Vigilante (1982)
VIGILANTE this week. Remember, this is our Waterloo, baby! You want your podcast back? You gotta take it. Dig it? Take it! And just one more word: take that pitiful look off your face, or you won't make it through the episode.
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My new truck is a shade of tan named "Sand Dune Metallic," BROWN CARS ARE BACK BABAYYY
Hell yeah
I grew up there it brings back memories from the 80’s
They keep referring to the locations as Brooklyn, this movie was filmed mostly in Astoria, Queens…you see Queensbridge housing and Astoria pool under the triboro bridge
Yep & lic.. factory where he goes to do repairs obv off queens blvd you can see the 7 train looks like over by aviation.. "Plaza" where the pimp is isnt plaza hotel its queensboro plaza, classic for sex workers.. theres adr in the hospital that even says "astoria medical center" or something.. mcarren park in greenpoint is def a location tho & the main car chase looks like mcguiness in greenpoint... But yeh this is a very queens film...
If you wanna see Woody Strode more in his prime as a lead, playing a buffalo soldier check out Sergeant Rutledge. It was on Criterion for a while but you probably gotta rent it now
I accidentally fast-forwarded, and when I recovered Gabrus was talking about his toenail polish for the second time recently (what was the other? Shadow Wolves? H&M?). Sent me into a very weird deja vu spiral.
Lustig has a thing for prison shower rape scenes; the most notorious is likely the one in Maniac Cop. Another highly recommended Forster vehicle from around the same era is Walking the Edge (1985), co-starring Nancy Kwan and... Joe Spinell! Forster is a down on his luck LA cab driver, Kwan is a desperate woman hellbent on revenge. Spinell is the heavy of course. Lots of great seedy LA locations you rarely see on film.
Harris was on Pete Holmes you made it weird podcast. Think about that ep a lot. He almost joined scientology to try get clean.
does anyone else get Thomas Jane vibes from Vigilante-era Robert Forster?
Love this movie. Saw it at the New Bev with Lustig in person sharing stories a mile a minute. Amazing time.
Check out Alligator 1980. Robert Forster's charm is at full power and elevates the movie from total waste of time to only slight waste of time. The man never phoned it in once. Gopher shows up too.
David A Prior's Rapid Fire 1989 is also worth mentioning. Joe Spinell's final role and a dude with a secret government machine gun fucking things up on a Navy Ship. It's pure trash in all the right ways.
I saw a screening of Batman Mask of Phantasm this weekend, it rocked. Also, Bechdal Cast did an hour long episode devoted to the Nicole Kidman AMC film. Pretty fun episode. I need to get to an AMC and see this thing.
Whelp, I'm a conservative now, this movie did it.
Cotton comes to Harlem (1970) is on Prime.
Kind of crazy that aquarium drunkard decided to cover this movie today: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/04/05/videodrome-vigilante-1982/
Learning to do heroin in the city sounds scary. So lucky I was taught by a weird old redneck in a trailer park.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/actor-jon-gabrus-attends-the-2018-mtv-movie-and-tv-awards-news-photo/976730000
I want to clarify that I did not do this. But some High and Mighty fan has clearly been doing this for years. https://ethnicelebs.com/jon-gabrus
Came across some posters that might appeal to this group (I have no affilitation with it. They are just relevant) https://hcgart.com/collections/gibson-graphix
The “shoe licker” reminded me of a guy in SF dubbed “the snail”. A friend worked at one of those private booth/watch a stripper through glass places. They had to throw this one guy out for licking the floor and walls of those private jack booths. They had to kick him out often enough that he got the name “the snail”.
Buying weed in NYC back in the late 90s was interesting. Walking through Washing Sq Park and hearing "Smoke? Smoke?" But I had delivery service from a Jamaican crew that would pick me up from my dorm in their mini-van, pull out weed from the air vents, then drop me off around the block. The best was a dealer named Mike X. He would make deliveries in a custom Lincoln Town car with a driver. He would sit in the back and let you into the car, but when the door shut, a loud mechanical noise would occur. I asked him what the noise was, he said "Oh that's just the steel bar lock in the door engaging. Nobody can get in, nobody can get out." Of course he was one the friendliest dealers I've ever dealt with.
The first car I remember was an 80s black Subaru wagon. In the summer it got so hot, if you sat on the metal seatbelt buckle it would brand your thigh.
Where is the upcoming movie hints ?
if anyone wanted to listen to the podcast episode with Harris talking about his heroin addiction it is You Made It Weird. tough stuff
Weekend Joe Spinell watch party, “Hollywood Harry is a 1986 film starring and directed by Robert Forster.”
Joe Spinell's greatest performance, aside from MANIAC, is consoling Spielberg in the video clip of Spielberg not being nominated for Best Director for JAWS in '75.
The dad car talk was mint.
Car guy here. I was always secretly excited about what car the pot dealer was going to tell me to get into. Once it was a new M5. Mostly Nissan rogues though.
No bit zone- Chicago does have the problem portrayed in this movie- a justice system that lets violent felons/criminals loose only to commit more crimes.
I had a brown 1978 Lincoln Mark V Bill Blass edition with champagne bonnet top that I bought around 2010 in San Diego. It was 18 feet long. Despite having the California-required motor, it got maybe 9 miles to gallon, even after I rebuilt the carburetor. It was such a beauty... traffic on the 15 would part to let me through.
Woody Strode played on the same UCLA football team that had Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington
Crazy how Strode was in his late 60s during filming, by 80s movie standards he doesn’t look a day over 55 in Vigilante.
I recently watched VFW on Shudder. It's a cheesy little, action-horror starring some ABZ royalty including "Beyond Glory" star Stephen Lang, Stanger's elevator mate Bill Sadler, and the juicy assed Fred Williamson. It's nothing ground breaking, but it's like some bizarre mashup of Green Room and The Expendables
I had to go home from work after hearing the denim/leather jackets + 40 something dude section. Described me too well; been dressing the same for decades but been front of the mind since seeing a photo of comedy bang bang character Randy Snutz dressed much like me
I'm telling myself that'll never happen to me as I put a coat of wax on my Belstaff jacket and sob.
I believe the person who Ben didn’t name that Harris coined humblebrag about is Donald Glover. Harris mentions Donald as being one of the inspirations (I think Donald tweeted something about seeing his modeling work on a train in Japan and that sparked it) on his WTF podcast. Interestingly enough, on Donald’s debut album CAMP, the song ‘You See Me’ has a bar ‘I’m the shit, been the shit, fuck a Humblebrag.’ Which I read as a sneak diss to Harris. Needless to say I am huge DG fan and I don’t know if Ben and Donald were on the improv team Shitty Jobs at the same time, but obviously via DERRICK I’m sure they know each other. All of this to say, yeah I think it’s Donald.
This didn’t age well.
I loved the Robert Forster appreciation of this episode. He's got a great voice. If you ever want to hear him read an audiobook, check out "Roadside Picnic" by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. It was made into the film "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky. I'm sure the boys will eventually cover it.
Ive recently seen a tabloid headline that stated Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were "right" for only bathing their kids once a week.. hard to argue with the cover of In-Touch.
I think Stanger is talking about The Professionals. Woody Strode did play briefly for the Rams.
1966 so might be a little early but otherwise a perfect Action Boyz movie.
I was so excited for this episode while watching the movie and yall delivered! Favorite episode in a long time
Gangland Clown Car could be a pretty decent show on Apple TV Plus
Making this face :0 at Ben's once-a-week-bath Dad friend. I have a daughter and im overly concerned with her not going to school with hair looking like its getting done in the morning by some schlubby ass dad. Cant imagine letting her become da stinky kid.
“Well he’s got sensitive skin”. No doubt, probably from being caked in layers of dead skin and baby crap.
What a van!
Can't fucking believe Gabrus brought up r/holdthemoan
He brings it up on High and Mighty like every third episode I feel like (edit, not a complaint!). I wouldn’t have heard of it were it not for the porn episodes of that show.
Popeye Doyle asking a perp whether he's ever licked a guy's shoe in Buffalo.
Have you ever had a pedicure in Puerto Rico?
I've never even heard of this movie. And I'm something of a vigilante buff.
check out this 'movie' called Dangerous Men if you never seen it, full thing is on Youtube it's hilarious.
Enjoyed this one a lot. Was getting worried when he’s still in prison with 20 minutes left in the movie but he got the revenge.
Hold the Moan hive assemble.
Always weird when me and one of the Boyz' porn search tags soverlap. :/
There's something comforting about Robert Forster's midwest accent.
Robert Forster, Fred Williamson and Joe Spinell? This movie is perfection. My only complaint is we don't see enough of Robert Forster's dick in that shower scene. There's no way that guy isn't packing.