I stumbled upon this 2005 movie titled "Summer Time Machine Blues" (aka "Samâ taimu mashin burûsu") by sheer random luck. And with my fascination and interest in Asian cinema, of course I picked it up and gave it a chance.
Wow. Just wow! Talking about being a swing and a miss of a movie.
This movie was a complete mess and a wholehearted waste of time and effort. I have rarely seen a storyline like this, where writer Makoto Ueda and director Katsuyuki Motohiro stumble about tripping over themselves in order to make the movie interesting. It just was a scrambled pile of a mess of a storyline.
And it didn't help much to sell the movie that the characters were rather boring, mundane and pointless. It felt like the actors and actresses themselves weren't really fully investing themselves into the roles.
I managed to suffer through about many an hour of this movie, then I gave up, never to return to finish watching the rest of it.
My rating of "Summer Time Machine Blues" is a mere two out of ten stars. The thing lifting it up to two is the production value, and the insane amount of nods to nerds, geeks and pop culture that is to be seen in the scenes throughout the movie.
Wow. Just wow! Talking about being a swing and a miss of a movie.
This movie was a complete mess and a wholehearted waste of time and effort. I have rarely seen a storyline like this, where writer Makoto Ueda and director Katsuyuki Motohiro stumble about tripping over themselves in order to make the movie interesting. It just was a scrambled pile of a mess of a storyline.
And it didn't help much to sell the movie that the characters were rather boring, mundane and pointless. It felt like the actors and actresses themselves weren't really fully investing themselves into the roles.
I managed to suffer through about many an hour of this movie, then I gave up, never to return to finish watching the rest of it.
My rating of "Summer Time Machine Blues" is a mere two out of ten stars. The thing lifting it up to two is the production value, and the insane amount of nods to nerds, geeks and pop culture that is to be seen in the scenes throughout the movie.