We Hate Movies - S11: Episode 533 - Live Wire

Episode Date: February 23, 2021

On this week's episode, the gang chats about this total banger of an early-90's action film, Live Wire! How did the whole town hear about Danny O'Neill's wife? What's Pierce trying to do with that accent? And is that a divorced guy apartment, or what? PLUS: This film contains no less than THREE exquisite dummy explosions! Live Wire stars Pierce Brosnan, Ron Silver, Ben Cross, Lisa Eilbacher, Tony Plana, Brent Jennings, Philip Baker Hall, and Al Waxman; directed by Christian Duguay. Advertise on We Hate Movies via Gumball.fm Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the program, this is one for the record books. It's Live Wire. I'm Andrew Jupin. Stephen Sadek. Eric Siska. Chris Gavin. And we hate movies. Hello,

humdinger of an episode that I am so thrilled we are finally getting to this is Live Wire from 1992 directed by Christian Dugay notably appearing on Eric's TV a lot over the last couple weeks because I know Eric you watch

these movies he's also the director of Scanners 2 the New Order Scanners 3 The Takeover and then a couple other movies here that I am aware of I saw in theaters The Art of War with Wesley Snipes Not a very good movie No, definitely not. And speaking in

not great movies, extreme ops from like 2000 or maybe 2001, the movie where like a bunch of Dan Cortez-esque extreme athletes foil terrorists for some reason? I've seen that. It's awful. It's awful. But this movie, this

movie is amazing. And I cannot believe New Line Cinema did not put this out in theaters. Well, Art of War has to be his biggest movie then, right? Like, of all time. I guess. Because I was released in fucking theaters with Wesley Snipes. I mean, you have to see that.

That movie is what, it's from 2000. So everything is about the millennium. Oh, nice. Like, literally they're like, there's a big, there's a big power outage. And they're like, you could just hear the ADR of three people saying, Is this, is this the millennium? It's just the Y2K? I saw that movie in the theater.

I remember, the only thing I remember about, about seeing that movie in the theater is that it was an empty-ass theater at like a 5 p.m. show on a Saturday or something like that. Like theoretically, other people, at least one other person should have been in that theater. And I was worried there was a gas leak I didn't know about. I will say I'm to not, I stepped on Eric's point. This should have been released in theaters. Just like not the, apparently according to the MDB that they were looking for a summer blockbuster.

No, I mean, this is like a March release. Yeah. a fucking kick-ass march release. Oh, yeah. It's a March release that, like, you'd come out the theater and be like, hot, damn, I am glad I went to the movies. Even if it wasn't successful in the theatrical run, I think it would have done business on video. But as it stands right now, I feel like no one knows about this movie. It's pretty hidden, yeah.

They turned to do a TV movie, essentially. It came out on the UPN or something like that. America's sexual affair with Pierce Brosnan would have starred a lot earlier, I feel. That's right. We waited until Golden Eye, essentially, or I missed outfire-esque time area. Well, no, he had that fucking television show, Redington Steel, yeah. Well, this is when, I mean, we talked about this before with, especially with, um, uh, not Jacob's ladder, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, lawnmower man, sorry. Oh, there we go.

I get those like sometimes. Um, but with lawnmore man, it's like that there was this time when, like, he was going to be James Bond. It went to Dalton. And then, like, that point. part with Max von Seidow in Judge Dread, they gave him a Bible and a large gun and sent him out into the wilderness. Get walking, motherfucker.

He made all these movies and they're all kind of awesome. It's, I mean, it's a weird blessing in disguise, right? And it's also a great story, too, because, like, he gets sent out in the desert with the Bible and the gun. We think, like, maybe this is

the last we will see of Remington's deal. He makes fucking total baller movies like lawnmower man, and even better this movie and then still gets to be james bond yes when so when does remington steel end 87 because i will say i have seen another earlier one of his is john mctyernan's first movie nomads where they have pierce brosnan doing a french accent and my god in heaven it is disastrous is that um isn't nomad he's got like a huge beard in that movie he's kind of got a little Scrag in the beginning, I remember.

It's like, it's one of those like we're scared, like a suburban couple scared of punk kids kind of movie. Maybe they're monsters. What, like literal monsters? Yeah, and then they turn out to be monsters. What? Oh, wait now, well, now you just fucking

spoiled nomad, first of all, you son of the IMD, and the poster kind of makes it clear. Oh, it's just a poster of a big monster. Yeah, there is a monster on the poster. It's Pierce Brosnan being chased by ghosts and goblins. Oh. I also think that's

literally the tagline if you're on that Eric. A terrifying story of the supernatural nomads. Oh, there you go. Sure. Oh, I do remember this poster now because I always thought his hip leather jacket looked cool as fuck.

And yeah, he definitely has a beard in the poster too. And yeah, that's clearly a monster on the poster. Wow, look at this movie. Man, I got to see it. But this is the thing, is that I mean the French accent is a problem? Because like, you know, like my man could do, he could do a very flat American if he has to. I would rather him not.

He could do a British accent, sort of. But that's it. That and just let him be Irish. Let my dude be Irish. Well, and he's a fucking treasure and leave him alone. Yes. And I think to your point, Steve, as much as I love this movie. And as far as I'm concerned, this is a fucking four star film.

but dude I don't know what is going on with the Tasmanian devil inside this dude's mouth the accent because he is it takes, this movie takes place

in Washington DC we have no real idea like where his character is supposed to be from origin story wise but it sounds like he is trying to do like a New York

kind of cat voice instead of doing like the Hugh Lorry Cumberbatch route of just flatten it out I think it's like the you know the Christian

Bail Batman like like the growl this is his because this could also be called a divorce man begins this is like the beginning of what I would like to call a trilogy that there should be a trilogy

like the second one should be him versus his nemesis the widower and I think I think that went through rewrites and it turned into this because it has a happy ending now in the end in this one but like I think otherwise this is just incredible divorce man energy. Yeah, definitely. Now, what happens in that third movie, you alluded to?

I think the third movie is like, I think the wife, this, what's, uh, his wife's name in this movie? Terry. Terry played by, uh, from Beverly Hills cop. Lisa Albacher, who is also, uh, the daughter of Charles Bronson and 10 to midnight recently on the show. Yes. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I think at the third one, she is like killed by somebody and he has to find out who did it. Okay. I would also offer a divorced guy, colon the complex, where he moves into a

new swinging singles complex. And he has to battle other divorced guys for new ladies kind of a thing. And he sleeps in a race car bed. That's a bundle. That's a blockbuster idea. Steve, you got it. That's the better one. Actually, look at this

though. Two years after live wire, so we're in 1994. It's the year before Golden Eye drops. He's in a movie with Terry O'Quinn and others. Oh, I saw this. I saw this recently.

It's on YouTube. Don't talk to strangers. Yes, it's really fun. By the way, Terry O'Quinn, perfect casting for the widower. Yes. Yes.

But look at this plot synopsis. After Jane's first marriage collapses, she and her new husband, Patrick Brody, that's Brosnan, attempt to build a new life and move to a new state. However, her ex-husband, I'm presuming is Terry O' Quinn.

follows them with a view to revenge. Yes, and he's like a cop and it's like totally pushing the boundaries and very twisty terny. So I don't want to talk about that movie too much because I don't want to spoil it but honestly it is worth your time if you're into like the whole like

lifetime-esque domestic thrillers plus that cast is solid so I'm gonna watch that. Yeah, check it out. I think it was on YouTube as of this recording it might have been taken down. I don't know. Hey Eric, they're monsters in that movie or what? I don't give it away. I don't want to give it away.

I don't want to give it away. This movie, Live Wire, you know, this, it's a movie that so beautifully rides the line between like garbage and totally great

like cop thriller kind of a thing. But I love, like, it sets the tone perfectly because of this like pseudo-arty opening with this like beautiful score and the water's falling. And then like,

you just realize, It's this magical title card that says Live Wire. It's like the opening of Superman. It's like, it's nothing I've seen. It's just like, yeah, you're ready to get fucked here. Here we go. Yeah, it's like a metal plate that is sizzling. I am a huge fan of physical title cards.

And if you can find more of those, I like that. I like the idea of a title card, but it's actually, it's a real thing. Like, this is actually a piece of metal that someone had to fucking make and it exists somewhere. like, you know, carve a fucking title into a mountain, carve a title, you know what I mean? There's sparks coming out of the water. It's incredible. This is craftsmanship. What is rad about this, right? Is it looks like a metal brand like you'd put on a cow's ass. So like while this awesomeness is happening, I'm also thinking about barbecue sauce commercials. That's a brand, brand a cow for a title card, man. That'd be pretty cool.

That's somewhere, isn't it? Like, fakely done? I think that exactly. is maybe in cartoon form or something. Yeah, I think a production company maybe like at the end of a cartoon. It sounds familiar. And by the way, then we got that amazing title card. We don't need this kind of quasi-scroll that about terrorism. Because the movie's not about terrorism at all.

Well. And also it's like, yeah, there hasn't been a terrorist attack in America before this. I'm like, there's a huge fucking asterisk at the end of that buddy. Yeah, yeah. Chris, let me read it real quick. It's over the last decade. more than 3,600 lives worldwide have been lost as a direct

act of terrorism. Nearly every country on the globe has had its share of political kidnappings, hijackings, and firebombings, with one notable exception. The United States of America. Oh, man. And then what is the last part of it, though? It's like, the U.S. has been safe

until now or something like that. Yes, yes. It gets into that. Due to the stable political system and the difficulty of smuggling. easily detectable incendiary devices into the country. The United States has been relatively safe until now. Woof, dude.

You have to like mumble. You're like, really safe. Like, you can't say relatively safe. I get the five they don't want you to read it all. But no, they really don't, right? They're like, should we have left this in the movie? Make the text go by really fast. But this movie's not about terrorism.

It's about some nerd that is, like, like, hey man, I'm going to help you get this bill passed. And then when you get all that slush money, you're going to give me $10 million bucks, right? And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, sure. And then he doesn't, he doesn't get it. And then he keeps going back, like, what you said, you'd give me the money.

It's vaguely arms trading, I guess. Vagely. Yes. And the guy that Steve is impersonating is Ben Cross, the late great Ben Cross, as Mikhail. Yes. The Fox father from the new Star Trek. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The weird thing that I noticed this time, though, and I don't know what the answer is here. And I think I do, but I'm not certain. But, I mean, the uncomfortable 1992ness of this movie, such as it is, Ben Cross' character is Mikhail Rashid. And then this other assistant that does the suicide bombing is Al Red. like they're vaguely mid-eastern in this movie they're Soviet Muslims or something yes yeah yeah yeah exactly

and I didn't notice that the first time I watched it and then when I was like watching it last night and I'm going through the credit listing on IMDV I was like wait a second oh that's not great Tony Plana the guy who plays the clown he's I know him from three amigos he's one of the villains from three amigos

he's a trillion thing he's a He's a Cuban-born actor. So, again, yeah. Whatever. Because he was a big presence on, what was that show that was really big on ABC and the mid-a-Ots? Ugly Betty, he was on that. He was on the one day at a time, reboot and everything.

So, like, dude works. Dude's great. We actually, hilariously, we had just seen him because I had this on and Chelsea was in the room watching it, watching her laptop while I was watching the movie. movie, but she noticed this dude was also in an episode of the Golden Girls that we had just watched.

So we start after that incredibly baffling scroll about how terrorism could never ever, ever come to the United States. Not on my soil. And we opened on a restaurant and some senators glad

handing with some guys. And we get like four and a half Dan Quilla jokes in 69 seconds. It's so much. I wrote down my favorite one. I hope everyone else wrote down their favorite. Which is yours? Here this, folks. There's a movie about Dan Quayle's

military service record coming. It's called Full Dinner Jacket. Oh, man. That's that guy's last word, sadly. Could you imagine your last words are a bad Dan Quail joke? Yes. I also have to imagine Bill Maher was at that table

and ran out right after he said. took it for his first fucking joke that night. Because it's a senator and you see Tony Plano is playing a waiter. Obviously he's not a waiter and he pours water in the guy's glass. There's something, something the bill is going to be signed next week. This guy drinks and he starts to freak the fuck out. Oh, man, it's exquisite. And he blows up.

And the explosion in this movie, it's, yeah, there's so much to, so many reasons I'm going to recommend this movie, but the reasons I will recommend this film, honestly the explosions make it so worth it. It's not only that he explodes, his body somehow produces enough fire and momentum to take

out the entire restaurant. The whole thing, the whole thing. And then it doesn't end there, though. I know where you're going. There is a guy he must be just like waiting for a cab. There was a guy in front of the restaurant that gets hit in the back with the fireball

and they add in just ADR screaming. He gets flash fried. Yes, he does. Oh, my God. I should have put sunscreen on. And also the music in this movie is pretty awesome. Those, like, boobastic drums happening. Dude, you got the drums.

There is some exquisite fart guitar going on. Oh, man. Oh, fuck. It's so good. So that hysterical explosion happens. A hysterical explosion, one of like, five in this movie, I feel. We cut to Pierce Brosnan, who

is playing Danny O'Neill could just be Irish. It would be great. The name is right there. If he just talks like regular old Pierce Brosnan, I'm like, awesome, dude. Sounds good. But wait a second. How did an Irishman end up in the FBI? Am I missing a movie?

An Irishman in the police force, weird. Look, I'm going to be very square with you here. If he has the Irish accent, he's too hot. It's too attractive. We can't have him. It would be bringing all the attention would be to him and not on water bombs. Chris is on to something here.

Because if you had that Irish accent, I think that it's like the audience is not going to believe the wife left. Yeah. It's hard to believe as is. Yeah. I mean, it is hard to believe any movie where he's divorced. Doesn't he have marital problems in lawnmower man?

He does. Yes. Lady figure it out. I mean, come on. But he's in this sexy situation in the beginning of this movie. man this is he's just up to no good right here isn't he's like he's like on the case of a like he's diffusing a bomb and he's like under a woman who's like stuck in the driver's seats a little bit of a

lethal weapon two toilet situation you know what else it is it's very similar to the beginning of blown away blown away is absolutely stay tuned as well a hundred percent Tommy lee Jones is in that movie it's Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges and Jeff Bridges is a bomb diffuser and he's been some uh a girl's uh ex-boyfriend has like rigged a computer and he's between her legs trying to get trying to defuse the bomb and he's talking to her and trying to be like funny with her and she has none of it whereas this one it's more ratat-tat that she's actually going back with him it's blown away in 94 but they they stole it and by the way blown away tom lee jones is doing a terrible irish accent on that movie and it's like what are we doing

just switch them around there is not to be confused with blown away from from 1993 the two Corrie's and Nicole Egert also stay tuned if I may that movie is insane there is

a blown away month coming up I don't want to derail us too much but like there is this amazing scene in the blown away

with Jeff Bridges where like Tommy Lee Jones has to be he's been in prison and he has to be told who you two is and he's like

oh my God it's the best thing I've ever heard oh yeah oh that sucks I've never seen that movie but now I'm

even more motivated It's about, it's about a guy coming out of prison learning about the band, you two and he's blown away by them. Yes, that's a whole movie. It's kind of like yesterday. Oh, fuck. Please no more. In this scene, all man, holy Toledo, there, there's, he even says like,

oh, I'm looking at your exposed, uh, shit, Italian, put some underwear on, he says to her, because he's been looking. He's been peeking. I do. I do. She said, oh, well, you know, I'm. Looking at your exposed genitalia right now. Yeah, man, what a sexy line.

I'm looking at your exposed genitalia. Don't you humans talk like that? He's not even diffusing a bomb. He's doing like a sketch of her fucking vagina on like a little pad and he had hands into her. I'm going to save this for later. Her husband did it, right? Yes, the husband did it. And he's playing fast and loose right here.

I think because he is distracted by the exposed genitalia because he clips a wire and then it starts like going faster. He's like, oh, fuck. Give me your gum, woman, your gum. And like has to redo it and then clip another wire or something. It is pretty awesome. But then, yeah, oh, wow. In over the internet ticker.

Sorry, just recording this in real time. RIPD, Larry Flint. Oh, wow. Larry Flint's dead. That's a fan of exposed genital. Italian. Yeah. There you go. Hero. I love that man.

Oh, Jesus. Yeah. And then, yeah, his whole thing is like, next time, put on some underwear. Yeah. And she just realized that he's been looking at her vagina the entire time. It's like, oh, great. Oh, wow. Totally. She's humiliated by it. And you think immediately like, oh, okay. So here we are. I've got our hot shit detective. He's like, you know, he's flirting with all the ladies.

No, no, no. This is a ruined man. which we find out really quickly because they send him to the other explosion well first he gets he gets like the subpoena or whatever saying that you know restraining order from the wife or whatever

yep and he nearly kills this guy dude he's ready to fucking murder this dude who presents him with the papers you're also missing the most fucking the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life this man takes off his shirt and he's got something taped to him

it is like the the photo booth picture of him and his estranged wife and it is just the set he's like got to keep it close to me and he's dead daughter i forgot i'm sorry it's also the dead daughter is in there too a lot of it i mean i do think the problem is there's there's divorces where you know you get divorce and separations where you get separated but once a restraining order is used my eyebrow goes up like what's going on at home you know what i mean like it's well you know what i think it's has to be at least in part because I was feeling it too the rage against this interfering mother-in-law. Get out of that house, lady. Don't you have someone else to be? That is the terrorism they were warning us about

it. It was the water at all. No, I mean, the weirder thing to me is just like, are you putting this thing on you every day? Are you using all the black tape in your house to just put this thing on your rib cage? It's when he's touching bombs.

dude yes he says it's a lucky charm of sorts because he's irish isn't that his job doesn't he do that every day yes he does that every day and he loves mondays because there's another explosion across town but here's the thing is he's not a diffuser anymore and this it's an interesting thing that happens later in the movie when his FBI superior is like hey man i know that you are the best in the business but you cannot be doing these on the side like pay me under the table diffusing jobs for the DC Metro Police is what this guy explains. So what we just saw in that underwear scene

or lack of underwear scene in the car is he's just like doing this for kicks because he says something about like oh yeah, it keeps me shop or something like that. His rating on TaskRab it must be amazing. It's like 95 bucks a bomb or he will

successfully defuse your bomb. He will point out to you whether or not you were wearing underwear five stars. This guy's great. Look, I'm not sure it's a bomb. It might be a fake one. He might be joking. Could I give you maybe 50 bucks? So I guess that woman was supposed to die. She was meant to die.

And that's why at the end of the film, she comes back. I guess there's a Tony Todd type of thing. Death is trying to find a way. That's right. The fucking biggest mac daddy of him all, dude, death himself. So yeah, he goes to the restaurant where the explosion

happened earlier in the film. He's like flirting with this woman who I thought was like an insurance, a but then she later provides him with, like, other information, unless those are two different women. No, no. I think it's the same woman. Yeah. Okay. So I don't know what this lady's actual job is, but she's there at least in this scene, Pierce, Prousin's like, oh, you're here for the insurance company. Do you think it's an inside job or, you know, whatever? He gets sexually harassed by a robot in this scene. Yes, but there is a brief, brief line, blinking you miss it,

When he's entering this crime scene, this blown up restaurant, and he's looking at the bodies and he's like, like, what was the shrapnel? Was it the ceramic, like plates or whatever? And someone's like, no, bones. Yeah, I love that bone shrapnel, just this senator exploding and then all of his bones cutting through your body. Man, you're killed by a skeleton, dude. That's what that is. A body can't have two skeletons, so it pushes one out and you die. It's such a cool idea that is, I mean, and it's not wasted in this movie at all, but again, it's wasted on this plot because this guy's just like, come on, pay me the money you said you were going to pay me.

I don't know, dude, hold up a bank. Dude, like, you know, ransom city hall. Do something. You have, like, the most undetectable bomb in the world. You can get $10 million other ways. Yeah, you're totally right. This whole, like, trying to shake down all these senators, which are Ron Silver, Philip Baker Hall, and then the dude who already exploded. Um, it does seem like he's going about this all the wrong way. You're right. He could take. See, here's the thing. You get a serum like that dude. You go from like crooked chemist to like Gotham supervillian. Absolutely. You can be the Joker. Dude. All you do is like, hey, look, there's someone, one of these glasses in this room is a bomb. Give me $10 million. There you go. You're done. Yeah. You got to, you got to like get a really cool name. I, you know, you got to workshop at like something liquid and fire. I don't know. Water bomb.

Yeah, that's not good. Hot piss. Oh, hot piss. I like hot piss. I like hot piss. Okay. Hot piss is pretty good. Yeah, that's going.

A wet blast. Wet blast is good. Fire chiques? Wet blaster. Oh, fire cheeks. Look out old chum. It's fire cheeks. Great exploding skeletons, Batman.

This robot is like right out of Rocky for. dude all right here's the question it's a hot splashes I like hot splashes as well yeah big question on this robot is this thing sentient or not well I think the the thing is the guy

who runs the robot is just like really attracted to Pierce Brosden and kind of is like trying to make a move and it's like ha ha ha the robot's got a mind of it so I was like no it doesn't oh sure this is like this other guy this forensics dude Shane

played by Brent Jennings who's in a ton of shit he was in fucking I think he's in red heat as the blind guy yes he is among other things he's been around for a long time

he's in witness for two seconds I think to Moneyball but he yeah because he's doing the like oh sorry about that Pierce Brosnan looks like the robot goose you and then later in the movie

he does make a line where he's like and I am an unmarried man or something like that so maybe you're right dude he's using this robot to flirt with Pierce Brosnan And sexually harassed him at the workplace

Or he's fucking it. Pierce Brosnan alludes to this. The robot is named Madonna, by the way. Yeah. Yeah, you know what? If you name a robot Madonna, dude, you're fucking it. There's a great line here where Pierce Brosnan tells him to, you should go home, get a can of WD40 and go to town on it. Yeah.

Oh, yep. One of those lines, like the WD 41 is one of those ones. If you're listening to this accent, I mean, it is trash. this accent is trash and that is one of the lines if you go and rewatch the movie it's like you get a can of WD 40 go down to town with it

you have a cop Doesn't somebody refer to as a horny can of tuna? I don't remember that he does call it or any kind of tuna Oh he does I mean this movie is a cornucopia of so many lines and so much is happening

at all times it's only 85 minutes I watched it twice and 24 hours and I'm still losing threat dude it packs a lot into 85 minutes i have to say um so he he leaves this dude at the restaurant he's like you know what i got some other obnoxious news that i have to go take care of and he goes to the house and like this is it's fucking awkward he's like you're screaming at the wife right here uh you know the mother-in-law's like you can't be in here you know he's screaming about the restraining order and everything and then like she has the setup right of you know you

haven't it hasn't been easy on us ever since and she like trails off and this is when he's like come on say it and as soon as he says come on say it I was like dead kid they got a dead kid yeah 100% but also like he I mean he comes into this house he's like it's my

damn house and I my damn garbage which I will throw your restraining order in I'm like dude that's what the restraining order is for it's to keep you away from me please but like

like they they shoot it more distance than this but like if you were to actually be like safti brothers on the ground for all of what happened today this is like an uncut gems type situation where it's just like you diffused one bomb you went to the scene of another bomb you went into this cassavetti's fight with your ex-wife or soon to be ex-wife it's incredible his heart must be pounding and in that argument dude it in and of itself is like diffusing a bomb dealing with this soon-to-be-x wife and that wretched mother-in-law. Oh, that mother-in-law, Jesus Christ, that lady. She's in this scene, too, right?

She is. She's in this scene that she meddles a lot later, and there is kind of hilarious repercussions for her at the end of this movie. But we get the flashback of what was going on, because the wife, Terry, is like, you know, no one is blaming this on you except you. And then we get the flashback, and it's him. you know in the house and you hear like a voiceover like daddy let's go out to the pool or whatever

and he's like in a minute darling uh and then unfortunately the little girl falls in the pool it's actually it's quite horrible the fucking dog is on the diving board like barking at the pool and brosnin i mean pierce brosin is a great actor and in this seat like when he realizes what's going on you know you're you're with it you know you're with him you know he's like oh jesus oh jesus oh jesus christ no you know and he's like really fucking selling it and i mean i think there are other actors I mean it's the most road thing in the world right that's why we guessed dead kid because it happens all

the fucking time and that's everyone's excuse for everything in movies but at least he's playing it with like some not with edge but with like some real sensitivity which I appreciate because usually it's like no bellowing kind of yes I will say though

the shot of him he like jumps in the pool grabs this little girl and then they have a shot of him like jumping up out of the water the face that he is making and his hair and there's leaves in the pool so like the pool's disgusting he kind of looks like Jason Voorhe's jumping out of the lake like just a little bit he is holding a dead kid but see what you were saying about the sensitivity I think you're right on the money there because like the vulnerability this character has is is is so amped up more than other

characters this ilk like John McLean is like detached in a way and cynical and this is just like a committed wife guy trying to get the wife back yes and it's also just a thing where it's an impossible solution right like they've lost a child you know every parent's greatest nightmare and they just cannot it's one of those things where it's like when i look at you i see our dead kid and that's what you got to call it a day guys you know we had a good run this family yep this family is cancelled but that's the thing it's like he's all through this is he's actually separation guy he has to come to become divorced man that's true but they actually divert it again it just he becomes

wife guy again and I don't I proves you can you can overcome that hurdle hmm yes you can yeah this and rabbit hole both did the same thing oh Jesus that movie I talk about things that you can barely watch one time yeah it's a tough one

who run still still haven't still happy I mean it's that you don't have to see it it's fine absolutely not right like so Ron Silver we don't see Ron Silver but you get the name off the Traveris, and I'm like, okay, it sounds like a fucking Transformers villain,

therefore he has to be evil already. I have Traveris. Traveris, you have screwed me out of the formula once again. Senator from Miami, by the way. Yeah, that's fucking tracks. There's a scene that happens right after we get the backstory of what happened with the daughter. It's a quick moment that really,

like if the first hilarious explosion in this movie like didn't sell you on what you're watching there is a scene where so it's Ben Cross this is where we meet Mikhail and he's walking in his little hideout

or factory or wherever this place is with a scientist and this scientist again it's another chemistry person just whining about getting paid because this guy he's like this scientist is like the inventor of this formula there's no reason to dance around it.

They're putting a chemical in water, and when you drink it, it reacts with your stomach acid and makes you a human bomb. This scientist that invented it is like, hey, Ben Cross, you totally said you were going to give me X amount of money.

You keep pushing it back. I'm just trying to figure out when I'm going to get paid. And they're in an elevator, and Ben Cross is like, okay, let me write you a check. Do you have a pen? And the guy's like, well, yes, I'm so excited. I'm finally going to get paid.

and he gives Ben Cross this pen and this dude stabs this guy in the back of the neck and murders him like it's nothing and you're like wow I am signed on now he breaks the golden rule of fucking working for a terrorist never asked for the money

well the thing is for the money why as a terrorist and now I think I would be a better terrorist leader than this fellow probably pay the scientist burn the fucking senators you're going to blow them up anywhere apparently but he's already cashed out like fucking Ron Silver and these other guys and he's not paying

a legitimately evil mad scientist. I think that would be someone who maybe will come up with another formula one day. And not to be an asshole, but like, dude, do treat people how you want to be treated. You want to get paid pay people. Golden rule. Exactly. That's right. It applies to regular people. It applies to terrorists. It applies. You know, I'm sorry. I get Ben Cross on this 100%. If I have liquid C4, that just tastes like water and acts like water and that's that, I don't need him to

come up with anything else. What about Crystal Pepsi, dude? What about Crystal Pepsi? It is a great idea, Chris. But, you know, maybe he'll have another one. Maybe he could be something else. To Chris's point, though, and to, you know, sort of

also tie in Steve's point, what if Ben Cross Michael let's this dude live. He does invent another like serum or device or what have you. And he turns on Ben Cross. That's a fair point. This is like, I got to look out for myself here because this guy, what a talented scientist I found. He made this insane formula to make this liquid bomb. Better kill him.

All right. You guys have convinced me kill everyone. Well, Ben Cross has also seems very cash poor. He's really, really obsessed with this 10 million that he's missing. So I think money is very, very sensitive to him. He doesn't want to pay anybody. But he's also got this humongous facility that looks like, like, well, again, like that joke in Wayne's World, when they open the door

and all those people are trading and it's like, oh, I always wanted to do that or whatever. Like, it's just all these people, including this guy who will meet in a second, who is the chauffeur. Like, he's got so many people on his payroll, or not payroll, I guess. We see a quick shot outside this

like warehouse. They've, they're staged their operation in. And it's a power and water company. And I'm like, do they know you're there? Are they in on this? Like, what's going on? Well, yeah, before he, before he pays all of them, he's going to be like, well, first, let's have a little whiskey and water before we go. And everybody takes their shot and he runs. Yeah, he better shag ass out of that facility, dude. It's 30 seconds till boom town. And then it explodes and all the evidence goes away. And he's, you know, he's halfway all the way to back to Miami. I mean, when this, if I, if I, I'm anyone in this film, I am instituting the hard rule of like, listen, I am not, no one's

giving me water ever again. If you're giving me a bottle of water, it better be sealed. And I got to make sure. You know what I mean? Like, yep, no doubt. I'm drinking nothing but vodka. So we meet Philip Baker Hall, who's in this movie for a hot second. He's playing Senator Time, T-H-Y-M-E. And Ben Cross calls him up at his office. There's a great Philip Baker Hall line right here. He goes, you got balls calling me here. This is a great rugged Philip Baker Hall line.

I miss those. Yeah, he's being pressed here. This is where we find out, like, the whole arm sale tied to this bill that has been passed in the senator is going to pass or whatever. And he's threatened with being victim number two. And what is the deal with his arm sale? Were those arms then used in a terrorist attack or something? No, probably. I mean, if you want to trace all the weapons,

the U.S. government just hands out like fucking candy across the globe. Yeah, because somebody does bring that up. Somebody's like, you know, they're going to eventually be used against us. Yeah. Yeah. And so he's, you know, arguing with him on the phone, like, I'm not giving you any money.

You're not getting the $10 million. And there is an excellent, like, because Ben Cross, like, gives it right back to him on the phone. And then Philip Baker Hall, he's getting a little nasty on the phone right here. Because he goes, there is a great, I've never heard this is where he says fuck you to him on the phone, but it's

fuck Q. Like the letter Q or like Q and Elijah, fuck Q. Yeah, fuck the plan. You'd better watch your mouth picard. Nobody likes a potty mouth Picard. Oh man. And then it's like, you know,

you know, he's like, oh yeah, you know, I'm going to get you. You know, like Ben Cross is like totally threatening him on the phone and it's kind of great because it's like, you just see Philip Baker all totally shit. in his office like I've done it now oh boy I mean at that point I'm calling Ron Silver I'm like look let's pay this guy off let's just give him a counteroffer like what if we come to him with like six million will he take it because he just made that guy

explode in a restaurant and he had guys all around him I think we're in trouble yeah I just think he's cocky at this point hmm um so Danny and this dude Shane and the robot are like back at the bombed out, you know, restaurant, they're trying to figure out what causes explosion. And there is, again, a stunning Pierce-Brosnan accented delivery here, where the line is,

now, what does R2D2 think? Like, he's making fun of the robot, right? But what it sounds like is like, now what does A2D2 thing? Now, to be fair, he was drinking a bud dry at the time. Dude, I couldn't believe a bud dry sighting. Oh, and also,

isn't this the introduction of FAP? boss. Fat boss. Now like, look, you love fat boss. This fat boss is good, but really you should have shelled out for a George Zunza. If you're going to do this. Yeah. Get the real stuff. The real fat boss. It's a real fat partner. The best in the business, George Zunza. Well, I think they got, they bought the outfit for George Zunza and then he backed out like shit. We need another, we need another three and a half bills here else we're not going to be able to make this movie. Yes. Law and orders George Zunza. I was trying to look up a fat boss on i'm db and i found out the name the real name of the guy who's plays the doctor in

this and it stopped me dead in the tracks and i lost all memory of what was happening clement von frankenstein oh come on frankenstein with k instead of just the k frankenstein he's doctor he's a he's an actor named frankenstein playing this doctor oh wait oh there he is isn't that in dr bernard clement von frankenkinson Look at this. Oh, died in 2019, huh? That's too bad. Oh, no. Thomas Frankenstein is my father. I don't recognize this guy, but he's in a lot of movies that I've seen. Yeah, he's in Lionheart as English investor. I bet that was a good one. Death becomes her. He's opening man. Man, he has got a main in this picture. He was in Hail Caesar the other year. oh wow he's dead now though don't worry everyone he's hailing caesar from the grave yes caesar would you like to play poker caesar runs all the cabs in hell wow you know

i gotta say i went to his i mdb profile quickly and i like wanted to scroll past his first photo because it's the first photo that uh clement von frankenstein has here is just a nice him in a tuxedo. The next scroll over is like, I think he's playing the Mator D in some episode of Married with Children. Dude, and the I just have to put the mullet on

David Faustino. It's like, it's a 1987 episode. So it's like early on. My God, they just let that kid look like a little wildling. It's unbelievable. I mean, it's truly unbelievable. I mean, he could use that to glide if he fell off of anything. Like the wind would come up

and catch it underneath. Yeah, it would be Flying squirrel. Yeah. Fat boss is like, listen, man, we're losing the most important threat of this movie, is the entire town of Washington, D.C., is a buzz

with the fact that Senator Traveris is fucking Pierce Brosden's wife. Everywhere he goes, when he goes, every scene we've talked about, we've neglected. Every time when he meets the woman, the insurance investigator,

Gator, she's like, hey, I heard Traveris is fucking your wife. Did you throw him over a balcony? He's like, yeah, I tried, but I couldn't get his fat ass over the balcony. I love that it's, it's Pierce Brosnan fucking shugniting vanilla ice. Well, I mean, like, Pierce Brosnan in this movie must have like a little notepad

full of responses for every kind of joke he's going to get during the day about Travera's fucking his wife. Like, it's one thing like that you know, you know, the senator's fucking fucking somebody like everybody knows the other guy and everyone's like hey that's a guy

oh my god that's a guy he's fucking the senator the best part was when he goes into like the office or he's going into to see Travers or whatever and like the

like the capital police there or whatever they start gossiping after he goes into the elevator but he's fucking that dude's wife it is the it is the second funniest of the mentions of Pierce Broson getting caught

because it's a like the guy's like oh or brosden says i'm going to trevarez you know senator trevarez's office and the guy's like oh yeah you know up the elevator take it right he gives him directions and then as the doors close it's the one security guard just quickly and like immediately the second those doors closed he's like that's the man who found traveras fucking his wife and then do the doors open douche chill oh my god and he comes back out and he just starts yelling at this dude and getting his name? Dude, he dresses him down, but the funniest thing is the first thing he says to him is, actually, they were just kissing.

Listen, they were just holding hands. What did you hear? What did you hear? That she had his come all over her hands? Is that what you heard? It was just kissing and hugs. They fell asleep watching Casablanca. I don't

know what happened. All I know is Casablanca was on my television and they were both on the couch asleep. And just because they were kissing, mean they'll be pushing the baby carriage anytime soon, okay? Okay, fellas. It is so good. They went on a vacation alone as friends.

They went as friends. They stayed in the same hotel suite because it just made sense financially. Yeah, it was Plutonic. Well, I heard they shifted her plutonic plates. He has it. He's a senator. He has a budget. He can't, you know, it's got to be one bed.

in one bed. It's a taxpayer's time. You can't. He's being responsible. Oh, Tammy. Yeah, he's fucking your wife out of fiscal responsibility. But everyone in the town knows it's so

good. Just like every, oh, one for, I just want to check. One for diehard. Sure. You're the guy that Travers is fucking his wife. Like, you know what I mean? Like, everywhere. Yes, I am. And I believe I have the getting cucked discount. Thank you. absolutely you do have that discount sir yeah no one no one's like going aside like that guy's kid

drowned in a pool that's a double discount he gets free movies from now on uh so they go up to you know we meet ron silver here he's senator traveris you know gotta love rn silver r ap like just like the guy you want in your film when you needed a total scumb back i agree i agree however It is the biggest amount of movie magic to make me believe that this woman is picking mushroom cut fucking little bobby head, Ron Silver here over Pierce, my God, Brosnan. You're right. You're totally right. Because here's the thing. Ron Silver, I think, is not an attractive man, but you want to put a, you want to go tee on there for sure, at least. You need a goatee and a better haircut than this. Dude, this mushroom cut, and it's, it's the worst kind of mushroom cut where, like, it's not layered properly.

So, like, it is just a free-flowing, like, it's almost like if the Beatles had mushroom cuts. I mean, it's every time he walks in this movie, this thing's going in other directions. It's dry as hell, too. It's the haircut of a man who's, like, mother, dad to do it for him still at age 47 or whatever old he is in this movie. Seymour. yeah like it's it is that thing like no you're a fucking senator you have professionals there's no image consultant telling you you look like an idiot well i think it is kind of fitting that in this movie his big aside from this like illegal arms deal or whatever happened uh his big like political maneuvering is opening like a children's center and i was like okay well that makes sense a little bit then that you have the haircut of a 12 year old sure well the thing is you know maybe he he pulls out his mushroom tip for uh Danny O'Neill's wife. Oh, yeah. That's a good look.

And I mean, you know, power is sexy to some people. You know, he's a senator. He's got a terrible haircut. You know, Daniel. And he also didn't cause the drowning of their daughter. So, you know, there's a lot of the plus column. Yep, that is a, that is a selling point

right there. Not responsible for the death of my child. He's also loaded this whole house he has that he paid for in cash. And I love, there's a brief thread in this movie where, like, Pierce Brasson is like a man who makes $130,000 a year couldn't possibly live like this. We're going to get to that scene because that scene is incredible.

That is the most divorced guy energy in the whole movie. It's the line of excuses that he has to in that. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. But like, Terry, like, his, Pierce Brasson's wife must, like, she must really go for the you just stole my GI Joe look. Like, this is like a baby look. would you be into this? I really

want to, I need to hear this. You guys at haircuts, holy Toledo. We should make a haircut podcast. Listen, I mean, it is specifically, dude, bowl cuts. Bowl cut haircuts were the invention of the devil himself. It's 192 and

Hugh Grant everyone's flipping their thingers for. I know dude, because I had it too and I hate it. I hate that are pictures with me as a child having a bowl. cut. It's embarrassing. You, Ron Silver saw Hugh Grant

getting some ass. You decided I'm going to get that haircut. And you did the same thing. Yeah, you're totally right. A little, little 11-year-old me was like, yeah, give me the ass getting haircut. Hugh Grant looks like Hugh Grant in the 90s. Ron Silver looks like an extra in Barfly. No, he looks like. Oh, yes, that's accurate.

He looks like Amanda Plummer in Pulp Fiction with his haircut. It is It is not flattering on Ron Silver is all I will say. RIP. RIP. A man to plumber. Oh, yeah, no, that's right. Yeah.

Rod Silver is dead. Ron Silver is dead and he'll never have a haircut that offends you again. No, thank God. Good. Keep it that way. Long story short, they kind of, and I mean, like, he can't be on the case because, like, the second they go into this guy's office, he's like, you better leave your fucking hands off me wife or whatever he's saying and it's like dude there needs to be something better

anybody else could do this job he has some line where because ron silver says it's like something something my life or i'm attached to my life or something like that he's got it i've got it i've got oh okay yeah what is it because it's like he's like he's like ron silver says like well you know this is a business matter so you need to learn to separate it from your personal life and then pierce Braston says, I'll separate you from the rest of your life. Dude, you're just like threatening a sitting senator in his office, probably not a great idea. Working for the FBI or no, buddy. No, actually, you didn't read that. You're allowed to threaten sitting senators in their offices so long as it's in aid of stopping the steel.

Oh, right. Of course. I forgot about stopping the steel. Asteris. It's always got to be an asterisk. I got to make sure. I have to, I mean, I'm going to keep pointing him out because I I wrote a lot of them down. Another disastrous line delivery with this accent is. I don't remember what the setup is, but Pierce Brosnan says to Ron Silver, then watch very carefully as I walk out the door,

which in Pierce Bros. An accent mode translates to, then watch very carefully as I walk out the door. This growling caveman from the Bronx accent he's doing. It's really heinous. I don't know. He is hot, though. I got to come back to it.

He's really hot in this. He's so hot in this movie that it distracts me from that accent. I barely even register it because, man, what a piece. Honestly, so this next scene is so Philip Bickerhall is getting in a limousine with Salvio Capelli. Dude, and he's calling this driver to Salvatore. Hey, where's Salvatore? now here's the thing about this you can't have attractive limo drivers red flag i need a fat guy with like a mustard gravy stain going a guy who was rushed this morning to get out the house because his hangover had kept him in the shower a little too

long it looks like john aston maybe that could do too this is this is why i would like to pitch to you guys my new business venture fatichini car driving service in which we only hire Fat drivers, hopefully Italian, who have stains on their shirts at all times. I mean, I think what you're saying here is that every limo driver in existence needs to look like Bert Young. Yep. Joe Polito. Oh, definitely. Oh, sure. A Joe Polito type. You can get a Joe Polito in there. I'm happy.

Man, I am on this dude's IMDB page right now. And it is. Who's Salvatore? Yes, dude. It is insane. Did you know he's the writer of the Gullies franchise? What? I don't know he had Goolies royalty in this film.

That is surprising news. He wrote Goolies. He was credited for characters for Goolies too. He wrote Rocula. That's like having Spike Jones in fucking Moneyball. He wrote Rockula? Is that what he just said? What is that?

You're not familiar? It's not good. It stars Dean Cameron from Summer School. He was chainsaw in Summer School. Oh, sure. Okay. Yeah. He's like a young vampire who plays guitar. Yeah. Wow. I've never heard of this movie. Oh, yeah. I think I saw it years back. It's not what you'd call good.

Well, it stars the guy who's like fourth tier in summer school, so sure. I will have, I just watched goolies for the first time, the first one. Mm-hmm. My review, not enough goolies. Oh, that's a bumer. Not nearly enough goolies. You know what, though? I bet you in those sequels, they overcompensate. and by the time it's goleys go to college, Chris Cappen's review is like, you know what?

That's what I want. I'm going there for goleys. He was also, he had like a lion's main in this movie, I think, but in scanner cop, he plays one of the bad doctors, it looks like.

Oh, I know exactly. He's the guy looks like David Cronerberg a little bit. Oh, wait, and that's Salvatore. Yeah. How about that?

Look at this. Yes, you're right, Steve. That's pretty great. So, yeah, they're driving,

and it's kind of, hilarious because like the thing is he needs to drink water so he winds up uh the guy salvatore has to like jimmy the fridge so it can open he closes all the windows and he's like oh he puts up the heat he's like the air conditioning broke anybody uh want water back there or what are you sure you aren't thirsty senator time wouldn't you like this delicious glass of water that's been sitting in a glass thing being not refrigeration whatsoever. I love this, the, the, the, the, the decanter of water in the back of this limer. I thought it was supposed to be like vodka. Yeah, yeah. Never mind those sauna rocks on the

floor. That's just I left those there. I'm sorry. Yeah, the limo's got to get made, got to get maintenance next week. I don't know what's going on here. Oh, it is so funny. And like, Philip Baker Hall's just getting so pissed off at like, just getting hotter and hotter in this car. There's someone open a goddamn window, please? Oh, you know what? I should turn off my habacha grill. I left it on back there. Oh, geez, my heat pad.

Oh, it was right there, right on top of my electric blanket. Oh, Jesus. You want to me to heat the seats, right? Oh, no. Oh, no. That's where I put my jumbo space heater, shit. So, Phil Baker Hall is, like, smart here because he's like, no, I'm not drinking no friggin water.

The assistant takes a big. gulp. Oh, man. And this is great because you get what happens with the first explosion is like we cut away, like the senator like starts having a seizure or whatever and falls over, but then we cut away to the exterior of the restaurant. So we don't see what goes down. And we get a little more here where like this aid like his eyes start bleeding and he's freaking out. I love Salvatore just pulling over and like taking a screwdriver to the electric lock system. And then running away from this limousine, but there's also like a motorcycle cop that just happens to be here. And this is, I'm pretty sure this is my favorite explosion. Yes. Because it's like the highway patrol guy goes up to the limo and like Philip Baker Hall's trying to get his hand out. He doesn't know what's going on. 30 seconds until the explosion.

This explosion happens. And it is clearly the most hilarious looking dummy made up to look like a highway cop you've ever seen. This dummy goes flying. away from the limo. Oh, it's exquisite. It's so good. These are these are canon level explosions people. Yes.

Like about 60% more flames than you need. Exactly. You want more flames than you're going to need is the idea. And so he goes on trial and I was under the impression this movie was set in present day. Where

is this demolition man courtroom with the the super glass that separates the people watching the case from the case itself that is very interesting and then very odd also you'll note salvatory the guy on trial is not near his lawyer he's chained to a chair in the middle of the exactly what year is it i do you know it's it's funny because i don't know maybe we do have these kinds of courtrooms in america the only times i have seen these courtrooms, like this layout such as it is where it's like all of this glass is separating literally everything but like the judge and the, you know, person who's on trial,

I guess in this moment are like Russia and France. Like two times I've seen like documentaries about like legal things in either of those countries. Those kind of courtrooms look like that. I've never seen this in American courtrooms though. It's very, very weird that they do it. And it could be like because it's some federal thing. I mean, I don't know. It's just to set up that Pierce Brosnan will survive this encounter. Well, here's the thing. It will protect you from ball bearings and it will protect you from nails if that's what's shooting out.

But if it's a high flame, you're done for us, sir. It's burning right through. It's meant to protect like the judge and everyone, right? So like the fact that it's like they get the liquid explosive into that room and it, you know. Could you believe it on the water jug? It says Granny's peach tea. That was their first Yeah, it turned out

Snyder had a nice cinematic ref there He's referencing live wire I do love the idea like someone's like Oh, I don't know But can my client not be chained to his chair I just feel like It might influence the jury somewhat It's so weird

I mean is this a military tribunal? I don't understand I've never seen it Look look could you just take off the jumpsuit That says super villain on the back, please. You know, it's only 85 minutes. I wonder if there was like a brief scene that was cut that we're like, we need to

take precautions. That's my Pierce Brosons. We need to take precautions because there's a mad bomber loose to, we have to save the proceedings from this bomber. I needed that seed. Of course, the bomb, you know, the bombing plot, they, everyone's in on it in a way. So, of course, they get the liquid explosive into the other side of the courtroom. and the judge drinks it

this lady this lady goes up she goes she goes up good it's an excellent going up and there's the screaming of getting everyone out of there is amazing and finally one dude's well interestingly enough all the bailiffs

and everyone are like fuck the defendant let him sit there and die which is pretty insane they leave him chained to this chair and they fucking piece out it's unbelievable and no one's really trying to do CPR to the judge, like, no one's aware, I mean, I guess because Pierce Broson is screaming, bomb, it's a bomb, so everyone's

running, but I mean, like, you know, this lady's like 70 years old, maybe you want to get her out, too, because you wouldn't think she is the bomb. He doesn't yell out, she drank the water, she's a bomb. No, but you know what? If someone's, like, convulsing,

screaming, and bleeding from the eyes, I'm kind of of the mind that they're already finished. because yeah he doesn't know yet that it is the water that does it it's at the scene after this when he's talking to uh uh his uh his friend there with madonna because he makes this insane here comes the judge joke did not need and it's just and it's like it's a funny thing too because it's like pierce brosden's character kind of sounds like he's not sure if he should be doing

because he kind of does the voice and he's like, here come the judge like, it's really hushed. It's really hushed. He knows that he shouldn't be saying it. He knows for sure he shouldn't be saying it. But it's too good of line. I've been there, man. When you got too good of a line and you just got to get it out.

Hey, do you know that the woman who plays the judge? I know exactly what you're going to say. I just looked her up. Yeah, go ahead. Well, because she's in she's in some movies, man. She's in die hard she's in at least two lethal weapon movies she's in screwed she's in melrose place oh yes oh look at this nurse amy season four edition wow so we'll get 95 to 99 we'll get to that in a few

years on melro 210 our melrose place and 90210 recap podcast available on our patreon check that out i think you should check that the um she's also been taking care of business wow this lady really worked. Oh, and she was married until he died Army Archer. Remember Army Archerd? I remember Army Hammer. Oh, yeah.

God, that guy. Nobody's going to be able to forget Army Hammer at this point. Yeah, that's a great point, dude. He has certainly made his mark. What the fuck? No, Army Archard, wasn't he a

like entertainment reporter or something like that he was like he was a variety columnist that's oh okay he would pop up on like e all the time um anyway it doesn't matter he's he's been dead for 12 years uh yes rest easy sure so um he winds up um brosden does like he uh we get to see his great divorce guy apartment here which it rules the school i mean like i wouldn't move back in this house because he's like it's loft it's exposed brick it's everything you want he's smoking in bed drinking whiskey and i'm like check work check work i like if i like where we're going here it's just so interesting that he's he's so still in love with his wife because with that apartment with him being pure sprazz he could

be cleaning up all the time you know i just wish i i reacted to emotional distress by being sexier i just get fatter like that's you know what i mean like it's just any kind of uh problems in my like well guess I'll just get fatter. Instead, he's just getting sexier smoking on this bed. It drives me nuts. Well, no, I understand it because I mean, all of those, I mean, if he's doing all these task rabbit fucking bomb diffusals

all day, the money's got to go somewhere and this place is humongous. The FBI does not pay like this. Absolutely not. This plus a house? No, uh. You're totally right, though, Steve, because like, let's say we flip the script a little bit. It's me

in a bathrobe, chainsaw. smoking in bed, drinking booze, flipping through channels. You see him passed by Reefer Madness, by the way. The Reefer Madness in there. I love it. But if I were to be doing that, all of a sudden it's quote unquote socially destructive.

That's true. But he doesn't, and it's like the sex factor is through the roof. You know what? There's no rappers from McDonald's anywhere near this house. That's the crucial difference. The fast food detritus would it not. So when you do it, you're a dangerous loner.

Yes. that's true and it's mostly because looking at his chest makes me squirm and it doesn't with yours sorry no I I get it I have an unimpressive physique his ex-wife shows up and she's like I just want to make sure you're okay and you know he's like oh yeah

come on in you want to drink and she's like no he pours to anyway and drinks them in front of her I love it I should just leave you know what this was an enormous mistake dude and it's the I've already poured them and then I make the ask yeah he knows she's going to say no at least his great line here is like sorry the maid's been on vacation for the year yeah oh man I've never been a fan of that like oh my house looks like shit oh guess the maid's on vacation never been a fan of that joke ever yeah that's a very normal thing to say thank you can I keep now you know what I'm glad to see that you're doing so well I guess I'll go back to fucking Ron Silver because ew well dude this is he gets it he gets a good old hearty 100% great a American slap in the face right here because he has the line why you only fuck

senators now and she belts him across the face it's fucking hilarious and like he kind of backs off like whoa did not see that coming good for you you. Good for you, lady. What a right look. Wow. Why don't you punch me again? Why don't you take my eye out? When he's saying it, too, his voice is almost breaking up. I mean, the vulnerability that he portrays,

I mean, I think Pierce, President, despite the accent, he's doing, he's doing his damn distance. Yes, he is. I agree. Because he's just very much like he's, he's sad and it's not like, like, again, it's cool, but it's also, it's not, again, it's not like John McLean cool, like

where he's like, hey, Holly, why don't you go, fuck you so. you know what I mean it's more exactly this is just more like a guy that really does want to get back with his wife yes they give her like angelic soft lighting when she's in his house which is like a dark sex dungeon uh so like i mean it looks honestly it looks like soap opera stuff hey holly welcome to my dark sex dungeon mclean wouldn't even do that right absolutely not Bruce willis alone in an apartment doesn't make me you know it doesn't doesn't get me go You could have simply said that there was a fat woman in your sex dungeon

it took you a minute to get her off So you know Ben Cross goes to see Traveris Is this Ron Silver's like in the shower or something He's in like a some sort of like a Oh because he's been playing racquetball And he's in like the showers there And Cross comes in

And again it's like now there's the matter Of my $10 million dollars Come on And even and the funny thing is like even run so it's like i want to go fuck yourself and it's like dude do the math there have been three people on this bill two of them died the worst debts you can imagine you're next find him some money just throw throw some figures that i'm like let's i don't have the 10 million i can give you one million dollars is that

is that going to do enough for anything meanwhile back we we find out at his house that the walls are lined with money and doesn't pierce brazen say like oh you might have like 10 million in you really put all your money into your house. Yep. Oh, man. Especially when you can pay this dude off and prevent being exploded. Because he's the real villain, Eric.

He's the real villain, ultimately. That's true. I guess because he's the romantic rival. So he is, in a way, the actual villain of the movie and not Ben Cross. Ben Cross is number two. If I had the money to pay off a terrorist with this liquid bomb, of course,

I would want to get in on this. Yes, let's go. let's pour some water for more people let's work on this together here's even more money and also spoiler alert the guy the only guy that could save your life wants you dead for fucking his wife like you are you are up the creek my friend you know ben cross comes pay the fucking piper and move on yes because at least at least this guy is being cordial to you somewhat on the phone this ben cross fella yeah this other guy pierce process is trying to threaten in your life every move you make join in with the terrorists

He literally threatened to murder you yesterday. And then, like, yeah, Ben Cross ends this whole thing. You better get me my money. And he goes, otherwise, I'm going to blow you wide open, quite literally. Yeah, I got, I got, yeah, the whole movie's that fucking bombs, pal. I know it's literal. Yeah, all right. Yeah, you're going to blow me up.

And yes, I did shit my pants. Are you happy now? You think you scare me? You think you scare me? You see this haircut? I walk around all day with this haircut. You don't scare me. Nothing scares me.

I have this haircut. a total total baller move here because like Pierce Broson is like you know this Traveris he's fucking my wife the whole town knows about it he's being really fun and fancy

free with threatening this terrorist I'm gonna go break into his house and show him that his security detail is a total joke and it's this whole like I'm sorry Pierce Brosnan is like we are told in this movie he is like a very professional very talented like bomb diffuser bomb guy

bomb a bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb and all of a sudden now he's James bonding all over the place because like he pulls his car up to the gate he jumps over the wall he's sneaking on and you don't know exactly whose house it is just yet but it's like also identical to Beverly Hills cop yes like it's oh and I think it's the same house is it yeah that Judge Reinhold and them have to like lift over themselves over at the end yeah I think it's the same one really oh weird but like he's like it's interesting how the sequence plays out because it's Pierce Brasen like snooping onto this property you know he sets his car alarm off while he's like halfway there so all the go to see what the noise is all about sneaks into this house he's walking around you still have no idea where he is

and then all of a sudden you just see that rotten Traveris in the backyard with my wife and then he comes out and he's like hey your house is very unsafe by the way stop fucking my wife and she like she gets really upset again well this is also like

super like divorced guy. Like, look, I'm just telling you that you're really unsafe here. I'm just here to tell you I'm not breaking in here. Just you know, willy-nilly. I just want to tell you that you're not safe. Stay the way stay away from my wife. Tested the perimeter there. That's not

secure. Hey man, just letting you know this Christmas dinner isn't very safe. Anyone could just come up in here. And you're lucky it's just me smoking three cigarettes at once is all I'm saying. do you want me to do a perimeter check without a gun?

That would be really unsafe of me. Oh, man. So he goes, he meets up with this like insurance lady slash like person on the inside that he knows. And there is a great line that this woman has because she like clearly has a thing for Pierce Brosnan because who wouldn't, right? And she passes this folder to him and she's like, this is, we mentioned it briefly, but this is where, you know, he's saying. and stuff like, that's a big fucking house for $130,000. Yeah, this terrible accent.

I will never get over it. But she has a great line because she gives him the folder and she just goes, feel free to peruse the goods. Oh man, dude. I was loving it. And she's just like, please fuck me. I want this guy to fuck me. Please, please fuck me.

And then it's like looking down at the folder and she's just instantly disappointed. You're talking about the bar scene, right? Yes. this like okay this is really the best scene in the whole movie to me because it starts with like so he's like all right so yeah i don't know how he could possibly pay for that i mean he's just decided and she's like yeah he's been like saving money i mean it's not that much he's like yeah yeah yeah but you know he had some stuff inside too and that stuff was fancy and it's like yeah he saved a

little bit here he's like yeah yeah yeah but he had like a a nice bed and stuff and that's just not something that uh i think it's like you know no he actually gives money to to the, yeah, yeah, yeah, but he has like a truffle farm in the back and stuff. One of the lines was hardwood floors. Hey, listen, this guy, I did a little snoopin, he's got like six suits in there. $130,000 six suits? I don't think so. All right, here's the deal.

Okay, you tell me how this makes sense, lady, little insurance lady. I was at his house today, and he was wearing a belt. I mean, yeah, he is really, really trying to dig up. I mean, the thing that's hilarious is like, yeah, he's right after all, you know. Of course, of course. Rod Silver is going to be a piece of shit, and you know it. He's also, like, like, literally sucking down this cigarette while he's doing this. Oh, yeah, dude.

He is, he amplifies the creepitude after that bar. scene instead of like going home with this woman and just having some fun back at his killer bachelor pad he decides the better move is to sleep in his car outside Ron Silver's house stalking this woman and he only wakes up because

the guy Shane like calls him and is like hey I figured out what's going on hey are you sleeping in your car again man I think he got that restraining order and was like I'm going to live the rest of my life violating this 300 feet my ass I'll show you three on your feet. That's on you, lady.

You've got to be the adult and be like, listen, I'm calling the police now. You're breaking the law. Call fat boss. So, but the thing is, what, where they're going is the opening of this children's center. And, uh-oh, this is the time Ben Cross is going to make his move. And it's kind of a great thing with, like, Brosnan, like, it's a big fair. And everyone's dressed up like these terrifying clowns, by the way. Yous.

And this, this, I think, is on Ron Silver's, like, event planners, like, on his staff or something. Like, someone needs to talk to his chief of staff who's actually crooked in this movie. But, like, you know, this is the opening of a children's center. Like, all you're told all of his, like, political work is involving, like, children's charities and yada, yada. We've been working really hard to get this children's center off the ground. And you hire some of the most terrifying-looking clowns this side of a Toby Hooper movie. And that's a thing. come on like you know like that that's always my problem with the new it design with those like twisted metal super cool like that's not really scary to me this is terrifying extra caked on classic style clowning no thank you i think what we like you could pinpoint that as steve is low budget clowns yes exactly low budget clown like the lower the budget for the clown costume the amplification of the scaritude is through the roof like a clown that could exist yes

100% because you know what like killer clowns from outer space that shit doesn't scare me at all at all because you know those are monsters these could be monsters but you don't know and that is exactly why like I only saw that first I saw it

chapter one or it was just it I didn't even bother with two and I think a lot of it has to do with how sleek scars guard looks as as Pennywise versus how just shitty and low budget Tim Curry looks like He looks like a shitty-ass birthday clown.

Also, to be fair, It Chapter 2 takes a year to watch. So you need to... Yeah, I just haven't at the time. You don't want to take a year off. That was one of those movies that I regretted while watching it. Let's see what's going on in the bathroom. Dude, you're watching It Chapter 2, but you're actually just cleaning your toilet. It's November.

I should get going on my taxes, I guess. Just get in order. I saw it in the theater and I went home and cleaned my bathroom and did my taxes and it took less time too so yeah it's this thing where like he knows

and it's like it is kind of hilarious because again like you can't police this there's water water everywhere you know what I mean you're not going to be able to find the bomb he really kind of blows it right here Pierce Brousden does because like he walks into like these

fairgrounds or whatever it's supposed to be flaps his FBI badge and just immediately starts screaming that there's a bomb and he's like pushing over water coolers yelling about everybody's like he causes such hysteria I mean like and yes he's right there is a you know

imminent danger there but like I just feel there's a way to do that with a little more finesse than running and screaming about a bomb because then then he's just well his partner Shane is just like yeah I just tested all this water is fine man And then the assistant to Ron Silver is like, wait, you did all this and everything's fine?

It rules. It's really something. The robot said it's fine, but you don't know it's fine. And the robot could be lying. But we'll come to find out it's in the fountain. The entire fountain is one giant bomb. And I guess the end game would be to push the right amount of people into it to make this happen. No, you know, or if like a pigeon drank it.

or something? And there's just like exploding birds? Dude, you get that many kids, one kid's going to be drinking that fountain water. That's true. Oh, the stupidest kid is always the deadest kid. That would be me, man. I just, I had sticky fingers as a kid, man. Yeah, fountain

water. I remember I got in trouble leaving church with my mother once because they have the holy water. You can't have the holy water. Yes, I drank it a couple times. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. A couple times.

You sit there, you're listening to this fucking blow hard for 48 minutes. Whoa. I would imagine, this is a holy water. I just imagine you putting your face in it and like sucking it in. But the time that really pissed my mom off was one time I used it to slick my hair back. I want an ass. I love it. Now, wait a second, those things.

You're saying you were like sit there. You were bored during the mass. and you drank it. Now, at my church, that shit was at like the back of the room and you did it on the way out. What did you just have a little dixie cup with you? No, on the way out, I would do it. You know, there's one handful for the road.

Exactly. But I think, you were smart there because you're, you're preventing demons, right? Now you're like a paladin walking into the cave and you're prepared. Just greedily shoving palmfuls of holy water into his mouth. If folks at home listening are unfamiliar with the cult classic known as the Catholic Church

what we're referring to is the thing where you would get you know if you're if you've seen someone do like the sign of the cross where they like bless themselves with their hand you would put your fingers in the holy water and then do that ladies and gentlemen so Steve you're drinking like an entire burrows worth of fingers

that's a good point finger water did you ever vomit because that like Like the second time, was that the end time? Because you threw up? No, I mean, hey, man, it tastes pretty good. Tastes like the Lord. And you're putting finger water in your hair.

But so, like, this is, and I mean, like, you know, I never thought about this, but Pierce Brosom had a pretty good Batman because he fights Tony Plano dressed like this terrifying cloud. And I'm like, yeah. This is a pretty cool Batman Joker fight, dude. Yep. No, that's a great point, dude. I didn't think of it at the time.

but I'm now thinking back to that exquisite fight because it is great. He is like knee in this guy in the stomach a bunch of times. I mean, anytime you can watch a clown get their ass kicked, it's kind of funny. Someone like fell out of a wheelchair and then... Dude, yes. They just put the clown in it and the clown's going to blow up so he pushes this wheelchair. It's a hilarious thing where it's like when it happens in the movie, it's one of those things where it's like your first thought when you see it is like,

Like that's unnecessary, but then the script actually like justifies it because during the panic caused by Pierce Brosnan, we do cut to a shot of a kid is, you see him coming into the festivities at one point because they give him the old metal detector wand, right? So it establishes there's a kid here opening the children's community center. There's a kid in a wheelchair. On the way out, you see this kid get knocked over and he gets trampled and you're like, why did that kid have to fall out of the wheelchair? That seems like a bit much. This is a fun movie. Well, but then you realize, of course, that kid had to fall out of the wheelchair,

so Pierce Brousin could prop this other guy in it, and they could wheel him away from danger and just let this dude explode under like some carnival game tent or something. Yeah, the kid getting trampled. That's what the drama is. That's where you'll get the feeling is there. And this is the weird thing, though. This is I was mentioning the kind of ickiness with the suicide bombing situation,

because Ben Cross says this guy like, look, we're beat. We have to get out of here. We'll strike again another day. And this dude is like, no, he has disrespected us long enough. We wanted that $10 million and we're going to get it. And he runs back in like sacrificing himself because he drinks the water

because at one point in the fight, Pierce Brosden like lifts him up to punch him again and all of a sudden this dude is bleeding from his eyes and screaming like it's a you know, tales from the crypt episode. Let's not forget. He's dressed like a terrifying clown this whole time. Now he's got runny makeup. Holy mackeroody.

That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's that's his look, but Ben Cross is in the Hannibal at the end of Science of the lambs fit. Yes. Like, he's, he's got a tan suit, a nice little fedora. Yeah, dude, he's going to meet an old friend for dinner. Have an old friend for dinner. Excuse me. Um, so then after all this, let's get down to fucking. Yeah. Um, oh, sure. is so impressed by all of his water sports out there that let's have some at home and the tub fuck

my god the tub fuck we're at like minute 70 the end of the movie is so close and it is a full on sex scene with sexophone nudity anything you want wasn't uh wasn't tub fuck that chumba wamba song yes it was you know your history man i mean this is it's yeah you're right steve like it's kind of they're cotton it close as like run time wise as far as like when it's acceptable to put like this kind of a sex scene in this movie or indeed a sax scene but i i welcomed it all the same i mean it's two beautiful people making love it's there's a saxophone it's awesome it's bold to bold like i was like oh good show old man got 10 minutes to go before you have to end

this fucking movie. And you're dealing with this? Are you kidding me? Let's go. It's beautiful. And nowadays, you watch like an action movie or something and the most they'll get to is like the hold hands. Yeah. And be like maybe you'll get, you know, like maybe Vin Diesel will give

someone a promise ring or something. They'll kiss you on the cheek at the end. Oh, ho. Yeah, you know what? Here's the thing. We need to get sexuality and sensuality back in Hollywood. I'm saying for Hobbs and Shaw 2, that movie starts off with

the two of those motherfuckers in a hotel room having Fargo sex. Absolutely. You know they would be down. Dirty ass Fargo sex. And they're like, if you don't know what Fargo sex is, see our episode on Fargo. It's a twin bed situation on the opposite ends of the room.

Everybody's got their own partner. And you're right because they'll work great for Hobbs and Shaw because it's like, oh, I'm fucking all tight bed. None of your fucking yo's you pansy. He's like, no, I'm fucking my date far better than you are fucking yours, you, Pat and Z. And like, they go back and forth. That's how

that goes. It would be pretty I shall bring her to climax first. What is it, Spock? I don't know why he sounds like that, but it's, uh, there's, I mean, another great point here on this, this sacks scene is they eventually

moved from tub fucking into some you know, more traditional bed fucking. Oh yeah. And during the bed fucking, you get some thrusting, including Pierce Brosnan's actual Butchie. I love the traveling fuck, you know? You start fucking one area

and then it migrates. Fuck on the run. We took a bath. We had some ass. Fuck on the run. I like it. I like it, Steve. It's what you want.

It's what you call a hit. yeah but then like sort of like this guy who's been like Ron Silver's number two gets picked up by Ben Cross's dudes and this and the end of the movie is here and this guy's really important all of a sudden

because he's been in on it is the idea this guy in Michael St. Girard who's in hairspray and played Elvis no fewer than four times before retiring from acting no fewer than four times to borrow an observation you made somewhere else, Steve,

over the last couple weeks here. I don't know, time is all blending together. But this dude playing this, Traveris' like, you know, chief counsel or whatever, is like chief of staff, rather, looks like a dude who would be acceptable to date Elaine Bennett.

Absolutely. It's that kind of looking dude. You got a Chris Isaac vibe too? Yeah, like a... You're talking about Ben the assistant there to Ron Silver? Yes, he's like that 1990s ugly but handsome thing. Well, he'll, in season two, episode one of Beverly Hills 902. We'll see him as an acting teacher.

I remember this guy, dude. You guys are going to hate this motherfucker. I can't wait. I cannot wait to get there. And I'm on his IMDB. He played Elvis Presley a bunch, including in Quantum Leap. So I guess he was like an impersonator. Great balls of fire.

He also plays Elvis. It's insane. Oh, that movie sucks. He was in the Elvis miniseries. Played Elvis in 13 episodes. This dude was Elvis. Are you retired to be a priest, apparently, or a minister, rather? Kurt Russell's the real Elvis from John Carpenter's Elvis.

That's true. Wait a second, though, because I want to play the odds here. This Judeo is playing Elvis this much. So somewhere between, like, let's say, 1985 and 1991, if you're on his IMDB, we got a Golden Girls credit on there? No, sadly not. Oh, because there's that one episode where all the Elvis impersonal. Yeah, yeah, dude.

oh I thought there would be a connection there damn you IMDB it's sad it doesn't seem like his career went that far yeah like on Seinfeld he seems like somebody who would play like an assistant to like a fictional ducaucus campaign or something oh well that's you know like

the original Lloyd Braun that guy working for Mayor Dinkas at the yogurt stand gave her the old fictional ducaucus I don't know what that means but you're going to invent it I like saying it he's been like told by ben cross he's got to abduct the wife or i should say um

pierce brosden's wife whilst they go after uh ron silver and pierce brosden in this house and this is what sets up what i will call the james bomb sequence because pierce brosden starts fucking like again like he's obviously he knows about bombs he turns it's like total MacGyver's shit and it's not really set up but I love it so much dude I'm just watching this guy

grab all this shit out of Ron Silver's cabinets and I'm like yep I would trust this guy with my life clearly he knows what he's doing but also the detail here that is really hilarious to me is there's a part where Brosnan opens we're in Ron Silver's

kitchen gorgeous kitchen he opens like a top cabinet okay so not Not like an under-the-sync situation, a top cabinet and pulls out a bag of fertilizer? What are you cooking? This guy eats shit. Seems so. Seriously.

Well, he said, hey, lay off the candy bar. I started eating fertilizer. That belongs in the garage or something. Yes. Yep. It is very strange that it's there. This whole thing, the saving of Ron Silver here, is set off by. I think it's a phone

Is it a phone call? Yes. Or does he meet him in person? Because it's the greatest line of the movie is when Mikhail goes, Danny O'Neill, isn't Senator Traveras fucking your wife? Like, dude, when the terrorist knows you're getting cocked by a senator, who is spreading this gossip and how is it getting so far?

It's really, really something. Like, you needed a thing. So this is like 92. We're making it in 91, right? So like, hey there, Danny O'Neill, yeah. Oh, yeah, Danny O'Neill, I heard about you. Aren't you the one that Senator Traveris is fucking your wife? Get a real Herbert Walker Bush cameo in there?

I like that. I thought you were doing like a, or maybe like a, and Paul, the number one reason that Senator Traveris will not open the Children's Hospital. He's too busy fucking Danny O'Neill's wife. Bob, bo, bo, bop, bo, bop bo la bap, bop, bop, bop, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, yeah, dude fucking behind their backs. Yeah, Dave. You hear about this? You hear about this? I'm, uh, that senator from Miami, um, uh, Traveras is fucking daddy on his wife. Oh, welcome back to later. I'm Tom Snyder. The first boring thing we're going to talk about

The top of our 90 minutes is Senator Traveris, fucking Danny O'Neill's wife. Hello, I'm Ted Cople, and welcome to Dateline. Tonight, main story, cucked in the halls of Congress. All right, before we get to Todd Reform, we will be talking about Senator Rivera fucking a bomb expert's wife. Now, is me, Ted Kennedy.

I can't really throw stones, what with living in a glass house. I just... It's awesome that the terrorist knows that Ron Silver is fucking... And they send the Elvis impersonator, the assistant to Ron Silver, down to collect the wife.

And this is where we get the amazing scene with the mother-in-law. Oh, man. Well, Pierce Brosnan, first of all, tries to call and be like, Terry, you got to get out of the house. a terrorist coming for you or you know and it's the

mother-in-law that answers the phone and he's like Gwen put Terry on and this woman hangs up and then like puts the phone on mute so when he calls back it like just goes to the answering machine or whatever they're not like she doesn't hear it ringing and doesn't pick up the phone and Terry's like oh who was that

and she says something like oh it was just a solicitor or whatever the line is. Someone taking a poll yeah taking a poll that's what it is and it's like lady you're now responsible for your daughter's kidnapping. And also, this dude definitely throws you to the ground. Doing McIver's shit. He rigs up

the kitchen here. The first guy, like, opens this door immediately just bursts into flames. It's great as it should be. Oh, my God. It's like the devil put a spell on him. Like, he just bursts into flames. Pierce Bros.

Also, like, cuts the gas line in the kitchen to help produce these flames. Yeah. I hope you're insured. Well, that's, I thought that was I thought the movie was like literally, I didn't, oh, the house is going to blow up. I guess not. Yes. Does someone subsequently fix the gas line later?

Because I don't know, man. I was misremembering because there is some movie. Is it, oh, geez, is it that born legacy movie with Jeremy Renner where like he does a similar gas line rip in the kitchen? Because like dudes are coming for him. And then the whole house does explode. And that's how that would work. Yeah. No, I know, exactly.

I'm just, it's killing me because when I was rewatching this last night, I was like, there's definitely a movie where someone does this exact same thing, but the whole house does go up. I think it might be a racer. Yes, that's awesome. Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, thank you.

That was driving me crazy. I never saw born with Renner, so maybe, maybe. Oh. You know, I would, I would recommend that movie. Just throw on that. Pretty good. We move upstairs and we move into the bedroom, which is my favorite. favorite part where

Pierce brothers like this is where the magic happens Traveris this is where you fuck my wife and he's got this it's a fucked den it's not a bedroom it is a fucked den yeah it's a total fucked end there's like there's definitely a sex

swing somewhere in there but it is 1992 and you have to get some quote unquote hilarious homophobia in here because the follow up part of this where the magic happens Frank is he goes any page boys in the closet and you're like there's also

a really weird homophobic joke during the Ben Cross phone call where Ron Silver is like I've got security and I've got a guy

here and Ben Cross says like your sex slice has no interest to me oh yes totally you're like

you're just telling this guy you're gonna kill him do you also be like you're gay also I'm going to kill you oh yes

it is top to bottom all about sex. Like one of these homemade bombs he's MacGyvering needs like Vaseline and Ron Silver's like, when you're planning a party? He says it to Ron Silver. He takes like a big handful out of it. Like Winnie the Pooh and a honey jar.

I do love I love this because also this scene was actually edited out of like the UK version because he's putting a petroleum jelly and fertilizer together. They make a bomb and they're like, yeah, we're good. The UK in the early 90s is like, yeah, we'll cut that right out. In this somewhere around the same scenario, there's like two dudes that run up the stairs.

And Pierce Brosnan does an awesome, like he gets to very much be Bond in this movie. I love it. Like he rolls on the floor and whistles and the dudes turn around and he shoots them. One dude like nails him in the head. The other guy flips over a railing and lands on this like totally bizarre, incredibly dangerous glass like sculpture. that Ron Silver has in the house. And, like, man, I did not anticipate seeing a mortal combat

impaling in this movie. Oh, man. It's wonderful. And Ben Cross takes it really poorly. He's like, no! Like, he was like best buds with that guy, possibly. Yeah, I, I, that's a great observation, Steve, because watching it last night, I was like,

why is he so pissed off about this one guy? Unless it's a thing where it's like, he was counting in his head, like how many goons he heard drop. And then when he saw that dude, he was like, damn it, that's the last one. Oh, God damn it. Terry was the driver. Now I have to drive out of there.

God damn it. Oh, the funniest thing, though, is when Traveris' crooked chief of staff comes back in and he delivers the wife to him. Yes, Terry O'Neill. He brings Terry there.

And then McHale is like, okay, Pierce Brosons upstairs, you know, dispatching my man, you know, go up there and handle it. And this kid is like, no, no, I don't think so, Mikhail. I signed on to observe Traveris. That's what you asked me to do. I'm out. I'm not taking this any farther. Man, it is so awesome.

He's like, okay, I totally understand. Thank you for volunteering for my henchman program. And he's like, all right, good. Well, have a good day. and this guy walks away and just Mikhail blows him away like six in the chest like, dude, what did you think

was going to happen? The terrorist is letting you go. The same thing with asking him about money. What do you think's going to happen? It's a terrorist. It's so funny. And at this point he uses one of these petroleum bombs to make this crazy nail gun

which rules. I love it. This is my favorite kill of the movie, I think. Wow. Okay. I mean, because when they show it, okay, so like they're in the attic and this guy's coming up after them. And when he gets like this company, this crazy combination of fertilizer, Vaseline and nails into this pipe and he lets it off, the nails fly forward, hit this dude in the neck. And the movie is smart enough and knows well enough to this guy needs to be pushed from the velocity of the nails. So you see him get hit the neck and then his body just, flies backwards. It's pretty awesome. I mean, and also all these weird Tom Savini-esque practical effects

you get at the end of this movie really took you by surprise, took me by surprise anyway. You don't see it coming. The other one I do like, though, is he's using some more of this Vaseline or whatever it is,

petroleum jelly, to, uh, he makes some sort of like light switch bomb. And so like these two other dudes run in. And it's kind of a weird moment because like, you think all of the guys are dead and then like nail guy and then these other two light switch guys kind of come out of nowhere.

And I'm like, are these goons respawning like a video game? I thought everybody was dead in the house. If you get Bencross wet, they pop off the bat. But I do really love light switch bomb because one of the guys that gets got here kind of looks like Dennis Miller. And I was like, ooh, it's like Dennis Miller exploding. That's not too bad. I'll take it. But, yeah, the nails, it's so great.

And then, yeah, just like when McHale gets up to the attic, there's a really sick. Mr. O'Neill. Love it. He doesn't sound that much like Jiminy Glick, but... At this point, it's very important to mention because it's setting up the best ending that I've ever seen in a movie, which is Ron Silver and Pierce Broson are handcuffed together for some reason. I think it's because, like, he doesn't trust Ron Silver to... not fuck him over, I guess.

Yeah. Well, Ron Silver does try to screw him at one point because he's like, it's back when he's fashioning the, the light switch bomb. And Ron Silver's like, all right, I'm just, I'm going to go over here for a second. And then Brazen is like, no, no, no, no, no. This house is huge. I have no idea where

I'm going. You know all the ends and outs. Fuck you. You're handcuffed to me now. And there's a oh, the other funny detail is, I don't know what the hell run like what contractors run silver hired here because they're in the attic and right

before Pierce fashions this you know pipe bomb shooter thing that he's got here where he sources the pipe from he literally just pulls this pipe out of a wall I was like wow dude that is some strength but that's also what the part

where the money falls out and he's like you literally built this house with cash well I guess the idea is that that's like a false wall kind of a thing so maybe the pipe is like sort of a sure but how does Pierce Brosden's character know that dude in his head he's like I'm just going to rip a pipe out

to be fair he's been drinking all day and it sounds like a great idea it's just like you know your fucking house is so great what if you have one less pipe in a wall but yeah this is great because you know Ben Cross is

you know he is revealed he's got a gun to Terry's head and he reveals that he has taken the serum himself. We got the bloody eyes going on. Pierce Brosnan man and this is kind of some like not Tom Savini but it did sort of remind me of like

some of the like evil dead physical comedy violence. He just takes Ben Cross and starts smashing his head against the wall kind of like the three stooges until he lets Terry go from his clutch to be fair he does say diffuse this which is like really oh man yeah kind of great just the the idea this guy's just going to go for it like i'm just going to blow up yep it's like i've i've did all of this because i've been whining about

ten million dollars from these guys when i could have gone on to become a super villain and gotten way more than ten million dollars but instead i'll blow up today i'll just die and this is why you can't negotiate with terrorists folks uh they easily Terry down in like a little construction bucket or something like I think Ron Silver's house is still being worked on so she like gets eased down but then Ben Cross explodes

and so handcuffed together Ron Silver and Pierce Bros. They get launched out this window. Everybody get a good look at Pierce Bros. Brousden's stunt double right here. No. Because it's 1992. I don't entirely know where his career was at. This stunt double looks exactly like Tim Allen.

man, he could fix the house up or not, right? I guess he was comically inept at his own job on that show. That's right. Yeah, it's just another rich white guy failing up. And like, it's a great, you realize, and I mean, like, these fences are terrors, man. I mean, you see these fans, it, it undoes our friend at the end of hand that rocks the cradle. It's just like these fucking wrought iron spiky fences will be the death of you. absolutely another famed one is in the omen that one guy just gets it because a big iron fence spike goes right through him

because Ron Silver gets impaled by this fence and then what you call and Pierce Bros is on the other side of it like totally safe it kind of rules I don't even think his wrist is hurt and the amazing part about this too is like Ron Silver confirmed dead immediately. You know, Terry O'Neill, the wife character, is just all about Pierce Brosden. And it's like Ron Silver never existed. Dude, the universe course corrected. Tony Todd finally got his pound of flash, man. Yeah, it skipped someone now, right?

Yeah, the Reaper, you know, he fixed it. He evened out the playing field. He's still hungry because the next scene is he's back underneath this lady's fucking car trying to fix the fucking bomb again. Tony Todd's hungry. But what's the thing here? It's like this time, last time it was her husband that put the bomb in her car. This time it's a boyfriend. Yeah, it's her boyfriend. Got it. And it's a weird thing. Because he says something about, well, first of all, the dude from like DC Metro is like, she asked for you personally, Danny, which is kind of funny. But yeah, it's something about like, didn't I tell you to stop cheating on your husband or something like that?

And she's like, yeah, and this is what happened, like, when I tried to break up with my boyfriend or something. No, no, no. It starts with him coming up to her and it's like, hey, your name's Missy, right? Yeah, I'm your task rabbit here. I'm here to, let me see. I'm going to have to, yeah. Oh, yeah, I worked with you before. Yeah, it was a real nice time before. Oh, so you didn't, you didn't stay with the boyfriend, with the husband, huh? Oh, but you are wearing panties now. Okay. Good. That's small steps. dude and it is the funniest like you don't it doesn't need this the movie is over with like you know in this one instance film take a note from die hard and it's like end with

Pierce Brousin gets like unhandcuffed or something like we do not need this this one year later epilogue because another thing that they stuff in it though that sucks is he's got this headset on and they're like oh hey Danny you better hurry up hey pal your wife's gonna

have a baby and I'm like oh man her water broke too far he yeah he cuts the wire and instantly runs physically runs to the hospital I guess would you see him like down a block in this tractor or copter shot probably but yes

I feel like they have to do this in a way because he really tries to sell being injured at the end of this movie when he's being put into the ambulance and he's like I'm fucking dying here he is well he also he also does get shot with a machine gun at one point. Yes.

Daddy, Danny, did you hear you have a replacement kid on the way? Finally, you get yourself a new kid. Stop staring at that lady's beaver and get over near the fucking hospital dude. It's the last one you're going to be seen, fella.

Yeah, down at the hospital, we got a beaver breach. We need you, Danny. And he does, like, he clips the wire and saves this woman again and he goes, love the underwear, by the way. Don't change. And then like that's like that's the joke.

The fart guitar kicks in. It's good. And yeah, he's he literally just starts jogging to the hospital. Amazing. Oh, and that's that's that's live wire folks. I think I know what the answers are here. But would anybody recommend this movie? Yeah, I was shocked.

I mean, I was excited. You know, Eric was selling this movie pretty hard. And I was like, yeah, I want to see it. I want to know. And it was not oversold at all. It's super fun. It's the fact that it's 85 minutes is such a delight. I mean, it's, it makes them probably less a worse movie with a capital M in terms of like having coherent themes or a villain that actually makes sense and whatever.

I don't give a shit. A bunch of people blow up. It rules A plus plus. Eric Siska. Yeah, no, I'm going to agree with that. I mean, this is a five-star movie for me. I rated it as such on Letterbox because I've got brainworms. But it is fun top to bottom.

Like Steve said, it is short. And also, I don't know if we really highlighted it that much. but pretty great on-location DC photography. Yes, yes, totally, yeah. Chris Cabin? Oh, yeah, I highly recommend this. This is fantastic. Also, I really, after talking about all this,

blown away stole a bunch of shit. It has a robot as well that has a person. What? Somebody who talks to it, except for they thankfully die. Spoilers. The robot, I mean, it makes, I mean, at least that that's something that bomb squads use they use robots but

even still Jeff Bridges is part of a bomb squad he's not freelance but actually you know but Steve you just actually made me think of something though like yes bomb squads use robots to like go in and diffuse bombs this robot that we see in this movie is very specifically

an after the fact robot yes which is a great point it's an evidence bot he's just like walking around the burnt out restaurant like I don't know what I can help out with at this point well in the late 80s and early 90s, we really, really thought robots were going to happen. I will, so I will say this is my favorite of the pre-Bond-Brosn and action movies that I've seen

as far. I didn't like the fourth protocol. I didn't like nomads. But this one's very good. You got to check out that, what was it called? Strangers. Don't talk to strangers? Yes, it's a good ride. I'll take a look. Yeah, this movie is great. it's so much fun it's like i mean yes everybody it is not capital c cinema of course not i mean there's a reason this is on the h feed because it's just like a dumb action movie that is a lot of fun you know not not great parts here and there of course like i said uh you know the villains such as they are um kind of kind of ify um but it is it is still top to bottom fun and i mean

if you're looking for a place to see some hilarious dummy explosions LiveWire's got you covered at least like three times I think Yeah look no further But that is Live Wire from 1992 directed by Christian Dugay If you want more We Hate Movies check out Patreon.com slash we hate movies We do have an episode out a we love movies episode out this month on Gremlins 2 The New Batch. That was a lot of fun Yeah, hell yeah

It's a great episode And then what the hell else did we do? We got an animation damnation this month, a Popeye, the Sailor Man, Valentine's Day special. That's a weird one. Definitely is a weird title. It goes to weird places. You do want to hear it.

The Gleap Glossary. We got Uwala, Jabba's Palace, the dancer that gets fed to the rancourt. You're going to want to know her life story, folks. And we also have our $10 tier is, live, which with our Melrose, Melro 210, in all-guerl episode, which was a banger, about an hour, 45 minutes. Next month, by the way, we're not only just giving you Melrose 210 on that feed, Zach Snyder's Justice League is coming on that feed. But that's coming in March.

And then in April, of course, we are launching once in a lifetime, our every other month lifetime movie recap show. That's going to be, well, it's a long time coming, first of all. and it's going to be a lot of fun. So that is all on the Walsh tier, of course, on our Patreon. Now, normally this is the part of the program where I ask Steve what's going on next week, but as Steve has informed me,

apparently the month of September or February is already over, which means next week we are kicking in to March with Listener Request Month. And at the time of this recording, which is February the 10th, we have not done the drawing yet. That's another 48 hours away. So unfortunately,

we don't know yet what you all are making us watch next week. But you know, by the time this comes out, go to YouTube.com slash we hate movies and the listener request month drawing video with an added mailbag edition type of bonus there will be available.

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