Our next movie is a low budget
film called Time Chasers (1994), so low budget it seems they did not have
enough cash to press a DVD in the UK. We could not find this movie anywhere, 2nd
hand DVD stores, Amazon, behind the sofa, we looked everywhere. In the end we
had to make a decision a) try harder or b) go back to our substitute bench and
replace this movie with 2 bad movies as punishment. We went for option c).
And so ends a fantastic 90 minutes of pure entertainment. However, don’t forget, I was watching the MST3K version and unfortunately, underneath their quick witted, brilliant humour, is an awful, cheap and dull movie.
The acting has more wood than Ron Wood on a family picnic in a forest. Bruch gurns and splutters his way throughout the movie and is never convincing as a leading actor. The MST3K guys allude to this, but Bruch really does not have the screen presence or looks to pull this off.
The chin with 2 time zones, thick glasses and mullet hairdo does not say all action hero to me. It actually says Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards, (OK a hero, but of the wrong variety).
The supporting cast is weak. Pritchard gives whining puppy dog eyes throughout, Harrington’s talent is moustache grooming, not acting and Woodard’s baddie is one-dimensional, (ironically, One-Dimension are way more scary than this guy!).
According to Wikipedia, the budget for this movie was $150k. This is all well and good, but I am left wondering what on earth they spent the other $149,999.99 on. It certainly couldn’t have been the lavish special effects, as even the Commodore 64 was laughing at them.
It almost definitely was not the plot as this was printed from the generic time travel storyline website and the character’s names were added in large letters with a crayon.
No money was spent on the sets, as there are none, (it’s mainly set outdoors). The future looked suspiciously like the present; the alternative future looked suspiciously like the present in a disused warehouse. The past looked like the present despite 5 cars from the 50’s and the 18thcentury merely looked like a gang of drunken battle re-enactors had stumbled onto set, (probably not far from the truth).
The hairstyles, clothing and computer technology all belong in the 80’s and I can imagine had I watched the movie at its release, I would have thought, ‘wow, this looks really dated!’. (Actually, there is a boring explanation as the movie was apparently shot in 1990. I guess when you produce crap this bad, you need to really let it mature for 4 years for maximum crap effect!).
Therefore, be under no illusions, I only enjoyed this movie thanks to the guys from MST3K. Without them, this is a very dated, paint by numbers time travel story with no redeeming quality.
That’s my take anyway, if you want to hear a funnier take on Time Chasers, then read Wes’ blog and once you’ve done that, dust off you Commodore 64, grow a mullet, strap a pork chop to your chin and treat yourself to the MST3K version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHfau_ONSw
And so ends a fantastic 90 minutes of pure entertainment. However, don’t forget, I was watching the MST3K version and unfortunately, underneath their quick witted, brilliant humour, is an awful, cheap and dull movie.
The acting has more wood than Ron Wood on a family picnic in a forest. Bruch gurns and splutters his way throughout the movie and is never convincing as a leading actor. The MST3K guys allude to this, but Bruch really does not have the screen presence or looks to pull this off.
The chin with 2 time zones, thick glasses and mullet hairdo does not say all action hero to me. It actually says Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards, (OK a hero, but of the wrong variety).
The supporting cast is weak. Pritchard gives whining puppy dog eyes throughout, Harrington’s talent is moustache grooming, not acting and Woodard’s baddie is one-dimensional, (ironically, One-Dimension are way more scary than this guy!).
According to Wikipedia, the budget for this movie was $150k. This is all well and good, but I am left wondering what on earth they spent the other $149,999.99 on. It certainly couldn’t have been the lavish special effects, as even the Commodore 64 was laughing at them.
It almost definitely was not the plot as this was printed from the generic time travel storyline website and the character’s names were added in large letters with a crayon.
No money was spent on the sets, as there are none, (it’s mainly set outdoors). The future looked suspiciously like the present; the alternative future looked suspiciously like the present in a disused warehouse. The past looked like the present despite 5 cars from the 50’s and the 18thcentury merely looked like a gang of drunken battle re-enactors had stumbled onto set, (probably not far from the truth).
The hairstyles, clothing and computer technology all belong in the 80’s and I can imagine had I watched the movie at its release, I would have thought, ‘wow, this looks really dated!’. (Actually, there is a boring explanation as the movie was apparently shot in 1990. I guess when you produce crap this bad, you need to really let it mature for 4 years for maximum crap effect!).
Therefore, be under no illusions, I only enjoyed this movie thanks to the guys from MST3K. Without them, this is a very dated, paint by numbers time travel story with no redeeming quality.
That’s my take anyway, if you want to hear a funnier take on Time Chasers, then read Wes’ blog and once you’ve done that, dust off you Commodore 64, grow a mullet, strap a pork chop to your chin and treat yourself to the MST3K version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHfau_ONSw
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