WayneLigon
Adventurer
Oh my. I knew I was in trouble when the only show time for this movie was at 10:10. But I forged ahead.
What can I say? When you take a short short story and make it into an almost 2 hour movie you have to pad and pad and pad some more. The special effects just look cheap; maybe it's the lighting but it looks like an old movie where the actors are clearly standing in front of a rear projection.
It feels like a cheaper grade of SciFi Channel movie without any redeeming cheesiness. Just a cheap knock off they did because somehow they managed to secure the rights. It feels stupid. Time waves that reorder things by adding stuff to existing stuff, as if they didn't have enough cash to redo the sets. We have to go across the wilderness of the city to get these guys things, but then nothing is done with them; they make a big deal of trying to find out what was changed when they don't do anything with the info later: it's just a transparent ploy to get the characters into danger so we can pare down the cast.
Also, we can't have things instantly different when we come back, no. Every 24 hours a massive visible 'time wave' hits the world, changing things in the order they evolved. First plants, then bugs, then animals, then people.
They do this time safari thing, right? Except they kill the same animal over and over again. Um, OK. Why aren't you meeting yourselves over and over again? They also have only about five minutes or so before this massive volcano in the background erupts (I swear to God, it looks like this matte painting thing in the Tiki Room in Disneyworld) and covers the entire area in pyroclastic flow. So, in all of time you couldn't find another dino about to die in a manner that didn't put the team of incredibly expensive people plus the rich clients in deadly danger just in case, like, something ever went wrong?
They come back and the time lab is ruined totally. That's OK, because we just need to take the plug-and-play (I swear to God, they use that term) AI machine over to the cyclotron (this is set in Chicago; at least they know one is in that area, but still.. WTF?) because it can apparently do the same thing as the machine that was previously stated to be the only one in existance. Plants from four time waves have destroyed most buildings, but the backup power here is still just fine.
The whole picture just feels messy and wrong and it ends just.. flat ends, really.
What can I say? When you take a short short story and make it into an almost 2 hour movie you have to pad and pad and pad some more. The special effects just look cheap; maybe it's the lighting but it looks like an old movie where the actors are clearly standing in front of a rear projection.
It feels like a cheaper grade of SciFi Channel movie without any redeeming cheesiness. Just a cheap knock off they did because somehow they managed to secure the rights. It feels stupid. Time waves that reorder things by adding stuff to existing stuff, as if they didn't have enough cash to redo the sets. We have to go across the wilderness of the city to get these guys things, but then nothing is done with them; they make a big deal of trying to find out what was changed when they don't do anything with the info later: it's just a transparent ploy to get the characters into danger so we can pare down the cast.
Also, we can't have things instantly different when we come back, no. Every 24 hours a massive visible 'time wave' hits the world, changing things in the order they evolved. First plants, then bugs, then animals, then people.
They do this time safari thing, right? Except they kill the same animal over and over again. Um, OK. Why aren't you meeting yourselves over and over again? They also have only about five minutes or so before this massive volcano in the background erupts (I swear to God, it looks like this matte painting thing in the Tiki Room in Disneyworld) and covers the entire area in pyroclastic flow. So, in all of time you couldn't find another dino about to die in a manner that didn't put the team of incredibly expensive people plus the rich clients in deadly danger just in case, like, something ever went wrong?
They come back and the time lab is ruined totally. That's OK, because we just need to take the plug-and-play (I swear to God, they use that term) AI machine over to the cyclotron (this is set in Chicago; at least they know one is in that area, but still.. WTF?) because it can apparently do the same thing as the machine that was previously stated to be the only one in existance. Plants from four time waves have destroyed most buildings, but the backup power here is still just fine.
The whole picture just feels messy and wrong and it ends just.. flat ends, really.
