Time Chasers LIVE: What Plaid Things Did You Learn?

[Trekker4747]

I learned that bicycle-chase scenes may not be as exciting as you might think.

I learned that when you need more funding for your time-travel project/machine that your first decision isn't to get next week's lottery numbers but to sell the technology to a corporation you first found out about last night while watching TV.

[Keighvin]

I learned that more time to study time travel would allow you to solve time travel apocalypses, somehow.

I learned it is incredibly easy to pinpoint exactly where and when a small prop plane will pop into existence in order to snipe a reporter out of the sky.

[ManUnderMask]

I learned that that's not sap.

[moviesign]

I learned that when an evil CEO kidnaps your future self and escapes into time, it's super easy to track them to the exact second in all of time they could have fled to (not to mention specific geographic location).

I learned that surviving a plane crash allows you to spontaneously generate a gun to threaten helpful fishermen with.

[Toplar Scarre]

I learned that when the theater's computer system of the auditorium that had Time Chasers suddenly cut off the live feed and began showing previews of the regular movie that was showing in that auditorium, I WAS THE ONLY ONE that was concerned about the show so much (when you pledge $100 to the Rifftrax Kickstarter, you expect a flawless presentation), that I rushed to the box office to tell the manager about it.  If I sat on my butt like the other 45 people there, the problem wouldn't have been taken care of so quickly.  We all got passes to a regular movie showing at the theater as a consolation for them messing up the live feed of Time Chasers.

Oh, you're talking about the movie itself?  Um...O.K.....

I learned that if there is a chance that you know that the dead, bullet ridden body of yourself from another timeline is inside the wreckage of a plane, it's less of a traumatizing thing but more of a "it's okay" type of thing.

[Trekker4747]

I learned it's possible for a movie you've seen countless times to have a plot-hole in it and for you to never realize it.

Let me explain:

In the edited-for-time MST3K version, Nick and Lisa go to GenCorp to meet Bob Evil in his mezzanine office, the shortly after flee and make their way to a downtown area, get in a cab, and eventually make their way back to Rutland, Vermont.  It never occurred to me that GenCorp's office wasn't in Rutland, or nearby, and that it was.... in New York City? Hence the cab and the guy's accent and pointing out he's an actor from New York, New York?  And Nick and Lisa took a cab from NY, NY back home.

Here in the unedited, "extended" version we see that they did, indeed, have the cabbie drive them from the GenCorp HQ (which apparently not only has an astonishingly high level of corporate espionage going on but in the pretty restricted NY, NY arms their security officers with assault rifles/machine guns) back to the airfield in Rutland.  And it only costs them... $100? Seems pretty cheap even in 1991!

[Parker_Hylton]

  And it only costs them... $100? Seems pretty cheap even in 1991!

No, I heard the cabbie say 3 "big ones," which I originally took to mean 3 grand, but then Castleton said "4 bills" and I realized it was $400 bucks.  Doing a few calculations, interest and the consumer price index would be equal to $675 and $764 adjusted US in 2016.

Yeah, the fully automatic Uzi's in the hands of corporate security was insanely goofy, but my biggest issue (that I surprisingly didn't catch in the tv version) is what moviesign mentioned about Castleton's time twin just "showing up" at the correct place and time in Vermont 1777.  Must have tracked minute changes in airplane skin density

[Parker_Hylton]

Oh, and I forgot...it's not really plaid...more like the grey asses of "Spring Fever," but I did like the new short with "Shorty":

"We're going to just pretend we didn't see the monkey throw the doll to a grisly death..."

[Trekker4747]

  And it only costs them... $100? Seems pretty cheap even in 1991!

No, I heard the cabbie say 3 "big ones," which I originally took to mean 3 grand, but then Castleton said "4 bills" and I realized it was $400 bucks.  Doing a few calculations, interest and the consumer price index would be equal to $675 and $764 adjusted US in 2016.

Yeah, the fully automatic Uzi's in the hands of corporate security was insanely goofy, but my biggest issue (that I surprisingly didn't catch in the tv version) is what moviesign mentioned about Castleton's time twin just "showing up" at the correct place and time in Vermont 1777.  Must have tracked minute changes in airplane skin density

Ah, I must have missed the higher price, so I guess that makes more sense.  So, they drove from (wherever) to Vermont inside of a few hours?

And why didn't "past Nick" recognize J.K. Robertson looking over the maps and stuff with the GenCorp guys when he arrived at the air-field in order to give the demo to Pink Boy?


On the showing up at the same time thing, I just assumed the technology somehow allowed for "tracking" where/when people went. 

I learned that people in the 1950s people were fairly casual and non-chalant a bout oddly dressed 20-somethings in their diners/on their streets.

[Keighvin]

Just a note, during Cabbie Nick's complaints, he mentioned the streets of Boston not being like New York, so I think the GenCorp office was in Boston.

[Nico]

I learned that that's not sap.

My friend that I went with were saying this all weekend. That and "JK! LOL!".

[Nico]

  And it only costs them... $100? Seems pretty cheap even in 1991!

No, I heard the cabbie say 3 "big ones," which I originally took to mean 3 grand, but then Castleton said "4 bills" and I realized it was $400 bucks.  Doing a few calculations, interest and the consumer price index would be equal to $675 and $764 adjusted US in 2016.

Yeah, the fully automatic Uzi's in the hands of corporate security was insanely goofy, but my biggest issue (that I surprisingly didn't catch in the tv version) is what moviesign mentioned about Castleton's time twin just "showing up" at the correct place and time in Vermont 1777.  Must have tracked minute changes in airplane skin density

Ah, I must have missed the higher price, so I guess that makes more sense.  So, they drove from (wherever) to Vermont inside of a few hours?

And why didn't "past Nick" recognize J.K. Robertson looking over the maps and stuff with the GenCorp guys when he arrived at the air-field in order to give the demo to Pink Boy?


On the showing up at the same time thing, I just assumed the technology somehow allowed for "tracking" where/when people went. 

I learned that people in the 1950s people were fairly casual and non-chalant a bout oddly dressed 20-somethings in their diners/on their streets.

And how did they pay their tab at the diner? Here, have this $10 bill from 1983 that looks totally different than now. NBD.

[Long Tall Jodie]

I learned that the gub'mint is out to get me.

[Compound]

"Joe Don Baker is like the anti-Nick Miller" - Allison "Obscurus Lupa" Pregler, from a review of Time Chasers

[Trekker4747]

"Joe Don Baker is like the anti-Nick Miller" - Allison "Obscurus Lupa" Pregler, from a review of Time Chasers

Watched that earlier today, great review and I agree with them on the movie. All things considered, it's not *that* bad of a movie it's just that the obvious low-budgetness of it makes it an easy target.  I recent bought the (un-riffed) DVD of it, too. And I agreed with Lupa, "Nick Miller" isn't that bad of a looking guy, er, from the neck-down, I guess. The hockey-hair and chin-butt does him no favors.  But he's built so there's that.  Still, don't think we needed to see him shirtless.

But the movie is actually "good" in some respects and I think the un-edited version has some good stuff, like the talk with the future bums and there is a nice "arc" for Nick and it *is* interesting how we actually get to see the transition of this arc in the end of the movie with the two versions of the character standing next to one another and the "more experienced one" (by a couple months, IIRC) dying giving the "older version" one the option to become the man of action he apparently can be.

There is, indeed, some good stuff here.

But, where *did* Nick get the gun when he jumped into the lake and got into the fishing boat?


I learned that posters for 56-year-old movies will be in alleys during the apocalypse in 2041.