Journey to the Center of Time
The writer, David L. Hewitt, took chunks of plot and script from
The Time
Travelers (1964), swapped the blonde for a brunette, swapped the accidental time gate
for an accidental
time rift that drags the whole lab through time
as if it were a
time ship, added a
anachronistic dinosaur, and ended up with an unwatchable
movie.
Like the 1964 version, this version has a brief mention that it’s impossible
to change events that have already happened, but unlike the original, the montage at the
end of the film is mere chaos that no longer reinforces the idea of a
single deterministic, nonbranching timeline. Despite that, I enjoyed the consequences
of the villainous character running into himself, but at the same time, I dismayed at the
discussion of how meeting yourself could instantly cause a disastrous explosion or
implosion or maybe something-or-other (the audio was unintelligible at 1:12) would cease
to exist. (I pray that the space-time continuum wasn’t in peril).
— Michael Main
Well, isn’t it obvious, Manning? The war
did happen. We didn’t
get back with our warning.