The Horror Returns - The Action Returns - Ep. #10: Cobra (1986) & Action Jackson (1988)
Episode Date: September 5, 2020Brian and Nez are back with another exciting show for you action fans. This week the guys bring you two classic action films for the 1980's. First up the 1986 Sylvester Stallone shoot'em up crime film... COBRA. Then on to 1988's Carl Weathers action crime thriller ACTION JACKSON. Join The Action Returns Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/841619946357776 Follow The Action Returns on IG and X: Instagram: @theactionreturns Twitter: @action_returns Check out everything Horror Returns at: https://thehorrorreturns.com Join The Horror Returns Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns Join the THR Presents: Stream Fiends Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3860579827402429 Follow THR Stream Fiends on IG: @thrstreamfiends
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In America, there's a burglary every 11 seconds.
An armed robbery every 65 seconds.
A violent crime every 25 seconds.
A murder every 24 minutes and 250 rapes a day.
All right, welcome back to another episode of
The action return.
Episode number 10.
Brian, and of course,
always with me. His nez, what's up,
Ness?
Yo, man, what's going on?
We just got through all
six films,
a mission impossible.
Thank you all for listening.
And I'm kind of
Tom cruised out right now.
Good to get something else in.
because I was just
Tom Cruise was on the brain
constantly
I fell down the hole of watching
all the extras on everything
I was like yeah all right I'm good
no Tom Cruise movies for a while
or at least until Top Gun
comes up when does that come out
which one
Top Gun a Maverick or whatever
I don't know they pushed it to next year
so I don't know
exactly I think late next year
all right well it's good to
do all those got those out of the way
for all you guys so thank it again
for listening and on to
something new so what do we got
first up we are going to talk about
is 1986's
cobra
so what do you do to the last
look for trouble
society is breeding a new
kind of criminal.
Captain, look, I don't want to do it.
You're all I just want to get involved, all right?
It's also breeding any kind of cop.
You're a disease and unicured.
Stalone is Cobra
Rated R. Open's Memorial Day weekend.
Quick synopsis.
A tough on-crime,
is that what the hell does that mean?
A tough on-crime street cop must protect the only
surviving witness to a
strange murderous cult with
far-reaching plans.
This stars Sylvester
Stallone, Brigitte Nilsson,
Rennie Santoni,
and Brian Thompson
and many others.
This is directed by George P.
Cosmatos, if I
said that wrong. I apologize.
He has worked on
Rambo First Blood 2 and
Tombstone.
Screenplay is based off
of something Stallone,
written himself.
I thought it was based off
a novel, Fair Game.
This is what I got off
of, uh, he might have, I think it
originally was based off something else, but I think
he took it and made it his own, because you know, you know
Stallone's got to get writing credit off of everything.
Did you ever see that movie Fair Game? I think that's it was called with
was it
Billy Baldwin and Cindy Crawford
I think that's it's
It's been years
I probably ain't seen it since the 90s
I saw it because everyone
said Cindy Crawford got naked
And I heard it was a body double so I felt cheated
I again
I can see the poster but I don't
remember that movie at all
When did you
first see this one?
Um, I probably saw this when I was a kid. Uh, probably, um, I'm, I'm, I'm the youngest one.
I'm, well, other than Phil, I'm one of the youngest one on, on the team here. So I was probably like 11, 12, because, uh, my pops introduced me to a lot of action flicks.
And if, if, if I liked this movie with Stallone in it, he, he would like, he would tell me, oh, I try this one, try that one.
And, uh, I probably saw Cobra when I was real young. And it,
what fascinated me about
Cobra because it wasn't just an action flick.
It was kind of a,
it was a kind of a horror slasher
because of the,
the cult in it.
So that,
that kind of drew me more to it as
being one of my,
uh,
this is one of my favorite,
uh,
not the favorite,
but one of my favorite stills on movies.
Did you see this on cable or did you see it in the theater?
Uh,
most likely cable.
All right.
Well,
I'm,
uh,
the second oldest guy.
on the crew right after Lance.
I saw this in the theater.
I know Mike and I went and seen it,
but I can't remember exactly who I saw with first.
I know me and Mike saw it again later after it hit,
but I remember seeing it the opening weekend.
At this time,
and we already knew who Stallone was
because of the Rocky films
and Death Race 2000.
When he was what?
Machine Gun Joe for Turbo or whatever his name was and that.
So we knew who Stallone was.
So yeah, like you, my dad's the one that introduced me to him, mainly dealing with Rocky.
And so I was like, oh, yeah.
So, but yeah, first blood and all that was already hitting already.
So he was already deep into being an action star.
So we went and seeing this.
I remember going to school and seeing the.
the poster standing it going Friday night Friday morning when I was standing at the
bus stop the bus stop was right in front of our movie theater and I remember
looking at the poster talking about it with my buddy and we both kind of
hey man they like ripped off Terminator with this poster because Terminator was
like I wouldn't say I don't want to say the first but it was for me it was like
the first time I saw a gun with like laser sighting on this pistol so we're like
oh man I mean there was a lot of rip off after Terminator did that poster there might
have been some before so maybe Terminator ripped off someone else but I remember there
was a lot of films that whoever the star was was always holding a gun on their
poster so I always thought this poster was cool I remember Mike had it on his in his
room on the door I actually had to go pick this up last night I had it
I have it on
DVDs, so I was like,
oh man, I didn't want to go dig through all my DVDs
to try to find it.
So luckily I was at Walmart and there was.
I was like, oh, sweet.
So I picked up the Shout Factory,
scream factory, whatever it is.
So I didn't really dabble into
too much of the special features,
except for one that dealing with Brian Thompson.
He is getting old,
like we all are.
But he's been in a ton of stuff, man.
Yeah.
This was probably the first film that I had seen him in
and then realizing who he was.
I remember him in Three Amigos.
He was also on Terminator in the very beginning.
He was one of the punk rockers with Bill Paxton.
I believe he was the one that got his spine
or something ripped out.
I remember he was an alien nation.
That movie with James Kahn.
he was in that horrible mortal combat too
we'll do mortal combat i don't know about the second
unless we just have to but um yeah and
geez he he he's appeared in a ton of things because he's got that
face like oh that's a guy from cobra that's the first thing uh that comes to your mind
oh he was also uh was a buffalo bob in uh uh jo dirt
when he was looking for his parents.
Oh, yeah.
He ended up in that little well.
But yeah, this guy's had a big career.
And, yeah, like I said, when you see Brian Thompson on screen and anything,
you just immediately go to Cobra when he's the night slasher.
Stallone, yeah, you got to love him.
Marion Cobretti, he's awesome.
Rennie Santoni, he played Gonzales.
he's in appeared in a ton of films
I want to say he was in a couple of the
one of the Dirty Harry films
I remember him in that one Sean Penn film
Bad Boys
Did you ever see that one?
Oh yeah
With uh
What's his name?
Clancy Brown
Yeah
Yeah
So I meant
What was he?
Oh he was Viking in that one
And I remember the black guy with him was Tweety
Is that all Blu-ray?
I wonder if it is
I don't know I just if I don't have it
So I know I got it on the DVD, but Brigitte Nilsson.
Yeah, she was hot and everything, but this would go around watching it.
I'm sure a lot of you have already realized it, but I just kind of realized she cannot act.
No, she can't.
Is this when they got together in real life, her and Stallone?
Was this before Rocky 4 or after?
Let me check.
because I remember they had were they married or were just dating yeah they were married
for a while I want to say they met in Rocky 4 but I'm not sure
Rocky 4 came out the year before okay so that that's probably where she's in this
yes um I mean I thought she was hot and everything and uh and then she just started
to pop it up in all kinds of the red Sonia I saw that but I don't
really remember it at all.
We got to review that one.
Yeah, I remember Arnold was in it.
I don't even remember the storyline at all.
Again, you see a lot of people in this that also have been in a ton of other films.
When we get to the next film, that was just full of 80s.
Yeah, it was full of like, I don't know their names, but I've seen them all through the 80s
and 90s actors throughout that movie yeah um yeah i got so much more to say about that film
we'll stop until we get there uh but on the real everyone i could not wait to do this episode
i just i don't know why but um i love doing every the the first nine episodes we've done
this has been awesome doing the show brian and i but this one i just couldn't wait i mean watching
this uh this morning and just laughing and just remembering
of when I saw this in the theater.
And it's just,
this is just pure 80s goodness.
The story isn't really that,
that big of a deal.
I mean,
it's just,
Stallone's this tough,
uh,
balls to the walls cop.
And it,
there's this,
uh,
serial killer going around.
And,
uh,
Stallone,
uh,
his character,
uh,
Cabretti,
he's like,
there's,
there's more than just one.
Because everyone thinks it's just one killer.
Well,
all the,
the,
the cops,
in this.
And so, because, but he finds out later on that there's, well, he always thought that there was more,
but then he, once everyone started coming after him.
But the beginning scene, we got at a supermarket, we got Marco Rodriguez.
He's the, they just call him supermarket killer.
He's the guy on the motorcycle that just wakes up hating the world and then just rolls into this
supermarket, I think it was like the king market or something like.
that and just starts blasting everyone for for no reason quick question before we dive into this
one the only problem i have with this oh bridgetneilson just can't act but she's good to look at
the the new order or whatever they were calling themselves that this killer cult did you want
more explanation from that because of the little quick scenes we see at the beginning and then
a few throughout these guys with the hatches and the
axes clinging them together.
Yeah, I definitely wanted more of that because
if you go back and look, there's like regular
like guys with shirts and ties like
clanging, you know, hatches together. So this kind of tells you they
have members that are walking around in
everyday ordinary jobs. And,
And that that always intrigued me to see how big this organization is or this cult, not organization, but cult.
And that's why I always kind of wanted a sequel to this one.
So did I, because I remember, yeah, like you said, you see guys with business suits.
I mean, everyday white collar workers or whatever you want to call them.
But then you see all the other guys is just the biker-looking dudes and all that.
So I assume the guys in the suits were the ones that were running the show, but we just never got to know who they were and why they were doing what they were doing other than they wanted to create a new world.
Because the first guy, Marco Rodriguez, the supermarket killer.
I like that guy.
He's another dude that you see.
And he's been in like a billion movies.
So he's got that face.
That's that one guy.
Same thing.
That's the guy from Cobra.
And it's just you get all these people in there.
So but it was good, man.
I liked what was happening in it.
The action was just good 80s action.
You never run out of bullets.
Your cars are indestructible unless they flip over.
So I loved all that.
It sucks that they just.
trashed
Cobra's car. I'm not a car guy, so I don't really
know what kind of car that was, but
if you guys have seen
this film, you know how just rough and tough
it looked. So, but
yeah, you get this guy that
just don't know why he just goes into
this supermarket and just starts
shooting up things and then
taking people hostage.
Watching
it this time, I was just looking at all
the product placement.
Pepsi, Coors, and all the other just snacks and everything.
And you know what?
I've seen this movie a million times, but I just realized that this whole film took
place in December because it was right before Christmas.
Mm-hmm.
I was like, I just messed and never noticed it because also they show a Toys R Us
a Christmas commercial.
I remember that clearly.
So is this a Christmas movie?
I guess we can say it
A holiday movie
It's during Christmas time
Okay
I'll go with it
But what did you think of the killer
Got a little
Supermarket Biker guy in the beginning
Oh I loved
I love this whole scene
You know
It just
It kind of just
You know
You felt the tension
Throughout this whole scene
You know
You didn't understand
What he was really doing there
You know
He had the little
explosive with him and I remember just being as a little kid I was shocked at the one scene where
he tells the one guy he can go but then he shoots him in the back as he's leaving and I was just
blown away by that and then just how the scene finishes was Stallone which first you know they
they got to call the cobra they got to bring them in from this was it the zombie squad yeah I
I need more like, what is this zombie squad?
Are there more guys like Cobra?
Because I need that movie too.
And just, you know, and then you got the one asshole cop that just don't want to work with him at all.
And yeah, and this is the conclusion of the scene.
You get that, not even the conclusion.
You get that one line of, you're the disease and I'm the cure.
I love that.
Yeah, the asshole.
Like with all these movies, there's always.
always is one asshole cop that
star and that's Andrew
Robinson. That's the actor's
name. You guys remember him as Larry Cotton
from Hellraiser.
But for me, I remember him as
a scorpion from Dirty Harry.
And plus
he's been in a ton of
other things. But
we also got Art Lafleur.
You guys might have to remember him as
Babe Ruth in the Sandlot.
So
that every minute, no matter everything I've
seen him in even way before I've seen
Sanlop when I see him on the screen I just
think of Babe Ruth
but yeah
man that that whole scene was
intense I mean
especially like you said when he
told that guy he goes he goes you can go
you're free and then he just like
just barely walks
along and then you see him put
bring his shot got down then he pumps it
and then that guy just says fuck it
and just starts running the whole
scenes in slow motion I remember like
sitting there. Even watching it this time, you're like,
you know, we know he gets shot, but you still like,
you, that little bit of hope that he can get away this time.
But I was like, man, I was thinking he should have just dove and just slid.
I'm not that, I mean, I've shot guns and I've shot shotguns.
I don't know how far that blast has gone, especially it was a sought off shotgun as well.
So, yeah.
I know the, the little, the,
little buck shots or whatever just it spreads so I don't know I mean it seemed like
it because he pumped in two of them I went one first one hit him in the back and then he
when he slammed into the aisle and he pumped another one into him before he fell into the
Christmas tree so but yeah that was pretty ruthless man I was that was tough but I mean I
just love once Stallone shows up you better call the cobra then here he comes just
I want to know how much time went by before he even got there because he got there pretty quick
and he goes in and starts just, well, what's going on?
And that's when they tell him, that's just some asshole that woke up hating the world.
And then he rolls in there and starts looking around.
I love when he gets on the little loudspeaker, hey, dirtbag, you're a lousy shot.
I don't like lousy shots.
And then you get that old speech.
And yeah, this is, I'm a soldier.
I'm a hunter.
This is the way of the new world and whatever his little rhetoric he was spitting out.
But I just, it was cool, man.
It was, it got more intense because he had hostages.
It looked like it was a girl and another couple girls sitting there and sticks that shotgun in her neck.
Hey, I'm going to kill her.
I got a bomb here.
And he's just a little, a little makeshift, a little pipe bomb he had.
But it'll still do his damage.
It blew him up in those two girls, but I loved how Stallone just comes flying in.
I don't know how he got into the meat locker, but hey, it's a movie.
But he comes in.
I love Stallone.
Don't get me wrong.
I know he's made a ton of good movies and he's made a ton of crap movies.
But this one, I mean, I don't know.
I loved everything in this film, but I just didn't like how he came busting in.
like he was all just he didn't he was just smooth and didn't care like he didn't he knew he was
gonna save the day because i got to do he though go ahead i don't know what do he spins around
and he just standing there all cool and he goes i'll kill her man he goes no get the get the news
in here and he goes i don't deal with psychos i put him away but he says it like all nonchalant
everything and i was like so too much
confidence for you. Yeah, man. I mean, the part that made me laugh the most during this scene is
when, before he busted in there is when he just took that little, a little banquet beer, a little
coars, little warm cores at that and drank it and then threw it out. But the scene ended good
because he just pulls out his gun. And I don't know, I don't know how to throw knives and a little
little buck knife or whatever he had.
He just pulled out and
he just like threw it straight.
I don't know. Again, I'm not the one.
I don't know how to throw knives or anything
to make it stick.
But the way he
tossed it, he just like toss it
and it didn't even look like he gave it that much force.
But then again, it's a movie.
I just kind of flung it.
Just underhand.
Hey, just relax.
Amigo. You want to talk?
We'll talk.
I'm a sucker for good conversation.
I don't want to talk to you.
Are you bringing the television cameras in here now?
Come on, bring it in!
Can't do that.
Why?
I don't deal with psychos.
I put him away.
I ain't no psycho, man.
I'm a hero.
You're looking at a fucking hunter.
I'm a hero of the new world.
You're a disease, and I'm a cure.
Die!
But there he goes down and I love half to that he does that.
He just goes, drop it.
He gave him no time to drop it either.
Just the second he said drop it, he was a do, do, do, do, do.
Yeah, pumped him up and he goes falling onto the frozen meat.
But that was cool, man.
I loved it.
And he had to do the little spin the gun and stick it in his belt.
And it's got the little marble.
handle with a cobra on it.
So I thought that was pretty sweet.
I remember seeing after this film,
seeing a lot of a knockoff guns that had that on it,
as well as the knife that the night slasher had,
which my cousin bought one.
I still see him every now and then.
If I go to like flea markets or some guys
that are just selling knives,
they're not that expensive.
I think that one guy was selling them for like $25 or $30.
I kind of want one mainly just for because of this film just as a collector.
It would be cool to just have it sitting right here on my desk.
I mean, that's how much kind of just display it with the movie.
Yeah.
I mean, this scene was cool.
I mean, I did love it.
I mean, this movie flies by like super fast because it's not very long.
It's not even an hour and a half.
It's like an hour and 27 minutes.
So, I mean, that was the awes of the 80s.
I mean, they just gave you what they got and didn't fool around with much.
Okay.
I have some questions going into, I don't know if this is the next scene or the scene after,
but he drives home and he has the little confrontation outside in the parking garage where the guy wouldn't move his car,
so he moved his car for him.
What's your problem, Sese?
You touched my car, man.
Get it, man, man, go to...
It's been up for your health, you know?
What is, pinche?
Yeah, so...
Me.
Wow.
You're good.
Oh, no.
Clean up your act.
Chiga your mother, Pinch, Otto!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Good trouble, man!
You know, do you know.
You told them, Mr.
Did you notice when he rips his shirt that he had a wire on?
No, I didn't.
No, I need to watch it again.
I didn't.
Yeah, because I'm like, okay, is he wired for the movie or was he wired for something else?
I need to know that because they just pretend like nobody sees the wire.
But it's like right there taped to his chest.
Couldn't have been a microphone.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I had better pull it up and look, because I don't know.
Yeah, speaking of that scene, I do love it.
I mean, you hear, I mean, you guys just heard it,
the little audio clip I added.
But the part that's funny about this whole scene,
either these are just the weakest little essay guys to hang out or at the beach.
because there was three of them and there was one of him
they could have
maybe he could
rocky could have beat him down really quick
but
they didn't even try to
step to him
it's like they just got all scared
and then he
let he tell him something about
clean up your act and then
tears his shirt and then walks away
I'm like who does that
who just rips someone's shirt like that
and they didn't even do nothing.
And then when he walks away and he,
I don't know Spanish,
so I don't really know what he said.
You Spanish speakers,
it's still funny.
I remember someone told me what it was,
but I don't remember a long time ago,
but I love after he says,
he screams at him again as the cobra's walking away,
and then he goes over and just kicks his tire.
And those girls in the car are like,
yeah.
And his buddy's like,
you tell him,
say I was like oh man you just got punked hello hard in front of your cheeks and your boys
we're just gonna we're just gonna disregard that his shirts just ripped open and just hanging there
like that didn't even happen I don't know man uh again me and my boys would a what and then if we
would have got beat up we would have got beat up but at least we would have tried and uh somebody's
windshield would have been busted and tires would have been slashed and everything
And my next question, he goes upstairs.
He takes pizza and his gun cleaning kit out of the freezer.
He's eating a frozen slice of pizza with a pair of scissors.
And his gloves on.
Yeah, I never noticed that the pizza came out of the freezer.
And he's just sitting there cleaning his gun and he's just cutting up pizza with scissors and eating it.
And I guess that's the life of Marion Colbrady right there.
When you're that rough and tough, man, you just don't take those gloves off because
No, never.
You just touch some, rip some guy's dirty shirt.
You just finish killing some dude in the supermarket and you go and just eat your frozen
pizza with the gloves on.
Really quick, this is a scene when he turns a thing.
TV on and the Christmas
Toys R Us commercial was on.
Rest in Peace. One of the best places I
used to go to when I was little.
Prices were high as shit, but
it was Toys R Us, man.
I heard it's coming back, but I'm not
too sure yet, but we'll see.
Yeah, it's supposed to be like little
smaller versions of it.
Just get your prices down.
If any of you Toys R Us higher
ups are listening, because
yeah. That in
I remember they had
They had cool things
Especially for us collectors
But prices are crazy
Sometimes you just
If you couldn't find it
You said fuck it and you just bought it
I know this ain't the
The collector's returns
So well that's another show
Yeah
Yeah that's coming everyone
The collector's return or the toys return or something
We'll figure something out
But
So yeah
It's just more of a newscast
Yeah, there's been another killer in the night slasher,
and they just still have no clues on who it is.
So we go to, we're jumping all over everyone.
So the next thing is this is when we're introduced.
No, no, no.
They, some ladies just driving down the street,
and then we see some shady looking guys in a van,
and they go up and they kind of follow her.
She goes under this bridge.
actually that's the bridge where
they filmed Terminator
Oh really? Yeah with that scene when
Kyle
Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor are
Running away from Terminator and they go crashing into the wall
Well no they stop Terminator go slamming into the wall
That is the area where that happened
But anyway
Some useless information everyone
But anyway so they kind of
That lady in the car stops
And then they kind of bump into her
And then she's like, oh, what the fuck?
And then this is when one of the ladies gets out of the cars.
What's the matter of you?
How did you guys hit me?
What are you drunk?
I don't like this lady.
This lady's scary because of this role.
What is her name?
I think it's Lee Garlington.
Is that who it is?
Yeah, that's her name.
She's just creepy in this film.
Because when that lady, what are you guys drunk?
And she goes, yes.
And they're like, she's like, what the is.
Is her last name a play on thing?
because it says her last name is stock.
I.
Is it a play on stalker?
I don't know.
Maybe.
We'll get to her in a minute.
There's some other things that are full.
Spoiler alerts, if you guys haven't seen this, we're spoiling.
We spoil everything on here.
You guys should have seen this.
It's like a billion.
Yeah, spoiler alert for a movie that came out in 86.
Yeah, so, um, yeah, so that she's like what?
And she kind of looks in the rear view.
and she sees some guy with an axe and then she's like, what the fuck?
And this is when the night slasher, Brian Thompson comes in with that badass knife with the,
look like a spike brass knuckles and a huge blade.
I don't know what it is, but that knife is tough.
If you guys don't know what I'm talking about, just look up Cobra knife.
Put that in the Google search and that's one of the first things that pops up.
Ian, they end up killing her.
And this is when we're introduced to Ingrid, Brigitte,
Wilson's character. She happens to just be riding by and see that, uh, what's going on because
the night slasher guy is standing in the middle of the road. And she like,
steps slows down, looks, sees that something shady is going on. He's standing in there. Then she
like just punches it. And, uh, that one lady, uh, the crazy looking lady, she's like, uh, get the
license plate. And so that he just kind of looks and she goes driving off. Uh, then we, oh, then
this is when we realize
that one of the killer ladies
she, because you see her typing on the computer
types in the license plate
and then the camera goes back and it's
that one of those, the Nancy Stock
is her name. We find out
that she is a cop
so Cobra Eddie was right
he's saying that there was more than just one
person. Yeah and I was a little
this is maybe maybe I'm just
realizing now a problem
because when you get introduced to her as a cop, she seems like a regular patrol,
you're not even a patrol, regular desk cop.
And then later on she is, I'm jumping a little bit.
Later on, she's part of the team that's going, not undercover, but going to the safe house.
And I was kind of wondering, was there more people in the department, or is she just able to
put herself into a higher position.
You know what I mean?
I know what you're saying.
I figured that maybe she was,
that was like the last days of her being a desk jockey
or just being a flat foot.
Because yeah, she,
they just,
from going from a desk right to working with,
to detect homicide detectives.
So maybe she put in and she just got it.
So it helped.
with their plan for forming the new world.
So I don't know, but yeah, I thought that too.
I even thought that, I thought that this time watching it.
And then I remember sitting there with my theater like,
how the hell does she get so high class or a step up in the police department?
Don't want to think about it.
It's a movie, everyone.
So yeah, so that's, they figure where out where she is.
and we just when we find out well they there's some more police talk uh the higher ups are
telling uh cobra and uh gonzalez like hey man you guys need to really find uh who this is
because uh we can't have any more killings so um we get this montage of uh finding out that
uh brigitte nielsen uh's character ingris she's a model and
i fast forward through all this i had seen these
seen a million times. Yeah, she looks hot.
You didn't want to see
the modeling slash
going to every tattoo shop
looking for a tattoo? Yeah.
Oh, yeah, because
no, she didn't talk to the cops yet.
No, I'm talking about, oh, that's right.
That's another montage. I'm getting my montages
mixed up. Yeah, it was because
she didn't talk to the police yet.
So whatever she saw
that the night, the night before
I guess, when she saw those
the night slasher and his crew.
So there's this big old montage
and some 80s music jamming in the background.
They show her modeling with robots.
That was so weird.
Yeah.
They show Cobra and Gonzalez
trying to just drive around L.A.
looking for leads on the thing.
So that whole montage is over with.
We get, I want to say,
did you ever watch this show,
Sledgehammer?
I want to say yes, but I'm not sure.
David Rash, Rache, I think that's his name.
He's been in a ton of movies as well, but I remember him in a, I think it was sledgehammer.
I guess I'm in the 90s.
Let me go into the 80s.
Was this him in that?
because he's been in a ton of stuff.
But I remember him having his own show.
Yeah, okay, yeah, he did.
He had a show called Sledgehammer from 1986 to 1988.
I mean, other than all the other things I've seen him in,
but I just remember that show.
It was like a comedy cop show.
But he's the photographer, and he gets all little,
borderline rapy
because he's talking
to her like
hey you want to come over to my house or you want to go
have dinner and she's like no I'm tired
I just want to go let's can you please stop
sexually harassing me
me to hashtag me too
I mean I'm saying that for real I'm not saying that
as a joke everyone but um
because he's like you know
this will help your career
and I was like
damn different times everyone in the 80s I mean that's how a lot of the from the
the documentaries and everything I'm seeing now there was a lot of that lot of what's that
Weinstein guy a lot of that going on she she didn't want to get Weinstein so she was like
come on just I want to go home he's like ah come on come on just just begging for it
but she ain't having it.
They go down into the parking lot of the building they're in,
and we see that the night slasher and his gang are down there,
and they're kind of hiding in the shadows.
And she's like, oh, man, I forgot my bag.
And when she turns around and that guy's like,
well, I'll go get her for you.
And this is when someone comes up behind her sledgehammer with an axe.
And she's like, ah, and then he takes it to the chest.
It didn't look very good.
It was just like he just hit him with it.
I wouldn't want to feel that and I wouldn't want to know that pain getting hit in the chest with an axe.
So she goes running and screaming and all those guys are chasing her.
Quick little flashback scene.
She left her bag in the hall and one of the security guards grabs it.
So he kind of rushes down there to be the nice guy to bring it to her.
He comes into the parking lot and he sees all kinds of shit's going on.
The night slasher and his gang are chasing her.
He pulls out his gun pops off a few rounds misses completely and then this was a rough looking stunt
Yeah, either that was a dummy or what do you think that was really a stunt guy that got hit?
I
I hope it was a dummy because the impact of that van into the what was it the elevator?
Yeah
That was crazy.
so I mean if it was an actual stunt guy might you know hats off to you man because that was one hell of a stunt because that van was that band was traveling fast and hit hard yeah because it hit him he goes disappearing I assume knocked him back into the elevator through the closed doors
if it was a dummy all right but I don't know I mean it looks like that was a stunt man standing there this I think it just called him
security guard. I wonder if he is a stunt man.
Let me click on it. His name is Ross St.
Philip.
I don't know. They don't say much about
him. He's only got a couple
rolls.
I don't know. Well, whoever this gentleman was
and he
if it wasn't him, maybe he was just acting
but maybe there was a stunt guy that took it.
But yeah, that was a lot of force
from that van slamming into that
dude. His egos flying back into the elevator.
So he's
dead.
um did uh did police come is that why they all took off
yeah because he's uh basically he's about to come out start coming after her again
and then they hear the the siren so they leave okay and she uh she's hiding under a car or
something yeah because i think she like jumped down a level and then she was yeah she's hiding
behind something so yeah so the the cops scare them off and they all
take off and this is when she is
in the hospital
and Cobra and
Gonzalez are questioning her
and
she's just telling him what she saw
and this is that she kind of
did she bring up the
she thinks she saw something the other night
or was that later on the police station
she brings it up
and then they do the whole
sketch thing which I would have to say
that is the worst sketch artist
ever
but it looks just like him
I mean, yeah, I guess.
I mean, Brian, Brian Thompson, he's got weird bone structures.
Yeah, weird bone structures, features of his face, like his, I don't know, high cheekbones.
I don't know.
When you see him, you're like, whoa, he's, like, intimidating.
Like, I wouldn't want to see him in a dark alley.
So whoever drew that picture was obviously supposed to.
to be cobra or Gonzalez whoever but uh whoever did that drawing man I to me even watching it
today that looked just like Brian Thompson so anyway so that was a the quick little sketch
that they did so so all right well you just stay here and uh well uh will uh will protect you because
Gonzalez was supposed to stay there and watch him and uh cobra goes well I'm going to go uh run some
things over at my house and uh with uh this picture there was
all the things that he has at his house.
So he goes, all right.
So he goes, taking off home.
I love this scene because he comes rolling up and the essays are still out in the front.
And he just goes, er-uh, honks and they move forward.
Yeah, hey, right on.
We got you, bro.
Did you realize they were listening to that same song again?
Did they?
Yeah.
Is that the only tape you got?
did so of that that was funny though because they like he just i don't know again man maybe they
hatched it out and they were cool but no man i they should have just tried to fight him again but
they were scared and they just moved forward so he goes in he starts looking around at all
stuff and everything and then he gets a phone call uh no no no uh then we kind of get uh some
little scenes with the night stalker
or the night slasher
and that Nancy stalk chick
and she's like telling him
she's gonna ruin our new world
and we gotta kill her and everything
so they know she's in the hospital
so this is when you see
the night slasher
like was he dying his hair black
with ink or something? Is that what that was?
Yeah, it looked like shoe polish.
Yeah, whatever it was. He was just trying to
because I guess he had blonde hair
and he was just trying to black.
How'd you feel about his disguise with the glasses?
I'll get to that in a second.
I have a lot of problems with that.
But anyway, so he kind of disguised, greases his hair up.
He goes into the hospital, and he sneaks in there.
And he's hiding in, like, at a little supply room or something, because that one
that I assume he's a custodian, he comes.
in a little small guy little nerdy glasses uh brian thompson at this time in in 1986 probably
in 1985 he is a big dude like muscular and that guy was really super skinny and small
and he stabs him and kills him and then he takes his his uniform and it it follows no
but I just noticed that this time.
Like I've seen this movie a million times and never put two and two together right there.
I was like, there's no way he could have fit that guy's clothes, but it's a movie.
So he takes the janitor's clothes and puts them on in his glasses and grabs the mop and everything.
And he goes up and, uh, well, I guess, yeah, they knew what room she was in because the Nancy
chick.
She was a cop.
so she knew
yeah she knew where she was
so he goes in there
this
this part was kind of a little
scary
because when he's standing in the elevator
this one a nurse
gets on this is this one
black lady she gets on
and uh
she's like you guys are supposed to take
the service elevator
this is a health code violation
and she's like yelling at him
and he's just like looking at her
then you could see him stick his
behind his back ready to just pull out his knife and kill her but she ends up getting off
and gives him a little tongue lashing really quick and then I was like damn um but let's let's
just say he did kill her I mean what was he going to do I mean just leave her there and get
off the elevator and hopefully nobody was on on the floor but the movie yeah so he gets out
and he finds the room
and he goes into her room
kind of like in a Halloween 2
when Michael Myers came in
and was getting ready to stab
Lori in the bed
but she wasn't there
so he's like what
because he's about to kill her
he's like pretty woman or pretty hair
or whatever he said
and then he realizes
she's not in the bed
and then she comes walking out of the bathroom
and she goes back in there
and those
cheapy doors hollow doors
he likes to start stabbing that knife through it trying to get her and kicks the door in and almost gets her because she's trying to get out.
There's another door in the bathroom and it must lead into somewhere else that had the total fire violation had all this other medical gear up against the door so she couldn't open it because she was trying to force it.
Looks like he would have got her too because he was she was if she wasn't pushing on that door, he could have probably stabbed her and got out of there.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
So, but when all this is going on, we flashed to Stallone, he gets a call.
And it's Gonzalez.
And he goes, hey, and he goes, I'm in your office.
What do you want?
And he's like, what are you doing there?
What are you doing there?
He's supposed to be in the hospital.
And they said, you wanted me to come here.
And we'll get back to the hospital.
Then they go racing back over there.
As Cobra goes running out, we got some of the new order, new world guys with their
axes. I don't know how come nobody had guns.
Well, they had guns later, but
they start swinging axes at
him, and then this is the whole big fire
fight and he's kicking ass.
Did he pull his gun out?
I don't remember, because I know he was fighting
him for a second.
He kills the last guy
when he shoots him like
eight times, and then he falls
over the balcony.
That's right, because he lives on the top floor,
because once he pumped in with some, with a few
rounds, he goes, ah, he falls
probably like three or four floors.
Yeah, and listeners,
real guy falling.
Real stunt guy.
Did he fall onto some or did he fall like behind something?
He fell,
the car was blocking and they just did the sound effect of him hitting the pavement.
Oh, man.
I mean,
I like some of those scenes,
because some of these movies,
when they do that,
you can,
uh,
when,
whatever they land on,
those stunt guys,
you can see the,
them kind of bounce up.
But they always add that sound effect,
like them splattering on the ground.
So they go racing back to the hospital.
But Brigitte or Ingrid,
she gets out.
This is another problem I had with this film.
Catching all the little things that I never saw before.
She goes running down the hall screaming,
somebody help me,
pounding on the desk,
because the hall is empty and it's dark.
And she goes-
Typical movie movie hospital.
Yeah, I mean, especially in L.A., which is probably one of the, in a major big city is probably tons of people in these hospitals.
Not like in Haddonfield and Halloween 2 when nobody was in there.
But that hospital is like here, the town that I live in, I remember when my wife had one of the kids, I remember walking through the hospital and nobody being around.
They just reminded me a Halloween 2.
the original Halloween too not that
bullshit that Rob Zobby did
anyway so she goes running
in the hall screaming and then she breaks
the fire alarm and you
realize how many people filled that hallway
instantly
was like I don't know it looked like
hundreds of people I know I'm
like it looked like there was multiple people
in each room
it was like all these doctors and nurses
and orderlies and patients
all came out what's going on what's going on
and I was like
nobody heard her screaming for help
like seconds before but once you hear the alarm
you all come running out but the movie everyone
um i think they did like they overdid it with the people in the hall
they did i doubt there would be that many people in every single room
but it's a movie so the nice slasher he ended up getting the hell out of there so he
uh he got out no nobody caught him so
this is when
this is when she ends up at the hospital
not the hospital at the police station
and then
Cobra gets tongue lashing
from the higher ups
and he keeps telling them
he goes look he goes
it's not just one person
I keep telling you guys that
and they're still not believing them
well
Babe Ruth he he's kind of
Captain Spears
Art LaFloor
he's kind of like
believing him but not really
it's the other dude
detective Monty. He is the one that's being the asshole.
Yeah, because he believes him to the point where he's going to allow him to take her to a safe house that he only knows about.
So they like do that.
And this is when she's,
he's kind of telling,
we're going to take you to a safe house.
And we just got to get you out of the city.
So we're like,
oh, okay.
So he loads up in his badass car.
And as they're leaving,
it's uh oh this is when they're introduced uh we're finally introduced to uh i assume she was the detective
at this point uh detective stock because she comes in and goes yeah she's uh going to come with us
and uh we realize it's that that lady that's a part of the the new world or new order guys
so they're like oh whatever i mean they're they're kind of they at this point they don't know
didn't know she was uh down with them they're like all right so she jumps in uh ingrid jumps
the car with a cobra and
Gonzalez and stock are riding in
a car behind them
and uh
as they pulling away from the police
station you got uh the the nice
slasher and his crew like parked right across
the street waiting for them
because like they know because of
stocks has given them all this information
so they go driving off
barely made it a block away
and those dudes come
hauling after them and
uh take a shot
and I just I love
car chases, especially when they're
real car chases, not the
fast and furious stuff.
But
I just love that. They're hauling
ass somewhere downtown L.A.
Guns, shotguns,
flying everywhere.
But once they get on the freeway,
this scene, I love no matter how stupid
it is, and everyone's like, no, no,
that can happen. It can't happen.
It's Stallone.
He's hauling ass and he's like,
hold on. And just does like a
180 in his car and I don't know what kind of machine gun he had.
I don't know what that was, but he just holds that out of the side as he's driving in reverse.
And then guns up that car.
And then he flips a 180 and punches it and takes off down the road.
Oh, man.
Do you like real car chases?
Yeah, definitely.
And what they do to this car
hurts my heart every time I see it
because I love this car
ever since I've seen this movie when I was a kid
and it is a custom 1950 Mercury
and looking it up right now
apparently they had more than one
that they wrecked filming this movie
they had to because
I think once they got off the freeway
they got back into a parking lot.
Well, no, before that, I think it was before the scene.
But anyway, I'm jumping all over with his car chase.
But anyway, he's in a parking lot.
The bad guys are on the first level, and Cobra and Ingrid are on the second level.
And they're like basically just going the same direction.
And then the bad guys haul ass and get out back onto the street.
And I love this scene.
I mean, of course, they had multiple cars because it's, that heavy-ass car probably bottom fell out.
Axles broke everything because he goes flying off the second floor,
boom, crashes through.
And then halts it.
I love when they do that type of stuff, especially when it's real cars.
Because you know when they do those jumps, it's just that's it.
That one jump in the car is done, especially like if you guys are fans,
of like Knight Rider or mainly the Duke's a hazard and they had like a billion general
lease because every time that thing jumped and came down on the front end you just see the
front end fold but then was driving off brand new but I think out of the stunt there's
another stunt in this we'll get to that second but when that car goes flying down and lands
and then goes hauling ass so the night slasher is in the back in the back seat and
There's two the other two guys are in the front and they're just trying to get away from them
Again, I don't know much about guns, but I know damn well this can't happen
There is a semi-sem-a-sum-gash truck a
A semi-holding two big gas tanks and one with a little space
So they go crashing through the tank the two between the two tankers to break the locks. I guess
And then they, as they go through, the night slasher hangs out of the back.
She shoots out the back window.
And with a shotgun, a little sawed-off double barrel, I believe.
Boom, shoots out, hits one of the tanks, it blows up, then shoots the other,
those big two gas tanker trucks on fire.
And of course, man, Cobre, he ain't no fear, man.
You drives right through it all.
That stunt was even awesome.
But again, there's no way that little shotgun blast could have caused that much damage.
Unless maybe if they were standing right in front of it and did it, I don't know.
But that car was hauling ass pretty fast.
And I don't think those pellets and those shotgun shells would have penetrated that tank in order for it to explode like that.
But it's the 80s and anything can happen.
They still hauling ass down the road.
I love this scene.
This is another stunt that I love.
I don't know what street this is.
I know there's little bridges that are going over these little water canals,
but it's like bumps because the cars are just jumping these run and they're just fucking hauling ass still.
I love it.
That last jump in a cobra, he takes that jump so high.
And from what I understand, they said this was an accident.
He just jumped that stunt.
driver just punched it too hard, hit that last hump, and
did, sh, took out some lights. I thought that was pretty sweet.
Where do I don't remember? Where to go after this? I don't remember.
After the, the chase scene was done? I mean, after, because they were still,
well, obviously they got away. Oh, no, no, no, he flipped his car.
Yeah. Yeah. That's right. So that, what kind of car was it again?
custom
1950 mercury
yeah so that thing's
because after after he flips it
we we never see it again it's done
yeah but then he rose up
in a tight little old school
Ford truck which I like those old
fords not so much the new ones but the old ones when they were
just like steel trucks not this
stuff they make them today
but
so yeah they're like
well that shit that uh that plan didn't work
uh let's go back to
station and regroup
because then I think by this time they do
realize that there's more than one
because they seen them all plus there was
witnesses. Gonzalez
they just left them in the dust
they didn't even
get into the car chase.
Yeah, I don't know
how good of a partner Gonzalez is
because he never seems to be around.
No man, I mean,
because he was there in the beginning
and then they just like
the hauled ass and must have lost him somewhere.
And I take it there is no police radio in his car
because he,
he gets a leaseman.
All right, I'm on this road.
Come help.
Not in Coburn's car.
No.
I did love his little seat belts.
They're like those racing car things.
And you needed those,
especially the way they were flying through the air
and driving backwards on freeways and everything.
but so
they regroup again and they go
all right
this this is the time
when COBRA go like yeah
I got I'll pick the house
and only we know
so but same thing
again we get
Cobra Ingrid Gonzalez
and
the police lady stock
to go with them
another little montage of them
driving through the
outskirts in the coastal
California
a lot of talk
I mean nothing really important
just kind of Ingrid and
Cobra trying to get to know each other
and they stop at this little restaurant
I love this scene
because this is when we find
out that Cobra his first name
is Marion
so I mean that was a funny scene
and I just
Yeah wow see that's what I'm saying
I don't know how good of a partner
Gonzalez is can't be giving out that kind of information
because he told
he goes, look, you want to have some fun?
He goes, this is something private, but
he likes it. Go up and call him
Marion, so that's when she walks up.
I did like this line.
He goes, well, you find anything new?
And he goes, well, not since you were in the bathroom.
There was a few one-liner
things in there, but not a lot.
So I enjoy that.
I guess he must leave that for
Arnold with all his films.
So she
finds out his name is Marion, and they end up.
all right well let's go they kind of eat uh burgers real quick and get back on the road they end up at this
little uh roadside uh motel and they're going to hold up there for the night before they get going
or was this where they were going to go um i did i don't think this was the the safe house i think
this is where they were holding up for the night so yeah so they're sitting there and um gonzalez
he goes to bed
Ingrid is out
Ingrid uh Nancy stocked
She's outside on the on a pay phone
And uh cobra she kind of comes out
And uh
Cobra's like hey and she's like oh she kind of
He startles her
And she goes I just want to let you know you're doing a good job
And he's like well why didn't she use the phone in your room
She goes oh it was broken
Because I'm just calling the house to check on the kids
Okay well you better get inside
We gotta get an early start
So I think the wheels are in motion
about this time because
earlier in the film
uh cobra was saying to the
the higher-ups like look there's somebody
somebody in the department
is the is the mole
uh so because they know
every step that they've been doing
so he goes that's when he was but they still
didn't believe him so I think about
I think by this time he was kind of thinking that
it's heard but he wasn't really sure
we go back into the room
cobra breaks out his uh his little
machine gun puts on the laser sighting
and then there's a little lovey moment between him and that ingrid.
Yeah, let me say something.
I know they were married in real life,
but I don't know if this is just the chemistry they had for real,
or she's just a bad actor because I was not buying no romantic anything between these two.
Well, from what I know, I think it was more of just a let's get down thing,
and I'm going to spend all your money.
because from what I understand
after the filming of Beverly Hills
Cop 2
she threw like some big huge party
at their house and
Salon wasn't having it
because he's like I think that by this time
he realized that she's just spending all my money
and yeah
so I think that's why he just had enough with her
because she seemed all wild
if you guys saw her on
what was that reality show?
I think it was like.
Strange love?
No, it was the one before that.
Uh, shit.
Celebrity house or something, I don't know.
Because that's where Flav and her met before they started doing the,
their,
crazy love thing.
But she was wild and crazy.
So, I think she's a real house.
Yeah, I think she was just too, too crazy for Slice.
So he kicked her to do.
the curb you ever see the episode where he brought her to the public enemy concert yeah
to introduce her she came out on stage dancing all crazy yeah chuck and uh griff and those guys
and the s1 w didn't like it it's like no hell no here we're up here uh fighting the power
and here comes this big old tall blonde woman being all wild uh that's another show everyone
Public Enemy, check them out.
Really quick.
It's the Real House.
I remember that one scene when her and Flay were in the hot tub.
He was telling her he had a big dick and all this.
And she was like, what?
And then she reached over and grabbed it under the water.
She did say, go, wow, it is big.
But I don't know.
That's Flay.
Right off of you, man.
So they have.
had the little lovey dub scene and everything and uh i assume he smashed it but i don't know and uh so he
uh co well i don't think he did because he's she went to sleep but he was still sitting up um no he
i think he did oh well maybe he just took a a little power nap and then woke up because he was sitting
there like just i think i think he hit it and he stayed up all night on alert i don't know man when i'm
he's cobra he's cobra when i'm on after i'm done man man man i'm done man i
I'm out.
Anyway, that's another show.
That's the sex returns.
But anyway.
So during the, I think it was during the night,
so they were doing flashback,
you see all these guys on the new order guys come in,
or the new world, whatever they were calling themselves.
You see them always on bikes.
There was always like a montage,
because during when they show them driving to wherever they were going,
they go with and see, you see bikers
hauling ass down the road.
So they finally show up to the motel
because they go out there and look.
Gonzalez and Cobra are there and they go,
hey, where's the stock?
And they go, I don't know,
they go in her room, she's not here.
And then they start looking around.
Then you see her running up to one of the trucks
and pointing over to the motel.
And then they're like, oh shit,
this is when they realize that she is with them.
And Gonzalez goes, man, I never like that bitch.
and then yeah this is a problem i had with her like i don't think she needed to just
outright be out there pointing to them saying they're right there she i mean just in case
this didn't work out she just blew her cover right here yeah i never liked this scene too i mean
she obviously was talking to them on the phone that night and hey we're staying at the
little uh hump me all night hotel or whatever it was called
a lot of little roadside hotels
be careful everyone
there's hidden cameras in those places
if you saw vacancy
anyway
so
they're like
oh man and then
it's just a huge
war
well other than cobra's ready
he's got his little
submachine gun or whatever it is
and Gonzalez
his guy's a little stick shooter
yeah
Gonzalez
I don't know if I was Gonzales
man
have more than just six bullets in my gun I at least have a little I would I would have
more guns period if I'm rolling with Cobra from the zombie squad I'm not having a
little six shooter I'm having a trunk full of something I don't know I just some
Gonzalez is starting to bother me the more we talk about him speaking of the zombie
squad was he the only one or where was the rest of them that's what I was saying
earlier, I needed, I need
some, I need more of
this. This should have
been a franchise. Because
I'm picturing the zombie squad as a
whole crew of
people like Cobra.
And I
just, for some reason in this movie,
it's just Cobra.
And he's partnered with fucking
Gonzalez, who
has a revolver.
I know. He didn't have, that's all he
had. I mean, a revolver.
and junk food throughout this movie.
That's all he had.
We'll get to though.
I loved all that little reaction when they were talking about food.
But yeah, he's out there with his little pea shooter and there's like a whole army out there with shotguns.
And did he even have machine guns or was it just Cobra?
It seemed like pistols and shotguns for the new world.
And of course his custom little.
machine gun that he put together that he was waiting up all night ready to use i think he was the only
one that had a machine gun so as he's just just wasting bullets in every direction there was one dude
there was a sniper uh he had a rifle because he was uh he had a cobra in the sights and he just
wasn't a good shot because he kept missing him but uh they ended up after they're shooting there
guys are flying off the motorcycles and bodies laying everywhere i don't know how many uh
a bad guy showed up man but there was a whole army of them so because cobra jumps in the back of
his truck uh ingrid punches it and he's like just she's flying down the road and oh man it just
made me just a hater i i've never been in this kind of situation where people are chasing me
or anything but if that does ever happen which i hope it never does happen i've seen enough
movies to at least kind of keep it
under somewhat control
with these movies and it's not
just this and there's a lot of other movies
and I'm not just saying because she's a woman driver
but it seems like
in these films when the
women get behind the wheel and they're scared
which I understand
these guys are all trying to kill her
they just lose it
and can't drive good
they're hauling ass down the road
and she's just scared
what do I do and I'm like
well I mean
we can't rely on
Gonzalez because we didn't even mention he's already
taken out right now
well that's why he gets shot
yeah so again
Gonzalez is completely useless in this movie
he might have unloaded his gun maybe
because he took a few hits and he was laying
between those two buildings his six shots
because he took some
he took some shrapnel and he was just laying
there so they just assumed he was dead left him
you can do better Gonzalez
you could have
did it better.
So they're hauling ass down the road in the truck through the orchards.
Guys on bikes and everything,
it must have rained because the road was all wet.
And everyone wants to get shot,
they go sliding down the road.
So this thing,
this made me mad.
She kind of loses it and
Cobra goes flying off the,
out of the back of the bed,
and just does this nice tuck and roll
and jumps right.
I know, it starts gunning everyone down.
It's like, oh, shit.
I think this is when the sniper guy,
that sniper guy came back and started shooting at him,
still missing.
So they ran through that little patch of trees
and ended up in some big steel factor.
Yeah.
Did the stock get killed before they got there,
or when they were there?
No, she gets killed there right before Stallone and the Night Slasher have their showdown.
Does he shoot her?
Does he like get stabbed with something?
I don't remember.
I think she gets shot.
I think he shoots her.
Yeah, I think she got shot in the back because he was getting ready to shoot the night slasher.
She jumped in front of it and took some, a little submachine gun to the back or whatever he went.
Yeah. Yeah. And he also takes out the sniper guy who clearly should have never been the sniper guy because he can't hit anything. He gets lit on fire.
That's right. Yeah, he didn't hit nobody. He just, why are you the sniper guy?
He probably just, everybody was probably just grabbing guns and that's what he got.
so yeah this is when we get the the the final fight between the the the night slasher and
and cobra and i just loved all the the shit that he was saying to him telling him that
let me just play the clip i can't remember exactly what he said well anyway yeah so that's what
he said i mean just basically just yeah we're we're gonna take over there's there's millions of
us out there and we're going to kill
everybody and take you to hell
pig. I loved all
that. Everything, every sentence
he had pig.
Did you, did you think he was capable
of saying all this? Because they kind of made
it seem like he was
a little, I don't know how to put it
simple. Yeah. Because when he was
coming after her in the hospital
and he was all pretty hair, you know,
but now he's like giving
out this whole speech and everything.
What does it?
of the hunters we kill the weak so the strong survive you can't stop the new world
you're our filthy society will never get rid of people like us it's breathing them
we are the future no it was it was kind of strange yeah i liked it but it's kind of strange
yeah it was like he was like just the muscle and just kind of stupid and yeah then once once he
he's about to get down, he gives him this kicks down the knowledge on him.
I mean,
that,
but I mean,
especially here in 2020,
uh,
with all the craziness that's going on right now and all these.
So,
so called heroes with guns and everything running around that,
I mean,
his little speech kind of made sense.
Like there's,
there's people out there right now thinking that way.
We're going to take over.
We're going to kill everybody.
And it's going to be,
we're going to have our new world.
I mean, not to get political, but there's
a lot of these Yahoo's
out there that are thinking like this
right now in 2020.
And it's not, fuck that.
That ain't going to happen, everyone.
So, but yeah, I mean, that,
I mean, again, hearing that speech a million
times after I've seen this, but
listening to it today
and thinking like, fuck, man, that's
happening right now.
Some of you might not think so.
But, yeah,
think about it, man.
Of all the shit that's going down right now, man, it's crazy.
But yeah, I did like that speech of what he was saying.
And then they had, oh, he pulled out a, um,
shit, I'm thinking a mission impossible.
But, uh, did he hit him with some pipes when they,
when they started fighting?
Yeah, they had a whole big throw down here because, uh,
night slasher had his, uh, of course,
he had his knife.
Did he ever cut him at all?
I think he did.
I think he did.
It was a pretty basic fight,
but the finale is
what I always remember
from this movie, because
it looked painful as hell.
I was glad that he didn't,
Stallone didn't throw in some stupid one-liner
at the end, like,
take a hike or something stupid like that.
but yeah man that was pretty brutal man after that big huge fight of both of them just getting the
shit kicked out of each other uh luckily that big giant hook just happened to be coming by
uh at the perfect time at the right time because uh stalone picks up the night slasher
uh does like a texas chainsaw massacre move and slams him onto that hook and uh you dad this
even this stunt i don't know if it was a real stunt guy or anything but uh brian thompson when he was on
there because that hook stabbed him through the back.
And his voice is like really deep and just scary sounding.
So is he still calling him a pig while he's on the hook?
I don't remember.
I just remember him screaming.
Oh, ha!
And just however in his deep voice.
But then he goes slowly.
And that hook is moving everyone.
And for those you didn't see this film.
Because it goes slow.
It goes into the fire, doesn't it?
yeah and to the furnace
and he gets burned alive
yep so
he's dead we go back out
we go back to the motel
I assume they walked well I guess their truck
they probably walk back to the truck
and go back to the motel
and we see Gonzalez is still alive
he's getting
he's getting put into the ambulance
and he goes all right man is there anything
I can get you and goes yeah I can kill
for some gummy bears
This fool was just eating crap, crap, crap.
I love eating crap too, everyone.
Not literal crap, but stuff that's not good for your body, like candy and twinkies and shit like that.
But that's all he ate through the whole thing.
The part that made me laugh dealing with their food, the movie's over by now, everyone.
They have happily ever after they go riding off in the sunset on one of the...
He punches Monty.
That's right.
He gives him a good one.
He comes up, yeah, you did it, you did it.
No, I would have probably done better or whatever they don't say.
Then he ends up clocking him and.
Which the captain's right there.
And the only thing he has to say is, do you need a ride?
They didn't know I got my...
Nobody.
Yeah, nobody cares about Monty.
No, he's just basically just standing there all days.
He didn't fall down because he was still holding.
He held him up and knocked him.
I assume just knocked him in the jaw because he had glasses on and they weren't broken.
They get on one of the New World guys' bike and goes riding off into the sunset.
I don't know how far they are from L.A. and it's December and whatever part of California they're in.
I'm sure it's cold, and all he had was his little shirt on, and she didn't have a jacket or anything either, but it's a movie.
But the part that made me laugh with the food is when they were in the hospital.
that first time after they're done talking with her
and then they kind of look at her food that she kind of just picked over
and he goes oh you hungry you want something uh here
try this it's something that looks like cheese and they go oh there's cake over there
and they go oh wait a minute you're done with this right and she's like yeah
and then they just start eating the shit that she was eating
i'm like either the LAPD doesn't pay them well enough
but shit and I don't know if I'd be eating somebody's leftover food
in hospital.
Well, I mean,
I mean,
Cobra's got to eat.
I mean,
the only thing we've seen him eat was
a frozen piece of pizza.
But this guy,
Gonzales,
though,
man,
even at the rest of,
he comes out with cakes
and cookies and soda.
Oh,
man,
Gonzalez.
But,
yeah,
that's Cobra,
everyone.
This movie is awesome.
Rating.
I am going to give it a
I can't give it a 10
Maybe the little Niz and 86 would have gave it a 10
But I got to go with a 8.5
Yeah
I absolutely love this movie
This is
We'll probably go through some more Stallone
We'll definitely go through some more Stallone movies
But this is up there with me
I'm gonna give it a nine
It loses a little bit
just for the little nitpicks and it loses a little extra because of
I've never realized how much I've hated Gonzales until this rewired.
There was other Stallone films before this one that definitely tens and I'm sure we'll get to those as well.
And there's a couple, there's a couple tens after this one.
But yeah, I think this.
I'm sorry.
No, go ahead.
I was going to say one quick thing I wanted to.
ask you about that I found I was trying to look up some news because I thought I had heard
something about this. Stallone is planning on remaking this movie into neither a, from what I
understand, if it becomes the movie, it's going to be, it's going to play off the original one,
or they just might remake the whole thing into a series. And I guess Robert Rodriguez is
possibly involved in it somehow.
is Stallone's going to be Cobra again or are they going to get someone else?
He's involved.
I don't see how you're involved and not.
I mean,
he's still playing Rocky and Rambo.
So I don't see why he can't still be Marion Cobretti.
If this is further adventures of Marion Cobretti.
Okay.
But if it's like a complete remake,
I always go to Frank Brutti.
grillo because he's got that
tough badass look that he
could do it but
if it's like a series
yeah I think it would be more of
of uh
alone but
if it if they do a remake
then please
sly if you're listening
give us some more explanation on what this cult
new world order or whatever it is
who they were don't just
tease us with a little
montages and we don't know who the hell those guys are but um and if they have the zombie squad in
there they they they have to do better make them badass the whole squad yeah you better have a bunch
of them like have uh uh thor uh frank grillo um i don't know who else is badass i don't know
i mean have or even have that whole crew that he had in uh uh uh was it rambo
four remember when they were in burma oh when they went yeah yeah yeah all who yeah that could work
all those guys man that was a badass crew he needed them in the next film but uh he's rambo he did it all
by himself but um true i guess we're gonna have to tackle those as well
but uh one definitely we should tackle is uh i know you guys did it already but uh i think we need
to do it here is tango and cash
I love that film.
So we'll,
maybe we'll do a buddy cop thing, uh, with one.
But, uh,
anything else before we move on?
No,
that was it.
That was the only thing.
Cause I remember hearing something about him doing something with this,
uh,
with Cobra.
So I just wanted to touch on that real quick.
Well, that's news to me.
So I mean,
I'm all for it.
Uh,
we'll see.
Yeah.
And this,
uh,
this news came out last year.
So,
not that long ago.
All right.
Cool.
Oh, honey, you don't want to pull that shit on Action Jackson.
This is Action Jackson.
This is going to be easier that's off.
How could you deep, you motherfucking?
Oh, very good.
You're right your own material?
Your ass is mine.
All right, everybody.
We're back with the 1988 action comedy,
shoot-em-up explosion
extravaganza
and that is
Action Jackson
Jackson
What do you want from me?
I want you to die
When there's trouble
He's got a trouble
There's no trouble
You can't keep this cop
Out of the action
I don't call you action
Anywhere
Carl Weathers is
Action Jackson, rated R.
Starts Friday.
Check newspapers with theaters and showtimes.
All right.
Due to the use of excessive force
in arresting a sexual predator,
Detective, Lieutenant Jericho Jackson.
Action Jackson.
Carl Weathers is demoted to police sergeant.
What's worse, the father of the man who roughed up,
he roughed up Detroit,
industrialist Peter Delaple Plain, Craig T. Nelson,
declares war on Jackson
claiming him for the murder of his own
wife, Patrice, Sharon Stone,
but Jericho manages
to allude arrest
and with the help of a drug-addictic
a drug-addictic singer
named Sidney
Vanity.
Goes after Delaplein.
I didn't like
the
AMD
Synopsis, so I just went with another one.
not found, but
Axon Jackson.
This stars,
said a few people already.
Carl Weathers,
Craig T. Nelson,
Vanity.
Is it Denise Matthews?
Is it Denise Williams?
I can't remember her real name,
but either way,
vanity, rest in peace.
Very young Sharon Stone,
Biff himself,
Thomas F. Wilson,
got Bill Duke,
Robert.
Is it Davey,
Davy
Davy
Davy
Jack
Ebo
I think that's
Abeo I think that's
Abeo
I think that's
his name
Roger Aaron
Brown
Mary Ellen
Trainer
Edel Ross
and peace
yes
this is just
one of the side guys
he's a stunt guy
named Bob Minor
we also got
Brian Libby
and
Al Leong
and a
billion
other guys
that's in
this for all of you 80s kids
everyone you'll see in this movie
you've seen him in something
he was an evil henchman
there's some guys from Predator
in this there's some guys from lethal weapon
there's some guys from diehard in this as well
due to one of the Joel Silver
he was the producer of this film
we also got
Chino Fats Williams
he plays a kid Sable
he's probably my favorite in the whole film
and we also get
Sunny Landem
rest in peace
he plays a drug dealer
and Mr. Quick
and again
there's a billion other people
in this film
I mean you can't
pretty much everyone that comes on
on the screen
you'll know
oh even what's his name
Juana man
Miguel Nunez
yeah him
what was his name
in return of living dead
all I remember is trash
I don't remember his name in it
but he's in here
you want a man that's I've seen it once
I don't remember but
you only need to see it once
but when I see his face
he's spider yeah
he's also
um
in Friday 13th part 5
uh demons
that was his name. I liked him in that.
He had a short role in that film.
You guys haven't seen Friday 13th part of five
New Beginning. Definitely check that out.
Shout out to the
other guys in the horror returns
when they did. What was Lance
and I? We did an interview with
Deborah Voorhees.
Somewhere back in the
archive, check it out.
All right, this was directed by Craig R.
Baxley. I believe
he directed
I think it was
I Come in Peace
as well as
I think one of the Turtles films
I want to say it was Turtles 2
Secret of the Ouse
I haven't seen those films
in a long time
he did
yeah
see
this is
we'll get back to Action Jackson
in a second
you guys know how we go
I rest or I come in peace
have you seen that one
with Dolph Lungwin
yeah
yeah it was in by
it went by
a different name like dark angel or something like that see i saw when it was i come in peace i don't
know where dark angel came from but all right uh he also directed a stone cold with uh brian
bosworth how we got to put that on the schedule yes because i do not remember that i've seen
it uh mike and i saw and i did not remember that film at all i remember um what's his name was
in Atlanta, Lance Henrickson.
Was he the bad guy in that one?
I think so.
Yeah, but all right.
Action Jackson.
This is a film that I saw in the theater.
I do not remember what we saw when like that first weekend that came out.
Huge Carl Weathers fans and it was finally good to see him be the main star to something
because a lot of the films that he's been in up to this point,
he was either more like the co-star.
A lot of people know him as.
the King of Steing
Apollo Creed
from the Rocky films
They were
Chubs and how big Gilmore
Yeah
And a ton of other things
He's also
In The Mandalorian
Which is coming out
Next month, October 30th
Season 2
He's also in that
Good to see him in that
But Action Jackson
We went and seen this
I think the last time I saw this is when I first seen it.
Well, I might have seen bits and pieces when it was on cable,
but all the way through other than this time right now
is when I saw it in the theater.
And I remember not being that much of a fan of it.
I was like, eh, it was okay.
We got to see Vanity Topless.
So that was a plus.
But I just did not remember this film at all.
The only scene I really remember was when I remember the vanity word, what's her name, Sidney Ash.
She was a drug addict and I remember her going to see the Sunny Landham, Dr. Quick or whatever his name was, Mr. Quick.
I remember that scene and that was it.
I do not know, remember the story or anything else.
I even totally forgot Sharon Stone was in this.
And I guess I should have looked at the poster because she's right there on.
but uh watching this now the uh 20 20 nez i loved it it's goofy
he i'm glad he didn't go overboard with the one-liners he started to but didn't it didn't get
too bad but um for what this film is if you just want just senseless action and shoot
them up violence and everything. This
is the film for you because
this watch, this rewatch
man, I loved it. I just thought it
was awesome. This isn't
on Blu-ray yet, is it?
Not that I can find.
All right, because I guess I
have, but see, I'm
one of those guys if I buy it on DVD
the next day it'll come out on Blu-ray.
That always happens,
always. Yeah.
What was this on? Stars or
I don't remember. Yeah. And, and
And I feel you on that one because I just purchased the entire Rambo franchise on the, what is it, the Ultra HD, Blue Ray disc.
And, and, no, I, I bought the, the, the single ones.
What do you call them?
The, what's the, what's the one about Blu-ray?
The 4K.
Yeah.
Whatever, there's some letters after it.
I don't know.
Yeah, I bought all those because they were all.
on sale on Amazon and then they just announced that the entire franchise is going to get a
steelbook set which I know I'm going to probably end up buying that one too yeah I saw that
today because I saw that there was a 2001 Space Odyssey the steel book so I guess it was
only released over in the UK so because I didn't see it here but and then as I'm scrolling
along I see the Rambo one and I'm like I have all the
single ones as well so I'm like damn it whole all of them steelbook all right I just
just got to rebuy it man these yeah they see us coming and and it looks like they're
going to be individually steel book each movie into one little case oh okay I thought it was
like one giant steel book and then with all the movies in it yeah so
They get my money every time.
Yeah, they do.
They get us.
I mean, of course.
And of course, if this came out on Blu-ray, then it'll come out in a steelbook, and we'll have both versions of it.
But 1988 Action Jackson.
Again, I just loved this film.
I remember it not being that big of a blockbuster as they wanted it to be.
The budget was $7 million, but the box office.
It made its money back.
At least doubled it, $20.2 million.
So that was good.
Lory Mar film, I remember the logo when it pops up on the screen,
but I have not seen that in a long time.
But from what I understand, a quick little story on this film,
when Carl Wethers was filming Predator,
the producer, Joel Silver,
he was a huge fan of
black exploitation films
and he wanted to do one but he didn't
again I guess he just didn't
couldn't find the right project
so while they were sitting there in between takes
some predator
uh Joel silver and Carl Weathers came
up with the idea of hey I can just be a
a cop and we can do this
and do that and come up with the story
and Carl Weathers is the one that came up with
Action Jackson and Joel Silver
dug it all right we'll do it and this
is what we got. Again, I didn't really care for it in 88, but in 2020, I fucking love this film.
It was just hilarious. It was awesome to see, like I said, all these actors that you know.
And I mean, the story is good. If you sit there and think about it.
You got this corrupt businessman trying to take out all the union worker, the head of the unions.
The union was called, I think it was the AWA, the Auto Workers Alliance.
Della Plane, Craig T. Nelson's character.
He's just basically trying to smooge up with everybody and then slowly start taking them out.
And the story between Jackson and Della Plain, Jackson was the officer, well, he was a lieutenant at the time.
Two years before this story starts.
And he put away Della Plain's son into prison.
So there was a whole hoopla with that and actually got Jackson booted down, demoted to a sergeant.
So for two years, he's just been just pissed and always didn't want to get back at Della Plain,
but he knew he was doing dirty, doing dirty stuff.
So he wanted to bring him down.
So that was the story of them.
And then you got Delapleine trying to be basically the king of Detroit in the auto's workers union.
So he's slowly just taking out his competition as well as other people that get in the way.
So in between all that story, you've got all the violence and the action and everything and then in this film.
So that's pretty much the storyline.
Well, we'll break it down a little bit more in a second.
But what did you think of it on this rewatch?
Yeah, I have a confession.
When I was rewatching this, I realized I've never seen this movie all the way through
because there was so much that I would just, I neither just completely forgot it or I've never seen it.
Like some of the overtop action, just like you, I totally forgot Sharon Stone was in it, even though she's on the poster.
I don't remember Vanity getting naked because I sure as a young man would have remembered Vanity getting naked.
I will have to, I give a credit on her acting in this one.
Because her as a junkie, I don't know if she drew from actual,
because she had sobriety issues in real life.
I don't know if she drew from that, but like she was very believable.
And I enjoyed Craig T. Nelson as the villain.
It was just, it's a fantastic 80s action movie.
It's completely 80s because you got Herbie Hancock, does the music for
movie and it's just it's that over-the-top action that that you you remember as a kid watching
these these 80s movies and yeah I loved it loved the story love seeing all those 80s action
henchmen that that was in damn near every movie that came out you know they're they're all
here in some way or some way and yeah completely enjoyed this one
I wouldn't even call this a rewatch.
It just felt like I was watching this for the first time.
Yeah, I mean, it was just, when you said Action Jackson,
I was kind of like, did I bring this one up or did you?
I don't remember.
I would shoot all kinds of stuff to you.
I think I was going to, because we just did the Mission Impossible retrospective,
I was thinking about us doing a rocky one,
then I was like, no, let's, uh, let's kind of get some movies in before we jump into another franchise.
And I just kind of went with COBRA for Rocky and then Action Jackson for Apollo.
And I swore up and down. I watched this entire movie. But watching it, I just found out I, I've,
I've neither not seen this movie. I've not seen this movie all the way through.
Yeah, I mean, again, the only time I saw this all the way through was when I sat in the theater and watched it.
in 88.
And where I saw in the neighborhood that I live in,
the theater,
it's not a stereotype,
but it was a black movie theater.
So it was where,
it was black owned,
and that was pretty much the audience.
And for those of you that don't believe it,
because sometimes when I bring this stuff up to my friends,
you see a lot of it like,
it's kind of played out in movies.
where the people are talking back to the screen and whatnot.
That's not just in the movies.
If you guys never experienced it, that's all real.
I lived with it, and it was weird.
When I got older to go to theaters where everyone is quiet,
and I was like, wow.
And then I had been away from it for so long.
And then when I went back to the Bay Area one time,
when we went and seen like Hangover 3, I believe.
and it just took me back to the old days because there was a couple in there a couple guys and some gals that just kept spouting out stuff throughout the film which was hilarious because it was it was funny but um when i saw this uh it was friday night
everyone was pretty much keyed up and liquored up because you can hear the bottles and the cans are on around on the floor and you could smell the weed in the air that was that's what i loved about that theater the the owners or they just didn't
care or just maybe didn't want to get into no commotion, but I remember people smoking cigarettes
in there.
I remember smelling weed and alcohol all the time.
So everybody was having a good time in there.
And man, did they go off on this film?
They were just laughing and cheering and just all kinds of things.
Sometimes you couldn't even hear what was going on on the screen, but it was.
was it was a good time and it made me laugh and everything so this rewatch um i only just a little
bits that i remember it i yeah like i said i did not remember this story at all and my only
problem i had with this film i love craig t nelson coach i just couldn't buy it him as as
this big bad guy trying to be the the the king of the the auto detroit that's just why they had that
whole scene where he's training
with the one dude that
you've seen him
and I forgot the guy's name. He's
been in a whole bunch of movies. I think
his name was James Liu
and they're practicing
their martial arts and then of course
you know, Craig T. Nelson, he has to fuck him up
at the end to show the audience
show the moviegoers
that he's
equal to action Jackson.
You can
clearly see that once.
James
Lou
Yes
When you see him
Man his hair
Look glorious in this
But this young gentleman
Well at the time he was young
Pretty much
Anything to do with martial arts
In the 80s
This and
Allie Young were in
Both of them were in big trouble
In little China
And just stuff you've seen
Throughout
I remember seeing them
I'm looking at his IMDB.
I do remember James being in Kung Fu, T.J. Hooker.
He did big, low-age little China in 86.
Steel Justice.
That's a film I have not seen in a long time.
I don't have to dig that one up.
But this guy, he's been in just so many movies,
showdown in Little Tokyo, if you guys haven't seen that.
The American Ninja films, he was.
was in and it's just crazy on how much this guy has done and still working today.
He's a stunt man and he just pops in here and there.
But he's got a face that you've seen him before in something.
Again, a lot of these guys have.
So, I mean, that's what I, I think that was the main thing that I really loved about
this film.
Even if it was someone that just had maybe a line or maybe they were just,
standing there, you knew
who they were. Like, wow,
this is just, this,
the cast, at this time,
they were still coming up, but now
I mean, you know everybody
in this, you've seen them in something.
At least one or two of these guys have been
in some movie that you just love
and you watch over and over. So
I really loved a lot
of the actors in this,
but, I mean, the action
is there. Of course, when you
got a movie called Action Jackson, they got
throw it at you. And they really did
it. These are the days all
no CGI. This was all stunts
and explosions and gunshots
and everything in it. And the practical effects
it was mainly just during
the blood, if you got hit
with bullets, the bullet shots,
the bullet wounds. I thought those were cool
because they kind of little, they went for
it because when you got hit with a bullet, the blood did
it would just spilled out everywhere.
So I did. I did love
all that. But
again, the story in this one,
is Della Plain trying to take out all his competition
because in the very beginning of the film,
you got Ed O. Ross and Mary Allen Trainer.
They're part of the, what did I call that?
The AWA Auto Workers Alliance.
And they're just not playing ball with Della Plains.
So he hires this group of supernatural assassins.
I don't know.
They were kind of like ninjas because they would appear
and reappear it. It was crazy, but they called them the invisible men.
All those guys were cool because every single one of them, you know. Some of them were from
Die Hard and Brian Libby. I remember him. If you guys have seen Chuck Norris's Silent
Rage, amazing film, he's John Kirby in that. Plus he was, I think he was in heat as well.
But I mean, John Leby, he's been in a ton of things. He's got one of those faces. Oh, I know that
guy but you just don't know his name so they go in there they come busting through the window
like the swat team and just basically just take out well they blew up uh no no did how did
the the the secretary a marion and trainer get it did they shoot her or the he punched her and
she died well yeah yeah but i assume broke her nose and it shot up into her brain but i don't
know it was just one punch but uh edo ross they were just trying to give give a give a
leave a message to him and they basically blow him up and uh know that one dude with the crazy
grenade launcher blank door or gun or whatever shoots him out the window and uh that stunt
was amazing it it looked like some of it was just a dummy that they threw out but there
it was a stuntman on fire it goes crashing through a window so i like my hat
goes off to all those stunt guys that do stuff like this
so I thought that was awesome
so that's how the story
begins and then
I like the little
I can't remember the one character
he it was a black gentleman
I can't remember his name
he was the
little
I guess
crook guy that
kept getting into trouble
because Biff
and Biff
well everyone
just knows him as Biff.
Detective Biff.
Yeah, Biff.
And I think his name was
Officer Lack, Roger
Aaron Brown. Those two, they're just two
flat-foots, and they
see this young guy.
They're like, man, they know he's
about to do something bad, so they
basically chase him down and take him back to
the police station. But before they do that,
they're trying to scare him like, well, what are you guys
can do to me? You know, well, we're
going to lock you up, but maybe you're going to have a session.
with Action Jackson and I what and then Action Jackson he's got this citywide
what do you call it rumors basically what action Jackson does to all the bad guys
so they're just trying to scare him so and then what happens oh because that that
that guy get kind of gets away it gets loose in the police
station but yeah because uh biff uh best trying to to get a hand job or get something from from the
prostitute that's at the other desk and then she kicks him into nuts and uh that kid sees his
opportunity to run and then this just this just leads to a hilarious chase through the police
station and it all you needed was like some benny hill music to this because there everybody's just
falling down everywhere and then he just runs
into Sergeant
Jericho Action Jackson
spills coffee all over his paperwork
and then as soon as he realizes who it is
he just faints
I don't know what it is with the 80s and police
stations every time
they have these type
of films there's always hookers
in there
always
they're sitting there getting booked or I don't know
it's always
one big giant room with a million
desks. You got
some officers in the uniforms, the other guy
the detectives in their street clothes
and ties and cigarettes and coffee
and there's always hookers in there.
Yeah. Is it just me or
is there always one cop
that they know like really
well like by name?
There's always that. I mean
even like the lethal
weapon ones. They all knew
damn it
what was Mel's
no Gibson's name
uh
Martin Riggs
yeah
I was gonna say I was gonna say Marta
They all knew him
As well as
Detective Murtaul
They all knew
They all knew them
But
I don't know
No they were captains for a second
And the fourth one
Are we doing those
Yeah it's on schedule
All right well yeah
We'll get back to them
Yeah we got a very long schedule
But, yeah, back to the hookers.
Oh, yeah, Biff, they just come walking and he's trying to be cute.
And he goes, hey, how much for a hand job?
And she goes, well, what about a foot job?
And he's like, well, what's that?
And she kicks him in the balls.
And that's what starts off the melee.
And that little black kid just goes running away.
And all, yeah, man, if the Benny Hill music was there,
I mean, it would just made that scene more awesome.
We're finally introduced to Carl Weather's Action Jackson.
and there's again in these films there's always the hard-ass
uh captain of the force
and that is uh bill duke uh captain arm bruster bruster
however but he's the one that knows everything about action
he's the one that knows that he was demoted to sergeant
but uh jackson is he's just trying to just take down delapal
because they know there's some dirt.
But captain's like, just leave it alone.
And he goes, man, you almost took out of son.
You almost took his arm off.
Out of the one liners, this is the one I didn't.
I just thought it was stupid.
I do remember hearing this the first time going,
that's a kind of movie it's going to be because he goes,
yeah, you almost took his arm off.
And then Action Jackson goes, he's got a spare.
I was like, oh, really?
I mean, is that?
that all you can come up with?
I can't write nothing for shit anyone.
I'm just some guy that talks shit about movies,
but I was like,
ah, I mean, at this point in the 80s, late 80s,
we've already had the Arnold's and all those
with the one-liners and everything, so,
but that's what they tried to do with this one.
I'm glad, like I said,
I'm glad they didn't go overboard with them.
They threw in a couple.
I mean, just enough to get some chuckles,
but it wasn't like every other thing every other line from action Jackson was a was a one-liner so
I was like ah okay that's the time of film we're going with um so we're then we're introduced
to uh peter del plane uh Craig T Nelson and you just know he he's up to work I didn't like his silver
hair what did you think of that uh it didn't bother me I mean it clearly
Like you said, it clearly looked like a different person in the action scenes with the silver hair,
but it didn't really bother me that much.
I don't know.
I just didn't.
I don't know.
Well, at this point in his career, we had him as a dad in the polter guys films.
And I don't think Coach was on quite yet.
Was that in the 90s?
I think it came later in the 90s.
Okay.
So right now at this point, all I knew him as the dad and polter guys.
but so we kind of see
how what he's doing and he is talking about
just getting to
basically they were going to have a hoopla for
I believe it was the head of the
the auto workers union
our auto worker
workers alliance
it was his birthday coming up and they were going to try to
just basically grease him up
if he doesn't go along with a plan then we're going to
accent.
And I don't know about any of you,
any of you criminals out there listening
if you discuss your stuff
with your spouse,
but please tell your henchmen
and all the guys you're doing dirty work
to keep their mouths shut
and not just talk about anything anywhere.
I thought that was kind of dope.
I know I'm jumping ahead everyone,
but I'll get back to that.
But anyway, so we find
who Peter Delapleine is
and he's going to be speaking at one of the
the Union
banquets I guess
so
The captain tells Jackson
Well we need you to go there and just be a representative for the
Detroit Police Department
He's like he doesn't want to so he goes there and this is when we meet
Patrice Delaple playing Sharon Stone
I love Sharon Stone
Yeah, she's had the, she's had some bombs in her career, but this is the very young beginning of her, her career, I would say.
I don't know about 2020 Sharon Stone, but 1988, Sharon Stone, damn, she looked hot.
I don't know what, I don't know what it is, but the backless, the back, the back, the backless dresses are the ones that always get me, especially if you're in shape.
he's back there
Jackson's in the back
hanging out Dale planes on stage
talking about everyone
Kiss my ass
And I'm gonna run Detroit
And yeah
I'm for the
For the workers
Alliance
And he's sitting
And she's talking to him
And he doesn't know who she is
And she's like yeah
She goes oh you're not a fan of he
He's and he went nope
That's why I'm standing here in the back
And she's like
Ah well I guess you just got to get to know him
And then he finds out
that she is Peter Delapain's wife.
So he's like,
uh,
basically put his foot in his mouth.
Because,
uh,
Del plane,
all right,
and here's my wife,
Patrice.
And then she goes up.
So he's like,
fuck.
So they're sitting there.
And then,
uh,
they,
uh,
they,
uh,
they,
uh,
Jackson runs,
runs into Delplane.
And then he's just telling them,
just giving them dirty looks and telling them,
uh,
I would have took you down as well,
like your son.
But,
um,
who knows what.
what happened, probably something in the court
systems. So we
know that there's an animosity between
the both of them. Patrice
Sharon Stone's character, she doesn't
know anything about what's going on because she's
actually the
second wife for Peter
Delapleplaine. Because his first wife
they just said she
died, but we'll get back to her
later on in the story.
So
actions like, I know something's happening.
So he ends up going home.
He has a awesome little talk with,
if you guys remember the limo driver from Diehard,
a, is it Devereaux?
White.
He played Clovis in there.
He was the kid that drove his car.
Yeah.
I think his name is Devereux.
Oh, man, that kid, man, he's been in a ton of things as well.
but I liked him in
when he was the junkie and
not judgment night
um
South Central
no trespass
trespass okay with uh ice cube and ice tea
and uh death and Bill Paxston
what's death's name
um
from Bill and Ted
uh William Sadler
yeah him yeah he's in I love that movie
throw that on there somewhere
I love that one
so it's just a little quick little
meet up with him so again it was good to see him
pop up into this film
so
actions at home just kind of kicking back
he gets a phone call
on his answering machine
from Robert Davy
his character his name is Tony Morrety
and he's basically telling him
um
well the his answer machine is
going but then there is a
um a story on
news talking about which we passed we'll get back to the minute but basically someone
they're bold that this there's one of the rich union guys his bolt blew up and they're
also talking about errol ross and mary mary allen trainer of their characters
stringer and they just name her as secretary they're talking about that that they had also
got killed or they in an explosion earlier this week and then there was another explosion on
his boat where one of the other union guys got uh they just said his boat blew up so they didn't
know why so he was mainly listening to the uh the story on on the news and you but you can hear
the answer machine in the background and uh tony moretti is telling him like jericho man come on you
you got to help me i mean i know what's going on with della playing but it's just kind of crossover stuff
between the cell, the cell phone, the answer machine and the TV so you can really kind of
got not really hear it, but he does say, give me a call or come see me. So he kind of just,
all right, whatever, he doesn't really think about it.
Let me go back a little bit because we jumped.
There was a scene where there was this one of these rich guys on a boat.
That guy, I see him in a ton of things. He was also important.
Poulter guys. His name is Michael
McManus. He
played
he played
he played
Grantham.
Another union guy.
He's one of those rich dudes on this
big old yacht.
He got this one of his
bodyguards, I guess, and the boat captain
kind of walking along talking about
trying to tell him stupid jokes.
Like what do you call a guy
but what's the guy's name hanging on the wall?
art and stupid shit like that.
And so
and then all of a sudden you hear
and then you see
the guy telling jokes has an arrow through him
and the captain's like, what the hell's going on?
And he turns around. And this is
when we see Brian Libby's character, his name
is Marlin. He's got one of those butterfly
knives and throws it at
him and stabs him and they go fall into the water.
So they're like, what the hell's going on?
So,
Grantham's in his office
on the boat talking
to someone else about more
union stuff and basically tell
bad mouth and Della plane and all that
so they come in, they look at
him. What did they do to him before
he bulls up? They shoot him
or stab him or?
I think they, I want to say they shot him.
If they did, if they shot him or stabbed him, I don't remember
but it was like
he basically fell on the ground because
they walk over with a little
suitcase they open it up and you can there's a basically a suitcase full of C4 and the timer is like
almost to zero so at this point they handcuffed him to it and like to the wall or something so there
was no way you can get away or throw it away so he's like ah then the boat blows up as the
boat blows up i don't know how fast these invisible men were but they were pretty far away
within seconds before that bolt blew up because they show them i think it was like about five
of them in a boat looking back as the boat blows up so that was the story the news story that
uh the action jackson was listening to so after that police uh or after the he finds out and
everything he goes uh jackson goes back to work and he's finally just trying to figure out well
what's happening and uh someone says hey man uh your friend called and like who and so he ends up calling
him back and it was um tony merri and he's like dude you guys
You got to come see me, man.
I got some information for you.
So he goes over to see him.
And then when he gets there,
Tony Moretti is just like scared to death.
He looks like shit and he's sweating and don't look like he's even slept in days because he knows something is going to happen to him once.
He really doesn't say what Della Plain's plan is because he does find out.
but Action Jackson
I'm like do you need to calm down bro just
I'm gonna go do this and then I'll be back
And he's like all right
So as he's leaving
We see a black guy
That's Bob Minor
His name is Gamble
He's dressed up like as a UPS
Delivery man
He goes in there and he knocks on the door
I'm ready he answers it
And he goes on I got a package for you
And then he goes oh okay
And then he gets blasted with them
doesn't he have a one-liner it says like COD or cash on delivery or something
I remember him saying that but what was the I think that that does he said I don't
know I think he because he was a delivery guy I think he says like COD or cash on
delivery right before he shoots him yeah I don't remember the whatever he's I
remember the COD part but I don't remember the buildup to that but then he
shoots him and then did he blow up no
no he just shot him and then rolled out yeah and then later uh they talk about his condition
and the the coroner's office saying if he wouldn't have been shot he probably would have been
he probably would have died anyways from the the lack of sleep and malnourished uh that basically
they were just explaining how how his condition was before he got shot yeah so he's kind
I'm like, oh, fuck, well, he knew something, and we don't know, because they were trying to say, well, the police were saying, well, it was suicide because he shot himself.
And Jackson was like, well, this is, I don't know, guns and bullets, but he was basically, the bullets didn't match the kind of gun that he had, because he had, like, a revolver.
I want to say a 38, because they show him holding it.
and they go but the bullets were like nine millimeters or something like that so he goes that that wasn't his gun he
and why did he shoot himself in the chest so that that's how movies go he's but there's always that one
friend that it doesn't believe that their friend killed themselves so um okay so he knows he
kind of has this feeling that del plane is behind it um so but then we're introduced this is when we're
introduced to uh sidney ash uh vanity's
character. Peter
Delapleine goes to watch
her. He's just
basically his side chick, some little
junkie heroin addict
that's trying to be a singer.
Well, she is a singer. But he promises
her the world saying that, oh, I know people
in Motown Records,
they'll sign you, but
here, suck on this
before I give them the call.
Is that like his thing in the movie
that he has to get her like super high before they do anything?
I don't think he needed to, but I think as a junkie, that she knew he has it.
He's got the good stuff.
So I think at that point, junkies will do whatever you want, when you want and everything.
But I've been a fan of Vanity Six with all her songs.
and when we did, not double dragon, the last dragon,
I liked her songs in that, but this song and this one was,
I mean, you heard it at the beginning of this,
everyone, it was playing in the background,
but the chorus, can you kiss me, baby undress me?
I was like, 80s songs, boys and girls.
I mean, you either love them or hate them.
But I don't know who wrote these songs, but I just laughed.
There's another song that it's playing later in this,
with the Pointer Sisters.
No, I think that was the song in the very beginning of the film, I think.
I remember is something about He Turned Me Out.
I'm like, damn, man, that's pretty straightforward in these songs.
The video for that for He Turned Me, I think it's called He Turned Me Out,
the video with the Pointer Sisters and Action Jackson and Vanity.
and it's crazy
but 80 songs everyone
you gotta love him
but anyway Vanity's up there singing and performing
Dale playing sitting there getting his dick
getting all hardy because he knows he's going to tax him
in a few minutes
but so
this is when she goes backstage
and we're introduced to her bodyguard
this big black gentleman named Ed
which I loved I thought he was awesome
in this
so he's just telling her
what she wants to hear about the Motown
guy and all that and you know but I know what you want and um I don't know I guess it was kind of more
of an upscale club because it didn't look all seedy or anything so but I guess when you're the
star you got to have a bed in your dressing room so oh yeah they go in there lay down she
undresses and uh we see the the fun bags and everything and um I know nothing of
about shooting up heroin.
The only stuff I've known is
from movies.
And I think you need to
inject it into a vein,
not just stab it into your legs.
I was like, okay.
And I love
the Vig Vega
syringe that he had
because Vig Vig Vega from Pulp Fiction,
he had that little fancy one.
But this one was like extra fancy. It was already
loaded up, needleed up, and
everything. It was a giant syringe too.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that much with a killed her, but it's a movie.
Because he just, he just pumped it into her leg and then one thing later than another.
I don't know what heroin does to you, but I don't know.
They didn't get that far. It fades to black.
So that's who we're introduced to.
Oh, it goes.
to,
uh,
uh,
uh,
De La Plain
after he's done
taxing it.
He goes home.
Sharon Stone's there and,
uh,
he's like,
oh yeah,
I just had a rough day at the office and da,
but the next day,
uh,
this is,
um,
he's got to go to,
he's getting ready to go to work.
Sharon Stone kind of gets out of the shower.
Uh,
and she,
she got naked during this film too,
but,
um,
she overhears,
uh,
one of,
uh,
Delaplepline's,
uh,
evil henchmen
I assume talking to
another henchman
and telling them
what they were going to do
to
I think it was the guy
that they were going
to throw the party
for later on
one of the other
union
high ups
in the union
telling them
what they were going to do
because he's not playing
he's not playing ball
with them
uh
god dang it
what's his name
um
he was Bruno
in Swamp Thing
oh Nicholas Worth
he played
uh
I think it was Carter in this.
He's on the phone talking.
Sharon Stone,
and she overhears what's happening.
So she's kind of like,
oh, no.
So she runs to tell her husband,
but he's getting ready to leave.
And he's like,
he knows what he's doing,
but he's acting like,
what?
Maybe you heard wrong.
And he's like,
no,
no,
they're going to do something.
And I don't know
if they're going to try to hurt you
and all this.
And he's like,
well,
I can't do that right now.
I got to go.
I got to go.
So she's all worried and scared.
So he's like,
Oh, fuck.
So he's like, all right, well, I will deal with that later on.
So he kind of just drives off.
Jackson, he, Jericho, Action Jackson, he was going to go to Dell plane and talk to him
because he knows that he's a part of this Workers' Alliance deal.
So he was going to try to see what he knew about the deaths of the two guys that, one,
they got blown up and thrown out his window and the other guy's bull blow up.
So he wanted to go there to investigate.
gate and astell playing what he knew but uh he was gone but uh sharonstone well um i'm gonna
go somewhere downtown or whatever and he was well here i'll give you a ride and like
granted this is the second time she met this guy so she's like all right cool she knows he's a
police officer so she jumps in and then she ends up just um i guess soon didn't take her
where she needed to go because they ended up in that little uh that little restaurant bar
And then this is when she's just kind of spilling the beans on what she heard.
He doesn't tell her anything of,
because obviously he knows that she's not a part of all this dirty work.
So he's just trying to, well, all right, I'll see what I can do.
All right, let's get out of here.
Because you could clearly see she's scared.
Mainly she was worried about her husband.
She didn't want him to be hurt.
And this is a scene that is in the trailer because she's like,
oh, I want to ask you something.
Why do they call you action?
But right before she says that, says that you see this yellow taxi in the background
come speeding up top speed.
And that's what she goes.
Why does they call you action?
And then he grabs her and they go flipping over the car.
And then he's like, where are you going?
I got to catch a cab or some stupid one liner like that.
Yeah, he did not have the best one liners throughout this movie.
I don't think they were focusing on the one-liners
I mean nothing against his delivery and his acting
but yeah it's they just weren't good one-liners for him
there was this like obvious stuff to say
just because I gotta catch a cab
all right
so but I did love the seed
I just love it when they do these kind of
someone's in a car and the other guy's on foot
running after
we just had a million
a marathon with a Mission Impossible
with Ethan running everywhere
but
Carl Weathers is a much bigger gentleman
than Tom Cruise
he's all ripped up and everything so
but he did haul ass
we did see him hauling ass in Rocky 3
but we'll get that later on
in the future episodes
but yet when he goes
running and
there's always traffic in these
big cities so okay
you can probably catch this cab
if you're running after it but
all right but he goes and running
and jumps and lands on top
but I did like this one liner he was like
okay I guess this wasn't a good idea because
this guy is
what's his name is driving at
the one of the Gamble
Bob Minor
the black gentleman
and he's a hauling ass around every corner and everything and while action Jackson is hanging on to the top
and uh i always love when they do this in films too when the bad guys just pull out their guns and just
just start firing shooting bullets to the roof and they never hit whoever is on the roof
how did he crash i don't even remember um well he he hits the brakes uh jackson flies off
and this is probably one of my favorite scenes in the movie
how he's just yelling at the dude to just like put the gun down and come at me like a man
and the the guy puts the gun down and he just floors it straight towards Jackson
and then he does a full flip over the car and then of course the guy's like trying to you know
looking back because he's he's amazed too that this guy just flipped over the car and then he goes
crashing into a building flipping and somehow he survives because
Because when Jackson goes and checks the car, he's gone.
But, yeah, that flip over the car was amazing.
Yeah, it was.
I was like a perfect 10.
But right before all that whole, that yelling and screaming at him,
when he was on the top of the taxi cab, is how he fell off.
He was like, all right, I've had enough.
Or something to that.
And he just, like, basically just, he, like, pounds the wind
and it all falls out.
I don't know if you guys have ever punched or hit a windshield,
but I don't care how strong you are.
The whole thing isn't going to fall apart when you do that.
But hey, it's Jackson Jackson.
So then all that.
But yeah, dude, that flip.
Oh, man.
I actually watched this twice because I enjoyed it that much.
That flip, man.
he just, you clearly see it wasn't him.
He like took two steps and leaped.
It just flipped.
Perfect form.
Everything.
That lands and then that car crashes.
The most amazing crash to just flipping all through the air into the building,
which that building really wasn't made of nothing sturdy either because the roof just collapses.
And yeah,
amazingly this guy is just gone he's not in the car yeah because after that car other than it's like
they did like um a team always did these with the car crashes when when the cars would hit it always
flipped it would hit one thing spin in the air come down on the top so that's exactly what
happened here yeah then either that guy had a tough really strong seat belt but these are the days
of the just lap belts i don't i don't think there was a shoulder strap at this point i don't
I could be wrong.
I don't know what kind of car was,
but he is gone.
Oh,
oh, we go back to the Delplane
Mansion.
Sharon Stone is there,
and she is just scared
because somebody just tried to run her over
and Jackson over,
so she's telling her,
oh, this happened, that happened.
And he's like,
well, what did you tell her,
or tell him?
And she goes, well, I told him
what, uh, Bruno, his name was it Bruno.
Um, it was like Craig or Carter, uh, what, what he said.
And he was like, oh, okay.
But I think at this point when, uh, Della plane knew earlier, earlier in the day when
she was trying to tell him something, I think he knew what he had to do.
Because when Delapain got home, uh, Carter was downstairs and, and here you go.
It's all nice and clean.
He gave him his gun.
And then he goes upstairs to talk to his wife.
And he found out what she told Jackson.
So like any good bad guy trying to take over the city, he's got to take out to everyone that knows too much.
So he blasted her in the chest.
Well, I guess he did.
He took it out already.
He beat it up when he came home after he wrecked vanity.
But yeah, so she ends up dead.
after she died where did
where did it go
oh um
uh i think this is when
Jackson goes looking for vanity
oh yeah that's right
because he went he went back to
uh wherever she was playing
and uh he had watched her and i think this
when she was singing some other crazy song
uh from this film
but
i didn't like that song as much as the first one
the can you kiss me one.
So he sits there watching it
and then he sees her and he tries to go
backstage and we're
introduced to Ed again
and he's like, oh, I just want to meet her and he's
like, I don't think that's going to happen.
And he's like, well
and he like hit him a couple
time, no, he hit him once and
he's, I advise you not to do that again.
And he goes, well, what do you do? You probably
put me through that wall. Big Ed's like,
no, that goes against my Muslim
beliefs. And he's like, oh, okay.
And then he kind of steps back.
Call Wellers was a, was he a running back for the Raiders?
Let me double check that.
I think he was.
I remember when he was playing,
when he played for the Raiders way back in the day.
Yeah.
Oakland Raiders,
he was a,
believe he was a running back.
Linebacker.
Linebacker.
Yeah.
So he takes,
takes his stance and charges.
Ed is a big gentleman.
He said he weighed 275 pounds.
He was tall and he was a big dude.
So he goes crash.
They go, he hits him.
They go crashing through the vanity or Sydney Ash's door.
She's already loaded up.
She injected herself.
So she's like just tripping out basically because she's not making any sense.
And then he's like, all right, well, we got to go because I think you're in danger.
Did she know what was going on?
Or were they just going to?
No, I took it as she thought Dave was about to go fuck or something.
Because he kept saying, I'm going to take you somewhere.
And I think she thought it was somewhere not, I don't know.
Because she just kept, every time he took her someplace, she just kept referring to him as a square.
This isn't fun.
And of course, you know, he's not even listening to none of that.
Because, yeah, because he does tell him, look, I mean, you got to.
you got to come with me because I need to protect you because I don't know what you know,
but I know you're banging Della plane.
So, come on.
So she's like, all drugged out.
She don't know what's happening.
So she basically thinks that they're going to go fuck somewhere.
So she's like, oh, yeah.
And oh, we need to go back because my, no, no, no, that's later on.
But anyway, see, like, well, let's go.
So they go driving and they went to, they were going to go to or they basically got
to Jackson's, uh,
apartment, but he sees all these cops and everybody in there, or like cop cars outside,
and they don't really know what's going on, but then he listens to the radio, and he finds out
that they find the dead body of Patrice Della Plain.
Her body is inside Jackson's apartment, so, and they see that she's got bullet holes in her chest,
and she's laying her naked.
So they say, oh, Jackson killed her.
I mean, and now we need to find him.
I don't know what kind of police were.
I assume let's ask him questions first, but they just assume, yeah, he killed her and we got to find him now.
Of course.
Yeah, we got a black cop on the run because he killed some white woman in his apartment.
No questions asking why or if he did it.
They just assume he did it.
I say it's everyone.
And I'm sure they would do that today in 2020.
Anyway, so they go, well, let's go back to your apartment.
And she goes, all right, his party's picking up and something stupid shit like that.
So they end up going to her house and he's like, he tries to go turn on lights and everything.
He's like, no, no, no, just leave everything off and don't answer the phone.
She's like, why?
What's the matter?
Because at this point, she doesn't really know what's happening, why he's with her.
And she knows nothing of Delapleyn's business because he did it right, just kept his mouth shut about what he did.
Just went over there, used her for her body.
And so she knows nothing.
but Jackson didn't know he just I think she knew something because she was banging
uh,
del plane.
So he's like no,
no,
don't touch anything,
but she goes over and touches the answer machine and then they're like,
ah,
and then that blows up.
Um,
did the invisible men come in?
Yeah,
I think so.
If I remember,
and right,
I think they came as they were leaving.
Did,
so there was no fighting.
Because I know there was an explosion,
but then they,
they didn't fight or anything while they weren't?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, so they just got out.
Yeah, and this is when they go to his friend,
his friend's little hotel,
Kid Sable.
Yeah, Chino Fats Williams.
If you guys remember him from Weird Science,
he was one of the dudes in the bar,
kind of in the beginning.
Plus, he was the truck driver,
the dump driver, dump truck driver,
in the beginning of Terminator.
But again, if you've seen known who this guy is, he's been in a ton of movies.
But those are the only films that come to my mind.
He was also in a house party.
Yeah, uh, Roadhouse.
He's, he's, if you heard his voice, you'll, you'll remember him and everything he's in.
So we get an awesome little, uh, get together because they're like, hey, we've seen
uh, Detroit's favorite son in a long time.
And, uh, they're just kind of laughing around.
And I love the, uh,
what did they say to each other?
Oh, right before they get it, like, oh, man, you're old son of bitch.
He goes, if the force don't fade, wait, the force may fade, but the reflex never dies.
Because Kid Sable is a old retired boxer from Detroit.
Because when they introduce him, he goes, yes, when he introduces Kid Sable to Vandy, he goes,
there's two favorite people that came out of Detroit.
We got Joe, was it Joe, yeah, was Joe Lewis and Kid Sable?
And then she goes, oh, nice to meet you, Mr. Lewis.
And then he's like, don't look like we got a boxing fan, do we?
So he's like, yeah, I need a room.
And he goes, all right.
He goes, yeah, we got to breakfast in the morning.
So we'll let you know.
So this time she is already starting to Jones for her fix because she's kind of like just being all fidgety and everything.
But he's like, ah, he goes, all right, you'll be all right.
Just come on.
let's go.
Because he did tell
a kid,
Sable was like,
he got any,
um,
any,
uh,
any, uh,
guys in this,
uh,
because she's,
uh,
he's,
she likes candy.
And he goes,
uh,
no,
I run a respectable business.
And then so,
all right,
whatever.
So he goes up there and,
basically just trying to crash there for the night because
they're on the run.
Um,
but she was still straight up.
Even if she was strung out,
she still wanted,
uh,
he still wanted to get down.
She wanted him to live up to his name.
Uh,
She was throwing it at him
Still really don't know who he is, but she was throwing it at him the whole time
Yeah again. I mean I've been around junkies and it's it's all they don't care
You could be the
The the nerdiest guy on the block and if you got what they want
Not what's hanging but money and drugs. They'll do it for you but anyway
I never took part in any of that everyone but I've seen it
anyway.
So,
I assume she just
tuffed it through the night
because then the next day
they kind of wake up
and he comes out of the shower
and someone knocks on the door
bringing breakfast
and it's the little young black gentleman
from the beginning of the film
that got arrested
because he looks at him and he goes,
Action Jackson, and he starts shaking.
I love the thing,
Van he goes,
no action in here.
So he leaves her there, but where did he go?
Oh,
Go ahead.
Fuck, I can't remember.
He went somewhere.
He wanted to go check out some leads or something.
Oh, okay.
No, he went, is this the part?
I can't remember.
He goes to that bar and he wants to meet,
I can't remember, I can't remember the guy's name.
something that knew something about delaplein so he goes yeah yeah to go meet him uh but then he
finds out that uh that that the guy he's looking for uh the only thing part of him there is his balls
in a uh his balls little literally his balls are in a jar in this little cupboard in the back
of the bar but um he goes there and trying to figure it out and he's like well uh no he took no
he when he goes to that part he's that
bar he has vanity with him yeah
because I don't know where he left
but
yeah that's the part I'm missing
because he leaves and then when he comes back that's when
she's with Sunny Landum
trying to get a fit that's
after this because
they both go to that
bar and they're looking for that guy
but he's not there but he gets into it with them
because they're the I assume that's their turf
um they these guys that he
he gets into it of nothing to do with the story
but you got to throw some action in somewhere
so he goes in there asking
for so and so
and they're like well he ain't here
or no they open the door and show him
and they're like well what's this and
this is when he finds out that he's dead
and just his balls are in there because these guys
took it from him so this is when
Miguel A. Nunes
they just call him as pool room thug
he's in there
as well as
I can never get this guy's name
Brands,
Combie, Richmond.
Yeah, him.
Was he in Renegade?
Yeah, I think so.
He's in a lot of movies.
Yeah.
He's in Mortal Kombat.
They live,
hard to kill,
and a bunch of other things.
Yeah,
again,
he was in,
he was the Native American guy,
Nash Bridges,
as well as
Texel or Walker,
Texas Ranger.
Yeah,
he was in Renegade.
as well.
I guess he is Native American.
I thought he was an islander.
Native American, Native Hawaiian, French,
French, Polynesian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Okay.
Well, I guess he must have been riding the Native American actor
for all his worth because he was always
the native sidekick and a lot of these things.
But he's a good actor.
He's been in a ton of things.
He's in there.
Miguel A. Nunes.
And there was the bartender, the big black gentleman.
I don't even remember his name in it.
But they're in there.
Oh, I assume his name is Richard L. Duren.
Poolroom Thug three.
Okay.
Oh, the bartender was Charles Meshach.
Missack.
He's called him Pool Room Bartang.
under this so those those one two three four those four guys got him in the back and uh basically
they're getting ready to cut his balls off and i soon put him if not in that jar maybe in
another jar and stick it in the cupboard after they after they killed him um but this is when
vanity comes in and uh tells them that oh my brother's uh this is my brother and they're like
oh this is your brother and he goes yeah uh well he's crazy and he's uh he's real spiritual and
starts oh praise Jesus and da da da and it works yeah I mean first of all if I was one of
these pool hall of thugs out of dude I don't buy ain't buying this and cut his balls off but
did did they know her because it's almost like she came in here and she came in the room
and they were like do you know this guy like we're just going to go off or her word I assume so
either they call her show or they just know her as one of the neighborhood junkies I
don't know.
But I think if you saw someone like vanity, you would never forget her.
But anyway, especially at this time in her career.
So, but I loved Miguel A. Nunes.
He was just like, what you talk about, girl?
I just love how the only way I can say is when these black actors, the stereotypical stuff that they do in these films, they make them, I don't know what they tell them, act black.
something but you know when they do when they have these guys in the roles they tell me you need to be
i don't know what the director's telling be more street be more hood or whatever but they they have
to always pour it on so but uh it fit the roles for these guys and it was funny so but then they all
get into this huge uh uh fight i don't even remember how you took them out i just remember they were all
fighting and there was no gunfire in this one was it no he he took everybody out by hand because you know
he's action jackson so oh so this is basically just uh to kill time because it didn't really have
nothing to do with the story because when they leave and they get back to the hotel and they go well
what happened to you well i went looking for so-and-so he was telling us the kid's stable and he goes
he goes man i could have saved your time he goes his balls are in a jar in the bar in the back
oh it was something that he should have known but everyone else
in that neighborhood knew.
All right.
I think this is where I'm going to get lost now.
After that,
where'd they go?
I'm blacking out here.
We got the sunny landum scene coming up.
I don't know how we got there.
He's talking to Kid Sable and he goes,
well, here, I know someone you can talk to.
He's a go to the salon on the corner of
whatever, whatever, and speak to,
I want to say her name was,
was it Diane?
I'm trying to scroll through the,
through the,
I can't remember her name.
Is it D?
D. That one, okay, yeah, D.
Ghost talked to D at the,
whatever, whatever salon.
So he goes there.
I love this scene, and I love this,
this character, her name,
her real name is,
Armella McQueen. She plays D. She's like a hairdresser in the local salon.
All right. This is where I had it. It's a movie, everyone. I should be taking it easy.
But I got a big problem with this scene. I don't know who this D lady is, but she just seems like a nice young lady working as a hairdresser.
But she knew all the dirt that was going on in Detroit.
Because when he goes in there, all right, well, what do you know?
And she's got her music blasting in the background.
She's dancing and basically kind of rapping and telling him what he wanted to hear.
But she knew the dirt on everybody that was doing dirt in Detroit.
Is that all he said is, what do you know?
Yeah, because the kids say, well, yeah, go down there.
She'll tell you anything you want to know.
She knows everybody.
So that's what he went in there.
And then he said, what do you know about Delplane?
And this is where she just wins.
oh, he's
tried, he killed that this person.
He basically told, yeah, he killed those guys.
And, uh, but he didn't do it himself.
He hired these, this group of men from, uh, some, from one of his other partners, uh,
that he was dealing with that ended up dead.
And he goes, he hires, um, uh, the invisible man.
She goes, there's some kind of killer force that does all their dirty work for him.
So that's when we find out who, well, we've seen them already, but we find out what they're
called and they're called the invisible men.
And she tells them, she goes, yeah,
He had the guys that were working for him.
They had him kill their boss, and they also killed his, Delapaline's first wife,
because she was also finding out what was going on.
I think she was part of the situation, but she wasn't going along with her husband's plan,
so he had her bumped out, rubbed out, and then the Invisible Men did it,
and plus Delapain's original partner before all the dirty work started.
They killed him as well.
So he was like,
okay, now I know.
So he basically knows why Delapleine,
what he's trying to do,
who he killed,
all the people he murdered,
or had people murdered them.
And she always found,
yeah,
and he goes,
and the guy that they're having a party for tonight
or tomorrow night or whenever,
they're going to kill him.
And that was the guy that was like the head
of the auto workers union or alliance.
What was it,
what was it called?
a W.A, the
Auto Workers Alliance.
He was the head of that.
So he's like, okay, so now he
figures out, he knows why,
what's going on, he knows the plan, he knows
that for some reason she knew
he was going to
kill that guy
at the party.
Again, I don't know how she knew
all this, but
I don't know.
People talk at a
hair salon, I guess.
And they do.
I remember sitting.
and my friend's mom's
hair salon
when I was little
and we were just sitting there waiting
and they talk and talk
and tell everybody's business.
I assume
someone came in there
to get their hair did
and they just spilling
everyone's business out into the streets.
So that's how D knows.
Do you think she wanted to bang him?
Probably because
you know he's Jericho Jackson
Action Jackson.
I mean
Vanity still
Yeah vanity still wants to bang him
And she's not even sure who he is really
Yeah
So
We give a
Jackson goes back to the hotel
He goes up to the room
Finds out Sydney's not in there
He runs
This is when he runs back downstairs
And tells kids say
Well hey man you got any dealers
In this building
He's like man I run in respect
The real business
And he's like come on man
He goes yeah
Third floor and room 3 oh whatever
Take it easy on
the door. So he goes up there and this is when we they go in there. We see
sunny, uh, sunny Lanham with, um, the vanity, uh, Mr. Quick. He is the, uh, the local, um,
or the, uh, the hotel drug dealer. And he just looks all just dirty and sweaty and, uh,
with his Detroit, uh, his satin, uh, Detroit Lions jacket on. I love those old school
satin jackets. I don't think they make those anymore, but, uh, they were all.
awesome back in the day. I had a Raiders one. I think I have it somewhere around here, but it don't fit me. Anyway, so he goes in there and he's getting ready to juice her up. She hasn't, no, I think he did because she was kind of a little trippy. So I think he fixed her up, but I don't know if he was going to give her another blast and then probably bang her or something because he just looked like that type of guy. But Action Jackson comes busting in and they start fighting.
And he's like, you better be careful.
This is Action Jackson.
Rest in peace, Sonny.
But when he puts on the evil, he's evil.
His laugh, just his voice and how he looks.
And he was like, oh, this is him.
And then he goes, I want to fuck you and kill you or whatever.
And maybe not in that order.
But whatever he said, they ended up fighting.
And they're kind of wrestling around.
He pulls out a knife.
because I'm going to cut your fucking heart out
or whatever that least is.
And then
Jack's like, come on, just watch your
language in front of the lady.
And he jams him up against
the wall trying to get that knife
out of his hand. But then he
sees it. During the first
struggle,
Mr. Quick had a syringe
already loaded up, ready to rock.
And while they were struggling,
I got stabbed into the wall.
So Jackson grabs it,
jams it into Mr. Quick's shoulder and
pushes down the little
plunger or compressor or whatever you call it
and loads him up and I don't know it seemed like it just
gave him more energy and juice because he went
ah he started laughing and then they started
fighting and they're just beating the shit out of each other in this
while Vanity's just tripping out not even really
screaming or anything but
this stunt right here was awesome shout out to the stunt man
Sunny Lanham is a stunt man but I
if that was him cool
If it wasn't, I don't know who it was.
But Jackson throws Mr. Quick out the window.
And he goes across from one building, from the hotel across the alley,
and he goes crashing into another window.
And again, whoever that stuntman is, I don't know if he misjudged his landing,
but he goes through the window, but his legs like fold on the window still.
was like damn again that was a good stunt during all this um officer biff and uh the other gentleman
he's with officer lac they happen to be driving by and they see uh jericho or jackson's um it was an
impala i can't remember what year was do you no but we we didn't even talk about how his car
got stripped of everything oh that's right because they they it was just fresh it was just
red rag top
and he kind of parks it in the alley
when they go into that hotel and it comes back
and it's just stripped.
So it's basically on blocks.
But they see
his car and they're like, oh, well maybe he's in here
so they kind of go in the alley to
check it out and that's when you see
Mr. Quigg go
crash into the window and goes
crashing into the other one and then they look
up there and they see him
and they always do this in these type
of films. They go, Jackson or
whoever they're searching for the cops down on the floor,
stay right there.
I'm like, okay.
Of course they're going to run.
But they did those two officers go running upstairs,
but Jackson and Sydney is like,
well, we got to get out of here, so let's jump.
I don't know how, oh, they were on the third floor
because they were in room three or whatever.
I don't know how it feels to land on top of a convertible,
but I'm pretty sure a,
it looks like he went right through it and fell in the backseat
and it looked like whatever was under
that part of the top
that probably took more for it.
It was a female stunt woman and she goes crashing onto that as well.
Other than they would have been laying there for a while
but they jump up and go running.
Did they...
Oh, they stole the police car.
Yeah, yeah.
Was there a police chase or did they just take off?
They just took off
Now I'm lost where did they go after this?
I know they end up
I forgot how but they end up getting caught
By some people
Hmm
And this is when
Ed comes to help them out of nowhere
Because you kind of forget all about Ed
Oh they go to another bar
They're going bars and left and right in this film
They go to another bar and she goes in there and tries to scout out the
You're right
was he a cop or was he another union guy he was another union guy because you see him later at the
dinner party okay yeah because he's um oh that's right yeah we'll get to him again uh he's like oh yeah
you're so-and-so and he goes yeah well you want to go out and have a good time to say yeah but
then uh i think on the ways when she tells him no you're gonna see uh was it did she say delplane
was going to be there yeah i think so yeah because they go
way out to some
industrial
place. I don't know what they were building
there, but they take him out there
and then he goes, well, where's Delap Lane?
And this is when Jackson comes out
and he's like, oh shit. So
he tries to run.
But then
I think
the Delaprain, no, the
invisible men. They ended up
grabbing Sydney and then they
grab him. And then
they chain him up. And basically
going to torture and kill him.
The whole plane shows up,
tells him, all right, you guys
foiled my plan.
Once again, but you're not going to foil
the main plan I'm about to do. So
basically, I'm going to kill you.
I'm going to kill her, but before I kill her,
I'm a fucker again.
And then
he was ruthless.
I wasn't
by it.
I wasn't by it, but he was ruthless.
Yeah.
Different times than the 80s,
boys and girls.
And before they left that bar, I assume Ed must have been working at all kinds of different bars because he saw Vanity and Jackson there.
So he follows them to that place because they chain up Jackson and they say, well, we're going to burn you up and kill you.
Again, I love it.
And they always do these in film.
instead of just killing
whoever they're going to kill and leave it at that,
they have to tell them their whole plan
and what they were going to do.
So basically, he told them,
look, you're going to be the one
that's going to kill the guy that we're
going to kill that's not playing hardball
with them. I can't remember that
the union guy's name. It was, we're going to kill him
and we're going to blame,
you're going to get the blame for it
because our invisible guy here, Gamble,
which is another black gentleman,
he's going to be dressed up just like you.
So everyone's going to, this was ruthless right here.
And he,
because he told him, he goes,
he's going to be dressed like you,
so everyone's going to know and think it was you.
And he leans into him,
and he goes,
because to all these people,
you guys all look the same.
I was like,
damn.
He said,
because all of my friends think you guys all look the same.
So they would have just assumed was a black guy that did it,
and Jackson is the one.
They go, but they're going to find,
he's going to get away,
but we're going to find his body all charred up
because I guess something was going to blow up
and you're going to be in it,
and it'll be your body that we find that they have in there
because they had them tied up,
and they said,
we're going to just burn you alive and then kill her,
and that'll be the end,
and I'll be the king of Detroit,
of the auto workers union.
So he tells him that whole plan.
He ends up leaving, I got to go to the party.
I'm out.
And he took Sydney with him.
Yeah.
So he took her.
So he's there.
And the invisible men,
the henchmen guys,
well,
a couple,
no,
three of them stayed stuck behind.
So they're like,
all right.
And of course,
I got to do the one.
All right,
we're getting ready for a barbecue.
And that shit.
I don't know what that was if it was something that burns metal or what, but it looked like a blow torch or something.
Yeah, because they, there's one scene I have a problem with.
When, when Ed comes and he's, he's beating everybody's ass and then him in a, to free Jackson,
he just pushes the little torch thing to the chain, and that works.
Like within seconds.
I mean, I don't know how hot, I was like.
that thing was but it was like
and then he was free
yeah I know it's a movie
but that that is probably the one
thing that I was just like come on
now that was super quick
but it was funny because they were getting
ready to do it and Jackson at this point thought he
was done for because he
there was no one there he didn't think anyone
knew he was there but luckily Ed followed him
it was right before they
about to burn him
You hear, hello, I'm Mr. Ed.
And the camera goes up and you see this big 275 pound black man jumping off a scaffold.
It looked pretty high.
And 275 pounds onto your angles, I'm like, broke something.
Again, it's a movie, everyone.
So he's the one that comes in and saves the day, roughs up one of the dudes.
did they did the was it two or three i think it was three that stuck around um i think so yeah
he killed all three of them but how did the first two guys get killed did ed i think ed yeah i think
ed took them out real quick because and then go ahead he um
after he jumped down on them and then he turns the the torch onto jackson's little chains and
they break he breaks free uh he turned that um that torch to uh the the long-haired blonde one
because he was holding a gun and a a a gallon jug of gasoline i guess yeah oh okay okay
i remember now when he jumps down he pushes the first guy um that guy was in uh another
48 hours he's the one that got shot when eddie murphy shot him in the in the knee and
the bar that was him he gets pushed back onto a control panel of some sort and z he gets
electrocute and he burns up and dies yeah because somebody's always gonna die that way in these
movies because they he they sprayed uh or he sprayed paint all over him so i mean paint is flammable
so when he hit those electrodes and then he ended up burning up then he turns that blow torch um or
Jackson he turns a blowtorch to the other dude the other blonde guy
with the uh I've said this before all henchments have to have
long blonde hair and I have long hair
and I've been in fights with my hair down and it's no good
you just need your hair pulled back if you can get raw
anyway so he he turns that torso him opens it up
it shoots a I don't think that's what it's made for but it turns into a
a flamethrower. It burns him up.
He blows up because the
gas ignites that's in the little gallon
thing that he's holding.
And that's when that other guy
comes out with a gun and starts shooting at
Ed and Jackson. So they go running
and hiding and then
this guy comes out
onto this like balcony type
of thing looking for them. Ed
slams into him.
That is the guy that was in
I remember him from Diehard.
He was the
the evil guy that was working in the lobby
at the bottom of the Nakatomi building.
So he goes out there, he falls down,
he drops his,
I assume some kind of rocket launcher type of gun.
And Jackson picks it up and he's laying there
because then he goes, barbecue, huh?
He goes, how do you like your ribs?
Or something stupid like that.
sheets out of him.
He goes
as much as I love this movie,
this has to have the worst
one-liners ever.
But, man, Carl Weathers, man,
he delivered him with conviction.
Every single one of them.
So I was like, oh,
my God.
It was stupid, but it was
funny. So all
those three of those invisible
guys were dead. So now
they know they have to get to
the Delapain place for the party to try to stop the assassination of whatever that head guy's name was
so Jackson comes up with a plan which we don't see they just kind of show up at the at the
the party it's kid's able Jackson and Albert that that was the kid's name okay the little young kid that was
scared of Jackson but he's finally helping him they're all
suited up in their tuxedos and they go into it and basically,
all right, we need to find this guy and let's
look for the
the assassin dude that's going to shoot him.
So we see Gamble.
He's got Jackson's red shirt on that he's been wearing the whole movie.
And he's posted up in his tree
with a sniper gun trying to take out
I can't even not remember that guy's name, but whoever the head guy was.
So they really
realize that something's happening because
some of the
the dudes, the guards or whatever in the
front of the place weren't there because some
lady comes in, hey, there was nobody up front
parking cars and that's what they'll.
Oh, well, I'll do something about it.
He turns to Al Young.
What was his name?
Oh, it just says Del are playing chauffeur.
He turns to him, hey, there's something wrong, go up there
and see what's going on.
So the chauffeur and
Brian Libby's character,
Marlin, they go running up to the front to see what's happening.
And they see Jackson.
They'll see Jackson in there and is about to go down.
And then they do see the sniper in the tree.
So they go running over there and try to stop him.
They know all heck's about to break loose because people start moving around.
The sniper guy takes a shot.
He does end up hitting his target, but he moved.
And he just took one to the shoulder.
So he kind of goes down and everyone's running around screaming, trying to get away.
How did he kill him?
The guy in the tree that was shooting.
I don't remember.
So much was happening.
Yeah.
Oh, he goes over to them and there's like lights in the tree.
They're like not Christmas tree lights, but just lights for the party.
He kind of gets something like that and like wraps it around that guy somehow and pulls him down.
the tree he falls onto the fence and gets um like uh shish kabobber by the by the fence because
it's like two of the of the steel rods go through him so he's there dead and i think he said a
one-liner but i don't remember it was probably something stupid but he goes running he goes
running after delap plane and then uh del plane goes running upstairs and then you see you hear vanity
screaming jackson out of the top uh out of one of the top floor
windows. So Jackson sees her. But this is this part was probably my favorite and the whole thing.
You're talking about the Kid Sable part? Yeah. Um, uh, Brat, Alion goes running up and Kid Sable jumps
up in front of him. And, uh, Kid Sable was known for, um, his footwork in the ring. Clearly it wasn't
him. But so he goes, Hey, man, where you going? And then he, he looks at him and the camera goes down,
those feet and you hear him she here just his footwork that what boxes do and then he kind of
clocks him and knocks him down he falls back it looks like he's getting ready to pull out a gun
all of a sudden you hear gunshot um the delpen chauffeur alley on goes flying back with bullet
holes in his chest uh kid table turns around and uh detective carterwell he's played by jack
thereaboo or
I don't know
I'd say his last thing
but him
he's another guy
that's been in a ton of films
and I loved him
I liked him in this
he's usually the asshole guy
in his movies
but he was a guy
in this one
yeah I liked him in this
because he was like
aren't you kids Sable
and he was like
yeah and he was like
I thought that was you
he goes
your kid's Sable aren't you
you better believe it brother
I thought that was awesome
because he's the one
that
gave Jackson the gun.
He goes, he looks up, they see that
Delapalane's causing all this shit.
He looks up and then he looks at Jackson.
You know, I got to take you in.
And then he goes, oh, fuck it and throws him his gun.
And Jackson goes running off.
Earlier, I got to jump back or go back a little bit.
Earlier in the film, there was a commercial
for this car called,
oh, fuck.
Haley, I think that's what it was called.
Like, kind of like Haley's comment type of thing.
I don't know what kind of car was.
some little red sports car,
but they had one on display at the party.
In the commercial, it was like fast,
faster, fastest,
and Haley's convertible,
or I don't know, something stupid like that.
So Jackson's like,
oh, man, I got to get up there.
Instead of just running up the stairs
to save the girl and save the day,
he gets in that little car.
Mind you, this is a party with like hundreds of people there.
Everybody running in every direction.
He gets in that car, happens to not hit anyone at the party,
crashes into the house, and he goes fast, and he's racing.
And right before he goes up the stairs, faster, he goes driving up these stairs.
I've never been in a big mansion before, and I don't know how wide the hallways are.
clearly you can see they made this
this hallway
for this scene because
and then he goes fastest
and he goes hauling ass down the hallway
in this car
and crashes into
Delapain's bedroom
where he's got vanity
Was he about to bang her again?
I think he was just going to drug her up
and I don't know if he was going to get a quick one in
but he was definitely going to kill her
so
he goes crash it in there
he jumps out of the car
they got their guns drawn on on each other
but then they have to do the
let's take this hand to hand
and of course you got to get the
the last action scene because earlier in the film
we see Della playing kicking ass
when he beat up the Asian gentleman
basically his teacher's instructor
and some of it was Craig T. Nelson
because I mean it's just hard to not
have just a complete body double
but those did not look like his legs when he was throwing those kicks.
Oh, you know when it's not him.
Basically,
the back of whoever the body double is,
his head is not as big as Craig T. Nelson or not the right shape.
Yeah, I was about to say I felt like whoever the stunt guy was was a lot thinner.
But, I mean, they were both bringing them hands, both of them,
when you could see that it was Craig T. Nelson.
And that was Carl Wethers the whole way, I believe.
Well, yeah, Della Plain was bringing it to him.
Pretty much beating his ass the whole fight.
But then Carl Wethers, he must have heard that bell.
And then he just goes into Apollo Creed mode,
just left rights, left rights, uppercuts and all that,
then gives him a kick.
And that part, once he kind of jumped into his boxing mode,
then it was like so fast.
because Carl Wethers is quick and if you guys have seen Rocky you know how quick his hands are
So he goes flying back and they both good basically he knows because I can't beat him with my fist or my kick
So he grabs his gun
Delapain grabs his gun Jackson grabs his gun they did both do the famous slow-mo shootout and
The action Jackson pumps tool two slugs into Della plane's chest
Jackson takes one to the short
shoulder and they both go down and that's pretty much the end of delaple plane vanity comes running up
this this to me this is a little bit power i was like really no here she was hurting earlier in the
film like maybe like the day before i don't know how long it takes you to to detox from
heavy drugs uh plus she i think she did no i don't think she he was about to drug her up she wasn't
drugged up yet.
But she's like, oh, I just quit cold turkey, so I'm fed her.
Yeah, right.
I was like, you would have been hurting and everything, because earlier she was like,
oh, my teeth hurt, my head feels like the day before you was going through everything,
but now you just, I'm quit cold turkey.
Happy ending.
Yeah, I'm quit cold turkey and Thanksgiving later.
Well, I'd rather have it sooner than later.
so I don't know if I would want to bang some junkie this banging whoever's going to give it to her but
all right and yeah happy ending I'm surprised there wasn't a freeze frame ending because that was the
end of the movie oh before we get out of here um Bill duke's character captain arm bruster brewster
or whatever he comes in and sees all that we see uh the Jericho just bleeding out of his shoulder
and Delplane
laying they're dead.
He goes, all right, Jackson,
because I'm going to want a full report on my desk tomorrow morning.
And he's like, tomorrow morning, yes, tomorrow morning,
Lieutenant.
And then he's like, oh, yeah, so they get all happy and then the movie's over.
Yeah.
I don't think it would have happened that quick.
No, cold turkey, back to lieutenant,
paperwork in the morning, happy ending.
Yeah, so within the next,
let's give them 10 hours
other than going to the hospital
and getting bolus pulled out of you
or at least stitched back up
then going home crushing it then
filling out your
police report and then turn it in
I don't think it could be done
but he's action Jackson
he could do whatever he wants
but I don't think
I'd have been slamming some junkie
so
I'd be hell no
I wouldn't have went to work the next day
man I just got to
shot dude I'm done all drug down from the pain painkillers but overall this movie is awesome and what do you give it
for a score um coming to the realization that this is probably really my first watch of it
i fucking loved it i'm gonna give it a straight eight out of its hand i love the action
i just carl weathers kicks ass i mean i i i see what you're saying
you know, I might not have liked the
one-liners, but he did deliver
him the best he could. They might not
have been written the best they could, but
he gave him the best he could.
I kind of like
Craig T. Nelson as a villain
in this one.
And this movie just made
me wish there was
some way, because this is set in Detroit,
I wish we would have got an Axel Foley,
Axon Jackson
kind of tango and cash movie.
They were
talking about they wanted to turn this into a franchise because they at this point
they wanted a we already had a few Beverly Hills cops films they wanted another
a well-known black actor to be the the next big thing action star wise so Carl
Wellers was is who they chose I thought they could have done this I mean watching
this now like I said I probably really
didn't care for it when I first saw it but watching it again I kind of wish they wanted
they did turn this into somewhat of a franchise give us an action Jackson to
yeah give us Jackson in Africa or something like that how they did shaft and
everything I mean just something I thought would have been cool but it didn't go anywhere
yeah because uh almost 21 million off of a seven million dollar budget that that's not
too bad for for the 80s and especially for all the explosion
and and the the practical gunshot effects I mean that's that was a lot I mean
what is how much seven million way how many million I'm sorry seven seven
million dollar budget seven million that's nothing I mean well in the movie
money today it's nothing but back then I mean you you think about they they
did a lot I mean I guess it was cheaper to do what they did in this film back in
the 80s let's say 87 when they filmed this
for $7 million.
The explosions,
the car crashes,
just everything that they did in this thing,
blowing up boats and throwing body,
burning bodies out of windows and everything.
I mean,
that's,
I wonder how much the actors got paid
to be in this.
Because $7 million,
usually,
I mean,
what,
at this point in the 80s.
I doubt it.
I'm sure he just took it as, all right,
with the idea of this was going to be a franchise
in a series.
So I don't know, maybe he didn't get that much.
Maybe he just got like,
to be generous, let's just say $100,000.
Maybe not even that, but to be in this film.
But this will, I didn't even give my score.
I'm going to go up a little bit.
I'm going to give it a $8,000.
point five now fuck that i'm gonna give it a nine yeah i had some some some some
gripes about this film but i mean i this is just
an amazing and fun film to watch for just what it is i mean at least the story would
had it was a good story uh about the auto workers union officials and everything and
and all that i loved that part of it that's detroit because in that time i don't know how it is now
in Detroit with the auto industry but then that's uh it was going strong uh back then so
i really liked all that and just some guy to just basically take out all the competition and be
uh the number one dude um i assume like he had his car dealers and he had his cars being made
there so i'm sure he wanted to be uh number one and all that but i mean the story was there the
action was there.
Probably my biggest griper, the one-liners.
They just,
they didn't write good ones for him.
How do you like your ribs?
What did the captain say?
You almost tore that,
that boy's arm off.
And Jackson goes, so he had a spare.
Oh, God.
but he said it with conviction man he did it he did he read what was on the script and put it out
so nothing against carlweathers he's an amazing actor and uh i just wish there was more of these
um i i know he did a um a tv series that only aired like a few episodes i can't remember the name of it
it was it was in the 80s
and
he was it was kind of like
this show he was a cop
um
let me see if I can
remember
oh it was right before this
uh well before predator
Fortune Dane
do you remember that
it was an 86
no I don't remember that one
there wasn't many episodes
they said six episodes
and then they canceled it
because then after that he did predator and then he did axon jackson yeah see uh canceled due to failing to compete with mcc's the golden girls in 227
yeah those were those were some heavy hitters especially the golden girls um i think 227 is uh uh syndicated on some channel i know i see it every now and then that was when i fell in love with uh what's her face
Regina King
she's older than me
so I was young at that time and then
what did it for me was
she had her dukey braids
and boys in the hood
and then when she came back in poetic justice
oh I like those
gals
poetic justice
brush that weak ass fade
she was ruthless man i know we're supposed to be talking actually but when she was riding
in chicago dude i'm sure he was giving it is all but she rolled her eyes on him i was like
oh damn what you you take steroids or something
that's why i'm fucking somebody else i was like damn uh virginia king you're listening i love you
He can do no wrong in my eyes.
But Carl Weathers, awesome actor.
Can't wait to see him back in season two of the Mandalorian as Grief Carga.
We thought he was bad in the beginning, but then he turned out to be good at the end.
So I hope he's got a bigger role in this next season of the Mandalorian.
Action Jackson, everybody.
But if you guys have not seen it, it's streaming on stars, and it's all in the name, because that's what you get in this film.
It's awesome.
88, late 80s, action.
Again, I wish he would have done more on his own with this type, with this character, really.
And they just, it just didn't work.
Because I'm looking at the stuff after.
I don't ever think he's been in something where he was the main guy.
A lot of TV stuff, movies he's done, but he was just one of the side actors.
Yeah.
All right, everyone.
That's Cobra in Action Jackson, two awesome films from the 80s.
This is the one I couldn't wait to talk about.
Because it was just so awesome.
And I'm really glad we did this film.
This is part of the show.
Tell the listeners what you got coming.
Oh, what do we got?
Geez, another regular episode of E-Society.
And not really.
sure what else i know that's coming we would they should have been out but uh it just didn't happen
life gets in the way uh we both work so it's kind of hard to uh put something together but um
i wanted to talk about vanity really quick but i just erased the page i was on uh vanity
Denise Williams
One of the
protegees of Prince, the late and great prince
Vanity
She was born on January 4th
1959
And Niagara Falls, Ontario
In Canada
And she passed away February 15th
2016 at the age of 57
In Fremont, California
I'm
Not sure
from what?
Kidney failure.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, she was
I know she just
had a wild ride
hanging out with Prince
and just doing the
music thing and just being the
stars and the fame
just got to her
because she was doing drugs
and everything as well.
It does say she was with Nick
six for like a year.
Yeah, and I'm sure that was a
big drug fest. If you guys
have seen the dirt or read that book,
you know how they rolled
in those days.
Because I remember her, I remember that
once you said that now I remember that
I remember she was on MTV for something.
And she goes, oh, I hear you're engaged and you're
going to be Vanity Six.
And she's like, yeah,
I'm hanging out with Nikki.
And I'm like, oh, man, he probably had everybody
in the world.
I remember she, this was
news that, like MTV news and all that happened.
They brought her up.
And she quit going by the name vanity.
She was just going by Denise William Matthews.
And she found Jesus.
And she was just trying to clean herself up.
And then I assume all that stuff started
happened and she passed away from kidney failure.
I remember a friend of mine,
he saw her she was getting on an airplane
and he was like whoa vanity
and she went Denise
and I was like he went oh I'm sorry
and then she just got on the plane
I was like damn
but it's kind of hard
when you are famous for
a name and then you want to get away from all that
but she did leave us
with some songs
so I mean she's definitely
she put her mark other than in acting.
She had done a lot of small things.
Nothing huge.
I do remember her in other than Last Dragon and Action Jackson.
She was also in that 180s horror film.
Terror Train.
Was that it?
Yeah, in 1980.
She was in that.
I just recently watched that.
I know I've seen that movie a million times.
I did not realize she was in that until my last watch of it.
Definitely a tear train is something that E-Sciety, or I'm going to cover.
Diesel probably won't watch any of these films.
With the 31 Days of Horror, those are coming up soon.
We're in September now.
She's done a lot of movies, but I think she's only mainly well-known more for The Last Dragon,
as well as action jacks.
She's done other things,
but she didn't do much.
Pretty much her main film career was in the 80s,
and she did like three films in the 90s,
or four, I'd say.
But yes, she is definitely missed.
And rest in peace, vanity,
or I'm sorry, Denise Matthews.
And as well as, what was the secretary's name?
name in the film?
The lady from a billion
other movies, I can't remember her name.
Oh, shit.
God damn it.
It's going to kill me now.
Yeah, I won't be able to sleep until I remember.
Mary Ellen Triner.
Yeah, her.
Rest of peace to her, rest of peace to
Kid Sable.
Kids, able.
Somebody else.
There's a bunch of other ones.
I'm sure there's more.
in there but
uh
yeah
sannie
that was a sad story
even Arnold tried to help him
I don't know why he couldn't pay
for everything but
but anyway action Jackson
cobra awesome films
East Society just regular episode
coming pretty soon
as soon as
we can get it recorded
I know you guys
just dropped your Bill and Ted
trilogy
we're also
also going to be
well I'm going to be talking about that
on the next E Society
because I don't think
a disease who's seen it
as well as the new mutants
and
what was that movie
the
not absolute power
project power as well as
a movie you guys
talked about a little bit
on horror returns
um
one BR
okay I checked that
one out and I knew I
trust you but if Lance
liked it of course
I got to see
this I was shocked
with his
with his
him liking
spoiler alert if you guys haven't heard
the new the latest or returns
that he liked
Bill and Ted face the music
and I did not agree with his
score for a bogus journey
yeah
it's like me and philip go back and forth if he always says you but i'm like lance i don't know
where that guy's going with his score sometimes yeah i he made it sound he kind of fooled me i thought
he was going to hate it but now he turned it around but uh definitely listen to that episode
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So until then, until next time, be safe, wear your masks, and party on, dude.
Yep.
And just real quick, we got the John Carpenter Apocalypse trilogy coming on the horror returns.
and on the next episode of the action returns,
we are doing
1986's raw deal
in 1988's Red Heat
Arnold episode.
Ooh, I have to dig out my raw deal.
I just bought Red Heat on 4K.
So any reason I was open it up.
I just bought it and put it on the shelf
like I do with every other movie.
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