Lionheart (1990)

I gota add tho, and I don't wanna sound like a hater but can someone please let Rogers know that Stranger does impressions so much better. Esp the JCVD & Stallone voices lol. I know u bounce off each other but every time Stranger does the impression Rogers comes in with it as well but it's not as good and kinda takes away from it all. I still really like ya Rogers, jus leave the impressions to Stranger lol

Absolutely love the Action Boyz. U guys are so dam funny. I'm so glad I found u. I heard Gabris as a guest on a different pod and he legit stole the show without even trying. I was like dam I gota find this dudes podcast. And the 3 of u together are pure gold. I started from the beginning and am all caught up now. Probably gonna have to up my tier so I can get into that shadow wolves action cause it sounds amazing.

Frank from Samurai Cop is a great Joshua

PLEASE do an episode of Sledge Hammer for the wolves.

PSA: Sledge Hammer! is streaming on Prime, featuring Joshua

I can't believe I've never checked out lion heart. Is it me or does JCVD look kinda tiny in this. Not like every other actor is huge but like someone used the resize tool and shrunk him 15%.

Harrison Paige is so good in this they had to hire Terrence Howard to play the same character in the unacknowledged remake Fighting with Channing Tatum in the JCVD role.

Van Damme’s emotional line reading of, “He was not enough strong!”, in the hospital scene is amazing. The “It can only good happen” of its day.

“This is the height of aids” just absolutely killed me lol

Gabrus talking about using a car antenna as a whip, so familiar I know I've seen that in a movie. I'm thinking maybe Jackie Chan Rumble in the Bronx hitting Angelo's ass when he moons Jackie.

This a blu ray for me. This watch, I realized the best stunt is JCVD eating a sandwich with no edit. He takes a huge bite, does his lines to Joshua, basically the whole scene, then takes another huge bite at the end. Considering JCVD's ability to nail lines, that is basically Birdman. Also, the boyz talking about the whole Cynthia setup, does that make Joshua the Gislane Maxwell of street fighting?

This was an awesome episode. I thought it wouldn’t work because they’ve already covered Lionheart on high and mighty, but this was a fresh new take. Please do Death Warrant sometime. One of my favorite JCVD flicks

The rest time talk is premium content. Can't do the weight room anymore. Too much ropadopafone.

Ok it did sound like he said “Neal!”

http://www.harrisonpage.com/letters.html worth checking out his website!

It really does sound like they're saying Neil, that's french for ya

Gene Simmons as Atilla 🤣

I completely forgot Ashley Johnson is in this. The critical role/abz crossover ep lollll

I’m so glad you boys are dusting this one off. The JCVD eps are always my fav! If i had to choose my fav of his movies it’s a toss up between Bloodsport and Double Impact.

I was on the edge of my seat for the rating scale at the end of the episode!

“So she’s mad at him because the husband DIDN’T get arrested” Pretty sure that line is in the first lionheart episode

Stanger is thinking about the scene in “Total Recall” where the female client is thirsting over the video clip of the ripped guy doing lat pull downs in the Rekal offices when the secretary runs in and tells the salesman Quaid is freaking out.

hey gang -- the boyz had a power outage during this recording and the first 45ish minutes of the ep was lost. I was able to recover it but the audio's a little distorted (mostly on ben). Cleaned it up as beset as i could. Sorry about that but it gets back to normal around 45 minutes. - chef kev the editor

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Never realised this was Absent Without Leave until I loaded it up in Plex - always was confused why I had never seen or heard of Lionheart in the 90s when it's the first JCVD movie I ever saw and I remember almost every beat of it. Alternate titles fuck with you in interesting ways.

1:58:49 - When you guys do “Sledgehammer” for Zombie Squad, you guys should discuss the episode where Sledgehammer turns into RoboCop.

Hell yeah

Sorry if this has already been asked but isn't it really weird and difficult to watch 20 movies together in person and delay talking about it?

I do love the punchy, 3am on a sleepover energy of the retreat episodes.

Is Lat Pulldown Leotard an acceptable costume for a NY live show since Cynthia seems to be based here, or only for LA?

I got into Willeford due to Ben and both those memoirs (the hobo one and the military one) are fucking great.

Only 2hrs can't wait for part 2

Just like recording an episode talking up an old actor can cause them to die right around the time the episode comes out, I believe the colonialism talk in this one caused the regime change in Venezuela.

Street fighter the movie!

Little known fact - they recorded this episode with a Talk Boy at the New York Plaza Hotel.

So excited for this one, I taped this movie off cable when I was a kid and likely watched the fight scenes 100+ times. “The whole bet was on Atilla” “WRONG BET” Goosebumps.

Nowhere to run is his best and needs to be given its flowers

My fave bargain bin JCVD is Knock Off directed by the amazing Tsui Hark.

A great movie from the Van Damme bargain bin is Replicant with Michael Rooker; and it's another one of the dozen or so movies where Van Damme plays two versions of himself

Watching it for the first time on Tubi. It’s nice to see JCVD as a humble underdog instead of the usual horny smart ass energy he gives. Movie has a lot of heart for sure, although the fighting seems pretty terrible

I googled Brian Thompson to see what he looked like and I found out that he holds the Guinness World record for widest tongue. A truly unsettling man

North Pole SantaCon hasn’t been the same since they went corporate