How Did This Get Made?

Double Dragon LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)

86 min
Feb 17, 20263 months ago
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Summary

The How Did This Get Made? hosts dissect the 1994 film Double Dragon, a post-apocalyptic action movie based on the arcade game that features inexplicable plot choices, bizarre costume design, and a cast including Robert Patrick, Alyssa Milano, and Scott Wolf. The episode includes live audience Q&A in Philadelphia and explores the film's nonsensical worldbuilding, terrible fight choreography, and the infamous pants worn by Milano's character.

Insights
  • Post-apocalyptic films struggle when mixing adult dystopian elements with children's entertainment aesthetics, creating tonal whiplash that confuses the narrative
  • Source material adaptation can completely abandon the original work's core mechanics and still function as entertainment through sheer absurdity
  • Costume and production design choices in low-budget action films often lack functional logic but become memorable through their inexplicability
  • Movies that fail to establish clear character motivation or stakes can still be entertaining if they maintain visual spectacle and pacing
  • Audience engagement increases when filmmakers embrace rather than hide the film's inherent absurdity
Trends
1990s video game adaptations prioritized visual spectacle over narrative coherence, establishing a pattern of source material divergencePost-apocalyptic worldbuilding in family films creates unresolved logical contradictions that audiences accept through suspension of disbeliefAction film choreography quality varies dramatically based on budget constraints, with extras often performing unblocked fight sequencesCostume design in low-budget sci-fi films frequently combines practical and impractical elements without functional justificationFilm criticism has evolved to appreciate 'bad' movies for their entertainment value and unintentional humor rather than technical failureProduct placement in children's action films (3M, Jack City) demonstrates corporate interest in reaching young audiences through entertainmentCharacter agency in 1990s action films often subordinates female characters to plot devices rather than active participantsPractical effects limitations in 1990s cinema forced creative workarounds that became signature visual elements of the era
Topics
Video Game Film Adaptation StrategyPost-Apocalyptic Worldbuilding Logic1990s Action Film ChoreographyCostume Design in Low-Budget CinemaCharacter Motivation in Blockbuster FilmsTonal Consistency in Family Action FilmsProduct Placement in Children's EntertainmentSource Material Divergence in AdaptationsFemale Character Agency in Action FilmsPractical Effects vs. Budget ConstraintsAudience Reception of Intentionally Absurd FilmsEarthquake Disaster WorldbuildingGang Violence Representation in Family FilmsVillain Motivation and Power ScalingLive-Action Comedy Performance in Action Films
Companies
3M
Appears as sponsor/advertiser in the karate tournament scene, demonstrating corporate product placement in 1990s fami...
Jack City
Featured in an extended commercial within the film promoting a fictional jack/car repair service with Southern Califo...
Earwolf
Podcast network that produces and distributes the How Did This Get Made? show and manages its merchandise and communi...
People
Robert Patrick
Plays villain Shuko/Victor Geisman; hosts note his performance as a Charlie Sheen impression made shortly after Termi...
Alyssa Milano
Plays Linda Lash; extensive discussion of her character's costume design, particularly the controversial pants and sp...
Scott Wolf
Plays one of the Double Dragon brothers; hosts discuss his lack of likability and dimples, referencing his Party of F...
Mark Dacascos
Plays Boa Do Boa; noted as legitimate martial artist and John Wick 3 co-star performing well despite poor fight chore...
Andy Dick
Plays weatherman in the film; hosts joke about his career transition and decision to stay in Los Angeles post-earthquake
George Hamilton
Plays news anchor alongside Vanna White in the film's news broadcast segments
Vanna White
Co-hosts news broadcast with George Hamilton in the film's fictional New Angeles news segments
Bruce Willis
Referenced for his 'Return of Bruno' harmonica album; hosts discuss his 'Under the Boardwalk' cover as unoriginal com...
Quotes
"This movie might be one of the most insane films that we have ever done. It's a little bit of demolition man, a little bit of escape from LA. It's a lot of street fighter, and the sense it makes no fucking sense."
Paul F. TompkinsOpening segment
"I just thought this was a story about double dragons. I mean, you have to understand I also don't know. I know some games on a chari. I know Oregon Trail. And that's... I like, I know of Mortal Kombat and that's it."
June Diane RaphaelVideo game discussion
"I want total domination of one major American city. Is that your last passport? Is it?"
Robert Patrick (as Shuko)Villain motivation scene
"This is a post-apocalypse sliding in LA. Just move. Go. Move to Arizona. It seems to Colorado. It does. But there's plenty left. The world is not over. These idiots stay here for karate tournaments."
Jason MantzoukasWorldbuilding discussion
"Once you beat all of the villains in order to get the woman, you have to kill your brother and then fuck her while a cat watches."
Paul F. TompkinsVideo game ending analysis
Full Transcript
Steroid therapy, gang land warfare, in a post-apocalyptic society where spinach torture happens, and Andy Dick is a weatherman. Plus, it's a fucking kids movie. We saw a double dragon, so you know what that means. Hello people of earth, and hello people of Philadelphia! Welcome! Oh my goodness, double dragon, double dragon, this movie, wow, might be one of the most insane films that we have ever done. It's a little bit of demolition man, a little bit of a escape from LA. It's a lot of street fighter, and the sense it makes no fucking sense. And it also feels like it could be a spiritual sequel to Super Mario Brothers. What do you need to know? You need to know this. There's a pendant, there's two halves. A bad guy has one half, the good guys have the other. Well, one of the sides get both, you'll see, that's all you really need to know, and maybe that Robert Patrick invents vaping. I don't know. But I think those are really the things that you need to know before listening to this episode. Although if you've not seen the movie, fucking watch this movie! Philadelphia agrees, right? Of course I do. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, I cannot discuss this movie by myself. I have two amazing co-hosts. Please welcome Mr. Jason Manzooka! What's up, jerks? How you doing, Billy? That's right. Here we go. Double Dragon. Double D. Philly Zone. Double Dragon. Double D is Paul said, got those huge titties on the screen! Jason, Paul, are you a fan of the video game Double Dragon? No, never played it. Really, never played it. Okay, I have a huge reveal. Oh my god. June just told me right there she didn't know this was a video game. Wow. The video game, the arcade game, that is featured itself in the movie. That's not true. I'm certain I must have played the arcade version of the game. I never had it for Nintendo. See, I never had an Nintendo. I never had any of that stuff. I didn't have a fun childhood. You didn't have a Coleco? I didn't have a Coleco. I didn't have it in Atari 2600. I never had it. No, so I didn't know this. And I'd never seen this movie. And I watched it. And I was like, it is so close to a break dancing movie. Oh yeah. It's so close to being broken three. It really scratches the itch of pretty much every bad movie we've ever done on the show. I mean, it hits all the tropes kind of perfectly. Oh. Yes. You know, there's skateboarding, of course. There's future cars. For Jessica St. Clair, there's trash cans on fire. And by the way, we are in Philadelphia. Oh yeah. Bring us your Faber J. Egg, really. If you have Faber J. Egg's, please let me see them when we come out to talk to you in just a minute. Yeah, we would love to sign your Faber J. Egg's filling. Um. I don't want to wait any longer to bring out our resident video game expert. My other co-host, June Dane, Raphael. Faber J. Egg's filling. Welcome, June. Hi, Paul. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you very much. June did not know this was a video game film. Nope. It stands on its own to feed them. You found that it's merit, you know, we're valid just as a piece of... Listen, I didn't know there was source material. I just thought this was a story about double dragons. I mean, you have to understand I also don't know. I know some games on a chari. I know Oregon Trail. And that's... I like, I know of Mortal Kombat and that's it. Leisure to Larry. So I don't know about video games, but no, I've never heard of this. Well, maybe this will help you that this movie, while based on the game, Double Dragon, has literally no similarities to the game. But I was going to ask, because I was like, obviously, the two leads are the two guys from the game. But it's like, is Alissa Milano's character based on a character in the game? She is, but it's a little suspect. I'll read you the description of the game. The part of the game is about two martial artists. One is a blue-suited young man named Billy Hammer Lee. And the other is a red-suited twin brother named Jimmy Spike Lee. And they fight their way... Jimmy Spike Lee? Yep. I don't think it was... I oddly don't think it was like an homage to Spike Lee. You know you don't. I think that they really were going after the Hammer and Spike, two of the scariest things. But they fight their way into the turf of the Black Warriors gang with Linda and Adobo as members. But why they are going into that territory is because they have kidnapped their love interest. So... Wait, their collective love interest? Yes. Ew. So wait, this is this movie or the game? This is the game or the movie? I don't know. I don't know what I watched. This is the game. Watch this on Amtrak and I was like, what's happening? I was kind of fused. I was so pleasantly surprised immediately, as soon as I saw Robert Patrick. Yes. So the game is about them going deeper and deeper into Gangland to rescue their love interest, who I guess would be the Elisimilano character. That's disgusting. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. And then the final level of the game, you want to guess the final level of the game is? They fuck her together. I mean, that's what you just said up. They must rescue her and fuck her together as brothers and then kill themselves. Jason? No, no. That's where we're going. Jason, it's much more honorable. They rescue her and then Billy and Jimmy fight to the death over the determination of who will win the affections of her. They fight each other to death? The final level of Double Dragon. Double Dragon becomes Solo Dragon at the end. And in the video game, do they have these powers? Well, in the video game, they have suits. We can watch a play. She asked if they had powers. You can just say they have suits. No, they are just, I'm saying that that's the only similarity. I, and there may be a video game person out there. You can save it for how did this get played. But they don't seem to have any, like it's not like part of their mythology. It's more like they're going in and fighting a bunch of street tuffs. And they're also street tuffs. And that's at least my memory of the game. Your memory is mostly street tough related. And that's to you, FF in my right. Tuff street tuffs. Street tuffs. I don't want to go down there. There's street tuffs and teenagers. I mean, because even in the video game, the end boss, he doesn't have any powers. He just has a machine gun. In the video game. In the video game. Well, there's nothing end boss though. The end boss is your own brother. At the end of the game is Fratricide. Like, which is the crazy world to live in. What a moral choice. I just want to say. But I saw this on Milano. Worth it, I guess. Listen. I'm ready to talk about Alyssa Milano's hair. And her pants. Please tell me the pants. Please. I'm ready to talk about that. But I will talk for one hour at least. I promise you, Fili. At least one hour below the waist only. Holy cow. I mean, look at even the glove she's wearing in this one. It's pretty wide. Well, let's get into the idea of the glove. We are meeting a lot of different gang members. And some of them are just wearing Mickey Mouse hands. That seems to be, like, at one point they go, look at these clowns. And I was like, do they mean like, this is a gang of clowns? Some people seem to have white face paint though. Almost as if they were clowns. Well, this is a weird thing. I couldn't tell if this earthquake had, if these people were insane and then the quake happened and they were just sort of let loose. Or if the quake shook the sense out of them. So you think, by the way, Jim. How do you think that might have? Let's keep on going with this idea. Because it is seven years later, this movie takes place in the future, in our past 2007, in New Angeles. And we are met to a world that is still experiencing aftershocks seven years after the quake. That was a big quake. That's what I'm saying, Jason. It was a big quake. Sure. Right. But you're saying, did it shake people into insanity? Like, did it occur? I feel like this is a good job. Jason, we've never experienced the big one. It's not a matter of if it's a matter of life. I'm just saying there is a podcast called The Big One that KPCC put out recently, six episodes of absolutely terrifying reality about how Los Angeles is in for the big one. Just a subtle plug there for that podcast. Right. So we are. The hearing of that podcast existing just gave me the chills. You and Philadelphia don't know what we're talking about, okay? But we live in a world that could literally create what you saw in this movie. Yes, definitely. That's our future. They ride a jet ski right over my house. And again, it's not unsettling for me. It is not if it is when. Yes. It is when we live in this reality. But you're saying that the reason the gangs are so prevalent is because the big one just rattled everyone's brains into being, I think this is some sort of like Mad Max, like dystopian nightmare. But let's talk about it from a different perspective, which is something that I couldn't get out of my mind. The big quake happens, but it's not a post-apocalypse in the world. It's a post-apocalypse sliding in LA. Just move. Go. Move to Arizona. It seems to colorado. It does. But there's plenty left. The world is not over. These idiots stay here for karate tournaments. That are like normal karate tournaments, but just with bad lighting. Well, that's what I couldn't figure out. In the movie, why are they still having competitions? They weren't in school. They weren't part of an individual. I couldn't figure out why are they having karate. I understand. I want to establish that these guys are bad asses, and they go out into the world, and they get into fights. We see that they are learning in whatever martial art they are. But can I stop you here? You say bad asses. They're fighting karate kid one, like Ralph Machio, karate. Like they are not doing anything the best. I just want to make sure that people are on the same page, because I was getting a print framed, and it was of Daniel Laruso doing the crane. And someone did a cool brag. It's a pretty cool print. And the guy behind the counter said, oh man, this is awesome. What's it from? And I go, oh, karate kid. He's like, I love Jaden Smith. And I was like, so I need to always make sure people know there are two karate kids. And three, if you count Hillary Sling. I mean, we were getting on a train while watching the beginning of this movie. So I'm not sure. Is there, do they work together in their fight moves? Is that the thing about being a double dragon brother? No, they don't do anything together. Because some of the moves that they did at the end were incredible and looked really fun, and I'd like to try them. It was almost as if kid in play started doing karate. Like that was the level of fight moves. How did June break both of her legs? Oh, they were doing that spin thing from the end of double dragon as the photo pose at the end of an episode. And she went flying into the audience. But I was concerned or at least curious that we're in this post-apocalyptic world where there's still karate tournaments that are very polite. They're not like, they don't seem aggressive. They seem like Jim karate tournaments. But then there's like huge sponsors, like 3M. The people who make like tape, they literally have like a sign up, like 3M. On the wall, like they're okay, we're getting in on this. I mean, I know LA fell off into the water, but we still got to sell our fucking god's tapes. We got to sponsor something. Yeah. We got to sponsor something. I guess it's underground, very organized martial arts competitions. But also there's a curfew because there are so many different types of threatening gangs. Like, again, to your point, like, imagine what the rest of the civilized world thinks of Los Angeles in this moment. Like... I mean, listen, I would love to know how much federal money has been devoted to a natural disaster that's happened here. Are we don't see FEMA? We don't see FEMA there. We don't see... Interesting. Jason has just been assassinated. June has just gone down. It's just me. I knew it would be Philly. I knew it. I knew it, Philly. City's dangerous. Well, to your point, June, the police are underfunded. So much so that at the big NC when the police decide to actually be police, officers, they really are only in a closet. Like, they don't even have a full conference room to gather in. I mean, I can understand that, though, because no one's paying taxes in New Angeles. Oh, okay. Because nobody has a job and there doesn't seem to be any infrastructure in place. But where is the rest of America? Yes. Yeah, and has the rest of America just been like, you know what? Fuck it. Are these quarantine? Yeah, oh, yeah. Like, that's the thing is, it doesn't... The way that other post-apocalyptic movies do, they don't give us a sense of the world. They're just like, nope, this is what happened here. And this is what we're doing after the quake, 2007. You know, there's like, you know, by the way, this movie starts somewhere in China. Everything seems pretty cool. Although, it does seem to me, okay, when the movie started somewhere in China, right? Somewhere we couldn't be bothered to figure out exactly what. I thought for sure this scene was in the past. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Everybody, it is in fact, contemporary to the rest of the movie. But people are wearing like, like, what to me is traditional outfits with like, stuff on them and bop, bop, bop, bop. And there's a temple and the lady lash, it goes in and gets the medallion. And then she opens up a briefcase and it's a satellite communication system. And she's like, it's me, I got it. And I was like, this is now. But what? But by the way, I mean, Robert Patrick, who's introduced next, we don't even meet the double dragon brothers for quite a bit. He is like, ah, finally, I can't wait to see the double dragon medallion. And then opens it and there's only one part of the medallion. It's called double dragon. Like, someone would be like, hey, you know what, I know it. It's weird that's only one dragon, right? And here's something, and it's not like you would confuse it. It looks like a best friend's necklace. It looks like one of them's got B-Fry and the other one's got Stuttens. And it's like, lash goes somewhere in China, finds Stuttens, and it's like, I got it. And he's like, where's B-Fry? And she's like, there's a B-Fry? I thought this was the St. End's medallion. But no. Just because it got quiet, you don't have to applaud. But we do know that people are not of their right mind. Was it because of the quake? We don't know. Was it because Andy Dick gave up on acting and decided to become a weatherman? Like, there are weird choices made in this movie. Andy Dick's like, I survived. I don't want to leave LA for my burgeoning movie in a TV career. I'm going to stay here and just transition to being a weatherman. Vanna White, I think it's an upgrade. George Hamilton, I think it's like, it's state. It's like lateral move. From the Hollywood Harbor to the Tijuana border. This is New Angeles's number one nightly news with George Hamilton and Vanna White. In our top story tonight, it's daylight savings time again. Now make sure you set your clocks one hour ahead tonight or tomorrow evening. You may accidentally find yourself out after curfew. I always get the mixed up whether to go forward or backward. That's great, Vanna. Andy, how's it look out there? Oh, you too are crazy. June, what do you think is going on in New Tokyo? I just saw that right now. Andy Dick is in front. New Tokyo, that seems as if there was an earthquake in Japan and Tokyo sailed over. So I think that would happen. No, I think what happened is that possible? Or Japan is gone. Japan is gone. Some piece of landmass is there and they're like, well, it's New Tokyo now. I thought it was little Tokyo downtown that somehow split off and floated into the ocean. But what's interesting is this map appears to have the capital records building right there. In Lake Pasadena. If you know anything about Hollywood and you shouldn't, this map is aggressively wrong. But who knows, Paul, after the shake, after that big shake? But that would mean the way this map is structured that a lot of the west coasts would come off. And then Pasadena would come running up to the west coast. But then other parts of the west side would stay totally intact. But the Pacific Ocean basically comes up to vine. It's what this is saying. It seems that neighborhoods have jumped over each other. Yes. Anyway, these people decide to stay. They're heroes. A lot of people say a lot of things about Andy Dick, but he stayed. When the quake happened, he stayed. So one of the things that you see in the crowd tournament is a little guy just going like, every time there's an earthquake rumble, he's like jacking it up. Like jacking up a car. Jacking it up. What? Jacking it up. Oh. No. But there, this movie is based on the premise that if you put a car jack in a building, you can re-strain your... It's stupid. But here's... I mean, there's an active commercial for Jack in the movie. Like, this is the focus is on just the commercial. This is why I love this movie because this movie starts off. We're in China. We're in a big bad guy's lair. We're at a karate tournament. And then we go into Weirdel Yangavix UHF, where we just have like a... A fucking... That's it. I'm like, here's a commercial. Here's a funny newscast. Here's an exceptionally long weather report. Yeah. And it keeps going at one point. I was more interested in who was in the NBA finals because George Hale was like, and the NBA finals is here again. I'm like, oh, who? Who is it going to be? You know, and we never got to it. So here's Jack City. It's Sunday. You're watching the Raiders Gladiators game on TV. And suddenly, the house collapses. How embarrassing. But it's not your first pause for one second. These are those classic LA accents. Those classic Southern California quintessential accents that are synonymous with the city itself. I also feel like they were trying to take a subtle dig at Super Mario Brothers a little bit. But maybe I'm wrong. You think these guys are Mario and Luigi? Yeah. Oh, interesting. Because they're like not plumbers, but they're jackers. See, I thought they were... They're jackers? I don't like that. Jack City. I don't like that. And I don't like how quickly it came to your mouth. By the way, there's the T-shirt. Jack City. Good news guys. Jack City. It's not bad. I will say I liked the sequel, the new one. New Jack City. All right, here we go. It's all about wordplay, Philly. It's everybody's fault. That's why you got to go to Jack City. Well, you could choose from hundreds of decorated colors. So remember, if you didn't buy from us, you don't know Jack City. Also, just a pause. Never comes back in the movie. These jacks are not a part. I thought they were going to be like some reaper because they're set up like three different times in the first act. You see people during the fight sequence. Jacking a post. You see them later. Yeah. Something up there. And you see the commercial. And I was like, okay, that's going to be part of it. Nope. Not at all. So a couple questions about Shuko and Shuko's motivations. And do you want to refer to him as Shuko or Victor Geisman? I will. I mean, I love his Christian name, but I prefer. I prefer to call him Shuko. So Shuko, I guess, owns most of Los Angeles. Seems like he is some sort of oligarch. Yeah. So I'm confused about what he actually needs from these powers, given what he's been able to accomplish without them. Also, also, why is he also the person who killed their father? Like, why are all of these people connected to each other? He also doesn't seem to have any martial arts background at all. We get the biggest insight into his motivation in this scene where he reveals what he really wants. This is basically it. If you go, what's this movie about? It's about this character saying this. How hard can it be to pull my beloved dragon up? Huh? I mean, it's down there. The Ripper's really deep. Damn it! Louis. Louis? Do you know who's? I just want total domination of one major American city. Is that your last passport? Is it? That's what he wants. Total domination. He has it. He's 16-year. He got it. Yeah. Like, hang a mission accomplished, signed over the aircraft carrier, baby. He did it. He is working out of a mall. Anything is bought for a price. It also seems though that a lot of, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know the source material. But it seems that a lot of the medical experiments he's been able to do have happened without these medallions. Yes. Well, those are just, yeah, that's, that's like he's some sort of like, you know, steroids. He's giving these guys steroids or, yeah, I know he seems to be trying to create like monsters. I wrote down he is creating a bunch of extras for nothing but trouble. A movie that we did on this podcast. This movie has a lot of, yeah, it's very nothing but trouble in. At points, it does feel and that monster that's created a rejected clumps character. And that monster's created to be the most powerful man in the world. By the way, his name, Boa Do Boa. Boa Do Boa. Okay, so Boa's Do Boa. He's part of the Boa hot gang. Problem with him is he was much more flexible. He was much more malleable and quick and I think stronger before he became that monster. Of course. Of course. No, once he becomes this roided out kind of monstrosity, he has to be put inside of a plastic suit that becomes like that can't move or can't do anything. So he just kind of wanders around. I know there is a scary about if you use steroids, your penis gets smaller. I imagine that how big he is. Is his penis so, so tiny? Is this what you were thinking about during the movie? Is that the way you have all those pictures in there drawn? I was like, now again, picture the body. Doodoo, tiny, tiny, tiny, pee pee. And that's why he's so mad. You think that? Okay, okay. You think Boa Do Boa is so mad because he's been made in just so much steroids that it has made his penis so small that he's full of rage. But arguably what happens upon his being full of these steroids is he becomes quite emotional and starts rooting for the good guys. Right? Well, I think that's after he loses the battle, right? And he's left for dead. Yeah, I guess that's right. They do leave him for dead in a burning building. So I think that would make you switch sides. But even at that point, he is kidnapped and then his force fed spinach, which I thought was a kind of a play on Popeye. This movie is fucking wild. It's crazy. I'm realizing now, genuinely, I don't, I didn't pick up on a lot of stuff. But I just watched it like colors and shapes going by. Actually, I'm able to intuit more of what's happening. And in this one, I was like, okay. I didn't blew or still in it, but I don't know what's up with this guy. This guy looks like Bane now. Yeah, I couldn't quite figure it out. Robert Patrick was doing as far as I'm concerned, the best Charlie Sheen impression I've ever seen. I love Robert Patrick in this movie. And I googled, I said, when did Terminator 2 come out? Is this like the next movie he made or is this a little while later? Terminator 2 came out in 1991. This movie came out in 1994. So pretty close. This is like, you're hot. What's your next move? Double dragon. I got the call, Bobby P. I got you that job and it's called Double Dragon. Do you know any martial arts? No. No worries. When it comes to martial arts, we'll turn you into two guys with swords. You just think real hard. We shot a medallion and you will turn into two guys with swords. The crazy thing about him is that medallion that's hanging on Scott Wolf's neck is he goes through all of this, all of these different, I guess, body shifting moments to jump into people's body to use the power of the soul to get in there, to get that other medallion. There are so many points in this movie that that medallion is this close. Oh yeah. And he could have just... Everybody can. Just grabbed it. Just get it. Outside of his shirt, just go right there and just grab it like that. I don't feel safe. I don't like it. I don't feel safe. You know no touching. I mean this movie also posits that everyone fights terribly because at one point the Double Dragon kids are attacked by conservatively, like 45 people. They are surrounded by a battalion of people. And no one surrounds them. They are not particularly good fighters. I mean they are not like, you don't watch these moves and go like, whoa! You have to watch these moves and go like, it's like a karate for 6 months. Mark Tukascos is a legit, like for me also one of my very dear co-stars in John Wick, chapter 3, Mar of Elham. He is legit like one of the best. I fucking love him. He's doing such amazing work in this, but every, you're right. Everybody else, if you told me they didn't block or plan any of that fight. And they were just like, we have 400 extras. You and Scott are just going to jump up and down and they're going to fall down randomly. By the way, it's during this fight, that big fight scene where I thought maybe everybody got just their sense shaken out of them because there's a male man in there. There's a male person. I'm like all of a sudden wearing like the tri-outs for WWF, like 80s W.A. But that gentleman, that gentleman is in his uniform. His postal uniform and it really looks like he was just delivering the male one day. The big one again. Well, should we understand that the male men are part of one of the games? Yes. Right? That's what's happened. All groups are now the... are jobs? Are unto themselves the games? What move is that to try to land on someone but announce your jump? Because you are letting them know. It's like saying look out below, but you're trying to kill them. So you should be like, shh, jump. You shouldn't be like... You think you should say shh, and then jump? I was trying to make it for the podcast audience that they would be very quiet. I'm hunting double dragons. I didn't... I didn't... I didn't catch a lot. I couldn't... if you told me, I couldn't tell you anything about Alyssa Milano's character. Like zero. Well, she's very well defined. I know she's leading some sort of... Kid Rebellion? The kids are just a new faction of the power core. So she's got kids working for her. No, those kids don't have homes. They're homeless? I believe they are homeless. Oh. She says this is a safe space for them. Okay, so they don't get pulled into gang violence. Yes. So they don't get like those Mickey Mouse hands. They get an after school program. How out of touch is her father that he doesn't know she's wearing a wig? Can you imagine your daughter is wearing a wig every day? And you're like, you look great, sweetie. But by the way, your daddy's a little girl kisses the top of her head. It's a wig. But by the way, I do need to point out that when we meet Alyssa Milano at home and she's combing out that wig, she puts on like a house coat and is dressed the way my grandmother dressed around the house as a woman in her 50s that didn't really have a job. I was like, this is an odd choice for a youthful young woman to be wearing a house coat. Like, maybe a diamond of your grandmother. A jobless woman in her 50s wandering about in a house coat. What shame! What shame, Nana? Get a job, Nana! She didn't need a job because she had all them Faberj eggs. Got those eggs, Philly? Give us those eggs. I mean, I know Paul used to nurse a really serious crush for Alyssa Milano. So this is what I'm saying. I did have an Alyssa Milano poster over my bed. What? She was in a hockey jersey and like looking who's the boss style? Is that when she played for the flyers? I don't remember. I wonder if that postage pulled by the way. I was like 50-50 on whether that's right. Like, genuinely, I was like, I'm just going to go for it. No, I had a huge crush on her and then I, this is the poster. I just pulling it up right now. Oh, Paul, be careful. Paul, be careful. You might spontaneously ejaculate. This might be like sense memory. This could be Pavlovian. So she's in a New Jersey's devil. Ah! Okay, Philly. Okay. So there it is. I mean, you could see it a little bit. And that's what I had over my bed. She's in ripped jeans, New Jersey's devil, and of course we know. And I traded it. Wait, I don't think it's New Jersey devils. I don't think it's New Jersey's devil. I just don't think it's possessive of the devil. I don't respect it enough. Rangers, forever! Paul, better than Islanders. Oh, this is Philly, remember? I know. People eat horseshit off the street. Ha-ha! Look under your seats. There's a fresh apple under every seat. Munch, munchy, old weirdos. Yeah, I think I traded that poster for... You traded it? Yeah, my friend was like, I want that poster. And I was like, well, you traded it for me. And I think I got a Ghostbusters mirror. What? Like a mirror that had the Ghostbusters logo on it. So what, so you could jerk off to your own image? No, to the ghost. So you could replace the thing you jerked off to with a mirror? Ha-ha! That's very sad. Oh, God. Paul, you lost that tray. I don't mind telling you, you lost that tray. I was just kidding. Listen, Milano, I was like a real, like, I feel like sex symbol. You're the boss. Yes, it's from, I was exactly, from who's the boss in that way. Like, I get why she's in this movie as this character. I just couldn't figure out what she was doing. Oh, and by the way, they have a grade who's the boss, reference in it. Oh, I don't know. Oh, it's great. It's great. Just older than you guys enough that who's the boss in a little Milano, kind of, I miss. Oh, it's so good. I don't know about double-travel twins. Oh, that's good too. But basically, there's a, the line was this, in the final battle, Linda, that's Linda Lash, says to Marion. Now who's the boss? And then later, Marion tells Lash, you're lucky. Generally, I put people in the hospital because Lash was on general hospital. Oh. And then when they went to the restaurant, the hostess was like, I've got a party of five for, for ugly party of five. I was very excited to see Scott Wolf. I feel like we didn't get enough of his dimples in this movie. Got to get those dimples. Where were they? And where was his beer butt? By the way, I have to say, this is a movie where a lot happens, but I can't tell you anything about any of these characters. And I think Scott Wolf is a dick. Like in this character, like in this movie. He's not likeable. Like he does like dirty punches in the beginning. Like he's an asshole. He cheats. It's like, there's nothing sympathetic. I want to root for him. I'm like, you're a dick. Like one of his main complaints is like, you're always planning. Okay. If that's the biggest dig. In this post-apocalyptic world, you always make plans. Like we have to have enough food. We don't have money. We shouldn't wreck the car. I think that I don't have a, I can't like make a good reading about Scott Wolf. I loved him so much. Hey, Party of Five. Yes. That I just, yeah. That I just was very happy to see him. Come on, you never saw Party of Five. Never saw it. Oh my god, so good. I don't go in for that. Here we go. Violet episode of Party of Five. Let's do it. Turn the lights down. We're all just going to watch it. So I want to say something about Alyssa Molana's hair. The daughter hair or the blonde highlighted hair? This blonde hair. So it's so tough because she's such a beautiful woman. This hair do will not look good on anyone, not a single person. There's no way for it to. I could pull it off. Jason. That is like a Swedish pop star's hair. Robin. Robin can do this. Right. Yes. Okay. Robin can do this. Or, or I believe this might be the haircut that the woman from Diane Tward still has. It's just so confusing because there's no, there's no shape to those bangs. Like, some are very long, some are very short. It really upset me. Well, it's interesting because what I couldn't figure out in the movie is I understand her bleached out short kind of punk rock haircut is essentially. Does in a way make sense to me in a if the movie is a post apocalyptic true wasteland. Escape from LA, Johnny Nemanik style, but it's not. She is also meant to be a normal suburban daughter who's got a cop as a dad and has to go to school and do whatever is there. Her brothers on VR roller coasters, the only thing that really saw the future in this film. Like, there's like that juxtaposition then doesn't really make sense to me. Then I don't understand. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. Well, that's the movie. They restore power to the city. To the core? Maybe. Well, they do see that as a lot of blackouts. Yes, they do see a lot of blackouts. I think that they make those kids pedal bicycles. There are a lot of blackouts. And the dad says at one point, oh, that power core, they're responsible for the blackouts. And she goes, no, dad, the power core makes the power or some rough version of that language. So do you think, okay, let me understand this. This is what I'm going to conjecture. Alyssa Milano has all of New Angeles's orphaned children or lost children who she is using as slave labor. Sure. In order to power the city electrically? I wouldn't dispute that. If that's the case, she's the villain of the movie. Hold on. The case, we got to free these kids from the power core. Can anyone speak to that? Can anyone tell us if we're right or wrong? Wrong. Go over and find out. Find the way she is. Just quickly, Paul, before you go to her, she is the one who saves the day at the end of the movie. Power core? Yes. Because what does this? Because Robert Patrick doesn't like the lights. That's one of the things that I had missed. I really missed that. I had missed that that would, that he is, that if he's exposed to too much light, his magic doesn't work. Like, here's the thing. He's got the two medallions. Doesn't that, isn't that in this movie the equivalent of the Infinity Stones? Hasn't he now assembled all of the halos? Can't he conquer death now? But he's put the two together. That's like having the resurrection stone. That's like the other one. And the king. And I think that's one of the problems with the movie. But I would argue that light just made him drop it, right? Light made him drop the thing and then they were on the ground and then that was it. It was over. Yeah, like I didn't find it. It was just shining bright light on him, made the medallion fall off of his body. Well, I think what you're also right about is when the medallions came together for that double dragon moment, the only thing that really happened was they got suits. Yes. When Robert Patrick has but one half of the medallion, he can turn into the smoke monster from loss. He can possess other people, right? With the exception of Scott Foley, who he can't possess because he's got the other half of the... Scott Wolf. Sorry, sorry. He also can't possess Scott Foley either. Okay. Because it's just such a big fan of Foley. Scott Foley. To me are... Of the same. They are in the same... Okay, got it. Anyway, so he can't... Anyway, so he can do all of this crazy shit with one half, right? When he combines both... When Robert Patrick combines both not Robert Patrick. Yes, combines both halves of the medallions. All that happens is he turns into two guys with swords. That's it. They don't have magic powers. They're just two guys with swords. But how cool would it have been if they had enough money to make two Robert Patrick's of swords? Was that an option? I feel like that's what we should have done. But let me see what the power core does. What do you think the power core does? So the power core are like the vigilante anti-gangs. They basically fight the gangs and try to restore safety to the city, which is why the gangs all looked scared when they showed up. Also, the police seem to think kind of all a Batman. That the power core are terrorists shooting down planes. But really, they're only shooting down planes full of drugs. At least that's what Alissa Molano says, too. Wow, they're shooting down planes. Thank you, man. But here's the weird thing about it. Here's the very strange thing about the power core. They seem when you go into their layer, it seems very bright and colorful. It seems like a camp. Well, full of arcade games? Yeah. But that's what this would be. Why would the police ever have the idea that they're terrorists? Yes, but power cores HQ seemed like a rec center, not from breaking, not from the electric boogaloo, though the one where they're trying to save the rec center. And what I couldn't figure out is, why are they a threat? And all this seems to be kids at play. This is take care. This is jimberies. Yes. Boy, wouldn't it have been great if it was that jimberie? And it's just a bunch of little kids. This is the problem of making a post-apocalyptic film for kids, because they're keep on mixing and matching things. Yes, it's so brightly colored. And there's video games. And people are eating pancakes for dinner and popcorn for dinner. And it's gross to feed someone's spinach because spinach is gross. But then you have a guy smoking. Like the bad guy, you have some adult-femed shit going on with some really pee-wee playhouse kind of shit going on there too. It's a bizarre, bizarre film. I know that a lot of the kids did like the Huey Lewis and the news reference. The henchman, Huey, and Lewis, and what's the news? Not for nothing if this is in the kids. Like they kill the kids. If it's in the kids. I think the little satory like, boom, she's done so. I thought for sure she was going to come back to you. Of course, I thought she was going to come back, because it seemed like she was the true keeper of the double dragon legacy or history or whatever. The fact that she's just like wiped out, so these two dildos can run around. And satory, what is going on? And satory looked to be their same age, yet she was their guardian. Yes. And why not make satory an older woman like who brought them in? No, she's like, you're 18. I'm 19. I adopted you. I guess the rules work differently. There was a moment that I loved. I pointed out to June we were watching because we were sharing airpods. We both had one air pod watching this movie. Or as June calls them air buds. June called them air buds the other night. And I've thought about it a lot. Just the idea of putting two golden retrievers in your ears. That are chasing tiny basketballs. If the air, if the thing, I will design these. It is the basketball is the thing you put into your ear. What hangs outside of your ear is the golden retriever. So it's a perfect product. Philly, please help me get this to market. Sharks, I need your help. Can we pull up a picture of her pants? We gotta talk about guys. We got to talk about these pants. Okay, I'm going to say one thing right now about them. Before you even pull up this photo, I thought they were jeans at the beginning of the movie. Okay, I thought they were shorts. Oh, I thought they were shorts. At the end, I thought that they were... Chaps. Yeah, like spandex on top. And then jeans on bottom. Just pull up a photo. I'm gonna try. I'm curious. Is there anybody in the audience who did not notice Alissa Milano's pants? Well, by the way... Or everybody did good. There is a moment in this movie I wrote down. These guys like ass. Oh, when they're going into the tube? By the way, it's a kids movie. June, you said so confidently. Pull up a picture of those pants. I don't know if I have them. We're getting into that. We're getting into the... Right when they climb through the tunnel. Oh, yeah, there we go. Okay, so wait, so wait, so wait, so wait. Oh, okay. Now, now we can get to work. Now we can get to work. Does anybody have a laser pointer? We need a laser pointer. So right now, those look like jeans. Yes, shorts. No, Jason, those look like one-page jeans. Where is the angle? That looks like one-page jeans that's been cut into... Well, yes, the legs have both been cut off except for tiny strips connecting each... Like, like, garter belts of jeans. I would say... Denim garter belts connect the bottom to the top. Right, like so basically from the knee down is Jeanne. From... From like, just... It's like a thigh-high boot made of denim. But she is also wearing shoes. She is wearing shoes. Yes. What's so weird about this shot is I actually... I'm very excited to see this from behind. You are seeing it from behind. I know, and I'm excited to see it from behind. Because... Okay, wait a second. Pause. What? Okay. Okay. Okay. Now. Time out! Time out! There are bicycle shorts underneath. Alright, so bicycle shorts. Okay, so keep in mind. There is full skin in between the lower leg and the butt. Even though those are still part of, I believe, the same item of clothing. Although, wait, I just... Something just occurred to me. I think that her gloves are made out of... The jeans? The jeans. I can't act like that. I'm just looking at you as if it's a buddy. Wait, well, I think you're gonna have to do... For the movie. For the type in Dothragan, Paul? Alissa Milano pants. I was typing it in quickly. You think Google's like, I know exactly the ones you're talking about, buddy. No, of course it's just Alissa Milano. Where are you? I was hoping if you'd just said Alissa Milano pants and your thing said again. Alright, so here we go. We got a good picture of you. Oh, yes. Okay. Now we're talking. Okay. Oh my god. It's even crazier than I thought. This is wild. Alright. Even more. This is wild. It's even crazier. Okay. Somebody is screaming something from over here that is legitimate. Okay. That is part of her camouflage, which is the spray paint allows her to remember. People were blended into the wall, but here's the thing. Guess what's not camouflage? The flesh of her thighs. If you want, you know what? Our military doesn't do. They don't have camouflage from here down, here up, and then just generous skin. But by the way, I like the idea that's her camouflage, but it should be the whole body. It's not like people are just going to see her from the waist down. But now I'm thinking, okay. What on large, you can hit that. Wait, I just want the cursor. I don't need to enlarge it. Okay. So this, this is not the same as the bicycle shorts in the back. This is a different thing. Yes, it is, people are saying. Look, that was gray, and this looks like lace. Wait, okay, hold on. I think it is. Okay, fine. So these are gene garters. What gene garters? What gene garters? It's some sort of garter that's connecting the bottom gene to the top gene, I think. Can I ask the audience a question? Do you think what's on the bottom of her legs is the same as what's in her crotch region? No. No. You think those are, it's a pair of shorts and then a garter belt with gene bottoms? What? Fuck you, Philly. I, I agree. Fuck you. I agree. I agree. Fuck you. I agree. Fuck you. I agree with the audience. One hundred percent. One hundred percent. I agree with the audience. One hundred percent. Hold on. Yes, absolutely. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I believe that she is wearing jeans in a green tee, and when she goes under cover, she on her garden and attaches the spray paint pants. I get you Philly. I'll eat horseshit with you. I guess so. I guess so but like. Wow. Why? All right well obviously this is for the work she's doing. Yeah this is not functional. It just can't. Otherwise people would have adopted it. Obviously not. Students everywhere would be wearing these. We are not going to get to the bottom of this. You don't know what it's like to live a new Angeles in 20 2007 okay. So let's go to the audience right now to hear from them. Maybe they have questions besides the pants that we can talk about and I'm going to ask you in the audience tonight a question. We hear about Madonna, divorcing Tom Arnold. We hear about Jerry Brown being the vice president of the United States. In this world what celebrity do you think might be the president of the United States in this world? All right your name, your president and your question. My name is Bos the president in this world. Yes. Oh not the president in our world. We know that. That wouldn't be a hard thing. Just stay in guess you can say anything. Still Donald Trump. Okay great perfect. See it was perfect. All right now your question. Okay so the quake I think it had a bit a little bit more impact on the area than New Angeles than maybe it mentioned because in that weather forecast I saw a place called La Canada. That actually is a place in Los Angeles called La Canada but go ahead. It is. I am serious. So okay we'll move on. You did it Philly. You did it. First question out of the gate. You did it. All right. Ma'am your name, your president, your question. Hi my name is Mo. President Tony Danza. Great. Excellent. Angela. End of the movie they get into the car at the very end with Vaux and Dobo. Whatever his name was and they think that Scott Wolf is possessing him so they get in the car with him but then he's actually in the trunk of the car the entire time. So my question is what was he doing in the trunk? Great question. And also does he have the power to possess bodies at that point? Yeah. Yes. So I thought he had the power of the power of the double dragon. So once he becomes a double dragon those powers are interchangeable. They have to combine it in order to both have the power of the power of the double dragon. No no because Robert Patrick is going in people's souls the whole movie only with the soul. Because he had the ma'am. Oh. Right. Can we cut these down a little bit and house lights up a little bit? You're right because I thought that was odd because it was oh yeah you're right I think why did they assume he was in the other body they don't even know they just cut them they're like we gotta figure out these ma'am's a little bit more I mean they're rubbing it for a good part of the movie. Your name is... Yes, everybody rub it like it's Aladdin's Lantern. I don't know. Your name, your president, your question. Hi, Whitney, I'm so nervous. Hi, my president... You got this, Wendy. Whitney. Whitney. You got this, Whitney. Thank you. My president will be Terry Cruz. Oh. So you think this is like an an idioticry season area? Yeah, very much so. And there's two observations I've made since you're in John Wick 3, which I love you. You're great. Did you notice the two twins? They always, the whole group with like the head of Locklear clone and everything. They always synchronized their glasses, needing gum together. But did you also notice that the restraints that they had... Who's the Asian guy? He, we in Lewis? No, the... Mark... Oh, Mark DeCasco? Yes. Yeah. He was in restraints and looked like Gimp. Those were the worst restraints I've ever seen because you could easily get out of those. Like Gimp for like making a friendship bracelet? Yes, like a box, yeah. Oh, I was thinking pulp fixing on that. Man. I remember making friendship bracelets in camp in like day camp. Ooh, tough stuff. Nobody wanted them. All right, a man in a blood sport shirt has a question. Sir, your name, your president, your question. Ryan, probably Mel Gibson? Okay, great. And I just wanted to talk about the easy cheese engine fuel. Oh, yeah. So at one point, they read the ingredients of easy cheese. They throw it in there and they basically go like a million miles an hour. So my understanding is the car is run on trash? Very much like back to the future, too. Yeah, exactly. And so they have to put trash in to make the car run. And they pick up a, like, yeah, an aerosol bottle and it says, do not combust. They throw it in anyway and the car goes super fast. Are you gazing indictment on snack food? You would think though that again, that would come back later in the movie. That would be a skill that they learn once in act one. They'd enact three. They're like, boom, now we know how to go faster in the dragon mobile. Yeah, and that is really the problem with the movie. The only problem with the movie as far as I see it is that there's no heroic about these two characters. There's nothing they don't use their smarts. They really don't use their skill except for that one awesome move. They don't seem really to have a mission. At all. They're just sort of going along with it. They just are like happening. They're kind of, they're almost like a couple of doofuses who keep happening into, like, the movie should be about Alyssa Milano. Like the leader of a, like the active leader of a rebellion. Or is it true? That's what I was so upset she died early on. I would have loved to have watched her journey. Your name, your president, and your crush. My name is Frank. My, I think the president of this world is definitely Jerry Springer. Great. And there's a lot of incredible technology in this movie. I'm glad we talked about the trash car. There's the video game rendering thing that the bad guy uses when he loses vision. But I think we have to talk about Gangnet Linkup, which is the onboard computer in the car. Is that what it is? The onboard computer in the car? Yeah, I thought that was fascinating. Is that, I will ask. Is that from the video game? No. Where you get the stats on each person you're going to fight. That's what I assumed it was because he said like, this is Boa-Dobo. He's steroids. He can lift 800 pounds. I was like, oh, maybe this is like one of the guys in the game that you fight. And these are his specifics. You know what I'm saying? Sir, your name, your president, and your question. My name is Rob. And I think Danny Elfman would be a good president. I can only imagine his score. Weird, but I like it. You want Danny Elfman from Oingo Boingo. Absolutely. The person who soundtracks all of Tim Burton's movies and The Simpsons, again, from Oingo Boingo to be president elect of this world? Rob, you're from Philly. All right, your question. So during when they first introduced A Do Bo, and again when they're in the chase scene of the whole part where he has to activate the game simulation for him to see because there's a newspaper in front of him, was it just me or was him and his colleague basically jerking each other off? I agree. I wrote that too. And because they fight over how they're doing it wrong. And the motion was like, you don't use a joystick. A joystick doesn't respond to like torsion. A joystick is forward, backwards, shoot, shoot, shoot. But they were like twisting it. At one point Bo A Do Bo was like, All right, I mean, I mean as much as the balcony as I can physically get to. That's right. Be careful up there. Be very careful, Bo. Be very careful. Keep in mind not only is this a balcony, it is a balcony in Philly. Yeah, just keep. I am right now in the balcony box. Do you have a question? Okay, your name, you do what you don't. I do. Okay, your name, your president, your question. Okay, I feel like if he said Jerry Springer that Judge Judy would do a good job as president. My name's Katie. My question is, do you know that the Jack City guys are from Philly? Oh, wow, really? They are. They had a show on Channel 12 called Furniture on the Men. They're the furniture guys. They are local treasures. Wow. And they live half a block from where they filmed a scene in Manicant 2. Wow. They're also in Manicant 2. Not bad. Best balcony question we've ever gotten. I almost feel like, well done. Great job, balcony. I almost feel like we should end the show. I mean, a woman just started dancing when that was announced. Yes. People lost their minds. Oh, boy. This guy out of his seat, this is not going to be good. All right, let's see. Oh, oh, oh, oh. This is going to wait. It might be great. He's holding something. He's holding a medallion. He's holding a double dragon medallion. Oh, my God. All right, sir. He found it. He found the double dragon medallion. Sir, your name, your president, your question. My name's Tony. My president would be Rodney Dangerfield. Great. The director of this movie, in addition to directing hundreds of music videos, also directed the Return of Bruno. Wow. Wait, Return of Bruno, that would be the album. That's the Bruce Willis album. Probably the music video. The music video for the movie. Okay, one of the... The Bruce Willis Harmonica Vanity Project. Which... Where Bruce Willis tried to convince everybody he was a blues harmonica player. Which, as a kid, was an album I owned. What? And, many years later, did I find out that under the boardwalk was not an original Bruce Willis tune. I loved Bruno. What? I loved Bruno, the Return of Bruno. Were you like, hey, Mom, let me just put on some Return of Bruno, pour you a glass of shardonnay. I... So, I'm under the boardwalk, if you know what I mean, Mommy. Smooth, smooth, smooth. I really was in first shock that most of those recover secret agent, man. Thought these were all original B. The Bruce Willis wrote under the boardwalk that would make him unquestionably the most talented person in history. I mean, I saw Blind Date, so I knew. Oh, listen, Milano Pants. Why did that man have a set of... Alas, Milano Pants is a t-shirt option. It's just the Google search bar. It's the Google search bar and it's Alisa Milano Pants. Paul, last question before we move off of Alisa Milano's pants. We're back on it. We're back on it just for one second. The character in the video game, what is she wearing? All right, Google, why not? In the video game for the nerds, is Robert Patx, character like the boss? No. The big boss? No. What? He's not in the game. Okay, thank you. Is anybody else in the game? This is a bubble. This is the game. Yep. Wow. So we'll see the little story of... You might as well have made a movie out of Dick Doug. Make me a Dick Doug movie. All right, go on. It's gonna start the story, hold on. All right. We're picking her mode. There's... Okay, there's Alisa Milano. She's punched in the stomach. Wait a minute. Is this the Mohawk game? Yeah. Is that Bhoidobo? Bhoidobo punches Alisa Milano in the stomach. Takes her. Wait, is that Alisa Milano? Yes, Jason. Okay. And she's wearing a little red dress. Greager. And then that's our guys. Both of these are our guys? No, just the blue guy. No, one in blue. Okay. Can you pause please, Paul? This is blowing my mind. The fact that this is the game is... is categorically insane. And now here are the two brothers fighting to the dead. The brothers fight. Their brothers. They are brothers. He gets... He gets her out of there. Whoa! She's on the... What?! And they start kissing. This is... What?! Also, there's a cat. What is that cat doing under the table? Also, there's a cat. By the way, she looks very comfortable. Here's a couple of questions. I have questions. Hey, there's a cat. What's the best on the hanger? Do you see the best? What's that waiting for? She's relaxed. The cat is... Why is the cat there? And like, what? He beats his brother to death. And she's like, you win. I'll fuck you. Let me just put my fuck vest on. And by the way, this game has no dialogue. Not even a little bit of dialogue. Wait a second. I think I just heard it. It's the red vest, isn't it? It's his brother's vest, Jason. Wait a minute. That's a trophy. That vest is a death trophy. That's wild. And you're telling me? You're telling me that blue beats red? Mark Tacasco wins every day of the week. Also. Well, in that world, they also have no medallion and no power. Okay, fine. But Alyssa Milano is so she would have fucked whoever won. And parts would have come out of her head. And also, doesn't... Why not just figure out a way to live as a thruple? Doesn't double dragon sound like a sexual position where brothers fuck the same woman? Why can't they just double dragon her at the end? Do you guys think, and I'm dead serious? Do you think that that cat is really red dragon? Yes, reincarnated. Is watching? There's something about that cat. I'd like you to go back to it. I can't really look at the cat, please, Bob. I can't agree with you. The cat is fucking perfect. Very eerie. The cat's like, okay, I'm watching, but I'm also going to lick this, plus while this is happening. By the way, that should be the shirt. Just the cat. But in the cat's eyes, you just see the red dragon. You just see your brother kissing the girl. I mean, that is like the message of that is really insane. Oh, once you beat all of the villains in order to get the woman, you have to kill your brother and then fuck her while a cat watches. Well, you don't have to fuck her while the cat watches. You do. You got to watch, because the cat is the actual boss. Wow. And I swear to God, pause for a second. If that cat was on the couch, I wouldn't have thought twice. If that cat was outside of the table, I wouldn't have thought twice about it. If that cat was on that little dresser over there, it would never have occurred to me. There's something about the position of that cat. Here's what I'm going to say. And I don't want to spend too much time on the game. This is a brick house. There's no way it survives the quake. There's no way the big quake happens. Brick house. Boom. You're done, though. Guess what? Every brick house to the ground. It's got structural foundation. We know. I don't even know what to make of that. That is what the movie is made. That is. I'm serious when I say like a more interesting movie could be made of joust. The game where you sit like a knight on an ostrich's back and fly around jousting people with a, okay, now what did they fuck? I just wanted to see if this is a better version of it. Nope. Same thing. Just kiss, kiss, kiss. I mean, I guess now that I see what she looks like in the game. I'm happier about how she looked in the movie. Here's what my quake, yeah. Here's my question too. When they're done, can you rewind a little bit, Paul? And so here's the thing, right? We're going to a little bit. Okay, so great. Go ahead, play from here. Okay. So she's like, you did it. And he's like, yes, I killed my brother for you. Right? I killed him dead. He was my brother. Smooth, smooth, smooth, right? And then they look right at us as if to say, is this what you wanted? They look right at the player. They look right at the player. You did this. You did this. You did this. You made a brother kill brother just for the love of this woman. And it isn't even the love of the woman. It just is like, to the victor go the spoils? Does she have agency in this at all? Nope. Didn't even have a say. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we obviously have an opinion about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinion. I got home, search Amazon Prime, and I threw on double dragon. There's a big earthquake, juggle, lows roam the streets, who are less sommelano will fight. There's a medallion, these bros gotta keep safe from discount Gary Oldman. Was that their girlfriend or their aunt? I can't tell, but she'll die just to keep them alive. Time for second opinions. Gotta check Amazon. Find out who gave five stars to this shit show. There's bad acting and writing and who costumed this crap. Let's go check Amazon for a sec. Condopinion. You're gonna have for Molly. Great job, Molly. Come here. All right, here we go people. Double dragon, second opinions. These are cold from amazon.com. There are 80 reviews for this film, 80. Not many. 58% are five star reviews. 58%. But they're all very personal. This one written by Al forno writes, I love this movie. I'm sorry, five stars. And then this one's written by T. Le jour. I was love this movie. I was there during some of the filming in Cleveland. I got to meet everyone but Robert Padrick. Who's from Cleveland? Five stars. This one's interesting from Guillem B. Pro. He writes, Excellent. Sorry about the delay of my comment. Five stars. So if you were waiting for him to finally get around, sorry about the delay, I didn't mean to get you waiting. I've been meaning to put this comment up, but my apologies to everybody. I know you've been expecting it. This one is interesting. This is from HoloSuite at yahoo.com. Australia. I love this DVD. You probably think I'm wacko, but I've never seen prequels or sequels or video games. This is my first experience of double dragon. It's an hour and 36 minutes of sleepism and late-dirtayment, the props, the lighting, the setting, the costumes are spectacle to watch on an 84 centimeter television. Whoa. Five stars. Honestly, is that like this big? 84 centimeters? Isn't that very small? This one is written by Suley M. And he writes, please send me all of the movies of Bruce Lee. I live in San Diego. My address is nine. The point of Coronado Canyon. My zip is nine. One, one, eight. This home number is six, nine, one. Five, one, eight, four, seven, one, five. Thank you. This person does not know how Amazon works. If they think that's how you order videos on Amazon, is you go to the double dragon comment section and say, please send me all of Bruce Lee's movies. Here's my address. Jason, June, obviously, those people love the movie. Would you recommend the people see this film? It's funny. I, of course, did not like the movie. But I didn't struggle through watching it. And that's a lot for me. That's a lot, yeah. It really does. So, especially considering the fact that before we started, the last thing I want to do was watch a movie called Double Dragon, right? Yes, and it was. But I saw a little small, I saw those pants. I saw some things that I liked. And it was absurd. And it was absurd in the way I think that they were intending for young audiences with the theater backdrop and the absurd props and all of that stuff. And gumballs. I love that trope where people who are fighting in movies, they never just stop and let the gumballs go by. They just continue to run. As top of gumballs. Just stop and let them all find their resting point. Was there a time when small round balls was a weapon of choice for anybody? You would think in its, how often it's used in movies, that it would be one of our main tactics for unsettling the enemy is just to lose round balls on them. That's why the American troops were able to storm the beaches at Normandy because the balls got stuck in the sand. Really? Yeah. That's true. They were the forces were just pouring like big marbles down the aisle. Oh yeah. It's getting stuck. Well, there's a lot about history. That's right. Jason, what do you think? Oh yeah, I would watch this. This is like, this is again, I don't remember having watched it. Yeah. So, I don't know. It's one of those things that it's like when you take ambience and you don't remember that you made a turkey sandwich. Yeah. Like, somehow this movie does that to you? Where I woke up and I was like, how did I get here? What's going on? Okay. I don't remember it. I couldn't tell you much about it. It seemed fun. Again, colors, shapes, movement, all that stuff. It's got it in spades. I would say especially for this project of watching it for the podcast. Absolutely. It's not tedious. It's not awful. It doesn't wear out. It's welcome. It's not. It doesn't feel too long. I even have a more full-throated recommendation. I think this movie is so fun and so bizarre and so weird. It has every trope of the movies that we watch on this show. But they're all together and it's shorter and less tedious than all those other ones. You got elements of everything in here. It's so weird. No choice really makes sense. And it has this effect where none of us are quite sure what we watched or what the plot was. I'm not sure. And we still enjoyed it. So a full-throated recommendation. Double Dragon forever. Make a sequel now. Yes. Like make a sequel. Make a direct sequel that is used, Mark and Alyssa and Scott now. Yes. That's interesting. Have it be new? It's like... Make it in 2009 and then go. That's interesting. A big thank you to you, Philadelphia. Philly! You've been... You've been... I don't think it did it Philly on a nice day. You've been a nice day. Thank you for having us. One of the best crowds we've had on this tour. Thank you. Thank you. That's right. Get out there. Do it Philly. All right. Thank you. Philadelphia. You guys were amazing. And we did catch our train and we did get to go home. Let me tell you about the shirt that we designed for this show. It's one of my favorite ones. We didn't talk about it explicitly. But it is what the cat saw. It is an amazing shirt that calls back the Double Dragon game. And it's basically the cat watching one of the brothers make love. To the Elisimal Enhanced character from the video game. It's one of our best selling shirts and people hadn't even seen the episode. So definitely head over to teapubble.com slash stores slash HDTGM to check that out. A big thanks to Devon, our engineer who was live in Philadelphia and saved us from near Doom with those audio issues. My God. Whoa. Rough one. Also a big tip of the hat. To our producer, Avril Hallyu, pulled all of those amazing movies for this tour. She's fantastic. You can follow her on movie bitches on YouTube and all the other social media sites. A big tip of the hat to Cody, who is also our producer here in L.A. And I also want to give a warm and generous thanks to Nate Kylu who does all of our research and Kyle Waldron. It does all of our amazing design. We have an amazing team. Everybody here at Earwolf. And if you want to continue this conversation about Double Dragon, please give me a call for the mini episode next week. It's 619 PAULA SK that's 619 Paul asked. You don't have to just ask about the movie. You can talk about anything you want. We've been getting into fantastic conversations on our mini episodes. Love relationship, job, advice, whatever you want. We will tackle it each and every week on the mini episode. Take a listen in and we will be playing a deleted scene about Alyssa Milano's pants on that episode as well. So tune in for next week's mini episode. Will we tell you the movie that we are going to talk about the week following that? But we will also get into your comments, concerns, and questions all about Double Dragon. We will see you next time on How Did This Get Made?