A Few Good Men (1992)
The boyz discuss A Few Good Men.
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Due to a nervous system clogged with hops and bong resin I don’t often remember the first time I watched a movie, but this is one that I do recall. A multi-car group were going to the local cinema-four where we’d watch almost anything. I don’t remember what stupid movie the mob voted for (Toys? The Bodyguard?), but a guy I barely knew and I went to A Few Good Men. It was unbelievable, and one of the few I’ve been to where the audience applauded at the end. The disappointed looks as everyone else came out of the turd that they had just endured was just icing on the cake; they thought we were faking it. But we were so excited, gushing, yelling “you can’t handle the truth” at each other. Epic.
Rodgers, what you said about learning Spanish - that you sounded best when mimicking your teacher - really resonated with me. My wife speaks Cantonese, and the only time my accent sounds remotely accurate is when I’m playfully mimicking her voice in an exaggerated way. I actually listened to an episode of Bill Gates’ podcast last year where a linguist explained why being playful and exaggerating pronunciation is critical to making progress. It helps the brain lock into the sounds more effectively, something I’ve definitely found to be true. Link to the episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unconfuse-me-with-bill-gates/id1695132549?i=1000627053025
Stanger finally vindicated for the shrimp question, love to hear it
Hell yeah
Epic. I was wet eyed listening to it.
Between this and Clockers, ABZ are clearly in the pocket of big Yoo-Hoo. Buncha Hoo-ers
"You can't handle the truth! No truth-handler, you. Bah! I deride your truth-handling abilities!" My favourite of all the 90s pop culture riffs.
Well done on that read, Ben
Did the Cubans ever shoot any American officers wearing whites in real life? Wouldn’t it be an incredibly safe place to serve at that time? They act like it’s Iraq
Nah that's some Vietnam shit that just carried over when military dudes were trying to sound badass
Thank god that woman warned us to not unsubscribe. I almost did. That was a close one.
So, I'm a 44 year old former Marine. I got an honorable discharge in 2004 as a Corporal with a combat action ribbon and Navy achievement medal, among other decorations. That said, in 2000 I went AWOL for bit trying to get kicked out. They didn't want to kick me out so they did an NJP (non judicial punishment, meaning not a real trial) reduced my rank, took a few months pay, and sentenced me to a month in the brig. :) My month in the brig (23 days with good behavior) coincided with Christmas and they let us watch a movie - Reindeer Games. BTW, we made a "documentary" about our experience in Iraq. It's called Operation Double Bush. You'll find it easily. I'm Brian McKinney and this has been The Corporal's Corner.
Curious: how long were you AWOL? What did you do during that time? And how did you get caught?
I'm no military internist but I am an emergency physician and I can say confidently that the medicine in this movie makes no sense (lactic acidosis causing his lungs to bleed - that's not a thing) but goddam it still works for me.
Someone out there has been activated hearing you say the word "retreat" for the past month NOT in the context of No Retreat, No Surrender
I wish the action boyz were the movie boyz because I wanna hear them talk about all the sorkin movies. Moneyball for sportstember shadow wolves?
“Tom” the soldier is Sorkins buddy who plays “Will Bailey” on West Wing, my least favourite character on an amazing show. If you love this movie and you haven’t seen The Verdict with Paul Newman or Judgement at Nuremberg with Spencer Tracy, do yourself a favour and watch those immediately.
I can't connect with these types of movies. But I love hearing the Boyz break it down.
I’d empty my kids’ savings account for a dramatic reading of the debasement email. Maybe next charity livestream/episode.
Speaking of Tom Hanks, I watched Big in Leicester Square a few weeks ago and it made me wish he did more comedies. But I think Rodgers might be right and he might not be able to anymore.
AI girlfriend is my favorite character in a while
Want to have bigger loads? Have you tried leaving your phone in the pentagon?
Ben Stein for Wet Eyes
1:53:23 Gabrus’s favorite song is “She’s got / Weeet eyes” by Kim Carnes. 😂LOL
Messy food restaurant 1st date date is awesome. Sounds like she was the dud! (Especially with the dog, I never fake out mine. Too mean spirited.)
This one had me doing the Gabrus hand rub
Kaffee was watching the Orioles end the Twins 15 game winning streak in 1991
Let’s go O’s
Ben’s read of the Colonel’s speech was really fucking good. This ep had it all! I think this one would be great for the free feed aka wanna be Janitors feed.
don't nobody get me excited about watching movies like these 3 daikinis. 🫡
So my theory is that the Low, foul & debasing email was inspired by the cold open from Sudden Death (y'all butt fuckin' in there?). Obviously, there is no way to be sure, but it seems reasonable to assume that this person sought out the free feed vs. signing up on Patreon, and Sudden Death is the first episode posted to that feed. Free feed, episode 1 seems like a plausible point to dive in for someone interested in a show. It's also more vulgar than the average ABZ episode.
great work, gumshoe.
San-Tee-ah-go
“AI Girlfriend that wants more nuclear reactors built” is already one of the funniest recurring jokes
I really miss regular updates on the Captain Podcast situation during the cold opens, but the recurring AI girlfriend bit is definitely filling that void.
Just joined the Patreon! Gabrus, if you were ever curious if you made any lifelong fans specfically from Bleep Bloop on CollegeHumor, there's at least one lmao.
Specters can't move through paywalls
Did I order Action Boyz Merch ? YOU DAMN RIGHT I DID!
I know this isn't improv and I mean this sincerely: I love how often Rodgers "No, and"s Stanger and makes him bumble his way out of a cheesy joke instead of just "Yes, and"ing him. Makes me smile every time.
Yeah Rogers, they don’t use violence hazing and social pressure to condition marines anymore that’s right
What are you referring to?
My boy Tommy C’s sports work is atrocious in this one
We had a dude in Basic that was there for like 9 months, just on medical hold or something and everyone just felt bad for him
I love that my pilot is listening to the action boyz
So you guys watch the movie together and don't talk about it until you record? Very impressive!
Misery is why I've always wanted to finish a big project. Not for the feeling of success but, to crush a celebratory dart. Then bomb a mid 60s mustang down a mountain side.
Re-posting for good measure: For anyone interested, I just uploaded the screenplay for A Few Good Men to The Internet Archive, link below. During the pandemic I paid for Masterclass (or was it Monsterchomps?) and saved everything downloadable, including stuff shared by Aaron Sorkin. And FWIW, Internet Archive has a ton of other fun screenplays. https://archive.org/details/a-few-good-men-mc
Shonk wrote A Few Good Men? Ill see myself out
Not former military myself, but an airline pilot here for the last 25 years who works with 50% former military pilots. My understanding is that within the slots available for airplane assignment, whoever scores highest throughout flight training gets first pick of aircraft, and then they just go down the list with whatever aircraft are left being up for grabs in order of grade performance, from high to low. So Stanger’s buddy’s story is bullshit: even (and especially) if he scored the highest overall, he could choose whatever plane he wanted to fly. They may have had limited Tomcat or Hornet slots available, or he just didn’t have high enough marks and only the Harrier was available to him. Regardless, all badass planes. No need to bullshit a kid about it.
To clarify the story (I may not have been clear) At the time he was in flight school, the consensus was that the jump jet was not desirable to fly - safety concerns, fun, etc. He sandbagged something during training to assure that he would be able to get an F-18 - which is what he flew. I now see how it could be bullshit.
Rodgers looking at the check: “Who ordered the Code Red?!”
Jumping on the convo from No Way Out re Navy whites. I was Navy enlisted and yea they're a real pain. You have to be careful using bleach because it can turn them yellow. You have to be careful where the bottom of the pants rest on your shoes because they can get stained from the black shoe polish on the dress shoes. They're also a pain to iron so you really have to take them to a dry cleaner plus the schmutz from a regular iron can stain the fabric. The cover (hat) also gets discolored from sweat so I always kept a one I would wear just for inspections. They also get super wrinkled so whenever we had inspections, a lot of people would drive to work in sweats then change into dress whites right before the inspection because the pants would get all wrinkly just from sitting in the car. I also used to wear my white undershirts backwards and cut the tag off because it hugged the neck tighter and the collar wouldn't bacon as much. You can also go a size smaller or wear a women's size. Ok, I'll take the gun out of my mouth now.
You're the most ActionBoyz member there ever was..