The Day Time Ended
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Movie Reviews of The Day Time Ended
Movie Review: Great science fiction movie with a strange ending.
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie at a drive-in theater back in the early 1980's. Do you know what a drive-in theater is? Anyway, I have the VHS tape of this movie and have watched it 3 or 4 times over the years. It's a fascinating sci-fi movie with very good special effects (weird-looking monsters, miniature aliens, UFO's,etc.) There is a scene where the husband & wife are taking a leisurely stroll through the desert at night. Suddenly, some lights start coming toward them. Then 2 UFOs fly directly over their heads within 20 feet or so. That scene is awesome! I re-played that scene several times just so I could experience the impact of it. The movie has a great "presence". What I mean is....it takes you on an adventure into the desert of the American Southwest and holds your attention. The story line is pretty unique and the ending is very unexpected but rather strange. This is truly a very good cult movie.Movie Review: Better DVD transfer available
Summary: 4 Stars
I have always liked this film but have avoided purchasing this stand alone DVD due to reviews here about the quality.I just purchased a 2 DVD/4 movie box called TIME TRAVELERS put out by Brentwood which has THE DAY TIME ENDED on it...and the transfer/audio/color and picture all look great to me,at least as good as my VHS copy...maybe even better.If you're a fan of the film seek out this boxset if the single DVD release isn't up to par.Movie Review: The Day Time Ended
Summary: 3 Stars
I remember this movie from my childhood. I remember the mild panic it evoked in me.
For it's time It was perhaps not as slick as it could've been. But It had a great concept. The story itself could be due for a remake. not unlike so many other RE-makes out there. But with a faster pace and updated effects this is a good story.
All in all I found it to be entertaining. If a little cheesy by today's standards.
But I am a lover of b and c rate Sci-fi.
I believe most film critiques are afraid to admit they like something their peers or readers may perceive to be unworthy of praise , so they say the meanest things about the subject film. Not me. I do my best to suspend dissbelief for two hours and enjoy the story. Not try to pick it to pieces.
For example I found the old 80's film Megaforce to be a live action version of another faveorite "G.I. Joe." I enjoy this little nugget of cheese on a regular basis. I Have a special binnder full of dvd's called my "CHEESE TRAY".
Also another lamb basted film I found truely entertaining was Eddie Murphy's
The Adventures of Pluto Nash. It hit all the right buttons with me. It is widely concidered a box office flop. And has received the worst reviews. Thats nice...
If it makes the critic feel good about themselves. I loved it.
Movie Review: Rekindling childhood fascination
Summary: 3 Stars
I found this movie on Amazon after searching for it in several places. bought this DVD mainly to rekindle my childhood fascination which I caught a glimpse of its trailer as a kid but didnt have the money to watch back then. Until now. Didnt really think the movie really lived up to the thrill / fascination & curiosity I had for it as a kid. Some parts were still cool as I anticipated, sufficient suspense albeit extremely dated special effects (eg.like house invasion scene) but classic.
Major disappointment was the way the story chose to end.
Movie Review: With a bit of a mind flip, you're into the time slip...
Summary: 2 Stars
`Their lives became a living hell...when past, present and future collided!' That's the tagline used on the DVD case for The Day Time Ended aka Earth's Final Fury aka Vortex aka Time Warp (1980). I knew how they felt for 90 minutes, watching this film (the DVD case states approximately 90 minutes, but it was more like 70 to 75 minutes)...okay, maybe it wasn't that bad, but you'd think a film credited with four writers could at least have made sense...rarely have I seen a film so lacking in direction or plot...directed by John `Bud' Cardos (Kingdom of the Spiders, Outlaw of Gor), the film stars Jim Davis (you may remember him as Jock Ewing on TV's Dallas), Dorothy Malone (Peyton Place), Natasha Ryan (Kingdom of the Spiders, The Amityville Horror), Marcy Lafferty, who was once married to William Shatner, both of whom appeared in 1977's Kingdom of the Spiders, along with the above mentioned Ryan, Scott C. Kolden (Sigmund and the Sea Monsters), and Christopher Mitchum (American Commandos, Magic Kid), son of actor Robert Mitchum (I'll saw one thing about Chris is that looking at his credits of low budget, schlocky B films, it doesn't look like he relied on nepotism to get good roles).
The film opens with a shot of outer space, and voice over I couldn't hear because of the accompanying music (poor sound editing), and also the sound quality on this DVD was very shoddy. This goes on for like three minutes, and the gist of it is there's a cosmic phenomena, three super novas colliding at once, and now, some many years later, the effects are reaching the planet Earth...the bulk of the film takes place in some southwestern desert, where patriarch Grant (Davis) has built a solar powered home (looking much like Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's funky little domicile on Tantooine in the film Star Wars, only not as good), away from all the hustle and bustle. Next we witness Grant and his son-in-law Richard (Mitchum) picking up the rest of the family at the airport, including Grant's wife Ana (Malone), Grant's daughter and Richard's wife Beth (Lafferty), the granddaughter Jenny (Ryan), and Grant's son Steve (Kolden). The group returns to the ranch, and soon strange things begin happening in the form of strange green lights inside the house, light switches not working, furniture in disarray, etc. Also, they begin witnessing lights in the night sky, and even the occasion UFO zipping by...during the night even stranger phenomena begin occurring in the form of really bad CGI and even worse stop motion effects of hostile, misshapen creatures fighting each other in the corral, outside the house. Apparently the effects of the trinary supernova have torn a new one in the time/space continuum, effectively creating a localized vortex on Grant's property (at least that's what I could get, as the film wasn't as forthcoming as it should have been). What's an isolationist family to do? I suppose when the fickle forces of nature give you cosmic lemons, you make cosmic lemonade...
I suppose my biggest complaint with this film was its' confusing, muddled, and utterly pointless plot. It actually took an hour before the audience was let in on what was going on (this was done by the unceremonious dumping of a small but steaming pile of exposition on the audience, as Davis' character, the rural rancher, becomes Mr. Physics during an epiphanic moment when he realizes `we're in a time warp, a vortex, if you will'...later we're treated to a much larger pile as the daughter, who got sucked into the vortex, and later returns relating about as much lameness as I could stand)...prior to that, we were treated to a series of odd (mostly stupid), unrelated events that never really lead anywhere, or had much purpose. I did get the impression there may have been a good, original concept here, but it was obliterated within the execution. The special effects are about as good as one might expect within a low budget feature as this, the main bulk of it being stop motion effects with creatures looking much like those (only not as good) from scene in Star Wars, on the Millennium Falcon, where the characters were playing a chess-like game, and minor effects featuring obvious CGI/blue screen work. The direction was pretty awful, especially noticeable during the scenes where the characters were supposed to react to special effects to be added later. I could almost imagine how it went... `Okay, now act shocked and scared, as that empty space will be occupied by a horrible monster once we insert it during post production'...'okay, I was going for shocked and scared, not perplexed and moronic'. The acting was pretty shoddy, but then I would be more inclined to blame this on the script and the director, as the talent was probably as confused as I was with regards to what was supposed to be going on in the film. Also, I thought the ending to be sort of a cop out.
The quality of the full screen, pan and scan print on this DVD isn't great, but I've seen worse. The real problem lies within the craptacular transfer. The picture has a stuttering, jittery quality that occurs anytime there's movement on the screen. I've never witnessed this particular problem before, but it's incredibly annoying, and lasts through nearly the entire film. The audio's poor, and my player indicates it's PCM 48Khz. There are a couple of extras featuring a montage of trailers for this film, and three more including Laserblast (1978), Creepozoids (1987), and End of the World (1977), along with some Full Moon Entertainment promotional materials. Is this film a cult classic? I'd say more of an oddity...if you're looking for a real cult classic, check out Don Johnson in A Boy and His Dog (1975). Another thing, the DVD case listed this as being rated R, but that's obviously a mistake...PG would be more applicable.
Cookieman108
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