How Did This Get Made? - Hudson Hawk w/ Emily Gordon (HDTGM Matinee)

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

Emily Gordon (The Big Sick) joins Paul, June, and Jason to discuss the 1991 comedy Hudson Hawk starring Bruce Willis wearing 5 earrings, Andie MacDowell, and Danny Aiello. The crew cover all the candy... bar-named bad guys, Bruce's cappuccino obsession, all the Nintendo references, the burglary duets, and so much more. Plus, they start writing the future blockbuster movie NUNDERCOVER, and you better believe that busting crimes is this nun's habit. (Originally Released 12/03/2013) • Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, FAQs, and more• Have a Last Looks correction or omission? Call 619-PAULASK to leave us a voicemail!• Submit your Last Looks theme song to us here• Join the HDTGM conversation on Discord: discord.gg/hdtgm• Buy merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/• Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of Trauma• Shop our new hat collection at podswag.com• Paul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheer• Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheer• Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer• Subscribe to Enter The Dark Web w/ Paul & Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkweb• Listen to Unspooled with Paul & Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.com• Listen to The Deep Dive with June & Jessica St. Clair: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast• Instagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junediane• Twitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & msjunediane  • Jason is not on social media• Episode transcripts available at how-did-this-get-made.simplecast.com/episodesGet access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Remember that time Bruce Willis used to wear five earrings? We do. We saw Hudson Hawks, so you know what that means. Now it's time for How did this get made? We're going to have a good time, celebrate some failure, not just be a hater, because you know you wonder, how did this get paid? Let's follow in the mediocrity of subpar art. Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question, how did this get made? Hello, people of Earth, and welcome to How Did This Get Made. I am Paul Shear, joined as always by my two co-host, Jason Manzook.
Starting point is 00:00:30 How are you, Jason? I'm good, Paul. How are you? Very good. And Miss June, Diane, Rayfield, am I getting that right? Yeah, that's correct. Okay, great. As always, we have a very special guest with us.
Starting point is 00:00:42 That's interesting, Miss. Miss June, Diane. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. Just like her Twitter handle. MS. You got that right. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:00:49 I'm just sussing that up for myself. We have a very special guest today. You know her from her podcast. The Indoor Kids, all about video games. It's awesome. Please welcome Emily Gordon. Emily. Hello. Hi, everybody. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:01:02 I like the one hand clap. I know. It was right there. You got a clap. You got a clap. Yay. I'll say this. Very few claps ever had.
Starting point is 00:01:10 We never give a clap. It wasn't like not a clap. You didn't make a conscious. No, that was the most that anyone's got. Well, then you guys would clap. It really was like I, like, you should appreciate that Paul had an involuntary response, which was to applaud your being here. And that June and I looked at him and said, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:01:29 No. Yeah, they were not going to give it up. We don't want you to get too cocky. Yeah, I'd be like, I love L.A. How's L.A. doing tonight? Anybody smoke weed? And then just see what I can get from that. I love cheap a lot.
Starting point is 00:01:41 Guys, let's talk about this movie because, first of all, what the hell is it? Is it a comedy? Is it a mystery? Is it an action movie? A drama? A musical? I think it's a cartoon that is just with real people in it. That's what I landed on.
Starting point is 00:01:57 There's lots of, like, very loony tunes, like head. bonks and like whenever stuff like punches and stuff it's very like the sound effects are crazy yeah it's a bit much I couldn't quite tell though if that was the decision made before like after the movie was shot because
Starting point is 00:02:12 or did Bruce Willis write them in because he wrote this movie and I think they were already in because if you'll remember the scene where by the way I have no idea what happens in this movie I just wrote down words like Mario Brothers Mayflowers Da Vinci like I do not know the plot of
Starting point is 00:02:29 this movie, but there's one scene where someone punches him and he sort of folds into, and then he comes back up, and then he folds again. Oh, yeah, and like the paralysis scene, there's a lot of physical comedy that is very kind of So I think that's the tone they were going for. I think so, too. I agree. I will say that everything about this movie is like a vanity project gone horribly wrong. Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Because I don't think anyone was on the same page. I feel like Bruce Willis was doing something and everyone else was doing something too. When we were talking about this before it started, like, I think everyone was committing 100%. Oh, yeah. Everybody tried really hard. Yeah. And everybody I felt like was like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:03:08 We're really nailing it. I felt like every, I felt like Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernard. I felt like James Coburn. I felt like everybody was like, you know what? We're fucking killing this. David Caruso killed it so hard. Oh, my God. Rousseau was unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:03:22 And by that, I mean, he was horrible. David Caruso plays a mute name. Kit Kat, who is working for the CIA. All the CIA characters have candy bar names. We can get into that later. Or not. Who gives a fuck? I think that's it.
Starting point is 00:03:37 I think that's all you need to hear. I keep on... Not only do they have candy bar names, but they are all eating the candy bars they are named after at the auction. Their introduction, before they are named, their introduction is he looks around and notices there are five people eating candy bars in an auction where there are also like five shakes. But I thought that that's how they got their names.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Well, they had other names before. No, I know they had other names. So you might be right. Maybe that's because it's their preference of candy. I like, you might be right. But then they still have to eat them? They don't have to. It's just like that's the candy they like.
Starting point is 00:04:12 Guess what? If you're an undercover CIA agent at an incredibly fancy $100 million auction, guess what you don't do? Pull out store-bought candy and start chomping on it like you're a goddamn asshole. Linder Trouples. You've got to be Linder Tuffles. Yeah, yeah, like a fairer-ro-share. See, the guy
Starting point is 00:04:33 I love that that's the fanciest candy in the world to us That and Toblerone, the classic candy Those are the candies that like your parents brought you back From like the duty free shots When they went on an international trip And sometimes an Andy's mint But let me ask you a question about Kit Kat Because Kit Kat's defining CIA trait
Starting point is 00:04:57 is that he dresses up as... He's a mimic, yeah. A mimic, but he's not a good me. He's not only a mimic, but he's an incidental mimic. Like, he just incidentally arrives on the scene wearing exactly what one of the two people in the scene is wearing. Either Bruce Willis or the one that truly blew my mind is
Starting point is 00:05:18 when he was dressed as Andy McDowell. Yes. When he shows up, when he escorts her out in Italy in a matching red dress and a white dress and a wig like hers. How could he have known? What is this movie? The CIA is like, so are you going to be Andy McDowell at any point?
Starting point is 00:05:36 No. He's like, oh, this will be fun. I'll dress up like the people who are working with, but I'm not going to use that to any advantage, tactical advantage. None of it. The only thing he does to any advantage is say to Bruce Willis via card, because he doesn't speak, watch out for the blue wire.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Right, and by the way, so he has to communicate through business cards, but the business cards are so utterly specific. They're pre-typed. Yes. You guys, that's the bit. That's the bit. There's so much in this movie that, like, it's like, there are pieces of this movie that have a toys-like logic towards a movie. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:09 That is completely unfounded and unwarranted. Like, toys lived in a fantasy world and everything obeyed that reality. Do you mean, like, when they fall out of the sky, they land on chairs? Yes, one. Or when they fall, when they jump off of, like, a two-story building and land on a marble. A marble, like, like, slab. Really hard. It looks really hard.
Starting point is 00:06:30 They're just, like, totally fine. But it's juxtaposed with scenes of brutal violence. Yep. People getting shot in the head. Head cut off. Yep. So it's like, they didn't stick that landing. Like, I'm okay with a Three Stooges movie, but you never in the Three Stooges.
Starting point is 00:06:45 Do you see someone get their heads cut off? I felt like Bruce Willis was like, let's do Die Hard with three stooges plus Bugs Bunny, plus da Vinci, plus the Vatican. Andy McDowell's a nun, and I get to sing a song. It feels like they were writing this movie on set. Like, hey, well, we'll sing a song now. Put it in new script pages, new script pages. Guess what cat burglars should be doing while they're robbing an auction house is audibly singing.
Starting point is 00:07:13 This is my theory. My theory of the movie is that Bruce Willis has a band called Bruce Willis and the Accelerators. Oh, I had the album when I was a kid. I mean, the, what's the, the return of Bruno? Yeah. And my theory is that he wanted to. to make a movie where he could sing and yet not have it be like a quote unquote fruity musical.
Starting point is 00:07:32 And so he was like, I need to make an action movie. But then there's not enough singing. I agree. I could have used more. I'll tell you what. I enjoyed that scene. The first one. Which?
Starting point is 00:07:43 Oh, really? Swing on a star. Yeah. It actually was quite enjoyable, even though it didn't make any sense whatsoever. Oh, it's not. Oh, heaven's now. But I did think, here's the thing. And I did, I enjoyed the concept that they could,
Starting point is 00:07:55 they would time the robber. because they knew the length of certain songs. I agree with you on this, but I'm going to just throw one wrench into this. That would require them to sing the entire time. Yes. Which they don't do. They stop for harmonies, or they stop for solos. So if I'm in another side of the museum and I'm just pausing.
Starting point is 00:08:14 You're still counting at that point. I think they're still counting. Yeah. Okay. Regardless, though, it would be one thing if they both put on a little transistor radio headset and listened to the song. Yeah. But they are singing out loud while cat burgling and dancing.
Starting point is 00:08:30 Oh, and dancing. By the way, I'm going to say one thing before I play this clip of them actually singing because I think you need to hear it. This movie is based on a song. What? Yes. Bruce Willis wrote this movie. It was based on a song that him and this guy, I believe, Robert Craft is his name.
Starting point is 00:08:46 They wrote a song together called Hudson. Oh, called Hudson Hawk. That's right. Because it's the one that plays over the end credits. Yes. Yeah. It's horrible. So basically that song.
Starting point is 00:08:55 bred this movie. Now, here's a song. Now, here's them singing. Let's take a listen. If you like a song. If you like someone, I do. I do. I guess I think you.
Starting point is 00:09:20 And so they do this long musical. They do this long, they do this long, long sequence. Now, here's my issue with that sequence. It was a kind of, again, I agree. Cool premise that they know the beats and everything of that. But then Bruce Willis is the sloppiest cat burglar because not only
Starting point is 00:09:37 does he rob the safe, but then he leaves everything open and really unattended. Very unattended. Very unattended. There's no... Which robbery are you talking about? The first robbery. Okay, got it. Yep. Of course, right. Oh, by the way, they're robbing a place that... They're robbing
Starting point is 00:09:51 a gallery that behind their famous paintings. They have a a safe, which I thought was a weird touch. Paintings are. They just aren't covers for safe. That's all the main things. They would be a painting and then behind the Mona Lisa is a great safe. Most museums have upwards of 2,000 safes in the walls.
Starting point is 00:10:08 Because it's just behind every painting is a safe. It's like a safety deposit box, but it's an artie deposit box. There may not be anything in them. No, no. They're always there. He is, they are, the action in this movie is so deeply flawed. I mean the action, like the heist specifics. Like, he seems so able to do everything needed in a heist within no time at all.
Starting point is 00:10:35 He gets from the basement to the roof, from the roof to the gallery. He opens this. All he has to do is put a lock pick three inches from a lock and the door is like open. It's like, it is very bizarre how easy it is to rob the most complex organizations. He robs the Vatican at one point, spoiler alert. And with ease He was in there for roughly three to four minutes And he had roughly an hour of prep
Starting point is 00:11:01 He got to Italy He woke up in a giant suitcase Excuse me He woke up in a giant suitcase Stuffed with peanuts Shipped to Italy Why? Why did they need to ship him to Italy In a box?
Starting point is 00:11:15 Because he would have fought He would have fought the whole way But why not just knock him out But I'm assuming they put him in cargo Yes Oh for sure Yeah, because he was in the peanuts. He was in the packing peanuts.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Guys, what? There were to, so many eyebrows would have been raised if they tried to, like, get him through a hair. A knocked-out Bruce Willis going to get that. You're not going to get that. He and Danny Ayala were singing that song. He gets the horse. Then they start singing it just full-throated. Yes.
Starting point is 00:11:43 And then they come together. They're, like, job well done. We did this. They come together and they're laughing. And they're dancing. And they're in, they're still in the auction house. Yeah. They're in the middle of the robbery.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Like, he decides... They're not at the end. No, they're in the middle. They have not a... But are celebrating the fuck. You get out of there. They don't know that. They knew they had a very short time interval to get out, and they had no problem leaving the same.
Starting point is 00:12:08 Everything about... Also, the whole plan was that this video thing would be on a loop, and at the end of two minutes or whatever, it would reveal us out of it. It's not unlike in toys. Yes. When Robert Williams makes the music video, which is also a very flawed idea. Is this your go-to reference? We just watched it recently. And it's so full of so many amazing moments.
Starting point is 00:12:26 June was unfortunately not there. Wait, you didn't see it, though? She doesn't feel like she's unfortunate. Oh, June. It's really not good. But you would think, like, the idea would be, we need to rob this place, and so when the video monitors come back on,
Starting point is 00:12:39 everything will be back to normal. But they make a giant mess of that room. Yeah, it's... Well, there's also, like, a complete disregard for time. Oh, okay? So, like, for example, just in this example alone, Danny Iiello goes, I need five minutes.
Starting point is 00:12:53 And they go, perfect, here's the song, whatever. Bing, bang, boom. Now they all start singing, Bing, ba, do, bo, boom. Okay, five minutes does not. I mean, like, the time is, Danny Ayello fucks up the VCRs, like the whatever it is. He's the dubbing of the footage. You know, he's mistakenly done that. He's made a mess of that.
Starting point is 00:13:13 And then later, when the guy sets the bomb to go off in two minutes, the bomb goes off in 35 seconds. 35 seconds, 100%. It's counting down like two minutes, you know, one, four, four. one, whatever, blah, blah, blah, and then, boom, it explodes. Well, the bomb logic in this movie is insane as one person gets a bomb stuck to their head. Later in the movie, and it's just by a big suction cup. It's like a suede. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:35 And he is, and he could not get that off. Yeah, that would be something that you could get off. By the way, if you shot that thing at his head with that amount of volume, his head would have exploded instantaneously. Or just broken his neck. I mean, the force of that 50-pound thing. Here's a weird thing about. It's a gun that shoots bombs.
Starting point is 00:13:52 If anybody's wondering what we're talking about The bad guys have one of the sets of bad guys We haven't explained this movie at all We haven't talked about Da Vinci We haven't talked about this movie I dare you A lot of A lot of people wrote in that you look exactly like DaVinci
Starting point is 00:14:07 We'll post a picture on the website So you can see it You know what audience I do not care for this You will respect me I will from now on From now on Let me see it
Starting point is 00:14:19 Here it is Here it is It is an amazing, amazing, like this. Well, by the way, Da Vinci does one of those things. In this movie, I'm going to talk about this a couple times, I think. It does these things that are bad movie tropes. And one of the things that always gets me is old characters putting on sunglasses. Great.
Starting point is 00:14:40 Skateboards are always as well- Which is definitely in there. I wrote down another one in here, too. We'll get to it. One of mine was. Oh, okay, got it. No, no, please. Freeze frame, which turns into.
Starting point is 00:14:50 drawing, which is that in the book. Like, yes. So those are three things that I feel like if you ever see those, you know you are watching. Oh, and and sorry. Oh, no, that's in the next movie. When a movie opens and like 1,300, whatever, when it opens on that and it just looks like something like the corner
Starting point is 00:15:06 of a Spencer Gifts that they somehow, I'm like, oh, I'm on board. I'm ready for a movie. How about this? How about when DaVinci enters his lab and cracks his knuckles? He like extends it, he like, crack. Like, let's get to work. What was the purpose of that device? for Da Vinci.
Starting point is 00:15:22 To make gold. He wants to make gold, yeah. Alchemy. By the way, if you guys are guessing, this movie is about alchemy. Okay, but cut to present day, what were they using it for exactly? No, same thing.
Starting point is 00:15:32 They wanted to turn lead into gold. Wait, the Richard E. Grant and Sandra Byrd? Yeah. They wanted to turn lead into gold so that they could world domination. You know, world domination. They could just control currency. That's exactly.
Starting point is 00:15:42 It wasn't even, that's what I loved. It wasn't even like, then we'll have a lot of gold. We could sell it. That's what I couldn't understand. Yeah, it was like, no. To control currency and, like, to start sort of mass chaos.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm assuming, yeah, I guess so. I mean, maybe having that much gold would... Who cares? I want to get it. First of all, their plan is terrible plan, and I don't think even anyone knows what their plan is. I will say that Sandra Bernhardt and Richard Grant,
Starting point is 00:16:09 who are the villains in this movie, don't know a lot about gold and lead, or either the script writer didn't either, because there's a scene where they put a piece of gold and a piece of lead in Bruce Willis's hand. And they go, you need to tell us the difference. They're exactly the same. How would you tell the difference?
Starting point is 00:16:26 They're not the same. The gold bar they had would weigh around 30 pounds. And the piece of lead would be about one pound. So that would be amazing. That's how strong Bruce Willis is. That it doesn't mean anything to him. Gold is 70% denser than lead. And they also say there's only one molecule of difference between gold and lead.
Starting point is 00:16:46 That is also not true. That's three protons and seven neutrons. different. So they, even the research on this movie is bare bones, bad, like that, that's easy to go, the difference between gold and less. The scene in the past, the Da Vinci opening scene where you walk through
Starting point is 00:17:02 Da Vinci's lab and they've got the gold machine spinning. And Da Vinci's working on everything that he's done simultaneously. The Mona Lisa is almost done. Wait a second. Okay, hang on. We all saw that the Mona Lisa's bad teeth were also in that police officer
Starting point is 00:17:18 in the present day, right? Yes. Uh-huh. Why? No, I did not catch. Okay, so, okay, so in the... I thought that they have a thing about bad teeth. Bad teeth is something, yeah. Because, like, they did it twice within the first five minutes. But never again.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Never again. Anyway, okay, so I wanted to mention that. But they're in the past... But finally we know why, I mean, that's a funny joke. Oh, it's hilarious. Finally, we know why Mona Lisa is not smiling with his teeth. I'm assuming Willis was like, hey, we still got those fucking Mona Lisa teeth are on? Throw them in this guy's mouth.
Starting point is 00:17:44 This is going to be hilarious. Anyway, so in the past, they've got. Got the gold machine spinning, and the thing zaps the whatever, and then they crack open the thing, and everybody's, oh, and everybody's speaking Italian. Everybody's speaking non-subtitled Italian, and somebody goes, oh, gold. And I was like, there is no way that somebody in the fucking 1300s goes, oh, gold. Like, it made me so mad. The opening scene. is just to basically set up the final scene,
Starting point is 00:18:22 which is like, oh, and this room has everything that you'll need for our characters to play with, including a flying machine, which comes in very handy. I was really excited about seeing that scene. I had forgotten all about it. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I can't wait for this to come in. When he spots it, I was like, oh, money shot.
Starting point is 00:18:37 This is going to be it. I saw this movie on a date in high school. Wow. Oh, wow. And that was the only part of the movie I remembered. The two of them. The two of them. out of the exploding building.
Starting point is 00:18:49 That is amazing. And I remembered hating it. How did that date go? Was the date good? Not very well. No, no, actually the date went totally fine. The date went fine. But it was like, we both were like,
Starting point is 00:18:58 fuck this movie. This is one of my mom's favorite movies. Yeah, you were saying that. No. My mom has great taste in movies and also very bad taste. So she'll watch a lot of really interesting indie movies. Like, have you seen the flower of Dr. Nobody?
Starting point is 00:19:11 And I'm like, no, I haven't seen that one yet. And she's like, oh, it's amazing. Wait, you haven't seen flower of Dr. No, not yet. Oh, dude. I know. I know. I know it's playing. at the uh whatever uh but she also loves this movie and also saving silverman which is a fine movie
Starting point is 00:19:22 those are two of her favorite movies why does she love it i cannot i cannot get an answer to does she love bruce willis she kind i mean she loved moonlighting we used to like that's lighting amazing yeah yeah oh i love moonlight loved by the way i was uh just a sidetrack on a tangent here like how to how i met your mother this week again we have a little rivalry with how i met your mother this week How I met with your mother this week were like, they did a rhyming episode and like, it's never been done before. And I was like, no, moonlighting did it.
Starting point is 00:19:50 They did the Iambic pentameter episode. The Shakespeare, the Taming of the Shrew episode. Yeah, so I just wanted to break that down. So guess what? How I met your mother. You guys fucked up again. The feud continues. You know the deal.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Meet us in the parking lot. I want to watch this. I want to watch this. H-Y-I-M meets HDG, whatever. I'm just realizing, too, like, When they do that first robbery, and they're so casual about it and taking so much time, he hasn't done a heist like this in a decade? Many years.
Starting point is 00:20:26 Yeah. Oh, at least 10 years. He's not even played Nintendo. He's not even played Nintendo. Let's get into the Nintendo run. The video game runner of this movie is insane because he's also a young guy. You imagine that Bruce Willis did this movie at like 32, 33? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:41 I mean, it was in 19. 91. So I feel like that's, you know, I don't know. I'm not going to do the math of that. All right. Wait, wait, weird is, actually, I didn't know this. Right after Die Hard 2. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:20:52 So he, like, you know, so he's still a young man, but he plays up that he's been in jail for such a long time. Centuries. Century. Like 10 years on this. And he goes, I don't even know what Nintendo is. And Nintendo comes in, Mario Brothers comes in. Well, there was a Hots and Hawk video game. That's exactly what I found out today.
Starting point is 00:21:11 It was a really terrible. Hudson Hawk video game, but they pushed it a lot. It was for Nintendo, right? Yes, it was for Nintendo. After the movie was out. Yeah, to go along with the movie, it was going to be this huge thing. That's why you're here. That's why you're here because we knew that. I'll only do movies that have video games.
Starting point is 00:21:27 It was released for the Commodore 64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, and Atari, as well as the NES and Game Boy. And it's like, that, by the way, what kid is going, like, I love the movie, I want to play the game. I want to, and what is, wait, in the game, do you rob things? You were like, let me rob.
Starting point is 00:21:45 Rob, Rob Vatican. According here, you play as Hawk, and you must steal the Storza and the Codex from the auction house and the Vatican, respectively. Then Castle Da Vinci has to be infiltrated in order to steal the mirrored crystal that needs the power of the gold machine. On his journey, Hawk must face many oddball adversaries, including dachshunds that try to throw him off the roof of the auction house, janitors, photographers, killer nuns, and a tennis player, presumably Darwin Mayflower. That is the really weird thing about this movie. Like none of the theft is done with any grace or intelligence or strategy or like. No, like versus like Ocean's 11 where half of the movie is planning. Which by the way is so satisfying.
Starting point is 00:22:23 Yeah. Amazing to watch. I love it. This is like he wakes up in the suitcase day of and they give him one tour of the Vatican. Yeah. And they're like, oh, and you're robbing it tonight. The people service. And there's no, yeah, there's no trial.
Starting point is 00:22:37 And his list of things he needs are like olive oil, a bunch of stuff. Stamps. Wait, what did he do with the stamps? Oh, he mailed himself into the Vatican. Remember he was in that big box? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, I wanted, this is again. Second time he got mailed. That's like his fucking move.
Starting point is 00:22:52 He liked it. He liked it. I do want to bring up one of the things, again, why I couldn't figure out how long he's been in jail. He doesn't know what Nintendo is. I buy that. He hadn't seen E. That's it. Yeah. I never saw E. Because E.T. is what, 82? Oh, or maybe. All right. So E.T. came out in 82. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:10 So that works. Yeah, that works in math. For 10 years, for a 10 years since. All right, there you go. But still, I mean, if he's so great at doing this, why didn't he break out of jail? That's number one. Andy McDowell is a nun.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Oh. That happens in the, she is the romantic lead in the movie. She keeps flirting and going after him. Three quarters of the way through the movie, it is revealed by virtue of a wardrobe change. By putting her in a nun's habit that she is a nun. Are they allowed to dress sexy on their office?
Starting point is 00:23:40 Well, that means she's an under, she's also undercover. She's an undercover, none. She's an undercover. Guys. Nundercover. It's fucking nailed it. Make the poster. Make the poster.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Nundercover. By the way, that is a movie. That is a movie. That is amazing movie. We have to make nundercover. Undercover. Oh, my God. By the way, that should be.
Starting point is 00:24:03 I almost want us to cut this out of the podcast. It's brilliant. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I can register this before. Nundercover Oh God, I need to leave right now I have to start writing
Starting point is 00:24:14 Hey, she'll be in the habit of busting all the crimes Oh, that's okay That's okay Wow, wow How about busting crimes is her habit Oh, I like that I mean you just took my idea
Starting point is 00:24:26 And moved it around the video You know what? You can control the video game Nundercover the video game That'll be a really sexy one Oh my gosh By the way Nundercover That is amazing.
Starting point is 00:24:42 You know what, those kind of moments, they don't come along all the time. You have to really respect it. By the way, I feel great. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a lawyer, but if anyone writes that, I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a lawyer. But if anyone writes that, I think we can see you. We have the basis.
Starting point is 00:24:56 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you write that you're off here. Time stamped. Okay, she's a nun. She's a nun who communicates through a talking light-up Jesus. That's scary shit out of me. That's really frightening. That was really weird.
Starting point is 00:25:10 Uncomfortable to look at. Well, there's four organizations of secret people in this. That's what's so confusing. And I know I did just get a flu shot today, so I watched it. I was a little out of it. Well, I was very cute. I also got the same flu shot, and it did not temper my brain power. This is not a...
Starting point is 00:25:26 I was very confused about who was CIA. Well, there's CIA. There's Vatican CIA, yeah. Then there's the other bad guys, but then... The Mayflowers. So I guess that's just three. Well, and the problem really was that they... at various times were teaming up
Starting point is 00:25:42 and we're double crossing against each other, yeah. So that was what was confusing to me. Like Kit Kat was double crossing. Who? Kit Kat. No. No.
Starting point is 00:25:51 The Mayflowers killed him. Right, because he was... Danny Ayella was double crossing, but then he wasn't double crossing. But I know that, but I thought Kit Kat was... Kit Kat himself? These are words we're saying out loud. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I thought Kit Kat was... I thought Kit Kat was, they found out that he was double crossing the Mayflowers. The Mayflowers found that out. No, the Mayflowers found that out. No, the Mayflower was. Flowers just decided to kill the CIA team. They also shot the
Starting point is 00:26:13 Butterfinger. Oh boy, what am I talking about? Snickers. They killed Snickers. You know, like, they decided, and then they say, why are you killing them? And she says, we're greedy or something to that effect? More like, she basically says, we want it all for ourselves. Don't try to make sense of the plot because I don't think that they even did that service.
Starting point is 00:26:32 And Kit Kat, his dying words written on a note were, I always liked you. She had prepared, so I guess he knew he was. He knew he was dressed as a statue. Well, here's just as a statue. That's not the way to go. You don't want to go up dressed as a statue.
Starting point is 00:26:46 What the fuck was that? I once heard Bruce Wilson in an interview say the reason why people like die hard is because of the New Jersey comedy. What? Yes, he said the reason why people connect to that movie is because they like seeing a guy from New Jersey crack and wise. Oh, this is what happened. This is why we got this movie.
Starting point is 00:27:04 And this is why we got a movie where like literally a guy gets his head cut off. And the line that Bruce Willis says. I know it, I know it. I guess we won't see him at the hat convention in July. Yeah, I guess we won't see that guy attending the hat convention in July. Which makes me think there is a real hat convention. By the way, it would not surprise me if Bruce Willis was a guy who goes to hack conventions. But by the way, come on.
Starting point is 00:27:26 This is a guy losing his head. There's a million jokes. Like, oh, I guess he lost his head. There's also one where he says, how's my driving, $1,800? Oh, that's the line I was just trying to look for. That scene. That was... That scene is amazing.
Starting point is 00:27:42 He says, wait a second. He says that line. Bruce Willis is that... Right after he said, right after a car pulls up next to him. Bruce Willis... Yes, this is my favorite line. Bruce Willis has fallen out of... He's in an ambulance.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Connected only by a long sheet. On wheels. Connected by a bed sheet to the ambulance, going over the bridge. The Veranzano bridge or like a big New York bridge. Anyway. And he's careening all over the place and a convertible pulls up next to him. Some pretty girls. go, hey, mister, are you going to die?
Starting point is 00:28:13 Like, that's what they say. Like, so, like, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's crazy. Like, it's crazy. This man is bleeding from a, yeah, from an answer. This is, you are going to watch someone die. And then he, he, then he says, you're, the line, you just said, how am I driving? 1,800, I'm going to die.
Starting point is 00:28:28 And then, uh, yeah. And then it goes to a toll booth. And pull that exact change. The exact change, the cigarette that a woman tosses out of her window, he catches and says, oh, menthol? Yep. Great joke. This is my favorite scene
Starting point is 00:28:40 That is my favorite scene And then there's all these Like I guess like To me it's like All right I buy that scene Because that scene at least felt Like it was totally
Starting point is 00:28:48 They made a choice Appropriate And but the rest of the movie Doesn't go that way But then you have these moments Where it's like You pass by some security guards And he's like
Starting point is 00:28:55 Hey can you believe it There's so many wongs In the phone book And he goes Oh it's so many Wong numbers And then he goes Look up Chin
Starting point is 00:29:04 That's it These are like jokes That people make it cigar club and like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny, that's funny. Like, and it's like, oh, yeah. Well, when they're eating pasta in Italy, they put in a thermos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's a joke.
Starting point is 00:29:19 Here's a joke that I wasn't clear on what was the point of this. When James Coburn, who's the bad guy, CIA agent, he's all mad and he goes, he says, I can't remember what he says, but then he goes, we blow up space shuttles for breakfast. I was like, whoa, man. I'm going to use that one. Hey, man, that's not cool. That was too soon. Too soon, bro.
Starting point is 00:29:41 Like, what are you talking about? So, wait, you guys blew up the space shuttle? Yeah. That's true. It's only been at that point a couple of years since. That's what I'm looking right now. That was in 1986. So that was like only five years, five or six years old.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Way too soon. For this movie. Not cool. Not cool, guys. Although I do like that line. It's a good line. I did think that was a bold one. I mentioned in the opening Bruce Wilson does have five earrings.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Oh, yeah. Like a pirate, which was a very interesting choice. I thought that the... He can't get a cup of coffee to save his life. That is a real running gag. All he wants is a cappuccino. So, again, making the character super accessible, he's a safe cracker with a heart of gold
Starting point is 00:30:21 who only wants a cappuccino, but he gets pulled into an elaborate alchemy plot. And things... Oh, sorry. Please. Go ahead. Sorry. Please continue. I was looking at my notes and I just saw something.
Starting point is 00:30:33 I want to talk about the relationship between him and Andy McDowell, Two scenes in particular. One, Andy McDowell's genuine, like, amusement at this guy. Like, he flies off of a building, lands in a chair. Again, I buy the Looney Tunes aspect of that. Coughs out feathers, like, full on, like, pugh. Like, he's a clown.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Like, he's a clown. And Andy McDowell sits there, like, it's... Charmed. Charmed. And they're there for, like, all of... A guy comes up, and he goes, what are you want? And he goes, sir, I'm the waiter. And he goes, okay, I guess you are.
Starting point is 00:31:04 And he, oh, they order. And he wants... ketchup for his pasta. Well, that's the other thing, too. There's a thing about, like, Italian food being bad. Like, it's like, I want ketchup for, like, no, no, no, you're in Italy and you're Italian and you're from New Jersey. Like, this shouldn't, you should be liking this.
Starting point is 00:31:18 This should be wonderful for you. And you've been in jail for 10 years. And you want a cappuccino. You have a refined taste. You don't want ketchup. Also ketchup. Yeah. And a cappuccino.
Starting point is 00:31:27 You can't want both things. Yeah, and then cut to kick up, but Butterfinger, the big doofy guy who's like, steak burger. Yeah. The one joke I really laughed out with Butterfingers was when he was in the back of the car. I think they're not sleeping out at the restaurant, but someplace. And he's saying something. And the guy in front of him goes, here, just read a book. Read your book.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Read your book. And then he starts reading a children's book. He starts reading green eggs and ham. He starts reading green eggs in ham and they go, they go to yourself. He's like, I felt bad for him. Yeah, he was a real dummy. He was a real dummy. Just for the fans of the show, I think this is interesting to mention that the screenplay was,
Starting point is 00:32:12 How Did This Get Made All-Star Mashup? It was written by Stephen DeSouza, who wrote Street Fighter. Amazing. And Judge, and Judge Dredd. And also co-written by Daniel Waters, who wrote Demolition Man and Batman Returns. Oh, my God. So these guys were... Heavy hitters.
Starting point is 00:32:27 Yeah, really heavy hitters. Did anyone else notice that at the Vatican in the postal subway, there was a cross that had been packaged and was just behind them at one point, when Andy McDowell is walking through the subway, there's a giant, like a crucifix that's just in brown, like, UPS packaging. So weird. Well, how else are you going to move them? I mean, I guess so.
Starting point is 00:32:46 How else you move across? I guess so. I guess so. I guess so. I guess now that we know that Andy McDowell is a nun, I can answer this question, but Andy McDowell gives him a shirtless massage. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:56 And like, it goes to kiss. I thought this was post-coital. I thought they had sex. And they were in bed because he's, I guess just shirtless. And she's, and she's, rubbing his back and asking about his tattoos blah blah blah and she is wearing all of her clothes
Starting point is 00:33:10 and I was like are they done what it is and they go to kiss and she goes I can't do this but you can give a guy a shirtless bag I mean it was very sexual but now we know why I was confused about is what exactly her plan was like what was she trying
Starting point is 00:33:26 she was seducing him she already knew what he was going to do she wanted to stop him from stealing the codex because they need to protect it so Did he ever really try to do that? No, no. I mean, yeah, she was trying to get close to him to figure out his plan, but then she realized he was just being used.
Starting point is 00:33:41 He's a nice guy. Because the Vatican thought he was the threat. Right, but he was being forced to do this or he'd go back to jail. Or they'd kill his, Danny Aiello, et cetera. It was actually supposed to be Isabella Rosalini in that role, by the way. That was something I read, and Annie McDowell. Oh, yes. Because she's like a Southern girl.
Starting point is 00:33:58 Like, Amy McDowell is like not an Italian. She gorgeous. She was actually the third choice. It was Isabella Rosal. Celina was originally cast, and then they recast Marusha Detmer's, but then she had to leave because she had back problems, and then they brought in Annie McDowell. Now, I will bring up this one
Starting point is 00:34:15 disturbing moment. I don't know if any of you caught it, but the Butterfinger, the big, messy, that guy, goes... I know what you're talking about. There's a moment where they're, like, spying on them, and they're trying to come up with what their plan is, and he writes, should we rape them? He says, or roughly that? Why do we have to do that? Why do we have to do this in movies. He says it out.
Starting point is 00:34:36 Early 90s, why do we have to do this in a movie? Can I ask you, this is right when, this is when they then say, read your book. It's the same scene. It's the same scene. Now, okay, I really struggled with this because I was like, did he really just say, yes, did he really just say, should I rape her? Yes. No, them.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Them. He did say them. So that's helpful. That makes me feel better. Does it? Yeah, he's a monster. He will rape anything. Yes, he will rape anybody.
Starting point is 00:35:03 I'm willing. to bet he's saying something else but that we heard is it possible? Oh that it got dubbed? No no no no no no. What else could he have said that that's the better version? I don't know. No, he definitely said I couldn't make heads or tails out of that. I'll tell you what it was.
Starting point is 00:35:20 It was just a heightening like this guy is a complete animal. Even though he's reading a children's book. And so like the idea being like our next move here strategically might be. be just me raping them.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Because, and for what purpose? I think this is a question he asks a lot. Yeah, that's true. Every mission. All right. Let's get into our villains because Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bullard, sorry, not Bullock, Sandra Bernard. Really swinging for the fences.
Starting point is 00:35:57 Yeah, let's play a clip of them. You can get a sense of what their performances are like. This isn't a fantasy. See, it is a reality. Oh, yes. If Da Vinci was alive today, he'd be eating microwave sushi naked in the back of a Cadillac with the both of us. So that's a little sense of what they are bombastic, crazy characters playing tennis and doors. That's how you show people are crazy.
Starting point is 00:36:25 Absolutely. And I don't again know exactly what their plan is to control the world. World domination, he says. World domination. Richard E. Grant did write in his book with Nails that this movie was just replotted during the actual days of filming.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Wow. Really? Yes. That's cool. Yes. So, I mean, any thoughts on these people? I like their dog a lot. I enjoyed them. I enjoyed their performances. I really enjoyed Sandra Bernhard. Amazing. So good. Really, really good. I couldn't take my eyes off. Both of them, I thought
Starting point is 00:36:56 were terrific. Like, they were just chueling the scenery. I feel like they were also on tone. Like, they were like, okay, this is what it is. It is As if in Dan Aykroyd terrible movie, nothing but trouble, the Brazilians were the villains of the movie. Like, that's what it's like, remember the Brazilians? Yes, the brother and sister.
Starting point is 00:37:18 Like, they were those type, like, they were just like incredibly bombastic characters. Weirdly sexual. Weirdly sexual, like really weirdos. And I enjoyed it. I thought that they are the same thing grace. What I didn't enjoy was that dog. The dog was, I didn't like the dog. rooting around and Bruce Willis's
Starting point is 00:37:36 crotch. I was like, come on, do we really And then the fact that they threw the dog out the window at the end. Well, the dog was trying to attack Andy McDowell. What are you going to do? Yeah, they, and it was, you know, the dog had it coming, to be honest. The dog was evil. At the end, you could tell the dog, like, wanted, the dog seemed
Starting point is 00:37:52 actually more evil than either of its owners. I was going to say, did anybody else think that the dog was the boss of them? Like, they were just probably doing the dogs. They're like the son of Sam? I love that first time you see Sam. Like he was the big evil. Yeah, he's the big guy. That she's just thinking, I've got the power.
Starting point is 00:38:07 Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was good. Sitting on a conference table. Wait, what was that a conference table of? Because there was a small Indian boy. A lot of ethnicities happening. Were they like the, was this the like the Legion of Doom or something?
Starting point is 00:38:24 Were they all bad guys? They were all like, they were working for a company. Like their company was at M Corporation or whatever. Yeah, but that's like one of them was a child. One of the people at that table was. You don't get it, Jason. You don't get the comedy of it. You're right.
Starting point is 00:38:40 That's not like some Temple of Doom stuff. You know what? Yeah, the Maharaja guy, yeah. I think you need to hear Bruce Willis explain why you don't get the jokes here. Can you play that clip of Bruce Willis talking about this movie? There's a half an hour interview about Bruce Willis defending this movie on YouTube in three parts. Bruce Willis talks Hudson Hawk. You'll find it.
Starting point is 00:38:56 Here we go. Here's a clip. You know, look at how it kind of became. in this cult film and what people you know come up and say to me on the street about it is is take your time bruce they you know dig the fact that it was making fun of itself and that it was satire and i don't think anybody got that when it came out they thought they didn't know what to make of it you know me and um uh danny i hello singing in a movie was just unheard of and they were is that satire? Is that considered satire?
Starting point is 00:39:36 They were mad that we were trying to make them laugh. He's Tommy was sewing this. This is rewriting history. This is riveting. It's amazing. The interview itself is amazing. Blaming people for not getting satire. But then hearing him to say that satire is him and Danny Iello's singing.
Starting point is 00:39:54 That's not satire. I don't understand. He made this earnestly. He didn't make this. Oh, no. He thought this was going to be fucking. He thought this was going to be like his James Bond or his man Flint or Austin powers or whatever. I think he was like, this is going to be die hard plus. Yeah. You know, it's going to be
Starting point is 00:40:09 the action and the adventure of diehard, but with better jokes new jerky humor. More like swashbuckle. Just by the way, just if you're wondering what the definition of satire is, I'll tell you that. Oh, hello. The use of humor to ridicule, expose, or criticize people's
Starting point is 00:40:26 stupidity of vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics. I've actually never heard that definition. So that, I mean, you know, so I don't know that that movie falls into that the alchemy. He really took down the alchemy committee. But the movie's original catchphrase was
Starting point is 00:40:41 catch the excitement, catch the adventure, catch the hawk. But when they realized it wasn't really an action movie, they changed it for the home video release, which was catch the excitement, catch the laughter, catch the hawk. That's very telling. That's, yeah, they knew they were like, we got to figure out some of the way to package this thing. This is not working out.
Starting point is 00:40:58 Bruce Willis does not, Bruce Willis gets so defensive on this movie when you hear he goes, people criticize this movie I have so much money I could just sit by a lake and skip stones what do I care like that's his response
Starting point is 00:41:11 that's funny to me his response isn't like no no we tried to me he's like fuck you I don't need it I don't need you to like anything I'm rich I did this for me I didn't even do this for you I'm rich as shit
Starting point is 00:41:21 which he is I was actually I was looking at his IMDB that man has been working forever he has so much money I also I do think probably this falls into the category that we are now like, I mean, I hate to say it again, but Toysing, I'll bring up Toys again.
Starting point is 00:41:37 I believe this to be a project that because of his power, box office power, Bruce Willis was able to get this movie made. Oh, absolutely. You know, this was a passion project for Bruce Willis. Not like they didn't, he wrote this movie. It is built for him. With a budget of $70 million in 1991. Wow.
Starting point is 00:41:56 It brought in a total of $17 million. Which is a, I mean, that's some money. It didn't, oh, I guess it did bomb. I mean, it definitely bombed. I mean, that's a, like, this is one of those movies that is a bomb that you forget about. Like, people talk about Ishtar. Oh, yeah. But they don't talk about Hudson Hawk.
Starting point is 00:42:10 I mean, and I was excited. I remember seeing this and knowing Bruce Wilson is in a movie. It's like, oh, it's going to be great. It's going to be like, it looked awesome. Yeah. You know, this was an era when, like, between, like, Die Hard and Indiana Jones, but also, like, a time when, like, romancing the stone was a big movie to me. Yeah, that movie.
Starting point is 00:42:25 And that movie is amazing. Like, a real adventure romance. Oh, it's so fun. I had that, like, that's why I went to a date. You know, I went, I took a date to this because it looked like it was going to be awesome the way Romancing the Stone was. Yeah. And instead, it was worse than Romance in the Stone, too.
Starting point is 00:42:41 Oh, I like Jewel of the Nile. We haven't even talked about Andy McDowell's dolphin. I was just going to say that. The dolphin sounds were amazing. I don't, and I remember looking away for a minute and then looking back at the movie and going, wait, what is she doing? What is she doing? She was doing voices.
Starting point is 00:42:57 She was doing schick. She was like, they were like, they were like, they double, or whatever, and then she was like, I'm not a, you think I'm a damsel in distress. And then she goes, you know, I can't pay the rent. You must pay the rent. I can't pay the rent. E!
Starting point is 00:43:09 E! And, like, started doing, like, dolphin. Was she trying to intimidate them? Or, she was just trying to show them that she wasn't scared of them, I think, was the bit. Like, that she could do bit. No, no, no, she was under some sort of drug, right? But the drug was. No, that's what they were saying, that she must still be, like, coming off of the.
Starting point is 00:43:27 I thought she was. Yeah, but that wasn't. No. It was not a side effect of the drug because Bruce Willis and Danny IAO had never experienced that. Well, they were being just as silly as they always are. Come on. Well, they're guys from New Jersey. Just a couple of pizons.
Starting point is 00:43:41 By the way, to see Andy McDowell do those dolphin noises. I mean, I didn't know what to do it. So you were won over by that performance, the dolphin noises. I didn't know she had that in her. Let me ask you a question, Isabella Rossellini, because she have done those dolphin noises. That's a great question. That's a great question. She would have sold it a bit more.
Starting point is 00:43:58 I think so. I mean, like blue velvet era, Isabella Rossell. By the way, I know we already talked about it. I'm going to say it again. She plays an Italian nun? That's crazy. I didn't even really put that all together. But she's American. She's American. She's not American. Yeah, she's American.
Starting point is 00:44:13 But she should be Italian, right? She should be Italian. I'm sure if Isabella Rosalini had played it, she would have been Italian and a native Italian. Yeah, that would have made sense. We want to talk about Frank Sloan, who is part of the Mario Brothers. The Mario Brothers amazing
Starting point is 00:44:27 Frank Stallone. Give it up. for Frank Stallone. This is like when they play the old Howard Stern tapes and everybody's clapping for no good reason. I like a good clap. They make some subtle digs at Stallone too. We have a clip of that. We just play a clip of Frankston.
Starting point is 00:44:47 There's a quick one here. There's a safe on the seventh floor. You take their thing and you put it in this thing. Directions even your brother could understand. Oh, shot's fired. Little did he know that they'd be opening a planet Hollywood just months later. Oh, wait, but he's talking about the brother that's sitting right next to him.
Starting point is 00:45:05 Yeah, but we all know. Interesting. By the way, the beginning of the movie, like, he's going to eat a drink a cappuccino and a guy pulls out a gun in the middle of a crowded restaurant shoots a cappuccino glass. No one moves. And he's out there with a gun.
Starting point is 00:45:17 Not hidden. The bullet, the gun has a silencer. Yes. So it's like, pizu, you know, but like every, it's a crowded bar and nobody flinches, nobody seems to notice. And then Danny Ayelo hits a guy on the head with a wine bottle, a
Starting point is 00:45:31 few minutes later, it shatters and two people look over. Yeah, this is where this movie. That's a weird bar that they own. You know what, fuck this movie? Obviously, we had an opinion about this movie, but there are certain people who have a better opinion. Now it's time for five star reviews from Amazon.
Starting point is 00:45:45 Second opinion. Second opinions. They're not your first, but they're going to be a second. These are five-star reviews. You guys can comment on these as you see fit. Here we go. This is titled For a True Movie Fan.
Starting point is 00:46:05 I've probably watched this movie round a hundred times, and I can practically quote it. Round? Is there an apostrophe before round? Yes. Okay. I think my mom wrote this review. Around a hundred times and can practically quote it from start to finish. I certainly wouldn't have done that if this movie was bad.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Oh, my God. Five stars. Oh, my God. So basically. Anyway, I do agree with you, Jason, though. Like, the apostrophe... What's the point? It's one letter.
Starting point is 00:46:32 One letter. One letter. You've already done it. Taking the place of that apostasy. There is the same number of characters in that word. Yes. Here's another one. And the colloquialism of it, the casualness of it is, it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:46:48 That word doesn't matter. And I know I'm sure I used colloquialism wrong. So everybody shut the fuck out. Everybody, everybody relax. You're going to get you. Stop saying it look like Da Vinci. This one is titled, boom. Side by side, boom, you'll be rolling on the floor laughing, but be careful and not die laughing too hard.
Starting point is 00:47:08 Okay. What? Did Danny ILO write that? That is a five-star review. I have had some experiences with side-by-sides. I just want to say that. Bruce is a riot. I'm worried about it.
Starting point is 00:47:19 This is what I get. This is a lot of the Hudson Hawk reviews attack critics for being bad. So this one goes, I think movie reviewers underappreciate a good comedy. Most are stuffy, overweight, undereducated film study dorks. Uh-oh. I agree with that. I agree with the first sentence of that, for sure. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:39 They don't appreciate comedies. Who are these critics? Who cares? These are the same critics that think that Gandhi is one of the best things to happen to film, which just goes to show you what they know. This movie is about fun and entertainment and not meant to be scrutinized, analyzed, or otherwise-eyed. Watch and enjoy five stars. Oh, I love that guy.
Starting point is 00:48:01 And this is my favorite review of all time by Yellow Defender. I thought the storyline was great. It was a little boring, but it kept me on my toes. My favorite parts were when the dog bunny goes flying out the window. And when Bruce gets out of jail and throws the key into the mop thing and he adjusts his hat. He had me try cappuccino too. And it's pretty good. I think this is one of Bruce's best movies, even if he doesn't think so.
Starting point is 00:48:27 So he turned them on to cappuccino. That's huge. Wait, one of his favorite parts was the hat? When he adjusted, this is also, like, again, another, like, non-joke joke. Like, Bruce Willis, like, steals a guy's keys and then tosses his keys in a dirty mop bucket. He's like, hey. Just, like, just as a hat. It's a cool guy.
Starting point is 00:48:44 It's a non-moment moment. It's a non-moment moment, but it's like, but it's also like, he's so cool. That's what I think this guy was responding to it. Like, he does it to his hat. He drinks cappuccino. He throws dogs out of a window. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:58 He's like the, I think. I think, yeah, he definitely appeals to, like, the, the, I want to hang on and have a beer with that guy, you know. Which he does that in his other movies that are better also. Oh, yeah. This movie is terrible. He's great in a million movies. Diehard, are you kidding me? We think that Danny A.ello has died in this movie, only to realize that he is a comeback, and we want to just play the Danny Aiello's comeback moment.
Starting point is 00:49:22 Here we go. No way. Yes, way. Did I miss anything? Miss anything, you're supposed to be all crashed up at the bottom of the hill. Airbags, can you fucking believe it? You're supposed to be blown up into fire each other punch of place. Drinkless system set up in a back.
Starting point is 00:49:40 Can you fucking believe it? Yeah. That's probably what happened. Thank you, cappuccino. Hey, drink a coffee. He gets his cappuccino. Oh, thank God. And a moment before he gets his girl to play Nintendo with him, she agrees to play Nintendo with him.
Starting point is 00:49:58 they play the Hudson Hot game Danny I.Ello pulls up to that scene riding a donkey. I just want to say he is just riding a donkey into town because they have also just flown in Da Vinci's original flying machine. Which still works
Starting point is 00:50:14 and was not updated at all. What? Yeah. It's amazing. I love that scene of them, the two of them, like just having a blast. I like to think of that day of filming that they were like, all right, just get on my back. It did look like fun. But that's the one thing.
Starting point is 00:50:29 I do feel like the two of them were like... There's a scene in the movie where they just both grab their balls when they hear an exposure. Like, oh! It's like, I feel like they're like, yeah, we'll do this and this is good. It's like... Or how about like when they're hanging off the side of a castle? They've somehow...
Starting point is 00:50:44 He and Danny Aiello have scaled a castle. They are hanging off the edge. They're luring the guards to come so they can punch them out. And Bruce Willis goes, hey, how do I look? And he goes, what are we going to do that with this right now? I just want to know. How do I look? What are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:50:58 We're hanging off the edge of the castle here. You're asking me, how are you? How do I look? And then the guards come up in and they're like, punch, punch. You look pretty good. You look pretty good. That's the kind of bullshit this movie is full of. It's like if the guys who hung around Tony Soprano wrote a movie, that is what you're-
Starting point is 00:51:15 This is-Christopher's movie. This is Christopher. If you told me Christopher Mottisanto or Montesanji wrote this movie, I would be like, okay, I get it, and it's not that bad. Then also, they make a lot about, the one thing I want to say just before we wrap up, too, if you have any final points, but they make a big deal about Danny Iello being fat. I was about to say that, too.
Starting point is 00:51:32 He's not that fat. Yeah. Yeah. He's the thing. Bruce Willis, his figure is also not the slender figure of like a thief or a cat burglar. That's true. He's not graceful or galing.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Just for the listeners, June is doing cat-like motions with her hands. Like a, like a meat like a cat like rear, rear, rear. I'm going to rob you. Meow. Guess what? You consider yourself robbed. You'd be a great cap-roberman. Would you like to be in undercover as a cat burglary that robs a church?
Starting point is 00:52:03 You know what? You know what? I'm going to need to see you in the habit. I'm going to need to see you in the habit. No, no, she's the burglar. She's the enemy. Oh, she's the cat burglar. Oh, no, but the nunn has to go undercover.
Starting point is 00:52:13 As a cat-regler. There's a lot of double-friglars. Or is a cat-burglary that goes undercover as a nun. Guys, I want to assure everybody, this will be not even remotely similar to Sister Act. Not even remotely similar. It won't be in a school at all. It'll have moments of miscongeniality, I think, in thematic. Possibly.
Starting point is 00:52:34 Maybe the second one. Sister act is she witnesses a murder and has to go hide out in a convent. She's a soul singer. Will it be anything like nuns? But that is all about getting the convent to sing. Yes, exactly, exactly. Will it be anything like nuns on the run? No, it won't be like nuns on the run.
Starting point is 00:52:51 Who did nuns on the run? Irish guy and somebody else. Irish guy, Irish guy and the other one. Oh, yes, that one. I'm sorry. Irish guy and the other one. Eric Idol and Robbie Coltrane. That's right.
Starting point is 00:53:04 Any final thoughts? Anybody have any final thoughts? Go see it. Five stars. Yeah, five stars. Would you guys see it? I would recommend you should watch it maybe. It's a fun party movie.
Starting point is 00:53:13 I think it's a fun party movie. It's crazy enough. There's a crazy enough moments in it. Watch it, but be willing to fast forward. Absolutely. You know, because you don't, you know, who cares. It is definitely. Definitely watch all the Richard E. Grant, Sandra Bernard stuff.
Starting point is 00:53:26 Oh, my gosh. That shit's awesome. And I will say I watched most of it, but the three-part interview series with Bruce Willis and Robert Kraft as they sit around, and Bruce Willis just goes into getting very defensive about the movie, explaining the movie, and talking about the song, they play the song, they sing the song. It's a three-part thing on YouTube. Bruce Willis talks Hudson Hawk. I think you will enjoy it. I think I won't. I think you will love it.
Starting point is 00:53:53 So, all right, so just once again, Emily, you're your, you're a part. podcast is on the Nerdist channel. They can get it. The indoor kids, it's you and Kamau. It's awesome. I've done it. It's great. You should do the Hudson Hawk game, maybe.
Starting point is 00:54:04 We should do a tie. That's actually a good idea. That would be fun. I got to track it down somehow. Have you guys ever done the movie to video game? We have done it. And actually that one didn't come up in the episode that we did, but we did a lot of like the Godzilla games that have come out.
Starting point is 00:54:17 Like a lot of like the ET one. That new Godzilla trailer is fucking awesome. Oh, that's amazing. I haven't seen it yet. I'm pretty excited. It's fucking awesome. It's just like Oppenheimer talking about like. Like, the, it's really neat.
Starting point is 00:54:29 Yes. All right, cool. If you are looking at pictures of me from this podcast, you'll notice I have a mustache. It's because I just came from the Arsenio Hall show where I just played Arshirio Paul. That happened already, but I'm sure you can find me as our Shireio Paul on Arsenio Hall's website or anywhere else. So definitely check that out. You can follow me at Paul Shear on Twitter. Oh, and what are you?
Starting point is 00:54:52 I'm at the gynamite. Oh, yeah. That's right. I'm at Ms. M. M.S. June, Diane. Jason, just checking out on your Twitter. Yeah, yeah, no, not on Twitter, guys. Okay, great. Not on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:55:02 You know what? It's good. You probably have more time to do stuff in your day. So much time. So much jerking off. Undercover. I got to write an undercover now. Thank God I'm not on Twitter. Thank God I'm not on Twitter because now I have time to write an undercover.
Starting point is 00:55:18 So I do actually want to plug my upcoming film project, Nundercover. Because by the time this air, I suspect I will have already sold it. Oh, maybe look on Kickstarter. Maybe I should Kickstarter an undercover. I would get behind it. I would tweet that link out. And you should get the Twitter account for an undercover.
Starting point is 00:55:36 I'm sure nobody's saying it. By the website. I got to get it before this. Before this comes out. Set up your website. I got to do all this before this episode drops. You got some time. You got some time.
Starting point is 00:55:46 And also a big thanks to everyone who helps us out here at the show. Our lead engineer, Frank Capello. Thank you so much. Frank. You're always amazing. our clip puller, who's always suggesting great stuff, Averill Halley, and Nate Kylie, who's
Starting point is 00:56:00 doing all of our research. He's amazing. And the fantastic Katie Dyer, who does our Twitter account. You can follow us on Twitter always at, at H-D-T-G-M. She also does our Facebook page. Leanna Waldron does all of our cool art. Check us out in the Earwolf store.
Starting point is 00:56:16 We got cups. We got new shirts. Do it. Guys, we did it. Hudson Hawk. We caught the adventure. We caught the hawk. We caught the laughter, for sure. Thank you so much for joining us, Emily. We'll talk to you later, bye.

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