WEBVTT 00:00.599 --> 00:03.321 It says he represents the Tanaka clan. 00:05.500 --> 00:09.155 You don't look like Tanaka. Shidoshi Tanaka trained me. 00:09.766 --> 00:14.041 What's the whole act? He says Senzo Tanaka is his shidoshi. 00:14.604 --> 00:18.708 What's the difference if Bruce Springsteen is his shidoshi? If Senzo 00:19.208 --> 00:22.831 Tanaka is his shidoshi, then show us the dim mak. 00:23.282 --> 00:26.817 What the hell is a dim mak? Death touch. 00:36.247 --> 00:40.143 Thanks. Vic, choose a brick. 00:41.963 --> 00:45.490 Okay, Frank. Uh, what about 00:54.250 --> 00:54.510 Go! 00:58.223 --> 00:59.018 4-2-1. 01:32.278 --> 01:32.398 Whoa, 01:39.800 --> 01:42.776 yeah! Son of a bitch! Is that good enough, guys? 01:44.738 --> 01:48.165 We honor your invitation. No shit, you honor his 01:48.262 --> 01:48.857 invitation. 01:52.597 --> 01:55.477 It's Two Dads One Movie. It's the podcast where two middle-aged dads sit around and 01:55.977 --> 01:59.909 shoot the shit. about the movies of the '80s and '90s. 02:00.150 --> 02:03.185 Here are your hosts, Steve Paulo and Nic Briana. 02:03.282 --> 02:06.702 Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of 2 Dads 1 02:06.799 --> 02:10.813 Movie. I'm Steve. And I'm Nic. And today we are talking about the 1988 02:11.313 --> 02:14.539 Jean-Claude Van Damme action classic Bloodsport. 02:15.149 --> 02:18.521 And Nic, you brought us Bloodsport. You brought it to the table. What's your history 02:19.021 --> 02:22.263 with the movie? Oh man, I, I caught this one, uh, around high school, 02:22.311 --> 02:26.788 my young teens, and I think this got passed around because The 02:27.288 --> 02:29.946 idea of it was very fun. So this is at the time where we're getting 02:30.011 --> 02:33.505 into like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2 and stuff. Yeah. And there weren't 02:33.521 --> 02:37.385 really at that time a ton of movies that were about these multidisciplinary 02:37.885 --> 02:41.585 fighting competitions. Right. You know, good point. So this one, it really would stimulate your 02:41.633 --> 02:45.464 imagination just thinking about like the sumo guy going against the guy who just 02:45.964 --> 02:49.472 hops around like a chimp and like all these different moves that, 02:49.552 --> 02:52.437 uh, that these guys bring to the table and the different looks and stuff. 02:52.854 --> 02:56.172 And I thought it was cool. Van Damme was never my favorite action star, 02:56.365 --> 03:00.090 but There was only so much Arnie and Stallone to go 03:00.170 --> 03:03.446 around, so you had to start dipping into the Van Dams and the Seagulls 03:03.494 --> 03:07.270 and the if you really got desperate, you're getting into the Michael Dudikoffs 03:07.770 --> 03:11.901 and the Jeff Speakmans and stuff like that. But I 03:12.014 --> 03:14.708 thought this would be a fun one to chat about. I haven't watched it in 03:14.773 --> 03:18.394 a while, but it's one that most guys our age at 03:18.894 --> 03:22.487 least understand the reference of, right? The Kumite and the and then Van 03:22.535 --> 03:26.141 Damme famously like two of his big things are. Doing the splits. 03:26.286 --> 03:29.352 So how are we gonna fit the splits into the movie? And number 2 is 03:29.417 --> 03:32.387 kicking only with your right foot at all times. So how are we gonna make 03:32.887 --> 03:36.305 that happen? And I think they figured it out. So yeah, I'm excited to talk 03:36.805 --> 03:38.729 about this one. It had been a while, but I was glad to, uh, 03:38.970 --> 03:41.828 to have rewatched it. How about you, Steve? You've seen this one before? I had 03:41.876 --> 03:44.927 never seen Bloodsport before this week. It just missed me somehow. 03:45.312 --> 03:47.400 I think, uh, you know, there was this— I think there were a lot of 03:47.900 --> 03:51.060 action movies. It's kind of like the Rambo films, movies that like I would incorporate 03:51.157 --> 03:53.437 elements of it just because my friends would talk about it. And so it ended 03:53.937 --> 03:56.632 up feeling like I knew the movie before I ever like watched it. 03:57.579 --> 04:01.112 And I think that this one was interesting in 2 ways because not like Bloodsport. 04:01.594 --> 04:05.431 So not only did this, this came out 3 years before Street Fighter II 04:06.089 --> 04:09.622 came out. And so it is impossible to look at Street Fighter 04:10.122 --> 04:13.235 II and not say, well, that is directly influenced by Bloodsport. Yeah. 04:13.475 --> 04:16.799 You know, obviously it's not an adaptation of the movie, but like the whole 04:17.299 --> 04:20.650 concept of a secret underground international street 04:21.150 --> 04:24.047 fighting mixed martial arts competition with fighters of all these different styles. 04:24.383 --> 04:28.085 You know, the Guile character is a military— American military. It's clearly Jean-Claude 04:28.585 --> 04:31.690 Van Damme's, you know, person in this movie. That Frank Dux character is clearly who 04:31.754 --> 04:35.376 Guile, right, was. And then Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat had 04:35.876 --> 04:38.565 a move where he went down into the splits, like directly taken from this. 04:38.885 --> 04:42.747 Absolutely. And that character— I think Johnny Cage is even more explicitly, this is Jean-Claude 04:43.247 --> 04:45.599 Van Damme in so many ways, right? But like so much of this movie, 04:45.920 --> 04:48.720 you know, became Street Fighter II. And so I played, and I played, you know, 04:49.220 --> 04:51.100 thousands of hours of that over the years. So there's that. And then— Who's your 04:51.600 --> 04:54.220 preferred character in Street Fighter II? So if we're talking about the original Street Fighter 04:54.720 --> 04:58.200 II, I was— Let's, yeah. I was mostly a Ken player. Okay. Um, 04:58.700 --> 05:01.680 and then when we got to the Turbo and Hyper Fighting Championship Edition, 05:02.180 --> 05:04.720 you could play as the bosses. I became a Vega, uh, guy. So, yeah. 05:05.220 --> 05:07.960 Oh, 'cause Vega could climb that chain link fence and dive down. But only on 05:08.460 --> 05:10.960 Vega's level. You could still do the wall bounce off the edge of the screen 05:11.460 --> 05:13.460 though, where you could kind of like, so yeah, there was that. And I, 05:13.960 --> 05:16.713 I just, I definitely got, I— there was one summer where I went to like 05:17.213 --> 05:20.807 a computer camp, basically, uh, on the campus of St. Mary's College, 05:20.887 --> 05:23.889 and we stayed in the dorm for a week, Greg Nielsen and I. And we— 05:23.954 --> 05:26.747 there was a, you know, student union with a Street Fighter II arcade machine, 05:26.763 --> 05:29.974 and there was a point where I stayed on one quarter. I think I beat 05:30.474 --> 05:33.442 like 8 or 9 people in a row. Nice. Which was definitely still the highlight 05:33.942 --> 05:37.521 of my entire life. Um, see, I get too— I— it's interesting to 05:38.021 --> 05:39.816 hear that you're a Ken player because I would get too tied up in the 05:39.833 --> 05:42.960 guys that had like crazy special features that didn't pay 05:43.460 --> 05:46.820 off that well, right? So you get like a Blanka where you do that electrocution 05:47.320 --> 05:50.400 thing, or the Dhalsim where he could like reach super far. He had those 05:50.900 --> 05:54.100 stretchy arms. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So none of those guys in here, but for 05:54.600 --> 05:58.160 sure like the basic dudes, like the basic types, I think are very well represented, 05:58.660 --> 06:02.200 uh, in Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat from this, uh, from this movie. 06:02.240 --> 06:06.160 Yeah, very clear, very clear reference there. And then most recently I realized I didn't 06:06.660 --> 06:09.060 know the full references of this movie because in the show The Bear— I don't 06:09.560 --> 06:10.740 know if you've ever watched it, but it's one of my favorite shows of recent 06:11.240 --> 06:14.640 years— one of earliest episodes, a bunch of the guys before they've 06:15.140 --> 06:18.820 like turned the restaurant into a fancy restaurant, they're talking about something and basically 06:19.320 --> 06:21.620 talk about like, you know, Saint-Matthieu, Saint-Matthieu. And I was kind of like, what the 06:22.120 --> 06:25.480 hell is that? Like, and they even in the show say something about it's Bloodsport 06:25.980 --> 06:27.240 or whatever, you know, they make a reference to it. And I go, oh, 06:27.740 --> 06:30.700 I don't know what that— like, I never heard that thing before. So now obviously 06:31.200 --> 06:34.640 I do know what that means having watched it. So, but yeah, so this 06:35.140 --> 06:37.280 is one of those movies that I feel like not having watched it, you still 06:37.780 --> 06:41.288 get some familiarity with it because of other references it is or other influence it 06:41.788 --> 06:44.349 has had on popular culture. Yeah, for sure. But by not actually having seen it, 06:44.573 --> 06:46.880 like, I didn't get that whole picture. So it's kind of filled in all those 06:46.912 --> 06:50.277 blanks for me, um, which is great. Let's jump 06:50.777 --> 06:53.241 into the facts. Let's jump into the facts. All right, so the movie Bloodsport was 06:53.741 --> 06:57.759 released on February 26th, 1988 with an R rating and a running time of 92 06:58.259 --> 07:01.797 minutes. It was directed by Newt Arnold, written by Sheldon 07:01.893 --> 07:05.626 Lettich, Christopher Cosby, and Mel Friedman. The film stars Jean-Claude 07:05.658 --> 07:08.870 Van Damme, Donald Gibb, and Lea Ayers. Uh, 07:09.370 --> 07:12.450 scores. Rotten Tomatoes, Rotten Tomatoes 48%, so pretty much half and 07:12.950 --> 07:16.170 half. IMDb 6.8, not particularly good. This was another movie 07:16.670 --> 07:18.910 like last week's Summer Rental, and yeah, this one I don't have a good reason 07:19.410 --> 07:21.870 for, I don't know, but it did not get a review from Siskel and Ebert. 07:22.370 --> 07:24.750 So I don't know if this was one they just chose not to bother with 07:25.250 --> 07:27.150 or what. I mean, we'll get to it in a minute, but this is a 07:27.650 --> 07:30.310 very low-budget movie, so it might not have had wide release at the time it 07:30.810 --> 07:34.070 first came out or something. Entirely possible. Uh, one awards thing that 07:34.570 --> 07:36.930 I did want to call out here. So in 1989 at the Razzies, 07:37.726 --> 07:41.156 Jean-Claude Van Damme was nominated but did not win the Worst New 07:41.204 --> 07:46.140 Star Award. That was won that year by 07:46.220 --> 07:49.714 Ronald McDonald. The actual McDonald's 07:49.906 --> 07:53.913 clown mascot was given the award for, quote, playing himself 07:54.025 --> 07:57.711 in the movie Mac and Me. Oh boy. Which is 07:57.840 --> 08:00.901 weird, but that's the Razzies. So what do you do? But it's, it's, I looked 08:01.401 --> 08:04.250 at the list and the only name that was nominated that year that was a 08:04.750 --> 08:08.353 real person and someone who had a career later on is Jean-Claude Van 08:08.853 --> 08:11.736 Damme. None of the other people nominated for that made any sense. But anyway, 08:11.784 --> 08:15.326 no other awards buzz on this movie other than the 08:15.390 --> 08:19.061 Worst New Star Razzie. On a $1.5 million budget, 08:19.093 --> 08:22.925 which like— Wow. Very impressive. I mean, look, most of this movie's fight 08:23.425 --> 08:26.579 choreography. So as long as you're able to pay a choreographer a fairly small amount 08:26.612 --> 08:30.090 to do reasonably good stuff, that's good. There's not a lot of special effects outside 08:30.590 --> 08:33.953 of some makeup. There's no— there are no injuries that 08:33.985 --> 08:37.512 require significant— this is not a John Carpenter movie. Yes. Right? Right. 08:37.608 --> 08:40.639 Nothing's being ripped off of anyone anything crazy like that. That's all— it's 08:41.139 --> 08:44.745 all just implied. And there's like 4 sets in the whole movie, basically. 08:45.130 --> 08:47.360 So it makes sense how you could get it down to $1.5 million. It made 08:47.376 --> 08:50.520 $63.5 million at the box office, 42 times what 08:51.020 --> 08:54.178 it cost. So massive successful hit, especially based off of, 08:54.675 --> 08:57.964 of the, uh, the budget. So yeah, this was a huge hit. There's no, 08:58.381 --> 09:01.493 no denying that. Yeah, well, uh, let's kick it off, 09:01.509 --> 09:04.396 Nick. Kick it off in Bloodsport. So, um, 09:05.022 --> 09:08.727 this kicks off kind of with an opening montage of all these different 09:09.227 --> 09:13.254 fighters who represent different styles. And, uh, and it shows them kind of training 09:13.302 --> 09:16.208 and showing their skills. Actually a very cool, like, kind of perfect way to start 09:16.708 --> 09:20.110 this movie off. Um, and we've got your standard kind of like, 09:20.190 --> 09:23.546 uh, karate kung fu guys, and we've got your sumo guys, 09:23.578 --> 09:27.126 we've got your wrestlers. Some guys, their style just seems to be brute 09:27.626 --> 09:31.477 strength, like it doesn't necessarily matter. There's this really small guy who 09:31.526 --> 09:34.785 like hops around like a lemur or like this, and, 09:35.138 --> 09:38.390 and it shows him, he like shimmies up a tree super fast and he's smashing 09:38.890 --> 09:42.090 coconuts with his fists and stuff. And just such a— yeah, 09:42.590 --> 09:44.470 like if you're in the writer's room and you're trying to figure out like what's 09:44.970 --> 09:48.030 a crazy style. But I think a lot of this stuff is real, certain types 09:48.530 --> 09:51.690 of martial arts. Like capoeira and stuff like that is very odd looking if 09:52.190 --> 09:54.310 you're, if you're seeing it next to other styles, right? Yeah, because we get a 09:54.810 --> 09:57.970 Brazilian guy, Paredes is his last name, and he's doing capoeira. And there's like, 09:58.470 --> 10:01.670 there's, you know, uh, Muay Thai and there's all this stuff. I gotta be honest 10:02.170 --> 10:05.110 with you though, that African character that runs up into the trees and chops the 10:05.610 --> 10:08.790 coconuts with his hand and later bounces around the ring like a monkey. 10:09.290 --> 10:12.690 Kind of the most racist character. The most racist thing I've seen in a long 10:13.190 --> 10:16.810 time. Yeah, it is really bad. Like, that would not fly today 10:17.310 --> 10:21.250 whatsoever. You can't do that. You could maybe get away with that style if 10:21.750 --> 10:24.150 it was any other race of actor. You just cannot do that with a Black 10:24.650 --> 10:26.830 man. It was, it was a little, it was a little tough. It would have 10:27.330 --> 10:30.330 been a little rough then. Watching it now for the first time is like, 10:30.830 --> 10:34.470 are you— you beg your finest fucking pardon? Like, really, we're doing that? I do, 10:34.970 --> 10:37.480 I do need to find out though, is this based on a real style? 10:37.510 --> 10:40.669 Like, how true is that? So It could be a thing, but yeah, 10:40.765 --> 10:43.908 I mean, not knowing that, it is like, yo, it doesn't play well. 10:44.052 --> 10:47.180 What are we doing here? Um, so, 10:47.340 --> 10:51.317 uh, so we've got the different montage of, of that 10:51.333 --> 10:55.583 happening, and then, and then we have, uh, Van Damme, Captain Frank Dukes, 10:55.599 --> 10:58.245 and he's, he's in the army. Yeah. And, uh, 10:59.111 --> 11:02.334 they're kind of telling him like, hey, uh, you know, you're about to have a 11:02.834 --> 11:05.109 break, but we need to talk to you before you go. Well, he's basically said 11:05.141 --> 11:08.290 because Yeah, a guy comes to him and says like, hey, Captain Dukes, like, 11:08.790 --> 11:11.190 uh, the colonel needs to see you. He found out you're going to Hong Kong, 11:11.690 --> 11:14.470 right? He wants to talk to you. And it's clear that like, that's not— like, 11:14.970 --> 11:18.510 Frank would be in trouble, basically, is the idea. Uh, so Frank, so he, 11:19.010 --> 11:22.530 he takes off running, right? So he, he just sprints out of the army 11:23.030 --> 11:26.590 very easily in his uniform, um, and just, you know, 11:27.090 --> 11:30.030 and by the time they look for him, you know, he's gone. Like, there's not 11:30.530 --> 11:33.110 much of a chase of, of Frank Dukes there. No, because he ends up, 11:33.610 --> 11:35.650 uh, at this house, uh, which is, you know, he knocks on the front door 11:36.150 --> 11:39.814 and, and, and, you know, it's Obviously a place he knows well. An older woman 11:40.006 --> 11:43.870 answers the door, and like, they embrace. It's clear they know each other. And we 11:44.270 --> 11:47.220 see this little shrine in the front room. It's got like a katana and like 11:47.720 --> 11:50.971 its little candles and like stuff. And he stares at that pensively for the 11:51.471 --> 11:54.385 next 10 minutes while we get a huge flashback to his childhood. 11:54.979 --> 11:58.185 Yeah. Where a couple friends of his and Frank 11:58.201 --> 12:01.022 break into this house, this house we're in, and like start playing with the katana 12:01.522 --> 12:05.045 and the scabbard, and basically, you know, plan to steal 12:05.158 --> 12:08.684 it, but then don't. His friends leave when people start moving in the house 12:08.764 --> 12:11.730 and leave him there. and he doesn't jump back out the window. No, 12:11.810 --> 12:15.497 he's just standing there holding the katana. Which is— he's holding the scabbard. He's not 12:15.997 --> 12:19.489 even holding the sword. It's like just the scabbard part. But basically, like, a kid 12:19.585 --> 12:21.685 and an old man come out— not an old man, like a middle-aged man come 12:21.749 --> 12:25.099 out, and the kid kicks him in the stomach. Turns out this is this family 12:25.115 --> 12:27.808 that lives there, the dad and the son who live there. 12:28.401 --> 12:32.281 And they basically— oh, the first thing— hold 12:32.781 --> 12:35.102 on a second, real quick, because it doesn't actually matter, I have to mention it's 12:35.134 --> 12:38.404 hilarious to me that young Frank Dux climbs through that window wearing 12:39.222 --> 12:42.606 outfit pieces from 2 different projects. professional teams called the Giants. 12:43.232 --> 12:47.053 He's got a New York Giants shirt and a San Francisco Giants hat. 12:47.342 --> 12:51.099 That is an absolutely on-location telling the props guy, 12:51.179 --> 12:54.406 get me 2 Giants things. It's crazy. It is so funny 12:54.906 --> 12:58.275 to me. I just want to talk about, um, about young Frank. 12:58.403 --> 13:01.807 Oh, and, and at the end of the whole sequence of him 13:01.855 --> 13:04.745 like trying to steal the sword and the little kid kicks him, and then the 13:04.825 --> 13:08.277 old guy just slices the brim of his hat off with the sword. For no 13:08.293 --> 13:12.230 good reason, which is a great move. Young Frank Dux is the 13:12.730 --> 13:15.925 dopiest looking guy. He has one of those like Eli Manning faces. Oh, 13:15.990 --> 13:19.316 good. Like just a real kind of whatever. So I just— 13:19.380 --> 13:22.642 I already can't stand looking at his face. And then when he starts talking, 13:22.835 --> 13:26.803 it is unbelievably shitty because like you said, uh, before the plot, 13:27.478 --> 13:30.756 they have to establish that he will end up sounding like Jean-Claude 13:30.788 --> 13:33.793 Van Damme someday. So the kid has to have this accent. 13:34.146 --> 13:38.170 And it is an accent. It's something. This— I hate 13:38.670 --> 13:42.466 this actor, this casting decision. So look, this real human, God bless him. 13:42.514 --> 13:46.088 I hope he's having a wonderful life far away from cinema. But I want 13:46.588 --> 13:50.224 to apologize actually to, to the actor Dan 13:50.352 --> 13:53.558 Futterman, who played Val, the son in the movie The 13:53.623 --> 13:57.197 Birdcage, because that I thought was the most I could hate a casting 13:57.245 --> 14:01.333 decision. Young Frank Dux blows it out of the fucking water. 14:01.718 --> 14:05.453 So yeah, like you said, we're in it like a 10-minute montage of young 14:05.565 --> 14:09.480 Frank Dukes. And at first he's just kind of like the punching dummy 14:09.576 --> 14:13.123 for the little kid. Yeah, like he's, he's getting trained in a 14:13.623 --> 14:17.086 very like lopsided seeming way. Yeah. And, and real quick, 14:17.199 --> 14:19.830 just on this kid, when, when, when he first jumped through the window, 14:20.344 --> 14:23.344 I thought to myself, oh, that's young Frank. He's not going to talk at all 14:23.473 --> 14:26.698 because they never would have gotten to get an actor to sound like he'll end 14:26.762 --> 14:30.212 up being Jean-Claude Van Damme with that voice. And this character at this 14:30.712 --> 14:32.940 age is like maybe 13, I want to say, give or take, right? 14:33.647 --> 14:37.294 If, if he— if his family just relocated from Belgium or France 14:37.794 --> 14:39.608 or wherever they sound like they're from, right? And I know Van Damme himself is 14:40.108 --> 14:43.030 Belgian, but like, you know, it's basically like a French accent is what we're hearing, 14:43.079 --> 14:46.517 right? And both parents have it because the— this, this mentor teacher 14:47.017 --> 14:50.132 character talks to the parents about martial science and how important it is to 14:50.197 --> 14:53.571 teach our children. Just like you grow a vine— they must be from France because 14:54.071 --> 14:56.479 they don't grow a lot of wine in Belgium. So, right, you grow vines, 14:56.560 --> 14:59.115 I grow children is sort of his thing. Like, you got to use science. 15:00.558 --> 15:04.197 They let him talk. It was awful. And I also wonder 15:04.501 --> 15:07.996 if they had relocated to the US at his— 15:08.172 --> 15:10.977 at that age where, you know, he's under 13 when he relocates, would his accent 15:11.477 --> 15:14.905 still be as thick as Jean-Claude Van Damme's accent as an adult, having like lived 15:15.405 --> 15:19.073 in America for that long? It seems unlikely. Like, I get some accents are very, 15:19.089 --> 15:20.932 you know, they stick with you for a long time. And I've met kids with 15:21.432 --> 15:24.202 accents, don't get me wrong, but it just felt like weird. They really shouldn't have 15:24.702 --> 15:27.248 had him talk. It would've been much better if he didn't. Yeah. And I do 15:27.748 --> 15:30.871 wonder if the actor, if that was his accent or if they were having this 15:31.371 --> 15:34.726 guy do it. Because it was really, I really feel terrible if that's really 15:35.226 --> 15:37.859 just what that kid sounded like. But it will also explain why he looks like 15:38.359 --> 15:40.686 such a dope because they weren't casting the look; they were casting the voice. 15:40.750 --> 15:43.305 Yeah, and had to go with whatever they got. Yeah, he does not look like 15:43.805 --> 15:47.064 Van Damme, a young Van Damme in any way whatsoever. Skull shape is completely 15:47.161 --> 15:50.550 crazy, crazy different. But anyway, we should move off of young Frank 15:51.050 --> 15:54.567 because he's not worth it. So now, so Tanaka is kind 15:55.067 --> 15:58.439 of explaining to the the parents that he wants to train Frank. 15:58.939 --> 16:02.810 Uh, there's a cutscene of them at school. So Frank is obviously in school with 16:03.310 --> 16:06.530 this, uh, Tanaka's son, who's a younger boy, and he's getting bullied, and Frank steps 16:07.030 --> 16:10.770 in and in like a very shitty-looking way, like kicks and beats up the 16:11.270 --> 16:14.250 bullies, right? So he's gaining a little respect, right? I do like one of the 16:14.750 --> 16:17.090 kids in that scene behind him who's just watching the fight is wearing a Bartles 16:17.590 --> 16:21.350 and James t-shirt. It looks like a giveaway. It's so bad. I love that 16:21.850 --> 16:24.210 stuff. It's so funny in the old things where you see someone wearing like a 16:24.710 --> 16:28.170 Virginia Slims hat. That's a 10-year-old. Um, the fucking 16:28.670 --> 16:32.350 '80s, man. I don't know. So in this montage, we see 16:32.850 --> 16:36.170 that, that the son, uh, Mr. Tanaka's actual son who'd been training with Frank over 16:36.670 --> 16:40.110 these years, dies. Yeah, uh, looks like a military, uh, thing. I think he 16:40.610 --> 16:42.750 died in the Kumite. I think because it would— we see him talk about going 16:43.250 --> 16:45.890 to fight Kumite for his dad, and then he doesn't come back. It's kind of 16:46.390 --> 16:49.610 what it seemed like to me. All right. Yeah, uh, terrible sad 16:50.110 --> 16:53.550 dad acting. I mean, really unbelievably bad. Yeah. And Tanaka's supposed to be 16:54.050 --> 16:57.430 this like ancient old man, and he's probably like 41 in real life. It's crazy. 16:57.930 --> 17:00.627 They never show him with any gray hair, even in present day. when he's like 17:00.707 --> 17:03.495 on his deathbed. No, not a gray hair in his mustache or his head. 17:03.911 --> 17:07.228 I will say the choice to give his family background that they were nuked 17:07.728 --> 17:10.961 in Hiroshima was like, that's a hell of a choice. But he's basically like, 17:11.041 --> 17:14.903 oh, I was in the war and while I was away, my family, my son 17:15.403 --> 17:18.364 and my daughter, my wife were killed. They were in Hiroshima. It's like, holy fuck, 17:18.428 --> 17:21.841 dude. Like, that is brutal. How are you even— how— why would you even 17:21.873 --> 17:25.622 be in the United States at that point? Seriously, I'd probably pick 17:26.122 --> 17:30.098 a different place. Anywhere else. Good Lord. Um, so as 17:30.194 --> 17:33.247 they're— as we're seeing, like, the, the training is kind of stepping up, 17:33.327 --> 17:36.894 right? So Frank Dux is being, uh, tasked with very Mr. 17:36.942 --> 17:40.541 Miyagi style things, you know. Um, one of the things Tanaka 17:40.557 --> 17:44.075 is just reaching into a koi pond and pulling out a fish with his hand. 17:44.332 --> 17:48.108 Uh, and then they've got him, uh, Frank Dux is in blindfolds. Yeah. 17:48.172 --> 17:52.012 They're training him on, like, you know, how to work without his eyesight. 17:52.285 --> 17:55.897 He does the splits a lot. He's being attacked with weapons. Um, so yeah, 17:55.913 --> 17:58.492 they're really pounding the shit out of this guy. Well, and it's funny because they 17:58.620 --> 18:01.616 do the koi grab and they do the blindfold stuff and they set all that 18:02.116 --> 18:05.333 up, and that all does come back. But the funny part is when those things 18:05.365 --> 18:08.906 come back in the story and become meaningful, they give us a flashback to 18:09.406 --> 18:12.159 these scenes. We get to see these scenes again just to remind us, remember, 18:12.399 --> 18:15.491 he grabbed fish out of the koi pond and fought blindfolded. Don't forget that. 18:16.020 --> 18:19.208 Okay, now let's move on. And it's just like, it's so like holding your hand 18:19.708 --> 18:21.916 through the plot, which is hilarious because there's very little plot in this movie. 18:22.092 --> 18:25.474 Absolutely. To begin with. No, this is, this is a series of And 18:25.974 --> 18:28.542 when he's training, he like— there's a few things I just noticed that are just 18:28.590 --> 18:31.979 kind of budget and maybe Van Damme's age 18:32.479 --> 18:35.801 and experience. But it's like, you know, he falls before being hit a couple times 18:35.833 --> 18:39.367 pretty clearly, where he's reacting to a punch that is still on its way. 18:40.571 --> 18:44.265 It's a very funny moment when he goes to punch Tanaka. Tanaka just 18:44.765 --> 18:48.345 does a very simple duck and one step, and Van Damme looks like he 18:48.425 --> 18:52.200 has seen a ghost or like a man disappeared. He's so surprised. He's so 18:52.232 --> 18:56.843 surprised that Tanaka's not there anymore, and it's like bro moved at like a reasonably 18:56.875 --> 18:59.655 good pace. He wasn't even that fast. Yeah, very, very funny. 19:00.073 --> 19:03.672 He's got Tanaka's got him strung up between these trees. 19:03.768 --> 19:07.046 Bondage. Each of his extremities is tied to a rope and tied to these 19:07.078 --> 19:10.532 two trees, and he's being spread apart. And then the thing that Frank 19:11.032 --> 19:14.694 does to show that he's finally strong enough is he's able to like pull himself 19:14.854 --> 19:18.532 up, and he pulls so hard that he just like. starts breaking 19:18.645 --> 19:23.458 the little brackets. Yeah, the cleats pull out of the thing or whatever. I struggled 19:23.958 --> 19:26.668 with this a bit because at the same— there were 2 thoughts in my head 19:27.168 --> 19:30.775 at the same time watching this little display, right? One is clearly that requires 19:31.275 --> 19:33.808 a shit ton of strength. I could never remotely do anything like this. I'm not 19:34.308 --> 19:37.435 trying to say, look, oh, that's easy. No, it's obviously a clear sign of 19:37.935 --> 19:41.446 strength. But also, I don't care. Like, why do I care? What's he gonna do 19:41.946 --> 19:44.736 now? Now you're just tied— you're rope— you're still tied by rope to like this 19:44.800 --> 19:48.330 other thing. You haven't like broken out. Like, it's just like, why was this the 19:48.830 --> 19:52.069 exercise? It's just very strange. I mean, I think, I think he had in his 19:52.101 --> 19:55.648 contract, I do the splits 5 times in this movie for an extended period 19:56.148 --> 19:59.082 of time. I marked 5. Okay, yeah, um, I was trying to count. Uh, 19:59.162 --> 20:02.821 so, so at the end of this, this mostly excruciating, 20:03.078 --> 20:06.850 uh, flashback sequence, yeah, uh, Frank is, is awarded 20:07.350 --> 20:11.054 his own sword. Yes, right. So he's graduated and everything, and then 20:11.554 --> 20:14.392 it cuts back to him just like still in that living room like, and he's 20:14.892 --> 20:17.343 looking at this picture. It's like Why do we do it this way? Yeah, 20:17.359 --> 20:20.645 it's so— and there were 2 or 3 times during the flashback that we cut 20:20.661 --> 20:24.124 back to Frank's face just to remind us all, remember, he's a flashback. 20:24.188 --> 20:28.243 I think it happened right when in the flashback Jean-Claude Van Damme started playing 20:28.356 --> 20:32.011 Frank, like, because we went from Frank the young kid, and then in 20:32.107 --> 20:35.088 the flashback we got to where now Frank is a young man, younger than he 20:35.588 --> 20:39.240 is present day, but it's now him, right? That's when he had his head replacement 20:39.740 --> 20:43.184 surgery. Exactly, his jaw reconstruction. And so we had to flash forward 20:43.684 --> 20:45.652 again to like remind us all, hey, he's still standing in that, you know, 20:45.684 --> 20:49.440 this is not now, this is before. It's this Movie is holding your hand 20:49.940 --> 20:53.380 through every moment, and it's holding your hand through the simplest plot that has ever 20:53.880 --> 20:56.480 been put on film. But that's okay; they kind of knew who their audience was, 20:56.980 --> 20:59.280 and they didn't want anybody asking any questions. I get it. But this is where 20:59.780 --> 21:01.820 I've noticed really that it was like why is Tanaka not have a single gray 21:02.320 --> 21:04.980 hair? Did you not have like hair dye in the budget? Old at all? 21:05.480 --> 21:09.070 He wasn't even acting that old. No, he's just laying down. Yeah, that's it. 21:10.280 --> 21:13.540 So so now we're in Hong Kong, right? 21:14.040 --> 21:17.780 We've traveled to Hong Kong for the Kumite. Frank is. Successfully— he 21:18.280 --> 21:21.420 talked to Tanaka saying, I'm gonna go to the Kumite, you know, be careful, 21:21.549 --> 21:24.692 whatever, I'm doing it for you, what it is kind of shit. Yeah. 21:25.237 --> 21:28.461 He meets the other American there, or one of the other Americans, this guy 21:28.541 --> 21:31.252 Ray Jackson. Yeah, Donald Gibb. Donald Gibb. 21:31.428 --> 21:34.123 We've seen him in a lot of '80s stuff. Every time I see him, 21:34.187 --> 21:36.480 no matter what I see him in, I literally— I think my first note, 21:36.625 --> 21:39.143 one of my first notes in the book for this one was, hey, it's Ogre. 21:39.367 --> 21:41.613 Yeah, because every time I see him, I think of Ogre from Revenge of the 21:42.113 --> 21:45.754 Nerds. Yeah, absolutely. And his fighting style is Is 21:46.012 --> 21:49.610 I drink beer and like motorcycles, and I'm big. His fighting style 21:49.884 --> 21:53.208 is Hulk smash, I guess. Yeah, technically is like. I looked up 21:53.676 --> 21:56.862 shit. There was something about his fighting style, and it had this name to it. 21:56.911 --> 22:00.076 I was like, what? I've never heard of that. Interesting. And basically, the definition of 22:00.140 --> 22:03.563 the style was whatever, no holds barred. Oh, 22:03.579 --> 22:07.127 this is this is Fezzik from *The Princess Bride*. Andre the Giant is like 22:07.143 --> 22:10.485 his way is not very sporting. Like yeah, not sportsmanlike. 22:10.939 --> 22:14.760 And And he's 22:15.260 --> 22:18.520 getting like— you're getting some information about the Kumite, like how it works. 22:19.020 --> 22:21.760 Like they have a handler kind of guy. Yeah, yeah. Who's a really cool looking 22:22.260 --> 22:26.010 character. I like his— I like him. Kind of mulleted, like half tint glasses, 22:26.080 --> 22:29.720 tracksuit, gold chain. My kind of guy. Were those glasses prescription? 22:30.220 --> 22:33.140 Because they were shaped like aviator sunglasses, but they weren't particularly dark. So I guess 22:33.640 --> 22:36.240 those were just his glasses. Yeah, they were those like half tint. Those are really 22:36.740 --> 22:40.610 interesting. Yeah, yeah. Uh, big back then, but yeah. Jackson and Frank 22:40.738 --> 22:43.959 play a video game together briefly in like the hotel bar or something maybe. 22:44.119 --> 22:45.977 And the thing I noticed about it is it kind of— it didn't look like 22:46.477 --> 22:49.102 any game I know. It didn't look exactly like any game I remember. Maybe it 22:49.150 --> 22:52.066 was, or maybe they— I don't know what they did, but there were no buttons. 22:52.610 --> 22:56.023 They each had 2 joysticks, and it was like one of them must have been 22:56.055 --> 22:58.827 the kick and punch sort of stuff, and the other one was move and jump, 22:58.843 --> 23:01.663 I guess. But it was very weird to see them both with, you know, 23:01.807 --> 23:05.236 each hand on a joystick moving them left, right, up, down, left, right, whatever. 23:05.332 --> 23:08.800 Yeah. And then it was like, I don't remember any video game like 2 23:09.300 --> 23:12.740 joysticks. Well, Super Smash TV. Yeah, but that was different. I agree, 23:13.240 --> 23:15.800 but I'm more like this because the reason Super Smash TV worked is because you 23:16.300 --> 23:19.380 could shoot in 360 degrees around you, right? It was top-down, so you had to 23:19.880 --> 23:22.260 be able to shoot every direction. So one stick was the shooter and one was 23:22.760 --> 23:25.710 you moving, right? That kind of thing. But this is like a side-to-side fighting. 23:26.020 --> 23:27.370 Leg can go in any direction. 23:29.400 --> 23:31.960 Yeah, I forgot to look up what game this is. I don't know if it 23:32.460 --> 23:35.300 was like Karate Champ or just one of those kind of generic things because I 23:35.800 --> 23:37.860 think it also wasn't in English. And yeah, it's on the screen. Looked like a 23:38.360 --> 23:42.020 little bit like if you took the old Kung Fu NES game and 23:42.520 --> 23:45.860 turned it into a PvP kind of fighting game versus like a level 23:46.360 --> 23:48.670 thing. It kind of looked like that, but it definitely was— it's definitely something else. 23:48.740 --> 23:51.660 It must, it must have been a Chinese or Japanese game we didn't get here 23:52.160 --> 23:55.400 or something, maybe. Right. Yeah. Uh, and so Frank and, uh, Ray Jackson are 23:55.900 --> 23:59.180 playing this. They're kind of very fast friends there. Um, Frank beats 23:59.680 --> 24:01.820 Ray at it and is like, you want to go again? You know, so they're 24:02.320 --> 24:06.200 all excited. Uh, meantime, the government is just like a couple steps behind 24:06.700 --> 24:10.205 Frank, so they're— they've shown up to Tanaka's house And, uh, and the— 24:10.365 --> 24:13.491 there's 2 agents. I don't know one of the actors. One is Forest Whitaker and 24:13.991 --> 24:17.338 the other, the other guy, but they're the kind of 2 guys in pursuit of 24:17.838 --> 24:21.218 Frank Dukes throughout this movie. And it's the classic, uh, when you want to put 24:21.266 --> 24:24.776 2 officials in something where they're not really meant to be like drivers 24:25.276 --> 24:27.053 of the plot, but they are meant to be there to sort of like be 24:27.553 --> 24:30.852 a ticking clock. Yeah. Is that one of them is like young and reckless 24:30.964 --> 24:34.154 and the other one is old and calm. I feel like that happens. It's basically 24:34.170 --> 24:37.860 the 48 Hours Yeah, recipe, you know what I mean? For sure. And so Forrest 24:38.360 --> 24:40.340 Whitaker is always trying to be a little bit more of a hard-ass, kind of 24:40.840 --> 24:44.240 like whatever. And the old white guy is kind of like, which is another— I 24:44.740 --> 24:47.480 gotta be honest with you, another racist-coded thing to me in this was the way 24:47.980 --> 24:51.480 that the, like, the, the older white agent was constantly like correcting 24:51.980 --> 24:55.480 or like calming down the younger Black man. Yeah, yeah, you're a little too angry 24:55.980 --> 24:58.900 to do this, or you're too excited about the food. There's a scene where the 24:59.400 --> 25:02.120 two of them are eating and Forrest Whitaker's like, oh, this stuff is great, 25:02.620 --> 25:04.900 right? And the other guy's like, oh, I wouldn't touch this stuff. There's a lot 25:05.400 --> 25:07.819 of racially coded— very enthusiastic. Fantastic. Yeah. 25:08.381 --> 25:11.704 Um, so we got these guys, uh, kind of coming after them. Yeah. 25:11.753 --> 25:14.884 They're being led now, uh, and their handler, this guy's 25:15.384 --> 25:18.191 named Mr. Lin, and he's kind of telling them about the Kumite. It happens once 25:18.691 --> 25:21.595 every 5 years, and there's no holds barred, and it takes place over 3 days. 25:21.644 --> 25:25.529 Full contact, just laying out. Yeah, yeah. A blend of styles and all this stuff. 25:25.594 --> 25:28.628 And, you know, this guy's the champion. Chong Li is the guy who's the champion 25:28.693 --> 25:30.828 from last year. Um, this, 25:31.663 --> 25:35.501 this line, like, they are about to enter, like, the, the bowels of this 25:35.516 --> 25:38.822 area where they're led to the Kumite. And we get a very large, uh, 25:38.982 --> 25:42.881 man who goes, uh, okay, USA. And then, uh, Ray Jackson 25:42.897 --> 25:46.427 repeats it. That's like a very, um, you know, common line from this 25:46.927 --> 25:49.797 movie. But this part— okay, here's something we discussed in a previous episode. Okay. 25:50.214 --> 25:53.198 When we did the episode on the movie Jacob's Ladder. Okay. There was one of 25:53.698 --> 25:56.680 these nightmare sequences where he was being led down this hallway. Yeah. And we— and 25:56.793 --> 26:00.258 with all this really weird gross stuff happening. And we thought maybe that's what 26:00.758 --> 26:03.355 was used, uh, to inspire the movie Beerfest. That's right. Where they're going down the 26:03.855 --> 26:08.036 hall. I think the Beer Fest thing is almost one-for-one the Bloodsport trek 26:08.405 --> 26:11.466 into the Kumite. So I gotta watch Beer Fest again, like, side by 26:11.966 --> 26:15.458 side with this. But I think it was inspired by this, like, walkthrough and 26:15.958 --> 26:18.648 all this weird shit they see on the way into the Kumite arena. The funny 26:18.664 --> 26:21.934 part is, or the interesting thing to me about it, was when they started walking 26:21.950 --> 26:24.868 through this, I thought, I thought to myself, man, I wonder, was this meant to 26:24.996 --> 26:27.769 look like Kowloon Walled City? Is that like what this was sort of based off 26:27.881 --> 26:30.446 of? And I looked it up and no, no, no, that they filmed in Kowloon 26:30.526 --> 26:33.636 Walled City, which is a— was always a part of Hong Kong that was 26:33.668 --> 26:36.941 basically an unregulated— there's no law in there. Right. It's absolutely— And they did 26:37.441 --> 26:39.896 explain that a little bit, right? Yeah. And it's like, this was one of— I 26:39.928 --> 26:43.911 read this is one of the only Western film productions 26:44.023 --> 26:47.267 that ever filmed in Kowloon Walled City before it was torn down 26:47.315 --> 26:51.121 in the mid-'90s. I think the Chinese government tore it down after 26:51.507 --> 26:54.783 they got Hong Kong back from the UK. And so it's gone 26:55.283 --> 26:56.854 now. It has been for years. But like, this was an interesting thing. I thought 26:57.354 --> 27:00.564 to myself, that is such a cool, like, historical artifact sort 27:01.064 --> 27:03.888 of that they're able to film in that actual place. Yeah. And keep that forever. 27:03.936 --> 27:07.325 Now the set where the, where the battles took place was not physically 27:07.373 --> 27:10.891 there. That was on a soundstage. But they filmed those scenes of him walking— any 27:10.923 --> 27:13.622 scene that was filmed walking down those aisles or whatever, that was all done on 27:13.719 --> 27:17.574 one day in Kowloon Walled City for real. And so yeah, 27:17.654 --> 27:20.289 very cool stuff in that sense. Um, one of the only reasons I even know 27:20.321 --> 27:23.758 what Kowloon Walled City is is that there was a hardcore punk band called Kowloon 27:24.258 --> 27:26.007 Walled City that I listened to for a while. Oh, nice. And I remember looking 27:26.507 --> 27:27.999 it up once going, why are they called that? I wonder what this is. 27:28.048 --> 27:31.437 And like going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about it. But yeah, so very cool. 27:31.549 --> 27:34.791 And yeah, maybe you're absolutely right, the You know, the whole Beerfest reference thing is, 27:34.919 --> 27:38.269 I think, probably a mixture along with just any kind of labyrinthine, 27:38.927 --> 27:41.988 you know, kind of thing. Definitely could have taken some inspiration from this. 27:42.213 --> 27:45.563 Yeah. And they get— and I love that bit about the Kowloon Walled City because 27:45.579 --> 27:48.945 this is a place that in real life conceivably could have actually had something like 27:49.445 --> 27:53.402 this going on. Yep. Um, almost like a, like a tanker ship, 27:53.450 --> 27:55.662 like in international waters, but it's on land. 27:56.415 --> 27:58.948 Yellowstone's zone of death. Yeah. You can't empanel a jury. 28:00.086 --> 28:03.950 Um, so they get into the Kumite arena and each, uh, each participant, 28:04.014 --> 28:07.636 I guess, has a physical invitation. Yeah. And then they also 28:08.136 --> 28:11.339 have to show, like, show you're the guy, like, qualify. Yeah. Show us in some 28:11.403 --> 28:14.978 way, right? And, uh, and Frank Dux's thing that he does 28:15.010 --> 28:18.472 is there's these stacks of bricks, you know, like 7, 8 bricks, like 3 stacks 28:18.972 --> 28:22.287 of them. And, uh, his move is called the Dim Mak, which is like the 28:22.787 --> 28:25.910 touch of death or something like that, right? Right. And, uh, 28:25.990 --> 28:28.939 they say, okay, break one of these bricks. And, you know, 28:29.036 --> 28:32.017 pick a brick, whatever. And they decide he's gonna break the bottom brick. So he 28:32.517 --> 28:35.381 has to to hit through the top of a stack of bricks without damaging the 28:35.881 --> 28:39.470 first 6 and just exploding the bottom brick, uh, which he does easily because it's 28:39.970 --> 28:43.183 easy to do. Like, untouched. The bricks above barely move. 28:43.460 --> 28:47.090 It turns into like sand. It doesn't— 28:47.122 --> 28:50.275 it doesn't just slightly crack. Like, it blows the fuck up. 28:50.340 --> 28:53.736 It's like Walter throwing Donnie off the cliff and blowing it back in the dude's 28:54.236 --> 28:57.594 face. It is just dust. Like, it's so bad. Ray Jackson is covered 28:57.611 --> 28:59.256 in brick dust. Exactly. 29:00.788 --> 29:04.158 And, uh, and now we see, uh, Chong Li, played by the great 29:04.239 --> 29:07.722 Bolo Yeung, just an enormous, uh, Chinese actor who's 29:08.222 --> 29:10.996 really like— he's appeared in a lot of martial arts things. And, uh, 29:11.172 --> 29:14.591 he's like the intimidating guy. And he looks at him and he's not impressed. 29:14.688 --> 29:17.994 And he goes, brick don't hit back. That's a good— he makes a good point 29:18.042 --> 29:21.493 though. Yeah, he does. Although it hit Ray Jackson in the face when 29:21.993 --> 29:25.763 the bits of it started flying around. So, um, 29:25.779 --> 29:29.502 so now the, the military, uh, pursuit gentlemen, 29:29.726 --> 29:32.982 Forrest Whitaker and the other guy, are coordinating now with 29:33.482 --> 29:36.478 like Hong Kong police. Yep. And they're trying to get in with these authorities, 29:36.895 --> 29:38.916 and the Hong Kong police is kind of doing the, 29:40.359 --> 29:43.550 doing the like kumite. I don't have no idea what you're talking about. I've never 29:44.050 --> 29:47.111 heard of that. That's not a real thing. So they're not being like super helpful. 29:47.175 --> 29:51.264 Yeah, yeah, for sure. But they've agreed at least, like, now they know that Frank 29:51.764 --> 29:55.420 Dukes is someone that we're looking for here. Quickly about Chong Li, because first of 29:55.920 --> 29:59.500 all, I think it's funny watching this movie and realizing how much of a direct 29:59.693 --> 30:03.500 inspiration Street Fighter II took from it and then named a character 30:03.532 --> 30:06.648 Chun-Li. Yeah, yeah. Right, which is a female character. But like, similarly, the other thing 30:06.696 --> 30:10.037 is, is that so Bolo Yeung, I believe, is a— was— I don't know if 30:10.537 --> 30:12.768 he's still alive actually, but a Chinese man. Yeah. 30:13.973 --> 30:17.378 And Chong Li sounds like a Chinese name, like naming 30:17.426 --> 30:21.121 conventions, but he is clearly a Korean character because he has the flag 30:21.621 --> 30:24.573 of South Korea on his headband. So it's like a very weird, like, 30:25.055 --> 30:28.025 yet another example in my opinion of like this movie just not giving a shit 30:28.525 --> 30:31.911 about any of that kind of accuracy. We needed one non-white person to review some 30:32.411 --> 30:36.359 stuff. We're gonna need super accuracy when it comes to like explaining 30:36.455 --> 30:39.827 how these things work, but when it comes to like that kind of stuff, 30:39.843 --> 30:43.665 like cultural shit, like who fucking cares? Like it was very dismissive of that because 30:44.165 --> 30:46.410 I'm watching the whole time going, Chong Li does not sound like a Korean name 30:46.490 --> 30:50.120 to me. And maybe I look, if Listener, if you are aware 30:50.620 --> 30:52.720 of why that should sound like a Korean name to me— to me it sounds 30:53.220 --> 30:55.580 like a Chinese name. It sounds like a made-up name, obviously, but it sounds more 30:56.080 --> 30:59.080 Chinese in origin. Maybe I'm wrong and I could be corrected, but like, it's weird 30:59.580 --> 31:01.660 to me that this character was played as a Korean. Yeah, why didn't they just 31:02.160 --> 31:05.470 make him Chinese? Maybe he killed a Korean guy and took his bandana or something. 31:05.560 --> 31:08.600 Sure, I guess that's the only— but yeah, it's a good point. Uh, it's a 31:09.100 --> 31:12.710 little strange. Bolo Yeung, if you're still alive, uh, please hit us up at thisshow@2dads1movie.com. 31:13.860 --> 31:17.685 That's the number 2 and the number 1. Yeah. Um, there— so there's, 31:17.702 --> 31:20.511 there's a note that I made here that's kind of in the spirit of like, 31:20.656 --> 31:24.782 what the fuck here? Okay, so back at the hotel, so there's a reporter here, 31:25.088 --> 31:28.829 this woman reporter who's here to like learn about the Kumite, right? I gotta, 31:28.861 --> 31:32.008 I gotta get some info. And she kind of knows where the guys are, 31:32.136 --> 31:35.733 but nobody's giving her any information. So anyone she mentions it to is like, 31:35.765 --> 31:38.543 get out of here. So now she's back and she's talking to one of these 31:38.655 --> 31:42.106 guys who I think in, in a Aside from young Frank Dukes, 31:42.508 --> 31:45.701 is the worst actor in this movie. And this is the guy who plays the 31:46.201 --> 31:49.729 character Hussein, which again, they fucked 31:50.229 --> 31:53.804 this up big time. This guy's real name is not— he's 31:54.304 --> 31:57.575 in no way like Middle Eastern or Arab at all. And the way that they 31:58.075 --> 32:01.362 made him Arab is they just put, uh, they put the headgear on him, 32:01.426 --> 32:04.668 kaftan or whatever it's called, or something. And then, and then like 32:04.716 --> 32:08.118 when he fights, he doesn't wear it. So like we get this whole scene 32:08.618 --> 32:11.183 of him showing down against, uh, Van Damme later, and he's not wearing— he's hard 32:11.683 --> 32:14.950 to recognize. This guy's a terrible actor. His dialogue is so bad. And I 32:14.998 --> 32:18.092 wrote down with a star on it, you better be good at fucking karate. 32:18.605 --> 32:22.469 Like, if you're this bad of an actor, you better do some good martial science 32:22.549 --> 32:25.387 later on because— yeah, uh, because I don't trust it. 32:25.499 --> 32:28.673 Spoiler alert, did he live up to that for you, Nic? Absolutely not. No, 32:29.362 --> 32:32.440 no, I don't think he did a move. I agree with you. He was 32:32.473 --> 32:35.903 there for his acting. He was there to be the guy Frank knocks out 32:36.403 --> 32:40.458 quickly, right? Wasn't that sort of— yeah. His character's name is Sadiq Hussein. 32:41.291 --> 32:43.986 They put him in traditional garb of, 32:44.098 --> 32:47.691 like, the Arab Peninsula, more so than, you know, the Fertile 32:47.707 --> 32:51.379 Valley, more so than Iraq-Iran kind of thing. Like, there's, like, all kinds of 32:51.396 --> 32:54.635 inconsistencies here, but it was clear they were going for a Saddam Hussein. 32:54.683 --> 32:57.121 I mean, 'cause Saddam Hussein was a known quantity in the late '80s, you know? 32:57.169 --> 33:00.024 I mean, it's not— he hadn't invaded Kuwait yet, but, you know, people would've known 33:00.040 --> 33:02.334 who he was. Yeah, yeah. So it feels like a direct reference to that, 33:02.462 --> 33:05.557 but, like, then all of the little details. And I also get the sense that 33:05.573 --> 33:09.693 we were supposed to accept his existence as an Arab character 33:09.902 --> 33:12.691 because of the gold tooth. Was that like supposed to be an indicator because he's 33:12.707 --> 33:16.282 got money? He's got that oil money, I guess. Yeah, so weird. And well, 33:16.410 --> 33:20.145 I think the, the main reason— back to the racism, uh, the, the main reason 33:20.161 --> 33:23.928 we can tell that he's an Arab character according to the filmmakers, not according to 33:24.428 --> 33:27.888 me, is that he is unbelievably disrespectful towards this woman. 33:28.337 --> 33:31.446 And he's trying to, uh, he's trying to bring 33:32.023 --> 33:35.101 her like back to his room. He's like, yeah, I'll tell you about the kimchi, 33:35.310 --> 33:38.856 come with me. Basically doing everything but throwing her over his shoulder 33:39.356 --> 33:42.430 and walking away with her. Oh my God. Um, so Frank Duke sees this happening. 33:42.479 --> 33:45.632 He comes up. Clearly, you know, this is, this is Wyatt Earp 33:46.132 --> 33:49.426 not letting the horse get slapped around. That's right. Right. So Frank Duke sees this 33:49.926 --> 33:52.968 happening and he says, all right, we're gonna 33:53.468 --> 33:56.108 do it. We're— I have a challenge for you. You know, you put a quarter 33:56.608 --> 33:58.627 in your hand, and if I can grab it out of your hand before you 33:59.127 --> 34:01.723 close your hand, she stays with me. You leave her the hell alone. Right. 34:01.787 --> 34:05.596 And if I can't grab it, go ahead and take her. Which is— So she's 34:06.096 --> 34:09.916 like, Like, does she have any say in this? This is a crazy— I 34:09.949 --> 34:12.608 mean, it's like if my wife is about to get kidnapped and I'm like, 34:12.706 --> 34:16.344 if I can do a backflip, I've never tried 34:16.844 --> 34:19.125 it before, but I think— like, what the hell? Uh, 34:19.917 --> 34:22.988 Genie's screwed if you have to do a backflip, buddy. There's nothing— I'm 34:23.488 --> 34:26.822 done, dude. Um, so, uh, so of 34:26.854 --> 34:30.558 course Frank Dukes ends up snatching this quarter. He thinks that 34:31.058 --> 34:35.079 he didn't snatch the quarter out of his hand because he's Like, and he 34:35.579 --> 34:38.639 opens his hand and he has, oh, you've replaced it with a different coin, 34:39.139 --> 34:42.539 right? Yeah, yeah. So, uh, so Frank Dukes, you know, then he wins dinner with 34:43.039 --> 34:45.839 the girl because it's not just like, hey, I saved— like, she has to give 34:46.339 --> 34:49.659 you something. You can't just save a person, right? Can't just be altruistic. Like, 34:50.159 --> 34:53.279 so yeah, so they have dinner together and I think this 34:53.779 --> 34:57.079 is where she asks him to like help her get into the Kumite, 34:57.579 --> 35:00.199 right? And he's just like, I can't, like, they're too secretive about it, I can't 35:00.699 --> 35:03.350 get it in. She later gets in with absolute ease, just walking in with somebody 35:03.850 --> 35:06.630 and absolutely nothing. And the number of people that end up just walking into the 35:07.130 --> 35:09.670 audience of this tournament near the end, it's like, wait, why are any of these 35:10.170 --> 35:12.470 people allowed to be here? Totally. I mean, it is, it is one of these 35:12.970 --> 35:14.690 events and we'll see it in a minute. But it's one of these events where 35:15.190 --> 35:18.270 people, which I love, people are just waving cash in the air and 35:18.770 --> 35:21.130 then exchanging it, you know, at the end of it. It's just weird that they 35:21.630 --> 35:24.490 threw cash on a dude who lost. The guy gets knocked out and they just 35:24.990 --> 35:28.230 throw cash at him. I mean, I get it's like a disrespectful looking thing, 35:28.730 --> 35:31.350 but it is funny that it's like, he lost, guys. Like, don't give him your 35:31.850 --> 35:36.353 money. He lost. Uh, so we've 35:36.853 --> 35:40.025 got the Kumite is about to start. Frank Dux is in his hotel room and, 35:40.041 --> 35:43.729 uh, and Ray Jackson comes in to get him. Frank Dux is doing the splits 35:43.745 --> 35:46.199 between 2 chairs for a very long period of time. 35:46.936 --> 35:49.775 And, uh, and Ray Jackson's like, hey man, come on, it's time to go. 35:49.839 --> 35:53.062 And he's already drinking his beer. He's got, he's got his beer like 35:53.271 --> 35:55.291 first thing in the morning. Yep. Um, 35:56.510 --> 36:00.970 again, just, you know, mandatory splits. Yeah, we had to have Uh, 36:01.470 --> 36:04.940 so we get some explanation about the Kumite. It happens every 5 years. 36:04.970 --> 36:08.010 It's 3 days. There's 1 winner. There's 3 ways to win: knockout, 36:08.650 --> 36:12.110 someone can tap out, or you can push them outside of the arena. And it's 36:12.610 --> 36:15.630 kind of like slanted on 2 sides. Like, it's pretty big. It's not a small 36:16.130 --> 36:17.810 space. Was it that way the whole time? 'Cause I remember really seeing that in 36:18.310 --> 36:21.050 the final battle, but I didn't think it was always slanted like that. I would 36:21.550 --> 36:24.870 imagine that on the faraway shots, it's always like that. But there's probably a 36:25.370 --> 36:28.290 lot of close-up action shots where they're absolutely not on a slanted thing. Interesting. 36:28.790 --> 36:30.660 Okay. I just maybe didn't notice. But yeah, that's Yeah, interesting. there was a point 36:31.160 --> 36:33.100 where I wrote a note down saying like, wait, why is this like— why does 36:33.600 --> 36:36.460 it look like a really weak skateboard vert ramp now? Yeah, yeah. Because it's just 36:36.960 --> 36:40.100 like raised on the ends and not— but anyway, but yeah, so we learn a 36:40.600 --> 36:43.300 lot about it. We see a couple of battles. We get— I think Jackson does 36:43.800 --> 36:47.240 the title drop and says like, that's why they call it Bloodsport. Exactly right. 36:47.740 --> 36:50.840 It's like, okay, thanks. Um, when Chong Li does his fight, 36:51.400 --> 36:54.560 I couldn't tell right away if he'd killed the person that he fought. It looks 36:55.060 --> 36:57.020 like he didn't because they make a big deal about it when someone does die 36:57.520 --> 37:00.012 near the end. So I thought— but he almost kind of— they made a point 37:00.512 --> 37:02.896 to tell people, like, people have died. It doesn't sound like it's the kind of 37:03.396 --> 37:06.004 thing where it's like all the time people die, or like every year people die, 37:06.020 --> 37:08.984 but like people have died in the ring. Yes. And so, and then it looks 37:09.484 --> 37:12.540 like Chong Li maybe kills a dude, like really fucks him up. So at that 37:12.668 --> 37:16.561 moment, I will tell you something that the, the screenwriters and the director and everybody 37:16.754 --> 37:19.365 put into my head that they never paid off, and I will never forgive them 37:19.461 --> 37:23.001 for. Okay. I assumed at that moment Chong Li was going to kill Ray Jackson. 37:23.722 --> 37:27.615 Yeah. That's at that point when Chong Li almost kills 37:27.631 --> 37:30.195 the first person we see him fight, right? And you've made it clear to us 37:30.695 --> 37:33.801 that people have died. Mine— I am now expecting for Jackson to be killed so 37:34.301 --> 37:37.729 that Frank has someone to avenge, right? We're plugging the stakes into the formula, 37:37.809 --> 37:40.743 and that's exactly what would happen. Chekhov's dead best friend. Yes. 37:41.817 --> 37:44.606 Um, and, 37:45.023 --> 37:48.005 and Chong Li— so he, you know, he ends up, uh, 37:49.271 --> 37:52.734 he ends up— oh, Ray Jackson went against like the least scary guy I've ever 37:53.234 --> 37:56.245 seen and just like punched him in the face immediately. And then he turns to 37:56.745 --> 37:59.776 Chong Li For no reason other than Chong Li's the defending champion, he's like, 37:59.856 --> 38:03.162 "I'm gonna kill you, man." So especially that's 38:03.662 --> 38:05.762 what I think when I wrote it down. That happens. Chong Li comes in, 38:06.356 --> 38:09.598 and then it's a world record win. So world record time. It's amazing. 38:09.967 --> 38:13.113 People are going, "Chong Li, Chong Li," and when he's 38:13.613 --> 38:17.415 like responding to it, he's moving his arms at the weirdest like intervals. 38:17.511 --> 38:21.090 Like it's not going along with the chant at all. I don't understand it. 38:21.202 --> 38:24.428 It's like they told him. Raise your fists in the air in victory, and he 38:24.589 --> 38:27.638 had never seen anyone do that. Yeah. So he was like guessing what they 38:28.138 --> 38:31.570 meant, and nobody corrected him because he's Bolo Yeung and he's enormous. Yeah. Um, 38:31.955 --> 38:35.743 um, so Frank Dux comes in, and he comes in against Hussein, who you know 38:35.839 --> 38:38.937 the bad actor. We're gonna see some awesome martial science from him. 38:39.418 --> 38:42.724 And of course, he doesn't even throw a single move; gets 38:43.224 --> 38:46.335 knocked out by Frank Dux immediately. And then Frank Dux has the new record. 38:46.464 --> 38:49.930 Yes, that's right. And now this could be a hashtag 38:50.430 --> 38:53.860 because I feel like it's come up a couple times. Yeah, so Hussein's gold tooth 38:54.360 --> 38:56.780 is now on the mat, and the kid who comes up to like wipe the 38:57.280 --> 39:00.500 blood off the mat between things gets a very greedy, mischievous look on 39:01.000 --> 39:03.480 his face and picks up the tooth. And of course you got to chomp into 39:03.980 --> 39:07.380 that because it just came out of this sicko's mouth. That's so weird. 39:07.400 --> 39:11.380 But like, are you specifically talking about losing a gold tooth or the biting 39:11.880 --> 39:14.280 on something to test if it's real? Because those are 2 different things that happen 39:14.780 --> 39:17.700 a lot. Those should both probably happen because I'm thinking about the Home Alone gold 39:18.200 --> 39:20.320 tooth. That's the first I thought of. Yeah, right. And I feel like there's another 39:20.820 --> 39:24.340 one, uh, in there, but yeah. Funny end to the character, but also 39:24.356 --> 39:28.764 like, what a useless, unimpressive. Like the we've had three 39:29.264 --> 39:32.916 very quick, almost like a single strike knockouts here, right? But I 39:33.416 --> 39:36.058 do. I will say in the defense of that choice, because I I kind of 39:36.138 --> 39:38.446 I kind of I see what you're saying, and and I do think especially as 39:38.946 --> 39:40.674 a first time viewer, I was like, man, I thought these battles would be these 39:40.691 --> 39:44.201 fights would be like more to them kind of thing. The fact that the movie 39:44.233 --> 39:47.455 does give us in later scenes much more involved bouts, 39:47.904 --> 39:51.158 it's like oh no, these are we're trying to set here that not everybody in 39:51.190 --> 39:54.541 this tournament is really up to Jackson and. Frank and 39:54.557 --> 39:58.020 Chong Li's talent level. There are others. Paco is a character that 39:58.520 --> 40:01.324 does a bunch of ass whooping, and there's a couple of other Asian characters that 40:01.372 --> 40:04.467 really do great stuff. So there's like a— we're getting this idea that there's this, 40:04.916 --> 40:07.850 you know, subset within the fighters of like, well, these are the particularly good ones. 40:07.947 --> 40:11.346 So like later when Frank has to fight Paco after we see him whoop somebody's 40:11.846 --> 40:14.473 ass, it's like, oh, there's an— there's actual danger here. Like this is not some 40:15.034 --> 40:18.177 idiot like Hossein. This is somebody Frank actually has to fight. So I do enjoy 40:18.306 --> 40:20.567 that they're giving us scrubs out of the way here. Scrubs out of the way. 40:20.631 --> 40:23.725 Show You know, don't just tell us, show us that Chong Li and Frank and 40:23.821 --> 40:27.861 Ray Jackson can really just whoop ass. They are a level above some 40:28.361 --> 40:31.147 of these guys. Yeah, so that it raises the stakes appropriately. So I'm okay with 40:31.195 --> 40:34.497 these first ones being quick because most of this movie is fight 40:34.673 --> 40:38.072 scenes. Yeah, and most of them are more involved and have more action. 40:38.264 --> 40:42.272 So that's fair. Yeah, that's fair. And then, you know, right after this last 40:42.772 --> 40:46.199 fight of Duke's against Hussein, we get a pretty good montage just showing kind 40:46.699 --> 40:50.490 of the first day of action. Good clashes of styles. There's like there's 40:50.990 --> 40:54.590 Chong Li, then there's this other like really big tall kind of sumo guy 40:55.090 --> 40:58.770 whose move is snapping somebody over his knee, which wow 40:59.270 --> 41:02.390 that brutal oh looks very very rough. And this is the 41:02.890 --> 41:06.390 Kumite song, I believe, right? During this sequence survive. Yeah, so this was 41:06.890 --> 41:10.090 Stan. What's the guy's name? Stan Bush. Stan love Stan Bush. Oh, we are Stan 41:10.590 --> 41:13.990 Bush stans. Yes, exactly. I think The Touch is one of the best 41:14.490 --> 41:17.550 eighties eighties songs ever, man. I think Stan Bush stan is the country that Hussein 41:18.050 --> 41:21.323 was supposed to be. From. And that's Stan Bush then. Um, 41:21.468 --> 41:24.645 yeah, so we got a good, a good montage. 41:24.902 --> 41:28.240 Um, and the, the military guys have, 41:29.010 --> 41:32.910 have located Frank. Yes. Right, so he's kind of back at his hotel 41:33.488 --> 41:37.211 and they found him and they're, you know, we're gonna— we're taking you back. 41:37.275 --> 41:40.822 And they point their tasers at him and he goes and takes off, right? 41:40.870 --> 41:43.389 So we get kind of a chase through the streets. Those tasers, by the way, 41:43.454 --> 41:47.330 they look like dust blasters. They're crazy looking. Like just absolutely enormous. 41:47.830 --> 41:51.470 And I know it's like it's 1988, but they're enormous. Yeah. And yeah, they look 41:51.970 --> 41:54.970 like those yeah those dustbusters that you would attach to the wall. Yes. Before when 41:55.470 --> 41:56.650 you had to take the battery off for them. Do you think they charge like 41:57.150 --> 41:59.230 that? Yeah. Where they plug into the wall? Hundred percent. They're hooked on. Take off 41:59.730 --> 42:01.530 your taser off the wall on the way out. Yeah. Make sure you grab something 42:02.030 --> 42:05.410 from the taser wall, guys. Don't don't forget your tasers. So crazy. So we 42:05.910 --> 42:08.630 get a little chase through the streets. Yeah. Um, and it's good. I mean, 42:09.130 --> 42:12.010 just kind of very lighthearted, like goofy stuff. Keystone cops, 42:12.510 --> 42:15.690 dude. It's so bad. This whole chase. Well, I mean, that's kind of the idea 42:16.190 --> 42:20.025 of it though. But like there opportunities. for probably more action and more, 42:20.314 --> 42:24.296 uh, jokes. But again, dude, a million and a half budget. Like, they did focus 42:24.408 --> 42:26.945 it in one place here. That's true. And, and it's just— but to some of 42:26.993 --> 42:30.766 the, like, ways in which Dukes is escaping, like running around the side 42:31.266 --> 42:34.604 of a car, like peeking over things, and just like, like at one point they're 42:34.700 --> 42:38.280 running through a really narrow alley and he stops and turns 42:38.329 --> 42:41.042 around and they are like on top of him to the point that when he 42:41.542 --> 42:45.580 then turns to run towards the camera again, both of the pursuing actors 42:46.080 --> 42:49.620 have to pretend to stumble in order to not end up 42:50.120 --> 42:52.100 on top of him because he waited way too long to do it. And it's 42:52.600 --> 42:54.360 little things like that where I'm like, man, this just makes it— it's sort of 42:54.860 --> 42:57.600 like when there's the fight choreography and Van Damme reacts to a punch that hasn't 42:58.100 --> 43:00.320 even come yet. It's kind of like, yeah, this is like the one thing that's 43:00.820 --> 43:02.900 actually good at. Yeah, this is the one thing this movie should be good at. 43:03.400 --> 43:07.060 It's like fight choreography, like chase action stuff. And it kind of— this chase left 43:07.560 --> 43:11.230 me wanting. So, so it ends with the The pursuers end up 43:11.730 --> 43:14.570 like falling off one of these boats, right? So Frank is like, "Oh, see you 43:15.070 --> 43:18.030 later." And of course has to get their attention and like salute them or whatever 43:18.530 --> 43:21.970 before just leaving. It's like, and he told them, "Look, I'll come back with you, 43:22.470 --> 43:24.930 but the airplane—the plane—the plane ride's in two days. I gotta finish this tournament." Yeah, 43:25.430 --> 43:27.130 like I'm not coming back now, but I'll meet you at the airport in two 43:27.630 --> 43:31.250 days. Like he's trying to be like reasonable-ish, right? Because they—I mean realistically, 43:31.750 --> 43:34.630 unless this is an illegal thing and you could say any U.S. citizen could be 43:35.130 --> 43:38.750 arrested for doing this thing, I don't know what grounds the military has when he's 43:39.250 --> 43:42.704 on his time off. off to prevent him from this. But hey, as we know, 43:42.784 --> 43:46.169 uh, we'll get to— Frank Dukes is very decorated, very valuable member of the 43:46.669 --> 43:50.371 armed forces. We have to get into that. Um, he, uh, Frank now is having 43:50.404 --> 43:53.820 his dinner date with the reporter. Yep. And, um, 43:54.205 --> 43:57.766 sleeps over. And the day before a fight-to-the-death, 43:57.863 --> 44:01.680 no-holds-barred tournament, maybe I'm just gonna try to pop in a Hungry-Man 44:01.809 --> 44:05.498 and get to bed early. Like, yeah, he's, he's up, he's humping all night 44:05.998 --> 44:09.559 and doing the splits and And I mean, uh, again, another scene, 44:09.816 --> 44:13.187 uh, has to show him getting dressed in the morning, and we get the glutes. 44:13.283 --> 44:16.381 They could have shown the camera after he pulled his pants up, 44:16.397 --> 44:20.330 but we got a full-ass scene. Yep. Again, definitely in his contract 44:20.830 --> 44:24.086 for sure. Oh yeah. So then she asks him again, you know, can you get 44:24.119 --> 44:26.719 me in? And he's like, no, I really can't. I'm sorry. Like, I'm so sorry. 44:26.767 --> 44:30.154 So then he arrives at the Kumite, and she shows up 44:30.654 --> 44:34.087 with some rich Asian guy. She's just there. You just dress like Vanna 44:34.136 --> 44:37.394 White, they let you in. Yeah, exactly. It's very Vanna White, very evening gown. 44:37.894 --> 44:41.640 And she's like, she didn't try that first. It's like, oh, instead of getting almost 44:41.688 --> 44:44.700 like kidnapped and assaulted by all these professional punchers, 44:44.733 --> 44:48.274 right? Like, you could have just put earrings on and gotten in there. She also 44:48.774 --> 44:52.103 says something to him as she sees Frank. She says like, it's not the first 44:52.603 --> 44:55.532 time I had to go undercover to get a story. And it's like, so wait, 44:55.548 --> 44:58.881 are you telling me that if Frank had brought you, you would have just told 44:58.977 --> 45:02.470 everyone there, I'm a journalist, Frank brought me? You both would 45:02.970 --> 45:05.483 have been killed. Yeah, yeah, you would have had to go undercover anyway. If you 45:05.983 --> 45:09.315 could have just been an undercover fake call girl for some rich business, why didn't 45:09.815 --> 45:13.901 you do that first? Yeah, it's like, I don't know, but it's— she did— no 45:14.401 --> 45:17.781 time has passed. Like, he leaves and she is there within minutes of him arriving. 45:17.989 --> 45:20.475 Yeah, so no time. So she must have had this in her back pocket, 45:20.491 --> 45:24.114 I guess. But she is— She was as close to him walking into the Kumite 45:24.243 --> 45:27.690 as the cops were chasing him down the alley a minute ago. Exactly. 45:27.834 --> 45:31.169 Um, so again, we've got another decent, uh, 45:31.458 --> 45:34.970 montage here, and Uh, Chong Li, at one 45:35.470 --> 45:39.150 point he breaks somebody's leg, you know, compound fracture. That's a really rough one. 45:39.650 --> 45:41.890 That's like the one kind of major special effect, I think, in the movie. 45:41.910 --> 45:45.270 Kind of the only real injury. Um, and we kind of see a 45:45.770 --> 45:49.090 continued accumulation of blood on the mat. Yeah, it's getting wiped off, but it's definitely 45:49.590 --> 45:52.690 getting stained. So this is kind of showing us what's going around. Uh, we get 45:53.190 --> 45:57.130 the sumo guy against the, the hopping around, uh, racist caricature 45:57.630 --> 46:00.890 guy. One thing I would like, uh, during this whole sequence 46:01.390 --> 46:04.830 is maybe just a quick flash to like the Yeah, you know, you never really 46:05.330 --> 46:08.120 see that. I think that the logic of the way these fights actually are, 46:08.136 --> 46:11.153 the bracket would have been too tough to do. They didn't have enough guys to 46:11.169 --> 46:13.608 work with. It would have been a level of detail that, while it would have 46:13.656 --> 46:16.144 been kind of nice to see, like in Karate Kid, right, where they're moving the 46:16.644 --> 46:19.337 placard names around and stuff, it is a level of detail that this movie has 46:19.369 --> 46:22.177 not put into any other parts of its plot. So it really would have kind 46:22.677 --> 46:24.841 of been a lot of work, I think, to get it quite right. Well, 46:24.857 --> 46:28.500 the guy had matching Giants gear on at the beginning of it. Amazing. I just 46:29.000 --> 46:31.559 love it because there's not a single person on the planet that I could think 46:32.059 --> 46:33.986 of who would be a fan of both the New York and San Francisco Giants. 46:34.035 --> 46:37.562 Like, what would have had to happen in your life that that was your 46:38.062 --> 46:39.196 2 teams? Yeah, I have no idea. 46:41.470 --> 46:44.765 It's like you're both members of The Parent Trap, that we're both twins. 46:44.911 --> 46:46.015 Yeah, Parent Trap at once. 46:48.240 --> 46:51.816 So Frank Dux ends up against the big sumo guy and 46:51.832 --> 46:54.845 he takes him out. One of the things that Frank, 46:55.054 --> 46:58.757 you know, it established he was doing this Like this touch of death punch 46:58.789 --> 47:02.048 where he's breaking the bottom brick. So he does that exact punch 47:02.080 --> 47:05.740 to this guy's stomach. Yeah, but because he's a big fat evil guy, 47:05.756 --> 47:08.710 he just goes ha ha ha ha ha ha. And then, 47:09.288 --> 47:12.194 but Frank ends up taking him out. He does that's the splits to the nut 47:12.694 --> 47:15.309 punch, isn't it? With an uppercut. Like good God, that's brutal. 47:16.047 --> 47:19.355 I feel like that should get your back turned. Like people should turn their back 47:19.855 --> 47:22.967 on you for that move. That is like that is like Dalton with 47:23.467 --> 47:26.033 the throat rip, right? That is like the good character is now a little less 47:26.533 --> 47:29.230 good. Because we've seen this move. Yes, 47:29.730 --> 47:33.150 exactly. Uh, yeah, so he nut punches him and then just kind of shoves 47:33.650 --> 47:36.830 his forehead and like knocks him over. Um, Chong Li, 47:37.330 --> 47:40.830 uh, goes up against Ray Jackson here, which again, I'm expecting Ray to not survive 47:41.330 --> 47:44.030 this bout at this point watching it. That's what I expect. So Ray gets a 47:44.530 --> 47:47.370 couple good punches in, whatever, and like knocks Chong Li down, but immediately turns his 47:47.870 --> 47:50.550 back on him and starts celebrating. And it's like, bro, like, you can't— like, 47:51.050 --> 47:52.630 what are you doing? We saw this in Game of Thrones. I mean, this is 47:53.130 --> 47:55.770 the thing. This is the Viper, right? You don't do this. Sand Viper. Yeah, 47:56.270 --> 47:59.366 yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah, so he's, he's chanting, he's like, yeah, 47:59.446 --> 48:02.939 yeah, yeah! And Chong Li gets back up and, 48:03.035 --> 48:06.817 uh, and he starts fighting back, and he is really like pounding on Ray 48:07.317 --> 48:10.903 while he's down. Like you said, we're, we're bracing ourselves for a character who's like, 48:11.464 --> 48:14.460 yeah, we like him, but he's— it's fine if he dies in the scam, 48:14.732 --> 48:18.242 in the scheme of this movie. If he existed to be the one who dies 48:18.290 --> 48:21.206 to give Frank the last boost of like revenge he needs, 48:21.478 --> 48:23.513 it would have made perfect sense. I would have— I was totally prepared for that. 48:23.630 --> 48:27.130 And he does get badly injured. And even, I've got to tell you, 48:27.330 --> 48:30.610 they cut to Frank running onto the Mack, and people are trying to hold him 48:31.110 --> 48:33.810 back. You can't do that. But he's gonna make it, whatever. And Chong Li's still 48:34.310 --> 48:37.630 got the bandana, the Harley-Davidson bandana that Jackson was wearing, and he keeps it, 48:38.130 --> 48:40.450 you know. That's a very thing. But it really looked like, you know, if he 48:40.950 --> 48:44.550 dies, he dies, that kind of moment. And then we cut to Jackson awake 48:45.050 --> 48:47.770 and in the hospital. He's got a bandage on his head, but he's like fine, 48:48.270 --> 48:51.640 basically. He could have at least been in a coma or something. He was not. 48:51.810 --> 48:55.383 Yeah, it's like, give us a chance he might die. Yes. And let that drive 48:55.883 --> 48:59.203 Frank. Right. No, he's fine. Yeah, so very weird. So during this scene, 48:59.284 --> 49:02.654 it's really funny. They're visiting, um, they're visiting Ray in the 49:03.154 --> 49:06.506 hospital, uh, Frank and the, the reporter. And I keep forgetting her name, but honestly, 49:06.747 --> 49:09.588 I don't think that the writers wrote her a name. Um, 49:09.973 --> 49:13.344 so as they're doing this and they're talking to Ray Jackson, he's being examined by 49:13.844 --> 49:17.934 a doctor who is just moving the stethoscope like a couple inches at 49:18.434 --> 49:22.011 a time on his chest every couple seconds for like 2 minutes straight. 49:22.820 --> 49:26.000 Like they couldn't just be like, hey, at some point the doctor would be done 49:26.500 --> 49:29.380 with this and he'd let you on. Like it's important to know that Ray is 49:29.880 --> 49:33.200 getting checked by a doctor here. So strange. He didn't need the doctor did not 49:33.700 --> 49:35.760 need to be there in the scene. We see him like hooked up to stuff. 49:36.260 --> 49:38.700 He's in a hospital bed. Like that's really all the doctor is doing the same 49:39.200 --> 49:42.330 work. Yeah. From a storytelling perspective, you know, it's like it's not necessary. 49:42.920 --> 49:46.660 Yeah. So but Frank's he's determined. I'm going back for the final day 49:47.160 --> 49:49.630 of the Kumite. I'm gonna win this thing. Oh, Janice. Dennis is the, uh, 49:50.130 --> 49:53.790 the reporter. Oh, okay. Um, yeah, so she's, she's pissed 49:54.290 --> 49:58.030 off, right? And this is, uh, and so then, yeah, she's like, are you crazy? 49:58.530 --> 50:00.610 Like, you can't do this. Like, you got it. He's like, oh, it's for honor. 50:01.110 --> 50:04.370 You wouldn't understand. Like, or whatever. And it's weird because like he's doing it supposedly 50:04.870 --> 50:08.060 to avenge a death, but then he also says, 50:08.110 --> 50:12.090 I want to be the first, uh, like American or the first outsider 50:12.590 --> 50:14.770 to win or something like that. I don't know. I don't know if he's— if 50:15.270 --> 50:17.520 he— somebody did mention that he would be the first American. I can't remember. 50:17.570 --> 50:18.830 Did he say that, that that was part of his things? I remember him saying 50:19.330 --> 50:22.725 stuff about wanting to Tanaka, his mentor, 50:22.853 --> 50:26.305 more than anything. Like, that being the driving thing. But yeah, at some point we 50:26.805 --> 50:28.569 do hear that, like, if you— because I think Lin tells him, if you, 50:28.649 --> 50:31.009 you could be the first American to win this. No American's ever won it or 50:31.509 --> 50:33.690 something like that. But I don't— can't remember if that was like something fresh or 50:34.190 --> 50:37.013 not driving him or not. But anyway, but there's that. So he heads back to 50:37.302 --> 50:39.951 Kowloon Walled City to, to go to the last day of the thing, even though, 50:39.967 --> 50:43.275 yeah, Janice or whatever is like screaming at him not to. Like, you know, 50:43.339 --> 50:46.550 you'll— if you die, is it worth it kind of thing, right? And she goes 50:47.050 --> 50:48.954 to snitch on him. on him. That's right. She goes and she tells— so she 50:49.454 --> 50:52.127 goes for the Hong Kong cops, right, who are in touch with the military guys. 50:52.400 --> 50:55.492 So, you know, now that's on her— his radar, and she just wants them to 50:55.524 --> 50:58.889 shut down the, uh, the Kumite, to stop it. Yeah, exactly. So they— 50:58.969 --> 51:02.623 so he goes there and meets the 2, you know, whatever military— 51:02.671 --> 51:04.642 I don't know if they're MPs, what the hell they are, some kind of, 51:04.722 --> 51:07.799 you know, detectives or whatever. Yeah, Forrest Whitaker and his buddy. And so they're there 51:07.847 --> 51:11.196 and they've got the stun guns. Oh, before this, real quick, because, 51:11.452 --> 51:13.940 um, Frank is having kind of Like, 51:14.440 --> 51:17.580 uh, there's a montage. Oh, that's right. Where he's, he's like— 51:18.080 --> 51:20.500 More flashbacks or something? Yeah, he's kind of like thinking about the upcoming fight and 51:21.000 --> 51:24.200 he's having flashbacks, but all the flashbacks are just exact shots that have 51:24.700 --> 51:29.080 already been in the movie of like Chong Li, you know, being like, 51:29.580 --> 51:31.300 ho ho ho, or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Rei getting hit and he's like 51:31.800 --> 51:35.780 hallucinating about Chong Li and stuff. And then he's up like 51:36.280 --> 51:39.700 at the top of the tallest building in the city doing the splits like, 51:40.200 --> 51:43.038 like a gargoyle just over the city. Some kind of temple or something. Yeah, 51:43.327 --> 51:46.665 very interesting looking building, but another, another contractually, uh, 51:47.018 --> 51:50.228 obligated split. Um, so yeah, now that— now the 51:50.244 --> 51:53.566 cops are kind of after Frank, like, on the— in the Kowloon Walled City on 51:53.614 --> 51:56.246 the way in. Exactly. And they've got their stun guns, and then I think he 51:56.262 --> 51:59.359 grabs like a trash can lid, and the stun gun 51:59.696 --> 52:02.954 little barbs not only deflect off of that when they try to shoot him, 52:03.067 --> 52:05.329 they like hit some of the Hong Kong cops, and then he's able to run 52:05.829 --> 52:09.598 away. Something like that. This is the, the biggest like 52:09.886 --> 52:13.667 give up of the whole movie. So these guys have, have traveled to 52:14.167 --> 52:17.641 Hong Kong to chase him down to make sure that he's secured. He's a military 52:17.657 --> 52:20.957 asset at the very least, if not like an international criminal depending 52:21.022 --> 52:23.697 on what they're going after him for, right? They do keep talking about wanting to 52:24.197 --> 52:27.478 protect him, that the military is invested a lot in him. If he gets hurt, 52:27.526 --> 52:30.266 that's bad for them. That's kind of the angle they've been taking. That's right. 52:30.330 --> 52:33.743 It's like, like, uh, Colonel Trautman wouldn't want Rambo to do one of these 52:33.855 --> 52:37.380 tournaments, right? Exactly. Yep. Um, so then when they go after Frank 52:37.880 --> 52:40.986 and he deflects the taser And you— and the Hong Kong cop get hit by 52:41.486 --> 52:44.175 the tasers and are immediately like, yeah, we're not part of this anymore. 52:44.897 --> 52:48.807 And then the— Fuck all y'all. The main— one 52:48.823 --> 52:52.430 of the, uh, one of the military guys is like, okay, Frank, 52:52.510 --> 52:55.940 you win, but it's wrong what you're doing. And then that's just fucking it for 52:55.956 --> 52:59.722 those guys for now. So he ends up— he ends up, 52:59.803 --> 53:03.104 uh, running in, and he barely, uh, he barely makes it on time to the 53:03.604 --> 53:06.679 Kumite. Yeah, yeah. Uh, one of the organizers, maybe one of the guys who's running 53:06.711 --> 53:09.840 the gambling Looks like he's bribing one of the officials to 53:10.340 --> 53:12.480 let Frank in, and the guy's like, "Okay, he can get in." And then he 53:12.980 --> 53:14.940 reaches back in and steals the money back that he tried to bribe him. 53:15.440 --> 53:17.380 He was asking him to like wait. He was like, "Give him five more minutes," 53:17.880 --> 53:19.580 whatever. And then as he puts the money in the pocket, Frank shows up, 53:20.080 --> 53:21.750 so he pulls it right back out. Like, "Oh look, he's here. It's all good. 53:21.840 --> 53:25.460 Don't need to worry about it." So yeah. So now Frank 53:25.960 --> 53:28.920 has to fight Paco, which is one of the fighters we saw do rather well 53:29.420 --> 53:32.260 earlier in the tournament. He's been around. Paco, I don't know the name of the 53:32.760 --> 53:35.820 actor. He is in the movie Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth. He's one 53:36.320 --> 53:39.412 of the kind of sub-boss bad guys in it. So yeah, nice. He's He's been 53:39.912 --> 53:43.739 among stars before. Botsworth is the loftiest 53:44.239 --> 53:47.809 of stars, really. That is, that is high. Paco does the thing where 53:48.309 --> 53:51.399 he tries to do like the handshake fist bump at the beginning but then does 53:51.447 --> 53:54.844 a cheap shot. So immediately like turns the table. It's so funny 53:54.876 --> 53:58.434 that a guy who like we've been shown he's skilled, he's doing well, 53:58.482 --> 54:01.623 like why would he do that at the very beginning? Very strange. Uh, but then 54:02.123 --> 54:05.549 there's a scene where it— there's just like 60 mutual side kicks going back 54:06.049 --> 54:09.474 and forth. They're both like booting each other and not even defending them, 54:09.523 --> 54:12.583 just taking the shots in the ribs over and over again. Hey, right in my 54:13.083 --> 54:15.195 kidney— kidneys, hardest part of my— part of my body. 54:16.012 --> 54:19.361 Um, yeah, so Dux ends up winning with a spin kick. This is 54:19.377 --> 54:23.110 where we, we start getting some Van Damme really showcasing here, for sure. 54:23.623 --> 54:27.180 Um, Chong Li, uh, Chong Li ends up fighting, 54:27.389 --> 54:30.401 right? And he of course, uh, 54:30.673 --> 54:34.263 takes this guy out very easily. and is kind of holding him down, 54:34.375 --> 54:37.597 like doing the, like, should I— what should I do? Should I finish him off? 54:38.046 --> 54:40.867 And then punches him in the face in a way that, you know, it's indicated 54:41.367 --> 54:43.848 to us, like, that guy's dead. They come and check his pulse and everything. 54:43.897 --> 54:46.974 That's right, he's dead. So Chong Li killed his opponent holding the hand in front 54:47.474 --> 54:49.811 of the nose first to see if he could feel any air and then checking 54:49.827 --> 54:52.568 the pulse, because the air thing is much, much more reliable. So, 54:52.905 --> 54:56.239 um, the punch that Chong Li— it kind of looked weak. 54:56.335 --> 54:59.925 Again, budget limitations. It's a weird angle. Yeah, there's a way to make 55:00.425 --> 55:03.530 that look better. Uh, you just need an actor who's willing to actually get punched 55:04.030 --> 55:07.470 by a giant Chinese bodybuilder. Yeah, even, even pulling a punch, 55:07.970 --> 55:10.750 that would hurt from, from Bolo Yeung. Yeah. Um, so yeah, so now we're gonna 55:11.250 --> 55:14.590 have Frank versus Chong Li for the finals. At this point, I believe the detectives 55:15.090 --> 55:18.370 are in the audience, the journalist is in the audience, like everybody's— 55:18.870 --> 55:20.690 I think even maybe the captain of the Hong Kong PD stayed with them. 55:21.190 --> 55:22.990 I can't remember if he was there or not. Yeah, but like they're all just 55:23.490 --> 55:26.770 hanging out. Like, I thought this was secret. This is, this is the Blues Brothers 55:27.270 --> 55:30.090 final con— uh, concert at the Palace Hotel ballroom where like all the cops and 55:30.590 --> 55:34.140 the SWAT team Are all watching them do Sweet Home Chicago. 55:35.370 --> 55:38.650 So yeah, and and the elders after Chong Li killed this 55:39.150 --> 55:42.310 other fighter, the kind of people in charge of it like stand up and very 55:42.810 --> 55:46.230 you know emphatically like turn their backs on solemnly. Yeah yeah because and then you 55:46.730 --> 55:49.590 went too far. Yeah yeah like this isn't what this is about. It's not actually 55:50.090 --> 55:53.090 precisely what it's about. Yeah it's not actually against the rules. You could actually outlaw 55:53.590 --> 55:55.790 it and say hey if you kill somebody you're disqualified. You could make a rule 55:56.290 --> 55:59.960 but they didn't so you really shouldn't get mad. Before the 56:00.460 --> 56:03.900 fight between Chong Li and Frank, the, the, the, the trainer 56:04.400 --> 56:07.760 for Chong Li, or his whatever manager or something, slips something into his waistband that 56:08.260 --> 56:11.380 looks like a Rolaids or a Tums or something like that. It's for his ulcer. 56:11.880 --> 56:14.740 Yeah, it's for his ulcer. It's very strange. Getting kicked in the stomach 100 times 56:15.240 --> 56:18.760 in a row gave me an ulcer. But yeah, so, so he slides something 56:19.260 --> 56:22.860 in so we know something's up. And then Chong Li is wearing Ray Jackson's Harley-Davidson 56:23.360 --> 56:26.520 bandana on his leg. That's right. Again, I don't know why he didn't just replace 56:27.020 --> 56:29.730 his main one. Well, he's got to have the Korean flag so we can know 56:30.230 --> 56:32.210 that he's bigger, that he's Korean. Yeah, Chong Li. We got to make sure we 56:32.710 --> 56:35.790 know he's Korean. So, um, but yeah, and actually that, that punches a hole in 56:36.290 --> 56:38.330 the maybe he took it off a guy he killed or beat thing because he 56:38.830 --> 56:40.590 would have replaced it with the new one if that was the case, right? 56:41.090 --> 56:42.710 So yeah, I think that was his freshest kill on the head. Yeah, and then 56:43.210 --> 56:46.350 you go down the body. You'd think, you'd think. Um, Bolo Yeung, I, I love 56:46.850 --> 56:50.610 his presence. I love that he exists. Uh, all of his lines suck so bad 56:51.110 --> 56:53.930 in this. So he's not an actor, like, like, God bless him, but he is 56:54.430 --> 56:57.773 a strongman, a bodybuilder. Yeah, not an actor. His kind of, uh, 56:58.126 --> 57:01.323 his kind of Ivan Drago type line here is, 57:01.821 --> 57:05.178 you break my record, now I break you like I break your friend. 57:06.094 --> 57:08.230 Like, you gotta, you gotta tighten that up a little bit. I don't know, 57:08.246 --> 57:10.800 that's compelling. Oh, you break my record, now I break you. 57:11.700 --> 57:14.913 Cool. Or I'll break you like I break your friend. Yeah, cool. 57:15.314 --> 57:17.579 Okay, I could see how tightening it up might have been better, but I really 57:18.079 --> 57:20.149 think you're just being way too hard on him. Should we have added more to 57:20.649 --> 57:23.185 it? It's— no, it's really, it's really just so good. I can't believe you're nitpicking 57:23.685 --> 57:27.288 this. This, this wonderful— look, we've had so many, uh, mutual 5-star 57:27.788 --> 57:30.589 movies, I gotta make sure there's something to pick on about. We gotta make sure 57:30.653 --> 57:33.906 we really get— dig into everything because this could be one of those. 57:34.483 --> 57:38.441 Uh, the, the Frank Chong Li fight is pretty entertaining. 57:38.585 --> 57:42.254 It's good. It's a good fight. Again, this is like the best example of 57:42.754 --> 57:45.956 Jean-Claude Van Damme only kicks with his right leg. I didn't notice that, but now 57:46.456 --> 57:48.392 I gotta go back and watch it. Yeah, go back and watch it. Uh, 57:48.760 --> 57:51.505 every kick he does He does these kicks that I would describe as like foot 57:52.005 --> 57:55.182 slaps. Like, he's— it's almost like he's slapping him like an old woman would with 57:55.682 --> 57:59.116 like a white glove, like across the face. Uh, he hits him 57:59.616 --> 58:03.741 with the world's most telegraphed jump kick to the face. Like, this is all haymakers, 58:03.773 --> 58:07.113 this fight. Yes, it's definitely not like little jabs and strategy. 58:07.226 --> 58:10.180 It's like an NBA game that's all dunks. It's NBA Jam. 58:10.277 --> 58:13.071 Yeah, it's one— dude, totally NBA Jam. Uh, 58:13.087 --> 58:15.624 maybe this movie inspired NBA Jam too. Might have. 58:17.663 --> 58:21.436 He kicks Frank at one point. Chong Li comes up from behind 58:21.936 --> 58:25.786 him and Frank kicks behind his shoulder, 58:26.235 --> 58:30.007 which is like— it's like if a pirate had 58:30.507 --> 58:33.250 a parrot on his shoulder, it would be him kicking his own parrot off his 58:33.394 --> 58:36.572 own shoulder, right? Like that angle. Like, that's where the guy's face was. 58:36.685 --> 58:40.264 I feel like we saw a movie where this happens in a clearly comically 58:40.280 --> 58:43.491 incorrect way. Like, I was like, one of the— it was like Naked Gun or 58:43.991 --> 58:46.760 Airplane or somebody does something like this where like they essentially would've had to fold 58:47.260 --> 58:50.000 in half for this to happen. Yep. I think it was Airplane. I feel like 58:50.500 --> 58:52.920 somebody gets crunched in the bed, or I don't remember exactly what it was. 58:53.420 --> 58:56.880 Some movie where somebody, yeah, like gets that compressed 58:57.380 --> 58:59.580 and yet he— we're supposed to believe, and of course we'll only see him from 59:00.080 --> 59:01.860 his chest up, so we don't see the rest of his body, but we're supposed 59:02.360 --> 59:05.920 to believe that that foot, which I think would've been his left actually, 59:06.000 --> 59:09.740 but goes up. Yeah, that's true. In that scene. Yeah. And completely, yeah. Like I 59:10.240 --> 59:13.060 just don't even understand physically how that would happen. Yeah. I don't even understand how 59:13.560 --> 59:15.140 your hip rotates to make that happen. It doesn't is the key. But even, 59:17.012 --> 59:19.420 Even if he got it right, because of like the shin hitting his own body, 59:19.436 --> 59:22.230 like maybe the toe just tapped the dude's nose. Like it would have had to 59:22.730 --> 59:26.550 be real close. It was like really very strange, right? You're giving yourself 59:26.582 --> 59:29.825 an incredibly hard kick in the shoulder to maybe graze the guy behind 59:29.857 --> 59:32.507 you. Let me break my collarbone to see if I can tickle the nose of 59:33.007 --> 59:36.505 my opponent. That's the move here. But that was a big 59:37.005 --> 59:40.615 move. And now Chong Li is down. Yeah. Uh, and he's obviously at a disadvantage, 59:40.696 --> 59:44.196 so he reaches in for the 2 Rolaids that were in his, uh, given to 59:44.696 --> 59:47.920 him by his trainer. Crushes them and then throws like an incredible amount of 59:48.420 --> 59:52.160 powder for those 2 little pills. Oh, it was very, very, very, uh, complete crushing. 59:52.250 --> 59:55.060 Yeah, yeah, it was very good. And it— yeah, and the sweat on his hand 59:55.560 --> 59:57.940 didn't make it tasty or anything, just perfectly. So I don't know if they were 59:58.440 --> 01:00:01.020 just supposed to be chalk discs or something. I guess the way I read it 01:00:01.520 --> 01:00:04.620 described was like salt tablets or something. I don't know. 01:00:05.120 --> 01:00:06.860 I mean, that would hurt. Used to happen in pro wrestling, right, where they have 01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:10.900 the guy— and again, it would always be like a Japanese guy, sneaky Japanese guy 01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:15.546 who's throwing salt in someone's face to blind them. Glitter. He's Korean, Japanese, and Chinese 01:00:15.659 --> 01:00:19.025 in this. It's about par for the course for Bloodsport's cultural awareness. 01:00:19.938 --> 01:00:23.448 Uh, yeah. And he's— so now Frank Dux 01:00:23.948 --> 01:00:27.539 is blind, and again, no, no ref. Oh, we, we forgot to do the no 01:00:27.620 --> 01:00:31.024 blinding anybody with foreign objects, uh, rule. Like, 01:00:31.346 --> 01:00:35.098 damn it, we blew it. Yeah. And he is just giving the 01:00:35.598 --> 01:00:38.923 most agonized slow-motion scream as Frank's looking around 01:00:39.423 --> 01:00:42.744 realizing that he can't see. Very incompetent at the beginning at 01:00:43.244 --> 01:00:46.654 being a blind guy. He's freaking out. Well, and, and here's the problem, then they 01:00:46.766 --> 01:00:50.933 keep cutting to what we're supposed to believe is Frank's vision, and it's not. 01:00:51.013 --> 01:00:54.618 He can't see. It's just blurry. Like, you still could look 01:00:54.699 --> 01:00:57.791 at the fucking opponent and see him coming. This is not— 01:00:57.823 --> 01:01:00.836 you are not in the dark. Like, it's very odd choice. They shouldn't have done 01:01:00.964 --> 01:01:03.160 that, you know what I mean? Like, I feel like either don't do that or 01:01:03.272 --> 01:01:07.342 make it— or do that just at the beginning and 01:01:07.842 --> 01:01:09.220 show it deteriorating, right? Yeah, show it fade to black and then we go, 01:01:09.720 --> 01:01:11.500 oh, he can't see anything. The way they did it, it's like, oh, he can 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.720 actually see shapes and colors and movement. Like, why wouldn't he just keep fighting? 01:01:15.220 --> 01:01:17.900 I get that it's a disadvantage, I'm not wrong, but they make it seem like 01:01:18.400 --> 01:01:21.739 when we're looking at him, it looks like, yeah, he's completely blind and reacting only 01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:25.080 to the Force or what the fuck ever, right? But when we get the vision, 01:01:25.580 --> 01:01:29.100 the shot from his vision, it's like, yeah, it's blurry, 01:01:29.600 --> 01:01:32.760 it's impaired. You still just have to kick like a human-sized thing, so it's 01:01:33.260 --> 01:01:36.863 not like, yeah, you're not playing darts. Right, exactly. Yes, this is not a precision 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:41.319 job here. Like, yeah. Um, so he's flashing 01:01:41.383 --> 01:01:44.814 back now to his blindness training that he had with, with Tanaka. 01:01:44.878 --> 01:01:47.570 We gotta be reminded. Yeah. That he did that. Oh, hey, remember, 01:01:47.875 --> 01:01:51.401 remember an hour and 10 minutes ago, um, when I 01:01:51.901 --> 01:01:54.816 was serving a full English tea to this family, like, with, 01:01:55.008 --> 01:01:58.422 with a blindfold on? And he's, and he's flashing back to this. 01:01:58.534 --> 01:02:01.820 So of course, when he remembers his training, which is the main thing that 01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:06.203 we need to do, Yeah, is he's able to start doing it right. 01:02:06.460 --> 01:02:09.351 Blocks a kick immediately, turns it around, 01:02:09.367 --> 01:02:13.945 starts fighting back. Now Chong Li does a, does a very WWE, 01:02:14.025 --> 01:02:17.462 WWF style move where he grabs the referee. Oh yeah, 01:02:17.542 --> 01:02:20.867 throws him in between him and Frank, and Frank has to like grab him and 01:02:21.076 --> 01:02:23.902 feel him for a minute, right? And then let him go, like, okay, you're okay. 01:02:24.127 --> 01:02:27.886 And like, like defends him momentarily. Yeah, sort of puts him behind himself, 01:02:27.902 --> 01:02:30.742 which is like partly get out of my way, But like the ref doesn't step 01:02:31.242 --> 01:02:34.189 away from him at all. He just stays right there. That ref is asking to 01:02:34.689 --> 01:02:38.263 get really hit. And also, if I felt a gi when I'm going against 01:02:38.763 --> 01:02:42.208 a shirtless guy, I would be pretty quick, like, cool, I'm good, instead of 01:02:42.708 --> 01:02:46.008 like investigating him. There's nothing to grab on Bolo Yeung 01:02:46.104 --> 01:02:48.350 at this point. He has no shirt on. You wouldn't be grabbing anything. Yeah, 01:02:48.430 --> 01:02:52.262 yeah, yeah. Um, so we got a lot of slow-motion dodges 01:02:52.375 --> 01:02:56.276 here, and Frank is, is using his blind training and And getting 01:02:56.292 --> 01:02:59.209 out of the way, and he's able to turn the tables here on Chang Lee. 01:03:00.739 --> 01:03:04.205 He puts him in a hold, and he gets Chang Lee to say the the 01:03:04.705 --> 01:03:08.288 tap out words. Mate, mate. Yep. And and 01:03:08.562 --> 01:03:12.065 that is it. Well, I mean, this it for that fight. 01:03:12.113 --> 01:03:15.220 Yeah, it's absolutely right. So Frank wins. He is the champion. He's the first American 01:03:15.397 --> 01:03:18.483 champion of the Kumite. I believe he's given a sword as well, right? Isn't that? 01:03:18.531 --> 01:03:21.620 Yeah, which is never getting through TSA on his way home. Well, they'd. There was 01:03:22.120 --> 01:03:25.260 no TSA back then. Uh, but you know, it's— we 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:28.240 then have to cut back to the hospital room to Jackson because he's telling him 01:03:28.740 --> 01:03:32.060 how he won and, and, you know, all this stuff. And, and they get their 01:03:32.560 --> 01:03:35.560 whole, you know, anytime you ever need me, I'm there, brother, 01:03:36.060 --> 01:03:39.240 like kind of, you know, moment. So we know, okay, they're lifelong friends. That's cool. 01:03:39.740 --> 01:03:43.160 Um, but then he asked, you know, did you beat him? And, and the journalist 01:03:43.660 --> 01:03:46.360 gets to say— Janice, or whatever— she's like, oh, even better, he made him say 01:03:46.860 --> 01:03:50.620 mate. She's just so— a moment ago she wanted this whole thing done 01:03:51.120 --> 01:03:54.431 away with, but now Frank's One, she's a super fan. Yeah, 01:03:54.883 --> 01:03:58.063 freaking front runner, Janet. Yeah. Um, yeah, 01:03:58.127 --> 01:04:00.726 so then that's it. And, uh, and Dukes is, uh, 01:04:00.871 --> 01:04:04.585 supposed to now return, uh, with these agents. And I like that Ray 01:04:05.085 --> 01:04:08.594 Jackson's allowed to just chug beer throughout his recovery at this hospital. That must 01:04:09.094 --> 01:04:12.264 have been Hong Kong standard protocol at the time. Dude, it looks nice. Um, 01:04:12.426 --> 01:04:15.008 and the, the agents are there at the plane, you know, at the bottom of 01:04:15.508 --> 01:04:18.715 the airplane, said, ah, Dukes is standing us up again. And then he comes out 01:04:18.829 --> 01:04:22.451 from the door He's like, what took you so long, guys? Guys, 01:04:22.548 --> 01:04:25.149 where are you going? I am right here. It is time for us to go 01:04:25.649 --> 01:04:29.919 back to America. Like, whatever the fuck his accent is. Yeah. So that 01:04:30.031 --> 01:04:33.211 is Bloodsport. And then the most surprising part— Here we go. 01:04:33.259 --> 01:04:36.824 The entire movie to me, I had no idea that was coming. I had no 01:04:36.921 --> 01:04:40.759 hint that there was anything about this. The text that shows 01:04:40.855 --> 01:04:44.148 up over Jean-Claude Van Damme's face when he's doing the little fist 01:04:44.164 --> 01:04:47.840 and bow kind of thing to Janice saying, Goodbye. I wrote down the 01:04:48.340 --> 01:04:50.585 whole thing. This is what it says. This motion picture is based on the true 01:04:51.085 --> 01:04:54.019 events in the life of Frank W. Dux. From 1975 to 1980, 01:04:54.035 --> 01:04:57.454 Frank W. Dux fought 329 matches. 01:04:58.031 --> 01:05:01.482 He retired undefeated as the World Heavyweight Full Contact 01:05:01.982 --> 01:05:05.590 Kumite Champion. Mr. Dux still holds 4 world records: fastest 01:05:06.090 --> 01:05:08.945 knockout, 3.2 seconds; fastest punch with a knockout, 01:05:08.993 --> 01:05:13.582 0.12 seconds; whoa; fastest kick with a 72 01:05:13.598 --> 01:05:16.405 miles per hour. Oh, how many seconds was that? 01:05:16.565 --> 01:05:21.873 Most consecutive knockouts in a single tournament: 56. 01:05:21.953 --> 01:05:25.883 Hold on to that one. Subsequently, Mr. Dukes founded the first American ninjutsu 01:05:26.383 --> 01:05:29.780 system, Dukes Ryu. So this is the first problem I have with this, 01:05:29.908 --> 01:05:32.618 is I saw that and I went, bullshit, there's no way. Yeah, 01:05:33.484 --> 01:05:37.157 the first number that jumped out at me is insane, is 329 matches 01:05:37.189 --> 01:05:41.068 in 5 years. Just Like, the most prolific boxers of all 01:05:41.117 --> 01:05:43.906 time have, like, maybe 100 matches in their entire careers. 01:05:44.419 --> 01:05:47.208 40 to 50 is a good career, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, 01:05:47.288 --> 01:05:50.542 so 329 full-contact, no-gloves matches, 01:05:50.654 --> 01:05:54.341 and yes, over 6 years, supposedly, is just— beggars 01:05:54.582 --> 01:05:58.060 the imagination. It's ridiculous. But the more interesting one is the 01:05:58.573 --> 01:06:02.196 56 consecutive knockouts in a single tournament, 01:06:02.597 --> 01:06:06.444 because the number of entrants you would need in a tournament 01:06:06.765 --> 01:06:09.939 in order to have the winner fight 56 people 01:06:10.051 --> 01:06:13.743 and beat them all, 56 consecutive people, yeah, you would need, and I quote, 01:06:13.903 --> 01:06:17.082 I did the math, 72 quadrillion, 01:06:17.194 --> 01:06:20.405 57 trillion, 594 billion people needed 01:06:20.905 --> 01:06:24.033 to be in that tournament. Oh, so you're saying it's impossible for there to be 01:06:24.097 --> 01:06:27.468 a popular martial science tournament? Something like 9 million Earths worth 01:06:27.968 --> 01:06:31.240 of people or something. Like, it's absolutely ridiculous. And so yeah, the whole— all 01:06:31.740 --> 01:06:34.499 of his stuff is just complete bullshit. And of course, the reality of it is 01:06:34.531 --> 01:06:37.886 like none of it's verifiable. All of it just came from dudes. He told Black 01:06:37.902 --> 01:06:42.365 Belt magazine that he did this, they printed it, that became 01:06:42.865 --> 01:06:44.399 the proof that it is real. Yeah, yeah. And so it's still all just based 01:06:44.899 --> 01:06:48.488 on one guy's claims. Yeah, yeah, really crazy. It's so crazy that, 01:06:48.633 --> 01:06:51.872 um, yeah, 56 in a row. Even if you're— 01:06:52.256 --> 01:06:55.848 it's like an octuple elimination tournament where you're able 01:06:55.864 --> 01:06:59.392 to lose and still like fight again. The one potential way would be like 56, 01:06:59.456 --> 01:07:02.968 a round robin of 57 people. Yeah, so everybody has to fight everybody 01:07:02.984 --> 01:07:06.255 else 56 times. Yeah, but then how do you do that, A, over 3 days, 01:07:06.367 --> 01:07:10.328 and B, who can serve— who, who other than 01:07:10.828 --> 01:07:14.113 this impenetrable champion is surviving long enough to fight 56 matches 01:07:14.770 --> 01:07:18.378 over a few days while getting knocked out at least by Frank Dux, 01:07:18.699 --> 01:07:21.778 right? It's ridiculous. It sounds like a classic liar. 01:07:21.842 --> 01:07:25.130 And then all the stuff I'd read about Frank Dux is, is he, 01:07:25.274 --> 01:07:28.706 uh, juiced his military service numbers apparently. 01:07:28.883 --> 01:07:32.539 You know, there's not, uh, a lot of evidence for the stuff that he's claiming. 01:07:32.667 --> 01:07:34.977 And he kind of was in the reserves, it sounds like. So he did have 01:07:35.477 --> 01:07:38.681 some connection but never like deployed to Vietnam or anything like that, right? I saw 01:07:38.842 --> 01:07:42.131 Right. So, uh, yeah, just your classic liar. Just the classic 01:07:42.631 --> 01:07:45.323 kid you went to elementary school with who says that his dog is actually a 01:07:45.339 --> 01:07:48.596 wolf. Like one of those kind of kids. You wouldn't know this tournament, she's in 01:07:48.628 --> 01:07:51.933 Canada. Like, yeah, yeah. 01:07:52.783 --> 01:07:55.238 So that, that is Bloodsport. And, uh, 01:07:55.784 --> 01:07:59.121 it's— that is Bloodsport, Nic. That's Bloodsport. 01:07:59.217 --> 01:08:01.479 Yeah. You brought it to us. Give us your rating, buddy. What's going on? 01:08:01.623 --> 01:08:05.313 Okay, so Bloodsport, uh, you know, you have to know why you're 01:08:05.813 --> 01:08:10.255 going into to watch it, uh, and what you're gonna get out 01:08:10.755 --> 01:08:12.082 of it. It's a short movie, hour and a half like we said. I think 01:08:12.130 --> 01:08:15.528 you can trim the first 15 minutes, no problem. Oh yeah. Um, 01:08:15.834 --> 01:08:19.513 and, uh, everyone has the option to fast forward 01:08:20.013 --> 01:08:22.993 through or start later, and I'd say like your experience doing that is going to 01:08:23.493 --> 01:08:26.862 be more enjoyable. This is almost like— it's interesting 01:08:26.910 --> 01:08:29.854 to know that the budget was so low. Yeah, that's true. Because I do feel 01:08:30.354 --> 01:08:33.872 like this movie would benefit from a modern remake, and not even as like a 01:08:34.372 --> 01:08:38.314 blockbuster, but just as kind of the level of one of those those like Jason 01:08:38.814 --> 01:08:42.033 Statham lore release, like The Beekeeper or something that has that kind 01:08:42.533 --> 01:08:45.043 of budget in it, right? Um, because I think you can get a lot of 01:08:45.060 --> 01:08:48.242 real, uh, fighters in it. I think you can make it look 01:08:48.290 --> 01:08:51.832 a lot better, the fight choreography. There's a lot of opportunities 01:08:51.864 --> 01:08:55.164 to, to improve on it. Um, but it did inspire so 01:08:55.664 --> 01:08:58.850 much stuff. There's a lot of stuff that wouldn't have existed if Frank Dux wasn't 01:08:59.350 --> 01:09:02.842 such a successful liar, right? I imagine being an editor, 01:09:02.875 --> 01:09:06.063 it'd What? Who would lie to Black Belt magazine? 01:09:06.791 --> 01:09:09.834 The most lied about title in the history of the world. 01:09:13.627 --> 01:09:16.724 But, you know, Van Damme, yeah, he kind of sucks, but he can do 01:09:17.224 --> 01:09:20.648 some fun looking stuff. Not, not great acting in this. 01:09:20.777 --> 01:09:24.255 It's kind of crazy that future Oscar nominee 01:09:24.822 --> 01:09:28.430 Forest Whitaker was in this. Yeah, right. Our second time 01:09:28.930 --> 01:09:31.464 seeing Mr. Whitaker. Yeah, that's right. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Very famous role in 01:09:31.964 --> 01:09:35.121 Fast Times. Yeah, we haven't seen like a Forest Whitaker movie yet. No, but we'll 01:09:35.621 --> 01:09:38.542 get there, I'm sure. We've seen him around for sure. Um, so I think as 01:09:38.654 --> 01:09:42.139 far as rating Bloodsport, I'm gonna be similar to how 01:09:42.268 --> 01:09:45.865 you were with the last film, where I think that if I'm just going straight 01:09:46.365 --> 01:09:49.189 up, if I didn't have any history with this, if I wasn't giving it credit 01:09:49.254 --> 01:09:52.755 for like spawning Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat, I'd probably 01:09:52.771 --> 01:09:56.127 be more like a 2.5. Like, it's just kind of like a stinky low-budget movie 01:09:56.143 --> 01:09:59.275 with some cool parts. I'm gonna go 3.5 for Bloodsport because 01:09:59.291 --> 01:10:02.822 I I think that it's a fun watch. If this is your jam, it's a 01:10:03.322 --> 01:10:06.193 fun one. And if you like action movies, I think it's important to add this 01:10:06.693 --> 01:10:09.885 to your repertoire of ones you've seen, just because it's influential 01:10:10.385 --> 01:10:13.625 and it's referenced a lot, even if it's not the greatest experience to watch. 01:10:13.882 --> 01:10:17.429 That's fair. I think that's totally fair. Yeah, I obviously, having watched this for the 01:10:17.929 --> 01:10:21.683 first time this week, don't have any nostalgia for Bloodsport. However, I do have nostalgia 01:10:22.183 --> 01:10:25.053 for at least one of the major things that it spawned, which was the sort 01:10:25.553 --> 01:10:28.866 of 1v1 fighting games that we all loved in the early '90s. '90s, most specifically 01:10:29.366 --> 01:10:32.682 Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, had really specific pulls from this movie 01:10:32.714 --> 01:10:36.175 that informed their movies, or their games rather. So I 01:10:36.675 --> 01:10:39.615 have to give it some credit there. Like you, never been a big Van Damme 01:10:39.631 --> 01:10:43.223 guy. You know, I was pretty much a Schwarzenegger guy when it came to action 01:10:43.271 --> 01:10:46.412 stars in the '80s and '90s, even more than Stallone and anybody else. Well, 01:10:46.476 --> 01:10:50.303 Arnie, I mean, Arnie is truly the Cadillac of those guys. I mean, Stallone is 01:10:50.335 --> 01:10:54.015 a significant step down, even though he's clearly the second best one. Sure, 01:10:54.031 --> 01:10:57.200 but he's like a fully loaded Chevy Silverado. Like, it's fine, but it's not, 01:10:57.290 --> 01:11:00.037 It's not a luxury car, you know what I mean? Like, yeah. But yeah, 01:11:00.053 --> 01:11:02.961 so I don't have nostalgia for that, but I have nostalgia for some of the 01:11:03.346 --> 01:11:06.768 resulting art that came out of this existence. 01:11:07.523 --> 01:11:11.363 I actually was going to give this a 1.5, and I'm gonna 01:11:11.863 --> 01:11:13.966 bump it up to a 2, 'cause the more I think about how all of 01:11:14.466 --> 01:11:17.950 this came out of one just absolute pathological liar's bullshit 01:11:18.450 --> 01:11:21.597 stories, and that he got away with getting this movie made, Yeah. getting the story 01:11:22.097 --> 01:11:25.901 told, like, fucking kudos, Frank W. Dukes. It's all bullshit, 01:11:25.917 --> 01:11:29.209 clearly, but man, you had so many people going for so long and got this 01:11:29.225 --> 01:11:32.355 movie made, and then that meant this and this. And so I am gonna give 01:11:32.404 --> 01:11:35.599 it a 2 out of 5. Okay. That's about it, 'cause I also was thinking 01:11:35.631 --> 01:11:37.927 about it in the context of Rocky IV. I feel like this is a very, 01:11:37.959 --> 01:11:41.394 very similar movie. This movie is a series of fights and 01:11:41.411 --> 01:11:45.055 flashbacks tied loosely together with a plot, which, you know, Rocky IV was more 01:11:45.103 --> 01:11:48.394 of like montages and fights. Yes. Right? You know, 01:11:48.716 --> 01:11:51.290 but same kind of thing where there's not enough plot here. for me to care 01:11:51.790 --> 01:11:54.790 about the movie part of it, but that's also fine. Like, there's some value here. 01:11:55.290 --> 01:11:57.830 So I think I was a 1.5 on Rocky. Because of the Street Fighter II 01:11:58.330 --> 01:12:00.950 and Mortal Kombat influence, some of that stuff, uh, I'm gonna go up to 2 01:12:01.450 --> 01:12:05.290 on Bloodsport. So, uh, you were 3.5, so 5.5 out of 10 is where we 01:12:05.790 --> 01:12:08.470 are with Bloodsport. Fair enough. I think that's, that's where it belongs. I think that's, 01:12:08.970 --> 01:12:12.250 that's, that's pretty accurate. Um, but yeah, man, Frank Dux, like, 01:12:12.750 --> 01:12:16.030 good, good for you. Now you know what, my, my YouTube rabbit hole this week 01:12:16.530 --> 01:12:20.050 is gonna be looking for actual Frank Dux interviews just to see this guy in 01:12:20.550 --> 01:12:23.441 action. 100%. It might be featured on an upcoming episode of the Rewind. 01:12:23.843 --> 01:12:26.476 If I find some good Frank Stukes, I'll share it. Love it. 01:12:26.701 --> 01:12:29.816 Perfect. Cool. All right, so I'm doing next week then. 01:12:30.009 --> 01:12:33.140 This was— yeah, what do we got coming up, Steve? So we're gonna go do 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:35.195 another movie. This was kind of like— I think this will go better than last 01:12:35.211 --> 01:12:38.599 time, but, but a few weeks ago we did The Birdcage, maybe a 01:12:39.099 --> 01:12:42.741 month ago now. And that was a movie that is something 01:12:42.774 --> 01:12:46.306 my wife and I love together and quote together. And I mentioned it in 01:12:46.806 --> 01:12:48.474 that episode a few times. And come on, Gloria, you whatever, all this stuff. 01:12:49.020 --> 01:12:51.654 And we're gonna do another movie that's like that. This is something that Heather and 01:12:51.670 --> 01:12:54.689 I like love. This was actually a movie she introduced me to, I believe. 01:12:55.525 --> 01:12:58.560 Um, can't remember if I'd never seen it before I started dating her in 01:12:58.576 --> 01:13:02.126 the early 2000s, but I definitely— if I'd maybe seen it once, 01:13:02.190 --> 01:13:04.792 it wasn't like an important part of my life. And then she loves it. 01:13:04.856 --> 01:13:08.421 So she and I started dating in like, uh, 2005. And so from there, 01:13:08.534 --> 01:13:11.055 I saw this movie a ton of times, and it's now a major thing. 01:13:11.120 --> 01:13:13.995 We get to go back to the Bay Area, to like the pre-tech boom Bay 01:13:14.495 --> 01:13:16.840 Area. Oh, it's been a while since we had a Bay Area movie. We had 01:13:17.340 --> 01:13:20.500 Pacific Heights, we had Sneakers, uh, The Rock, you know, so we've done a few, 01:13:20.820 --> 01:13:23.940 but now we're gonna go back and do, do another Bay Area movie. Um, 01:13:24.440 --> 01:13:27.620 and we're gonna see, you know, Mike Myers before he— before Austin Powers and before, 01:13:28.120 --> 01:13:30.740 you know, ever, but after Wayne's World. So it's sort of like at— I don't 01:13:31.240 --> 01:13:33.120 even know, right around when Wayne's World came out, actually. I'm not 100% sure exactly 01:13:33.620 --> 01:13:34.880 the time. We'll have to look at it next week. But So I Married an 01:13:35.380 --> 01:13:38.660 Axe Murderer. Okay, beating around the bush, we're gonna go— this— he plays like, 01:13:39.160 --> 01:13:42.010 you know, 2 characters. 2 characters in this one, I think. Just 2. Yeah, 01:13:42.510 --> 01:13:45.190 he plays— he plays the main character and his own dad, right? And, and yeah, 01:13:45.690 --> 01:13:48.870 so, so we're gonna go and we're gonna hang out with, uh, with the Scottish 01:13:49.370 --> 01:13:52.950 family, uh, Charlie's parents and, and his buddy, the, the cop 01:13:53.450 --> 01:13:56.310 that wishes being a cop was more exciting than it really is. And, you know, 01:13:56.810 --> 01:13:59.490 there's just all, all these shots of San Francisco from like long before any of 01:13:59.990 --> 01:14:03.070 the like tech stuff kind of took over. Unrealistic locks in this one. Oh, 01:14:03.570 --> 01:14:07.080 absolutely, 100%. Can't wait for it. Really good Yeah, how 2 roommates 01:14:07.580 --> 01:14:10.810 afford that crazy apartment in San Francisco even in 1993 or whatever. 01:14:11.120 --> 01:14:14.400 Right. Wild. So yeah, so, uh, '93, So I Married an Axe Murderer. 01:14:14.900 --> 01:14:18.260 That's what we'll be watching next week. Awesome. Excellent. That's a wrap. If you like 01:14:18.760 --> 01:14:21.100 what you hear, please consider heading over to Apple or Spotify and leaving us a 01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:24.340 5-star review. It helps new folks find the show. Be sure to check out our 01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:28.340 website at twodads1movie.com. That's the number 2 and the number 1. 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