WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Timecop 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.040 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.200 Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.320 And this is Joe McCormick in Today's film on Weird 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.800 House Cinema is the nineteen ninety four sci fi action 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.440 thrill ride Time Cop, starring Jean Claude, Van dam, Ron 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.640 Silver and Mia Sarah. I had seen this movie before, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.839 but not in a long time, and boy was this something. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.640 If you want to be transported mind and body back 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.360 to the year nineteen ninety four, watch Time Cop. Time 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:47.200 Cop is a time capsule, not only because it has 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.800 scenes of characters going to mals in nineteen ninety four, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.720 which is a kind of site that I'm sure many 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.680 people our age can't help but be profoundly stirred by. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.880 But it's also a type of movie that I think 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.640 used to exist, and I don't know if it still does, 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.240 if there are still movies like this, I don't know 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:10.600 what the examples are, but it is essentially an R 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.880 rated action movie for kids. Action movies nowadays are all 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.080 they're all PG thirteen, you know, because they want to 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.320 get all the I guess younger teenagers in the theaters. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.640 But this movie is definitely R rated, does not shy 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.640 away from the F words and the blood squirting everywhere, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.320 but it is not at all a dark, gritty, morally 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.320 ambiguous tale of depravity and revenge, the kind of thing 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.560 you might expect from an R rated action movie. Instead, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:43.600 it's like a live action cartoon. It is a goofy, goobery, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:49.280 brightly colored slapstick fest with non stop kicks to the groin. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.320 Yeah, it's true. Warning up front. If you have like 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.320 a groin strain or anything, and you don't want to 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.880 watch people get injured in the groin, then you might 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.960 want to wait on this movie un til you're heeled up. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.160 I was trying to think of other movies in this category, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.240 like the you know, the cartoonish action movie with a 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.120 high silliness factor and a well earned R rating. I 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.720 haven't seen it in a long time, but I think 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.600 Demolition Man was another one like this and came out 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.760 around the exact same time. But the other thing I 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.120 want to say is that, at least from my perspective, 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.880 time Copy is awesome. I was shocked how much I 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.800 liked this. This movie is dumb as hell, but I 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.520 thought it held up really well for what it is. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.680 The ninety eight minute runtime just races by the movie 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.920 will lower your IQ by several points, but I thought 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.600 it was truly entertaining, a spectacular amusement. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.359 I agree on all of that. Yeah, it's a very 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.480 tight film. It didn't give you any opportunity to really 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.680 be bored by the proceedings. Great action, as we'll discuss, 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.120 and when it comes to the IQ points, Absolutely don't 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.560 think too hard about the time traveling this movie. Don't 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.959 look at the light Marion, because if you do, you're 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.079 going to break something. So be prepared. I'm not saying 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.720 it's still a fun exercise, but just know you are 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.519 going to run up against the wall if you try 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.720 and figure this out, if you try and chart this. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.919 In fact, I found at least one blog post online 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.880 where somebody tried to create some charts to understand the 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.960 various time travel shenanigans in this movie, and they just 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.560 threw their hands up as well. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.920 This is not primer, This is not where like you 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.400 charged it out and it actually does all make sense. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.480 This is just like, I have no idea how these 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.360 people got here this time. It just doesn't work. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.560 Yeah, people started traveling through time and it's a mess 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.000 which I mean is kind of that kind of the theme. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.280 So embrace the messiness of this film. Now when it 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.800 comes to time travel, this is our fourth proper time 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.880 travel movie on Weird House Cinema. It comes up occasionally. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.040 It's like a side gimmick. I think I had to 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.320 remind myself of this. But in The Eliminators the Mad 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.040 Scientists and that also does time travel. But it's not 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.560 a time travel movie. Our time travel movies have been 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.320 free jack transfers to and time after time prior to. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.040 This, all movies with their own unique pleasures. But I 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:15.760 think this is our first martial arts focus time travel movie. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.000 That's right, Yeah, this one is a definite martial arts picture. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.480 I would describe the martial arts action in this film 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:26.080 as not being it's not about epic stories. Like I 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.040 think I've said before, a proper action sequence, be it 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.240 with swords or fisticuffs, it needs to tell a story, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.440 and especially in a martial arts movie, your fights need 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.839 to tell stories. In some movies, those fights are like 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.760 novels within the film. In this book, in this book, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.000 in this movie, time time cop, the fights are more 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.640 like short stories but they're really solid short stories. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.400 Well, I don't know if you agree with this. I 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.520 was divided on the action scenes. Basically, I thought all 0:04:55.560 --> 0:05:00.719 of the all of the action scenes involving gun, most 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.680 of those were kind of in I don't know, I 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.160 could take them or leave them. They were kind of 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.920 standard nineties action slop, you know, close up of one 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.560 person shooting, close up of another person shooting a bunch 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.279 of like barrels exploding in the meantime. But the hand 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.480 to hand fights and like knife fights and all that 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.960 that was top notch, really really good stuff. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.920 Oh yeah, absolutely, it's the melee that is where the 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.320 amusement in the entertainment is here. I mean, that's why 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.640 you have Van Dam. Mean, it's okay if Van Dam 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.840 fires a gun in an action movie, but it's not 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.599 really what you want to see. Yeah, unless he's doing 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.440 the splits at the same time, and then I guess 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:34.960 that counts. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.679 Oh he does a world class jump splits in this movie. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.080 But the other thing I would say is that the 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.800 hand to hand fight scenes are excellent, but they're excellent 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.200 in a cartoony way. They don't come off as particularly 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:53.360 like realistic, plausible fights. There's like there's one I've got 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.560 in mind where there is a knife fight where the 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.599 characters are just it's like a sword duel. So what 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.359 you expect to see in a sword dou in a 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.159 movie as characters slamming their swords into the other person's sword. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.880 That makes more sense with the sword because you might 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.960 be using it to try to hit and parry. But 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.000 there's a scene in this movie where they're doing that 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:16.279 with like six inch long knives. They're just like slamming 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:17.640 their knife blades together. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.880 Yeah, and a plus, this is definitely a movie where 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.560 I guess our lead character gets extra points if he 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.040 does a quality kill if there's like a fatality move involved. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.599 So it's you know, it's very based in all of that. Now, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.800 to come back to the time travel aspects of this, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.159 I want to I want to go back to a 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.359 continuing conversation we've had Joe in previous time travel episodes. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.440 I guess, particularly time after time, you talked about time 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.880 travel story types. I thought you might refresh everyone's memory 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.120 on this and figure out exactly where time coop falls 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:50.840 into all of that. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.040 Okay, well, so these were story categories I created. This 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.240 is not like a you know, a accepted literary framework, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.240 so don't go trying to cite this in your film 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.400 or literature classes. But these were the basic types of 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.560 time travel stories I could think of in our Time 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.919 after Time episode. So the first one was what I 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.680 called Journey to Time Island. This is a time travel 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.840 story that uses the future or the past primarily just 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.920 as a setting. It's a hostile setting for an adventure narrative, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.960 so it might as well be Skull Island or an 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.120 alien planet in a Star Trek episode. It's just an 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:32.080 unfamiliar setting where characters must face unfamiliar challenges. Second type 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.680 of story is what I called phish out of Time. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.160 This is usually what you find in time travel comedies. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.160 It is the time based equivalent of the fish out 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:45.240 of water plot, where most of the tension, its comedic tension, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.680 comes from people not getting it, not understanding local conditions, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:54.960 not being able to adapt to the expectations, and the 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.360 social taboos and stuff of the time to which they 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.480 have been transported. Time after Time had some of that 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.240 with you know, HG. Wells walking around in nineteen seventies 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.120 cities and being scared of the traffic and then going 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.760 to the Scottish breakfast restaurant where he enjoys Palm Fritz. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.080 Yeah yeah, McDonald's. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.320 Okay. The third category was what I called fresh eyes 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.720 for bad Eras. This is primarily a story that tries 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.160 to comment on the particular features of the time in 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.600 which they are set, usually the present, but sometimes the future, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.120 and sort of have social commentary about it. So the 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.080 time traveler is able to bring fresh eyes to look 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.200 on the present and see how wrong it is. Usually 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.720 notice bad things about it that you know, all of 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.200 the Krono locals have just learned to ignore. I think 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.560 there are two main subtypes of the fresh eyes for 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.120 bad Eras plot. One is like, the modern world sucks, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.720 and this is observed either by somebody from the future 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.640 or from the past. And the other is, if we 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.760 keep this up, look what the future is going to 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.200 be like, it's going to be bad. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:00.880 Yeah. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.880 This is a great one, of course, because it's always 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.920 that chance to visit the like the dystopian or post 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.480 apocalyptic future and realize, oh, this is a bad course around. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.520 We've got a course correct, because look at all these 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:13.760 flaming barrels in the street. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.880 That's right, okay. Fourth category of story is what I 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.080 called debugging history. This is one that focuses kind of 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.920 on the butterfly effect or on the consequences of actions 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.360 across time. It's where people are trying to isolate a 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.120 variable in the progression of history and human life and 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.400 maybe alter it in order to fix something that goes wrong. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:41.600 It's primarily concerned with consequences of decisions and long term 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.640 ripple effects. A great example of this is Back to 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:45.199 the Future. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:46.000 Yes. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.240 And then the last category is what I would call 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:52.000 the time travel arms race story. This is the type 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.480 of story that is actually the most focused on time 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.360 travel itself, and the kind that focuses on time travel 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.199 as a mechanism. It takes it seriously as a mechanism 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.040 and usually as a weapon, something that grants you god 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.880 like power. These plots often have competing time travelers, like 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.760 maybe both the heroes and the villains have access to 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.360 time travel, and they're often like trying to go back 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.600 further and further to get ahead of the other one 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.800 or change something or fix something. And it recognizes time 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:31.720 travel as a dangerous, chaotic, uncontrollable power. Essentially. In fact, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.680 I would say this type of story is the one 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.319 that best fits Time Cop. I think Time Cop is 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.120 a time travel arms race movie. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.640 Yeah, I think that's a I think that's that's a 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.880 good comparison to make, because yeah, time travel technology is 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.079 just straight up compared to atomic power in this movie. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.120 And the way it is explored is it's explored is 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.520 this thing that is ultimately a great threat that has 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.360 to be controlled. There are discussions on should it be 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.600 policed or should it just be banned out right or 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.719 prevented in some manner. So absolutely like this is a 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.320 time travel arms race all the way. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.240 There is a part of the mood, Well, we can 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.320 discuss the implications of this, but I did think it 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.280 was funny. Whereas this character who's a politician, is like, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.600 we shouldn't be trying to police the use of time travel. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:17.720 We should just ban it. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.400 But I mean, I get, I get. I think what 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.160 he was saying there is like, why are we paying 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.680 for time cops that are going out like after the 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.800 fact and trying to fix things and chase people down 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.400 when maybe we need to be carrying out real world 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.800 strike some time travel facilities, which I think they also 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.720 allude to trying to do that's going on. Maybe they 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.160 just need that we need to double down on that. 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.320 I don't know, Yeah, I guess so. So, Yeah, I 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.400 think Time Cop is an arms race plot. It's not 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.880 really especially concerned with social commentary or satire. There's a 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.880 little bit of that, but what's there doesn't really depend 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.200 on the time travel mechanic. It is mainly concerned with 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:59.320 the implications of time travel as a technology and inevitably 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.200 as a And you know what, I think I would 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.160 sort of agree with the spirit of the movie, which 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.359 is that if time travel to the past were invented, 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.880 it would immediately be misused, two disastrous effects. I think 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.560 that's likely true, and I think, as the movie says, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.200 it's quite plausible that the invention of time travel would 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.120 be far worse than the invention of nuclear weapons. Just 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.520 a genuine nightmare. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.600 Yeah, all of history just swirling the drain pretty much, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.760 all right. So the elevator pitch on this one, I mean, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.760 it's basically in the title. You don't even really need 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.480 to go further than Time Cop. But basically the pitch 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.760 is time crimes are happening throughout all of human history, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.640 and it's up to a single government agency and one 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.440 incorruptible time cop to police them. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.560 Couldn't have said it better myself. That's right. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:45.160 Now. 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.079 It's probably worth noting as well that this is our, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.840 I think, our first true cop movie. And by that, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.480 I don't mean a movie that has cops in it 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.400 or concerns police work or cops saving the day. I 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.560 mean a movie that has this like blank cop, like 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.480 Maniac Cop, RoboCop, Scanner Cop, and so forth. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.080 Yeah, hyphen cop movies, yes, though most of them don't 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.120 actually have a hyphen. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:06.600 You know. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.240 I would not say I am especially fond of cop 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.960 movies in general, but I love sci fi or supernatural 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.400 hyphen cop movies almost as much as I love sci 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.920 fi or supernatural wrestling movies. And I'm going to pitch 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.760 some ideas right now for aspiring filmmakers. Lych Cop. I 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.720 may have suggested that one on the show before, but 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.920 if not, there you go. You can have it. Take it. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:32.200 I give it to you. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.720 Natural regression from Maniac Cop, I think. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, how about Predator Cop. Yeah, it's got 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.080 like the blades and the and the and the like 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.280 the razor frisbee. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.200 Okay, yeah, that I could see that happening. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.520 Mars Cop. That's pretty surely somebody you know that if 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.800 they haven't made that, go and do it. How about 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:53.679 Druid Cop. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:55.440 M Druid Cop. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:56.520 Druid Cop could work. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:00.360 Yeah, there's some mistletoe badge element you could play with there. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.640 I don't know. Shark Cop Shark Cop. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.600 Shark Cop does seem to exist on the Z grade 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.400 level at least I did a little searching around. Nothing 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.520 that anybody needs to seek out. But great minds think 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.520 alike when it comes to Shark Cop. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.920 And why not in the end lawnmore Man Cop. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.600 I mean, we live in a world where we have 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.960 more than one scanner cop movie. So yeah, lawnmower Man 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:21.920 Cop just makes sense. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.200 Okay, I think we're about to do the trailer, right, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.240 should we do the trailer? 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.480 Yes, let's listen to this trailer. It's a good one. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.320 Well, hold on before we play it. I want you 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.480 folks out there to listen for this. So this is 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:37.040 a classic ninety style in a world trailer and it 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.400 says one man, not once, but twice. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:41.840 All right, here we go. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:52.680 We're all alone, no chaperone, head get on of the. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.440 World and plumba. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:59.920 That's miss became. There's something wild about your child's. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:29.520 Let me be outrage. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.800 Join Partner, Thanks partner, Let me go Max, I'm not 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.160 hurting anybody. Good to take you back in the year 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.880 two thousand and four, time travel is a reality. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.880 Charge for the violations of TEC Code only penty. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.160 Time travel intend to. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.640 Alter the future and the crime. And it turns out 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.720 going back in time as a pretty easy way to 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:37.240 make money. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.600 I think you got yourself and shipping of gold, and 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:40.920 you're taking a general way. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.400 The genie is already out of the bottle. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:45.920 The technology is there now. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.000 One man, you hear the name Aaron McCole is about 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.760 to take the ultimate power trips. He's gonna be president. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.440 You're gonna need the press. You don't need endorsements. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:54.760 You don't need to either the truth if you need 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.280 money or to enforce the laws of time. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.760 Are we still together in ten years? Am I dead? 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.480 When that is determined to stop? Here I can go 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.160 back to save her. This comeback. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:06.880 It's not going back to still money. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:13.440 Stay here, Walker, my future, your dad. I think it 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:20.840 planned to fore ahead. Jean Claude, Down Down, Run Silver Da. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:41.960 Mia, Sarah, Yeah, I love it. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.400 This is a kind of a funky trailer where it 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.200 starts off with that old timey nineteen twenty nine opening 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.120 before we get that noodling guitar riff to let you 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.280 know it's not the past anymore, baby, and then we 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.360 get the whole time travel scenario laid out for us 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.320 with dramatic narration by If I'm not mistaken, this is 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.080 Don la Fontaine, the voice of God himself. It's sometimes 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.520 a little hard to track down credentials on these trailers, 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.840 but I'm like ninety nine percent sure this is Don Lafontaine. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.639 And eventually they also go ahead and cap it off 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.359 with Another thing I love in particularly nineties trailers is 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.679 they just use James Horner's Alien score at the end, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.680 that building bump bump bum bum bum bum bump bump 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.800 bump music. And you know, even though that's obviously not 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.480 the score for this film, they were like, Nope, that 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.720 Alien's score that really gets into people's bloodstream. We've got 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.080 to use that as much as possible to sell our films. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.800 You have ten seconds to clear minimum safe distance. Yeah, 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:42.120 and it worked. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.280 This movie did like financially clear minimum safe distance. And 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.840 then so this is a successful film, made money, made 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:50.480 people happy. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:55.120 I didn't go deep into the critical reaction to Timecop. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.480 But it seems critics were sort of divided on it, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.040 and a lot of the people who did like it 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.920 kind of gave it middling positive reviews. They said, like, 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.840 it's an okay ripoff of Terminator. Sometimes I read stuff 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.760 like that and I'm like, these same critics were giving 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.480 positive reviews to Steven Segall and Hard to Kill. What 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.000 was wrong with people? Like they just did not know 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.560 how to have fun correctly? 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.879 Yeah, this is a movie that it's it's kind of 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.200 like it's you know, it's like Ketchup in French Fries. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:22.760 I guess, you know. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.200 It's like you can say, oh, we need to deconstruct this, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.600 you know, what could we do to improve this set 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:29.760 or the other. But at the end of the day, 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.840 it's it's ketchup in French fries and and that's going 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.479 to that's going to please most of the people who 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.960 ordered it, knowing what they were ordering. So yeah, I 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.879 don't get some of the criticism that it got, Like 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.639 Ebert gave it two stars, But again, Ibert Ebert's always 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.720 kind of an interesting litmus test for films like this 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.680 because Time Cop is exactly the sort of film that 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.800 I could see Roger Ebert giving at. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:53.840 Least three stars too. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.119 Yeah, maybe even a little more, you never know, But 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.480 in this case he was just very much in the 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:01.720 middle of the board on it. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.399 Well, it reminds me of Ebert's statement about how when 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.200 you're a child and you have the choice to watch 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.440 either Gamera, Guardian of the Universe or Air Force One, 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.920 the child knows that Gamera is better. But then when 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.760 you get older and more mature and you think yourself wise, 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.040 you think no air Force One, that is more realistic, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.040 that is better. Then when you get older, once again 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.040 even wiser than that, maybe you gain true wisdom instead 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.560 of the fake, pretentious wisdom of young adulthood, you realize 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:31.040 no Gamera is better. 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:33.400 Yeah, all right. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.199 If you want to watch Time Cop before we get 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.520 into the discussion here, well, lucky you. It's widely available digitally. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.480 It's also on DVD and Blu Ray, though I don't 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.520 think it's been given any special treatment on Blu Ray 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.680 over the years. I could be wrong, but I didn't 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:59.280 find anything. All right, let's jump into the discussion of 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.040 the people who may this film. The director and cinematographer 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.200 is Peter Hyams born nineteen forty three. He was born 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.879 into a kind of show business family Broadway in theater, 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.240 and he eventually started off his career in TV journalism 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.280 in New York City, in Chicago and then Chicago. In 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.760 nineteen sixty six, he reported from Vietnam, I Believe for 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.280 New York City CBS affiliate, and it was during this 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.480 basic time period that he got into documentary filmmaking. He 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.840 sold his first screenplay, t R. Baskin to Paramount Pictures 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.120 in nineteen seventy and it was produced in seventy one 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.359 that had Candice Bergen in the leading role. He started 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.040 directing as well on TV movies at first, but then 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.479 in seventy four he directed the comedy Busting, starring Elliott 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.200 Gould and Robert Blake as cops. Then came a pair 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:50.200 of dramas out Time and Pepper, both in nineteen seventy four, 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.200 but then in seventy seven he directed the fake Mars 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.280 landing thriller I Guess you could say It's a conspiracy 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.960 thriller capricorn I, and a number of big films Fought, 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.720 including eighty one's Outland, a gritty space western starring Sean Connery, 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:09.040 Peter Boyle and also a very early performance from Clark. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:09.280