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Timecop (1994)
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So I was all set to go see Jackie Chan's newest film Bleeding Steel, a time-travel flick that came out just before xmas and has been heavily panned.  It was playing last week at several houses near to my office, but it completely disappeared this morning.  I was bummed.  

So I came home and watched Timecop on Amazon Prime because it is heavily referenced in Jean-Claude Van Johnson, and I couldn't remember it that well.  It's so JCVD 90s, his hair, his passado soto splits defense, a fight scene in his underwear, classic delicious stuff.  It' so dated - real explosions, which is nice, but a goofy vision of the future with huge self-driving cars that looks like space hummers, VR porn with a random gratuitous topless scene (there's also a gratuitous sex scene with JCVD and his topless wife), some very early CGI, and land line phones.  James Lew makes an appearance as a knife-wielding villain, which is amusing because we just ran an article about him winning an Emmy, so I corresponded with him a little (we've never met). 

But where the film got really weird was the villain.  The villain time travels to build up his wealth and buy the presidency.  He's set on making America what it was before, giving the wealth to the top 10% and sending the lower class to Mexico.  He's such a two-dimensional villain, a total caricature, but given today, it's just chilling.  We need JCVD to go back in time and save us now.  srsly.
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Mind. Blown.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
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