SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

avocadess First of all I have to say this was VERY well made--acting, script, cinematography, directing, editing, the whole shebang.I found the main topic of the film to be one worthy of considering and also very timely (sorry for the pun!). I feel the movie made its point somewhat, but that much more could and hopefully will be done on this topic of morals versus morals in Jesus's name.The lead actor, who played Carlisle, did a wonderful job! He honestly had me laughing out loud in too many places to count (and I'm not one to laugh out loud to most movies, though I love to laugh)! It was a bit disappointing (though not surprising) that this screenplay was written by those who believe in a hell of eternal conscious torment as well as the immortality of all human souls whether they are saved or not, but this did not ruin the movie for me. It did however knock a star off my still-very-high rating.Funny, serious, important, stimulating and surprisingly good watch. Bravo!

Talia_the_StoryMaker Being a conservative evangelical, I am what some people would consider a "fundamentalist" Christian. I'm not, really, but it's how some people would categorize me. That being said, I can't fully endorse the movie. I honestly don't remember how good the acting and stuff like that was, as its been a while since I've watched it. I do remember that the premise was pretty darn good (though the creators of the film would probably tar and feather me for using the word "darn"). However, I'm not completely sure about the message.Broadly speaking, I do agree that putting moral teaching before the gospel proper is putting the cart before the horse, and isn't the best practice generally speaking. But this movie seems to take this point too far, and acting as though this specific teaching is responsible for all the moral decline in America or something, which is of course extremely dubious. While it's a good principle in general, this movie acts as though any tiny instance of giving a moral teaching without adding "because Christ says so!" is evil and will ruin everything. It just seems unnecessarily condemnational and acting as though life is so exceedingly black and white that you can make that sort of judgment call. It seems to follow the way of thinking that anything that's not laying out a very specific plan of salvation must be unchristian. Again, I agree with it broadly speaking, but I still find it a bit troubling to take it this far.Another, perhaps more serious, issue is this movie's clear violation of the idea that "no one knows the day or the hour".Overall, this movie comes across as a bit too condemnational and fundamentalist for me to enjoy it, but at least it was an interesting story idea.

bkoganbing Even though the concept of time travel was proposed most prominently by that most noted of secularists H.G. Wells the Christian film industry gets in on the act with Time Changer. If you think about it just the concept of time travel is totally alien to their world view. If in fact the broad march of our history is fixed than people monkeying around with time travel are in a great position to gum up the works for our fixed future which ends with Jesus's return.It's 1890 and a group of the faculty at a bible college are discussing a new book by David Morin about his theological world view which emphasizes good works rather than salvation. Colleague Gavin McLeod disagrees and he's been working on a time machine and has been to the future. He sends a reluctant Morin there to see what the lack of a firm fundamentalist faith in society has wrought.This man from the Gay Nineties is shocked at the world one hundred years hence. The rest of us just don't take these people seriously any more. Sin in their view is rampant. My God if he had gone up to today he'd be seeing 19 states legalizing gay marriage.Society back in 1890 was sure paradise. Women could not even vote, black people were segregated and in economic bondage. Laborers couldn't get a decent wage as unions were ruthlessly suppressed We were about to go to on a short imperial binge and come up with Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Phillipines. Certainly nothing like what the European powers were doing, still it was aggressive. Censorship was the order of the day and gays were just beginning to emerge from the unalterably religiously damned to folks who were psychologically unfit and with intensive therapy was needed to cure them. But you could have paradise if you just got with the fundamentalist program and thought just like they did and the world was then your oyster.I will say this though. If Christians perfected time travel and did it back in the Gay Nineties what would stop them from traveling up to the Rapture and just heading right into heaven assuming you make the cut. That's what McLeod does as soon as Morin gets back and he fixes a date of 2080 for the second coming and he moves his destination date to 2070 to get in on the Rapture. As I said before what if they all did, that would sure screw up the future.And remember no man knows the date and hour of the second coming, but apparently Gavin McLeod finds out.This film is so wrong on a scientific and philosophical level.

Deirdre Hebert I know that if you're not Hollywood, that producing a film is expensive, and recruiting talent, hiring coaches, and all the rest that goes into producing a top-notch film requires serious resources.But here is the thing - if you want to win people over to your point of view by using media such as film, it's important to reach - rather than to turn off - your intended audience. And you accomplish this by striving for perfection, and settling for little less.It's likely that with a film based on the premise of time-travel, the producers were hoping to reach a group of people who were at least interested in science fiction. But for time-travel themed science fiction to be effective, the time-traveler must be able to convince the audience that he or she is truly from the time they claim.Unfortunately, all the characters from the past seem incapable of speaking as if they were truly from the later 19th century. The dialog from these people seems to be more of an affected 21st century people attempting to make us believe they are from the 18th century. For me, this was the weakest link in the film. The main characters were anachronistic in any age - they belonged nowhere.I'm not a Christian, but I don't mind spiritual film - so the message of this film does little to inform my critique. This is simply a bad film with poor acting and a thrown-together plot.Also, the dramatic ploy to build urgency at the end - seems a bit childish.