Trancers is Not Blade Runner or Terminator - Talking About Tapes

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  • čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
  • Tony and Newt review their new favorite Christmas film, Trancers! Find out how crazy this Blade Runner/Terminator style sci fi romp is in this Podcast / Movie Review. You get everything from time traveling brains, zombie Santa Claus, and young Helen Hunt.
    Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) is a trooper in Angel City, circa 2247, mopping up the last of the disciples of the Martin Whistler (Michael Stefani). Whistler uses his psychic power to 'trance' those with weak minds and force them to obey his every desire. Whistler had been thought to be dead by now, but he's alive and well, and in the year 1985. Whistler's plan - to hunt down the ancestors of the City Council. With the Council disbanded, nothing is to stop Whistler from controlling the city. That's where Jack Deth fits in. Jack is sent back in time by inhabiting the body of his ancestor. The only problem is that Whistler's ancestor is a police detective, and he's begun trancing people back in 1985. With the help of Lena (Helen Hunt), a strong-minded punk rock girl, he must find and protect Hap Ashby, a former baseball pitcher now living on Skid Row, and face Whistler in a final confrontation.
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Komentáře • 237

  • @HackTheMovies
    @HackTheMovies  Před 2 lety +2

    Check out our full Talking About Tapes Playlist czcams.com/play/PLT83ftFrCsQTC9iJyxul1XFJWb1nR6Zf6.html

  • @ajclements4627
    @ajclements4627 Před 3 lety +35

    Trancers is criminally underrated, those films are just fun to watch.

    • @ashleyp3662
      @ashleyp3662 Před 3 lety +1

      I saw first one but did not know there was this many i gotta check this junk out

    • @emperortrevornorton3119
      @emperortrevornorton3119 Před 3 lety

      I would rank it out of full moon production movies under the original Puppet Master and above Dollman but I would say I love Killjoy series but they didn't make it to my top 5

    • @Gorgutsforcongress
      @Gorgutsforcongress Před 3 lety

      Much like this channel 👍

  • @ernestjamesmusic995
    @ernestjamesmusic995 Před 3 lety +19

    Goddamn! Younger, thicker Helen Hunt is sooooo legit. Put a ring on that Tim Thomerson...

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 Před 2 lety +1

      And she could move her face, to boot!

  • @themadpancaker
    @themadpancaker Před 3 lety +30

    I love Trancers. Tim Thomerson is awesome as Jack Deth.

    • @youtubeuser1159
      @youtubeuser1159 Před 3 lety +3

      He's even better as Dollman

    • @emperortrevornorton3119
      @emperortrevornorton3119 Před 3 lety

      @@youtubeuser1159 Trancers is the better movie but Dollman character and Jack Deth are equally awesome

  • @royfugate
    @royfugate Před 3 lety +8

    Trancers (1984)
    Trancers: City of Lost Angels (segment of Pulse Pounders) (1988)
    Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth (1991)
    Trancers III: Deth Lives (1992)
    Trancers 4: Jack of Swords (1994)
    Trancers 5: Sudden Deth (1994)
    Trancers 6 (2002)

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 Před 2 lety

      Wasn't Trancers 6 also called "Life after Deth"?

  • @jonadkins1792
    @jonadkins1792 Před 3 lety +14

    Newt is hilarious! His taste in movies are gold.

  • @PHGRP
    @PHGRP Před 3 lety +12

    Talking about Tapes has become like Crack for me. I just can’t get enough. Newt and Tony really have great chemistry. Makes me want to talk movies with them.

    • @newtonwallen3210
      @newtonwallen3210 Před 3 lety +4

      see Tony is always bringing these OTHER hosts on. when everyone knows NEWT is the real bread and butter

    • @PHGRP
      @PHGRP Před 3 lety +3

      @@newtonwallen3210 whenever Tony brings another host on you should stand in the background completely still and quiet painted in a camouflage like VHS tapes. Like Wednesday does in the Addams Family.

    • @ashleyp3662
      @ashleyp3662 Před 3 lety +1

      @@newtonwallen3210 tony newt. 👍

  • @robk.6591
    @robk.6591 Před 3 lety +11

    Soooo... it's like Timecop but with Richard Dean Anderson's older brother?

  • @yogthemuskrat
    @yogthemuskrat Před 3 lety +4

    Snake? SNAKE!? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!

  • @ashleyp3662
    @ashleyp3662 Před 3 lety +11

    Tony is a Gangsta

  • @johnnyblu84
    @johnnyblu84 Před 3 lety +7

    Another wonderful episode. Looking forward to more talking about tapes in the new year

  • @Horshbox
    @Horshbox Před 3 lety +6

    Oh wow can't wait to see this! Trancers is one of my fave B movies and was one of the first films I reviewed on my channel!

  • @billrashad1502
    @billrashad1502 Před 3 lety +11

    Time to change castzilla vs the podmonster to the One Eyed Monster podcast.

  • @wraithofmidgard8378
    @wraithofmidgard8378 Před 3 lety +6

    You should review “Nemesis” (1992)

  • @ClayvonC
    @ClayvonC Před 3 lety +8

    Every time I watch your show I get a craving for Reese’s Pieces.

  • @JoeChillton
    @JoeChillton Před 3 lety +3

    I'll always remember Tim as Jay Allen, The Flash's brother in the 91 show.

  • @3xzsucof
    @3xzsucof Před 3 lety +6

    Yoo. Tubi is the bomb for poor people like me

    • @newtonwallen3210
      @newtonwallen3210 Před 3 lety +4

      has some great cult films

    • @ashleyp3662
      @ashleyp3662 Před 3 lety +2

      @@newtonwallen3210 sawp zombies 2 was great my boyfriend had one problem the girl in the green didnt show her boobs lol

  • @riflemanm16a2
    @riflemanm16a2 Před 3 lety +6

    I think I found this movie several years back at a Vintage Stock, and I loved how campy it is. Then I found a trilogy box set! It's been a while since I've watched them, but I really enjoyed how silly this series is.

  • @Darule514
    @Darule514 Před 3 lety +4

    Yay a longer video

  • @3xzsucof
    @3xzsucof Před 3 lety +6

    Had the matrix moves before everyone had the matrix moves.

    • @ashleyp3662
      @ashleyp3662 Před 3 lety

      The first one good after that all trash. I Rember going to see matrix 2 in movie theater and left no shit

  • @countorlokdx1
    @countorlokdx1 Před rokem

    When I was a kid in the 80's (I'm old-er), this would always come on Cinemax on Saturdays. I still love this movie, so good. Great episode

  • @warlockholmes652
    @warlockholmes652 Před 3 lety +3

    Christmas pirate Tony.

  • @SerpentNight
    @SerpentNight Před 3 lety +5

    18:30 Actually it was at Lucas' insistence that Kathleen Kennedy be given control of Lucasfilm under Disney so he kinda did a lot wrong.

  • @dimreturns1190
    @dimreturns1190 Před 3 lety +4

    That's how I would pretend to drive a car when I was a little kid

    • @tbone2646
      @tbone2646 Před 3 lety

      My thought is maybe they told him to "just drive like you normally would" but the guy has never actually driven a car?

  • @TheVgrey
    @TheVgrey Před 3 lety +4

    Kinda missing the gold chain

  • @tbone2646
    @tbone2646 Před 3 lety +2

    Jack Death looks exactly like retired Australian goalkeeper Zeljko Kalac

  • @drharleyquinn553
    @drharleyquinn553 Před 3 lety +2

    Tony be like "THIS IS DOWN TO THE LINE FOLKS, DOWN TO THE LINE , THERE CAN BE NO MORE DIVISIONS AMONGST THE LIVING"

  • @dougo670
    @dougo670 Před 3 lety +2

    Realistically, who'd win in a bout of fisticuffs: Samurai Cop or Jack Death? Just imagine if the two merged into one sentient being as Samurai Jack Death Cop...

  • @thrilhous
    @thrilhous Před 3 lety +2

    28:50 I thought it was implied that Jack Death was his own "father". When Whistler is about to cut Helen Hunt's throat with a knife at the end he says "Didn't you know? Dethton marries the girl, or would have had she had lived. Now Jack Death witness your own demise!"
    What he's saying is, in the normal timeline Jack's relative Phil Dethton marries Helen Hunt who are then responsible for producing the relatives that made Jack Death down the line in the future. If Whistler kills Helen Hunt by throwing her off the roof, Jack Death will die because his relatives will never have been born. So Jack has to save Helen Hunt or he himself will die.
    But the kicker is, since Jack stayed back in time he's the one who ends up marrying Helen Hunt. He's the one that impregnates Helen who gives birth to the children that would later give birth to Jack himself in the future. Therefore he is responsible for his own birth.

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 Před 2 lety

      Yeah, later in the series we meet the daughter they had...who happens to be his great grandmother as well.

  • @genevalong8383
    @genevalong8383 Před 3 lety +2

    Nice review

  • @genevalong8383
    @genevalong8383 Před 3 lety +2

    Homeless baseball I need this for real

  • @JONNYSORENSEN_AU
    @JONNYSORENSEN_AU Před 3 lety +1

    As a time travelling cop who went back for revenge against the men who killed my girlfriend and my lovable animal sidekick, I can confirm that Pirate Tony invented the format of talking about movies 1000 years before VHS even existed. I don't know who was watching back then but it's certainly an enturely true story. #TIMECOP_RENEGADE

  • @SegaCDUniverse
    @SegaCDUniverse Před 3 lety +4

    I love this movie series!

  • @Spintechfilms
    @Spintechfilms Před 3 lety +3

    God. Yes. Thank You

  • @unsmote1560
    @unsmote1560 Před 3 lety +2

    Did Tony have to watch this twice to get the normal viewing effect?

  • @kevinpalan1127
    @kevinpalan1127 Před 3 lety +2

    damn the made 6 of these movies

  • @RerunTheWizard
    @RerunTheWizard Před 3 lety +2

    Dig the patch

  • @scottyboyrulez
    @scottyboyrulez Před 2 lety

    Whistler does tell Jack that Leena is his great grandmother.

  • @cedricmaguire9329
    @cedricmaguire9329 Před 3 lety +1

    I feel bad for you Tony, you only watched half the movie... but in all semiseriousness, I'm surprised that I'd never seen this one, great review, I feel obligated by your eyepatch to send money

  • @Oij-Teh-Duckington
    @Oij-Teh-Duckington Před 10 měsíci

    Ranked Every Trancers Movie:
    7th- Trancers 4: Jack of Swords
    6th- Trancers 1.5: City of Lost Angels
    5th- Trancers 6: Life After Deth
    4th- Trancers 5:
    3rd- Trancers
    2nd- Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth
    1st- Trancers III: Deth Lives

  • @genevalong8383
    @genevalong8383 Před 3 lety +2

    Newt
    Double day a tall tale so baseball would still exist

  • @c.o.n.collectingofnostalgi889

    Can you guys please review the 1988 Cyber Ninja please

  • @Pikkuu
    @Pikkuu Před 2 lety

    Aside from Harlan Ellison's work, here's also the movie "Cyborg 2087" (1966) about a cyborg sent from the future to stop stuff happening.

  • @VancouverJeff
    @VancouverJeff Před 3 lety +3

    Trancers 2 is phenomenal! You guys need to review that instalment.

  • @snoo333
    @snoo333 Před 2 lety

    first time viewer. having a blast watching this video. thank you

  • @mist3rmaniac
    @mist3rmaniac Před 3 lety +4

    So, it's Blade Runner?

  • @SAVAGE-GAMER-
    @SAVAGE-GAMER- Před 3 lety +1

    Dude you should totally do an episode on Screamers, with the underground killer bots lol

  • @J-S.P
    @J-S.P Před 3 lety +1

    28:25 - I can't believe I'm actually going to provide *some* kind of defense for this argument: even if Jack stops Wisler(Whisler?) does that mean he'll stop the other cops from shooting them both once his long second expires? Does he have enough time in his long second to take out both Wisler(or Whisler) AND the other cops? Inquiring minds want to know lol
    Or maybe he just has enough time to just get as far away as possible.
    Again it's *some* kind of defense....

  • @russfoulkes5490
    @russfoulkes5490 Před 3 lety +2

    Please do Dollman next.

  • @franciscandie8570
    @franciscandie8570 Před 3 lety +1

    Out of all the people who could get an eye injury... I would say that I hope it heals soon but that patch is dope af!

  • @lesliecunnis24
    @lesliecunnis24 Před 3 lety +5

    All actors move the wheel too much in driving scenes... Go and try driving like they drive... Its stupid!! 🤪

  • @rampantrambling8178
    @rampantrambling8178 Před 3 lety +2

    I genuinely think that Revenge of the Sith is good, it has flaws but it was still good. The other two not so much.

  • @genevalong8383
    @genevalong8383 Před 3 lety +2

    Hi Tony from hack the movies

  • @405andrewt
    @405andrewt Před 3 lety

    Trancers is definitely a favorite of mine! It's got Helen Hunt who's one of my celebrity crushes and it's got Tim Thomerson as one of the most badass science fiction heroes that no one has ever heard of.

  • @GreenKarateMonkey
    @GreenKarateMonkey Před 3 lety +9

    Can we please go back and review the “wish masters” movies.

  • @judsongaiden9878
    @judsongaiden9878 Před 3 lety +2

    Don't blame Helen Hunt for that jacket. Blame the costume department. Now excuse me while I nerd out a bit since I'm a history buff. The Confederacy never actually had their own unifying flag because they were politically disorganized (and incompetent). The Bonnie Blue came close to becoming their flag. What we think of today as "the Confederate flag" is actually the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. The only reason the CSA ever achieved any victories was because their military leadership, mostly educated at West Point, was more relatively professional than the Union Army's leadership (who also had some of those sniveling, uppity, hypocritically elitist, backward-minded West Point screwheads on their side). Btw, Jebediah Morningside was a mortician in the Union Army before he became The Tall Man. Oh! Idea! "Tracers Vs. Phantasm!"

  • @dogmeat7486
    @dogmeat7486 Před rokem

    An original idea: if you like the movie, Dock, if you don't, just touch hoops.

  • @yourbigheadcousin5434
    @yourbigheadcousin5434 Před 3 lety

    I've never been in a tanning booth because I live in Texas and the sun shines here.

  • @timothymelican7542
    @timothymelican7542 Před 3 lety

    One of my favorite movies, favorite lead characters and lead actors of all time!

  • @brianmartin6486
    @brianmartin6486 Před 3 lety +2

    Great movies .

  • @ryrizzle319
    @ryrizzle319 Před 3 lety +4

    Tony When I think about Trancers I for some reason think about Scanners which in turn has me remembering Ice Pirates which is fucking awesome 80s space scifi flick space herpes. Get well.

  • @DaikyojuGappa
    @DaikyojuGappa Před 3 lety +4

    #lucasdidnothingwrong
    FTW

  • @omgitsme435
    @omgitsme435 Před 3 lety +1

    Wait, you guys DON'T think Rian Johnson ruined Star Wars? Hmm

    • @HackTheMovies
      @HackTheMovies  Před 3 lety +5

      We think it was ruined over a decade before he showed up.

  • @VancouverJeff
    @VancouverJeff Před 3 lety +2

    You guys are hilarious! I need to revisit my Full Moon box set because I forgot how good/bad this movie is! 😂😂😂

  • @cthulhupthagn5771
    @cthulhupthagn5771 Před 3 lety

    The only thing I can think of about the steering wheel fit, is that older cars there was a lot more give on the Wheel especially if he didn't have power steering.

  • @DeanBiddler
    @DeanBiddler Před 3 lety

    I love Tony (not pasta face) from Hack the Movies. Call your mom. Love this channel. You got a new fan

  • @talkinbox
    @talkinbox Před 2 lety +1

    Dark Knight Rises reference:
    1:13
    That eye surgery sounds terrible!

  • @gregory817
    @gregory817 Před 3 lety +2

    Can't watch Swamp Zombies 2 nor Thugs vs Dinosaurs on prime in Canada. :(

    • @HackTheMovies
      @HackTheMovies  Před 3 lety +3

      Thugs vs dinosaurs is also on CZcams!

    • @gregory817
      @gregory817 Před 3 lety +2

      @@HackTheMovies Thanks for the heads up eh!

    • @genevalong8383
      @genevalong8383 Před 3 lety

      @@HackTheMovies I watch it lol it was funny

  • @freebird0147
    @freebird0147 Před 2 lety

    R.I.P Art Lafleur died yesterday at 78.

  • @clbaker8356
    @clbaker8356 Před 3 lety +1

    Lead actor is also in Near Dark

  • @ashleyp3662
    @ashleyp3662 Před 3 lety +2

    16k hey

  • @sabinfigaro7334
    @sabinfigaro7334 Před 3 lety

    Birthday suit crystal?! We're there dude!

  • @thrashpuppy2010
    @thrashpuppy2010 Před 3 lety

    I was wondering if anybody else watched this movie during the holiday season. Trancers, Batman Returns, Die Hard, A Christmas Horror Story, Krampus, and Two Front Teeth are my Yuletide favorites.

  • @timothymelican7542
    @timothymelican7542 Před 3 lety

    If you ever do another empire film, I’ll drive down to do it with you! I LOVE EMPIRE PICTURES

  • @cliffmmt
    @cliffmmt Před 3 lety +1

    Also from just seeing twister and mad about you in passing I had no idea Hellen hunt was a babe.

  • @ShadowSonic2
    @ShadowSonic2 Před 2 lety

    Are you guys ever going to do the other Trancers movies? It'll be hilarious when you get to part 4.

  • @UnknownXero
    @UnknownXero Před 3 lety

    I love these movies. I found the first three randomly for two bux at a dollar general when I was on vacation.

  • @Toastedtonberry
    @Toastedtonberry Před 3 lety +2

    Awesome video. Tony when's the next joker fan episode with justin

  • @dustinthewin
    @dustinthewin Před 3 lety

    This reminds me how much I miss good Full Moon movies.

  • @docsamson7575
    @docsamson7575 Před 3 lety

    Love Tim Thomerson in the Trancers and Dollman movies! I don't know if anyone else mentioned it but he also shows up as Jack Deth in one of the dream sequences in Evil Bong making the Evil Bong franchise part of the Transer-verse as well. 🤯😂

  • @SAVAGE-GAMER-
    @SAVAGE-GAMER- Před 3 lety +1

    About your eye bro have you tried taking Omega 3 & 6 supplements? My mom (R.I.P) had similar issues w her eyes and that worked for her alot. Basically fish oil vitamin pills.

  • @ashleyp3662
    @ashleyp3662 Před 3 lety

    Ghostbuster 2 has ALWAYS and will always kick ass!!!

  • @monstermanalex1313
    @monstermanalex1313 Před 3 lety

    Grew up on Full Moon, love this.

  • @philleotardo8760
    @philleotardo8760 Před rokem

    Salute to Tim Thomerson.

  • @frezericks
    @frezericks Před 3 lety

    "But when they're scooting down the stairs, Jack Deth's stunt double looks like he... "Yes" ...can."
    Come again?

  • @turbokid8719
    @turbokid8719 Před 3 lety

    I watched trancers back in 1991 loved this franchise

  • @evieoverride
    @evieoverride Před 3 lety

    Tim Thomerson is another actor whose career is great to follow. Dollman, Nemesis, MetalStorm, etc. (Also a bit part in Rhinestone, but yeah. xD) Bilson & De Meo also wrote a Sci-Fi/WWII film with him and several other Trancers actors that was pretty fun.

  • @kensmith199
    @kensmith199 Před 3 lety +1

    Tony and Newt are the best to ever do it. Sorry Gene and Roger (RIP), Tony and Newt are just better simple as that.

  • @genevalong8383
    @genevalong8383 Před 3 lety +2

    Food n wok n future man toys duh that where everyone in the 80s went

  • @monstermanalex1313
    @monstermanalex1313 Před 3 lety

    The Dawn of the Dead reference is why, I became a Patreon member.

  • @partridgestorm
    @partridgestorm Před 3 lety

    I too thought that Tim Thomerson seemed really old in this movie, so I looked it up. According to IMDB he was only 38 when this was made. Which surprised me because no joke he looks like he's in his sixties in some shots.

    • @brandonginsburg3120
      @brandonginsburg3120 Před 2 lety +1

      In the 80s, we all looked much older. I had ladies hanging all over me when I was four. It always started with them appreciating how sensitive and cute I was. But the game was up in 15 minutes, when I asked for a happy meal or if I can stay up past 8:30.

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 Před 2 lety

      He still had blonde hair, but it looked white in the filming process

  • @CAMZAB
    @CAMZAB Před 3 lety

    You should do Space Hunters in the Forbidden Zone. Great to see Newt back on YT too.

  • @syretia551
    @syretia551 Před 3 lety

    Scooters can actually be up to 150cc which would be able to go at least 70mph.

  • @J-S.P
    @J-S.P Před 3 lety

    another fun Charles Band movie was DUNGEONMASTER aka RAGEWAR from 1984 starring Richard Moll

  • @betterjake54
    @betterjake54 Před 3 lety

    Disney Star wars does make the prequels look oscar worthy..

  • @lesliecunnis24
    @lesliecunnis24 Před 3 lety

    You guys should do FX and FX2. And if you haven't seen them go watch them now! Any movie lover really needs to see them ASAP

  • @haruruben
    @haruruben Před 2 lety

    I always get this mixed up with “Scanners”

  • @nerone1984
    @nerone1984 Před 3 lety

    Dammmmnnnnn, i'm Watching this review from the Ghostbusters 2 only to know Who SNAKED Tony.

  • @captaintoyota3171
    @captaintoyota3171 Před 3 lety

    Outta do "Strange times" (strang land?) Movie with ray fynes about LA in future with VR memory crap. Crazy movie

  • @CoryB_1980
    @CoryB_1980 Před 3 lety

    Ah man... a Full Moon feature! For some reason I love Full Moon movies, especially this one. Maybe you can do a review on Subspecies (1991) at some point. Pretty awesome vampire movie series!