"Time After Time" (1979) is one of my all time favorite movies. Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen first met making this piece. The chemistry between them helped give that movie its charisma and innocence. Of course innocence was something that McDowell was a master at portraying in that period of his life.
Now I don't know if this is an actual fact, but I certainly think it is completely plausible that if Jack The Ripper was a surgeon, he killed in a surgical manner. The movie without being graphic, shows David Warner committing one of his murders. He lures a streetwalker into an alley. We watch as he quickly sexually pleases the tawdry woman. The camera focuses on her face. We see pleasure turn to horror as we hear the sound of the labia being sliced open. Then we watch as she slumps to the ground and blood is saturating her dress. I always thought this was one of the most horrific murders on film that I have ever seen and set up the tone of the movie beautifully. In the TV show, the ripper merely stabs the stomach of the girl and flees. I am not surprised that it being on ABC, and owned by Disney they could not show the order as the movie did. But it really takes the horror and charm out of the story.
The movie gave tribute to the original "Time Machine" with Rod Taylor. There was the initial time travel scene when Welles takes the Machine to the future for the first time. We see the world change outside his window as Rod Taylor did int he original. In this TV show, we see none of that.
The characters in the TV show have none of the chemistry the actors in the movie had. I had low expectations when I started watching this disappointment and they were rewarded with a sloppy, uninspired show.
It is a shame.
Now I don't know if this is an actual fact, but I certainly think it is completely plausible that if Jack The Ripper was a surgeon, he killed in a surgical manner. The movie without being graphic, shows David Warner committing one of his murders. He lures a streetwalker into an alley. We watch as he quickly sexually pleases the tawdry woman. The camera focuses on her face. We see pleasure turn to horror as we hear the sound of the labia being sliced open. Then we watch as she slumps to the ground and blood is saturating her dress. I always thought this was one of the most horrific murders on film that I have ever seen and set up the tone of the movie beautifully. In the TV show, the ripper merely stabs the stomach of the girl and flees. I am not surprised that it being on ABC, and owned by Disney they could not show the order as the movie did. But it really takes the horror and charm out of the story.
The movie gave tribute to the original "Time Machine" with Rod Taylor. There was the initial time travel scene when Welles takes the Machine to the future for the first time. We see the world change outside his window as Rod Taylor did int he original. In this TV show, we see none of that.
The characters in the TV show have none of the chemistry the actors in the movie had. I had low expectations when I started watching this disappointment and they were rewarded with a sloppy, uninspired show.
It is a shame.