Smokin' Aces (2006)

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I'm going to give us a few and then you guys can start us off. Sure. Girlfriend, I've got such amazing reviews as 6 of 10 stars. Fun and creepy, but definitely has flaws. Taylor by sex tip. I get it. I get why people wouldn't like this movie. I understand why it is bad, but I do like it a lot. I am already expecting just under chaos. The next one's just way overdone. I have. I have no clue what is going on. Another one is 1010. Crazy cult stunning, funny. Another one that is just the word awful of five times in a row.

The word awful. God duh. Apparently you have stooped. A movie you want to like but just can not. Good grief. Russian and violence is just about everybody. Go after Israel. What is happening? OK, so. 60 A War of Apes. Just if it wasn't clear when you clicked on the podcast when you turned it on, we are discussing the 2006 action thriller Crime Keeper Smoking Aces, written and directed by Joe O'Connor and starring and This is mega starring Ryan Reynolds, really Otter, Jeremy Piven, Ben Affleck, Common, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Chris Pine, Kevin Durant, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Matthew Fox and and another 40 odd people in what is a big and confusing movie.

Rory, this was your pick. Do you have any? Do you have anything you want to do? You have anything you want to say before we get into trying to explain to Sonia what the hell this movie's about? So yeah, welcome to Clear and Present Dudes, the film nerd and defence podcast that supports the arts, the troops and official assassinations of card players in hotels. What a film, guys, what a movie. I love it. I love this film big time. I was so excited that we're actually going to talk about it. It was the first film that I was going to suggest for this podcast, but I thought, no, kind of a hard sell.

I mean, but now with it's been like we'll be doing this what, seven months maybe? This is episode 13. Looking out, we've been doing this long enough now to go absolutely sicko mode with smoking asses. A film that turns everything up to 10A. Film that has some of the most ridiculous concepts and sequences. A film that has possibly the least necessary erection ever shown. In, in, in in a dirty bathroom, in a cabin. A film that has the most unhinged Jason Bateman performance ever, a film that has Alicia Keys and holy shit, actually not doing a bad job in my opinion as well.

It has some of the best shootouts in in the business, especially one that I'll spur about just OK. But what's what's what's the best in the business? That's what's what's the coolest one. Come on, the one right K it has it has one absolutely incredible shootout, which is a very, very brief, nasty, dirty one in the in the lift in the elevator to to our American cousins. That's gutted, that's gutted. It's not heat, but it's quality. It's brilliant. Not the best in the business, but the knocking on the doors of some pretty good ones.

I think it's seemingly driven to its own insane beat. It kicks off so quickly into the madness. I remembered it as having more of a build up and re watching that it's like actually no others. There's a little bit of build up and that it's like straightener, just madness and I love it. I love this film. Some strange casting choices as well. Andy Garcia for some reason, playing like the bastard son of Foghorn Leghorn. Yeah. He's just a down home FBI director from from the swampsalusia y'all. It's ridiculous.

Wow, you in the big city might fight your crime like this. Well. Objection, your Honour. Objection. Y'all be part of the mule before the horse by the cops of this investigation of of Mr Primos Braza. It's like it's mental. What? Fucking Chris Payne Early career Chris Payne playing just a completely degenerate Nazi. He's, he's electric in this, in he is, he's, he's one of the highlights for me is Chris Pyne. As as performances, truly sinister, unhinged. He got some of the best like scenes in the film.

He's like a little weasel. He's a little weasel guy. He's a little freaky. That's brilliant. Yeah. Oh, we're going to go sickle mode and watch the trailer or, or we're going to go in blind without a trailer so Sonia has no idea. I think we should watch the trailer before we do the break so they can finally, finally see what we've been talking about. But at the minute he has to do it in the theatre of the mind. Theatre of the mind. But I will. History. Maybe I will describe some of the plot. Yeah, I will.

So before I do that, though, my my pin to this movie. Okay, so just just to just to qualify for Sonya here and it looks quite good at the minute because on my on my recording thing, it's like the three of us not lying and I'm on one shoulder and you're on the other shoulder. Just Sonya in the middle, all right, and you're going to and you're going to be like the little devil that really, really loves this movie. And I'm going to and I'm going to be the little boring Angel who's like no, but it's needlessly violent on the on the am I trying to do?

No, no, I know, I know, but I'm going to go, I'm going to go. It's not very well written. Yeah, I don't. I mean, I will give you it's not it. It certainly does not have the greatest writing in the world. MM was legendary enough to point me the link to to the script. Holy crap that screenplay is insane dude. It's incredibly confusing. OK, so so this this film has about 22 many characters. My opinion, I think, I think there's about 500 people in it and I understand what they're doing. OK, the whole the whole big conceit of the movie is was a shit tonne of hit men.

You'll want to get this one guy but the store, right, dude? Right. Oh my God. OK, right. So we go into way too much detail about who Buddy Israel is. I don't care who he is. He's just the Mac Guffin of the movie, right? He's just the guy they want to get. I don't care who he is. And yet we get about 20 minutes of expedition at the beginning of the movie where Andy Garcia. When Newton gets to meet Wayne Newton on the stage in Vegas and tell him to retire, I don't care. I'm shocking behaviour. Shocking behaviour?

Yes, Sir. So there's a there's a movie about that. There's a movie about Speratza somewhere in this thought they could have done. He gets a whole ending, but we don't want to spoil anything. But the end of the movie get a whole bunch about Speratza that is irrelevant, but we get a better set up on that and we get a big payoff on that. And there's all those weird bits where because the black and white, but the cars red, like it's fucking shinders list. Like like, like it's like, what's going on with that?

OK. And then the rest of the movie, and this is what the movie should be, right? It's it's the raid. It should be a Bush. People try to get to the top of the building. That's what the whole movie should be, but it's not. It's like there's bits in parking lots. There's a bit in a bail bondsman office. Every time someone tells a story, there's cuts away to like things that happened 20 years ago or are conversations happening in rooms just randomly or also it's just all over the place. Like one of the Andy Garcia's talking.

They were like Andy Garcia's got a lot to get through. So instead of just letting us watch Andy Garcia do it, walking around a room which is about fucking ten of those boards with like yawn connecting everybody and like a zillion photographs, instead of just letting them walk around and work that room. You also need to cut away every 2.3 seconds to like something that happened 40 years ago. So that's. Right. That's even the star of the movie. The star of the movie is in a surveillance van with, Yeah, Ryan Reynolds and and and Ray Liotta doing the whole classic.

Yeah, Yeah, exactly. Do the whole classic. This model jokes, Yeah. Oh, how can you eat that stuff that's going to age it. But John, you've got a you're 12 years old. So you you're but you don't care. That's like classic bullshit. And then they're like looking for binoculars looking an old man trying to make that interesting. Like this is Speratza. Oh, someone else is on the phone. Oh my God, who's like, I don't care who's Speratza is. Clearly this movie's not about the old guy you get, but mental.

Anyway, Joe Carnahan previously to this directed Narc, which I thought was a pretty good movie when I first watched it as a as a guy in my teens, I guess, or early 20s maybe. I think I watched that movie. It must have been teens because this movie came out when I was 20 and I thought that was pretty grim, the whole thing with the iron and the baby. But anyway, Joe Cohen then went on to do The A-Team, which I didn't see yet, but he did The Grey, which I thought was like a pretty good movie. I didn't think it was amazing.

I didn't think, I didn't think the right thing. I thought the right was a bit on the nose, but I thought it was cool. Bunch of guys in the wilderness fighting, fighting wolves. Fucking cool. So I came into this with like a bit of optimism, but I think I think this guy's a little bit, he was kind of riding on the coattails of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn, who I don't really Matthew Vaughn very much, but I think he's still in their shadow a little bit when he's doing this movie. And I think what this this could have done with is a bit of a bit of distilling, bit of focusing and then just like made it into like essentially the Raid.

This movie should have been the Raid, my humble. Oh, anyway, I've had my opening salvo, Rory. Yeah, Go on. If if this film was distilled and it's just essentially a very long action sequence, I'll allow the raid and would have lost pretty much all of its and many kind of sparse thriller qualities, which then would have exempted from being talked about in this podcast. Right now you'll be listening on actual good podcast, you know. Yeah, I know, right? I mean, technically if we allowed this movie through, maybe we allowed to do Dread 3D at some point anyway, right?

So at this movie, Las Vegas magician and wannabe gangster buddy is is Israel is hitting hiding at a Lake Tahoe hotel while his agent negotiates a potential immunity deal with the FBI, a deputy director Stanley Locke. So the buddy, Israel's Jeremy Piven, his agent, is the pet master from the early seasons in You Girl. And and. Weird poll and bad busting right my Jacuz again into my Jacuz that guy and and FBI Deputy Director Stanley Locke is Andy Garcia doing for some reason Louisiana accent a. What?

Mental. Wild. Special agents Richard Mesner, which is Ryan Reynolds and Donald Carruthers, which is really ought to learn that ailing mobos Primo Spirazza some guy his issued a $1 million bounty on Israel and sent a mysterious Swede to bring back Israel's heart. Several assassins also seek the reward, including master of disguise Laszlo's suit hit women Cherise Waters and Georgia Sykes. I'm going to stop right now and just say that in the screenplay for this movie, they're described by the incredibly white, middle-aged Paul Gaughan as Ebony stunners.

And was it ghetto? Ghetto Queens, Ghetto. Queens. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's Alicia Keys and her oppo. I don't know her name, sorry. And hired by Sprunters Underboss. Yeah. Mercenary Pasquale Acosta, who I think is that guy who was in lost, not Matthew Fox, but the other one and psychotic neo Nazi tremors brothers, which is Kevin Durand, Chris Pine and another one. If you want to if you want a boring trivia podcast, go somewhere else because here I don't know everyone's names. So that's that's the beginning of the movie.

Are you following this Sonya? There will be a test. Oh. Boy. So when you watch the movie, I find it difficult to follow as well, which and that is that's clearly a note that came up during production or during screen testing because every single one of these, and this is another thing that makes it seem a bit like a Guy Ritchie movie. Every time you get one of these characters, it gets like a freeze frame and and all the texting saying their name so you know who they are and they will have these little vignettes like like establish them as characters isn't there as well.

Yeah, yeah, the the the one in which they introduced the Tramos brothers was absolutely unhinged. And obviously I love how the film kind of shows these these really, it's not especially believable, but it's kind of within the kind of setting of a film when the hiring professional people to take out this quite influential Vega stage performer who's got himself in gratiate with La Cosa Nostra. And the goal of these very, very, very professional people like Felicia Keys and Abu, that suit guy, the Pasquale fella.

And then you've just got these these ridiculous Nazis who dress like extras from Mad Max who do these like high speed mass fucking killings at restaurants, get shot in the neck. Somehow escape and survive are still fucking available. I haven't been apprehended. The drive a fucking muscle car with a Balkan Krauts on the side of it for fuck's sake. Yeah, that's crazy. Incredible. It's it's a bit like, right, I didn't realise I checked this out. I thought this might have been based on a like a graphic novel or something because of how like mental some of this stuff is.

Because this is like 300 style, like over the top on some of these things. So like, and they use like really short like because, because the script moves real quick. They just say things and it flies past you and you hear it, you take it in and then like before you go like, wait, what? Something else has already happened. So like Pascual Acosta, I guess I think is the one who gets introduced is like, yeah, the the SAS picked him up in Northern Ireland where he chewed off his own fingernails to jump onto his own fingers, Yeah, to get to get rid of it.

And then it shows like, a quick shot of him, like looking like he's in like one of those Northern Irish gaol cells with, like, The Dirty protests, kind of like hunger style fucking things. This is like, OK, the quick visual shorthand of a dirty with the long hair and the beard, everything like. But this guy's not a hunger strike because he's a lunatic assassin. Yeah. Why is he chewing off his hands? And yeah, but before you have a chance to kind of go what the fuck, it already skips to somebody.

Else I love the logic of that. It's like this man chewed off his finger tips so he couldn't be fingerprinted. Yeah, OK, now we're looking for fingerprints that have massive lumps of fucking scar tissue on them. Good grief, man. It's like my brother in Christ. They are called gloves. No, I mean, he's not that slick an operator if you let himself. You fucking captured for a start, you know. Yeah, well, that's why I say the SES. But that's the best who who dared won, you know, and got up. Yeah, yeah, I'm yeah, fairness, but.

The most ridiculous one is the the Lazlu suit description. So like there's a there's some guy walking across a crosswalk with like an arms entourage of like close protection officers. Okay, walking opposite towards them is a guy who looks who looks like you're stereotypical assassin tall guy in a suit. He reaches into his pocket. Everyone like, Oh my God, is that the guy? But also behind him is a. There's a quadriplegic guy. Yeah, he's not. He's. Quadriplegic guy. Like they get an air pipe like like blew himself with his with his.

Yeah, like like he's yeah. And he's and he's back and he's got dreads and he's a quadriplegic and he's in the wheelchair behind him. The the guy who looks like the assassin put his hand in his pocket, pulls out a cell phone as the cross section guys reaching for their guns. And then the quadriplegic guy goes whoop, whips off his shirt. He's got guns, he's got 2 oozies. Doesn't then? He said 61 scorpions. There you go. And then? Scorpions, baby. I'm a technologist. I love that shit. He goes blah blah blah blah blah and kills all those guys and then stands up, rips off the face mask, which he didn't need because there wasn't runs the.

Fucking fucking fucking jumps on. We're passing back a. Moving Van like he's fucking Martin McFly and then. It isn't, It isn't. Explain to us if this van is part of his ex fill plan or if it's just a happy accident. And that's, that's, that's a suit. And then and then he's introduced and then you don't see him again for like ages, ages. And then the the again the job, right. So when Alicia Keys gets gets her job with her pal, she's got like a like a handler or a fixer, I guess it's like her, her agent, I suppose, is there and she's like and to announce who they are.

She just goes. Those guys are real impressed with that job you did against the Triads. And it's like, oh, wow, they've killed triads. That's how we know they're good. Yeah. So the FBI agents get directed to take Israel into protective custody at the same time bail bondsman Jack Dupree. They have played by Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck and Pistol Pete Deeks and Hollis Elmore pitch of guys all been hired to catch him as well. And there's a bit when they have a scene where they talk to Jason Bateman and there's just banter flying around about where the guy is.

It's one of the best fucking scenes in the film. That's absolutely real. It actually is. It's amazing. It's. Utterly ugly. Relevant scene. Almost. Yeah. This this could have been cut out. The movie could have been 20 minutes short. Didn't need it at all. How it is probably one of the best scenes in the movie. It's like you, you know how that room smells. Quote the meme that a regular quote in this podcast. You know, it's not crazy in that and just Jason Bateman playing and absolute degenerate alcoholic cringe Lord with this with this weird little heart shake made of them.

It's like bones it turn the key, lock the chain. I invented that. That's a new one I'm working on and that doesn't work. This is down so that guys give me the hairy eyeball. Yeah, and just my what? He's just so we are they like simping at them. It's like you guys are so tough. I wish I was like you. Oh, my goddess. Was it a it's a congenital alcoholism. It's. Yeah, it's like. Yeah, it's like. Gentle it's. It's like I've got this like below average body or something and then like a hereditary alcoholism isn't like that.

Hereditary alcoholism and a tiny cock. Thanks God. That's what he says it makes sense around alcohol. The small cock thanks God, and it's like yes, man, honestly, it is it is. It is an all timer. It is an all timer. It really is. But what do you really serious is up when when that hollow sky touches that big rabbit fursuit head that's just there, that's about it's like incredible, incredible fucking scenes. You guys strapped? You say that right? Strapped or packing? What? What's he using these days?

Yeah, it's like, yeah, we see strapped. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, that's that's his one scene. I think we don't see him again. Would do we see him again when he gets a phone call when he's in bed after what's clearly a gigantic gooning session? Because they're raw. And I didn't, I didn't realise this when I was watching on the big screen back in the day. But watching it at home that there's loads of like rolled up tissue paper on on the bedsheets. And then he gets out of bed and he's wearing the women's underwear and it's like his his room is just a goon caveman That, that, that place smells bad.

That's gross. That's gross. And then you think, right, because you've seen and this is like a classic little Rd poll, they do because we've seen Ben Affleck and no doubt Ben Affleck was probably involved in the marking of this movie, right? I imagine so, yeah. Pretty early on is the movie those guys make it up to a Lake Tahoe to look to look for bloody Israel. It looks like they're stopped in a car park by the Tremors brothers who just like execute them straight away. Yes, like a kind of pull up to sort of make a plan, don't they?

And like they've got these like uniforms, these like security uniforms that they're going to wear like they're doing the leg work. They're talking about how there's like 2 tiers of security there and they can be going and it's like the bottom tier guys and they've got like the maroon jackets and that. And I mean really this this whole conversation could have been done in the car as the drove location, but the needed to stop and get out the vehicle and talk about what sort of traumas were last good, then drive past and that fucking they're like I said, the muscle colour identifies as a Shtuka and I mean Sania, I am not kidding.

It's got a fucking Balkan Kreutz on it. These guys are incredibly Nazi. So the drive past them once, with tunes blasting, drive past them again and just. But it's playful laughs, by the way. It is, it is. It is played for laughs, I guess. I guess we should stop digging a hole when it comes to telling a German that Nazis have played for laughs. It's fine guys, it's fine. The buddy Nazis this time. So the get out the quickly and brutally gunned down defraying the bail bondsman, or so we think. One of the traumas with us after shooting them, gets up with a vehicle, takes off his ridiculous fucking pants are goggles, gets out a bark, a pen and draws a little a little Hitler moustache there, then immediately starts fighting with the other one because that's what men do, I guess.

And then Chris pain goes over Jack the freeze body and he's like he's got his finger, he's got his hands waist. He's like, forgive you a word. It's mental. Goes on for some time that. So good man, a fisherman's name. And he starts like tearing up during it as well. And it's like, it's OK, I forgive you. I'm at a beach in Hawaii and there's plenty of hot girls here and we're going to hang up with Jesus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like. It's like what the fuck? I'll see you in heaven. It's like, amazing.

Yeah. Yeah. So. So then the Trammels brothers, of course. Very happy that that their random decision to kill a few guys has them netted them some uniforms and a weigh in because the clearly went in with no real plan and probably were going to be killed by hotel security if the tries it. So I guess this was lucky because I mean, you know, so yeah, they got these uniforms which will then allow them their way in during this is a lot of like driving around scenes as well with with Ryan Reynolds and and.

Really awesome. But there's they do that more thing where they, yeah, they're the whole thing where they speed up the footage everything like make sure it doesn't leave that hotel room. I'm coming right there and it's like, it's like the car weaving out of traffic. It's speed up and it's like, Oh yeah, 2006, right. Yeah. Do we even get a close up of a car's speedometer? Because I think we might. You know, I think we might. You probably do like a little thing. Probably. I wouldn't be surprised it's the same one that was in gone 60 seconds.

Interrupt this down, Say, Sonia, how is this film sounding to you now? Do you think we're making any of this up? Sounds a bit schizophrenic so far do you think? It's going to be pro or antique saye. How quickly would Colombo get shot in this film? I have questions I have. I have more questions now than before you started explaining the film. Yes, absolute chaos, just like the traumas brothers wanted. I am, I'm just the the Ben Kenobi visible confusion meme right now to be honest. Incredible you are.

Get it? So this will help. Will it receipts to make it even worse? So Pasquale Acosta also goes to the hotel and presenting an FBI badge to get passed to the young sporty concierge. And what's at at some FBI badge is some kind of like federal Gaming Commission or some kind of thing is yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought it was FBI thought I thought they had a day about it. Later on when he goes he came with FBI badge and in order there with the security and that didn't seem strange to. You no like the said the said.

I am pretty sure it's on FBI badge. It is. It is a federal agency of some kind. OK, you're probably right. Yeah. He flushes about anyway, gets in, Yeah. Goes to see the head of security who's surrounded by, like, monitors and stuff. And that's Matthew Fox, who's Jack from Lost, Right. And for Squali, Acosta is also like one of the guys who was in Lost the guy with the looks like sort of Guy Leonor all the time. So so Acosta kills the head of security by doing a funky cool thing. He has like a hidden blade and he's in his sleeve comes out like this is just like a pure Assassin's Creed before Assassin's Creed came out.

Stops the guy in the lung. So his lung collapses sort of blood. He's like you should be feeling any pain. Sits him down. It's a bit like a better been drive. And that's how he's how he's infiltrated that. And then he goes up and he starts waking up there. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on with Buddy Israel. Yeah. And Joe Edgerton, who plays like, where is he from? Is he, like, Eastern European? Really shit haircut in the weird big spot there. Yeah, like he's, he's, he's, he's like one of those like largely generically Slavic kind of characters they have.

Right. So. Yeah, it's like they were just ticking off a list of what they needed. Yeah, yeah, it's like so, So what kind of say the penthouse, because of course the whole the whole top floor of the hotel has been like kind of closed off so only bloody Israel can hang out there and do coke and threw up on his piano and bang who has and stuff. And and it's obviously it's like the night after, after like some severe partying, right, Because there's like a significant amount of like naked and semi naked women lying around who who were obviously ladies of the night.

And buddy Israel obviously on a shaky, shaky come down front of the drugs he's been on like walking around like throwing his cards and people and it's sticking on them. And it's like get out, go away, see you later kind of thing. And he's like fun, come on, dude, you suck. It's like you're you, you do card tricks. It's really difficult to make that cool. You know what I think of when I say this shit? The episode of King of the Hill when Bobby Hill starts doing contact juggling and he said, got that, that, that little ball.

And he's like, so he's doing all this like like turbo cool throwing, throwing cards at people like they think he's a total badass and stuff. Then a straight scene when he's getting his entourage to get them to go and he finds that, finds that his generically Eastern European slash Slavic bodyguard slash bagman slash whatever has ejaculated on his incredibly expensive Kafskin jacket. And it's like, and he's like, oh, I send out. I said where? For incineration. It's like come on man, just get a fucking butter knife and scrape it off when it goes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This isn't fucking for it. Is the Condor here now? Yeah. No, this is this. This ain't your granddad's thriller, son. The Saint Your Mama's Patriot Games.

This film seems very bodily fluids heavy. Yeah, well, I mean, we've had like we are. In the trenches here. Yeah, we are. We've had we've had piss without come. We are blood. Common rocks up soon as well. Yeah, I. Didn't mean to make it sound like he was a bodily fluid, but he, he's like buddy, Israel's like. Me and bodyguard slash. Yeah, Yeah, He's as real personal time. Like you said, he's the guy. He's a good guy because he's the guy who's been killing people. When? Because Buddy kind of got in like the kind of crime business with Primos Pranza after Primos Pranza kind of embraced and brought him into La Cosa Nostra.

And I got to keep saying that, by the way. Yeah. They don't just call it the Mafia. I did some Mafia adjacent research. Not so, really. Only because I was playing mafia. The old country, yeah, on the Xbox and and I was just I was just ingesting some Matthew related stuff about that yeah. So they did call it Cos in Austria. That is how I started in. Sicily. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it's our our thing. I think indeed. Yeah, yeah, but film script writers used it for a long time in TV, especially instead of the mafia, just because there was those.

Let us go to Google. They shut up, actually. Yeah. The American Civil Rights League. Yeah. So while I was doing that, I, I think what Joe Carlin has done is that he, it was an interesting bit of trivia that it was called Cosa Nostra and something a bit more cool and alternative than call it the Mafia. so-called it the Mafia a bit like, you know, like kid in the playground who's like being a bit of a noodle. Yeah, that's the vibe I got from it. Like, yeah, we get it, we get it, we notice the fucking mafia, we get it.

Okay. Yeah, like it's like, like, like it's making a big deal or pronouncing chorizo's chorizo even though it looks like it should be pronounced chorizo. Yeah, that's exactly you want to hold it to Barcelona. I mean, still it's better than jalapenos, but it's like, you know, there's but yeah, you're right. So I'm gonna the next bit is suit gains. So suit is Laszlo's suit, The master of disguise, Lasagna gains access to Israel's penthouse, posing as his henchman Hugo, who is Joe Edgerton. Actually, Sir Ivy, which is common Israel, second in command, confronts Israel for agreeing to inform on him, Ivy and his entourage as part of the plea deal and is subdued by hotel security.

So there's that whole bit where Commons like, you know, whatever you get from a dog, that's loyal, they ain't got shit on me. I'm real loyal. All that kind of stuff. Then he does Polygon on him, to be fair. And then he'll tell security come and shoot and he gets pulled out and he's he's on a Gurney, I think. Is that right? Someone's on a Gurney. He's he's zip tied. He's not on a Gurney, but he's zip tied. Oh, he's zip tied. I remember now. I remember now. Yeah. So he's zip tied. He's coming out and you think, right.

OK, so keeping track of all the hit men, right. First of all, I wasn't particularly clear on what Laszlo Super was actually doing. I didn't realise that was that wasn't George because I just wasn't following the movie very closely TBQH. But Commons out of the running. OK but Ben Affleck and not already out of the running. Except the one guy who got away who strung away when their bodies were dumped. The the the Nazis are still out and about and Alicia Keys and her partner are setting up. Alicia Keys is going to go in and be like the chain man, I guess, and bring him out into the open.

Yeah, so Alicia Keys is going in as a prostitute with like the second wave of who has because like the sending in like a second wave of of of.

So I don't know what what Israel was going to do with the second wave of hookahs, because if you look at him, this man, this man cannot get an erection right. He's on a vicious come down. He he's, he's crying into a mirror while putting in a different coloured contact lens. He's got a dicky ticker. It's. Wild, yeah. He's something about time, so. Is that is that the scene with the John Keel track by the way? It is big white clothes, but John Kell is going to have that as the as my as my needle drop.

But we. Mentioned and yeah, and he's just having this massive prolonged crash out and you think this is the behaviour of a man who was like ordered like 5 or 6 more prostitutes to come up So that is so this assistant can like ejaculate around them. I guess it's a bit like, did you guys, I'm not expecting an affirmative here, but did you guys see season 3 of The White Lotus that came out this year on HBO, Man, OK, There's a scene that's really similar to this in the sense of like a guy who's on a fish has come down yet more halls are on the way and and we need to exhale from the situation before I get pulled back into the hall situation.

Yeah. My God A. Very good series. Yeah. Crazy. Oh, and that's Academy award-winning actor Samuel Rockwell in that scene as well. Yeah, brilliant. Anyway, I digress. Yeah. So Alicia Keys is going to be a whore, bring about in the open and then her partner who's in a building opposite on the other side of the street with an M82 is going to with a very incredibly high calibre elephant killing round is going to basically explode him. Well, I think I. Think, I think the plan was that that Alicia Keys was going to extract him and get him out of there and that she was there for Overwatch support basically.

Because obviously, I mean, they're the only ones running any kind of a really. So they don't. Want to plan this? The kid had planned thing because the Tremors brothers are just like fucking terrible. Listen to Motörhead, go in, draw fucking moustaches on yourself and and probably die in the next first few minutes unless you get uniforms. Yeah, everyone else is planning on getting close to him and doing a point blank range, which is just not efficient or clever for an Exfield. Yeah, yeah. So, so like, they, they they have they have an actual plan with comms, with Overwatch, with, with the logistics, with equipment, significant fucking equipment.

And this is a dark joke, but it's not out with the realms of possibility that, you know, a hospital security staff would let you bring a load of fucking guns up to the top floor to a hotel room. You know, dark, but also true. Indeed. So yeah, I mean, then then we'll have that absolutely insane dialogue, which is like, Oh my God, did you bring the 50? Well, obviously she did. It's like a rifle, the same height as her pretty much. You're going to see it. You're going to see I carry it. It's big bag.

You know, I've, I've got some, I've, I've got some hand loads. So they're going to be giving people dirt naps, man. Did you bring the 50 gal? Did you bring the 50 from? World War One, Yeah, man. It's like like it is literally like like DND party bring every weapon in the car that's mental. But it's like, yeah, so so she kind of posts up with that with that fucking anti material rifle and just just that fucking give give covering fire. It's mental. It's nuts. A mean one, yeah, but yeah. As this is happening, we've got Pasqualia Costa entering the lift to go up to the penthouse because he's going to do his kill now.

He's got the security guards uniform, right? Yeah. At the same time as that's happening, Special Agent Carrillas Riota is also rushing to get to Billy Israel because he wants to put him in protective custody and get him out the building. I don't think, I don't think they're aware of the scale of what was what's about to go down. They think they know people are after him. I don't think they know the man. Every man and his dog is after him. Yeah, and they're also having comms issues as well. Well.

Yeah, so they get into the so they get into an elevator or a lift and it's like classic, you know, movie lift scene of like, oh, are they friendly? Are they're not friendly? What's going on? They start off all right, don't they? Because they're like, oh, I just want to go up there and oh, yeah, cool. Well, I need you to stop all the other lifts in the building. Oh, we can do that when we get to the top. We can't do it while we're in the lifts. Yeah. But then there's this. There's the shooter. That happens, right?

Yeah, so there's this fucking brilliant, horrible close range shootout, virtually point blank, just just two guys unloading on each other, sexual. Two guys unloading pistols on each other. Fantastic. The way it's shot from the top down is brilliant. The sparks and the flashes, the lightning, the way the lights cut out part way through it and you just left the two guys slowly bleeding out from mortal wounds after just absolutely blowing the shit over each other. It's it's I like that particular gunfight.

It's so good. Like I said, to me, it's an all timer. It isn't a film that's characterised by great ones, but that's an all timer. I don't fight for that one because it is meant. When you said there was an Alzheimer gunfight in this movie, this isn't the one I thought you were talking about. It kind of set my mind. So I thought you were talking about a little thing that happens a little bit after this. I don't want to spoil it for Sonya, but but but which is which is pretty cool, but it starts with like a really cringey of its time.

Like I'm going to be a bit like David Fincher into a funky effect shot. Yeah, yeah. Which I wasn't, which I wasn't a big fan of, but anyway, I do love that one because the lift is all like, it's obviously like a reflective inside, like a mirrored lift, because that's very, that's a very popular thing you see makes the space feel bigger. And then they do the cool thing where the lights go out, as you say, it's been shot from above. And then you just get the muzzle flashes intermittently and that's quite cool as well.

Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah. Like it's just two guys up close destroying each other. I would say right. And this, this goes for my, my sort of broader criticism of the whole movie is whilst I don't think it works, I think I think the movie is a bit of a bit of a mess. Yeah. It's not without a sense of fun and it is not without any creativity. And I think it tries a little bit too hard to lean into that. Like what Quentin Tarantino dialogue, Guy Ritchie or, you know, what's his name, Matthew Vaughn, Like that kind of style of like a little bit over the top, a little bit crude.

And, you know, I think that doesn't particularly jibe with me. There's still a lot of good stuff in this movie that I like, you know, Chris Pine, I think Alicia Keys, I like common, I like some of these gunshot fighting scenes. There's some stuff I don't like. I don't like the editing on the on the car driving. I think the film looks a bit gaudy, like the colour grading I think is a bit is a bit in my face, but that that could be a choice. So I'm cool with that. And the bit with a spunk didn't land but but yeah cool it.

Really didn't. Well, I mean, it landed, but on its IT didn't land on the audience, thank God. But we get this right so and this movie does a whole bunch of these as well. So this is the first of like mini fake outs the movie does. So we are led to believe from this all the language of the movie is telling us that both these guys are dead now and and like in 50 minutes from now we are proving that neither of them are dead. Yeah, yeah. And I think that's, I think that's annoying as fuck. You know what I thought it was classified as mint.

I actually enjoyed it. I mean, like it tries for the fact that like I'm not going to talk about the realism of smoking aces, but I mean it does, but I mean it does. It does often take like a longer time like bleed out from like small carbon rounds and those like like heavy carbon rounds, you know, and like, and like, I mean like, don't get me wrong, I'm not going to be like, well, actually here's why it's fucking spot on, but. Here's how I could wear 12 rounds in the chest and then make no sound and not move, but then be perfectly fine that ambulatory 15 minutes later.

Yeah, but I mean, like, at least the both, like they're both literally fucking dying as well. I mean, pretty much like, like they, they they are fucked. Especially really Otter, he is like, well, I mean, like he like announces that he's mortal, doesn't it? Moral. Which of course, they're people from the North. You are mortal, Right. So we need to just kind of do a bit of a cultural exchange. Yeah. In the northeast of England, mortal comes from mortal drunk, which means drunk. So. Yeah. So mortal means drunk in the north of east, northeast, northeast of England.

So there we go. So that's always fun to learn things about each other's cultures. When we're talking about learning from cultures and stuff, there is this insane clash with weird Lake Tahoe hillbilly culture. I guess when the one surviving bail bonds guy. Manages to get himself to a literal cabin in the woods where he's rescued, I guess by the the Ritalin ingesting 14 year old tops kid in the fucking karate outfit. Yeah, a lazy eye. He was straight away as like giving him like you eyeballing me son kind of shit and doing karate moves at him.

This man has had most of his hand blown off and he's like eyeballing me son and this like loud hip hop music played behind him. But it's weird, it's mental. So I took a break from the movie at that point. I stopped it and made a company and gave it like 15 minutes. And it was like, I'm going to come back to this. Like this is, I don't know. I couldn't imagine sitting in the cinema and watching this at the time. Just be like oh. Man, I fucking loved it. I really enjoyed it in the cinema. But yeah, so then we'll have we'll have two scenes for them because obviously we'll have like the kind of introduction when we see that this this last remaining builds bondsman Hollis is alive.

We'll see him turn up at the house. We'll see him get this weird like teenage kid in karate outfit who talks lot of smack. He's redolent of the weird blonde kid in cabin fever that we are. Kid who's like doing fucking backflips and shit outside the shop and then bites that guy's hand. That's like the cut from the same cloth these characters right? I mean this lad seems less feral but more stupid because he does come out with some incredibly dumb shit. Corset Hollis is then taken in by the lads lads grandma, who is described in the screenplay as a very large woman who's a registered nurse part time and a full time novelty store owner, souvenir store owner.

So the guy is the guy who's put in the bathtub. Buyer and Margie marches off and Warren immediately rushes over out of the tub, placing himself directly over the inert Elmore and assuming a martial arts stance. He opens his mouth to speak in the Ice Cream Sandwich tumbles out, landing in the tub. Warren barking out. Bow to your opponent. Warren bows before he squares up and begins methodically delivering a cut out of punches and kicks, violently and expertly snap the millimetres of Elmore's face.

Elmore, helpless to raise his arms and offend himself, stares in horror as the boy, his glasses blank a fog and drip with perspiration, works himself into a furious lala. Elmore trying to speak. Kid, stop. Elmore holds up a stump of her hand, pinky waggon in pathetic play. No use, Warren. Warren isn't do it for America. In La Cosa Nostra, Warren is in a state of unhinged the edible frenzy, his eyes wild, a small yet prominent direction beginning to poke through his karate key. Margie returns to the bathroom, scolds her grandson.

He squares up on her, fanning a blow to her face. She clouts him hard backhand, big flabby arms, restraining him, hauling him out of the bathroom. He bleats like a butchered sheep.

Insane. The fact that the bonus in the screenplay disturbs me no end. I do like though. I don't know if you noticed this. Probably not because he was starting to go through it at this point. I think this film was killing your soul. But because I'm the man I am, I was relishing every moment of this film. She actually doesn't beat the crap out of him. Did you? Did you notice how he kind of goes for and she was like expertly and effortlessly kind of like knocks the blow away? Yeah. That was that was actually cool.

Yeah. She's like, so truly she's the master. And you say, because clearly she does wenchun and he's all karate so. This probably happens daily, right? Probably happens constantly and then actually kind of gets Hollis out of the turban and ammo box comes out. Since my since my husband died by suicide, I'm just looking after the boy myself. And of course there's a fucking cult 1911 in there because it's a back-to-back World War winner baby. 9 millimetre kills the body, 45 kills the soul and Hollis was like I'm going to be needing this.

And then he's back on the revenge train. Hell yeah. Yeah, mental. One hinge. Right. OK. Where are we at? So Ivy has been detained by hotel security. Yeah. In Los Angeles. Locke, That's on de Garcia. Sonya. Do you know what de Garcia is? Sonya? He played Fernando in Mamma Mia. Here I go again. And and I was in, I was in the ball. Apart for see me, I'm just staring lamely because not it's not helpful information to me at all. You. Must know Andy Garcia is he's brilliant. He was in. What else was he in recently?

Was he in the remake of The Parent Trap that just happened? That guy. That guy, yeah, he wasn't. He was in the Untouchables fucking hell of. Course he was. He was the really good no shooter in the touch. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, we got him taken. Guy, yeah, you got him taken. Bang. Yeah, we've talked about. See, see. We should, we should, we should do that film. That is a film I have seen. Good thing should say that I think. I think we should do that movie, but. Fucking thinking show that film as well.

Actually. Hell yeah. Shoot that one next. Yeah, there we go. That's the Chicago way. That's the Chicago way. Thank you. We've been clear and present. Dudes. Good night. We'll see you in Chicago in two weeks time. Back to the studio now.

In Los Angeles, lock abruptly withdraws from the I was I didn't track this at all. I must have zoomed out during this Lock abruptly withdraws from the deal with Israel, but does not inform Messner and Carruthers. The Tremor brothers reached the penthouse floor. I remember this attacked the security team and Ivy, who kills Jeeves and Leicester, who was two of the Tremors brothers. I guess because it's Darwin, Jeeves and Leicester. And we'll pause there for a second to talk about that bit. So very cool gunfight happening here.

But one of the brothers has got a a chainsaw. Yeah. And Ivy's on the floor and he's hard to still on the. Yeah, like you said, he's in front. So he. Yeah. He's trying. To get, expands it. Then he gets another one, expands that. That's right. And the guy with the chainsaw is like kind of, it's kind of like crouched down or something. He's kind of squatting but always waits on his back foot and he's trying to get a gun. There's a the change was on the floor behind him. This is it. The chain was on the deck behind him, spinning around.

And the guys, he's holding his weight weirdly, and then Ivy shoots in the leg, which caused him to fall backwards onto the chainsaw. And we don't even really see it, we just kind of hear it. Yeah Grim. We've also missed a bit before that this this incredibly we had seen when when Alicia Kings walks in on the traumas brothers getting changed in a lift because the because. This is in the trailer as well. You see, this is like how have these people existed so long doing these ridiculous operations is to turn up in the security uniforms and get into the stupid Nazi fucking tactical bondage gear just before the do the operation, which I guess is like part of that thing and maybe the thing that don't operate so well If the if if if if they're dressed in normal people clothes instead of dressing like something from Burning Man but evil.

It's just been there's loads of Nazis coming around wearing short sleeve shirts and beige chinos. Well, yeah, so. What the fuck? And and so like. Nazis Burning Man but evil sounds really fucking weird. It's mental, honestly. They are. They are literally dressed like fucking Mad Max Lob as like people who go to there's, there's there's some post apocalyptic lob they have out in the desert in the States. I forget it's name now, but they're dressed like that. It's Burning Man, isn't it? There's none in the Mahar.

Burning Burning man's like more like general hippies doing loads of drugs. The most specific. They do like, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, don't they? Yeah but but there also is definitely a specific one just for like post apocalyptic people with like spray paint and nerf guns and fake bionic eyes and bad shit. To be honest it looks like a fucking hoot and I bet loads of drugs have done that as well. But. This is this is the opportunity to talk about that Polish slap that you saw, which was set in 1991, no.

No think it's like a trailer park in 2003 or someone one of these really in depth in depth Polish live action role play is when when the play like Americans on a trailer park who was struggling with like unemployment and fentanyl and and like gang violence and stuff like that. And it's like that is a really in depth live action role play. Man, Honestly, respect to the, to the, to the Polish are doing this. Yeah, like the music. Yeah. And the music playing, it has to be like chocolate starfish and the hot dog Flivid Water and.

That would know why you want to hate me. My God, that goes to copyright strike. So there's a scene when she kind of walks in on them getting changed, you know, and like so Darwin Tramar has got like this really shitty kind of prison tattoo stick and poke looking thing of like a woman just naked. She's got a leg tattooed on that bicep and the leg on his pectoral so that when he opens his, when he spreads his arm, this is this is, and he's like horrendous seed, horrendous grim seed. And and, and and and she's just the look of disgust on Alicia Keys's face is actually just some of the best of the film because she looks literally, literally very upset with him second to our corner.

And the de Newmont to that scene is that she says I'm going down when the other doors opens. And then Chris Pine waits, beat and goes I'll bet you are. And then we cut. Yeah. He's Sucras. Sucras. Yeah, she called her the police. Yeah, so, so so there's so there's that absolutely ape shit kind of gunfight in in which in which he, you know, common wipes out the travels brothers, which is yeah, which is pretty well. And the exception of Darwin, who escapes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is happening. Israel learning like lockers terminated the plea deal.

So I guess the FBI are coming to get him. Yeah. And he finds out attempts to suicide when I was able to go through with it. Yeah. And then? Pussy. Yeah. And then finding Corollas and Acosta. So that's really ought to. And, and, you know, the other guy, Pasquale, Acosta, Sykes. So Alicia Keys is cornered when Messner Ryan Reynolds sets up a position around the elevator. Yeah, around this one particularly really irritating fake flow arrangement, by the way, that really captured my eye and then wouldn't let go.

There's this big rounding tracking shot to the elevator door and all I could look at was this big plant. Yeah, not conducive to seek. No, Yeah. And then Waters, which is Alicia Keys's Oppo. Yeah, that provides cover from a nearby hotel with an M82 sniper rifle. Yeah. And basically just unloads on the FBI team just and it's epic. It's horrible, but. It's not just seeing people take it out by these big fuck off rounds. And it's like, man, that was cool. That was cool. It's like fucking cool. I don't know what it looks like when A50 calibre own hits someone, but that looks fucking cool.

I know. What it looks like when 50 calibre runs hit waves. Yeah. I've done that, but I'm sure anybody won't. Thank God. Still time, but. What I do know is that it doesn't pulverise the leg by just going past it, which is like a common misconception people put up on the Internet every now and then. Oh. You have seen the movie. Yeah, that is, that is the most crazy. Seen ballistic gel testing on a human torso. Yeah, yeah, we, we it. Does make a rather big hole, but people do not actually explode from it.

Yeah, I I think like the whole 50 Cal round from a bar of flying pasture is going to kill you is just like the spiritual success up to if you hit a man in the handle of 45, it's going to blow his arm off. I said. I said once see a video of a Martini Henry rifle from like the bull wall. Blow up a watermelon. That's pretty cool. Anyway, so so. Oh yeah. Brother. Hell yeah, Hell yeah, brother. So it's an instigate this, this big, this big shooting fun from from Alicia Keys. Alicia Keys is like, I think she's getting covered behind the corner of the elevator or something.

She says something and there's a weird like tight zoom that goes into the earpiece, follows through the earpiece, comes out of the earpiece. Yeah. Think a single electronic to save the scope as well. Yeah. And it's like, oh God, I was like, this is so unnecessary. But yeah, they do it stylish. Not a single idea left on the table in this movie. I mean, it's funny because really it's like, like, it's like, it's sort of like a love triangle. The three of them. Because Waters obviously has a massive amount of sexual attraction both for sakes and for our own rifle.

Because she's fucking in love with that Barrett man. And I think that's class because you know, some some gun fucker too. But it's like it's just brilliant. It's like she loves guns and she loves them. Cool. Yeah, and this is when we find out that Acosta is not dead because he stabs and wounds Sykes. Then Carruthers wakes up again for last second and then shoots him in the head. So they they both wake up for split second to end each other and then. You thought? Sorry. Psych What is wreck the mic?

What is wreck the mic? What is wreck the mic? Sykes what is thinks that Sykes is dead. So then she right, OK, and this is one of the bits in the movie. I was like, what? Yeah, she moves like a different location, doesn't she? She pitched the rifle. She's like, Oh my God, Oh my God, go somewhere else. And then she starts like blush and then everything but what the whole time screaming I fucked up, I fucked up, I fucked up, I fucking love you. I fucked up. And it's like, I was like, I'm start there going.

I understand that we're probably meant to think these guys are pretty close. Yeah, this is unearned. There's no affection between the two of them at this point because all they've been doing is cracking wise. I've got nothing to tell me that these guys are like in love or anything. Well, I mean, I don't think they are. I think that I think that I think that Waters is really, really like, because I was joking about the whole she loves the girl on the gun. But I think like it's clear to me interpreter is, is that she's in love with with with Sykes, you know, which which isn't sadly reciprocated, you know, which is why she's also in love with that gun because the gun will, you know, always be there for.

Indeed, yeah. I just didn't feel like that would been so much enough. And this is one of the things, you know, when I was saying like this song has about 2220 characters too many. Like this is one of the things that you lose because like this if this had been like a mini series or something, you might be able to establish that. But there's there's nothing there. So I'd buy this up anyway, and I don't want to kill Joy this as it has to be just just in. That's that's how I felt watching it, right?

Sykes escapes to the penthouse. She stops Darwin Truman from killing Ivy.

Darwin gets into the lift somehow because then he picks up really on his FBI badge and puts on as suit jacket and then uses that to escape. When he doesn't trade, he's some fucking trade craft. Right. But for a guy who was who old job is like somehow survivable kamikaze mass shootings when he's like runs on FBFBIFBI hiding his face and stuff it in a suit. So kind of immediately, I guess he really. Is kind of like a Fallout New Vegas bandits managing to to 100% speech check. It's wild in that kick in the head.

And then there's a scene where Common and Alicia Keys obviously is the 2, like music stars who've turned to actors have a scene together. And there's a whole thing where it's like, you're making me fall hard. Yeah, that is wild. That is nuts. And because he. I think he initially thought she was just one of the prostitutes, and then when he finds out that she's also an assassin and she's like, yeah, I love this. Yeah, and it's like, that is wild. I mean, it's like, and I know there's trauma bonding, but that's ridiculous, man.

Yeah, that's like wounded. And then Ryan Reynolds is Agent Mesner comes down and they're about to have a like, a fight, but then they stop because there's been enough killing today. Yeah. So they don't shoot each other. He leaves. And then seeing the pair alive through her rifle scope was approached by FBI agents. And then gunshots are heard. Yeah. So I think they've located the position that she's been firing from. Yeah. Considering she shot about fucking 200 rounds just. She was just fucking mag dumping with our 50 car.

The windows are blown out. Just scream but it's like just going to hog wild. I love it. Hog wild. Love that shit for all honesty. So then, pretty, pretty, pretty predictably, Locke and his team descend on the hotel and take Buddy Israel in the hospital. Laszlo suit escapes. You see him like, take off the face mask, I think. So you're like, oh, was that guy? He was like all along. Yeah. And then Kosta is Carly on a Gurney still alive? I didn't realise he was still alive, but I know there's a sequel to this movie so I guess they're setting some stuff up.

She's a yeah, the sequel. Yeah, I'm not watching the sequel and I'm going to tell you right now, mate, I'm not going to watch the sequel. No, I I have no, I have no interest in watching the sequel. This I've got no interest in watching, like the three sequels to Jaw Head. Oh God, I love it when they do that. When they take a movie that's this is this probably doesn't qualify, but when they take a movie that's like pretty serious and they go, right, let's just give us this, give us the shocky like version without any political commentary.

So like Sicario 2. Right, we've had the 2. Let's have America's good guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do the. Let's do the version like it would have been done if we'd done it in the 80s instead. OK, look free jaw. Heads right, we've got our searing tape done over the war in Iraq. Now let's do let's do a funny version. But fun the Marines are. I'm just be aware that there's like multiple multiple jaw head sequels. I actually wasn't. Yeah, let me just quickly bring this up. There's at least two. You are.

Holy shit have you seen them? Jaw head 2 Field of fire. I feel like I've watched half of them through YouTube shorts at this point. Jawed, let's look at these sequels. There were three direct to video sequels, right? So just in case anyone isn't Jaw Head pill, Jaw Head is mint. I think it's really class. Very good. Mike, do you want to tell us if you think Jaw Head's good or not and give us a quick explanation about what I look these sequels up? We're totally digressing, but it's funny. Jaw Head is a good film directed by San Mendez, starring Judge John Hall and PSRS Guard.

I think Jimmy Fox is in it, as well as a character called Staff Sergeant Sykes. So there's a link, maybe they're related. Based on a book by Anthony Swofford, and it details the plight of a bunch of U.S. Marines during the. I think it's the Gulf War, actually, the first Gulf War. It is, yeah. And. Yeah, it's searing takedown. I guess it goes into the psychology of him as a Marine. It's the first move that really went into the proper indoctrination of the. Not the first move because famously Full Metal Jacket, but, but went into the indoctrination of the Marines in that particular theatre of conflicts.

And there's that whole really dreamy sequence where like the oil fields on fire, there's a White Horse running through it getting covered in oil. Pretty epic. Anyway, San Mendez, so pretty arty in a consumably takable way. Same guy, obviously. Did I want to say American Beauty? Yeah, and Skyfall, I think. Yeah, big yeah. Just a cool big American beauty vibes for the whole horse and the Yeah, So the sequels all went straight to video. Jaw Head 2, Field of Fire, Battlescot And disillusioned by the war, Which war?

Who knows? Corporal Chris Merrimet has put in charge a unit whose next mission is to resupply remote outposts on the edge of Taliban control territory. Navy Seals Navy Seals get them enlisted on operation of international pawns. While you do that, I'm going to look at Jarhead 3, the Siege. Yeah. The synopsis of that is a group of marines must protect AUS embassy in the Middle East when it suddenly comes under attack from enemy forces. Benghazi. Sorry. Yeah, and that is from 2016. So is that like, that is on the nose for Benghazi as well, right?

We'll check, but it feels like it. That's incredibly on the nose time wise. I know there was like the 14 hours from that came out like a few years later. That's right with. Yeah, with from the office. Yeah. The best thing is I said. The best thing is I said Jim from the office. At the same time you said Ted Kaczynski, whatever his real name is. John John Mckinski lasted to Jack Ryan. Yeah, I have review of Jaw Head 2A film I didn't know existed until a couple of hours ago. I wish it stayed that way.

Yeah, Jaw Head Three, The Siege. We have a quick review here. Oh my God, I really like to torture myself, don't I? After watching the second movie and hating it, I still decided to watch the 3rd and sober this franchise. Was I expecting it to be any better? No Did I expect to like it? No. Why did I watch it? I don't know. Again, this is the generic action movie just like the second one. At this point there was no return this format franchise just like the second movie. I don't know why these movies are called Jarhead.

Don't think that's the same as original as the location and that is not enough to call this a true sequel. Pretty much everything I had to say if I feel if I can be sad for this as well. Except this is a bit more cheesy. The jokes are just a bit better along with it being short as the pain wasn't so dragged out. The difference in quality is very marginal but I enjoyed it a bit more. There was one more movie to go. I don't have any expectations, I just hope it will end quickly. Things people who are on palliative care also say.

Law of return Major Ronan Jackson, an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defence Forces and sort of AUS senator, is shot down while flying through a Syrian airspace. Oh my God, it's in Syria. Holy shit. After a miraculous he survived from the crash, Jackson has taken cover up by a group of Hezbollah militiamen. A squad of elite soldiers led by gutterly Sergeant Dave Torres, risk their own lives in the hopes of safe and ally they've never met. I need to just. I'm uncomfortable with. This, this is fucking bad.

Jesus Christ Oh my God, I didn't realise that in Jarheads 2 Field of Fire the main character was put by Core Hoser from Yellowstone. Holy shit. Wow. Anyway, man, we're getting in deep into. A. In the end I have no recollection of the events that transpired prior to rescuing whoever they were trying to rescue. Just saw it on TV, left on. Was watching it till I zoned out for a while. Brutal brutal. So yeah, I imagine that any sequels made to this excellent film because I do believe it's still an excellent film despite the hit.

US will will suck ass out loud and will not be watched by me in private or professional. Jesus, all those movies you describe, there are the kind of films that you you come in from the pub with your dad and end up watching. We got right to the end. Lots of shoot escapes. Acosta is called away on a Gurney. He's still alive, hence the sequel chat. Darwin is gunned down by Elmore in that creepy little scene where he's out in the park and gets made by Elmo. And then he gets, and then there's a whole thing where you think he's going to let him get away.

And then it seems, but then the shot Ling is on for a little bit too long. I've been walking away and you just know he's going to shoot him. Like so so wife reaction to this film. She was Emma was so pissed off at this point because she's like what the fuck The 2 girls haven't got the happy ever after married life out the whole thing and now the fucking Nazis getting away and then I'm back. Just wait, Just wait. And then Hollis is like. But a bit of media literacy. Yeah, and like, like, and it's just that scene again, it's, it's Chris Payne does get some of the best, like kind of hits in as far as acting and the dialogue he's given to work with is brilliant, the way they live our stuff.

And it's, it's really cool to see him playing. It's really cool to see him in scumbag mode. I need to say something super autistic as well. I really like how Hollis fire 6 rounds and then the slide locks back. So you're like, you sounded 1911 magazine seven. Yeah. So he's clearly given it a test fire on the way there to make sure it works. And that's why he's just got the six. And that was like be patient with me. I loved it, man. It was class. I was like, Oh my God, I wonder if it's like it's probably not in the script, but well, you've seen that, but it won't be in the script.

But I think it's fucking cool. And I liked it and I was like, yeah, that's because I'm a real gunshot counter. You know the the bit when the bit when suit lights that guy up with the two VZ 60 ones, It's like fires a bit too many shots for those 10 year old magazines, you know, but sells cool. You didn't ruin the film Dently. It didn't ruin the film. Chris Pine. OK, a good movie. I don't know if you've seen this or not because we haven't talked about it before. There's a very good movie that he's in where he's in swimming, approaching scumbag mood, where he and his brother are on the run for the law.

There are a couple of robbers in modern Monday, Texas. It's called Hell or High Water. Oh. No, not seeing it. That's a good. It's a good modern Western, basically. Got it. Right, cool. At the hospital, Messner Ryan Reynolds finally learns the truth from Locke. And at this point I knew there was a twist coming with Locke because they because he's obviously dodgy. Yeah, we've not mentioned for the whole thing, the whole thing about who was Primo Spratza. And there's the whole subplot with that one FBI agent, 4 OSS guy who went undercover in the fees to infiltrate the mob, Yeah.

And then was killed by Spratza and like, you know, no, I am your father. It's like so it turns out that, you know, this is FBI agent went on to cover, became primos perazzar and and became this like mob mob Lord kind of guy. And that's the big twist. It's one of the it's it's one of the kind of like like because it's like a double. It's just because it's kind of a double punch of like a rapid fire twist with two at the end, isn't it? Before we're on that, I've got to say something real quick as well.

Real quick. The CM and the FBI raid the penthouse. They call the structure out as clear really fucking quickly. They're in there and it's like, oh, it's clear. It's clear. And fucking suits just chilling, chilling behind the bed, you know, And these guys are like, fucking check it again. Jesus Christ, man, It's like. Amateur. So amateur Bush league terrible. This is Bush. It's like Oh yeah it's clear I guess. Fucks sake man, high speed lads. Film ruined. Yeah, so we got another, right. So like the first sort of 10 minutes of the movie was Andy Garcia talking, and then we're getting rapid cuts of different stuff.

The last 10 minutes of the movie are like that as well. So we get Andy Garcia dropping the date about that FBI agent who then we see him delivering A brief. So we've got a brief within a brief about how he is going to get various surgeries and also change his face structure so he no longer looks like a corn fed white bread American FBI agent and looks like he's from Italy. Yeah. And he's and he's going to, he's going to take on a new name and, and become, become Italian. Yeah, he's going to speak with us, then we get all stuff.

Yeah. That's right. And then we see him get shot in the grid. But then we find out that his surgery is reconstructive. So then actually he does get his surgery done and he becomes brats. Yeah, because because the feds tried to kill him when they realised that he'd pretty much gone like gone like it have gone rogue and he was like fully in bad guy mode. And that's why I needed loads and loads of like workups and stuff. And then the the throwaway referenced when they're talking about Buddy Israel's list of crimes.

Oh, he's done. He's a finance strong arm robberies and murders and, and even, and there's even a paternity suit in there or some shit. And no, no, no, no, no, no, no at at Spratzer's. And Spratzer's dodge voice charges even a paternity suit that it turns out bum bum bum Spratza is Buddy Israel's dad. Yes. And the whole we want his heart, we want his heart. It's it's like it's not the one his heart cut out. They're sending in this guy, the Swede. It's not a hit man. He's a heart surgeon to get the heart out of Buddy Israel in Sperazza to give Sperazza another like 27 more days of life or something.

Because he's like, because he's because he's older than God at this point. I mean, like, fuck this guy. This, this guy was old enough to have been in the OSS and then done enough time in the FBI. You end up like going undercover on the mafia. So he's, so he's been doing this at least like what, 60 years? There's no guarantee that you'd wake up from the anaesthesia. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the thing. It's like, I mean, and also you've got this Swede who's like who's like a fucking head of surgery at at some University Hospital in Sweden.

He was just agreeing to essentially murder a man. You know, they're not going to swap those fucking hearts around, you know, not like your buddy is real, a fucking fake one. It's not like crank, you know, it's not like you're going to fit a bit of mechanical model like in crunk 2. It's not like that, you know, like this, this, this this world renowned Dr is going to fucking kill one of his patients and the FBI are going to be cool with this just because as as as Emma said, America keeps fucking its own people up, doesn't it?

And it's like. Well then you know then. You know, yeah, so obviously nuts and that of course we'll have we'll have the scene when some some it's a very Clint Mansell scored part of the film is. This it literally is, Clint Mansell scored. Well, yeah, yeah. Like he's like, he leans basically.

Yeah. And I mean, as a musician who who has his own kind of trademark, I can relate. So once again, I'm playing music with lots and lots of hops and spooky sounds and shit they get do every time, because if it works, it works. And for Clint man style right around for a dream works. So he just gives us requiem for a dream with the numbers failed off. And if you know it's turned around and it is cool as fuck. That's not goes into the room with the two guys who who were lying next to each other in the separate hospital beds.

He sits between them, his guns out, his badges out. And then he pulls the keep them alive, plugs out from the wall. And they just instantly begin to die. You know, like, like, like they instantly begin to, you know, be connected to God's Wi-Fi at this point. And it's like, OK. And you've got this very long protracted scene when everyone's trying to break in the fucking doors. They try to break these glass doors through to get them. And what once once again, insightful take from Emma. She was like, yeah, this seems like an oversight.

Shouldn't if you wait, it will open it from the outside. I mean in a medical setting you would think there should be a way. Trap alarm in a fridge, isn't it? It's not. Out the fridge, Yeah, yeah. He just sits there patiently waiting everyone to break it and. And he's get punished, I suppose. Yeah, but he's doing big boy federal time for that. But his conscience is clean because he's killed an old man who was going to tie anyway. And. And he's killed charity prison. Yeah, and his shit ass. See that kid who who would have died anyway because he wouldn't have survived long in in federal prison because somebody would have probably killed him for money.

When was when was Entourage on? Is this before or after Entourage? Want to see this was concurrent with Entourage and maybe wrong was. Let's have a look on to Raj. When 2004 it starts 19 / 8 seasons. So this is concurrent with Entourage. Entourage. Didn't even prevent Entourage. Some other things I found absolutely wild about this film is how Buddies agent is is the coach this play deal with federal law enforcement at the high level, the highest level right as agent, the guy who booked some fucking gigs is liaising with a deputy director of the FBI to cut a deal with them.

It's like what? Whatever the protein nightmare in this is this. It's good news, buddy. It's not about the pleasiole. No, it's I've got you judging a wet T-shirt competition a week on Tuesday. It's. Wild and and and like just Can you imagine? Can you imagine when the busted Bill Cosby if the first call of Bade was to his manager? Curtis Armstrong also also mainly well, he's known for Risky Business. He plays Miles Dolby in Risky Business, Booga, and Revenge of the Nerds. Thought it was Booga. I thought it was him.

He was in a He's an American dad as well, playing a kid called Snot. Yeah, I feel like I've done a big disservice by saying he's the headmaster from You Go, but he is Principal Foster and You Go. And he was in one episode of Lewis and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman Kane. Kane. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's, yeah. He's got that removed from his leg then. Yeah, Oh man. Right. Should we go back to Sonia now and see if what he thinks of the movie from what I'm telling you about? You have some concerns.

Please, you have the floor, Sonia. From the from all what I've heard I am not sure this would have been worth the £4 I would have had to spend if I had watched it. What would be? It would be. Because it just sounds a bit rage.

Say Raj, Sonia, Sonia. It's very Raj, mate. Should we should we go for the trailer? I went for Smokiness's official trailer #1 really utter Ryan Reynolds movie 2006 HD on YouTube. Good, Super. Come on in. Good to see you, Pete. Hello, referee. Come on in. Good, good. Hey, come on in. Sorry about that. RIP, Reed. Hello, Ellis. Come on in. Let's get to the business in hand. This wanted felon here, buddy. Israel. Little Rick Springfield, I guess his posse. You know, they're all strapped or packing heat.

Whatever phrase is. I don't know what you guys call it. Strapped down. Look up. Hey, man, that's not yours. Put the rabbit down. Buddy Israel No formal witness against the mob has been as. Crucial as buddy. Aces. He's a strung out, bossed up, has been jerk, snitch, seven way a loser. What are you trying to say? What's the rate? 1,000,000 bucks, $1,000,000 hit fee would draw some huge flies. He's not only essential to our case, he is our case. They're going to pour boxes of bullets in Israel. They must not succeed.

When do we get concerned? If an attempt is made on his life, it'll be made by those of the strictest professional calibre. We're going to see the There we'll go the little. Hipster goes on the little hip sash. There was a speedometer. There's some. Yeah. We've got to keep him in that penthouse.

I think. Really. Otto was in Knock. I think he maybe did this because he likes being working with Joe Connor. Maybe. Here's our our Thugs gallery I guess. Yeah, absolutely. You're steering, horror player. There it is. Yeah, I'm going. Down. I bet you are. You see what I mean? That look on her face, man, that that is. Whittling. Brilliant, brilliant reacting from her there. Yeah, yeah. She is not interested in that noise whatsoever. OK, that's really fucking well in my opinion. Sorry I said blurt out there but a lot.

Understand your reaction. Really. Now that you've seen all the characters we've been talking about, was that, was that kind of what you expected? Not. Quite sure I think that. So. Then the Nazi guy. Yeah. That was not what I had in mind when you brought up Burning Man. Yeah. It does look like you know how carabinieri are dressed. Yeah. It looks like if they had APT uniform. Holy crap there's some. There's some Googling of carabinieri on the go. Oh yeah, OK. You see where I'm getting at? They are dressed up half the time like fascism was a weird sex king and that guy just looks like he had a had a like flannel PT uniform issued from from the same people who designed that.

Okay, cool. Should we take a little break here and then come back into the categories?

You know what what the trailer is is giving me though, is the impression that that apparently our lives would be better films if we just introduce short clips of us just doing this all the time. Sadia is the first clear and present dude to draw heat. I keep that in. Nathan, I have the talking. Jesus holy fuck, that is also an incredibly best St Javelin hoodie you're wearing there, Sonia. Thank you. That is incredibly dope. You're the first one of us to draw heat. Being being being a weird ass tonight.

Incredibly based just for those of us doing the audio and needing theatre. The main Sonia is wearing an incredibly dope maroon Collard St Javelin hoodie and the cowboy hat. It looks like someone's clicked the random loadout button on Armour 3. Well, you know, if you want to make it even worse, Mike, by the way, I held back on that. I didn't do it on on the video call with the caps and but.

Good grief, he's now he's now put on a little tin hat. Cool. So we get into the categories. Yeah man. Yes. OK, cast casting. OK, so we this a humongous cast. Stacked. Fucking cast. Stacked. So we know the likes of Ryan Reynolds and really OTA and Ben Affleck. Jeremy Piven I think is relatively well known, but for people who don't know him, Entourage primarily but Crush Point blank Spy Kids 4. And he was this on that one episode of Seinfeld, was he not? When he was playing an actor who was meant to be playing Costanza and was and was calling him a loser and stuff like that.

This guy's a real loser. He was. He's plays Michael Bart Brackets, George. Nest Nestor Carbonell plays Pasquale Costa. Yeah. So he is not primarily as as in Lost, but he was also in the Dark Knights and The Dark Knight Rises because he's the mayor of Gotham in those in those films. At the minute he's in the morning show, Bates Motel Shogun as well. Chris Pine that we all know. Chris Pine only the only the 5th best. Jack Ryan. And how and how many best Captain Kirk? #2 I have to guess. This isn't this isn't a Star Trek podcast yet.

Yeah, Kevin Durant, Tommy Flanagan plays Lazlu suit. He's from Glasgow, where I live, so that's cool. Get in Sons of Anarchy and he's he's Phillip Chips. Chips in Sons of Anarchy and he's in Guards of the Galaxy and he also Cicero in Gladiac in 2000 and he was in Braveheart because he's Scottish. Joel Edgerton, Everyone is in George Edgerton and he's pretty famous but he's full stuff in The King a few years ago with Timothy Chalmay. Great Gatsby, there's Tom Buchanan and Great Gatsby currently is in Train Dreams Dark Matter.

He also is played a policeman in Bluey. Master Gardener was he's a big one a few years ago wasn't it? Right Cool. Jason Bateman as we all know from Arrested Development and also tonnes of stuff in the 80s Alicia Keys is Alicia Keys. Taraji P Henson plays Waters. She's she was in the Hidden Figures and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Hustle and flow. The Karate Kids. The one with Will Smith's son in it. The one when he doesn't come through. Yeah, the Korak, every place just confuse. And then finally, I want to hit on one more, which is Joseph Ruskin, who plays a Primo Sperazza because he was.

Veteran character actor. He's been at everything. Exactly. Yeah, so he's known for his Star Trek Insurrection, the Scorpion King and an episode of Alias or maybe overcame Roman Alias. But if you actually look through his career, it's epically long lose it's. Been Mars he plays. Lose, lose into Star Trek. He played Jack Kevorkian in an episode of That's My Bush and and and in that same year he did voice acting for Star Trek away team the video game. He played a doctor on the Star Trek Enterprise.

This guy literally would do anything that came in front of him and I love that. I respect his hustle. He was there an episode he was in six episodes of Bold and the Beautiful. He did voices in Spider Man. The animated series isn't fucking bad. I should wrote snorks. He did additional smokes and snorks. Holy shit. Snorks Smurfs. Smurfs and Snorks, right? So I had to explain to somebody what snorks were, and they didn't believe me, Jesus, as they existed. And I was like, imagine The Smurfs if they lived underwater and like no one.

But then I was like, that's you'd be that up. You'd be that up. Well, ask Joseph Luskin.

You know what the 80s were good time from in in TV he's got turns in Knight Rider, Airwolf, Hill Street Blues sent elsewhere. God damn he he was in. He was in ATV series called Stingray, but it doesn't appear to be the good one with the puppets. He was in the sword and the Sorcerer. He was in the really shitty Captain America TV movie. Amazing. He was at Starsky and Hutch. He was at a show called Policewoman playing a character called Vinny Venezuelos. I have a feeling this man has played a lot of like mafia type characters somehow.

He was a taping series called Serpico. That that that can't be about these Serpicos. That's right, it is. It is. So yeah, they did make a Frank Cipaco TV show and they're trying to procedural about Frank Cipaco. It's I've not seen any of it. I've seen videos about it on YouTube. It's mental. That's I picked it up when you said Cipaco because like Cipaco. Is like one of my superco. Sydney Lametz, 1973 Films, Cipaco based 1971 Book Craft. Incredible, right? He played Marioni in the streets of San Francisco.

He was in the Mission Impossible TV series playing literally 3 different characters. I think this guy was on call to play anyone Italian or like slightly like North African slash Middle East. And because we've got him as a tribal leader in the Scorpion King, we've got him playing. Sure, there's the sorry, but good. You know what? We're giving the mindless respect as well. Because you had a hell of a fucking career and lived a long time, so well done. Rest, rest easy, Joseph Ruskin. Your watch of playing a million characters a year is ended and we have the streets from here.

What a guy that. Wins and following seats should we? Should we do some quotes of the movie? God yes, there's so fucking many of them. Right. OK, I'm going to start with not not so much a quote as section, right? OK, it's from. I'm holding in front of me. Not so much court in a section. Incredible. Yeah. OK, so this is the first scene where we meet Sykes and Waters and the fixer Wyman. This is This is as it's read in the script. God. And I want you to remember, and I'm going to put a picture from up on here, that the guy who wrote this is Joe Carnahan.

He was incredibly white. And, and in fact, where is he even from? That's probably a detail It's worth worth knowing. He's America. He's from California. OK, That's that's better. I was hoping it'd be like from like Hull or something.

To make you say yeah. Yeah, Gosport. He's like so in Interior Diner, BC Spoon, Whole food joint at lunch counter. Meet Cherise Waters, 33, and Georgia Sykes, 24, Ebony Stunner's Ghetto Queens assassins. They are sitting with their booking contact, Lorenzo Wyman 4C1. He holds up a copy of a banked telex, sliding it across the table. We're putting at this point that their gender bent in the movie. Yeah. Wyman. How about 6 figures for this fool? How about that? Love what this takes a telex. Gorks shows the numbers to Sykes.

Pikes. Bullshit. Hyman no baby they heard about that triad, hit the work you'll put in. They recognise the skills and this ain't no try out. Tap dance shoe is your shit thing neither. If you'll want this then I'm gonna go get it for you. Waters twirls. Her long braids looks over at Sykes Waters. So me and sis here because we got a Rep on the rise. We chipped some nails on some N words. They want us to drop this mafioso so and so magician whatever the fuck he is. Wyman swear it works girl. Y'all done dirt?

Y'all peeled some serious caps. Worse travels Sykes. And so I get this straight we got to go in bust on this punk and remove the heart. Is that for real, Wyman No, no, no. You got to go in and get him, pull him out where he at. Forget all that other shit. That's just for flavour. I'm still getting little bits of this and that from that cat. Pedich. The man contacted me right now. What we got, not a telex, is a number and a name, buddy. Israel Sykes to Loretta. What else did Pedich say, Wyman? He said that the shit could get hot, could get heavy.

I said because I got two of the hottest, heaviest bitches alive. I'm going to, I'm going to end it there. But, but I just want you to. But hopefully for the entire time I've had that, I've had a variety of pictures of Drew Carnahan up on the screen. Incredible. At least it was reworked a bit in the final product A. Little bit probably be more N words. Yeah, I've, I've got one that I think you know what it is. I'm just going to dig into the RIP read bit from earlier a bit longer because I'm looking at looking at a full length one here in the IMDb.

I bet you guys got a lot of stories right? I don't. I grew up soft with the private schools and the little Blazers, you know, and everyone talk things out. You know, no one ever threw any blows. Still to this day never punched in the face. Imagine that. I'm pretty much a pantywist. I don't say this to be self deprecating. I just, you know, don't have much opinion of myself but rather be like you guys, you know, ball fight hasn't big swinging Dicks taking care of shit. You know, sadly this is it, you know it's disgusting.

Thanks God Dog pile of piss, poor physique on top of a small cock and hereditary alcoholism. Appreciate it. I'm babbling. I do that drug, please forgive. Brilliant, but just absolute degeneracy. The film didn't need him would be that degenerate. The film didn't need to go to this weird place at all, yet it did. And that's one of the things love about this film. It puts a ridiculous amount of backspin on things that don't really need to be that fucking stupid and weird and odd. I'd say. You know how I'm in the film 7, how everything is covered like a weird layer of grime.

Like, sorry, not 7, not 7 California 7 twos Grime is held, but specifically California. Everything in that film is covered with just grime and dirt. There's nothing that's normal. There's nothing that's regular. There's really off kilter like like the the the the probation officers got like a fucking like hook for a hand and stuff. And then there's like it's weird. It's this film does things that doesn't need to do and it's better for it because it's stupid as shit in a way that like makes engaging makes entertaining.

And yeah, like it does have that kind of everything's got a weird Sheen of oddness on it. Things like one of the one of one of the kill teams is just as like ridiculously overblown gang of Nazis. And like, not only is Jeremy Piven getting tonnes and tonnes of hookahs to his to his room as as assistants fucking ejaculate and I'm a bit stupid, it puts weird amounts of like just excellent and bubbling. Dad, you are drunk. Please forgive me. Which I said I've never seen from Sykes and Waters. Regarding the 50 gal, yes, pull back to reveal A50 calibre right sniper rifle on a tripod jutting just past the window, zeroed out on the penthouse level of the Nomad.

Sykes, you got the 50 up bitch. You're trying to take down a jumbo jet blown the moon out of the sky. The fuck you want to get that grimy Waters the try to wild out my Boo and it's all in Kraken. I'm laying N words out Sykes. Damn this Kevlar riding up on me. I wish they made this more sheer. Waters puts her eyes to the scope scans, finds Sykes in the crosshairs across the way, adjusting her outfit. Waters settles on her, watches something vaguely creepy about this bit of voyeurism. She nozzles the Barrett close.

I tell you I snuggle up with the big girl here and my pussy start to drip. What? What I didn't you say there would go? She isn't Amor sexual. She's totally in love with a gun. Sykes Sykes grimaces what is sees it smiles to herself. What is continued. So you heard from Keith he's still fucking with that little tight light skinned girl. Sykes I ain't trying to break a sweat for that sorry ass N word. What is he a dog baby doll? He a Great Dane? I tried to tell you after your first date he had that ass.

What? He hit that ass one time. His interest in a bit start to landslide. Sykes you know I burned all his shit, all that vinyl Kadamaha Funkadelic. I burned his turntables too. They were like 3000 brand new. Others man, fuck that N word. Let him go woof on some other scrub. We got one another. So all the love we're ever going to need and psych. So there is a love triangle. Hold the fuck on. Hold on a minute. Is this like when? When we did that is, is this a real quote from a Tom Clancy game, bookie game?

This, this, this actually, you want, you want, you want you want pulling Matekia, This is actually No, this is. This is the screenplay. This is. This is not the shooting script. This is the screenplay that got through to prediction. Did you see the bit about the gun making a pussy drip in the film? No, I don't think. So because, because, yeah, I'm so fucking. That's insane amounts of dialogue because I've got the scene kind of playing in my head and it takes place over a few moments, right? Like it's fun.

They're having the chat with our comms and, and Waters is like zooming in the scope and checking her out and stuff. And that's way too many words for that scene. That's way too many friggin words. That's nuts. That's like, damn, that's really fucking bad, right? It's. Cool needle drops. There are loads in this movie. There's Ace of spades by move ahead. Obviously there's there's spotty. I'll be dub delicious by outcast down on the street by the Stooges And my personal favourite I mentioned already, which is Big White Cloud by John Kale Rizza on here as well.

Yeah, it's a proper This might be the This is the first, like proper jukebox soundtrack movie we've done. I think it. Isn't it? Yeah. What's what's the track that's playing when when goes that little cabin in the woods where the kid and his grandma? Or is that the RZA track that's playing at that point? I think it is, but I have to double check. I got your back by RZA. I think it might be. I'm sure someone will correct us if they care strongly enough about it. Yeah, hopefully not anyone from the Wu Tang Clan because Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with.

And we'll have to try and protect our necks. OK. That was the whitest thing I've ever said. And we'll likely ever say. Yeah, Right. Here's a factoid. So trivia. I'm DB Trivia. Here's a factoid that will not surprise you. All the conversations had by Carruthers and Messner in the surveillance van were improvised. You don't say. Don't say yeah, that that that that was. Let's try and make it like a like in Quentin Tarantino movie with the with the pop culture references and the banter. They said we won't write any, you just just do it.

Yeah, just just go on boys, Talk shit. Come on, talk about Madonna. The song, like a virgin, he says Dick was so big. Fucking hell. Right, I'm going to read it as it is on IMDb, and it buries the needle a little bit here. Writing director Joe O'Connor needed to fill the role of a Speed Frick Neo Nazi when he fired Michael Shannon for being rude to a costume designer. What? Yeah, that's crazy. And then within 1010 seconds of Chris Pine starting his audition, he was hired. Carnahan was sold. I want to know what it was Chris Payne did in that audition.

I really won't know what it is because to be honest, I'm pretty sure it's went in and start fucking throwing Romans.

On the On the subject of Chris Pine, Ben Affleck remarked to Giovanni about Chris Pine. If I could take 10% of what I'm going to make in my career and bet on anybody, I'd bet on that kid. Of course, we actually know that is Ben Affleck spends 10% of all the money he makes in his career at Dunkin' Donuts. But I'm going to put a bunch of pictures of Ben Affleck and Duncan on because we love it. Hashtag our guy. Hashtag our guy. Truly is our guy. God bless that man. This movie is the feature film debut of Common and Alicia Keys.

And this is this is Joseph Ruskin's final film. So I'm glad we talked to Anna so much. Yeah. Yeah. It's sad. Yeah, I'm on it. We've got we've got three got three good facts in quick click session. First of all, we already know this, but this film has not one but 2 Jack Ryan's in it, obviously, or Jack's Ryan, I should say. Ben Affleck, Chris Pine. Yeah, Not, not, not news for us, but there we go. Next fact, when Israel falls on the piano it is the same chord that is played in the Max Payne video game theme.

Holy crap, I don't know how true that is. Funny. 3 or 30 people found it interesting though, and I'm one of them now. Yeah, check this out. My God. The FBI helicopters registration number is N350SC. Is the same helicopter that was used to the Nelly Furtado to the rooftop in her video. Say it right? Crap, that's that's somehow incredibly fitting for this film. And the time period? Whoa. Nelly, that's what's incredibly fitting. I'm I mean, I guess you're saying that somebody Shakey's is a real money.

Make your work hard, make your sweat hard. She doesn't make him sweat hard, she makes me carry him to carry her down the stairs. Yeah, she makes the put serious effort in man. This is like this is like, you know, like you've got the whole man writing women thing, right, and a love is kind of cringe with man writing man who's got this spot on because I mean, men will do like ridiculously stupid things for women straight away a sight unseen sometimes weren't we are we are easily made to do shit like hi, I'm Alicia Keys.

I've been shot so he's you, but can you carry me? But yeah, right, in for a penny for a pound. I mean, it's not like he was like trying to like flee for zaithe. It's like a woman.

There we go. Everything's coming up Ivy. Incredibly, the helicopter's back, the FBI helicopter, N350SC was also used in the film next from 2007. That's the film with Nicholas Cage and Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, where he can, like, see a little bit into the future. Is that right? Well, yeah, he has his and the FBI are trying to seek his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack. He's a. He's a. I've never heard of this film. Oh right. OK so Nicolas Cage is a Las Vegas magician you can see into the future and the FBI are after him to so another film about a Las Vegas magician.

Hell from the Yeah yeah. So 2006 and 2007 were like years with a SIM Higgard was used in like these two movies about Las Vegas magicians. It's amazing. Whoa. Credible. You know what, Lee? Oh, N350SC. Yeah. That is correct, yeah. 0. 0C. I wonder if if it's on flight radar right now. Oh. We could find out where it. Is we we got some real autism. Ours here boys have located. The helicopter, last seen two years ago, landed at Goose Bay, Canada, Wednesday 6th of September 2023 at 1039 ADT and has not been tracked since then.

Oh, do you think that's the end of its life? I think it's, I think that's the end of its life, man. It's a town in Newfoundland, the province of Newfoundlands in Labrador. Yeah, located in central Labrador on the coast of Lake Melville. Looks like a nice place, like a, you know, a lovely farm I can go off to play with all its other helicopter friends. I mean, it's like, I mean scrapped or it's like holes being sold like a paintball place or some. And there's sorts of people like running around. Oh.

That's so sad. Although maybe that's nice for it. Maybe it likes that. It has a new life. It has a new life. We've got this. There's a replay. It's past flight also. It flew from Goose Bay. It flew from Goose Bay so I'm watching it now to. Thank you, Yankee. Romeo yeah, YR so that it is. It looks like some kind of so it's flown from somewhere that's near Goose Bay. So it's beacon has come on, I guess over this water here and then it's fluent. I wonder if I wonder if because this is like the free version, we've only got like the last like 10 minutes of its track.

So so while IR is Yang Yang Romeo's Goose Bay Airport, we are a podcast that boasts 10s of listeners by the way. This is the kind of reason why. Dozens, dozens of us watches as we track the last flights of a film star helicopter from two years ago. Too beautiful. In at least two friends. Yeah, incredible, it says very sadly. He had no flights in the last 14 days. No Shipman. Rest in rest in peace. We will. We will rest in power. Entry 50. 0C blue skies, your watch is over. How much cook in was done inside that helicopter's hole before it's end of its life man?

Amazing makes you think cool, right? A lot of our a lot of our categories, I'm not really geared towards this kind of movie, but but there is one question I would like to know the answer to. Sonia, how would have this gone down in Germany? Do you have casinos? It's. Sleeping hard. So we we mostly have these weird sport bets shops that are run by Turkish guys and also mostly frequented by Turkish guys betting on football matches. Jeremy Piven's going to struggle behind himself at these things. Sure how you would get a Italian mafia shootout situation involving three dozen hookers into that scenario.

Just have this like. You could put, I mean, if you put this into Eastern Germany, you could certainly get the Nazi. Right, I thought I was expecting when I asked this this. Is good though, keep it going. This is gold. This is gold. You ace. So sorry. I am also not sure Mr Mcguffin would get away with a cover name. Israel. Probably call him Benjamin Poland or something. Benjamin, Poland. Benjamin Poland. That's amazing. God.

You know, the main thing all these things hinge on is like the shootout it early. Really. I don't know what are you going to film a shootout with in Germany like a two shot hunting rifle? Well, that's not very exciting. Well, I mean, there was that guy who like what? What wasn't that German guy who had like fucking pants are in his in in his basement or whatever who like. Oh yeah, that guy he, he didn't Even so he had a working Panther tank, I think, and he used to, to, to post now snow in the winter actually.

So everyone in that fucking village knew. It's just that nobody snitched on him. And it only became a problem when he became too old to take care of that shit. And they didn't just find the the tank down there. They also found a flock 88 and a whole submarine torpedo on a bunch of automatic weapons. And I think a bunch of crew served weapons as well. They were trying to gaol him for position of well, military grade weaponry. They didn't really go through with it because you can't really get ammunition for a flock 88 anymore.

So they had an extra come in and and calculate how many how much cash you would have to spend to to create like 5 shots of ammunition for that. And they were like no, that is so ridiculously expensive no one is going to use this to do any shenanigans with that. They didn't actually have to call in the army to get the tank out of the basement though, which is like a bit weird to me because apparently that that guy has been driving that tank in and out of there for years. So I I don't quite understand how you suddenly need pioneers to get the tank out of the basement when it can just run.

He threw the keys away. Yeah, that was the whole thing apparently. Incredible, I love this. This is a big big swing Sonia. From wolves of two shot hunting rifles to actually someone's just using a fucking World War 2 tank to plough snow and all his neighbours he was. Shooting at me though. I made a very nice. Point out of you can't get ammunition for this just well he had a torpedo but you you probably use a torpedo and shoot out though. But you know who could get the fund in for that Flag 88 ammunition.

A certain Italian mops are called Primos Peraza, and that's where the film comes in in Germany. OK, I'm going to go for our little Harrison Ford live in. But this movie have been I know the answer to this, but this movie have been better with Jack Ryan or Richard Kimball or President James Marshall. I mean it. Let's fucking dig into this thing, OK, boys, There's officers on fucking lockdown. Nobody's leaving until we work out where I've been placed at least one of these characters in this film. All right?

Doctor Richard Kimble Doctor Richard Kimble is infiltrating the probasic drug announcement dinner conference, which is happening in the conference centre of the hotel. Yes, that they go, that they're in. OK, so he's also trying to infiltrate at the same time. As for Squalia Costa, Darwin Trimmer and brothers Alicia Keys, Loretta Sykes, as they're all going at the same time, he's also shuffling in with his really bad like dye job on his hair and his beard shaved off. Yeah. And they're all making a beeline towards security because so many people are filtering in and like flashing madges and stuff.

He manages to get incompletely unmolested. And that's how Taraji Kibble gets in and he's like bam bam bam bam bam bang upstairs and also kicking off. Meanwhile, he's like, Pravasic's a sham. You think the results of Pravasic like nobody cares? I knew we could do it. And you're right, no one would care. They'll be like, they'll be like shelter in place warnings going on in security and dragging people out like Richard Kimball's like, hey guys, Provasic sucks, Big pharma, no one cares. Yeah. And like, was it, what's his name?

Jerodan Crabbe, who plays the Doctor Who's like, a bad guy. Yeah, like he just gets away with it. Just leaves, like no one cares. No, or the funniest one would be you think it gets weird that it captures astray from that ridiculous 50 Cal barrage that waters puts down and his head just gets turned into red. Best I fucked up, I fucked up and it's like, OK, that's no reason to just like do suppressing fire on everyone, man.

But I'm just remembering how fucking cool that scene is. Just like that rifle bouncing with the recoil and the windows blowing out. It's like, oh man, I love the Big 50. Peter Falk where we would have put Peter Falk in this movie and. What's going to interrupt? I want him on the 50. Yes, you know what? One more. Thing you, you know, my wife always said. And I have just one more run. I love the idea that because I'm being this that like kind of like laconic sniper kind of kind of kind of archetype that he'd probably kind of fit into in this kind of thing.

Like he's he's a very chilled out guy, just sitting there with a cigarette reading a beaten up paperback of something like airport that he's read like 15 times just chilling. And then when when, when, when the call comes through, he gets on and he just he just puts down a couple of well, well placed shots. I mean, it's still with a massive anti material weapons. So it's still like just causing a lot of fucking chaos. But then like he just happily packs it up and just leaves. And no one says what the fuck you doing, man?

Because he's he's he's he's just a nice, you know, slovenly kind of guy. He was totally benign. And he's just got a rifle again, because he wasn't a tall guy. His rifle is going to be almost the same height as him. You know, I just want to see as well, what else had possibly one of the best chances for exfiltration in this film.

Yeah, because sex was wearing like, essentially black technical gear. She could easily just run out and say security, security in debt. But it choose us to stay because she's had a crash out and she, I don't know, like, love of our lives died and no. But still, like, she had like, shot like, the potential of the best, like exfiltration, I guess. Wow. How the fuck am I married? I think he could have been Buddy Israel's agent stroke lawyer. That would have been so good. That would have been so good.

Actually, I got you the gig. Hey, buddy, they've killed the deal. I'm sorry, buddy. That's so. Turns out they don't make Quincy no more. Oh, they killed the deal, buddy. I'm sorry. Just just one more thing. Can you, can you, can you pick me up some salad on the way to federal prison? But hang tight, I can try and get you on the rocket files. This is this is now vastly differing from Peter Fox. Bye. But I love it. No, it's a wheel.

Yeah, the He didn't travel as a Missed Opportunity Award for the film. Yeah, OK, I've yeah, OK. If you got, if you got one for like, I've got like a, a realistically almost serious one. And whether Emma would kick my ass if I didn't say the missed opportunity was for for Waters and sakes to have their happy ever after because Emma was really fucking pissed off that they didn't go off into the sunset gown. That's so I'm so I'm going to say that. Otherwise I was going to kick my ass tonight. Missed opportunity as as well, I guess.

I guess one one thing that was kind of underused was the missed an opportunity to have more of that teenage kid in it because he could have joined Hollis on his adventure. Hollis could have like a morally ambiguous D&D player just recruited this clearly sub normal individual as as as a meat shield after making several charisma rules to get them on side. And then just he approaches the hotel searching for the tremors brothers and sends the little boy in to chase them out. And then he just got a cut of just this kid, like with a raging fucking bone at chasing Darwin tremor out.

Just do it as as as crazy cut and stuff. And it means that Darwin tremors like kind of robbed of his like kind of like, cool, it's fine, we're OK, we're OK kind of thing because the guy runs out and and this kids just screaming after him then and then like Hollis just slots to put about his misery because otherwise the kids, I'm gonna catch him. But it's gonna be a whole different movie. OK, wow.

Yeah, I think my well right. So the miss opportunity for me is this could have been any of like several different movies. Yeah. Like this this could have been been like an almost like Jason Bourne esque spy caper about how Heller became Sperazza and that whole process and like how it became so like you could have a whole movie about him doing that. It's time in the USSS in the FBI pitching the whole idea, getting like seduced by the the mob and then the final betrayal from the FBI and then him becoming a boss for real.

Like that's in it that that's like fruit is like in 5 minutes into the movie. That in itself is a pretty interesting movie. It is OK. Never, never, never missed opportunity is I said it at the beginning, but like this could have just been the raid. Like they have to go into so much detail. They could have said there's a guy the top of this pen house that we need to get. It's your job to go and get him. Brian Reynolds and really Otter. Meanwhile, a bunch of other guys are coming to get him. But like in the raid you know how like you get on different floors and you encounters like different mini bosses on his way.

Yeah. They're not giving like a shit tonne of the Raid 2 fucks us up. They're not giving like a turn of exposition. We don't need to know who they are. What do you think? You know, this funky guy's got a fucking boost off or whatever. This guy's got fucking nunchucks. Like, oh, this fight happens in this room, you know, whereas like the Raid two kind of gets more into it, like oh, this one, this the big kitchen fight. But like there's all like the other gang stuff going on in the betrayals and the phone calls and bikes and all that shit.

Have you seen the Raid 2? No. All right, OK, so the red the red 1 is like really tight, compact, but my building got to stop my building like dread and then the red two tries to make and take a crime epic and it ruins it. Yeah, right. So, yeah, Kurds and that just simplify it. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Cut away lots of the chaff. I don't need to see everyone's back story, you know, sort of. It's cool and fun. Don't see it. Don't need to see any. I don't need to see Ben Affleck. I don't see that scene with Jason Bateman.

I know it's a good scene, but don't. Don't see the trailers until they're in the building. Don't see the show keys until she's in the building. Don't see common very much. Probably a little bit of beginning. Don't need 20 minutes of fucking Andy Garcia either side of the movie. Don't even need the ending like totally different movie. Like the whole thing ends when when when Ryan Reynolds enters the building, it starts it and it finishes when he leaves the. Building yeah, there were dozens of films that this film could be like I'm I'm I, I refuse to read anything about the sequel and don't want to look at it at all.

But it's like there's so many films this the film could have been this could have been like that. This could have make a ridiculous gonzo action film centering around the Trammers brothers. It could have been, like you said, a more like cerebral kind of like like like better, better paced, less terrible crazy thriller even could have like looked more into just what's going on with those bail bonds men and the the quite nebulous thing they've got going with RIP Reed. You could, you could. I mean, if Coen.

Brothers kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, totally. Like you could because because that what like, but this film is it does pull like out of a lot of I guess at somehow less than the sum of its parts because there's so many really interesting stories that feed into this absolute turbo mental mess, which I love by the way. I love this film. Yeah, man, probably. Before we before we wrap it up, do you want to have you got any notes on the peanut gallery? Because this is obviously a loved movie by you. Yeah, well the premise is actually enjoyable with some wonderful over the top performances.

I really didn't care for the energy drink aesthetic though. Energy drink aesthetic, You know what that that's like this, this this, this film is like 3 cans of Bang energy, a double vodka and a couple of concussions later. When you've got this film, man of absolutely no creative, linguistic, narrative, cultural, aesthetic, historical, or intellectual value, my Dick could currently cut Diamond Four stars. My God I want to agree with you. Chaotic Chris Pine is peak Chris Pine. Absolutely this movie was.

This movie was recommended to me by my doctor in the middle of a physical. Not sure if I should be impressed or worried. The everything bagel of movies wilfully beyond us from one glib set piece to the next with all the elegance of a bottle of Wild Turkey. Bob a gently at a room temperature jacuzzi. A juvenile over saturated good time. This was Jordan Beaumont Anderson who was the same person who said this Dick was diamonds. By the way, this guy loves this film before the March 2021 is the one when he says this.

Dick's incredibly hard from watching this film. Then the the subsequent review is 90th of June 2021. I think this guy watches this film like every every couple of months and gives it a four-star review and just gets like a raging stunk. I knew this would have really fucking good reviews by the way. Bringing my 4K of this at Zoolander Blu-ray at Terrence Malik's house to see if he'll let me in. This is so good. I'm learning a little about screen writing by comparing strips to their final produced movies.

1st, don't fill the 1st 18 pages your screenplay with voice. Gee, fucking lock in. Lock in Rory. Do it for America. First, don't fill the 1st 18 pages of your screenplay with voice. Don't fill the 1st 18 pages of your screenplay with voiceover exposition for Ben Affleck doing De Bears and Andy Costasia doing his worst impression of De Niro and Cape Fear. Second, don't fill the last 18 pages of the terrible reveal also provided through Andy Garcia. That has literally nothing to do with the narrative.

You spent a lot that star on. 3rd If you're white, you should probably avoid referring your black characters as Ebony stunners, ghetto Queens. No, I'm not making that up. 4th If you want to have a big emotional moment into your characters, the audience needs to see those characters for more than 4 minutes beforehand. We don't care about people who don't care about. Also, don't put three emotional moments in a row that SAP each other's effectiveness. It stops being funny at this point. It just makes loads of sense and while it's a very good review, it doesn't make me laugh so the rest of it's more.

I agree with everything they said. That Yeah, yeah, definitely. Fun fact, Primos Peraza is Kaiser Soze. Yes, the year 2006. I remember. I remember the day as if it was yesterday. The Day is playing my Xbox 360. Downloading the free Smoking Aces gamer pic package of the Xbox Live marketplace promoting the movies release. We're coming excited to own some kids and friends of mine online with my new cool gamer pic. The Day is where three actors, Matthew Fox, Nasta Carbonell and Kevin Durant, each star my favourite TV show of all time lost, each having a role in this film which will never happen again.

These facts have nothing to do with the movie, but I just want to express why nostalgia play is a big part for the love I have for this movie and its place in the timeline of my life. Started off strong but wasn't. Going to assist. Me shit Sanya, please say something. We need more Sanya Khan and the fans want more Sanya.

I'm just being autistic about the mic position. That's great to hear what he said, yes. I am yes. No the fans. The fans cry out for Sonya, They really do.

Ryan Reynolds trying to do serious drama is not good and a good one here. What if Suicide Squad. But good. Yeah, this was, this was 3 1/2 stars. This was reviewed back in 2016. So that was after the first Suicide Squad before the second one. And I'm just going to get one last actually. Hold on, Hold on an absolute closer foot. But where is my Taraji P Henson? Alicia Keys lesbians dropping the F slur spin off where Henson is a sniper and this and I want to see her eat pussy. Two stars. Like I came in with a very specific idea of the movie he wanted to watch.

It's like, listen, I mean there will go a lot of beautiful on your reviews there. Cool. I think that brings us to the end of this episode of Clear and Present Dudes. Well, CIA pro or anti? Obey. Come on. Well, no, because it's got an OSS connection, so. Oh. That's a good point. Yeah, Yeah. So let's get. Gosh, yeah, you see. Oh, hey. Let's do. Wow, Rory. Hey, I'm, I want to apologise. Yeah, laughing that off. That's totally correct. That's, that's, that's, that's OK, man. I'm, I'm, I'm just clubbing it tonight.

Nice. Very good. Terrible. So yeah, I guess, I guess we're seeing Auntie then, since the only person, the only person who was in the CIA would become the CIA to be a run in. Yeah, and and ended up becoming like a like a mafia Don. So yeah, this this film is anti OSS, which by definition is anti CIA. Does that make it six to three against now? Six to three against. There we go. Cool. We've got to pull out some Clancy's to get these stats back up, boys. You follow behind, you got to pull out some Clancy's, pull out Argo, all that stuff.

Not not too soon. For now, on, the stands are going to be untouchable.

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There we'll go. Cool. And Sonia, you're still underground in the dark. Black Ops off the grid. Yes, that's that's you warm. Thank you from from me as well for bearing with me, barely saying anything. I'm also not saying anything on social media. So don't I don't have anything to to link here unfortunately, but thanks for tuning in this time and see you around the next time. Excellent. I guess what's up to say is that we've been clear and present. Dude, dude, dude. Yes, I only have one thing. Make it a cannon.

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