We Hate Movies - S7 Ep289: Episode 289 - Retroactive
Episode Date: February 21, 2017On this week's episode, the gang welcomes favorite show punching bag, Jim Belushi, back with 1997's ridiculous time loop thriller, Retroactive! What's with Jim Belushi's terrible accent? How is this e...xperiment so poorly guarded by the government? And was that Olympic-themed Lucky Charms? PLUS: Mrs. Doubtfire travels through time! Retroactive stars Jim Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley, and the great M. Emmet Walsh; directed by Louis Morneau. And don't forget about our upcoming live dates in Brooklyn, Atlanta and Portland!Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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And on today's program, Jim Belushi makes his triumphant return to We Hate Movies.
We're talking retroactive.
I'm Andrew Jupin.
Stephen Sadeh.
Chris Cabin.
Eric Siska.
And we hate movies.
Hello, everyone, welcome to we hate movies.
Thank you for tuning in, as always.
This week, Jim Belushi is brightening up our day.
This film is called Retroactive from 1997, directed by a fellow named Louis Mornow.
Does this guy do anything else?
Not a long career doing nothing.
Oh, really? Like, just like me.
I was about to say that, Steve, you have a long career of doing it.
Oh, I'm glad you.
Well, none of us have directed Jim Belushi in a film, you know, so he's got that on us.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's kind of what this movie is.
It's your classic 90s-era independent, violent movie that where you get one star and you build around.
That's right.
So you got Frank Whaley and then you built around.
No.
Frank Whaley, a 40-year-old boy, no.
So, in essence, this movie's basically Jim Belushi
playing a Terminator-type figure.
Yes.
Complete with time travel abilities.
But he's also like a scuzzy domestic abuser.
It's a white trash time travel opus is what we're talking about.
Totally, yeah.
It's like a time travel adventure, but it just reeks of stale beer.
is what you can sort of boil it down to.
Stale Australian beer.
Oh, yeah, he exclusively drinks beer from Australia in this movie.
Because it reminds him of his deadbeat abusive father.
Who abandoned him to move to Australia?
Also, you better believe we're not paying to use fosters in this.
No.
No, it's bosters.
Bosters.
Bosters kangaroo beer, everybody.
I'm drinking kangaroo juice.
You milk it straight from them.
Well, we're using that late 90s filter where we look like we're filming on Mars the whole time.
Yeah, that's pretty alternative.
And it's just like, I keep expecting Linda Hamilton, speaking of Terminator, to narrate about how the machines took over.
Because like, this wasteland we open on.
This should be narrated from the future.
Well, because for the first six minutes, it's a boy and his rat.
I thought this was going to be like an ever-clear music video.
Yeah, totally, dude.
I think these are some deleted scenes from the Santa Monica video.
I will buy you some new cheese.
Perfect, shiny, and new.
Ooh, some new cheese.
Dude, have Art Alexakis purchased some new cheese for me?
Well, you know his name.
Art Alexakis, man, of course.
Do you think his deadbeat dad's ears are still burning from that out?
Oh, that motherfucker's brain burned out.
You kidding me?
Just every song.
That was a hit.
That fucker didn't give a shit.
Yeah, that's true.
Not from any point did he care?
Oh, I think he was kicking himself, though.
His son's a rich rock star.
Yeah, now he's sorry.
The point is you got to get as fucked up as possible so that you never know that.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
That's how I've been doing it.
So Frank Whaley is a scientist.
He's working down the street from Reanimator, by the way, this little lab he's got.
Yeah, he definitely is.
But it's weird because this is like a massive government facility.
He's literally the only person in the building.
It's supposed to be closing in a few days, but there's no one there.
There's not even security.
There's not one security guard.
It kind of looks like the abandoned place where you would store a time cop.
A pod?
Yeah.
Like, it looks like it was decommissioned.
It's where time machines go to die.
That's exactly right.
Yeah, no, it's weird.
There's also just like a lame barbed wire fence.
I mean, come on.
You're hiding a time travel device.
Let's beef up security.
I want a cool barbed wire.
fence. We got a beef up security
around here, Lou Forigno security
God. There's a time device in there.
This is the same desert where the
Hulk was made, so that sounds about right.
Is this part of the MCU guys?
Oh, I think not.
No. Is Jim Belushi
in the MCU? No, no. He never will be.
Is he in the ICU?
He's home in the ICU.
I got in a fight in a Chicago
Fire game. But to be fair,
it's got a barbed wire fence and a
really good solid Superdoor
right? Yeah. This is
A really great Super Door.
Is that a movie?
I know Barb Wire is, right?
Pam Anderson?
Yeah, oh, right, Barb Wire.
A Yasmin Bleevee movie called Super Door.
Well, it also, it features Jim Blouchy's greatest enemy, a chain link fence.
Yeah, totally.
They have to crawl over.
I mean, I think they never show that, by the way.
No, no, no, no, no.
35 minutes later.
Oh, yeah, that'd be a good movie, too, chain link fence.
I think I saw the Super Door in an episode of Mantis.
I think we're sharing sets
So Frank Whale is like
Look, he's doing your video conference thing
He calls the guys the Pentagon
A bunch of idiots in his little
Farewell address here
He's like this is the last experiment I'm going to do
On my retroactive experiment
Wherein I try and send
A mouse back in time
Now the idea is
You, the consciousness of the being
Will go back into
Go back in time to be able to
change the events because it knows
correct. Right. So it sends
your mind into your
old body. Uh-huh.
Right, right, right. Yeah. So this is not
like a back to the future. We have
doubles of ourselves kind of
a thing. Your consciousness just goes back
to wherever you were.
It sets a time limit. So it's like
20 minutes. So wherever you were
20 minutes prior, your
consciousness, knowing all
the time travel information, goes
back 20 minutes. It definitely makes a lot.
a sense. Yeah, well, what, well, you want to explain it. I can, I can explain it for you
right now, Chris Katow. Okay. Okay. The answer is
microchips. Man, so Jim Belushi is dabbling in like black market microchips in this
movie. In the Texan desert, West Texas. Well, we do learn that this works. He does the final
experiment, Whaley does. Oh, right. Everything spins around like a Batman episode. It's a bad
camera spins around and there's no real device
you're just on a floor kind of a thing
I mean again I think I saw this device in Mantis
and the first time the mouse basically goes through
a trap goes through a maze hits
cheese slams on a mousetrap
it dies the second time because he has the consciousness
the mouse which I think is still too stupid to learn this
anyway yeah like learns not to get
foiled by a mouse trap yeah like in one try
this mouse is like oh yeah step off that floor
I died last time.
Yeah, also the mouse has no idea.
Like, oh, I must have traveled through time.
What are you talking about?
How the hell does he know that it worked?
Frank Whaley?
Yeah.
Because he's videotaped himself.
Well, that's the tape.
The tape, what's going on with this tape?
That doesn't make any sense.
It makes no fucking sense.
So, like, Frank Whaley's recording all of this.
He does the experiment and then, like, he's watching TV and it's himself, like, explaining
shit.
I don't know how.
I don't get it. It's because the rat doesn't eat the cheese that he thinks he cracked time travel.
No, you, it is that, but there's also a thing about the tape. It's like, oh, when I looked at the tape, it's different or something. He's watching himself on TV.
And then the phone rang and I'll die in seven days.
Well, the thing, did anybody see that rings, by the way? No. Did you? No. You said it like, here comes my opinion on the Rings movie.
Well, you know, there was a chance that Chris Cabin would have seen it.
That's what I was kind of angling for.
I did not.
We're angling for you, buddy.
Thank you.
Chris is a cinephal.
The rest of us are just movie buffs.
That's true.
I'm glad you made the differentiation.
I go to the movie gym and I eat Doritas.
And I get buff.
So then after this experiment works, we cut to Jim Belushi.
He pulls up to this trucker who's like hanging out to do this deal.
And my lord, playing this truck driver.
none other than the son
or the brother of the president
Roger Clinton
Yeah, a president at the time
President at the time, of course
Yikes
And you could barely see him
There's no like establishing shot of Roger Clinton
What does he need?
Well I think what he means is
You show a shot of the outside of Roger Clinton
Then you've cut inside Roger Clinton
He's gonna say
Show me a shot where the sun isn't over
like taking his whole entire face exactly that's what i mean you barely can see him you're paying the
clinton money uh-huh you know and that's contributing to the the the clinton well i feel you know i
feel like now bill's watch it's like hey roger was that like your only scene or what can i turn
this off now bud hey bud you did a great job in that one scene or he's or he's like cut out of that
movie or he's like oh man this is a sweet friday night
Hillary and Chelsea are out of the
White House. I'm going to do a little
V-D rental. Hey, hey,
hey, Bill.
What? Do you want to know what
Jim Booshy's like in real
life? Oh, this is
Roger Clinton. Well, no, I'm
just imagining, like,
Oh, he watched it by accident.
Bill Clinton puts on
retroactive. And in the first
like three minutes, his brother is
what the fuck was I
smoking? My brother's
not an actor. Oh,
man sure ain't
I'm just a big
Frank Whaley fan
Oh yeah he's a wailie
Completed
I watched swimming with sharks
The other day brother
That was a cool movie
Oh shit pulp fiction is my favorite movie of all time
Swing Kids is pretty cool
But it actually kind of doesn't hold up
When you watch it later in life
Hey Monica he's the guy that had the big cahuna
Oh man the big cahooner
But did he do Swimming with Sharks and Big Cahooner?
No, he didn't do Big Cahuna.
No, no, not the Big Cahoon.
He has the Big Cahuna Burger.
Oh, right?
Oh, Big Cahruna Burger.
Oh, because there's that.
Maybe it's this Cahuna burger.
It's that play that's made into a movie.
Is it Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito?
Yes.
Are the Big Cahuna?
Kevin, no, the Big Cahoon is Danny DeVito, Peter Fassanelli, and, uh...
Oh, wow.
Wow.
And Danny DeVito.
You said Danny DeVito twice.
He said it twice.
Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Fassonle.
Danny DeVito is playing two roles in the Big Cahood.
And Swimming with Sharks is Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley.
Yes.
Oh. Thank you for cool.
Wow, I think I'm the first person on Frank Whaley's Wikipedia page.
Balloons.
A server.
A bunch of digital confetti.
Exactly.
An old server had to go back into rotation and power up just so you can load that
set page.
You know what Frank Whaley's good in, actually?
He's good in most things to be fair.
I like frankly.
He's in the first season of Luke Cage.
He's awesome.
I like him on that show.
Yeah, okay.
So they were correct.
No, but yeah, so he gets the Belushi sporting an atrocious sideburns and an even worse Texas accent.
Jesus ever loving Christ.
What are we doing?
We don't need it.
These sideburns are terrible.
Well, I mean, the accent is just unforgivable.
Well, that's, I think Jim Belushi's whole thought process was like, well, if I'm,
I'm from the south.
I have to talk like a fried pig.
So I'm just going to ham this one up.
But that's, I mean, like, it's your classic.
Like, we're just cozying up to the one star that we have.
So, like, whatever this guy wants to do, let him riff.
Like, he's going to swing for the fences every take, and we're not going to direct him.
Like, Jim Belushi is on an acting tear in this movie.
He really is.
He is screaming and yelling.
He's fucking hehorn.
He's shucking and jive.
What?
Hollering as well.
There's a lot of hollering going on.
Once he gets the microchips away from Roger Clinton,
Roger Clinton pulls a gun on him.
He's like, hey man, you said you're going to pay for these.
He's like, oh, I just got to go down the road to get the cash, man.
I'll be right back.
He makes some like offhanded remark about, hey, they were like buddies in high school.
And he's like, all right, man, thanks.
And he takes him and he does a Jim Belushi strutton jump.
It's the classic.
Yep.
It's your classic taking care of business.
K-9, I think he does it.
It's his athletic maneuver.
It's like, yeah.
It's amazing.
He's like, I'll be right back, Roger Clinton.
Yeah, like, you know what?
This isn't the movie for this.
We called it a chili jump.
The chili jump.
Imagine did a chili jump and Ghost Rider?
That would be pretty great.
All right, thanks for nothing.
Pierce, Brasden.
My five, Roman.
Oh, man, Roman Polanski fucking hates Jim Belushi, guaranteed.
Oh, and show me a huge.
Hero is like, no way, Oscar Isaac, we're not building low, low public housing and yonkers.
High five now for Molina.
Man, that move, that mini-series is devastating.
It is a bit.
I skipped it.
Yeah, you're fine.
I mean, no, it's great.
It's just, yeah, unless you want to feel like shit.
I felt like shit watching retroactive.
Is it the same kind of feeling like that's a different one?
So we cut.
Sorry.
we cut to some other lady driving down to Texas Highway
listening to the news about herself.
Apparently, like, there was some Chicago
hostage situation gone wrong.
And it was such a cock up.
It made Texas Radio.
And as we see, the cover of USA Today, America's fake newspaper.
It was like if the negotiator, if Kevin Spacey hadn't been able to get there.
Oh, yeah.
It was that kind of situation.
Let me ask you that.
guys this this is an on the level legitimate question uh-huh the negotiator is that an episode probably
right i think it's a heavy-duty hangover movie i don't really remember it much i remember seeing
in the theater yeah it's kind of forgettable i'm sure we could talk about no just checking
no no just check it a peek yeah hey peeka boo
hey little peek of rudy so she's driving listening to herself and she's got like that's a nice
twist it's your classic
this is a male character's movie you know
what I mean like basically oh I have to go
to the desert to find myself after this
police botched thing go wrong
man which I think first of all she's
making great time because we're led to believe
that this should happen the night
before and she's already in West Texas
well maybe she flew and then bought or
rented a car oh that could be
you know what I need to see her at the airport
otherwise I'm just otherwise I'm assuming
this is a road trip you could push it to the limit
dude and you get down there
A late-night hostage situation goes wrong.
You immediately skip town.
Also, that's fucked up.
You know that she's got questions to answer.
Is she going to Mexico?
She got a bunch of people killed, didn't she?
She resigns really quickly.
I resign, bye.
Also, though, it's weird because she's not a cop.
She's just like a police psychologist.
Yes.
But they don't really get into it.
They show it for a second.
It does look like Terminator B-roll.
It's like the top of a building, there's snipers.
Something explodes and that's it.
like is she just like um oh okay they're not respond they're not picking up kill everybody now you could
definitely do like the voice over there it's like and then the machines woke up yes and i knew
i had to get my son john away from me it is it does it looks very much like that's so weird
terminator ask um terminator esk this movie is just like james cameron movies
that's how good it is so she in the middle of this she has like a weird flashback and
And whilst having that, you know, she realized she's on the wrong side of the road and she has to veer off and like she, her car.
She just runs into a truck, which I thought was Roger Clinton.
Oh, really?
I was looking out for Roger Clinton again. He's never seen again.
I thought the same thing.
Hey, Roger, you coming back?
Do you drive that truck or what?
I'm going to turn this off unless you're back in it, bud.
It sucks.
Hey, Roger, if you go to the bathroom, why don't you grab me another beer, brother?
Make sure you get it.
After you wash your hands.
I don't know how you go.
You got more time in Biodome or what?
Is he in Biodome?
Yeah.
Wow.
Which, by the way, the young kid in this movie is also in Biodom.
What?
Which I'm like, wait, does Roger Clinton and this child actor of the same agent?
Like, what is going on?
They're a package deal.
No, Roger Clinton just owns that kid.
He bought him.
He bought him outright.
One of a poker game.
With the Clinton White House, I wouldn't be surprised.
InfoWars. Pop-Tart.
Dot Farts.
Catch him in bed with a rogerick, fricking froggerke.
Dot fruit roll up.
So her car breaks down, and she's just like looking for help.
She's like, hell on people on the side of the road.
Jim Belushi whizzes right by her, and then she gives him, like, the fake arm up your asshole move, which I always kind of like.
Yeah, the old go fist to yourself.
The old puppet master.
Fist it, man.
Which is great because go fist yourself is way more visceral than go fuck you.
You get the finger.
Oh, yeah, when they work the fingers at the end of it?
Yeah.
If you just get a straight up finger, you're like, oh, whatever.
When you get the fras and then open it, man, dig in, man.
Fucking feel around.
What do you want to, right?
Like a parlor game at a lame Halloween party.
Oh, yeah, dude.
It gets dark up there.
everybody's been doing the finger for decades
but the old fucking fished out there
that will make Jim Belushi
pull right over and he did
he came back
did you got something to say to me or something
like he said something like that's like
hey car trouble huh
she's like yeah
he's like well there's a tow
area right up the road I mean I'm not
I don't know if I can do
Jim Belushi
trying a bad Southern accent
I tried doing it earlier today
did you pull something
I passed out
I woke up like
minutes later. It's like one of those Hawaiian
high things. There's a lot coming out of
your nose. Yeah, totally. Have you experienced
missing time?
I did. You might be the subject of an alien
abduction. Oh, if you have any information about
trying to do Jim Balushi doing
a Texas accent, you might be able
to help us solve a mystery.
If you've been able to track down a copy
of Radio retroactive,
you might be able to solve a mystery.
We want to speak to you.
so but yeah
just whatever we're doing
jimbleu she pretend he's doing the absolute
worst southern accent yeah
and speaking of which this woman
I think her name is Kylie Chandler
Kylie Travis
Kylie Travis is it
is doing a bad
American and southern accent
it's in and out and up and down
yeah like she was a model from the UK
yeah and this thing is just slingshotin all over the place
couldn't afford Samantha Morton
That's for sure.
Well, that's the one thing about this movie, though.
Just dub them.
Dub everyone.
Gets, like, they have, this movie somehow has three writers.
How do you, how does a bad screenplay that has no money behind it go from writer to writer to writer?
I guess it's just like, we're going to credit the script doctors and it's like someone is trying to make sense of something.
Yeah, I guess so.
But don't make, just don't make the movie.
Maybe two of them are a team and then somebody else had to do the others.
them there are teams yeah that's trouble so he's like oh go drive you up the road i got a buddy with
a tow truck you know about he says a couple clicks up the road because this is oh maybe he was
in the military ladies gentlemen it's a snappy screenplay look out for it yeah oh my god i'm not
doing that that's the scripts it's just pop up yeah it's we're post tarentino at this point
we're definitely post natural born killers same year same year oh really okay is it 97 no
You're the one saying it.
This is 1997.
Yeah.
No, I was just because we just did My Father of the Hero.
Oh, right.
Yeah, we were recording this episode the same day we recorded My Father the Hero.
We're getting release dates mixed up.
That's okay.
These things happen.
But yeah, so it's very like, aside from the camera filters, we don't have any like really big pop culturey things, but it's like it's guys with guns in a desert.
We've got suit kit.
You know what I mean?
It's very that.
Shitty sex talk.
Mm-hmm.
And that's X-Docke. That's what happens right here. So Jim Belushi's like, he's trying to tell this story that might also just be a joke. It's one of those like, that didn't happen to you. Yeah, exactly. So some lady came up to, you know, listen to this babe. Like his girlfriend is sitting right in shock. And like she, this girlfriend is actually almost too good of an actress because she's like super terrified of him. And it makes like this whole movie like real uncomfortable.
Oh no, she wasn't acting. She was just sitting next to Jim Belushi. Yeah. By the way, two women in a car.
with Jim Belushi. I hope nobody starts
negative. Oh, geez. Don't try
giving me directions, you bimbos.
You want to be thrown out this car? I'll do it.
So he's like, oh, hey, baby, listen to this story.
And he's basically like, so
some woman I saw, she was pretty hot, huh?
And, you know, like, oh, uh,
she commented on my belt buckle and said,
that's a nice belt buckle. And then guess what I said?
Guess. Get. And this, I hate when people do this.
They're like, guess what I say.
and I'm like, that's a formality.
Just tell me.
And then they go into the, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, guess.
I'm not going to do it.
You can't get it.
I don't give a shit enough to guess about anything.
So let's just talk about something else then.
How about hamburgers?
There you go.
That's why.
And then finally, I'll talk about hamburgers to the cows come home.
Medium rare or busts.
Oh, yeah.
Any kind of red meat.
You got to go right.
So he's like, so what I said to her was, you know,
look even better pressed against your
forehead get it
dick sucking
and these two ladies are like oh great
oh that's fantastic
did you get it
and like at this point
clearly like Kylie Travis
in the back is like man did I pick
the wrong fucking car
because it kind of makes sense like if you're looking for a ride
somewhere a couple is a little bit
better than just a single guy you're not going to get no car
10 times out of 10
you're like never enter a car with a single man
You're like, all right, a couple, like, at least somebody likes this guy, right?
But the answer is no.
I mean, you don't want to be like fucking I own sky and a Zodiac there.
I own sky.
Is that how you pronounce name?
I own.
I only.
I thought you were saying you owned the sky.
Oh, I do.
But that's not what I was talking about.
I'll get the red check right.
Talk about the actress from Say Anything.
Yeah, she's in Zodiac.
Yeah, she's in Zodiac for three seconds and then she jumps out of a car with a baby.
Yeah, that which is what I would do.
If you're in the car with the Zodiac.
Tuck and roll, Sadak.
But, yeah, I mean, like, so she gets in,
and she's already like, oh, fuck, this is stupid.
And he's like, oh, what do you got there?
She's like, oh, it's a book on psychology.
I'm a psychologist.
He's like, oh, a bunch of stupid shit there
about how that's fake.
Moving on.
Is it balls?
Then it's fake.
So then he gets pulled over and you're like,
all right.
Like, you can kind of see.
where all of this is going
because the tension's riding high in the car.
He's like probably
most definitely a criminal.
We saw that interaction
with the famous Roger Clinton
just a few minutes ago.
He's clearly abusive to this girlfriend.
Right.
So it's like awesome.
And he like the cop.
Yeah, he immediately gets out of the car
and this sheriff who is,
what were we saying?
Who is he from?
Eric?
What's he from?
Oh, the sheriff,
this like state trooper is
portrayed by the guy who was,
was in the episode on the junior mint in Seinfeld.
He gets the mint inside of him.
He's the artist with the triangle.
Right, Elaine's ex-boyfriend.
Who she dumped because he was fat.
Yeah.
He's thin in this, actually, to be quite honest.
Which is, it's definitely after that junior mint episode.
They got trim.
And, like, you know, basically there's a lot of nonsense.
It's just a lot of nonsense that he gets a ticket and he's all pissed about it, right?
Like, but he's outside the car.
I mean, like, and obviously he's a white guy.
He's not going to get shot in the fucking head.
No, no, no.
Just for stepping out of the car.
No, no, no.
Which you shouldn't do it ever if you're pulled over.
Yeah.
He's like rambling about like the guys like who's in the car with you.
And he's like, oh, them?
They're just my women.
And this cop's like, sir, bigamies against the law.
I ain't married.
Also lying to me is also against the law.
Sir, who are they really?
Are they your sister?
Your sister and your sister's friend
Are you trying to seem like a big man in front of me
And at this point honestly
Once the the car pulls over
If I'm Kylie Travis in the back
I'm like yep peace bye
Hey officer fuck this
Can I have a ride?
Yes exactly
And then you know what? No retroactive
No retroactive no oh man
Then we wouldn't get this great movie
It's true we wouldn't
At one point
So they get back on the road
He's all pissed about he got a ticket
This is when you realize he's like kind of violent
he's screaming at her
there is a
Mexican guy
that drives by
that kind of locks eyes
with his lady friend there
and like he's like
what is that guy
looking at you for
and he starts using
like all sorts of
fucking slurs
and it's awesome
and they finally get to
the
it's awesome
yeah no it's not
they go to the
the tow truck place
run by everyone's
favorite
and M.M.
at Walsh
by the way
that's how this
movie credits
oh he gets an
and
beautiful
and so
at M.
at this point like
Kyler Travis goes to Raylene
is this woman's name she's like hey Raylene
you should go to a women's shelter here's the number
for Ray Ann, I apologize
Apologies to Ray Ann's everywhere
Here's a number for women's shelter
I'm out of here by
Yeah she goes to use the phone she drops her wallet
It's the stupidest shit the way they show this
Dude the wallet like hits the floor of the car
in slow motion and then it's like a law and order
Dung-Dung well that's fate
man. Think about it. If that didn't happen again
no retroactive. Think about that every little
thing affects the future events.
That's right. That's right.
So you got to be careful with time travel.
Jim's inside getting road sodas.
Yeah. That's the whole thing.
He's like, I'm a little parched for some road
sodas, man. And it's so stupid.
He's like, hey ladies, you want some of the
drink because I'm getting something
and drink. Just go get your
fucking beer. Can I have some water, please?
You pick. Can I get an
Arizona iced tea?
The big one.
Hey, it's 1997.
You got any Fruitopia in there, M.M.
It walls.
Yeah, it's light beer.
Oh, Fruitopia.
It's been out of here for years.
Oh, nobody wanted to drink.
Slightly carbonated juice.
Stupid hippie craft.
I can get your soapy green tea.
Last guy that ordered a Fruitopia, I split his head over it.
Burn.
all the watermelon iced teas
out from. Get you a nice
canned Arnold Palmer
though. Drink it right
up. So he goes to
Baloochey's like paying for this beer. They're buddies.
And he's like, hey,
I got some pictures you might want to see.
And he gives, he pulls out of his front
pockets, pictures of Rayan
making out and making love
to this, to the Mexican guy we saw earlier.
His name's Jesse. Jesse.
Who also played a dude named
Jesse on the fame team.
TV show. Get this. The actor's name
is Jesse. It's kind of weird.
It's like a Tony Danza situation.
I think much like Tony Danza, I think this dude only responds
to Jesse. That's the thing.
So it's her making love to Jesse and like
Belushi's like steaming. And the funny thing is like
Eminem at Walsh is kind of laughing at him and like lick
his lip. He's having a great time with this information
dump. Which he doesn't even mention how
he got it at all. It doesn't make any sense.
Like I'm sitting there like did someone
hire M.M. at Walsh. Is M.M. at Walsh, a private investigator on his own, on top of being an
independent small business owner who operates this gas station? What is going on? Why is he in possession
of these pictures? And why is he licking his chops like a cartoon wall? He also would seemingly
be an international arms dealer because he's got, he's taken the microchips in this version.
He's got the money. He's got the money that would then go to Roger Clinton. Oh, that's what I think
it is his M.M. at Walsh owes Jim Belushi money for
and he's going to use Jim Belushi is going to use that money
to pay off Roger Clinton for the microchips
that somehow truck driver Roger Clinton procured.
And when the two of them are talking about these microchips,
he's like, oh man, these people go crazy over microchips.
Like nobody knows what anybody is fucking talking about.
Well, the funny thing is, finally later in the movie,
you find out that Frank Wally had or Waley had bought
some of these microchips in the past.
And then even
what's her name,
Kylo Travis,
it's like,
well, what are these microchips?
Like, they're really good microchip.
That's basically all he says.
The government makes them,
they're really good microchipers.
Yeah, they're like government design.
But it doesn't make any sense.
His time machine is working and also
you're being shut down.
Why are you buying microchips?
And also, by the way, I guarantee you,
like the first time this happened,
like Roger Clinton got a really good cut
from microchips from like,
Maybe he got them from a government facility.
Second time, he's just opening his VCR and taking shit out, breaking the motherboard up and
like, oh, look at these microchips.
I'm going to make my own microchips.
Here's a million dollars.
So Jim Belushi is fucking boiling inside at this point.
She tries to call.
The number doesn't work.
She's like, oh, I left my wallet in that perverts car.
And as she goes in to get it, Belushi gets in the car and, like, storms off.
And she gets, like, kind of sucked back in the call.
I don't get this.
Just bend over and pick it up off the floor.
Why are you getting back in the automobile entirely?
Or even ask, hey, Rayan, is my wallet in there?
Yeah, Rayan, did I drop my wallet back there?
Hey, Rayan, can you wake up for a second?
Just try to get under the seat.
Rayan, Rayan, I'm not getting back in that car.
It smells.
Could you get my wallet?
It's right there, Rayan, Rayan.
It smells like Jim Belushi.
It's just rocking.
Also, we should, we'd be remiss to mention because this is one of the, it's important.
A family from Wisconsin pulls up.
and the little kids got a gun
that looks like a real gun
and those were the days
it was freeze and she freaks out
and then they're like
oh how do we get to a camping site
uh ran gives them directions
and they drive away
how do we get to a camping site
off the highway in the West Texas desert
hey why are we here
fucking family vacation is this shit
well it's only 10 miles down the road
but then what's there
I have no idea
you're in fucking coyote country man
this family's gonna be eaten alive
eat that kid well the thing is
this family
among other people in this movie.
It's just like a final destination.
They would have probably died camping.
Oh, right.
So now that they're not going to die.
Yeah.
So now they'll just die by Belushi hands.
So that's kind of where we're going.
So basically they all get,
they're all in this car and like,
Belushi's giving her shit.
You're like,
oh, are you sleeping with more Mexican slurs
that probably were ad lib?
And this, you know,
one we can say.
You call the Taco Head?
Yes.
I mean, that is just like,
were you in the fucking first grade
seriously
and learn a better slur
buddy
and then finally
he pulls off to the side of the road
and he pulls up the side of the road
and he goes you know what rayan
I'm done with it and he pulls out this gun that nobody
knew he had and blows her head off right
and this is the first of many great
shots great squibs the whole
window blows back and I'm like
pretty cool it was awesome this is after
by the way he splashes a bunch of
road soda in Ray Ann's
Oh, this is fair.
Do you or do you not want a beer?
And this is so stupid because it's like, clearly this deadbeat doesn't want to share his road sodas.
No, well, he's just a mentally abusing her as well.
Oh, man, he is livid because he just found out about the infidelity.
Oh, right.
So he's just tossing the beer in her face and he's like pouring it all over the place.
And then he, Fisher Kingser.
You can't drink right now.
And in the back color.
And in the back color, Travis is like,
I could have just canceled my credit card.
I definitely, my dad has a copy of my license.
Like, what was really in that wallet that you needed?
Oh, fuck.
Oh, great.
Great.
There was eight bucks.
Awesome.
You know what's an interesting detail I want to bring up because it's not anything really important to the story.
There's no story, so that's fine.
But so when we're in M.M.
at Walsh's gas station and we're kind of like having a look around, there's one shot of
Jim Belushi, like, you know, being a fat idiot.
in the store and whatever.
And in the foreground.
There's a lot of shots.
Yeah, yeah, oh, that's true.
In the foreground, you see some of the
products that M. Emmett Walsh has for sale
at his little general store.
Oh, a little general store run by
Jaden Smith?
I'll report right to the
general.
The little general.
M. M. M.
at Walsh is selling boxes
of Olympic Lucky
charms. What does that mean?
Oh, like, from...
I think it was like a...
The 96 Olympics.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Pretty cool.
It's awesome.
Good for the Olympic-sized lucky chance.
I just...
New contract with Kellogg.
I actually looked it up because this place, M.M.
Walsh's place, really reminded me of the beginning of Dust Till Dawn.
Uh-huh.
This is a year after, so, you know.
Is it the same gas station?
No, I don't know if it's the same gas.
No, they blow that one up, actually.
Oh, they kind of blow this one up.
Yeah, maybe they keep building enough to blow it up.
Blowing up all sorts of gas stations.
A man, M. M. at Walshan from Dust till Dawn.
holy fuck that hot woman's a vampire no that that that Danny Trejo is also a vampire oh dude maybe
this is a connected universe maybe Roger Clinton goes to the titty twist oh yeah Roger Clinton is a
regular the titty go bikers and truckers okay Roger Clinton you can come in we only accept
bikers truckers and Roger Clintons oh man and like all the vampires like no
Nobody fucks with Roger Clinton.
He drinks for free.
Roger Clinton in this movie is waiting for his big sum of money that never comes, and he's
vanished.
I presume desert vampires got that makes a good deal.
You're totally right.
So Belushi's freaking the fuck out.
He shoots Rayan in the head.
Yeah.
And then like, what's her face?
Kylie Travis gets out of the car.
They kind of fight a little bit, but then she like kicks him and runs off.
And she's in like so much better shape than Jim Belushi has ever been in.
Oh, by a country mile.
So like there's no way in the world he could ever catch him.
this woman. She runs like fucking fence man.
She runs 10 miles in the morning. This guy's
not run 10 miles in a year. No, she's
got all the time of the world to get away
from Jim Belushi. She does. Running really
fast and then she's hopping that chain
link fence. She does to Frank
Whaley's facility which also kind of brings to mind like
the position of this facility
to Eminem at Walsh's
world of liquor is kind
of like, is it like right next to
each other? It must be because at one
point she runs from there to there. And
she says something to Frank Whaley about
like oh we got to go back it's that gas station right down the road do you know it and frank well he's
like oh yeah definitely that's where i get my lunch every day oh man maybe that's part of the business
there because it's like the government facility you get the government workers sure yeah every
uh every day i make your sandwich if you want oh you can also maybe eat some of these old
hot dogs and john hawks stole my bed or am i stealing his bed
uh so she she does wouldn't you know it goes walks right into a time travel facility man
what are the odds and like frank waley is like no nervousing around and he accidentally
sends her back 20 minutes right and this is kind of what you realize oh this is the because like
this takes about 40 minutes the first part of it you know what I mean you're like well so what
is this movie how does one have to do with the other you know what I mean like you know what
I thought the minute this I was like wait that was only 20 minutes I felt like a solid
55. But it's rough, though, because
what you realize is if we're in this time
loop, the
majority of this movie is taking
place at a gas station. And in a car
with a couple arguing. Yeah.
Awesome. With Jim Belushi arguing.
It's tough. It's tough. You're
doomed to repeat
the obnoxious first 20 minutes
of this movie. Live, die, repeat.
Actually, at this point,
my fiance, it was like, yeah, I'm going to bed.
It was like a clear, like, she was
like watching it, like, oh, maybe they'll be
Cool time. No, it's, I just have to watch that again. Yeah, I'm going to bed.
No, she's missing out. Yeah. So, um, there's a great line. Sorry, before she goes back in time, like, when Jim Belushi, it's like right before the chase scene happens. And he's like, he's like, he's screaming at her. And, you know, like, now I don't have anyone. And he goes, not even Ray Ann. Who is dead now?
He's like, right. Thanks for nothing. It's like, what? I fucking love it. Who is dead now? I had to talk to.
You had to bring my kids here, which I hate.
But apparently, they never show it.
Balushi does get over this fence and starts pounding on the super door.
Yeah.
Which has like a magnetic lock or whatever nonsense.
Yeah, the same thing happened on Mantis.
Basically, Frank Whaley, sets it for 20 minutes.
He was going to do like an experiment on another rat.
Well, he drops a bottle and it hits this keyboard and it goes back and it starts the machine.
And by the way, all of his monitors are running like windows.
Windows 3.11 or something. Yeah. Yeah, totally. Man, that took me back. Totally did, dude. That's time traveling of itself right there. But that, it's fucking hilarious because Frank Whaley's like, hello, police department, wah! And like a bunch of bottles just fall on a keyboard. And it's like, time machine activated. Jesus Christ, you need to have better safety protocols than hitting the space button. Maybe click a yes or a no afterwards. At least a yes or a no. Are you sure you want to travel?
through time. And the room starts spinning like that time tunnel and you start to see Jim Belushi's
car again. And I'm, I thought like, wait, did he drive a car in here? I was getting really
confused for a second. I was like, how did he get this car in here? But no, it's we cut to the
highway and we're starting over again. And now, you know, it's not further back enough where she
could just decide not to go into the car. So she, she has to kind of like take what she knows
within the car. Right. And at this point, yet again, uh, it's like grandhogs, grandhogs.
Day, right? But it's just Hogs Day.
My new
time travel adventure, Hogs Day.
Yeah, because I think we're still, like, a year off
from Run Lola Run.
At least, that's a similar.
It was that 98, 99? Yeah, that sounds right to me.
And Ground on the Hog Day was like, what, 95?
95. Something like that.
Yeah. I remember Walsh was in all those movies.
His spirit is.
Oh, run, Lola, run. What I do, you know,
you do some German for our, Bill Murray,
You're going to have to seduce Andy
McDonald's. I saw a German
girl go through here with red hair.
The only reason
I got in that movie, I'm a big
friend of Tim Tickfus.
Long-time friends.
I actually
used some of my mixtapes for the
soundtrack. I listen to that shit
all the time when I'm rolling at home.
Look out for that step.
It's a doozy.
Run the little run, by the way, 98.
Oh, okay.
Very nice.
Right around the corner.
So the thing that, which I hate about these kinds of, if you're doing that thing
where we're in a time loop and we have to do, we have to realize that we're doing the exact
same thing over again.
We need to do the exact same thing over again.
Use the same takes, please.
Same takes or at least like really be sure we're doing the same dialogue because it's Jim
Belushi and he's telling the bell puckle story again.
And instead of, which is, I mean, it's a time thing.
because it takes forever for him to get to the punchline
in the first time.
Instead of that, instead of doing the like,
guess, guess what I said, go ahead, guess.
He just is like, guess what I said.
Well, I said this.
And it's like, well, that's not what I just saw.
That's maybe in a prank.
I get it's retroactive.
Nobody cares.
Yeah, nobody was monitoring this.
Not even a script supervisor.
So then she realizes like,
okay, here's a good way to fool Jim Belushi.
Pretend as if I'm all horned up for him.
Well, that's later in the movie.
That's not this one?
That's the next one.
Oh, this one, she's just trying to, like, figure it out, I guess.
This one, she goes to the cop, right?
Oh, oh, this is when the cop gets murdered.
So she's like, oh, all right, I'm going to use the cop when that happens.
When he leaves the car to talk to the cop, she goes to Rand.
She's like, where's his gun.
Tell me where his gun is.
Tell me where his gun.
She's like, oh, he always has his gun on him.
Right.
And then you see, like, this guy walks out of a car with a gun sticking out of his belt buckle in the back.
Yeah, that's...
Classic move.
Well, it's Texas.
That's balls.
man uh and like she realizes that she she pops out of the car she's like officer this guy's a criminal
blah blah blah and like it just gets this guy killed this this guy's murdered almost immediately
there's a big like you know chase once again this is oh when they get to the gas station this time
well at this time they fight and um rayan takes the car and this is when the car explodes amazingly
there's a lot of good car explosions in this movie she was like i got the
microchips I'm driving away and like
Balushi starts like shooting the car
and it mannixes itself into a
fucking fireball. That's right. I was getting
ahead of myself. This is the time where
he's like and Ray-in. Who is
dead now? Thank you very much.
That's this time. It's hard because
literally we're going to tell you
gentle listeners is the same movie
five to six different ways.
Yeah. Yeah.
Let's not only tell the gentle listeners
let's tell the hard listeners.
Oh right. Yeah. The Biff
ribs out there's also
so in this version
Balushi hilariously like pulls a gun on the family
yes which is great
I think also in when they're at the gas station this time
they do get to the gas station
they do yeah he brings her to the gas station this is when it turns
to do it this is when you realize Emin
Walsh's in on it he's like we got a kill
we got a killer man and he's like
take her to the desert don't do it here man
I'm sick and tired of burying bodies
behind my gas station
well my favorite part about this
whole thing is Kylie Travis, so
Kylie Travis and Jim Belushi are like squaring off and Jesse
shows up again. Yes. And he's
and Jim Belushi's like, no, she's the evil one. Not
me. Yes. Not the piggish little
me. Pigish little me.
And like he actually is like confounded like
Who should I trust? The maniac with the gun
his ass or this fine lady who's pointing a gun at him.
Well this Jesse's got hard
decisions to make. He winds up ultimately just
getting murdered. Jesse is kind
of doomed to die in all
this is another guy who's got Tony Todd
hot on his trail. He really does.
Tony Todd's real busy. Well,
that's the thing is what are we talking about with these alternate timelines?
Like, what happens?
What do you mean? Like, where do they
go? Are they just like splinter off
into nothing? Well, I've got
a theory that every single time
deviate like this.
The world is forced to
live out that timeline. Like,
Right now, we're in the Trump era, which didn't really happen.
But now we have to live out this timeline and die before the time traveler fixes it.
Oh, okay.
That's unfortunate.
So we'll live both.
Yeah.
But we're going to have to die in this one first.
Well, we will soon.
That's for sure.
Oh, very soon.
Very, very soon.
Yeah.
I'll see it in the parking lot.
I just love that.
That whole exchange between M.M. at Walsh and Jim Belushi, I'm like, what is the retroactive
prequel where they are just burying people
in the desert.
You got a whole desert here.
All those desert vampires got them.
I don't know why we just don't
bring them to the titty twister.
They could be the lunch
buffet at the titty twister.
Hey there, Cheech man.
Got another for you.
Hey, sex machine, you hungry.
Hello, slow boys.
You want to play this one?
The slowboats.
That is a
a stupid thing in that movie where
they're playing people like
and just don't come into my gas
station and let a toilet pepper
roll on fire and throw up behind
the register. Steve, are you
still watching that TV show? I never watched
that TV show. Oh, I thought you did. That's fake
news, man. The L. Ray Network.
I watch the L. Ray Network. Oh, that's what I
watch everything. You are. You're obsessed with
the L. Ray Network. As well, I should be.
If they want to sponsor the show, you give me
an email.
Yeah, so like it just, it goes tits up,
once again. And then she
runs back to Frank Whaley and she's like, oh,
because Rayanne dies in this universe.
She gets shot in the back this time, I think.
No, no, no. Oh, this is the blow-up.
Yes. So she's like, all right, fuck.
Rayan is always going to die. So I'm going to go back.
She goes back again.
Actually, is this the first time the family
dies? No, the family
doesn't die. I think the family peels
out. Jim Blasie pulls a gun on this.
When she goes back,
she starts to hit on him
now, right? This is the hit on one.
Yeah, this is also, so she says to Frank Whaley, like, here's the deal.
This machine worked once before.
He's like, good night, future boy.
He really realizes he's Doc Brown of this.
Yeah, which he's very excited about because his friend Eric Stoltz got cut out of that movie.
Of course I wouldn't remember it.
I haven't sent you back in time yet.
So she's like, all right, now we should both go back in time.
And when this happens, you'll be back at your lab 20 minutes ago.
You have to immediately call the police department because,
I will be on my way with this fucking fat maniac in a car.
And at this point, he's like, no, I'm not going to do that.
That gives you cancer.
And she's like, what?
Oh, yeah, I didn't tell you that.
Well, he is rightfully reluctant.
He's like, okay, if I did this once before, like, it was an accident, I don't know what happens to you.
I haven't started this.
She's like, there's no time.
Ray Ann needs me.
I'm like, I don't give a fuck about Ray Ann.
Yeah, I mean, not for nothing.
I'm sorry.
It's just Ray Ann.
Ray Ann's going to do Ray Ann.
I mean, I guess at this point also
the other, Jesse is dead, so that's two people
as opposed to one.
The cops dead. Oh, yeah. So, you know, the
bodies are piling up at her feet, so she probably
should have left well enough alone in the
first place. Totally. So we go back
this time, and this is when she's like
hitting on Jim Belushi, and she's like,
you know, you know what I love?
Motels. Because you can do
anything you want. And beer, and
corn chips, and football.
Barts. Maybe there's a
Cubs game.
And she, like, while this is happening,
she's, like, reaching her hand down
to pull the gun out of his jeans is the idea.
And she, like, eventually pulls a gun on him.
And then he's like, wait,
does this mean you don't want to go to the motel?
It takes him a very long time to realize
this woman would never have sex with him.
Wait, we're not having sex?
He's like, oh, but I thought it was party time.
Oh, chilly dance for six.
they get to the
what do you call it there they get to the gas station
again I think there's a more
fighting they do fight a lot in this movie
and the thing is what
what Tyler Travis needs to realize a lot
sooner is shoot this fucking dude
in the head yep the second you get the gun
you shoot him in the head that's the end of it
the worst that can happen is like
he's killed and like the car kind of goes out of control
but maybe Ray Ann's got that covered
yeah sure you guys work together but um
this time is when
Rayan is shot in the back.
Yes.
And this is also
when he says Taco Head, sorry.
He does say Taco Head.
I think Jesse gets involved,
he gets killed.
The family at this point,
this is when,
and you know what,
Kylie Travis,
leave this family alone.
Shoot them off.
She's like,
help, help,
I need to get in your car.
I need to get in your car.
Just let him go.
This ain't their fight.
Because this is the thing.
And like Eric said,
he is a Terminator-esque fighter
in this movie.
Like,
nothing takes him down.
He won't stop coming after you.
And he's got a handgun
and
And then later he's got a shotgun and he's unstoppable.
Once he gets that shotgun, man, this is like a level up.
He like pushes her through a plate glass window.
He goes through a plate glass window.
He's like Anton Sugar.
Like, that's nothing stops him.
I made out of liquid metal.
It's awesome when she kicks Belushi through the window because it's a window in a door.
Yeah.
And you cut to this stunt man.
I mean, I think this guy's also done work for Tom Selling.
Because he looks more like Tom Selling than he looks like Jim Bolution.
That's for sure.
But this guy, yeah, he goes through the window and everything,
but Belushi just keeps on coming.
And, yeah, oh, this is, oh, so this is actually,
this whole thing is started by the cop who wasn't murdered this time in the road,
gets to the gas station.
A bit of a Mexican standoff.
Right.
Hilariously, though, this cop comes in.
He's like, say M.M. at Walsh, you know what's hilarious?
And this cop is like holding pornography, which is pretty great.
Well, he goes, hey, look, I found your daughter.
Oh, that's not funny, Sheriff.
My daughter went missing several years ago.
It was actually featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
I think it was a penthouse.
Yes, yeah.
Oh, that's embarrassing.
So she gets into this family's car, gets them involved.
They drive into the gas station.
The parents burn alive.
Crispy critters.
She barely gets the kid out.
Which I don't understand how this works.
The car is like barreling towards the gas station.
and she just grabs this child out of the car
and at this point she just runs to fucking
the government facility which is like
a block away. It's a click. It's one click
and she gets there and like now Frank Willis like
wait you brought a kid here man
like oh this is way too many people to be time traveling
at once there's never a like a weight
limit maybe for this time travel thing
the best is
one of the best lines of the movie happens
with this police standoff because
it's like, you know, Belushi's got
a gun on her, she's got a gun on Belushi,
the cops got a gun on Belushi, M.M.
at Wall's just cowering, but he also has
a gun because it's Texas. And
Belushi's like, all right, yeah, yeah, I'll put my
gun down, but I don't know what, you know,
why you want me to do that? And
you know, she's like, oh, you got to look in his shirt
because that's where these microchips
are. And he's like, all right, come on
Jim Belushi, open your shirt. And he's like,
I don't know why you want to look down there.
All that's in there is a beerbell.
and then he just starts shooting this dude
and he's like,
and some bullets for you!
Oh, it's awesome.
He is just,
he is gnoshed on this scenery, man.
He really is.
Because like when he gets into it,
later when she gets in the car
with the family, he's in the cop car
and he's driving around.
He's like, bumping cars.
And at this point, like,
M.M. at Walsh is like on his side
and is like his minion.
So he's like, he's got this magnum
and he's like shooting at this family.
I'm involved too.
I'm involved too.
And he gets shot in the heart.
Oh, yeah, he does get, he gets laid out a couple times in this movie.
He does, he gets shot in the heart in this version.
So she brings him to the facility and then somehow, what should I call it?
I think Jim Belushi follows them in at this point.
He's able to get in somehow.
Well, that's, it's one of the biggest plot holes in the movie because he shows up like, hey everybody.
Well, doesn't he tell, like Frank Wiley like, well, you don't remember?
You let me in once before.
Yes, he does.
But so what is, what are we even?
talking about you don't even remember
the movie doesn't remember
it's like great it's just like
oh he was let in once for his computer
chip delivery I guess
is what we're led to believe so in this
one uh so she's about
to travel back in time but only
Jim Belushi and the kid go back
in time oh is
and they go back 10 minutes
so they go back 10 minutes and now
it's Belushi he remembers everything
and then the little kid
remembers his parents' fiery death.
He does, and he's like, and he sees what you call
Kyla Travis, like, again, hailing him down the road.
And he's like, well, pick him up.
And I'm like, no.
Remember how your parents died?
Maybe this kid's in on it.
Maybe that's what he wants.
Oh, he's totally in on it.
Maybe he's a young Belushi.
Oh, wow.
He's like a problem child.
I feel like it's, if you're going back in time this many times,
at one point, like you turn into a lizard person.
You're like, ah, shit.
You know what?
Or I fucked around too much.
It's raining donuts that day.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly. Something needs to happen.
What's a donut?
No.
Oh, shit.
Now I have no orbital holes.
Damn it.
I've got no eyes.
One thing that does get repeated is Jim Belushi's one line of,
I love a good Chevrolet.
Of course you do.
Because he's driving.
I guess the cop car is a Chevy.
It's an American, man.
It's American made.
What a wonderful.
So it happens again.
Again, the family hooks right up.
They blow up again again.
It's just like, leave the,
people alone. Let them go on their
bad vacation. Yeah, let them find
that dangerous campground
they're looking for, man.
Excuse me, sir. Do you know where I can find
Jason Voorhees' campground?
Oh man, you know, it would be great
as if like, you know, this is all going on and like
Joe Flaherty keeps getting
involved. Jim Belushi!
I've got a letter for you.
Jim Belushi, I work for Western Union.
had a bet going downtown whether or not you'd be here.
An overweight man from Chicago.
Put this letter in my hand and told me to be right here, right now.
He's doing a bad Texas accent.
Like, when I get the sliders involved, too, like, let's really up the end.
Let's do everything, man, you know?
I don't know.
Hitler.
Yes.
I mean, like, this would have, I mean, like, actually, to be fair, Eric, I think you're right.
Like, you go back in time enough.
Yeah.
World War II will be won by the next.
Nazis. Even if you're going back 20 minutes at the time, it's just, it was a real coin flip.
Right. Well, because the, you know, the fabric of the space time continuum is just getting worn out, man. You can't be messing with shit like this.
And I think, like, even Frank Whaley's like, this is kind of too much. And everyone's like, shut up.
Quiet, Waley. Yeah, exactly. You want to be a star, don't you?
I don't even know. Like, yeah, so then they blow up and then like.
And then Frank Whaley is in going back with them or something?
There's just there, it's a time travel team, man.
I guess so.
So basically like towards the end of this thing is like, everybody's dead yet again.
Yes.
It's a pile of carnage.
And I mean like the carnage is kind of fun to watch.
Oh, it's great.
It's all practical effects.
There's no shitty CGI, which is why I'm glad this movie was made in 1997.
Because that's what I was saying.
I honestly, I kind of miss these like 90s thriller, sci-fi nonsense that you'd see.
on TV like one in the
morning. Oh, totally. Because if
this movie was made today,
it's like it would be direct to streaming
like terrible cheap
CGI, fake fire all over the place.
And like, you know, whatever. The time travel effect of just
spinning the camera like Batman, it's stupid
but like you get it out of the way.
Yes. You know, I don't have to see anyone.
It's watchable. Like those movies that are
on streaming are just unwatchable.
Totally unwatchable.
So you go back in time
We all go back to the facility
And then like Frank
This fucking facility again
And then like Frank Whaley is like
Well I could set the machine back 60 minutes
But that might destroy the whole thing
And she's like
What do we care because we're going back in time anyway
And he's like oh yeah good point
It's fucking we'll just end the universe
How about that shit
What if the universe just collapses in on itself
Whaley
Just because Ray Ann is dead
And some fucking some her lover
And you know like I don't
this family who definitely
that's on you Kylie Travis by the way
Yeah totally this isn't Frank Whaley's problem
Frank Whaley just needs to kick everybody out
Exactly you know I'm the guardian of the timeline at this point
Because I'm the only one with any kind of scientific background
And I'm the only one working at this government facility for some reason
That's why he needs a boss
You know what?
Some of the nope
He needs a boss he needs like
A security guard played by Jesse Ventura anything
And you know what that'll just add to the body count
And that's fine
And that's fine
I'm looking at a lot of people
getting shot in the head, sure.
Yeah, I want to see them.
So he sets it back 60 minutes
and this is the end of the movie.
It's like she's now back at her car.
Right. And she's like, and Jim Belushi stops again
differently. She doesn't do the fist you
business. He just kind of stops for no
reason, which he shouldn't in this timeline.
Well, it's different anyway because
like in the start of the movie,
she crashes the car
through a don't mess with
Texas billboard and the whole thing.
breaks down. In this
timeline, she knows that's common, so she
just breaks. Oh, I see. And she's just
kind of standing there. Yeah. And Jim
Ballou, she's like, hey, sweet cakes.
Mmm, that's good eating.
I'm going to go get some sweet
cakes. The car trouble
looks like it. And
she's like, oh, no, I'm good. Talk to you
later. And he's like, all right.
And she goes to Rand. She's like,
take care of yourself. I'm like, yeah, you're
absolved of any guilt. Bye.
I'm going to go cute my wife.
Goodbye.
Now, is it for the end of the movie, or is it like the last time before the time jump in where M. Emmett Walsh is hit by the car?
I think it's the time before the last time.
It's really good. Boy, that is fucking funny.
And it's the Taurus family's car, and he goes up and over the windshield into the luggage rack and his big fat bodies just flying around.
It's the guy who they use like the Mrs. Dowell's,
fire suit for this stunt double
Be careful with this one
it's not meant for stunt
word just throw it
just throw it as hard as you can
I can make you look like an old woman
or M. Emmett Walsh
same
difference
all you need to do is just talk really
sillily it's fine
it's good
so like this
the end of this movie it's like shit still winds up
going down, which is the problem.
She waves them off. She's like, take care
of yourself. Like, yeah, thanks.
Because Tony Todd was following all these people.
He was. That's right. Frank Whaley
picks her up and he's like, hey, hi,
remember we saved it and
Oh, right.
Frank Willie runs the intercept
at this point. She also tells, she flags
down the cop and tells him that
this guy's bad business down
down the street. Oh, right, because she knows the cop's
going to be on his way. So we go, we cut to the
gas station and we see
the Rayan's lover Jesse's been shot
and we see
Emmett Walsh has been shot
right as well
yeah and Jim Belushi
is there with a gun
and I guess he had seen the photos
of the cheating
and that's why everyone got shot
Hey Jim Belushi
I got something to show you
you know what you don't fucking mess with
somebody else's business
but maybe he's being paid to do so
we don't understand how he's procured
these photographs
and then
Harvey Fires
is there. I had nothing to do of anything. Oh, look at those snapshots. And then Rayan
shoots Jim Belushi like five times in the chest. Oh, gorgeous. To be, I don't know though. Like,
here's the thing is like Jim Belushi has been the asshole to end all assholes. He's killed like
the same people six times. So he's killed like 30 people. Sure. Yeah. And I need a bit more
than him because it's the only time he dies it's not like he dies a bunch of different times right he only
dies once i need like either like a train to hit him or when he gets shot like he kind of like light
starts escaping him because he fucked with the time continuum and he like time he time cop rips into
nothing like yeah he like fades out of existence erased from existence yes here's what would be cool
because they're in the desert who knows what's going on out there who knows he just gets shot a bunch
of times and then falls off a huge cliff sure that would be awesome
I'm kind of in the idea of Keith Travis and the kid of casino him in the middle of the desert.
Oh, yeah.
Dominic!
So what actually happens, though, is like he's also got his big spindle of money that he was supposed to give it to Roger Clinton.
This money is fucking monopoly money.
This money is the biggest money ever seen, yes.
It's ridiculous.
It doesn't even have Ben Franklin on it.
No, I think it's Judd Hirsch.
It's just like a picture of like Judders from Taxi.
It's so terrible.
And it's like...
You know what?
That should replace Ben Franklin on those bills.
Oh, sure.
Rieger bucks.
Oh, can you break a Rieger, you would say?
Oh, I can't break a Rieger.
It's all about the Riegers, baby.
Kaufman or less?
You're on the side.
50 buck Kaufman noter under.
You listen right here.
I have a thousand Judds.
You take this.
Yeah, come on.
man, I'm just looking for a
Mary Lou header so I can get a
fucking beer, man.
Come on.
I know you're good boy, man.
Dance is a dime, that's for sure.
This money
is like the wrong color.
Everything about this
is so fucking terrible,
which makes me think, actually, now that we're making
fun of it, maybe this isn't a bad
prop department. Maybe
this is M.M. at Walsh, ripping
them on. Oh, nice.
Or they just fucked with time enough that the show taxi has taken over the government.
Oh, could be.
I mean, the other thing is, though, I mean, this is clearly, it's a Blu-ray problem.
Because we all saw this on Blu-ray.
Yeah.
Like, I think, like, the original cut, you probably couldn't tell quite as much, but on a Blu-ray, you really could tell.
Yeah.
This is funny, money.
Although the awesome ending to this movie would be if Jim Belushi, like, gets away.
And you're like, oh, man, like, he's getting away.
And he takes the money back to.
Roger Clinton. He's like, see, I told you, Roger Clinton, here you go. And Roger Clinton
opens it up and it's this Judd Hirsch funny money. And Roger Clinton to do like a nice
button on the end of the movie just fucking blows him away, leaves the butt, like he takes
Jim Belushi's car. He puts it up into the truck. He closes the truck and Roger Clinton drives
off into the sunset. I like that. And that's the end of the movie. Total Heisenberg situation
right there. Roger
Clinton, criminal mastermind.
But what was with those
microchips? What were they?
And why is Frank Whaley not punished for
technically dabbling in like this criminal
enterprise? Yeah, he got some chips on the
black market for his time travel machine,
I guess. Which already works so I don't
get it. And he got, he had money
from the government. Like, how are you, you need
receipts for everything? It just
doesn't make any sense. It really doesn't.
That's where we got to audit the Fed.
Hey, Roger, I just saw your movie. I got
bunch of questions.
Oh, what's that?
Oh, you can't answer any of them
because you only had one page
worth of script to read.
Just let me know one thing.
What's that, uh, that cherry lady
that you talk to in that movie?
Can I get her a number?
So then she just kind of drives off like,
and everything was fine.
Now I'm, I guess, maybe going to marry Frank Whale.
She also mentioned that like they have to destroy
the machine so this never happens again.
Right.
Well, that's the case with most,
time travel man
but would you really
Frank Whaley definitely
would not
he doesn't give a fuck
they don't show
the destruction of the machine
because I think
they're leaving the door
open for a retroactive too
retroactively
you're not going to believe
this
all right Daniel
my friend is a time machine
we're going to redo
the dinner scene again
and again
your breasts will not
go on fire
oh man
retroactive
doubtfire
I would love it.
Absolutely.
When Pierce-Brosden orders despite,
don't poison Pierce-Prosden this.
Please don't.
Okay, and this one,
you won't take a piss in front of your kids.
You're right?
Don't show them your dick.
Come on, Daniel.
No one wants to work with dinosaur puppies.
Lock the door.
Just lock the door.
Sit down relief.
from beginning to end.
Sit down, really.
Just piss sitting down for a day.
All right, maybe, actually, when we go back in time this time,
just pay attention to your custody agreement and follow it to the letter.
Yeah, you know what?
That's a great piece of advice.
We're going to go back in time and don't have me build you an old lady's suit.
We're going to go back in time and not be weird.
Okay, Daniel?
We're going to go back in time.
and show Sally Field respect
He's like, we're just going to go
back in time and Daniel, listen to me.
You're just going to accept
that you're getting divorced.
We're going to go back in time far enough
that you're not going to have that, you're
not going to listen to House of Paine
at your goddamn son's
birthday party. Realize that you've
been on your last straw for a really,
really long time. And then
like, you know, take Sally Field
out to dinner.
Whatever happened to flowers,
Daniel, you don't need a body suit.
You need a bouquet.
Oh, that's our sponsors.
We're body suits for bouquet.
For each body suit sold, they give a bouquet to somebody.
It's a unthought-out business plan.
I'm not going to finish that joke.
That's all right.
That's okay.
They barely finished this movie.
They didn't.
That's the end of it.
It's too bad.
M.M. at Walsh doesn't make it until the end.
No, I mean, it just seems.
cruel to kill him why wouldn't you show this final thing like why is it we have to get up there i mean
this movie's only 90 minutes like yeah i mean like show that standoff you didn't you didn't run out of
squibs or maybe you did i don't don't don't ask them to put more time on this thing yeah don't be
doing that you go back your time and make this movie shorter yeah i'm just like a minute or two
tops like because especially like all the narrative leaps that happened you're like well why is he dead
what happened there like there's just like cheech marines dead you're like
Where'd he come from?
Better late than never.
I mean, but yeah, I mean, the death of M. M.
Walsh is the biggest unsolved mystery in this whole thing.
Because I can see, sure, Jesse gets murdered, fine.
That's like the lover.
Jim Belushi scorned by that.
I guess because M.
M. M.
Walsh is just laughing with those pictures, dangling those pictures in his face.
I told you get those pictures out of my fucking face.
The way he was positioned, it might have been Crossfire.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, you'll get caught up in.
would anybody recommend this movie i kind of would i mean it's 90 it's a cool 90 minutes sure it's
it's uh it is my favorite shitty moment in cinema history which is tarantino knockoffy kind of
nonsense guaranteed ultra violent really stupid uh it's bad as sin uh but it's fun enough i liked it or enjoyed
it. No. Okay. Oh, wow. You want to expand on that? Really? No. It's, I just, I mean, once you get like the
concede of it, I was just kind of like bored to two. Every time like, yeah, after the first two,
I was kind of like, okay, so now somebody else is going to die, but then they're going to die too.
Okay, whatever. I would really recommend it as well, as Steve said. It's fun. It's dumb. It's stupid. You got
Belushi unhinged.
He is a fucking maniac
in this movie. He really is.
Which is why I'd mostly recommend it.
Also, you know what this movie reminds me of?
And I actually, this is, ooh, hot take right here.
I think that Retroactive is a better movie than this other
time travel movie.
It's similarly structured, which is Primer.
I thought you were going to say forever.
Because, you know what?
I can fucking watch Retroactive.
And I don't need a goddamn manual to understand what the flying
shit's going on in that movie and it's
the same I mean I get what Chris is saying
it's tough when it's like oh fuck we're just going back
to this gas station oh man
you know but like listen I can watch
Jim Belushi go through a fucking plate
glass window a bunch of times I can watch
Emin at Walsh get blown away
I can watch that family burst into flames
a thousand times over you can see
all those things in Salvador
and it's such a better movie
maybe not the time travel
I don't believe
Salvador has time travel
I haven't seen it in a few years.
But family set on fire.
Jim Belushi getting beat up.
Both those things are in Salvador.
And in Primer, you could see a storage unit over and over again.
Yeah.
So you've got a storage unit right there.
Yeah.
That's pretty great.
You know what I liked about Primer?
It's a practical use of Tri-Trap.
It's also a very practical use of storage units.
It's a practical use of nap time.
Storage units.
They're a poor person's office.
It's somehow a cheaper movie.
That's retroactive from 1997 directed by Louis Mornow.
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