Conceiving Ada

List of Reasons Why Ada Should Be No One's Role Model:
-she's a hypochondriac, always complaining something's wrong with her
-she's addicted to opium
-she has a gambling problem, losing lots of people's money at the track
-she's a know it all
-she was killed by math...something that i'm pretty sure is impossible
-she can't do simple math: 2000 - 1852 does not equal 166.

"All these mathemathics are too much on your body". That had to be the best quote of the entire movie. Unfortunately I have to put this film in my Top 5 worst movies of all time list. I simply can't see it in my heart to include a film in which time travel was acheived through a still photograph from 1832. Let's take a brief look into the history of photography. The first permanent photograph was taken in 1826 and required an 8 hour exposure. The daguerreotype wasn't even invented until 1839, and those looked horrible. I'll always wonder how Ada's picture represented such amazing picture clarity and how it was snapped in a matter of a second.

But basic lapses in history and plot weren't the biggest problems for this film. Well, maybe they were, but the production values and acting were lacking too. The plot just doesn't make sense...even for a science fiction film. At least in Back to the Future a flux capacitor explained the impossibilities of time travel. Suddenly colonizing Mars, storing information on brain implants, and cyborgs make a lot more sense.

I don't mean to completely bash this film, but having a script supervisor on hand might have worked wonders. It's just that a poorly made film makes it hard for me to take it seriously and see the good points in it. The film does bring up some interesting ideas on technology, like the idea that information waves never die, but the film poorly executes them.