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The Day Time Ended (1979)
Sci-Fi Comedy? You decide
Was this a comedy? I'm laughing so hard I hardly know what to write. Ok, I love sci-fi. I love old sci fi movies, even the stupid ones because most of them were signification for their time period. But, I must say, this movie makes absolutely no sense! The dialog in the beginning makes you think you're about to see a really good time travel movie. The reason for the title is not discernable from the movie itself. Did time end? Where did the aliens come from? What did they come for? Where did they take the little girl and her mother?....these are all good questions left unanswered by this time-waster of a movie. Time didn't end, they just tricked whoever watches this movie into wasting a BIG OLE chunk of it.
I will try to take this movie point by point, but it was all over the place, so that's hard to do and I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. This was just a grand show-off of 80's special effects which now looks ridiculous....and that would be ok if it was accompanied by a decent plot.
Ok, here's a summary: Family buys a modern house in the middle of the desert. Dad leaves, aliens come. Their intention or the reason for their visit is a mystery. Maybe they wanted to check out the new house. They're like "Mid-century modern, I like it!" They start doing weird stuff and the family is like "Wait, smart houses don't exist yet, so the house isn't supposed to do this. What's going on?"
One of the little green aliens show of his ice skating skills in their rooms. Is he friend or foe? Who knows. The little girl seems to like him.
The aliens fix a broken mirror, then they bring dinosaurs to fight in the front yard. The grandfather and son go out to see the fight. The women stay in the house and lock the door. I guess a dinosaur can't get through a wooden door, so one of the dinosaurs knock on the door and the grandmother thinks it's her husband and opens the door for him. He scares her.... Ahhh!. The aliens put on a light show. The grandfather leaves the son in the stable. He come back to the stable and the son says he's only been gone a few minutes. The grandfather says they're in a time warp. How he knows this no one knows. The daughter and granddaughter are taken to God-knows-where and the mother is like "What do we do".... The grandfather is like "They're gone, let's just move on" and she's like "OK". No mourning, no nothing. Then, when they leave their home to ride on their ponies aimlessly not knowing where they're going, they stop to take a nap in the desert. They wake up to see something in the sky and start rejoicing before they even know what it is. Good thing it was the daughter in the green pyramid ship that the aliens lent to her to bring her back. She left her daughter with the aliens I guess, but she said it was all good, so the grandparents were like "Ok" The father comes back in the mean time, but he could have stayed at work because his presence was unnecessary. Then they went to the magical purple city and lived happily ever after....the end.
Roswell: It's Too Late and It's Too Bad (2001)
Finally...Max Stands UP!
Max is supposed to be a king. He's supposed to protect The Royal Four, yet he was such a wimp through the whole thing because he was a sick puppy for Liz. If this were reality they would have all been in the white room a long time ago because no one listened to him, they did not stick together, they weren't united and they continued to break rank. So, it made no sense. Liz was selfish to never think of this and Tess was always loyal. Had she never been loyal it would not have mattered. With them so divided the show could really go no where. With Michael and Izzy never listening to him either it would have never worked. It's about time he laid down the law (alien law) and also reunited with his wife. They all have different powers, so they only work well together.
Roswell: Sexual Healing (2000)
All of this non-scifi stuff messed up the show.
This was the beginning of the end for this show. If this is what you like there's plenty of soaps out there. Why not watch them? This is why the shiw was cancelled.
Great Expectations (2012)
The BEST adaptation, stays true to the book
This is the absolute best adaptation of Great expectations. It sticks with the personalities of the characters that Dickens created. Joe the blacksmith was strong, but tender and kind, Pip was kind hearted but discontented...and so forth. Many of the other films used artistic license and strayed so far from Dicken's characters.