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first time I ever saw David was this movie, loved it... think I was 10 or so

@@Zennofobic I grew up with old videotapes of Time after Time, Time Bandits and watched Batman repeatedly. I never realised how much he was a part of my childhood sadly, until after his passing.

@@scotia7326 I just checked, 1979 I can't believe I got it right I was 10! Funny how the first time I saw Malcolm MacDowell was here as well which threw me for a loop later on when I finally saw Clockwork Orange. I recently saw Cross of Iron just a few months ago... RIP David (lol I went to check and the date is in the title)

I sad to hear of David Warners passing. He was a brilliant actor. 👏

He wasn't lying. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer at a time when such were relatively unknown, but his impact was relatively minor compared to later killers. He was known to have killed 5 women & suspected of 6 more. Among serial killers, he isn't in the top 100 of the world's most prolific. For that, it takes at least 16 confirmed kills. Even in England, where serial killers are relatively rare, the recordholder is a serial arsonist w/26 confirmed kills.

It's depressing how he has a point in this scene.

Since this movie was made, he would be a noob.

I don't quite get chills from that line but I often come back to watch this video. 3:26.

Back in the 97 I bought a PC game called Privateer 2: The Darkening. The game is meh, not great not terrible. But. It had FMV cutscenes, and David Warner stole the show. My first exposure to the guy, and I can recite the words and emphasis to this day. RIP David Warner. What a guy.

David, May You Forever Be At Peace in the Arms of God. God Bless ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

Very well said 👏

Two of the most dangerous psychopaths in American history currently live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and 1 Observatory Circle in Washington D.C. ... yes ... "What a great and sadly true line"

I would have much preferred an alliteration. "Ninety years ago, I was an atrocity. Today, an amateur."

@@BogeyTheBear No, that completely changes the meaning of the line. He’s saying ninety years ago there was nobody like him.

@@egglady Then 'aberration' suits the line even better. Less modern-sounding, alliterative, and a synonym.

​@@BogeyTheBearatrocity sounds horrible in this sentence

Their chemistry is perfect. But David has the more beautiful, expressive, memorable voice, IMO.

Agreed!

RIP Mr. Warner

*Carbonation

They’re British

@@therespectedlex9794carbonized

Damn, if that's not an understatement, especially comparing Jack to the Zodiac, Hitler, Stalin, Manson, and all these shootings.

Classic line from the movie.

One of my very fave movie lines. Classic.

@The Wraith True.

@@johnnystapleton9842 A man kills a handful of prostitutes and is never found. Happens everywhere, all the time, at least in America.

Yeeesss! 😂😂😂

If they were to do a reboot they could use a montage of nothing but Malcolm McDowell and David Warner movies and TV appearances, before and since :) Or in fact given what media has become, something like a wall of flatscreens running various horrorshow news, politics, extreme sports like MMA and WCW, movies, good serial killer shows, bad serial killer shows... and mixed into the whole thing, scenes from McDowell and Warner clips. Jack the Ripper would be background noise in a world like today. if only he hadn't made so many bad movies later in life. (What happened to him?)

Good luck getting the intellectual property rights.

@@carnotantonioromero3024 Wait I need that

A little bit of the ultra violence

Since this movie was made, he would be a noob.

He was Jor-El in Lois and Clark tv series

I watched the Batman The Animated Series in prime time and didn't know that. Thanks.

FUCK i wish that had happened :(, though robert englund was a fantastic choice for the role as well

Agree

One of my all-time favorite movies! Brilliantly written and acted. I saw this in the theater in 1979 and couldn't stop thinking about it for days.

@@LazyIRanch same....it leaves an affect on people. Glad I have this movie in collection

Oh yeah David Warner did play Ra's All Ghoul and Malcolm McDowell played Metello. Instersting. David Warner also played the Scarecrow one time.

StormsongK McDowell also played Warner's son on TAS, in a flashback episode in the Old West. McDowell's character was Arcady (sp?)

@@martinguzman3995 I don’t remember Warner as Scarecrow but McDowell was also Mad Mod on Teen Titans

@Barnabas Collins David died 🥀

The real H. G. Wells was not a particularly moral man, at least not with regard to how he conducted his personal life; and he most certainly did not believe in Victorian sexual morality. He was married to his cousin Isabel from 1891 to 1894. He soon divorced her in favor of one of his students Amy Catherine Robbins, whom he nicknamed "Jane" and eventually married in 1895. So, in the movie, H. G. Wells was lying when he told Amy that he was unmarried back in 1893; either that or the writers simply got their facts wrong. All throughout his 32-year marriage to Amy Robbins, which lasted until her death at the age of 55 in 1927, Wells had numerous affairs and fathered several illegitimate children with other women, including Rebecca West (their son was the author Anthony West). Some of his other well known conquests included Dorothy Richardson and Margaret Sanger. After the death of Amy Robbins, Wells had an affair with the mistress of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky and tried to pressure her into marrying him, but she refused. Alas, it would seem that the real H. G. Wells was as much of a compulsive sex addict as Jack the Ripper is shown to be in the movie. If Wells really had traveled to the year 1979 in a time machine, he'd probably be looking to score with some loose women too. A more plausible scenario would have Wells and Stevenson wearing matching John Travolta-style leisure suits and coincidentally bumping into each other at the same disco while trying to pick up the same girl!

Holy dialog batman, that was a lot of typing.

Yeah, or the Looney Toons!😂🤣🤣

I enjoyed his role as a killer of vampire bats in Nightwing, and he was hilarious as Evil in Time Bandits. He's left us a lot of terrific characters. RIP.

Indeed. I always hoped he would've been given a role as a Bond villain. He'd have been epic.

@@marmichaux7520 Totally agree! I always hoped he'd be a Bond villain.

@@OneAndOnlyMe You, too? Yeah, he'd have been perfect for the role.

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True, but he did respect Wells.

So did I , I also liked him in SOS Titanic

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It wasn't all kittens and rainbows in the late 1800's. Enslavement under the guise of colonialism, subjugation under the guise of industrialization. Sure, there are dreamers, visionaries and activists in those days-- but that's the same said of today.

Wow! What a great story! Wish I could have met the man! I once met the late Sir John Hurt (Warner's lifelong friend and classmate at RADA in the early '60's) at a film festival and he was really nice. He shook my hand and everything and asked me if I was staying to watch his new movie and hoped I would enjoy it.

I was gonna say the same thing lol

Malcom also played Ra's son Arkady Duvall on Batman TAS for an added connection

No.... Metallo and the Doctor (Unbound version of 3rd)

@@346436 oh yeah I forgot about that!

David Warner signed my Baldur's Gate book.

Unforgettable.

Yes.

Warner's character would love now.

The more things change, the more they stay the same actually. The TVs are just flatter and the remote controls don't click. Although we definitely don't have enough Bugs Bunny on TV! Anyway, I was really bummed when the scene cut off right there ... cuz I know what comes next, and the whole scene is brilliant really. (Yeah, the violence is catching. But it's about H.G. Wells chasing David Warner's version of Jack the Ripper--who's a lot less violent than the real one--through time, so I know the violence isn't real. It's two really great actors being really really GREAT! And, yeah, what a lot of other people said. Every one of David Warner's lines is quotable, especially the way he says them!)

Great comment, damn he has always been so underrated.

Oh, but the homicidal tendencies would keep you on your toes

😂😂🤣 Right!

@@Teobi1 😂😂😂

What's wrong with the denim vest?

His performance was so impressive. Did you know he didn't have time to learn his lines so was reading them off cards?

@@danielyeshe When I was a kid my older brother took me and my middle brother to see Moonraker and we didn't realize there was a double feature and the film playing was "Nightwings". At the time I was only 7 and didn't know much about movis except wanting to watch Moonraker bc as a kid I loved James Bond movies. Hard to believe a little known film with the great David Warner was playing right in front of me that day.

I dare to add Gary Oldman, Bill Nighy and Alan Rickman

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+shaitarn I don't think so. I also found/find him attractive.

He does have a commanding presence, as well as a good deal of charisma.

_"Is it wrong that I find David Warner scary but incredibly attractive in this?"_ Evil is not always repulsive. That said, those actors who can brilliantly play bad guys tend to be very nice people in real life.

David Warner is sexy looking

Welcome to the club! 😂😂🤣

when Wells breaks down at the end, begging Jack to spare her... pain, I guess. ;)

Me too. I feel sorry for Jack too! When Wells goes to pull the key out and Jack nods to him ... The first time I saw this back in 1979, David Warner instantly became my favorite actor. Still is. He actually has less screen time than it seems like he does, but his performance is brilliant and unforgettable.

BTW, in the DVD commentary, Malcolm McDowell ruins the crying scene a little. It's been a while since I listened to it, but as I recall, the tears are fake. He said Mary Steenbergen had some kind of thing she snuck off to use that makes your eyes tear up. He thought that was cheating but he ended up using it! Don't know about David Warner, but he looked pretty teary too, which is why I felt sorry for him. BTW, in the other commentary by the director, it didn't sound like he liked David Warner very much! When he mentioned him at all, it was to complain about him, like about how he didn't tell him before he signed on for the movie that he'd broken his feet and couldn't run, and how he kept asking if there were going to be "short takes" (i.e., fewer lines to memorize). He also refers to the Ripper character as a "plot device"! If you want to hear good things about Warner, listen to Malcolm McDowell; they were good friends.

yah there's a great Comicon interview with both of them and they were very funny together. I do agree tho that Jack IS a plot device. That is, the film is a a romance about Wells meeting the woman of the future that he'd been imagining, with the danger of Jack pushing their level of involvement forward. It's not really a film about catching Jack the Ripper. Wells doesn't really have the skills to do that, even forearmed with future knowledge.

Pounds??? A gentleman only carries Guineas.

And then you find out about the potential for global thermonuclear war...

@@Elitist20 I guess that would be the actual realization of how horrifying the future actually is which you'll quickly fast track back to the safety of the Victorian era while being glad you don't have to worry about that. Perhaps with time traveling technology in your possession however you'll try to find a way to prevent the atomic bomb from being invented in the first place by killing Oppenheimer at a young age.

@@zonilo1 Back to the Victorian era safety, but also back to the Victorian era problems. By the way, even without Oppenheimer the nuclear bomb would have been created. To prevent this, does this means they would have to kill the one who discovered E=mc^2 at a young age?!? Someone at a young age?!?🤔 😠😮‍💨

@@zonilo1 If Oppenheimer hadn't invented the bomb, someone else would have.

Yes he *is* handsome! You take that part back! lol

David Warner has aged very well and became more handsome with age.

Yes and "lost is what I am." Love it!!