bkoganbing
After watching The Day Time Ended I'm left scratching my head wondering just what did I see? A whole lot of dazzling pyrotechnics that I can see at any light show, some ugly looking monsters and a little girl who is just taking it all in while the grownups are frightened out of their wits.Three generations of a family grandparents Jim Davis and Dorothy Malone, children Marcy Lafferty and Scott Kolden, Marcy's husband Chris Mitchum and their child Natasha Ryan check into a solar powered house on the desert which is to be a family vacation. Then everything starts going haywire including all their appliances even the car starting by itself, dazzling lights, and some ugly looking creatures. All adding up to what I don't know.The explanation is that not one, not two, but three stars went nova at the same time two hundred light years away and it's only reaching the earth now. The ending is a combination from Cocoon and Close Encounters done on the very cheap. I'll bet the actors weren't sure what was going on either.I've seen worse science fiction, but I've seen a whole lot better. No point to this one at all.
rodrig58
Or 4 screenwriters for a total failure! Jim Davis(Jock Ewing from "Dallas") is not a bad actor. But poor man, in what he was involved in... You can not believe how stupid this is, I do not know how to call it... All the others, Christopher Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty, are more than ridiculous, together with the old veteran of westerns, Mr. Davis. Alone, little Natasha Ryan is OK, because she has the innocence and the naturalness of a little girl. The pony and the horses are also OK, animals and children are always adorable. But the story of those 4, Wayne Schmidt, J. Larry Carroll, David Schmoeller, Steve Neill, and how it was made is more than a shame.
Hitchcoc
As others have said, this is a film without a plot. It's one of those things where you put a family in a house in a remote place and start doing things to them. There are all sorts of things but nothing is ever explained. There is a big fight between two claymation monsters, but what do they have to do with the swirling lights that keep showing up, or the gunlike thing that points at people. We meet a couple of little creatures at the beginning but then we never see them again. And what does a triple-nova have to do with anything? The closing statement by grandpa is made without any knowledge of anything. And where are they going? And why them? And where is everyone else? I know it has something today with a time vortex, but the principle characters just bumble around. They don't really learn anything. Or do they? They don't bother to tell us.
macbug
I saw this when it was in the theater, it started out so strong I mean back in 1980 this was a bold movie and the special effects were excellent AT THE time. Now you would have to of been at least 30 or so in 1980 to really understand this point because studying film historically misses the mind set at the time the expectations, and other related psychological factors. Now as I said the movie was engaging suspenseful and very entertaining. It builds to an excellent climax then.... IT ends I mean the person that described it as having a water balloon break in your hand before throwing it, besides being a very poetic description. In my experience, it was just not strong enough. My wife and I were well... how can I say this? We were upset, I mean we paid money, invested the time to watch the movie which was excellent. "We both felt we were robbed with an ending that convinced us both the production company must of run out of money and could not raise enough to finish it correctly. In fact my wife said it best, it did not end, IT JUST STOPPED!
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