The Hunt for Red October (1990)
It's October ActionBabyz!! You know what that means...The Boyz will be talking THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, naturally. This is a deadly serious movie - would it have been the same if Connery had gotten his wish and been able to wear a long fake ponytail? The mystery of Alec Baldwin is solved, it involves Long Island. Also the likelihood of Jeffery Jones being involved in illegal activity during the filming of this is very high. So take a journey with the ABZ to a time "when the world trembled at the sound of their rockets. Now they will tremble again - at the sound of their silence."
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Are there any action movies based on video games that you think are actually good?
Stanger, what the fuck. what's more important, your life or making a 3 hour podcast each week. what am I even paying for?!
(jk)
“Sub-genre” ... Y’all got me for at least another month.
Harold Ramieus
I gotta say, I love the seaman Jones's look. The headphones with the orange frame glasses. Actor is Courtney B. Vance. Kinda reminds me of the computer hacker from Die Hard
Stanger tears up at the teddy bear at the end..........I tear up when Stanger leaves the podcast early
Dude, I looked up Jeffery Jones, and what a bummer. Didn't know about all the bad shit he was into.
CONNERY DIDN'T ASK FOR THE WASHERS AND KEROSENE
When the airplane crashes on the deck of the aircraft carrier, it’s to illustrate the heightening of the stakes as the story moves into its 3rd act. Right after the crash, Fred Thompson says something like “it’s out of control, out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it”. It’s implied that the seas are stormy and rough and fighters wouldn’t be scrambled in such conditions unless there was a threat of war.
Yeah, it kinda pairs well with Top Gun in that sense. I was imagining a Top Gun-esque scene happening before the crash landing. Buncha anxious flyboys in warplanes buzzing each other can't be sustainable.
"Let me see if I can hit that Kobold, Pop!"
The plot of the Jack Ryan book Executive Orders has Ryan, as president, fighting a united Iraq and Iran, instituting a travel ban and issuing a doctrine that stating that the US will no longer tolerate attacks on its land, possessions or people and will hold any nation directly responsible for any such aggression. I know he doesn't read books but does Trump think he is Jack Ryan?
I too wish Burt Reynolds would play Spawn
The poker story seals it: Rodgers is the William Friedkin of the Action Boyz.
I may have found my Halloween Costume
Technically, McTiernan is dollying in to each close-up rather than zooming in. I only make the bullshit nitpicky Internet correction to mention how much a part of bombastic 80s/90s action cinema McTiernan is. Setting up a dolly shot is a huge amount of work. Doing it for routine dialogue coverage is really getting into insane dictator auteur territory. Part of what made the McTiernans, Verhoevens and Camerons of the time so great.
Weeks later and the scars left by "Firefox" still linger.
Nice. Just heard the boyz on the latest dumbbells episode. Was going to send them a tweet about how funny the idea of Stanger reading an old paperback in the sauna is, but it seems the dumbbells haven't been updating their twitter for the last 26 episodes.
The political officer's name is Putin.
The horse’s name is Friday
Does Connery slap his wife in this one?
You're the captain now, dawg.