Miller's Crossing (1990)
Even though the Action boyz live in a world of outdated movies they still somehow manage to be even more out of date in the previously recorded work of art. Enjoy.
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Hell yeah
I’m doing a lite ABZ relisten after becoming a Shadow Wolf. This episode is a wild time capsule right before Covid. It may be from “the vault”. It is very fucking funny
Was not expecting a slick and raw reference to the Garth Brooks Facebook announcement.
Also, Ringer parody was hilarious, hopefully that becomes a staple.
Is Rodgers correct that Verna killed Rug? I'm genuinely not sure, not trying to be "that guy." I understand the way Rodgers sees it, but I don't see a lot in Byrne, Harden or Turturro's performances near the end to support the interpretation that Turturro is lying about Mink before Tom kills him. Also, not sure if the idea that Verna actually killed Rug has the dramatic impact that Rodgers suggests... either way, Verna got Leo into the war and the specific detail of who killed Rug isn't that important. It's either: Verna killed Rug, or Mink, who was with Verna, killed Rug... the distinction seems, to me, more arbitrary than grave. Also, I think it's pretty typical of the Coens to incite the whole story with a cosmic misunderstanding (Mink killed Rug thinking he was working for The Dane), and the offhanded way Turturro explains it in the end seems to support that... like ultimately it didn't really matter who killed Rug and why. And when Verna can't bring herself to kill Tom, I think we're supposed to glean that she, of all people, is not as hard as everyone else... that to me seems like the dramatic point of the scene, not a revelation that she's been lying all along. Anyway, none of this matters, and I think it could be one of those rich ambiguities which the Coens often layer into their films, but I'm interested in knowing what other people think.
The Simmons impressions are amazing
Since Rodgers brought up the literary influences, dashiell Hammett’s glass key and red harvest (where the coens got the phrase blood simple) were big influences on this movie, red harvest I liked more than Maltese falcon or the thin man, crazy violent to an almost surreal level. So many fucking people get killed and it’s partly based on his real life detective work
Didn’t realize how badly I needed this takedown of Simmons’ brand of inane bullshit
The Sports Dude is my new favorite character.
Gabrus mentions fucking a bat in the cold open and yet they still haven’t made a single mention of COVID-19. Your silence is deafening, Boyz.
They recorded all the cold opens years ago
How do we see this high school student film Rodgers is in?
“I blow my brother on tic toc” wtf 😂😂😂
This shockingly is not the first time snowballing has come up, Gabrus defined it on the GI Joe episode at the beginning of the discussion about Snow Job and fucking a snowman wife in a bikini.
That’s not shocking to me in the least.
As a Scotsman I congratulate JG and RS for their reasonable Scottish accents. That they were aiming for Irish is neither here nor there, it was a treat! 😊
Benjamin, I fucked your woman
This is the second movie the Boyz have done with the actor who plays Eddie Dane. He was also in Patriot Games as James Earl Jones’ right hand man.
Anybody else for real sign up for a Starz subscription to watch ABZ movies though? The boys should be collecting commission checks
The U.K. has gone into 3 weeks of lockdown so I might as well.
Season 2 of In Treatment is pretty good. The Alison Pill arc is interesting and ties into the Mia Wasikowska Gymnast arc from Season 1. The John Mahoney arc is decent too. Mahoney knocks it out of the park. Couldn't really get into Season 3 though.
I liked the season three plot with Irrfan Khan. I don't remember anything else, maybe him getting a new therapist. The John Mahoney run is the best part of the series in my opinion, just a slowly melting powerhouse.
I hope Simon Billson is a recurring character
The Sports Dude appears to be, along with Dar, one of the few characters they can all do. I gave up on Simmons when their parody became overwhelmingly the reality. His thoughts on sport, fine, but I don’t need him inserting himself into all the pop culture discussions.
I got to see Gabriel Byrne in Long Day’s Journey Into Night on Broadway a few years ago, he is such a BAMF I adore him
I hope they eventually get around for End of Days, an underrated Arnie joint. The bit where Byrne says to the acolyte “...this is your wife? And this is your daughter?...” before the freaky Cronenberg threesome always makes me laugh.
Miller's!? I barely know her's!
The sleazy voice-over guy is an instant addition to the ABz pantheon of characters.
Dear Action Boyz sirs. Phil Hartman designed the album cover for Steely Dan’s Aja which is pretty cool.
Google says it was designed by someone name Patricia Mitsui.
My all-time favourite movie. Didn't expect to ever hear the Boyz discuss it but I can't wait.
I love my Boyz and I want to kiss them and tickle them.
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