Silverado (1985)

Just rewatched this and was thinking , “I hated this movie as a kid but look at this cast! Good cinematography … I be I’ll like this” and honestly by the end it had wasted any goodwill I had. Weak script, too many characters, no one really gets rounded out, no theme, and the tone is all over the place

Cynthia Erivo in Bad Times at the El Royale

When Rogers addresses the patreon members. I wonder if he's looking at a camera in his mind and just looks off into empty space

Russell Crowe in LA Confidential is the best example for this, IMO.

Awesome EP. My yearly writer's retreat is at the Ghost Ranch in Abiqui, NM. they filmed some of Silverado there. Incredible countryside. Also, as far as star making performances in an ensemble, Glenn Powell in Maverick comes to mind.

Great episode! Somehow I had never heard of this movie prior to this, but it's on the watchlist now. Also great to hear that Rodgers listens to my other favorite podcast, Double Threat (which means there's an outside chance that he heard me bomb on there a few years ago)

Deft use of "surreptitiously" by Gabrus in this one. Five stars.

Yul Brynner actually said all he’d have to would be to take his hat off and all eyes would be on him because he was bald.

Crazy Joe - 1974 Starring Peter Boyle A Dino De Laurentiis joint

Yes, I like shrimp

Rosanna would be very salty at Patricia if she heard this pod

Just did a Hackman double feature on Criterion - Scarecrow and Night Moves - the former has young Pacino but isn’t an action movie. Night Moves is a real action boyz flick, though. Complete with crazy plane/boat stunt to end the movie, and a barely (or maybe not?) legal Melanie Griffith showing way too much skin for comfort. Good opportunity for master pedo to make a reappearance, and plenty of water dog references to go around.

Prolly missed it but Penn in fast times

The boyz should do metro

Ford in star wars maybe more obvious

“We can start a farm”

Recent, and a movie no one saw, but Miles Teller popped in “project x” in very small role

Jeff Goldblum - Nashville (1975).

Vince Vaughn - Swingers

Recently: Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall Street. Classic examples: Robert DeNiro in Mean Streets (I know he had some DePalma stuff before, but it was one great supporting role that broke through), Chris Walken in the Deerhunter, Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction, and Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List.

that daikini Val Kilmer was good in the documentary we were all in.

Sandra Bullock in SPEED Collin Ferrell in MINORITY REPORT Michael Fassbender in INGLORIOUS BASTERDS Daniel Craig in MUNICH

i always thought the rule for old west gunfights was that it didn't start until someone made a move for their hip. So it's a contest of nerves at first of who will reach first and then a contest of speed. Gabrus drilling down into the details like my 5 year old on the spectrum made me stop and think about it.

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men. And looking up how to spell his name meant I saw he’s gonna be Max Cady in a tv show! Something that could have been talked about in the Cape Fear episode that I can’t remember.

“I Love You to Death” is worth checking out for Kasdan completists.

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men.

Harrison Ford in American Graffiti feels like the most obvious one.

*Rosanna* Arquette is in Silverado, not Patricia.

Matt Damon in Courage Under Fire?

Is Piggy from Leon the Professional the longest surviving ABz character? Some of the oldest: Piggy from Leon the Professional ep 11/05/2017 Dar from Beastmaster 12/18/2017 "I'm Your Dad" from Sudden Death 01/08/2018 Kuffs from 02/26/2018 Gwildor from Masters of the Universe 09/12/2019 I think maybe Eric Roberts in Best of the Best might qualify but he's been fully supplanted by his character in Runaway Train at this point

Hell yeah

Both Pedro pascal and Jason Momoa in game of thrones. I like to think that Momoa’s big break was really Stargate Atlantis. Also have you guys ever watched Kelly’s heroes? My dad would watch it all the time with me. One of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies

Hi Actionboyz, just a quick note from a bit of an obscure gun terminology nerd—when Ryno mentioned the cheap gun falling apart, he said the barrel came off, but it was actually the cylinder that fell off. The barrel is the long front tube part where the bullet exits, while the cylinder is the rotating part that holds the rounds. Great episode, love the show!

BOIZ DO NEEDFUL THINGS (‘93)

Tommy Lee Jones in rolling thunder

I recently watched 11 rebels. A samurai movie that gives off Silverado vibes.

Denzel in Glory

Adrien Brody in Solo

I recently watched “Nashville” (1975). Jeff Goldblum is strange and funny in that film playing the silent Tricycle Man.

Most of Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I have no single story from my brother or his friends who worked in restaurants or at the two independent movie theaters in St. Louis, but they all said that Kevin Kline was always super nice.

There’s absolutely no way “Krippendorf’s Tribe” ages well

Sorry to be THAT GUY but I think you guys mixed up your Arquettes on this episode. It was actually David Arquette that played Hannah. Nice try though, Boyz 😜

Meg Ryan in Top Gun Paul Giamatti in Private Parts Amy Adams in Catch Me B4 U Can Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall St Drew Barrymore in ET Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver Edward Norton in Primal Fear

Daniel Craig in Munich? You could probably look at what all the bond actors did right before they got Bond.

I had never seen this until today, and I struggled with it. To each his or her own, but I feel like the negative press it received was deserved. Westerns (even the “good” ones) just strike me as hokey.

Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids (although she was already mega-famous to me because of Gilmore Girls) Lana Turner’s supporting role in They Won’t Forget made her a sex symbol (at age 16 😬); the media called her “the sweater girl” and the term remained popular throughout the 40s and 50s

Don Cheadle in Devil in a Blue Dress Sam Jackson in Jungle Fever Matt Damon in Courage Under Fire Gene Hackman in Bonnie & Clyde Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man These next ones obviously didn’t become big time movie stars but they gained almost equal prominence in TV off very small movie parts. Bronson Pinchot on the strength of his bit role in Beverly Hills Cop lands a hit tv series Perfect Strangers Noah Wyle probably got ER off the impression he made in his only scene in Few Good Men where he not only holds his own with superstar Cruise but in a cast of heavyweights and notable character actors (It’s probably the starting point for most folks when they play the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon game) his brief underplayed earnest presence stands out. Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple. Her role wasn’t brief but she’s not the lead. I think it was her first role and she landed an Oscar nomination. You could say parlaying the success from that into becoming a talk show host gave her a career bigger than most movie stars. In fact, movie stars came to her to sell their latest films. Not trying to be an Oprah Stan but some of the younger listeners might not remember the cultural phenomenon she was for decades pretty much up until she ended her syndicated show.

Don Cheadle in Devil in a Blue Dress

McConaughey in Dazed and Confused

I always like Westerns that at least acknowledge that there were African-Americans in the West. I recall having read that Danny Glover collects cowboy hats but can't find the reference now.

Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider Streep in Deer Hunter

Where do you think the Actionboyz go for their retreats? I like to think it's the crazy-kooky house from Cold as Ice.

Colin Ferrell in minority report. Jack black in high fidelity

You guys popping up on Howard 101 freaks me out.

This might not fit, as it didn’t make him a leading man, but he soon had supporting roles for top directors: Tom Sizemore has that one scene in Point Break (as the undercover guy who chews out the leads after they bust the group he was embedded with). He’s this guy you’ve never seen before and he tears that scene up. Even Gary Busey hangs back in that scene. And next thing you know Sizemore starts being in everything.

Stanger gives maybe John C. McGinley vibes.

Nice launching pad performance: young Forest Whitaker in The Color of Money holding his own in one key extended scene with Paul Newman! :)

Did I hear this right....when is it ever 32 degrees in LA?? 😆

Sandra Bullock in Speed?

Dave Bautista in Bladerunner? His Marvel stuff was earlier of course but that scene really made people realize how great he is I think. Also Silverado rules

Contemporary choice- Glen Powell. Hangman in Maverick launched him into that next level.

Does Sean Penn in Fast Times work? Blank Check just did it so it's fresh on the mind.

The local PBS channel used to rerun Fawlty Towers on Saturday nights and I loved them but couldn't remember anybody saying the N word. Turns out when anyone ran reruns it was an edited episode with that of course removed. But, when they put it on streaming they decided to put the unedited version up for some unknown reason. Why the hell anyone would decide after decades to revive a racist scene is beyond me but I'm glad the Boyz saved me the embarrassment of running across it with my wife and saying " Oh let's watch this show I loved as a kid."

In a week where Rick Moranis was announced for Spaceballs 2, I find myself hoping we get a Kevin Klein comedic cameo in the next couple years.

Costner was super slick with those dual pistols he looked great. Do you think him climbing in the prison cell was in the script?

Watched this w my dad for Father’s Day. One of his faves

This one was ALWAYS on tv back in the day. And for whatever reason as a kid, I kept thinking the Eagles song ‘Desperado’ was ‘Silverado’

One of my fave movies to borrow from the library back in the day

Brad Pitt in Thelma & Louise

Ray Liotta in Something Wild

Supporting roles that lead to being a superstar: Cameron Diaz in the Mask and Galifianakis in The Hangover

This held up nicely on a rewatch. I remembered it been a long and episodic movie with a large cast but I was surprised that it's just over two hours long and it's well paced. It has a tremendous ensemble and it's fun to see unlikely 80's actors playing stock Western roles. Shoutout to the great Brian Dennehy for playing a smiling Irish bastard of a villain (I am Irish and I know the type). I loved how avunclar he was, but he still also bought plenty of menace to the part. He was a great actor. And the stunt-casting of John Cleese as an English sheriff who says "I'm not from these parts" paid off nicely too. It's interesting that Kasdan's early career was defined by this and Bodyheat. Both were loving homages to classic genres that were entertaining movies in their own right. It was a healthier Hollywood culture when a director could do that, today a wannabe Kasdan would probably have to reboot the older films that he loved instead.