Blue Steel (1990)
In this episode the Boyz definitively answer the question: Is Gabrus Ron Silver’s doppelgänger. The answer might surprise you. Kathryn Bigelow’s BLUE STEEL this week!
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Hell yeah
A rare Clancy brown good guy role, a really unnecessary rape scene, Ron Silver as the worst casting ever, this film has it all
The numerous make out scenes with Ron Silver are seriously the grossest thing I’ve ever seen on screen.
As a 26 year old New Yorker I can attest the Wall Street/Fidi area is no longer a dead zone for nightlife. It’s kinda of the inverse of what it once was (crazy busy during the day with ppl at work and dead at night after everyone commuted home). Post Covid, ppl are still mostly work from home so the streets seem empty during the day when before you couldn’t walk down any sidewalk downtown without ppl bumping into you and having to push through a crowd. A lot of young ppl live down there now as a lot of commercial spaces have been converted to residential buildings and there’s tons of bars that are busy all night pretty much every night of the week.
Alright I got 2 things 1. My mom works for charter and they all wear suits and ties and I cannot fucking believe it, seems archaic. 2. The best man at my wedding is named nick born in 92. His brother born in 01 is named Jackson. Nailed it action Boyz
I have it on reasonable authority that Blue Steel gonna show up on https://filminthega.ps in a couple of days 👀
Do you think Clancy improvised the bellybutton play with JLC, or was that in the script? Seems oddly specific if it was scripted.
That DC comics logo Cool Guy was talking about is supposed to be a bullet. Viewed from the back.
I actually made an effort to watch 3 movies that I have never seen just on these 3 freaks recommendations!
Kai Winn from ds9 as the mom 😇
Also, loved that the boyz “clocked” JLC’s 911 call when Silver reveals himself . It was so comical how she just smashes buttons on the phone
Stangerbot
This movie has some grade A squibs, really great big blood packs.
Just saw Stanger in the City Slickers in Westworld skit from Funny or Die. The man is chiseled out of marble.
He's a stud.
Just relistened to the Blank Check episode on Blue Steel from like 5 years ago and guest Jordan Hoffman gives a "He's got Richard Jenkins eyes". The ActionBoyz lunch has been eaten.
"Do you think they listen to Action Boyz in heaven?" is a Stanger question that will never be topped.
The nurse Ratchet story, lmao classic 😂
Missed from the “city based slogans” discussion is #locationstrong, which I think originated from the Boston marathon bombing but is now applied to our twice per week mass shootings. Such a soothing balm.
Its the new "thoughts and prayers."
Blue Steel felt like one long repressed memory: either I saw the trailer 100 times or I watched this with my parents very, very young, and was sent to bed early when the gun-sex started, as it was major deja-vu until after that. 🧐
I saw this while passing through Yosemite in 1993. My uncle worked there and lived in a 600 sq ft employee cabin. Can’t believe Moms didn’t make us turn it off, but maybe they were getting sauced and paying little attention outside.
The Spanish Prime Minister has made an official anti-tie wearing statement! 👔: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62350019.amp
God I love Jamie Lee Curtis. For sure an early crush, maybe my second one ever after Marion Ravenswood
Can’t believe the guy who made fun of Gabrus earlier changed his name. Eugene Hunt 3D chess type stuff.
"made fun of" more like psychotic rantings
Doing a geneology of pop culture representations of the legal system based on what's been on the ACTIONBOYZ, you notice the 70s movies basically treat cops like people, some are good, some are petty small town tyrants like the guy in Knightriders. It's a real Dukes of Hazzard type healthy skepticism where no one's a hero just because they're a cop. Then once you get into the 80s and early 90s all of a sudden every movie has a pro-criminal judge trying to overturn everything and humiliate every DA on technicalities, and cops being significantly punished for making the smallest errors. There's nothing in American history that points to a time where judges were forgiving or cops were harshly disciplined and didn't all stand up for each other, but overnight you notice it appearing in basically every movie?
Louise Fletcher true ABz legend. Ben’s story, the titles mentioned and Best of the Best.
In my minds eye, the garage Rodger's was talking about is that fucked up self storage unit from The Silence of the Lambs.
Action Boyz Kevlar track suit in one year 🔫
Can we get a “shadow wolves presents.”. The action boyz book of poetry audio book reading? On a special episode of shadow wolves. Or for a charity episode of the pod.
For the Australian listeners, this movie's on Stan so it's pretty accessible.
Milton Glaser also designed the "B" logo for the Brooklyn Brewery Company.
Spartan (2004) is on HBO Max.
In the forest, always a sound. In the city, a reflection.
This movie was terrible. I swear my taste in movies never match up with the Boyz. I fell asleep twice during it and had to keep double checking how much I’d missed because the plot is so repetitive.
Always appreciate a Benny story. What a strange bird. RIP.
Rodgers was about to get married but his bride said Annie Wilkes was right during the vows so he called it off
There has been an absolute epidemic of people using FaceTime at the gym while actively working out. And no headphones.
Don’t sleep on the audio book of Heat 2. The narrator’s Pacino is so wildly over the top, it’s perfect. It feels like the entire book was reverse engineered from action boyz episodes. *sips dunkachino*
Yeah I saw that, not sure if I can pull the trigger on however many hours it is of that dude’s intensity it’s like a movie trailer.. still working on the Bill Goldman audiobook, narrator on that is a good fit. Are they gonna put Val Kilmer in the movie? Cuz the sequel part is about him and Pacino?
The Son of Sam stuff was so lame. I feel like Silver's motivations were perfect as a psycho wall street scumbag on a power trip with his magnum. Could've added some impotence stuff to help his violent outbursts along.
As in witnessing the death and trauma up-close in the market finally loosened the one screw that wasn’t loose and tipped him over from non-violent to violent psychopath?
I can't decide which is more embarrassing: the boyz forgetting that they've told a story before, or me remembering that they've told that story before.
Try talking for a thousand hours without repeating a story
Dave of Dave's Killer Bread had a mental breakdown a few years ago: "Earlier that day, Dahl drove to Dave's Killer Bread's headquarters in Milwaukie, threatened employees and punched a life-size cutout of himself, according to an employee who called 911." Bread slaps though.
this is why I usually go by "David"
I like this movie but it's really insane how much Ron Silver's character gets away with. He's running around with a gun and no one looks at him, notices, or hears anything. And where are all the cops? We only see like 10 in the entire movie! What happened to her black partner? How many times does Silver's raise the gun at the camera during the last half of the movie?
Dude this movie absolutely shits on her character like 20 times in a row and he just does whatever he wants the whole time it was so frustrating
Gabrus hates ties because he’s 300lbs of lard. Gabrus loves sweats because he’s 300lbs of lard. Not because of climate change or guns or whatever lmfao. Lose weight Gabrus!
Good one.
Dave's bread.... Damn I thought I was at the epitome of health eating that everyday.
I just started eating Dave's bread but now I'm questioning my entire life direction 😰
The best Stanger question ever?
Clancy Brown looks like a young gentile Howard Stern in this one. Five stars