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I need the go go. No, no, don't touch that. That's
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for my business. Oh yeah, what kind of business. Someday, babies,
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I'll tell you. Someday, I'll tell you it felt. It's it's
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the perfect Were they not? Are they not friends? Is this how they
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become friends again? No? I don't know. Actually, I because because
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apparently there was a season last year, um that I hadn't seen where they're
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still young. And maybe it's like post the movie because the movie takes place
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in the future, like it takes play. They go through like a wormhole
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or something. Wait, wait, what movie the new Besonbot How to Do
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the Universe? Is there a new movie? Yeah? Yeah, and it's
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so good. Yeah? Is it good? It's really good. So I
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thought it was really good. It's not as good as the first one because
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of it's like a movie. This is like almost like a pilot for the
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show. Mm. So they're still young in it. They're still young.
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Yeah, they're still young. But what happens is they go through It's it
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sounds ridiculous, but it works so well. In the movie, they go
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through like a wormhole to come to twenty twenty two. But it's really funny.
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It's really really funny. That's great. Um, hello everyone, and
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welcome to plan to Bruce. I of course I'm your host, Malenko.
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Yeah, let me do. I'm Alex And today we're talking about in nineteen
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ninety three's striking Distance, Bruce Willis's Striking Distance. I feel you. I'm
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right here. Sorry, I feel you, and I feel you. I'm
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right. Here's a couple of things we should get out of the way.
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Um, did you did you? Did you notice anything about the music in
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this movie? No? What about this? It's written by Brad Fidel.
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Do you know who that is? That's the music writer for He wrote the
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Terminator stuff. If you listen to the first score especially, it's very terminative.
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Man, I kind of want to encourage you to listen to it because
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it's like I will, because like watching the first fifteen minutes of this movie,
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I was like, this is fun, fun, really fun fun.
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Um. I was like, man, this is fun if it feels like
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reading like a corny like a pulp novel. Man. Oh, and also
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with the sorry. The second thing I wanted to say about this the coolest
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is that it's directed by Rowdy Harrington, who is the director of Roadhouse,
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a movie that I've never seen, but that everyone tells me that I should
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really good. That one's really good. I've heard that it's really good.
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The direction. I mean, he's directs a couple of episodes, Tales from
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Crypt. I know. I was going to talk about that too, dude.
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Then you found love of Tales from the Crypt from the show Pantheon,
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Tales from the Krybt. I mean it is Pantheon and Tales from the crabt
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The thing is, Bruce Willis's entire career feels like it should be called striking
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distance because there are so many of these types of movies where it's like,
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oh man, you almost made it. Si, oh man, this feels
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like a serbian movie. I mean, where do you how do you want
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to go about this? Well? I think we should talk about the whole
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movie, dude. I think we should break it down, because you know
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what it will. Let bebe down for you. Miller, somebody turned on
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the machine with my armor. Well, accidents happened, accidents happened on this
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happened in a spite. We've got some vocabulary kids. Michael, Michael Ironside,
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dumb Michael Ironside. Yeah, he comes out of the house with Fraser's
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dad and they're getting oh, yeah Maloney, Oh man, I love I
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love John Maloney. Yeah John Maloney. First of all, there's some really
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interesting qualities about the movie. But number one thing I really really was,
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like, man, they really nailed this. Brothers, cousins, cousins,
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like all looking like they're part of the same family. Dennis Farina definitely part
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of the same John Maloney John Maloney family. Um, Dennis Farina is Mom
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Sizemore as his cousin, but like, oh dude, I like that.
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They also refer to the irishness of John Maloney, but the like I guess
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the other side is Italian of oh dude. Okay, so like we we
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should we should talk about this whole movie because I agree with you that it's
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a bad movie. But like, I really two things. I really enjoyed
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watching it, and like it's really going to be easy to talk about.
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There's like a lot of really good beats because there's so many like started storylines
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that don't really go anywhere. It kind of they wanted to like build a
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universe, but how did you guess? How did you guess? The movie
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was so poorly received in the initial viewing of it at the audience and immediately
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immediately it was like people were saying, how like Bruce Willis took over the
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script, Bruce Willis tried to Hudson Hawk the movie without the laughs, but
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like the director actually, like straight up was like, no, Bruce was
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really good. I disagree. I think Bruce Willis is what makes this movie
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work. No, No, that's not the that's not the thing. The
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acting isn't the thing about Bruce willis the it's the story and the weird like
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choices in the plot. Like apparently in its initial screening, they were like,
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this movie makes no sense. I don't know what's happening in this movie
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barely made sense this time. It barely makes sense this time at all.
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But it's the way some of the scenes cut to other scenes. I was
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like, what, yeah, totally. So it starts off with a menacing
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tiny police car getting driven around menacingly, and the camera following it. So
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many big actors that we all love and know, Andre Brower, really young,
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Andre Brown, Ryan James, Bryan James. Bryan James in more of
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a movie than in any other movie. Dude, Brian had like such a
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strong character. This he was so good. He was he was really he
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was the slicked dude. When I slicked my hair back, it looks like
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Brian James, but and died dude. We see we see a menacing pair
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of hands and the camera like follows the police car. Uh and it we
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see a woman tied up, and then all of a sudden, we get
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raining outside. The mysterious man has killed this girl and dumps her body twin
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peaks style into a river, and then we cut to is this like years
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later? This is like two years two years later? Yeah, and we
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get um, uh cool the cool balding. Uh Bruce Willis, Wait was
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two years later right away? Yeah, It's like we got the rain,
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got the mysterious man throwing the body in, and then it's two years later
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after the case and stuff. Because they also do the they do the court
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case where maybe if this is the first time it says nineteen ninety one,
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that's what I meant. Yeah, so it says nineteen ninety one. So
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this is the past of where where it takes. Man, I gotta say,
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they're the The relationships between the dad immediately established with Bruce Willis as being
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his dad was, so what got me hyped about the movie in the first
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place. And then like we see Jimmy to Tello on the TV and he's
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and like Thomas Hardy being the oh dude, Okay, so like his name
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is Tom Hardy in the movie. That's outrageous. His name is Robert Paulson.
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Bruce will Is, Tom Hardy Hardy as Tom Hardy is. This character
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could have been played by Tom Hardy. And for those who don't know,
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Tom Hardy was not even an actor or not even born yet. Yeah,
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no, he was born. But yeah, they go to travel down to
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the courthouse. Everybody's pissed at Bruce Willis because they're going to a ball or
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a policeman's bucket. How do you this is? This is really interesting because
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it's a movie about police, and you know we always have like contentious a
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pop scar talks about police, um, but not no, not necessarily.
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But I'm interesting what you think because like, um, you know, like
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this is a movie about we can talk about like we can criticize cops.
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Um in this movie in a way where it's like the movies criticize inviting you
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to criticize police, right, Like it's like, um, showing the kind
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of like it shows a lens on police that's like true, like this like
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cop bias of like each other and they like hold each other's backs and like
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they're not allowed to like rat each other out on things, and so they
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have like a code, like a cop code, which cops do in real
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life, which I was like, I liked the line you have to have
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honor or, you have to have what was it, principles until you need
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to use your honor or something like that. There was a line that was
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like valor before everything, before everything else, but yeah, I think that's
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what it was. And so it was like, yeah, like you can
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be with police, but you need to like also hold true to principles and
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like what it is. What it is is that Bruce Willis is writing out
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his partner who's also his cousin who's also a police officer, and everyone hates
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rats and Bruce Willis's career is they're showing like how ostracized he is. But
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like so like this is nothing new. Everyone's always known that cops do this,
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right, Like it's like, but it's interesting because until two thousand and
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one, dude, well yeah tell me, oh no, that's just like
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when the like change in his kind of rhetoric became more right wing because of
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nine eleven. So what was he before? Like the US, he seems
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pretty to me. The choices and the values in his movies, I mean
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seem concerning phobic. But um in this movie again again always like oh you
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know, blonde, good body, good body, good body, but yeah,
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but like good body, yeah, implying that there's bad bodies. I
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mean, yeah, dude, sometimes there are. Yeah, Like, um,
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it's interesting. It's interesting because there is the I'm talking about it from
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a perspective of there's a there's a for sure, like a value judgment.
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John Boloney and Bruce Willists are in a very very good car chase. This
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is really one of the best car chases I've ever seen. Yeah, and
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like the I love seeing those like, um, those old timer cars,
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those big boats being just like like destroy driven, driven, like flipped over,
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just the fullest, fullest extent, a very well edited and exciting car.
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It's a really really good car chase. Um. They finally get to
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like the bridge where everybody is. You think he's caught, but then he
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somehow escapes again, and um, Bruce Willis and John Beloney, Um get
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pushed off on like a hill. They're Pittsburgh too, which I love Pittsburgh,
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Oh my god. And I was like, what city is this.
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I was like, that's Pittsburgh, baby, I've been there. It's it's
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a cool city. It feels very like this is very blue collar, working
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class city, working class. Bruce. He dates nurses, he dates the
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working class. He's very you know, like it's like, you know,
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man, I gotta say, like that scene where they pull when Dennis Farina
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pulls um Bruce willis out of the car are and he's like, I can
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make it. I can make it. Um, He's like my leg,
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yeah, he has a dude when when he gets taken and his leg is
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destroyed and he gets taken by Dennis Frina to see his dad and his dad
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is dead in the in the body bag, dude, and his like sad
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oh man, dude, Like this was like this is like fifteen and twelve
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minutes into the movie. And the hugging. The Brutalist is so good at
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hugging in this movie. Um, but the but the like you know,
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kiss on the forehead and the like petting, it's just like really really sad
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moment, and then um, Brian Brian James and Dennis Frina doing the cross
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or whatever. I love Dennis. He's so good at mustache, his his
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alliot face. Totally, he's got such a George Saal like he looks like
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a bunch of different guys. And the fact that they cast like such like
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doufy normal cop guys, which they must have like just put in, just
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be in the movie because Tom Sizemore was so good in this Movieiz Loser,
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And yeah, totally, um and uh, Brian James is fucking built.
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I didn't really realize how like Jacks you. Okay, see the thing about
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gross balding guys from the eighties and nineties is that you're like, oh man,
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they're so gross. But those guys had to stay fucking ripped all the
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time because they had to be like in roles in a show. Yeah,
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totally totally. That's like our friend. But our friend the actor, he
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like fucking he has to see Jack dude because he's like, oh man,
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I'm going to be an actor. Dude. Yeah, totally wants to be
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an actor. Yeah, is with the same enthusiasm of a thirteen year old.
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Oh man, I want to be an actor. Dude, can you
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imagine me an actor actor? I mean, dude, yeah, who's vice
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president? Um? But yeah, So they take in this like sad,
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dumpy looking weirdo who's like supposedly the serial killer. But he's like but it's
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like it's he's like a smaller than fucking Bruce Willis literally like immediately like this
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guy didn't do it. Yeah, and the eye witches that they got some
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sketches dude that they never explained. He just threatens him with the gun.
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But he never explained that guy. They never explained that guy. A lot
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of weird setups in the movie that give it like they really fleshes it out,
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but it's also like so outrageously like like this kind of goofy. Yeah.
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I think actually Bruce looks the best in this movie. Oh dude,
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he looks great, looks he's very he's very normal guy. He's very normal
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guy. I love him. Normal Bruce. Bruce. Yeah, bighead pretty
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noticeable at this point, looked back, but there's different wigs, but he's
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got the like line balding where it's like the ZALISTI are balded almost completely.
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He had the fucking he rocked the Peninsula better than anyone. But then I
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realized through like in the middle of the movie, like I started seeing wigs
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in different places. I was kind of like for sure, and then I
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looked it up and sure enough, Like you know, how did you guess?
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This movie was was very um it lacked so much cohesion. Oh yeah,
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it makes absolutely no sense. They're in the courtroom and Tom Sizmore is
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there. Tom Sismore has great hair in this movie. Him being a fucking
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loser year old man, a loser is perfect for him. Him being a
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sketchy, gross guy in real life um is also part for the course.
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But he was amazing. Yeah he's like a rapist, Yes he is.
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Yeah, I had no idea. He's like it's a huge creep. But
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like it's crazy because this this section of the movie seems like it's like a
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pivotal sort of section of the movie. In a courthouse and all of a
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sudden, fucking cuts to the bridge where another brother, Tom Sizemore's brother to
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another the other cousin who's what's it called, the guy who's supposed to be
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on trial, is on a bridge. He wants to throw them aself off
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the same bridge that their mother killed them, which I really liked all the
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family drama stuff. I was like, oh, this is awesome. The
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family drama stuff was crazy. It was the most very very like compelling,
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weirdly like seeing people and like I feel like they established the like family relationship
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so well in such different pivotal moments in the movie, like when they have
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that um police ball, which they have so many balls in this but like
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when they have the police ball and like he Bruce Willis visits and everyone's so
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happy to see him because he comes from a cop family. Yeah, totally,
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that that like level of community shows just how deep his betrayal goes because
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which he's got is it's tied into his family with him and and Brian Brian,
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Brian being the sort of ringleader of that and being like representing the normal
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guy cop in the movie and how they see him or whatever. Um.
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But the problem with this type of movie is that it never really pays off
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on the stuff that it promises. Right, so like what well, like
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first of all, cohesion, but second of all, like doesn't promise cohesion.
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I don't know if it promises here man, You're right, it doesn't.
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But like with this kind of family dynamic and you need it, you
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really need like a good payoff because like these like I called it immediately immediately,
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I immediately called it to everyone laughing. So was like, just like
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so outrageous. Um, Tom Sizemore comes back after three years. Of course,
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also something that I really wanted to give props to the bruces in all
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of these movies. Is it the lead paired with him? Oh yeah,
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dude, Yeah, his his wet like sad eyes. He's such a good
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I was just doing I acting to Alex of Bruce of yeah, quiet.
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At least we had the video. Dude kind of like does almost like a
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like a hang donkey face. It's hard to describe the ridiculous, but his
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eyes get very wide and they get kind of like guy yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, like you when you open your eyes wide almost
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like would dude, that's such a weird face. Your well, that's why
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when you had your bells palsy and I noticed it for the first time and
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half of your face was hanging down, I was like, why is your
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eyes so open? And you're like what he started laughing, But when her
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face was moving, Yeah, it was amazing dude. But yeah, like
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what I appreciate about him is that he always has female leads that very much
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correspond to the level fee mae. Yeah that that that every time I hear
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the feet of the word female, I think of starch. She's a female
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of your species, a female. But yeah, like it's it's like one
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of those things where they like seem totally comparable with each other, like because
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they're not like he's not like a muscle bound dude. He's just like a
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regular guy. He doesn't the people who are women in his life don't seem
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like weirdly out of place. Well yeah, like except that they do describe
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them like as the type that Bruce Willis has is the type of eventually a
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woman that starts getting serial killed. So like it's direct. Yeah, yeah,
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so like Bruce Willis having the type of good buddy, blunt, good
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Bundy. But no, no, I just been like in his movies generally,
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like from from what we've seen, like they all look like people that,
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oh, yeah, Bruce Willis would totally be with this check you know
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what. Yeah, where it's like Schwartzy, Like I'm like, I guess
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Schwartzy would be with Melina, but instead he would be with the mom of
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Joseph totally. Do you know what, dude, me too. Yeah,
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absolutely, I wouldn't do that lady, Yeah for sure. And I would
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make a son that looks exactly like me. Yeah, but yeah, what's
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his name? This? Uh? This Eric Weinstein looking brother? Um?
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Who is are you imitating? Rider? But yeah, fucking Tom Sismore's brother?
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And Tom Sizemore is there, and Dennis Farina is there on the bridge
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at the same time. They all just no sense. They all just show
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up. It's funny you will just show up in this movie. Yeah,
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but it's cool. And then it's kind of dramatic in that way. It
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feels like kind of like a like a play, like a Greek tragedy.
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Yeah, totally, which was what was compelling about it. It did feel
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kind of like a Greek tragedy with a shoehorned love interest. The love interest
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was so weird. She was she was like she was brought like. I
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really like her um a lot in select moments which she was like, do
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you have to tell me something? And I was like In nineteen eighty seven
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in Northern irelandthroom, dude, did you join that that Facebook group. No,
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every day they just posted they'll do shit like oh man, congratulations to
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Joe Biden who won the president. See also I think something like that in
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Northern Irelands, Matthew Brougher read pimporarily on the wrong side of the road going
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into a head on collision with the mother and her daughter, killing them instantly
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yep, and then drove away too far. He's Matthew to protect. Yeah,
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that's true, And if it had happened now he probably would have done
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jail time totally. But because it happened in nineteen eighty seven, people were
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like, oh, I guess it was news. Yeah exactly, but yeah,
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Bruce, Bruce Willis and Tom Sizemore and Dennis Farina they all get into
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like an argument and like they're fighting each other, pushing each other off.
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Dennis Farina's like dramatic irony really does pay off. I like. I like
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he's Bruce Willis, his uncle and the dad of the brothers of Tom Sizemore
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and the other I love I love all of the relationships at his Polder face
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dude as alcoholic Polder. I love the portrayal of subtle alcoholic cops in this
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yeah, totally. And then Bruce will Is obviously looks uh you know,
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dramatically over the bridge and uh you know it cuts to two years later.
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It's nineteen ninety three. Uh, simon looking cat licks, Bruce Willis is
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licks food that the handler has put on the cat on the Bruce Wis Yeah,
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so that he licks his face um now in his true balding in this
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uh nineteen nineties hair like straw kind of like like yeah, push just floating
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a little bit on the top. It looks great. Totally. Um.
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And he goes to be a boat cop. Yeah, he becomes a boat
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cop and has a boat life. He lives on a boat and uh yeah
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he it's kind of like he's cocked and everybody that he works with is a
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fuck your loaser. This fucking redhead Danny mal Round in this movie. I
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hated that. Hated that guy too. So many Danny runs and he's so
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many to us the run m hmmm, weird. I don't know what that
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means. Mall roon And like, what's hilarious too if they give this like
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an inordinate amount of time where he's he's like he pulls out of twenty and
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he's like, I bet he doesn't show to hard, he doesn't go to
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his shift. Yeah, and then the guy who he bets immediately wins and
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he takes the money and he's he's Bruce Willis is like partner. And as
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he's like pulling off the boat to to like untied, he just drives away,
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like letting him fall into the water. Yeah, he like religence,
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drives away. Imagine he was too close to the dock, dude, and
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win and then just then just floats in the water and he's like, oh
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sorry, that's oh no, I guess I guess he lost a pen.
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About I guess you lost the bed. Oh it's got a fashion. I'm
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old, but it's okay. My family's very cute, especially especially during Christmas
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when we all were at the Saint Peech's. But they are very cute.
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He has the best, seemingly the best family relationship. He does. It's
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like the healthiest divorce. Doesn't cut his wife out of a movie fully just
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out of spite. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But then we
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see a young lady who is drowned and it turns out, oh are you
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fucking her? You know it was it's it's uh, he knows the lady
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and they were dating at some point. Bruce Willis. Yeah, Bruce Willis
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not not what are you fucking her? Um, it's like weird like callousness
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towards women in the callousness of hard callousness towards women in this uh, and
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also just a hard, like very realistic portrayal of what cops think of women.
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Probably, yeah, unless they are women, in which they in case
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they have like a extra chip on their shoulder because they have like a weird
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both internalized misogyny and their assholes. Yeah, well it seems yeah, I
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don't know, it seemed like Sarah Jessica Parker acted this really well. Yeah,
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yeah, she did really like I think nothing role she didn't really she's
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really good. She's really good, so like a present Yeah, yeah,
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Like it was really disappointing not to like like invite more of that character.
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But like it's really she could have been cut out, like that's how she
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used to be in the She was only interesting in the movie insofar as like
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she was she's like also they make it like she's the type of like woman
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that Bruce Willis goes for. Yeah, so they kind of like have reason
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to like put her life in danger exactly, which is like, yeah,
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it's a prop um speaking of props that I give to Tom Sizemore. In
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the scene, um, as he sneaks into the boathouse, classic cool guy
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nineties living on a boathouse. Yeah, um, Tom Sizemore now has a
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goatee indicating the time has passed. Of course, of course. Um.
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But him having like sort of this like chaos energy. But Willis or Thomas
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Eismore having chaos energy really works for the movie, and like he kind of
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has like kind of unhinged mel Gibson cop energy, which which he works like
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it feels like a type that we know, well he because he the movie
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has to offer a red herring because there's no other red herring in this movie.
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Otherwise it would be totally totally like, oh, we know exactly who
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the murderer is. It's Tom Sizemore. Of course, well yeah so so.
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Um. But this scene where they're they're sorry, go ahead, this
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scene where they're like meeting up for the first time in two years he's been
29:18
in California. He's like, yeah, is it it's warm? That's all
29:22
you have to say. I haven't seen you in two years and he's like,
29:27
yeah, that's pretty much it. Well, see you later. Du
29:30
Yeah, very weird interaction and like, um yeah, very much red Herring.
29:37
They're setting up the ultimate tries the tooth of the movie. But like
29:40
even like like moments like this where like Tom Sismore very actively like closes his
29:45
eyes and like embraces this cousin um and like that really makes the intimacy of
29:52
the family relationship. Ye also goes and like he hugs him first, and
29:59
it's like there is that that moment of like, yeah, you know,
30:02
like these guys like seem to really care and love each other. It's really
30:04
really nicely performed. And Bruce Willis has Oh man, you gotta see Bruce
30:10
Willis's face when when he when right before it cuts the eyes that he's making,
30:15
the sad eyes and the like yeah, the squinty dude. Another thing
30:19
we need to talk a lot more about when we talk about the clasping of
30:23
his head to his pained face. Bruce, pain face, Bruce, he
30:27
does the best pained faces. Oh dude, you know who does the second
30:30
best pain faces? Guess this is a shorts fandom. I think so I
30:37
think so, don't you think so? Remember in Kickboxer, Yeah, when
30:42
he's being splayed apart with the machine. Yeah, I mean he's the like
30:48
weird bondage machine that the Master has. Totally totally. Maybe you're right,
30:56
Maybe I gotta maybe I gotta chestnut. Um, maybe I got a chestnut
31:02
again. I gotta look again, because to me, Schwartzy has the has
31:07
the second most emotive like sort of like to me, it's like very memorable.
31:11
But I think as his face is very distinct, you know, Yeah,
31:15
Bandon looks much more like a like a regular person than Sar. I
31:18
mean, yeah, I don't know. Well, Schwartzy is a really good
31:21
pain face. They all have a good pain face. Brucellis's Bruis's face emotes
31:27
the most. I think so too. Yeah, for sure, he's pained
31:30
sad face because it's like also like you don't you see you see his face
31:36
and he's sometimes grief stricken. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Um. We're
31:41
introduced in the next scene to uh Sarah Jessica Parker and what does he say
31:48
to the to the police joke is this a joke? Yeah? And she's
31:52
like, no, it's not right. In front of her out loud loudly
31:57
yeah. And then she's like, what did he What did you say the
32:01
other day? What were you gonna say when we were going to JACUZI going
32:07
to jus um? But yeah, then he picks Then Bruce goes to the
32:13
back to the boat and he picks up the woman's suit the like burns burns
32:19
his suit to the like, what is that suit called? Oh the oh
32:23
the like a wet sweatsuit. Yeah, yeah, for for the for the
32:28
cop boat job. And the wet suit has boobies on it and he's like
32:32
like, oh, no boobies. He rolls his eyes at the boobies and
32:37
he lets go of the cooties ridden yeah, of course on the ground.
32:42
And then and then she is untying it and he tries to pull the same
32:45
like I'm gonna drive the boat away and break your neck on the but she
32:51
she's smart and he respects her, and she tries the tooth that holds the
32:55
rail and they show it. So they go off on a boat adventure,
33:00
and their first adventure is getting at some rowdy teens. Are you are you
33:09
got? Oh? Yeah? Um? He and then he's yeah, he
33:15
stops these rowdy teens and he's like, I'm not going to give you a
33:19
ticket for your negligence, and she's like, what the fuck, I'm only
33:22
a few years older than these Yeah, I prove myself to you. Give
33:25
me the bottle of jack that I'm gonna drink. Um, and then he
33:30
demonstratively pours it out to kill the fish. Um. But yeah, then
33:37
she is like dedicated to riding them a ticket. Um. But there's so
33:43
much gun play in this movie where it's like, man, is this happening
33:45
all the time in your city? They pass by immediately going another adventure where
33:51
they see a guy with a gun, like on a boat and he's like
33:53
suspiciously Eastern European looking, Yeah, dude, definitely like I was, Yeah,
34:02
for sure. He had a he had like a band easy tied around
34:06
his neck, which I thought was a nice touch, and he kind of
34:09
like sweatily and sketchly looked outside the cops and then Bruce was like, Okay,
34:16
we're gonna come back, and I'm gonna like you're gonna do like they
34:22
make like a plan was like fucking shooting people, Yeah, straight up shooting
34:27
shooting people. Yeah, try trying the tooth with the cocaine in his mouth.
34:32
It just like putting no reason, it's like cut up, left by
34:37
itself for some reason. Uh. And he just takes some and puts it
34:42
in his mouth to try the too. Yeah, of course. And then
34:44
he takes this like weener uh. Like man, some of these actors where
34:50
it's like where did you get this guy? Um? And like he like
34:54
points a gun at their faces and all of these guys were such Danny well
34:59
Rose. Dude, I hated these hated these guys. They're so funny.
35:05
Yeah. Um. But yeah, he smashes people's heads in and then like
35:12
bashes people's face in. Uh. And then he's like he looks at everybody
35:15
with the wide eyes, the crazy wide eye. These eyes. Dude,
35:21
he kind of looks like Joe there. He does look like a young Joe.
35:29
Um. He's got beautiful eyes though, green, nice green eyes.
35:31
Um. And he's like, I guess you got two options. You have
35:37
to put the guns down or we all start shooting, which is like,
35:39
whoa dude. He's very he's very dirty Harold in this yeah. Yeah,
35:45
and he immediately kills one of the guys, shoots another guy in the hand
35:49
with a shotgun um barely missing any of anybody, Like he's just like an
35:53
expert fucking shot. And then he kills this guy and it's like no paperwork
36:00
seemingly involved with this. Everybody's just like chill. And also the night time
36:06
happens so intensely fast, like they seem to come like it's day and then
36:10
it pull into somewhere and it's, oh, it's nighttime already, and it's
36:13
like what happened hours? I don't know, Yeah, it doesn't the time
36:17
doesn't make sense. And then we get in the next scene. Well he's
36:23
in this this final like before it cuts. The next scene, Bruce Willis
36:28
is like, yeah, she's really earned my respect in the like four hours
36:32
I've known her. Yeah, I mean, like it has the thing about
36:37
like earning respect. It's it's so weird, but like nineties movies, it's
36:42
it's funny because like he like he is sexist towards her, like he's like,
36:46
yeah, he's like you can't do this job, like you how long
36:50
have you been doing this? Anyway? And year two? Yeah, it's
36:52
like oh dude, Like okay, like doesn't make you better, like you
36:57
should want to help this person, like why would you have this like weird
37:00
attitude. But but like but he's like pretty misinthropic anyway, like he hates
37:06
everybody. Yeah, Like yeah, it does seem like weirdly targeted where it's
37:10
like, kay, dude, the nurse who we also find out that he
37:15
dated is like leaving her job and she's like, oh, this is like
37:22
fine, everything is okay. She was dating nurses or multiple nurses. No,
37:29
he dated like a flight attendant. The nurse. Okay, it's like
37:32
service kind. It's something where like it's they work with the public. There's
37:37
a nobility to it. Yeah, for sure. Uh. And then she
37:40
gets tased and gets taken away, and then he gets a call in the
37:45
night and then there's heavy breathing. Uh, and he's like who's this?
37:52
But he we didn't add that. He keeps like he has a hunch that
37:57
this like there's it's like, um, a taser is being a cop grade
38:02
tasers being used and cop guns are being used. He's also pointed out the
38:07
fact that like he drives like a cop. Uh. The everybody seems like
38:14
they're like covering for something. This is a fucking spectacular shot, dude.
38:20
He looks really good. And this movie is not keen. No, but
38:23
we'll talk about it. Um. But that's the I think that's the best
38:27
shot in the movie where it's like very nineties nineties leather jacket, high waisted
38:32
jeans, white shirt, slicked back, cool balding, like he looks for
38:37
some gun in the It is like peak Bruce. And he wrote this look
38:44
for a while. He wrote this look and wrote part of this movie,
38:46
which is why it makes no sense. Um. But well, anyway,
38:52
you know I write, anyway, you know I write, which is something
38:55
you don't think. Bruce doesn't. Um, well, he does poorly.
39:01
So he goes through the files. You just put it in the right file,
39:07
puts it in, uh, and he pulls out the other Danny Malroun
39:12
that he's like, this isn't the guy who murdered these people, And he
39:15
tries to take the files. Yeah, but he just always so happens that
39:22
all of his friends are Brian. He stole this from this file because he
39:29
left the file cabinet and what's his name? Dennis Farina comes out and he's
39:35
like, what are you doing? And he's like with this, with this,
39:39
yeah, with that, and he's like we both know he didn't do
39:43
this. It's nothing. Nothing, Yeah, totally it is. It's nothing.
39:50
He goes on to have like one more adventure with Sarah Jessica Parker and
39:54
they kind of build a relationship. But then he goes after work, he
39:58
goes to a bar uh to seek out the long haired Danny Malroom that he
40:02
he was the like witness who pegged on this guy. Uh, And he
40:07
goes and runs and chases him down and pulls a gun on him and just
40:12
starts to beat him up. But then Sarah Justica Parker um shows up.
40:16
I was like, hey, I've got a gun on you. Don't put
40:20
a gun on him. I'm your moral compass. And then they let him
40:23
get away and he runs away. Um. And then some like uh young
40:30
teens find floating dead body, which is a very that would be a very
40:36
traumatic that the part where he's got the conscious cop part. And he's like,
40:40
and if the kids are starting to have any neighbors call this number,
40:45
I actually really liken to me, that's way more of like, oh,
40:52
this character of Bruce is doing something nice for this lady. If this was
40:58
real, it'd be nice for sure. Yeah, probably doesn't happen too often.
41:02
Who knows. I mean, I don't know who knows. But like,
41:07
but then Tom Sizemore again shows up here for no reason. All of
41:12
Bruce's friends also show up here. It's all a lot of like chaos somehow
41:21
for Bruce. And then people come. It's quiet. A bunch of his
41:24
friends who hate him show up and they're like, you're a bad cob,
41:28
You're a snitch, you're a rat. And then they show the body and
41:30
it's like, so you're a fuckinger, weren't you? And it's like,
41:36
you know, it's always like why don't I take your ass down town?
41:39
Even though I know what your alibi is, you know what I mean?
41:43
Which I liked. That's what I did like about this movie is that Bruce
41:45
was never a suspect. Yeah. It's like a weird yeah. Yeah,
41:51
Like it's interesting because it feels like, um, what's the mustache? Dad
41:59
is like, um Tasperina? Yeah, is like holding out um for for
42:06
his son the entire time. Oh yeah, one hundred percent. And like
42:09
the interesting thing about Tom Sizemore being there constantly is that that still provides the
42:15
red herring. But he's such a compelling actor. Yeah, where where he'll
42:20
do things like in this scene, he a guy comes up to him.
42:23
He's like, oh hey, Tom Sizemore, you coming back to the force,
42:28
And he's like he shakes his hand and he's like, nah, no,
42:30
I'm not coming back, but holds it as he's walking away until the
42:36
cop pulls it away from him and he stopped looking at him. It's like
42:39
such a bizarre It's such a great choice because it shows like how much of
42:45
like a weird, unhinged person he is. Um but yeah, and then
42:51
he comes up to Bruce acting like it's so casual and he's like, what
42:53
what, pap, I'm going up to fucking get food with my cousin.
42:58
You know. It's very cheeky energy. Oh dude, come on pay.
43:05
Yeah it was. There was a lot of paw energy in this. I'm
43:07
not gonna lie dude. Hating not seed an episode for a while, kind
43:10
of excited for season two. Me too. I like that show. I
43:14
mean I like that show too. It's still seven seven point whatever three.
43:19
Yeah, yeah, it's still. But I'm like, I'm excited to see
43:22
you more. Yeah me too. Yeah, not gonna be in it's the
43:28
loan that would be amazing if it just like they just dropped and it's like
43:34
a totally different they could they set the other characters up enough enough. Yeah,
43:38
Dwight definitely held it down, but I would be curious to see,
43:42
well, I would be by curious, which is something you don't Yeah.
43:45
Yeah, um, but yeah, Dennis Farina and him have it out,
43:50
uh, and it's like really contentious because he's like, we both know this
43:54
is a cop and I don't know why, but like, you seem like
43:59
you're not taking this seriously in the way that it should. In the next
44:04
scene, Andre Brower, young, thin, almost unrecognizable Andre Brower shows up
44:09
and talks to um Sarah Jessica Parker, and it turns out that Sarah Jessica
44:15
Parker is informing on Bruce Willis and has been paired with him purposely to track
44:24
his movements. Yeah, and so like there's a kind of like another sort
44:30
of deception moment here. But he doesn't really ever seem to take it too
44:36
personally. No, he's like kind of okay with it well because he's like
44:40
he kind of covers she covers for him. Yeah, and she sees a
44:45
tape of him walking into the court going to this is the moment where she
44:52
kind of I think, pivots from wanting to testify against him because she realizes
44:58
that he like is like pretty convinced that the killer is a cop and that
45:04
the crime was never solved, but also that all the cops in the video
45:08
that that she's watching with Andre Brauer are like turned on him. He's like
45:14
the only person being like, this is a cop. This shouldn't be like
45:17
just because he's a cop doesn't mean he should get away with whatever, right
45:22
because they have that code or whatever. It's a kind of a classic no
45:27
One is Above the Law movie. Totally, totally. Um, Bruce is
45:35
talking. We see a scar in this scene, his giant scar. It's
45:38
kind of sexy. It's awesome. Um. And he's like drinking, doing
45:45
the booze thing, and he's like looking at his maps where all the people
45:49
have been dumped by the way, thirsty for more. I mean, how
45:52
did you guess the movie used to be called Three Rivers? I noticed that,
45:55
Yeah, and then there's the boat is called Three Rivers. Did you
46:00
also read the how did you guess that the police badges that they got the
46:04
mold from was the same police badge and they had all the cops at the
46:07
same police badge number because they couldn't go that's a real police badge. They
46:13
were all molds from from the same badge that the cops like um, from
46:17
the Pittsburgh Police Department or whatever, had to like take the badges after to
46:22
destroy them themselves. Uh, they go. They end up going to a
46:29
the actual police ball where Tom Sizemore is like, oh my God, like,
46:35
let me talk to everybody before they don't know you're coming, um and
46:38
the police, all the cops are all looking at him very sustly, and
46:44
the only person seemingly dressed out of uniform in a sexy outfit is Sarah Jessica
46:49
Parker. Russ is wearing kind of like a well he's not a cop anymore
46:53
though, right, Yeah, well well he's not even to wearing a short
46:58
stoto yeah totally. And then and then he gets up to his other cousin,
47:04
who looks exactly like a dude who would be a cousin of a person
47:07
with a different line of whole person, but the dads would look alike.
47:13
The dads would look alike but different enough where the sun looks like the dad
47:16
but not like the other brothers. That's what I really liked. And the
47:22
uncle that he hugs at the beginning. I forget that dude's name. He's
47:25
like a famous actor. Yeah, yeah, all of this stuff was really
47:31
cool. I think this scene actually does a lot of like really cool building
47:36
and kind of like the drama and the chaos that happens during the scene where
47:38
Tom Sizmore is a like goes a little nuts and like makes a scene.
47:46
Right, Yeah, Tom Atkins, that's the guy, and he was in
47:51
like a bunch of horror movies from the eighties too. But yeah, Tom
47:54
Sizmore gets super drunk uh and is like super belligerent and starts like punching people,
48:02
uh and disappointing his dad's and uncles. Um and and then Bruce Willis
48:07
joins in and he starts punching people. Um and and he gets into a
48:12
fight for with Brian. Dude, Brian hates him, yeah so much,
48:16
so much. But then we get the sexy Bruce Willis wearing Billowy outfits.
48:24
Dude, I loved every Billowy outfit he wore in this movie. And Billowy
48:30
khakis. Yeah, and then um with the tuctin shirt when what's her name
48:37
Sarah Jessica Parker. She sees him starting to drink and he's like, do
48:40
you want to drink? And he starts aggressively pouring shit and then she takes
48:45
the alcohol and pours it down the I gagglegit got mad during that part.
48:47
I'm like, don't do that to someone. Don't do that to someone.
48:52
They need their their booze. I mean, like, you know, he's
48:55
just like and then he's like shaking because he has he got his booze.
49:00
He's like holding the door. He's like, get out of here, and
49:01
she's like, I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna have sex with you.
49:05
I'm not stable man. It seems like a wild choice of like, girl,
49:09
like, this is not a good decision. Us hot though, yeah
49:15
they're both hot. I mean yeah, I would have made probably the same
49:17
decision, but i mean, yeah, of course. And Simon is there
49:21
watching them do each other, um, and then it cuts to them I'm
49:24
back on the boat and he's like, oh, yeah, she's got a
49:29
good body. She's just Simon the guy who got the cat, You're colleague.
49:31
Simon's day was Bob. The cat in the movie also played bits at
49:36
the end, he plays himself, plays himself. Yeah, you did a
49:38
good job in this. Cat Acting is not easy. Cat acting is very
49:42
difficult. Yeah, but like yeah, they go, they're on the boat
49:46
and it's like nighttime again, it's just all day night and then they see
49:51
like some suspicious car dropping a carpet and and they chase it down. And
49:58
I hated this scene. I really hate. I mean it was pretty insane,
50:01
Like what who was that? Was that tom size word? Did they
50:05
ever explain who was? So? So what happens is because if it's not
50:10
if it's not like, if it's not one of his cousins or whatever,
50:15
it would be an insane thing. Should do he like somebody's either playing a
50:19
trick on Bruce where they throw out a carpet body carpet looking thing into the
50:23
water. And then Bruce because he's like, they'd know my root, they'd
50:28
know my root, Like it seems like a weird what like it seems like
50:31
a Bruce writing moment. It is a Bruce writing moment. And then um
50:36
and here on the radio Kim Lee of course, Kim Lee without you,
50:42
Ken, Kenny Lee, without you you Yeah, Ki Lee without to um
51:00
And He's like firing a gun at the car and then fires flares were into
51:07
the car so that it flips over and explode explode, but more looking guys
51:14
caves from the car and the car explodes like straight up. And then the
51:20
guys unroll the carpet and it's just a carpet and it's that douche who Bruce
51:25
willis like forced off the thing off the boat who used to be as partner,
51:30
the red hair guy. Yeah, and Dennis Farina's like, I'm taking
51:36
you off this case or whatever. I don't want you to be around this
51:38
or whatever. And then this is where I started noticing the wig like wear
51:43
and the like they're in bed Sarah Parson and Parker also wearing a wig.
51:47
I noticed her wig too. I was like, whoa why in this scene
51:51
because it seems like it was her hair and other scenes. Yeah, because
51:53
it's of the reshoots. They reshot the movie to make more sense. Oh
51:58
no, right, no embarrassing, and this this is all like he knows
52:02
my route. Yeah, and that's that's basically it and very weak. That
52:09
was like very like come on, and then like she in the next day
52:15
she sees that um oh, like all the women are are connected to him,
52:22
and this woman from years ago was connected to him. Teams, he
52:25
makes the observation, He's like, they're all connected to me. Someone's trying
52:30
to frame me. Yeah, And I'm like it's weird because it seems like
52:34
a lot of the like storytelling is kind of happens in these like muttered bits
52:37
of dialogue where it's like, so this thing's happening. I'm like what,
52:44
Yeah, exactly what? And then there's like a trial that's vaguely also set
52:50
up for Bruce Willis to keep his job um, which again these are all
52:54
like like we were tracking for three weeks, yeah, what the the and
52:59
and the reason been tracking is because of her right and Audrey Brower is like
53:02
so surprised that she's like changed her testimony about him, and it's like this
53:07
is a swing up hobslide life on Sesame Street. He was so good.
53:14
Yeah. Is he gay? He plays I think he plays a gay guy
53:20
in the new show The Brooklyn Nine. Maybe that's why I don't think he
53:23
is. He's personally gay, but yeah I don't. Yeah, it would
53:27
be kind of amazing, but it would be amazing. Yeah I didn't.
53:30
I was like, yeah, Anyway. I don't know why I thought that,
53:32
but I guess, but he was. He was so good in his
53:37
voice, a voice He's really good in this movie and has nothing to do,
53:44
like he literally also the kind of like, you know what this movie,
53:47
you're reminded we have like a bad version of Copland. Yeah, it
53:52
is a bad version of Copland. There's just too many loose threads. It's
53:55
too many loose meat sandwiches in this um but yeah, but but the loose
54:04
meat sandwich threads in um Copland were pretty good. I mean the looseness of
54:12
don't you even feel like threads? They feel like, yeah, this story
54:15
is justifiably over. I don't need to see this story anymore. Um,
54:21
this character arc is done. You know. It's like that that sort of
54:24
vibe for me, Whereas this like feels like there were huge, massive swaths
54:30
of plot cut out and then refilmed to like make something makes sense. But
54:35
other things are like wait, what where? When is this supposed to happen?
54:38
When was this supposed to be? Also, why are these people being
54:40
reprimanded for doing such dangerous things? Like this dude's like fully killed like two
54:45
people, all three people he kills recently. Yeah, Like it's like,
54:51
is this person not gonna be like, well, we know that never happens.
54:59
Well they have a lot, yeah dude. Um, So Bruce Willis
55:05
comes home and also Sarah Jessica Parker comes home. When Sarah Jessica Parker comes
55:09
home, she gets tazed and taken away. Um. And Bruce Willis has
55:15
a bunch of different maps that he's printed off. I guess it. Kink
55:20
goes and uses his compass to like track something. I don't I don't think
55:27
this is how compasses work. Um, but maybe um. But yeah,
55:32
he realizes that h on the way to where the next body is going to
55:40
show up, is like, it doesn't make sense because there's only cabins.
55:46
And then he looks up at a picture of him with his two young cousins
55:52
and the cabin that was in there was outrageous. Yeah. Yeah, and
56:00
then he goes to the cabin. No no, no, the cat comes
56:02
in with with pop bloodied pop prints. Yeah, and he's like, oh
56:09
no, so Jessica Parker. Um, but it's actually kin can literally um.
56:20
And it's that was also like, bro, did you just like right
56:22
in this fucking him? Kimberly was the lady who fucking talks to Bruce on
56:28
the radio like throughout the movie, like wow, like they literally just took
56:32
her to murder her. And it's like, wait, what it makes they
56:37
want they want to make it that it's women who are in Bruce Willis Life
56:40
without actually including Eddie women exactly. It's just it's so and it's funny because
56:46
we're women in this movie, only cousins exactly. Um. And and but
56:52
his reaction, man, it's so good. It's like dead game. It's
57:05
like he's so sad, Like look at his face, like he's so he's
57:13
so sad about it. He's grief street. Yeah. And then he like
57:17
gets on his boat, like he hears the cops coming, uh, and
57:22
he like drives off to like get to the boat, and he automatically assumes
57:28
the thing that we all assume, which is, oh no, it's it
57:30
must be Tom Sizemore just kidding. It's actually the dead cousin from two years
57:36
ago. Um. And he's driving the cop car and he hits Bruce away.
57:40
Oh yeah, the driving the little the little toy cop car. Ya
57:45
do we set that up. It's so it's such a funny thing. It
57:51
like the I don't know, it just feels the turns of this movie are
57:57
so weirdly like obvious but oh yeah yeah Danny Blue ready Harry Gobvious. Yeah,
58:02
totally. Um. And it's interesting the fact that, like the two
58:08
brothers, how psychotic one of the brothers is and how much less psychotic the
58:14
other. One of the things that they set up that the brother who who
58:16
who like we think has killed himself does is he keeps saying I'm the best
58:23
cups, the best and the best cousin. Yeah, he's the best cousin.
58:30
He's definitely the melo show the group. Yeah, totally. Jimmy is
58:32
his name, and he like also is like hugging them a lot and hugging
58:37
and petting and like it seeing the gun. There's the carying alcohol in Bruce's
58:43
mouth. It's it's kind of sad in this part because there seems to be
58:46
like a real scary sort of like it's like it's it's extra scary because they
58:52
love each other, how kind of like unhinged he's being in violent because it's
58:57
like, whoa dude like you guys are he was to What's also um funny
59:06
about this part of the movie is that, like everybody else seems Tom Sizemore,
59:10
Bruce Willis, and Sarah Jessica Parker are playing it totally fucking straight.
59:15
They are terrified. Yeah, and that kind of quiet is just like where
59:22
it's just like, Jesus, dude, this is not the like, yes,
59:29
I'm murdering people. He's like, he's like when Brent Spiner in Starting
59:34
Next Generation got to play anything but data, Yeah, and him like kissing
59:38
Jessica shared just Camparger. It's just like though he thinks that acting is talking
59:43
in this voice. Yeah, it totally acting is talking in this voice.
59:46
Um. But yeah. He also there's other people who think acting is like
59:51
that too too. I mean there are some of them are in this room.
59:53
But the thing is is the amount of times what feels weird about this
1:00:00
scene is the amount of times he's pulling his gun out, putting his gun
1:00:04
back, pulling it out again, putting it to someone's head, taking it
1:00:07
away from somebody's head, hugging them, putting it to somebody else's head.
1:00:12
There's a lot of like like and it feels like I don't just let's block
1:00:17
it however you feel and it's like, Okay, let's cut that, Let's
1:00:21
cut around this, cut around that. Like the filmmaking isn't bad, it's
1:00:24
just like all over the place. It feels outrageous, it feels over the
1:00:30
top. And then Dennis Farina is in there and he points the gun at
1:00:34
him, at his son and his son, and then he's like, are
1:00:37
you going to tell him? Dad? And everybody's like crying, being like,
1:00:40
oh my god, my brother, my uncle, my brother, my
1:00:44
uncle. It's very there's a very palpable tragedy to it because because of the
1:00:49
family relation that I do think they they built up well pulled it off,
1:00:52
so like it's with that, with that, which is that's why I think
1:00:57
this movie is like, weirdly, it's weirdly a red heat for me because
1:01:00
there's a kind of like, um, there's an element to it of enjoyability
1:01:07
and kind of like connection that I could have to the movie that I was
1:01:10
like that. I was like, man, this movie he's like good despite
1:01:15
being not very good. It's yeah, despite it's like very glaring and obvious
1:01:20
flaws. Um, we get slow Zoo slow Dolly into Bruce realizing cuts back
1:01:28
to oh my god, like who's in the car that pushed our car off
1:01:30
and um, you know then flashback of what actually happened, yeah, which
1:01:36
is Dennis Farina, John Mahoney because he found out that his son was gonna
1:01:44
get killed, he bought a Jack Russell Terrier because he watched Brazier. He
1:01:47
thought they were way more um and that him being like, I'm your son,
1:01:53
I'm your son. It's like I felt it. I felt it was
1:01:57
real. Uh. John Maloney, um, crawling out of the car and
1:02:01
what's crazy about the running away like the wiener like running away that the guy
1:02:06
did. And I was like, oh, amaze, like um, and
1:02:08
John is just like shooting after him. Yeah, totally. Um. And
1:02:13
John Maloney kind of shoots himself really because he's like he pushes the gun away
1:02:17
from him and shoots himself. Yeah. Um and sad. It's sad because
1:02:23
he's kind of frail. That guy was always frail. Martin Marty Frasier Crane,
1:02:28
Yeah, totally Martyr who also played a cop. And I was like,
1:02:34
I was like, this guy was playing I'm pretty sure, Um,
1:02:37
actually Dad, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure he's dad. He's gay
1:02:40
Dad Dan. Yeah, he's getting real life. He's dad. Dad Frazer,
1:02:54
but dars Frina shoots Um Jimmy and he's like, I have a bullet
1:03:01
professed oh man. Reveal also looks buy Yeah, so I was like,
1:03:07
you're definitely wearing a bullet. I'm sorry, great flick great great flilick.
1:03:14
Um God, I'm wearing you let breastplate Oh dude, so many led breastplates
1:03:19
to yeah. Uh. And then Tom, I'm moving this car with the
1:03:23
power of my mind. Um. You'll get that reference if you subscribe,
1:03:30
subscribe to subscribe on patron become a patron um. But yeah, Bruce Willis
1:03:37
runs out, jumps out the window with handcuffs on. Um. Tom Sizemore.
1:03:42
Yeah. Tom Sizemore is like, uh, runs at his brother,
1:03:46
knocking him over. And then the cops show up and what's his name,
1:03:52
M Bruce Willis uh steals another cop boat uh, and they chase each other
1:03:58
on like a cop chase and they almost crash into the bridge again. Yeah.
1:04:03
And then I think the Jimmy hits something as they go off the like
1:04:13
little ramp thing and his boat starts leaking. Oh yeah, yeah, and
1:04:18
he kind of starts to try to and then they get to a train and
1:04:25
he almost crushes Bruce Willis his head under a train and they like fight each
1:04:30
other on the train tracks a little bit, and then they fall into the
1:04:32
water and he drowns his cousin. Yeah, and then cousin comes back and
1:04:41
then he electricus and then he's like, I'm the best cop. Bruce will
1:04:47
be the best cop. Yeah. Yeah, and he kind of ends with
1:04:53
him. Oh we didn't say that. Searchis Parker has a child from another
1:04:57
relationships in Yeah. Oh yeah. She's like, oh, that's the part
1:05:01
where he's like, uh, to tell you something, what are you man?
1:05:06
No? In nineteen eighty seven. But then he earns Brian's respect and
1:05:19
he's like, you could punch me if you want, I'll unlock your your
1:05:25
chains and that's my sign of respect to you, and then he punches him.
1:05:29
Anyway, Brian is like being such a nice guy. He like looks
1:05:34
kind of like a penis towards him. Yeah, totally um. And also
1:05:39
we didn't set up that that. Um. Frasier Crane's dad, Marty Crane,
1:05:45
tells his son Frasier that he wants a son from another relationship, and
1:05:48
then at the end of the movie he wants grandkids. Yeah. You have
1:05:50
like like grand grandkids dead dead. I'm probably not going to be with this
1:05:56
woman forever because I'm an unstable person. I have PTSD that's not solvable,
1:06:01
and I'm too much of a man to go to therapy. Um, she's
1:06:06
probably really toxic in some ways as well, given that she's sleeping with her
1:06:10
partner. I mean, all a bunch of rules you would probably not like.
1:06:13
But goodbye, Dad, that's the end of the movie. I'm Christian
1:06:20
in this too Catholic? Is he is? He? Yeah? Always like
1:06:25
he's an average Joe dude. He's got Harry Legs, not the stand and
1:06:30
to get hot, I got I got Harry Legs. I got Harry Legs.
1:06:32
He's Tom Hardy, dude. So how many how many Tom Hardies would
1:06:38
you give this? How many Tom Hardy's like out of the movie. I
1:06:42
would I'll give it um like six point five Tom Hardy's out of Bruce Willis
1:06:48
as though, I gotta say, like I really enjoyed his give you like
1:06:53
an eight point five eight point seven. I think he really makes the movie.
1:06:58
Yeah, it's like it's like with anybody else, it feels like it
1:07:01
would be unwatchable. Dude. It was like, actually surprise. I was
1:07:05
surprised at how enjoyable and watchable yea, and in no small part due to
1:07:12
his charm. Yeah, he does a lot of heavy lifting. Everybody else
1:07:15
is really good in it, or like really really good in it. As
1:07:18
a movie itself, though it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. Yeah,
1:07:23
I would say, like my enjoyability factor of it was like a seven,
1:07:27
but like the in actuality, I think it's like a five. Yeah,
1:07:30
it's like a it's like a pretty like I'm even I'm giving it like a
1:07:33
six six three. Maybe it's bad. It's a bad movie, but that's
1:07:40
like at the high end. At the low end of probably be a four
1:07:43
because it's like it makes no sense, doesn't make any sense. Um,
1:07:46
like the pacing, pacing, but like the it's like also chunky, like
1:07:51
it is sunk like like the movements of the pace feel like, oh this
1:07:56
is happening. Okay, well okay, I was gonna say like a thirsty
1:08:00
or more. Um. When I was a kid, Katherine and I we
1:08:03
would always watch movies together, right, and we would we made this observation
1:08:09
of something called the quality, and we would be like we started noticing that
1:08:14
movies have the quality. Yeah, and like and we were like what we
1:08:17
was so intangible to us, and today I think I figured it out.
1:08:20
So what I think the quality is is when you watch a movie that has
1:08:27
poor editing um and and poor editing choices in storytelling and then um like disproportionate
1:08:36
like um importance given to certain things that makes it feel surreal. That's what
1:08:43
we call the quality because it's like it's like it looks like a movie.
1:08:46
It feels like things that happened in a movie are happening, but it's so
1:08:51
nonsensical and like outrageous the way it's cut that it like takes on the quality
1:08:58
sometimes. What's interesting, there's a I think his name is Andrew Sullivan.
1:09:02
He's a film theorist and critic. He pointed out something really interesting about UM.
1:09:09
I think I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but the like it's
1:09:12
so bad it's good not existing that like if a movie can cohesively and coherently
1:09:17
pull you into its world, um, it doesn't. Yeah, it's succeeding
1:09:24
and it doesn't matter like what intention is and and that's true and thinking about
1:09:28
it from that perspective where it's like there's something that bothers you about the movie,
1:09:31
but it conceptually feels still like a movie that that can sometimes work in
1:09:38
the benefit of a movie where it's like, man, this like weird jenky
1:09:43
storytelling kind of goes with the weird janky dialogue and the weird shanky acting,
1:09:47
whereas when when it it's it's a movie like this where it's just like you
1:09:51
feel like there's missing pieces despite all the pieces being there. That's that's like
1:09:57
the thing that I think you're you're pointing to, which is like a very
1:10:00
odd space to be in. It's almost like a liminal space movie where it's
1:10:04
like it's not the most famous Bruce Willis movie. It's a bunch of famous
1:10:10
actors kind of doing their best with the material. Yeah, it's the kind
1:10:15
of movie that you would find, you know, in Blockbuster where they're like
1:10:18
trying to upsell. They like put it beside Armageddon to be like, look,
1:10:23
this is also a Bruce will totally and you're like, why I haven't
1:10:26
Tom seismo um and just like a partner in a movie with Bruce Willis.
1:10:32
Yeah, what a choice? Good choice though, good choice. Yeah.
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