Whiskey Wednesday Podcast

JCVD is Darren McCord, a French Canadian, ex firefighter, current fire marshal, lackluster father, tinkerer/engineer, and honestly knower of any skill he needs in the moment.  This movie isn't good but it's fun as hell.  Also, this movie showcases what if helicopter ignored physics?  Listen in and find out...or don't...I can't tell you what to do.

It's Jet Li, it's Luc Besson, it's wild.  Watch it.  Listen to us fawn over it.

Michael Douglas is Nick Conklin.  Andy Garcia plays a guy with two first names.  The manager from Mr. Baseball is in this movie, and is by far the best part of the movie.  Welcome to Black Rain, a buddy cop movie crossed with 30 seconds of WW2 commentary, crossed with landscape shots, crossed with Ridley Scott, crossed with...and I can't emphasize this enough, the word "Babe".  It's a noun, it's a verb, it's an adjective, it's a gerund, it's 17% of the script.  Also Nick rides bikes. That's important.

Another OG episode, standard stuff...Nolan pours, weird stories, Thomas gets roasted, etc etc etc.

Erik and Thomas discuss High Plains Drifter which means ghosts, assaults, weaklings, and lots of red paint.

Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway would like to have a word with you.  He needs to impart his wisdom about drinking, being a marine, t-shirt rotation, beating up Scandinavians, crossway breezers, AK-47s, filling out forms, counterfeit stogies, physical fitness, vogue magazine, long showers, Korea, calling collect from a warzone, being demoted, and of course clusterfucks. This movie is a must watch classic about invading Grenada and we talk for WAY too long about it.  Also STITCH JONES?!

Brandon Lee...Powers Booth...Naked Dragon Lady sketches...what more could you want?  Oh it also takes place in Chicago which means we have a rogue's gallery of background Chicago actors whom also appeared in Code of Silence.  This was a really fun movie that I'm glad we found.

We watch a new installment of the Predator franchise, Prey.  It takes place in 1719.  The story follows a young Cherokee hunter and her quest to kill a worthy prey to prove her worth.  Uh oh, a Predator is in town and now she is the Prey!  This movie seems like it would be a ho hum affair but holy shit does it rock.  The sets, scenery, and costumes are killer.  The directing and pace are perfect.  The actors are wonderful.  The original Predator is a classic but this is a CLEAR #2 in the Predator movie power rankings, this is the closest someone has gotten to dethroning the Arnold classic.  Also, we are GD funny on this one, everything really came together.

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash, they are America's sweethearts.  They are out to stop Jack Palance's city-wide drug empire and guess what...Tango and Cash are bad at it.  This is a movie that has a great 1st act and 3rd act, but one of the worst middles in a long time.  Oh and at the end, there is an armored truck with a mini gun that attacks an abandoned airfield that looks suspiciously like a dirt bike track.  It's all very strange, mostly fun, and thank god Kurt Russell is there to carry Sly.

We are late posting this but we watched Violent Night a few weeks after the holidays and it did not disappoint.  We have four hosts talking over each other about a new holiday classic.  A genuinely  fun movie and a full-on recommendation from us all.