Weekly Movie Throwdown

Elmore Leonard month continues on the podcast this week with a sort of middle-of-the-road adaptation: Stick.
Steeped in its time—the mid-eighties—this passion project of director/lead actor Burt Reynolds is filled with sub-machine guns, Members Only jackets, and synth music that is super groovy. But while it is a fun ride, reshoots and sub-par editing make it more of a mess than a masterpiece. And to nobody's surprise, Elmore Leonard was not happy with this big-screen version of his novel at all—even though he wrote the first draft of the script!
This is a really fun episode that is full of both praise and ridicule—you won't want to miss it.
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This week we continue Elmore Leonard month by going from one of the best adaptations of his work last week in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight to one of the worst—a sentiment which might carry over into all of film history. It's 2004's The Big Bounce.
Directed by George Armitage, and written by Sebastian Gutierrez (with some help from Leonard himself), this heist film set in Hawaii has a terrific cast consisting of Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Sara Foster, Movie Throwdown favorite Vinnie Jones, and more. But with a lot of cooks in the kitchen behind the camera it turned into an incoherent mess that makes little to no sense. Upon seeing it Elmore Leonard said he was responsible for two of the worst films ever made, both from the same book that he wrote (a previous version was made in 1969 starring Ryan O'Neal). We do our best to make sense of it all in this episode.
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Still to come during Elmore Leonard month:StickGet Shorty and Be Cool
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It's a new month, which means we're diving into a brand new topic on this week's show. March is Elmore Leonard month here on the podcast, so we're going to check out a few of the dozens of screen adaptations based on the novelist's work. Some are great, some are lukewarm, and one or two are God-awful. But we're gonna have a lot of fun talking about all of them.
Up first is Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight from 1998. This star vehicle for Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney was an important film for almost everybody involved, and it might just be the best Elmore Leonard adaptation to date.
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Still to come during Elmore Leonard month:The Big BounceStickGet Shorty and Be Cool

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We wrap up Jason Statham month we go back to the beginning with a double feature from the actor's early days. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are both great examples of what Statham brought to the table right from the start. In these two collaborations with director Guy Ritchie he has leading man charisma without the throat-punches and dropkicks he'd go on to incorporate later in his career.
This month has been a fun examination of a career that is surprisingly diverse. Our initial thoughts of Statham as a bull in a china shop who's dropped into various scenarios went out the window quickly as we discovered the nuances of his performances over the years. Fighting, playing for laughs, and even narrating, this badass Brit can do it all.

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To find out where to watch Crank, search for them on JustWatch.
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If you only think of Jason Statham as a throat-punching, ass-kicking assassin, this film is for you. From 2015, this Paul Fieg action/comedy puts our boy into a whole new role: comic actor. And just like when he's throwing someone through a window, he doesn't disappoint.
Melissa McCarthy is the lead in this one, playing a CIA operative who's forced out into the field to help retrieve a missing nuke. Along the way, she's continually reminded by Statham's character, Rick Ford, that he's a real spy and that she's going to screw up the mission, even though that's pretty much all he ever does.
Equal parts James Bond and Laurel & Hardy, Spy is a really fun one to dive into.
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Still to come during Jason Statham month:Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (2/26)
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Wow, wow, WOW! We continue Jason Statham month with a truly insane film from the directing duo Neveldine/Taylor. 2006's Crank tells the story of a man who was poisoned and quickly needs to get revenge . . . and find an antidote if there's time left over. In this episode, we discuss where Crank falls in Statham's filmography, the innovative filmmaking used to make it, and lovingly question the plausibility of just about every scene. The show, like the film, is a wild ride.
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Still to come during Jason Statham month:
Spy (2/19)Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (2/26)_____________

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In our inaugural episode, we kick off a month of Jason Statham appreciation with a discussion of his latest film The Beekeeper. Join us as we dip our toe into the star's '80s action hero-style career, the John Wickness of this film, the thinking around having an assassin codenamed Beekeeper become an actual beekeeper in retirement, and a whole lot more.
Send us your thoughts on the show and Jason Statham at [email protected].
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Still to come during Jason Statham month:
Crank (2/12)Spy (2/19)Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (2/26)_____________

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To find out where to watch this episode’s film, search for them on JustWatch.
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