Outland (1981)

I know I’m behind and this comment will go unnoticed but for what it’s worth- In 2006 I was working for a general contractor in LA and we started a big remodel on 307 N. Bristol which was designed by Gordon Kaufman (designer of Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills) and it was owned initially by Erich Von Strobeim (rumored to be the originator of the phrase MOS) who had put his signature in the concrete in the driveway and dated it 1932. But the relevance here is that the home was owned by Peter Hyams from 1995–2005 and by the time I arrived many of Hyam’s personal items and movie memorabilia were in the garage including the schedule boards (aka strip boards) for Capricorn One and Outland and posters for lots of other movies he made. My fun connection-twist is that I was accused of plagiarizing Cap 1 in a college screenwriting class years earlier but I’d never seen it and my idea was actually inspired by Spies Like Us. Anyway, big hugs and kisses.

Incredible cold open boyz, had me bussin’ up big time Also - Sean Connery reminds me of my dad in this movie.

Cosmological counterfactual that keeps blowing my mind, Mars has just enough additional mass (make it size of Venus) so it had sufficient gravity to retain its oxygen atmosphere and water. Even if Alt Mars did not end up evolving sentient beings or even complex lifeforms, just the existence of a “Near Earth” planet available to us would have a massive impact on human history and consciousness. It would have definitely put us on a For All Mankind style path of unceasing space exploration. Mars with breathable air would be an irresistible prize for the World’s great powers.

Original ending of the Michael Jackson film, the kids molested him, changed due to public outrage

So curious who the ABC actor with an AI girlfriend is...people theorized Zach Braff.

A waterdog is also a very specific and unique meth pipe. It has three chambers for the vapor to cool and a bend at the lowest point to fill with water. If you use various Gatorades instead of water you can change the taste of the vapor. Terrible drug - actual poison - TREMENDOUS accessories.

I grew up playing a ton of racquetball with my dad and it’s genuinely my favorite sport to play :( I hate how hard it is to find courts these days. Fuck pickleball.

This movie looked and sounded great. I came in expecting something more like Connery's "Meteor" and got Alien meets High Noon.

Unrelated to pretty much fucking everything, I’m watching AEW and Juice Robinson could be Gabrus’s little brother. Obviously the ABZ should be wrestlers and get paid to be on a cycle.

I was on the USS Wasp for 7 months with the Marines. There were no prostitutes but there was a female sailor named Seaman Feaster. And she fucked like 3 of my friends. True story.

2:22 hrs I love Stanger.

My favorite COVID related psychosis was the lead singer of Right Said Fred becoming a big anti-vax anti-lockdown guy even after he was hospitalized for COVID. And then for some reason he also was a big Pro Putin guy.

General PSA: I finally upgraded to Zombie Squad, blew through all the episodes last week, and it was an absolute blast. Cant recommend enough, the Transformers and GI Joe episodes were so fun!

Jan-rio-uary isn’t bad

*Google’s Sword of The Valiant after Gabrus mentions it. Sees a Stanger looking guy with He-Man hair.* I guess you guys should do that.

Drop King got hacked. The Discord is gone. Let's see if anyone misses it.

Moon landing wasn’t faked (afaik lol), but when you consider some of the things governments have only admitted after decades of lying that skepticism can feel a little more understandable.

I love that Stanger is quick to point out that Freddy 2’s climax involves Freddy popping into the real world at a teen party. In the script they must have written “he wreaks havoc and destruction on the partygoers” but once they got shooting I guess they don’t know how murderous to get, so they have him shimmy around and eventually he knocks over a folding table with snacks on it. I think about this way too often. Side note: the bad guy on the radio sounded a lot like George Segal, but I can’t find any proof it was. And I looked… for a long time.

I’m jonsmith@gmail. I got laid off the other day and in the corporate bullshit severance call they need my personal email to send the severance info, when I told them they were super curious how I got it so I had to tell the story I’ve told a million times to people at rental car counters and whatnot but it hits different when it’s a dry chit chat with the people terminating you.. my first job out of art school was at a start up web game company in 03-04, the programmers would just send me shit to sign up for like “it’s gonna be a big deal just get on it” Gmail, MySpace twitter whatever

Gabrus colonized his instagram username :(

We need an emergency zombie squad episode about the video of the reacher guy beating a normal man in the street. So much to dissect. Kids on motorbikes, normal man standing up to giant. Please action boyz

Someone put the Sudden Death audiobook on soundcloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/jfoss-157952483/sets/sudden-death-audiobook

Sword of the Valiant is a tough watch. It's clear Connery didn't grease the right palms to get a ponytail greenlit. Huge opportunity miss. His chest looks good n' greasy though.

freddy’s dead is great

A love letter to trucker hats.

Enjoyed this one

*Sauna guy voice* Both Peter Hyams movies Outland and Sudden Death feature a lead who is a disgraced Marshall and an industrial kitchen fight

Can’t wait for Karch, volleyball month

I need to see Project Hail Mary this week. Not sure if should I watch Outland before or after I see PHM?

I’m Too Sexy is used in the finale of the Neighbors docuseries on HBO that aired like 2 nights ago when the nudist community is doing a karaoke night

this was one of the first movies I remember seeing as a kid, along with Any Which Way You Can, Empire Strikes Back, and Time Bandits. the decompression head explosion scene tripped me the fuck out. I need to start a letterboxd group of movies with People Dying of Explosive Decompression (Licence to Kill, Outland, and uhh....)

Lads!!! keep up the fantastic work. Loving the Pod. Two Chuck Norris thumbs up.

Did not expect Nell to come up. Big Jon's birthday is the day after my dad's.

Steven Berkoff was also in A Clockwork Orange. Would love to hear an ep on that one!

if yer sci-fi movie doesn't have people poppin' from pressurization, you needn't have bothered. that includes project hail mary. lame: our hero pull ken leung out of a space drawer and sees he's dead, oh boo hoo. awesome: ken leung goes outside and 'splodes like a gremlin in a microwave.

re: For All Mankind. I can somehow empathize with aliens and hobbits and all sorts of fantastical garbage, but for some reason I cannot get behind the character stories in alt timelines. I'm always 1000% more interested in the hypothetical historical dominos. It's kinda like the people become holodeck characters or NPCs -- they totally lose relevance to me. Am I alone in this? Is it just that the historical what-ifs become much more interesting?

I vividly remember when ‘I’m not going to a pizza parlor, Joanne’ entered the lore. But could someone please remind me of the original context for ‘Turn it off, Jonny’?

tRuMPs drIViNg beN CRAzy…aNd I LUv iT (callback)

The second W in Warwick is silent. Have some respect for our boy Wicket!

I love the 'Boyz but I don't get this weird gripe they have with Peter Hyams. (They were also weirdly dismissive of Running Scared) He was clearly never on the level of a McTiernan or Cameron but he was a reliable journeyman director who did a LOT of good-to-great genre films including Running Scared, Capricorn One, Narrow Margin, Sudden Death, and the now kinda underrated 2010. His films almost always looked good with good actors, he knows his way around an action sequence, and his films are never overlong. We need MORE reliable genre guys like him nowadays or John Badham or Roger Donaldson....

Chuck news hit me right in the solarplex

Crap I watched Project Hail Mary on accident

Your head would never explode in space. If you took off your helmet, the lack of oxygen would be what kills you. You wouldn't freeze either. You would slowly lose body heat through radiation. I think when it comes to Sci-Fi , "The Expanse" gets the science of being in space correct.

Obviously there was nothing about it on this previously recorded ep, but I assume we are all in mourning over Chuck, and I look forward to some words of solace from the boys. It’s been a tough year for passing ActionBoyz heroes and, at least for me, has brought about several waves of feeling old, nostalgic and reflective.

What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.

“I AM the last one—on this moon base.” -Connery

How you checket out Primate (2025)? Killer monkey movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33028778/?ref_=ext_shr

Peter Hyams was a damn good journeyman director with a good eye. I love how this movie shamelessly lifts the working class sci-fi aesthetic of Alien and runs with. The sets here feel so tactile and lived in, they add so much to the movie. And Sean Connery's star presence classes up a sci-fi b-movie.

Early contender for best movie this year I had never seen before you guys covered it