Fire Down Below (1997)
Truly magical seeing Steven Seagal play EPA agent, Jack Taggert. He’s an aikido doing, water testing, guitar playing, master carpenter POC. Talk about the role of a lifetime. FIRE DOWN BELOW
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Late sub but my step-dad’s childhood friend and then college friend wrote this film together.
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Hell yeah
Haha don’t know why but appreciated the Mack truck talk. I work as truck designer for them
thats probably why then
What Zevon does, using one's body to create percussion sounds, is called hamboning. Some good YouTube videos of Pete Seeger doing it also.
Given how expensive song rights can be, is it possibly the producers were early pre-Crystal Cove fans. So they said, “SS, bubi, you can wear what you want, you can do 5 identical weapon disarming moves with the only difference being what orifice you shove the gun barrel in, we just want you to be on the soundtrack”. It causes the acting choices to make more sense.
One of my favorite over looked Seagal moments was his brief stint as Anderson Silva's weird celebrity hanger-on. He'd show to events in his dumb shooter glasses and talk wild shit. He claimed that he showed Silva the front kick that Silva famously knocked Vitor Belfort out with. Also became "friends" Lyoto Machida. When Machida knocked out Randy Couture with the closest thing to the Karate Kid Crane kick, Seagal claimed he told Machida to do it. If I remember the quote it went "And I said to Lyoto-kun, use the kick."
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My in-laws worked for the EPA, so I asked them about the work that Seagal did in this movie and if it followed EPA protocol, since it is important to protect ground water and all, and they told me that I am an embarrassment and they can’t believe I married their daughter.
Good Mack and fire truck talk
EPA agents are armed. Just… had to say it.
Just picturing the 3 of you sitting by a fire with in like fuzzy socks and comfy blankets giggling and it brings me big joy.
When filmfan meets new people, how long do you think he waits to bust out the wakanda slave trade theory? Is it up front as a litmus test for who he can get along with, or a slow reveal after months of chit chat?
Bold of you to assume filmfan ever leaves their house
Weird blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance by Robert Ridgely (aka "The Colonel" from Boogie Nights) as one of Kristofferson's cronies that leaves the poker table at the end once Seagal shows up. Also, some very good very legit insights from Seagal here about his guitar collection: https://youtu.be/d2MUzYR_2eM
LOVE these retreat episodes!
Do you live in Appalachia within 5 miles of an old EPA Superfund cleanup site like I do? If so I recommend this podcast and that you watch this documentary.
Maybe I missed it butt did they cover the insane dialogue where Seagal's telling the sheriff he's going to send him to the proctologist for butthole ointment while he's got a gun in a dude's mouth? And then there's a callback later he walks by the Sheriff "How's your proctologist?"
And apply it on the hole that hurts most!
The Last Waltz as a Thanksgiving Shadow Wolves would be fucking epic
Double-feature pod listen with the On Deadly Ground episode. 👍🏻 Genuinely: what’s Seagal’s real ethnicity?
He's jewish, er half jewish. The Dollop did a three parter on him, it's great but also infuriating cuz he's even more of a piece of shit than we already knew he was
Backwards masking seems like the logical follow up to the Boyz early “phone phreaking” talk.
Wow the boyz actually recording in person again. Couldn’t tell if it was a bit after shadow wolves. Been waiting for this since the pandemic!
Which of the boyz are gonna start wearing this Seagal jacket?
Holy shit, this movie was kinda... good? Seagal even came across as intiminating in a couple scenes. The truck chase was awesome. Lang killed it. I didnt expect to like this at all.
I could see Pally as Dylan in a Last Waltz themed party. Rodg as Danko, Gabrus Dr. John maybe, Stang in the Van Morrison jumpsuit
Here is a YT clip I made featuring some of the best dialogue from the movie https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxmwdqF0p_Bdid0fVF_Frb-LcB1bcWVJlH And the fight scene that quickly follows https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxbnVyWb5z1Gbeu5iUM9F9kSaI47rZbjZ3
In addition to being the uncle in my girl and "the dad" in my girl 2, Richard Masur was in the wonderful world of Disney classic Mr boogity.
I'll always remember him as the dad in License to Drive and as Stanley Uris in the TV miniseries of IT.
I love how often Boogie Nights gets brought up. Holding out hope for a Shadow Wolves episode one day.
There's a new Needleface movie coming out on Hulu, soon.
Some decent sauna talk and connection to last weeks episode... Van Damme and Rodman won the Razzie this year for worst on screen couple, beating out from Fire Down Below, Seagal and his guitar.
Marty Stuart had a Marvel comic called “Marty Party in Space”. I also saw him get a dui once wearing tiny jorts. He was driving a green Jeep Wrangler and had his stupid big hair all hairsprayed. Weird guy, kind of a fixture here in Nashville.
I love the quality of episodes on the retreat. It is like old Flophouse eps where they would watch the movie and then immediately record the ep.
I'm hoping they can pull off a retreat like this on an annual basis. Reminds me of the shows early days.
My dad was an EPA agent and his SAC in PHX was attached to this movie as a technical advisor. I mean, literally nothing in this movie is what an EPA agent would do, and when the guy pointed that out, a crew member said “Mr. Seagal likes to do things his own way.”
Also, my father had to go undercover on numerous occasions to gain access to documents or dump sights. At one point, the guy they were trying to bust told my dad he was his best friend. That sucks.
A friend of mine is Seagal's jacket bedazzler. Well, friend of ours.
i saw "fire" and thought it was the Howie Long Fireman action movie... This is a new "Seagull Steve" vehicle for me!
John Diehl is the actor who plays Seagal's buddy in the flashbacks at the opening of the movie. Alarms go off in my head whenever I see him on screen or his name in the credits. I first noticed him in 1994 when he played Jesus in an episode of The John Larroquette Show, and he seemed so familiar to me for some reason. I must have been remembering him from Madhouse, another John Larroquette vehicle from 1990. For whatever reason, he's just burned into my brain somehow. But he has been in a ton of things over the years, including a few Action Boyz movies. His IMBD credits start in 1980, when he was 30 years old. Edited to correct the year that Madhouse was released. (Rodgers fan voice: I can't believe the other Patreon commenters missed that.)
He was a theater guy. He was on Miami Vice and they killed off his character because he wanted to go back to doing theater.
A friend of mine is Kris Kristofferson's illegitimate son. My friend didn't know his real father and his mom always said that the only person she hooked up with in 1978 was Kris. She became extremely successful in the early days of IBM and met someone else, so that's why she never bothered to try to contact Kris about it. She was also the "cool mom" who bought us booze/beer and let us smoke weed at her house.
Seagal was taking out his frustrations on Kristofferson for not being cast as Blade.
They boyz really out did themselves with this one. Another beautiful Rodgers ASMR session. Action Boyz for fucking life🤙
Why don’t you put down the mineral rights, tough guy.