One sci-fi movie I missed because I was too young in 1979. Then maybe the "Jack the Ripper" time-travel story put me off on renting it, previously. I like Mary Steenburgen in other movies. Maybe someday.
@@sandal_thong8631You should, it is very original and exciting. Also a great love story with good comic moments. And David Warner as Jack the Ripper is very menacing and memorable .
Onion Field is one of the best movies ever made Joseph wambaugh got it absolutely right critics and critics who say that movies like this aren't realistic don't know what they're talking about this is one of the most realistic movies about cops ever made
I was shocked too when they referred to it as a comedy. I recall being a very little boy while watching this THRILLER. I mean, it's about Jack the Ripper.
Definitely not a comedy, but it does have comedic moments primarily with Wells character trying to adjust to being in the future in San Fran as opposed to Victorian London.
Loved "Time after Time"..remember was supposed to see with my father and sister at the movies..but he was divorcing my mother and got into a big fight with her and we didn`t go....bad memory but watched it on HBO later....Onion Field is also really good..
I saw The Onion Field sometime probably in the eighties and thought it was a good movie, but I saw it again about ten years ago and I didn't think it held up. It seemed like a movie of the week.
With "Time After Time" I expected an action packed, time traveling, crime thriller. What I got was a more sweet and endearing drama. Great flick nonetheless.
@18:15 No Oscar nomination for James Woods; though he was a Golden Globe nominee and a couple of other nominations. Did win for Best Supporting Actor in Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards.
Been binging these (thanks for the uploads/preservation) and gotta say the only improvement I can think of is if each episode opened and ended with a skit of the two scamming an old man by fixing up his VCR player
i LOVE "Time After Time" i never thought of it as a comedy though. i used to constantly confused the title with the Christopher Reeves film "Somewhere In Time", to this day i still think those two films should swap titles though as i feel both title would better represent the other film.
Time After Time is one of my favorite movies, and the only thing that surprised me here was that Siskel & Ebert both called it a "Comedy." I would never have called it that, although it absolutely has plenty of charming moments. For me, it's a straight-up sci-fi thriller with dashes of romance and comedy. And all the actors -- MacDowall, Steenburgen, and a superb David Warner -- are just superb.
LOL Good thing Gene recovered at the end there talking about Bronson's wife. I'm sure Gene wouldn't have wanted Charles Bronson to think Gene meant he could've married someone better.
While there are some amusing moments in Time to Time, I never considered it to be a ‘comedy’. HG Wells’ pursuit of Jack The Ripper involves some pretty serious and dramatic moments, like the Steenburgan character finding out she was murdered in that newspaper…. It’s a fantasy, time travel, love story…. An excellent film.
Bronson always wanted his wife to play the leading ladies in his movies. That wouldn't have been such a bad thing if she actually had what it takes to fill such roles.
I've tried a few times to watch the debate on Life of Brian with John Cleese and Michael Palin on one side and two comical critics on the other but it was embarrassing how poorly the adversaries present their arguments. They seem to have seen a totally different film from the one we all saw. They just refused to see beyond the opening sermon on the mount sequence and believed the rest of the film to be an attack on Jesus and Christianity. Years later John said he had notes in his pocket that would have destroyed the religious critic but felt sorry for him and decided not to use them. Michael Palin was observably angered by the stupidity of the two critics. In a few more years they'll have The Last Temptation of Christ to ruffle their sanctimonious feathers over. I kind of wish they stuck with the original title: Jesus Christ-- Lust for Glory.
One of the big signs of religious blindness and ignorance -- no sense of humor. They are literally dehumanized by their blind, fanatical devotion to a death cult with an engraved image of "the son of god" nailed to a stick as its central idol.
The Onion Field was a horribly painful movie to watch. It was & still is, an indictment of our broken 'justice systerm', which loses sight od the actual victims & kowtows to the 'rights' of people with no brains &/or no morals. TgT
And, very sadly, NOTHING has changed with our injustice system, and it has only gotten a thousand times worse. Time for that asteroid to slam into us or...something like that, to end this horrible sham-world.
