Whoever wrote this movie...
... really believes in love.
That's a wonderful thing.
Just sayin :)
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I agree
shareHave an assignment for you... Read the original tome from Richard Matheson. MUCH better than this flick (as is usually the case, I know.) BUT! Then read "Bid Time Return" from him also. THEN re-watch "Somewhere in Time," upon which THAT is based. FAR better flick than the book. One of the "exceptions to the rule." Putting them together encourages the notion that true love can transcend both Time & Death. (But I'm an old sap who still weeps at Art Carney in TZ's "Night of the Meek...)
shareWhen I saw the movie when it first came out, the basic story line and themes seemed very familir to me but could not place it. Only after I correctly "guessed" at what the next scens were going to be ... while watching the movie ... did I realize that the basic storyline was from the medieval text of "Dante's Inferno". It seems that old ideas and stories never die.
shareYes,and has experienced it as well...
shareYes exactly... It really gives a whole new meaning to "to hell and back". What a guy, you know? To do all that for his lady... Just amazing.
"Rommel...you magnificent bastard, I read your book!"
-- PATTON
I think most of us believe in love. Very few of us find true love.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it!
It's written by the same guy who wrote (the novels) I Am Legend AND A Stir of Echoes. Blew my mind learning that - plus the age of the novels. Very cool.
Pobre de Dios que no sale en revistas, que no es modelo ni artista, o de familia royal...
RIP Richard Matheson
shareI agree with you 100% but what killed it for me was Robin Williams' overacting and facial contortions that only proved he was trying way, way, way too hard to win the Best Actor Oscar. A real turn off the way he tweaked his face like that. I think Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford (maybe?), or some other actor that didn't overdo his lines would have really smoothed it out. I found myself fast forwarding too many times and the stupid teary-eyed scenes every 10 seconds also killed it for me.
This is the only movie I know of where I like the beginning much, much more than the middle or the end.
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Richard Matheson, whether you know him or not, was one of the most influential writers of 20th century.
Stephen King, as you know him, would not exist without Matheson.
George Romero and the entire zombie genre would not exist without Matheson, (so that includes Walking Dead, Night of the Living Dead).
Spielberg's first feature (DUEL) was a Matheson story.
Tons of Alfred Hitchcock and Twilight Zone episodes including the one with WIlliam Shatner and the creature on the wing of the plane
I AM LEGEND, adapted to the screen 4 times
Trilogy of Terror, with that doll chasing Karen Black
Basically, concepts in the horror, fantasy and sci-fi genres that are now so commonplace that they are memes.... this guy invented all of it.