So, does this movie’s plot remind anyone of a DuckTales episode? (which i can’t find the name of after half an hour of searching!!! Damn you Ducktales Fan Site Hosts who don’t update pages!!! Damn you all to Hell!!)
But besides that, i also remember a a movie from way back with a similar theme, and one episode of Star Trek TNG had Picard on the Enterprise when time was moving so slowing it was practically stopped.
But this movie’s title is unfortunate, just remove the “L” and hilarity ensues!
It is supposed to be a family film, so i will cut it some slack, but i don’t think i’ll see it until it’s on video.
I remember a Star Trek TOS episode where Kirk got accelerated by some tin-foil bikini wearing alien chick so that everyone seemed to be standing still.
(he did her)
However I’m not really up on Duck Tales but I’ll take your word.
Speaking of Star Trek, Clockstoppers was directed by Jonathan Frakes.
The movie seems very much the same as the made-for-TV movie, The Girl, the GoldWatch, and Everything (Further searching reveals that that movie was based on a book by John D. MacDonald. Searching also turned up a story about Chronos from teemings.)
Anyway, in that movie, a boy inherits a watch from an uncle (from previews in Clockstoppers the thing seems to be his father’s invention) that has the ability to stop time. He meets the titular girl, and they have fun with stopping time for a while. Bad guys show up, but are eventually defeated.
There was an X-Files episode about accelerated time activity with a darker tone. Some teenagers found a place that would speed them up for a while, but their bodies would endure terrible stresses. The episode was apparently underwritten by D.A.R.E; it came off as very heavy-handed moralizing.
I know the DuckTales eps. I know it ended up with the bad dudes and good dudes on boats, (I think). They also stopped/slowed time to put bubble gum on a baseball players mit, so when he caught the ball, it would stick. I know this because that episode was the start of a bunch of “what if” questions… if ONLY I had THAT power. There was also a Twilight Zone show like that. And I saw that X-Files.
I’m sure it wouldn’t work (with exception of the X-Files eps). If you were going to fast… I don’t think many thing would apply as they would in real life. I WISH!
Yes, but what was the name of that episdoe? i’ve been to pretty much every DuckTales site online, and the ones that still exist don’t have episodes synopses for every episode, which this is one of. Maybe with Frakes directing, we’ll get cameos from other Trek dudes (hey, that’s LeVar Burton as a weatherman! and Wil Wheaton as a male prostitute!)
Judging from the trailers this seems like a direct ripoff of novel “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything” by the great John D. MacDonald. Hard to say without seeing the movie, though. It sure looks like the same story, and not just a new take on the same concept. If I were Mr. Macdonald’s heirs I would get a lawyer.
Is it just me or does this seem like a lot of people to plagiarize somebody else’s story? I’m not sure whether that’s evidence either way.
"I don’t know about anyone else, but recently I’ve been seeing commercials for this movie “Clockstoppers”. As soon as I did my astounding psychic powers kicked in and suddenly I knew the entire plot without having seen the movie or even read the script on the internet somewhere.
I have to say, it’s a fairly entertaining movie.
Here’s what happens: This kid in a blue shirt has an inventor dad who wears glasses, suspenders and a funny little hat. The father invents a pocketwatch-type clock that appears to stop time for whoever is holding it. Actually, it really speeds up time for them instead. BIG DIFFERENCE.
So the kid gets a hold of the clock. Then he, his girlfriend in the red shirt and his green shirt wearing best friend go around town playing harmless pranks. They steal hotdogs from a street vendor, pull down people’s pants, and get into all sorts of amusing hijinks of that sort.
After a while the local ring of international theives find out about this wonderful invention. They and their mother figure out a way to take it from the kids and do so with little trouble. Then they use the clock for the most unspeakably EVIL of things: to steal the money in Uncle Scrooge’s money bin.
Luckily the kids figure out what’s going on and… and… here the future clouded over a bit. All I could see was that Duckburg was saved and everybody was happy. I think Gizmoduck had something to do with it.
All in all, it was a pretty good movie. But if I were you, I’d just save my money and watch reruns of Ducktales instead."
Ha! Great minds think alike!!
Here’s a sneak peak at the plot:
Kid finds his dad’s invention that speeds him up, turns it on, and grows 3000 years older in s matter of seconds, decaying before our eyes. Steven Speilberg is in the audience at the theater, sees this, and sues for $100 billion for copywrite infringment from Indianna Jones 3. Unfortunately, Godzilla attacks, mad that Speilberg is making a movie with Tom Cruise. Godzilla kills Speilberg, but Cruise manages to convert Godzilla to Scientology. Godzilla, having become evil, is then attacked by King Kong and Jet Jaguar (not the giant robot, but the guy who posts here on the SDMB), who are beaten back, until Barney the purple dinosaur and Tinky-Winky the Teletubbie arrive and tell Godzilla they love him. Godzilla, who has never known love in his love, is so touched by this he cries and renounces his evil ways. Unfortuately, his tears drown Barney and Tinkey-Winky, much to the cheers of everyone over 4 on planet earth. This makes Godzilla a hero to all, and the world gives him Kyushu as a thank you.
okay, but since the movers took my comp at work today, i have to use the comp in the locked room to check my email right now, so i won’t see it until monday, probably. I was at an Asian board, and they mentioned the Duck Tales episode too! i found the board when searching for the name of the Duck tales episode, where someone mentioned the episode two years ago!! life goes around in circles sometimes.
After searching through all avaliable listings of DuckTales episodes, the episode in question may be “Frozen Assets,” which was the only episode that the title suggests it might be the one that didn’t have an episode synopses on any webpage i could find.
There wouldn’t be a DuckTales-phile on the boards, would there?
Nope, “Frozen Assets” isn’t it. That one was part of a 5-show series. I don’t remember a lot of it, but it involved the Beagle Boys somehow getting Uncle Scrooges money siphoned into a river and then freezing the warer to retrieve the money at their leisure. I sont think any clock-stopping took place.
I did a little bit of looking for Ducktales episode titles…the episode you’re looking for seems to be entitled “Time Teasers” or perhaps “The Time Teasers” (2 different websites).
Based on that description, I can understand why it leaves some doubt. But the site I mentioned earlier specifically mentions Gyro inventing a machine that can stop time. There cant be that many episodes that rely on stopping time as a plot device, can there?
This is why I love this board. I’ve been wracking my brain for days trying to remember the name of the TV show that I figured this movie was a re-make of. Indeed, it was The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything.
