Hard Target LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)

The hunt is on For baggy jeans Aquanette for that long luxurious hair And a weird cage and grandpa We saw hard target so you know what that means Wow Wow Wow On the line Wow Just make the shower of monkey shots in the paint There's just a bunch of movies while they're making the grave Here's a real question for the out of this kid, hey Hello people of earth and hello people of New Orleans We are live and we are back on the road to celebrate the 1993 Jean-Claude Van Dam classic about the most dangerous game hunting man That's right, tonight we will be talking about Lance Hendrickson as a meal Fushon, a man who hunts homeless people And Jean-Claude Van Dam who just kind of falls backwards into figuring out what's going on All for $100 a day It's John Woo's first English language film And from what I can tell I did watch it closely It's the first time you don't see John Claude Van Dam's ass But you see Boo in deed In deed But if mullets were asses we see a lot of ass And that's all we're here to do, talk about mullets I can't wait to talk to you about this movie I can't wait to just talk to you about Wilford Brimley When a movie can surprise you at our 27 minutes in I'm like whoa There is so much going on here but I can't break it down alone I need to break it down with my two co-host Fresh out of the house, out of quarantine Please welcome Jason Manzooka What's up, Jirks? How are we doing in New Orleans? And while there's not a balcony there is a balcony-esque area So give it up for the balcony monsters These balcony monsters, everybody's topless They have just been living on frozen daquaries for a year So they're ready to go These people are sloppy This city is sloppy I don't mind saying it, look at this woman in the front row is like yeah We're so sloppy you get me I am just excited to be in air conditioning so And now help me bring to the stage my other co-host Miss June Diane Raphael How are you June? I'm doing well, how are you Paul? I'm doing fine, thank you for asking Hard target June thoughts? Okay, I don't know why we're doing this movie on this podcast and not on Spooled Whoa! On Spooled Paul! I love it You can't answer for you, June, it's because we don't do on Spooled Well, I know we don't, we never been asked We never been asked We are on a band on Spooled List God, but I love this movie I don't, no, no, it's really, it's... Except give me more Exactly, it flew by and Paul, you really prepped me and I don't know if you were doing a practical joke But you really weren't me, it's gonna be an hour and forty minutes, it's gonna feel like two I just wanted you to be prepared, I don't know where you fall Sometimes you don't like a John Woo movie, but maybe you do I like this John Woo movie Alright, wow And by the way, Jcvd, perhaps, never better Never better And a city in which his accent somehow works The only place The only place Belgian people here in New Orleans know I was like, I buy it, he fits here also, also two things Yeah All of Act 3, he has no lines No problem This movie, shockingly, no buns That's what I was saying This is a bunless John Claude Van Dam movie Also, it takes a really long time for him to strip down into that tank top You're right, when he finally takes off that billowy Like a shirt It's like a wash denim shirt It's like a pair of shoes that has been attached to his body I can't get any read on his body the entire time Because he, like, between the hair He feels like he is constantly in some, he's almost like a Marty Brokler Where are you also wearing a duster? He's wearing like a duster for the first act And the second act he's wearing the shirt, the billowy shirt, the billowy pants And then he's about The last five minutes that he comes down to and the camera drinks in his... What are we waiting for? We've been waiting for Maybe John Wu's best movie for his aggressive slow-mo is just John Claude Van Dam's body Listen, I'll tell you, John Claude Van Dam's work in this movie Is the... like you said Jason the best work he's ever done There's nothing better, he's restrained Well, I think all of his performances are restrained because it feels to me like his grasp on the English language is slight And I don't say that in a derogatory way Wow, I just feel... Careful fall You are making an enemy Love him, love him But I don't think of him as a braw performer Is he here? I do agree with you He's a braw It seems that no one ever taught him the word dad in English Because he loves saying daddy, papa I'm going to help you find your daddy But him saying the word... And every time I was like, it's so uncomfortable It's so uncomfortable Why it's so weird is because they're saying like her father was killed and he's like, we found your daddy It's like, what, hold on Let's just... We were talking about a dead man, we can't call the dead man It would make sense if Natalie's character was 11 Sure Yeah, no, I was like, oh, this movie, again, because they don't try and saddle him with a ordinary man job or a regular joke In the other movies, he's like a firefighter, he's like a guy in the world who has to interact with real people He's just like a vigilante essentially He's just a poor person I mean, that's... This movie is about the rich hunting the poor against their knowledge Really, I love it Well, but very... We're going to talk about the game of it all First, we just think he actually is the most dangerous game of all And they don't want just any old poor person No They want a poor person with a military background But they're not going to give them a worthy competitor But they don't give the competitor anything Except five minutes Five minutes? They'll be like, what are you going to do? Like, you have gone, you've gone... I want to kept on wanting to say, you all have cars, you have a fleet Like, this is not mad They have like... They're like a... Literally a hunting party except their dogs are guys on motorcycles And they have... Yeah Like... Mr. Pick is like the head of the thing By the way, Mr. Pick, the mummy from the mummy Oh! Oh, I love him Oh, I could replace him, but God damn it, Lance Hendrickson, isn't just... Oh, what a performance What a performance It's definitely in this movie Lance Hendrickson is now, I think, my favorite, how did this get made actor? Not because he's bad, it's because no matter what movie he is amazing He also... I also recently watched Aliens and he is... He understands every time what movie he's in Yes And adjusts accordingly He's like, oh, got it, this is enormous and preposterous I can do that And then Aliens, he's like, what's going on? Okay, I can do that He so understated Aliens, he was a fan of John Wu And he's like, put me in your movie, John Wu did And he said the only note he ever got from John Wu He said, how do you want me to play my character? And he goes, you hunt the weak Got it Never took another note And by the way... Amazing Unnecessary because he crushes He's so good He's incredible He is so great I want to talk about one thing I know I'm bringing up early I'm bringing up early in this movie And we won't get to the end But I just want to talk about Lance Where he is on fire Here's the thing That wasn't supposed to happen Lance Hendricks and caught fire During the movie did not break character And they left it all in the film He is jacket caught fire And he's like, fuck it, we're going That's why he did have some like, kind of gel on him So he wouldn't like, fully ignite That was not supposed to happen And John Wu was like, yeah, he didn't break characters We left it all in And that... Wow I mean someone should have yelled cut That's why he says what do you guys... Because the other actors, if you watch that scene again And we don't have it But if you watch that scene again He says the other actors like, go get out of here This is why you're paying money Because the other actors were in shock They're like, the fuck is going on The lead actor of this movie is on fire And he gave them an exit Like, go, get out of here Tick-tick off the jacket There's the same thing on aliens He wasn't supposed to get ripped in half And he just got ripped in half And he was like, let's roll on it I'll force my blood to be a Milky Viscous substance And we'll just do it This is the one thing I wanted to talk to you both about The movie opens up in... I mean, it opens up in the French Quarter And no one is on the street The only time I've seen that is at 8 a.m. in the morning The whole movie The whole movie, the streets of New Orleans are empty Which is legitimately impossible Because there is always either a wasted person Or a corpse somewhere on these streets I've never seen... What do you guys know though? When the police go on strike, everyone goes home Right? I've ever got the police who are on strike Yeah, really the police... What are you saying? One of the things our detective gets murdered The police are nowhere to be found Even before then, they're pro... I was obsessed with the detective I thought she was amazing I was actually really obsessed She was murdered so early on But this is where John Woo, I think he's fantastic Giving her that little moment of blowing out the birthday candle Yeah How funny though that she first pulled out the candle First puts it in a... A hilarious And I was like, oh, they're never gonna come back to that But what was also like we never get to understand Because it looks like her entire force is protesting And on strike outside except for her And we don't really understand her position on this union battle that they're in Without cops, the city stops baby Well, right, but I guess she's like, no we should be defunded Without cops, maybe things would be better Yeah, exactly, exactly, I agree I was like, I agree Maybe things would be better How is this gonna be? How is this gonna be? By the way, I do... I want to talk about this opening Because, you know, basically Lance Hendrickson is funding this hunt, right? It's very similar to that movie that we did about time travel They hunt dinosaurs And that's so apparently an upcoming Mickey Rork movie Well, I mean they've done this version of like let's hunt humans But this one it feels like they really didn't let the humans in on it Or at least what we've seen And I love the guy who's like, my thing is arrows I want to hunt with arrows And I thought from a rifle Oh, right, arrows were being shot out of a rifle barrel Now, the poster of this movie, the arrow plays Like, oh, he's gonna be hunted by the arrow guy That arrow guy is like a psycho I mean, not even a psycho I can't fess something I thought that that customer was Steven Segal For a long time By the way, can I say something? I watched most of hard target last night Okay? I finished it today so it would be fresh I turned it off I turned on the TV in my hotel room playing Steven Segal's under siege And I was like, yes And I'm now gonna say we must When we play a live show on a naval vessel We are gonna do Steven Segal's under siege That's the best one, I'm gonna say Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Bucy It's next level And when we play our next train show We'll play under siege too with Eric Bagozia And that's the bad guy So let's just go back for a second To the love story between Yancy, Yancy and Jean-Claude Because I was also expecting it And I felt like, oh wow, they bailed on it Because of her mouth situation And because the mouth situation was tough Because it was there in some scenes And it wasn't there in others That's the way her business works Sometimes it there, sometimes it's love But what's really confusing is like Well, they were probably shooting the movie out of order So it really does seem to come and go You know, it's there and then it's not there But I'm like, oh, he must have... It is New Orleans That's true That's true But I was like, I guess Jean-Claude Just didn't want to make out with her, which I understand That the cheek kiss now makes way more sense Because it looks like he's going in for a make out And instead he goes to the side and gives her a cheek But by the way, the cheek kiss is after his friend died She's like, oh, me kiss him Like, it wasn't the right time This movie didn't really understand like, it's like, oh, your friend just died Give me those lips Give me those big old... Give me those lips or nips Lips Okay, I mean, give me those nips works in New Orleans too Someone just gave us these things here By the way, I will say this, just before we get off the cop for too long They do hold on her blowing out the candle for way too long Like it's like some sort of Eddie Murphy movie where it's like, I wish That I run out of words Like, and I was thinking, is this movie about like a cop who's like, I wish I got a great case And then that was like, because they really hold on the wish But do you think that this movie's plot is her birthday wish grew? Yes! Yes! She's like, the department got strike, I'm at work, I hope I get a good case Or honestly, like... Because... Or maybe she did want it to be her last year on Earth By the way, she got... There's people over there Yeah! By the way, she gets shot... Seemingly, she gets shot in the arm And he's like, I believe her, she's dead, I'm like, really? Really? That was so late on her heart So quick, she said She said I thought for sure, she was going to come back in the third act, having survived that But once Wilfred Brinley showed up, I was like, oh no, it's him now He's taking the place of like the third... I know, it was just shocking, because I don't think they expected that actress to be so... Good! Good and watchable, it's like, oh, we really did care about her And she's been left dead on this... Yes! And she and John Klot van Dam had a good chemistry report Like, where partners in solving a crime? Natalie is just along for the ride Yes! Like, it would have been smarter to pair them up A thousand percent, and at a certain point, I was like, why are you still here, Nat? That's not a process! What's up? Why is Natalie still here? You're not a daddy! Daddy's dead! Daddy's dead! She's got a... Your daddy is deadi! Now, I will say... That's a picture, your daddy is deadi I will say the sex scenes between Emil Fushon and Pick, that is Lance Henderson and Arnold Visaloo Those are really great That very relationship, I love... They do at least a weapon, too, where they just call someone by their last name They're like, what do you think, Mr. Fushon? I love... It's the best bad guy way to refer to somebody by their misters, so and so Get the best, yes! I loved it I loved all the bad... Again, all the bad guys knew exactly what movie they were in And they did the right thing by my name Van Dam's dialogue So that he's just a kicking punching shooting machine No quips, no dialogue, no ex... He doesn't have to carry exposition Beyond the first act when he has to interact with the tuffs at the diner And that stuff, beyond that, he really has basically no lines Which is... Wow, I guess that's great I just would have wished they had thought to put his bare butt in it I mean, but... That was a mistake What they do do, and I said this in the beginning of the show But what they do do is give him the best mullet of all time And I want to pull up... Introduction scene, his introduction scene in the diner Where they're focusing on the mullet, the eyes, the earring Before they give you a full shot of him, next level I mean, we have some clips of his mullet right here These are some videos of some mullet look, here we go This is how we're introduced to the mullet from behind By the way, I don't mind it at all so far It looks wet, I thought it was awkward in it, it might be sweat, then we get this It's just the humidity of Norland Norland, he's like, I have a crawdad, give me that crawdad If he had a mullet like this, Norland's, what would his mullet look like? Because I feel like it would frizz out This is a... Like, he would have like almost a full purge I'll say this, my hair is thriving in this city Oh, okay, all right That it is Thriving in this city That's what it is The humidity is gold for these curls, are you kidding? Okay, it's dynamite Yeah, and this looks sopping wet But listen, he's just been in like a full-on fighter, wow I gotta start wearing my hair like that? I think, I mean, the way it caresses him If I'd really been bold, I would have styled my hair like that for the show It was so interesting, because at one point I was like, is there hair up there? Or is it all just back? There is hair up there, but it's so the entire movie I mean, at one point he's standing on top of a motorcycle Yeah, he's a stone-cold hunk Absolutely This guy is gorgeous By the way, that's the other thing that I was worried about Paul with Yancy I don't know if he felt threatened by her hair See, this is a point You know? Yeah This scene we could talk about for the rest of the night I wanna get into the snake-biting thing But I wanna talk about the hair for one more second Because I'm realizing that Lance Hendrickson has done two movies And she has played the bad guy with mulleted men And that is stone-cold and this Oh, wow Two very different mullets But also Yeah, two very different men I mean, like, amini is anti-mullet I guess Lance is the mullet killer or they are I wonder if there's a third that we might... If there's a third that we need to find and do, we need to Because that is... Complete the trilogy Yeah, the complete the Lance Hendrickson versus mulleted men I guess you could make a point that Sigourney Weaver kind of has a curly mullet So that would be alien But it's not against her, he's a real alien Alien 3 is he against her? I don't know, I can't explain to everybody here How much JCVD's look is accentuated and like worship by John Wou's slo-mo You know? It fetishizes him in a way that is so impactful for the movie How they'll go to slo-mo arbitrarily Just in any way for any mullet Paying for gumbo It's true, there were many times There were many times I was like, oh, we're in slo-mo like June Look alive And I'd watch the scene And then I'd think, huh I don't know why we... I don't know what I was... I don't know why we were in slo-mo for that Because John Wou is primarily known for like gun action And John Claw and Van Dam is known for like thigh and leg action And so what I did like was the bridging of the gap which is he like pulls back his trench coat I love that, he is I love that, he is Just to reveal his upper thigh That was amazing That was amazing I gave him crap Because you think, because there are a lot of like... There are a lot of western tropes inside of this Like, you know, and it's great and I love it But that's a perfect one because what he's showing off and showcasing isn't his gun He's like, when you're ready to go, my leg's ready My leg's ready for kicking my leg in the movie Locked and loaded Takes at one point, I feel like somebody else's leg He takes the head of somebody like he doesn't even use his own body to beat up two guys Like he just holds one guy's head and slams it into another guy's leg I feel like there's like a moment There are so many scenes where John Claw and Van Dam kicks and punches men in helmet that are meant to survive high impact accidents And that one man is coming at him on a motorcycle At like, I don't know, 25, 30 miles an hour John Claw and Van Dam is like, Cooom! And takes the guy out helmet style John Claw and Van Dam's shin or whatever Would have disintegrated At that speed coming at him, he would have been like, Cooom! And his entire leg would have been like, DOS Yeah Well that's what he does that at least 10 times in the movie Yeah and that's what's interesting about the movie is like we're showcasing different types of weapons You know rifles that have arrows in them, actual bow and arrows, guns, machine guns That was great And grenades and JCVD's thighs Yes Like they're really set up as a scary Oh and JCVD is also he can wield a shotgun He can wield a handgun upside down BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM I was like, ooh, you can aim this way No way I thought there was a point in this movie where John Wu gave up and said, fuck it, we're going to guns again Yeah, right now Like he was like, we did your legs, let's go do what I'm good at Like I got you two shots with your legs, let's go guns Because there are some great gun fights in here and it is odd because you don't really see JCVD working with guns I will say this Throughout watching this and I know JCVD and he's a attractive man you said you know him well No, I don't know him, no Wait, are you best friends with JCVD? I would ask your daddy I'm at the point in my notes where I wrote all caps He keeps using the word daddy Don't use daddy But listen, what I wanted to discuss was Yancey's fashions Because they were really scratching and it's to me like I haven't seen white tights And like seeing white tights in a French braid just really and like a coach bag, brown coach bag For me it really scratched in it I also love inside of a lot of the moments of importance, a lot of the moments of like fight explosions and little montages and stuff This movie has one of my favorite tropes that we find in our movies which is searing electric guitar solos Oh yeah So it's like once that fight outside the diner starts it's like Yeah, wow, wow, wow But it's got like a real Bayou vibe here Speaking of the Bayou Speaking of the Bayou The speakers in this movie No Gators which I was shocked by I don't know horses to live in the Bayou but I don't know that they don't So that could be A lot of Bayou horses If they're a horses in the Bayou That's great but I'm also like The fact that we just accept the information that JCVD grew up in the Bayou I couldn't tell if that was the case but my assumption is yes No but he says that I mean he grew up I really really is his uncle or just as he refers to him His uncle and he was raised in the Bayou This is Lance Hendrickson explaining JCVD's background Silver star Marine Force Recon He joined the merchant service after he got out His captain was smuggling all the clothes When he found out he threw the man overboard He's been looking for work essence He's obviously not someone we should unrest with He was raised in the Bayou's Bayou's uncle I think Mr. Woodrow would make a very interesting quarry Maybe I should pay him a visit No no no no no Send a couple of wires down there to have a chat with him Yeah I love this movie So good I love that they're on two couches having this conversation They're not looking at each other John was framing it so you see both of their faces And they're not looking at each other Which is actually so smart because they're great And they're just talking about this man How did he get this information they grew up with his uncle? How would that be on file? How would they get that so quickly? Why is JCVD on the second porch balcony Reading a corner's report Standing it seems uncomfortable to look through photos and read evidence Where you can't put anything on a table JCVD feels in this moment The way this movie cuts together It's as if he's listening to them He feels as though he and laid in the movie JCVD has a series of flashbacks for scenes he was not in Oh, okay And they do that a lot where he has information or knowledge that we the audience have But he has chance does not By the way, it's like space balls when they pull up the movie of space balls So like he has access to hard target the movie he's like what happened I need to find out before I do this I got it Now I will tell you this Nick Kylie does all of our research for this and he's amazing So this movie apparently when delivered was a Lance Hendrickston movie It was more focused on Lance Hendrickston And he runs the hunt and blah blah blah And JCVD was like oh the thorn in my side And JCVD saw it and was like the fuck I'm JCVD And he recut the movie to cut Lance down and out Or to a smaller role but I do love the John Woo signed on I was like you're in the JCVD business I'm in the Lance Hendrickston business Yeah It's kind of a nice mix because he does carry himself like a lead He really does And he's the more compelling it's the more compelling performance Here's where when I first was introduced his character I was like He's so fascinating to watch But it's also like at the end of the day he is a bad guy But he's also an entrepreneur Yes and he is doing this He sees a hole in the market Yes and he sees the white space And he goes to fill it and I'm like okay so And then as far as the end he really is He is a hunting disruptor And he's like what check me And then he started we work But then at the end he's also like creating this Firestyle special for all of the past customers to come in But he's charging them like he got into some shit He got into some shit he's like you you have to pay for this Like he made them pay it was great He had the whole third act JCVD kills conservatively for dozen bad guys They lead Lance Hendrickston seems to have unlimited bad guys on retainer All of whom have wild outfits on And that's why honestly I wish we could get Marcus Lemonis on this show You want to sell the hunt? From the profit on MSNBC Because how much of a margin is he making? He was like he's paying off the corner He's paying pick He's trying to pay the two motorcycle guys He's all of those dogs All of the heavies must be making him He's also having to every once in a while Pick up his entire operation And move it to a different country Which is how to put cutting into his Oh especially if you're taking all those guys That's food that's per diea But I see that's where Marcus Lemonis could come in He could hook them up with simply Greek He could hook them up with his poor restaurant for all their weapons But guys guys but you're not realizing it's this The way he cuts the overhead is by shooting them in the face That's the way he makes back good money His gun is a pistol The musket The shoots what's the some one of these dummies knows They were in the south there's a gun nut here What is he shooting? It's not a shotgun That's what I wrote too but those aren't shotguns It's not a musket right? It's not a musket It's a pistol that shoots what? One of you raised your hand or I will come right here I see somebody there Hold on hold on I got this person I'm gonna give it to you right there It's a contender pistol It's a single shot brake barrel pistol They sold them in a number of calibers That one in particular is a 45-70 Of course this is a giant round they used to use the hunt buffalo It goes back to like the 1850s Massive bullet This guy's our gun guy Thank you for showing me that gentleman back there And what I thought about it's interesting you say that because what I thought about that And I wrote it in my notes is this gun could have been a contender Can I just show my favorite scene in the movie because again I talked about what makes a great bad guy We have a moment where Lance Hendrickson is calling Pick by his last name This is the scene that brought it home And his pick last name Van Cleef I believe he is his name is Pick Van Cleef And that is this movie is constantly referencing John Lewis constantly referencing once upon a time in the West Yes He's doing like the close-up of the eyes like the Henry Ford shot He's constantly making it close-up of the mullet Call back He's doing callbacks to that movie and leave Ancleaf is in that movie Yes, so this is Henry Ford's leave An Cleef Yeah, leave An Cleef So this is the scene Forget the fact that they're talking about don't contact us on Teletse I don't know what the fuck Teletse is I understand that yes you shouldn't probably talk about hunting a human on a facts machine But watching Lance Hendrickson play a piano like he's hard fucking Yeah, and then the best the best part of it is when it cuts back to him and he turns around to tell the guy Hey, are you ready to hunt a human bean? The piano is closed The keyboard is clothe the cover is over the keys It was like okay He was done here take a look at Do you even hear it in the way he plays You're the posit $500,000 in our account The bank and the came lines do not refer to our agreement by Teletse One conversations on the phone You'll be provided with a guy So angry The reason of your choice Naturally we'll dispose of the body And provide you with an out of town Airtight alibi Don't worry Mr. Zinnan All you have to do is point and shit Keyboard open Oh then inside Oh we don't talk it reverses and it's closed Anyway, but he is looking at himself in the mirror while playing a piano And he's not looking at the keys It is like bishop from alien doing that knife game I feel like it is him fucking This is a sex scene for him Where he's just like I'm not even gonna look at you I'm gonna jump doing my thing Yeah, this is the only sex scene in the movie Yes And it's the best sex scene I've ever seen Oh that's why I had to finish it today I came in the scene I know And to get up today and be like I guess I'm gonna rush them Yeah, I mean our kids are traveling with us right now And I was like guys don't come in not right now I have to say this I just want to talk about the game, the most dangerous game Because I guess what I really find odd about this movie is It's so one sided Like it's like hey you want me to put like a puppy in front of you and give you a shotgun Like that one point a guy almost starts aiming at the game before the game even starts Okay, put the gun down I love that guy is like he looks like a dentist from Cleveland And he's wearing just like a regular trench coat And but has like a super high tech gun It's like yeah It's not just people who were like trained for this They just seem like money and are like a genius They're happy and I'll shoot a guy Well, it also seems like we're all okay with hundreds Humans hunting other humans we just wish it were more even like that Fair, fair I guess like I guess 10 years away from this being a reality I mean in my mind I guess like the thought would be like Wouldn't it be fun? No, not for me But wouldn't it like wouldn't the thing be like oh you actually have to track this person you have to do it It's like they really just curl Like I guess maybe that's what I think you're right That's the hunting is the dogs get the they the dogs get the animals into an area where it's the fashima But I think what you're saying though is true which is it it It should be that they are marketing this to skilled hunters Yeah, that doesn't seem to be the case It seems that they are just trying to sell this to people who want to kill people It's like that is different like there's a hunter They're mark yes they are marketing this to people who like want the thrill of ending a human life Not who want the challenge of hunting right the most dangerous and when you see the weapons You're like why do they have such good weapons but are such bad hunters like there's one hunter who is dressed in like Like striped like zoo-bass pants from like the Super Bowl in 1986 And he's hunting while smoking a cigar which is a sure fire way or like they're hunting a human They can smell that cigar like that's not like that's not going to be good for stealth They're also and this really I cannot overspeed this enough They are doing it in the city of New Orleans They're not they're hunting they're hunting party cars I mean Lance Hendrixson is in a convertible The other guys are in a truck the dogs are on motorcycles and they're not like out in the bayou They're not out in the country They're not out in the people through the bogs and marshes of this area They are like on bourbon street midday midday Yeah, hunting blowing people and I think the reason that the movie introduces the police strike is that it's walless Oh it's not the reason it's just walless But it also is like a no tourism like literally there's no one on these streets when they kill that guy Like didn't you forget to say goodbye to me boom blows his head off And then by the way he goes to blow that guy's head off and brings like 12 people with him like he had it These people are all about unfair advantages. It's like I'm gonna just go blow guys head off Can I get like 12 guys just to get my back on this one just in case like and that guy is my favorite guy the guy that they karate chop in the belly Get up you shit Where Lance? I'm obsessed with how he sleeps I've never seen He needs a deep half machine big time Well first of all I'm like is this and was that an afternoon nap or was that because he's sleeping fully clothed with both arms up Oh he's starvation in that bed, huh? For sure but I do I was fascinated by it because I'm like oh when I used to watch like our children sleep as babies You know lots of times they would put both arms up and it's one of the most vulnerable positions you could have What if I said the same sentence when I used to watch your children sleep when they were babies Is it as sweet? But it was such an interesting character choice What are you guys leaving? No there's a bar is open Oh okay, oh they're out Oh they are leaving? Okay we love you two if two people are coming from the back two seats the front just opened up Back row let's turn on the house like oh wow I totally understand that they have to go and that's fine we started a little late But you know what I really appreciated that he loved us I did too I love you back Thank you for leaving with us some love I think I said get it Baby sitters dinner reservations hour 45 were out These guys would understand Now your seats are open Well I will say this that that guy that cut off his ear they beat him up a lot but I do want to talk about two things about that guy First of all one of the bad ass and weird moves to me was Lance Hendricks in washing his hand in his fish bowl Which felt more unsanitary from Lance's side I'll wash my hand in your fish bowl you fat fuck like leaves so much evidence at every crime scene His blood is in the fish bowl Well there's no police Jason you have to remember that he takes the bullet casing out of his gun after he shoots a guy in the cemetery And just throws it on the ground To make sure he touches it before yeah he doesn't shake it out The other thing that got me is this man who is constantly beat up by Lance Hendricks and he runs He basically gives people flyers to pass out for phone sex lines But when the wide eyed girl finds it in her dad's like luggage She she's so shocked and I couldn't tell is she shocked that she thinks her dad is doing phone sex Running a phone sex line I think she's just shocked by the imagery and the the crazyness of it so much so that someone has to say to her Chance buddhru says to her don't worry he passed these out for money. Yeah. I The one thought I had during this movie because they get lost in the buy you at one point And it's the most manicured buy you I've ever seen like it is a full trail head And she's like oh my god I can't walk anymore. I'm like you're walking by like the children's museum of New Orleans They're like this is this is a paved area. Oh god. I can't stand the bio And I was like wouldn't it be great if they were just wearing shorts like Jean-Claude Van Damme and like short shorts Like magnum shorts would have been great. I wouldn't like to be I did love the The the undercurrent storyline which is the homeless are fundamentally ignored Yes, the city the poor people of the city are constantly being victimized and the homeless especially Especially when Elijah is being hunted and he's in the middle of I'm just gonna say bourbon street But you know that area in the French quarter. He's in the French exact that's I'm sorry That's what I wasn't remembering and he is there and there's so many people and he's just trying to get them to help and they won't help him now I'm Aaroni that would happen but not in the French quarter And that scene is haunting I mean thousand times that scene is absolutely haunting and so well done It is a great scene and you know who's in that scene Sam Raimi oh Sam Raimi's a producer on this and I found out from Nate that the Universal Studios is so nervous about John Wu directing an English film that they made Sam Raimi stay on set every day just in case he fucked up Oh, that's interesting. What was this John Wu's first American movie? Yes, first English language film. I know so and I saw that I tried to jump broken arrow Yeah We would do three revolta Christian Slater. Let's do it Samantha Mathis, but I love Samantha Mathis But he got a pump up the volume guys one of the best We'll never do it because it's flawless. It's great. Yeah, that's for unspooled. I guess that's the Paul and Amy We'll do what we could do toughs to Paul Thomas Anderson about pump up the volume PT PTA wants to do cuffs He wants to do cuffs Christian Slater's other movie where he's like a police Jason a real deep cut again. We're cutting all of this when When that when when his buddy gets shot in the French quarter It's in the mid everything is happening. It's like you said it is a beautiful shot and no one seems to worry like because Peck or pick like just goes up to the body is like what's going on here? Then just take this money the guys are not phased at all by the fact that they've committed a murder in broad daylight in the French quarter Where there's tourists everywhere? I'm assuming because the police are on strike. I guess pick walks up with a spider-co knife And he's like that guy gets it and he's like zip up. Boop take the 10 grand. We're walking away They are New Orleans in this movie and even still today is dot dot dot lawless I was really curious about the 10 grand belt and just like oh that's interesting is that belt I mean Jason you'll surely have something to say about this But is that was it made for money like a little money belt or They call it a money belt and there's such a thing as a money belt. Yeah, there's a money belt but they're not There are money belts. There are belts that have tools in them built into the belt. Well, but there's not a belt like that We're getting your talk. We are talking about here, but we're everywhere Yeah, because this belt was I was like oh must be repurposed as a 10 grand money belt But there's no way you're making a Manufacturers making a belt that just has coaches all around it for I Think is that it's a belt. Yes, I think you're right. I don't think it is meant to be a giant Tiny but I think it is something that has been made to hold to be a different things doesn't Doesn't Charles grotto it is custom they made it so that it could hold that amount doesn't Charles grow I don't sell it like I don't think you could order it from Amazon the 10 grand belt. I mean I'm curious Well, you never know Amazon basics might have it as you're travel does make a tote bag or a kit bag that holds One million dollars in US currency. Wow Really but wait doesn't Charles Grotto midnight run have about ten thousand dollars in his money bill. Yes, so there you go It works money Money belts can hold what I mean it's just a matter of the denominations Yeah, if you have yeah, if you have enough high bills, you can fit more in it It wasn't all singles now if it was singles it would be that would probably be No, or the city that runs on singles But here's a thing They're hunting They're hunting through the bayou and this is maybe Where I mean there's something he's talking say hunting. They're murdering sure the bayot and Jean-Claude Van Dam fights a lot of people, but he also fights a Fucking snake. Let's take a look at this moment where he fights a snake This was to me I did not know about this moment and again another jaw dropper and this is after the motorcycle We have been talking about it. Especially because of the way he introduces it slowly by saying close your eyes You trust me Of course I trust you Close your eyes What do you want me to dress you with my eyes close? Close your eyes This whole time this thing is right there. He knows it They're taking their time I Big eyes Is there anyway we can rewind This suggests he's done this before The rattle part of the snake like ripping off a shrimp tail. It's like a crawfish Like I have a question for our gun guy because I somehow feel like he'll know do you guys have rattlesnakes here? Okay, cool you just making sure because we have them in LA I see them in in California all the time, but it's a desert climate So I was like oh is that is that yeah, I'm less concerned about the rattlesnake and I'm more concerned about how he saw it Because the way the rattlesnake is positioned is he's like close your eyes And I think the way that we would think is that it's coming down like this, but the snake is coming up her back like peekaboo Beekaboo, but it's like where what is it holding on to it doesn't a snake isn't rise up like an elevator like and how would you see? I assume it was in the tree I thought it was in the tree coming down it was coming down like but it's coming It's coming over her show it's coming above her shoulder. It's like Yeah, but they can do that How They where is there down held on June? What do you know about rattlesnake? Well, I don't know a whole lot But I feel like isn't that the whole thing about snakes that they're like one giant muscle So they can kind of like what giant muscle. Yeah, but wait. It's got a balance on something Yeah, I think there's a bot. I think the bottom was on a branch. I think I think it's a tree and then it's sort of worked It's but they're on land What do you mean they are but I think there's trees behind them some okay? It's coming out of the tree got it Okay, so there's a little You get that is it tree snakes. What do you guys think? What hold on this lady? Okay? Okay, June is right. Yeah, a snake is all muscle. Yes, case closed. Yeah, just like Nolan's cops No need to investigate further. Yeah, she said June's right isn't the study of snakes her pathology Well, I came to the right person that's how they were chucked right? I Okay, maybe that's what happened to that and now I don't know I don't know if when you're I and I do actually want to know So if anyone has this information, please share when you encounter a snake and Intent to kind of subdue it or kill it. Do you you give it a To let yeah, let's put down you punch it and then you punch because I was like oh that's interesting is he trying to Disoriented trying to stun it not kill it Okay, so he couldn't right but I guess my question is like why not only punch oh cuz it invited my thing oh So he's so he hit his head first down so it's like whoa Then he's like bonk which makes it I believe unconscious So that he can set it as a trap for the guys later It definitely looked like it had been knocked out he approaches the fight with the snake the same way that he had Procures the fight absolutely So but that's a serious question like is that does that seem actually any hermitologists in the room? Has anyone bitch slapped and then punched a snake in the face? Somebody raised their hand that's a and that you get on the big gator tours the good gator tours You get to do that the five hour ones now real missed opportunity no gators in this movie for this area I was like for sure we're gonna get some gator Oh, well, I mean and stay spent all their money on the motorcycle budget because as we're talking about the snake scene We have to talk about This scene where he's on the run. He's on a motorcycle. We have established he doesn't know how to drive But yet he knows that it fucking drive a motor so I guess he knows how to drive a motorcycle We'll see in a second, but he's on a chase the bridge goes out or it's under construction And this is the moment that I'm really confused at he takes the antsy and goes you stay here From what I understand this movie she would be engulfed in flames at the end of this scene But he puts her in harm's way and then does this Oh Hey Yancy is engulfed in flames and dead because that truck explodes right where he said stay here You'll be safe that he she has no chance of life or survival to that my only note on this scene only the only thing I have to say about it is I was bummed that he didn't Forward roll over the car. Yeah You know, there's some you think he tried because there's some great summer salts in this movie, but He is trying to do the forward fall but that's what you're seeing We want it just a second because we watch watch away just a little bit You'll see like I watch because you'll see he is trying it like that's a forward roll right, but then watch a stuntman Watch us here. Okay, so that's forward roll. He's trying to plan right but he's going sideways By the way, that's that's a fucking nuts That's an insane stuff that the stomach I think tried to land on it. Oh wait a second. Well we're frozen here. What's his watch doing? What's a compass That's a compass and the other side's a calculator like what what's his watch is it compass? Compass calculator and watch that's what I mean like honest to God I'm just noticing this for the first time It's the first time I'm seeing this on the big screen. It's better and I'm genuinely like what's up with this watch? By the way rewind it one more time Beth because you know what we can give this show a little bit longer Just rewind it to the limit. I want to see when you see him go forward You see another man's face the other man's face is great. Why it's a right about Let's see maybe a second before it's it's the it's right about he right before you see his face on Yeah, we're getting there again. There maybe a second. Oh wait. Yeah, just try. Okay, right. So this face is it Incredible right here's his face. You pit play. Let's just see if we get to it Another face another face right there. Yeah, if you rewind that you can get that you'll see another face fully It's like a stunt man from Mel Gibson there. Yeah, that guy that is It looks like Jane Lano It looks like Jane I know denim on denim standing on top of a motorcycle Listen God bless that stunt man. Yeah, I do some stunts. I don't use my tonight. I get to stunts I use all my stunt money. I spent time they said they wanted to rent my motorcycles and my trucks Well, I mean before we get to the audience I need to we got to talk about one other thing which I mean I've so many more notes But yeah, go ahead Thank God for Wilford Brimley I Road in my notes like we're so far into the movie and I said where's Wilford Brimley? I was actually worried I'm Mike you were worried that he might not be in the movie I was because I was so excited when I saw I'm in the beginning and I was like it was really quite some time till he shows up no Well for a friend right here this frame right here highlight something I want to talk about Swipe edits This movie has full swipe edits through that are like Star Wars That are from like yes that are from like 30s and 40s serials. It's fucking nuts When they meet Wilford Brimley at first it just look like an old man and now we'll say this What I know about Wilford Brimley? There's got a very distinctive Like kind of the most Americana accent I'm gonna talk I want to tell you some shit and this is it You know and it's like and so when he opens his mouth in this movie My jaw Dun dropped Yeah, because I don't know what is this Creole is this French is this like some bastard I don't even know I want to get to the audience what they think of this too, but I guess it's a Creole accent take a listen We fix him up good with bandit Johnny know hurt Be strong my boy today. I've got some people up to me. I know I can't smell them. You still get a 30 out of six the one I give you for your birthday. No I'll get her in it In and out, but out I Still got your shotgun He is what chase after you he's like you for business or pleasure. He we could pause the first like He's made a choice and he's regretting it. He's in and out of it It like I feel like I say something that is completely insane. Yeah in this movie right here Willford Brimley is nine years older than me Wow In this movie That actor is nine years older than I am currently What's happening? How wild is that now how's your Creole accent? Oh Them gone gators them gone gators got my crotted Hold him Poe boys and the gators and them crotted All right, so Jason and I watch movies and subtitles June I know you don't like it, but we're millennials. I've actually started to do a pop This is a this is a this is a moment that I saw that I couldn't hear but it was on the screen this is Lance Hendrickson When he's upset with one of the people when the man is attacked by a snake. This is what I see Oh fuck you then I'll you I Heard him save this yeah, he said that I was shocked every wound at three times and took a picture of it Just because I was like I'll fuck you and then I'll eat you incredible stuff Like that was improvised I was just gonna say I guarantee that's a Lance Hendrickson hypervised line because Why would you do it in that order? Fuck you and then I'll eat you Like I'm a type of a type of after fucking you so I got a chomp chomp eat you I Mean this is from the guy who's big a line and the third act of the movie is hey Like that he just yells hey Like that guy don't got it. He does it twice hey Hey, hey, I worry like it's I get it's a nice moment of just pure desperation But he's so eloquent throughout that I would love to have had him yell something else like he he runs out of good lines That's what goes on one of my again. I have so few critiques of this movie So this is really the only one I did I did wish his death was a little bit better at the end. Yes Yes, let's Hendrickson. Oh, yes. Sorry. Lance Hendrickson. I I was like the grenade. I Don't I want a kick, you know, I want a I want a well you want a line like I want that grenade to go in his pants and then go nuts What and okay, you know perhaps that's what I want it I agree with you 100% because here's the thing Vendamm known for his Physicality his kicks his that's what he's so yes in this movie He's he's got a lot of gunplay shotgun handguns all that stuff. Okay. I'm on board But the final death I don't know man a grenade felt like Blunt too clunky and clunky to me in a way that I was like oh there's a grenade in my pants You wanted him to kick his neck off or something like that like you wanted the throat rib equivalent like you needed You needed the last leg like the last leg kick I wanted JCVD to kick Lance Hendrickson's head off of his back Yeah, I see a lot of notes a lot of handwritten notes I want you to introduce yourself and your best Wilford Brimley accent And you say hi my name is this and my question is this okay, so here we go Hi, my name is Caroline right and my question is like three or four times throughout the movie Birds seem to help John Claude Vendamm Okay, this is signature John Wu doves and pigeons This is a this is one of John Wu's artistic signatures, which is slow motion Doves and in this case pigeons yeah hell and in this case they they are actively helping John Claude Vendamm find clues do stuff It's as if they are his allies in the thing, but it is also part of John Wu's film making if you watch the But but what's tough about that is like doves are one thing but pigeons are so disgusting That every time like when that pigeon was sitting on his shoulder. I was like you need to base for one week I thank you guys that picture The only thing I took of the screen was the went John went with rather when John Claude Vendamm Winks at the pigeon on his shoulder. I was like so they have more chemistry than him and that true And the other thing is I do think he is able to do bird calls With his uncle because that's their special Hi, it's me knock knock knock knock knock that's their special signal that it's all clear But I thought he was actually communicating with the pigeons like actually communicating through the through calls Do you think that pigeon? I think you might be right The pigeons are like his greatest ally until Wilford Brimley arrives I mean the pigeon Doing what you just said Coming in and helping him find clues is wild Listen again the police force is down so someone had to step up. It was it was the pigeons there it is What is your name and your best Kagen accent and your question? Oh, I enjoyed Michael My question is that so a wander brothers executive said that like Lance Hendrickson and also I believe his name is Arnold Vosul He had they had great chemistry if yeah and they Yeah They the executive said that like the person like they regret not having a movie with them If you could have a movie with them would you want them to be a villain like a villain duo that wins in the end or a buddy Like cop comedy kind of thing going on. Oh, I think I suit you for me. I would have loved hmm I guess there is a world in which the movie could have existed where This the franchise is them They killed JCVD at the end of this movie They win and they go and set up in where were they saying Eastern Europe? Yeah, we're gonna go to next and the next movie is them in Eastern Europe versus Stallone or them in Eastern Europe versus Nicholas Cage or them in that the franchise is built around the bad guys Wouldn't that be cool? Well, I love that idea. I think I just I still really struggle with the fact that they Don't play fair. I mean we haven't even talked about the Opening scene when daddy dies, but daddy Did deep does you know they set up the rules like if he gets to the river he wins. Yes, but he got there Oh The sound of his fingernails This is a question for everybody, but first to June and Jason is the river the doc or the river like is the He says if he gets to the river and he's honestly beyond the river He's more than at the river. He's he's over the river. He's in the river. He's above the river on the doc So the river is underneath so he certainly has reached the river's limit and then he falls He's got the river. Yes Well guys, we guys want you to hear this because this guy's yelled it out four times here I'm gonna come back to you yell it out. Okay. Here we go. Just yell what you just been yelling his feet fell through He hit the river. Okay, there we go. Okay Car heart overalls has that to say Hi Who do you have the question? But no, but I guess the thing is the challenge wasn't submerge your body in the river It was get to it. I agree. It wants you to get to the rivers once you pay the Play by the river. I don't like that. I don't like that. They play dirty. We'd hold on. We have a bad guy defender What do you say? Oh, I'm just saying there's a geography Technicality because he starts in the French quarter the very next shot. He's on the West Bank There's no way to get there without being in the river There it is he had to be in a river. So you're saying he kind of laughed the river like he had been there too There's no way to cross that shit. Oh I see okay, so you have to know New Orleans geography in order to understand the I'm so upset of the beginning of the movie I'm so upset. So this you telling me this movie only really works in this city Well listen, I think what we're learning or I guess this is my question, you know Does anyone ever get away? I mean they've been in business for years No, I don't think so nobody's got I don't know because they play dirty although it did feel like when Perry shot that guy They didn't seem shocked by it. So that may happen a few times too But I bet you they still take the $10,000 in killing because when Perry killed the hunter they're like killing They weren't like he got the $10,000. It was like killing yeah, now it's time for second opinions I Togged a fast-off movie JCVD kick in with these Hunn homeless veterans through New Orleans because it's a hot Target Amazing great work My name's Jesse and I like that guy that left earlier. I also love you guys, but I'm still here Thank you Jesse you walk down the stairs these are five star reviews cold from Amazon there are 357 4.6 out of five stars is the average that's a 76% our five star 2% or one star and These are the weirdest ones compiled by Nate Kylie all right, so here we go This one starts off from Gloria back in 2020 My husband loves this movie he just can't get enough of it Which I find weird But it's Van Damme five stars best movie of all time This one's for the husband This one is from Frankie D from 2013 This is one of the best Jean-Claude Van Damme movies ever because most of his movies are crap He cannot act and he does the same fight scenes over and over in all of his movies This was good because it was John Wu the slow motion style and the two guns and a whole lot of shooting Van Damme was serviceable He didn't really mesh well with Wu because Van Damme likes to do a lot of kicks and Wu likes guns Overall, it was a good movie five stars One of the best Van Damme movies ever Didn't get that was gonna be five stars really came in there um This one I like from Evans Fredrick from 2017 This is my favorite actor JCVD I like this movie so much. I remember when I was 14 years old And that this movie came to a theater close to me. I mean back home five stars Also this gentleman Scotty Kind of missed the point of the review when he goes Not exactly a complaint Well, this is a review section, so not either But the package I got contained four Jean-Claude Van Damme movies Not just hard target But it did include hard target so I ain't mad five stars Can you imagine the joy When you order hard target and three other JCVD movies are in the packet What a delight that that's like a that's Christmas come early I mean 100% and this is one that I thought was disturbing From Dejore Thomas He writes this I love watching this movie with my mom I used to reenact the scenes of my toy pop gun five stars I did love that in this movie all bullets seemed to Explode with the to the level of like like a landmine every time they hit I mean one bullet about how triggers an illegitimate explosion Yeah, during the warehouse scene at the end there's a container that takes off like a rocket It truly it's from just a single shot. It just is like It goes up though. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. It doesn't even explode Yeah, exactly it's like it's like pretty wild in the air But yet this movie does the best stuntman trick of all time motorcycles Snake punches exploding rockets houses they have the budget But they didn't have enough budget to do one scene where they just fly into moving boxes Just a a wall of like a moving truck and then just moving boxes like oh We crashed into the moving boxes like that's like when you have no money to do stunts you fall into moving boxes I thought that was fun and cheap some facts from Nate Kylie here Um Van Dam would insist on having one of the cameras focused on his muscles at all time We'll comply but never use that footage. I need to make that part of my country. Yeah, you got to put that in your writer I need people to like be I need I need there to be a Yeah, extra camera just trained on my bod. Yeah figure it out. I mean line producer working in the budget. It's not my problem Budget 18 million opening weekend 10 domestic roast 32 worldwide gross 74 million Yeah, it was wonderful. It comes out the same year as Jurassic Park Mrs. Dalfire the fugitive it came in 48 It was beaten by demolition man and it beat Super Mario brothers. Look who's talking now surf then just mr Nanny and airborne. That's a big how did this get made year? Uh and what a what a great year what a time to be alive For film. Yeah And the tagline is don't hunt what you can't kill And that is hard target Uh new Orleans You did it you did it wow But uh quickly what do we want to plug Jason? Uh, what do you want to tell people about um I will say that if you haven't started it it I cannot recommend highly enough the Amazon Prime Series paper girls Um, and if you watch it, it's incredible. It's great. It's based on the Brian cave on and cliff chain comic book and A certain point I am in No, I get to be a bad guy. I love it Did you take any lessons from Lance Hendrickson? Oh boy, I wish I'd seen this movie before this I would have absolutely taken inspiration from Lance Hendrickson for sure and June what do you got? I'm in this season of everything is trash Phoebe Robinson show on on freeform So I'm doing a couple of episodes in the the last two that I'm in are coming out the next few weeks And then I will quickly just plug what am I gonna plug I have to look at what I put oh yeah You can listen to unspooled contentine was on it and every Thursday night rob hubel and I who actually work with John Cloud vandamm do a show on twitch totally for free if you just go to twitch or youtube you can watch it there and Star Trek Lower decks season three starts next week Which will be great and Thank you for being with us. This is a massive thank you show to kick us off Thank you to Beth running the tech first time out back on the road. Thank you Beth Thank you everybody here at the film where we're gonna take a Post pictures. Thank you everybody who was brave enough to do your second opinion. Yes. Thank you so much in front of a crowd of judgmental people Wow people are getting up and leaving They gotta go You know what you gotta get home. I understand Thank you everybody thank you to Orleans Thank you for coming out. We love seeing you Nice working Orleans