Shadow Wolf Announcement
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REACHER (2022)
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Hubble's Beatles shrine is idiosyncratic. the Sgt Peppers and Japanese press of Yesterday And Today (w/o OBI strip mind you) seem deserving enough for display but only a newb would show off a junky cash grab release like Reel Music. 5 stars
Is the kool-aid scene problematic?
Reacher - A love letter to motels.
Does Gabrus have any crazy lifeguard stories? Heroic acts or gross shit?
Wait, Reacher is written by a British guy? I feel dirty.
He's lived in the US for years, if that helps.
I watched the whole season twice. I am only mildly embarrassed by this.
If Reacher is supposed to be so huge, why didn't they just hire a Sasquatch, shave him, and teach him to speak English?
Have the Boyz seen Six String Samurai? I think it would be a good ABZ flick.
Watched the first episode to prep. "That's how my brother got this scar" was the biggest laugh I've had since Monday.
Every time I hear the word "Reacher" I think of the word "reacharound." Trivia question: Which drill sergeant tells a recruit that he denies his male sexual partner "the courtesy of a reacharound".... Louis Gossett Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman, or R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket?
It took me out if the reality of the movie when Lou Gosset Jr. DIDN'T say that line.
Who’s the author of the Bruce Lee book the Action Boyz mention in the Bullet episode?
What kind of watch do you think Frank Thomas is wearing in those Nugenix commercials when they're at the driving range? That watch looks huge, and he's a big guy, so that's gotta be around 50mm. Looks like it has a chronograph, too. Doesn't look like a Panerai, famously featured in the Death Wish remake. I'm thinking it might be a Breitling.
With that insane of a body don’t you have to have at least one scene of him working out? Or at least say something like, “I’ll meet you at the crime scene after I hit the gym.”
We needed a scene did him calculating his macros
Boyz favorite Reacher kill? Mine was the neck stomp at Hubble’s house. Also I’m pretty sure that when the number of murdered people is 5x the number of cops in your town then the state/feds step in without asking permission.
“Hanging out”
Would the boyz ever do another James Bond movie? They're a great representation of what's popular in action films in several eras, for good and bad. Skiing is often a character in the movie.
They won't now. Jeez!
Andrew Jupin on the “We Hate Movies” podcast said something hilarious: “So what’s going on with that Reacher? Is he some sort of robot or something?” 😂
Great I got less than a week to blast through it.
Talks like Big John
I hope the 2022 Reacher becomes a recurring voice character in the ActionBoyz podcast. That guy is tailor made to be part of the show.
Hell yeah! Was gonna ask about this show on the thread… now I don’t have to.
Reacher’s Mojito song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSasU49X3o
Why did all roads in town lead past that dog?
I'm a frequent flyer with bad taste so I've read my fair share of Reacher books. He rarely eats, barely works out, and his personal hygiene practices are erratic at best. He also exclusively buys the clothes for his gigantic frame at either thrift stores or hardware stores. I don't know how he stays so fit but more importantly, who picks up a monstrously large hitchhiker in ill-fitting clothes who's probably covered in a variety of wounds?
All the books are silly, but the best ones have a story that make them hard to put down. I thought Season 1 was a good first effort (uneven in the way Bosch Season 1 was), and hopefully they pick a good novel to adapt for Season 2 (The Enemy or Tripwire are my choices)
The one thing the series failed to address was whether Reacher was big.
And whether the chief detective was a nerd
Hope the boyz talk about the 2012 Tom Cruise Jack Reacher flick, too. Always felt it was one of the best action/thrillers from the last decade or so.
As a superfan of the novels, I was less bothered by Cruise's size than I was bothered by the weird asexual energy he brought to the role. I still enjoyed the films, and figured something was better than nothing. I'd give the first one a solid B+. The second one was a C at best, but I still watched more than once.
I used to watch this after school. Right after Renegade.
Reacher kind of reminded me of Arnold movies. The guy is objectively a bad actor but he is such a physical presence you can't help but be sucked in.
I don't think the acting was the problem as much as the dialogue written for the actors.
Oh thank god. I needed this.
Watching Reacher felt like watching the worst episodes of Banshee
There is a Top Gun documentary on YouTube and yes it is called Danger Zone and yes this is reacher related i.e. Tom Cruise
Wow that’s a pretty mawdren selection
Did you guys see the Reddit AMA with Alan Ritchson? The top comment was a 7 paragraph question about why doesn’t Reacher hang dong in the show. And that in the books, Reachers dong is nicknamed “the jackhammer”. I have not read the books, so I don’t know if this is true or not, or if bloodflart was just let out of his crate early and got access to a Reddit account.
Poor Roscoe..that shower scene looked like a wrestling match
Why did the one cop come back from the bar with the beers unopened?
You have to open your own beers in Georgia, it's a Georgia thing. Unless they are twistoffs, the bartender takes care of those.
Minor work scandal: A dispatcher at my job (Petroleum equipment maintenance) started having an affair with a technician’s wife. Of course the dispatcher would send the tech to jobs hours away from home and/or with a high degree of difficulty, so that he could make time with his mistress. After the infidelity was discovered, the dispatcher left the company and the tech quit a few months after that.
BLIND BLAKE
Is it Modren March already? I know this is a pointless question but I'm reading Klosterman's new book The Nineties and wanted you guys to weigh in. Do Rodgers and Gabrus consider themselves Millennials even though we're at the very edge of the crossover? I always considered myself Gen X because of MTV and Reality Bites because there was no Millennial label yet, and didn't even know I was technically a Millennial until Gen Z was in the mix.
Where do people think Reacher is on the spectrum? At least half way to autistic, right? Like Rain Man but instead of math gifts, assassination gifts?
If you’ve read the books, he’s also really good at math too. So yes.
Minor spoiler for Station 11: Do you think the airport janitor posing as a Homeland Security officer was an ABZ listener; possibly even a Shadow Wolf?
Questions that need answering!
Hey Boys, after hearing the debasing discussion around the child cartoon character Casper being a gasper I thought you might find it fun and cool that he canonically died of pneumonia as a child. What a fun detail!
If nobody works some kind of "reacheraround" I'll be very disappointed. Also a TC Reacher Vs Reacher matchup?
I saw the cover of the DVD of the first film in a store before I had ever heard of the books. This was literally the first thing that came to mind.
What even is this year?
Related to media diet: is there a worse commercial running right now than those Duracell Optimum ads with screaming children whose toys don't work? Those might as well be ads for IUDs.
The Cisco formula one racing fan commercials are baffling.
All I know is the actor who plays Reacher also played a guy with a micro penis on New Girl.
And young Scully on Brooklyn 99! Flattop and the Freak!!
Why would his parents and brother call him "Reacher"? It's their last name too, right?
They all called eachother "Reacher" around the house. You had to listen close to the inflection.
Would love more hotel stories, I worked as a valet at one and you see the most insane things go on
In high school I applied to be a night clerk at a hotel because I thought it would be an interesting summer job and I imagined a foxy older woman asking me up to her room. Never got the job though. Probably should've kept that fantasy to myself during the interview.
Oh fuck yes! A lot to discuss about animal feed.