{"id":3003,"date":"2004-12-13T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T06:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/13\/quick-review-timeline\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:40:15","slug":"quick-review-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/13\/quick-review-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Review: Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9564,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001I55OC\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310215653\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001I55OC\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001I55OC\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9565,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/tg\\\/asin\\\/0345417623\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/tg\\\/asin\\\/0345417623\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9566,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0140424385\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310215704\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0140424385\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0140424385\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B0001I55OC.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just finished watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B0001I55OC\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Timeline (Widescreen Edition)'\">Timeline<\/a>, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/asin\/0345417623\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Timeline'\">the book<\/a> by Michael Crichton. I don&#8217;t know anything about the book it&#8217;s based on &#8212; I haven&#8217;t read a Crichton novel in years &#8212; but the movie?<\/p>\n<p>Oooh, ouch. Bad movie. No biscuit.<\/p>\n<p>Bad enough that I spent most of the movie bored and often rolling my eyes, but I pretty much knew I was in for a dud (well, I&#8217;d picked it up already by the utter lack of acting ability by anyone in the cast, but&#8230;) when the group arrived in the late 14th century and anyone they ran into who spoke English spoke perfectly understandable, if anachronized, modern English.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0140424385\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill: 'The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)'\">Canterbury Tales<\/a> around the end of the 14th century, and it reads as follows (as many people will remember from their high school english classes)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote<br \/>\n  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote<br \/>\n  And bathed every veyne in swich licour,<br \/>\n  Of which vertu engendred is the flour;<\/p>\n<p>  Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth<br \/>\n  Inspired hath in every holt and heeth<br \/>\n  The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne<br \/>\n  Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,<br \/>\n  And smale foweles maken melodye,<\/p>\n<p>  That slepen al the nyght with open eye-<br \/>\n  (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);<br \/>\n  Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages<br \/>\n  And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes<br \/>\n  To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;<\/p>\n<p>  And specially from every shires ende<br \/>\n  Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,<br \/>\n  The hooly blisful martir for to seke<br \/>\n  That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.<br \/>\n  Bifil that in that seson, on a day,<\/p>\n<p>  In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay<br \/>\n  Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage<br \/>\n  To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,<br \/>\n  At nyght was come into that hostelrye<br \/>\n  Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye<\/p>\n<p>  Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle<br \/>\n  In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,<br \/>\n  That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and generally needs a translation for modern readers to comprehend it, the fact that the language barrier wasn&#8217;t even mentioned in passing, let alone given any sort of (however implausible) explanation, was enough to have me scoffing.<\/p>\n<p>Bleah. Don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DFront 242%2526albumTerm=Mut@ge.Mix@ge%2526songTerm=Happiness (Dub)%26partnerId%3D30\">Happiness (Dub)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DFront 242%26partnerId%3D30\">Front 242<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DFront 242%2526albumTerm=Mut@ge.Mix@ge%26partnerId%3D30\">Mut@ge.Mix@ge<\/a><\/em> (1995, 6:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching Timeline, based on the book by Michael Crichton. I don&#8217;t know anything about the book it&#8217;s based on &mdash; I haven&#8217;t read a Crichton novel in years &mdash; but the movie? Oooh, ouch. Bad movie. No biscuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}