#peter hyams

[astolfocinema]

The production design of Outland (Peter Hyams, 1981)

#Outland #1981 #1981 movies #peter hyams #sean connery #science fiction #sci-fi #io #jupiter #thriller #space suit #space mine #1981 films #80s cinema #80s aesthetic

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

OUTLAND (1981)

#science fiction #outland #sean connery #peter hyams #80s

[acmeoop]

Starved Reaction “Robocat” (1992)

#90s #morgan creek #warner bros pictures #stay tuned #sequence #robocat #peter hyams #chuck jones #Chuck jones productions #john ritter #mouse #wild take #eye pop #gif

[omercifulheaves]

Outland (1981)

#movies #posters #outland #sean connery #peter hyams

[lobbycards]

Outland, Hungarian lobby card. 1981

#Outland #Peter Hyams #Sean Connery #Lobby Card #Lobby Cards

[humanoidhistory]

Outland, 1981, directed by Peter Hyams.

#film #space #scifi #outland #sci-fi #jupiter #io #peter hyams

[filmjunky-99]

o u t l a n d, 1981 🎬 dir. peter hyams 'Settling In/ Dr. Lazarus'

#film #sci fi action #outland #outland 1981 #peter hyams #sean connery #frances sternhagen #james sikking #Settling In/ Dr. Lazarus

[80smovies]

#The Presidio #Sean Connery #Mark Harmon #Meg Ryan #Jack Warden #Peter Hyams #Larry Ferguson #80s

[marthammasters]

Elliott Gould in Busting (1974)

#bloodied….. stays silent #Elliott Gould #busting #busting 1974 #peter hyams #lee postz #💌💌💌 #Robert Blake #film #movies #stills #cinema

[waste-it-on-something-useful]

Wormy little souls rotting away in hell.

End of Days (Peter Hyams, 1999)

#End of Days #arnold schwarzenegger #Peter Hyams #Robin Tunney #rotten apple #hell #horror #1990s movies #American film #1999

[scifipinups]

Helen Mirren 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

#movies #peter hyams #helen mirren #1984 #tanya kirbuk

[all-action-all-picture]

Capricorn One (1978). Written by Peter Hyams, the director, it was such a clever idea for a movie. Could never happen in real life though...

#peter hyams #capricorn one #1978 #elliott gould #telly savalas #james brolin #movie poster #jerry goldsmith #itc #lew grade

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

OUTLAND (1981)

#science fiction #production photos #outland #sean connery #peter hyams #80s

[acmeoop]

Grant Wood Wild Take “Robocat” (1992)

#90s #90s films #morgan creek #warner bros pictures #stay tuned #peter hyams #chuck jones productions #robocat #sequence #john ritter #pam dawber #wild take #american gothic #chuck jones

[adamwatchesmovies]

Timecop (1994)

I think we’ve finally done it: we’ve found a good Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. While Timecop may have more than a few logical shortcomings, it delivers what you want from a mid-90s action film and unlike Bloodsport or Double Impact, this is the kind of picture you’d watch as a kid, revisit years later and find it still (mostly) holds up.

In 1994, we've developed the ability to travel through time. This prompts the Justice Department to establish the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) to stop temporal criminals from altering the future. As police officer Max Walker (Van Damme) debates joining the force, he is ambushed outside his home and his wife (Mia Sara) is murdered. Ten years later, Max discovers that the man in charge of the TEC, Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver), has been blackmailing agents to set himself up as the next president of the United States.

Timecop begins with a cool premise. Anyone who’s seen a big company start from nothing has thought “What if I could go back and invest in them when their stocks were cheap?” From there, you can just picture the kind of scenes we'll get: as TEC agents rush to preserve the present while future weapons blast through speakeasies, time travelers pretend they're fortune tellers, etc.

Another strength is the film’s self-awareness. In any other movie, Max would have to figure out who the puppet master behind his wife’s murder and the blackmailing is, only finding out during the second or third act. This is despite the audience taking one look at Ron Silver and screaming “Guilty!” In Timecop, Max learns Senator McComb is dirty immediately. The problem is that time travel is such a powerful ability that you can’t just go and arrest him. If Max makes one wrong move, someone might travel back to 1994 and have him erased! Not that the film is all that cerebral. In fact, the time travel is a block of Swiss cheese compared to what we saw in Terminator 2 (released three years earlier).

The appealing premise of Timecop and the easily-fixable flaws make it a prime target for a remake. An example of a logical hole that needs filling is the TEC itself. There is more than one scene where Max returns from the past to find the future altered. He’s never briefed to find out if his (supposedly successful) mission has completely mangled history. Another flaw is the time travel mechanism itself. When you go to the past, you hop onto this high-speed canister thing that fires itself forward on rails. To return, you use a device you can carry on your person. Either make it consistent or explain why we have both. Finally - and this is going to hurt the Muscles from Brussel’s fans - there's Van Damme. He’s… fine in terms of conveying emotion but several action scenes feel like they’ve been inserted purely to show off the man's ability to do the splits or his muscles.

While Timecop doesn’t explore its time travel premise to the fullest and it doesn't take much effort to find an aspect of it that doesn't hold up, you could say that about many pictures featuring someone traveling to the past. The bad guys are sufficiently slimy and dispatched in memorable ways. The film understands what you want to see and then delivers. Sometimes, that’s enough. (November 12, 2021)

#timecop #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Peter Hyams #Mark Verheiden #Mike Richardson #Jean-Claude Van Damme #Ron Silver #Mia Sara #1994 movies #1994 films

[lobbycards]

Outland, Hungarian lobby card. 1981

#Outland #Peter Hyams #Sean Connery #Lobby Card #Lobby Cards