The Gauntlet (1977)
The boyz discuss The Gauntlet.
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Was there supposed to be more to the backstory that didn’t make the released version?
Goddamn it's insane all the cops just stand there when the bad guy takes a gun and shoots at them 2 then she grabs a gun and shoots him back like they don't even back up a single step after like 6 bullets are flying around, all bullets just immediately stop no crossfire whatsoever in this universe
I agree with Rodgers on the late 70's being the not good Eastwood years. I think Josey Wales is the best movie he made in that time, but I have thoughts on it as the first half is just Lost Cause propaganda. Then again the book it's based on was written by a lying racist.
*Lactic* acidosis
its weird When the big set piece is the dullest part.
they woulda been swiss cheese.
Gabba-Ghoul, Polter-Geese!
I can’t sit idly by while Stanger slanders Olympia Dukakis. Kitty Dukakis was Michael Dukakis’ alcoholic wife. Olympia was his cousin and a total badass
lay off kitty
Re: North Korea they were the bad guys in the 2012 Red Dawn
Stanger says "hill-a-copter" just like me
Did gabrus drop a legend of Billie jean reference?
Sounds like I should be happy I forgot to watch this one before listening
If you want some good Arnold Schwarzenegger stories, Gareth Reynolds has some good ones on the latest episode (last Thursday) of his new podcast "Next We Have". Stories start at 29 minute mark.
Was John Cazale the ultimate ratboy?
I wish Clint the Squint would keep directing and starring in movies until his dying day. Imagine a 105-year old Clint bumbling around the screen and complaining about body piercings or how everyone is on their phones or whatever, it would be so dope.
The armored glove you throw down is a gauntlet, the thing from First Knight you run is a gantlet.
Wow,I read it as the mob issuing a threat to a witness and not as a real bettable wager. Who would pay it off? So confusing!
With the tire situation, I thought they had solid tires on the bus, not pneumatic tires, but maybe I'm completely wrong.
You guys joke about wahlberg being in a remake of this but it’s actually tom cruise and scarlet Johansson directed by Christopher McQuarrie
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The Binaca challenge when I was a kid was to see how many times you could spray Binaca under your tongue before the burning became unbearable.
One time I ate a thing of those mint strips for a couple bucks.
Since Midnight Run was brought up, I thought it would’ve been cool to have Charles Grodin play Stiller’s dad in the Meet the Parents sequel. I get Dustin Hoffman was the bigger star but it would’ve been fun to see Grodin & DeNiro play off each other again.
Great call!
Glad they brought that up about Midnight Run, it is a really fun movie but Ben’s 100% correct that people hype it up too much. I think it’s just because people like Grodin and that movie is the closest he ever came to being an actual movie star
I am in the group of people that think it cannot be overhyped. Also gun to my head I would have said of course the Action Boyz have already done an episode on Midnight Run.
The best thing about this movie is the poster by Frank Frazetta.
It’s ok for a foreign country to not want to show U.S. propaganda
And it did work! Republican presidents, greed is good, and shop til you drop for the whole of the 80s. Even the Wall coming down was arguably an propaganda-inspired win. No one ever really embraced or trusted '90s Russia, we just swapped mobbed up oligarchs for commies.
I’m “I don’t pullout harry”…. Didn’t work out well for me!
Stanger bot will return when we need him most
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Hell yeah
You can take it back even further to the US government being like “you know what? Let’s just let the Mormons have Utah” after the military got washed
Not to pile on but the ending makes no sense. Why does Clint give his route? Why is there any expectation that when the bus arrives at it's destination people will stop trying to kill him? And why does that EXACT thing happen when the bus arrives at it's destination... suddenly Clint and Judy Greer can waddle out of the bus unharmed? It makes no sense. And yea, the horse race makes no sense. We're supposed to be happy Judy Greer put 5k on it, but if it's a fake race... who would pay that out? Like if it was just a sort of signal to the mob that this lady is gonna get it, who's betting on it!?!? And Phoenix is 4 hours from Vegas... just fucking drive, stop trying to go to the airport. You coulda driven the ambulance and let people think you blew up in the car. They can't keep getting away with this!!!! BY THE WAY I'm using text to speech and screaming at the top of my lungs in a Jamba Juice right now.
And after “nag nag nag” they walk AWAY from City Hall? Wouldn’t they still want to follow through with the testimony and protection even with the commissioner dead? And isn’t her bet riding on it?
It was almost distracting just how much Sondra Locke looks like Judy Greer in this movie, and how much this could have been a Judy Greer character in a modern comedy
Audio is pretty wonky around the 40 minute mark. FIY
The “Airplane!” slap scene (it was Nielsen who doubled back 😂): https://youtu.be/0chd6ZP1p6Y?si=cgwBPKB6Sb_AV4G-
Btw - Damson Idris, “F1: The Movie.” Does that count?