Comments on: Timecop, Timelash http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/ Conservatism for punks. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:22:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Ali Kokmen http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4247 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:43:56 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4247 In, perhaps, a moment of charity, I'll say one nice thing about TIMECOP. That being that it starred Mia "Ferris Bueller's girlfriend Sloane" Sara as van Damme's wife, thus answering, at the time, something of a "Hey, what ever happened to that actor?" question for we fans of the Bueller flick... But TIMECOP was still poor... In, perhaps, a moment of charity, I’ll say one nice thing about TIMECOP. That being that it starred Mia “Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend Sloane” Sara as van Damme’s wife, thus answering, at the time, something of a “Hey, what ever happened to that actor?” question for we fans of the Bueller flick…

But TIMECOP was still poor…

]]> by: Jacob T. Levy http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4216 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:57:41 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4216 I recall a conversation-- with Todd and Scott, maybe?-- about Timecop, which I hadn't (and haven't) seen, in which the movie was described in almost awestruck terms as committing every mistake it was possible to make in thinking about time travel. I recall a conversation– with Todd and Scott, maybe?– about Timecop, which I hadn’t (and haven’t) seen, in which the movie was described in almost awestruck terms as committing every mistake it was possible to make in thinking about time travel.

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4215 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:26:42 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4215 That sounds about right, though...my memory of the scene seems to have been completely erased! (Either an effect of a change in the timestream or my uncanny -- and very welcome -- ability to forget most details of bad movies as soon as I'm done watching them.) A movie Koli likes a lot, _Back to the Future_, has that implausible business about the photograph altering _only slightly_ as different characters get erased from or restored to history, but at least _Back to the Future_ is a comedy (like the second Austin Powers movie, in which Basil Exposition memorably advises a baffled Powers: "It's time travel, Austin -- have fun with it...and that goes for you [the audience], too"). _Timecop_, plainly, was not funny. I should also plug _Primer_, which Chuck and I saw together, as it happens -- the most confusing yet convincing time travel movie I've ever seen, with at least one whole website dedicated to trying to track its elaborate parallel timelines, yet the same level of shaky-cam realism you get from, say, _United 93_. Never more content while baffled in my life. That sounds about right, though…my memory of the scene seems to have been completely erased! (Either an effect of a change in the timestream or my uncanny — and very welcome — ability to forget most details of bad movies as soon as I’m done watching them.)

A movie Koli likes a lot, _Back to the Future_, has that implausible business about the photograph altering _only slightly_ as different characters get erased from or restored to history, but at least _Back to the Future_ is a comedy (like the second Austin Powers movie, in which Basil Exposition memorably advises a baffled Powers: “It’s time travel, Austin — have fun with it…and that goes for you [the audience], too”). _Timecop_, plainly, was not funny.

I should also plug _Primer_, which Chuck and I saw together, as it happens — the most confusing yet convincing time travel movie I’ve ever seen, with at least one whole website dedicated to trying to track its elaborate parallel timelines, yet the same level of shaky-cam realism you get from, say, _United 93_. Never more content while baffled in my life.

]]> by: Ali Kokmen http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4214 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:14:38 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/18/timecop-timelash/#comment-4214 Isn't TIMECOP also the movie that had the most ridiculous answer to the what-happens-when-a-time-traveller-meets-his previous-self question endemic to time travel stories? I mean, many time-travel stories set up their internal logic so that, say, a time-traveller can interact with their other self, or cannot, or sets off a rift in the space-time-continuum. But if I recall properly, TIMECOP involved Ron Silver meeting another Ron Silver and one of them becoming a green pile of goo. I can't even begin to imagine a temporal physics so complex as to include green-goo phenomena as part of temporal paradox... Isn’t TIMECOP also the movie that had the most ridiculous answer to the what-happens-when-a-time-traveller-meets-his previous-self question endemic to time travel stories?

I mean, many time-travel stories set up their internal logic so that, say, a time-traveller can interact with their other self, or cannot, or sets off a rift in the space-time-continuum. But if I recall properly, TIMECOP involved Ron Silver meeting another Ron Silver and one of them becoming a green pile of goo.

I can’t even begin to imagine a temporal physics so complex as to include green-goo phenomena as part of temporal paradox…

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