![]() ![]() It does involve travel into the past, so it immediately presents a time-travel paradox which can't really be resolved. What I meant in the top written: "to take a few sci-fi leaps of faith" This movie involves time travel about a cop who travels from 2004 to 1994 and try's to prevent the death of his wife and change the future. I love this movie to death and it is my 6th favorite best Van Damme movie. His son years later directed two Universal Soldier film sequels. He was the only one of the directors who come visit Van Damme in hospital after he got injured. It was directed from Peter Hyams who become a good friend with Van Damme and a year later he directed Sudden Death with Van Damme. One of my favorite action movie flicks till this days. Great travel time, great action, great villains and great story. One of my favorite and serious Van Damme's roles in this film. I run a house with fifty crazy b****es.Timecop (1994) is my favorite Van Damme action sci-fi classic! Just Like Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd, Van Damme's Timecop is very Underrated action sci-fi flick ever. And Carrie Fisher snarls to the killer, “Don’t think I’m afraid of you. That said, it was cool to see the graduation scene on the lawn of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, with Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning in the background. I’ve never liked slasher/horror movies, so the trailer was enough for me. (Rated R) A serial killer terrorizes a sorority. I’d rather see a movie about the guy who drove off the bridge.īriana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher (2009) The trailer features lovely shots of Pittsburgh, but lots of sniggering men, half-dressed women, and gunfire. At any rate, the movie is about four working guys who team up with two hookers to run a high-priced prostitution ring. You can Google the story of the man who drove off the bridge and survived. (Rated R) I don’t know if this movie refers to the long-unfinished Fort Duquesne Bridge, our “Bridge to Nowhere” until it was finally connected to the North Shore in 1969. Ving Rhames, Bijou Phillips, Danny Masterson (2009) There are shots of Route 22 and Ralph’s Army Surplus in Monroeville during the first few minutes. As the filming goes on, their attraction to each other grows. (Rated R) Lifelong friends Zack and Miri try to get out of debt by making an adult film together. I get the “pair of opposites” set-up, but the comedy seemed overly broad from the trailer. She breaks out to meet him, and wreaks havoc on his middle-class life. She’s actually in prison and in need of a lawyer. (Rated PG-13) Steve Martin plays a lonely guy who meets a woman on the Internet. Queen Latifah, Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Jean Smart (2003) Judging from the trailer, I didn’t find it very funny, but many viewers on raved about it. (Rated PG) Sinbad plays a con man in debt to the mob he poses as Phil Hartman’s old friend and stays with him in a wealthy Pittsburgh suburb. From the reviews, it seems like a decent enough action movie - in Roger Ebert’s words, a “low-rent ‘Terminator,’” if you enjoy that kind of thing. ![]() (Rated R) Van Damme (wait, is that a mullet?!) plays an officer for a security firm that regulates time travel – well, somebody should, right? Ron Silver, who played shady characters so well, plays a politician who wants to change the past in order to control the future. ![]() Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara (1994) to his dad (Ed Harris) as his math tutor, and schemes to get V. escapes her violent pimp and drives with the kids to young Frank’s house in the suburbs. If you’re already uncomfortable about this, so am I. (Melanie Griffith), a hooker with a heart of gold, to strip for them. (Rated PG-13) A group of young boys, hit by their first curiosity about sex, pool their money, bike downtown, and hire V. Janet Maslin of the New York Times called it “cheerfully inoffensive entertainment designed for the crowd that like ‘Car Wash,’ … and it offers a similarly shapeless brand of merriment.” Lots of action at our old Civic Arena, with Stockard Channing as a goofy astrologist for the Pittsburgh team, the Pisces. (Rated PG) Somehow in the 70s, I missed this basketball comedy set to a disco soundtrack. Jonathan Winters, Stockard Channing, Flip Wilson, Julius Erving (1979) But never fear, I still have many reviews of excellent choices with compelling stories, fabulous acting, and scenery of the Burg. In my next blog, I’ll share more movies filmed in Pittsburgh that I skipped over. If you have more tolerance for violence, horror, or silly comedy, you can find these through your favorite streaming or rental source. This entry may say more about my tastes than the quality of the individual movies. I’ve reviewed some excellent movies filmed in Pittsburgh, but I’ve passed over many more. ![]()
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