Time After Time (1979) - Because You Watched Starcrash

“My mother was a rather atrocious woman in her way, but her many failings did not include raising mentally deficient sons.” Your intrepid Distinguished Professors unwittingly fall once again into the horrid clutches of Corey Feldman in 1979’s Time After Time, featuring a sexy and villainous David Warner and a decidedly less sexy role for ordinarily sexy and villainous Malcolm McDowell as highly unsexy author H. G. Wells. Topics discussed include a preview of this movie’s random homophobia, the worst kissing ever, the inherent ridiculousness of time machine designs, a plug for our upcoming Back to the Future episode, really bad time travel effects, the dumbness of putting a solar-powered time machine in the basement, Chekov’s “vaporizer equalizer” and pointlessly complicated time travel rules, dystopian 1970s San Francisco, echoes of Star Trek IV (because the director was a co-writer on said Trek movie), the unquenchable fire of Mary Steenburgen’s Amy’s loins regarding the H. G. D., whether one can “Chuck Berry” oneself by hearing about one’s future works, possible influence on Alan Moore’s From Hell, the need for a leaner cut, clocks and watches as the constant reminder that we’re watching a time travel movie, the recurrence of the idea of free love, Jack the Ripper as a man of the 20th century, the 2017 series of the same name, the need for more camera time with the Ripper on his own, Amy’s likely inability to survive in the past, the need for a Temporal Ethics 101 for most of the movies in this season, and a reminder of how much you matter, dear listener. .