It says he represents the Tanaka clan.
You don't look like Tanaka. Shidoshi Tanaka trained me.
What's the whole act? He says Senzo Tanaka is his shidoshi.
What's the difference if Bruce Springsteen is his shidoshi? If Senzo
Tanaka is his shidoshi, then show us the dim mak.
What the hell is a dim mak? Death touch.
Thanks. Vic, choose a brick.
Okay, Frank. Uh, what about
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It's Two Dads One Movie. It's the podcast where two middle-aged dads sit around and
shoot the shit. about the movies of the '80s and '90s.
Here are your hosts, Steve Paulo and Nic Briana.
Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of 2 Dads 1
Movie. I'm Steve. And I'm Nic. And today we are talking about the 1988
Jean-Claude Van Damme action classic Bloodsport.
And Nic, you brought us Bloodsport. You brought it to the table. What's your history
with the movie? Oh man, I, I caught this one, uh, around high school,
my young teens, and I think this got passed around because The
idea of it was very fun. So this is at the time where we're getting
into like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2 and stuff. Yeah. And there weren't
really at that time a ton of movies that were about these multidisciplinary
fighting competitions. Right. You know, good point. So this one, it really would stimulate your
imagination just thinking about like the sumo guy going against the guy who just
hops around like a chimp and like all these different moves that,
uh, that these guys bring to the table and the different looks and stuff.
And I thought it was cool. Van Damme was never my favorite action star,
but There was only so much Arnie and Stallone to go
around, so you had to start dipping into the Van Dams and the Seagulls
and the if you really got desperate, you're getting into the Michael Dudikoffs
and the Jeff Speakmans and stuff like that. But I
thought this would be a fun one to chat about. I haven't watched it in
a while, but it's one that most guys our age at
least understand the reference of, right? The Kumite and the and then Van
Damme famously like two of his big things are. Doing the splits.
So how are we gonna fit the splits into the movie? And number 2 is
kicking only with your right foot at all times. So how are we gonna make
that happen? And I think they figured it out. So yeah, I'm excited to talk
about this one. It had been a while, but I was glad to, uh,
to have rewatched it. How about you, Steve? You've seen this one before? I had
never seen Bloodsport before this week. It just missed me somehow.
I think, uh, you know, there was this— I think there were a lot of
action movies. It's kind of like the Rambo films, movies that like I would incorporate
elements of it just because my friends would talk about it. And so it ended
up feeling like I knew the movie before I ever like watched it.
And I think that this one was interesting in 2 ways because not like Bloodsport.
So not only did this, this came out 3 years before Street Fighter II
came out. And so it is impossible to look at Street Fighter
II and not say, well, that is directly influenced by Bloodsport. Yeah.
You know, obviously it's not an adaptation of the movie, but like the whole
concept of a secret underground international street
fighting mixed martial arts competition with fighters of all these different styles.
You know, the Guile character is a military— American military. It's clearly Jean-Claude
Van Damme's, you know, person in this movie. That Frank Dux character is clearly who
Guile, right, was. And then Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat had
a move where he went down into the splits, like directly taken from this.
Absolutely. And that character— I think Johnny Cage is even more explicitly, this is Jean-Claude
Van Damme in so many ways, right? But like so much of this movie,
you know, became Street Fighter II. And so I played, and I played, you know,
thousands of hours of that over the years. So there's that. And then— Who's your
preferred character in Street Fighter II? So if we're talking about the original Street Fighter
II, I was— Let's, yeah. I was mostly a Ken player. Okay. Um,
and then when we got to the Turbo and Hyper Fighting Championship Edition,
you could play as the bosses. I became a Vega, uh, guy. So, yeah.
Oh, 'cause Vega could climb that chain link fence and dive down. But only on
Vega's level. You could still do the wall bounce off the edge of the screen
though, where you could kind of like, so yeah, there was that. And I,
I just, I definitely got, I— there was one summer where I went to like
a computer camp, basically, uh, on the campus of St. Mary's College,
and we stayed in the dorm for a week, Greg Nielsen and I. And we—
there was a, you know, student union with a Street Fighter II arcade machine,
and there was a point where I stayed on one quarter. I think I beat
like 8 or 9 people in a row. Nice. Which was definitely still the highlight
of my entire life. Um, see, I get too— I— it's interesting to
hear that you're a Ken player because I would get too tied up in the
guys that had like crazy special features that didn't pay
off that well, right? So you get like a Blanka where you do that electrocution
thing, or the Dhalsim where he could like reach super far. He had those
stretchy arms. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So none of those guys in here, but for
sure like the basic dudes, like the basic types, I think are very well represented,
uh, in Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat from this, uh, from this movie.
Yeah, very clear, very clear reference there. And then most recently I realized I didn't
know the full references of this movie because in the show The Bear— I don't
know if you've ever watched it, but it's one of my favorite shows of recent
years— one of earliest episodes, a bunch of the guys before they've
like turned the restaurant into a fancy restaurant, they're talking about something and basically
talk about like, you know, Saint-Matthieu, Saint-Matthieu. And I was kind of like, what the
hell is that? Like, and they even in the show say something about it's Bloodsport
or whatever, you know, they make a reference to it. And I go, oh,
I don't know what that— like, I never heard that thing before. So now obviously
I do know what that means having watched it. So, but yeah, so this
is one of those movies that I feel like not having watched it, you still
get some familiarity with it because of other references it is or other influence it
has had on popular culture. Yeah, for sure. But by not actually having seen it,
like, I didn't get that whole picture. So it's kind of filled in all those
blanks for me, um, which is great. Let's jump
into the facts. Let's jump into the facts. All right, so the movie Bloodsport was
released on February 26th, 1988 with an R rating and a running time of 92
minutes. It was directed by Newt Arnold, written by Sheldon
Lettich, Christopher Cosby, and Mel Friedman. The film stars Jean-Claude
Van Damme, Donald Gibb, and Lea Ayers. Uh,
scores. Rotten Tomatoes, Rotten Tomatoes 48%, so pretty much half and
half. IMDb 6.8, not particularly good. This was another movie
like last week's Summer Rental, and yeah, this one I don't have a good reason
for, I don't know, but it did not get a review from Siskel and Ebert.
So I don't know if this was one they just chose not to bother with
or what. I mean, we'll get to it in a minute, but this is a
very low-budget movie, so it might not have had wide release at the time it
first came out or something. Entirely possible. Uh, one awards thing that
I did want to call out here. So in 1989 at the Razzies,
Jean-Claude Van Damme was nominated but did not win the Worst New
Star Award. That was won that year by
Ronald McDonald. The actual McDonald's
clown mascot was given the award for, quote, playing himself
in the movie Mac and Me. Oh boy. Which is
weird, but that's the Razzies. So what do you do? But it's, it's, I looked
at the list and the only name that was nominated that year that was a
real person and someone who had a career later on is Jean-Claude Van
Damme. None of the other people nominated for that made any sense. But anyway,
no other awards buzz on this movie other than the
Worst New Star Razzie. On a $1.5 million budget,
which like— Wow. Very impressive. I mean, look, most of this movie's fight
choreography. So as long as you're able to pay a choreographer a fairly small amount
to do reasonably good stuff, that's good. There's not a lot of special effects outside
of some makeup. There's no— there are no injuries that
require significant— this is not a John Carpenter movie. Yes. Right? Right.
Nothing's being ripped off of anyone anything crazy like that. That's all— it's
all just implied. And there's like 4 sets in the whole movie, basically.
So it makes sense how you could get it down to $1.5 million. It made
$63.5 million at the box office, 42 times what
it cost. So massive successful hit, especially based off of,
of the, uh, the budget. So yeah, this was a huge hit. There's no,
no denying that. Yeah, well, uh, let's kick it off,
Nick. Kick it off in Bloodsport. So, um,
this kicks off kind of with an opening montage of all these different
fighters who represent different styles. And, uh, and it shows them kind of training
and showing their skills. Actually a very cool, like, kind of perfect way to start
this movie off. Um, and we've got your standard kind of like,
uh, karate kung fu guys, and we've got your sumo guys,
we've got your wrestlers. Some guys, their style just seems to be brute
strength, like it doesn't necessarily matter. There's this really small guy who
like hops around like a lemur or like this, and,
and it shows him, he like shimmies up a tree super fast and he's smashing
coconuts with his fists and stuff. And just such a— yeah,
like if you're in the writer's room and you're trying to figure out like what's
a crazy style. But I think a lot of this stuff is real, certain types
of martial arts. Like capoeira and stuff like that is very odd looking if
you're, if you're seeing it next to other styles, right? Yeah, because we get a
Brazilian guy, Paredes is his last name, and he's doing capoeira. And there's like,
there's, you know, uh, Muay Thai and there's all this stuff. I gotta be honest
with you though, that African character that runs up into the trees and chops the
coconuts with his hand and later bounces around the ring like a monkey.
Kind of the most racist character. The most racist thing I've seen in a long
time. Yeah, it is really bad. Like, that would not fly today
whatsoever. You can't do that. You could maybe get away with that style if
it was any other race of actor. You just cannot do that with a Black
man. It was, it was a little, it was a little tough. It would have
been a little rough then. Watching it now for the first time is like,
are you— you beg your finest fucking pardon? Like, really, we're doing that? I do,
I do need to find out though, is this based on a real style?
Like, how true is that? So It could be a thing, but yeah,
I mean, not knowing that, it is like, yo, it doesn't play well.
What are we doing here? Um, so,
uh, so we've got the different montage of, of that
happening, and then, and then we have, uh, Van Damme, Captain Frank Dukes,
and he's, he's in the army. Yeah. And, uh,
they're kind of telling him like, hey, uh, you know, you're about to have a
break, but we need to talk to you before you go. Well, he's basically said
because Yeah, a guy comes to him and says like, hey, Captain Dukes, like,
uh, the colonel needs to see you. He found out you're going to Hong Kong,
right? He wants to talk to you. And it's clear that like, that's not— like,
Frank would be in trouble, basically, is the idea. Uh, so Frank, so he,
he takes off running, right? So he, he just sprints out of the army
very easily in his uniform, um, and just, you know,
and by the time they look for him, you know, he's gone. Like, there's not
much of a chase of, of Frank Dukes there. No, because he ends up,
uh, at this house, uh, which is, you know, he knocks on the front door
and, and, and, you know, it's Obviously a place he knows well. An older woman
answers the door, and like, they embrace. It's clear they know each other. And we
see this little shrine in the front room. It's got like a katana and like
its little candles and like stuff. And he stares at that pensively for the
next 10 minutes while we get a huge flashback to his childhood.
Yeah. Where a couple friends of his and Frank
break into this house, this house we're in, and like start playing with the katana
and the scabbard, and basically, you know, plan to steal
it, but then don't. His friends leave when people start moving in the house
and leave him there. and he doesn't jump back out the window. No,
he's just standing there holding the katana. Which is— he's holding the scabbard. He's not
even holding the sword. It's like just the scabbard part. But basically, like, a kid
and an old man come out— not an old man, like a middle-aged man come
out, and the kid kicks him in the stomach. Turns out this is this family
that lives there, the dad and the son who live there.
And they basically— oh, the first thing— hold
on a second, real quick, because it doesn't actually matter, I have to mention it's
hilarious to me that young Frank Dux climbs through that window wearing
outfit pieces from 2 different projects. professional teams called the Giants.
He's got a New York Giants shirt and a San Francisco Giants hat.
That is an absolutely on-location telling the props guy,
get me 2 Giants things. It's crazy. It is so funny
to me. I just want to talk about, um, about young Frank.
Oh, and, and at the end of the whole sequence of him
like trying to steal the sword and the little kid kicks him, and then the
old guy just slices the brim of his hat off with the sword. For no
good reason, which is a great move. Young Frank Dux is the
dopiest looking guy. He has one of those like Eli Manning faces. Oh,
good. Like just a real kind of whatever. So I just—
I already can't stand looking at his face. And then when he starts talking,
it is unbelievably shitty because like you said, uh, before the plot,
they have to establish that he will end up sounding like Jean-Claude
Van Damme someday. So the kid has to have this accent.
And it is an accent. It's something. This— I hate
this actor, this casting decision. So look, this real human, God bless him.
I hope he's having a wonderful life far away from cinema. But I want
to apologize actually to, to the actor Dan
Futterman, who played Val, the son in the movie The
Birdcage, because that I thought was the most I could hate a casting
decision. Young Frank Dux blows it out of the fucking water.
So yeah, like you said, we're in it like a 10-minute montage of young
Frank Dukes. And at first he's just kind of like the punching dummy
for the little kid. Yeah, like he's, he's getting trained in a
very like lopsided seeming way. Yeah. And, and real quick,
just on this kid, when, when, when he first jumped through the window,
I thought to myself, oh, that's young Frank. He's not going to talk at all
because they never would have gotten to get an actor to sound like he'll end
up being Jean-Claude Van Damme with that voice. And this character at this
age is like maybe 13, I want to say, give or take, right?
If, if he— if his family just relocated from Belgium or France
or wherever they sound like they're from, right? And I know Van Damme himself is
Belgian, but like, you know, it's basically like a French accent is what we're hearing,
right? And both parents have it because the— this, this mentor teacher
character talks to the parents about martial science and how important it is to
teach our children. Just like you grow a vine— they must be from France because
they don't grow a lot of wine in Belgium. So, right, you grow vines,
I grow children is sort of his thing. Like, you got to use science.
They let him talk. It was awful. And I also wonder
if they had relocated to the US at his—
at that age where, you know, he's under 13 when he relocates, would his accent
still be as thick as Jean-Claude Van Damme's accent as an adult, having like lived
in America for that long? It seems unlikely. Like, I get some accents are very,
you know, they stick with you for a long time. And I've met kids with
accents, don't get me wrong, but it just felt like weird. They really shouldn't have
had him talk. It would've been much better if he didn't. Yeah. And I do
wonder if the actor, if that was his accent or if they were having this
guy do it. Because it was really, I really feel terrible if that's really
just what that kid sounded like. But it will also explain why he looks like
such a dope because they weren't casting the look; they were casting the voice.
Yeah, and had to go with whatever they got. Yeah, he does not look like
Van Damme, a young Van Damme in any way whatsoever. Skull shape is completely
crazy, crazy different. But anyway, we should move off of young Frank
because he's not worth it. So now, so Tanaka is kind
of explaining to the the parents that he wants to train Frank.
Uh, there's a cutscene of them at school. So Frank is obviously in school with
this, uh, Tanaka's son, who's a younger boy, and he's getting bullied, and Frank steps
in and in like a very shitty-looking way, like kicks and beats up the
bullies, right? So he's gaining a little respect, right? I do like one of the
kids in that scene behind him who's just watching the fight is wearing a Bartles
and James t-shirt. It looks like a giveaway. It's so bad. I love that
stuff. It's so funny in the old things where you see someone wearing like a
Virginia Slims hat. That's a 10-year-old. Um, the fucking
'80s, man. I don't know. So in this montage, we see
that, that the son, uh, Mr. Tanaka's actual son who'd been training with Frank over
these years, dies. Yeah, uh, looks like a military, uh, thing. I think he
died in the Kumite. I think because it would— we see him talk about going
to fight Kumite for his dad, and then he doesn't come back. It's kind of
what it seemed like to me. All right. Yeah, uh, terrible sad
dad acting. I mean, really unbelievably bad. Yeah. And Tanaka's supposed to be
this like ancient old man, and he's probably like 41 in real life. It's crazy.
They never show him with any gray hair, even in present day. when he's like
on his deathbed. No, not a gray hair in his mustache or his head.
I will say the choice to give his family background that they were nuked
in Hiroshima was like, that's a hell of a choice. But he's basically like,
oh, I was in the war and while I was away, my family, my son
and my daughter, my wife were killed. They were in Hiroshima. It's like, holy fuck,
dude. Like, that is brutal. How are you even— how— why would you even
be in the United States at that point? Seriously, I'd probably pick
a different place. Anywhere else. Good Lord. Um, so as
they're— as we're seeing, like, the, the training is kind of stepping up,
right? So Frank Dux is being, uh, tasked with very Mr.
Miyagi style things, you know. Um, one of the things Tanaka
is just reaching into a koi pond and pulling out a fish with his hand.
Uh, and then they've got him, uh, Frank Dux is in blindfolds. Yeah.
They're training him on, like, you know, how to work without his eyesight.
He does the splits a lot. He's being attacked with weapons. Um, so yeah,
they're really pounding the shit out of this guy. Well, and it's funny because they
do the koi grab and they do the blindfold stuff and they set all that
up, and that all does come back. But the funny part is when those things
come back in the story and become meaningful, they give us a flashback to
these scenes. We get to see these scenes again just to remind us, remember,
he grabbed fish out of the koi pond and fought blindfolded. Don't forget that.
Okay, now let's move on. And it's just like, it's so like holding your hand
through the plot, which is hilarious because there's very little plot in this movie.
Absolutely. To begin with. No, this is, this is a series of And
when he's training, he like— there's a few things I just noticed that are just
kind of budget and maybe Van Damme's age
and experience. But it's like, you know, he falls before being hit a couple times
pretty clearly, where he's reacting to a punch that is still on its way.
It's a very funny moment when he goes to punch Tanaka. Tanaka just
does a very simple duck and one step, and Van Damme looks like he
has seen a ghost or like a man disappeared. He's so surprised. He's so
surprised that Tanaka's not there anymore, and it's like bro moved at like a reasonably
good pace. He wasn't even that fast. Yeah, very, very funny.
He's got Tanaka's got him strung up between these trees.
Bondage. Each of his extremities is tied to a rope and tied to these
two trees, and he's being spread apart. And then the thing that Frank
does to show that he's finally strong enough is he's able to like pull himself
up, and he pulls so hard that he just like. starts breaking
the little brackets. Yeah, the cleats pull out of the thing or whatever. I struggled
with this a bit because at the same— there were 2 thoughts in my head
at the same time watching this little display, right? One is clearly that requires
a shit ton of strength. I could never remotely do anything like this. I'm not
trying to say, look, oh, that's easy. No, it's obviously a clear sign of
strength. But also, I don't care. Like, why do I care? What's he gonna do
now? Now you're just tied— you're rope— you're still tied by rope to like this
other thing. You haven't like broken out. Like, it's just like, why was this the
exercise? It's just very strange. I mean, I think, I think he had in his
contract, I do the splits 5 times in this movie for an extended period
of time. I marked 5. Okay, yeah, um, I was trying to count. Uh,
so, so at the end of this, this mostly excruciating,
uh, flashback sequence, yeah, uh, Frank is, is awarded
his own sword. Yes, right. So he's graduated and everything, and then
it cuts back to him just like still in that living room like, and he's
looking at this picture. It's like Why do we do it this way? Yeah,
it's so— and there were 2 or 3 times during the flashback that we cut
back to Frank's face just to remind us all, remember, he's a flashback.
I think it happened right when in the flashback Jean-Claude Van Damme started playing
Frank, like, because we went from Frank the young kid, and then in
the flashback we got to where now Frank is a young man, younger than he
is present day, but it's now him, right? That's when he had his head replacement
surgery. Exactly, his jaw reconstruction. And so we had to flash forward
again to like remind us all, hey, he's still standing in that, you know,
this is not now, this is before. It's this Movie is holding your hand
through every moment, and it's holding your hand through the simplest plot that has ever
been put on film. But that's okay; they kind of knew who their audience was,
and they didn't want anybody asking any questions. I get it. But this is where
I've noticed really that it was like why is Tanaka not have a single gray
hair? Did you not have like hair dye in the budget? Old at all?
He wasn't even acting that old. No, he's just laying down. Yeah, that's it.
So so now we're in Hong Kong, right?
We've traveled to Hong Kong for the Kumite. Frank is. Successfully— he
talked to Tanaka saying, I'm gonna go to the Kumite, you know, be careful,
whatever, I'm doing it for you, what it is kind of shit. Yeah.
He meets the other American there, or one of the other Americans, this guy
Ray Jackson. Yeah, Donald Gibb. Donald Gibb.
We've seen him in a lot of '80s stuff. Every time I see him,
no matter what I see him in, I literally— I think my first note,
one of my first notes in the book for this one was, hey, it's Ogre.
Yeah, because every time I see him, I think of Ogre from Revenge of the
Nerds. Yeah, absolutely. And his fighting style is Is
I drink beer and like motorcycles, and I'm big. His fighting style
is Hulk smash, I guess. Yeah, technically is like. I looked up
shit. There was something about his fighting style, and it had this name to it.
I was like, what? I've never heard of that. Interesting. And basically, the definition of
the style was whatever, no holds barred. Oh,
this is this is Fezzik from *The Princess Bride*. Andre the Giant is like
his way is not very sporting. Like yeah, not sportsmanlike.
And And he's
getting like— you're getting some information about the Kumite, like how it works.
Like they have a handler kind of guy. Yeah, yeah. Who's a really cool looking
character. I like his— I like him. Kind of mulleted, like half tint glasses,
tracksuit, gold chain. My kind of guy. Were those glasses prescription?
Because they were shaped like aviator sunglasses, but they weren't particularly dark. So I guess
those were just his glasses. Yeah, they were those like half tint. Those are really
interesting. Yeah, yeah. Uh, big back then, but yeah. Jackson and Frank
play a video game together briefly in like the hotel bar or something maybe.
And the thing I noticed about it is it kind of— it didn't look like
any game I know. It didn't look exactly like any game I remember. Maybe it
was, or maybe they— I don't know what they did, but there were no buttons.
They each had 2 joysticks, and it was like one of them must have been
the kick and punch sort of stuff, and the other one was move and jump,
I guess. But it was very weird to see them both with, you know,
each hand on a joystick moving them left, right, up, down, left, right, whatever.
Yeah. And then it was like, I don't remember any video game like 2
joysticks. Well, Super Smash TV. Yeah, but that was different. I agree,
but I'm more like this because the reason Super Smash TV worked is because you
could shoot in 360 degrees around you, right? It was top-down, so you had to
be able to shoot every direction. So one stick was the shooter and one was
you moving, right? That kind of thing. But this is like a side-to-side fighting.
Leg can go in any direction.
Yeah, I forgot to look up what game this is. I don't know if it
was like Karate Champ or just one of those kind of generic things because I
think it also wasn't in English. And yeah, it's on the screen. Looked like a
little bit like if you took the old Kung Fu NES game and
turned it into a PvP kind of fighting game versus like a level
thing. It kind of looked like that, but it definitely was— it's definitely something else.
It must, it must have been a Chinese or Japanese game we didn't get here
or something, maybe. Right. Yeah. Uh, and so Frank and, uh, Ray Jackson are
playing this. They're kind of very fast friends there. Um, Frank beats
Ray at it and is like, you want to go again? You know, so they're
all excited. Uh, meantime, the government is just like a couple steps behind
Frank, so they're— they've shown up to Tanaka's house And, uh, and the—
there's 2 agents. I don't know one of the actors. One is Forest Whitaker and
the other, the other guy, but they're the kind of 2 guys in pursuit of
Frank Dukes throughout this movie. And it's the classic, uh, when you want to put
2 officials in something where they're not really meant to be like drivers
of the plot, but they are meant to be there to sort of like be
a ticking clock. Yeah. Is that one of them is like young and reckless
and the other one is old and calm. I feel like that happens. It's basically
the 48 Hours Yeah, recipe, you know what I mean? For sure. And so Forrest
Whitaker is always trying to be a little bit more of a hard-ass, kind of
like whatever. And the old white guy is kind of like, which is another— I
gotta be honest with you, another racist-coded thing to me in this was the way
that the, like, the, the older white agent was constantly like correcting
or like calming down the younger Black man. Yeah, yeah, you're a little too angry
to do this, or you're too excited about the food. There's a scene where the
two of them are eating and Forrest Whitaker's like, oh, this stuff is great,
right? And the other guy's like, oh, I wouldn't touch this stuff. There's a lot
of racially coded— very enthusiastic. Fantastic. Yeah.
Um, so we got these guys, uh, kind of coming after them. Yeah.
They're being led now, uh, and their handler, this guy's
named Mr. Lin, and he's kind of telling them about the Kumite. It happens once
every 5 years, and there's no holds barred, and it takes place over 3 days.
Full contact, just laying out. Yeah, yeah. A blend of styles and all this stuff.
And, you know, this guy's the champion. Chong Li is the guy who's the champion
from last year. Um, this,
this line, like, they are about to enter, like, the, the bowels of this
area where they're led to the Kumite. And we get a very large, uh,
man who goes, uh, okay, USA. And then, uh, Ray Jackson
repeats it. That's like a very, um, you know, common line from this
movie. But this part— okay, here's something we discussed in a previous episode. Okay.
When we did the episode on the movie Jacob's Ladder. Okay. There was one of
these nightmare sequences where he was being led down this hallway. Yeah. And we— and
with all this really weird gross stuff happening. And we thought maybe that's what
was used, uh, to inspire the movie Beerfest. That's right. Where they're going down the
hall. I think the Beer Fest thing is almost one-for-one the Bloodsport trek
into the Kumite. So I gotta watch Beer Fest again, like, side by
side with this. But I think it was inspired by this, like, walkthrough and
all this weird shit they see on the way into the Kumite arena. The funny
part is, or the interesting thing to me about it, was when they started walking
through this, I thought, I thought to myself, man, I wonder, was this meant to
look like Kowloon Walled City? Is that like what this was sort of based off
of? And I looked it up and no, no, no, that they filmed in Kowloon
Walled City, which is a— was always a part of Hong Kong that was
basically an unregulated— there's no law in there. Right. It's absolutely— And they did
explain that a little bit, right? Yeah. And it's like, this was one of— I
read this is one of the only Western film productions
that ever filmed in Kowloon Walled City before it was torn down
in the mid-'90s. I think the Chinese government tore it down after
they got Hong Kong back from the UK. And so it's gone
now. It has been for years. But like, this was an interesting thing. I thought
to myself, that is such a cool, like, historical artifact sort
of that they're able to film in that actual place. Yeah. And keep that forever.
Now the set where the, where the battles took place was not physically
there. That was on a soundstage. But they filmed those scenes of him walking— any
scene that was filmed walking down those aisles or whatever, that was all done on
one day in Kowloon Walled City for real. And so yeah,
very cool stuff in that sense. Um, one of the only reasons I even know
what Kowloon Walled City is is that there was a hardcore punk band called Kowloon
Walled City that I listened to for a while. Oh, nice. And I remember looking
it up once going, why are they called that? I wonder what this is.
And like going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about it. But yeah, so very cool.
And yeah, maybe you're absolutely right, the You know, the whole Beerfest reference thing is,
I think, probably a mixture along with just any kind of labyrinthine,
you know, kind of thing. Definitely could have taken some inspiration from this.
Yeah. And they get— and I love that bit about the Kowloon Walled City because
this is a place that in real life conceivably could have actually had something like
this going on. Yep. Um, almost like a, like a tanker ship,
like in international waters, but it's on land.
Yellowstone's zone of death. Yeah. You can't empanel a jury.
Um, so they get into the Kumite arena and each, uh, each participant,
I guess, has a physical invitation. Yeah. And then they also
have to show, like, show you're the guy, like, qualify. Yeah. Show us in some
way, right? And, uh, and Frank Dux's thing that he does
is there's these stacks of bricks, you know, like 7, 8 bricks, like 3 stacks
of them. And, uh, his move is called the Dim Mak, which is like the
touch of death or something like that, right? Right. And, uh,
they say, okay, break one of these bricks. And, you know,
pick a brick, whatever. And they decide he's gonna break the bottom brick. So he
has to to hit through the top of a stack of bricks without damaging the
first 6 and just exploding the bottom brick, uh, which he does easily because it's
easy to do. Like, untouched. The bricks above barely move.
It turns into like sand. It doesn't—
it doesn't just slightly crack. Like, it blows the fuck up.
It's like Walter throwing Donnie off the cliff and blowing it back in the dude's
face. It is just dust. Like, it's so bad. Ray Jackson is covered
in brick dust. Exactly.
And, uh, and now we see, uh, Chong Li, played by the great
Bolo Yeung, just an enormous, uh, Chinese actor who's
really like— he's appeared in a lot of martial arts things. And, uh,
he's like the intimidating guy. And he looks at him and he's not impressed.
And he goes, brick don't hit back. That's a good— he makes a good point
though. Yeah, he does. Although it hit Ray Jackson in the face when
the bits of it started flying around. So, um,
so now the, the military, uh, pursuit gentlemen,
Forrest Whitaker and the other guy, are coordinating now with
like Hong Kong police. Yep. And they're trying to get in with these authorities,
and the Hong Kong police is kind of doing the,
doing the like kumite. I don't have no idea what you're talking about. I've never
heard of that. That's not a real thing. So they're not being like super helpful.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. But they've agreed at least, like, now they know that Frank
Dukes is someone that we're looking for here. Quickly about Chong Li, because first of
all, I think it's funny watching this movie and realizing how much of a direct
inspiration Street Fighter II took from it and then named a character
Chun-Li. Yeah, yeah. Right, which is a female character. But like, similarly, the other thing
is, is that so Bolo Yeung, I believe, is a— was— I don't know if
he's still alive actually, but a Chinese man. Yeah.
And Chong Li sounds like a Chinese name, like naming
conventions, but he is clearly a Korean character because he has the flag
of South Korea on his headband. So it's like a very weird, like,
yet another example in my opinion of like this movie just not giving a shit
about any of that kind of accuracy. We needed one non-white person to review some
stuff. We're gonna need super accuracy when it comes to like explaining
how these things work, but when it comes to like that kind of stuff,
like cultural shit, like who fucking cares? Like it was very dismissive of that because
I'm watching the whole time going, Chong Li does not sound like a Korean name
to me. And maybe I look, if Listener, if you are aware
of why that should sound like a Korean name to me— to me it sounds
like a Chinese name. It sounds like a made-up name, obviously, but it sounds more
Chinese in origin. Maybe I'm wrong and I could be corrected, but like, it's weird
to me that this character was played as a Korean. Yeah, why didn't they just
make him Chinese? Maybe he killed a Korean guy and took his bandana or something.
Sure, I guess that's the only— but yeah, it's a good point. Uh, it's a
little strange. Bolo Yeung, if you're still alive, uh, please hit us up at thisshow@2dads1movie.com.
That's the number 2 and the number 1. Yeah. Um, there— so there's,
there's a note that I made here that's kind of in the spirit of like,
what the fuck here? Okay, so back at the hotel, so there's a reporter here,
this woman reporter who's here to like learn about the Kumite, right? I gotta,
I gotta get some info. And she kind of knows where the guys are,
but nobody's giving her any information. So anyone she mentions it to is like,
get out of here. So now she's back and she's talking to one of these
guys who I think in, in a Aside from young Frank Dukes,
is the worst actor in this movie. And this is the guy who plays the
character Hussein, which again, they fucked
this up big time. This guy's real name is not— he's
in no way like Middle Eastern or Arab at all. And the way that they
made him Arab is they just put, uh, they put the headgear on him,
kaftan or whatever it's called, or something. And then, and then like
when he fights, he doesn't wear it. So like we get this whole scene
of him showing down against, uh, Van Damme later, and he's not wearing— he's hard
to recognize. This guy's a terrible actor. His dialogue is so bad. And I
wrote down with a star on it, you better be good at fucking karate.
Like, if you're this bad of an actor, you better do some good martial science
later on because— yeah, uh, because I don't trust it.
Spoiler alert, did he live up to that for you, Nic? Absolutely not. No,
no, I don't think he did a move. I agree with you. He was
there for his acting. He was there to be the guy Frank knocks out
quickly, right? Wasn't that sort of— yeah. His character's name is Sadiq Hussein.
They put him in traditional garb of,
like, the Arab Peninsula, more so than, you know, the Fertile
Valley, more so than Iraq-Iran kind of thing. Like, there's, like, all kinds of
inconsistencies here, but it was clear they were going for a Saddam Hussein.
I mean, 'cause Saddam Hussein was a known quantity in the late '80s, you know?
I mean, it's not— he hadn't invaded Kuwait yet, but, you know, people would've known
who he was. Yeah, yeah. So it feels like a direct reference to that,
but, like, then all of the little details. And I also get the sense that
we were supposed to accept his existence as an Arab character
because of the gold tooth. Was that like supposed to be an indicator because he's
got money? He's got that oil money, I guess. Yeah, so weird. And well,
I think the, the main reason— back to the racism, uh, the, the main reason
we can tell that he's an Arab character according to the filmmakers, not according to
me, is that he is unbelievably disrespectful towards this woman.
And he's trying to, uh, he's trying to bring
her like back to his room. He's like, yeah, I'll tell you about the kimchi,
come with me. Basically doing everything but throwing her over his shoulder
and walking away with her. Oh my God. Um, so Frank Duke sees this happening.
He comes up. Clearly, you know, this is, this is Wyatt Earp
not letting the horse get slapped around. That's right. Right. So Frank Duke sees this
happening and he says, all right, we're gonna
do it. We're— I have a challenge for you. You know, you put a quarter
in your hand, and if I can grab it out of your hand before you
close your hand, she stays with me. You leave her the hell alone. Right.
And if I can't grab it, go ahead and take her. Which is— So she's
like, Like, does she have any say in this? This is a crazy— I
mean, it's like if my wife is about to get kidnapped and I'm like,
if I can do a backflip, I've never tried
it before, but I think— like, what the hell? Uh,
Genie's screwed if you have to do a backflip, buddy. There's nothing— I'm
done, dude. Um, so, uh, so of
course Frank Dukes ends up snatching this quarter. He thinks that
he didn't snatch the quarter out of his hand because he's Like, and he
opens his hand and he has, oh, you've replaced it with a different coin,
right? Yeah, yeah. So, uh, so Frank Dukes, you know, then he wins dinner with
the girl because it's not just like, hey, I saved— like, she has to give
you something. You can't just save a person, right? Can't just be altruistic. Like,
so yeah, so they have dinner together and I think this
is where she asks him to like help her get into the Kumite,
right? And he's just like, I can't, like, they're too secretive about it, I can't
get it in. She later gets in with absolute ease, just walking in with somebody
and absolutely nothing. And the number of people that end up just walking into the
audience of this tournament near the end, it's like, wait, why are any of these
people allowed to be here? Totally. I mean, it is, it is one of these
events and we'll see it in a minute. But it's one of these events where
people, which I love, people are just waving cash in the air and
then exchanging it, you know, at the end of it. It's just weird that they
threw cash on a dude who lost. The guy gets knocked out and they just
throw cash at him. I mean, I get it's like a disrespectful looking thing,
but it is funny that it's like, he lost, guys. Like, don't give him your
money. He lost. Uh, so we've
got the Kumite is about to start. Frank Dux is in his hotel room and,
uh, and Ray Jackson comes in to get him. Frank Dux is doing the splits
between 2 chairs for a very long period of time.
And, uh, and Ray Jackson's like, hey man, come on, it's time to go.
And he's already drinking his beer. He's got, he's got his beer like
first thing in the morning. Yep. Um,
again, just, you know, mandatory splits. Yeah, we had to have Uh,
so we get some explanation about the Kumite. It happens every 5 years.
It's 3 days. There's 1 winner. There's 3 ways to win: knockout,
someone can tap out, or you can push them outside of the arena. And it's
kind of like slanted on 2 sides. Like, it's pretty big. It's not a small
space. Was it that way the whole time? 'Cause I remember really seeing that in
the final battle, but I didn't think it was always slanted like that. I would
imagine that on the faraway shots, it's always like that. But there's probably a
lot of close-up action shots where they're absolutely not on a slanted thing. Interesting.
Okay. I just maybe didn't notice. But yeah, that's Yeah, interesting. there was a point
where I wrote a note down saying like, wait, why is this like— why does
it look like a really weak skateboard vert ramp now? Yeah, yeah. Because it's just
like raised on the ends and not— but anyway, but yeah, so we learn a
lot about it. We see a couple of battles. We get— I think Jackson does
the title drop and says like, that's why they call it Bloodsport. Exactly right.
It's like, okay, thanks. Um, when Chong Li does his fight,
I couldn't tell right away if he'd killed the person that he fought. It looks
like he didn't because they make a big deal about it when someone does die
near the end. So I thought— but he almost kind of— they made a point
to tell people, like, people have died. It doesn't sound like it's the kind of
thing where it's like all the time people die, or like every year people die,
but like people have died in the ring. Yes. And so, and then it looks
like Chong Li maybe kills a dude, like really fucks him up. So at that
moment, I will tell you something that the, the screenwriters and the director and everybody
put into my head that they never paid off, and I will never forgive them
for. Okay. I assumed at that moment Chong Li was going to kill Ray Jackson.
Yeah. That's at that point when Chong Li almost kills
the first person we see him fight, right? And you've made it clear to us
that people have died. Mine— I am now expecting for Jackson to be killed so
that Frank has someone to avenge, right? We're plugging the stakes into the formula,
and that's exactly what would happen. Chekhov's dead best friend. Yes.
Um, and,
and Chong Li— so he, you know, he ends up, uh,
he ends up— oh, Ray Jackson went against like the least scary guy I've ever
seen and just like punched him in the face immediately. And then he turns to
Chong Li For no reason other than Chong Li's the defending champion, he's like,
"I'm gonna kill you, man." So especially that's
what I think when I wrote it down. That happens. Chong Li comes in,
and then it's a world record win. So world record time. It's amazing.
People are going, "Chong Li, Chong Li," and when he's
like responding to it, he's moving his arms at the weirdest like intervals.
Like it's not going along with the chant at all. I don't understand it.
It's like they told him. Raise your fists in the air in victory, and he
had never seen anyone do that. Yeah. So he was like guessing what they
meant, and nobody corrected him because he's Bolo Yeung and he's enormous. Yeah. Um,
um, so Frank Dux comes in, and he comes in against Hussein, who you know
the bad actor. We're gonna see some awesome martial science from him.
And of course, he doesn't even throw a single move; gets
knocked out by Frank Dux immediately. And then Frank Dux has the new record.
Yes, that's right. And now this could be a hashtag
because I feel like it's come up a couple times. Yeah, so Hussein's gold tooth
is now on the mat, and the kid who comes up to like wipe the
blood off the mat between things gets a very greedy, mischievous look on
his face and picks up the tooth. And of course you got to chomp into
that because it just came out of this sicko's mouth. That's so weird.
But like, are you specifically talking about losing a gold tooth or the biting
on something to test if it's real? Because those are 2 different things that happen
a lot. Those should both probably happen because I'm thinking about the Home Alone gold
tooth. That's the first I thought of. Yeah, right. And I feel like there's another
one, uh, in there, but yeah. Funny end to the character, but also
like, what a useless, unimpressive. Like the we've had three
very quick, almost like a single strike knockouts here, right? But I
do. I will say in the defense of that choice, because I I kind of
I kind of I see what you're saying, and and I do think especially as
a first time viewer, I was like, man, I thought these battles would be these
fights would be like more to them kind of thing. The fact that the movie
does give us in later scenes much more involved bouts,
it's like oh no, these are we're trying to set here that not everybody in
this tournament is really up to Jackson and. Frank and
Chong Li's talent level. There are others. Paco is a character that
does a bunch of ass whooping, and there's a couple of other Asian characters that
really do great stuff. So there's like a— we're getting this idea that there's this,
you know, subset within the fighters of like, well, these are the particularly good ones.
So like later when Frank has to fight Paco after we see him whoop somebody's
ass, it's like, oh, there's an— there's actual danger here. Like this is not some
idiot like Hossein. This is somebody Frank actually has to fight. So I do enjoy
that they're giving us scrubs out of the way here. Scrubs out of the way.
Show You know, don't just tell us, show us that Chong Li and Frank and
Ray Jackson can really just whoop ass. They are a level above some
of these guys. Yeah, so that it raises the stakes appropriately. So I'm okay with
these first ones being quick because most of this movie is fight
scenes. Yeah, and most of them are more involved and have more action.
So that's fair. Yeah, that's fair. And then, you know, right after this last
fight of Duke's against Hussein, we get a pretty good montage just showing kind
of the first day of action. Good clashes of styles. There's like there's
Chong Li, then there's this other like really big tall kind of sumo guy
whose move is snapping somebody over his knee, which wow
that brutal oh looks very very rough. And this is the
Kumite song, I believe, right? During this sequence survive. Yeah, so this was
Stan. What's the guy's name? Stan Bush. Stan love Stan Bush. Oh, we are Stan
Bush stans. Yes, exactly. I think The Touch is one of the best
eighties eighties songs ever, man. I think Stan Bush stan is the country that Hussein
was supposed to be. From. And that's Stan Bush then. Um,
yeah, so we got a good, a good montage.
Um, and the, the military guys have,
have located Frank. Yes. Right, so he's kind of back at his hotel
and they found him and they're, you know, we're gonna— we're taking you back.
And they point their tasers at him and he goes and takes off, right?
So we get kind of a chase through the streets. Those tasers, by the way,
they look like dust blasters. They're crazy looking. Like just absolutely enormous.
And I know it's like it's 1988, but they're enormous. Yeah. And yeah, they look
like those yeah those dustbusters that you would attach to the wall. Yes. Before when
you had to take the battery off for them. Do you think they charge like
that? Yeah. Where they plug into the wall? Hundred percent. They're hooked on. Take off
your taser off the wall on the way out. Yeah. Make sure you grab something
from the taser wall, guys. Don't don't forget your tasers. So crazy. So we
get a little chase through the streets. Yeah. Um, and it's good. I mean,
just kind of very lighthearted, like goofy stuff. Keystone cops,
dude. It's so bad. This whole chase. Well, I mean, that's kind of the idea
of it though. But like there opportunities. for probably more action and more,
uh, jokes. But again, dude, a million and a half budget. Like, they did focus
it in one place here. That's true. And, and it's just— but to some of
the, like, ways in which Dukes is escaping, like running around the side
of a car, like peeking over things, and just like, like at one point they're
running through a really narrow alley and he stops and turns
around and they are like on top of him to the point that when he
then turns to run towards the camera again, both of the pursuing actors
have to pretend to stumble in order to not end up
on top of him because he waited way too long to do it. And it's
little things like that where I'm like, man, this just makes it— it's sort of
like when there's the fight choreography and Van Damme reacts to a punch that hasn't
even come yet. It's kind of like, yeah, this is like the one thing that's
actually good at. Yeah, this is the one thing this movie should be good at.
It's like fight choreography, like chase action stuff. And it kind of— this chase left
me wanting. So, so it ends with the The pursuers end up
like falling off one of these boats, right? So Frank is like, "Oh, see you
later." And of course has to get their attention and like salute them or whatever
before just leaving. It's like, and he told them, "Look, I'll come back with you,
but the airplane—the plane—the plane ride's in two days. I gotta finish this tournament." Yeah,
like I'm not coming back now, but I'll meet you at the airport in two
days. Like he's trying to be like reasonable-ish, right? Because they—I mean realistically,
unless this is an illegal thing and you could say any U.S. citizen could be
arrested for doing this thing, I don't know what grounds the military has when he's
on his time off. off to prevent him from this. But hey, as we know,
uh, we'll get to— Frank Dukes is very decorated, very valuable member of the
armed forces. We have to get into that. Um, he, uh, Frank now is having
his dinner date with the reporter. Yep. And, um,
sleeps over. And the day before a fight-to-the-death,
no-holds-barred tournament, maybe I'm just gonna try to pop in a Hungry-Man
and get to bed early. Like, yeah, he's, he's up, he's humping all night
and doing the splits and And I mean, uh, again, another scene,
uh, has to show him getting dressed in the morning, and we get the glutes.
They could have shown the camera after he pulled his pants up,
but we got a full-ass scene. Yep. Again, definitely in his contract
for sure. Oh yeah. So then she asks him again, you know, can you get
me in? And he's like, no, I really can't. I'm sorry. Like, I'm so sorry.
So then he arrives at the Kumite, and she shows up
with some rich Asian guy. She's just there. You just dress like Vanna
White, they let you in. Yeah, exactly. It's very Vanna White, very evening gown.
And she's like, she didn't try that first. It's like, oh, instead of getting almost
like kidnapped and assaulted by all these professional punchers,
right? Like, you could have just put earrings on and gotten in there. She also
says something to him as she sees Frank. She says like, it's not the first
time I had to go undercover to get a story. And it's like, so wait,
are you telling me that if Frank had brought you, you would have just told
everyone there, I'm a journalist, Frank brought me? You both would
have been killed. Yeah, yeah, you would have had to go undercover anyway. If you
could have just been an undercover fake call girl for some rich business, why didn't
you do that first? Yeah, it's like, I don't know, but it's— she did— no
time has passed. Like, he leaves and she is there within minutes of him arriving.
Yeah, so no time. So she must have had this in her back pocket,
I guess. But she is— She was as close to him walking into the Kumite
as the cops were chasing him down the alley a minute ago. Exactly.
Um, so again, we've got another decent, uh,
montage here, and Uh, Chong Li, at one
point he breaks somebody's leg, you know, compound fracture. That's a really rough one.
That's like the one kind of major special effect, I think, in the movie.
Kind of the only real injury. Um, and we kind of see a
continued accumulation of blood on the mat. Yeah, it's getting wiped off, but it's definitely
getting stained. So this is kind of showing us what's going around. Uh, we get
the sumo guy against the, the hopping around, uh, racist caricature
guy. One thing I would like, uh, during this whole sequence
is maybe just a quick flash to like the Yeah, you know, you never really
see that. I think that the logic of the way these fights actually are,
the bracket would have been too tough to do. They didn't have enough guys to
work with. It would have been a level of detail that, while it would have
been kind of nice to see, like in Karate Kid, right, where they're moving the
placard names around and stuff, it is a level of detail that this movie has
not put into any other parts of its plot. So it really would have kind
of been a lot of work, I think, to get it quite right. Well,
the guy had matching Giants gear on at the beginning of it. Amazing. I just
love it because there's not a single person on the planet that I could think
of who would be a fan of both the New York and San Francisco Giants.
Like, what would have had to happen in your life that that was your
2 teams? Yeah, I have no idea.
It's like you're both members of The Parent Trap, that we're both twins.
Yeah, Parent Trap at once.
So Frank Dux ends up against the big sumo guy and
he takes him out. One of the things that Frank,
you know, it established he was doing this Like this touch of death punch
where he's breaking the bottom brick. So he does that exact punch
to this guy's stomach. Yeah, but because he's a big fat evil guy,
he just goes ha ha ha ha ha ha. And then,
but Frank ends up taking him out. He does that's the splits to the nut
punch, isn't it? With an uppercut. Like good God, that's brutal.
I feel like that should get your back turned. Like people should turn their back
on you for that move. That is like that is like Dalton with
the throat rip, right? That is like the good character is now a little less
good. Because we've seen this move. Yes,
exactly. Uh, yeah, so he nut punches him and then just kind of shoves
his forehead and like knocks him over. Um, Chong Li,
uh, goes up against Ray Jackson here, which again, I'm expecting Ray to not survive
this bout at this point watching it. That's what I expect. So Ray gets a
couple good punches in, whatever, and like knocks Chong Li down, but immediately turns his
back on him and starts celebrating. And it's like, bro, like, you can't— like,
what are you doing? We saw this in Game of Thrones. I mean, this is
the thing. This is the Viper, right? You don't do this. Sand Viper. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah, so he's, he's chanting, he's like, yeah,
yeah, yeah! And Chong Li gets back up and,
uh, and he starts fighting back, and he is really like pounding on Ray
while he's down. Like you said, we're, we're bracing ourselves for a character who's like,
yeah, we like him, but he's— it's fine if he dies in the scam,
in the scheme of this movie. If he existed to be the one who dies
to give Frank the last boost of like revenge he needs,
it would have made perfect sense. I would have— I was totally prepared for that.
And he does get badly injured. And even, I've got to tell you,
they cut to Frank running onto the Mack, and people are trying to hold him
back. You can't do that. But he's gonna make it, whatever. And Chong Li's still
got the bandana, the Harley-Davidson bandana that Jackson was wearing, and he keeps it,
you know. That's a very thing. But it really looked like, you know, if he
dies, he dies, that kind of moment. And then we cut to Jackson awake
and in the hospital. He's got a bandage on his head, but he's like fine,
basically. He could have at least been in a coma or something. He was not.
Yeah, it's like, give us a chance he might die. Yes. And let that drive
Frank. Right. No, he's fine. Yeah, so very weird. So during this scene,
it's really funny. They're visiting, um, they're visiting Ray in the
hospital, uh, Frank and the, the reporter. And I keep forgetting her name, but honestly,
I don't think that the writers wrote her a name. Um,
so as they're doing this and they're talking to Ray Jackson, he's being examined by
a doctor who is just moving the stethoscope like a couple inches at
a time on his chest every couple seconds for like 2 minutes straight.
Like they couldn't just be like, hey, at some point the doctor would be done
with this and he'd let you on. Like it's important to know that Ray is
getting checked by a doctor here. So strange. He didn't need the doctor did not
need to be there in the scene. We see him like hooked up to stuff.
He's in a hospital bed. Like that's really all the doctor is doing the same
work. Yeah. From a storytelling perspective, you know, it's like it's not necessary.
Yeah. So but Frank's he's determined. I'm going back for the final day
of the Kumite. I'm gonna win this thing. Oh, Janice. Dennis is the, uh,
the reporter. Oh, okay. Um, yeah, so she's, she's pissed
off, right? And this is, uh, and so then, yeah, she's like, are you crazy?
Like, you can't do this. Like, you got it. He's like, oh, it's for honor.
You wouldn't understand. Like, or whatever. And it's weird because like he's doing it supposedly
to avenge a death, but then he also says,
I want to be the first, uh, like American or the first outsider
to win or something like that. I don't know. I don't know if he's— if
he— somebody did mention that he would be the first American. I can't remember.
Did he say that, that that was part of his things? I remember him saying
stuff about wanting to Tanaka, his mentor,
more than anything. Like, that being the driving thing. But yeah, at some point we
do hear that, like, if you— because I think Lin tells him, if you,
you could be the first American to win this. No American's ever won it or
something like that. But I don't— can't remember if that was like something fresh or
not driving him or not. But anyway, but there's that. So he heads back to
Kowloon Walled City to, to go to the last day of the thing, even though,
yeah, Janice or whatever is like screaming at him not to. Like, you know,
you'll— if you die, is it worth it kind of thing, right? And she goes
to snitch on him. on him. That's right. She goes and she tells— so she
goes for the Hong Kong cops, right, who are in touch with the military guys.
So, you know, now that's on her— his radar, and she just wants them to
shut down the, uh, the Kumite, to stop it. Yeah, exactly. So they—
so he goes there and meets the 2, you know, whatever military—
I don't know if they're MPs, what the hell they are, some kind of,
you know, detectives or whatever. Yeah, Forrest Whitaker and his buddy. And so they're there
and they've got the stun guns. Oh, before this, real quick, because,
um, Frank is having kind of Like,
uh, there's a montage. Oh, that's right. Where he's, he's like—
More flashbacks or something? Yeah, he's kind of like thinking about the upcoming fight and
he's having flashbacks, but all the flashbacks are just exact shots that have
already been in the movie of like Chong Li, you know, being like,
ho ho ho, or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Rei getting hit and he's like
hallucinating about Chong Li and stuff. And then he's up like
at the top of the tallest building in the city doing the splits like,
like a gargoyle just over the city. Some kind of temple or something. Yeah,
very interesting looking building, but another, another contractually, uh,
obligated split. Um, so yeah, now that— now the
cops are kind of after Frank, like, on the— in the Kowloon Walled City on
the way in. Exactly. And they've got their stun guns, and then I think he
grabs like a trash can lid, and the stun gun
little barbs not only deflect off of that when they try to shoot him,
they like hit some of the Hong Kong cops, and then he's able to run
away. Something like that. This is the, the biggest like
give up of the whole movie. So these guys have, have traveled to
Hong Kong to chase him down to make sure that he's secured. He's a military
asset at the very least, if not like an international criminal depending
on what they're going after him for, right? They do keep talking about wanting to
protect him, that the military is invested a lot in him. If he gets hurt,
that's bad for them. That's kind of the angle they've been taking. That's right.
It's like, like, uh, Colonel Trautman wouldn't want Rambo to do one of these
tournaments, right? Exactly. Yep. Um, so then when they go after Frank
and he deflects the taser And you— and the Hong Kong cop get hit by
the tasers and are immediately like, yeah, we're not part of this anymore.
And then the— Fuck all y'all. The main— one
of the, uh, one of the military guys is like, okay, Frank,
you win, but it's wrong what you're doing. And then that's just fucking it for
those guys for now. So he ends up— he ends up,
uh, running in, and he barely, uh, he barely makes it on time to the
Kumite. Yeah, yeah. Uh, one of the organizers, maybe one of the guys who's running
the gambling Looks like he's bribing one of the officials to
let Frank in, and the guy's like, "Okay, he can get in." And then he
reaches back in and steals the money back that he tried to bribe him.
He was asking him to like wait. He was like, "Give him five more minutes,"
whatever. And then as he puts the money in the pocket, Frank shows up,
so he pulls it right back out. Like, "Oh look, he's here. It's all good.
Don't need to worry about it." So yeah. So now Frank
has to fight Paco, which is one of the fighters we saw do rather well
earlier in the tournament. He's been around. Paco, I don't know the name of the
actor. He is in the movie Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth. He's one
of the kind of sub-boss bad guys in it. So yeah, nice. He's He's been
among stars before. Botsworth is the loftiest
of stars, really. That is, that is high. Paco does the thing where
he tries to do like the handshake fist bump at the beginning but then does
a cheap shot. So immediately like turns the table. It's so funny
that a guy who like we've been shown he's skilled, he's doing well,
like why would he do that at the very beginning? Very strange. Uh, but then
there's a scene where it— there's just like 60 mutual side kicks going back
and forth. They're both like booting each other and not even defending them,
just taking the shots in the ribs over and over again. Hey, right in my
kidney— kidneys, hardest part of my— part of my body.
Um, yeah, so Dux ends up winning with a spin kick. This is
where we, we start getting some Van Damme really showcasing here, for sure.
Um, Chong Li, uh, Chong Li ends up fighting,
right? And he of course, uh,
takes this guy out very easily. and is kind of holding him down,
like doing the, like, should I— what should I do? Should I finish him off?
And then punches him in the face in a way that, you know, it's indicated
to us, like, that guy's dead. They come and check his pulse and everything.
That's right, he's dead. So Chong Li killed his opponent holding the hand in front
of the nose first to see if he could feel any air and then checking
the pulse, because the air thing is much, much more reliable. So,
um, the punch that Chong Li— it kind of looked weak.
Again, budget limitations. It's a weird angle. Yeah, there's a way to make
that look better. Uh, you just need an actor who's willing to actually get punched
by a giant Chinese bodybuilder. Yeah, even, even pulling a punch,
that would hurt from, from Bolo Yeung. Yeah. Um, so yeah, so now we're gonna
have Frank versus Chong Li for the finals. At this point, I believe the detectives
are in the audience, the journalist is in the audience, like everybody's—
I think even maybe the captain of the Hong Kong PD stayed with them.
I can't remember if he was there or not. Yeah, but like they're all just
hanging out. Like, I thought this was secret. This is, this is the Blues Brothers
final con— uh, concert at the Palace Hotel ballroom where like all the cops and
the SWAT team Are all watching them do Sweet Home Chicago.
So yeah, and and the elders after Chong Li killed this
other fighter, the kind of people in charge of it like stand up and very
you know emphatically like turn their backs on solemnly. Yeah yeah because and then you
went too far. Yeah yeah like this isn't what this is about. It's not actually
precisely what it's about. Yeah it's not actually against the rules. You could actually outlaw
it and say hey if you kill somebody you're disqualified. You could make a rule
but they didn't so you really shouldn't get mad. Before the
fight between Chong Li and Frank, the, the, the, the trainer
for Chong Li, or his whatever manager or something, slips something into his waistband that
looks like a Rolaids or a Tums or something like that. It's for his ulcer.
Yeah, it's for his ulcer. It's very strange. Getting kicked in the stomach 100 times
in a row gave me an ulcer. But yeah, so, so he slides something
in so we know something's up. And then Chong Li is wearing Ray Jackson's Harley-Davidson
bandana on his leg. That's right. Again, I don't know why he didn't just replace
his main one. Well, he's got to have the Korean flag so we can know
that he's bigger, that he's Korean. Yeah, Chong Li. We got to make sure we
know he's Korean. So, um, but yeah, and actually that, that punches a hole in
the maybe he took it off a guy he killed or beat thing because he
would have replaced it with the new one if that was the case, right?
So yeah, I think that was his freshest kill on the head. Yeah, and then
you go down the body. You'd think, you'd think. Um, Bolo Yeung, I, I love
his presence. I love that he exists. Uh, all of his lines suck so bad
in this. So he's not an actor, like, like, God bless him, but he is
a strongman, a bodybuilder. Yeah, not an actor. His kind of, uh,
his kind of Ivan Drago type line here is,
you break my record, now I break you like I break your friend.
Like, you gotta, you gotta tighten that up a little bit. I don't know,
that's compelling. Oh, you break my record, now I break you.
Cool. Or I'll break you like I break your friend. Yeah, cool.
Okay, I could see how tightening it up might have been better, but I really
think you're just being way too hard on him. Should we have added more to
it? It's— no, it's really, it's really just so good. I can't believe you're nitpicking
this. This, this wonderful— look, we've had so many, uh, mutual 5-star
movies, I gotta make sure there's something to pick on about. We gotta make sure
we really get— dig into everything because this could be one of those.
Uh, the, the Frank Chong Li fight is pretty entertaining.
It's good. It's a good fight. Again, this is like the best example of
Jean-Claude Van Damme only kicks with his right leg. I didn't notice that, but now
I gotta go back and watch it. Yeah, go back and watch it. Uh,
every kick he does He does these kicks that I would describe as like foot
slaps. Like, he's— it's almost like he's slapping him like an old woman would with
like a white glove, like across the face. Uh, he hits him
with the world's most telegraphed jump kick to the face. Like, this is all haymakers,
this fight. Yes, it's definitely not like little jabs and strategy.
It's like an NBA game that's all dunks. It's NBA Jam.
Yeah, it's one— dude, totally NBA Jam. Uh,
maybe this movie inspired NBA Jam too. Might have.
He kicks Frank at one point. Chong Li comes up from behind
him and Frank kicks behind his shoulder,
which is like— it's like if a pirate had
a parrot on his shoulder, it would be him kicking his own parrot off his
own shoulder, right? Like that angle. Like, that's where the guy's face was.
I feel like we saw a movie where this happens in a clearly comically
incorrect way. Like, I was like, one of the— it was like Naked Gun or
Airplane or somebody does something like this where like they essentially would've had to fold
in half for this to happen. Yep. I think it was Airplane. I feel like
somebody gets crunched in the bed, or I don't remember exactly what it was.
Some movie where somebody, yeah, like gets that compressed
and yet he— we're supposed to believe, and of course we'll only see him from
his chest up, so we don't see the rest of his body, but we're supposed
to believe that that foot, which I think would've been his left actually,
but goes up. Yeah, that's true. In that scene. Yeah. And completely, yeah. Like I
just don't even understand physically how that would happen. Yeah. I don't even understand how
your hip rotates to make that happen. It doesn't is the key. But even,
Even if he got it right, because of like the shin hitting his own body,
like maybe the toe just tapped the dude's nose. Like it would have had to
be real close. It was like really very strange, right? You're giving yourself
an incredibly hard kick in the shoulder to maybe graze the guy behind
you. Let me break my collarbone to see if I can tickle the nose of
my opponent. That's the move here. But that was a big
move. And now Chong Li is down. Yeah. Uh, and he's obviously at a disadvantage,
so he reaches in for the 2 Rolaids that were in his, uh, given to
him by his trainer. Crushes them and then throws like an incredible amount of
powder for those 2 little pills. Oh, it was very, very, very, uh, complete crushing.
Yeah, yeah, it was very good. And it— yeah, and the sweat on his hand
didn't make it tasty or anything, just perfectly. So I don't know if they were
just supposed to be chalk discs or something. I guess the way I read it
described was like salt tablets or something. I don't know.
I mean, that would hurt. Used to happen in pro wrestling, right, where they have
the guy— and again, it would always be like a Japanese guy, sneaky Japanese guy
who's throwing salt in someone's face to blind them. Glitter. He's Korean, Japanese, and Chinese
in this. It's about par for the course for Bloodsport's cultural awareness.
Uh, yeah. And he's— so now Frank Dux
is blind, and again, no, no ref. Oh, we, we forgot to do the no
blinding anybody with foreign objects, uh, rule. Like,
damn it, we blew it. Yeah. And he is just giving the
most agonized slow-motion scream as Frank's looking around
realizing that he can't see. Very incompetent at the beginning at
being a blind guy. He's freaking out. Well, and, and here's the problem, then they
keep cutting to what we're supposed to believe is Frank's vision, and it's not.
He can't see. It's just blurry. Like, you still could look
at the fucking opponent and see him coming. This is not—
you are not in the dark. Like, it's very odd choice. They shouldn't have done
that, you know what I mean? Like, I feel like either don't do that or
make it— or do that just at the beginning and
show it deteriorating, right? Yeah, show it fade to black and then we go,
oh, he can't see anything. The way they did it, it's like, oh, he can
actually see shapes and colors and movement. Like, why wouldn't he just keep fighting?
I get that it's a disadvantage, I'm not wrong, but they make it seem like
when we're looking at him, it looks like, yeah, he's completely blind and reacting only
to the Force or what the fuck ever, right? But when we get the vision,
the shot from his vision, it's like, yeah, it's blurry,
it's impaired. You still just have to kick like a human-sized thing, so it's
not like, yeah, you're not playing darts. Right, exactly. Yes, this is not a precision
job here. Like, yeah. Um, so he's flashing
back now to his blindness training that he had with, with Tanaka.
We gotta be reminded. Yeah. That he did that. Oh, hey, remember,
remember an hour and 10 minutes ago, um, when I
was serving a full English tea to this family, like, with,
with a blindfold on? And he's, and he's flashing back to this.
So of course, when he remembers his training, which is the main thing that
we need to do, Yeah, is he's able to start doing it right.
Blocks a kick immediately, turns it around,
starts fighting back. Now Chong Li does a, does a very WWE,
WWF style move where he grabs the referee. Oh yeah,
throws him in between him and Frank, and Frank has to like grab him and
feel him for a minute, right? And then let him go, like, okay, you're okay.
And like, like defends him momentarily. Yeah, sort of puts him behind himself,
which is like partly get out of my way, But like the ref doesn't step
away from him at all. He just stays right there. That ref is asking to
get really hit. And also, if I felt a gi when I'm going against
a shirtless guy, I would be pretty quick, like, cool, I'm good, instead of
like investigating him. There's nothing to grab on Bolo Yeung
at this point. He has no shirt on. You wouldn't be grabbing anything. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Um, so we got a lot of slow-motion dodges
here, and Frank is, is using his blind training and And getting
out of the way, and he's able to turn the tables here on Chang Lee.
He puts him in a hold, and he gets Chang Lee to say the the
tap out words. Mate, mate. Yep. And and
that is it. Well, I mean, this it for that fight.
Yeah, it's absolutely right. So Frank wins. He is the champion. He's the first American
champion of the Kumite. I believe he's given a sword as well, right? Isn't that?
Yeah, which is never getting through TSA on his way home. Well, they'd. There was
no TSA back then. Uh, but you know, it's— we
then have to cut back to the hospital room to Jackson because he's telling him
how he won and, and, you know, all this stuff. And, and they get their
whole, you know, anytime you ever need me, I'm there, brother,
like kind of, you know, moment. So we know, okay, they're lifelong friends. That's cool.
Um, but then he asked, you know, did you beat him? And, and the journalist
gets to say— Janice, or whatever— she's like, oh, even better, he made him say
mate. She's just so— a moment ago she wanted this whole thing done
away with, but now Frank's One, she's a super fan. Yeah,
freaking front runner, Janet. Yeah. Um, yeah,
so then that's it. And, uh, and Dukes is, uh,
supposed to now return, uh, with these agents. And I like that Ray
Jackson's allowed to just chug beer throughout his recovery at this hospital. That must
have been Hong Kong standard protocol at the time. Dude, it looks nice. Um,
and the, the agents are there at the plane, you know, at the bottom of
the airplane, said, ah, Dukes is standing us up again. And then he comes out
from the door He's like, what took you so long, guys? Guys,
where are you going? I am right here. It is time for us to go
back to America. Like, whatever the fuck his accent is. Yeah. So that
is Bloodsport. And then the most surprising part— Here we go.
The entire movie to me, I had no idea that was coming. I had no
hint that there was anything about this. The text that shows
up over Jean-Claude Van Damme's face when he's doing the little fist
and bow kind of thing to Janice saying, Goodbye. I wrote down the
whole thing. This is what it says. This motion picture is based on the true
events in the life of Frank W. Dux. From 1975 to 1980,
Frank W. Dux fought 329 matches.
He retired undefeated as the World Heavyweight Full Contact
Kumite Champion. Mr. Dux still holds 4 world records: fastest
knockout, 3.2 seconds; fastest punch with a knockout,
0.12 seconds; whoa; fastest kick with a 72
miles per hour. Oh, how many seconds was that?
Most consecutive knockouts in a single tournament: 56.
Hold on to that one. Subsequently, Mr. Dukes founded the first American ninjutsu
system, Dukes Ryu. So this is the first problem I have with this,
is I saw that and I went, bullshit, there's no way. Yeah,
the first number that jumped out at me is insane, is 329 matches
in 5 years. Just Like, the most prolific boxers of all
time have, like, maybe 100 matches in their entire careers.
40 to 50 is a good career, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like,
so 329 full-contact, no-gloves matches,
and yes, over 6 years, supposedly, is just— beggars
the imagination. It's ridiculous. But the more interesting one is the
56 consecutive knockouts in a single tournament,
because the number of entrants you would need in a tournament
in order to have the winner fight 56 people
and beat them all, 56 consecutive people, yeah, you would need, and I quote,
I did the math, 72 quadrillion,
57 trillion, 594 billion people needed
to be in that tournament. Oh, so you're saying it's impossible for there to be
a popular martial science tournament? Something like 9 million Earths worth
of people or something. Like, it's absolutely ridiculous. And so yeah, the whole— all
of his stuff is just complete bullshit. And of course, the reality of it is
like none of it's verifiable. All of it just came from dudes. He told Black
Belt magazine that he did this, they printed it, that became
the proof that it is real. Yeah, yeah. And so it's still all just based
on one guy's claims. Yeah, yeah, really crazy. It's so crazy that,
um, yeah, 56 in a row. Even if you're—
it's like an octuple elimination tournament where you're able
to lose and still like fight again. The one potential way would be like 56,
a round robin of 57 people. Yeah, so everybody has to fight everybody
else 56 times. Yeah, but then how do you do that, A, over 3 days,
and B, who can serve— who, who other than
this impenetrable champion is surviving long enough to fight 56 matches
over a few days while getting knocked out at least by Frank Dux,
right? It's ridiculous. It sounds like a classic liar.
And then all the stuff I'd read about Frank Dux is, is he,
uh, juiced his military service numbers apparently.
You know, there's not, uh, a lot of evidence for the stuff that he's claiming.
And he kind of was in the reserves, it sounds like. So he did have
some connection but never like deployed to Vietnam or anything like that, right? I saw
Right. So, uh, yeah, just your classic liar. Just the classic
kid you went to elementary school with who says that his dog is actually a
wolf. Like one of those kind of kids. You wouldn't know this tournament, she's in
Canada. Like, yeah, yeah.
So that, that is Bloodsport. And, uh,
it's— that is Bloodsport, Nic. That's Bloodsport.
Yeah. You brought it to us. Give us your rating, buddy. What's going on?
Okay, so Bloodsport, uh, you know, you have to know why you're
going into to watch it, uh, and what you're gonna get out
of it. It's a short movie, hour and a half like we said. I think
you can trim the first 15 minutes, no problem. Oh yeah. Um,
and, uh, everyone has the option to fast forward
through or start later, and I'd say like your experience doing that is going to
be more enjoyable. This is almost like— it's interesting
to know that the budget was so low. Yeah, that's true. Because I do feel
like this movie would benefit from a modern remake, and not even as like a
blockbuster, but just as kind of the level of one of those those like Jason
Statham lore release, like The Beekeeper or something that has that kind
of budget in it, right? Um, because I think you can get a lot of
real, uh, fighters in it. I think you can make it look
a lot better, the fight choreography. There's a lot of opportunities
to, to improve on it. Um, but it did inspire so
much stuff. There's a lot of stuff that wouldn't have existed if Frank Dux wasn't
such a successful liar, right? I imagine being an editor,
it'd What? Who would lie to Black Belt magazine?
The most lied about title in the history of the world.
But, you know, Van Damme, yeah, he kind of sucks, but he can do
some fun looking stuff. Not, not great acting in this.
It's kind of crazy that future Oscar nominee
Forest Whitaker was in this. Yeah, right. Our second time
seeing Mr. Whitaker. Yeah, that's right. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Very famous role in
Fast Times. Yeah, we haven't seen like a Forest Whitaker movie yet. No, but we'll
get there, I'm sure. We've seen him around for sure. Um, so I think as
far as rating Bloodsport, I'm gonna be similar to how
you were with the last film, where I think that if I'm just going straight
up, if I didn't have any history with this, if I wasn't giving it credit
for like spawning Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat, I'd probably
be more like a 2.5. Like, it's just kind of like a stinky low-budget movie
with some cool parts. I'm gonna go 3.5 for Bloodsport because
I I think that it's a fun watch. If this is your jam, it's a
fun one. And if you like action movies, I think it's important to add this
to your repertoire of ones you've seen, just because it's influential
and it's referenced a lot, even if it's not the greatest experience to watch.
That's fair. I think that's totally fair. Yeah, I obviously, having watched this for the
first time this week, don't have any nostalgia for Bloodsport. However, I do have nostalgia
for at least one of the major things that it spawned, which was the sort
of 1v1 fighting games that we all loved in the early '90s. '90s, most specifically
Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, had really specific pulls from this movie
that informed their movies, or their games rather. So I
have to give it some credit there. Like you, never been a big Van Damme
guy. You know, I was pretty much a Schwarzenegger guy when it came to action
stars in the '80s and '90s, even more than Stallone and anybody else. Well,
Arnie, I mean, Arnie is truly the Cadillac of those guys. I mean, Stallone is
a significant step down, even though he's clearly the second best one. Sure,
but he's like a fully loaded Chevy Silverado. Like, it's fine, but it's not,
It's not a luxury car, you know what I mean? Like, yeah. But yeah,
so I don't have nostalgia for that, but I have nostalgia for some of the
resulting art that came out of this existence.
I actually was going to give this a 1.5, and I'm gonna
bump it up to a 2, 'cause the more I think about how all of
this came out of one just absolute pathological liar's bullshit
stories, and that he got away with getting this movie made, Yeah. getting the story
told, like, fucking kudos, Frank W. Dukes. It's all bullshit,
clearly, but man, you had so many people going for so long and got this
movie made, and then that meant this and this. And so I am gonna give
it a 2 out of 5. Okay. That's about it, 'cause I also was thinking
about it in the context of Rocky IV. I feel like this is a very,
very similar movie. This movie is a series of fights and
flashbacks tied loosely together with a plot, which, you know, Rocky IV was more
of like montages and fights. Yes. Right? You know,
but same kind of thing where there's not enough plot here. for me to care
about the movie part of it, but that's also fine. Like, there's some value here.
So I think I was a 1.5 on Rocky. Because of the Street Fighter II
and Mortal Kombat influence, some of that stuff, uh, I'm gonna go up to 2
on Bloodsport. So, uh, you were 3.5, so 5.5 out of 10 is where we
are with Bloodsport. Fair enough. I think that's, that's where it belongs. I think that's,
that's, that's pretty accurate. Um, but yeah, man, Frank Dux, like,
good, good for you. Now you know what, my, my YouTube rabbit hole this week
is gonna be looking for actual Frank Dux interviews just to see this guy in
action. 100%. It might be featured on an upcoming episode of the Rewind.
If I find some good Frank Stukes, I'll share it. Love it.
Perfect. Cool. All right, so I'm doing next week then.
This was— yeah, what do we got coming up, Steve? So we're gonna go do
another movie. This was kind of like— I think this will go better than last
time, but, but a few weeks ago we did The Birdcage, maybe a
month ago now. And that was a movie that is something
my wife and I love together and quote together. And I mentioned it in
that episode a few times. And come on, Gloria, you whatever, all this stuff.
And we're gonna do another movie that's like that. This is something that Heather and
I like love. This was actually a movie she introduced me to, I believe.
Um, can't remember if I'd never seen it before I started dating her in
the early 2000s, but I definitely— if I'd maybe seen it once,
it wasn't like an important part of my life. And then she loves it.
So she and I started dating in like, uh, 2005. And so from there,
I saw this movie a ton of times, and it's now a major thing.
We get to go back to the Bay Area, to like the pre-tech boom Bay
Area. Oh, it's been a while since we had a Bay Area movie. We had
Pacific Heights, we had Sneakers, uh, The Rock, you know, so we've done a few,
but now we're gonna go back and do, do another Bay Area movie. Um,
and we're gonna see, you know, Mike Myers before he— before Austin Powers and before,
you know, ever, but after Wayne's World. So it's sort of like at— I don't
even know, right around when Wayne's World came out, actually. I'm not 100% sure exactly
the time. We'll have to look at it next week. But So I Married an
Axe Murderer. Okay, beating around the bush, we're gonna go— this— he plays like,
you know, 2 characters. 2 characters in this one, I think. Just 2. Yeah,
he plays— he plays the main character and his own dad, right? And, and yeah,
so, so we're gonna go and we're gonna hang out with, uh, with the Scottish
family, uh, Charlie's parents and, and his buddy, the, the cop
that wishes being a cop was more exciting than it really is. And, you know,
there's just all, all these shots of San Francisco from like long before any of
the like tech stuff kind of took over. Unrealistic locks in this one. Oh,
absolutely, 100%. Can't wait for it. Really good Yeah, how 2 roommates
afford that crazy apartment in San Francisco even in 1993 or whatever.
Right. Wild. So yeah, so, uh, '93, So I Married an Axe Murderer.
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