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Pip · 07-11-2006, 10:08 PM

The squished butterfly scene is from Ray Bradbury's story A Sound of Thunder - this was included in US TV's Ray Bradbury Theater series in 1989 (see Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder ) and of course in the 2005 film Sound of Thunder (A Sound of Thunder (2005)).But these are later than when you remember seeing the film you mention, PS68060. The story was first published in 1952, so maybe it was used earlier or ripped off?

Pip

ChristineCB · 07-11-2006, 11:06 PM

PS, I'm unfamiliar with these described events, but I don't have the Bradbury stuff in my collection either so - !

There's a section called CAN YOU NAME THIS FILM we use with a high degree of success. If you don't receive more answers here in this thread, you can create a new one there and see if more attention is drawn to it.

Either way, it's fine with me. Any time my "Help me with___" threads are put at the top, I end up with more suggestions which feed my compulsive film-collector addiction. These people some of the best Enablers around!

PS68060 · 09-11-2006, 01:41 PM

Sorry for nearly hijacking the thread. Time travel fims are a favourite of mine too.

ChristineCB · 09-11-2006, 05:41 PM

My current favorite is a little 1992 Jeff Daniels film called Grand Tour Disaster In Time about a small country inn that's suddenly full of 6 strangers who appear to be studying the town instead of being tourists. Turns out they're time-travellers, come back to look at "ancient" disasters. Great adventure in "What If..." but not such a light-hearted carefree film.

Pip · 09-11-2006, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChristineCB

My current favorite is a little 1992 Jeff Daniels film called Grand Tour Disaster In Time about a small country inn that's suddenly full of 6 strangers who appear to be studying the town instead of being tourists. Turns out they're time-travellers, come back to look at "ancient" disasters. Great adventure in "What If..." but not such a light-hearted carefree film.

Hi Christine,
sounds like that screenplay could have been inspired by an amusing short story by John Wyndham (Oh no, Pip's mentioned him again!) called Pawley's Peepholes - tourists from the future keep popping up in a small town and causing all sorts of mayhem. Look out for it in the Wyndham collection entitled The Seeds of Time.

Maybe I should start a Wyndham movie and TV discussion thread?

Pip

ChristineCB · 13-11-2006, 05:45 PM

Pip, I keep meaning to pop the film back in and explore its credits to see if there's a tip o' the hat to Wyndham somewhere.

In my End Of World and Time-Travel collections, perhaps the interesting aspect of these becomes "What's the value of human life during these events?" (And maybe that's it for a good many other genres.)

I was fascinated in Cornel Wilde's NO BLADE OF GRASS to see our "hero" family go from self-defense killings (and several discussions about the requirement to do so) during the first half, but in the second half, the family merrily kills an old farm couple and steals their canned food. And no conversation occurs as they're stepping over the bodies. The value of their lives is so clearly understood that murdering anyone else is just fine.

It's an amazing transition.

In GRAND TOUR, some future time-travel tour company sells tickets to Future Citizens and brings them back to the day before or hours before some great natural disaster, and they watch it happen. The Tour Guide restricts his customers from divulging anything to the Contemporary Citizens but, alas, slip-ups occur and then we wonder what price of life will Future Citizens place on Ancient Citizens. And will the Time-Travel Company allow one of their "profitable tour stops" be ruined by having the disaster prevented? It's an interesting study in Price Of Life, but twisted with a "But in our future, they're long dead anyway" parable.

Pip · 15-11-2006, 09:10 PM

Not much help for Christine in Texas, but UK timelords-and-ladies might like to note that For All Time (2000) starring Mark Harmon and Catherine Hicks is on Channel 5, Friday 24 November at 1.40 to 3.35 pm.

See IMDB For All Time (2000) (TV)

"Charles Lattimer journeyed across time and found his one true love. But will he leave behind everything he's known to be with her forever?"

Pip
What, no mention of John Wyndham??

WiseFilms · 15-11-2006, 09:36 PM

Pip sez:

Quote:

sounds like that screenplay could have been inspired by an amusing short story by John Wyndham (Oh no, Pip's mentioned him again!) called Pawley's Peepholes - tourists from the future keep popping up in a small town and causing all sorts of mayhem. Look out for it in the Wyndham collection entitled The Seeds of Time.

As far as I'm concerned, you can evoke the name of the greatest sci-fi writer of the 20th Century, anytime, for any reason.
My advice for anyone interested in the excellent The Seeds of Time collection:
Buy it at a local bookshop, or a smaller e-store (like the one's on Abebooks or Biblio)..You may find it for $0.73 less on Amazon or e-bay, but you'd feel worse for it. And dig some Richard Mathison while your at it !

ChristineCB · 17-11-2006, 12:34 AM

Thanks for the heads-up about FOR ALL TIME. I'm kind of a Mark Harmon fan, halfway sorta. I think my only question to him would be, "What do you think about playing such a sanitized version of Ted Bundy?"

When Ann Rule first did her book about Budny, she knew all the heinous details but elected to sanitize Bundy, which helped assure him of courtroom groupies - which Rule later railed against! Du-uh. And years later, when the real facts of Bundy's horrors were published, Harmon had done the Bundy TV film.

I've always wondered what he thought about playing Bundy with such an absense of gore and horror.

Ah well... I am going to see if I can't catch this FOR ALL TIME.

To continue the long string of positives about this forum, there's another thread (Can You Name Film, perhaps?) that discusses MILLENIUM from the late '80s, and I just received that DVD, thanks to this forum. Another time-travel film collected!

Thanks one and all.

stern_howie · 20-11-2006, 06:22 PM

Timecop - Jean Claude Van Damme....not as bad as it sounds
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure - as bad as it sounds.
Minority Report....no so much timetravel but in the same room as it.

WiseFilms · 20-11-2006, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Thanks for the heads-up about FOR ALL TIME. I'm kind of a Mark Harmon fan, halfway sorta.

Christine, couldn't help putting the recommendation for one of my favorite films, upon hearing the name Mark Harmon:
Cold Heaven
If you're really a Harmon fan (or Theresa Russell fan, as I am), you know it already.
If you haven't seen it yet, proceed with caution : it's not to all tastes , little birdies have told me.
I, for one, think it's a grand film, and the best Brian Moore adaptation out there.

ChristineCB · 20-11-2006, 09:43 PM

Thanks for this tip about Harmon and Russell. I haven't noticed her of late, and hope she's well (a la Kathleen Turner's movie dropout).

I was pretty surprised by HAPPY ACCIDENTS, since I'm not a huge fan of either lead, but compared to the far more publicized KATE & LEOPOLD, I tended to enjoy HAPPY more.

FREQUENCY is also a strange mix of time-travel or alt-reality types, and done in a more Crime Drama format. Interesting film, but it doesn't get but slightly Above Avg marks from me, and I'm not certain why.

PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED is a film I'd completely forgotten about. Thanks for that reminder.

I hope you don't mind doing this. I appreciate all of these.

midnight sheep · 20-05-2007, 09:00 PM

Ever heard of Time Of The Apes?.
It's a low budget rip off of Planet Of The Apes from Japan!..
Very funny..

batman · 20-05-2007, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by midnight sheep

Ever heard of Time Of The Apes?.
It's a low budget rip off of Planet Of The Apes from Japan!..
Very funny..

I picked up a really cheap dvd-r off ebay of this a while ago, it really is extremely bad/funny.

Bats

D Cairns · 20-05-2007, 09:51 PM

PRIMER is meant to be the best recent one.
DEJA VU probably not so hot.
Alain Resnais' JE T'AIME JE T'AIME is probably very interesting, but almost impossible to get.
EVIL DEAD III: ARMY OF DARKNESS (and also the end of II)
There are the two DR WHO movies, but only the second features proper time travel as a story device.
In ANNIE HALL, Woody Allen and his friends travel back in time to look at his past...
In Derek Jarman's JUBILEE, Elizabeth I visits punk-era Britain with the aid of her sorceror, Dr John Dee (Richard O'Brien).
In VERTIGO, when James Stewart kisses Kim Novak in the hotel, time and space melt away and they are transported back to the place of "her" "death".

09-11-2006, 01:41 PM	#33
PS68060 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Beds., GB Posts: 186 Country: iTrader: (0)	Sorry for nearly hijacking the thread. Time travel fims are a favourite of mine too. __________________ "Oh! Pete!"

13-11-2006, 05:45 PM	#36
ChristineCB Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,740 Country: iTrader: (13)	Pip, I keep meaning to pop the film back in and explore its credits to see if there's a tip o' the hat to Wyndham somewhere. In my End Of World and Time-Travel collections, perhaps the interesting aspect of these becomes "What's the value of human life during these events?" (And maybe that's it for a good many other genres.) I was fascinated in Cornel Wilde's NO BLADE OF GRASS to see our "hero" family go from self-defense killings (and several discussions about the requirement to do so) during the first half, but in the second half, the family merrily kills an old farm couple and steals their canned food. And no conversation occurs as they're stepping over the bodies. The value of their lives is so clearly understood that murdering anyone else is just fine. It's an amazing transition. In GRAND TOUR, some future time-travel tour company sells tickets to Future Citizens and brings them back to the day before or hours before some great natural disaster, and they watch it happen. The Tour Guide restricts his customers from divulging anything to the Contemporary Citizens but, alas, slip-ups occur and then we wonder what price of life will Future Citizens place on Ancient Citizens. And will the Time-Travel Company allow one of their "profitable tour stops" be ruined by having the disaster prevented? It's an interesting study in Price Of Life, but twisted with a "But in our future, they're long dead anyway" parable. Last edited by ChristineCB; 13-11-2006 at 05:55 PM.

20-11-2006, 06:22 PM	#40
stern_howie Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 5 Country: iTrader: (0)	Timecop - Jean Claude Van Damme....not as bad as it sounds Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure - as bad as it sounds. Minority Report....no so much timetravel but in the same room as it. Last edited by stern_howie; 20-11-2006 at 06:26 PM.

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07-11-2006, 10:08 PM	#31
Pip Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 100 Country: iTrader: (1)	The squished butterfly scene is from Ray Bradbury's story A Sound of Thunder - this was included in US TV's Ray Bradbury Theater series in 1989 (see Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder ) and of course in the 2005 film Sound of Thunder (A Sound of Thunder (2005)).But these are later than when you remember seeing the film you mention, PS68060. The story was first published in 1952, so maybe it was used earlier or ripped off? Pip

07-11-2006, 11:06 PM	#32
ChristineCB Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,740 Country: iTrader: (13)	PS, I'm unfamiliar with these described events, but I don't have the Bradbury stuff in my collection either so - ! There's a section called CAN YOU NAME THIS FILM we use with a high degree of success. If you don't receive more answers here in this thread, you can create a new one there and see if more attention is drawn to it. Either way, it's fine with me. Any time my "Help me with___" threads are put at the top, I end up with more suggestions which feed my compulsive film-collector addiction. These people some of the best Enablers around!

09-11-2006, 05:41 PM	#34
ChristineCB Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,740 Country: iTrader: (13)	My current favorite is a little 1992 Jeff Daniels film called Grand Tour Disaster In Time about a small country inn that's suddenly full of 6 strangers who appear to be studying the town instead of being tourists. Turns out they're time-travellers, come back to look at "ancient" disasters. Great adventure in "What If..." but not such a light-hearted carefree film.

15-11-2006, 09:10 PM	#37
Pip Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 100 Country: iTrader: (1)	Not much help for Christine in Texas, but UK timelords-and-ladies might like to note that For All Time (2000) starring Mark Harmon and Catherine Hicks is on Channel 5, Friday 24 November at 1.40 to 3.35 pm. See IMDB For All Time (2000) (TV) "Charles Lattimer journeyed across time and found his one true love. But will he leave behind everything he's known to be with her forever?" Pip What, no mention of John Wyndham??

17-11-2006, 12:34 AM	#39
ChristineCB Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,740 Country: iTrader: (13)	Thanks for the heads-up about FOR ALL TIME. I'm kind of a Mark Harmon fan, halfway sorta. I think my only question to him would be, "What do you think about playing such a sanitized version of Ted Bundy?" When Ann Rule first did her book about Budny, she knew all the heinous details but elected to sanitize Bundy, which helped assure him of courtroom groupies - which Rule later railed against! Du-uh. And years later, when the real facts of Bundy's horrors were published, Harmon had done the Bundy TV film. I've always wondered what he thought about playing Bundy with such an absense of gore and horror. Ah well... I am going to see if I can't catch this FOR ALL TIME. To continue the long string of positives about this forum, there's another thread (Can You Name Film, perhaps?) that discusses MILLENIUM from the late '80s, and I just received that DVD, thanks to this forum. Another time-travel film collected! Thanks one and all.

20-11-2006, 09:43 PM	#42
ChristineCB Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,740 Country: iTrader: (13)	Thanks for this tip about Harmon and Russell. I haven't noticed her of late, and hope she's well (a la Kathleen Turner's movie dropout). I was pretty surprised by HAPPY ACCIDENTS, since I'm not a huge fan of either lead, but compared to the far more publicized KATE & LEOPOLD, I tended to enjoy HAPPY more. FREQUENCY is also a strange mix of time-travel or alt-reality types, and done in a more Crime Drama format. Interesting film, but it doesn't get but slightly Above Avg marks from me, and I'm not certain why. PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED is a film I'd completely forgotten about. Thanks for that reminder. I hope you don't mind doing this. I appreciate all of these.

20-05-2007, 09:00 PM	#43
midnight sheep Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cork Posts: 67 Country: iTrader: (3)	Ever heard of Time Of The Apes?. It's a low budget rip off of Planet Of The Apes from Japan!.. Very funny..

20-05-2007, 09:51 PM	#45
D Cairns Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 448 Country: iTrader: (0)	PRIMER is meant to be the best recent one. DEJA VU probably not so hot. Alain Resnais' JE T'AIME JE T'AIME is probably very interesting, but almost impossible to get. EVIL DEAD III: ARMY OF DARKNESS (and also the end of II) There are the two DR WHO movies, but only the second features proper time travel as a story device. In ANNIE HALL, Woody Allen and his friends travel back in time to look at his past... In Derek Jarman's JUBILEE, Elizabeth I visits punk-era Britain with the aid of her sorceror, Dr John Dee (Richard O'Brien). In VERTIGO, when James Stewart kisses Kim Novak in the hotel, time and space melt away and they are transported back to the place of "her" "death".