parent's divorce. I'm not sure what that means, if anything. Damn it! Now I need to go and buy a copy...After I drive to Tennessee to convert my family. I'll get the other half in Kentucky later at my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary!
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Originally posted by manwithpez:
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.
Brother, I'm right there with you. #1 hottness of all time (Yeah, I've seen Salma Hayek and Michelle Yeoh, and I like them too, but they're no Jayne Seymour's!!)
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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.
It happens to be one of the few books I've read more than once. In the novel(Bid Time Return) Robinson is portrayed as obsessed but also with a hint of being possibly margenally psychic in some way. As if he'd had a vision of Collier making the journey, yet not clear enough to identify him on sight.
Also the novel ends a bit differently...it's all like a diary written by Collier after he finds out he has terminal cancer- which switches to prose somewhere in the second chapter or so almost without you noticing. His belief in his ability to cross over time to find his true love is fueled by the knowledge that he hasn't long to live anyway, so he has absolutly nothing to lose in focusing all his energies toward this one goal...to come back to her. He dies as in the movie, but in the book there is a post script by Richard's brother saying that it obviously must all have been in his mind, but...(!)A Twilight Zone type ending from a TZ writer!
Somewhere in geekland Chrisisall
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Originally posted by manwithpez:
Hey! I saw Time After Time in theater too...as I recall our mother took me and my little brother to see it. I watched it a while ago for nostalgia's sake, and had forgotten just how good it really was...Plus, its got a Corey in it!!!
Feldman, that is...little Feldman!
Know this dates me...but, yep, I saw Time After Time in the theater also. Don't recall Corey Feldman anywhere...hmmm. But what a great role for Steenbergen. Too bad things didn't work out with Malcom in the long run, but she still rocks.
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At the time it came out, SIT was viewed as overacted by some, heavyhanded by others, but over time (pardon the pun) it has become this sweet little obsessive love story.
And the soundtrack was a fluke! The production didn't have enough $ to hire the likes of John (007) Barry, but Jayne was a personal friend of his and asked him to do it as a favour!!!
Buckaroo Chrisisall
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Originally posted by manwithpez:
Hey! I saw Time After Time in theater too...as I recall our mother took me and my little brother to see it. I watched it a while ago for nostalgia's sake, and had forgotten just how good it really was...Plus, its got a Corey in it!!!
Feldman, that is...little Feldman!
Know this dates me...but, yep, I saw Time After Time in the theater also. Don't recall Corey Feldman anywhere...hmmm. But what a great role for Steenbergen. Too bad things didn't work out with Malcom in the long run, but she still rocks.
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Originally posted by firefloozysuzie:
she (Steenburgen) still rocks.
Imagine my delight when I found out she was to be in Back to the Future 3!!!
My head was SpInNiNg!!!
Lucky Doc Chrisisall
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Quote:In defense of our big bad guys around here, I knew a Texan who admitted he watched "chick flicks" with his wife, but didn't like one movie we had both seen (I forget the title) but why didn't he like it?
Originally posted by manwithpez:
What! Some "chick flicks" are great!
(heavy Texas drawal - Matthew McConaughey intensified)
"Cuz the girl DIED at the end! That ain't right!"
Fellas can be all romantical too... it's nice to hear them admit it from time to time.
Somewhere in Time is the one I put in when I need a good cry. That moment when she cries out "RICHARD!" You know the one I mean? Gets me every time.
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Originally posted by Channain:
Somewhere in Time is the one I put in when I need a good cry. That moment when she cries out "RICHARD!" You know the one I mean? Gets me every time.
Just reading that gets me to shiverin' and such.
Ever see The Abyss? When he's goin' down into the thing and he types 'love u wife', man, the floodgates open up there, too.
Dehydrated Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I guess I'm something of a 'nomoly that way. Films, or certain moments in certain films, can just break me down to tears. Enchanted April is just so charming, i have to wipe a little tear from the corner of my eye at the end. In Superman when he puts dead Lois down and cries is another one. When Mal said 'Everyone dies alone' or 'You all gonna be here when I wake up..?' are others.
And don't even get me started on when Ed Harris is trying to resussitate his wife in The Abyss!!!
If a flick can make me cry at some point, I know it's got (at least for that moment) real emotion to it, heart, a genuineness of spirit.
It's people like me keep Kleenex in buisness.
Also teared up when Max found Tinga dead Chrisisall
Good for you Chrisisall. I can say a film has never had that effect on me, and I'm not trying to appear tough or removed, honest, there's little need to; I'm small, puny, and lacking any kind of convincing moody stare or glare. Even if I get angry (which is rare) I've been told I look cute....
It's just I've never managed to blub during a film. I remember watching ET and wondering why I was about the only one in my family who wasn't crying?
I think there were a few episode of Northern Exposure where I was deeply moved at certain plot lines but that was mere heart string tuggin' as opposed to tears....
Oh well any ideas for other films that will definately put a tear in my eye ?
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
any ideas for other films that will definately put a tear in my eye ?
Other than The Abyss...I guess Hot War, a hong kong movie that is unusually serious for an actioner.
2002 also has a couple of moments (also HK)...
There's The Road Home (also HK), probably the best non-genre film I have ever seen. If that don't squeeze a tear outta ya, then seriously, nothing will!
Chinese movies that aren't straight up comedies are always tryin' to make you cry.
-Sniff- Chrisisall
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