Jackie Brown (1997)

I grew up in Torrance from 1991 til 2020 and man it's so fun to see the Del Amo food court. Used to get so many free samples while my friends mom shopped and we spent our time at Alladins Castle Arcade

Most Tarantino films become my favorite when I’m watching that particular movie. For the longest time Jackie Brown wasn’t in that rotation. That changed after this viewing. It hits a little different being in my mid-40’s. My head cannon says Jackie and Max eventually find their way back to each other.

Metrix? Met R X. It's a body building thing

Max reading Len Deighton's Berlin Game while waiting for Jackie

I do love that Ordell fucks up the gun Chow Yun-fat uses in The Killer. He never uses a .45, but mostly the 9mm handguns. I don't know if that is a Tarantino goof or goes to prove Melanie's point that Ordell doesn't really know shit about guns. I'd like to think it's the latter.

Hell yeah

Great episode! Thanks for the work you do, boyz.

Ruth’s Crips took me out

Most of the music was taken from Coffy and made by Roy Ayers a true funk legend. He just Died in March.

I first saw Jackie Brown back in the 90s on a bootleg VHS I bought at the flea market. It was filmed in a very loud black theater which would have enhanced the moviegoing experience but was a problem for the bootleg experience, given the sound was already shitty to begin with. The funniest thing I remember was the theater erupted into applause when Louis shot Melanie.

Stanger I appreciate how often you bring up William Petersen. perhaps this trait alone makes me the Stanger of my friend group.

Stanger is funny as f*ck in this ep

I propose the abz should break the no guests rule and have griffin newman on for a very particular reason. I want a shadow wolves episode with him guesting about the first episode of Vinyl, the worst thing that Scorcese has ever filmed. Griffin was in it and has dropped a few interesting stories on blank check but I want the full breakdown with Rodgers asking questions

Laughing like a maniac in public at Gabrus & Rodgers improvised movie pitch about an old man climber needing to get over his prejudice of gay climbers

This watch hit a lot harder now that I’m over 40 and starting over is a constant fear. Would love it if the Justified team did a Max Cherry Bail Bonds tv show with Walton Goggins as Max.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading Rum Punch. Does feel like Tarantino brought the story to life. Nailed it

Rodgers, did you ever have a Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine? Might be a little before your time, I dunno …

Louisssssssssss

Please punt Flawless to the wolves.

Not gonna google it. Stanger used the phrase “wish, worry, and wonder” about the things Tarantino holds dear. Is that an established phrase people use? Or is it fresh ABz coinage?

I have a pretty good feeling I know who played the gay guy and who played the old man

Easy to get overlooked with Sid Haig in the same scene, but Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar from Star Trek TNG) plays Jackie's public defender.

I highly recommend the audio book for Roadside Picnic, the book that the movie Stalker is based on. Robert Forster does the audio book and is fantastic.

Rodgers, give Get Shorty another go. It’s a little wobbly for sure but it’s a good time with a bunch of pro’s pro actors really going for it

I read the follow up to Out of Sight. It’s called Road Dogs, and I think I enjoyed it, but who knows?

Flawless is an awesome movie. It would probably be just okay on it's own but Hoffman makes it a whole different movie.

another terrific De Niro performance waaaay down the call sheet: Brazil. (also with 'stache)

Across 110th Street is a great song ... from a great mobster vs blaxploitation mash-up flick -- a ton of NYC verite and shocking violence for a 1973 movie. 100% ABZ addiction fodder.

Different tastes I guess but I feel like Gabrus is crazy to say De Niro looks hotter in this than in Midnight Run.

Box Squad 4 life

Makes me laugh whenever they reference Alec "The Instrument of Death" Baldwin

I’ve been too wrapped up in the Crumb book to listen. Thanks for the recommendation, Ben. This is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

Speaking of the JAWS 50th, I was born 2 days before it opened (6/18/75) and it’s been a birthday tradition all my life. I’m going to the 50th celebration at Martha’s Vineyard on 6/20/25 for my 50th birthday. The guy who plays the kid who’s killed, Chief Brody’s sheriff partner, f/x guy Greg Nicotero who restored the mechanical shark Bruce and an ORCA boat replica will be there and a screening of the movie and the 50th documentary airing next month on Disney will premiere there.

The Snoopy screensaver on AppleTV is amazing. And my birthday is actually Trump 14th :(

Unrelated to Jackie Brown but THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION is back on audible! Currently on sale for $7.99, grab it while you can!

In the immortal words of Paul F. Tompkins "Pam Grier's legs. Two minutes later!"

“Don’t touch my levels now.”

What I loved about Get Shorty is that Elmore Leonard describes a gabrus like character and then I watched the movie and it’s played by James Gandolfini

DeNiro’s energy when he is sitting in the chair watching Simone dance was some of the best ex con fresh out of jail acting ever. Loved the episode and I am so happy to revisit this one.

Alien genitals is the next show I’m pitching… 🤞🏼

Im one of the odd birds that has Hateful 8 as their favorite QT movie. Extended cut as four episodes is the best way to see it.

Final Reckoning took like 5 years to make and it realllly feels like it

This movie feels like a road not taken for Tarantino. It's tone is more grounded and based in reality then his other more heavily stylised movies. Of course that's because it's only time that he adapted another writers work instead of riffing on genre movies. The visual style is interesting too, I remember a review saying that it was shot with all the visual flair of an episode of the Rockford Files. Now I think that's not entirely fair but it's not entirely wrong either. It's a very good movie regardless. BTW I don't want to be one of those guys who is ragging on Rogers but he's dead wrong about Out of Sight. It's an excellent movie with a great cast and it's comedy is perfectly fine. Okay, maybe I am one of those guys.

I have such fond, vivid memories of seeing movies in high school around this time, and Jackie Brown might be chief among them. I barely knew who Pam Grier was, but I was fascinated by her. I rented Foxy Brown a couple days later and it all clicked into place.

Sweating through my Kangol over here

Gabrus was high and forgot to hit the upload button.

That was a stressful couple of hours constantly refreshing the podcast apps. We can all relax.