Time After Time (1979) First Time Watching Reaction & Review

[@mikemeggison5084]

David Warner just passed. He was 80. I didn't know whether to put this in Tron, this one, or Time Bandits. Personally, my fave was Time Bandits.

[@jcraig1701]

This movie holds a special place for me. Well's line "the first man to raise a fist is the man who's run out of ideas" has stuck with me throughout my life. Little bit of trivia is that Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen actually fell for each other on set and got married 2 years later.
I had the great opportunity at DragonCon in 2013 to attend a Time after Time panel with both Malcom and David Warner in attendance. They were both at the show for different reasons and the convention organizers asked if they'd be interested in doing a panel about Time After Time and they both agreed. It was such a special panel and you can tell the movie meant a lot to both of them for various reasons. Was also amusing when the conversation turned to William Shatner and having worked with him in various Star Trek movies they both told some great stories.

[@AguedaG]

En España a eso lo llamamos una película celestina. Es decir, casamentera.

[@Iluthra]

One of my faves. McDowell, Steenburgen, and the best villain portrayer ever, David Warner.

[@hawkmaster381]

I've always found it fascinating that the bad guys in these situations seem to adapt to the new environment better or faster than the hero does; at the very least they seem to be more comfortable.

[@tomyoung9049]

this and Somewhere in Time are pretty awesome takes on the time travel idea.

[@CesarGarcia-pe9eg]

Alexa... I was looking to see if anyone has ever reacted to Time After Time and came across your channel; my first time! Great reaction and I really love your knowledge of the city. As someone in the bay, it's very cool to see someone mention the Presidio! thanks

[@Zallerquad]

I know what you mean about familiar film location. They shot Robocop in Dallas, and back when I lived in Texas my friends and I would take an annual Robocop Tour of Dallas for a day. Then drive 278 miles home and watch the movie. Good times.

[@cmti1971]

My sister and I used to watch this on HBO in the early '80s; thank you for the nice memories and for covering this particular film, Alexa 🙂

[@sososoosososwmewso2108]

Yes th-cam.com/video/QGd-hXv_s50/w-d-xo.html

[@gyrofrank]

Enjoyed this movie today, first time ever. I'm so fascinated in time travel movies! Mary Steenburgen is also in Back to The Future 3 as Clara Clayton. In this movie she is 26.

[@alolkoydesigns]

I saw this in theater first run. My Father worked at Presidio when it was an Army base. Lol "dials and clocks on things" I thought I detected a visible nerdgasm.

[@HuntingViolets]

Rosza also did The Private Life of Sherloock Holmes. Nicholas Meyer directed this. Meyer is also known as the author of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that started off the Sherlockian fiction boom of the 1970s that has pretty much continued to this day.

[@buidseach]

That's her from Back to the Future part 3 :)

[@cessnaace]

I saw this on HBO in the early 80s and was impressed by it. Thanks for jogging my memory.

[@noneya3635]

Wait is that baby Corey Feldman at the museum? That's so awesome I own this movie and watch it all the time and never noticed that before.

[@wiredtardis]

Great surprise to see this film get a reaction! Although I saw this recently about 10 months ago, I absolutely loved it as it felt like it exuding that movie magic goodness that I don't see in today's films.
I always view this as Nicholas Meyer doing Star Trek before he did any Star Trek. It's hard not to see it as essential as non-Trek Trek like Forbidden Planet, because not only do we have two prominent Trek villains starring as Wells and Jack the Ripper, but we get a time travel plot to San Francisco, humanistic viewpoints being championed, a modern career woman going back to protagonist's time, and nods to Sherlock Holmes.
Outside of Forbidden Planet, it's hard to see any other non-Star Trek film have as much impact on the franchise.

[@MrSlitskirts]

Great film and review. I hadn't seen this film before so I was watching it for the first time too. This also shows that if you create something special and unique, don't tell or show anyone... Have fun.

[@chrisgibbings9499]

Jack the Ripper was 1888, not 1893, unless there was yet another murder we didn't attribute to him... RIP David Warner (Jack the Ripper here) who died quite recently. Another good reaction piece, Alexa. As someone else has said, McDowell and Steenburgen were married for some years after meeting on this.

[@AguedaG]

Eso es lo que se llama licencia artística. Ya en la película dicen que llevaba tiempo sin actuar.

[@frankrossi6972]

The Golden Age of movie steampunk remains the late '50s through the mid-60s, when Hollywood and others raided and adapted every Verne and Wells tale they could get their hands on, with mostly stellar results. By 1979, the "Star Wars" style was in, just straight-up space adventure with lasers and other high-tech, and you can see it in "Time," e.g., the weird prism/rainbow effects during the time travel scenes, reminiscent of the goofy effects used to depict hyperspace travel in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," which came out the same year.

[@dianem8544]

I can't believe someone did this movie! I haven't watched your reaction yet but even if you didn't like it, I don't CARE, you WATCHED it. Instant upvote!

[@alexachipman]

Thank you - spoiler alert - loved it!

[@dianem8544]

@@alexachipman Yay, that's just a bonus!

[@peterelliott3015]

haven't seen this film in years. great reaction

[@davidfrost2819]

Miklos Rosza also did a similar piece of music in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)

[@RetroRobotRadio]

It's funny that this was a period piece in the 1800s scenes and a contemporary movie in 1979 scenes, but now it's a period piece in both times!

[@alexachipman]

So true!

[@RetroRobotRadio]

@@alexachipman I old enough to have watched this film when it was new. I actually saw it before I saw the 1960 The Time Machine.

[@silikon2]

Cyndi Lauper's song actually was sort of inspired by this movie! She needed a new song and saw the title in TV Guide and ran with it.

[@putinscat1208]

This is a great movie. That's David Warner again, your favorite villain. @3:50, Corey Feldman? Have you ever seen 'Foul Play'? There is a similar driving scene in the movie. The composer did 'Ben Hur' also. And that soundtrack is probably the greatest ever made! Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen were married for awhile.

[@Esl1999]

I like how Mary Steenburgen flips roles from a character in 1979 going to 1890’s to BTTF 3 were she goes from 1885 to 2015 and then 1985 and then who knows. She’s a regular Doctor Who companion.

[@bfdidc6604]

Funny that David Warner plays evil time travelers in two pf his biggest movies.

[@vominator]

You can find a lot of old stuff in The Streets of San Francisco episodes. There are TONS of businesses you'll see that are long gone, long before the "tech ruined everything" mantra appeared.

[@Esl1999]

David Warner passed away at 80. He’s been in a lot of iconic films and not so iconic(Nightwing comes to mind). Star Trek community is in mourning. RIP.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Mary Steenburgen was in another time travel movie: "Back to the Future 3". I love that you got the Macdougall's joke. Most people didn't at the time, because too much time had past in the movie, and they forgot about the Macdonald's scene.

[@billythealiensmiller]

There is a recent TV series based on "Time After Time". The 2 hour pilot episode compares favorably to the film. In episode 2, Jack finds his way back and confronts Wells. The love interest is not Amy Robbins, but she is very good. The series follows the 3 of them on adventures through many of H.G. Wells' novels. For a while they end up on an island owned by a Dr. Monroe, "The Island Of Doctor Monroe". Jack is as psycho as ever but needs the 2 of them to help him. His goal in reality is to go to the future and return with technology that will make him the richest man in the world. He gets very smart from browsing the internet and realizes the power that he can gain from the time machine. So, he needs Wells and the girl more than they need him. This sounds ridiculous but it is actually well done. Jack is named John Leslie Stevenson in this version. The fact that Herbert's love interest is not Amy Robbins is a letdown at first, but it is geared to fans of the movie and having her be Amy Robbins would remove surprises. Herbert falls in love with Jane, a lady who works at the museum. Jack has different motives than in the film because he surfs the internet and learns a lot. He learns that Jack The Ripper was never caught. He introduces Wells to the internet and Wells realizes that he was never caught. So, Wells no longer has any incentive to take him back. And Jack believes that he can eventually learn the technical secrets of the time machine. They both learn that Wells will go back to stay and eventually write books. In this version, Jack's room at the hotel is internet equipped, so that by the time that Wells confronts him he already knows a lot about the world, far more than Wells. Jack stops being a ripper when he learns about modern guns and realizes that a pistol would come in handy. I guess the internet is what makes this version different and the fact that Jack goes to the 2000s instead of the late 70s. It all makes as much sense as the original. Remember, Stephenson is a doctor after all. There is a sub-plot concerning Wells' great granddaughter who inherited a written account of these events and had waited all her life for him to appear. He has no reason to threaten Jane in this version, but his ultimate motives are far more dangerous. Here is a IMDB link that includes 2 really great trailers. Time travel causes the windshield of the machine to frost over, a nice touch. www.imdb.com/title/tt5031234/?ref_=vp_close

[@TTM9691]

Yay! This was so much fun to revist! (Haven't seen it since the 80s!). Malcom McDowell obviously gets asked most about "Clockwork Orange", but he is VERY proud of this movie, and he and Mary Steenbergen married soon after. Wild about the musical score! This was not a hit or anything, but it was played all the time on early 80s cable TV. I must have seen it twenty times back then! lol. Really fun to watch with you, I have a lot of affection for it and I'm happy it holds up!

[@HuntingViolets]

Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell got together while making this movie. They wound up getting married and eventually divorced. She's now married to Ted Danson.

[@michaelvincent4280]

Herbert already drives like people in 2022. He's all set for the future.

[@sisterdebmac]

One of my all time favorite movies. If you can find it, the novel by Karl Alexander is wonderful. It deepens the whole story and it's beautifully written. I fell in love with Malcolm and Mary and still follow them to this day. Thank you for doing this very special little flick. I think Nicholas Meyer's contributions to the original cast Star Trek films are incredible as well. He knows how to play my heartstrings and raise my pulse. I'm so glad I got a chance to tell him how much his movies have meant to me at a con once.

[@TikiRainbows]

I love the mcdonalds scene, when he realizes fries are pommes frites and the tables are made out of plastic

[@zmani4379]

Very nice reaction - Nicholas Meyer did another historical fan-fic fusion like this - the 1976 Seven Percent Solution - I'll say no more about it, to avoid spoilers, but I do recommend it - Red Shoes is magnificent - another Frisco film is of course Vertigo - see that on a double bill w La Jetee, an unofficial sci fi "sequel" of sorts - IMO this is one of the few roles that fully realized Malcolm McDowell's abilities, along w Clockwork Orange and his earlier If and O Lucky Man - and Cat People, almost - Steenburgen and Warner are excellent here -

[@katequick3602]

Wow, you have a good ear to recognize the composer. You are a very astute reactor.
In high school, my friends and I had a sleepover and we watched this movie and basically rewound it and watched it over and over all night thinking it was funny to watch 'Time After Time' time after time. Of course, we were easily amused.
I haven't seen it since then but still remember quite a lot of it.

[@alexachipman]

Love it! Watching it time after time :)

[@YoureMrLebowski]

18:13 yeah, cause we all live in cities they shoot movies in 🙂🤗

[@spiritscar]

Fun movie. Mary Steenburgen is beautiful and has been in a bunch of great stuff.
Of course Back to the Future 3.
She was also in a phenomenal TV mini series with her husband Ted Danson.
An adaptation of the Jonathan Swift novel,
“Gulliver's Travels” Produced with Jim Henson Studios from 1996.
May be something fun for you to see and react to some time.
I’d also suggest a film of cultural significance that I feel is in tune with a certain aesthetic and branch of unique exploration you venture out to here.
“Gojira” (1954)
The original Japanese classic known in the west as Godzilla.
You may recognize some faces.

[@davidmckie7128]

Mary Steenbergen coped very well, she went out West and married Doc Brown and continues to time travel with him and their two sons.

[@user4923]

Your my favorite youtuber that does movie reviews. Someday I will donate when I have the dough. Lol.

[@vivalapsych]

What a surprise reaction! I saw this movie so many times as a kid on HBO. Always liked it and I think it holds up mostly.

[@okeefe757]

I remember when I was young because of the similarities of the titled that I mixed up this movie with Somewhere In Time.

[@dianem8544]

Same, I have to double check which is which to this day.

[@okeefe757]

@@dianem8544 And because they came out within a year of each other.

[@gyrofrank]

17:18 so true

[@futuramayeah]

Alexa, there's another time travel movie set in San Francisco, Star Trek 4 , and maybe Ant Man and the Wasp, they go into the Quantum realm, that might count

[@KennethBatchelor]

Such a fun flick! I remember seeing it in the theater with my best friend back in the day. A nice weave of historical and fictional subjects. Nicholas Meyer did a great job with this. Another one by him of note is "The Seven Percent Solution" (if you're into Sherlock Holmes). He also worked on two of the Star Trek films. I adore Mary Steenbergen. Great choice for a reaction! BTW: Team Tesla!

[@melenatorr]

Meyer's book for "Seven Percent Solution" is equally great. Recommend both the movie and the book. This movie is wonderful - Mary Steenbergen is a lovely actress, versatile and graceful, with both softness and strength. I wish people knew her better these days; she was very popular in the 1970s-80s.

[@MusicHandsAbrupt]

He actually worked on three Star Trek films :)

[@christinaluna2055]

San Francisco in the 70s 80s were the best

[@cwdkidman2266]

Malcolm McDowell is great as always. He actually seemed to will himself into a smaller, slighter version of himself. It's hard to believe that this is the same guy who played uber-thug Alex DeLarge in his debut, in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. There, he practically jumped off the screen with his joyous love of brutality, even singing "Singing In The Rain" as he rapes and beats a husband and wife in a home invasion.
And he was a boarding school revolutionary in ...If. And he played the title role in Caligula. He took the role of HG Wells because he was becoming typecast as a very violent and very sexual character in movies. And he wanted to stretch himself as an actor.
Still, how many actors can put "starred in ...If, A Clockwork Orange, and Caligula" on their resumes? AND cult classic Time After Time.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

8:18 very impressed 👍🏼

[@jamielandis4308]

Such a fun movie!

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

I love this movie. There was no such thing as steam=pump in 1979, so that would have been impossible. (I was a young working woman that year, my first real job.)

[@geoffmason7215]

Yes team Tesla and oh my how many references so many I recognised Mary Steenbergen later to appear in back to the future 3

[@randysmith7045]

This movie is amazing

[@RetroRobotRadio]

I thought this movie had an interesting take on The Time Machine. The machine itself does not move. The occupant moves through time in the machine. He always ends up where with machine ended up being at that moment in time. Therefore he can only travel from the moment the machine was created to the moment the machine was destroyed.

[@simoncattle1434]

Great review. It's a really good film, both as a romantic comedy and as a sci-fi adventure. Strong performances from everyone. Great chemistry between HG and Amy.
Regarding the 'Modern Prometheus' reference to Edison early on: although we're much more aware of Tesla's contributions nowadays, I suspect that even when the film was made, the phrase might be understood not as an unalloyed compliment, since it's also the subtitle of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, i.e. it may be a foreshadowing/ recognition in the script - though not initially on the part of the character who uses it - that science can lead to bad things as well as good.
I really like how although HG is shown throughout to be naive and unworldly in some respects, he is also shown to be ingenious and brave. His vision of a possible society may be questionable, but his own principles of behaviour serve him well.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Good catch on the "Knights" soundtrack

[@YoureMrLebowski]

0:37 called it

[@brianlindstrand934]

When I saw this movie in the theater, I completely got suckered by the twist! I was genuinely angry at Nicholas Meyer for killing off such an amazing character. Shortly after that, I realized that I can get way too involved in movies. Terrific script, perfectly cast, great score...this film just works so well.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

Alexa, very interesting reactions. i've seen 2, this and 300.
i'm intriged.
👍🏼 and scribed.

[@alexachipman]

Thank you!

[@alexmonroe4706]

Greetings Alexa, it has been suggested that 'Jack the Ripper' was in fact 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.' All the best, Alex 😊

[@YoureMrLebowski]

6:52 🤣🤣🤣

[@t43iavmoi]

Great reaction to a great movie. Glad you enjoyed it. Keep up to good work 👏👍.

[@terryhughes7349]

great reaction. Not a common film to pick.

[@futuramayeah]

Alexa, i liked this movie from before, i like it when he goes to Mcdonalds and doesn't know what to do right away

[@GrouchyMarx]

@ 1:39 Team Tesla for sure! Edison was a DC jerk. Direct Current that is.
@ 8:32 Sounds a little like Ben-Hur too.
@ 12:59 Depends on the kind of kiss. If you need to leave right away leave 'em on. If not, have them taken off like Herbert's. 🥸
@ 18:11 This is why my lips were sealed suggesting "T after T" on your Time Machine vid. Thought you'd enjoy the film location... your backyard so to speak, Alexa. Never been to SF though. 😁 But I know what you mean about your city in a movie. Mine was "Logan's Run" (1976), filmed while I was living in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. As well as a few others like "The Lathe of Heaven" (1980) and the "Dallas" TV series. If you haven't seen the Lathe of Heaven that's an awesome and very unusual movie, and a time travel one too in a way. What's odd about it is the movie was ordered destroyed for some reason not long after its airing on the PBS network or at least on the local KERA station back in 1980 or '81, but less quality tape copies survived at a TV station(s) enabling it to be remade later. Strange.
If you haven't seen the 2002 Time Machine it's a pretty good movie, advanced special effects and a good adaptation of the novel. It's worth watching at least once. I've seen it several times but still like the original a little better. Sentimental on it I suppose. 😁

[@jamesmoyner7499]

Team Tesla this is a very clever film.

[@HuntingViolets]

There are a few people actually named Sherlock Holmes. I wonder whether they have this problem too.

[@malcolmdrake6137]

Your placing of the composer, for the scoring, of the film is one of the reasons I've gone from a once time fan of John Williams, to now ranking him near the bottom, for Soundtrack composers. Other than about 3 stand out opening themes, all of his stuff is identical. He also tends to score the entire movie around that one theme. I used to listen to lot of his soundtracks, until I started noticing there was no way to tell one from another, until the opening theme was reprised...then I knew which Soundtrack I was listening to; I now prefer people who are geniuses at creating Mood. People like Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes, Alien, etc), and Bernard Herrmann (The Day the Earth Stood Still, North By Northwest, The Twilight Zone, etc). John Williams was better at Mood when he was starting out (Lost In Space television series), but he was mainly copying Herrmann.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

i haven't even thought about this movie in 20 years... maybe 30... hell maybe 40, but i refuse to go any higher. 😠

[@TheNeonRabbit]

The problem with time travel is that if you suddenly jumped even a few minutes into the future or past you'd be nowhere near the Earth. That would be a problem for me because all my stuff is here.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

In this case he moves to wherever the machine would be in the future. That's why he traveled to Los Angeles because that's where the machine was, in the museum exhibit.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

@@RetroRobotRadio There's always a workaround in science fiction if you need one.
H.G. Wells could just say his experiments determined that spacetime was unbreakably linked in such a way that you cannot move along the the temporal dimension at any rate or direction without also arriving at the corresponding intersection of the three spatial dimensions.
That might even be true. Anyway, good enough to make the plot work.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

I wonder if Mary Steinbergin got the part she had in Back To The Future 3 because of this part. They are so similar, and she even mentions HG Wells as a favorite writer in the other film!

[@MoonjumperReviews]

Definitely a little wink and a nod to her previous role. 😉

[@mikemeggison5084]

It doesn't pop up in the reaction, but there's a fairy painting in Amy's apartment that's the same one from "Three's Company". My fan theory is Jack re-materialized as Jack Tripper. Jack T. Ripper. Jack THE Ripper? Eh? Eh? Ehhh? 😏

[@jamesraykenney]

I have always loved this movie, and I THINK you are the first person I have seen react to it!
I love how you always come up with some esoteric pieces of information about obscure subjects! I identify with that because I am always reading up on weird subjects that I have no 'need' for information about, but just get in a curious mood and cannot stop reading!
I loved Mary Steenburgen in this film but all three of the stars in this movie were great! I wanted to say they made a great triumvirate, but I am not sure if we have changed the definition to include women yet! 😊
This was a great reaction!
P.S. Have you seen "The Man with Two Brains" (1983) yet? It also stars David Warner in another strange role as the Mad scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter and co stars Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner!

[@Trilaan]

I watched this last night in honor of David Warner after his recent passing. It's one of my favorite movies. I support Nikola Tesla!

[@walterfechter8080]

Paint the Time machine in this film a bright yellow and it would look somewhat like The Yellow Submarine. All kidding aside, this film was a nifty little Time travel movie! The performances were stellar! Many thanks, Alexa Chipman, for this wonderful review. By-the-bye, I love Miklos Rozsa's score to "Ben-Hur."

[@aatragon]

Very astute catching that music cue! I tip my hat! Nicholas Meyer was the screenwriter/director of this movie, he also directed 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧 𝙏𝙧𝙚𝙠 𝙄𝙄: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙆𝙝𝙖𝙣 and wrote 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣-𝙋𝙚𝙧-𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 as well as other Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Do not miss the movie of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣-𝙋𝙚𝙧-𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 if you haven't seen it.

[@thegoodreverenddoctor7644]

Love this movie! Please consider the science fiction film, Gattaca with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.

[@justinplayfair4638]

You were also a travel agent?! What haven't you done Alexa?
Written and directed by Nicholas Meyer...who also wrote the script for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. He REALLY likes San Francisco. I remember everyone in the theater fell in love with Amy and Mary Steenbergen. Meyer was quite canny the way he snuck in the bit about her friend stopping by...Amy's supposed death cast a pall over the audience, until...
Yes, another vote for a Red Shoes commentary. And maybe you could react to Tales of Hoffman and Stairway to Heaven (Matter of Life and Death) from the same filmmakers?

[@noneya3635]

Helped with the script, the idea was Nimoy's and he went to Meyer for help because of how much Meyer was responsible for the success of ST II. Nimoy also asked him to help with the script for ST VI. Nick Meyer had his hand in a lot of the first season of the rebooted 90's outerlimits.

[@adaddinsane]

Yes, glasses get in the way when you kiss - and get smudged.😎

[@hawkmaster381]

I enjoy movies with intelligent characters. I'm a very cerebral person, and I find intelligence sexier than any body type. I wish you would react to BBC's Sherlock!

[@alexachipman]

Love that show - I have a knockoff of his coat.

[@Esl1999]

David Warner was in Star Trek 5 & 6 plus a couple of episodes of TNG. Malcolm McDowell was in Star Trek Generations. Mary Steenburgen was in Back To The Future 3 opposite Christopher Lloyd who was in Star Trek 3. Nicholas Meyer directed Star Trek 2 and 6. Of course they were in other stuff but you’re a Trek fan. Malcolm was in the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen. The unrated version of Caligula (1979). DO NOT WATCH THE UNRATED VERSION. it’s probably rated XXX+X. Extra X is for the vile, depraved gore and violence. This film is the polar opposite of family friendly.

[@lindenella]

I mistook this for 'Somewhere In Time' and was waiting for Christopher Reeve to appear! I dont think I've seen this one but I enjoyed watching your reaction and review. It is fascinating seeing filming being done. Bits of Doctor Who episodes have often been filmed in Caerphilly Castle- I saw the Robots of Sherwood episode being filmed. Also 'Restoration' with Robert Downey Jr (where parts doubled for London Docks ) and bits of Merlin . I believe The Spanish Princess was filmed there and also Galavant but I have never seen those. San Francisco looks amazing in the movies. I'd love to visit one day.

[@alexachipman]

Somewhere in Time is penciled in for later this year, so stay tuned!

[@teddynielsen]

I’m glad you did a reaction. I remember the first time I watched Time After Time, it was on a transatlantic flight from JFK to Frankfurt in 1980 with either Pan Am or TWA. I was really young and didn’t really watch the whole film, but I remember watching some parts of it. I saw all of it on TV a few years later. Wouldn’t it be cool if like Wells, Jamie and young Ian could get a taste of the late 1970s.

[@DaveF.]

Assuming then you're familiar with the seventies remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers - also filmed in SF more or less at the same time as Time after TIme. Definitely worth checking out if you're not.

[@alexachipman]

Yes indeed, I’ve seen it a couple of times, fun movie!

[@bonya4585]

It would be like Outlander if Amy went back with HG.

[@bonya4585]

David Warner was perfect for his role. A later day George Sanders

[@ooEVILGOAToo]

Somewhere in time 1980 :(

[@mikemeggison5084]

Re: Red Shoes. My friend Margaret who I dedicated he "The Stuntman" reaction to, that was her other favorite. I went with "Stuntman" because that had more onion layers to it, and was more fun IMHO. She was into any meta, or "behind the scenes" type of movie. "All That Jazz" and "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" were on her list too. So, yeah, put me down as "yes" for a review.

[@Desertpunk114mm]

It would make sense for a BA future museum to have lectures or interactive exhibits in which they use time travel to bring the historical figures themselves. Watch Jeremiah Johnson it's an awesome movie set in the Rockies in the 1800s.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

1:41 Team Tesla

[@RetroRobotRadio]

David Warner played a one time roll on Babylon 5 as a man questing to find the Holy Grail. I always liked him in that episode.
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There was another episode of Babylon 5 where Jack the Ripper came to the station, after having been abducted by aliens and frozen for years.
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[@alexachipman]

Sanctuary used the plotline also, I miss that show.

[@jamielandis4308]

Team Tesla. I saw this in 1980. I fell in love with Mary Steenbergen with this movie. She is still one of my favorite actresses. I know I spelled her name wrong, lol. I would love to have someone ask me to wait for them like she does him at the end of this movie. David Warner was introduced to me in this film as well.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

9:05 repurposed is a kind word.
you're a bit of a detective aren't you? 🙂

[@YoureMrLebowski]

12:52 more awkward than cute, but yes cute and awkward. 🥰

[@Maca494]

pfft, what a question. Tesla, obvs
hahaaha look at her. becoming a time traveler's wife is her thing i guess XDD

[@davidmckie7128]

This is a favourite Time Travel film of mine. Once you accept that with any time travel film there will be one or two small details that don't add up, you can then enjoy it for what it is. (ie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was just a fun romp). If you haven't seen it, one I would recommend is "The Final Countdown" (1980, the song of the same name was 1986) - a real moral dilemma in this film.

[@oaf-77]

I was looking forward to your reaction to this. The combination of Victorian Sci fi and 70s era San Francisco is something you were bound to appreciate.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Great job! Always enjoy your channel. Another wonderful movie is the remake of: “The Time Machine” with Guy Pierce. Also, “Unbroken” is a wonderful movie as well.

[@MoonjumperReviews]

Great film! (And great review!) It’s funny, I remember all of these scenes, but I completely forgot that Amy was played by Mary Steenburgen-and how could I forget that? She is so very Mary Steenburgen, with her signature quirkiness. Love it!
I’m disappointed I never got to see all of the 2017 TV series, which ABC canceled without even showing all of the remaining episodes. Sometime later, Warner Bros. made it available for streaming on CW Seed. I watched what would have been the next unaired episode, but too much time had passed, I couldn’t remember exactly what was going on. So, okay, I’ll come back to this and start over when I have time. Alas, it’s no longer available. CW Seed went defunct and they did not transfer that show to the regular CW app, as they did some of the others like “Forever.” Lesson: you can never, ever rely on streaming. Physical media is the only guarantee!

[@alexachipman]

Agreed - I have some movies in dvd format, just in case!

[@gopherlyn]

I really liked this movie . Your reactions were great.

[@lifelover515]

Never actually seen this in its entirety, but I like the premise and I like the lead actors. McDowell was already a veteran, and I'll watch Mary in anything but I prefer her in later, more mature roles. I share the buzz you get from 'I sat/stood there', though I've never actually visited SF. I'm aware of the Presidio and City Lights. And Miklos Rozsa, though 'Knights of the Round Table' is not familiar. I didn't recognise David Warner at all until I looked him up.
Another atmospheric time travel movie is 1980's 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, in which the former successfully sheds his 'Superman' image. It has a celebrated romantic theme by John Barry - dunno, may be too romantic for your taste, if you haven't already seen it. Your description of 'Greys' and 'Demis' is news to me, guess I'm just boringly straight. As for 'Red Shoes', yeah, I'm definitely up for your take on that.
Well done again, Alexa. I always learn something from your reactions.