Tied for the best movie I have ever seen
... View MoreEach character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
... View MoreEasily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
... View MoreMostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
... View MoreTop storyline! Which starts a little to slow and with a little to bad acting but it get's better. The actors are unknown to me and it s a little like a B movie, but a very great idea and much better then i thought in the first twenty minutes? It's a very complex thematic and they did very well for not being a Hollywood production, without stars! Wish this one would get worked on again and made with at least some good actors with Hollywood together, and i hope for a second movie to end the story, so should be continued with a little better actors and more action in it, but good is it already must be a great book where the idea comes from. But once you have passed the beginning you will like the movie, have fun.This movie is for fantasy freaks, technique nerds and physic friends.:-)
... View MoreThis is a great movie for Time Travel nerds, such as myself. The ability of 95ers to rewind time for a few seconds, and the way this is related to Quantum Mechanics, is actually very consistent with physical theories, namely the 'Transactional Interpretation' of quantum mechanics. Rather than explaining the space of possibilities as being multiple universes, or multiple timelines, the Transactional Interpretation claims that the past, as well as the future, are not immutable, they are re-writable. Exploring possibility space is an exercise of sending information forward, and backward, in time, as is done with the 95ers time-rewind ability.While the experience of Sally is portrayed as sequentially exploring one possible timeline after another, by rewinding time, the visual portrayal of the timeline as simultaneously branching, both in Horatio's book, as well as The Navigator's simulation, is very close to the way that multiple overlapping timelines might actually work.Although I'm not a fan of Time Teleporters, (time machines which create discontinuities in space and/or time - meaning you blink to another point in time and space), this kind of discontinuity does not become problematic in this story, because of the introduction of 'paradoxes', as relics of overlapping possibility flows. Also, 'paradoxes' allow for a meaningful explanation for an otherwise cheesy "Marty McFly starts to fade out of existence", as timelines begin to diverge.The term 'gravity' is used kind of strangely, I think. It is meant to be an indicator of how multiple simultaneously timelines interplay with each other, where the timeline with a lower gravity cannot have deterministic consequences on a timeline with a higher gravity. This is portrayed when agents from the future try to shoot Sally, and their bullets don't do anything to her. The Navigator is also waiting for the 'gravity' of Sally's timeline to get low enough before sending the Captain, presumably so that their attempts to modify the past will actually have an effect. I think the term 'stability' or something like it, would have been more indicative of what is being portrayed here.There are a couple of narrative discontinuities (not related to time travel). The first is the jump from 'Horatio and Sally are having a fun and lively courtship' to 'Horatio and Sally got married, Horatio died, and Sally is pregnant'. This narrative leap occurred over the course of a couple of seconds, and left me confused. The second discontinuity is the revelation that Sally and Horatio were having marital troubles, when the only thing you've seen from their relationship so far is their fun and lively courtship. This second discontinuity can actually be seen as one of the intermediate stages skipped by the first discontinuity. It seems like these problems could have been solved with less than 5 minutes of storytelling, between the time Sally and Horatio are courting, and the time when she arrives home, alone, to be disturbed by Horatio's 'ghost'.Discontinuities aside, the story unfolds meaningfully, without placing all the cards on the table at once. The introduction of Sally's ability progresses in a natural well paced sequence. In addition, there are multiple layers of symbolism in the story. References to A Christmas Carol, which talks about 'ghosts' and the 'past, present, and future'. References to the unfolding of time as a game of chess, and players in the game taking roles. Horatio feels like a pawn, and Sally is represented as the Queen. All of these elements are evidence of masterful storytelling on the part of Thomas Gomez, et al.
... View More95ers: Time Runners is INCREDIBLE! Absolutely incredible! This is the kind of film that makes your brain spin, and you just can't stop thinking about it afterward. Fans of time travel stories will love this! The plot is crazy, the acting is amazing, and the special effects are so cool! It made me cry, it gave me chills - I really just can't say enough about this movie. Frankly, I'm surprised it's not a major blockbuster film. It's just as cool as many big Hollywood films I've seen, if not better. And it's family friendly, which is something that's hard to find these days. I definitely would recommend this to anyone who loves a good sci-fi movie!
... View MoreThe story is catching, smart and doesn't spill any clues prematurely. A clever twist of the old time travel theme. I liked it. Acting is very good, the SFX are pretty good but could have been conceived better. The timeline visualization with the ID popping up and bleeping, seemed a little weak to me. Otherwise, the screenplay is very well done - the "rewinds" visualized very nicely. The audio is not as clean as a Hollywood production, but closer to reality. In a server room for example, we hear the hardware whizzing. Though the complex plot should give rise to plenty inconsistencies, I saw none. Surely, if I would search for those, I would find some. To me, this level of attention for detail is the mark of a genius. Very much worth to watch!I have noticed that this movie is called "95ers: Echoes" (2012) as well as "Time Runners" or "95ers: Time Runners" (2013). This is a bit confusing, but all refer to the same movie.
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