The Saint (1997)
Everyone keeps asking us if we’re artists. The answer is no, we’re just travelers searching for purity. What do you search for? Entertainment you say. Yessss. Have you ever listened to a long podcast? Perhaps we will take to our home in Val Verde and play you this week’s episode…THE SAINT
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Great ep! Wanted to chime in about the Chet transformation controversy (team frog btw - he eats a fly). Anyway pulled up the Weird Science script It reads: "351 INT. KITCHEN - CHET Lisa has worked some wicked magic on him transformed into a preppy Jabba the Hut. A mass of blubber dressed in L.L. Bean hunting gear." Thoughts?
RIP Val
This movie fucking sucks.
Hell yeah
Rodgers, safe deposit box or safety deposit box? Pick one, jabroni.
I couldn’t finish this one, just like when it came out. “Ow my heart” did me in.
Den of Thieves rules
Wrong.
Unsolicited potentially boring story time: As someone who entered Beirut with an expired American passport as a child (don’t ask), I can assure you that going to an American embassy and saying “I’m an American” does fuck all lol. One of the more traumatic 3-4 hour experiences of my life, basically was grilled like a suspect and asked questions a 12 year old couldn’t possibly know
Hey, everyone. Bing search "Elizabeth Shue muscles." Holy shit.
The closest comp to this movie for me was Master of Disguise, the Dana Carvey movie.
The fact that they were filming the Turtle Club scene when 9/11 happened and observed a moment of silence will always be amazing.
Wait wait... Since when are we not allowed to say "homeless"anymore? Or is this an action boyz inside joke?
It hasnt really caught on but unhoused is the preferred term now. Im sure your life must be ruined now.
Glad to see the Gray Man movie is rekindling Gray Man conversation here and on Hollywood Handbook. Their teaser breakdown was fantastic. Time to rewatch that stupid knife video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eSbqHUvOw&ab_channel=BladeHQ
Was the halo over his head at the end of the movie too much? I guess it’s needed to really drive home the whole saint aspect. They barley eluded to it during the rest of the movie.
You shit the bed on Boba Fett. Also not giving me a bigger part in Sin City 2.
I met Val Kilmer once. I was like 8 yrs old. There was this theme park in DFW called Sesame Place. There was this big hub bub because Cher was there. So all the moms were gawking at Cher. I didnt care so I was standing off to the side and there was this young guy with Cher. I clearly remember that he had a skateboard. He was also standing to the side so my aunt could take a pic of Cher. So we both kinda waited til they were done. Wasnt til years later that I recognized him as that cool dude with Cher.
Wow with all the spider and the fly bits the boys missed the perfect opportunity to reference Buffalo Bill Sadler and Solo.
I was ba weeping niddy bom and I slipped.
Orbital remade the show's theme. Orbital - The Saint
This was definitely a canned episode, right? Play episode incase of emergency
why would you think this hard about Action Boyz, gabrus has told a story about fucking a tomato like 12 times
That dorky disguise is a real Guy Pearce look.
Eaten so many El Monterey frozen burritos watching The Saint on HBO and TBS back in the day.
The bathtub diet is something I will have to look into
Great episode
Weird Russian club comedian is played by British funnyman David Schneider, among other things a Chris Morris / Armando Iannucci regular
Who also shows up in Mission Impossible on the train for some reason. Very bizarre use of his talent and keep waiting for Peter Baynham to pop up in a similar fashion.
stanger driving the bus is good
He said the villain's name about 50 times, and it felt like no two were the same. I loved it.
One of my favorite 90’s movies. This movie is a romance novel for dudes.
Moar 🤖
Nice bit of podcasting synergy: today’s new episode of the “Mrballen” podcast deals with the murder of Eugene Mallove, the cold fusion Technical Consultant on The Saint https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-mrballen-podcast-92648121/episode/episode-34-cold-fusion-podcast-97951843/
You don’t believe any of this cold fusion mumbo jumbo, do ya?
I conflated this movie with another one and thought this movie was about a guy who was blind that regained his sight and became a spy.
I never saw it but there was a Keanu movie in this period about cold fusion I think? Rachel Weisz maybe.. maybe I saw it and the Saint just stuck more in my head
Female listener. If I met “Thomas More” in my 20’s…. Sure. I’d be charmed enough to fuck him. In my 30’s, after two bottles of wine? Sure, I’d fuck him but then be like “damnit…. Not again”.
Thomas More is the absolute best version of that kinda guy. I thought I was the “sensitive misunderstood poet” type in my 20s 😂
“You guys see Gosling’s jacket for Gray Man? The guys trying to be the greatest jacket actor of all time” - BR 😂
I am unsure how facetious Rodgers was being with that quote. He seems to have legitimate “jacket” envy 😂😂
IN MOTHER RUSSIA DUMP TAKES YOU!
To answer the Boyz question; I've watched The Saint tv show and read a few of The Saint books, and none of them involve elaborate disguises, or fun gadgets so it's kinda boring. The series is just fun because Roger Moore is charming. Simon Templar is like if James Bond wasn't a secret agent.
heartwarmed by Stanger's e-40 appreciation.
im curious if knows any other forty water songs or if he's just fixated on this one track due to the name. He's shouted out the top of line wine Carlos Rossi multiple times.
80s/90s Elisabeth Shue was the babe of all babes
In all fairness, she’s still incredibly babe-ish
As soon as Elizabeth Shue was in white lingerie and Sneaker Pimps was playing in the background I was like “now we got ourselves a movie”
I can't get fucking "Real American" out of my head now
Fight for the rights of every one!
Very cheugy ep.
I cannot tell you how excited for this movie i was as a like, 9 year old. After getting out the theater i was all hyped up asking my dad a million questions about it like "whos that lady? whats russia? is cold fusion real??" and he told me the movie was based off an old TV show starring a James Bond actor. I nearly exploded. Anyways, i own this dumb movie on like 4 formats lol. I watched my VHS of it within the past 5 years.
The bank I work for calls them safe deposit boxes though the two terms are used interchangeably
I am extremely disappointed the Boyz didn't have any input on the logistics of how exactly Ilya wanted The Saint to suck his dick. Even Val looked intrigued by it. https://streamable.com/sc9ow6
Rodgers wi-fi is slower than Eric Roberts’ character in The Pope of Greenwich Village.
That’s just Eric Roberts in general