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  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: Castleton State College (now Vermont State University-Castleton), of which Nick sports his iconic shirt, is a real school in Rutland County, Vermont, where the film was shot.
  • Awesome Music: Some parts of the soundtrack are actually quite nice.
  • Funny Moments:
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The film did predict that kids in the future would have cellphones. While cellphones did exist, no one predicted how popular they would eventually become as they got smaller and cheaper.
  • Narm: "Matt! It's time for you to decide if you're going to be one of my team players or not!"
  • Questionable Casting: 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  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.
  • So Okay, It's Average: The movie itself is a fairly decent science fiction film that is only bogged down by its No Budget and lackluster creativity with the time travel premise.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: 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.
    • The movie completely ignores what reactions airports in 2041 and 1957 would have had when the plane requested landing and how the ground crew reacted.
  • Values Dissonance: 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.
    • The actor, Mike Valentine, later explained that a Muslim group had issued a fatwa against him for that one line.

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