Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cyb-eng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!cyb-eng!ables From: ables@cyb-eng.UUCP (King Ables) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Somewhere In Time Message-ID: <488@cyb-eng.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 01:19:02 EST Article-I.D.: cyb-eng.488 Posted: Mon Jan 14 01:19:02 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 02:35:36 EST Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX Lines: 31 Having just seen "Somewhere In Time" (Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plumber) on cable the other day (and since I'm getting tired of reading people tearing up Dune and 2010) I've got some things that bug me about this movie that I'd like to throw out here. I noticed that it was based on the novel "Bid Time Return" by Richard Matheson. Has anybody read this? Is it any good? I assume this is the same Richard Matheson that wrote so many Twilight Zone episodes, it's just like one of his stories. What was the deal with her manager, did he really know about Collier or was it just his knowning that someday some guy would come along... It seemed like he was going to know about time travel, too, or something. Was there some point to the nameplate on Elise's picture in the Hall of History not being there? Or was it just to draw the suspense out a little about who she was? Who got the watch first?? He gave it to her in 1912 and she gave it to him in 1972. Who owned it originally? Also, how old is that damn thing?? It keeps going in a circle from '72 to '12 and then the long way back to '72. And last, but not least, who's the damn fool that left the penny in the suit when he rented it last? :-) I thought that scene was excellently done. I'm not one to cry at a movie, so when I feel a tear well up, I know they've done something right. Let's see... it's the day IBM stock goes public, if I concentrate real hard... -King ARPA: ables%cyb-eng.UUCP@ut-sally.ARPA UUCP: ...{ctvax,gatech,ihnp4,nbires,seismo,ucb-vax}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!ables