Roger Ebert cracks me up... he does a Q&A all the time. Check this one...
"Q. There is a time-space conundrum in "S.W.A.T." It goes something like this:
1. In the universe that the film "S.W.A.T." inhabits, the original 1970s TV show clearly did exist. After all, there is one scene where the characters begin to sing the theme song and there is another moment where someone is seen watching an old rerun on a television.
2. However, the characters played by Sam Jackson (Hondo), Colin Farrell (Jim Street) and the guy who gets shot when the evil cops snag the swarthy Dr. Evil wannabe (T.J.) are all characters from the original show. To further confuse matters, Steve Forrest, who played Hondo on the show, pops up at the end of the film driving the "S.W.A.T." truck carrying our heroes to their next adventure.
I can accept one or the other but it seems to me that by trying to mix up the two universes--the "real" world and the world of the show--the filmmakers are violating all the laws of physics that we learned from Einstein or the Jean-Claude Van Damme epic "Timecop." By letting the worlds overlap, they have caused a rift in the time-space continuum.
Peter Sobczynski, Chicago
A. Your warning came just in time. The Griffith Observatory has spotted a gigantic space-time rift in the Andromeda galaxy, where stars are rearranging themselves into the shape of a gigantic brown bunny."
This is why he's one of the best critics around...
"Q. There is a time-space conundrum in "S.W.A.T." It goes something like this:
1. In the universe that the film "S.W.A.T." inhabits, the original 1970s TV show clearly did exist. After all, there is one scene where the characters begin to sing the theme song and there is another moment where someone is seen watching an old rerun on a television.
2. However, the characters played by Sam Jackson (Hondo), Colin Farrell (Jim Street) and the guy who gets shot when the evil cops snag the swarthy Dr. Evil wannabe (T.J.) are all characters from the original show. To further confuse matters, Steve Forrest, who played Hondo on the show, pops up at the end of the film driving the "S.W.A.T." truck carrying our heroes to their next adventure.
I can accept one or the other but it seems to me that by trying to mix up the two universes--the "real" world and the world of the show--the filmmakers are violating all the laws of physics that we learned from Einstein or the Jean-Claude Van Damme epic "Timecop." By letting the worlds overlap, they have caused a rift in the time-space continuum.
Peter Sobczynski, Chicago
A. Your warning came just in time. The Griffith Observatory has spotted a gigantic space-time rift in the Andromeda galaxy, where stars are rearranging themselves into the shape of a gigantic brown bunny."
This is why he's one of the best critics around...
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