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Raisins get a bad rap, but a heads-up is needed. They're not good as a surprise ingredient. Now Craisins ... they can piss right off.

A peach. I could eat a peach for hours ...

I'd say that you need a theme song, too.

Is that right? Sorry, it's been about a week since I watched it. I edited the post ... the change actually makes the first question more relevant.

This may have already been brought up, but remember when Rae Dawn Chong realizes they had gone back in time to her birthday and recalls that she had a bad sexual experience with a guy that night; she suggests calling herself to tell her not to do it, but JCVD suggests that she call herself to give the guy some pointers. Two questions: 1. How might the future have been altered had she reached orgasm that night? 2. If you could call yourself on the night you lost your virginity, what sexual pointers would you give yourself or your partner?

Well, that's just savagery. JCVD deserves to have a close call with a freight truck for eating the last of the cold morning-after pizza.

That was my guess, too ... otherwise, there's no reason to show the change in the cop's reaction.

Two thoughts occur after re-listening to the episode: 1. June asks if the movie audience should infer from the birdhouse video that Mia Sara is a skilled carpenter -- I think that we have to because somebody rebuilt that damn house. 2. Is anyone else bothered that '94 Ron Silva died? By that point, he hadn't yet become a time criminal with a cadre of goons -- he was just an honest [*cough*] politician investing in cutting edge time travel tech on the side. I know that JCVD and the TEC have powers of immediate execution, but can he execute someone for "pre-crime" a la Minority Report?

If the time travel debate is dying down, I'd like to bring up another of the film's controversies -- has anyone in life ever been saved from a fall off the roof by grabbing the gutter? No piece of aluminum tacked to a shingle is meant to hold a person's body weight, let alone two people like in this movie. Yet I see this constantly in movies, and every time I think, "bullshit!"

I mean, that blows my mind because then, how would ANYONE ever get back from the past? Maybe that's why the bloody spots on the wall are "twins"? The same person colliding with himself ...

Anyone else read this movie as a possible allegory for nuclear weapons and the arms race? The US gov't has developed a technology that we know other countries and terrorists have been trying to develop, too, and so now, because we have invented time travel, we have to use time travel to regulate and police the use of time travel. And we need ALL the money to do it.

So, we see that events incurred by past selves are immediately consequential to the time traveler, when '94 McComb gets kicked in the face and a scar appears on '04 McComb's face. What should happen to JCVD as a result of getting thrown off of the roof and knocked unconscious twice during the fight at the end? Knowing what we know now about brain injury, concussions, CTE, etc, shouldn't '04 JCVD have suddenly gotten a slur or a headache or something, or wouldn't a fall from a roof at least given him a sudden limp? There's no way you just walk away from that kind of thing unharmed, especially if movie logic means a kick to the face leaves a huge, disfiguring scar.

This is always my problem with time travel movies -- there's no way they can truly appreciate the impact that tiny, seemingly inconsequential moments have on our lives. Forget that you just saw some people have a gun fight with future weapons and then vanish -- when '04 JCVD is walking around the '94 mall, he's bumping into and being seen by dozens of people, and each instance changes something tiny yet possibly significant in their lives. Maybe the guy that has to walk around JCVD because he is now obstructing the path by the clock store is delayed by a few seconds, which means he stops at a traffic light he didn't before, which means his whole day is thrown off by minutes, and who knows what kind of changes that would cause. Maybe JCVD touches a guy to move past him and gives him a '04 cold that knocks him out for a week, which could alter his future in myriad untold ways, which in turn would alter the lives of everyone he was supposed to interact with that week, and so on. Human interactions beget other interactions. Change one tiny thing and then people don't meet, others aren't born, decisions aren't made while others are, all of which effects the entirety of humanity. No 90-minute movie could ever capture that adequately.

Not only that, but holding hands isn't the same as occupying the same space -- you're just really close together. "It's almost as if the logic of Timecop is flawed."

I had this exact thought. If anyone here has ever played "Life is Strange," the player-character can control time and her best friend knows this, so there are moments when you travel forward to the present after going to the past, and the friend say, "oh, you're really back now." And I always wondered what it must be like to be living your life and then have your consciousness replaced by an alternate self. And what about the friend who knows this can happen to you? Come to think of it, shouldn't Mia Sara know that this would happen after '04 JCVD leaves '94 after saving every body? '94 Mia Sara knows about time travel, so when '04 JCVD goes back, she should know that should happen as she goes on living life with '94 JCVD. Do you think that's implied by the strange look she gives him when they kiss at the end of the movie -- "Oh, today was the day, wasn't it? You don't remember anything about your life since 1994. Well, this is your son, his name is Junior. Oh, and we rebuilt the house that blew up."

Totally agree. Honestly, I thought the action was pretty good ... Jaguar, Tiger, and the rest were clearly gifted athletes and solid fight performers. Some of the fights got pretty silly, and the foley work is an assault on the ears, but they were solid enough in real time that it made the over-cranked bits feel very strange and out of place. They obviously did it to make Richard Harrison's parts feel more "ninja" but even he knew how to stage-fight.

Anyone else getting a "Sexy Evil Ernest" vibe off of this guy:

That's a pretty great scene ... haven't seen The Raid.

Pat Morita is Albert Einstein as "The Disgruntled Pawn Shop Guy"

Let's make a list of everything that this movie considers "ninja-ing" ... I'll start: 1. Cartwheels 2. Cutting watermelon 3. Fire twirling 4. Moustaches 5. Arctic camo at the beach 6. Slapping 7. Nose tweaking 8. Purple nurples 9. Toy robots 10. Sand in the face 11. Eyeliner 12. Chewing gum 13. Baseballs to the face 14. ....

WHERE'S MY WATERMELON?!?

I would like to see a Clint Howard biopic where Clint Howard plays all the bit parts. Get someone like Dwight Yoakam or DJ Qualls to play him (I'm open to suggestions), but every character with less than 2 minutes of screen time or fewer than 5 lines would be Clint -- guy at the store, clerk behind the counter, waiter at the restaurant, cop who pulls over a speeder = all Clint.

Dude, Keri is remarkably well-adjusted for a person who has gone through what she had -- her boyfriend was stabbed to death while they were fucking, and their assailants kidnapped and beat her and then ... did what, exactly, with her? How did she come away from that event having no idea who was responsible? Did they just beat her unconscious and ditch her somewhere? There's no indication that she was sexually assaulted, although it seems implied from what we see. And all she has to say about it is, "He was my boyfriend. I liked him. He's dead now." She shows no sign that she really acknowledges her own trauma.

Another thing that isn't resolved is why Jake has to be in disguise when he's out wraithing if he already doesn't look like he did when he was Jamie. I mean, he's already in the disguise of a new body, right? And when he shows his face during the scene where he shoots up the garage, he lifts up his visor, but WHY? It doesn't mean anything to the gang to see him in the wraith armor if he is unrecognizable. I think it must be because part of the wraith's mission is to seduce Sherilyn Fenn all over, too, which can't happen if she knows he's really Jamie.