You know that you're getting older when a protagonist time travels back to the early 2000's, which was over two decades ago. It won't be long before they go back to the 2010's next.
Yeah, my partner was watching Time Cut and I saw the part where she shows that she traveled back to 2003 and I wanted to throw something!! At least I wasn't quite in High School in 2003, I was in 8th grade in 2003, but my partner was a Sophomore in 2003, so at least that made me feel a little better! 😂
Nooo don’t say that! I started high school in 2010. We can’t talk about things that make me feel old until I at least turn 30… so in roughly a year and 2 months.
I was 12 in 2003, this movie made me realize. I gotta step up my skincare 😩. Ain't no way 2003 was 20 years ago 😭. Now I understand the people who grew up in the 80s, when movies go back to the 80s
The most unrealistic part of Totally Killer is that a woman who has been terrified of and preparing to face a killer for most of her life lost to a guy with a podcast.
Eh, yes and no. She does put up a hell of a fight, and if I remember correctly, only lose because of pure bad luck, which is something that happens in a real fight. A little too narratively convenient? Maybe? But not egregiously so.
I think youre missing a huge point. That’s on the original timeline. Before the daughter went back and changed everything. So that was the principal in the beginning not the guy with the podcast.
Totally Killer is actually done very well, very homage to early slasher, very filled with humor that works like that So while I just love this type of movies by default I feel I am going into Timecut very biased by how much I enjoyed the former with no great expectations from reviews
"Time Cut" would have been better if it had dispensed with the slasher elements, and simply been about Lucy and Summer connecting as sisters. There weren't as many killings as you might expect from a slasher, and there was far less blood and gore.
@@jacobd1984 I mean, keep the killer angle but downplay it or hyperbolize it to the moon? ┐(‘～`)┌ The 2000s could use the kinds of silly cheese that people so often reserve for the 80s
@@jacobd1984for Time Cut, they could have just killed the sister in an mysterious car accident on her way home, and it was the “killer” that went back and was the reason.
Totally Killer is a great movie for a slumber party. Timecut feels like a fanfic of an actual slasher movie where the author didn't like their favorite character died at the end
James A Janisse of Dead Meat really hit it on the head of why Totally Killer's comedy really works so well with its setting. Some annoyingly said the movie was "woke" humor which is a nothing sentiment but as Dead Meat said the humor comes from someone of our time having the culture shock of the viciousness of 80s teens one of which is her future mother. Meanwhile Time Cut just feels like the basic premise of Totally Killer was explained to 5 or so people via a game of telephone. A copy of a copy of a xerox of a screenshot taken by a first gen camera phone of the screen itself
@@Wanttowritewhen this happens I always wonder if the person that’s responsible for the second movie was initially involved in the first and was like “yeah no, they’re totally screwing this up.” so then they make their own version lol
Totally Killer was honestly really fun to watch with my Gen X parents, I won’t even lie! My favorite joke is just the bit where she comes up with a whole cover story to enter the school, and they receptionist is like “huh. yeah i don’t care go to class” it’s so goofy but that’s my jam
i randomly came across Totally Killer when browsing prime video on halloween and loved it! it’s on my rewatch list now. perfectly ridiculous but still a good story
Totally Killer was 50% Back to the Future and 50% Scream, and that's right in my wheelhouse, so I was a fan. To me the ending of Totally Killer is the result of being written by people who've also spent the last 15 years watching the internet nitpick the ending of Back to the Future, but it worked for me. I would have guessed Griffin Gluck as the killer right away but only because I am still mad at his character from Locke and Key so now he just has Bad Guy Face to me.
Yep! I liked it and it didn't even leave a bad taste because at minimum, we knew the future would be different because she was trying to keep people alive. The ripple effects were a tsunami
I felt that slash in time (edit: is time cut but I was translating the Spanish tittle “Corte en el tiempo” to English) could have been better if the killer was Lucy, future Lucy from the timeline that her sister died trying to ensure her own survival. It is stated in the movie that when she comes back to 2024 her parents don’t know her, no one knows her, her life hasn’t existed (and neither the opportunities like her internship in NASA) imagine a broken person that tried to save another, to ensure everyone’s happiness just to be rejected by the whole world and completely forgotten. It would have been such a good drama seeing both sides of Lucy in conflict, saving herself but causing a death and her parent’s sadness or let her live and give her parents happiness but knowing she doesn’t have a place in the world, being simultaneously dead and alive in a strange world that is your reality but it really isn’t But the ending is what it is I guess (Sorry for the mistakes, English is my second language)
@@m1lksh4ke_41 I took that into consideration but that would just create a loop or there would always be two of her. Because if she convinced her parents to have another then what happens to the present Lucy that she already knows? And she’d be very different growing up because her parents didn’t lose their first daughter. So they would probably be better parents.
@@myliza700 I thought if she just jumps from back in time then the time line changed and Lucy would already be the age she was but this movie makes no sense already so I wish they would’ve explained that more
"Totally Killer" gets my vote as the superior flick. It actually commits to its slasher premise, is fun and goofy without taking itself TOO seriously, while having plenty of nice moments between Jamie and her future parents, and growing to understand them more. "Time Cut", on the other hand, is muddled with plot holes and inconsistencies, and doesn't seem as interested in its slasher premise. It's at its best when Lucy and Summer are bonding as sisters.
I'm actually going to defend the cabin scene in Totally Killer here, even though I agree with you that it's incredibly aggravating: IIRC Pam is the only one who "knows" that Jamie is "psychic". We find out that Pam is unexpectedly a scifi movie fan, a thing she keeps a secret probably either because her friends HAVE made fun of her or she knows they WOULD make fun of her. So Pam obviously can't tell her friends that Jamie said she's psychic and she believes her, she'd be socially brutalized. Better for her and her reputation to go along with everybody else and just have fun, and it'll obviously be okay since Jamie is there and she's psychic so she'll just be able to protect them. My source on this was that I was the Pam (minus the murdered friends) of my school's popular girls and spent many years pretending I didn't like "nerdy and lame" things so that the other popular girls wouldn't make fun of me. (I once had to pretend my comic book collection belonged to "my dumb older brother who is in college" :( ) Anyway, no idea if that's what the writer intended but that's how I took that scene.
@@ThePinkHamster190 yes omg I loved fear street!! I remember when I first watched it and Deena was talking about her ex “Sam” and then it showed her looking at a cheerleader and football player I was like “it would be so cool if her ex was actually the cheerleader, bc Sam is a gender neutral name it could be her but I know they won’t actually do that” bc I was so use to getting queerbaited but then when they showed her ex actually was the cheerleader I was so happy!! And omg when you find out the meaning behind the red moss in the town that was a symbol of love between Sarah Frier and her girlfriend because she put it in her hair!! That had me absolutely sobbing!! That and haunting of Bly manor are two of my favorite tragic but beautiful horror lesbian stories!
Totally Killer was 100% better. I would actually watch it again. Time cut wasn’t awful, but I do agree with your assessment. I called the ending too. It felt a little hollow. The costuming felt off to me, but I was not part of the popular crowd in HS so I was like idk, maybe they dressed like that at parties and stuff. I didn’t go to those. 😂
I was pretty bored with Time Cut until I recognized my local mall and realized it was filmed in Winnipeg. We then spent the rest of the film more invested in identifying the locations than in the actual movie.
I really hope Antonia Gentry gets some roles outside the Netflix teen-bubble in the future. You deserve better than Time Cut and Ginny & Georgia, girl.
Shout out to the white jacket in Totally Killers. I think it's an homage the the jacket in 80s romcom Can't Buy Me Love. One borrowed and helped Jaime blend in with cred, the other borrowed without permission and is the reason for ensuing romantic hijinks
I actually watched both movies and I must say I enjoyed more Totally Killer because the movie played into its own goofiness and it had more tension while time cut didnt find its footing because sometimes it wanted to be dramatic (and I actually liked the conflict of the protagonist of being like a replacement child living under the shadow of her sister) but fun and at some point I almost forgot there was a serial killer on the loose while in totally killer the serial killer was an active threat through the movie (Sorry if this doesn’t make any sense English is my second language)
Class of ‘03: iPods and cell phones in school like that feels odd. We weren’t allowed to have our phones out in the building. No one really brought their personal music players either. We would be talking to people, not on our devices.
Agreed. At that point in time I wasn't in HS but middle school, but I recall having a CD player at best. The only time I would be able to use it was during the ride on the bus. Then during any free time like during lunch or if in the hallways like you said we were talking to one another. Or there would be people drawing, reading a book, etc. if you wanted to keep to yourself. You wouldn't have any sort of electronic out since it just.......wasn't the common thing to do. Especially because your phone only did just that - allow you to call or text people. And the people you would want to speak to was right there at school so......there was no point in using it. Also back then if you went over the data plan limits there was hell to pay both monetarily and physically from the beat down you would get from your parent XD.
Went into Grade 9 in 2000, and only one of my friends had an off brand mp3 player, but it had almost no battery life and he was the only one that had it because his parents were really into computers and tech. Pretty much nobody had a cell phone, though a couple had Emergency Nokias with unlimited texting after 6. Those people didn't ever use their phones at school though. That woulda cost money!
Having seen both, Totally Killer was at least fun enough. Time Cut just wasted whatever potential it could've had. But movies with similar premises have been released close to each other for years. Dante's Peak and Volcano, Deep Impact and Armageddon, Mission To Mars and Red Planet and so on.
Yep, sad thing is Time Cut was wrote way before Totally Killer. But you're right. Different companies always try to outdo each other with similar synopsis movies. No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits is one I always think of. There are so many more. They don't do it as much anymore. They just milk the hell out of things. Like J-horror, gore pron, and right now Vampires seem to be making a comeback. Not to mention every sequel, prequel, requel, and remake these days. It's sad.
@@blaah9999Repoman is where they go and take peoples' organs when they can't afford it anymore right? There was another movie like that not named whatever you said lol. I just cannot think of it. Then you have movies with the same actors which are similar like Tom Cruise with Oblivion and Minority Report. Hollywood is an unfunny joke.
I kind of preferred Totally Killer more just for the way it captured a modern teen rocked at the more un-PC 1980s for a fun vibe. And the way she finds how things have changed in her life thanks to actions down to her name was clever.
Time Cut totally missed a good ending with Lucy being Summer's kid in the altered timeline. There's *21 years* between the past and the present. It could have worked. Summer would have put together when she got pregnant that the birth of her *daughter* was going to be the same birthday as her sister from the past, realized the altered timeline possibility, and been a much more attentive parent than Lucy's parents (now grandparents) had been. Lucy would not have had to lose any of her memories and could have still gotten that awesome internship without the pressure from her parents (now grandparents) to do something they wanted Summer to do. Then again, I don't write movies. What do I know?
That really would have been a better ending. Also at the end I was like ok so does she just get to move in with the family who didn’t remember having another baby? Then the parents are weirdly chill.
Great idea but a few issues: Summer is gay, it is unlikely that she would be pregnant so young. Lucy also wouldn't have become the same person obviously, since she would have different parents and a different upbringing, but there's not that much logic in that movie anyway, so you could probably just give her a different haircut once back in the future and that would be it. In any case a better ending than the original
@@fuzzyapple Crud, didn't think about that. Although, as you pointed out, there were already enough plot holes in the story that even with my suggested ending, the writers could have stated "sperm donor" and just not had a dad in the picture (maybe a partner, instead) with no further explanation. It would have worked well enough that maybe not too many would have questioned it.
So the pay off in Time Cut is main character graduating from being the sister's replacement daughter to a consolation prize for an almost-incel-manchild. INSPIRING.
Wait who is the man child? Quinn? Because he was, he didn’t even really have a reason to kill summer or her friends, only part was her laughing at him when he got threw in the lake but her rejecting him is reasonable since she was literally lesbian ( sorry for the long sentences)
You're so right about the iPods. I was a junior in a small town in the US in 2003 and none of my friends had these. We weren't even talking about them. I think I got a zune for Christmas a few years after tho lmao
Amanda, thank you for recommending Dinner in America, it was a wonderful movie, I admit I might have been influenced by your positive vibes and the viewing went so damn well, but I think I would have loved it regardless, it's just so pure and good (Emily Skeggs was fantastic). I ran to watch the new video as soon as I saw notification on my phone
Completely agree with the iPod thing. I don’t even know anyone that had one until high school(2007). I personally used a CD Player up until about 10th grade before I switched over to an MP3 player.
The time travel falls apart so hard on Totally Killer, but if you ignore that it's a really fun movie. As someone who was born in the 80s and remembers carpooling with chainsmoking adults, it did some really fun things with the anti nostalgia.
10:21 in my town in the UK, (I was 9 in 2003 but had older siblings) everyone definitely didn't have ipods, they were rare and everyone got excited if someone had one. I remember I had an mp3 player that could hold 30 songs and everyone had different brands. People would still have had portable CD players as well because CD was still king then.
I totally don't remember ipods before 2006 (started middle school 2006-07) in my small town in Quebec. And I had wealthier cousins from a city and they didn't had one either, they just had cooler cd players. Some schoolmates did have one after that, but you knew they were the wealthier kids and it was their big Christmas gift, probably combined with their birthday gift.
I agree about the ipod thing. I was in high-school in 2003 and graduated in 2006. Most of us still had cd players during that time. It wasn't until 2005 or 2006 that more of us started branching out to ipods. Even then most of my classmates had mp3 players of different brands due to cost. Only a small amount had an ipod.
@myliza700 they were around at the time, the first ipod was released in 2001 but because it was new and expensive a lot of people weren't interested due to not wanting to spend money on something that at the time wasn't a thing yet. Of course now technology is more expensive than it was then but because it's widely known people now justify the cost. I think it depends like Amanda said in a small town like the movie takes place in that wouldn't be something everyone had it was more for areas that had a lot of money. The kids in Beverly Hills probablyall had them, though, but smaller working class communities at that time weren't that into them yet.
@ no I know they were around I mean they weren’t around in schools. They existed but they didn’t really pick up for a few years because cheaper options were available
This is one of my favorite subgenres. I love Timecrimes, Triangle, and Coherence, in my opinion those are the three best ons in this very specific niche.
So I was in college, not high school in 2003, but I remember there being a heavy crossover of the end of the CD era and start of the ipod era. However, most kids had some sort of other "mp3 player" if they could afford anything besides the more common CD player. If anything, the high school probably would have had a few rare kids with clunky mp3 players and this would have been pre-ipod clone era where there were knock off MP3 players in the style of the ipod. Timecut felt more like a teen movie trying to be a slasher, like a Disney Teen Movie reaching for the dark edge but afraid to push it. It kinda fell apart at the end.
yeah I feel like the small capacity or chunky mp3's might have been more common in some high schools, but even once I got to high school they weren't super common. Hell the iPod photo I bought had an entire extra gig of memory space (20gb) compared to my family computer (19gb) - so just an entirely different experience aha
I was also in university in 2003. In high school, I can think of one friend that had an mp3 player (I think it was a Zune?) Anyway, I got an iPod Classic in 2007, when they'd already been out a few years, but there were still a lot of other brands around even then.
In 2005 I got the iPod Mini for my birthday, and I was one the first of my friends who had one (it was released in 2004). Everyone else was rocking Zunes or CD players. The OG iPod wasn’t seen as super hip-the Mini was the first one that came in the colors until the Nano hit the scene. THOSE were the ones that hooked the younger generation. So yeah, 2003 high schoolers having the OG iPod? Nope.
Agreed. I know I had a CD player until at least 2004 because it constantly skipped on the bus rides with every bump. I got my first Ipod sometime in 2005 or 2006 and, while some of my classmates had generic mp3 players before that, they still weren't hugely popular.
as someone born in 2001 and living in sweden, it was normal to see mp3 players even up to 2008. but that could also be the fact that i was still in elementary school until 2013 and children arent really trusted with higher technology. if someone had an ipod here it would most likely be an ipod shuffle without a screen
I've finally watched one of the movies you're covering (Totally Killer)! The humor did get a *bit* preachy for me sometimes, but it was overall a pretty fun watch.
Haven’t seen them but you’re 100% correct. The Walkmans were way more popular (so were the boombox with a CD player, I assume you guys up north got them too, those little round clear colored plastic ones with a handle) and original iPods just weren’t a thing. iPod Minis because a thing in… I *think* 2004? They were way more affordable, and those were what I saw HSers have. I always love your reviews! 😊
The moment i finished Time Cut i had to go rewatch Totally Killer so i could fill the feeling of emptiness it left it me. I think that pretty much sums it up.
Wow, 2003 really was 20 years ago... I feel old. Completely agreed with the Ipod thing, I got my first Ipod towards the end of my high school years, so somewhere between 2004-2006 and there were not very many people with one until after I graduated. Of these two I've only seen Totally Killer. I loved it. It was a fantastic mix of hilarious and serious and the time travel aspect was really fun. Especially that they were integrated into carnival rides! I actually liked that the teens she was trying to save were idiots. I found it shifted the whole thing from more 'scary slasher with a gimmick' to 'fun comedy with a few deaths'.
Totally killer was SO FREAKING FUN! Like, I have watched 3 times now and I still enjoyed every single time! I was looking at my watch while watching time cut just to see how much more did I have to suffer 😅 (the songs are good though)
Time Cut was okay, but it does feel like if Disney did a slasher movie in that it's low budget, and the scifi is giving lower tech than Phil of the Future. I think its biggest problem is that ultimately we don't really know any of the characters well enough to get attached. We only really meet Summer before she is murdered, and she's the 4th victim. Their personalities are all boring and drab, not unlike the tone of the beginning of the movie. I literally forgot Lucy's name for half the movie. We know people idolize Summer, but we're more just told she's a good person despite several things like her getting people to do her work, writing off the bullying, and whatever that situation with Ethan was pointing in a different direction. Totally Killer actually interrogates this with the victims. Lucy also rarely ever reacts to her surroundings aside from the dial-up modem (it's usually people from the past reacting to the future), which makes me feel like the movie was clearly written by millennials who remember that time period as opposed to younger folks who didn't live through that and would be freaking out about the lack of services on their phones and social media, etc. Similarly, Summer being a lesbian is something that still would've been a huge deal at that time and something many parents wouldn't have understood or approved of, so it's kind of weird to me how zero stakes it actually is in the movie when this same small town throws someone in the river every year for fun? Imo as someone who was in high school around the same time, the movie did make me feel nostalgic and sort of hit right, but it could have been so much better.
They try to explain the timeline issue with the multiverse effect. When Quinn threatened to kill himself his older version says '"that's not how time travel works" something like that. So all the stuff that made him a killer still happened to him even though she stopped the lake part from happening to the younger version
@@m1lksh4ke_41 but that was a different timeline the one who became a killer had all that stuff happen to him. Even though those events didn't happen in the new timeline the previous one was already set. That's why when the younger version threatened to off himself it wouldn't affect the the future version.
I didn't love Totally Killer, but I found it entertaining. There are a bunch of great lines in that movie and I wish you would've included more. The whole pot scene is great, for example.
This is completely irrelevant, but the dude who plays young Blake, Charlie Gillespie, was in an indie Canadian film called "Suze" that I think you'd like, Amanda. It's about a woman named Susan who is experiencing empty nest syndrome after her daughter goes off to college, and ends up having to take care of her daughter's ex (Charlie), who she isn't a fan of, after he tries to unalive himself. It sounds heavy, but it's honestly a pretty feel good movie that deals with mental health and struggles that I think you would be a fan of!
@rightsarentpolitical Oh, same here!! I watched JATP a couple years ago (after it had been canceled for a good while 😭), and Charlie has been my favorite actor since then, so I'm trying to catch whatever films he's been in! Suze is definitely a favorite, his character will tug at your heartstrings for sure
I feel like the premise of the killer in Time Cut is so interesting though, it should be its own film. Like imagine seeing that your future self used a time machine to come back in time and kill random people, and even though you don't feel anything like that person, you see what you'll become. And maybe you fight it, you want to be a good person and don't want to turn into a killer, but it haunts you for 20 years because what happens if you don't? Can you even stop it from happening? Will time and the entire universe unravel if you don't do it? 20 years of thinking on it and that confusion and conflict - would it warp you into something unfamiliar to your teenage self? I feel like that's a super interesting concept wasted on Time Cut lol.
As a die hard horror fan totally killer was actually pretty good it had some really good gore and the killer twist actually surprised me its a solid balance of horror and comedy
I was a sophomore / junior in 2003 and there weren't enough layers worn in Time Cut. Also, I can't recall ever carrying a CD player around school with me. I watched Totally Killer and that was such a well done movie. The end with the Update Notebook was hilarious.
I got bussed in from a small town to a bigger high school in Colorado, and different types of iPods were common amongst the different casts in the school. Affluent kids had the newer Touches or Nanos, while my friends and i had the older thicker ones, the Minis, and the Nanos
My wife and I actually watched totally killer while on our honeymoon camping in Yellowstone, and I gotta say every horror movie you watch in the woods in October automatically gets more tense. I did think the movie was really fun, and I’d rewatch it sometime.
Totally Killer was alright, and has its flaws, but it entertained, and had an enjoyable quality that didn't take itself TOO seriously. Time Cut was too riddled with plot holes to properly enjoy.
Which is a shame because I wish we would get more 2000s nostalgia movies instead of another 80s/90s movie because all of the people in Hollywood grew up during those times.
I watched Time Cut last week and immediately after it ended I was like "Welp that kinda sucked, Imma go watch that other movie with the similar premise" and so I watched Totally Killer right after AND I LOVED IT
I’m starting to realize as someone who was 8 in 2003 that Summer dresses exactly like I would have if my school didn’t have a dress code back then. Hell, Mean Girls is a more accurate representation of early ‘00s dress than this. I’m old enough that I remember thinking this one kid was cool because he was born a year older than me, and thus got to stay up later and do cooler things. But the thing that makes Totally Killer more enjoyable to me is that it’s set in the ‘80s (yes, I know, I railed against that when everyone did it back in the zeitgeist of Stranger Things, but this is different) and so doesn’t have that existential “I’m getting old!” feeling attached to it like this thing does.
It wasn't him being thrown in the river that was ine of the triggers. It was that summer laughed at it when it happened. So yeah still all revolved around summer
The pink! All that pink! I was quite a girly girl, I was 10 in 2003 and I had maybe 2 pink items in my whole summer wardrobe 😅 Somehow I remember having and seeing way more pink stuff around when I was 13-14.
I was 8 and I remember having pink stuff, but God, Summer’s wardrobe has so much pink it hurts. My TV was pink, some of my school supplies were pink…but yeah, I feel like there was more of a range of colors than the toy aisle at Toys R Us.
I really enjoyed Totally Killer, I feel it is what it was aiming to be: a slasher inspired film, capitalising on nostalgia, comedy and (sorry) better acting. I liked that it showed a decently realistic "teen" cast - making dumb ass choices despite any external advice and the classic "selective hearing". I also liked the light generational clashing of mentality. I really enjoyed this movie as a light-hearted but sincere modern slasher.
I've only seen Totally Killer but I really liked it. I've been less into horror since raising a kid, I just can't do it. But this was the perfect level of horror and comedy for me.
Commenting on your mini IPod rant; in my tiny town we had 3 groups of kids: the Walkmans, the IPod knockoffs & the 1%. I love my phone, but sometimes I miss rockin’ out with my Walkman. 😂
I'm glad I watched this, I was debating on if ill watch Timecut or not cause it has the same premise as totally killer and i actually really enjoyed that (it felt very happy death day to me personally) but now I know that it's probably not worth it. I'm not really surprised though, cause the trailer wasn't something I was vibing with.
I don't think that Time Cut was awful, but Totally Killer was definitely better. I do want to disagree with you on the killer in Time Cut. Killer Quin is from the timeline where Lucy never went back in time and prevented him from being thrown in the river. So from his perspective, he was thrown in and everyone laughed, including Summer and Emmie. And because Killer Quin killed Summer before she could come out as gay, he thought she had rejected him because she thought he was a geek. After years of being bullied, this was the straw that broke the camels back. He totally snapped, mentally, and wouldn't return to sanity. Young Quin, on the other hand, was saved from being thrown into the river. He saw that Summer and Emmie weren't laughing with the others. And later, he learned that Summer and Emmie were in a romantic relationship. So his not getting to have a romantic relationship with Summer had nothing to do with him being a geek. Regardless of if she was single or in a committed relationship, she would never be in a romantic relationship with him because he is a guy and she's into girls. Because the most humiliating thing that ever happened in his life never happened, and he learned the truth about Summer and why she could never love him, and add to that his new friendship (and possible romance) with Lucy, it makes sense for him to not become Killer Quin in the future. Other than that, I pretty much agree with everything you said about the movie. Time Cut seems totally confused about what it wanted to be. A time travel comedy, a teen slasher flick, and dramatic LGBTQ+ romance movie, or whatever. Totally Killer knew what it was supposed to be and leaned into it.
I feel the need to disgreee politely 😅 but I do prefer the ending w the villain in Totally Killerbecause he clearly had issues back in that time and the presence (barring his father or not). I think Ole nice guy could still snapped. I'd be watching him....idk if it would be better or worse if HE was gay in the ripple
@pixiestxNyomouf I think you missed my point. Lucy preventing Young Quin from being thrown into the water was this movie's "Marty saving his dad from being hit by a car" moment. It's what prevents Killer Quin from ever existing. Except that time travel doesn't work the same in this movie as it does in BTTF or Looper. Just as Lucy preventing Summer from being killed doesn't cause her to disappear, it only causes her parents to have no memory of her. She, herself, is unaffected. A lot of school shootings are perpetrated by kids who were relentlessly bullied, and the school's staff were ineffective in stopping it from happening. Often times, all it would have taken to prevent it from happening In the first place would have been to show the bullying victim some kindness. That's what Lucy did, and is why Young Quin is no longer a threat.
This is probably too nitpicky, but just for fun. I don't think we know exactly how the Killer timeline went. Time is not cyclical in this movie, what is done in the past does not affect the future of you came from. So in the Killer timeline there shouldn't originally be a killer, right? Stuff had to happend before Quin got to the point of inventing the time travel and being able to go back and become the Killer. So there should be a timeline were Summer does reject Quin and lives, so that Quinn keeps on living until he decides to invent time travel and go back to kill his crush when she was a teen. Maybe this is what the movie intented since from the scenes they show us at the beggining Summer never gets to read Quin's letter, she just goes with Ethan, so she never gets an oportunity to actually reject him. From that Quin perspective he failed to confess his feelings to the girl he liked and then she got murdered. I'm not even sure if that Quin would go on to become a killer. (I understand that Summer not even reading the letter and going with the more popular guy that trhew him into a river could still be interpreted as her rejecting him, but there still had to be an original timeline without a killer if we follow how this movie deals with time travel)
@mariatorres-by6du But . . . He was still thrown into the water in that timeline, and Summer still laughed along with the other students. THAT was the crucial point in the timeline of Killer Quin. THAT was when he decided to go back in time to get revenge against those he felt wronged him. Summer rejecting him after receiving his letter is just what put her name on the hitlist.
In "Totally Killer", I love how calm Lauren is when Jamie says she's her future daughter's best friend and she's from the future. Also, when Pam says "it looks legit" about the crystal, it made me laugh so hard 😂 To me, "Totally Killer" is just a better movie. I had a great time with this movie. 🤭
For the iPod thing I very much took it as a small town in Massachusetts to me as someone from Boston that means the town has money especially with it being primarily white but idk whenever I’ve been in those spaces that’s usually the case
The anti-skip feature on walkmans never worked well enough to clip them up vertically on belts and everybody able to afford Maurice or Abercrombie was wearing business casual, they missed the marked.
You are absolutely correct. iPods were not that popular back in the day, they were super expensive, and if they were they were bootlegged. A lot of people had Zunes, mini disc players, and cheap MP3 players that were sold at places like Walgreens and stuff like that.
I watched Totally Killer ages ago now but I still occasionally get a chuckle from the memory of a few scenes. My favourite was probably when they smoke some weed but MC from the future has a higher tolerance because it’s legal for her and barely feels the high because the bag is all “sticks and leaves” or however it’s called when they mix the extra bits in. I learned of the term shortly before watching the show from someone who works for the gaming, liquor, and marijuana part of my provincial government and who went as a bag of weed for their Halloween work event. The niche phrase and the chemical tolerance just made the scene so funny for me
WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE 'Teen Time Travel Slasher?' or is it Time Travel Teen Slasher... LET ME KNOW
Probably "Totally Killer", since it committed more to the slasher elements, and didn't take itself TOO seriously.
Not quite teen but happy death day for me
@@Dauerglotzer123 I always consider that in its own 'time loop' category over time travel but yeah, easily the best
Totally Killer was actually good.
Happy Death Day for me lol and I'm not sure but does Warlock count?
Totally Killer made me laugh. Time Cut made me regret that I pressed the play button.
Agreed, Totally Killer is more superior, and was more fun overall. Time Cut was mostly forgettable, and didn't seem committed to being a slasher.
I'm still apologizing to my partner for playing Time Cut
Same
I feel this in my bones. like 10 minutes in I even tweeted "Ive made a huge mistake"
Same
You know that you're getting older when a protagonist time travels back to the early 2000's, which was over two decades ago. It won't be long before they go back to the 2010's next.
Yeah, my partner was watching Time Cut and I saw the part where she shows that she traveled back to 2003 and I wanted to throw something!!
At least I wasn't quite in High School in 2003, I was in 8th grade in 2003, but my partner was a Sophomore in 2003, so at least that made me feel a little better! 😂
Well if this comment doesn’t get my existential crisis going idk why does
When you can easily say "the clothes are wrong we didn't dress that way" you're old
(I did it here for time cut, asap)
Nooo don’t say that! I started high school in 2010. We can’t talk about things that make me feel old until I at least turn 30… so in roughly a year and 2 months.
I was 12 in 2003, this movie made me realize. I gotta step up my skincare 😩. Ain't no way 2003 was 20 years ago 😭. Now I understand the people who grew up in the 80s, when movies go back to the 80s
The most unrealistic part of Totally Killer is that a woman who has been terrified of and preparing to face a killer for most of her life lost to a guy with a podcast.
I agree but you have to have something happen to move the plot forward
But then again you can think you’re ready but when it really happens you’re not
Eh, yes and no. She does put up a hell of a fight, and if I remember correctly, only lose because of pure bad luck, which is something that happens in a real fight. A little too narratively convenient? Maybe? But not egregiously so.
I think youre missing a huge point. That’s on the original timeline. Before the daughter went back and changed everything. So that was the principal in the beginning not the guy with the podcast.
@@BillySmith-np5zn The principle killed his targets back in the 80s. Pam wasn't his target at all. It was podcast guy who killed her
Totally Killer is actually done very well, very homage to early slasher, very filled with humor that works like that
So while I just love this type of movies by default I feel I am going into Timecut very biased by how much I enjoyed the former with no great expectations from reviews
Agreed, Totally Killer was goofy fun, thanks to solid acting and writing.
I love Totally Killer so much. The humor was so stupid and fun. Like when Jamie accidentally calls young Pam mom and says mamacita instead 😂
That got me crying😂
"Time Cut" would have been better if it had dispensed with the slasher elements, and simply been about Lucy and Summer connecting as sisters. There weren't as many killings as you might expect from a slasher, and there was far less blood and gore.
So in this hypothetical scenario would Summer have just died in a car crash or something? Where does the time travel come in?
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I mean, keep the killer angle but downplay it or hyperbolize it to the moon?
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The 2000s could use the kinds of silly cheese that people so often reserve for the 80s
@@jacobd1984for Time Cut, they could have just killed the sister in an mysterious car accident on her way home, and it was the “killer” that went back and was the reason.
Totally Killer is a great movie for a slumber party.
Timecut feels like a fanfic of an actual slasher movie where the author didn't like their favorite character died at the end
James A Janisse of Dead Meat really hit it on the head of why Totally Killer's comedy really works so well with its setting. Some annoyingly said the movie was "woke" humor which is a nothing sentiment but as Dead Meat said the humor comes from someone of our time having the culture shock of the viciousness of 80s teens one of which is her future mother. Meanwhile Time Cut just feels like the basic premise of Totally Killer was explained to 5 or so people via a game of telephone. A copy of a copy of a xerox of a screenshot taken by a first gen camera phone of the screen itself
I love Dead Meat!! James and Chelsea are the best.and Zoran and the whole team!
time cut was filmed first tbh, and it delves into the time travel science stuff
@cinder7258 Which is even more damning. Someone did a better version in less time and released it before the 'original'.
@@Wanttowritewhen this happens I always wonder if the person that’s responsible for the second movie was initially involved in the first and was like “yeah no, they’re totally screwing this up.” so then they make their own version lol
@@Cayliente that's very possible lol
Totally Killer was honestly really fun to watch with my Gen X parents, I won’t even lie! My favorite joke is just the bit where she comes up with a whole cover story to enter the school, and they receptionist is like “huh. yeah i don’t care go to class” it’s so goofy but that’s my jam
i randomly came across Totally Killer when browsing prime video on halloween and loved it! it’s on my rewatch list now. perfectly ridiculous but still a good story
I watched it last week, so I can confirm that Time Cut is definitely one of the movies that exists.
It is definitely a thing that exists
Totally Killer was 50% Back to the Future and 50% Scream, and that's right in my wheelhouse, so I was a fan.
To me the ending of Totally Killer is the result of being written by people who've also spent the last 15 years watching the internet nitpick the ending of Back to the Future, but it worked for me. I would have guessed Griffin Gluck as the killer right away but only because I am still mad at his character from Locke and Key so now he just has Bad Guy Face to me.
I loved the twist of "STOPPING my parents from getting together EARLY" instead of trying to get them together 😅
@pixiestxNyomouf That was a good reversal, yeah. "No! Too! Soon! Too! Horny!"
I really enjoyed Totally Killer. I especially enjoyed the end when she comes back & sees how things have changed because of her influence in the past.
Yep! I liked it and it didn't even leave a bad taste because at minimum, we knew the future would be different because she was trying to keep people alive. The ripple effects were a tsunami
I felt that slash in time (edit: is time cut but I was translating the Spanish tittle “Corte en el tiempo” to English) could have been better if the killer was Lucy, future Lucy from the timeline that her sister died trying to ensure her own survival. It is stated in the movie that when she comes back to 2024 her parents don’t know her, no one knows her, her life hasn’t existed (and neither the opportunities like her internship in NASA) imagine a broken person that tried to save another, to ensure everyone’s happiness just to be rejected by the whole world and completely forgotten. It would have been such a good drama seeing both sides of Lucy in conflict, saving herself but causing a death and her parent’s sadness or let her live and give her parents happiness but knowing she doesn’t have a place in the world, being simultaneously dead and alive in a strange world that is your reality but it really isn’t
But the ending is what it is I guess
(Sorry for the mistakes, English is my second language)
I like this but it wouldn’t explain why she exists then
@@myliza700ik bc I thought Lucy would just like disappear after since she was never born or somehow summer convinced her parents to have another kid
@@m1lksh4ke_41 I took that into consideration but that would just create a loop or there would always be two of her. Because if she convinced her parents to have another then what happens to the present Lucy that she already knows? And she’d be very different growing up because her parents didn’t lose their first daughter. So they would probably be better parents.
@@myliza700 I thought if she just jumps from back in time then the time line changed and Lucy would already be the age she was but this movie makes no sense already so I wish they would’ve explained that more
@ yeah but that Lucy wouldn’t have gone back in time
Totally Killer was one of my favorite random recommendations for modern horror. It's just such a fun movie that fully buys into what it is.
"Totally Killer" gets my vote as the superior flick. It actually commits to its slasher premise, is fun and goofy without taking itself TOO seriously, while having plenty of nice moments between Jamie and her future parents, and growing to understand them more. "Time Cut", on the other hand, is muddled with plot holes and inconsistencies, and doesn't seem as interested in its slasher premise. It's at its best when Lucy and Summer are bonding as sisters.
I had a lot of fun with Totally Killer.
I'm actually going to defend the cabin scene in Totally Killer here, even though I agree with you that it's incredibly aggravating: IIRC Pam is the only one who "knows" that Jamie is "psychic". We find out that Pam is unexpectedly a scifi movie fan, a thing she keeps a secret probably either because her friends HAVE made fun of her or she knows they WOULD make fun of her. So Pam obviously can't tell her friends that Jamie said she's psychic and she believes her, she'd be socially brutalized. Better for her and her reputation to go along with everybody else and just have fun, and it'll obviously be okay since Jamie is there and she's psychic so she'll just be able to protect them. My source on this was that I was the Pam (minus the murdered friends) of my school's popular girls and spent many years pretending I didn't like "nerdy and lame" things so that the other popular girls wouldn't make fun of me. (I once had to pretend my comic book collection belonged to "my dumb older brother who is in college" :( )
Anyway, no idea if that's what the writer intended but that's how I took that scene.
My favorite part about Totally Killer was how much young Pam nailed acting like Julie Bowen.
The only thing about time cut that i like better than totally killer was lesbians
It's true
You would looooooooove it’s a wonderful knife then :)
@@BelinaBelii ooooh I’ve been meaning to watch that but if there’s lesbians I have to check it out! Thanks!
You should watch the fear street trilogy! It’s a stunning slasher movie series with a sapphic couple from the 90s as its main relationship
@@ThePinkHamster190 yes omg I loved fear street!! I remember when I first watched it and Deena was talking about her ex “Sam” and then it showed her looking at a cheerleader and football player I was like “it would be so cool if her ex was actually the cheerleader, bc Sam is a gender neutral name it could be her but I know they won’t actually do that” bc I was so use to getting queerbaited but then when they showed her ex actually was the cheerleader I was so happy!! And omg when you find out the meaning behind the red moss in the town that was a symbol of love between Sarah Frier and her girlfriend because she put it in her hair!! That had me absolutely sobbing!! That and haunting of Bly manor are two of my favorite tragic but beautiful horror lesbian stories!
Totally Killer was 100% better. I would actually watch it again. Time cut wasn’t awful, but I do agree with your assessment. I called the ending too. It felt a little hollow. The costuming felt off to me, but I was not part of the popular crowd in HS so I was like idk, maybe they dressed like that at parties and stuff. I didn’t go to those. 😂
I was pretty bored with Time Cut until I recognized my local mall and realized it was filmed in Winnipeg. We then spent the rest of the film more invested in identifying the locations than in the actual movie.
That was me when I watched Purple Hearts 😭😭😭 I recognized my bus route lol
I really hope Antonia Gentry gets some roles outside the Netflix teen-bubble in the future. You deserve better than Time Cut and Ginny & Georgia, girl.
Shout out to the white jacket in Totally Killers. I think it's an homage the the jacket in 80s romcom Can't Buy Me Love. One borrowed and helped Jaime blend in with cred, the other borrowed without permission and is the reason for ensuing romantic hijinks
Totally Killer was a fun ride that I would gladly watch again.
I fell asleep twice while watching Time Cut.
I actually watched both movies and I must say I enjoyed more Totally Killer because the movie played into its own goofiness and it had more tension while time cut didnt find its footing because sometimes it wanted to be dramatic (and I actually liked the conflict of the protagonist of being like a replacement child living under the shadow of her sister) but fun and at some point I almost forgot there was a serial killer on the loose while in totally killer the serial killer was an active threat through the movie
(Sorry if this doesn’t make any sense English is my second language)
25:16 - It's eerie how similar the masks are. Right?
Totally Killer is such a genius title for an ‘80s slasher
Class of ‘03: iPods and cell phones in school like that feels odd. We weren’t allowed to have our phones out in the building. No one really brought their personal music players either. We would be talking to people, not on our devices.
Agreed. At that point in time I wasn't in HS but middle school, but I recall having a CD player at best. The only time I would be able to use it was during the ride on the bus. Then during any free time like during lunch or if in the hallways like you said we were talking to one another. Or there would be people drawing, reading a book, etc. if you wanted to keep to yourself. You wouldn't have any sort of electronic out since it just.......wasn't the common thing to do.
Especially because your phone only did just that - allow you to call or text people. And the people you would want to speak to was right there at school so......there was no point in using it. Also back then if you went over the data plan limits there was hell to pay both monetarily and physically from the beat down you would get from your parent XD.
Went into Grade 9 in 2000, and only one of my friends had an off brand mp3 player, but it had almost no battery life and he was the only one that had it because his parents were really into computers and tech.
Pretty much nobody had a cell phone, though a couple had Emergency Nokias with unlimited texting after 6. Those people didn't ever use their phones at school though. That woulda cost money!
Class of ‘04. I went to school in an affluent area. Everyone had Nokias, discmans and iPods at school (except me lol)
Having seen both, Totally Killer was at least fun enough. Time Cut just wasted whatever potential it could've had.
But movies with similar premises have been released close to each other for years. Dante's Peak and Volcano, Deep Impact and Armageddon, Mission To Mars and Red Planet and so on.
Repo the genetic opera and Repoman.
Yep, sad thing is Time Cut was wrote way before Totally Killer. But you're right. Different companies always try to outdo each other with similar synopsis movies. No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits is one I always think of. There are so many more. They don't do it as much anymore. They just milk the hell out of things. Like J-horror, gore pron, and right now Vampires seem to be making a comeback. Not to mention every sequel, prequel, requel, and remake these days. It's sad.
@@blaah9999Repoman is where they go and take peoples' organs when they can't afford it anymore right? There was another movie like that not named whatever you said lol. I just cannot think of it. Then you have movies with the same actors which are similar like Tom Cruise with Oblivion and Minority Report. Hollywood is an unfunny joke.
I kind of preferred Totally Killer more just for the way it captured a modern teen rocked at the more un-PC 1980s for a fun vibe. And the way she finds how things have changed in her life thanks to actions down to her name was clever.
I loved Jaime's reaction to her new name. And fair. Jaime is a much better name than Colette. 😂
Time Cut totally missed a good ending with Lucy being Summer's kid in the altered timeline. There's *21 years* between the past and the present. It could have worked. Summer would have put together when she got pregnant that the birth of her *daughter* was going to be the same birthday as her sister from the past, realized the altered timeline possibility, and been a much more attentive parent than Lucy's parents (now grandparents) had been. Lucy would not have had to lose any of her memories and could have still gotten that awesome internship without the pressure from her parents (now grandparents) to do something they wanted Summer to do. Then again, I don't write movies. What do I know?
Instead they decided on a more hole induced ending than BTTF
That really would have been a better ending. Also at the end I was like ok so does she just get to move in with the family who didn’t remember having another baby? Then the parents are weirdly chill.
wait! you might have ate! that sound like it could've been really good!
Great idea but a few issues: Summer is gay, it is unlikely that she would be pregnant so young. Lucy also wouldn't have become the same person obviously, since she would have different parents and a different upbringing, but there's not that much logic in that movie anyway, so you could probably just give her a different haircut once back in the future and that would be it. In any case a better ending than the original
@@fuzzyapple Crud, didn't think about that. Although, as you pointed out, there were already enough plot holes in the story that even with my suggested ending, the writers could have stated "sperm donor" and just not had a dad in the picture (maybe a partner, instead) with no further explanation. It would have worked well enough that maybe not too many would have questioned it.
So the pay off in Time Cut is main character graduating from being the sister's replacement daughter to a consolation prize for an almost-incel-manchild. INSPIRING.
Wait who is the man child? Quinn? Because he was, he didn’t even really have a reason to kill summer or her friends, only part was her laughing at him when he got threw in the lake but her rejecting him is reasonable since she was literally lesbian ( sorry for the long sentences)
You're so right about the iPods. I was a junior in a small town in the US in 2003 and none of my friends had these. We weren't even talking about them. I think I got a zune for Christmas a few years after tho lmao
Amanda, thank you for recommending Dinner in America, it was a wonderful movie, I admit I might have been influenced by your positive vibes and the viewing went so damn well, but I think I would have loved it regardless, it's just so pure and good (Emily Skeggs was fantastic).
I ran to watch the new video as soon as I saw notification on my phone
Hell yeah glad you enjoyed!
These throwbacks to the early 2,000s really are making me feel old 😅
Same. I can’t believe I graduated high school in the early 2000 and now they are making back to the future like movies about that era 😂
Completely agree with the iPod thing. I don’t even know anyone that had one until high school(2007). I personally used a CD Player up until about 10th grade before I switched over to an MP3 player.
I didn't see one for the first time until 7th grade in 2014...and I'd seen more of those brick iPhone in 3rd
The time travel falls apart so hard on Totally Killer, but if you ignore that it's a really fun movie. As someone who was born in the 80s and remembers carpooling with chainsmoking adults, it did some really fun things with the anti nostalgia.
Totally Killer gave me the line "JESUS MOM" and I absolutely love the delivery
10:21 in my town in the UK, (I was 9 in 2003 but had older siblings) everyone definitely didn't have ipods, they were rare and everyone got excited if someone had one. I remember I had an mp3 player that could hold 30 songs and everyone had different brands. People would still have had portable CD players as well because CD was still king then.
I totally don't remember ipods before 2006 (started middle school 2006-07) in my small town in Quebec. And I had wealthier cousins from a city and they didn't had one either, they just had cooler cd players. Some schoolmates did have one after that, but you knew they were the wealthier kids and it was their big Christmas gift, probably combined with their birthday gift.
I agree about the ipod thing. I was in high-school in 2003 and graduated in 2006. Most of us still had cd players during that time. It wasn't until 2005 or 2006 that more of us started branching out to ipods. Even then most of my classmates had mp3 players of different brands due to cost. Only a small amount had an ipod.
man, no one had an iphone in my class until 2012, and it wasn't even the latest model.
That’s what I thought but I wasn’t sure- I was 6 in 03.
@myliza700 they were around at the time, the first ipod was released in 2001 but because it was new and expensive a lot of people weren't interested due to not wanting to spend money on something that at the time wasn't a thing yet. Of course now technology is more expensive than it was then but because it's widely known people now justify the cost. I think it depends like Amanda said in a small town like the movie takes place in that wouldn't be something everyone had it was more for areas that had a lot of money. The kids in Beverly Hills probablyall had them, though, but smaller working class communities at that time weren't that into them yet.
@ no I know they were around I mean they weren’t around in schools. They existed but they didn’t really pick up for a few years because cheaper options were available
@myliza700 yes sorry my mistake.
This is one of my favorite subgenres. I love Timecrimes, Triangle, and Coherence, in my opinion those are the three best ons in this very specific niche.
So I was in college, not high school in 2003, but I remember there being a heavy crossover of the end of the CD era and start of the ipod era. However, most kids had some sort of other "mp3 player" if they could afford anything besides the more common CD player. If anything, the high school probably would have had a few rare kids with clunky mp3 players and this would have been pre-ipod clone era where there were knock off MP3 players in the style of the ipod.
Timecut felt more like a teen movie trying to be a slasher, like a Disney Teen Movie reaching for the dark edge but afraid to push it. It kinda fell apart at the end.
yeah I feel like the small capacity or chunky mp3's might have been more common in some high schools, but even once I got to high school they weren't super common. Hell the iPod photo I bought had an entire extra gig of memory space (20gb) compared to my family computer (19gb) - so just an entirely different experience aha
I was also in university in 2003. In high school, I can think of one friend that had an mp3 player (I think it was a Zune?)
Anyway, I got an iPod Classic in 2007, when they'd already been out a few years, but there were still a lot of other brands around even then.
In 2005 I got the iPod Mini for my birthday, and I was one the first of my friends who had one (it was released in 2004). Everyone else was rocking Zunes or CD players. The OG iPod wasn’t seen as super hip-the Mini was the first one that came in the colors until the Nano hit the scene. THOSE were the ones that hooked the younger generation. So yeah, 2003 high schoolers having the OG iPod? Nope.
Agreed. I know I had a CD player until at least 2004 because it constantly skipped on the bus rides with every bump. I got my first Ipod sometime in 2005 or 2006 and, while some of my classmates had generic mp3 players before that, they still weren't hugely popular.
as someone born in 2001 and living in sweden, it was normal to see mp3 players even up to 2008. but that could also be the fact that i was still in elementary school until 2013 and children arent really trusted with higher technology. if someone had an ipod here it would most likely be an ipod shuffle without a screen
I love how the question is posed as if Totally Killer doesn't totally murder Time Cut
I predicted the ending of time cut in the first minute. still thought it was ok.
@@InvasionAnimation Ditto, I predicted the killer early on, and was simply waiting around for the characters to figure it out.
Yeah I had the killer pegged but the "twist"? That was....odd lol
At first I thought it was the other dude but there was more signs with the brown hair dude (idk their names it’s that forgettable)
So I looked it up, and Hannah Montana only came out in 2006! So those references to her are three years too early!
I thought the girl from the future mentioned her and her sister from 2003 said "Who?" So that would make sense.
I've finally watched one of the movies you're covering (Totally Killer)! The humor did get a *bit* preachy for me sometimes, but it was overall a pretty fun watch.
Haven’t seen them but you’re 100% correct. The Walkmans were way more popular (so were the boombox with a CD player, I assume you guys up north got them too, those little round clear colored plastic ones with a handle) and original iPods just weren’t a thing. iPod Minis because a thing in… I *think* 2004? They were way more affordable, and those were what I saw HSers have. I always love your reviews! 😊
Totally Killer was just too iconic
The moment i finished Time Cut i had to go rewatch Totally Killer so i could fill the feeling of emptiness it left it me. I think that pretty much sums it up.
Thank you so much for the You're Next shout out! That movie never got enough love!
0:14 I watched ur video then watched the movie and I love it. Kyle Gallner is a talent! I watched Cherry then the Cleanse right after. I want moree
Wow, 2003 really was 20 years ago... I feel old. Completely agreed with the Ipod thing, I got my first Ipod towards the end of my high school years, so somewhere between 2004-2006 and there were not very many people with one until after I graduated.
Of these two I've only seen Totally Killer. I loved it. It was a fantastic mix of hilarious and serious and the time travel aspect was really fun. Especially that they were integrated into carnival rides! I actually liked that the teens she was trying to save were idiots. I found it shifted the whole thing from more 'scary slasher with a gimmick' to 'fun comedy with a few deaths'.
Totally killer was SO FREAKING FUN! Like, I have watched 3 times now and I still enjoyed every single time! I was looking at my watch while watching time cut just to see how much more did I have to suffer 😅 (the songs are good though)
"I shouldn't be so excited i'm so sorry" xDD this is why i love you so much !
That 5:57 “again, we’ll see” face needs to be a GIF one day 👌🏻😂😂
I absolutely love Totally Killer. It was such a fun movie.
Time Cut was okay, but it does feel like if Disney did a slasher movie in that it's low budget, and the scifi is giving lower tech than Phil of the Future. I think its biggest problem is that ultimately we don't really know any of the characters well enough to get attached. We only really meet Summer before she is murdered, and she's the 4th victim. Their personalities are all boring and drab, not unlike the tone of the beginning of the movie. I literally forgot Lucy's name for half the movie. We know people idolize Summer, but we're more just told she's a good person despite several things like her getting people to do her work, writing off the bullying, and whatever that situation with Ethan was pointing in a different direction. Totally Killer actually interrogates this with the victims.
Lucy also rarely ever reacts to her surroundings aside from the dial-up modem (it's usually people from the past reacting to the future), which makes me feel like the movie was clearly written by millennials who remember that time period as opposed to younger folks who didn't live through that and would be freaking out about the lack of services on their phones and social media, etc. Similarly, Summer being a lesbian is something that still would've been a huge deal at that time and something many parents wouldn't have understood or approved of, so it's kind of weird to me how zero stakes it actually is in the movie when this same small town throws someone in the river every year for fun? Imo as someone who was in high school around the same time, the movie did make me feel nostalgic and sort of hit right, but it could have been so much better.
Maybe it's just Kiernan Shipka but I liked "Totally Killer" while haven't even heard about "Time Cut".
They try to explain the timeline issue with the multiverse effect. When Quinn threatened to kill himself his older version says '"that's not how time travel works" something like that. So all the stuff that made him a killer still happened to him even though she stopped the lake part from happening to the younger version
If that didn’t happen then he wouldn’t have a reason to kill summer anymore since I think he didn’t send her the letter and she never rejected him
@@m1lksh4ke_41 but that was a different timeline the one who became a killer had all that stuff happen to him. Even though those events didn't happen in the new timeline the previous one was already set. That's why when the younger version threatened to off himself it wouldn't affect the the future version.
There's time travel theory that says instead of paradoxes, you would keep creating alternate timelines.
I didn't love Totally Killer, but I found it entertaining. There are a bunch of great lines in that movie and I wish you would've included more. The whole pot scene is great, for example.
This is completely irrelevant, but the dude who plays young Blake, Charlie Gillespie, was in an indie Canadian film called "Suze" that I think you'd like, Amanda. It's about a woman named Susan who is experiencing empty nest syndrome after her daughter goes off to college, and ends up having to take care of her daughter's ex (Charlie), who she isn't a fan of, after he tries to unalive himself. It sounds heavy, but it's honestly a pretty feel good movie that deals with mental health and struggles that I think you would be a fan of!
Ooh; I'll take that recommendation too. Sounds like a good one. I knew him from Julie and the Phantoms, so apparently he's multitalented.
@rightsarentpolitical Oh, same here!! I watched JATP a couple years ago (after it had been canceled for a good while 😭), and Charlie has been my favorite actor since then, so I'm trying to catch whatever films he's been in! Suze is definitely a favorite, his character will tug at your heartstrings for sure
And Julie and the Phantoms which SHOULD NOT have been cancelled! He is a talent.
@@leximillerd5537Suze sounds really good!! I'll check it out!!
Do you know where I can watch Suze if I live in the US? I've been trying to see it since he posted about it on his IG.
I feel like the premise of the killer in Time Cut is so interesting though, it should be its own film. Like imagine seeing that your future self used a time machine to come back in time and kill random people, and even though you don't feel anything like that person, you see what you'll become. And maybe you fight it, you want to be a good person and don't want to turn into a killer, but it haunts you for 20 years because what happens if you don't? Can you even stop it from happening? Will time and the entire universe unravel if you don't do it? 20 years of thinking on it and that confusion and conflict - would it warp you into something unfamiliar to your teenage self? I feel like that's a super interesting concept wasted on Time Cut lol.
As a die hard horror fan totally killer was actually pretty good it had some really good gore and the killer twist actually surprised me its a solid balance of horror and comedy
I was a sophomore / junior in 2003 and there weren't enough layers worn in Time Cut. Also, I can't recall ever carrying a CD player around school with me. I watched Totally Killer and that was such a well done movie. The end with the Update Notebook was hilarious.
I got bussed in from a small town to a bigger high school in Colorado, and different types of iPods were common amongst the different casts in the school. Affluent kids had the newer Touches or Nanos, while my friends and i had the older thicker ones, the Minis, and the Nanos
My wife and I actually watched totally killer while on our honeymoon camping in Yellowstone, and I gotta say every horror movie you watch in the woods in October automatically gets more tense. I did think the movie was really fun, and I’d rewatch it sometime.
"I shouldn't be this excited, I'm so sorry." Amanda most of us watched your Scream marathon video, I think we know you love slashers XD
Madison Baley typecast is being ignored by parents
Time cut was so bland compare to Totally Killer
To be honest, totally killer wasn’t great either
Totally Killer was alright, and has its flaws, but it entertained, and had an enjoyable quality that didn't take itself TOO seriously. Time Cut was too riddled with plot holes to properly enjoy.
@@LordSchnitzel023@trinarq Totally Killer amazing
@@LordSchnitzel023it definitely wasn’t like amazing, but it was aware of its kinda meta-cringiness, which i think worked bc they played into it
Which is a shame because I wish we would get more 2000s nostalgia movies instead of another 80s/90s movie because all of the people in Hollywood grew up during those times.
I watched Time Cut last week and immediately after it ended I was like "Welp that kinda sucked, Imma go watch that other movie with the similar premise" and so I watched Totally Killer right after AND I LOVED IT
I was waiting patiently for your totally killer review DX I absolutely loved that movie, made me laugh and feel unsettled so much haha
I’m starting to realize as someone who was 8 in 2003 that Summer dresses exactly like I would have if my school didn’t have a dress code back then. Hell, Mean Girls is a more accurate representation of early ‘00s dress than this.
I’m old enough that I remember thinking this one kid was cool because he was born a year older than me, and thus got to stay up later and do cooler things.
But the thing that makes Totally Killer more enjoyable to me is that it’s set in the ‘80s (yes, I know, I railed against that when everyone did it back in the zeitgeist of Stranger Things, but this is different) and so doesn’t have that existential “I’m getting old!” feeling attached to it like this thing does.
MP3 players were more common than IPods, at least where i grew up.
It wasn't him being thrown in the river that was ine of the triggers. It was that summer laughed at it when it happened. So yeah still all revolved around summer
I LOVED totally killer and so time cut was just a way to satisfy the lack of totally killer in my life like-
The pink! All that pink! I was quite a girly girl, I was 10 in 2003 and I had maybe 2 pink items in my whole summer wardrobe 😅 Somehow I remember having and seeing way more pink stuff around when I was 13-14.
I was 8 and I remember having pink stuff, but God, Summer’s wardrobe has so much pink it hurts. My TV was pink, some of my school supplies were pink…but yeah, I feel like there was more of a range of colors than the toy aisle at Toys R Us.
,,,Why didn't they just have the older sister beg her parents for a sibling? Then Lucy didn't have to stay in 2003
EXACTLY what I thought when I watched the movie!!
I saw Totally Killer. It was good. Didnt know about Time Cut.
LOVE Dinner in America. Thanks for putting me onto it!
I really enjoyed Totally Killer, I feel it is what it was aiming to be: a slasher inspired film, capitalising on nostalgia, comedy and (sorry) better acting. I liked that it showed a decently realistic "teen" cast - making dumb ass choices despite any external advice and the classic "selective hearing". I also liked the light generational clashing of mentality. I really enjoyed this movie as a light-hearted but sincere modern slasher.
Time Cut was more of a drama with a bit of horror, where totally killer is more the slasher of the two.
I've only seen Totally Killer but I really liked it. I've been less into horror since raising a kid, I just can't do it. But this was the perfect level of horror and comedy for me.
I just watched both of these movies back to back just so I can watch this video. Worth it
LOVE THE SCOTT PILGRIM SHIRT
Commenting on your mini IPod rant; in my tiny town we had 3 groups of kids: the Walkmans, the IPod knockoffs & the 1%.
I love my phone, but sometimes I miss rockin’ out with my Walkman. 😂
I'm glad I watched this, I was debating on if ill watch Timecut or not cause it has the same premise as totally killer and i actually really enjoyed that (it felt very happy death day to me personally) but now I know that it's probably not worth it. I'm not really surprised though, cause the trailer wasn't something I was vibing with.
If you have one, you keep that iPod hidden in your backpack or leave it at home. You’re not flaunting it in the school hallway
I was much more invested in the mystery of Totally Killer, and the humor worked for me. Great ending vs. asinine ending of Time Cut.
Watched totally killer today and had to rewatch instantly. Loved it, so funny and just Jamie's lil comments on how things in 87 are so problematic now
I don't think that Time Cut was awful, but Totally Killer was definitely better. I do want to disagree with you on the killer in Time Cut. Killer Quin is from the timeline where Lucy never went back in time and prevented him from being thrown in the river. So from his perspective, he was thrown in and everyone laughed, including Summer and Emmie. And because Killer Quin killed Summer before she could come out as gay, he thought she had rejected him because she thought he was a geek. After years of being bullied, this was the straw that broke the camels back. He totally snapped, mentally, and wouldn't return to sanity.
Young Quin, on the other hand, was saved from being thrown into the river. He saw that Summer and Emmie weren't laughing with the others. And later, he learned that Summer and Emmie were in a romantic relationship. So his not getting to have a romantic relationship with Summer had nothing to do with him being a geek. Regardless of if she was single or in a committed relationship, she would never be in a romantic relationship with him because he is a guy and she's into girls. Because the most humiliating thing that ever happened in his life never happened, and he learned the truth about Summer and why she could never love him, and add to that his new friendship (and possible romance) with Lucy, it makes sense for him to not become Killer Quin in the future.
Other than that, I pretty much agree with everything you said about the movie. Time Cut seems totally confused about what it wanted to be. A time travel comedy, a teen slasher flick, and dramatic LGBTQ+ romance movie, or whatever. Totally Killer knew what it was supposed to be and leaned into it.
I feel the need to disgreee politely 😅 but I do prefer the ending w the villain in Totally Killerbecause he clearly had issues back in that time and the presence (barring his father or not). I think Ole nice guy could still snapped. I'd be watching him....idk if it would be better or worse if HE was gay in the ripple
@pixiestxNyomouf I think you missed my point. Lucy preventing Young Quin from being thrown into the water was this movie's "Marty saving his dad from being hit by a car" moment. It's what prevents Killer Quin from ever existing. Except that time travel doesn't work the same in this movie as it does in BTTF or Looper. Just as Lucy preventing Summer from being killed doesn't cause her to disappear, it only causes her parents to have no memory of her. She, herself, is unaffected.
A lot of school shootings are perpetrated by kids who were relentlessly bullied, and the school's staff were ineffective in stopping it from happening. Often times, all it would have taken to prevent it from happening In the first place would have been to show the bullying victim some kindness. That's what Lucy did, and is why Young Quin is no longer a threat.
This is probably too nitpicky, but just for fun. I don't think we know exactly how the Killer timeline went. Time is not cyclical in this movie, what is done in the past does not affect the future of you came from. So in the Killer timeline there shouldn't originally be a killer, right? Stuff had to happend before Quin got to the point of inventing the time travel and being able to go back and become the Killer. So there should be a timeline were Summer does reject Quin and lives, so that Quinn keeps on living until he decides to invent time travel and go back to kill his crush when she was a teen. Maybe this is what the movie intented since from the scenes they show us at the beggining Summer never gets to read Quin's letter, she just goes with Ethan, so she never gets an oportunity to actually reject him. From that Quin perspective he failed to confess his feelings to the girl he liked and then she got murdered. I'm not even sure if that Quin would go on to become a killer.
(I understand that Summer not even reading the letter and going with the more popular guy that trhew him into a river could still be interpreted as her rejecting him, but there still had to be an original timeline without a killer if we follow how this movie deals with time travel)
@mariatorres-by6du But . . . He was still thrown into the water in that timeline, and Summer still laughed along with the other students. THAT was the crucial point in the timeline of Killer Quin. THAT was when he decided to go back in time to get revenge against those he felt wronged him. Summer rejecting him after receiving his letter is just what put her name on the hitlist.
@@Thundarr100 Yeah, I think that is what is suppose to happen originally
In "Totally Killer", I love how calm Lauren is when Jamie says she's her future daughter's best friend and she's from the future. Also, when Pam says "it looks legit" about the crystal, it made me laugh so hard 😂
To me, "Totally Killer" is just a better movie. I had a great time with this movie. 🤭
For the iPod thing I very much took it as a small town in Massachusetts to me as someone from Boston that means the town has money especially with it being primarily white but idk whenever I’ve been in those spaces that’s usually the case
The anti-skip feature on walkmans never worked well enough to clip them up vertically on belts and everybody able to afford Maurice or Abercrombie was wearing business casual, they missed the marked.
Oh yes Totally Killer is my new watch every Spooky season! It’s way funnier and overall stronger.
Time Cut was partly filmed in my hometown in Canada!
You are absolutely correct. iPods were not that popular back in the day, they were super expensive, and if they were they were bootlegged. A lot of people had Zunes, mini disc players, and cheap MP3 players that were sold at places like Walgreens and stuff like that.
As a person from PEI this is probably the oddest occurrence of my province being mentioned
I watched Totally Killer ages ago now but I still occasionally get a chuckle from the memory of a few scenes. My favourite was probably when they smoke some weed but MC from the future has a higher tolerance because it’s legal for her and barely feels the high because the bag is all “sticks and leaves” or however it’s called when they mix the extra bits in. I learned of the term shortly before watching the show from someone who works for the gaming, liquor, and marijuana part of my provincial government and who went as a bag of weed for their Halloween work event.
The niche phrase and the chemical tolerance just made the scene so funny for me