How Did This Get Made? - Matinee Monday: Action Jackson LIVE! (w/ Seth Rogen)

Episode Date: June 5, 2023

Seth Rogen joins Paul, June, and Jason to discuss the 1988 action film Action Jackson starring Carl Weathers on the 200th episode of How Did This Get Made! Recorded live from Largo at the Coronet in L...os Angeles, they talk about Craig T. Nelson doing karate, Action Jackson driving a car inside a house, Dee at the barbershop, Vanity doing a solo performance for Craig T. Nelson, and much more. Plus, Paul breaks down the film term “Man and Woman Scene.” (Originally released 10/25/2018) For more Matinee Monday content, visit Paul's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulScheer Go to www.hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, and more.Follow Paul on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: https://discord.gg/paulscheerCheck out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm ESTSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: listen.earwolf.com/deepdiveSubscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledCheck out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comCheck out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmWhere to find Jason, June & Paul:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on Twitter

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everybody, it's our 200th episode of How Did This Get Made? Oh my goodness, we are so excited that you have been with us for 200 episodes or 5 episodes. We just love that you're listening. Thank you so much for that. Continue to tell your friends, we hope to be here for 200 more, so without further ado, here we go. Fuck a duck and hold on to your balls. We saw action Jackson, so you know what that means. Oh, yeah, we saw it all over the country. Remed!
Starting point is 00:00:34 Got it. What's an egg you grow, baby? In this belly rock a rock, don't vest. While I'm whipping just in the Kelly. I may be see a burlest show with it, Crow. And take a bowl of speed to hit and cruise control J-Man big Paul and the beautiful Joe Gonna take you from the goob of a way to the road
Starting point is 00:00:50 Branding against the street fighter hopes to blow off steam Just a sucker plus the odd life of Timothy Green Shot in the middle of the bird, Demi, how we stand in life? They call it in the badass and he's on the line Cranking 88 minutes cause they cool his eyes Cause a bad jam, Bonnie looking kind of night Paul and Jo get in literal Jason is getting late Julie's making sure all the monkey shots getting paid. They're just a bunch of movies while they making the great
Starting point is 00:01:14 Here's a real question for you how to just get me And hello, people of Long Island! Oh! What's up, you guys? We are live. We are live at Largo at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles, our LA home, and we are so excited to talk to you tonight about a classic action Jackson, Carl Weathers. This is an amazing movie.
Starting point is 00:01:45 A movie that I want to seek before, and we will get into all of that. If you told me that Craig T. Nelson was going to be full-on doing karate in this movie, I was like, get the hell out of here. But no, it happens twice. Joining me, as always, to break down this film, please welcome Mr. Jason Mann-Zookas.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
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Starting point is 00:02:24 Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! How are we doing, everybody? Oh, oh boy. Jason. Paul! I feel like this movie falls in the thank God it got made. Oh, yeah. I think I saw this movie when it was like a VHS rental movie that you could watch that was exciting. Question mark?
Starting point is 00:02:43 And I rewatched it today and it's just as good as I remember. I mean, wow, the raw charisma just leaping off the screen. Well, it's got everything. I mean, it's got sexual tension. Are we shooting with vanity? Yeah, this is our second vanity film in a short period of time. In a very short period of time. Yeah, very short period of time. I think we're actually exposing her to a brand new audience.
Starting point is 00:03:09 Let's bring people in. I'll take it. That's great. She's saying in this one, which was terrific. Twice. And I would argue that we get into some more serious acting here. She plays some very serious. Very serious. Yeah, you know.
Starting point is 00:03:22 Very serious acting. When he opened up the jewellery, the necklace box, and it was just a syringe, I was like, I was like, what's happening now? This is wild. I was gonna say it was on the level of Requiem for a dream. Um, also here. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:03:42 Um, this syringes. Ah, this syringes. Ah, this syringes. No. Um. Um. Action Jackson, the Requiem, the dream of its time. Oh, boy, we're really going to get into it today. I cannot wait.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Uh, Johnny, yeah. I mean, there's a lot. into it today. I cannot wait. Johnny, yeah. I mean, there's a lot. Oh, I have plenty of nights. I have a quote that I just have quotes around, keep your dick on, kid. I, that's a line in the script in the movie is that an actor then said, Oh, keep your dick on, kid.
Starting point is 00:04:24 If I was, as if removing one's dick on, kid. If I was... As if removing one's dick as a child was possible. And that a warning might be needed to keep your dick on. Keep it on. Keep it on. I would say that the number of times that dicks are referenced in this film, at an all-time high for a 90-minute movie. Yep. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:47 Here to talk to us more about this film is my other co-host. Please welcome June Diane Rayfield. I'm good, how are you, Paul? Very good. Great to see you. So, quickly, I felt like I had to think about every man's dick in this movie. There was not a male character that showed up on screen. Who, there was not a moment's peace for me. I had to be reminded. There wasn't a dickless moment.
Starting point is 00:05:37 It was not a single peaceful dickless moment in this entire thing. It really does. Everyone's dick is, they talk about. It's just what it can do, what it cannot do. Just when you get to a point where dicks aren't being mentioned, jar full of balls. Which I told Jason backstage, when I was a kid growing up,
Starting point is 00:06:01 I had heard that this movie is like, the villain cuts off people's dicks and keeps them in jars. And I've never forgotten this. And when I watch this movie, I was like, when is it going to happen? That's how I'm feeling. It finishes created. I only have like four in their collectors issues. They're cool, they're real.
Starting point is 00:06:21 That's like your eBay history is real weird. Joining us to talk about the film tonight is some of the first time they've been on the podcast. Please welcome Seth Rogan. Yes. Welcome. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Welcome. Welcome, Seth. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Oh, wow. Yeah. I love that guy gets it. That guy gets it. And you have seen this movie twice now. Yeah, I watched it last night and then I watched it again today during the day. Just to really dig in. I actually quite liked it.
Starting point is 00:07:11 I got to be, there was a lot I liked, and I didn't get it. And that's why I thought I'd watch it again. And it didn't help that much. But, was there anything the second time around that you were like, oh man, that subtext I'm really picking up now. Really is delivering. I thought, honestly, I thought Craig T. Nelson's plan
Starting point is 00:07:34 was actually pretty good. Yeah. That's what I remember, especially as he came and it played off of racism, like that was part of the plan. That was like, wow, that's like pretty interesting of him. And he was bad. That's what I was like, I kept writing. Craig T. Nelson is bad.
Starting point is 00:07:50 Yeah. I really think he knows and does a thing that kisses his wife. Yeah, and then kisses her. And then, like, what, this is what so Craig said at the movie. It goes dark in moments. And then it's like comedy comedy is like's like, whoa, wait a second. You just get to dying wife hard on the list. She was dead.
Starting point is 00:08:10 She wasn't even dying. She was like dead, and he like Frenched her. And she was like the sexiest part of the movie. But also, what she could have done was already done. Like, why kill her at that point? Why did she still think he was trustworthy? She had so much evidence against him and then leaves the note for action.
Starting point is 00:08:37 It's like, hey, I'm gonna confront him about everything. I can't imagine he's part of this. Cut to, like, he's all of this, and he is gonna shoot you. And then his guy's coming and he's like, okay, get rid of her. Love, love, like, with a cigarette or whatever. I was like, what's going on?
Starting point is 00:08:56 There's also, there's a lot of cigarette acting in the movies. Yes. Robert Davie, who is great. He's good. Yeah, he's the buddy that Action Jackson goes to visit him. And he's like, we're the fuck did you come from? I was like, we just called him. You told him to come.
Starting point is 00:09:12 He's the one coming. He does my favorite thing in the whole movie. I put it to you. There's, because he's like paranoid, because he works for the unions and he knows too much. And so he's barricaded himself in his apartment and he calls his friend action to come over. And then he tells them all this shit. And action leaves. And leaves the door unlocked completely.
Starting point is 00:09:35 As he found it. Yeah, as he found it. But then, so the bad UPS guy comes and delivers the package to Robert Doffy, who not only is suspicious, he seems so genuinely happy. He's like getting a package. Thank God, something's going well.
Starting point is 00:09:54 He's like, oh wow, a package. Like, I'm going to. And it's all this terrible shit that's happening. So it's a time to send me a package? And then the guy goes, he's like, he's like, oh wow. It's COD, which is cash on delivery. It should be DOA. And she's like, it shoots him like that's a good last line.
Starting point is 00:10:16 That's like, it should be, it should be it's DOA. Yeah, but also, I want you applaud the UPS man because the UPS man really took that part. He had a cart, he had a fully, like fully signatureed list. Like he had other bosses. Yeah, he had other bots. He's been working there for months. Oh yeah, just to get this level of access,
Starting point is 00:10:37 he became a UPS man for a year. He's deep, he's Daniel DeLewis. Yeah. And they shot him in the chest. He's a year. He's deep. He's Daniel DeLewis in this. And they shot him in the chest, and then they say that they think you might be a suicide. No! I was like, the coroner. No!
Starting point is 00:10:55 The coroner says it's a suicide. It's me, I know the suicide. How? He shot himself in the chest and his front door. From like three feet away. He shot himself. He shot himself. front door. From like three feet away. He shot himself through his clipboard. It's nuts. Let's start at the top of this movie.
Starting point is 00:11:16 Keep in mind, action Jackson has a degree from Harvard Law. Which is on full display during one thing. And he's just straight talking law with dudes at parties. Like arguing case law at a function. Making good points too. But it wasn't like, it wasn't like, act of Jackson was like a nerdy guy who also had a violent side. He had a violent side always.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Like he was ripping off people's arms and he was a person in arms. Well, that was so weird. You would think he wouldn't use extra force because he could always go fall back on the law. No. No, well, it's because he's psychotic and I kept writing.
Starting point is 00:11:56 I kept writing. He sue a side. I wrote that because he kept going crazy and being like, kill me, come on! Like, and that's why I think there's like a real backstory, like, again, I watched it twice, so I was like, I think something happened. You think in those two years when he's been behind a desk,
Starting point is 00:12:16 he's gone insane. There's a hulky thing, there's a hulkish thing. I think, I think. But the beginning's amazing, it's a great cold open. Yes, so this cold open, first of all, it's a Joel Silver movie, which I love all of the. It's a great cold open. Yes, so this cold open first of all it's a Joel Silver movie Which I love all of the it's so great. Herbie Hancock to the music. Yeah, it's So you open up on this building. I said that like it's a amazing I used to break dance to rock it all the time
Starting point is 00:12:42 They open up on this scene. I'm sorry, June, to bring up break dance. No, it's fine. I know that. I feel like you want me to be impressed. No, no, no. I could do it for a year. I would break dance to that song.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Yeah, you could be a body around on the ground. And preparation for break dance in at bar in Batmitzvah's. I would practice to that song. This opening scene, it's, you know, this, a man of power of some kind is talking to his number two. She's doing grammar checks on a speech as, he's dictating the letter to her. He's dictating the death, the condolence letter,
Starting point is 00:13:24 about the death of another union leader. Because the puzzle already started. Yes, we're in the middle. We're starting. We're starting. We're starting in the middle. Like all good stories, we're starting in the middle. It's a beautiful choice.
Starting point is 00:13:38 It's a bold choice because again, you don't as a first-time viewer. No idea what's going on. You're like, is this the main bag? I thought I was like, these must be important people. Because again, you don't as a first-time viewer. No idea what's going on. You're like, is this the main bag, man? I thought I was like, these must be important people. These must be, nope, nope. Okay, got it, got it. So I thought that they were, I thought it was a letter from the union,
Starting point is 00:13:55 but it was going out to a factory worker who had had a very misfortune at accident at the factory. Wow. Every night he does that. All right, let's go through the main thing. Sorry. All right.
Starting point is 00:14:10 We just dictating letters of like, well, your husband got smushed. Sorry. Sorry, we switched your husband. With your deepest condolences, I knew sentence, okay, I want. So now I really like saying like- Now that I've done dictating,
Starting point is 00:14:22 how about a back rub? Because I'm also a creep. So now I really like saying, I'm done dictating how about a back rub? Because I'm also a creep. So how many union leaders die in this movie? Oh, around eight. Yeah. This movie is very anti-union. It's basically us, just to be clear,
Starting point is 00:14:39 the plot is that coach is going to kill everybody who's in line to become the union leader of the auto workers union until his one guy that he controls can become the leader. When you just said that it finally made sense to me. But that's basically like, okay, the guy that I bought is like, the, is like housing and urban development secretary. I'm gonna kill every but from the president all the way down to, it's too many people to wipe out. So you'd like get somebody closer in line, I think. Yeah, get your bribing done.
Starting point is 00:15:19 No, it's a designated survivor union. Yeah, that he's doing it. Yeah, it's a weird, Yeah, but he's doing it. Yes, and he does, not only doing it, he does it. He does it. He was success. This is what I'll say about this movie. It's opening scene.
Starting point is 00:15:33 He's amazing. It is amazing and starts this thing that I love, which is these bad guys go through so much for simple killing. Yeah, it's like, they can walk in bam. They all have gimmicks, crazy gimmicks, butterfly knives. This one, like limit- Like four, limit-
Starting point is 00:15:51 But a fine limit in butterfly knives. Shishu, shishu, shishu, throw. The least efficient thing. He never goes and pulls it out. He just has another one. They fly a helicopter. These guys repel down from a helicopter and then give June the biggest jump scare of your life.
Starting point is 00:16:08 You screamed, you screamed as if it was the biggest horror reveal ever. Okay, first of all, I could barely see the TV and what I thought was happening. I knew nothing about the TV, the foot of our band. I could barely see the TV. Oh, what TV are you making? What are you doing? I could barely see it.
Starting point is 00:16:32 I could barely see it. You go to the other TV. I'm going to put it on on the neighbor's house. Here's Birdwatching binoculars and a set of headphones. I don't even think I knew the title at that point. And I thought, when I looked up, I thought there were a bunch of giant spiders. Wait, that's what you thought that spiders were. What?
Starting point is 00:16:55 You thought this movie was a giant spider movie? Wait a minute. I looked up and for a second. I was listening to the movie's starts Wait a minute. I looked up and for a second. I was listening. So you think I was listening to the movie's songs with a man dictating the letter about the death of somebody at the factory and then giant spiders.
Starting point is 00:17:16 By the way, this is the thing about a cold open. You never know. I don't know where it's going to take me. I don't know. I'm along for the ride. My mind is totally available to these filmmakers. And when I looked up what I saw with these eyes was like five giant spiders hurling themselves.
Starting point is 00:17:34 They have ropes, they're repelling. Did you think that was their web? They heard their spider? Oh my God. And when you realize that they were in spiders, that was like, how deep into the movie. Yeah. And when you realize that they were in spiders, that was like, how deep into the movie. But they, that elite team was dispatched, kind of unceremoniously.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Like I felt like blonde wig guy, everybody like, the guy you kicked, the guy you kicked that woman to death. Yeah. I was like, I'm into like this ghost team of assassins, but then they just kind of go away. But by the way, how were they ghosts? I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, That guy's whole thing is he kicked people and disappeared. They're also was like, they were not, they were noisy. Yeah, they're arrival, they were like, they hurt them for minutes. Do you hear that?
Starting point is 00:18:31 No, I think it's okay. She kept saying, my boyfriend's here. Oh, that's a, what did that mean? I'm not keeping my boyfriend. It made less sense the second time. My heavy, why, heavy footed boyfriend. By the way, that's just her being like, please stop giving me a back rub. My boyfriend is here. Sorry, I have a boyfriend's just her being like, please stop giving me a back rub.
Starting point is 00:18:45 Yes, that's right. My boyfriend is here. Sorry, I have a boyfriend. I have a boyfriend, please stop giving me a back rub. By the way, before he's trying to figure out the TV, if you've noticed, it's Rocky II and Carl Weathers is in that boxing scene. Yeah, which is just a weird.
Starting point is 00:19:00 That is a weird, that a reality break. Like, a Balsey Choice, like, oh yeah, It's like a, Balsey choise me, like, oh yeah, let's put our star in the TV. Looking in the same exact way that he is now. But they come in and they kind of torture him a little bit. They frighten him and then they shoot him with a weapon that I am still not sure what this weapon is. It's a flare gun, a grenade launcher.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Okay, it burst you into flames. Yeah, just everybody is exploding. It launches a grenade at you, which explodes. And then also blows out the entire floor of that building at die-harts time. And then he falls into a restaurant full of people eating. That was forgotten about cops. Then it comes straight to like synth pop.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Yeah, it's like burning a chart corpse falls into a restaurant and then it's like bear, but it's people, people, people, people. And I was like, this is an amazing transition. I loved it. I thought I was so good. Well, you cut into these two cops and this is where I thought the movie was going to get
Starting point is 00:20:02 a little bit weird. You see this like robber, a thief. He's like scoping people out on the street. And he scopes out this woman. And I put woman in quotes because at first when I saw it, I was like, oh, okay, that's just, I guess that's a woman. It looks a little bit like a man, but I'm not just, uh, whatever. And then I did some research.
Starting point is 00:20:24 It is a man. Of course it's a man, Paul. It was a man bit like a man, but I'm not just that. Whatever. And then I did some research. It is a man. Of course it's a man, Paul. It was a man from the first shot. What? He did a stunt man? Well, yeah, he did a stunt man. Like, well, I mean, look at Ellen. But when he first, when, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Well, yeah. So that is a man. Yeah. And here's five o'clock shadow. So that is a man. Yeah. And- He has five o'clock shadow. Yeah. And- But yet not revealed to be a man.
Starting point is 00:20:50 No. Within the narrative of the film, that's a woman. Yes. Which has been odd choice to open a real- Like, let's just see it. Let's see. Like it's a bizarre choice. Do you think that's Robert Reno?
Starting point is 00:21:03 Do you think that's- Who? Do you think that's like... Who wrote Demolition Man? Yes, exactly. Wow. So he's good. So he knows... Wait, is Demolition Man before or after this? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Starting point is 00:21:17 I want to just say, for like... The Lonzo Brown by the way. This movie looks good. I think it is shot. Well, I think the DP who shot it is like a famous DP. Like there are things about it. I very much, I felt very conflicted. Cause I really like, I genuinely liked a lot of people.
Starting point is 00:21:33 No, I feel like it feels like I feel like- Then other parts you're like, what the fuck is happening right now? I feel like totally they don't know exactly what they wanted to be like. My gut was like- It was a total thing. They were like, Beverly Hills Cop is big.
Starting point is 00:21:46 So let's make our version of Beverly Hills Cop, but they're like, but we'll be funny in a weird way, but they'll make, it's like, they tried to capture that. Well, they didn't have the other side of it, really. They didn't have, they basically just had, because curlwethers was really only capable of intense cop attitude. And then they team up with a woman who's in heroin withdrawal.
Starting point is 00:22:07 But then they give them an Eddie Murphy-esque character piece when he plays the preacher. And you're like, wait, what? It's like, that's how it takes place in Detroit. It's like they're doing things. They're like, yeah, they'll eat this up. They just like someone just like, we'll do another one. It came out in 1988, by the way, just so you guys know, 1988.
Starting point is 00:22:26 I would say that the number of civilian deaths to take place in this movie is upwards of 500. Easy. In the car chase, it's crazy. The car chase, like when the car flies into the explosives truck and the explosives truck blows up, like at least three children die in that. Like without a doubt.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Everything in this movie blows the fuck up. I mean, it is, this is the height of like one thing. It's like, boom. And he chases down a cab on foot. Yeah. He chases down a cab on foot, him in the street a cab on the sidewalk. And he is not chasing it down.
Starting point is 00:23:09 He is running parallel to it, like there is no difference. Like he's a track and field star. You say it. But even the best track and field stars in the world, could you jump up? Yes. Could you jump? Could you jump? Up and over a car? Could you jump up? Yes. Could you jump up and over a car? Could you jump up? Is there any way in the world to jump up? I think if a car was driving at me, I could run and jump over it. But didn't it? But who's got a car here? Let's do it outside. Let's take it outside. I want to jump right now.
Starting point is 00:23:45 I want to jump right now. A low car. But it doesn't even seem like he has a running start. It just seems like he kind of just goes like, He's jumping from his foot. And he's also a philips. He does a philips. He does a philips.
Starting point is 00:23:56 He's telling him to hit him. He's gonna hit me. Hit me like a man. He's like, I'm gonna hit him. I thought he was saying, get out of the car. Come fight me. And in fact, no, he was like, I'll fight the car. What?
Starting point is 00:24:07 And he lives. And he lives. But the guy lives. Of course, the guy lives because a huge part of the plan is that he's a look alike for girl Leathers. The plan is we're gonna put a red shirt on this guy and then everybody's gonna think it's you. At a certain point, I was like, the plan could be,
Starting point is 00:24:28 we have vanity, kill the guy, or we kill her, right? That's like, we're gonna blackmail, and we're gonna make you do this thing. No, this guy's gonna put your shirt on. And then, how we got your shirt on? At the end, I thought, call Wethers, was just gonna stand up and be like, it's not me. I'm right here. I'm part of the tree.
Starting point is 00:24:46 And part of the plan was, I'm right here. Wearing my famous red shirt that I've put in. I'm right here. And part of the plan was also that they would find his charred body somewhere. So like, he would, like, well, how are they gonna get his body to be charred in any way?
Starting point is 00:25:01 They were gonna, I was gonna. He was gonna crash during the escape. Oh, yeah, they were gonna use that flame thing that's like bring the gasoline in here. And then they've got some sort of flame thing. It's a Detroit auto building tool. Oh, okay, that's right. But before he uses the flame thing to kill a guy,
Starting point is 00:25:16 he says, chill out. Ha ha ha. Which one? Classic. Classic. Classic. And just so you know, like, so the main bad guy, this is, it almost plays like a sequel because I guess at the end of the first interaction that he had,
Starting point is 00:25:34 that he beat the shit out of him. He basically beats the shit out of Elon Musk. I mean, that's like, no, no, it's a, he beat up his son. Oh, right, son, because his son, I wrote it down, yeah. Wait, he's something, he fair. He's a sexual psychopath. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Motherfucker, he's a sexual homo movie. Whatever does that mean? He says sexual psychopath. And he put the kid in prison, right? Yeah, and he broke his arm. And he said he has another one. But he's a sexual psychopath. Like, why is action Jackson?
Starting point is 00:26:06 Why is he being like, at all, on the police force, being like, derided or, like, joked about or anything like? He seems to be, unequivocally, a hero, capable, and like, also a Harvard educated lawyer. And everybody's like, what a fucking turd. But then everybody's like, this guy, whatever, what this is? But it's like, just unequivocally a hero is he. Yeah, he's like a superhero.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Yeah, he has not a mortal man. And everybody's like, our brust for the judge. Oh, Jacks, it phones for you. But then they built him up, and I thought that, like, this is where the movie, like, I enjoy this movie, but it goes back and forth with being weird, because when the two cops are like, oh, you're going to get to meet action jacks, and he is, he's like one of the lines of the... His mother was molested by big foot and made...
Starting point is 00:27:01 Which is the craziest origin story. And when I assumed the first movie it was about, it's a period piece. And it is about a woman who gets molested by Bigfoot. That's how Bigfoot sniffed her out. What a high-favorite... One of my favorite movie tropes is the introduction of a police department, like the opening shot,
Starting point is 00:27:23 where there's like a prostitute and a crazy guy walking by., like the opening shot, where there's a prostitute and a crazy guy walking by. And in this opening shot, there's literally 50 people walking at the same time around. Very dynamic. Yeah. Every single person on this set is walking. And then the cop who comes in with the bad guy
Starting point is 00:27:43 goes to the prostitute like, how much for a hand job? Like, what's going on here? Because it didn't seem like a joke. It seemed like she would have said 20. It's like, all right, let's go. But I like that she was like, how about a foot job and then kicks him in the nuts? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:58 I was like, good for you. That's all I've got. That was called the police officer. In a police station. That's not going to be a great thing, but I like that she did it. I wrote down protein pickup. That was in the...
Starting point is 00:28:10 What was that? That was like, again, a line. A lot of dick-related lines. And not as jokes. More as like, you have a dick, and here's the thing about your dick. It's like... LAUGHTER LAUGHTER Um, they, uh...
Starting point is 00:28:27 So, actually, Jackson's been behind a desk for two years, uh... and now he's back on the case, um... and he's doing guard duty for Craig T Nelson's winning man of the year. This is where we meet Sharon Stone for the first time. I still, for the life of me, don't understand why he was put in that position. I think it was a test. I think it was a test. I thought the same thing.
Starting point is 00:28:50 I think armbruster, yeah. But a test so that he was like, so he would have been promoted had it gone well there. I think, baby. What, my question was, because Bill Duke, it's Bill Duke, right? It was the chief witness. Bill Duke is like, I can't go to this party.
Starting point is 00:29:08 Because I know. Because it's a white party. It's a white party. It's a party's night. My wife's party's night. It's a black party. That's gotta be a euphemism for sex, right? It's a white party.
Starting point is 00:29:20 My wife's party's night. And so now you've gotta go be at the event of the man whose sons Arm you almost ripped off who son you put in jail? Who's the reason you've been demoted like if your build Duke you're basically setting your guy up right to fail Also sharing stone is not the mother of the son who's the sexual psychopath, right? Right, no. Lear's his first one. So, he mentions it at the very end.
Starting point is 00:29:49 He does mention it. He mentions it and he says that for financial reasons. Yeah. That his partner and his first wife had to go. Yeah. Oh. In the first action-jaction movie that's ever happened. We have to do a prequel.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Come on. Someone in there. By the way, a prequel would be amazing. It would be amazing. It starts with us. It starts on Bigfoot. And it ends with a camping site. It ends with Jericho, no.
Starting point is 00:30:22 More like action. Jackson. Bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap. When you first meet Sharon Stone, he's on stage giving the speech, and then Sharon Stone's in the hallway also watching, but he brings her up on stage. It's a weird moment to entry. I don't know, maybe I'm just nitpicking. That thing is so stupid, but why would she be so far away from him when he's about
Starting point is 00:30:44 to give the speech and bring the introducer to everybody? And and my wife and she's like, oh, I'm on. Let's go. I was gonna hang on the tolerate the entire time. She'd be at that table. But I did want to talk about the names too. Arm Breaster's the name, Shapa Doc. Sean De La Plaine. De La Plaine. He's De La Plaine, Trotterwell, Cornblow. They have great names. Great name. The Maesatori. Those are good names. These are all great names. Yes, they're all cool names.
Starting point is 00:31:10 This is like a high school's worth of great names. How does this go? How does this go? Can we talk about his apartment? Sure. Action Jackson's apartment. By the way, action Jackson is very hard to say. I don't know if it rhymes. Yeah. It does not. It does not. By the way, action Jackson is very hard to say. I don't know if it rhymes.
Starting point is 00:31:25 It does not. It does not. By the way, the way they came up with the name action Jackson. So Carl Weathers came up with this entire idea on the set of Predator. He told Joel Silver, he's like, There's some Predator crossed the Bill Duke isn't both right? There's a lot of die heart. A lot of die heart.
Starting point is 00:31:43 This is like, this is everybody from the... Huge amount of die. The entire cast of die heart isn't the move like these are like you got this guy yeah you got you got the I screamed or I never seen our guy on anything you got there's on head of the class and then Robert W. was the the FBI guy he was Johnson and there's another there was one the blonde dude who's one of the bad henchman guys was the guy who kills the desk clerk in diehard and is at the desk the whole now and the first any opening scene is the drug dealer that milgipsen uh... takes down and let the weapon one with the christmas tree will it's cuz a stunt man directed this
Starting point is 00:32:21 movie oh really and that and that's and it's all these stunt guys are in it, and he's from a stunt family, like a famous stunt family. And I, I know because I was, I was with the first AD, that, I was with Watson, I was like, oh, I'm watching action Jackson. He's like, oh, the backstreet's directed that movie. There's stunt royalty. They're like, there's, and there's like 30 of them. Yeah, and that's why everything is blowing up,
Starting point is 00:32:43 and people are like falling. I feel like that, like whenever he sees people falling, that's like a good stunt man Yeah, and that's why everything is blowing up and people are like falling. I feel like that's like, whenever he sees people falling, that's like a good stunt man. It's hard to do and it's like real bodies. People go through windows into other windows. Yeah. When he throws the guy across the wall.
Starting point is 00:32:54 It's like, yeah. That's, it's fast and furious. Yes. I kept thinking and he is like the rock kind of. Yes. He's kind of asexual like the rock. Like he won't fuck the woman like the rock. Like, like the rock kind of. Yes. Like he's kind of asexual like the rock. Like he won't fuck the woman like the rock.
Starting point is 00:33:07 Like the rock would never fuck a woman. Like, but like he wanted in his movies. No, he would ask you his wife and daughter. Exactly. He would never fuck either of them. He would maybe kiss them on the head. He would like a head kiss them. Despite the best urges from the writers.
Starting point is 00:33:24 No, but like Jason Safen would have fucked her. Like the heroin lady. But the rock wouldn't have. And that's why I was like, he's kind of like the rock. So, so Carl Weathers on the set of Predator, come over this idea and they start telling, they're telling the idea to this Australian crew member. And the crew member says, you want to be a part of it?
Starting point is 00:33:44 And he goes, I'm in like, Action Jackson, and they go, that's the title. So that's how they came up. He just a stupid thing, Australian, say. Yeah. This movie could have been called Shrimp on the Barbie. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:57 Yeah. Yeah. But it does make you go like that. That level of decision making is about what every decision went through on this movie. It was like, got it, go. Chill out. I got a flamethrower, fuck it, go, go. Shoot, shoot.
Starting point is 00:34:13 What should I say? Chill out, yeah, it does look like. We've already got a big thing that shoots a flame. What if somebody walked in with a can of gasoline, though? Great, do it. Let's blow that guy up as well. But June, you wanted to talk about Action Jackson's apartment. OK, in his apartment, there is a life-like figure.
Starting point is 00:34:36 It's the early show, guys. You did not see this in the second video? I hope you guys saw it. Two of you is not. By the way, June, all the second, The second jump scare of the movie for June. What is that? What the fuck is that? I didn't notice that.
Starting point is 00:34:52 Wait, what is it? What the fuck? It's like hereditary. That's right. Okay, so I screamed. And I said, Paul, what the fuck is that thing? What the fuck is that? And he kept on saying over and over,
Starting point is 00:35:07 which was infuriating, it's a dummy. He has a dummy. What are you... What do you think of that, you like a maid statue? That was funny. That dummy came up with the idea for demolition, and on the set of this movie... That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:35:23 What is to have in your house? It looks like a maid dummy. So you'd probably go, oh, yeah, the maid's crazy. What is to happen in your house? It looks like a maid dummy. So you probably go, oh yeah, the maid's in. Or you know, like, or something. Wait, wait, wait, wait. What are you talking about? Huh, what you think? You think he went out.
Starting point is 00:35:38 He went to his store. He went to his store. He was like, oh, you know what it'll be funny?by for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop.
Starting point is 00:35:50 He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop.
Starting point is 00:35:58 He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a dubby for a pop. He was a... I don't know. Paul, the way you kept on saying he has a dummy, like we all have dummies.
Starting point is 00:36:09 Like, you stupid. Paul, do you have a dummy? Everybody has a dummy! Everybody! I went to the Michael Jackson, like, what? What? June, June, are you saying?
Starting point is 00:36:22 June, honestly, are you safe? I don't know. I don't know. It was very disturbing. They were auctioning off everything from Neverland Ranch at like Sotheby's. And I went and walked around this thing. And Michael Jackson had tons of these dummies. And they were like waiters and butlers.
Starting point is 00:36:38 And I was like, maybe that was a thing in the 80s. Like they have like a dummy in your house. It wasn't. I have the answer. It wasn't your thing to have life size, life size dummies in the home was not a thing from the A.O. by the way. By the way, what's happening?
Starting point is 00:36:57 You don't know how. Where my dummy people are, dummy people are. What if dummy shop with your friends? He'd look at the dummy. You think they're going to save up for a dummy? Wait a second, this is like my buddy. This is like you're my buddy. For you. For you.
Starting point is 00:37:16 And I think I know what you think that is. Yeah. It's just like a little thing, like this big that. Like when those bronze things and hold your keys. Yes, where it's got a little thing, like this big that... Like when those bronze things that hold your keys? Yes, where you, it's got a little flat top. You throw something on it, you put some posters on it. The dumbest thing. That is not that.
Starting point is 00:37:32 The dumbest thing. That is not that big. The dumbest thing. That person is wearing a tennis skirt. Are they not? And looks like a hair net, a tennis skirt, and white shoes. What's going on? Is it a per...
Starting point is 00:37:43 I'm scared. It looks like a tennis player. Is it a person? It's a person. It's a boy? Is it a per- I'm scared. It looks like a tennis player with your hair. Is it a person? The white is something happening. It's a boy. It's a three minute baby situation, I think. That's what I was wondering, kind of. Is this a ghost? If this is not the only shot of it, by the way, it appears.
Starting point is 00:37:56 And it appears when they kill Sharon Stone in his house. They walk by it again, really briefly. But you can't get it better. This is the best one. I want to talk to you. We've never put this together. Does anyone know what that dummy is? Whoa.
Starting point is 00:38:08 That was eerie. Well, here we go. This is the last episode of the podcast. All right. Here we go. If that's the dummy, right? Yeah. He's sitting next to three dummies.
Starting point is 00:38:19 I was like, go up to those suits. I was like, go up in the whole audience. Is dummies. And Paul just turns back at us with a big knife. And it's like, this is the last episode. We all have dummies. Sir, what is that dummy? It looks like it's like valet.
Starting point is 00:38:41 Like it has a towel and a shower cap and slippers. Like, that's pretty chasin. it has a towel and a shower cap and slippers. Like that's what he changes into. That's a woman, first of all. You're saying it's like a dress make a caddy. Like a caddy. Like a caddy. Yeah. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:38:54 OK, that was not an answer. That was just a guess, man. You're just guessing like we're guessing. I mean, I like it. You're an audience person. So your guess is even more worthless than ours. Wait, you don't pay to guess. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:11 Pay to know. So we don't... I'll never forget this. Well, this body also makes me think of that other section of the movie where they talk about bodies. Remember that one? They're on the boat. I section of the movie where they talk about bodies. Remember that when they're on the boat? I forgot about the whole boat. It's the joke run.
Starting point is 00:39:30 Which is the joke run. Wait, what's it? The head mat. Oh, yeah. The guy with no arms, no legs on the floor. Yeah, yeah. Okay, and then I love that they're going back and forth and the guy knows all the answers. Right, so it's not like these are not riddles,
Starting point is 00:39:46 these are jokes. But they know them all. Yeah. So they're presented in a way that when you first hear it, just seems like one person doesn't know how jokes work. Yeah. Like he's like, Bob, okay, I'm like, oh, oh, oh, but they're not laughing at it.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Oh, it's laughing. Okay, it's like he's studying for a test of some sort. Now when you get in that room, they're gonna do some joke. You got it, no. Hard. Bob. What's up one last thing?
Starting point is 00:40:12 One last thing about this dummy. Yes. As I spend some more time with her, she's not like in a position of servitude. Like she's not frozen. She's not, there's something very alive about the way her body is positioned. I don't disagree at all.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Maybe that's his ex-wife that we've heard about. But don't say, with feeds to my theory that he's psychotic and that he's suicidal. Yeah, this is like a white thing. And white stuff in his living room. And he puts his keys on her. What is that? What is that?
Starting point is 00:40:48 It is weird. It's really weird. I mean, it's probably like a stunt man made the movie and who like dummies more than stuntmen. And he probably like throws Susan in there. And that's what they call her. He's like, I've been working with her for 30 years. Let's give her a cameo.
Starting point is 00:41:02 Because at some point, someone like the scriptie must have been like, oh, by the way, there's a weird human body in the shot, right? Do we want to get rid of that? No, no, leave it, it looks great. It really fills out that corner of the room. Plus, people are looking at Carl, they're not looking in the background at whoever or whatever might be in the shot.
Starting point is 00:41:20 But like, Carl weather seems to make a good living as a police officer in Detroit. Like, I mean, this is a nice looking apartment. Except there's a W can't move. There's one weird thing about the apartment. If you're cool with, if you're cool with the W. Oh, man, oh, man, oh, there's so much to talk about when they jump out a third floor window and land on the car's roof, that mattresses. And then are totally fine.
Starting point is 00:41:48 Yeah, but then you could see when they land through that roof that it's just covered mattresses. It's like, isn't it like part of the black, like taping around it, like pulls off and you see like white mattress. I also loved that in, that he goes to get information from his guy, but his guy is dead. That's the scene where they try and cut his balls off.
Starting point is 00:42:11 And they all put him, they all put him in his point. They all put him in his point, look. They all put him a blanket party. I was like, what's a blanket party? That scene has the other funny part that I really made me laugh at. Where the guy asked him, have you ever heard what it sounds like when a man gets his balls cut off
Starting point is 00:42:29 and actually Jackson's like, no. And the guy's like, you have it? You tell, like, he seems genuinely shocked that he doesn't know what it sounds like when a guy gets his balls cut off. It also seems like a more messy operation. Like it would be much easier to be like, this is cut off your dick and ball.
Starting point is 00:42:47 You'd have to get in there a little bit more surgically. And please guys, they say a hot dog time. Yeah, that's another. Ah! These guys are so intimate. The one guy also says, take a little Tom slick like you and have a little blanket party. Like that's a line in the movie.
Starting point is 00:43:04 And I was like, what is that mean? What the fuck is going on? So nothing happens, and like, he comes back from that scene, it goes, uh, Papa Doc is dead, and the old boxer dude's like, oh yeah, I could have told you that, he's dead. Yeah, like, you should go see Dee at the barbershop.
Starting point is 00:43:20 Dee at the barbershop, who knows everything. She's the best. She's like, Dee at the barbershop is like, oh, I read the script, The Barbara Shop, the Barbara Shop, who knows everything. She's like, dea the Barbara Shop is like, oh, I read the script, so let me just tell you what's up. But every word starts with dea. She knows the intricacies of the plot. Not just like, oh, such and such, she knows the plot.
Starting point is 00:43:43 It was a visit from the Greek chorus. Yes, it was the movie. It was a visit from the Greek chorus. Yes. She was deep. And also when she came on screen, it sounded like the SNL Feebslog started. It was a real featuring. D. It was a real crunchy sacksown, came on.
Starting point is 00:44:00 You want D. I do love that that pop-a-dok was said so many times in that scene the parter. Is that even in our movie? I don't know. Papa Doc, do you know what I mean? It was the Haitian, right? Oh, baby doc, Papa Doc, right?
Starting point is 00:44:14 Papa Doc, any mile. Papa Doc. That's what it is. It's a Papa Doca. Oh, eight mile, yeah. There you go. Thank God. Ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:44:22 These guys, yeah, use a lot of bombs and funny ways. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. Well, when they blow up that, like, they Why did they handcuff the bomb to the guy? What's the point? And by the way, in seven seconds, those people get so fucking far away from that boat.
Starting point is 00:44:38 Like, if that was your whole plan, it's like, like, Why not just, like, give yourselves a little more time? Did anybody else think the guy with the blonde wig was Sharon Stone? I was like, oh cool! She's part of the assassins, and she's his wife, I love that, I love that. If like her thing is gonna be, she's the leader of the ghost assassin team. Nope, just a guy in a blonde way. She, meanwhile, I was shocked
Starting point is 00:45:07 that she believed Coach was good. And then she's like, I'm gonna hang out with Action Jackson and it's like to the butler, like, eat a dick, bro. I'm gonna hang, and I was like, what are you up to? She played it all wrong. All wrong. I was surprised she was killed so early as well. I was like, that's where I was like, oh, Shadstone at the beginning of her career,
Starting point is 00:45:31 like she gets killed early. Yeah. Over and over, totally called. She gets killed pretty early. Yeah. I think that's what I like. The movie was genuinely unpredictable. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:41 Because it made no sense. Yeah. It would just go like the big end of the movie when he is assembled this team that we have been not a part of like we did not know. I was in the big pocket. Yeah, the big pocket. Like this guy's fainting every time he sees you.
Starting point is 00:45:54 Why is he no a part of your team? And then oh, Mr. Ed. And Mr. Ed. Why did he say that? Hello, I'm Mr. Ed and jumps out of the raptor. That was the ghost. Why? I was 100% sure I heard him save that.
Starting point is 00:46:09 The minute that guy goes, hello, I'm, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. He's dead. What did he say? Don't identify yourself and where you are if you're trying to sneak up on people. Why, that would be like the worst. What does that mean?
Starting point is 00:46:22 He said that he made like a Mr. Ed the worst joke. I mean, why? Put it in, actually, let's go. A man who say something, with a face. A man who is in the movie, a gigantic person, has somehow managed to get into the rafters of the bills at the warehouse. I didn't even understand why that guy would be friends with Actio Jackson.
Starting point is 00:46:46 There's one shot. Okay. Early on when Crackney Nelson is Sean Delapain's being mean to Vanity. Right. And Mr. Red doesn't like it. He's like Vanity's bodyguard. He's like, I'm sure you don't want me to come with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:01 And coach is like, you know who pays you, right? Yeah. I also think that they just had a mutual respect in it. Oh, by the you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and and coaches like don't you know who pays you right? Yeah, right. Yeah. I also think that they just had a mutual respect and understanding. Oh, by the way, yeah, by the way, his name is Ed in the movie. So he was by the way, it's EDD. Yes. What? According to my close captioning. So he was he wasn't even making a joke. He was saying, I can't. I'm just saying. Yes. He literally was announcing his arrival. Well, it's Mr. Ed. Yeah, to the fight.
Starting point is 00:47:31 No, yeah, no joke needed. Thanks for the sense why he said it. It's a polite way to fight. But there is, yeah, so I guess he's like, he wants to, I mean, he would want to save Vanity. But it's also like, action Jackson beats a shit out. I mean, or he doesn't, I guess he's a... He tackles him.
Starting point is 00:47:47 He punches him in the face, he kicks him in the leg, the guy is unfazed in any way, and then tackles him and leaves him unconscious on the floor. And he's like, that's my friend. The best fight though is the heroin needle fight. Oh my God, that's crazy. That guy is so excited that he's gonna kill action jacks. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:09 But by the way, the heroin subplot in this movie is... This is. So Vanity is... is Crack-T-Nelson's Girl on the Side. She's a singer and the opening scene where she sings a song. She's amazing. Right. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:24 She is always... I mean, this is a second movie I've seen her in. She's a compelling performer. Yeah, whatever she's saying. She's great. She's proud, is she? She's amazing. And those songs are good. Yeah, she sings these songs and she's like,
Starting point is 00:48:35 I thought I'd get a standing ovation to which Cregty Nelson's like, you are. That's the grossest and other dick life. And it's also like nothing, nothing like, nothing shows you're a bad guy more than being alone in like a nightclub watching a singer practice that's like the most common thing a bad guy does watching them like purve out just fucking smoke like if you're alone at a table
Starting point is 00:49:04 in a nightclub that is empty watching a singer on stage in Like if you're alone at a table in a nightclub that is empty, watching a singer on stage in the day, you're a villain. You're a villain. And if you have bleach blood hair, then you're really a villain. That's like Mr. Joshua action from like Lee the weapon. Like, yeah, they all have bleach blood hair, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:17 But they also like, what's more uncomfortable being the person that you're singing to or the person that has to, like, like, you know, like, I was like, it's uncomfortable for both people. Yeah, it'd be so awkward. Yeah, like, so great job, yeah. Crank Team Nelson, though, is good in this movie. His bad guy, like, thing that I thought was great,
Starting point is 00:49:34 was like, he doesn't blink. He just says the eyes are like, why is it like a lock-up? It's like, it's like, you know, he was, I loved him. I loved him. He reminded me of, like, even though late in the movie, and it is, it's a crazy plan that he wants a voting block is what he wants out of this. And he never just Jimmy Carter?
Starting point is 00:49:55 Yes, that's basically the union's got the peanut farmer into the presidency. But it reminded me of the bad guy in Road House. Kevin, Ty. Yeah, Ty, right, that was his name. Yeah, what's his name, though? Oh, Ian Road House? Yeah, his actual name is like it's...
Starting point is 00:50:15 Ben Gizarre, thank you. Sorry, I'm gonna make it. It felt like those stakes, it felt like just local bad guy villain stakes until it was like, oh no, I need the unions so that I can have votes so I can get in that. I was like, oh, this guy's like kind of smart. Yeah, that's what I was saying.
Starting point is 00:50:31 It was a good plan. Yeah. And what was he, is like, I kept on trying to understand, so did he actually love and care about his son, the second psycho-pap? He didn't give a fuck about anything. No. He didn't give a fuck about his son.
Starting point is 00:50:44 He didn't give a fuck. He didn't give a fuck about anyone. No, he didn't. He didn't give a fuck about anyone. He didn't give a fuck about anyone. Back. Why does he care about action-jacks? He just won four. He says it at the end. And there's a part where action-jacks is tied up, and he's like, ask me anything.
Starting point is 00:50:56 Yeah, I can't. That was the best part. Like, they made a fuck about that scene. Do you want to know what my plan is? Anyway, here it is. Anything, Deed, and Clear Up, and your little thing, because I'll fill in those holes. He then is like, his guy, his henchman is gonna
Starting point is 00:51:15 assassinate the guy at the party. Yes. Then he's gonna go, but the whole thing immediately goes awry, right? Cause action jacks and shows up, everything happens. He just tells the pick pocket to run. Yeah. That's their whole plan.
Starting point is 00:51:28 But coach still goes grabs vanity and is trying to give her the OD. Yeah. But I was like, what are you doing, man? What was that side plot where a woman comes up to Craig T Nelson and goes, there's no one parking the car. Oh, yeah. By the way, that woman, the actual line was. Yeah. Like, oh, I like, I've been waiting,
Starting point is 00:51:50 I've been waiting, there's nobody to take the car. Yeah, there's nobody to love, but she says, oh, thank you, she goes, and truly, I watched it, I rewounded, I watched it a few times, because I was like, these words could never come out of my mouth. I would literally, it's the performance of a lifetime. She delivers so seamlessly the lines.
Starting point is 00:52:08 I'm scandalized. No one was at the ballet. Scandalized. No one was at the ballet. Oh yeah. But it was a real like, he's like, infraction. He was like, lady, I'm trying to, I'm trying to plan an assassination. Let's, let's say, and like, you will go here, let's see it.
Starting point is 00:52:27 I've got to hear it again. I'm scandalized. There was no one at a parkour car. That's not a parkour car. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour.
Starting point is 00:52:38 That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a parkour. That's not a park much. That has nothing to do with anything. And why I think the, what it's illustrating is that action jacks and those guys are there
Starting point is 00:52:48 and have eliminated some of them. They killed this valet. Because valet is not a dude. Yeah, the valet is a bad guy. That's the realtor henchmen. They gotta go, baby. It's pronounced howly or howly. Wait, I was not who was howly's comment.
Starting point is 00:53:01 Oh yeah, right. They keep calling it howly. Now, I don't fucking know whatever. I just realized maybe the valet is the person in his house. That's why the valet isn't there. Does he drive the car into the house? No, no, the valet in that person standing in the background of Action Jack's house.
Starting point is 00:53:19 Oh, that's he's just waiting for the whole time. And he's like, oh, damn it. That guy's frozen. You're going to be late for work at the party. LAUGHTER Woo! I would love it if he just kept talking to the dummy. He said a dummy psychic.
Starting point is 00:53:34 That's my roommate. He's a valet. He's a dummy valet. No, I didn't, fucker. She's got a suite, too. By the way, so when Craig teen Nelson, you think that they're going to have sex, he's like, you know, give me a reason, cheese is, I'll give you two. She takes off her top. And then they look like they're about to have sex
Starting point is 00:53:51 and they just shoots her up. And then if they're gonna have sex with her unconscious. Yeah, I wrote down he consensually caused me her. That's it. But it's kind of, which I don't know if that works. But that's kind of what happened. She kind of seemed like she was like knock me out so you can think of her.
Starting point is 00:54:09 Well, and then later he makes out with dead Sharon Stone. So he's got a thing. He's got a thing. Yeah, he's got a thing. He's bad. He's very bad. And so is that coroner who sees Sharon Stone's body in the action Jackson's apartment.
Starting point is 00:54:22 And he's like, oh, I only get to see women like this, so when they're already dead, I'm like, sir, a human soul has left its best home. Beautiful woman, too bad a good to see you. Where are you? Like, I'm going to blow an out. That's like a theme in action movies is like gross men commenting on dead women's.
Starting point is 00:54:41 That's a huge rule. There's a lot of that. You can do a supercut of that. But please don't. Please don't. But if you do send it to just my personal email address, I'd say that's... When I have the Angelo in the back crowd of men,
Starting point is 00:54:57 you're still at Hot Corpse in 69. At AOL, right? Yeah, exactly, yeah. One of my other funny, like, my favorite, like, 69 All right exactly yeah One of my other funny like my favorite like man and woman scenes in this movie is like Woman scenes You know one of those classic man. Oh, this is one of those men and woman scenes This one's a multiple men scene. Yeah, there you go, one of those, like, two men, one woman scene.
Starting point is 00:55:29 This is a man and woman. Two women, one man scene. Like, fading, man and woman scene. Man is dressed in man clothes, woman and woman clothes. Man and man voice says, woman and woman voice. It was one of those man in woman scenes. What are you talking about? You work in this business.
Starting point is 00:55:52 What's happening right now? I like a classic man in woman scene. I love you. None of this men men scenes are women women scenes. I love a good romp come with a man no woman. Oh my God. How has worked today? It was good we did two men woman scenes. And then we got to a man three women and a dog scene. And then we, I thought we were going to get to the man
Starting point is 00:56:32 drives the car scene, but we didn't. So we pushed it. When action jacks and pulls up to Craig T Nelson's house, he's like, he's walking up to the door, and then Sharon's done opens it. And then basically, what does she say? She's like, she's like, Are you leaving? Are you driving in town?
Starting point is 00:57:00 Yes, I am. You just, while you were walking in. He said, I'm just coming to see you. And she says, are you going into town? And she said, because the chauffeur, or the guy, the butler, I don't know, just said, do you need a ride or whatever, that's what she's basically like, each shit you're turkey. You okay, Jun?
Starting point is 00:57:19 Really, man, woman's seeing a really good guy. It's so crazy. I'm so sorry. I'm totally break it woman scene, really God. It's so crazy. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm trying to break it down at this call sheet. How many men will have a woman set today? They have call time. You got to. They were starting with a man woman scene.
Starting point is 00:57:36 We're going to move to the woman woman scene. That is the woman scene. And then we'll do that. This is basically like a porn breakdown. All I see is gender. That's all I care about. All I see is gender. That's your one and two thing.
Starting point is 00:57:58 You're a better woman. That's all I care. That's all I'm talking about. You don't see anything but you you just see man-women. No, man. Everyone's like the door of a bathroom to him. This one, it's him. That hit me.
Starting point is 00:58:18 You either have legs or a triangle skirt, and that's... I really... Oh, look at his hair. I really thought... Rabbit, he was really good when it was a man woman scene, but then it was just a woman scene for a lot, and I don't know, I couldn't get his into it. Yeah. Oh, I don't know how we come back from this,
Starting point is 00:58:40 you should just go to the audience. All right, same. Does anyone have any questions? We'll take questions from men or women. I'll take a question. We got a question from a man over here. All right, sir, come forward. Come over here, sir.
Starting point is 00:58:56 You can come. You'll have to stand up because from upper part they look the same. Welcome, sir. How are you? Thank you. All right, your question. It's more of an observation, but it's built on the mannequin in the apartment. So before that, he walked by a taxidermy parrot in a cage. Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:20 And then also later in the scene when they go to a bar, there was a bathtub with a mannequin leg. There was another mannequin. This is actually the best kind of, I feel like we're seeing something going on here. The set deck person probably had some issue with it. Loved mannequin. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:41 I also did the movie mannequin. That was my question. Like, is this somehow in the world of the movie mannequin? No. This is mannequin three. Action Jackson. Now it takes place in the mannequin universe. In the mannequin universe.
Starting point is 00:59:59 The MCU, the mannequin cinematic universe. Andrew, what Andrew, uh, Andrew McCarthy should have been in this. This is a bit bar. He's the agent Colson of this universe. Oh, man, what was the guy's name from Designing Woman in that movie? Yeah, Hollywood.
Starting point is 01:00:17 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. Hi, how are you? Good, how you doing? So I guess there's more of an observation. The two cops. Guys, are we not doing questions today? What's the deal? Did you all agree, no questions?
Starting point is 01:00:32 One, so the integral part of his whole thing is that rich people can't tell black men apart. Okay. That's like his whole plan. That part of the plan. The rich shirt will disconfuse plan. That's part of the plan. The red shirt was just confused. It was just confused everyone. He's banking on it.
Starting point is 01:00:47 And the second one was the two cops were my favorite. Two things they said that I loved was I have roaches in my apartment that tell jokes better than you. Yeah, big advantage. And then at the end when the bad guy dies he goes that's one dead piece of shit car builder. Yeah. You're right. The end of this movie is wrapped up
Starting point is 01:01:11 as if everyone also heard the script before they walked through the door. Yeah, they all knew. Yeah, there was no communication. They're like, hey, great job. All right, we did it. All right, we want to be partners. Let's go. All right.
Starting point is 01:01:22 It was, yeah, it was a good deal. Well, like Action Jackson's ex-partner is like, he's like, what are you gonna do? And she's like, we did it. All right, we wanna be partners, let's go. All right, it was, yeah, it was a good deal. Well, like Action Jackson's ex-partner is like, he's like, what are you gonna do? And she's like, uh, Jackson, Vanity Screams from the window. And he just tosses him a gun. Oh yeah. He's like, go get her, like, yeah. I did like, he goes, fuck it, yeah, he says, fuck it.
Starting point is 01:01:41 All right, man, your name, your question. Helen, this is more of an observation, but... What are we doing, guys? I just wanted to talk about how vanity apparently goes through withdraws and fully recover from heroin addiction. 12 hours? Give her a take. Well, she kicked a cold turkey.
Starting point is 01:01:58 Well, she decides there's a moment where she chooses to be over her heroin withdrawals at the end of the movie, where she's to be over her heroin with drugs at the end of the movie where she's just like, I'm fine. She's like mind over matter. Yeah. I like the way she played cracked out on heroin. I feel like that was a real bold choice. But you know what?
Starting point is 01:02:17 I also thought it was a restrained performance in a way. She's really good. Yeah, she's good. I didn't know where we were going to go. And I like the scene where he comes and she's not in the room and he has to find her in the dealer's room and that fight happens. Like she really, like, yeah, I liked her that, that, like, like, she can't not. I did have a logic question though about how she found that dealer because like, did she ship it out?
Starting point is 01:02:46 Like, you know, she was just in this weird hotel, like she's like, yeah, but that's like a junkie hotel. Yeah, you just don't understand. You don't understand. You just don't understand that. I guess I can go tell was kind of nice. Like it has room service and even though it's served by a pickpocket, it looked good and it had like,
Starting point is 01:03:04 it had like a saucer for the coffee cup. It was, no, I feel like actually, that's the kind of breakfast I always want. It looked like a good breakfast. I don't know how the pick pocket started working there for the life of me. That pick pocket was like the squirrel in ice age. Like that.
Starting point is 01:03:18 Ah, everywhere. All right, here we go. Your name, your question. Sarah, is it cool in 1988 to just throw a party like two days after your wife dies? That's a great question. What's it that recent? The answer.
Starting point is 01:03:35 The birthday party. The answer is yes. Yes. If you're a villain, absolutely. Why hasn't it thought after your wife died? It's after you murdered your wife. Well, no, but after your second wife died. Yeah, but that woman just said,
Starting point is 01:03:50 like, hey, there's no one to take the valet. All some, sorry, about your wife. Like, do people maybe not know? No, it's on the news. Oh, right, right. His wife, he's framing action. He's framing action, Jackson. So, I know, but he's talking about the fact that,
Starting point is 01:04:06 dude, I can't believe your wife was recently murdered. Well, let's say. I buy a police officer who put your son in jail. And by the way, are we? But I don't think they were married, were they? Yes, he is. Yes, and they're a same class man. De La Plaine.
Starting point is 01:04:20 But now De La Plaine. Of the plane. So. Ha. But now, Deleplane. Of the plane. So. Oh, of the plane. Maker of cars.
Starting point is 01:04:31 By the way, I love Deleplane style. And he did his kung fu. Oh, yeah. He was wearing a polo shirt. And then a sweatshirt over the polo shirt, just to do some sparring. We were saying I couldn't tell who was teaching who and that. Yeah, I didn't know.
Starting point is 01:04:44 And then he goes, the end of this lessons over. Yeah, it was like, I thought that guy was teaching him. Is he the sensei or not? I thought it was, I thought it was like, I brought you in to make me better, but guess what, I'm better than you lessons over. Like, I thought it was like a real dick move. When he started doing karate, it was surprising.
Starting point is 01:05:01 That was very surprising. That was an amazing, like, yeah, like you never expected. Well, see, I knew that. I knew that. I knew that, and Carl Weathers, and Cracinelson in a karate bat. See, I assumed that was coming because he did karate in every episode of Coach.
Starting point is 01:05:18 He was a karate coach, right? It was karate coach. It was a karate coach. The first two seasons are just karate. It's a karate coach. You gotta keep your knees up, man. Frank T. Nelson to me, like I remember growing up and thinking, oh, that's middle aged.
Starting point is 01:05:31 Just like, that's what that is. Oh, is he in this movie, dude? To me, oh, he's like 48. Yeah, right. But I'm in this movie, he's 37. That's crazy. No, shot it. I'm done with this. That's crazy. No, shock it. What a big deal to him.
Starting point is 01:05:46 They die his eye breaking up right now. It does eyebrows dark, yeah. Yeah, his eye brother dark in his hair. I mean, his hair is like a shock of silver hair. Yeah, I thought it was bleach blonde. Bleach blonde. I thought his hair was bleach blonde. I could be wrong.
Starting point is 01:06:00 I don't know. We do have to break down the car. He was 44. 44 in this movie. He when he made this movie Wow All right, I thought that oh he was born in 44. He was born in nineteen. Oh, and he was 48. Oh, okay So it's check out Hey guys, don't give me math to do. Just give me fucking answers, okay? But it was a leap year, so anyway, now go.
Starting point is 01:06:29 Sir, your name your question. A mic, so when Carl Weathers gets the post it from Sharon Stone and says, I'm going to go talk to my husband. He doesn't run after her. He goes to watch Vanity go perform at a club and do that dance that Paula Abdul choreographed, where she like jerks her shoulder a lot.
Starting point is 01:06:48 That was good. Yeah. But why doesn't he, he's been suspicious of Craig T. Nelson since like minute one and doesn't run after. He doesn't go, oh no, she's going to die. It's very obvious. He runs to him when he's in that restaurant and doesn't say, hey, you're saying
Starting point is 01:07:05 that Action Jackson is a bad cop? Is that what you're saying? Wow. Son of a bitch. So you hate Action Jackson? Well, so Action Jackson can't just see a concert and take a break from work for a second. Well, and funny enough, you say that. So I work with Carl Weathers,
Starting point is 01:07:26 and I texted him because I'm coming here, and I say, oh, is there one thing that you want me to say? And he texted back, all I remember is wanting more time to make a better movie. No! Oh! Oh! So, more stuff that he wanted to do,
Starting point is 01:07:43 there was probably more stuff he wanted to do or get done. That was amazing. Yeah. I was like, great cool. Yeah, he was a good question. Good question. All right. I do, I am amazed at the puns because the puns are so bad when he does take the car and
Starting point is 01:07:59 drives it through the house. And again, there's so much to get into this, but he drives the car into one of the bad guys, and then he says to him, you lose. But... As if they... It's true. As if earlier, they'd started a game. He also... He saw before he blows up the bazooka dude, he goes, how do you like your ribs?
Starting point is 01:08:21 Which is not a question you ever get asked. And it's the answer. Yeah, it's the answer. It's the answer. It's come one way. Because the answer is like, with a grenade? I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:08:34 Yeah. But I was like, it's like cooked. I don't know. Cooked until they're done. It's like a burger. You can't have it. No, it's like, by ribs rare. Well, wait, do you think he was asking about, like, how do you like eating ribs,
Starting point is 01:08:47 or how do you, like, your own ribs? I thought it was, like, a preparation-related question. Yeah. But no, it would be, like, because I think I'm Terry Ocky. No, yeah. Maybe like a marative style. Or maybe a marative style. Or maybe a marative style.
Starting point is 01:08:57 Spare. The choice to make the car go up the stairs. That's amazing. Like car go up the stairs. That's amazing. Like go up this and then make a hard turn. Yes, bro. And think about every hallway that you've been in in your life. And how not to give them a minute. Yeah, just take a.
Starting point is 01:09:20 Because every hallway, every everyone, including your life. But like, the reality of having a car drive down a hallway. If you listen to the podcast pause. You have to look for your car. Really think about it. You're the hospital you were born in. Go from there, the home that you grew up in. The schools that you were, I think of all the hallways
Starting point is 01:09:45 If you ever wanted a field trip Maybe you went to watch the DC picture rooms. You've been in how'd you get there? What was between them always That's what we're we're fucking living in a world of always now remember them all did any of them have a car driving in it I was like every time I was like they think like is a hallway I'm sorry Seth go ahead. I'm good. I'm good But the thought that he never gets out of the car. Oh, wait, to the danger zone.
Starting point is 01:10:31 That worked. He never gets out of the car. He just drives it and keeps on making left and right turns. Like, at any point, you should just be like, all right, I'll get out now. And that was a wrong. And you like, dude, how to get there? Yeah, he do have to get in the room.
Starting point is 01:10:47 He never been in the house. Too much. Right? And then he's only saying the line from the commercials. He's like, hotter, hot, hot, hotter, hottest. Why? Because it was in the commercial for the Haley's comic. You know, listen, we do know he is a car guy.
Starting point is 01:11:02 Got it, got it. Yeah, because he has a huge, huge, huge, got it. Yeah cuz he has a huge car Yeah, that our guy. Yeah You're naming a question When Action Jackson punches mr. Ed in a face. Well, I don't like that you just like action jack like you being pressed It's action jacks again. So you know know, you're the being bare to say it. Action jacks.
Starting point is 01:11:28 Punches, Mr. Adam Fason, Mr. Ed says that he puts himself through medical school through this work, and that it is against his religious belief to hurt people because he's Muslim. Yeah. But then in the end of the movie, he definitely hurt some people. I was raised Muslim, so I would like to know,
Starting point is 01:11:46 what does this movie stand on Muslim religion? Yeah. Oh, great question. So it did not check out to you. I'm not sure. At first, I thought, oh, thank God, for once in a movie, we're not evil. He was good though. Yeah, no, he was protecting vanity. That's why he hurt those people, right? But he still hurt people. So then I'm like, okay, Muslims are still
Starting point is 01:12:15 shown as people who hurt people. Only if they have to. Yeah. Only when protecting. Only when protecting. All right, sir, your name, your question. All right, my name is Joe, and my question has to do with the pick pocket that's just like, from the minute he sees action Jackson, he's scared shitless, like constantly, but he's never seen him do anything. He spills cop, what about those cops told him all those stories?
Starting point is 01:12:41 But he's like a pick pocket, and the streets of Detroit, I mean, he's here. He's seen some shit. Yeah, like streets of Detroit. I mean, he's here. He's seen some shit. Yeah, like, you know, he like walks in like breakfast to his room and like drops. I feel like the streets have not hardened him. No, he's he's soft.
Starting point is 01:12:54 He's like a soft, he's a young man. He's a spirit. Yeah, all right. He wasn't cut out for that work. I don't think. He's not the, and then it's a second. Another pickpocket. Take his wallet, right?
Starting point is 01:13:04 Even a world where pick big pocketing is very prevalent It is really like the central crime of 88 erad Detroit and this movie has the worst ADR because like the next scene They're just in their in a sterile vanity and action. Jack is like you take my wallet like yeah Like they're filling in why that happened. Yeah, why? It never comes back. Did that was that necessary at all that he not have his wallet? And it's not like, it's not like, coaches guy stole his wallet to plant it on the fake guy.
Starting point is 01:13:34 No, something. It literally never comes back. The second time I watched it, I was like, don't let that wallet thing come back, and I was like, no, it's almost like this parts of the movie that don't add up. Which is, I felt like I was in good hands. Sir, your name, your question.
Starting point is 01:13:49 My name is Philip. My question is, do you think that he uses his law degree to basically handle all the open lawsuits that are against this horrible police department? Because he's been doing them for about two years. And there's a scene where Arm Bruster, chewing him out in the beginning of the department, but he's been doing them for about two years. And there's a scene where arm bruster, chewing him out in the beginning of the film, and he says, if you do a good job,
Starting point is 01:14:10 you'll get your lieutenant stripes back. Which I don't think are a real thing. And he says it like 15 times. Well, he's been demoted. He was a lieutenant, and now he's been demoted back down to Sargent as a result of almost ripping the arm off of the sexual psychopath. And he's a cop who, I don't know if you can be a cop
Starting point is 01:14:30 if you can't have a gun. What do you mean? He's not allowed to have a gun. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, his weapons, like permissions, have been revoked. You think that would get you fired? But I would argue that his body is a weapon.
Starting point is 01:14:45 Oh, yeah. Oh, he is a biotic man. You see where he is shirtless? Yeah, I said holy fuck. I'm loud. I said what? He is like a real swoon. Yeah, you don't see the layer of muscle when it's under like a shirt.
Starting point is 01:14:59 It's crazy. The sea is running. He has so much like explosive energy. It's like it's real like it's crazy. The series running, he has so much like explosive energy. It's like, it's crazy. Well, that was crazy about the taxi cab scene when he's out running a taxi cab is so bionic and so I could watch that man run.
Starting point is 01:15:19 It was cinematic, beautiful. Well, that's the action stuff. And I'm not surprised to find out it was a stunt person the man's done man directed it the action stuff that's been especially is good yes good action set pieces that work what doesn't work is like the the bullpen cop camaraderie and even and even like when action Jackson said stuff like sometimes it doesn't make sense coming out of his mouth He says like six of one half a dozen of another, but I've heard that a million times
Starting point is 01:15:50 I know that's a phrase, but the way he says it doesn't even it feels like someone to say it like it doesn't feel like he's ever heard it Like like he just said it to slow like six of one half a dozen of another like oh I've never heard it that that the emphasis was on a strange word all right you said it was worth it to come to you for the last one so here we go sir your name your question oh same yeah unfortunately I've already got worries I was going to bring up the point about the wallet.
Starting point is 01:16:25 Are you saying, Malik? Man, I wish. No. Okay. Sorry. So, the other thing was, whenever they make the sequel or prequel either reaction or preaction Jackson, do you think they should cast Michael B. Jordan in the role so that we can continue this thing of him playing the role so that we can continue this thing
Starting point is 01:16:45 of him playing the role of his father. Whoa, young Carl Weathers. Oh, I love that. I like that. I would like to see. All right, Zane. I would love to see an action Jackson sequel with my B. Jordan as a son.
Starting point is 01:16:58 A reboot? A reboot? Yeah, this son, because I think Carl Weathers would be a Jackson. Yeah, action Jackson, Jr. Yeah. Get more tongue-died. Yeah, it's Sun, because I think Carl Wether or the Beast Jackson. Yeah, action Jackson, the junior. Yeah. Get more tongue-died.
Starting point is 01:17:09 Um, alright, so obviously we had an opinion about this movie, but now it's time. Oh, you're a Sun, you're the best! You're the best! You're the best! You're the best! Guys, on fire tonight. Fire tonight. Obviously we have an opinion about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion.
Starting point is 01:17:38 It is now time for second opinions. I saw a film on Amazon. A most confounding contradiction. But its true fans will carry on. They hold the truth of their convictions. Now they man the barricade. Do you hear what people say? And it's the tide of poor of you, eh?
Starting point is 01:18:07 They don't care what critics think. They will give a passing grade. If you don't like it then you're dumb. They will give it all five stars. Once or more. You just simply bear opinion opinion not the first but Oh, but it's not that this movie is fantastic It's just stupid
Starting point is 01:18:32 The race is all but I like the Meg And the haters and the losers Can go off and boil their heads Go ahead and give the Oscar Are you hearing what I said? Because the only thing that matters now is this my second opinion.
Starting point is 01:19:00 Give it up for Ned and Rachel. Come on, Dan. Enjoy this poster. All right, so these are five star reviews, coldfromamazon.com. There are 112 total reviews of this film. 58% are five star. Wow. And they're all a little weird. This one is by Joseph. It was written in 2014,
Starting point is 01:19:30 and it starts like this. This movie shows a very good range of acting. I always picture Craig T. Nelson as a very positive influence in roles as a football coach in all the right moves, and in the TV series coach. He played a great villain. I do not know he could act as a bad guy, five stars. This one is from Chels 2012. It was called the titled, Fun and Active. It's an active.
Starting point is 01:20:08 It's an active. If you like speed and action, then this is for you. With this, you will see lots of running and bullets flying. You will think one certain person is actually the suspect, but he isn't. It's really fun, dramatic, and active all in one. What? Who is the person that you think is the suspect, but he isn't, it's really fun, dramatic, and active all-in-one. What?
Starting point is 01:20:27 Who is the person that you think of the suspect? Who did that person, the villain? What? Just the villain. Yeah, there's never... From the beginning of the movie to the very end. Yes, he thinks. I think it was action.
Starting point is 01:20:40 I don't trust this guy. And then this one, I just read it because it's weird from Juliet. I don't trust this guy. And then this one, I just read it because it's weird from Juliet. This is in 2016. Sorry, I didn't know I wanted this movie. That's all. Five stars. My favorite thing about these five star reviews
Starting point is 01:20:57 is I know from hearing enough of them now that some people just think they're contacting customer service. Oh. And then we will end on this one by Kusey. People just think they're contacting customer service. Yeah. Ah! Ah! And then we will end on this one by, uh, Kusei Adachi. Uh, this is in 2014. Sharon Stone was young and serious.
Starting point is 01:21:16 Why, you know, there? I see their voice. What's this? Plano's Kusei. I know, he knows. That's what Kusei's up to. Sharon Stone. Sharon Stone. Sharon Stone is young and serious.
Starting point is 01:21:28 Another her charm and beauty. To see her is nice experience and a dream of a woman. Five stars. Wow. None of these reference action jokes. Wow. Yeah, that is it. And then there's one, it's not worth reading the whole thing, but it's from Timothy. And you sell them, eh? Yeah, for a jack.
Starting point is 01:21:56 Wow. And this is in, this is, it goes, Jericho Jackson is almost a god. Carl Weathers plays the washed up cop whose reputation gives him nothing but disrespect. That's a characteristic of a mortal, five stars. I don't know who ate stars up with the god, but then it calls him a mortal, but it still works for this person.
Starting point is 01:22:25 I think this person, Timotain. Timotain. Roads in review. Timotain, shall I make? Road this review because they feared people might watch the movie and think they were seeing a God. Yeah. And the day better right in to make sure we eat.
Starting point is 01:22:40 And this is a moral. Certainly mortal. He is certainly mortal. This movie came came out like I said 1988 its budget was well seven million dollars not bad and the opening week was five point four million for the number of stunts that are in there by the way that's like yeah pretty well done it grossed twenty million so it made money it came came in 49th out of all the movies made. Top three movies, 88, Rain Man, who frame Roger Rabbit and coming to America.
Starting point is 01:23:10 Those are all much better movies. Ha ha ha ha ha. And this movie, this movie beat my stepmother's an alien blood sport. Mack and me and Monkey Shines, all which we've done in the podcast. This movie beat those movies. Yes. Wow. Okay, man, good.
Starting point is 01:23:31 Now here is the tagline which I like. That's a proxy. Name Jericho Jackson, nickname, action, home, Detroit, profession, cop, education, Harvard Law, hobby, fighting crime, Hobby, Fighting Crime. So on his off hours. Yes. Also, Fights Crime. Weapon, you're looking at him.
Starting point is 01:23:54 Yeah. I like that it's Hobby. His job should be, well, no. Look, you know you're in the right line of work when your hobby is your hobby. I would love it if it was like hobby, like paper mache, making mannequins that. Bullet journaling.
Starting point is 01:24:18 I mean, I do think Action Jackson brings it in this movie. I think Carl Weathers, I love Carl Weathers in everything. And I think even that moment when they made him do like an Eddie Murphy-esque character as a preacher, like he went for it, like he really. He went for it, it went on for way too long. Yeah, yeah. The score helped.
Starting point is 01:24:37 Yes, yeah. You can tell they were editing and they went to the composer and like, can you help this? And they're like, yeah, I'll do something. I'll amp it up. She comes in and she's like the composer and like, can you help this? And they guys like, yeah, I'll do something. I'll amp it up. She comes in and she's like, he's basically, they're gonna cut his nuts and dig off. It was hot dog time.
Starting point is 01:24:52 And it's just, they're just, put in the men's room at the pool hall, right? Yeah. Or are they even in the men's room? Are they just in a pool hall? They're in like a back area. Yeah, they're in, yes. And then she comes in and is like,
Starting point is 01:25:04 oh, it's my brother and he got hit in the head. They're in like a back area. Yeah, they're in, yes. And then she comes in and is like, oh, it's my brother. And he got hit in the head. And then he immediately, and it's, and they seem to immediately be like, oh, cool, cool, okay. That's all bad. Yeah, sorry. So we don't have to cut us nuts off.
Starting point is 01:25:20 Yeah, let me know. We hate that. By the way, though, I've told this to Paul before. And in the back of my mind, like this is always my plan of action, like if things go south, just act completely fucking insane. So when I saw it, I was like,
Starting point is 01:25:35 yeah, that's exactly what I would do. Like if confronted by anyone on a street, and everyone should know that. First thing first. First thing. That's what I was gonna say. First, I was gonna say that. I was gonna say the exact same thing. Like if you confronted by anyone on a street and everyone should know that first first ship That's what I was gonna say first. I was gonna say exactly If you want to cut my dick off. Yeah Here's just no
Starting point is 01:25:56 New knife after that Because I'm a die-o I hold things I would argue.O. is to flee. That's correct. But it's my next move is like just go bananas. And here's a taste of carwhether is going bananas. Just to end, here we go. There's a lot more world than all Roberts.
Starting point is 01:26:21 Listen to it. Yes! Yes I was Yes, I was sent. I was sent. I was sent to bring you down, brother. Yes, yes, I was sent. I was sent to bust your asses and wipe these beats clean. Yes, because I am the man. Why'd you look at the bumper, Doc?
Starting point is 01:26:35 And you mean possess his righteous man, who, but it's so, it still seems pretty... We got a little Platinist here. Somebody give me any man. Yes, I... That's not the fuck a crazy man. I'll give my cell in you, man. me any man. Yes, I, I'm gonna fuck this crazy man. I'm gonna get my cell in you man, ain't man. Yes, I can feel it.
Starting point is 01:26:48 I can feel it. Allow me, allow me to lay my healing hand upon you. And then it'll go. And then it goes into a fight. You know, we heard moves. And now we need to believe that- That's his first move. First move.
Starting point is 01:27:06 He has the guy's hand with the glass. You would, I would be afraid. I'd get glass of my hand. Of course. Are we to believe that Vanity does become his partner in the next movie? Yeah. I would definitely.
Starting point is 01:27:16 They're a great pair. Well, that's a thing. That's what this movie was missing for me is like he should have been part of a team. You know, like, I feel like that would have made it a little bit better. He needed his Joe dry hold. If he, well, he is part of a team and the joke seems to be
Starting point is 01:27:30 that he is with a woman who's in heroin withdrawal. Like, they like lead on that dynamic communically. Like, it's several points throughout the movie. And it's crazy. We're gonna do good cop back cop, definitely good cop heroin cop. There we go, yeah. Good're gonna do good cop back cop, definitely good cop heroin cop. Heroic cop, yeah. Good cop drowsy cop.
Starting point is 01:27:48 You know what, my partner to come in here. She's all hopped up in heroin. She's falsely best second. She's like, where were you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You. You. You. You.
Starting point is 01:28:05 You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You.
Starting point is 01:28:12 You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You.
Starting point is 01:28:20 You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. Yeah, home run, home run. In my history of not renting but buying, I'm mad that I rented this because I would have lived to have owned this movie. Yeah, I would watch this film again.
Starting point is 01:28:34 Absolutely. That's amazing. And that for me, that's huge. That's like maybe the first time you've ever seen it. Now, pulling, pulling you watch a movie, do you make a little note in a notebook? Like, man, women seems like followed by... What was the breakdown of it?
Starting point is 01:28:49 This is interesting. This was on 131 men, and it was 62 women movie. And for that ratio, it was really good. It was a really solid man. It must make like big open street scene really hard. Oh shit. Man, man, man, man. One woman, one woman. Man, woman, man, man. Man, man, man.
Starting point is 01:29:05 Man, woman, woman, woman. I'm like, oh shit. Okay, so my vision for this scene is there's 63 men walking this way. My scripts, when you read my scripts, it is dense and man woman scenes. And then you know, then some people will be like, well, can you also break it down and race and then you've got to go there and go, very specific, I get into every detail. Clothing type shorts, there's three shorts. How many shorts are there? Four longs.
Starting point is 01:29:33 That was two cool hot scenes. So in this scene in the restaurant, the restaurant has 10 tables. At table number one is a four top. There is two couples on a double date. This is the second time they've hung out together. There is a man wearing a polo shirt, jeans. There's a one.
Starting point is 01:29:51 But when Christopher Nolan came up with the one man superhero movie, that's what he called it, one man Batman. That's how he came across that, no way. Seth, what about you? Well, you've seen it twice. Yeah, I watched it twice in the 24-hour period. So I would clearly, yeah, I would recommend that knowing. Seth, what about you? Well, you've seen it twice. Yeah, I watched it twice in a 24-hour period. So I would clearly, yeah, I would recommend this movie. It's fucking crazy.
Starting point is 01:30:09 It's great. Yeah, it's great. It's really fun. And if you like this, this is like an 80s action movie that kind of just bypassed me. And it's up there with all the ones I think now that I've loved in the past. It's almost like the most quintessential 80s action movie
Starting point is 01:30:23 I've ever seen in some way. Yeah. Like, in that it's kind of shitty like the 80s were as a decade. And like, it's very rip, and herbie handcocked it, like, it's more 80s than diehard even, because diehard's good. So it doesn't belong in the 80s. No, and it actually is like one of the rare 80 movies, and I may be wrong in saying this, but it doesn't make you feel like,
Starting point is 01:30:45 ooh, that's a little, like, you know, it's like, it's not totally off-base. Like one of the least douchey 80s movies of all times. And there are other things. And there are other things. And there are other things. And there are other things. And there are other things.
Starting point is 01:30:58 And there are other things. I mean, there's still, there is like gratuitous nudity, but it's also like the 80s for a time. Like I remember watching movies just like, oh, I guess I'm gonna see naked bodies. Like that's a place's also like the 80s for a time. I remember watching movies just like, oh, I guess I'm gonna see naked bodies. Like, that's a place. The 80s are a place, like, the most. The 80s are a place.
Starting point is 01:31:09 The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place.
Starting point is 01:31:16 The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place.
Starting point is 01:31:24 The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. The 80s are a place. What's so nice is it's like, eh. LAUGHTER I did write down in my notes like, oh, remember real boobs, real boobs in movies? These breasts were refreshing. Yes. I agree. I agree, like a glass of rosé on a hot summer day. These boobs were refreshing. These are rosé. These are rosé boobs. That's a t summer day. These boobs were refreshing.
Starting point is 01:31:45 These are frozen. These are frozen boobs. That's a t-shirt. These boobs were refreshing. Proze. Um, Jason, you have anything to plug? Um, I have nothing to plug, I don't think. Okay, I'm good.
Starting point is 01:31:58 Okay. I mean, I have been watching 90 Day Fiancé. Ooh, me too. It is. What is it? It's a television program. I heard it's amazing. It's great.
Starting point is 01:32:06 So this season of it, I don't know about other seasons, is, but this season that we are watching is unbelievable. It's a doc series that follows like about seven or eight couples that are all trying to get married. And are there like male-order bride people? A little bit of that, but a little bit of not too. Like it's a, it's myth, it's a real mix. That's what makes it interesting.
Starting point is 01:32:27 It's mostly men. Men women, I'm saying. It's men women, I'm saying. It's a lot of men women. It is a man. It's easy to break. A lot of men women. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:32:35 You're watching it. When you're watching it, June, do you have to break it down with Paul? Oh, in this scene, Paul, there's a man. No, I see it. I see it clearly. Oh, I see it clearly. That's why he likes it. I mean, I get it. So this is a show about a man in a woman. Yeah, it's about, there's a man and I see it clearly. I always do. That's why he likes it I mean, I get it. This is a show about a man in a woman's
Starting point is 01:32:48 Yeah, it's about a foreman for a women Doc show. It's a great show. Oh, I would like to plug my single that's on Spotify. Life is a hallway You charge way too much for a single day. I think hallway to the danger zone would be a better thing That's better. OK, so it's an A and a B side. Life is a hallway and hallway to the danger zone. I'm crossing my fingers that hallway to the danger zone is in Top Gun 2.
Starting point is 01:33:18 Kenny Loggins call me. Seth, they need you. But seriously, Kenny Loggins, please stop calling me. He takes these shows literally. I don't know. I have nothing coming out of it. All right. Well, I'll just briefly plug that I did this movie called Slice, which is now on digital platforms.
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