August 8, 2025 • 64 mins
Red Hot '90s Action Summer is back, baby! We've got some fun picks for this year, and we're starting things off with the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker buddy cop movie Rush Hour! We talk about how nice this mashup of Hong Kong martial arts and American crime dramas feels, the stunts, the laughs, and a whole lot more. We're also drinking Adirondack Brewing Co.'s Lake George's IPA!
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0:00-8:00 Intro
8:00-17:00 Beer talk
17:00-end Rush Hour
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It's red hot 90s action summer. Here at the Blood and Black Rum
Podcast, we're covering your favorite sweaty 90s action
movies all month long. Expect stunts galore,
transportation mishaps, and lotsand lots of hench men.
We've got Schwarzenegger, Chan, possibly even Reeves.
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It's going to be hot and steamy all August long.
Hey guys, welcome back to the Blood and Black Rum podcast.
I'm Ryan from closeplaytation.com.
I'm joined with my Co host Martin.
How's it going? It's pretty good.
We today is full of flames, gunshots, fisticuffs.
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Crime. You yeah, crime, you name it
because we are starting it's August, right?
It's just just turned around to August.
So we're starting our Red Hot 90s Action Summer Reloaded this
time because we're on basically it's like Season 2 of the Red
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Hot 90s Action Summer in the past.
Season, let's say, which is season 5 of our red hot action
month because. Yeah, Yeah, I think that's true,
right. Yeah, we did three months of Red
Hot 80s Action Month. Watch some great films like
Rebruary. Well, I mean Red Brown.
Don't want to steal that from Spoony Invasion USA.
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One of my favorite Chuck Norris films ever.
Hindsight Pain, 2020. Accidentally started is really,
you know, seeing war, that one. Yeah, the genocide in Gaza,
Yeah, you know, 'cause we do, you know.
I mean, I guess, I guess do you really ever start a war with
them or does it just never finish?
But we're regardless kicked off another scenario with them.
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Not that that's funny or anything, but yeah, that that
happens. Just a weird winky dink.
So yeah, we did. We did three years of 80s
months. And we decided, you know what,
it's probably time to move on. You know, you can only do so
much of the 80s films. And I'm sure we'll go back to
it. And, you know, we didn't even
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come close to covering all kindsof 80s action films that we
would like to continue with. But, you know, at some point you
want to move on and cover a new decade.
And it was time to move on last year to the 90s.
And we had a weird, like unintentional thematic thing
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going on last year where we just, we picked a bunch of
movies at all centred around transportation of some sort.
Now, I don't know. That's not necessarily a thing
that happened in the night. And like, you know, it's not a
trope of the 90s of like every film had transportation issues
in it. We tackled them all.
We tackled buses, we tackled boats, we tackled flight.
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Yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, we even got like
a what was that? Like a thing that was in, what
was it the Jackie Chan movie that we did?
Oh, Rumble in the Bronx. The hover in the Bronx.
Yeah, the hovercraft. That's right.
Yeah, I forgot about that. Like we even, you even tackled
hovercraft. So yeah, so, but you know,
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again, we wanted to continue on with the 90s for a little bit
because we, you know, there's lots of stuff from the 90s and
we didn't even, I mean, we covered certain niche elements
of the 90s, but we definitely did not hit every big name of
the 90s. So it was important to continue
on the tradition for at least another year of 90s action
films. And again, I think this year we
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were somewhat lenient on what wewould term in action film.
It we kind of jumped into different sub genres of action
films in this in our, you know, block of 90s action films.
I feel like we did a pretty goodjob of picking things that were
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quite different from last year when you think about a 90s
action movie. So I that's that's fun.
Pat on the back for us. Good job.
And I don't know that we haven'treleased like the full like
officially released the full listing.
I'll probably make a photo or something which I haven't done
yet that like kind of just is our cover photo for the 90s
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action month like I did last year.
But. I can't believe you're going to
just make it. Just have fucking AI do it now.
Yeah, AI, please make me. We don't need the artistry, just
have meta spit some shit out. Be careful even just mentioning
AI on this may you know, it started creating that image and
using up carbon footprints galore.
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So yeah, we we have to be careful when we talk about AI.
We're going to talk about computer generated issues as
well later on, but not today. Today we're talking about I I
never mentioned the man himself,Jackie Chan, which we've had on
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nearly every single red hot month, right, except the first.
Yeah, I don't think we didn't doany for the first so.
But other than that, and again, this is so red hot Action Summer
has been sort of a, you know, anexperience for me too, because I
think I've mentioned on multipleepisodes before when we've
covered Jackie Chan films, I am not super well versed in Jackie
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Chan movies. They are just, you know, I've
seen a few. They're just movies that I just
never really got into for whatever reason.
I think I've probably seen more Jet Li movies than I have Jackie
Chan movies, to be honest with you.
So that's it's been an experience to kind of see all of
those that I've missed out on. And like we were talking about,
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we did a police story one and two, we've done Rumble in the
Bronx and today we're here to talk about a different Jackie
Chan movie, probably one of the most well recognized Jackie Chan
films, at least in the United States.
Would you agree with that statement?
Yeah, it's it's his big, big breakthrough into the American
market. Yeah, I mean, I I think that
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when you think about Jackie Chanin the United States, this movie
is probably the one that really comes to mind.
And again, too, it is one of themost shining moments of like the
buddy cop series as well of types of types of action films
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because it was really like and we might want to blame this
movie for the buddy for the buddy cop antics of in tropes
that we were to get. I'm not saying it's the first
one. I, I'm not a I don't know.
I'm, I don't, I'm not an expert on them by any means.
There's probably a few before. I mean, Lethal weapon is, is a
buddy cop film and and it we might not have referred to it as
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such, but it was a buddy cop film.
But this is probably. You're forgetting one of the
greatest buddy cop films of all time.
What, John Belushi's? I'm sorry, not John Belushi,
Jim. Belushi.
Jim Belushi's K9. Yeah.
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Man's best friends. Yeah.
You know it. Probably one of his shining
moments in film history. It's canine.
Yeah. That would be a fun one to do at
some point. As to how it was?
Definitely. We'll do.
We'll do it, Jim Belushi, once. We're doing it according to Jim.
It was, yeah. It's definitely not high on the
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list of films for Action Summer,But you know what?
We'll honorable. Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, I mean, I think I think this film is probably a
shining example for both the buddy cop film, the Jackie Chan,
the United States film, and an example of a dude being in a
film and getting misrecognized as Chris Rock, like all, all the
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time. Which, you know, I think for a
long time there were people thatwere still refer to this movie
and they'd be like, yeah, the Jackie Chan, Chris Rock movie.
Like what are you talking about?Chris Rock's never been in a
Jackie Chan movie do. You mean Chris Tucker One?
That'd be something. If Chris Rock was in a Jackie
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Chan movie, what you're saying? Yeah, I mean they do have
similar characteristics, but. No, they don't.
Yeah, I mean, Chris Rock's definitely got more of a more
abrasive. I don't know.
Well, I mean, you can find ChrisTucker abrasive in a different
sense. But yeah, I don't know, they
were often confused, especially in, you know, I, I remember very
specifically also being confusedback in the day, like.
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Was I saying Chris Rock's actually a really talented
comedian? Wow, what a what a nice
disparaging comment on that's, you know, understatement about
Chris Tucker. Yeah, but I mean, for fuck's
sake, like Chris Rock's an actual honest to God hilarious
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comedian and he was too busy being a Lethal Weapon 4 so.
Oh. That's right, not one in Beverly
Hills, ninja. Yes, yeah, Lethal Weapon 4.
Not really one that I know too well, but I do remember him
being in it. All right, well, we're talking
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about Rush Hour from 1998. You're nice and dear to us as
well. Would have been about nine years
old at the time. Did you see Rush Hour like when
it came out or was this is something later that you got
into? No, I saw it when it like came
out, not in theaters, but I do remember it being rented
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frequently. I rented it frequently as a
child and rush hour too. Like I said, I've seen them a
million times. Not only that too from the play
that they would always get like on TBS or FX back in the day.
So yeah, well versed into FX, really love to play this movie.
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I think they played Rush hour one and two quite often.
That whole like you remember DVDlike, you know, like if you get
the DVD, here's the extras that they're on the Rush Hour 2.
DDD. DI definitely remember that
yeah, like we here's here's somestuff that you would see yeah
then. It was nothing but a it was a 5
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like 7 hour block of just on repeat rush hour and X-Men,
yeah. And so you have good memories
and nostalgia for Rush Hour, is that?
Right. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I did see Rush Hour 3 in
theaters in O 7 when it came out.
And I remember we were in high school as our senior year when
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it came out, a couple of meet friends of our friend group back
then, one of them who was like was our big film buff.
We were both just like cracking jokes left and right because the
trailers for those films were like the Brett Ratner film,
Brett Ratner Rush Hour 3. Like anyone really gave a shit
about like Brett Ratner films. Like Brett Ratner was like, it
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was like, like, you know, he wasJohn Carpenter or something.
And I remember Rush Hour 3 not being good.
For me, I don't really have muchexperience with rush hour.
I thought I had seen it, but then watching it again I was
like the none of this looks familiar to me so it was just
rush hour 2 that I'd seen so I did not realize it.
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I thought I'd seen them both, but apparently not.
You know, interestingly it wouldbe interesting to go back to
rush hour 2 and see if I remember that accurately.
Or maybe I'm just like completely messed up.
But you're thinking of like Shanghai Knights.
Yeah, I don't. I have no idea.
What's with you? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw rush
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hour too. But again, we're obviously I
don't have a great memory because I thought I had seen
this one. And I, I know, I, I know what it
is. What?
You were playing Sleeping Dogs? It's the same thing.
Yeah, right. Which?
Is funny because even one of thethe main villain in this movie,
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Tom Wilkinson, the great you know, character and
Shakespearean actor Tom Wilkinson, basically replays the
same role in Sleeping Dogs. As the Oh, he's in that as well.
Yes, he is. And he's also the English
villain of Hong Kong that you've, you know, you find out,
you know, isn't actually, you know, helping you out, but is,
you know. Wow.
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Yeah, that is, I mean, it's like, yes, basically Russia.
Was that on purpose for sleepingdogs or because I never played
it actually? I was going to say, yeah, I
think so because it's like the games like it was a Square,
Square Enix game. I remember like it being one of
the like first kind of really big Xbox 360 like free games.
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I downloaded Yep, way back in the day.
And I thought, you know, it's like, like, just like a the
games just like a giant homage to like John Woo Woo and Jackie
Chan movies, like with the beingset in Hong Kong, police
fighting triad and all that. So gotcha.
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Who's OK? It's plays like another GTA
clone. Yeah.
But nothing, nothing bad, you know?
Cool. All right, so let's take a break
real quick before we get into movie.
Talk about the beer that we got on show today.
It was I was tasked with gettingit today and I did not have a
chance to really go out to to get anything.
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So it was more a choice of convenience than anything else,
which I happen to have the spearin my fridge because my Co
worker got it for me. So appreciate that.
But anyway, you know, I, we hadn't done it before and I
don't think we've ever had Adirondack brewing on here.
Or maybe maybe once or twice. Like very, very minimally, which
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is another local ish brewery close to us in Lake George, NY.
And if you've ever heard of likeSix Flags Great Escape or
anything like that, that's the same area.
So I thought, you know what, let's do this one because we we
know what you've never covered it an Adirondack beer or haven't
really done much of them and it would be worthwhile to just take
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a look at that. So and you know, throwback to
local breweries. So again, Adirondack brewery
really, you know, it's a microbrewery, small they are,
you know, big name in Lake George, of course, because it's
like one of two in that local vicinity.
And they do a pretty big good business there.
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I think in the summer, good food, good atmosphere, nice
outdoor area, nice to stop in, especially if you're going to go
into the Lake George Village area, which is, you know, kind
of a touristy attraction with a beat.
Oh, it's definitely a George train.
Yeah. And you know, we have, both of
us have been there sometimes together and it's a nice little
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place to go visit. Had a, you know, they don't do a
whole lot of different beers there.
I think they have a rotational different IPA that they brew
occasionally. Other than that, though, I think
they do stick to some tried and true elements and they don't,
you know, it's not like they're pumping out, you know, four or
five different beers at a time. They generally have their, you
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know, their their normal brews. The one that we have on here
today is the Lake George IPA, which is I believe, probably one
of their standard beers that they would have pretty much year
round. I don't think they really vary
it that much. What's the what's the other one
that they are often known for that's like their staple?
Is it the brown ale? Yeah, the bare.
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Naked the bear. OK is Amber?
Yeah. The bare naked Amber is another.
I think that's like their staplebeer, the one they start with
and the one that would be the most recognizable, well known
and recognized around here. Yeah.
They have like almost 15 beers on tap right now, so.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, like they do a good
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number, but again, I would say that they don't have a huge
rotation. I mean, I think they have most
of those on tap year round because I've seen, I've seen,
you know, I've been there a few times and they have a couple
different change outs, but for the most part, they brew the
same stuff throughout and that seems to work for them.
And they, you know, they don't really seem like they need to
expand on that anymore. So it's good for them and, you
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know, nice to support. What do you think about the Lake
Georgia IPA? It's been a long time since I've
had one, and it's been a long time since I've actually had
like an Adirondack. They're kind of especially in
New York terms, like they're theSaranac of the Adirondacks.
Sure. You know, at one point in like
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10 years ago, they did have pretty good distribution around
here. Then they had a lot of like
stuff going around like the Barenaked Ale, the Bobcat
Pilsner, Lake George IPA. They had a good rotation
floating out there. But I think in the Fat Scotsman,
like Scotts Ale, they think kindof after COVID, they kind of
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like went the way of Davidson brothers and their distribution,
you know, kind of shrank quite abit because now it's like you'll
see the bare naked, you know, kind of around and that's about
it. But with that being said, it's
kind of nice to have just a traditional, you know, early 20
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tens West Coast style, you know,IPA where it's, you know, very
hot forward. It's not, you know, it's very,
you know, got very Piney has a nice, you know, Christmas to it.
It's not like this over, you know, New England style, you
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know, with. Yeah.
And The funny thing about that is actually Adirondack does call
this a New England style IPA. Yeah, it's not, though there's.
Nothing. I was going to bring that up.
Yeah, I. Know I was going to say I was
looking at too, but it's definitely not because it has
like a very like the tropical fruit is very, it's like
grapefruity, but it's incrediblylike Piney, incredibly Rosini,
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you know, you definitely get that 6.8 alcohol heat to the end
of it. You know, I, I think, I think
them calling it New England is being very generous and loose
with the term because again, it tastes like a traditional West
Coast IPA. I like it for the summer and the
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heat wave that we've been handing.
Would I be breaking these out? No, but come fall, be a nice,
you know, heavier IPA to enjoy by the fire.
Yeah. So, but yeah, if you're in the
area, check them out. Especially if you're up in Lake
George itself proper. So it's a nice little place they
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got. They do have a really good food
lot to enjoy there, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would agree with
that. I think that this is a really
solid IPA. Again, I don't really think it
is a New England style as they're billing it.
It's more So what what you said sort of a West Coast style does
have a nice citrus quality to it, but it is very Piney.
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You know, it's got a nice hop forward profile to it and I
think it's overall solid, especially considering, you
know, the smaller microbrewery aspect of it.
It it does a good job with what it's tasked to do.
And I think it's, it makes senseto be a staple, kind of a
flagship for Adirondack, especially considering its
namesake of being named after the town that they're from.
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So I, I, I think it all makes sense.
Really nice, you know, very drinkable, very sessionable.
I think that you can't go wrong with this type of IPA of course.
And again, it is kind of few andfar between to actually find
something like a, you know, verystandard W coasty style IPA
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anymore because everybody's kindof moving towards those hazies.
So it's kind of nice and refreshing to have that.
So I appreciate that for sure. Again, if you're in the area,
Lake George, NY, you know, visiting from Canada or
something, check it out. Check out Adirondack Brewery
right there in the heart of the village of Lake George.
Nice place. Take a ride in the mini, ha ha.
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Do that before you do you go to the brewery and have your your
dinner in case you get seasick. I don't know if it's still there
but I do know Lake George has like 1 of like 3A and W still up
reading of the. State still there?
Yep. What is?
Yeah, stop in and have your rootbeer float as well.
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I know it's pretty cool, though.I've never been there.
Honestly, it's, it is strange because we've had it, you know,
it's fairly close and you know, my, my mom actually really liked
A and WS she I think at one point, like it was something
that she would go to quite oftenbecause they used to have a lot
more. But for every reason I've just
never been there. You're not missing out because
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A&W root beer trash when you get.
Barks. Barks has bite, it is true.
I do prefer barks as well. I like that.
And and mug is eve like the garbage.
Not not a fan of like the more sugary sweet root beers.
I like that. I like that bite.
How about a sarsaparilla I love?Sarsaparilla, that's like the
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one good thing about a runnings being here now is, you know,
this is the fact like you can stop in there.
Oh, there's. A sarsaparilla.
Yeah, yeah, I know with. Your pickled pig feet and you
know. It's beautiful.
All right, let's talk about rushhour A.
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Brett Radner film The Brett. Radner.
Do you think when this film was being made?
Because how old, How old do you think Jackie Chan was when this
film was being made? What would I say?
Like 48 close, 44 for OK, Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah.
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Why? What were you what were you
thinking? You think he looks younger than
than his? Age.
No, no, I was going to say it's just like, I feel like, like
it's just I can just imagine Brett being like, now Jack, you
make sure you do this and him like, yeah, I've already
directed a shit ton of things. Right.
Yeah, yeah. Coordinating my own stunts and
everything that are much better than OK whatever the Weinsteins
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are here. Hi.
Yep. Yep.
Yep, Yep, Yep. I can imagine they're like, this
is how we do it in America, Jake, you know, I, I know what
you think, you know what you're talking about, but like, 'cause
it kind of almost kind of like how they treat him in the, the
movie. The food, yeah.
Like, yeah, yeah, 'cause I kind of got, I could see that
happening. Now, I don't know for sure.
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Again, I'm not a. No, I don't think it happened,
but I'm just saying we should. Find an expert on rush hour to.
It's just funny to think though 'cause it's like, all right,
you're yeah, you know it. Would it would be nice if we
found an expert to to speak on the production of Rush Hour and
and talk about all that, becauseit does look kind of fun.
Again, at the, you know, keepingin the Jackie Chan tradition, at
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the end of the movie, there are outtakes, you know, which which
often the case with many other Jackie Chan films, which I am
now well versed in thanks to youwith the the podcast.
So it seems it seems like. That's our that's, that's our
cultural exchange. Here you've got.
Me to watch these Italian jellosand clitzy atetski.
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And I'm here to give you Jackie Chan martial arts films.
That's right. Yeah.
And and so, but I think like theinteresting thing about Rush
Hour is again, like you said, this is really Jackie Chan's big
breakthrough hit for the United States.
And it it makes sense. I mean, when you really stop and
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watch this film, it is a good melding of Jackie Chan's, you
know, Hong Kong cinema, the the martial arts films that he would
produce and this sort of buddy cop comedy element that the
United States is, you know, morewell known for irreverent sort
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of comedies teamed with like an action film atmosphere.
Again, like, you know, we've covered numerous action films in
the 90s. There was this really sort of
like like a sort of CD underbelly to all of these types
of films where it was like on the cusp of where, you know, the
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normal world in the criminal world are sort of like coming
together. You'd have this like henchman
nemesis, sort of weird feeling. I don't, I don't know how to
describe it, but it was sort of like a like an overcast of like
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just just over the surface. There's like this, this, you
know, criminal enterprise that you're just not well versed in
that's happening. And they all had a very similar
feel. And I think rush hour continues
that feel even I. Think you're thinking.
I think you're thinking of the opening for the action film of
all the nineties, 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Yeah, with the kids and punks, you know, handing off the stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
Yes, yes, I think I think that'sa yeah, perfect encapsulation
because again, it was you know, the films were somewhat serious
about the criminality that they were presenting, but at the same
time it had sort of like AI don't know anti realism do it at
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times of like, you know. Comic, Comic.
You like, yeah, it was like thiscriminal enterprises can't be
run like this, right, Because otherwise it would.
What a kind of goofy thing that would be going on, you know, is
if all these hench men are doingthis like.
Well, just think if Splinter, like it has like just all these
gangs of teenagers running around, you know, like we're
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handing off what, I don't fucking know, the the turtles,
like Domino's with Pizza Hut, you know, we're handing out
coupons to the Pizza Hut. I think that's a perfect
encapsulation. And it was like, you know, there
was danger, but also it was likekind of goofy in a way and
didn't necessarily play itself up extremely seriously.
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And I think you get that same idea with Rush Hour, which is,
you know, again, taking Jackie Chan's Hong Kong film approach
and sort of shoving it into the United States.
And quite literally, I mean, it is basically seeing like this
Chinese embassy in the United States.
So it's it's sort of like a mashup of the two cultures coming
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together. And I think that works really
well, like from from the whole perspective of how the film is
presented from the poster artwork, which you see, you
know, sort of red Jackie Chan onone side, blue Chris Tucker on
the other, or the other poster artwork that you get, which is
like a reddish pink, yeah, reddish pink Jackie Chan and a
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yellow Chris Tucker. It's, I mean, I do like the how
they, they tried to defy the racial undertones there of like,
let's not put Jackie Chan in theyellow section, you know, just
in case. It would be misconstrued there.
It would fit the tone of the film.
It would, it would, but yes. But yeah, I, I mean, I think
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that's a perfect encapsulation. It works really well, I think.
I mean, the, the whole idea of abuddy cop film being like two
different people coming togetherworks really well here as Jackie
Chan being a person, you know, that's basically not even
visiting. He's a fish out of water.
So yeah, exactly. Even more so, you know, out of
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place than like, you know, like lethal.
Weapon yes yeah, where it's justlike oh, I got a different
partner who doesn't play by the rules, you know I mean that's.
I do, I do like to have the filmmakes fun of that.
Like, you know, like with like, 'cause it like, you know, with
Chris Tucker, be like, I don't need no partner, you know?
And then like with the captain being like, yeah, we need
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somebody. Go around boat, shit up.
You know, you, you're the guy. You're, you know, you're Charles
Bronson, you're Dirty Harry Callahan.
Let's go. That is great.
Yeah, 'cause when, when he gets called into the, you know, just
after he's blown up a bunch of C4 on the square and you're
trying to take down a, a dealer and he gets called into the
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office 'cause he's, you know, basically not performed his
duties by the policy. And he, it makes it seem like
he's getting like this really nice promotion to go to work
with the FBI and it's really just a shit job that no one
wants. It's a great, great moment.
I love that line where Chris Tucker's like, you know, I'm
going to make you mayor and the,the police commissioner's like,
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I would rather you not. This is fucking funny.
It's got like some nice witty banter there that I, I think
works really well. And I, I mean, I like, what do
you think about the whole setup of the film, which is basically
the, the Chinese console is coming to America and his
daughter gets kidnapped by a bunch of ruffians.
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I do like it. The opening is very like, you
know, kind of like traditional, like Hong Kong like style, like
on the water, there's boats Detective, you know, Jackie Chan
showing up to not just detective, Detective Inspector,
you know, showing up to tried tostop this Jintao criminal
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organization. And he doesn't do anything but
save, you know, some artifacts which are very precious.
And they're like, you just destroyed the Jintao criminal
organization. Hurrah.
And you see like, you know, his,you know, it's kind of weird.
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They don't really ever explain, explain why, like Jackie Chan,
like give such a shit about, youknow, console Han because he's
just like, you know, a diplomat.And why is this Hong Kong
policeman that practically act like a bodyguard?
For him, yeah. But, you know, and Han gets
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promoted as console and he's going to America and Tom
Wilkinson's giving him the nice.We'll see you in LA.
Have a great time. Yeah.
And yeah, it's like a nice little set up.
I like I like I. Like, I like the dichotomy
between Jackie Chan's, you know,you know, very politeness to
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Chris Tucker's incredibly brash and annoying shit.
Yeah, I mean, I, I, I agree withyou.
I really like the opening of thefilm, which feels very much like
a Hong Kong cinema film. You know, it's got the, the set
up, the action. I even like the the theme music,
which I think was really well done.
Very, very catchy tune that theyuse.
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I wish they used it more, to be honest with you.
And they only really use it at the beginning of the film as
sort of like kind of a set up for the premise rather than
anything like that. Stays with the film throughout
with the theme. But I think that works really
well because you get, you know, get the action, you get Jackie
Chan getting to do some of his more traditional stunt work,
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which is kind of few and far between in this movie.
Doesn't happen often. It it does show up here and
there, but it's not like the focal point of this film like
something like Rumble on the Bronx would have because it's,
you know, not all fisticuffs. There's a lot of, you know,
shoot outs as well, which again,is like a melding of the style.
I think it works really well. It's, you know, it's, it's
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especially starting it off that way is really strong start.
I think like the the kidnapping of the little girl is also it's
well done to kidnap her with like how they, they kind of like
just come in really quick, shootthe bodyguards and then whisker
away on a motorcycle that drivesher into a van.
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It's it's very well done. I feel like the setup though, is
kind of like haphazard and that it's just like we have a little
girl that we're going to blow up, you know, It's like kind of
like a tug at the heartstrings, but not really anything that is
too interesting for the film. I feel like too Rush Hour
doesn't really care about the conceit that much.
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It it's more about the how we get there.
And I think I appreciate that. I don't know if you felt that
way too, but like no. No, I would agree and I think
it's definitely not too concert with the plot overall.
Isn't the you know what? They're trying to.
They're not trying to be smart. Yeah, yeah.
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It's it's kind of like like like.
The the Hackney, as much as I kind of like it, that is not
especially now the Hackney like shoving in like what's trouble
officer? No trouble, just rush hour.
Boom, boom. Like you know, like like like,
you know, there's there's no reason for like, you know, it's
like, why is this film called rush hour?
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Like, you know, like it's not like the traffic jam during rush
hour that they show and like howthey do it.
It's just like, you know, as even though like that's like
kind of how they get there. But again, like, it's just kind
of like rush hour. Yeah, the the audience is left
pointing at the screen like. They said the name, they said
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the name. There's no credit.
Actually, and I do correct me ifI'm wrong, I don't remember
credits on this. I don't think there is an
initial credits for rush hour, is there?
Yes, it's it's like quickly sayslike rush hour, like you kind of
like rumble, like rumble in the Bronx, like over like the water.
And it's just. Like, oh, really?
OK, yeah, I must have. And then like, like, and, and as
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Jackie Chan's like going on to the boat, you see, like, you
know, like starring Jackie Chan and.
Like got you. I I I didn't.
Get you, I guess it's it's it's very it's very like, you know,
it's muted like it's not like this big opening credits for it.
So I only remembered at the end,you do you get that large rush
hour that comes in at the end ofthe film.
But I did not remember the opening credits at all.
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But yeah, I thought that was interesting.
So again, with the buddy cop formula, too, when we, you know,
we get Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan together.
What do you think about how the film treats both of them,
especially considering that theyboth are technically like our
heroes for the film? Do do you think they did a good
job with like managing both of their screen time?
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Yes, but I think Chris Tucker gets a little too much time
compared to Jane Jan. You know, I, I, I get it.
I get it. He's supposed to be the funny
guy, but for fuck's sake. I mean, he's.
You think he's he's a little bittoo much.
It's not that like he's too muchlike it's kind of like, and I
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love the film and I'm not sayingit's bad either in this film,
but it's it is like a little toomuch like it's like they're
like, Hey man, you know what youdid on.
Friday like you got knock. The fuck out.
Man, the Smokey, we need you to just do that the entire film.
Like, you know, yeah, he's got too many lines, like for punch
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lines because half of them like land and the other half, you
know, don't. So I mean, he's not bad.
I I just think especially now like a kind of like seems like
much more annoying at times. I mean, I think he does bring a
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a good energy to the film. I won't say that I think he's
always funny, but I do like the fact that he has a lot of
energy. It sort of brings a chaos to it
that that works when he's on screen.
I had to laugh at times when he like picks up the phone in the
FBI agent's office when he's talking to the one henchman and
Jintao's group and he's like is saying things like, you know
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what, we'll split the money. I don't even like these guys
anyway. I'm not going to be working for
that much longer, you know, stuff like that.
So I think it's, I think it works sometimes.
But yeah, I think he gets a little bit more screen time than
Jackie Chan. I'm not sure if that's also
because Jackie Chan did not speak like great English at this
time. I don't know what you think.
His English was still fine. I mean, if you watch in the in
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the credit sequence, it still seemed like he did have some
issues with like delivering English lines occasionally.
So I don't know if that was justlike part of it or or what, but
more recognizable for I think, Ithink, I think it's.
More. Like.
You know, lean into because he's, you know he's.
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You know the the. American star.
Yeah. You know, new lines, like, you
know, we want Jackie Chan to become popular, but at the same
time, like, if he's not, you know, we better.
Yeah, we can. Yeah.
I mean, at this time, though, Chris Tucker was really not that
big of a star either. How much do you think you would
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be able to lean into Chris Tucker being this the big time?
Well, that's The funny thing to you again.
It's. Filmography.
It's like 10 films, yeah. Three of them being rushed out.
You know which. Is that like you know?
That's what I mean. I mean like, I don't know.
You might think that, but I feellike maybe Jackie Chan would
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have been the bigger draw. You know, it's like for for most
people. I don't know that Chris Tucker
would really have you. Know been like.
No one's no one was like sittingaround.
I don't think in 1998 being like, oh, the new Chris Tucker
movies coming out, You know, I, I don't know, especially because
the the 5th elements. Like a cult classic bow.
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It's not like it was just right.Like, I don't know.
I mean, I was 9 at the time, so I don't know if he was talking
about Chris Tucker too much backthen, but I generally don't hear
him, you know, talked about veryoften.
But I think one thing I do like about the movie and how it
manages the buddy cop formula isthat initially, you know,
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they're kind of at odds with each other.
So you you do get that whole sequence of events towards the
beginning where Chris Tucker's been tasked with like basically
just keeping Lee away from the console.
At all times and he's, you know,performing a babysitting service
and then Jackie Chan's constantly slipping away and
like more and more outlandish things that keep occurring.
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I like that. I think that works really well.
It's sort of a sets up A and again, I think that's part of
the reason why this film does not need a really like elaborate
conceit for the actual bad guys because it does, you know, for
probably a good, you know, 30 minutes of the film, it is
managing other things besides the kidnapping.
So I think it makes sense to notreally have to rely on like a,
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you know, an actual criminal conceit to get that across.
So I like that. I think that's good.
And the other thing I really like about the buddy cop formula
is that in this scenario, neither of the two are really
incapable of doing things right 'cause sometimes buddy cop
formulas, they kind of rely on like, ah, you've got like the
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really sharp partner, and then you've got the person who
doesn't really know what they'redoing.
And that's sort of the comedy oflike, ah, laugh at the other
person that doesn't really know what they're doing that much.
In this case, they're both pretty capable.
And I think the film kind of goes out of its way to show
that. Chris Tucker's character, though
he doesn't really get a lot of recognition in the LAPD, he does
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do a pretty good job. He's got contacts, you know, he
knows who to reach out to in this case like that, that the
other, you know, the FBI agents in the LAPD don't really know
what to do about. So I, I like that they make him
a a fairly capable person, you know, and especially with
gunshots and and shootouts, he'spretty good at it, that part of
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it. And then Jackie Chan, on the
other hand, is really good at the more martial arts part of it
and kind of they trade off on teaching each other those
things. I like that.
I like, I like that you know, element to it that they they
both have things to bring to thetable.
How do you feel about the the martial arts in this movie?
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They're muted compared to other films, but when they happen,
they are fun. They are.
Could you go on like, like, you know, stunts and stuff that
Jackie does? So it is, you know, I think like
a good, good my old showing of what you know, his films can be,
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Jackie said. Films and stunts can be like.
So it's the state the. American Appetite.
Yeah, I think it's not bad. I think, yeah, like you said.
They're fairly muted in terms oflike what you get compared to
something like police story. And again, you have to wonder if
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at a certain point people were like, no, this is America.
We we're a little bit, we have asafety laws around, you know,
something like that where they kind of encouraged the less
risky stunts that Jackie Chan would often pull.
But at the same time, I like, I mean, we get a we get a sense of
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the the martial arts, but I feellike this one definitely doesn't
have it nailed down. And I think also too, because
it's it. Isn't also is because it is a
action comedy that that you know, they're not trying to go
like you know, doesn't have to be police story with its action
level of action, you know, and stunts and thrills because it's
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again, the comedy is in action have to have like a balance in
between for like you know, so. Yeah, it would it.
Would seem out of place like if there's like police at story
level stunts and then you got like damn, you know what kind of
panties you wearing. Yeah, one thing.
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We haven't talked about too is how damn awesome Rex Lynn's
mustache is in this movie. Who is Rex Lynn?
The one agent. That's yeah.
Not not the guy. Oh, yeah.
No, no, I don't know. I know.
Who is Rex Lynn? What is he in Better Call Saul?
Thank you. Yeah.
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Yeah. Who?
Is the. Wachtel, Kevin.
Wachtel, the CEO. Mesa Verde.
Exactly I. Love I the The mustache is great
in this movie and it is. And you're also forgetting Mark
Ralston of soft fame. True, true.
I mean fame. Let's not use that Willy nilly
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here. But yes, he he is in it as well.
And then you got also got Elizabeth Pena as agent Johnson,
who is she's got like something,you know, that 90s single white
female, sort of like flat cut hair going on.
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She saw hackers. With Angelina Jolie.
That's true. That's right.
That's right. She's like, I bought into the
signs. Yeah.
Hook, line and sinker got. Here, But, you know, and that's
she's like kind of Chris Tucker's supposed to be partner,
but he doesn't really want to partner up with her and then
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eventually becomes a very big part of the conclusion where she
is. Able to disarm.
The bomb that's on the little girl, which I thought kind of
came out of nowhere, especially considering no they show them
they no because they. Show her like as like somebody
who's on the bomb squad. They show her like in training
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is. Basically saying like you're
shit at this, like maybe go elsewhere made or try tries a
different department like Trek cop because you can't handle wow
wow. How very men inist of you.
I'm not saying men inist as she literally.
I just and then at the end of the film, it's of course, too.
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You've got Jackie Chan and little girl and she's disarming
the bomb vest and she's going basically like Edie Meenie Miney
MO on the wires. She's doing like Roses are red.
Violets are blue I. Cut the green cord just because
hopefully you don't blow up. It's basically I thought it.
Was I thought, I thought it was.Roses are red, violets are blue,
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pussy, my pussy's pink. And so are you.
Yeah, it's a, doesn't I? Feel like if you were in that
situation, you would not feel like you're in capable hands
with someone basically saying you've obviously you've
obviously. Never played Streets of yeah, I
mean true crime Streets of LA, yeah.
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She's fun though. She is fun when she's.
On screen, like the whole when they're like talking to the
Chris Tucker on the phone and they're like, oh, this is he's
like, this is bullshit. And they're like, oh, don't
worry. Or at least finally got fired at
the precincts laughing at him. You know, what do you, what do
you think about? Chris.
Tucker's character name being. Jimmy Carter.
(47:35):
It's just funny to me. It's I'm like wondering why?
What was the overall reasoning for this film to have his name
Jimmy Carter? It's just, I mean, it's just a.
Just a fun little. Just a fun.
Name, you know, doesn't he look like?
Jimmy Carter. Yeah, absolutely.
And not only that, the. Film also gets into reference to
Chelsea Clinton. God, that's great.
(47:58):
Dates it. Really nice and well, and I do
love, I do love and appreciate in the bloop reel where he's
like, hey, what do you think? You out, Kelsey.
Kelsey. Clinton or then Chelsea?
Grammar. I like that too.
Chelsea grammar. What's the name that those look?
Like those were like, you know, like kind of like Toy Story with
the bloopers. Like, like, you know, kind of
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like, yeah, those are made-up. Yeah, Yeah, made-up.
Bloopers. But it's so funny.
Like, you know, yeah, I appreciate it.
I I definitely. Do but but and again, I I think
like, you know, some of them areprobably real.
Some of them made maybe were played up for the, you know, for
the bloopers. But yeah, I like that quite a
bit. I thought that was pretty funny,
you know, including Chelsea Clinton in this film.
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It's it definitely does. Like you said, it really dates
it. People watching now, you're
like, who? Who's that?
Was she on Epstein? Island, yeah.
And I guess what so. We didn't, I mean you, you've,
you basically said this when we're talking about sleeping
dogs. But what do you think about the
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the main bad guy being Tom Wilkinson, who you know has been
present throughout the the wholepart of the movie?
Fine, Tom. Wilkinson does a great job.
He's very smarmy, very, you know, fits the idea of like, you
know, like sophisticated, you know, Englishman.
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That's actually the villain. Little known fact that people
probably don't know this is. Takes place.
Around the time where Hong Kong's, you know, being returned
from Great Britain back to China.
That's the whole premise of the film, is that Hong Kong's.
(49:47):
Yeah, right. Excuse me is being returned.
Back to. China.
And in the real world, that alsomeant, though, that, you know,
Hong Kong still would have some independence and not be, you
know, completely, you know, democratic people whose
Democratic Republic. So you don't get the but I think
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the idea is kind of cool of likeTom Wilkinson being the bad guy
because, again, he's spent all this money and time curating and
collecting these great Chinese artifacts.
And then the British government is taking them and get is giving
them back. And that being the conceit of,
you know, him taking on, you know, trying to take the
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council's daughter and get a monetary value of what he deems
those artifacts are worth because again, why would this
console's daughter be kidnapped?It doesn't make any sense,
right? So, like, it's a it is a smart
setup and I like it. I think, you know, Tom
Wilkinson, he's not like overly present in the film, but I do
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think he's great. And I think it is, you know,
good because I think Shang, his second in command, you know,
Chinese Eminem, he doesn't have like, you know, he doesn't have
like, you know, big bad guy energy.
He definitely has. He definitely has, you know,
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sidekick energy. Not the same.
That's bad because he is good and very enjoyable.
But I think that's a great. Setup my only.
Problem is, is when it comes to the ending of the film, like a
man that's apparently as smart and cunning as Tom Wilkinson,
when they're at that, you know, gallery for all those artifacts
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that he wants back and the money.
He wouldn't just be like when Chris Tucker's like, there's a
pop, there's a. Pop, he wouldn't just be like go
up to. Shag and be like, I'm going to
blow everything up you little fuckers.
Like there's no reason for him to do that.
He could sneak upstairs, get themoney because the FBI is being
stupid. Like, we're going to give the
money back or, you know, Clintonsaid give the money back.
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Oh, man. Like, there's no reason for that
to happen. It's very idiotic and stupid.
I get it for the conceit of the story, but like, it's just like,
what, you know, like, yeah. I mean, I like him as a.
Character. I think it works pretty well.
But again, I think you're right that you don't really need to
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stop and think too hard about the plotting.
It's not, it's not the film strong point.
And I don't, you know, at the end of the film, the conclusion
is nice. It's got it like nice shoot outs
and, you know, eventful things, climbing up the the poles and
everything that Jackie Chan doesand falling off the balcony.
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But again, yeah, don't don't think too hard about it because
it's doesn't, it'll hurt. It'll hurt.
It'll hurt. Yeah.
I do like though at the end. Where you've got Jackie Chan
fighting, you know, against all the guys and he's being very
careful about all the trying, you know, the ancient, priceless
Chinese artifacts trying to protect them all.
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And there's just like gunshots everywhere, blowing up giant
urns and things like that after he's protected them.
It's really nice touch because again, that definitely has the
feeling of a Jackie Chan, you know, Hong Kong film and that a
lot of like the action was situated around like actual
objects, you know, object play, like whipping.
There's actually 1 scene I thinkthat was really cool where he
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whips like a, it's like a pylon or something, like a rope
holder, whatever the fuck you call those things at one of the
hench men. And that looks that comes out
really well. But it's something that you
don't really see that often in rush hours.
Like all the object play that would generally happen in a
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Jackie Chan Hong Kong movie. So it's nice to see that in the
conclusion. I think that happens there and
it happens in the the bar, the black bar that Chris Tucker and
Jackie Chan stop in early on in the film when he has to like
jump over the pool tables and stuff.
But other than that, this film kind of leaves that out.
It doesn't really have this signature Jackie Chan style.
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What else? Anything else that?
We didn't discuss she wanted to get to anything else.
You. Want to I think.
I mean, I think I covered everything.
I had on on my topics really. I think.
Missed opportunity for the film to be set in San Francisco to
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really have like a big. Like big big.
Chinatown and like, lean into that.
Yeah. Oh, we, we didn't talk about the
racism. That's true.
We didn't talk about that. Yeah, well.
Yeah, as I say, you were the 1 to point out you're, I mean it
definitely like early. On it definitely has a lot of,
you know, fairly racist jokes and that's sort of like it's
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jumping off point for the meeting between the two.
I think it's, you know, it's definitely purposeful racism as
well as sort of like, first of all, they think they're very
different from each other. So there's that, like those
racist thundertones. And then as they work together
more and more, they find out, oh, we're very, you know, we're
actually very similar, like the whole father thing.
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We both we both like chicken rice.
Roddy, Yeah. And like, and I feel like, you
know, that works out pretty well.
I don't know, what do you, what do you think?
Does it excuse the racist jokes or I mean, they're not bad.
I, I they're not. Bad.
They're not, I don't think. He's not running around.
Calling him like slurs, slurs, the one the say the one FBI
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agent does when like he's like, I don't need ching Chong cop,
you know. Yeah, right.
Yeah, but other. But other than that, like
they're very just tepid. Like I like nothing.
Especially now that like it's not like smart racist jokes like
in Blazing Saddles or anything. They're just like there and
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they're like, you know, when he's like, oh, Mr. Ray Cerrone.
It's like, oh, like, yeah, yeah,I agree.
I mean, I, I don't think they'relike super offensive or
anything. And I think, I think it works
towards a goal. So I think that's fine.
The other thing we forgot to mention?
Everyone's fourth favorite pen brother, Chris Penn's in this
film. Chris Penn?
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Yeah, great. Performance doesn't get to.
Do a whole lot but. Nobody that he gets to be Chris
Penn. I know Chris Penn Corky.
Romano, basically. Yeah, yeah.
I mean I. Love Chris Penn, whenever I see
him show up I think he does a good job.
He has that sort of like smarmy attitude I think works pretty
well in this movie. I do love the fact that he's
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like the C. 4 dealer yeah and like Chris Tucker shooting at
him as he's going away after like the beginning like of like
the deal going bang, not C4. What the fuck are you doing?
He show up sound, the car blows up and Chris Tucker's like,
yeah. Yeah, you know, 'cause like then
like when? There's captain's like you blew
up half a block and he's like, that dog sucked anyway, like
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you. Know like that that.
That's good that, you know, that's funny.
I agree. I think, I think it's pretty
good. One other thing that we did not
talk about the Chinese food, didit make you want Chinese food?
I'm like. I really want Chinese food bad
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but they're about to close up sowell.
Man, I really want some lo Mein.It really made me want.
Chinese food. I really just want a mountain.
Of lo Mein and a mountain of eggrolls and the mountain of and I,
I do. Question who's?
Who turns up their nose at lo Mein?
Because that's what Chris Tuckerdoes in this film.
He's he's in the Chinese restaurant and he's looking at
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the menu. He's already tried eel and he
liked it. Then they walked by with a
platter of lo Mein and he sniffsit and he's like, no, no, no.
It look like fried rice and. I think it was lo Mein.
Either way, if it's fried rice or loam Mein.
Then he's like, But then he's like, how's that camel's hump?
And it's like camel's hump. I guess the camel made it to all
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regions. Yeah.
No, I definitely want some Chinese.
Yeah. This this film is one that will
definitely make you want Chinesefood.
All right, so let's give this film a rating on a scale of zero
to 10 pimpin cherry red suits. Oh, that suit is lovely, that
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is. A that I mean I, I.
Had I had like it was difficult to look at my screen when that
suit was on screen because it's so I imagine if it was an HDR
man, it'd just be fucking blasting you in the ice.
But face 4K? Absolutely.
Out of. So 0 out of 10 cherry red suits.
What would you give brush hour? I give it a 7 1/2.
Still holds up. It's still a great, fun film.
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It's not like going to blow you away with being incredibly smart
or anything, but it's just fun. It's a fun, great little action
comedy from the 90s. Where Chris Tucker and Jackie
Chan have success and they are fun.
They are comedic though. I was shitting on Chris Tucker
and it he still is funny in this.
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I'm not. I just think like, you know, he
can be a little too over the topand.
Hyperactive at times. I think again, that's more
script that is him himself because he is a bigger focal
point to the film and Jackie Chan.
But it's a great entry. Film to like if.
Like this is a film that I wouldrecommend to people if they're
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interested in Jackie Chan films to see his style style of
action. Style of humor Style.
Stunts because it definitely canlead you into the films we've
done before, like Police Story, Rumble in the Bronx, and then
maybe someday like Armor of the Gods and stuff like that.
It's a great, you know, great melding of.
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The style so American like action, comedy, Jack, you know,
Hong Kong, Jackie Chan and Hong Kong style.
It's a lot of fun. Tom Wilkinson's great.
It's a great, you know, fun little movie.
An hour and a half hour and 38 minutes, it's a breeze.
Very just watch it. If you haven't seen it.
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Yet there's no reason for you not to at one point.
It was a big part. Of the cultural zeitgeist.
So check it out. 7 1/2 definitely agree.
I would say 7 1/2 as. Well, as right up my right,
right what I was thinking. It's a very fun film.
I really don't have many criticisms of it.
I think it's just, you know, funto watch it.
(01:00:52):
It has its moments of comedy, ofaction, exactly what you're
looking for. I think that again, let you said
it at an hour and 37 minutes. It's like right on with the how
long it needs to be. Doesn't overstay its welcome or
anything like that. I think that it's fairly funny.
I think I actually do enjoy Chris Tucker for the most part.
(01:01:15):
I think he brings a nice energy to the movie that it needs, you
know, Jackie Chan being a littlebit more muted here.
And I think it has a nice melding of, you know, the the
elements of a Jackie Chan Hong Kong film and a more
Americanized version of an action film.
It works really well together. Has it, you know, it's it's
probably one of the greatest encapsulation of buddy cop films
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and overall just a really entertaining, enjoyable watch.
I also, I would I guess I meant to ask you, do you prefer rush
hour one or rush hour two more? We don't even go with.
Rush hour 3. I think rush hour one.
But Rush hour 2 is also great too, so I like the.
Whole element of them meeting inrush hour 1.
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I feel like that adds like a nice conflict to this movie that
I can, you know, that Rush Hour 2 probably does not have.
It's been a while since I've seen it.
But you know, I think that Rush Hour 2, of course, would have
more of them like arguing. But here they're really meeting
each other and kind of learning from each other.
And I think that works pretty, pretty great in this movie.
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All right, so that's. Rush Hour, first movie of our
red hot 90s action Summer Reloaded.
Are we going to? Are we revealing what we're
doing next? Why not OK?
I think the. Next film that we're going to
cover is Total Recall. Let's go.
Let's do it. I yeah, I Total Recall again,
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like I said from 2015. No, not that one.
Damn. I think like I said.
Before we have picked a nice variability, yeah, of different
films and we're going to be covering this sci-fi action film
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starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which who we've also had
previously in our Red Hot Summerseries.
The fun hand, that. Like movie posters?
So Star Trek Next Gen's? Yeah, it is, isn't it?
Yeah, or. Or, like Stargate, it looks like
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you're going to have fucking Picard.
On there. Yeah.
So TuneIn for our next. Episodes and we'll be we'll be
here all August long doing red hot 90s action summer so should
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It's red hot 90s action summer. Here at the Blood and Black Rum
Podcast, we're covering your favorite sweaty 90s action
movies all month long. Expect stunts galore,
transportation mishaps, and lotsand lots of hench men.
We've got Schwarzenegger, Chan, possibly even Reeves.
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It's going to be hot and steamy all August long.
Hey guys, welcome back to the Blood and Black Rum podcast.
I'm Ryan from closeplaytation.com.
I'm joined with my Co host Martin.
How's it going? It's pretty good.
We today is full of flames, gunshots, fisticuffs.
(01:19):
Crime. You yeah, crime, you name it
because we are starting it's August, right?
It's just just turned around to August.
So we're starting our Red Hot 90s Action Summer Reloaded this
time because we're on basically it's like Season 2 of the Red
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Hot 90s Action Summer in the past.
Season, let's say, which is season 5 of our red hot action
month because. Yeah, Yeah, I think that's true,
right. Yeah, we did three months of Red
Hot 80s Action Month. Watch some great films like
Rebruary. Well, I mean Red Brown.
Don't want to steal that from Spoony Invasion USA.
(02:04):
One of my favorite Chuck Norris films ever.
Hindsight Pain, 2020. Accidentally started is really,
you know, seeing war, that one. Yeah, the genocide in Gaza,
Yeah, you know, 'cause we do, you know.
I mean, I guess, I guess do you really ever start a war with
them or does it just never finish?
But we're regardless kicked off another scenario with them.
(02:28):
Not that that's funny or anything, but yeah, that that
happens. Just a weird winky dink.
So yeah, we did. We did three years of 80s
months. And we decided, you know what,
it's probably time to move on. You know, you can only do so
much of the 80s films. And I'm sure we'll go back to
it. And, you know, we didn't even
(02:50):
come close to covering all kindsof 80s action films that we
would like to continue with. But, you know, at some point you
want to move on and cover a new decade.
And it was time to move on last year to the 90s.
And we had a weird, like unintentional thematic thing
(03:11):
going on last year where we just, we picked a bunch of
movies at all centred around transportation of some sort.
Now, I don't know. That's not necessarily a thing
that happened in the night. And like, you know, it's not a
trope of the 90s of like every film had transportation issues
in it. We tackled them all.
We tackled buses, we tackled boats, we tackled flight.
(03:32):
Yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, we even got like
a what was that? Like a thing that was in, what
was it the Jackie Chan movie that we did?
Oh, Rumble in the Bronx. The hover in the Bronx.
Yeah, the hovercraft. That's right.
Yeah, I forgot about that. Like we even, you even tackled
hovercraft. So yeah, so, but you know,
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again, we wanted to continue on with the 90s for a little bit
because we, you know, there's lots of stuff from the 90s and
we didn't even, I mean, we covered certain niche elements
of the 90s, but we definitely did not hit every big name of
the 90s. So it was important to continue
on the tradition for at least another year of 90s action
films. And again, I think this year we
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were somewhat lenient on what wewould term in action film.
It we kind of jumped into different sub genres of action
films in this in our, you know, block of 90s action films.
I feel like we did a pretty goodjob of picking things that were
(04:39):
quite different from last year when you think about a 90s
action movie. So I that's that's fun.
Pat on the back for us. Good job.
And I don't know that we haven'treleased like the full like
officially released the full listing.
I'll probably make a photo or something which I haven't done
yet that like kind of just is our cover photo for the 90s
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action month like I did last year.
But. I can't believe you're going to
just make it. Just have fucking AI do it now.
Yeah, AI, please make me. We don't need the artistry, just
have meta spit some shit out. Be careful even just mentioning
AI on this may you know, it started creating that image and
using up carbon footprints galore.
(05:25):
So yeah, we we have to be careful when we talk about AI.
We're going to talk about computer generated issues as
well later on, but not today. Today we're talking about I I
never mentioned the man himself,Jackie Chan, which we've had on
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nearly every single red hot month, right, except the first.
Yeah, I don't think we didn't doany for the first so.
But other than that, and again, this is so red hot Action Summer
has been sort of a, you know, anexperience for me too, because I
think I've mentioned on multipleepisodes before when we've
covered Jackie Chan films, I am not super well versed in Jackie
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Chan movies. They are just, you know, I've
seen a few. They're just movies that I just
never really got into for whatever reason.
I think I've probably seen more Jet Li movies than I have Jackie
Chan movies, to be honest with you.
So that's it's been an experience to kind of see all of
those that I've missed out on. And like we were talking about,
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we did a police story one and two, we've done Rumble in the
Bronx and today we're here to talk about a different Jackie
Chan movie, probably one of the most well recognized Jackie Chan
films, at least in the United States.
Would you agree with that statement?
Yeah, it's it's his big, big breakthrough into the American
market. Yeah, I mean, I I think that
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when you think about Jackie Chanin the United States, this movie
is probably the one that really comes to mind.
And again, too, it is one of themost shining moments of like the
buddy cop series as well of types of types of action films
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because it was really like and we might want to blame this
movie for the buddy for the buddy cop antics of in tropes
that we were to get. I'm not saying it's the first
one. I, I'm not a I don't know.
I'm, I don't, I'm not an expert on them by any means.
There's probably a few before. I mean, Lethal weapon is, is a
buddy cop film and and it we might not have referred to it as
(07:35):
such, but it was a buddy cop film.
But this is probably. You're forgetting one of the
greatest buddy cop films of all time.
What, John Belushi's? I'm sorry, not John Belushi,
Jim. Belushi.
Jim Belushi's K9. Yeah.
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Man's best friends. Yeah.
You know it. Probably one of his shining
moments in film history. It's canine.
Yeah. That would be a fun one to do at
some point. As to how it was?
Definitely. We'll do.
We'll do it, Jim Belushi, once. We're doing it according to Jim.
It was, yeah. It's definitely not high on the
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list of films for Action Summer,But you know what?
We'll honorable. Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, I mean, I think I think this film is probably a
shining example for both the buddy cop film, the Jackie Chan,
the United States film, and an example of a dude being in a
film and getting misrecognized as Chris Rock, like all, all the
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time. Which, you know, I think for a
long time there were people thatwere still refer to this movie
and they'd be like, yeah, the Jackie Chan, Chris Rock movie.
Like what are you talking about?Chris Rock's never been in a
Jackie Chan movie do. You mean Chris Tucker One?
That'd be something. If Chris Rock was in a Jackie
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Chan movie, what you're saying? Yeah, I mean they do have
similar characteristics, but. No, they don't.
Yeah, I mean, Chris Rock's definitely got more of a more
abrasive. I don't know.
Well, I mean, you can find ChrisTucker abrasive in a different
sense. But yeah, I don't know, they
were often confused, especially in, you know, I, I remember very
specifically also being confusedback in the day, like.
(09:26):
Was I saying Chris Rock's actually a really talented
comedian? Wow, what a what a nice
disparaging comment on that's, you know, understatement about
Chris Tucker. Yeah, but I mean, for fuck's
sake, like Chris Rock's an actual honest to God hilarious
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comedian and he was too busy being a Lethal Weapon 4 so.
Oh. That's right, not one in Beverly
Hills, ninja. Yes, yeah, Lethal Weapon 4.
Not really one that I know too well, but I do remember him
being in it. All right, well, we're talking
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about Rush Hour from 1998. You're nice and dear to us as
well. Would have been about nine years
old at the time. Did you see Rush Hour like when
it came out or was this is something later that you got
into? No, I saw it when it like came
out, not in theaters, but I do remember it being rented
(10:30):
frequently. I rented it frequently as a
child and rush hour too. Like I said, I've seen them a
million times. Not only that too from the play
that they would always get like on TBS or FX back in the day.
So yeah, well versed into FX, really love to play this movie.
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I think they played Rush hour one and two quite often.
That whole like you remember DVDlike, you know, like if you get
the DVD, here's the extras that they're on the Rush Hour 2.
DDD. DI definitely remember that
yeah, like we here's here's somestuff that you would see yeah
then. It was nothing but a it was a 5
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like 7 hour block of just on repeat rush hour and X-Men,
yeah. And so you have good memories
and nostalgia for Rush Hour, is that?
Right. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I did see Rush Hour 3 in
theaters in O 7 when it came out.
And I remember we were in high school as our senior year when
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it came out, a couple of meet friends of our friend group back
then, one of them who was like was our big film buff.
We were both just like cracking jokes left and right because the
trailers for those films were like the Brett Ratner film,
Brett Ratner Rush Hour 3. Like anyone really gave a shit
about like Brett Ratner films. Like Brett Ratner was like, it
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was like, like, you know, he wasJohn Carpenter or something.
And I remember Rush Hour 3 not being good.
For me, I don't really have muchexperience with rush hour.
I thought I had seen it, but then watching it again I was
like the none of this looks familiar to me so it was just
rush hour 2 that I'd seen so I did not realize it.
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I thought I'd seen them both, but apparently not.
You know, interestingly it wouldbe interesting to go back to
rush hour 2 and see if I remember that accurately.
Or maybe I'm just like completely messed up.
But you're thinking of like Shanghai Knights.
Yeah, I don't. I have no idea.
What's with you? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw rush
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hour too. But again, we're obviously I
don't have a great memory because I thought I had seen
this one. And I, I know, I, I know what it
is. What?
You were playing Sleeping Dogs? It's the same thing.
Yeah, right. Which?
Is funny because even one of thethe main villain in this movie,
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Tom Wilkinson, the great you know, character and
Shakespearean actor Tom Wilkinson, basically replays the
same role in Sleeping Dogs. As the Oh, he's in that as well.
Yes, he is. And he's also the English
villain of Hong Kong that you've, you know, you find out,
you know, isn't actually, you know, helping you out, but is,
you know. Wow.
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Yeah, that is, I mean, it's like, yes, basically Russia.
Was that on purpose for sleepingdogs or because I never played
it actually? I was going to say, yeah, I
think so because it's like the games like it was a Square,
Square Enix game. I remember like it being one of
the like first kind of really big Xbox 360 like free games.
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I downloaded Yep, way back in the day.
And I thought, you know, it's like, like, just like a the
games just like a giant homage to like John Woo Woo and Jackie
Chan movies, like with the beingset in Hong Kong, police
fighting triad and all that. So gotcha.
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Who's OK? It's plays like another GTA
clone. Yeah.
But nothing, nothing bad, you know?
Cool. All right, so let's take a break
real quick before we get into movie.
Talk about the beer that we got on show today.
It was I was tasked with gettingit today and I did not have a
chance to really go out to to get anything.
(14:33):
So it was more a choice of convenience than anything else,
which I happen to have the spearin my fridge because my Co
worker got it for me. So appreciate that.
But anyway, you know, I, we hadn't done it before and I
don't think we've ever had Adirondack brewing on here.
Or maybe maybe once or twice. Like very, very minimally, which
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is another local ish brewery close to us in Lake George, NY.
And if you've ever heard of likeSix Flags Great Escape or
anything like that, that's the same area.
So I thought, you know what, let's do this one because we we
know what you've never covered it an Adirondack beer or haven't
really done much of them and it would be worthwhile to just take
(15:20):
a look at that. So and you know, throwback to
local breweries. So again, Adirondack brewery
really, you know, it's a microbrewery, small they are,
you know, big name in Lake George, of course, because it's
like one of two in that local vicinity.
And they do a pretty big good business there.
(15:42):
I think in the summer, good food, good atmosphere, nice
outdoor area, nice to stop in, especially if you're going to go
into the Lake George Village area, which is, you know, kind
of a touristy attraction with a beat.
Oh, it's definitely a George train.
Yeah. And you know, we have, both of
us have been there sometimes together and it's a nice little
(16:06):
place to go visit. Had a, you know, they don't do a
whole lot of different beers there.
I think they have a rotational different IPA that they brew
occasionally. Other than that, though, I think
they do stick to some tried and true elements and they don't,
you know, it's not like they're pumping out, you know, four or
five different beers at a time. They generally have their, you
(16:28):
know, their their normal brews. The one that we have on here
today is the Lake George IPA, which is I believe, probably one
of their standard beers that they would have pretty much year
round. I don't think they really vary
it that much. What's the what's the other one
that they are often known for that's like their staple?
Is it the brown ale? Yeah, the bare.
(16:50):
Naked the bear. OK is Amber?
Yeah. The bare naked Amber is another.
I think that's like their staplebeer, the one they start with
and the one that would be the most recognizable, well known
and recognized around here. Yeah.
They have like almost 15 beers on tap right now, so.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, like they do a good
(17:11):
number, but again, I would say that they don't have a huge
rotation. I mean, I think they have most
of those on tap year round because I've seen, I've seen,
you know, I've been there a few times and they have a couple
different change outs, but for the most part, they brew the
same stuff throughout and that seems to work for them.
And they, you know, they don't really seem like they need to
expand on that anymore. So it's good for them and, you
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know, nice to support. What do you think about the Lake
Georgia IPA? It's been a long time since I've
had one, and it's been a long time since I've actually had
like an Adirondack. They're kind of especially in
New York terms, like they're theSaranac of the Adirondacks.
Sure. You know, at one point in like
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10 years ago, they did have pretty good distribution around
here. Then they had a lot of like
stuff going around like the Barenaked Ale, the Bobcat
Pilsner, Lake George IPA. They had a good rotation
floating out there. But I think in the Fat Scotsman,
like Scotts Ale, they think kindof after COVID, they kind of
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like went the way of Davidson brothers and their distribution,
you know, kind of shrank quite abit because now it's like you'll
see the bare naked, you know, kind of around and that's about
it. But with that being said, it's
kind of nice to have just a traditional, you know, early 20
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tens West Coast style, you know,IPA where it's, you know, very
hot forward. It's not, you know, it's very,
you know, got very Piney has a nice, you know, Christmas to it.
It's not like this over, you know, New England style, you
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know, with. Yeah.
And The funny thing about that is actually Adirondack does call
this a New England style IPA. Yeah, it's not, though there's.
Nothing. I was going to bring that up.
Yeah, I. Know I was going to say I was
looking at too, but it's definitely not because it has
like a very like the tropical fruit is very, it's like
grapefruity, but it's incrediblylike Piney, incredibly Rosini,
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you know, you definitely get that 6.8 alcohol heat to the end
of it. You know, I, I think, I think
them calling it New England is being very generous and loose
with the term because again, it tastes like a traditional West
Coast IPA. I like it for the summer and the
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heat wave that we've been handing.
Would I be breaking these out? No, but come fall, be a nice,
you know, heavier IPA to enjoy by the fire.
Yeah. So, but yeah, if you're in the
area, check them out. Especially if you're up in Lake
George itself proper. So it's a nice little place they
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got. They do have a really good food
lot to enjoy there, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would agree with
that. I think that this is a really
solid IPA. Again, I don't really think it
is a New England style as they're billing it.
It's more So what what you said sort of a West Coast style does
have a nice citrus quality to it, but it is very Piney.
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You know, it's got a nice hop forward profile to it and I
think it's overall solid, especially considering, you
know, the smaller microbrewery aspect of it.
It it does a good job with what it's tasked to do.
And I think it's, it makes senseto be a staple, kind of a
flagship for Adirondack, especially considering its
namesake of being named after the town that they're from.
(20:59):
So I, I, I think it all makes sense.
Really nice, you know, very drinkable, very sessionable.
I think that you can't go wrong with this type of IPA of course.
And again, it is kind of few andfar between to actually find
something like a, you know, verystandard W coasty style IPA
(21:20):
anymore because everybody's kindof moving towards those hazies.
So it's kind of nice and refreshing to have that.
So I appreciate that for sure. Again, if you're in the area,
Lake George, NY, you know, visiting from Canada or
something, check it out. Check out Adirondack Brewery
right there in the heart of the village of Lake George.
Nice place. Take a ride in the mini, ha ha.
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Do that before you do you go to the brewery and have your your
dinner in case you get seasick. I don't know if it's still there
but I do know Lake George has like 1 of like 3A and W still up
reading of the. State still there?
Yep. What is?
Yeah, stop in and have your rootbeer float as well.
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I know it's pretty cool, though.I've never been there.
Honestly, it's, it is strange because we've had it, you know,
it's fairly close and you know, my, my mom actually really liked
A and WS she I think at one point, like it was something
that she would go to quite oftenbecause they used to have a lot
more. But for every reason I've just
never been there. You're not missing out because
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A&W root beer trash when you get.
Barks. Barks has bite, it is true.
I do prefer barks as well. I like that.
And and mug is eve like the garbage.
Not not a fan of like the more sugary sweet root beers.
I like that. I like that bite.
How about a sarsaparilla I love?Sarsaparilla, that's like the
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one good thing about a runnings being here now is, you know,
this is the fact like you can stop in there.
Oh, there's. A sarsaparilla.
Yeah, yeah, I know with. Your pickled pig feet and you
know. It's beautiful.
All right, let's talk about rushhour A.
(23:11):
Brett Radner film The Brett. Radner.
Do you think when this film was being made?
Because how old, How old do you think Jackie Chan was when this
film was being made? What would I say?
Like 48 close, 44 for OK, Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah.
(23:34):
Why? What were you what were you
thinking? You think he looks younger than
than his? Age.
No, no, I was going to say it's just like, I feel like, like
it's just I can just imagine Brett being like, now Jack, you
make sure you do this and him like, yeah, I've already
directed a shit ton of things. Right.
Yeah, yeah. Coordinating my own stunts and
everything that are much better than OK whatever the Weinsteins
(23:57):
are here. Hi.
Yep. Yep.
Yep, Yep, Yep. I can imagine they're like, this
is how we do it in America, Jake, you know, I, I know what
you think, you know what you're talking about, but like, 'cause
it kind of almost kind of like how they treat him in the, the
movie. The food, yeah.
Like, yeah, yeah, 'cause I kind of got, I could see that
happening. Now, I don't know for sure.
(24:17):
Again, I'm not a. No, I don't think it happened,
but I'm just saying we should. Find an expert on rush hour to.
It's just funny to think though 'cause it's like, all right,
you're yeah, you know it. Would it would be nice if we
found an expert to to speak on the production of Rush Hour and
and talk about all that, becauseit does look kind of fun.
Again, at the, you know, keepingin the Jackie Chan tradition, at
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the end of the movie, there are outtakes, you know, which which
often the case with many other Jackie Chan films, which I am
now well versed in thanks to youwith the the podcast.
So it seems it seems like. That's our that's, that's our
cultural exchange. Here you've got.
Me to watch these Italian jellosand clitzy atetski.
(24:59):
And I'm here to give you Jackie Chan martial arts films.
That's right. Yeah.
And and so, but I think like theinteresting thing about Rush
Hour is again, like you said, this is really Jackie Chan's big
breakthrough hit for the United States.
And it it makes sense. I mean, when you really stop and
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watch this film, it is a good melding of Jackie Chan's, you
know, Hong Kong cinema, the the martial arts films that he would
produce and this sort of buddy cop comedy element that the
United States is, you know, morewell known for irreverent sort
(25:43):
of comedies teamed with like an action film atmosphere.
Again, like, you know, we've covered numerous action films in
the 90s. There was this really sort of
like like a sort of CD underbelly to all of these types
of films where it was like on the cusp of where, you know, the
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normal world in the criminal world are sort of like coming
together. You'd have this like henchman
nemesis, sort of weird feeling. I don't, I don't know how to
describe it, but it was sort of like a like an overcast of like
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just just over the surface. There's like this, this, you
know, criminal enterprise that you're just not well versed in
that's happening. And they all had a very similar
feel. And I think rush hour continues
that feel even I. Think you're thinking.
I think you're thinking of the opening for the action film of
all the nineties, 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Yeah, with the kids and punks, you know, handing off the stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
Yes, yes, I think I think that'sa yeah, perfect encapsulation
because again, it was you know, the films were somewhat serious
about the criminality that they were presenting, but at the same
time it had sort of like AI don't know anti realism do it at
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times of like, you know. Comic, Comic.
You like, yeah, it was like thiscriminal enterprises can't be
run like this, right, Because otherwise it would.
What a kind of goofy thing that would be going on, you know, is
if all these hench men are doingthis like.
Well, just think if Splinter, like it has like just all these
gangs of teenagers running around, you know, like we're
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handing off what, I don't fucking know, the the turtles,
like Domino's with Pizza Hut, you know, we're handing out
coupons to the Pizza Hut. I think that's a perfect
encapsulation. And it was like, you know, there
was danger, but also it was likekind of goofy in a way and
didn't necessarily play itself up extremely seriously.
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And I think you get that same idea with Rush Hour, which is,
you know, again, taking Jackie Chan's Hong Kong film approach
and sort of shoving it into the United States.
And quite literally, I mean, it is basically seeing like this
Chinese embassy in the United States.
So it's it's sort of like a mashup of the two cultures coming
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together. And I think that works really
well, like from from the whole perspective of how the film is
presented from the poster artwork, which you see, you
know, sort of red Jackie Chan onone side, blue Chris Tucker on
the other, or the other poster artwork that you get, which is
like a reddish pink, yeah, reddish pink Jackie Chan and a
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yellow Chris Tucker. It's, I mean, I do like the how
they, they tried to defy the racial undertones there of like,
let's not put Jackie Chan in theyellow section, you know, just
in case. It would be misconstrued there.
It would fit the tone of the film.
It would, it would, but yes. But yeah, I, I mean, I think
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that's a perfect encapsulation. It works really well, I think.
I mean, the, the whole idea of abuddy cop film being like two
different people coming togetherworks really well here as Jackie
Chan being a person, you know, that's basically not even
visiting. He's a fish out of water.
So yeah, exactly. Even more so, you know, out of
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place than like, you know, like lethal.
Weapon yes yeah, where it's justlike oh, I got a different
partner who doesn't play by the rules, you know I mean that's.
I do, I do like to have the filmmakes fun of that.
Like, you know, like with like, 'cause it like, you know, with
Chris Tucker, be like, I don't need no partner, you know?
And then like with the captain being like, yeah, we need
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somebody. Go around boat, shit up.
You know, you, you're the guy. You're, you know, you're Charles
Bronson, you're Dirty Harry Callahan.
Let's go. That is great.
Yeah, 'cause when, when he gets called into the, you know, just
after he's blown up a bunch of C4 on the square and you're
trying to take down a, a dealer and he gets called into the
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office 'cause he's, you know, basically not performed his
duties by the policy. And he, it makes it seem like
he's getting like this really nice promotion to go to work
with the FBI and it's really just a shit job that no one
wants. It's a great, great moment.
I love that line where Chris Tucker's like, you know, I'm
going to make you mayor and the,the police commissioner's like,
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I would rather you not. This is fucking funny.
It's got like some nice witty banter there that I, I think
works really well. And I, I mean, I like, what do
you think about the whole setup of the film, which is basically
the, the Chinese console is coming to America and his
daughter gets kidnapped by a bunch of ruffians.
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I do like it. The opening is very like, you
know, kind of like traditional, like Hong Kong like style, like
on the water, there's boats Detective, you know, Jackie Chan
showing up to not just detective, Detective Inspector,
you know, showing up to tried tostop this Jintao criminal
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organization. And he doesn't do anything but
save, you know, some artifacts which are very precious.
And they're like, you just destroyed the Jintao criminal
organization. Hurrah.
And you see like, you know, his,you know, it's kind of weird.
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They don't really ever explain, explain why, like Jackie Chan,
like give such a shit about, youknow, console Han because he's
just like, you know, a diplomat.And why is this Hong Kong
policeman that practically act like a bodyguard?
For him, yeah. But, you know, and Han gets
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promoted as console and he's going to America and Tom
Wilkinson's giving him the nice.We'll see you in LA.
Have a great time. Yeah.
And yeah, it's like a nice little set up.
I like I like I. Like, I like the dichotomy
between Jackie Chan's, you know,you know, very politeness to
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Chris Tucker's incredibly brash and annoying shit.
Yeah, I mean, I, I, I agree withyou.
I really like the opening of thefilm, which feels very much like
a Hong Kong cinema film. You know, it's got the, the set
up, the action. I even like the the theme music,
which I think was really well done.
Very, very catchy tune that theyuse.
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I wish they used it more, to be honest with you.
And they only really use it at the beginning of the film as
sort of like kind of a set up for the premise rather than
anything like that. Stays with the film throughout
with the theme. But I think that works really
well because you get, you know, get the action, you get Jackie
Chan getting to do some of his more traditional stunt work,
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which is kind of few and far between in this movie.
Doesn't happen often. It it does show up here and
there, but it's not like the focal point of this film like
something like Rumble on the Bronx would have because it's,
you know, not all fisticuffs. There's a lot of, you know,
shoot outs as well, which again,is like a melding of the style.
I think it works really well. It's, you know, it's, it's
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especially starting it off that way is really strong start.
I think like the the kidnapping of the little girl is also it's
well done to kidnap her with like how they, they kind of like
just come in really quick, shootthe bodyguards and then whisker
away on a motorcycle that drivesher into a van.
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It's it's very well done. I feel like the setup though, is
kind of like haphazard and that it's just like we have a little
girl that we're going to blow up, you know, It's like kind of
like a tug at the heartstrings, but not really anything that is
too interesting for the film. I feel like too Rush Hour
doesn't really care about the conceit that much.
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It it's more about the how we get there.
And I think I appreciate that. I don't know if you felt that
way too, but like no. No, I would agree and I think
it's definitely not too concert with the plot overall.
Isn't the you know what? They're trying to.
They're not trying to be smart. Yeah, yeah.
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It's it's kind of like like like.
The the Hackney, as much as I kind of like it, that is not
especially now the Hackney like shoving in like what's trouble
officer? No trouble, just rush hour.
Boom, boom. Like you know, like like like,
you know, there's there's no reason for like, you know, it's
like, why is this film called rush hour?
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Like, you know, like it's not like the traffic jam during rush
hour that they show and like howthey do it.
It's just like, you know, as even though like that's like
kind of how they get there. But again, like, it's just kind
of like rush hour. Yeah, the the audience is left
pointing at the screen like. They said the name, they said
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the name. There's no credit.
Actually, and I do correct me ifI'm wrong, I don't remember
credits on this. I don't think there is an
initial credits for rush hour, is there?
Yes, it's it's like quickly sayslike rush hour, like you kind of
like rumble, like rumble in the Bronx, like over like the water.
And it's just. Like, oh, really?
OK, yeah, I must have. And then like, like, and, and as
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Jackie Chan's like going on to the boat, you see, like, you
know, like starring Jackie Chan and.
Like got you. I I I didn't.
Get you, I guess it's it's it's very it's very like, you know,
it's muted like it's not like this big opening credits for it.
So I only remembered at the end,you do you get that large rush
hour that comes in at the end ofthe film.
But I did not remember the opening credits at all.
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But yeah, I thought that was interesting.
So again, with the buddy cop formula, too, when we, you know,
we get Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan together.
What do you think about how the film treats both of them,
especially considering that theyboth are technically like our
heroes for the film? Do do you think they did a good
job with like managing both of their screen time?
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Yes, but I think Chris Tucker gets a little too much time
compared to Jane Jan. You know, I, I, I get it.
I get it. He's supposed to be the funny
guy, but for fuck's sake. I mean, he's.
You think he's he's a little bittoo much.
It's not that like he's too muchlike it's kind of like, and I
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love the film and I'm not sayingit's bad either in this film,
but it's it is like a little toomuch like it's like they're
like, Hey man, you know what youdid on.
Friday like you got knock. The fuck out.
Man, the Smokey, we need you to just do that the entire film.
Like, you know, yeah, he's got too many lines, like for punch
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lines because half of them like land and the other half, you
know, don't. So I mean, he's not bad.
I I just think especially now like a kind of like seems like
much more annoying at times. I mean, I think he does bring a
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a good energy to the film. I won't say that I think he's
always funny, but I do like the fact that he has a lot of
energy. It sort of brings a chaos to it
that that works when he's on screen.
I had to laugh at times when he like picks up the phone in the
FBI agent's office when he's talking to the one henchman and
Jintao's group and he's like is saying things like, you know
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what, we'll split the money. I don't even like these guys
anyway. I'm not going to be working for
that much longer, you know, stuff like that.
So I think it's, I think it works sometimes.
But yeah, I think he gets a little bit more screen time than
Jackie Chan. I'm not sure if that's also
because Jackie Chan did not speak like great English at this
time. I don't know what you think.
His English was still fine. I mean, if you watch in the in
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the credit sequence, it still seemed like he did have some
issues with like delivering English lines occasionally.
So I don't know if that was justlike part of it or or what, but
more recognizable for I think, Ithink, I think it's.
More. Like.
You know, lean into because he's, you know he's.
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You know the the. American star.
Yeah. You know, new lines, like, you
know, we want Jackie Chan to become popular, but at the same
time, like, if he's not, you know, we better.
Yeah, we can. Yeah.
I mean, at this time, though, Chris Tucker was really not that
big of a star either. How much do you think you would
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be able to lean into Chris Tucker being this the big time?
Well, that's The funny thing to you again.
It's. Filmography.
It's like 10 films, yeah. Three of them being rushed out.
You know which. Is that like you know?
That's what I mean. I mean like, I don't know.
You might think that, but I feellike maybe Jackie Chan would
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have been the bigger draw. You know, it's like for for most
people. I don't know that Chris Tucker
would really have you. Know been like.
No one's no one was like sittingaround.
I don't think in 1998 being like, oh, the new Chris Tucker
movies coming out, You know, I, I don't know, especially because
the the 5th elements. Like a cult classic bow.
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It's not like it was just right.Like, I don't know.
I mean, I was 9 at the time, so I don't know if he was talking
about Chris Tucker too much backthen, but I generally don't hear
him, you know, talked about veryoften.
But I think one thing I do like about the movie and how it
manages the buddy cop formula isthat initially, you know,
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they're kind of at odds with each other.
So you you do get that whole sequence of events towards the
beginning where Chris Tucker's been tasked with like basically
just keeping Lee away from the console.
At all times and he's, you know,performing a babysitting service
and then Jackie Chan's constantly slipping away and
like more and more outlandish things that keep occurring.
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I like that. I think that works really well.
It's sort of a sets up A and again, I think that's part of
the reason why this film does not need a really like elaborate
conceit for the actual bad guys because it does, you know, for
probably a good, you know, 30 minutes of the film, it is
managing other things besides the kidnapping.
So I think it makes sense to notreally have to rely on like a,
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you know, an actual criminal conceit to get that across.
So I like that. I think that's good.
And the other thing I really like about the buddy cop formula
is that in this scenario, neither of the two are really
incapable of doing things right 'cause sometimes buddy cop
formulas, they kind of rely on like, ah, you've got like the
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really sharp partner, and then you've got the person who
doesn't really know what they'redoing.
And that's sort of the comedy oflike, ah, laugh at the other
person that doesn't really know what they're doing that much.
In this case, they're both pretty capable.
And I think the film kind of goes out of its way to show
that. Chris Tucker's character, though
he doesn't really get a lot of recognition in the LAPD, he does
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do a pretty good job. He's got contacts, you know, he
knows who to reach out to in this case like that, that the
other, you know, the FBI agents in the LAPD don't really know
what to do about. So I, I like that they make him
a a fairly capable person, you know, and especially with
gunshots and and shootouts, he'spretty good at it, that part of
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it. And then Jackie Chan, on the
other hand, is really good at the more martial arts part of it
and kind of they trade off on teaching each other those
things. I like that.
I like, I like that you know, element to it that they they
both have things to bring to thetable.
How do you feel about the the martial arts in this movie?
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They're muted compared to other films, but when they happen,
they are fun. They are.
Could you go on like, like, you know, stunts and stuff that
Jackie does? So it is, you know, I think like
a good, good my old showing of what you know, his films can be,
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Jackie said. Films and stunts can be like.
So it's the state the. American Appetite.
Yeah, I think it's not bad. I think, yeah, like you said.
They're fairly muted in terms oflike what you get compared to
something like police story. And again, you have to wonder if
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at a certain point people were like, no, this is America.
We we're a little bit, we have asafety laws around, you know,
something like that where they kind of encouraged the less
risky stunts that Jackie Chan would often pull.
But at the same time, I like, I mean, we get a we get a sense of
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the the martial arts, but I feellike this one definitely doesn't
have it nailed down. And I think also too, because
it's it. Isn't also is because it is a
action comedy that that you know, they're not trying to go
like you know, doesn't have to be police story with its action
level of action, you know, and stunts and thrills because it's
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again, the comedy is in action have to have like a balance in
between for like you know, so. Yeah, it would it.
Would seem out of place like if there's like police at story
level stunts and then you got like damn, you know what kind of
panties you wearing. Yeah, one thing.
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We haven't talked about too is how damn awesome Rex Lynn's
mustache is in this movie. Who is Rex Lynn?
The one agent. That's yeah.
Not not the guy. Oh, yeah.
No, no, I don't know. I know.
Who is Rex Lynn? What is he in Better Call Saul?
Thank you. Yeah.
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Yeah. Who?
Is the. Wachtel, Kevin.
Wachtel, the CEO. Mesa Verde.
Exactly I. Love I the The mustache is great
in this movie and it is. And you're also forgetting Mark
Ralston of soft fame. True, true.
I mean fame. Let's not use that Willy nilly
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here. But yes, he he is in it as well.
And then you got also got Elizabeth Pena as agent Johnson,
who is she's got like something,you know, that 90s single white
female, sort of like flat cut hair going on.
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She saw hackers. With Angelina Jolie.
That's true. That's right.
That's right. She's like, I bought into the
signs. Yeah.
Hook, line and sinker got. Here, But, you know, and that's
she's like kind of Chris Tucker's supposed to be partner,
but he doesn't really want to partner up with her and then
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eventually becomes a very big part of the conclusion where she
is. Able to disarm.
The bomb that's on the little girl, which I thought kind of
came out of nowhere, especially considering no they show them
they no because they. Show her like as like somebody
who's on the bomb squad. They show her like in training
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is. Basically saying like you're
shit at this, like maybe go elsewhere made or try tries a
different department like Trek cop because you can't handle wow
wow. How very men inist of you.
I'm not saying men inist as she literally.
I just and then at the end of the film, it's of course, too.
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You've got Jackie Chan and little girl and she's disarming
the bomb vest and she's going basically like Edie Meenie Miney
MO on the wires. She's doing like Roses are red.
Violets are blue I. Cut the green cord just because
hopefully you don't blow up. It's basically I thought it.
Was I thought, I thought it was.Roses are red, violets are blue,
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pussy, my pussy's pink. And so are you.
Yeah, it's a, doesn't I? Feel like if you were in that
situation, you would not feel like you're in capable hands
with someone basically saying you've obviously you've
obviously. Never played Streets of yeah, I
mean true crime Streets of LA, yeah.
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She's fun though. She is fun when she's.
On screen, like the whole when they're like talking to the
Chris Tucker on the phone and they're like, oh, this is he's
like, this is bullshit. And they're like, oh, don't
worry. Or at least finally got fired at
the precincts laughing at him. You know, what do you, what do
you think about? Chris.
Tucker's character name being. Jimmy Carter.
(47:35):
It's just funny to me. It's I'm like wondering why?
What was the overall reasoning for this film to have his name
Jimmy Carter? It's just, I mean, it's just a.
Just a fun little. Just a fun.
Name, you know, doesn't he look like?
Jimmy Carter. Yeah, absolutely.
And not only that, the. Film also gets into reference to
Chelsea Clinton. God, that's great.
(47:58):
Dates it. Really nice and well, and I do
love, I do love and appreciate in the bloop reel where he's
like, hey, what do you think? You out, Kelsey.
Kelsey. Clinton or then Chelsea?
Grammar. I like that too.
Chelsea grammar. What's the name that those look?
Like those were like, you know, like kind of like Toy Story with
the bloopers. Like, like, you know, kind of
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like, yeah, those are made-up. Yeah, Yeah, made-up.
Bloopers. But it's so funny.
Like, you know, yeah, I appreciate it.
I I definitely. Do but but and again, I I think
like, you know, some of them areprobably real.
Some of them made maybe were played up for the, you know, for
the bloopers. But yeah, I like that quite a
bit. I thought that was pretty funny,
you know, including Chelsea Clinton in this film.
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It's it definitely does. Like you said, it really dates
it. People watching now, you're
like, who? Who's that?
Was she on Epstein? Island, yeah.
And I guess what so. We didn't, I mean you, you've,
you basically said this when we're talking about sleeping
dogs. But what do you think about the
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the main bad guy being Tom Wilkinson, who you know has been
present throughout the the wholepart of the movie?
Fine, Tom. Wilkinson does a great job.
He's very smarmy, very, you know, fits the idea of like, you
know, like sophisticated, you know, Englishman.
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That's actually the villain. Little known fact that people
probably don't know this is. Takes place.
Around the time where Hong Kong's, you know, being returned
from Great Britain back to China.
That's the whole premise of the film, is that Hong Kong's.
(49:47):
Yeah, right. Excuse me is being returned.
Back to. China.
And in the real world, that alsomeant, though, that, you know,
Hong Kong still would have some independence and not be, you
know, completely, you know, democratic people whose
Democratic Republic. So you don't get the but I think
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the idea is kind of cool of likeTom Wilkinson being the bad guy
because, again, he's spent all this money and time curating and
collecting these great Chinese artifacts.
And then the British government is taking them and get is giving
them back. And that being the conceit of,
you know, him taking on, you know, trying to take the
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council's daughter and get a monetary value of what he deems
those artifacts are worth because again, why would this
console's daughter be kidnapped?It doesn't make any sense,
right? So, like, it's a it is a smart
setup and I like it. I think, you know, Tom
Wilkinson, he's not like overly present in the film, but I do
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think he's great. And I think it is, you know,
good because I think Shang, his second in command, you know,
Chinese Eminem, he doesn't have like, you know, he doesn't have
like, you know, big bad guy energy.
He definitely has. He definitely has, you know,
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sidekick energy. Not the same.
That's bad because he is good and very enjoyable.
But I think that's a great. Setup my only.
Problem is, is when it comes to the ending of the film, like a
man that's apparently as smart and cunning as Tom Wilkinson,
when they're at that, you know, gallery for all those artifacts
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that he wants back and the money.
He wouldn't just be like when Chris Tucker's like, there's a
pop, there's a. Pop, he wouldn't just be like go
up to. Shag and be like, I'm going to
blow everything up you little fuckers.
Like there's no reason for him to do that.
He could sneak upstairs, get themoney because the FBI is being
stupid. Like, we're going to give the
money back or, you know, Clintonsaid give the money back.
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Oh, man. Like, there's no reason for that
to happen. It's very idiotic and stupid.
I get it for the conceit of the story, but like, it's just like,
what, you know, like, yeah. I mean, I like him as a.
Character. I think it works pretty well.
But again, I think you're right that you don't really need to
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stop and think too hard about the plotting.
It's not, it's not the film strong point.
And I don't, you know, at the end of the film, the conclusion
is nice. It's got it like nice shoot outs
and, you know, eventful things, climbing up the the poles and
everything that Jackie Chan doesand falling off the balcony.
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But again, yeah, don't don't think too hard about it because
it's doesn't, it'll hurt. It'll hurt.
It'll hurt. Yeah.
I do like though at the end. Where you've got Jackie Chan
fighting, you know, against all the guys and he's being very
careful about all the trying, you know, the ancient, priceless
Chinese artifacts trying to protect them all.
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And there's just like gunshots everywhere, blowing up giant
urns and things like that after he's protected them.
It's really nice touch because again, that definitely has the
feeling of a Jackie Chan, you know, Hong Kong film and that a
lot of like the action was situated around like actual
objects, you know, object play, like whipping.
There's actually 1 scene I thinkthat was really cool where he
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whips like a, it's like a pylon or something, like a rope
holder, whatever the fuck you call those things at one of the
hench men. And that looks that comes out
really well. But it's something that you
don't really see that often in rush hours.
Like all the object play that would generally happen in a
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Jackie Chan Hong Kong movie. So it's nice to see that in the
conclusion. I think that happens there and
it happens in the the bar, the black bar that Chris Tucker and
Jackie Chan stop in early on in the film when he has to like
jump over the pool tables and stuff.
But other than that, this film kind of leaves that out.
It doesn't really have this signature Jackie Chan style.
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What else? Anything else that?
We didn't discuss she wanted to get to anything else.
You. Want to I think.
I mean, I think I covered everything.
I had on on my topics really. I think.
Missed opportunity for the film to be set in San Francisco to
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really have like a big. Like big big.
Chinatown and like, lean into that.
Yeah. Oh, we, we didn't talk about the
racism. That's true.
We didn't talk about that. Yeah, well.
Yeah, as I say, you were the 1 to point out you're, I mean it
definitely like early. On it definitely has a lot of,
you know, fairly racist jokes and that's sort of like it's
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jumping off point for the meeting between the two.
I think it's, you know, it's definitely purposeful racism as
well as sort of like, first of all, they think they're very
different from each other. So there's that, like those
racist thundertones. And then as they work together
more and more, they find out, oh, we're very, you know, we're
actually very similar, like the whole father thing.
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We both we both like chicken rice.
Roddy, Yeah. And like, and I feel like, you
know, that works out pretty well.
I don't know, what do you, what do you think?
Does it excuse the racist jokes or I mean, they're not bad.
I, I they're not. Bad.
They're not, I don't think. He's not running around.
Calling him like slurs, slurs, the one the say the one FBI
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agent does when like he's like, I don't need ching Chong cop,
you know. Yeah, right.
Yeah, but other. But other than that, like
they're very just tepid. Like I like nothing.
Especially now that like it's not like smart racist jokes like
in Blazing Saddles or anything. They're just like there and
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they're like, you know, when he's like, oh, Mr. Ray Cerrone.
It's like, oh, like, yeah, yeah,I agree.
I mean, I, I don't think they'relike super offensive or
anything. And I think, I think it works
towards a goal. So I think that's fine.
The other thing we forgot to mention?
Everyone's fourth favorite pen brother, Chris Penn's in this
film. Chris Penn?
(56:23):
Yeah, great. Performance doesn't get to.
Do a whole lot but. Nobody that he gets to be Chris
Penn. I know Chris Penn Corky.
Romano, basically. Yeah, yeah.
I mean I. Love Chris Penn, whenever I see
him show up I think he does a good job.
He has that sort of like smarmy attitude I think works pretty
well in this movie. I do love the fact that he's
(56:45):
like the C. 4 dealer yeah and like Chris Tucker shooting at
him as he's going away after like the beginning like of like
the deal going bang, not C4. What the fuck are you doing?
He show up sound, the car blows up and Chris Tucker's like,
yeah. Yeah, you know, 'cause like then
like when? There's captain's like you blew
up half a block and he's like, that dog sucked anyway, like
(57:07):
you. Know like that that.
That's good that, you know, that's funny.
I agree. I think, I think it's pretty
good. One other thing that we did not
talk about the Chinese food, didit make you want Chinese food?
I'm like. I really want Chinese food bad
(57:28):
but they're about to close up sowell.
Man, I really want some lo Mein.It really made me want.
Chinese food. I really just want a mountain.
Of lo Mein and a mountain of eggrolls and the mountain of and I,
I do. Question who's?
Who turns up their nose at lo Mein?
Because that's what Chris Tuckerdoes in this film.
He's he's in the Chinese restaurant and he's looking at
(57:52):
the menu. He's already tried eel and he
liked it. Then they walked by with a
platter of lo Mein and he sniffsit and he's like, no, no, no.
It look like fried rice and. I think it was lo Mein.
Either way, if it's fried rice or loam Mein.
Then he's like, But then he's like, how's that camel's hump?
And it's like camel's hump. I guess the camel made it to all
(58:15):
regions. Yeah.
No, I definitely want some Chinese.
Yeah. This this film is one that will
definitely make you want Chinesefood.
All right, so let's give this film a rating on a scale of zero
to 10 pimpin cherry red suits. Oh, that suit is lovely, that
(58:39):
is. A that I mean I, I.
Had I had like it was difficult to look at my screen when that
suit was on screen because it's so I imagine if it was an HDR
man, it'd just be fucking blasting you in the ice.
But face 4K? Absolutely.
Out of. So 0 out of 10 cherry red suits.
What would you give brush hour? I give it a 7 1/2.
Still holds up. It's still a great, fun film.
(59:01):
It's not like going to blow you away with being incredibly smart
or anything, but it's just fun. It's a fun, great little action
comedy from the 90s. Where Chris Tucker and Jackie
Chan have success and they are fun.
They are comedic though. I was shitting on Chris Tucker
and it he still is funny in this.
(59:24):
I'm not. I just think like, you know, he
can be a little too over the topand.
Hyperactive at times. I think again, that's more
script that is him himself because he is a bigger focal
point to the film and Jackie Chan.
But it's a great entry. Film to like if.
Like this is a film that I wouldrecommend to people if they're
(59:46):
interested in Jackie Chan films to see his style style of
action. Style of humor Style.
Stunts because it definitely canlead you into the films we've
done before, like Police Story, Rumble in the Bronx, and then
maybe someday like Armor of the Gods and stuff like that.
It's a great, you know, great melding of.
(01:00:09):
The style so American like action, comedy, Jack, you know,
Hong Kong, Jackie Chan and Hong Kong style.
It's a lot of fun. Tom Wilkinson's great.
It's a great, you know, fun little movie.
An hour and a half hour and 38 minutes, it's a breeze.
Very just watch it. If you haven't seen it.
(01:00:30):
Yet there's no reason for you not to at one point.
It was a big part. Of the cultural zeitgeist.
So check it out. 7 1/2 definitely agree.
I would say 7 1/2 as. Well, as right up my right,
right what I was thinking. It's a very fun film.
I really don't have many criticisms of it.
I think it's just, you know, funto watch it.
(01:00:52):
It has its moments of comedy, ofaction, exactly what you're
looking for. I think that again, let you said
it at an hour and 37 minutes. It's like right on with the how
long it needs to be. Doesn't overstay its welcome or
anything like that. I think that it's fairly funny.
I think I actually do enjoy Chris Tucker for the most part.
(01:01:15):
I think he brings a nice energy to the movie that it needs, you
know, Jackie Chan being a littlebit more muted here.
And I think it has a nice melding of, you know, the the
elements of a Jackie Chan Hong Kong film and a more
Americanized version of an action film.
It works really well together. Has it, you know, it's it's
probably one of the greatest encapsulation of buddy cop films
(01:01:40):
and overall just a really entertaining, enjoyable watch.
I also, I would I guess I meant to ask you, do you prefer rush
hour one or rush hour two more? We don't even go with.
Rush hour 3. I think rush hour one.
But Rush hour 2 is also great too, so I like the.
Whole element of them meeting inrush hour 1.
(01:02:01):
I feel like that adds like a nice conflict to this movie that
I can, you know, that Rush Hour 2 probably does not have.
It's been a while since I've seen it.
But you know, I think that Rush Hour 2, of course, would have
more of them like arguing. But here they're really meeting
each other and kind of learning from each other.
And I think that works pretty, pretty great in this movie.
(01:02:24):
All right, so that's. Rush Hour, first movie of our
red hot 90s action Summer Reloaded.
Are we going to? Are we revealing what we're
doing next? Why not OK?
I think the. Next film that we're going to
cover is Total Recall. Let's go.
Let's do it. I yeah, I Total Recall again,
(01:02:50):
like I said from 2015. No, not that one.
Damn. I think like I said.
Before we have picked a nice variability, yeah, of different
films and we're going to be covering this sci-fi action film
(01:03:10):
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which who we've also had
previously in our Red Hot Summerseries.
The fun hand, that. Like movie posters?
So Star Trek Next Gen's? Yeah, it is, isn't it?
Yeah, or. Or, like Stargate, it looks like
(01:03:30):
you're going to have fucking Picard.
On there. Yeah.
So TuneIn for our next. Episodes and we'll be we'll be
here all August long doing red hot 90s action summer so should
be fun got four or three more movies in store for you thanks
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