The Horror Returns - The Action Returns - Ep. #53: Bloodsport (1988)

Episode Date: April 16, 2022

This episode Brian and Nez jet over to Hong Kong to fight alongside Frank Dux in an underground Kumite tournament in Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1988 martial arts action flick BLOODSPORT.   Join The Action Returns Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/841619946357776   Follow The Action Returns on IG and Twitter: 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

You break my record. Now I break you. Like I break your friend. Time to separate the men from the boys. Baby, I need some passion tonight. All right, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Action Returns. I'm your host, Brian.

And of course, always with me is my brother Niz. What's up, man? Good, man. But he, uh, get some van damage. ready to go to the Kumitae yeah I'm ready to fight to survive

however that song went really quick man shout out to the League of Geeks did they just stop all their band-dain movies I need to get to one of them when they got to the not so good

later ones just think they had enough well they did they did a good run They did a lot. Yeah, their bloodsport review is amazing, especially when Steve does his Van Dam voice. Yeah.

Well, if you guys didn't know by now, we are talking about 1988's classic bloodsport. The Kumate, the world's ultimate competition. The true story of a contest so deadly it must be held in total secrecy. Now, one American has come to this hidden location to win the toughest battle of hand-to-hand full-contact karate. Martial arts sensation Jean-Claude von Domb fights to be world champion in Bloodsport rated R. Starts Friday at Select Theater's. All right, Google.

U.S. soldier Frank Dukes has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumete a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition while trying to gain access to the underground world of clandestine fighters. He has to also avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL after enduring a difficult training

and beginning a romance with a journalist, Janice Kent Frank is given the opportunity to fight but can he survive okay of course IMDB shortens it up bloodsport follows Frank

Duke's an American martial arts serving in the military who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where he fights to the click on the thing to the death to

there we go or fights to the death can occur okay only one person died in this yeah this stars of course

there I go Sean Claude Van Damme Donald Gibb probably just froze up sorry everybody Leah Aries Norman Burton Boris Whitaker young Forst Whitaker

Roy Chiao Ronnie Gill Philip Chan Bolo Young and a whole bunch of other people This is directed by Newt Arnold Nez Start us off

All right I saw this I don't know if it was the night it came out But it was when it did its first theater run Um We were a while watching, I think this was his second movie, wasn't it?

I think after. No retreat, no surrender? Yeah, I believe this was a second. All right. Well, we're going to have to do that one, boys and girls. Because that movie is amazing. Especially when their version of Bruce Lee shows up. If you haven't seen that one yet,

go to you it's on there or if you have to be or one of those ones but I don't think you want to sit through ads but anyway um no retreat no surrender that was a drive-in movie we've seen and I was like whoa what the hell is it but van dam stood out to me because he was the the Russian bad guy lions were minimal in that one but I was like okay cool I mean that this guy kicks ass but then And this movie came out. And I was like, oh, sweet. So one of my buddies was like, oh, man, he just loves martial arts movies. So we're like, come on, let's go see it. So we went down to the theater and we've seen it. And I was like, man, this is awesome. I'm like, this was my beginning for the love of Van Dam.

It went away in the 90s, early 2000s. But I was like, oh, man, I'm in. So, because I was like, this movie's awesome. It's just a tournament kicking ass. But then we had the, the games going, the arcade games. Like, yield, Kung Fu, and I don't think Street Fighter and all that was out yet. But whatever the earlier Kung Fu fighting games, and they were terrible. Well, they were awesome when we were growing up.

And it was always these tournament fighting things. So we're like, oh, sweet, this is awesome. And we watched it and we just left the theater charge. We were out in the street doing our kung fu moves. Like every time we leave a martial arts film and I was just, man, this is awesome. And I just couldn't wait to see more of what Van Dam had to offer as the years came went on. But this whole movie was awesome. The only person I knew, there were two people in this that I knew of who they were was Forrest Whitaker.

and Tanaka, was that his name? What was his? Yeah, Tanaka. Roy Chiao or whatever. That was Lauchay from Temple of Doom and from the beginning. That was him. Oh, and as well as La Leia Ares, she was in other things,

but Donald Gibb, aka Ogre, from Revenge of the Nerds. Um, and Bolo Young, of course, like, I think I said that, but I mean, that was it. I was like, okay, I've seen these guys in other movies before, especially Bolo Young. That was another, another character that, all right, man, he kicked ass at the, well, he kicked ass and entered the dragon, but he actually, he only had like maybe, what, two fights in that? When he fought, um, when he killed, when he killed the, the security guards that failed. and then when he fought John Saxon, that was it.

I mean, he was just like the muscle standing around. He didn't really do much, but... Yeah, he had about 10 minutes of screen time. Yeah, so, but this movie was hell of good. And this is one of those ones I can just throw in and watch if I just had nothing to watch. But I think out of all the Van Dam movies, this is one that I think I've seen the most.

And it ain't my favorite Van Dan movie, but this movie was awesome. And when Ogre popped up on the screen, Donald Gibb, Ray Jackson, I was like, oh, sweet. I mean, is he just tough to be the same character in every movie, the big, tough, badass? Yeah, I mean, at least he was able to, like, form sentences in this one, unlike Ogre just nerds, you know. Speaking of that, I mean, the first one, awesome, I loved it. But he didn't seem too stupid. he just looked like a big old giant football player because in the second Revenge of the nerds that's when he got stupid and didn't know what was going on i was like whatever but i still love both of those movies but uh this movie was awesome all the martial arts fighting in it was tough the story wasn't the greatest um there's a few plot holes in it um but it was what it was it wasn't very long was it was it was like an hour and a half yeah hour and a hour and 32 minutes um

but this is from the cannon group and of course every time you see that you know shit's gonna get real and it did and speaking of real especially with the fighting I know you can't see the things when they did miss more the more deadlier punches and kicks

but it looked like a lot of these guys were taking those shots I mean to make it look more real especially during all the montages they had or with the fighting it looks like they connected especially with the slow motion so but um

martial arts gets an a acting yeah the best see especially van dam i mean he's been acting forever but i mean he's still like a robot i never really got into i can never really buy him as a serious actor i mean except for let me take that back that tv show that was on amazon um was it just Van Dam or Van Van Johnson? Yeah. I checked that one. I haven't seen it. But no, but this movie overall, it's an awesome film.

I love this movie. When did you first see it? Oh, this was another one of those movies my dad introduced introduced introduced me to when I was probably too young to be watching it. By far my favorite Van Dam movie. I love everything about it. The fights are great. Yeah, the acting's not too good, but you know, you don't,

you don't come into this movie looking for top-notch acting. You know, they give you the story and it's straightforward. Then you just get right into the tournament. And I love that you got all these, this was like mixed martial arts before mixed martial arts was big. You had all these different styles. And I just love all the characters coming in. into it I didn't really know Van Dam. I knew a new ogre and

Forest Whitaker and of course Bolo Young from Enter the Dragon but this is yeah he won me over with his moves because you love to see the Van Dam scream the split kicks

just all the the doing the splits on the edge of a balcony for what I don't know but go ahead i guess that's your thing uh yeah the the dim mock the deaf touch always sticks out to me uh do you love everything about this movie um what was i gonna say oh uh tanaka was japanese of course and then they went into hong kong to fight yeah i mean the story was wasn't really much i mean Um, uh, U.S. Army Captain Frank Dukes. Oh, wait, this is what I always forget about this.

This was based on a true story. There is a Frank Dukes. That's a full of shit. It is. He's, I'll send you some stuff. Frank Dukes is a, he's full of shit. Oh, he's just lying about all this. Yeah. Well, he made his money then. Yeah. So I guess even like his tournament trophies, I people found like receipts that that he purchased them oh man well man he had a good story i'm sure he made a pretty penny because this movie is still playing and uh and everything who knows what his contract was but that's news to me everyone i thought it was real it bummed me out it bummed me out when i first heard it i was like so he didn't win by fastest knockout with a punch i was like oh man yeah because it was all that stuff at the end

Oh, he did this, he did this, this, this and that. I'm like, did these people not do the research? Or I don't know. It's just canon films. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, just you want to see Van Dam kick ass. That's all you want to see. Really quick.

The budget for this one was 1.5 to 2.3 million. That ain't much. And it boxed off as 50 million. So it made sequels, but not. And this was the only one that was in the theater. Did you see any of the sequels? I didn't see any of them. I want to say I've seen the second one, but I don't remember anything about it.

Because I don't even know who that guy is that's in the next three, I think. Because there was what, how many different Bloodsport movies? there was two then it was blood support three then bloodsport the dark comete and yeah this gentleman

Daniel burned heart I guess I don't know who he is but he was in oh that's who that okay I know who this guy is all right well make me watch those

other ones but uh he was in a he was in a the Matrix reloaded. Yeah, I'm going to have to look for him now. But anyway, so Army, Army, U.S. Army Captain Frank Dukes, he gets invited to this thing.

Well, he was basically going to go fight to represent his sense, Senzel Tanaka from the Tanaka clan. But they do a kind of a flashback to where the young version of Frank Dukes played by, Pierre Raffini.

This is where Steve needs to be here to do the voice. Yeah, that kid. I don't know, man. I mean, if he's still acting, hey, good for you, kid. But this is what made me laugh. I don't know who the production people were. I don't know who were the ones that went out and got the costumes. But come on.

This kid was wearing a San Francisco Giants hat and a New York Giants jersey. I'm like, ah, he just loved Giants, period. I guess, man, come on. Pick a coast. You got West End East. But anyway. Yeah, that kid couldn't act. For some reason,

Frank Dukes and his little gang broke into Tanaka's house and they were going to steal his katana sword. But he just kind of looked at it and I assume it was talking to him. And he was like, no, put it back. Let's not take it.

But then when they were all about to leave, Tanaka's son comes running in and kicks Frank in the stomach and he drops And then instead of calling the cops Toonaka takes Frank over to his parents and said look I want to teach him

Discipline and all that And the way basically he needed his son needed a punching bag He's going to teach him martial science Yeah So A little montage of him getting beat up by Tanaka's son and Frank was

finally getting mad. You're like, come on. You're supposed to be training me. Kind of like a Daniel thing. You're training me, but I'm just getting beat up and

Yeah, you always coach him. That's not, I was like, that's his son. I know. You could be sitting in juvenile hall. Yeah.

Getting your ass beat. For this little, for the Tanaka's little, what was his name? Um, if they said it, I don't remember. Oh, uh, Shingo. Shingo, yeah. Um, he, they don't even say how he died, did they?

I swear. I always thought they said he died in a car accident. I don't. Maybe I made that up or something, but rewatching it many times over, they just, he, they're just, he's dead. They don't say. Yeah. So I was like, Okay.

But for being, I assume Tanaka's number one only student, or number one student, and they got beat up by the little gang of white kids. And then, uh, Yeah. Like, is your dad really teaching you anything because Frank came and he, he wrecked them kids like super fast and you've had more training than him. Yeah.

I was kind of like, uh, all right. But you've got to do. move story along. So after that, I assume they just became buddies and then Frank wanted a little bit more. Yeah, Frank, Frank's no longer round eye anymore.

Yeah. So, flash forward, uh, Frank is older and he's standing there next to Tanaka and they're looking at a picture of him. Tanaka's son, so he passed and we have no idea how.

Um, and I assume he went and joined the military and then, no, before he went in military I think is that's when he said that I want you to train me or was it was he asked him when they were there looking at the photo of of his son which I I felt like that was a kind of an asshole move on Frank's part is this he's mourning for his son and Frank's just like so um what do we do about training from now on I was like damn I thought it was more of a um his son was training to fight in the kumatea dad's too old so since his son's not there anymore and frank

was like you know what um i'm sorry but why don't you let me do it because that's when tanaka like now you you got to be uh japanese or whatever he's like you are not japanese you are not a tanaka yeah frank's just like he told me to keep open mind and trying to flip all his teachings on him yeah so he must have worked and he was like all right so then you're getting that

big old montage of him training which I did like man but I don't understand I assume maybe it was for pain to fight the pain when he had him just getting his ass beat that and when he tied up

his hands and his legs and just like put him on those pulleys and just was like trying to pull him apart and then he like got strong and broke one of the trees or whatever that thing was. I was, I was waiting for him to start kicking the tree,

but that was blood, uh, kickboxer. Yeah, he does get confused because he, he does the same, I think the same thing. Yeah,

no dancing in this one. Yeah. So yeah, that whole montage of him training, Tanaka's training him on just, just be ready and just how to get your ass beat and take the pain. And then,

He was teaching him how to fight blindly. I mean, fight, I don't know, fight with your feelings or the force or whatever. But, but, so, um, this was all just flashbacks in his head. Because then he goes to see, uh,

Tanaka. Oh, before all that, he was, um, he's, like he's an army captain and he, I knew he was getting,

gonna go to the Kumete. So he basically just. I mean, like went AWOL. But then I was thinking, If this thing is secret and illegal, how did the higher-ups in the military find out about it? I don't know. The same way the reporter found out about it.

Pretty loose are the rules. When we get to the hotel, you just got all these fighters just hanging out. So I'm assuming follow them where they're going. Because he does, he sneaks off and runs away. and then the military go chasing him. They know he's going to Hong Kong. They know he's going to go fighting the Kuma. They were just basically trying to tell him,

no, you can't go. But he goes to see Tanaka, and I assume Tanaka was just dying of old age because then he was like, are you awake? Are you tired or are you all right? And he goes, I'm always tired. I'm old. So kind of just got his blessing.

All right, I'm going to Hong Kong and I'm going to fight. And all right, don't make me look bad. Have that it. so he goes to Hong Kong he gets there yeah meets up in this nice fancy hotel meets um what was his name victor lynn uh kin see you or whatever's name and then he finds out that i guess that's their little chauffeur or whatever and then he meets he meets um ogre uh ogre that's all i see everybody um jack jack jackson yeah ray jackson he meets him there oh that video that video that video that video game they were playing i can't remember what it was called that was one of the games that we grew up

playing so i pissed me off uh it just a joystick in a button that was that one then there was another one was just two joysticks that i hate that one that's the one that pissed me because it on the the frame of the screen it tells you which way to move the joysticks to do all the moves and it would never like work that way yeah because it just the winter and tear of doing those joysticks and you're obviously supposed to do them like softly but when you're into the game and getting on man you're just with all your strength and you'd be standing to sweat and playing that game and it just the wearing tear of it and then yeah it just doesn't work so um because we wore out the one at 7-11 i remember when he brought it in so we got to play it right

when it was brand new and it worked but as it went on and everyone was playing and then yeah it didn't work good but anyway So yeah he meets Jackson Then they kind of See the other fighters and then there's a big old montage of them Getting the Kumite ready

Setting up the Decorations and cleaning up the mats And all that And then it just Then it kind of gets into it They show up, they get there They see all the fighters and then We get the montage

Oh no before all that, there was a montage of all the different styles of fighting. What was the little black guy with the monkey style or something? You know, watching it

now, kind of racist. Exactly. All right. All right, everybody. I saw it in a black theater. When I said black theater, it's it was the neighborhood. I mean, you got your good neighbors, you got good neighborhoods and your bad neighborhoods.

but it was it was the quote unquote the black theater where they talked to the screen I don't know if they do that anymore but oh man when that happened they were going off just what the fuck

when he was jumping around or when he karate chopped coconuts and shit like that all of that when they're during the montage and when we actually saw him fight in the kumata they were going off like oh man look this inward and with the A, not the ER.

I've ever said in there laughing at everybody's comments through the whole thing. But anyway, yeah, I don't know. If that's a real style, all right. But yeah, I don't know if they can, that'll fly today. I like that. But I did like that style. I thought that was cool when he was rolling around, jumping around like a little monkey. But then there was the other dude.

I assume he was from the Middle East, I think. The guy that held his hands in front of him. And I don't know what stuff. I think that was, I need to look it up. Somebody told me that was Tong Poe with hair. That was him? Yeah, I got to look it up. Yeah, I don't.

I guess I'd have to look at kickboxer. um i sorry everyone yeah yeah i got i got to make i got to make sure um and then the the other dude that's uh that has the same style with the slick back hair that that dude's in uh blood in blood out i was him huh well he's in blood sport who is he he's the guy you're talking about the the guy that holds his hands out that's him yeah that that gets his leg broken later yeah yeah oh so that oh all right oh wow learned something new everyone i didn't know that um did we do that kickbox already not yet we all right i would have remembered us talking about the dance scene yeah well that's coming everyone i don't know when but that one's coming but yeah i liked that one

I mean, he played him out later in the scene, but I just liked that style the way he went out there with his hands, but then kicking and everything. And it goes to that montage of them fighting. Oh, no, when everybody was warming up, there was one, I can't remember who it was. Everyone was like training in the end. They were doing it. But then there was one scene in that montage where a guy was actually fighting, like a little illegal fight club out in the world. woods it looked like around the jungle or something because he was beating the hell out of some dude and all those guys are standing around cheering but um i for all the montages they had in this i liked

all of them i mean just yeah i thought it was cool but the music saw i just i still don't like that song i just shout out to whoever did that song but i just never liked it but yeah we get that all the fighters um their montage and all their different styles and then they all show up to the Cumanet, yeah, hotel meet up, and then we finally get to it. But when they get there, I assume they were

they weren't the referees. They were because they were sitting up on that table with the guy that was running the whole thing. They told, Frank, that, hey, you can't, you're not Tanaka, you're not in the Tanaka clan. And he's like, yeah, yeah, and they go, then they showed her, what was that called? The Death Touch

called? The Demock. Yeah, they asked him to show. him that so he did it and what it was it was a big old stack of bricks but i think it was like about four or five of them but they wanted him to break the bottom one so he just did his move hit the top but the bottom break the bottom brick broke and all the other ones were fine jackson just was going a little he was like his hype man he was just a little too high every time so what they were like yeah yeah whoa he was the only one

and went overboard every time he said something everybody else was there I guess he does know Tanaka yeah we see that all the time but Jackson was like yeah like one he's one little guys

I know him he's my buddy like type of guy so then we get in we start we get into the to the Kumate um couple fights finally

um uh chung lee fights first right before he before frank does uh yeah because he gets up there and fucking bull he's still big i've seen um pictures of him in videos like recent stuff and he's i think he's 75 now i remember looking up to see how old he was but he's still better shape than me and yeah i know uh not only is he martial artist uh he grew up uh bodybuilding too that's why he's so big yeah he was hell of he was fucking big in the

end of the dragon he was big I think but he was like a little more toned up and cut in this even he was a badass and um not double team double impact

that one he was a good now is he does he do coke or something what's with the sniffing and I don't know there's a little thing where he puts his thumb up to his nose and he sniffs and

he does it a double impact too like yeah well maybe I don't know doing a little sniffle here and there what are you doing man he got the little coke hole up in his navel passages yeah he gets in there and he's got the kicks

and the punches and everything but he was just more brute force on what he was doing to these guys because yeah he took that fool out hell of fast and then we get Van Dam he goes in there and does what he does Is he a gymnast

I mean as well as a martial artist I thought he was I know he was a kickboxer like professional And if you watch breaking They led you to believe that he's a dancer Because he was in there With his little tight rumper

You do what you got to do Boys and girls to be in the movies I don't think I would be dancing on the side in the romper. Maybe if I had a body like Van Damme. He brings that rapper back a couple times. Yeah, he does. Those same dance moves.

What's the one where he's like doing underground fights? Is that a Lionheart? Yeah. I was thinking of the West. You probably was a romper in that one too. I don't know. Probably like in his contract, we got to sneak in the offer every time.

Yeah, because once it all gets going, he had Bolo or Chong Li, he kicks ass and then um, um, the fuck. Frank, he kicks ass. And then, um,

beats, uh, Chongley's record, which pisses him off. Yeah. And then he was, uh, Jackson was really good.

yeah yeah I was like oh man shut up oh it's the best ever oh I know him and whatever the hell he does he's American so he's got to be like super loud and it just make us look bad I guess I don't know but yeah carrying around his six pack of beer drinking and then wearing his Harley Davidson gear and whatever else they try to give him yeah but i mean it was it was cool i mean for what it was it was hell of fast i mean chung lee hardly he had lines in it but it was like minimal maybe he said two maybe three lines other than bricks don't hit back stole that from bruce lee for man of the dragon when he did the death touch and then the lines he did at the end you're next and whatever he said, whatever that word was when he tapped out or whatever. Mate.

Yeah. I was like, oh. But they, other than them, when they show them three fighting, I mean, we get the montage of everybody else. And the winner,

I mean, and this is a total underground stuff. It's in the back alleys of Hong Kong in some warehouse, I assume. But I guess whoever knows about it must go, because there's a bunch of people in there. like street people and they're gambling how many guys were in this

kumatee do you think they kind of made it seem like there was like 30 or 40 people yeah it seemed like it took days yeah because a lot of these fighters I mean you see them you've seen them in other films I mean not the ones that were like up front I mean the ones that were they during montages when you see them fighting you've seen them because I recognize some of the other

faces of them being another one of the billion martial arts films but I like when Jackson gets up there and starts fighting yeah just I like he just rolls up there in his sweatpants that's what I would have done but that first dude he fights man

he's fighting another white guy and that fool goes in there starts kicking Jackson's ass kicks him in the face and then once blood starts coming out of his nose Jackson gets mad and grabs that fool by the top of his head and then just gives him a hammerfish right to the nose and he falls down and that's it for him but then he walks over and starts pointing at Chun Lee ah you're next paler I want you or I'm gonna kill you

he was trying to try to pump the crowd out Jackson Jackson yeah and what I loved about this other thing that I love about this is how the the mat that they're fighting on was nice and white in the beginning but by the end of the movie there's just it's all bloody and dirty and everything but yeah so those guys uh fight um more uh this and chong lee comes up and fights again and the they were saying that he's a champ and victor with er yeah was it victor lee or whatever he's the one telling them that yeah this guy's never been beat before he won last year and uh because he had killed someone before and uh and jackson just like i can i could take him

no problem but we see uh frank's kind of these he's did they everyone's different fighters frank's more of all right he's gonna go uh with his teachings on be focused don't just be a brute like jackson to go out there jackson's just a street you're a bar fighter just a big dude you guys know who ogre is he just goes in there and just kicks ass and yeah when when you first get introduced to him they they make it seem like he's a boxer but yeah he does no boxing because uh when chung lee i guess um frank fought first and then jackson and now chan lee's fighting i'm watching this everyone because when he fights this fool man he that guy runs up to him there's a couple kids kicks and then chungley just grabs them

kind of gets him in a little headlock holds his hand up everyone's cheering and they just knocks him out and then he pushes them throws him out of the ring i loved that he always try to hype everyone up just throwing his hands in there and bringing his fists up and down i always thought that was cool is this is that the fight where like everybody's chairing he tells everybody calm down yeah and then he hits him yeah

all right this is the frank was got into it with this um this dude at the hotel uh hassan yeah he was trying he didn't he didn't look middle eastern no he did not at all this guy looks Filipino he looks like my friend Don then he's Filipino but anyway he was trying to uh get Janice basically just grab her and take her up the room and rape her I guess I mean I just That's what they were going to do. Yeah, so, because Frank ends up taking her. Well, he got into it and he would look, Frank had like a coin or something. You grab this out of my hand.

You can have her. And that guy does it, but he doesn't. And then Frank, all right, I guess I'm a take her. So anyway, that guy was mad at him. So now they're getting ready to get up there and fight. And he's got like a gold tooth. And he thinks he's all rough and tough. and then he

he like he kicks his ass hella fast because once they start Van Dam just grabs him starts to give him the chops and then just

whack gives him that kick because then when he that dude when he fought and that okay this is the scene when he

knocked that dude out hella fast and it was the quickest knockout or whatever but he like hardly ever did anything to him he just gave him

couple chops. He didn't really do much to him. And then when that guy was laying on his back, Frank had him up and he was getting ready to knock him out. And then he just kind of just threw his head back. But then he got all pissed off and got up and tried to grab Frank. And then Frank turns around, gives him an elbow to the jaw. And then he goes falling down and gets knocked out. Hit him so hard, knocked his gold tooth out. Because I did like this part when that guy that cleans the mat walks up, wipes the blood, gets that gold teeth bites it and then puts it in his pocket. He's like, oh, this is real. I'm about to come up.

Yeah. So after that, we get a big montage of everyone fighting all the other fighters in it. And all this is cool. There's one guy in it. He was, I don't know his name, but he was the dude. And if you guys seen Dragon, the Bruce Lee story. the dude that broke I think it's him

it looks like him the dude that broke Bruce Lee's back in the movie Jason Scott Lee so I mean because he was one of those dudes that I'd recognize he didn't get no speaking parts in this film uh yeah we get the little

black guy with the monkey style flipping and flying all over the rig yeah we get this dumb song that I hate to fight to survive or whatever the hell it is I like it's funny watching this the way he's jumping around because he's got the low the low end I think if he just gave him kicks because it's like everyone's trying to punch him

and I'm like he's too low just kick him because then that guy beats one dude he jumps on his back and just kicks his ass and then we get these other two guys just start running in and just kicking the the martial arts choreography in this is just top-knobes I mean, these guys are all the real deal. I Yeah, that does Well, no, what's his name? The Tongpo guy.

Mm-hmm. Did he? They put stuff on his face, right? For the move for a kickboxer? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because that doesn't look like his face

Because they show him in there. He's just kicking fool's ass. He got one guy just kept kicking him in the nose with his knee. So that guy's done. But then he picks him up. And then we show Jackson. He grabs some dude and just throws him off the mat into the sand. And he's done.

Then we get Frank kicking some guys or some hairy dude with hairy chest kicking his ass. And we get Chung Lee kicking fools off the mat, flexing his chest muscles. And everyone's cheering. And then earlier in the film, two, they weren't FBI. We're the FBI guys. What are they? They're, it says here they are CID criminal investigative something. What is it?

United States Army Criminal Investigation Division. So they're like special agents for the military. Yeah. Forrest Whitaker and Norman Burton, Rollins and Helmer. They already, like, I don't know how they found out. We didn't want to go into that. But they, they either ones are the ones searching. for Frank over in Hong Kong.

So they go looking. They know, no, they didn't know where he was because they went to the police and they were like the local Hong Kong police and they're like, oh, we don't, we don't know. Of course they know. I mean, they're probably getting paid off not to stop it. So anyway, they were like, well, can you just tell your guys were looking for Frank Dukes and if they see him, let him know. So that guy comes up to them when they're sitting there eating and tells them. All right. He's in town.

the whatever whatever hotel. So that's when they go over there. Helmer and Rollins go over there and try to get Frank and he's just sitting in the lobby hanging out drinking beers with ogre. Real quick, did you catch

the little kind of racist joke when they left where they were eating when he threw the food to the dog and he sat here have some of you? I didn't know I did catch that. different times

different times everybody yeah so they were they were gonna get him the two officers but they even pulled out their big giant old school 80s tasers and then ogre jumps up and knocks both of them down and Franks goes running and then it's just this dumb

chase through the streets of Hong Kong you ever see the thing they someone made with the Mentos commercial. Wait, what? I'm going to send it to you. Frank's just playing with him. He's just running and laughing, having a good time,

stopping and letting them catch up and then running away. This was kind of pointless. But they end up running. He runs to the pier and they go running across these boats and then they fall in the water and Frank gets away.

Yeah. But then Frank meets up with Janice. They're having dinner, finds out she's a reporter and he's trying to, or she's trying to get into that. I need to see this. I need to write this story. Obviously, they can't keep secrets in this about this illegal secret Kumae because

if the police know what's going on and the military knows what's going on. And this little blonde reporter knows how to, knows what's happening. All right. So they end up talking just, yeah, sweet. sweet and talking her. She's sweet talking in. I knew what she was doing. She was just trying to get him to get her into the Kumenta and you do whatever you got to do to get that story.

So she ends up giving it up and Van Damned Frank smashes her. And then you get a nice little shot of Van Dam's butt as he's putting his spankies back on. She's still trying to tell him. Come on. Just let me get. He's like, nah, this ain't the place for you. And I'm out of here. So she's already.

and he goes to the kumatee he's checking in uh ogre's trying to do the the death touch to the to the bricks but doesn't do it and some something stupid just comedy but while they're standing there uh some a guy in a suit comes up just some dude that's high big big money guy in there he comes up he comes up the dukes all right good luck and then he turns around and janis is standing there so she hustle this fool to get in so she's in the kumatoe now getting more fighting um another quick uh the tonguepo guy he's fighting the dude from dragon i tonguepo what what is he i'm just going by what the writing or whatever on his shorts and i assume it's middle eastern i don't no, I could be wrong, but

I thought he was like not Italian Um You're talking about the guy that gets his leg broke? Yeah, tongue pull that dude He was kicking ass in this.

He looks like he's Italian or something. I think in the movie he was supposed to be South American, maybe Brazilian or something. I don't know. He's he's whooping this fool's ass, man. He's giving him the knees and the elbows. and everything.

And then he just blah, just clocks him in the head and then he goes down. The next one, Van Dam is kicking ass. I always think he's a gymnast because of the stretching

and the high kicks, like really, really high kicks. But other than the splits that he does, they do a lot of slow motion during this fight. So he ends up beating the shit

out of this dude and everyone's all hyped. and we get Chong Lee fighting some other dude. Chong Lee is this kind of like a boxing match because they're just throwing punches at each other. But then Chong Lee just gets up and whoops this fool's ass. I don't know where these people are from. He ends up jacking that fool up because he breaks that guy's leg. Because when he gets him, he slams him to the ground.

And then he just, that guy is laying there. He walks up and just snaps his leg and you see the bone, the bone sticking out. And then he's just hyping up the crowd. Dukes gets back in there and he's fighting another dude. I say they really connect because during the slow motion shots, I mean, you see them hit and you see the force of their skin when he's getting hit. So you know they're obviously hitting each other. Other than when the scenes, when they show them going fast, they're probably missing.

Is this the one where they're doing kicks back and forth to the body? Yeah. That's the dude from blood in, blood out. He's the guy, let's see what you really know him from. The guy that gets strangled to death in the church. That's him? Yeah. Well, the band name is short.

So. That guy in real life was like a boy tie fighter. For real. That was, what's his name's bro? Well, we'll get into that movie. And you're right. I looked it up along with Shoto Khan karate and kickboxing.

He was a bodybuilder, and he took up ballet at 16. Bandin? Yeah. Okay. So I'm assuming that's where he gets all that stretching and splits. and this fight right here when van dam is fighting this black guy i don't know what what style this fool was trying to do but he tried to like uh intimidate him and make

him scared he's pointing at him and then doing the i'm gonna kill you with the slice of the throat in the band damn he didn't even that guy's flexing on him he ain't even tripping then he just kicks him a swipe kicks him in the head does a roll jumps up back kicks him front kick and then kicks him out of the ring. Then this next one, this one was funny. We get the little black guy with the monkey style fighting that big,

tall Chinese guy or whatever. And he's just jumping all over the place and that big dude is just swinging at him. And it runs between his legs. And it's like he can't even do anything. So he jumps up. He, a little guy jumps up, hits him in the head. But then he jumps up basically like right into,

his arms. And then that guy just squeezes him and knocks him out and then yeah, that's the end of him. But I did like how when the black guy tried to run up and give him a kick with both knees, but just like fell backwards. Once he got

a hold of him, he tried to chop him in the neck, but no, it was too late. He just kind of just, I mean, he didn't choke him out. He just broke his back. I guess. Because yeah, after he did that, he just fell down. Next we get Chungley. beating some wide dude down

Yeah, this one, I like this fight Because it was hella fast, and he just beats the hell Out of him. And then once Chong Li grabs his arm, and then it's on slow motion, and he just jumps up, and he just jumps up and bha, gives him the knee. Looks like it broke his note because blood's coming out. He gets knocked out. Van Dam's fighting the big, uh, tall Chinese dude.

That was fighting the little, um, Asian guy, a little, uh, monkey guy. And he was, Van Dan was just kicking the shit out of this guy, but nothing was happening. He was just kind of taking those kicks and those punches and just stepping back. What I loved about this fight was, is when he, like, kind of drops down and just gives him a straight palm to the chest. Or to, like, kind of like, yeah, center of his chest and kind of knocks the wind out of him.

He tried to kick him too, but that guy grabbed his leg and then drug him because then he did the splits. Because, yeah, everything he was throwing at him wasn't doing it. And when he was trying to give him kicks, that big tall guy was just throwing. throwing his shoulder into it and blocking it. But then he tried to do the bear hug. But then Van Dam gives him a head butt and then the left and right

hits with the head. It looks like he broke his nose because then he's all dazed. Yeah, this is when he bach, hits him in the stomach, and then he goes down. And then he goes down and hits him in the balls. And then he just falls over. Is this a scene where he does a slow motion

Van Damme scream? Yeah, when he hit, when he straight palms him to the stomach. Because that guy kind of lost his breath for a minute. Then he steps back and recuperates himself. He goes running at Van Dam. He tries to grab him. It's all in slow motion.

But then he just, punches him right in the balls. And then that fool goes down and that's the end of him. Gives him the Johnny Cage special. Yeah. Then the next five, we get Jackson and Chung Lee fighting. And Jackson is just like,

ah, that's all right, man. I can beat his as and Frank is trying to tell him you to watch out for that. He was his right leg or left leg, whatever it was. Watch out for it. Deadly. He's like, now I can take him. I got it, man. Don't worry about it.

Just hyping himself up. As he gets in there, Chung Lee does some stuff, but that doesn't really phase him. But then Jackson starts just giving him just punches. And then he does the two hands together, swing, chop, or whatever. and knocks him down and he should have just kept punching him because Chong Lee falls down

but he starts turning around yeah yeah he's dead I got him and he's just yelling and hooting trying to hype up the crowd and Frank is telling him dude finish him but then too late Chang Lee jumps up and just starts kicking ass

kicks him in the balls kicks him in the head he falls down and then he just walks up and then stomps I assume he stomped him in the head because it's all slow motion and he stomps him in the head gives the most evilest look too

while he's doing it stops him in his head yeah you see blood coming out of his forehead and out of his mouth and he's laying there knocked out and then he takes his little Harley Davidson headbed and you see Frank

on ah no he's screaming and all that and then Chongley's hypohy him up next we're in the hospital frank's alive or um ogre's alive and then he just all right i'll beat him i promise and all that shit um jan is just trying to get him no you can't do it you can't do you you're you're gonna he's gonna kill you what are you doing no just basically trying to kill him tell him not to do it but he's like i got to do it now even victor was telling him dude you can't do this man you're gonna die he's like nope i got to do it i got to do it for

for Tanaka, his sense, and I got to do it for Oger Jackson. He's over. Yeah, then Janice is that she pushed out and goes and tells the cops that all this is going on. But the cops already know this is happening. Yeah.

So, yeah, we get a montage of Van Dam kind of just cruising around Hong Kong and he sees Frank or sees Oger just thinking about him. And then he there's some more some more training

some more meditation I guess because you see him doing the splits on some big cement block I like the scene where he's riding on the bus and the music's playing and he he sees Chung Lee and the reflection

staring at him I do like this scenery shot wherever he is he's up high and you can see the all of Hong Kong and the and everything. So he goes up, he gears up, goes back down to the thing. The two CID guys or whatever, and the Hong Kong police, I assume he's the chief.

He's telling them, look, come on, you're not going to do this fight. But then he basically tells them, look, let me just finish his fight, and then I'll go home with you guys. but the Hong Kong police, they try to stop him. He ends up just kicking the shit out of the officers. So assaulting police in another country, I'm sure that's not good. But one thing I always wish they did was explain why is he so important to the military? I don't know. Do you like some kind of lethal assassin or something or does he know like government secrets or?

they just send these like special agents to arrest him and they usually don't they don't do that for people that go awall no i mean they're not gonna travel all the way around the world yeah to catch one guy but i don't know maybe he knows something that they can't let the secret get out so yeah after he beats up all the cops uh those two dudes uh pull out their little stun guns again and they they they shoot him but he grabs like a garbage can lid or something. And they reflect off and hit two of the other officers and they end up getting shocked. Yeah, I don't know if it works that way. Yeah. And that a police chief or whoever it was was about to kill him or fight him, but then the two other

guys stopped them and they're like, okay, Frank, man, you just go in there and win and then when we're done, we're going home. I was like, all right. so he goes in lets them know what he's doing and then this is the the final round this is it the tournament is over this is

the final match of the kumatee they get it already no no no it's not ready yet because he fights uh tongpoo or whatever his name is in this because I like this part because when he goes

up and he's holding up his fists in front of him trying to get the fist bump but he does he does the trick And, bah. That is, that's poor sportsmanship, because some of those fools do do that when they're in the octagon fighting. But sometimes it backfires. Because, yeah, when he went to, Frank went to get a touch fist,

that fool kicks him and then, bha, gets him with an elbow and then drops. Frank, he goes down. And, yeah, he's just tongue pole. He's already, and he's hyped up. He goes in to try to kick him. Van Dam kind of leg locks him and drops him to the ground. And it looks like a weak leg lock, but he falls. He jumps back up and then they start fighting again.

And Janice, I assume, I don't know who she's with. She's sitting by the cops. So, all right. Really quick. They just let these CID guys in. I mean, I don't know. I assume they just let anybody into this thing. At this point, I think it's just whoever wants to come watch.

Yeah, you're the area. You got the money. Come on in. It's the last fight. Why not come in? Because she's sitting there with the cops. And this is when they start kicking each other. I like this part because they're just,

bha, kicking the hell out of each other on the ribs. And these look like they were connecting. Maybe not hard. But they were, because when the foot's hit each other. other's body you see the ripples in it because yeah there's a slow motion part and he's just bha back kicking him in the ribs then he does a spin kick he kicks uh kicks him in the neck and then he goes down and that's pretty much it for him i assume he knocked him out and that was it

van dam was funny though when they were exchanging kicks he was like yeah yeah come on yeah so it's time for uh chung lee to get up there and do his final fight. I don't know who this guy's fighting, but he's beating the shit out of him. But that guy was holding his own, man. He was giving them kicks and punches too as well. But Chong Lee just overpowered him. Give him a front kick. He goes down. And then that's when he grabs him, chops him in the leg, and then just, blah, he just pushes him down and knocks him down. And that's when he grabs him, punches him in the ribs, grabs him in the back of the head, and then like throat punches and throws him to the ground.

He goes down to the ground on top of him, gives him an elbow to the face to keep him there. And this is when he gets up, holds the back of his head, and then I assume, just knocked him out. Looks like he just punched him in the nose or maybe between the eyes.

And then he snaps his neck. And then that was it. Because the ref and all those guys come up and he checks. him and they find out he's dead. And then I assume everyone starts to pay respects because like the whole place goes quiet and they all start turning around facing that little

statue. But Chong Lee's just like whatever. Yeah, I like how he tries to make the the ref hold his hand up. Yeah. I'm like I ain't holding your hands up. Yeah. So everyone kind of just a moment of silence. All the bets are being made. The main guy that's running a whole thing, like fix the mat or whatever. Because then they drop the centerpiece.

So it's, excuse me. So the ends of it are kind of facing up. So it's like a slant now. So they're both getting ready to fight. Whoever's Chung Lee's little assistant sticks a, Wikipedia said it was a salt pill. So he sticks it in his belt. And then they go in there. And then they start to go at it.

the final match and Chung Lee with the few lines that he says he comes up to him and he looks at Franks and he tells him excuse me I'm waiting for him to say

what he says he goes you break my record now I break you like I break your friend and then he points down to his knee he's got ogres Harley Davidson headband on his knee yeah and then he does the nose

snobbing cleans out the Coke last night's Coke and then they start to fight that's what I thought the pills were maybe he was like crushing up the pills and doing something I don't know this is kind of

trip me out why was the ref why did the ref have to stay on the mat the whole time he could have been did his job from the ground or around it? I don't know. Yeah, because, I mean, it's full contact.

Obviously, if you die, you just die. So I don't know what rules he's enforcing. Yeah. But I did like this, though, because they kept using the ref in the way because Chung Lee, he grabs a ref and throws him in front of Frank. And then Frank jumps up and then just. kind of steps off of his back and does a flying kick. He clearly missed.

And he looks like he kicked Chung Lee in the throat, but he goes down. Van Dam, the nice guy he is, he helps the ref back up. And then they start fighting and kicking each other. And Van Dam's kicking him to the head. John Lee's just shaking it all off. Whap, whack, whack, two more kicks to the face. Nope. Straight kick.

Chun Lee just goes down. See him, when you're kicking him, he's a big dude. and that's probably like kicking a wall because that's he's way bigger than Van Dam but my friend said she met Van Dam once he was getting on an airplane

and I say she's like 510 or whatever and she was saying well she said Van Dam was drunk and he was an asshole yeah I've heard a lot about that she says he's short and small she goes I could beat him up

oh I'm scared of you but I wouldn't want to feel these kicks So everyone's hooting and hollering and cheering on Frank And he's just kicking the shit out of Chung Lee He starts giving him all those kicks But then Chung Lee starts to come back And starts just dropping him with those fists So he's laying in there

Again, ref getting in the way So Chong Lee starts coming back Because he gives him some straight kicks And then the slow motion starts kicks him in the gut hella hard and like throws him across the map but then he jumps up and then they start fighting again what else the thing i liked about this is um after he uh well when chung lee was finally getting

his ass beat because he gets knocked down uh he takes that little pill and grinds it up in his hand and then it didn't look like he threw it in his face it's because it looks like it's just a mist yeah And really would it be like a powder? Because it's in his waistband and he's all sweaty and shit and feel like he'd crush it up. Just be like stuck to his hand. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. Yeah.

I don't know. I mean, obviously he's really strong. But getting that pill, unless it's one of those little soft pills. And then he, because he grunts it up pretty much to a powder. Because then he throws it in the air, basically, in Frank's face. And he's standing there with his eyes wide open. And then it goes in it. And then he acts like he can't see.

Because after it doesn't take effect that fast because after he throws it in the air and it gets in his eyes, he kind of grabs Chung Lee and gives him a few knocks to the stomach. And then he falls down. but then this is when Frank starts not can't see anymore all right I didn't get this but the way the camera is it's kind of all blurry but you can still kind of see if that's the vision he's got but then he's like looking around like he can't see and then just starts throwing punches at nothing and missing and this is when Chung Lee comes up behind him and just pop ass that's fucking him up uh giving him chops to the neck and

the ear because then he the van Frank goes down and Chung Lee's trying to

get him Frank still just he yeah the way he looks the

the expression is on his face from like he can't see his mouth is open

his eyes are he he uh chung Lee knocks him down but then

he does an ogre instead of finishing him he starts walking around hyping up the crowd

he's got to give Van Dam time to do his emotional cry And his cry turns into him getting angry. And he's, ah, because while he's on the ground,

John Lee's just kicking him. He's on all fours and he just gives him a little soccer kick to the gut. Then he boots him to the side. Then he goes rolling down to the other side of the map. And he's still standing there. Ha! Screaming, swinging at nothing. But then his, I assume his training kicked in.

Because earlier in the film, we find that we see him training blindfolded. So he like kind of compels himself and then he just gets into it. You would have all, it's all in slow motion too. Yeah, you would have think his training would have kicked in immediately since he's been trained to fight blind. Maybe the adrenaline him was. Yeah. Because he's standing there on his hands and. knees in the middle of the mat.

Screaming, but then you see him, all right, let me calm down. He closes his eyes and then he does a flashback of his training. He sees Tanaka showing him how to do it. They show him fighting with the band, or the headband or he's blindfolded. And then he kind of centers himself because then Chun Li comes up and tries to hit him with a forearm

but Van Dam catches it grabs it and then he kicks him in the in the gut jumps up everyone's all hyped yeah

Janice is probably gotta go change her underwear but then he she's the only one hyped other than all the other people the other two cops are just sitting there

the two DEA games or DIE or whatever IED whatever you call them and he started he gets up and he's uh chan lee throws the ref at frank but frank stops grabs and feels them all right you're you're the ref and he kind of just pushes them out of the side up to the top of the

the mat and then they're just kind of circling each other trying to feel it feel each other out and then this is when he comes into strike chunley just runs at him and it's like he's getting ready to just give him some chop to the gut or whatever but frank kicks him then he starts doing the windmill kicks and missing every time i figured well it's all in slow motion but he uh chunleash has just went right in there and bach he got him in the balls or something yeah i'm watching it and i'm just kind of like why don't you just go to the left or right and get out of the way and then why does he do a cartwheel or like a roll right under him for whatever reason i don't know trying to do that

What's the green, yellow, orange guy or whatever and street fighter? Blanca? Yeah, yeah. He does that role, but doesn't do anything. But then he jumps up and then Van Dan starts giving him the spin kicks. And he finally kicks him a couple times in the face. But Chun Lee doesn't go down. Then he finally gives him like a third one.

Blood's coming out. It looks like he's knocked out because he's all dazed. Oh, what that fuck's going on? And then Chun Lee goes down. And then he's laying on his stomach. And Frank grabs him by the neck. Say it. Trying to act like he's all blind.

Say it. He keeps telling him. And then finally, Chun Lee says, it's M.A.T. Matte? He says, mat. Yeah. And so, yeah, he beat him. He takes Frank's ogre's little Harley David. it's an headband off of

off of his knee and everyone's yeah cheering Chun Lee's just laying there beat the hell so he wins and then that's it he gets a trophy or whatever I think he gets his own sword

yeah he gets the yeah his own little what they call this the something sword some Japanese word I'm not even if you can try to pronounce it um is this kumenti always in hong kong or is it uh

bounce all over the world i'm i don't know i don't know so if it even happened well yeah i guess it didn't

so it does this frank duke's guy really look like van dam i don't know but give us a good movie yeah so he gets his sword he's already he goes to the hospital to see ogre and he's all happy yeah and ogre like hell yeah and then he's like well till next time and uh maybe you and i will go up against each other and i assume um frank brought him beer because ogre's laying in a still in the hospital laying in bed drinking beer so They basically just say we love each other and all that.

And then we go to the airport and Frank gets on a plane and flies back home. And I assume he's getting a court marshal. I don't know. Something big has to happen. Military prison or something. Yeah, something has to happen. But they're all happy. They're all friends.

I assume they're all friends. But they're getting on the plane. And then Janice stays. And then we get the end. that dumb song uh says this motion picture is based upon true events with the life of frank w dukes but we just found out that that's bullshit um

in 1975 to 1980 frank w dukes fought 320 329 matches he retired undefeated as world heavyweight full contact kumate champion um okay uh what else is this say Come on.

Must be slow readers in this. There wasn't more to this, but it's taken forever for it to change. Oh, here we go. Mr. Duke still holds four world records. Fastest knockout, 3.2 seconds. Fastest punch with a knockout. Point 12 seconds. Fastest kick with a knockout.

72 miles per hour. I don't know how they figure that out, but all right. Most consecutive knockouts in a single tournament, 56. And subsequently, Mr. Dukes found the first American ninjitsu system, Duke's Raiu. Okay. And I think that's it. I'm looking of his military background. Contrary to claim to his.

claims dukes's military records obtained through freedom of information show that he never served overseas that he was not given the middle of honor or any other award all right then there's a whole thing about him talking about being in the kumatae and um what does this say here john johnson reported he could find no evidence of dukes's alleged teacher who sends up Tiger Tanaka in history books. Frank Dukes was the fight coordinator for this film. When John Clyde Van Dam

was cast, Dukes announced that Van Dam wasn't nearly in good enough shape, but put him in, put him through a three-month training program. Van Dam, a world championship martial artist in his own right called it the hardest training of his life. Okay. There's more and more and more

in this trivia, but all right. According to Frank Dukes, the character played by Donald Gib was based on an ex-biker and a juditsu something. What jujitsu did he do?

I don't know. He just was a bar brawler. He's doing like old school wrestling double axe handle moves and that's it. I guess it's the guy that he based him off of was a guy named Richard Robinson. I don't

know who he is. In the movie Chun Lee defeats Jackson, they use the same camera angles and slow motion techniques and the Bruce Lee uses an air of the dragon. Every martial arts movie uses slow motion. All right, whatever.

Says Bolo Young's character, Chung Lee, is from South Korea. Okay? Do we need to know that? I guess not. Yeah, everyone, we will be here all night. There's a ton of trivia for this film, and now we can't go through all of it.

But we did find out that this movie was, well, Frank Dukes was bullshit and everything. And they can't keep secrets in Hong Kong. We're about this illegal Kumete tournament. Yeah, I'm sure there's a kumatai. It's just Frank Dukes wasn't there. Yeah. He probably just heard about it in some bar and then came up with this story.

But yeah, the guys that put made this film, they obviously didn't do their research. But it was an awesome film. And I loved it. The fighting and all that was there. And it did good in the box office because I remember when we saw it, it was packed. we had to sit in the very front role. But it was cool, man, because everyone was hooting and cheering and laughing at the little black guy with the monkey style. But I can't do that today in 2022, boys and girls.

But this was directed by Newt Arnold. He was an American film director and doesn't look like he did much. I think he did Cyborg. Yeah, what else did he direct then? Assistant Director on the Godfather Part 2 and 12 Angry Men. He only has three directing credits. Bloods board, bloodthirst, and hands of a stranger. Oh.

Blood thirst, that sounds like a horror film. What is that? Let me click on it. It's a horror film. A sex crime specialist from New York travels to the Philippines to help his friend in Manila homicide detective solve a series of murders

blood thirst looks like it has to do with vampires but his poster looks cool I guess we'll have to find that one and oh my God this looks crazy he was in DC cab he was

yeah FBI chief I don't remember oh oh um well did they show what he there's no pictures of him well he's done a lot of good movies I mean

or he's had his hands in him yeah he's done all kinds he had blade runner Cheech and Chong Zakes movie the jerk Tarring Inferno uh Goonies War games

Abyss Ladybugs He's still alive He died in 2000 Coming to America Damn, he's done hell of shit. Yeah, this movie's awesome, everyone. If you got HBO Max, it is streaming on there.

So, but yeah, Bloodsport, late 80s classic, Van Dam classic. So, uh, what do we got next for that action? We are going to jump to the early 90s with 1991's Stone Cold, star in the Buzh. Brian Bosworth.

Wait a minute. Oh, dude. What the hell is? Are you watching the Mentos thing? Yeah. You never seen this? No. It's the whole scene when the two Asian guys are chasing Frank, but it's got the Mentos.

It fits perfectly. Yeah, it does. Oh, that was perfect. is when he's sitting in that little, a little cart thing or whatever and wave his mom and then Mentos, the Freshmaker. Oh my God, I never seen that.

That was awesome. Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth. Yeah. Wasn't Lance Hendrickson? He is the evil leader of the biker gang. Yeah. 1991 I haven't seen it

Where's the It's on YouTube Oh okay Well all right Recommendation For action Oh shit I guess if you watch Bloodspor or you might as well watch

Kid Boxer They're pretty much the same movie He goes to another country and he has to find someone to teach him so he can enter tournament kind of because he does some kickbox and then he fights Tong Po it's pretty much the same movie except you don't get Van Damme dancing

in bloodsport I'll give you an action movie this is on prime and I think it's on Hulu as well this is the 1995 Academy Award winner Nicholas K. um uh what's his nuts

Sean Carnery and the rock I have not seen this in forever so if you got prime it's on there and I think Oulu as well but um was that Jerry Brookheimer is the one that one yeah I always get him and Michael Bay

mixed up you know what I got to look that up it might be a Michael Bay I don't I didn't I didn't look to see you look at real quick for some reason it pulled up The Rock, not the movie The Rock. It is Michael Bay. Okay.

I thought Jerry Brookheimer had some... He probably produced it. He did. And Michael Bay says he will continue to work with Will Smith despite him slapping Chris Rock. Yeah, of course. I mean, I don't... It's just going to slow...

He's just going to kind of stay in the cut for a little while. He'll be back. But, I mean, you got to kind of question the academy. I mean, he slapped somebody, 10-year ban, but they never banned, like, uh, was it, Roman Polanski or, uh, the Weinstein guy. Uh, was that Harry Weinstein? Yeah, the, the one guy that was sexually whatever to damn near everybody. yeah I got never got banned Polanski won't ever he can't come back to America because if he comes back that's it so So I don't think he'll ever he'll ever come back but um

I don't know supposedly everybody they're all cool about it as fellow as Chris Rock but Chris Rock's brother wants to beat to will Smith's ass so I don't know we'll see where how far that goes but we'll just leave your wife. Everything will be fine after that. Yeah. Jada, I love you, but yeah, come on. No more entanglement. Is that what she said?

Yeah, no more red table talk because you're destroying your family. Yeah. I still don't understand why they had to do that to let everyone know about their business. They should have just get that to themselves. But I know we're fucking rambling, but did you see

the clip where she told him or she was on a red table talk saying she never wanted to marry him and she cried down the aisle. Yeah. She married that money, I guess. I don't know. Rich people, everyone.

But speaking of Michael Bay, did you see ambulance? No, not yet. I liked it. Definitely checked that one out. But another recommendation. Go see ambulance. I thought it was pretty good. Did it need to be as long as it was?

No, but it was still a good movie. I liked it. Just don't worry about the story and everything. Just watch the action. Basically, speed in an ambulance. It was still a good movie. Yeah, come back next week for Stone Cold. E-Society, we got a new episode out now,

as well as an anchor episode to go over and check that out. The anchor, Disease, when I ran down the list, Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies from worst to best from screen rant.com We didn't really agree with the number one movie but yeah, yeah, whatever, it's Arnold. Definitely go over that. I won't tell you what it is.

Definitely go over and listen to that. And yeah. Yeah, I think that's it. I don't know, it's late, everyone. But yeah, go over and listen to all that. Go to the horror returns. dot com for everything else so till then everyone just be safe out there

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