History Film / TimeChasers

Director David Giancola parlayed his sudden fame from the film being featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', and directed Anne Nicole Smith's last film, ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758754 Illegal Aliens,]]'' which became the basis for the documentary ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1999125 Addicted to Fame,]]'' which delved into ''Time Chasers'', its later notoriety, and his attempts to build on that sudden fame. The film was also featured in one of the ''Podcast/RiffTrax Live'' shows, with brand new jokes. [[labelnote:Note]]Although they still poked fun at many of the same aspects as the ''MST'' version did.[[/labelnote]]

* PunchClockVillain: When Lisa fakes an imminent plane crash, [=GenCorp=] mooks rush off to ''offer assistance'', allowing Nick to sneak into the airport.
** Actually, they were ''ordered'' to by airport security, and one of them remained to deal with Nick.

Physics teacher and amateur pilot Nick Miller has finally completed his quest of enabling time travel, via a UsefulNotes/Commodore64 and his small airplane. With a teacher's salary, however, this has left him almost bankrupt, but an ominous television commercial for a company called [=GenCorp=] inspires him to seek funding from the private enterprise. Nick uses a ruse to bring both a [=GenCorp=] executive and a reporter from a local paper on a trip through time, but is pleasantly surprised to learn that his old high school classmate & eventual love interest, Lisa Hansen, is the reporter in question. One unimpressive trip to 2041 later and [=Gencorp's=] executive, the [[RealMenWearPink fashionable]] Matthew Paul, quickly arranges Nick a meeting with the company's transparently evil CEO, J.K. Robertson. Impressed by the potential of time travel, Roberston offers Nick a licensing agreement on the technology, over [[GenreSavvy Lisa's misgivings]].

* MagicFloppyDisk: Eight of them hold the key to time travel! On a UsefulNotes/Commodore64!

* BrickJoke: The skydiving granny.

* FashionDissonance: Lisa's business attire. Matt's salmon-pink suit could also count, though one could argue it was never in fashion.

** When Nick and Lisa are walking through the post-apocalyptic Vermont, a torn ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' poster can clearly be seen on one of the walls.

* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Everybody in the 2040's dresses like it's the '80s.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Castleton State College (now Castleton University), of which Nick sports his iconic shirt, is a real school in Rutland County, Vermont, where the film was shot.

* ShownTheirWork: The battle in Vermont on July 7, 1777 was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hubbardton the Battle of Hubbardton.]] Naturally, they'd be very familiar with it since the Revolutionary War re-enacters are a real group that were used for the film.

Director David Giancola parlayed his sudden fame from the film being featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', and directed Anne Nicole Smith's last film, ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758754/ Illegal Aliens]]'', which became the basis for the documentary ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1999125/ Addicted to Fame]]'', which delved into ''Time Chasers'', its later notoriety, and his attempts to build on that sudden fame. The film was also featured in one of the ''Podcast/RiffTrax Live'' shows, with brand new jokes [[labelnote:Note]](although they still poked fun at many of the same aspects as the ''MST'' version did)[[/labelnote]].

* ShownTheirWork: The battle in Vermont on July 7, 1777 was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hubbardton the Battle of Hubbardton]]. Naturally, they'd be very familiar with it since the Revolutionary War re-enacters are a real group that were used for the film.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: J.K. Robertson. In fact, [[ObviouslyEvil his face, voice, posture, his entire demeanor]], is so forthrightly villainous from the moment he first appears on screen, and it bears out when he discovers that he has destroyed the future, and refuses to not destroy the future. While he does comment to Nick that he is aware of the BadFuture and intends to avoid it, before he dies he expresses that he doesn't understand Nick's obsession with saving the world when he could have just escaped into the past and lived away from it - suggesting that J.K. was probably planning to do just that and not deal with the consequences of his actions.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[HeroicSacrifice After crashing J.K.'s plane and stranding them both in the past]], Nick is shot dead by Robertson - who is then promptly killed by falling plane wreckage. All within the space of 10 seconds.

* GeniusBruiser: Subverted--Nick looks like a bodybuilding nerd, but gets beat up fairly easily and doesn't seem nearly as smart as inventing the time machine would imply.

* ILied: When Matthew has reservations over killing in cold blood, J.K, initially lets him go - then promptly [[KickTheDog kills him]].
* ImprobableAimingSkills: J.K. shooting up Nick's aircraft (and Lisa). It's not ''impossible,'' but the reason fixed armament was added to fighter aircraft is because hand weapons (like pistols) were ''almost'' impossible to hit another aircraft with - and planes not much larger or faster than the Citabria piloted by Nick. Amusingly he seems to assume Matthew has these too; when he hands him the gun and tells him to shoot Nick the plane is so high that we can clearly see that even the boat he's in is just a tiny speck. Matt doesn't even bother to try at such an impossible shot.

** The "normal future" scenes were shot in Burlington--Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks are clearly visible through the windows in a way they aren't in Rutland (which is south of Lake Champlain) at a Papa Gino's that didn't make it far past the year 2000.

* OurHeroIsDead: Several of the principal characters are killed in the course of the film...except that because there are multiple timelines active, the final timeline sees all of these characters survive and thus preventing time paradox duplicates from running around and ruining things.

Physics teacher and amateur pilot Nick Miller has finally completed his quest of enabling time travel, via a Commodore 64 and his small airplane. With a teacher's salary, however, this has left him almost bankrupt, but an ominous television commercial for a company called [=GenCorp=] inspires him to seek funding from the private enterprise. Nick uses a ruse to bring both a [=GenCorp=] executive and a reporter from a local paper on a trip through time, but is pleasantly surprised to learn that his old high school classmate & eventual love interest, Lisa Hansen, is the reporter in question. One unimpressive trip to 2041 later and [=Gencorp's=] executive, the [[RealMenWearPink fashionable]] Matthew Paul, quickly arranges Nick a meeting with the company's transparently evil CEO, J.K. Robertson. Impressed by the potential of time travel, Roberston offers Nick a licensing agreement on the technology, over [[GenreSavvy Lisa's misgivings]].

* MagicFloppyDisk: Eight of them hold the key to time travel!

* RealityEnsues: One of its saving graces. Nick is the film's action hero but he's just a physics professor who rides a bike everywhere and flies planes. [[NonActionGuy So he can run around real good but isn't much good in a fight and crashes a car moments after stealing it during a chase.]]

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: The movie ends with Past!Nick approaching Amy in the store, in exactly the way Future!Nick did before they went on a date. The implication is that they get together, but it's never actually shown happening.]]