Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
Febronxary rages on and what better movie than RUMBLE IN THE BRONX to keep the party going. What a title! It's so good they kept it despite that the fact that the setting couldn't be less Bronx but that's a minor gripe. This movie falls under the ABZ category of "didn't realize what we had when we had it" or something a little wordier. This movie's a treat and Jackie Chan is a goddamn treasure. The Boyz would like to say they hope the next time we meet, we hope we will not be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.
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Great ep! As someone who saw this in theaters, as a 10 year old with no sense of NY/The Bronx, I loved everything about this movie. The Boyz were right...
Saw this in the theater on acid back in the day... me and my buddies were dying at all the dubbed voices 😂
Yes!!! I know that most of my favorite 90's action movies are on here, but it is still exciting. This was one of my favorites.
Hell yeah
I also discovered Jack Chan from the MTV Movie Awards. Immediately went to Blockbuster and rented this movie.
I wore a dickie when I was about 7-8 years old and a boy that was about 5 years older than me asked me what it was. I told him it was a dickie. He started laughing and making fun of me, I told him I didn’t get the joke. So he drew a picture of a penis (quite detailed)and gave it to me.... didn’t clear anything up for 7 year old me.
Wow, if this episode came out on VHS it would be 2 tapes, like The Gettysburg or Braveheart.
Which raises another good point, they should do Gettysburg!
Holy shit. I remember that hovercraft. That was the coolest thing in the entire world. 10 year old me would have done literally anything for one of those.
Gonna need a Valverde Camp Loads shirt
I think that would be a great 'Big Johnson'-esque design, where the Boyz are holding sticks with gooey, melting marshmallows on them over a fire pit.
Anyone else notice how much Wiger brings up ABz and adjacent topics on DBs, HDTGP, and most recently the Qui Gon hog talk on Newcomers?
Well, it took three hours over multiple commutes to finish the episode, but at least I now know about Rodgers' voluminous orgasms.
I had the exact same introduction to Jackie Chan with the MTV Movie Awards. I remember watching it several more times on reruns just to see that fighting montage
Same. And I watched the Chewbacca one so many times that him getting a medal in Rise of Skywalker honestly felt duplicitous and carried no emotional heft, you just know Abrams wasn't watching MTV he was watching vh1.
The Kurt Loder bit cracked my shit up. Also, "thanks for the weird arms, now I gotta comic strip"
It’s extremely heartwarming when Stangerbot says “I love you dudes”
Ranazzizi lied about going to SUNY Purchase, which is hilarious because it's not a difficult school to get into. Both my brother and I went there. It had the nickname SUNY Poorchoice. Rest in Power Ranazzizi.
So he lied about 911 and 914?
Did everyone else catch the déjà vu edit around 2:04:25 where the bouncy ball/how dare you Action Boyz bit repeats? Thought my CTE was flaring up.
I thought I pressed a button and messed it up, then went back and relistened and just assumed they ran the bit back from the top because they enjoy giving us hell - and fair enough. But I'm high.
C'mon guys. The NSSAss (National Sleep Score Association) has banned Nyquil and considers it a PED.
I wake up at 5am too Stanger. My wife always says I'm the Stanger of our bed.
I've definitely been part of one of those insane REPLY ALL situations. I work for NBC-Universal and a couple years ago some email got sent to everyone who works for NBCU. So we're talking local NBC affiliates in Orlando, Universal Films, Universal studios, corporate people at 30 rock. I think it was about 60k people and you have dumbasses replying to the REPLY ALL saying "Please take me off this list." People had to just take a couple hours break because everyones inboxes were popping off so much that you couldn't get any other work done.
My company is 90k people and does a yearly Weight Race where people are encouraged to lose weight. One year the mailing list for it it didn't get BCC'd and people started reply all'ing to it. This was at a time when we had size limits on our inboxes too, so the number of "stop replying all' and "please remove me" responses soon numbered in the thousands and locked up everyone's email and basically shut down the company for hours. Taught them to stop cheaping out on updating to Outlook 360 that's for sure.
The Garbrus - Viacom Reply All/Kurt Loder story always reminds me of my proudest work moment. I worked off-campus for University of Michigan in the Environmental Science department and some how a Reply All chain of people on the mailing list for that department complaining about a fruit fly infestation at the Environmental Science building got going. I replied with a very long email, the gist of which was that the University was planning on releasing 1000s of brown recluse spiders to naturally deal with the problem. The convo was shut down very soon after.
My favorite part of the Rumble in the Bronx episode is the five minute origin story of Charlie Brown
Thank you Action Boyz for releasing the podcast on time with no errors I hope you have a sleep score of 100 every day
Jackie Chan had to wear a thin fake rubber sneaker to cover his cast in this movie. I have always wanted to market this technology so you can put it over your own shoes so you can take a shit at work and no one will know it's you.
Be the change you want to see in the world, brother.
We're all the filmfan now dog.
Happy the boyz are back on Chan. Hopefully they dive deeper into Hong Kong action one day. Gabrus would cum watching a Sammo Hung movie. I bet my janitorial supplies on it.
Gabrus likes training scenes, perhaps 36 Chambers of Shaolin would impart unbeatable cleaning skills.
Pairs well with the poorly-dubbed Italian 'Bronx Warriors/Escape from the Bronx' movies, though those at least managed to have SOME parts actually filmed in New York.
The joke where Danny throws Jackie the helmet, then the huge pipe wrench made me laugh like a maniac. Great Looney Tunes-level gag
Holy shit, 32% of my sleep was “Wacko Jacko”
Hey ActionBoyz – thank you for taking time out of your bus̴y̨ ͜sc̴he҉dule̷ t͏o f͝uck͝ m̧y ͟wif͝e̷, I ḱn͡oẃ ̀i̶t͡'͘s har̀d͠ ͜t̷ó ̡kee͢p͡ your a̡p̛po̧intmèn͢ts beca͡u͘se Ga͠b҉ru҉s̡ ͡is so h҉i͡g̀h͞ ͜a̢͝n̕d̷͠ ̷ą́l̕͟só͡ ̡I̕̕ ҉̢͜j̀u̶s̕t̶ ̸̷g̛͢o͢҉t͏͏͠t̨̡a͏̢ ̴͝s͠a̛̕y̴̡ t̷̢h́́̀at Stangerbot is̸͞ ̡̛m̨͝y͡ ̢fav̴̵̛o̡ri̶t̷e̡͜҉ ̛͠pa̶̡̨r̴t ́͜҉o̷̧͘f͞ the ̧s̴͜h͠͡o͞w ̀҉a̢n̛͜d҉̨͘ please don't make fun of him. M̀y̨͜͠ ̢̨͟͜͡q̷̢͟ú̸͝e̵̛̕͜͝ş̶͘͟͡t͠i̶̧̨̛o͠͏n҉̸̨ ̶̷͜f̀͜͟͞ò́͜r͘̕ ̢̡͢͜͏t̷͏̴͢͜h̢͟͝ì̧̨̨͡s̢ ̡̕͘w҉̷ę͞e̡͜͢k̵͢ ̸͘i͏̶̨̨ş̛͏̶͟ ͡w̢h҉͏̴̕͘y̶̨̡̛ ͢͟w͏͏̴̕͢ò͠n̶͡͠'̨͟t̶̸̀͟͟ ͏͘͡y̢̨̛ǫ̧ú̷̷̧͜ ̶̧p̢̛̕l͘͟é́҉a͠͞͏͢s͏̡é̸̸̴ kiss Stangerbot,͜҉̼͙̳̰̙̰̲̬̮͉͉h͏̢͓̯̥̣̠̲̩̤̭̦̠̖͔͍̥͖͖͍͚ḙ̶̴͖̻͚̣͉'̶̨̯͚̭̲͈̬̰͍͖ś̻͔̪̱͔̘̫̟̩̦͡ͅ ͏̷̢̪̩͕̥̱̮̟̙̮̪͉̳͉̖̦̕b͏̧̳̩̦̹̙̘̘̬̤͚͚͎̹͎̳̫͚̬͜e̸̡̳͙̰̹̘͈̖̣͇̦̙̪̠̦̲̕͞ͅͅi̷̢͚̟̠͎̠̥͔̪n̸̛͚̟̫͖̣̦̺̭̣͡ͅg̷̵̱̞̥̼̘̕͞ ̷̙̺̬͍͔̯͉̤̦̭̲̮͎̤͓͇͜͢s̠͇̱͎͢o͏̷͉̖̹̦̰̦̭̖̩͠ ̡̬̤̼͈̯͞ç̸̸̸̬̗̬̘̝̻͠o̷̴̗̣̯̬̕͞ơ̧̢̞̺͙̝͕̮̫̟̬̜̳͔̠͢ͅļ͚͉̳͙̤̤̯̼͝͡͡͞ ͠͏̜͈̫͓̩͙̲͝ͅt҉̥̱̮̭͓̰͖͇̩̞̘̬̹̯͉̥̀͟͜͜ͅó̷̞͙̖͔̞̫̣̙͓̲͓̜̤͇̣̞̦͞ ̨̰̺̘̩̻͖̤͞ͅỳ̙͇͍̯̗̥̲͓̠̙͙̤̝̫̹͍̜͓̦ó̞̤̱̠̻̙͜͞͝ứ̝̰̞̻͖̞̳͈̹̺͓̗̠͞,͜҉̲̝̳̙̬̺̝͉̩͖̖̝̣̫̀͜͡ ̸̡̫̪͎̞̟̣͖͞w̲̲̻͔͔̼̝̟̠̻̳̗̯͕͓̮͔͢͢͢͡h͏͖̜̹͉̤̜͙͎̣̟̟͠y̷̨̖̺̦̖̱͎̼̺͝ͅͅ ̶̴̢̘̩̜̲̺͉̙̯̰̣͡w̸̧̡̢̭͙̰̥̖̤̕ͅơ̵̧̡̤͖̺̙̣̩̟̟͓͇̤͉̝n̯̩̗̫͝͞'͉̝̲͓̣̺̼͓̣̀͜͟t̨͎̮̲̰͉̰̙̹͉̞̞̬͕̩̭͎̳ ͘͞҉̞̤̜̣̫͖̙͕͓̩̖̣͇̼̗̦̯̩͕͞y̨̜̱͈͇̩͔͇o̢̢̨͓̣̣̹̻̝̘͈̬ͅù͖͈͔̮͢͜ ̴̳̰̟̥͇̭̱̫͙͍̹̝̬̟̀j̸̡̼̘̖̝̦̘̝̰͚͈̺̳̮̩͖̫̝͈̀ͅu̧̬̦͔̭͚͚͟s̘̦̻̗̙̘̼͓̼̲͚̣̻̺̞͔̥͝ͅͅţ̶͏̢̗̜͙̞̝̤̟̙̳̖̝̀ͅ ̡̡̛͖̟͕̦͟k͖̙̥̬̕͠i̴͎͔͈͉̕͜͢͝s̕͢҉̶̡͎̮̻̰̳͕̙s̵͙̤̙̳̰̝͎͓̦͔͉̫͇̖̩̕͢͢͢ͅͅ ҉̵͓̗̹̙̳͘͟͟h̷̛̞̘͍͕̟̫̮̮̟̺̮͇͓̜̜͜͠ị̷̬͓̭͎̞̙̩́́ͅm̸̷̗̖̪̣̩̤
The wheelchair kid has real mommy dead and dearest vibes.
i remember hearing something about chan and some alcohol related incidents as well. something about how he would get drunk to enhance his fighting prowess.
No, you're thinking of Sandra Oh
Gonna need more Sly Dangerfield
Hell yea, my first Jackie Chan movie. Got hooked ever since.
Jackie Chan's pretty controversial these days for taking a pro-Beijing stance during the protests. I think he's seen in a fairly similar light to Seagal over in HK and we just don't hear about it. Sorry Boyz, it's shitheads all the way down.
His son got convicted for smoking weed and Chan completely disowned him.
The second film in the history of the Action Boyz to cross the three hour mark is, of course, Rumble in the Bronx.
Saw this movie with my older brother when I was 10 and he was 18. I thought it was the greatest thing at the time.
My arm was getting tired holding the arrow for this long, I'm so glad I can shoot now. Thank you boyz, I know you read this and like my jokes.