Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)!

With one eye on Chinese martial arts and one eye on American ‘tude, RUMBLE IN THE BRONX was Jackie Chan’s breakout Western hit. There’s dirtbike gangs in the streets, diamond-peddling crime syndicates, a hoverboat – everything you’d expect from an American action comedy, just with 100% more Jackie Chan.

More violent, more outspoken, more plot-heavy, and just a bit less fun than Jackie’s Hong Kong films, RUMBLE also functions, unintentionally, as a sort of inverse commentary on ethnocentrism in American filmmaking: the same stereotyping cultural lens Hollywood points at Asia is pointed back at the USA in a movie where Vancouver is an unconvincing stand-in for the Big Apple and gun-toting mafiosos tear down a grocery store with tow cables for the hell of it.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Music: Credits theme from the RUMBLE IN THE BRONX soundtrack (Hong Kong release).

0:00 - Episode 139: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995)

3:05 - The podcast actually starts

5:26 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:57 - Seth’s thoughts

11:38 - Jason’s thoughts

19:11 - Cody’s thoughts

23:25 - Harry’s thoughts

29:54 - Aaron’s thoughts

36:20 - The contrast of excellent action and a throwaway plot

42:56 - Familiar faces in a new context

48:01 - Danny

51:04 - Final thoughts

57:28 - Cody’s Noteys (Triplove: A Podquest [location trivia])