The future is 30 years old! / Does this Sci-Fi hit still hold up? / Revisiting Timecop
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In this video I discuss the 30th anniversary of TimeCop, the Jean-Claude Van Damme Classic!
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Another classic Van Damme flick 💪when Timecop came out I saw it at a drive in movie theater.
Sudden death is one of his best movies
For sure man! "Timecop" is one of the best Van Damme movies until this days. We talking about the JVCD Golden Age in Hollywood.
Van dammes best film outside of Bloodsport and Kickboxer will always be DOUBLE IMPACT... Van Damme as Alex was a badass character, that movie deserved a sequel for real
Lionheart
I'm with you on that. I highly rate Double Impact. Timecop was really pretty good too though
@@KNIGHTOFSIN187 hard target and Cyborg. Double impact is Infact up there.
Agreed.
He was absolutely fantastic in Sudden Death.
I used to love Van Damme's movies as a kid...as an adult, pretty much none of them hold up.
Sad but true
Death Warrant is criminally underrated
I liked Timecop, Van Damme. I remember seeing this movie at the cinema. I haven't seen the sequel without Van Damme, and I also haven't seen the TV series. Apparently, it's not a successful series. I like most of Van Damme's movies from the '80s and '90s.😊
JCVD trained Taekwondo in Los Angeles, could you work on that? Get more information?
Wait sorry to ask but how old are you samurai? I'm 35
Schwarzenegger did the Total Recall in 1990, Sly followed that up with Demolition Man in 1993 and Van Damme wrapped it up with Timecop year later, all became instant classics! All within this early 90's 5 year frame! Big-3 of the 80's and 90's doing big-3 things...
Great movie and it still looks original
Remember seeing it at the cinema, and buying the movie on laserdisc, 1994 was a great year for the movies. I Hope they Will release timecop on 4k disc, in fact All van dammes early movies should Come out on 4k disc, 1994 god time flyes, thank you Viking samurai for keeping the memories alive and I really Hope for the channel that you one day wiil get to interview jean claude. 😊
Lance Hendriksen and Arnold Vosloo were an epic bad guy duo in Hard Target, I think even better onscreen chemistry than Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busy. 😊
One of my favourite Van Damme films, also because it has got the beautiful Mia Sara in it, and it has a great science fiction premise, great storyline, and great drama. Movies on streaming today are not of this quality.
Never thought Van Damme saying his lines were ever good, the only times he's at his best is when he's yelling out NOOOOO and being over the top with it!
Great movie. Van Damme is a much better actor and performer than many give him credit for. HIs movies with Sheldon, and Timecop, showcased that.
Enemies Closer, Replicant, Wake of Death are one of his best in terms of acting
Nowhere to run is one of my favorite
Great movie, watched it again recently on Tubi.
I think I was 8 when I first saw it haha, I loved it and still do, i believe that was the first vandamme movies I saw too. The scene were he goes back in time and almost gets hit by the Semi truck scared me as a kid haha
Timecop is 30 years old, I'm 39 and after all these years I started grow the same one mulet..I never have so long hair..I love it
Timecop is pretty good. Haven't watched it in a long time.
i really enjoyed this one and revisited recently on tubi, it is decent film, and on the better van damme films.
i think there was a videogame tied into it to.
One of my favorite JCVD movies
Total Recall 2070 was the best one off movie TV adaptation I think I've seen yet.
Time Cop was one of UNIVERSALS' biggest box office sci-fi/action movies money maker. They had a plaque at Universal Studios about it. I watched in theaters, and when it came out on vhs, I went to a local video store. They had a massive cardboard Time Cop display. The owner put a sticky on it with my name so I could pick up when done advertising. It was huge. Until Death is a very underrated movie, I think. You see JCVD going thru it on his face. That diner scene in the beginning is money.
How did they make those films better shot and quality than these new ones?
Because those movies were shot on 35mm both on-location and in-studio with actual built sets at the peak of CG & practical blended combos and it didn't use animated pyrotechnics, squibs, vehicles, richochets, muzzle flashes..etc. Most movies today however are shot on cheaper digital cameras to give it that actors-doing-cosplay look and on sound stages against green screen with the above mostly animated in post rather than captured in-camera, hence why movies have lost that expensive, cinematic and timeless classic look. There are some recent exceptions though with Oppenheimer, No Time to Die, Challengers, Twisters, The Bikeriders, A Quiet Place 2, Cuckoo, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Sharper and Strange Darling all having been shot to the same quality level as peak 90s professional studio movies so they all look fabulous.
Rest Peacefully Steven Lambert🙏🏼
I have the Timecop poster in my office.
Timecop is one of my favorite sci-fi movies. It definitely holds up and next to Bloodsport. It's his best movie in my opinion. In some ways it's better than Bloodsport. It's basically a dumbed down version of minority report without all the darkness and overly complex themes
It's more exciting but I think minority reports good to.
I remember watching Timecop at the cinema back in 1994 with my uncle. I was 14 years old that time and I was a huge JCVD fan. JCVD was at his peak in 1994. Sadly after Street Fighter he kinda felt off.
I also watched this one in the theatre. I loved it, still one of my favorites. Those were good times. Other JCVD movies I've seen in theaters: Kickboxer, Lionheart ("Wrong Bet" in Belgium), Universal Soldier, Hard Target and Street Fighter.
Bloodsport, Kickboxer, AWOL ( lionheart), double impact, Timecop were the 5 best
Timecop is classic.
To this day, out of reflex, if someone says "there's never enough time" I'll jump in with "..to please a woman".
Jcvd's delivery in this movie is all-time great.
Have All Van Damme's Movies Including Timecop and Still Haven't Seen This Movie? My Top 5 Van Damme Movies -
1. AWOL
2. Double Impact
3. Hard Target
4. Bloodsport
5. Universal Soldier
Have The Sequel Timecop 2 Also Believe It's Crap! Hence Why It Went Straight To Video/DVD.
30 Years!!, sh*t!!, i love Timecop. I watched it at the pictures with some family members. I own the DVD along with most of his films. I watched it a few months back and think it's definitely still a great watch and leagues ahead of what they tend to churn out now.
I always thought that Time Cop is way better than The Mask.
The TV Show is pretty bad. I recorded the entire series off of Encore Action (THAT was the best channel that ever-existed RIP).
I just bought Time Cop 2 off of ebay. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
It's nice to see you back to doing reviews.
Huge film when it was released. Van Damme in his Hollywood prime!
His peak studio films for me are Sudden Death (best story and epic scale), Universal Soldier (his best looking film thanks to Roland Emmerich), Lionheart (best characters) and Maximum Risk showed that Van Damme could easily work just as well in a straight foward Hollywood thriller.
Great Topic!
Timecop remains Van Damme's highest-grossing film as a lead actor (his second to break the $100 million barrier worldwide) compared to BloodSport which grossed $50 million on a $2.5 million budget= BloodSport is still the best JCVD netting 20 X the budget, and Timecop netted only 4 X the budget. BloodSport is a cult classic and JCVD’s best film imo and that’s what we want, a film that gains 20 X the budget in return. Enter the Dragon made 400 million on an $850,00 budget think about that for a second.
Happy 30th to this classic Van Damme sci fl action flick. Oh to me the biggest comic book film of 1994 is "The Crow" You made a great point about Van Damme's villains in this film,"Hard Target"&"Sudden Death" all played by fantastic actors R.I.P to Ron Silver&Powers Booth. Awesome job on the video David hey on a side note please watch "Life After Fighting"ASAP it written,directed and starring Bren Foster a very awesome R rated action film especially in the 3rd act IMHO.
Not only it was arguably the best comicbook movie after The Mask(there was also The Crow), Timecop and Stargate were two of the best competently made sci-fi films of the mid 90's.
I watched this for the 30th anniversary and it felt like it did for the 10th anniversary in 2004 when I was just turning 13.
Well, I watched "Timecop" long time ago, but still remember that kitchen fight with James Lew (he used two "Double Shadow" daggers, designed by Gil Hibben) which was very awesome, same like the whole movie.
Curiously, writer Mark Verheiden wrote both the original comic book Mask was based on, and the original Timecop comic. Although, Chuck Russel's adaptation of The Mask got rid of the gore and the horror elements, leaned more on the comedy side and rewrote Ipkiss more like a hero/antihero type rather than an evil villain. I've heard Timecop was also more mainstream than the comic book version.
TimeCop and Hard Target, JCVD's favs of mine!!!
There is a scene in Minority Report which is a copy of the scene where Walker drinks and watches old videos. I wonder if it is just an idea easy to replicate or Cruise/Spielberg actually watched the Timecop.
I’ll be honest. I like how you’ve always defended Segal and Van-Damme. So many channels try and goof off them, especially Segal. I’ve always appreciated someone who doesn’t jump on the trendy bandwagon.
I have seen it at the cinema. The movie is still watchable and Ron Silver is a real good bad guy (also in Blue Steel). Ron Silver reminds me to Alan Rickman which is also a good bad guy (Die Hard, Robin Hood, Quigley). Van Damme has great martial arts scenes and shows that he can more than only fighting. I still like this movie!
A great film based on a relatively unknown comic book. The TV show spin off was good (I will try to upload to my channel soon) but Timecop 2 was awful. And actually the Shadow was the best comic book movie of 94 lol!
Fun fact: JCVD was actually considered to play Wolverine, before Hugh Jackman got the role.
Hey Viking, the film was excellent and the script was amazing. Exactly what Van Damme wanted, moving from a martial actor to a "real" actor in a big budget sci-fi movie. Clearly the pic of his career.
Watched the movie three times in theater, great memories BUT as a Van Damme fan from his early work, I thought he let us down on the martial arts side. We do get his famous split and the kick holding in the mall 👍👍👍 but apart from a great fight vs. James Lew, it's a bit lazy. One or two kicks to get the bad guys down, bim bam move on.
It still remains one of his best work!!!
Demolition Man's wokeness prediction does just waiting for them to ban cursing lol
Timecop is one of those movies that you can use when they say "Ah Van Damme! the karate guy!", Van Damme was much more than that in the 90s and it saddens me that in 2024 we can't get a sequel to Timecop but we can get a sequel to Kill em All, time passes I know but Van Damme would have deserved a better career ending.
Timecop was great one of his best movies !
It’s a shame they made Timecop 2 without Van Damme ?
Can you please do a filmography of Van Damme top 50 films from worst to best?
One of my Favorites. "Still Kicking" and "There goes the Pension" are my favorite lines. While i love the movie - the time travel mechanics were a bit strange....
I liked this film a lot, but it could have had more Van Damme fight scenes. Ron Silver is a great villain and I loved the comic relief Bruce McGill offered as Van Damme's boss. Mia Sara is of course lovely, nobody can deny that, but she is also convincing in her role in general. The one thing I disliked about this movie is that even though Van Damme wins in the end, it is bittersweet because he lost all those years watching his son grow up to nearly 10 and lost nearly 10 years with his wife. Of course that is not the main message here, but it is something that kept me thinking at the time.
One particular gem of that movie was seeing James Lew fight Van Damme, the one and only time they did so. I love seeing him confront proper talent on the big screen.
To satisfy a woman. Hah. This takes me back to the 90s. They used to give this on channel 11 all the time. Easily a top 3 Van Damme movie.
Wow, it is hard to believe.It's thirty years ago. I saw this in the theater. I remember seeing the teaser trailer to street fighter. Everyone in the theater was clapping. Van dam will always be my boy. My favorite action hero of all time even over arnold. Not to mention, he was the best looking action Hero lol! I'll always love him.
Still haven't watched it but did watched hard target alot that movie is easily my favorite van Damme movie.
I own two copies of this great movie on VHS and I have the Bloodsport/Timecop blu ray. I remember watching him on a talk show and they showed the kitchen fight scene. The anticipation for this movie at the time for me was HUGE. I just ate up everything he did back then and I still watch this movie quite often. There's something about it that's addictive and it never gets old. I am currently rebuilding my Van Damme VHS collection. VHS is so much better than dvd. Thanks for making this great video and reminding us all that he was the man.
Yes it still holds up and it’s more relevant than ever with it’s subject matter
Time cop was a classic movie , to ahead of its time , for me this movie still holds up .
I also love another sci fi Cyborg which is a dark sci fi thriller set in the future, it’s a another underrated sci fi van damme movie
Must watch this film again only saw it once and don’t really remember the story
one of my favorite from Jean-Claude, keep up the great work brother David!
Original sci-fi action movie 🎥🍿
Incredible movie, 94 was great then went to watch street fighter
there is a video game adaption for the snes console. it is beyond terrible
Replicant is my favourite of his Sci-Fi films
I agree replicant is underrated, he plays a cool bad guy. It was hard to have a good fight between him and himself at the end. There's some good dialogue with Himself though.
I have to get this.
Great review buddy - that was a great Age for movies and a great movie
I enjoyed the film and it was great watching it again.
I was 18 when this came out. I never quit😊
When you think that at first, JC asked James Cameron (who declined because schedule, probable working on "True Lies"), and then Ridley Scott (who declined too, but eventually working with Van Damme on JCVJ)... Would've been a whole different movie.
Anyway, probably one of the best acting from JCVD at that time, and Peter Hyams did a good job with him in "Timecop" and "Sudden Death" IMO.
Peter Hyams also directed Enemies Closer released in 2013. That's the second best villan role for Van Damme after Replicant. Lots of magazines (including Variety, THR) praised him for that performance. He proved he can portray Joker perfectly
Saw it three times in a multiplex that's now a target.
I still have the timecop promo watch . 90s
One of my all time favorite movies. Great video
In my opinion “Timecop” was the beginning of Van Damme’s career slide & downfall. You can say the same thing about Steven Seagal with “On Deadly Ground”. By the mid 90’s Hollywood had changed. The death of Brandon Lee on the “Crow” in 1993 and the bankruptcy of Cannon Films in the early 90’s along with Democrat Bill Clinton getting elected president in 93 changed Hollywood forever.
What does Bill being office have to do with it lol? I agree that mid 90's the movies started to change to bigger action pieces like Independence Day, Armageddon and all the other disaster movies.
I won tickets to see this in the cinemas when it first came out.
Still have it on vhs.
This movie kicked ass when I first saw it in the theaters and it kicks as now!
You said your movies are packed up...do you ever watch physical discs still?
Occasionally lol.. some I can't find on streaming
@@VikingSamurai I recently went back to physical discs because I don't want my kid to develop attention problems. I get them super cheap at garage sales.
Good morning Samurai ⚔️❤🤜💪🤛
Some guy on here says VHS is much better than DVD. WTF is he talking about? Anyway Van Damme was my movie hero when I was a teenager.
Lol
Time cop is one of my favorite movies
I heard Time Cop was based on a true story about a guy named Frank Dux.
Anythings possible
"Would you please give me the gold?" - Thief from the future
Great movie 🙂
His First 100 million dollar movie says a lot speaks to he is an actor not just the Martial arts guy.
Great film!
Cool video🤘
Timecop. Sudden Death (arguably his best acting role). Bloodsport. Double Impact (my personal favourite Van Damme film). Hard Target. Kickboxer. So many classics I grew up on. Everyone loved Arnie and Stallone but I always loved Van Damme films the best because he could fight and make it look incredible cool. No one can kick like him. Scott Adkin’s yes but Van Damme was lightning in a bottle.
Van Damme had a streak of really good acting performances throughout the early 90s starting with Lionheart, Double Impact, universal soldier, nowhere to run , Timecop among others, JC was a fairly convincing actor when playing the right type of characters that play on his strengths
You forgot Street Fighter
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i love when you comment that "the movie does not take itself too seriously".
lately, movies are too serious and keep me on the edge of my seat. i haven't been able to relax and walk away relaxed after an action movie.
hopefully, movies in the future will mellow back to less aggression.
they shouldn't be making me feel that way.
Jim Carrey was paid $450,000 for his role in The Mask.
He got a big raise after that! lol
Timecop was dated the moment it came out.
They did data in 1994. It's still fun movie where the actors are having fun playing different versions of themselves. For me entertainment always trumps believability.
In Hell was top notch. Doesn't get mentioned often, but it's killer.
Agreed, it wasn't all downhill after his studio movie days. In Hell, Legionnaire and Enemies Closer were all up to par as well as being very unique entries across his entire filmography in my opinion.
Hi David
You are so right good times I feel time cop definitely holds up excellent cast I think we both are very lucky to live in that period of time films and music had abundant of creativity I think I’m gonna watch Timecop later tonight out of my collection excellent video, sir 👍 by the way, hope your shoulder is getting better
Thanks, Shoulders getting better everyday, working around it as best I can.
@@VikingSamurai glad to hear
Best wishes 👍
Damn Bro When are you going to Pull Van Dammes Dic out your Damn Mouth, hey VS let me see you do a story about Martial Artist such as Fredia "The Cheetah" Gibbs , don't get me wrong I appreciate the his work in movie. But let me see you talk about Real Martial Artist for a change please?
1:49 and The Quest 1996 😉