Huge flaw
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nielw — 12 years ago(November 09, 2013 06:21 PM)
Timecop is one of those movies that simply forgoes making sense in order to drive an action story. I think this has to be one of the biggest offenders I've ever seen. Who cares that there were plot holes all over the place due to time travel paradoxesthey had a story tell!
It doesn't have to make sense! It just has to make money!
The fact that Fielding is suddenly alive again, or that JCVD comes home to an intact house at the endor a bunch of other little problems They all just went away once the story was resolved, regardless of whether or not it made any sense.
Show me a movie worse than this one that breaks its own rules and makes no sense, in favor of driving the story I can't think of any
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MadDog-ThrashTillDeath — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 11:31 AM)
Die HArd 4 broke almost every aspect the franchise had built up to that point, making no sense and just going for the money (Robocop remake also???)
this is an action film, main attraction is Van Damme kickin as$ with a higher budget / scope this is not pretending to be 2001 space odyssey if you wanna be smarta$$es and breakdown details you'll find a lot to whine about, we could only wish be getting action films like this one nowdays- Thundering chords is what life's all about - Gerre
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midflinx007 — 10 years ago(March 13, 2016 12:49 AM)
When Fielding died in the past she was a Jane Doe in that timeline. Her 16 year-old self grew up and joined the TEC, which is now overseen by a different senator. Meanwhile the younger Walker and his wife had the house rebuilt to look like the original, which unfortunately means there are now two Walkers in the same timeline. Maybe their wife will like that.
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frankduxvandamme — 11 years ago(October 22, 2014 04:45 PM)
Why are they even policing time travel at all? How are people going back in time since according to the characters, there are only 2 machines in existence: the one they are using and the prototype in Calverton, Maryland. Metuzak even says it out loud: "how is the senator making these alleged trip into the past?"
You could go back in time and build another one at a point before the very first one was ever built and use that one in that time to travel elsewhere in the past and alter the past. Then return to that time, before returning to the original time. Perhaps that could circumvent the detection methods in the original time. -
avortac — 11 years ago(March 20, 2015 06:39 PM)
"I know it's redundant to point out paradoxes in a time-travel flick, (I have, to date, not seen one without them) but this is more of a paradox/plot mistake."
According to wiktionary, 'redundant' means:
"1. Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
2. (of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy."
Why would it be redundant to point out paradoxes in any flick?
Isn't that what IMDb is (at least partially) for?
You haven't seen one without them? Well, try watching the ones that utilize the more flawless paradox types, like 'the predestination paradox'. The movies "The Terminator (1984)" and "12 Monkeys" actually have pretty much flawless time travel plots, with no time-travel-related faults, problems or plotholes.
So, you should watch both, that would basically make TWO of them.
Then again, you are talking about paradoxes - and in some way, talking about time travel always means talking about paradoxes, so perhaps you'd care to refine or clarify what you really mean to say. Plausible, working, flawless paradoxes are probably not what you mean, right?