John R
Hey, they were ambitious. You have to give them that.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
05/14/22
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The new MST3K Netflix original has been released and I decided to expose myself to some of the old episodes available for streaming on Hulu and Netflix (there is a different random selection on each platform). Whether it is Joel or Mike watching these awful movies with the bots I do not envy the torture they are put through. Their snarky comments add some entertainment value, but my ratings are based on the movie's quality itself and not the extra material broadcast from the satellite of love. More low-budget cheese, a ridiculous time travel plot, and a hero with a mullet. Every attempt to generate excitement is botched and simply becomes a joke.
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02/01/23
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TIME CHASERS, a stunningly awful, poorly made rip-off of BACK TO THE FUTURE, PART II is such forgettable garbage made to such low standards that it isn't really even worthy of a review.
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01/16/23
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I liked the novel premise of time travel being discovered and soon exploited by an extremely wealthy and powerful corporation. Not that unique, but it has potential for some groundbreaking special effects, bolstering performances, and interesting twists on the technology used in cinema. We don't get any of that, thankfully. Instead, Time Chasers is a convoluted sci-fi mess that left me scratching my head, as I tried to ignore the enormous plotholes by focusing on the emotionless acting. Then again, I don't have many complaints, as I was watching the MST3K gang riffing on the movie the whole time.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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Another crappy mid 90s flick featuring one of the lamest leading men in cinematic history (the MST3K crew ate into him like he was Donald Sterling at the Source Awards), "Time Chasers" follows Nick (picture Sponge from Salute Your Shorts meets Richard Dreyfuss), a 10-speed riding loser with hockey hair in Vermont who constructs a time machine in his Cessna plane. Planning to use the technology for humanitarian purposes, he inadvertently signs it over to an evil corporation who, as we learn from when he goes 50 years in the future, has used it for evil and created a post-Apocalyptic society. Desperate to go back and change things, he and the female lead, who he shares the most awkward make-out scene ever with, must play a cat and mouse game with the evil CEO and his goons as they travel back and forth through time to try to be the one at the helm of this cutting edge time travel technology (that fits on a floppy disk...) with the fate of the world at stake!
Bad movies with time travel are always awesome, but I can't decide which is funnier, what hack visionaries from 1994 try to showcase what they think the year 2041 will look like (lots of holograms & kids wearing neon and skateboarding) or when they go back to the year 1777 to the middle of a Revolutionary War battle for no other reason other than because there was probably a reenactment going on in the park by where they were filming and they decided to write it into the script.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/14/23
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Time Chasers tells the story of a guy who invents a way to go back in time using an airplane and some computer software that he's invented. Things go bad when an Evil corporate bad guy tries to steal the technology away from him and use it as a weapon, causing the future to be changed into a horrible wasteland. Now it's up to the inventor and his news reporter girlfriend to set things right and save the future. This movie definitely has elements of most time travel movies that came before it, including Back to the Future, but I think the filmmakers were attempting to do something here. It's not a very good movie, but it has elements of something worth watching. It has an ok story, but its characters, acting, and special effects are pretty poor. The film was famously lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (and later by Rifftrax), which is what it's most famous for nowadays. However, I think on its own, it has potential for being an entertaining movie, at the very least. It didn't really succeed in that area, but you may find yourself caught up in it occasionally while watching it, which isn't a bad thing.
Rated 1.5/5 Stars •
Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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