Pre-order The Fractured Mirror, the Happy Place’s next book, a 600 page magnum opus about American films about American films illustrated by the great Felipe Sobreiro over at Those films are, respectively, 1991’s Double Impact, where he played antithetical identical twins who must team up to avenge the deaths of their parents, 1994’s Timecop, where he played multiple versions of the same time-traversing law enforcement agency traveling through time, 1996’s Maximum Risk, which again cast him as identical twins and finally 2001’s Replicant, in which he plays a serial killing arsonist and his genetic clone.Īs I have hopefully established, Replicant is a weird fucking movie but an unusual, entertaining and enjoyably bonkers one worth seeking out if you’re interested in seeing Van Damme deliver not one but two of the craziest performances in the nuttiest roles of his long and kooky career.īuy The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In Extended Edition at, signed, for just 12 dollars, shipping and handling included OR twenty seven dollars for three signed copies AND a free pack of colored pencils, shipping and taxes included Sure, Cage may have been nominated for an Academy Award for his masterful performance as two very different brothers in Adaptation but Van Damme has played dual roles in film after film after film after film.

When it comes to playing dual roles, Nicolas Cage has nothing on Jean-Claude Van Damme.

The price goes down to seventy-five dollars for all subsequent choices. It’s the career and site-sustaining column that gives YOU, the kindly, Christ-like, unbelievably sexy Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place patron, an opportunity to choose a movie that I must watch, and then write about, in exchange for a one-time, one hundred dollar pledge to the site’s Patreon account. Welcome, friends, to the latest entry in Control Nathan Rabin 4.0.

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