G.I. Jane (1997)
Get that dick back in here and listen, as the ActionBoyz discuss GI Jane.
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How have Action Boyz not covered Master and Commander yet?
Y'allll I am waiting with bated breath for the day there's a Devil's Advocate ep!
Hell yeah
Kind of perverse that Rodgers is like, “we didn’t know how good we had it with Fire Down Below, but Ridley Scott’s GI Jane? This has problems.”
why?
Excuse my ignorance if it’s been posted elsewhere but anyone see Project Wolf Hunting? What a goddamn layered masterpiece of Korean cinema following the 80s/90s action movie blueprint and making it modern and violent. There is some noticeable cgi but worth it. Yup I am and was very high when I watched it.
Never seent that but Korean action flicks can be pretty great.
This episode was an A+ classic Action Boyz listen. Was laughing my ass off many times including the imagery of Gabrus flooding the spiderhole with shit water. I will say that there was some recent reporting by the New York Times indicating that we're certainly not in a kindler gentler Navy SEALs era. In the article I am linking they have this: "The Navy has made hundreds of changes over the years meant to improve safety and increase graduation rates. At the same time, the SEALs who run the course have quietly resisted anything they see as lowering standards. So no matter how much the Navy has tried to make BUD/S easier, it seems to only get harder. In the 1980s, about 40 percent of candidates graduated. Over the past 25 years, the average has dropped to 26 percent. In 2021, it was just 14 percent, and in Seaman Mullen’s class this year, less than 10 percent." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/us/navy-seal-training-death.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/navy-seal-training-death-report.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/us/navy-seals-recruits.html
From some of my navy vet friends, this might be because some people have a bud/s course as part of their enlistment contract - that is, they go through basic and then get a chance at bud/s - and if you fail out there is a contingency that you get a different preferred MOS from a preselected list. Makes it easier to try and be a seal but also leads to more drop outs. No idea how truly common that practice is, though.
American toilets suck. Whenever I am in the US (from Australia) i am always clogging toilets, but never do back in Australia. I think it has somethin to do with you guys having so much water in the bowl.
We have gone to war with closer allies for lesser insults.
Are we just going to brush over the cutting edge disguise of raining shit on yourself to look like a moving oil rig? 💯
I clogged the new toilet at my mom’s when I was home for Christmas. The plunger she has didn’t work so I went to buy another one. It didn’t work, so I was back at the hardware store like 30 minutes later to get a different one and the cashier made a comment about it
“You should’ve seen the size of the goddamn Turkey!” 😄
Those poor Libyan dudes just having a normal day until then
I feel like Gabrus’ story of his dad, in his grandmother’s pink sweatpants, clearing fatbergs, is somehow a sign that we’re all making progress. We’re all doing the work.
If you're going to watch one Ridley Scott movie that you haven't seen before, make it 'The Duellists'. You haven't lived until you've seen Harvey Keitel as a Napoleonic Frenchman with a New York accent. Also notable for its historically accurate sword fighting.
Scorsese’s Last Temptation of Christ is great for Keitel as Brooklyn Judas. Plus Harry Dean Stanton as Saul/Paul, Dafoe as Jesus, Bowie as Pontius Pilate…
Re the live rounds on the obstacle course., we used live rounds in the Army, but by the time i went through the weapons were locked into a position that kept the floor of fire at 3.5-4 feet. We were told that if we had an issue(snake/medical emergency etc) raise ur hand. Don’t stand up
My mom served enlisted from 84-88. She was hyped about this when it was released, I’ll never forget her review: “Not as good as I hoped. Wanted to see less time arguing with senators, and more time in Libya. Glad they made it though”
I think that is the closest that Ridley Scott came to directing a Tony Scott movie. Ridley said that he discovered the script on Tony's desk. Typical older brother move. It probably would have been a better movie if Tony had made it. But it's still well worth a watch.
Goblin mode! /,,/, Try the History channel docu series “the Selection”, if you haven’t already. Free on YouTube.
I bet Chewbacca mom is like super serious but still wearing the mask, giving thoughts on Palestine and shit
My favourite Jim Cavizel story is: he was convinced to do a interracial kiss because "that's what the first responders on 9/11 would have done"
He had to be "convinced" to do it? Sounds like a great guy...
My favorite Police Academy was 5, when they went to Miami...it was on Comedy Central all summer once.
Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!
I rang the bell day 1 of Janitor Training School
I respect anyone who rings that bell
Not an operator, but Gabrus and the Boyz might appreciate reading that I took a rafting trip with, among others, a SEAL captain. When the late Richard Marcinko's name came up, he said "He's the kind of man who ought to be kept in a cage in peacetime."
Gabrus’ dad clearing the blockage story by chance synced up perfectly with me starting lunch 🤣…
Michael Biehn must have been unavailable, right?
It's BOOYAH, ackshually.