Minor prescience
Years and years ago, when we first saw Timecop, my friend Rich and I started making fun of what we perceived to be the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie pattern. Thin plot, excuse to start fighting, Van Damme gets more and more hurt and keeps fighting until things go ludicrous. We decided the ultimate distillation of the JCVD experience would be to dispense with the plot and just get on with the fighting. The whole thing would happen in one warehouse-sized room, and for 90 minutes bad guys would just come at him. He'd get injured, he'd lose arms and legs, until finally he's limbless and hanging by his teeth from a chandelier and still kicking ass anyway. Together we joyously shouted:
"Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme in Jean-Claude Van Damme: The Movie!"
We thought this was hilarious, and for a couple of years it was a recurring joke.
Then today I stumble across a movie blurb for this:
Yeah. It actually happened. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Jean-Claude Van Damme in a movie that's effectively named "Jean-Claude Van Damme." From trailers on YouTube it looks like the plot isn't quite what we'd predicted, it looks to be a self-referential comedy of some sort, but still. Seeing it made my head swim.
Now if only my predictions for a made-for-iTunes pay-per-episode continuation of Firefly would come true...
"Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme in Jean-Claude Van Damme: The Movie!"
We thought this was hilarious, and for a couple of years it was a recurring joke.
Then today I stumble across a movie blurb for this:
Yeah. It actually happened. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Jean-Claude Van Damme in a movie that's effectively named "Jean-Claude Van Damme." From trailers on YouTube it looks like the plot isn't quite what we'd predicted, it looks to be a self-referential comedy of some sort, but still. Seeing it made my head swim.
Now if only my predictions for a made-for-iTunes pay-per-episode continuation of Firefly would come true...