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Continuing the trend set the other week with NIKITA, for this episode the boys sat down and watched a foreign action movie they'd never seen before. Better late than never: John Woo's HARD BOILED is a stone cold classic which took Hong Kong action to dizzying heights and probably set some kind of unofficial record for bullets spent and bodies slain. This movie is bonkers; creative, kinetic, and artistic in a way that a lot of action movies simply are not. It obviously influenced dozens of movies that came after it. We talk about all of that, plus acknowledge the suspension of disbelief that must happen in order to watch a couple dudes fire 1,000 rounds without ever re-loading; Mad Dog's character development and what makes him unique among action movie bad guys; Alan's ambiguity; every extremely cool thing Chow Yun-Fat does; plus we discuss Conor McGregor's new watch, Matthew Lesko, and how Bryne is ready to fight Jake From State Farm.
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Continuing the trend set the other week with NIKITA, for this episode the boys sat down and watched a foreign action movie they'd never seen before. Better late than never: John Woo's HARD BOILED is a stone cold classic which took Hong Kong action to dizzying heights and probably set some kind of unofficial record for bullets spent and bodies slain. This movie is bonkers; creative, kinetic, and artistic in a way that a lot of action movies simply are not. It obviously influenced dozens of movies that came after it. We talk about all of that, plus acknowledge the suspension of disbelief that must happen in order to watch a couple dudes fire 1,000 rounds without ever re-loading; Mad Dog's character development and what makes him unique among action movie bad guys; Alan's ambiguity; every extremely cool thing Chow Yun-Fat does; plus we discuss Conor McGregor's new watch, Matthew Lesko, and how Bryne is ready to fight Jake From State Farm.
Email the show: [email protected]