{"id":26987,"date":"2026-08-06T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=26987"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:22:16","slug":"summer-time-machine-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/summer-time-machine-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Time Machine Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Who took my Vidal Sassoon?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Time Machine Blues<\/strong>, released in 2005<\/p>\n<p>Members of a Sci-Fi Club play baseball, only to get some pictures of themselves playing it. They don&#8217;t actually read sci-fi, of course. It&#8217;s really hot but an accident causes Coke to spill on the remote for their air conditioner &#8212; which can&#8217;t be turned on without the remote. When a time machine shows up, they think it&#8217;s a prank &#8212; but it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Japanese movie. Science fiction fans with some patience should give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>You might be wondering what&#8217;s going on at the beginning but keep watching.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about what happens when you screw things up and then have to fix them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny but it&#8217;s also very silly. The way the whole group says &#8220;ohhhhh&#8221; the same way every other minute, and more generally the exaggerated acting style gets a bit tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Eita Nagayama, Yoshiaki Yoza, and Daijir\u00f4 Kawaoka. Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro (<strong>Bayside Shakedown<\/strong>). The music by Halfby suits the zaniness of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Who took my Vidal Sassoon?&#8221; Summer Time Machine Blues, released in 2005 Members of a Sci-Fi Club play baseball, only to get some pictures of themselves playing it. They don&#8217;t actually read sci-fi, of course. It&#8217;s really hot but an accident causes Coke to spill on the remote for their air conditioner &#8212; which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5,8],"class_list":["post-26987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27037,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions\/27037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}