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Road House 1989 and Road House: The Last Call · Citizen Frame

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Music.
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All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your
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opponent. Expect the unexpected.
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Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary.
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And three, be nice. Ask him to walk, but be nice.
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If he won't walk, walk him, but be nice.
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If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you. I want you to be nice
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Until it's time To not be nice Well, uh, how are we supposed to know when that is?
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You won't I'll let you know You are the bouncers, I am the cooler All you have
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to do is watch my back And each other's Take out the trash,
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Hey everybody, we're back here With another mini retrospective Here at Citizen Frame.
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You asked for it We're gonna give it to you That sounds like a threat That's
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right This is the greatest trilogy
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of all time Some of you might think The original Star Wars trilogy No,
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not even close The Godfather trilogy,
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Nope Has nothing on these bad boys Because we're here to talk The Roadhouse
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trilogy Now some of you are like,
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wait a minute There's only one Roadhouse And then there's that requel kind of
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thing That came out on Amazon A couple months back You would be wrong Because
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during all this research We found Roadhouse 2 The Last Call Oh,
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yep There was a sequel,
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people And because you're such a wonderful listening audience This particular
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podcast We're going to be talking Roadhouse And, of course Yes.
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Roadhouse 2, The Last Kong. Yep. We dot all our I's and cross all our T's.
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You know what I mean? So this, yeah, so this will be a retrospective for the
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original two, and then the requo will get its own next week.
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But I would say as well that the Roadhouse trilogy, even though I haven't even
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seen the third one, you know, this new one yet, but I will do for this next
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podcast, I would say that they are,
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based on the first two, still better than the Disney Star Wars trilogy. So there you go.
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That's kind of pushing it Nope At least
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they're more authentic There's competency behind
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the Star Wars ones I mean come on The Disney ones Yeah I mean you still have
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Harrison Ford in there And there's some of the original cast And Force Awakens
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gets a pass alone Yeah but they sabotage them And also Force Awakens is just a remake Yeah but to say,
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Roadhouse 2 Last Call Is better than those come on,
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Don't you think I mean you're being a little silly,
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Depends what way you look at it But yeah Alright we're going to talk about Roadhouse
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here Directed by Rowdy Harrington What a great name for a guy who directed Roadhouse,
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Rowdy Yeah that's the perfect name for someone That would perhaps frequent A
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sort of stereotypical Sort of redneck bar Where all people do is fight instead of drink And talk,
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What the fuck is frequent?
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Frequent. Oh, I thought you said frequent. I was like, what the fuck? No, frequent. Okay.
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All right. Rodney Harrington, he's done some good stuff. He did Striking Distance,
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which I like, with Bruce Willis.
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And he directed Jack's Back, which is a nice little Jack the Ripper film with
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James Spader back in the late 80s. It was pretty good.
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I think I remember that, yeah. Yeah, so he's done some good stuff.
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Yeah, I remember seeing this in the theater, and it wasn't a big hit.
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I mean, it made some money, but not the big hit you think it would be.
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It's more of a cult hit, believe it or not, and it was the soundtrack that got more press.
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Over here, it really sort of became popular whenever it was first released on video.
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Like a lot of films back then, I remember everyone,
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you know, all the kids I sort of knocked about with thought it was great,
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and it was, when I first watched this, I remember having a mate and I'm not
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going to mention him, I'm not going to mention his name,
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but he thought this was so fucking good it made him want to be,
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he sort of aspired to be a bouncer.
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And seeing that there, I wanted to be a boxer after watching Rocky IV but so...
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They're not bouncers, man, they're coolers.
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Dalton's a cooler. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so the Jeff Healy band And was made,
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was famous in this. They're the ones who obviously started it with him.
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Jeff, Jeff Healy plays Cody. Now sad story about Jeff Healy died very young at 41.
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Yeah. Cancer, lung cancer. Yeah. But at eight months old as a child,
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they had to remove his eyes because he had cancer.
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In the eyes or something like that. I can't remember what it was,
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but so they gave him glass eyes. Learned how to play the guitar when he was three.
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Yeah. I mean, what an oppressive accomplishment for going through such crap.
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And sadly, it's still taken early at 41. But the Jeff Healy band's music in
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this is wonderful. Just absolutely wonderful.
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And give them a massive shout out.
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This movie is considered, it is actually listed, the most enjoyable bad movie ever made. Right?
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Yes. And let's just dive into this film.
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I remember loving it when I was younger. Now I'm watching it for the podcast eyes.
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It really doesn't hold up. It's a massive slice of 80s cheese.
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Like, you know, this is like quintessential 80s cheese.
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Yeah, I know we use that word a lot. They, you know, cheese,
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but some of it doesn't work.
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Yeah. It doesn't carry over well, but you like, I still like Cobra,
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even though it's bad 80s cheese, you don't like that 80s cheese,
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but you might like this. I guess it's all to each their own really.
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Thank you. Okay. I mean, Cobra is, I mean,
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I mean, it's... No, you hate it. Come on. Yeah.
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But regarding 80s cheese, the real 80s cheese that I would love would be Tango and Cash.
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You know, stuff like that. Yeah. All right, so this one we got Patrick Swayze
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as Dalton, Kelly Lynch as the really believable Dr. Clay.
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See, whenever she's first introduced, it's as if she's walked off a fucking porn set.
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You know what I mean? Yeah, she actually was very good in an independent film
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by Gus, I think it was Gus Van Sant, who with Matt Dillon called Drugstar Cowboy.
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Yes, yes. That's where she kind of got discovered.
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She's very good. And she's not a bad actress. In this one, she's terrible.
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Yeah, she's basically Dr. Pornstar.
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The actor that pretty much saves any hope for the film would be Sam Elliott, the man who never ages.
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He's looked like. He pretty much
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plays. Sam Elliott has looked like 80 Sam Elliott since, well, the 80s.
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Yeah He pretty much played a lot The problem I have with Sam Elliott Obviously
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not from personal But he seemed to play the same types of characters Yeah,
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Sam Elliott I mean, I suppose that's his niche That's his thing That's fucking
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sad Don't diss Sam Elliott,
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Ben Gazzara as Brad Weasley Marshall Teague as Jimmy Kevin Teague Marshall Teague,
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yeah Kevin Teague as Frank And then Jeff Healy, Red, Emmett, Pat,
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Carrie, Jack and Steve Yeah So there we go So, yeah,
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you know, we talk about really good writing.
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This doesn't have it. So I almost think these next two films we're about to
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talk about just wrote themselves as they went.
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Right? I mean, there's nothing here, really.
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I mean, the story is a man with a background is hired to help clean up an establishment at a small town.
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He wants to remodel it and clean it up and give it his name.
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So you hire this guy called, he's a cooler, and he goes in and he cleans up
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the bouncers, cleans up the ruckus and whatever.
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So all he does is, he's like Jack Reacher. He goes town to town.
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Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction. He's what? Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction. I solve problems.
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Oh, he's not the cleaner. No, I'm joking.
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In a way, he is, though. No, well, complete opposite. He's not cleaning up a crime scene.
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Well, maybe he is. Well, he is in a way. He's preventing crime.
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Yes, yeah, yeah. Like Cooper. Oh, Jesus.
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You're the Jesus. I'm like, you.
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Exactly, yeah. So I love when Frank gets stabbed.
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Yeah. And the guy goes, I can take you. I mean, nobody would behave like this. I mean.
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My thoughts exactly. nobody's gonna fight patrick
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swayze first of all right no no one
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person in this film behaves like actual
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human beings behave in real life also i have a major problem with the sort of
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bar itself i mean this bar this isn't a fucking bar this is a lunatic asylum
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but you can get rough bar i drank in rough bars i've you know went to rough
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bars you know the roughest of the rough bars this is It's just a pure cliche,
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you know, where it's just like, it's like a fucking WWF wrestling fucking Royal Rumble.
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It's just stupid. Yeah. And unrealistic.
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And that's pretty much, you nailed it on the head there with wrestling.
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This came at a time where wrestling was huge.
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Yes. And this is pretty much who this is for.
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Morons. No, don't keep me wrong, guys. I'm going to tear this thing to,
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I'm tearing this thing to shreds.
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But I love, I do enjoy it. I do like Roadhouse. And so I'm just gonna have fun
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over here. I could watch it again. It's,
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there's no there's nothing here right i
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mean we're on the same page this is just yeah hollow
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fun a big issue as well i i have with dalton's character as much as i like patrick
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swasey as a person he's just so so much so it's so much of a sort of cliche
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of a great guy he's no character flaws apart from the fact he fucking ripped
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somebody's throat out but um but um you know
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in his past you know and it's sort of he's tormented over you know all this
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here but the samuel you know sort of like sort of talks about you know talks
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to him about it later on and sort of reassures him but but he's just such he's
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over the top sort of perfect almost perfect guy,
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which you know what i mean he's a philosopher you know what i mean he can you
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know he can fight he's a top shagger with the women you know what i mean he's
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mr fucking ninja man who i'm steven a likable Steven Seagal, everything.
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You know what I mean? It's just fucking stupid.
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Yes, when he gets stabbed, you see him stitching himself up.
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He's romping as well. That's right. Yeah, he's romping on first blood.
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Yeah. So the double deuce is where he's going to go, and he gets 5,000 up front
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and 500 at night, and he gets full control.
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And I do like the little side thing where he always has to buy a piece
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of shit car because every time he goes into town to do this,
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his town gets wrecked the night of because they're, you know,
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the people he kicks out, he just, you know, just.
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Yeah. Pops through his tires and shit like that.
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Yeah. But his real cool car is locked away safely. Well, until the end.
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It's not really a cool car though, is it?
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But I think it's considered that. Back then maybe.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, until the end, but it gets wrecked as well. Yeah.
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When he turns into James Bond. So he walks into the bar. He's all looking around.
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And then you have Carrie, the most annoying fucking character in the whole fucking
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film. I'm like, God, you're Dalton.
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I know. Like, first of all, who knows these great bouncer cooler guys?
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It's like they're fucking Harrison Ford or something. Celebrity bouncers?
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Yeah. Since when did that become a thing? Yeah.
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Are you fucking kidding me? Oh, my.
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He was fucking pretty much cream to your pants. because he
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says he's standing right there same with
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garrett he's like this legendary bouncer since when
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the bouncers become celebrities you know first of all wade sam elliott he gets
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away with it sorry sorry garrett it's wade are you sure right right sorry yeah
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there might be wade garrett yeah i think it might be yeah anyway very cowboy
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names dalton wade oh no they're They're totally, even Kelly Lynch,
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she's known as Doc, like Doc Holliday and stuff.
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That's intentional. And this film is a Western.
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Oh, of course it is. It's high noon. Guy comes into a town to clean it up.
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Yeah, exactly. Pale Rider.
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Yeah, yeah, totally. I wish we were watching Pale Rider.
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No, but I think it's kind of cool that they went for the sort of Western vibe,
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you know, but I mean, this is even like the sort of most cliched of Westerns.
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Aren't as cliched as this.
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I love how they're all bar and stuff. I love when he's assessing the bar and
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he's looking around and we don't think, what's he doing? He's not doing anything.
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He's not doing any bouchering.
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And then the next day he goes, okay, waitress, you're fired.
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We serve beer, not drugs.
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You're done for fucking chicks in the back of the bar.
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And you're done. You're stealing. And the guy, Pat, I think his name is,
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he actually is cousins of Benghazara.
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He's his nephew or something yeah they're all related yeah
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they're all related they're all inbreds and so that
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causes a ruckus you fired my the story here is so bad yeah mm-hmm and it's obvious
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that they're all gonna jump to the fucking the bad guy side and you know who
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runs the town you know and also for some reasons the bad guys drive monster
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trucks you know just to like what.
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It's bad bad that's just bad oh my god i i just don't know but yeah you you
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got ben you got ben kazar here playing the bad guy brad weasley and wesley whatever
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his name is and it's you really could have played with that here's the problem i have with the film,
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There's very little fights in it, believe it or not. And if you're either,
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like, have a second, and then it takes a serious turn when they kill Wade.
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Pretty brutal, actually.
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Yep. But this doesn't fit in for what we were just watching.
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It had to kill him, I think. It actually would have fit better in part two.
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Believe it or not, we'll get to it, what I'm talking about there.
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But they don't, it just seems very muddled.
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No, no. I think for a start, this film was too long. Yeah, it's almost fucking two hours.
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Yeah, but yeah, an hour and a half, you know, would have been more than enough.
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But I thought it was pretty obvious that Wade was going to get killed.
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I mean, they had to kill him off. It's basically like Cocktail or any of these
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types of films, or even Star Wars that were referenced earlier. Cocktail!
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No, where the mentor character has to die. It's like to add dramatic weight
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to the final act, you know, with the main character.
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It's, you know, they do it with Obi-Wan Kenobi, they do it with Harrison Ford in The Force Awakens.
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So it's the you know just add that extra dramatic
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weight for the final act so it was i i was i couldn't really
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remember i watched this in video when it was at first release in
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video so that was like 35 years ago
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or something so i couldn't really remember but watching him yeah
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he he's gonna die they're gonna have to kill him off i was disappointed that
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you didn't see his death scene i thought sam elliott himself deserved to be
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his death scene to be filmed instead they're just going to the barn or he's
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laying there and he thinks he's drunk and he goes, hey, get up, you know.
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I was, oh no, oh no, he's been stabbed in the back.
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And do you notice as well, I'm seeing on the note after he's been stabbed,
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you know the note, to Patrick Swayze, it was tails. Tails is spelt wrong.
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T-A-L-E-S instead of T-A-I-L-E-S.
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Is it? Yes, I'm near certain. It's quick shot.
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I can't see them making that mistake. Well, you never know. The writers of this
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probably didn't. I don't know. Who knows?
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But so when he goes to go to Emma's place, the barn guy, and that fucking barn
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he rents is pretty fucking nice.
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It's fucking gorgeous, but just by chance it's across the pond from that guy ranch.
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Yeah, I know. And then Carrie comes in to bring him breakfast.
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How the fuck does she get in? But whatever she comes in And he comes out naked
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And he's going toward the window And he sees fucking bay windows Which he's
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about to fuck Kelly Lynch in front of by the way And then he,
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Poses as his ass cheeks Flutter whatever and Carrie's like ooh I'm like oh fuck
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me get over yourself Swayze god love you man I like you But come on,
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What is he posing for a sculptor Sculptor what the hell,
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Yeah well again it's all too sort of add to the sort of, he's such a,
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he's, you know, all of us, he's such a brilliant guy and he's so cool,
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even though we'll know he's a top shagger anyway, or we'll soon know,
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but it's also not only that, he's the body of a Greek god,
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you know, this type of thing and he also, he does all this, I don't even know
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what it is, all this martial arts crap too.
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There's a scene where he goes into the auto shop, we meet Red,
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who I kind of like that character, I like the side characters,
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some of them, you know, Red's alright.
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And you find out his niece is doctor is it his daughter no no that's no she
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she's the the niece of the bad guy,
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the main bad guy no she's not yes she
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is yes she is i thought
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she was the niece of red the the no no no she's the
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niece of the main bad guy so she
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is seriously are you sure
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i'm i'm 90 sure i
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don't know i thought she was i thought red
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was her no no all right
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okay not unless i've got
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this completely wrong i'm pretty certain she's the
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the niece of me and bad guy you sure you're not getting confused with the second
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one that's what i was just thinking there to be continued because the second
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one she's the cousin of gary bouchy son yes of uh wild bill yes yes another
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way i I think it's Red's niece.
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No, I'm... Who gives a fuck? Exactly. It's not important. Yeah,
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it's not important. They didn't care. Why should we?
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Yeah. But there's a scene in the auto shop where Brad and Jimmy...
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No, what is it, Dalton and, is it Jimmy? Yeah, Dalton and Jimmy meet for the first time.
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He's the badass he's going to rip the throat out of. Yes, yes. They have this glare.
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It's like a fucking cologne commercial. I know. It's like, what the fuck?
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I know. Yeah, I know. It's so cheesy.
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You know what's a brilliant example of a film very like this, but done really well,
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where basically there's an asshole school in
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the south torturing everybody in this small town and
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and it has to be sorted out there's a film bully
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bob thornton called sling blade it's a fantastic film yeah
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okay that's the you you need to stop with your comparisons that is a completely
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completely different film no but i i would say it but but well there's similarities
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no there's not no no no neither is uh where it's filmed down south Yes,
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no, but there's also an asshole Sort of causing problems for everyone in town
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It's your Dwight Yoakam Yeah, yeah, alright Okay, to each their own, I guess,
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Or in your case Mm-hmm.
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I can't Your comparisons You could have said something completely Like,
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I would say home front But a guy coming back down south The town's being overrun
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by James Franco and the gang and Jason Statham there to settle the score.
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Yeah. Homefront is a much better version of this. I haven't seen Homefront.
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Which was written by Stallone.
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Right, I haven't seen it. You should check that one out. Yeah.
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Sling Blade. What the fuck?
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Sling Blade is a fantastic film. It's a great film, but it's a drama.
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Yes, well, technically this is a drama. No, it's not. Let's just move on.
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Goodbye, Green Demo. We're taking our side, Ciaran, you know?
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Fucking hell. Yeah. Oh, my God. Right up there with Tom Atkins and Tom Skerritt.
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Fuck. I love when Emmett gets up in the morning.
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He's going to feed his horse, whatever the fuck he's doing. And there's everybody,
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including the head bad guy, Ben Gazzara.
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He's across the lake. And we're all watching Patrick Swayze do Tai Chi.
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He doesn't notice them. but yeah again it's more
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of this they're basically it's basically the people who
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made the film masturbating over Dalton's character you know
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what I mean it's I love how he's like comes out of the bed and his ass is hanging
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out and he's doing Tai Chi and he's telling everyone he's a philosopher he believes
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in good and then he but he smokes like 12 packs a day what a load of fucking
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nonsense like you know it's just okay oh.
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It's just it's so it's It's like, oh, I don't know.
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It's like some sort of, you know, wish fulfillment self-insert from,
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I don't know, whoever wrote this.
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It's just, it's like, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they were writing to
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sort of what, you know, a studio sort of demands or whatever,
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you know, make them like the coolest.
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It just doesn't work. It just comes across as really unrealistic.
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I mean, even Stallone, and even, oh, Stallone did a little bit in the 90s,
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but even Schwarzenegger wouldn't do this.
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Yeah, yeah. You know, he does, he just, come on, this is.
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I'll say it again no one character In this film behaves Like a real human being It's just It's mad Jesus.
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Actual human beings don't talk like this Or act like this So Pat goes to get
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revenge They're all gonna kick his ass And in the process Dalton gets stabbed
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Right so this leads him to go to the doctors And this is where we meet Dr.
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Clay cause that's believable Oh yeah Yeah, like it's pure like sort of 90s porn or something.
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You know what I mean? So there's a line. It's the best line in the film.
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And because the dialogue between him and Clay is groundbreaking.
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Something you see. Oh, it's such sexual tension. It's something you see in Shawshank
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Redemption. It's incredible.
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But. It's Shakespearean. He goes, she goes, here's, I'm going to give you a shot to numb the pain.
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He goes, I don't do that. but it's going to be painful he says I swear he says
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this pain don't hurt well yes it does, the definition of pain.
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Some of the lines here are like absurdly bad, it's like whenever he says,
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whenever we started cleaning up the bar and start a,
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it's going to get worse before it gets better No shit, Sherlock, no shit, Mr.
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Philosopher, you know, you know, it's Sigmund Freud. Yeah.
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In the States, especially in the eighties, this was, or even the seventies and
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sixties, a lot of films had these small town and this big bad man is taking over the town.
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First of all, this would never happen, but it's cliche. It is,
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it happens in every film, practically it happened with, uh,
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Nowhere to run with Van Damme. It happens everywhere in the 80s.
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It happens in film world.
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It's a Western trope. Yeah. Yeah. So just make a phone call to the FBI and go, hey, we got a problem.
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Yeah. That's it. End of the story. I mean, the guy's not that much of a badass.
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His henchmen are fucking losers besides Jimmy.
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And he's going to be useless to him soon when he gets his throat ripped out.
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Exactly. yeah and he he's like evil ninja man so he is you know and even the
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expressions and the acting it's it's just by the bad guys it's just completely
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over the top it's like if if a four-year-old was asked to write um what a bad
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guy's like you know what i mean you know it's well i don't know,
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so yeah he's taking 10 of what the town makes.
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I think that's what he's doing everybody's pages like who would stick that you
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know what what you know what's that's you know,
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well i don't know i'm assuming he quashes any
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sort of and he's not even threatening as a bad guy you
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know i mean apart from whatever he beats up his own man for some reason you know
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yeah well that's that's also the
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you know we saw it just recently with was
26:28
it harold in long good friday they yeah he
26:31
always beat up his own men well yes i know
26:34
that's a thing but it's just kind of it's kind of the maintenance yeah
26:37
but with here too but with here his
26:41
his men are much younger and fitter
26:44
but yet he's like a sort of older man
26:47
who could just punch the fuck out of younger men it's just
26:49
i don't know it just doesn't because they won't fight back well yeah
26:53
i suppose that's why they're he's intimidated he runs
26:56
the roost come on you didn't see that wonderful you
26:59
didn't see that character development wow you
27:03
didn't see that in roadhouse well you know as
27:06
you know roadhouse is well known for its character development and you
27:09
know and nuances and so when they
27:12
when they learn adult outside and they start beating the shit out of them yeah
27:16
i love even when he's getting his i mean he was getting beaten to death there's
27:21
barely a there's not even a black eye no nothing And so Wade comes in to save
27:26
the day And then reintroduced to great Sam Elliott So is that Yes.
27:32
Who watching it now, I'd like seeing Sam Elliott in anything he does.
27:35
Yeah. He was more just a cameo. His character's kind of wasted.
27:40
Yeah, well, it would have been better with him, you know, for a lot more of
27:44
it, you know, because at least he has a certain presence.
27:47
Don't get me wrong, Swayze has a presence as well, but it's just the dialogue
27:51
and the general woodenness of it.
27:54
I mean, well, Swayze isn't great in this.
27:58
It's very bland. He's very wooden. And I think that's the way he was told to
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do it. Meaning, cause we don't know who you are.
28:05
You're a mysterious sort of guy. Yeah. Your emotions don't flow, whatever the fuck.
28:10
But, but you've seen him in like Next of Ken, which is his next film. It's pretty good.
28:15
And Ghost. I love that. And then there'll be Next. And so nothing,
28:19
this is nothing against Swayze cause I like Swayze.
28:21
Point Break, he's very good in. So he picks everything up, but I think this
28:25
is direction that let him down.
28:27
Yeah. Yeah, there's, again, it's just, it's, the problem with this is it takes,
28:32
unlike Tango and Cash and stuff and other sort of examples of 80s cheese.
28:39
They're sort of tongue-in-cheek and they don't take themselves too serious.
28:41
This takes itself too serious. That's what I don't get.
28:45
Versus tongue-in-cheek in some parts, right? Like you got Tubby when the bear
28:50
falls on him. I just saw the bear fall on me. Yeah, yeah, at the end, yeah.
28:53
But yeah, we have scenes where Denise kind
28:56
of was beaten badly Bradley the girl the blonde
28:59
hot little blonde girl that shows up in the film periodically yeah she
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gets beaten up by Ben Gazzara you don't see it but you see the
29:05
aftermath of her face is all beaten and bruised yeah there's a
29:08
suggestion there yeah you see Wade getting stabbed in the
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chest and so there's a lot of
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dark elements here but it's thrown in in the midst of kind of laughable goo
29:18
I think there were maybe but laughable goo that also takes itself too serious
29:23
but at times But I think that maybe a lot of the more sort of serious and sort of arguably,
29:31
you know, potentially better elements were edited out.
29:35
Apparently this film, you think this is long? Apparently this original cut of
29:38
this film was close to four hours. Jesus.
29:43
So maybe stuff like that where it's more sort of serious and actually potentially
29:49
believable was left on the cutting room floor.
29:52
Well, that would explain the Keith David. Keith David's a good actor I always like to see.
29:57
Totally wasted. He plays Ernie, the new bartender. He's barely in it.
30:01
Yep. He's in it for like 30 seconds.
30:04
Yep. Big time, totally wasted. He's basically an extra. So he is. Yeah.
30:09
You know? I thought it would be cool if we, I thought you should give him a
30:13
part like, yeah, we see Keith David and even the audience will know who he is.
30:18
And they'll be like, wait, what happened to him? Then he shows up at the end
30:21
to help Dalton Like he's one of his buddies He's like a spy I wanted to see
30:25
Pete David fight in it Yeah let him help him out Instead he poops paints,
30:31
Very briefly I don't I think there was a lot of editing around his character as well,
30:38
I don't get it It would have made more sense If Pete David was a mole to help
30:43
him He's also one of the top billed In the opening credits So it's weird Weird. Yeah.
30:49
Well, he'll definitely, his agent would fight for that. Oh, yeah.
30:52
But you're right. There must have been more footage of him. Oh,
30:55
yeah, yeah. I would imagine so.
30:58
Oh, my God. Let's talk about the love scene.
31:03
This is the funniest fucking thing. He's got these, he's in this barn,
31:08
and it's pretty much this all open air barn, all these barn doors.
31:11
You know how big those fuckers are? Because he's a cool guy,
31:13
so he has to have a cool house. Yeah. They're fucking.
31:16
Yeah. Ben Gazzara sitting there having a cigar, watching them fuck.
31:20
Yes, pervert. And then when they're done fucking, as you do,
31:23
Patrick Swayze goes outside naked, stands on a rooftop, sits on a rooftop naked.
31:31
She shows up naked. They start fucking on that. Yep.
31:34
And I was like, really? Yeah, yeah.
31:40
Again, they're trying to make the audience just say, you know,
31:43
Dalton is such a cool guy.
31:46
You know what I mean? He's just brilliant at everything, including making love
31:50
to the ladies, you know. Making love to the ladies.
31:54
Yeah, exactly. There's nothing this guy can't do.
31:58
Including ripping throats out. Act would be up there, probably.
32:03
Yeah. Well, I know. I suppose he's a good actor, but in this, it's pretty, oh, boy.
32:08
Again, it just, it's almost,
32:12
it comes across almost, It's almost calm
32:16
It's so sort of cheesy You know what I mean And homoerotic as well You know
32:22
How long has he been here Because every time he goes into the Double deuce It's
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new sign Then he goes in again,
32:32
it's all remodeled It's like a different bar Yeah,
32:37
He's so good.
32:40
He's so brilliant and these people are so sick basically what they're saying
32:45
is he can even get them to like they can't even put a fucking coat of paint
32:49
on a bar without him keeping them right.
32:53
Fuck. And then you have the whole sequence where Dalton, Clay, and Wade all go out.
33:03
And he dances with the diner and Sam Elliott being Sam Elliott,
33:07
all smooth and cowboy-ish.
33:09
I should have caught this. This whole scene should have been cut. Yeah.
33:13
In fact, there's no fighting in this whole movie, really. A couple of punches
33:16
here and there. But I want, the real fighting is only between him and Jimmy.
33:20
Yeah. and there's one when he
33:23
gets stabbed when pat comes back to you
33:26
know his job back but that's it yep there
33:31
there isn't much yeah a lot of it's the
33:33
the sort of the real drama of his you know his journey you know to um for cleaning
33:39
up this town basically it's yeah look if you're going to have an 80s tease film
33:44
like this and you know at least give us some action and some fight scenes and the like,
33:51
you know, I don't want you to get a bet, you know, especially towards the end
33:54
and stuff, but yeah, there should have been more.
33:57
Yeah, like when we, Wesley, whatever his name is, Brad, the bad guy,
34:02
takes a monster truck and goes to that man's dealership. This is, come on.
34:07
Yeah, yeah, it's farcical.
34:10
Usually if you have a bad guy and he's trying to threaten you to take town,
34:14
he'll do what he did to Red's place. You'll burn it down.
34:17
You're not going to go in public daylight light with witnesses and destroy a man's dealership.
34:24
With a monster truck? That's so fucking stupid.
34:30
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's daft. Wow.
34:36
But they get their comeuppance And then Patrick Swayze then turns into James
34:41
Bond With his James Bond type car His cool car His real car Which he basically uses To distract them,
34:53
There's another line Better when pain don't hurt This is the better line This
35:00
is the best So Jimmy and Dalton are about to fight They're going to kick some ass ass.
35:05
That's pretty good. It's an effective fight scene. It works.
35:08
The stunk eyes and the actors did fine.
35:11
But Jimmy holds his hands up, right? He's bleeding. Dalton's bleeding.
35:15
He goes, I used to fuck guys like you in prison. That's right.
35:22
Yeah. If I was Dalton, I'd be like, whoa, what?
35:29
He goes, I'm just here to fight. Yeah. What's even the context of that line?
35:37
What does that actually mean?
35:40
It doesn't even make sense, really, in terms of the context of the scene. I know.
35:48
It's like, are you trying to sell this, sir?
35:52
Yeah, I mean, are you trying to hit on me? Are you trying to hit on... What does this mean?
35:58
You know, it's bizarre. Oh, my God.
36:03
Laughing it was yeah and
36:06
then quickly ribs just thrown
36:10
out yes yeah and kelly sees
36:12
him do it and she's all horrified and stuff you know what i mean yeah because
36:16
you know this is obviously a call back to his you know his backstory you know
36:20
his traumatic backstory where i killed a man you know yeah but it was self-defense
36:27
yeah both times both times James was self-defense,
36:31
you know, where he's killing people.
36:34
And he doesn't even kill the main bad guy at the end either.
36:37
It's the fucking townsfolk raiding all.
36:39
I kind of like that, actually. But after he rips the throne out,
36:45
Liz sees this, Clay, Dr. Clay sees it.
36:48
First thing she does is run over to Jim and he's like, is he okay?
36:53
And I'll be like, if you're a doctor, I don't think he's coming back from this one. Yeah, Dr.
37:00
Pornstar Oh god Oh Yeah,
37:06
And then Wade gets it Again, it was just a write-off It was almost like Keith
37:11
Davis' character He invested all this fucking time He deserved a cool death
37:16
You got Sam Elliott and Keith David And they just kind of wasted,
37:19
Sam Elliott deserved a cool death scene Instead he just He thinks he's drunk
37:24
and he's got a knife in his back It's just In his chest. In his chest.
37:28
Yeah. But there was that cool fight scene that he and Sam, that Wade and Jimmy had.
37:35
Yes. That was pretty good because you can see he's still limping because Wade's got that injury.
37:39
So they did play on that. But yeah, you're right. You needed something where
37:43
he gets taken out and it should have been in front of him.
37:47
And that would cause him to want to rip his throat out. Jimmy should have killed him in front of Wade.
37:52
Yeah. No, in front of Dalton. In front of Dalton. Yeah. Yeah.
37:56
A big dramatic moment like that would have worked instead. We'd just see the aftermath.
38:00
Yeah, because you're playing it kind of, you're having a good time with it.
38:03
You're just going with what the fuck. I don't care.
38:05
But if you do a dark, if you turn the tables on the viewing audience and all
38:12
of a sudden you see Wade get his head blown off right in front of Dalton and
38:16
his blood's all over him, now people can go, okay,
38:19
this has just turned up a level. And now we're with them. And that's the dramatic weight.
38:23
Yes. They didn't do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, instead we got a pearly spelt fucking note.
38:30
I gotta look at that. I don't think that's, I can't see them fucking that out.
38:34
It's a quick shot. It could be though, because they're not, the funny thing is, you're right.
38:38
The bad guys aren't very smart. Yeah, it could be intentional.
38:42
Yeah, it could be like deliberate.
38:45
Totally. But I do like that they all shoot them.
38:50
Yes. Red, Emmett, the Ford guy, ownership dude, they all take a shot at him. Yeah.
38:57
And I kind of like that. And they hide the guns and the sheriff's like, what? Yeah.
39:03
And then it ends with Dr. Clay and Dalton skinny dipping.
39:11
Again, Dr. Pornstar and Mr. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah.
39:16
Everybody that's happily ever after. And stupid guy gets a polar bear, our faults on top of.
39:21
Wow. You know. Guys are dead.
39:24
Well, I ripped this movie pretty good, but I watch it. I enjoy it. It is.
39:30
It's something about the 80s. Yeah. It gets away with it.
39:34
Yeah. You can't, I mean, I don't want it.
39:38
I'd watch. I'll put it in and watch and have a good laugh. But from a...
39:44
Technical aspect of it it's a train wreck yeah it's complete and utter nonsense but but it.
39:52
Wouldn't be as effective for me as like say maybe tango and cash or whatever
39:55
yeah tango cash is 3 000 times better than this yeah it's really entertaining
39:59
but to me this is just it does irritate me at times a lot of the time but at
40:04
the same time i do laugh at some of the more outrageous
40:08
sort of campy sort of over-the-top adht
40:11
it takes itself way too serious way more
40:14
serious than it should yeah you know whereas i was
40:17
they would work better with something more on the tone of
40:20
of tango and kaiser maybe even lethal weapon
40:23
where it's actually you know with you know with quirky one-liners and
40:26
stuff the the character at dalton is preposterous
40:30
you know mr perfect that bugs
40:33
me but yeah it does have a certain
40:35
replay value in terms of of it as a bit of a cult you
40:38
know for a few sort of crazy one-liners and a few decent fight
40:42
scenes you know and stuff i think people who listen to
40:45
this review and we know a lot of people like this film they'll
40:49
agree with everything we just said and laughing at it but the same time we all
40:54
have a soft spot for it yeah and we still enjoy it so that's where that's the
40:59
difference that's what it is so people won't be offended about what we said
41:02
even though it's one of their favorites because Because they know that's why
41:06
they like it. We're not lying here.
41:07
And I would say, despite the character of Dalton being ridiculous of the highest
41:14
order, Sweetie's always likable.
41:17
Yeah, exactly. I like Sweetie. He's got a good on-screen presence.
41:20
Yes. And you're always rooting for him.
41:22
Even in Point Break, he played that teetering on good and bad.
41:27
All right, next up. That's right, people.
41:32
Bonus episode. Or might not be a bonus episode because you're going to probably
41:37
want to go, what the fuck?
41:39
Depends what way you view it. Now, guys, do you want any spoilers if you haven't
41:43
seen, because no one else has, Roadhouse 2, Last Call.
41:48
This was directed, I can't believe this. This is actually directed by Scott Ziel.
41:53
This man has given us some great, great shit.
41:57
Like Shadow Witness, remember that one? Broken Vessel?
42:02
And the cult hit Squanderers. Yep.
42:07
Never heard of them. Nope, neither have I. Never heard of them.
42:11
And what do you do to replace Patrick Swayze? You get Jonathan Skeets.
42:16
I can never pronounce his last name. All I know is the guy was in that Tom Hanks
42:21
film, that thing. That thing, yeah, that's what put him on the map.
42:24
Yeah. He plays Shane. You got Ellen Holman, who plays Bo.
42:29
Richard Norton is Victor Cross. Jake Busey is way over the top, way overused.
42:35
He's better as a cameo. Wild Bill. And you get, I shocked Will Patton's in this,
42:41
who plays Nate Turner. Then he got a bunch of shit.
42:44
Now, Will Patton, there is a little side story here.
42:48
And if you replace Will Patton, he plays Nate Turner.
42:53
Yes. He owns a bar. He's not a cooler. He owns the bar.
42:57
Yeah. You replace him with Dalton, because originally this character was supposed to be Dalton.
43:02
That's right. And Dalton was supposed to own the bar. He's retired,
43:06
owns a bar, and something goes wrong, and he's hospitalized.
43:11
That's where the story was supposed to go. And then Creative Differences,
43:15
Patrick Swayze walked away.
43:17
Yes. Now, when they say Creative Differences, I'm going to assume Patrick Swayze
43:21
just read the script and says, fuck off.
43:24
Yeah. That's what it was. There's no way he had any say in this,
43:28
because this is terrible.
43:30
So they basically killed Dalton off-screen.
43:33
He was murdered by basically Jake Pussy.
43:37
Dalton's dead? Dalton's dead? This is about Dalton's son? Yeah.
43:42
What? This is about Dalton's son. This is Dalton's son. Shane is Dalton's son? Yes.
43:50
Were you paying attention? No.
43:53
This is Dalton's son. Dalton has been murdered. How many? Wait a minute.
43:59
Oh, and Will Patton raised him. Yes. Will Patton is Dalton's brother.
44:06
No. But what's Dalton's last name? What?
44:10
What was Dalton's last name in Roadhouse? I can't remember.
44:13
I just know it was Dalton. Yeah, but no, no. In the story of this film,
44:19
Shane is Dalton's son, and Will Patton is his brother, and Shane's... So how old is this?
44:27
Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. Is this set in the future?
44:31
Is this science fiction?
44:32
Yeah. Because he would be a lot older then, because Jonathan's like 30.
44:38
Yeah, I know that there. Yeah, well, he's He's at least like 28 or something. So he is.
44:44
But no, no, this is Dalton's son. He's a DAA agent. He's 30.
44:48
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, he's about late 20s, about 30.
44:53
So yes, this is the story of Dalton's son. So this is a direct sequel to Roadhouse.
44:59
Whether people like it or not, this is a direct sequel. I didn't catch that. He's his son.
45:05
Yep. Okay, who gives a fuck? Yeah. so yes
45:10
but and the backstory is that whenever he
45:12
was a rookie cop whenever shane was a rookie cop he
45:16
basically also the everything's really sort of it's a very small world here
45:21
because it just happens to be that the town shane goes to just happens to have
45:25
these same bad guys that killed his dad dalton but you know so like tiny universe
45:30
here but anyway yeah the backstory is whenever he He was a rookie cop.
45:35
He basically, main bad guy, he busted main bad guy for drugs.
45:39
So main bad guy was out for revenge and sent Jake Boosie, who's the most fucking
45:43
stupidest fucking villain ever.
45:45
You know what I mean? He's a moron of the highest order. So he's the last person
45:49
you would send to do a hit.
45:50
He sends him to kill him. Shane, whenever he was a young cop,
45:54
but instead he killed Dalton instead, his father. So, idiot Jake Busey,
46:00
Wild Bill, is the one who killed the badass Dalton.
46:04
Yes, that's right. Yes, yes, exactly. Yeah. What a totally dishonorable death
46:09
for Dalton offscreen, who was Mr. Perfect in the first one.
46:13
This whole opening sequence is pathetic.
46:18
It's a DEA drug bust And then a DEA agent Poses as a stripper And does a strip
46:25
And takes Takes Shane who's a DEA agent Behind the curtain to fuck him During the,
46:34
DEA bust Which was no doubt a really In reality is actually a really Dangerous
46:41
thing to do Aside from the Ridiculousness
46:45
of it it's also so extremely unprofessional thing to do. I know.
46:49
Hey, hey, we just busted the big DA. We have a bunch of a big drug bust.
46:53
Let's go fuck and have a lap dance.
46:55
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Although it's, they're sort of doing it so that you
46:59
think that, yeah, it's sort of like, I don't know, it's trying to trick the
47:03
audience into thinking that he actually, you know, Shane actually is one of
47:07
the bad guy drug dealers.
47:09
No, you're supposed to think he is. And she's the DEA. Oh, yeah.
47:13
And then he takes off his jacket, his big shirt, that says DEA on it.
47:17
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, just in case, you know.
47:21
You know. We'll have to like literally spell it out. Oh my god,
47:25
what a misdirect. I didn't see that coming.
47:28
Well, I mean, this is up there with, you know, in terms of misdirect,
47:31
this is like up there with the usual suspects, and stuff, you know.
47:36
Now, I'm going to give this movie a big pass.
47:40
And I'm probably going to get So,
47:46
They, Luther sets up, he's, who we know is the guy setting everyone up the entire time.
47:53
Yes. Sets up Will Patton, Nate.
47:58
Yes. And, and while Bill meet. Yeah. And they, you know, they get into a fight.
48:04
Yeah. But by the way, just as an aside, I would say that this film totally missed
48:08
the trick by not having someone at bat cross an alligator.
48:12
Yeah. How many pictures of alligators do we get? and we never get one eaten.
48:16
I wanted it to go like, you know, X, you know, that Ty Westfield warms the fucking alligator dance.
48:22
If anybody should have gotten the alligator dance, it should have been fucking... Jake Pushey? Yeah.
48:29
But, so they're fighting on the dock and there's a couple of fight scenes in this.
48:35
I will say now, the choreography and the fights in this are pretty fucking good.
48:41
Yeah, yeah. And I think these are the fights that should have been in Roadhouse
48:44
because we didn't really get that. We got a couple of fake punches in Roadhouse.
48:47
In this, we got some pretty bad. If you guys want to see some pretty good fighting,
48:53
there's some good fighting in here.
48:54
It's over the top and it's unrealistic, but yes, it's better choreographed.
48:58
And I would say as well, overall, there are a lot of elements with this film.
49:03
I mean, it certainly has its flaws, including like a lack of tension and other
49:06
things and performances off the screen. Story, writing, acting.
49:11
The story's copy and paste of the original, But I would say that there are quite
49:16
a lot of elements of this one that are better than the original.
49:20
You know, but I do think the fight scenes also, there is a threat here.
49:27
Yeah. They're killing people.
49:29
Yeah. Where, you know, so, and I guess this movie is terrible.
49:35
But if you want to fast forward to the fight scenes, they're pretty good.
49:39
It's very flatly directed.
49:41
And, you know, the performances, apart from Jake Bruchy, the performances are
49:45
not very memorable at all.
49:47
Yeah. And then you got fucking William Ragsdale from Fright Night in this.
49:51
Who does nothing this guy really took off Will Patton was the smart he probably
49:57
read most of the rest of the script and goes okay listen can I be in a coma for the rest of the film.
50:01
No problem sadly that he
50:05
comes back to fight which is a terrible scene again yeah
50:08
and there's a bit of slapstick comedy and stuff that doesn't
50:11
work you know with the older guy who also
50:14
works in the bar but also just by chance is sharing a fucking
50:17
hospital room with him you know there's a lot of
50:20
conveniences here it's you know what
50:23
i think the biggest problem with this is i know the original intended to
50:26
be serious but turned out to be real campy silliness
50:30
this is too serious it goes
50:32
too serious in terms of its tone if they
50:35
had have just played tongue and cheek they i
50:38
think it would have been a lot better you know this actually reminded me of
50:41
and this is you're gonna laugh because this is another you
50:44
say it's fucking sling blade no i'm not i'm
50:47
gonna say the direct the video
50:50
sequel to the lost boys which came out
50:53
around the same time it has it has
50:56
the same feel to it and the same sort of aesthetic but also the fact it's not
51:01
really related i mean there are some loose connections there to the original
51:06
in any real way you know the tribe wasn't a call or something yeah yeah yeah yeah come out around
51:14
the same time you know and it's just it's obviously it's a completely different
51:18
story the roadhouse and the lost boys but but it just has the same feel and same sort of.
51:24
You know, it's almost like the same team made both. You know,
51:28
say like, let's grab an 80s classic and do a sequel.
51:34
So you have all these little characters and you meet this Deputy Hendricks.
51:39
Yes. And you know, he's a bad guy, but you know, he's not.
51:45
You know, this guy's going to turn as a good guy.
51:48
Yeah. It's not exactly, they don't plan to see, they don't need to, you can just tell.
51:52
Yes. This movie, it reads like a Dr. Seuss book.
51:58
Yeah. You can see it all coming. Yeah. You can predict the next line. It's just. Yeah.
52:03
You know who's very good at it, though? I thought were really good,
52:07
the twins at the beginning. They stole the show from me.
52:11
Jesus. Well, they were in there for like a half a second. To be at the poster? Yeah.
52:16
They pretty much promoted us as softcore porn.
52:22
And that's an injustice to the actual film itself
52:25
because it's not you know what i mean yes there's a there's a couple of sex
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scenes the top of the scenes but you sort of have to have that they're a roadhouse
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film well you don't that's nothing roadhouse did it at least with roadhouse
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it was no let me finish it was subtle it was besides the dance sequence It was Kelly Lynch was.
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Not fully No no no It was about as
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subtle as a fucking What do you call it as an elephant in a fucking chair No
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no no no I completely disagree with you There's a difference between That stupid
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little dance scene Where he makes her just you know Come down and blah blah
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Or you just mean the sex scene Between Kelly Lynch and Spears,
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There's girls in the jacuzzi Two of them There's topless.
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I mean, no, no. There's a difference between, believe it or not,
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subtlety and just direct-to-video softcore. And I don't care.
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But no, Roadhouse had, there was professionalism behind the lens. This is not. Yeah.
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I know you're a little schoolboy perv and you're like eee twins were good I
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like the twins see yeah see and the bathtub lesbian scene,
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for some reason yeah so we
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find out in the flashbacks Sane was trained by his uncle that's where he learned
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all because yeah we got flashbacks yes yeah but why didn't Dalton train him
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then how come we don't see Dalton training him no no they explain it away I
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think originally if Patrick Swayze had come on board it would have been Patrick
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Swayze you know doing the, you know, as a boy, training him.
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But they explain it, it's like a one-line fix where it says,
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my father traveled around a lot, I didn't see much of him. And then whenever
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he did see him, he was murdered.
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In place of him. So he was... Oh my god.
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The fight scene between you have that, the black guy who works for Wild Bill.
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Yes. And he's causing a ruckus in the bar.
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That's pretty cool. Yeah. It's another good fight scene.
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Again, well done. What about Ninja Woman? She's completely unrealistic.
54:29
Oh, Nadja? Yeah. The knife woman?
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Yes, yeah, yeah. Completely unrealistic, and she can do somersaults and all sorts, you know?
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Yeah, we got fucking Elektra on this now. But Sexy Jeans Woman,
54:42
Bo, she kicks her ass later on, and she's a schoolteacher or something, isn't she?
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I don't know what the fuck she does, but... Oh, no, it turns out she's ex-army as well. Yeah.
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She shows up to the bar for like half a second.
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You want a drink? i don't drink she leaves and
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then gives him the finger yes what was that all about what was
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that all about i don't know i mean i mean she
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all of a sudden did she like fucking split personality or something or you know
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what i mean yeah she was really nice whenever he was fixing her car you know
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when he was changing the tire and then she was really nice to him like throughout
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the entirety of the film well apart from this one really weird scene where she
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turns nasty on him Like, gives him the finger? Why?
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There's no explanation for this. I know. I don't. That's their way of teasing. Yeah.
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But it doesn't come across as flirting. It's the same thing.
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It's the exact same thing when Jimmy says.
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I used to fuck guys like you. Yeah, it doesn't make sense. In this town,
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they give you the finger. Yeah.
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They also throw in some references to the original with the whole,
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I thought you'd be bigger. You know, when they say that about Dalton.
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Yeah, and then he also does three rules. never underestimate
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someone take it outside be nice
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until it's not time to be nice yeah even though
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like with the whole lamb take it outside rule in the
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first and the second pretty much all the
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fights happen at the bar so i know i know it's
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not their fault you know because they're basically it's the.
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Bad guys faults for starting in the bars but at
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the same time the rules broken like every time so
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they wild bill is working for cross victor
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cross yeah they don't want the bar they want the land yeah
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well again it's copy and paste from the original where it's a
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bunch of villains basically i'm running a town
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including in this one the police the sheriff and all and
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it's yeah it's the same plot as the original i've
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just done a stylish and with as much grace you see
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the fucking scene where they come in to make him an offer like 400k
56:51
whatever it was and i'm saying here
56:53
no problem but yeah and then the bound the one the
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bounce just comes in acting like a robot what the
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fuck are you doing and the guy goes are you retarded sorry that's
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what he says in the movie and i'm like yeah is he yeah i
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know i didn't because i didn't know you know obviously i've seen this character
57:10
before i took me a while to is that the way it gets on is there something wrong
57:14
with them and the stuff is just weird and bizarre he does like um so yeah it's
57:19
robotic it's like mime robotic man he sounds and it's just it's fucking totally out of place.
57:26
But thankfully he survives you know at the end and you
57:28
see him doing it at the very end you know in the sort of montage
57:32
at the end where it's a big happy ending and they're all in the bar and they're
57:35
singing and dancing and there's that wee midget guy in the band and stuff and
57:39
and he then it flashes to him even though he'd been badly injured in an earlier
57:44
scene you know whatever they came to the bar to get seen you see him and he's
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doing the robotics dancing again so there you
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go y'all remember yeah the fucking
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when he's on the phone and she's outside yeah
57:58
and he thinks she's a burglar but he thinks she's she's talking to her on the
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phone and she's the one outside it's so stupid and there's a lot this is so
58:04
bad he goes i finally get to my bedroom i don't even know your name yeah and
58:09
she goes that sounds like a country song and she starts singing it yeah yeah yeah i I know, I know.
58:15
She wouldn't be the greatest actor in the world, but she drives a cool riverboat
58:22
thing like Rambo, so there you go.
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And she's a school teacher. And she's the cousin. An ex-army.
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She's the cousin of Wild Bill.
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Yes. And she sets him up, though, doesn't she? Well, to be fair,
58:34
who? She sets Shane up? Yeah.
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No, she saves Shane. No, she was told to lure him out while they go destroy the barn.
58:43
No, no, aye, but she shags him instead To sort of save him She,
58:48
she Oh, okay Yeah, yeah, to be fair, you know I don't know about that.
58:55
You know So, while he's getting fucked,
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He's supposed to be meeting these poor guys At the bar, because he was going
59:02
to help them clean up He decides he's got to get his dick Dick wet,
59:06
and These poor bastards,
59:08
the robot man And Fright Night, are getting their ass kicked Yeah,
59:11
yeah, exactly Robot Man and Fright Night Guy.
59:15
Well, Fright Night Guy gets killed. He gets murdered. Does he die?
59:18
Yes, yes. I thought he was just unconscious.
59:21
No, no, no. That's Robot Guy. He's just unconscious.
59:24
Oh, so Fright Night is dead. Fright Night dies, but Robot Guy survives because
59:30
you see him at the very end doing robotic skins.
59:35
Yeah, he's back. Yeah, yeah. Robot Guy.
59:38
But still sad about Fright Night Guy, you know?
59:41
The whole the whole fucking hospital
59:45
scene was terrible yeah it's a bit badly executed will
59:49
patent buddy you should have got out of this film you deserve
59:52
better thank god to go to michael myers yeah uh
59:55
yeah it's badly executed and it's just a bit it's dragged out a bit too much
1:00:01
as well oh it's way long and where is everybody in the hospital and there's
1:00:05
actually a scene where Busey is going into this entourage and Nadja whips out
1:00:11
a knife to one of the secretaries or nurses.
1:00:14
And he goes, whoa, whoa, take it easy. Be respectful.
1:00:17
But they're all carrying like fucking M16s and fucking shot off shotguns. Yeah.
1:00:23
I have to admit, I really like Jake Pucci in this.
1:00:28
He's actually playing it right. He's playing it, fuck it, this movie sucks, I'm going to ham it up.
1:00:33
Yeah, he's basically, and he's doing a really good impression of his dad as well.
1:00:37
You know what I mean? Obviously, he physically looks like his dad,
1:00:40
and it's just like, he's totally like, you know, yeah, going overboard.
1:00:44
And, you know, he's out of all of the, I'm sorry to say, but all of the sort
1:00:49
of actors in this are pretty bland, whereas he is he's not he's definitely not,
1:00:57
so in the hospital hang on for his life he then gets stabbed in the back,
1:01:04
he's busted in the whole ER or whatever and.
1:01:10
All this chaos is happening right yes and the house is being shot what.
1:01:17
What's the rest of the there's like one other piece it's a massive hospital
1:01:21
Where's the doctors for it's the nurses There's no lights And nothing else So,
1:01:29
They go They're shooting up her house Bo's house or I can't remember if they're
1:01:35
shooting up Or they're shooting up the.
1:01:38
What do you call it The fucking the bar And they go out and decide I'm gonna
1:01:44
rape her now They're gonna rape where the fuck are you Taking this,
1:01:48
I'm gonna rape her and we're gonna kill It just comes
1:01:51
out of the blue And your mind just
1:01:54
goes Take your fucking pants off What is
1:01:58
this going And that whole Victor Cross fight
1:02:01
scene Was so boring Yeah He's your main bad guy And you don't see anything really
1:02:09
happen to him He's useless He's not even threatening Not properly Well the acting
1:02:14
is pretty threatening I mean But yeah Yeah,
1:02:19
and it's like the tone of it throughout is pretty much generally just a bit
1:02:25
of an action sort of flick tone but then this potential rape scene and all just gets thrown in.
1:02:29
That's quite, it's like, whoa, what am I watching here? Last House on the Left?
1:02:33
I know, it's like, what the fuck?
1:02:35
I do like Wild Bill's death. It's a good fight scene. I do think,
1:02:39
I think the fight's pretty decent.
1:02:41
Yes. And he kicks him out the window and he falls on top of the pelican,
1:02:44
the black pelican's name of the bar.
1:02:46
But again, they totally missed the trick by not having him being at by alligators.
1:02:51
Or somebody. Even Victor. Give Victor by the Pelican and give Wild Bill the gators.
1:02:58
Yeah, yeah. Those deaths should have been decent.
1:03:01
Or even that guy on the bar, you know, who was basically working for...
1:03:04
Yeah, yeah, Luther. Luther or somebody like that, you know.
1:03:07
Fuck it. I would just fuck the whole cast in at the end.
1:03:11
Well, at the end, the bar is open. Shane is there with Uncle Turner at his side.
1:03:16
Yes. Everybody survived apart from Fright Night guy, you know.
1:03:20
So Fright Night Guy did die. Yes, as far as I'm aware.
1:03:24
I just saw him not unconscious. I wasn't sure if he was dead or not. No, no.
1:03:29
I'm near certain he definitely dies, but then, what do you call it?
1:03:33
Everybody lives happily ever after apart from him.
1:03:38
Yeah, fuck Fright Night Guy, but at least we got Robotics Guy back to be fair. What an ass clown.
1:03:47
I'm fucking with you. I'd have thrown him into the alligators for doing that stupid dance alone.
1:03:52
Fucking idiot. Yeah, this movie's terrible. This is terrible.
1:03:56
This is nothing like the original.
1:04:00
The original one had charm, and it had Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott and Ben Gazzara.
1:04:06
You had Kelly Lynch. You had good music. You had- All-intentional, comfy charm.
1:04:14
Yeah, you had something there, and just rewatch abilities.
1:04:17
That's a big one. Even though this does have fight scenes That I really do enjoy,
1:04:22
That's only what Three minutes of the entire film The rest is just complete shit,
1:04:29
This is shit You know what I mean He sort of steals the show But yeah he's not
1:04:35
up against He hasn't much rivalry for that Exactly there's not much to steal
1:04:39
There's nothing worth stealing My main issue.
1:04:43
Is the total lack of tension and it's very flat in terms of the way it's directed.
1:04:50
The funny thing is, you're kind of right what you said in the beginning.
1:04:54
Yeah. If you took some of the elements of this one and put them in the Roadhouse...
1:05:00
The original? Yeah. Like the better fight, the better choreography fighting.
1:05:04
Yes. You could have had, actually the ending should have taken place in the bar. Yeah. Like it did.
1:05:11
Because that's the main, you know. Yes. The main hub there. The hub.
1:05:15
And it actually would have played better, I think.
1:05:18
I think if you took, yeah, it's almost like when you said that Roadhouse was
1:05:23
like four hours long originally, all they did was, no, I'm serious.
1:05:26
They probably took out the elements that were in that one, the cut stuff.
1:05:30
We put it in this. Yeah. Because they do work if you blend it.
1:05:34
Well, this is the same story as the original. You know, we have a few tweaks.
1:05:40
But what this one lacks that the other one unintentionally has is the Campy 80's cheesy charm.
1:05:47
Yeah, and you don't have competency here. You don't have competency director.
1:05:51
You don't have competency screenwriters. You don't have, you just don't have it.
1:05:56
You know, you have some nice choreography in there, but that's it.
1:05:59
Yeah. There's nothing here.
1:06:00
Like I say, it's the same story as the original, but just copied and pasted.
1:06:06
But instead of Dalton, it's Dalton's son.
1:06:08
All right, guys. You're welcome.
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Conor McGregor's up next. Yeah, we just wrapped up. You're welcome for us giving
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you Roadhouse 2 Last Call.
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Hope you enjoyed that nice little treat because we did it.
1:06:22
So next up, the very controversial reboot, requel, Whatever you want to call
1:06:28
it Roadhouse with Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor I have seen it My verdict
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is still out I'm going to watch it again,
1:06:36
It's got some fun stuff going for it A-list director behind the lens,
1:06:41
So what could go wrong, right?
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We're going to wrap this one up It's an early Saturday morning And I'm going
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to enjoy the sun I'm not, I'm going to work Ha ha ha, you suck,
1:07:07
I have a very important job I fuck guys like you in prison What?
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What was that for, what? Oh, that was the best Alright.
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Music.