Trancers Review - Off The Shelf Reviews
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- This week Gary and Iain review and discuss, Trancers (1984) by Director, Charles Band. Starring, Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt and Michael Stefani.
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We rented this one a billion years ago. With a tag line like: "Jack Deth is back... and he's never even been here before!", we had no choice really. Great movie.
Jack Death looks like a friend of your dad who seems really cool but years later it turns out he spent his evenings sitting the dark trying to cry.
DUDES. His whole opening monolog about it being July now and he's tired,really tired is the one thing I always remembered from this movie.
They are all on Tubi so I've been watching them reciting that monolog all month of July. Lol
During the 80's a lot of movies like this one got a second life thanks to video stores. Without the video cassette (and later the DVD) a lot of movies would now be completely forgotten.
The best mix of film noir/Blade Runner/The Terminator you'll ever see. Tim Thomerson is great, you should see him in the Nemesis series. Also love that the 'Machine that does nothing' from Airplane 2 is in the background in the lab.
imagine the alternate timeline in which ian says, "Helen Hunt is just the best actress to play Jackie Death!"
God, the 80s had some great campy movies.
The OGs are together once more! Glad to see you two.
This was great. Never seen this movie before. Seems like a gem haha.
Wait til you get to the third one, my favorite of the series⚡
This first "Charles R. Band" production was a Hoot! I saw it on late night/early morning TBS and it was a reason to keep watching for "CRB"
films.;) I'm also a fan of "Cherry 2000," by the way. Also a long-ago fan of "Quantum Leap."
i think it was last year Helen Hunt appeared in a BBC one drama alongside Sean Bean the patron saint of Yorkshire
I didn't recognise the title, but the name "Jack Deth" and that wristwatch is unforgettable!
Seeing how you made this review, I now have a new appreciation for your videos
Great stuff as always! Do you plan to review Runaway (1984, Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons) someday? :)
Yes Shelfers it's Thursday! Gary, Iain, everyone at OTSR... Thankyou for keeping Thursdays awesome! 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊
This is one of those Cinemax late night-tier films. And how can you mention Tim Thomerson without mentioning Dollman?
There's a Trancers 1.5 which is a 30 minute short made for an anthology movie called Pulsepounders that didn't get released. It's worth checking out, but not vital. Charles Band had it on the Full Moon Streaming service, and it got a bluray release. Definitely a great series for it's time, as it's pure video store cheese in the best sense.
Oh shit..can't believe you guys did Trancers I haven't seen or thought about it in awhile, great review as always!
Given that the time-travel is based on getting your consciousness into an ancestor, it would be an interesting piece of world-building if the movies had explored what might happen if the ancestor was too far back in time, making the blood tie too weak for the process to be completely effective. Also, is the security guard at the mall the same ineffective security guard from Hobgoblins?
And how would common ancestors work? Can a million different people travel back and inhabit genghis khan?
Hi Gary and Ian. Love your videos. You guys are amazing. Watching you guys reviewing the movies, joking and sometimes arguing, is much more fun than watching the movies that you review. I wish you make a short video about yourselves. Thanks for the great videos.
Here’s me thinking trancers was them ravers back in the 90s with the swinging jaws 😂
Jack Deth knows Santa is always up to no good, just a strange way to get kids to not talk about weird men entering their bedrooms in the middle of the night and keeping secrets :)
I saw this on tv back in 1988
This, like "Die Hard" should be regarded as a Christmas movie. 🎄 I saw this movie at The World Theater in Hollywood (CA) during it's initial 1984 release. I probably watch it once a year, usually around Christmas
Some of the style reminds me of an old PC game called Full Throttle.
Oh fuck yeah! It's about time you guys jumped on the Tim Thomerson train. Honestly for what this film is, I think the method of time travel was pretty imaginative and fresh. He's such an underrated actor in my opinion. Y'all should check out Dollman if you haven't already. He's got big Split Second Rugar Hauer vibes in that one. Plus he has an amazing line involving guts and a laundromat. Anyway thanks guys, always look forward to Thursdays cause of you. Cheers lads!
Trancers is such a great movie, the sequels are a mixed bag! We all are traveling forward through time at 1 second per second!
Three years after this there was an unknown classic “3 o’clock high”. Check that out
I haven't seen Trancers since forever! This is a fun movie! I've got to find my old DVD of it and play it again! Thanks for reviewing this one you guys! KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK!
YES SIRS!!! classic movies!!! thank you for another awesome review!! As a kid I was sure Deth was also the viccar in BrainDead.......such is my confusion as a child.......
And good morning, indeed⚡
Sure is an entertaining movie with a sci fi but grounded concept, and you know as many movies that involve time travel the script dont try to make full sense, even less with this kind of time travel, is just for you to have a good time and dont analize it much, anyway is a cool movie with good performances, good characters and good production.
Also of course you have to apreciate all the work that goes in the making of the review, Gary and Iain put time and effort and give their best to make this reviews every week
The DVD Pulse in the background is that the 1988 version because that film freaked me out as a kid I’d love to see a review of that. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
th-cam.com/video/89Yii_mCvJA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=OffTheShelfReviews There you go Eric :D
@@OffTheShelfReviews no the 1988 version with the spooky old man but thanks for the reply. The 88 version of Pulse is so freaky even the old man in it is like Freddy Krueger
Cult movie franchise with the great Tim Thomerson aka Jack Deth. Watchable, fun time. B style film noir. Some of the sequels are ok?? for what they’re worth...just go with it. Pass the popcorn 🍿.
Oh how I loved this film when I was a kid. And Doll Man :) Tim Thomerson is great :)
Awesome! I just happened to have watched Trancers lasts week.
Couldn't believe you'd never heard of trancers.
I love these films, and Tim Thomerson in general
This film clearly served as an influence on Hideo Kojima's classic videogame "Snatcher". The look of the game's protagonist is so damn close to Deth it's bordering on plagirism! LOL The plot also has elements which originated in "Trancers" yet everytime the game is discussed it's always "Blade Runner" and/or "The Terminator" which are brought up. "Trancers" could be described as hybrid clone of those films, but "Snatcher" is far closer to "Trancers" than it is either of them IMO.
And now I'm cross eyed.
38:22 Surprised Neither one of you Mentioned Dollman at all. (:
I saw this on Alex Cox's MovieDrome.
Really an awesome and underrated movie. Certainly goofy but has the flick has a nice charm
9:58 this device look familiar, like i have seen it before.
10:23 Sounds way more like "Pre" Assasins Creed.
Love your work guys, thank you.
Thanks 🙏 for another great 👍 one guys😄
Awesome video gents!! Love the enthusiasm
Nice to see Gary and Ian again together
Fuck yah Tim Thomerson is the man!
19:46 i wonder if she could get away wearing that jacked today.
Love the film but doesn't the end mean Jack has body snatched his own relative?
Didnt he also played in Toyman? Where his an alien from another planet but hes the size of a G.I. Joe.
Dollman.
You guys just seem to be picking the movies off my shelf.
I just saw saw the first scene, I think the antique futurism is better than blade runner, it looks like 50s and future,
Doesn't look better than blade runner, but the cyber noir is
Great videos guys really like content
IAIN! YEEEEAHHH
*YES! THANK YOU!* 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
I've been waiting for you guys to review this film for ages; I love this movie 🥰❤️
Another one of those movies that was pitched over a fat line of cocaine
Yo
gurt?
Can you guys please review something in the kaiju genre or It 2017?
*Turn up*
??? So you recommend Trancers - but not The Omen !!!!! HAHAHA .... wow....
Please review Dead Ringers in the near future.
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We saw this in Australia at my neighbour's house, it stunk. After five minutes in we started laughing calling it bodgie cheap shit, we just turned it off. So I never saw this, & never will.
Even then back in the stone age 80's we had some sense to avoid this turd.....so how the fuck is this a cult film now!? And I'm curious, are these fans spawned from Ed Sheeran's sprog soaked socks which lay hidden under his mom's bed? Anyway good review lads.
You should do ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK/L.A.
Yeah!
Not watching Trancers
is for SQUIDS!
Who are trancers once again?
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Where's Jess??