Crossworlds (1997)

[Deckerd]

Saw it cheap at a sale but decided that since I hadn't heard of it, it probably sucked. However, since I have a battalion of experts at my fingertips, I thought I'd ask just for the record.

 

[Amaris]

^ I came in here hoping you would be telling me a bit about it, as it's an Instant Watch on Netflix and I was thinking of checking it out.

 

[DeadmeatDiggory]

It's not a bad Sliders-like movie, with Rutger Hauer in it. Mostly it focuses on a young guy who gets a hold a key to unlock a gateway between worlds (played by the guy who played Christina Applegate's boyfriend in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead), and he hooks up with Rutger and another freedom fighter played by the chick who played Juliet's Other Boyfriend's ex-wife on Lost, to protect him from the bad guy from Lethal Weapon III. Lots of hoping between dimensions and running from the bad guys, but all in all pretty entertaining for the budget they had.

 

[Amaris]

^ Interesting. I'm a big fan of Sliders, so this movie should be worth checking out. Thanks.

 

[Pingfah]

It's a reasonably entertaining cheapo sci-fi flick. I say it is likeable, definitely not good, but likeable.

Rutger Hauer is usually entertaining anyway, after you've watched this, check out Split Second for more entertaining Hauer cheese.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

What I found brilliant about this movie was that the makers realized that the simplest, cheapest, yet most massively effective way of visualizing travel between alternate dimensions was via mere jump-cuts in the editing.
There were only a couple of CGI bits, the rest was all discontinuity: Somebody gets tossed out of frame-right in one locale, then lands from frame-left in a different one.
No fancy transition, just blink and you're someplace else. Kinda like what happens in one of Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories when a stasis field activates.
I had the movie on VHS about 10 years ago, but I was never able to find it on DVD.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IENs1gylgk[/yt]

 

[Mysterion]

Picked this up on DVD awhile back when i was going through a spurt of interest alternate universe/alternate history/dimension travel/time travel stories. It's a lot of fun, IMO, and it's worth having around for those rainy Saturday afternoons that you don't feel like leaving the house.

 

[sojourner]

Isn't this the one where the writer/producer/whatever claimed that Sliders was a blatant rip-off?

 

[Mysterion]

Isn't this the one where the writer/producer/whatever claimed that Sliders was a blatant rip-off?

Don't recall ever hearing about that. there was an RPg publisher that said that Stargate had ripped them off, though.