If You Could...

I was thinking more about movies having to do with time travel. There are so many missed moments you could pursue if you could race back and forth through time. If you had the means, would you go back to that one job interview you blew, and get it right this time? How about that person you let walk out of your life? Would you go back a few hours to the beginning of the Superbowl and change your bet to the Giants? Here’s something on a much bigger scale… How about chasing Jack the Ripper through time, as he spreads his murders throughout all ages? Malcolm McDowell plays H. G. Wells chasing David Warner in the 1979, “Time After Time.” As you remember, in this movie Jack the Ripper thought causing mayhem in different time periods would give him ultimate power, but when the sees the violence of today, he realizes he is just an amateur!

Here’s an obscure little gem of a time travel movie… it’s not an A-title, but is well done – “Time Shifters,” about a powerful Corporation in the distant future that sends high paying individuals back in time to witness disasters like the Titanic… or plane crashes – so they’re like tourists, who are then whisked safely back to their own time just before the accident strikes. It also has an alternate title, “Thrill Seekers.”

Imagine if you could go back in time to moments before a huge disaster in history… Titanic, Hindenburg… the evening of the 2000 elections (okay, sorry – just had to throw that in!) Or have you ever seen someone in a 100 year old black and white photograph that you just know is your soulmate? Christopher Reeve uses hypnosis to go back in time to meet Jane Seymour in “Somewhere in Time.”

I used the idea of timing in my teen drama “Bittersweet Lies.” Nothing to do with time travel, but one of the guys – Gary - keeps dreaming about the girl he lost and if he could only go back to that moment she drove off and save her before her impending car crash. Gary’s joker-roommate just wants to go back in time to meet Lady Godiva because he’s positive she would fall all over him. Of course, two people who are meant for each other, often miss that opportunity because “it’s the wrong time.” – Oh, and by the way… I’m not plugging “Bittersweet Lies” here, like suggesting you should watch the trailer on FilmBaby right now. This is just a Blog, not an advertisement… but… after the Superbowl, and of course the new Episode of “House” with Mira Sorvino, you’re gonna be bored, right? Check out the “Bittersweet Lies” trailer: http://www.filmbaby.com/films/2410.

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