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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Castleton State College (now Castleton University), of which Nick sports his iconic shirt, is a real school in Rutland County, Vermont, where the film was shot.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Castleton State College (now Castleton University), Vermont State University-Castleton), of which Nick sports his iconic shirt, is a real school in Rutland County, Vermont, where the film was shot.
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* QuestionableCasting: George Woodard as J.K. Robertson. Woodard is a part-time actor who spends most of his time working as a dairy farmer, and while his performance isn't bad the disconnect between Robertson's appearance as a slick corporate executive and Woodard's rural Vermont accent and mannerisms is quite noticeable.[[note]]Mike and the Bots mercilessly mock Woodard's accent, one reason why he's not as warm towards [=MST3K=]'s treatment of the movie as Giancola or his co-stars.[[/note]] Woodard indicates that Giancola cast him based on seeing his photo in a catalogue of Vermont actors, and didn't have time to audition or even meet him before shooting started.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: George Woodard as J.K. Robertson. Woodard is a part-time actor who spends most of his time working as a dairy farmer, and while his performance isn't bad the disconnect between his character's Robertson's appearance as a slick corporate executive and Woodard's rural Vermont accent and mannerisms is quite noticeable.[[note]]Mike and the Bots mercilessly mock Woodard's accent, one reason why he's not as warm towards [=MST3K=]'s treatment of the movie as Giancola or his co-stars.[[/note]] Woodard himself believes indicates that he only got the part because David Giancola hadn't met cast him based on seeing his photo in a catalogue of Vermont actors, and didn't have time to audition or even meet him before shooting started.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Castleton State College (now Castleton University), of which Nick sports his iconic shirt, is a real school in Rutland County, Vermont, where the film was shot.* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Some parts of the soundtrack are actually quite nice.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Castleton State College (now Castleton University), of which Nick sports his iconic shirt, is a real school in Rutland County, Vermont, where the film was shot.* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Some parts of the soundtrack are actually quite nice.
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** The actor, Mike Valentine, later explained that a Muslim group had issued a ''fatwa against him'' for that one line.
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* IdiotPlot[=/=]WhatAnIdiot: The guy with the fully functioning time machine is out of money. [[TimeTravelForFunAndProfit The guy. With the. Fully. Functioning. Time machine. Is. Out. Of. Money!]] Especially egregious because when he takes Matt Paul into the future, pink boy even says, "God, if you went back into the past and put a hundred dollars into the bank..."
** Of course, you'd have to hope banks would accept futuristic currency for that to work.
*** Route 7 between Rutland and Burlington is ''full'' of antique shops letting old coins and notes go for (especially back then) little more than face value. [[FridgeBrilliance If he only had a car...]]
** He probably saw one of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films (the film starts in the year 1991); he could have made [[GraysSportsAlmanac money betting on sporting events.]] The thought never crossed his mind.
** Not only is the time-traveling "genius" not smart enough to figure out how to use his machine to make money on his own, but his first and only bright idea for making money is also to sell all of his research to the first CorruptCorporateExecutive he sees on TV and then is genuinely shocked when said executive uses it for his own greedy agenda. Perhaps a case of GoodCannotComprehendEvil?
** Definitely that last one. When Matt mentions the compound interest trick, Nick reacts negativity, indicating that he thinks the idea of using the time transport for monetary gain beneath him.
** Said CorruptCorporateExecutive selling the highly dangerous transport to the military for use as a weapon for money, and knowing full well it's going to lead to a BadFuture. All in light of the fact that he runs a patent company on new inventions in the present. Imagine if you could go back to the 1970s, and had the all the secrets to 2020 technology: hydrogen-fueled cars, cell phones, personal computers and memory storage. The first thing he should have done when he visited 2041 was go to the local library and request all the patent applications and blueprints for every major invention from the next 50 (last?) years, have them printed out, tucked said patents and blueprint into his briefcase and returned to 1991, now having insured that his patent company is going to become the wealthiest, most powerful corporate entity that has ever been and will be solely responsible for every new major technological development for at least the next 50 years. And he would have been wealthy and powerful beyond the dreams of avarice. No need to sell the time machine's secrets. No need to give the secret away or endanger the future. He wouldn't even really need to use the transport for anything else really.
** Of course, you'd have to hope banks would accept futuristic currency for that to work.
*** Route 7 between Rutland and Burlington is ''full'' of antique shops letting old coins and notes go for (especially back then) little more than face value. [[FridgeBrilliance If he only had a car...]]
** He probably saw one of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films (the film starts in the year 1991); he could have made [[GraysSportsAlmanac money betting on sporting events.]] The thought never crossed his mind.
** Not only is the time-traveling "genius" not smart enough to figure out how to use his machine to make money on his own, but his first and only bright idea for making money is also to sell all of his research to the first CorruptCorporateExecutive he sees on TV and then is genuinely shocked when said executive uses it for his own greedy agenda. Perhaps a case of GoodCannotComprehendEvil?
** Definitely that last one. When Matt mentions the compound interest trick, Nick reacts negativity, indicating that he thinks the idea of using the time transport for monetary gain beneath him.
** Said CorruptCorporateExecutive selling the highly dangerous transport to the military for use as a weapon for money, and knowing full well it's going to lead to a BadFuture. All in light of the fact that he runs a patent company on new inventions in the present. Imagine if you could go back to the 1970s, and had the all the secrets to 2020 technology: hydrogen-fueled cars, cell phones, personal computers and memory storage. The first thing he should have done when he visited 2041 was go to the local library and request all the patent applications and blueprints for every major invention from the next 50 (last?) years, have them printed out, tucked said patents and blueprint into his briefcase and returned to 1991, now having insured that his patent company is going to become the wealthiest, most powerful corporate entity that has ever been and will be solely responsible for every new major technological development for at least the next 50 years. And he would have been wealthy and powerful beyond the dreams of avarice. No need to sell the time machine's secrets. No need to give the secret away or endanger the future. He wouldn't even really need to use the transport for anything else really.
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* ValuesDissonance: The cab driver referring to Arabs as "ragheads" would have been unacceptable even when the movie was made, but more so after 9/11 when racism towards Arabs was at an all-time high.
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* ValuesDissonance: The cab driver referring to Arabs as "ragheads" would have been unacceptable even when the movie was made, but more so after 9/11 when racism towards Arabs was at an all-time high. His scenes were almost entirely cut from the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' episode for precisely this reason, as the crew was uncomfortably reminded of when they later riffed the unedited film on ''Rifftrax''.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The secret to time travel is stored on a few 5 1/4-inch floppies, while the time transport itself is powered by a Commodore 64. Just for perspective, a modern smart phone can hold more data and has much stronger processing power.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The secret to time travel is stored on a few 5 1/4-inch floppies, while the time transport itself is powered by a Commodore 64.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The secret to time travel is stored on a few 5 1/4-inch floppies, while the time transport itself is powered by a Commodore 64. Just for perspective, a modern smart phone can hold more data and has much stronger processing power.
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** Said CorruptCorporateExecutive selling the highly dangerous transport to the military for use as a weapon for money, and knowing full well it's going to lead to a BadFuture. All in light of the fact that he runs a patent company on new inventions in the present. Imagine if you could go back to the 1970s, and had the all the secrets to 2020 technology: hydrogen-fueled cars, cell phones, personal computers and memory storage. The first thing he should have done when he visited 2041 was go to the local library and request all the patent applications and blueprints for every major invention from the last 50 years, have them printed out, tucked said patents and blueprint into his briefcase and returned to 1991, now having insured that his patent company is going to become the wealthiest, most powerful corporate entity that has ever been and will be solely responsible for every new major technological development for at least the next 50 years. And he would have been wealthy and powerful beyond the dreams of avarice. No need to sell the time machine's secrets. No need to give the secret away or endanger the future. He wouldn't even really need to use the transport for anything else really.
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** Said CorruptCorporateExecutive selling the highly dangerous transport to the military for use as a weapon for money, and knowing full well it's going to lead to a BadFuture. All in light of the fact that he runs a patent company on new inventions in the present. Imagine if you could go back to the 1970s, and had the all the secrets to 2020 technology: hydrogen-fueled cars, cell phones, personal computers and memory storage. The first thing he should have done when he visited 2041 was go to the local library and request all the patent applications and blueprints for every major invention from the last next 50 (last?) years, have them printed out, tucked said patents and blueprint into his briefcase and returned to 1991, now having insured that his patent company is going to become the wealthiest, most powerful corporate entity that has ever been and will be solely responsible for every new major technological development for at least the next 50 years. And he would have been wealthy and powerful beyond the dreams of avarice. No need to sell the time machine's secrets. No need to give the secret away or endanger the future. He wouldn't even really need to use the transport for anything else really.
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** Said CorruptCorporateExecutive selling the highly dangerous transport to the military for use as a weapon for money, and knowing full well it's going to lead to a BadFuture. He runs a patent company on new inventions. Imagine if you could go back to the 1970s, and had the all the secrets to 2020 technology: hydrogen-fueled cars, cell phones, personal computers and memory storage. The first thing he should have done when he visited 2041 was go to the local library and request all the patent applications and blueprints for every major invention from the last 50 years, have them printed out, tucked said patents and blueprint into his briefcase and returned to 1991, now having insured that his patent company is going to become the wealthiest, most powerful corporate entity that has ever been and will be solely responsible for every new major technological development for at least the next 50 years, and would have been wealthy and powerful beyond the dreams of avarice. No need to sell the time machine's secrets. No need to give the secret away or endanger the future.
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** Said CorruptCorporateExecutive selling the highly dangerous transport to the military for use as a weapon for money, and knowing full well it's going to lead to a BadFuture. All in light of the fact that he runs a patent company on new inventions in the present. Imagine if you could go back to the 1970s, and had the all the secrets to 2020 technology: hydrogen-fueled cars, cell phones, personal computers and memory storage. The first thing he should have done when he visited 2041 was go to the local library and request all the patent applications and blueprints for every major invention from the last 50 years, have them printed out, tucked said patents and blueprint into his briefcase and returned to 1991, now having insured that his patent company is going to become the wealthiest, most powerful corporate entity that has ever been and will be solely responsible for every new major technological development for at least the next 50 years. And he would have been wealthy and powerful beyond the dreams of avarice. No need to sell the time machine's secrets. No need to give the secret away or endanger the future. He wouldn't even really need to use the transport for anything else really.
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** Said CorruptCorporateExecutive selling the highly dangerous transport to the military for use as a weapon for money, and knowing full well it's going to lead to a BadFuture. He runs a patent company on new inventions. Imagine if you could go back to the 1970s, and had the all the secrets to 2020 technology: hydrogen-fueled cars, cell phones, personal computers and memory storage. The first thing he should have done when he visited 2041 was go to the local library and request all the patent applications and blueprints for every major invention from the last 50 years, have them printed out, tucked said patents and blueprint into his briefcase and returned to 1991, now having insured that his patent company is going to become the wealthiest, most powerful corporate entity that has ever been and will be solely responsible for every new major technological development for at least the next 50 years, and would have been wealthy and powerful beyond the dreams of avarice. No need to sell the time machine's secrets. No need to give the secret away or endanger the future.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: George Woodard as J.K. Robertson. Woodard is a part-time actor who spends most of his time working as a dairy farmer, and the disconnect between his character's appearance as a slick corporate executive and Woodard's rural Vermont accent and mannerisms is quite noticeable.[[note]]Mike and the Bots mercilessly mock Woodard's accent, one reason why he's not as warm towards [=MST3K=]'s spoof on treatment of the movie as Giancola or his co-stars.[[/note]] Woodard himself believes that he only got the part because David Giancola hadn't met him before shooting started.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: George Woodard as J.K. Robertson. Woodard is a part-time actor who spends most of his time working as a dairy farmer, and the disconnect between his character's appearance as a slick corporate executive and Woodard's rural Vermont accent and mannerisms is quite noticeable. [[note]]Mike and the Bots mercilessly mock Woodard's accent, one reason why he's not as warm towards [=MST3K=]'s spoof on the movie as Giancola or his co-stars.[[/note]] Woodard believes that he only got the part because David Giancola hadn't met him before shooting started.
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** [[LetsGetDangerous "You're grounded!"]] ''[[AntiClimax *PUNCH!*]]''
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Correction, they are ''pissed'' minutemen!"
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** "Correction, they are ''pissed'' minutemen!"
** The cabbie from the uncut version [[WeNeedADistraction distracting the GenCorp guards at the airport]] by asking where the Ben & Jerry's factoryis. is.
** [[LetsGetDangerous "You're grounded!"]] ''[[AntiClimax *PUNCH!*]]''
** "Correction, they are ''pissed'' minutemen!"
** The cabbie from the uncut version [[WeNeedADistraction distracting the GenCorp guards at the airport]] by asking where the Ben & Jerry's factory
** [[LetsGetDangerous "You're grounded!"]] ''[[AntiClimax *PUNCH!*]]''
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The secret to time travel is stored on a few Apple ][ floppies, while the time transport itself is powered by a Commodore 64.
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** Definitely that last one. When Matt mentions the compound interest trick, Nick reacts negativity, indicating that he thinks the idea of using the time transport for monetary gain beneath him.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Actually, the idea that time is like a swirling, intermixed pool (like a stirred cup of coffee) rather than flowing linearly (like a river, as commonly depicted in time travel films) is an interesting variation. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't make as much of this as it might have; the only real bearing it has is that people in the future are aware when the past changes. They're not even consistent with that; people in the present are unaware of time changes unless they travel to the relevant time and see it for themselves.
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** Not only is the time-traveling "genius" not smart enough to figure out how to use his machine to make money on his own, but his first and only bright idea for making money is also to sell all of his research to the first CorruptCorporateExecutive he sees on TV and then is genuinely shocked when said executive uses it for his own greedy agenda.
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** Not only is the time-traveling "genius" not smart enough to figure out how to use his machine to make money on his own, but his first and only bright idea for making money is also to sell all of his research to the first CorruptCorporateExecutive he sees on TV and then is genuinely shocked when said executive uses it for his own greedy agenda. Perhaps a case of GoodCannotComprehendEvil?
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** Not only is the time-traveling "genius" not smart enough to figure out how to use his machine to make money on his own, but his first and only bright idea for making money is also to sell all of his research to the first CorruptCorporateExecutive he sees on TV and then is genuinely shocked when said executive uses it for his own greedy agenda.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: The movie itself is a fairly decent science fiction film that is only bogged down by its NoBudget and lackluster creativity with the time travel premise.
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*** Route 7 between Rutland and Burlington is *full* of antique shops letting old coins and notes go for (especially back then) little more than face value. [[FridgeBrilliance If he only had a car...]]
** He probably saw one of the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' films (the film starts in the year 1991), he could have made [[GraysSportsAlmanac money betting on sporting events.]] The thought never crossed his mind.
** He probably saw one of the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' films (the film starts in the year 1991), he could have made [[GraysSportsAlmanac money betting on sporting events.]] The thought never crossed his mind.
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** He probably saw one of the''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films (the film starts in the year 1991), 1991); he could have made [[GraysSportsAlmanac money betting on sporting events.]] The thought never crossed his mind.
** He probably saw one of the
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** He probably saw one of the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' films (the film starts in the year 1991,) 1991), he could have made [[GraysSportsAlmanac money betting on sporting events.]] The thought never crossed his mind.
