10 More Most Unintentionally Hilarious Movie Deaths

8. The Same Matter Occupies The Same Space - Timecop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01mdGW9-Zg 1994€™s Timecop holds the distinction for being Jean-Claude Van Damme€™s most financially successful movie. It€™s not his best, though it tries hard, bless its cotton socks€ it€™s one of those action movies that pretends to be sci-fi, in much the same way as Julian Sands pretends to be an actor. The unnecessarily convoluted time travel narrative is actually one of the more rewarding parts of this film, because Van Damme movies aren€™t famous for being tricky to follow. But as the plot thickens, and then curdles, you begin to get the sense that no-one involved in making Timecop really followed it either. That€™s confirmed by the climax, which is both immensely satisfying and dumber than a baked potato at one and the same time. Throughout, they€™ve teased this whole €˜the same matter can€™t occupy the same space€™ principle of time travel, which almost guaranteed that it would come back to bite the villain in the behind later on. It turns out that it means that if you touch your past self, you both melt into a hilarious, gurning puddle of steaming, fleshy goo. Why this is, no one knows. Google it: plenty of well-meaning souls with too much time on their hands have tried to explain why a time traveller touching his younger self would puree them both down into a kind of Greek dipping sauce. Of course the same matter can€™t occupy the same space. It€™s nothing to do with time travel: it€™s just a fact of life, something that prevents us from becoming horrifying hybrids of bedflesh every time we lie down to sleep, or developing handlefingers whenever we try to open doors. But the late Ron Silver was one of the smarmiest, most punchable villains in movie history, sometimes even when he didn€™t mean to be, so watching two of him die by stupid melty sciencecrap at the same time is a popcorn moment for the ages.