He has to step carefully interacting with her (which he's not even supposed to be doing in the first place) lest he inadvertently change the future for the worse. Amnesiac Lover: Future!Walker regarding his wife in the past, who's dead in the future.'80s Hair: Hilariously enough, it's the 2004 Max Walker who wears a mullet (possibly justified as a regular DC cop he'd have to keep to strict grooming standards, and after losing Melissa he cares a bit less about presentation in a top-secret government agency).Timecop provides examples of the following tropes: There was also a direct-to-DVD sequel Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003), taking place 20 years following the original. It had a short-lived spin off show, Timecop: The Series, which featured a brand new cast and lasted for one season of nine episodes. One politician even suggests that they simply re-invest the program's funding into tougher regulations on the technology - but he's really only interested in stopping Walker's interference in his own time travel shenanigans. So aside from the highly risky (and unprofitable) archaeological possibilities, the technology has no productive use, resulting in the titular Cops. And even this is risking some bizarre accident that could kill billions. Butterfly of Doom means that attempting to Set Right What Once Went Wrong would have disastrous side effects, so about the least dangerous thing you can do with it is either go back and steal things with advanced technology or make investments in the past that you can cash in on in the present. this scumbag is not going back to steal money!"Īt no point in the movie are there any legitimate reasons for time travel, implying that the only reason for time travel is to prevent other people from using time travel. Help ensure a future for the Happy Place during an uncertain era AND get sweet merch by pledging to the site’s Patreon account at We just added a bunch of new tiers and merchandise AND a second daily blog just for patrons!Īlternately you can buy The Weird Accordion to Al, signed, for just 19.50, tax and shipping included, at the or for more, unsigned, from Amazon here." If I cannot go back to save her. Or you can buy The Joy of Trash here and The Weird A-Coloring to Al here and The Weird Accordion to Al here PLUS, for a limited time only, get a FREE copy of The Weird A-Coloring to Al when you buy any other book in the Happy Place store!īuy The Joy of Trash, The Weird Accordion to Al and the The Weird Accordion to Al in both paperback and hardcover and The Weird A-Coloring to Al and The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Colored-In Special Edition signed from me personally (recommended) over at The Joy of Trash, the Happy Place’s first non-"Weird Al” Yankovic-themed book is out! And it’s only 16.50, shipping, handling and taxes included, 30 bucks for two books, domestic only! The more you think about its plot, the less sense it makes, which is why I encourage you to simply enjoy Timecop as one of Van Damme’s best vehicles rather than ruining your enjoyment by over-thinking. Like most movies about time travel, Timecop doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I’ve seen all of those movies except for Timecop so when a kindly patron chose it for Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 I leaped at the opportunity to finally get around to correcting an unforgivable blind spot in my knowledge of film. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Dumb and Dumber, Little Women, Nobody’s Fool, Chungking Express and Timecop were all released. That was the magical time when I turned eighteen, graduated from high school and began college AND Cabin Boy, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Reality Bites, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ref, Clifford, Red Rock West, Serial Mom, Lion King, PCU, Crooklyn, Fear of a Black Hat, Speed, Wolf, Forrest Gump, True Lies, Fresh, Natural Born Killers, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption, Ed Wood, Hoop Dreams, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Bullets Over Broadway, The Last Seduction, Stargate, Heavenly Creatures, The Professional, Mrs. I think we can all agree that the most important year in the history of the universe was 1994. The price goes down to seventy-five dollars for all subsequent choices. It’s the career and site-sustaining column that gives YOU, the kindly, Christ-like, unbelievably sexy Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place patron, an opportunity to choose a movie that I must watch, and then write about, in exchange for a one-time, one hundred dollar pledge to the site’s Patreon account. Welcome, friends, to the latest entry in Control Nathan Rabin 4.0.
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