If Looks Could Kill (1991) Richard Grieco & Roger Rees

0:03 Richard Greco mistaken for a spy. I can drive this baby out of here right now, right, yeah, all I have to do is rescue a beautiful girl, save europe Graduate High School. What that's you doing just like this, hey, Richard Griico. No, probably if luks could kill right at PG thirteen, now playing at a theater near you, in a world where podcasts reign supreme, Two friends dare to ask Do You Even? Movie?

0:48 Hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and movie officionado David Denyer. Spoiler alert, that's right, my friends, we are heading into quite the nostalgia trip right here on Do You Even? Movie? I'm, of course your host Enrique Kuto here with my good buddy and co host double D David Denoyer, and we Yeah, it's a treat. This one is a big treat because if you are an elder millennial unlike this. Uh what did my therapist say?

1:37 Oh god, my therapist was like, when you want to be mean to David, don't say like the really mean thing you're thinking. Ease up and be a little bit nicer. Old, I'm just gonna check my email, all right, A right? Fair enough? Oh ship bag, shit bag ship bag with this ship bag here, that was a long time. We are here. We are here with do You Even Movie? Where we talk about our favorite and well not always favorite movies that we think matter. Yeah. We like to say over on this show that we are not reviewers. We're enthusiasts. Yes, and that is especially true because I often hate reviewers.

2:21 Yeah. No, I. When you and I set out to do this podcast, the one thing we agreed upon was that we wanted, most of anything, to have a show where we gave our appreciation for film and covered the things that not normal shows cover. For the most part, we want to have an appreciation. We want people to go see these movies. We don't just want to crack jokes. I mean that'll definitely come with the territory. No, there will be no joke, no jokes at all, none whatsoever, straightforward podcast. But no, like do you even Movie? Is the concept of exactly what it says. Do you even movie? Do you know the stars? Do you know the writers? Do you know the people behind the camera? If not, we're gonna show yet. Well, and I'd like to think that do you even Movie as a reference is a joke because you know, we're referring do you even live, bro, which is meant to be like a like a gatekeeper kind of thing exactly, and we're completely against that kind of mentality. We're not gatekeepers. We want everybody to be able to jump out and enjoy and celebrate. Yes film, Absolutely, that's what we're doing here, and we're not going to ever explain it again except maybe every time you join us. But we're happy to have you here. Yes, and tonight we are talking about if looks could Kill?

3:30 So double d yes? What are the deats the pertinent deeps? So the pertinent dats in regards to the film, we'll go with synopsis and I have several to choose from, So you tell me which one you like the best? Hat from all. So this is off the back of the Warner DVD. It says, check it out. Who's the tuxedo guy in the awesome, cheery red Machine make Way Bill and Ted? Here comes Richard Griico in his very way Bill and Ted his very own excellent adventure make make Way Bill and Ted. Okay, So, in the film business, which I happen to know a little bit about, there's a thing called comp titles. Yeah, comparable titles right. Comp titles are super handy because it allows you to basically in shorthand tell somebody you're trying to sell a movie to, Hey, it's like this, so that they can get an idea of how they would market it, or how they should understand it, or where it would fit in their business. Yeah. That being said, what year was this movie?

4:33 Nineteen one? Comparing it to Bill and Ted is just that's grasping its straws until I get more attorney. I guess that's just like punching at them for for No, this is not a movie that is really going hard. No for that Bill and Ted on at all? Am I am? I am? I not crazy? You're right. I don't think you're crazy at all. I when I read the back of this, which I'll continue Grico Mobsters TV's twenty one Jump Street plays teenage in Michael Corbin and If Luks Could Kill a bodaciously fun spy Spooth, also starring Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Gabrielle Anwar and It's an adventure that's styling from the start. Needing a class credit for graduation, Michael goes to Europe with the French Club for what he hopes will be breezing Babe Safari. Instead, instead, he's mistaken for a top superspy, loaded up with lots of righteous espionage gear and given a totally cool car. He's having the time of someone else's life. Not all he has to do is save Europe and graduate from high school. No problem.

5:36 I've only done one of those, but you would never guess which one it is. Never ever. So that's the back of the Warner DVD, right, And that's even crazier because that Warner DVD had to have been published at minimum in the last twenty years. Try I think ten. I know, I'm just saying that DVD didn't exist in nineteen ninety one. So wow, here's IMDb. Oh okay, Michael has to take summer class in French, a class trip to France to graduate high school. He is, however, mistaken for an agent and people try to kill him. There there are double oh seven. He's mistaken for an agent. Yes, he is mistaken for an agent. Taken for an agent. So people are like, whoa, I heard you booked Perian a God commercials for actors. You're dead, You're dead. I love it. It's like swimming with sharks. Here's the end.

6:23 There are double oh seven style cars, QTS, Crooks, et cetera. So and by QTS it's referring to Clementine Orange. Yes, here's letterboxed. Michael Corbin, along with the rest of his high school French class, sets out for a trip to France. When he is mistaken for an agent of the same name, he is besieged by both good guys and the bad guys. British Intelligent Intelligence outfits him with a series of James Bond like Gizmo's and Storenko sends more would be assassins after him. Can Michael stop the evil Storenko's plans for European domination? There's that, okay, and then finally here's Google. Before he can graduate, Cocky high school student Michael Corbin played by Richard Grico travels to France on a school trip to earn missing French credit, But when a British Intelligent agent mistakes Michael for a spy of the same name, they rush him to headquarters and assign him to capture the evil Augustus Durenco played by Roger Rees. Using a plethora of Spiono's gadgetry Michael has the time of his life until he crosses pass with two assassins played by Tom Rack and Carol Davis who want him dead. None of those are good. No, there's not a single synopsis. When you're reading a synopsis from IMDb, then you have to take it with a grain of salt, knowing that the person who wrote it is incurably insane, has a plethora of illnesses both mental and physical, and has been dead for months. Yeah, so, but those are all not they're good, very so double d. If you had to tell our audio audience, if you wanted to be kind enough to tell them

7:56 what the hell is if looks could kill? So it looks could kill. As a film from nineteen ninety one starring Richard Griico, who plays Michael Corbyn. Corbyn is essentially a high school student who is graduating, except he's not. Oh he's well, he's a classic like Ferris Bueller slacker type. Yeah he's cool. He's cool, but also things don't always work out the way he'd like them too, so he also gets like smacked down by life, s backed down by life. He didn't attend his French class, so he missed out on his French credit, so he cannot graduate. So he has the option of going to summer school, except summer school is not being taught by missus Grover. His French teacher is being or she is taking the class on a trip to France. So somehow he ends up getting to go on the trip to France to get his credit, and in doing so he ends up crossing paths with the gentleman of the same name, that is an intelligence agent that ends up getting assassinated in the airport. He takes his first class ticket, goes in onto the flight, and then British intelligence mistakes him as soon as he gets off the plane, and now he has to save I don't want to say, is it the world? Well, it's like a bunch of world leaders. Yeah, it's a bunch of world leaders. He has to save them. Way too long for the box, the back of the box. I don't know what you want? What you want me?

9:05 You could have just said, through mistaken identity a high school okay, school student, here, let me through a case of mistaken identity. A high schooler who is not necessarily the best dudent ever has to stand in place of the best super spy ever. In a wacky rump that screams where the nineties? Oh my god, so it just looks good killed. I just pulled it up just for the just for the hell of it. The back of the VHS. Oh your Warner is the Warner Archives. D Oh. So they just copied it, which makes perfect sense, you know, I you know if you heard that saying, you know, I apologize. If I had had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter. I should have elevator pitched it. And I didn't think about it all right, I mean, I just wanted to get a quick one across, considering the fact that the rest of the program is using the whole movie or what we love about it and stuff like that. Of course at the beginning of the show you should have been warned. But if if you haven't, spoiler alert, we we do have. We're maggotty with spoilers. There's do you even movie? No way for us to talk about this one, especially without spoiling a lot, because for one, it's an eighty eight minute runtime. Okay, And I mean yeah, I mean I guess and now, I mean back then that was a little bit more common, a little bit more common some people get mad when you complain about movies being long all the time.

10:20 Yeah, you know, I did like a world when it was easier to fit going to a movie into my week. Yeah, I have sometimes it's like two and a half hours. You're like, why do I have to test my bladder to see this movie? As much as a nerd as I am, I have a I have playlists on my Voodoo that is called David's Bedtime Stories, and all the films are nic a Serbian film, No, a Serbian film. No, They're ninety minutes or less, and they fit in that time slot. So I can put something on if I want to either fall asleep to it or if I just want to, you know, put a ninety minute movie on. But is a Serbian film under ninety minutes? No, I don't believe it is. I think it's I think it's like ninety five is so you had well, but they cut it down for fiah so there you go. Yeah, yeah, you got to talk about it. Uh oh, watch out, guys, it's a hot take.

11:09 You wanna you wanna, you wanna lay one on everybody. All I'm gonna say is if if Voodoo is using cover art for it. Okay, So so what happened was I I had a friend who wanted to see a Serbian film. And if you're not familiar with the Serbian well that's a friend right there. Yeah, if you're not familiar with Serbian film, keep it that way. Yeah, I mean probably you're it probably isn't for you if you ever heard about it. It's a modern right of passage film, yeah, kind of the way films like Cannibal Holocaust were or Faces of Death is probably the most famous kind of like that's how you know you're like the edge lord fifteen year old seat when when I was a boy. When I was a boy, we would rent tapes and celebrate the defeating of Hitler. Yeah, and and then and then we would take our tapes and fend off dinosaurs in order to get to a VCR. But no, uh, there was this whole era where it was like you were you had to see these certain movies.

12:07 Absolutely, and Dave. I like to pick on Dave for a lot of reasons, very good reasons. Yeah. I mean he's literally like there's a tag right above his butt crack that is a hot topic label. But no, I like to pick on David, but he's just a smidge younger than I am, about six seven years younger. Yeah, so I had a lot more of the pure ass VHS era than you. You had more of a like renting DVDs era. Yeah. I bought VHS's towards towards that point because I bought VHS is when it was cool, not because it was no only way, no, no, no no. DVD was out at that point. But the getting a VHS at the flea market, Dixie flea Market was super. I mean you could get him for like twenty five apiece.

12:48 So I started building my VHS collection when I was six five or six. Wow, anyway, he was beating the chicks off with a with a pointed stick. I digress. So Serbian film went up on Voodoo, And for anybody who knows about Serbian film, you're probably aware that it has not been available uncut since I don't know how long I mean there was there was an uncut release that came out. You could I couldn't tell you for sure. Tail end of like the early two thousands, I want to say, and Fyu carried it. But anyway, so Voodoo puts up a Serbian film and it says uncut and unrated on the box art, so on their cover art, I'm like, okay, well it's got to be. And I checked the run time and everything tracked, except when I went to go watch it, it clearly was the R rated cut and not not the unrated heinous that everybody has come to no cut. So yeah, and that made David very sad. It made me upset because it was false advertising. And we can end the story there. Well, it was the distributor's fault. Yeah, they just used the art they have. Well, and now that I know that, I've picked up on multiple things on Voodoo that have that exact same issue. When when Amazon Prime first started allowing people to release their independent movies, one of the big things they would like scream at the top of their lungs, was like, there better not be a DVD logo on your artwork, there better not be the credits at the bottom, and there better not be a like comings to a theater near you. Were like, they were always adam it about that stuff because people would be that level of lazy.

14:20 Oh yeah, I'm sure. So that's that's one thing worth pointing out. Yeah, but so what do what do you. So I'll say, first of all, I mean, what do we want to talk about? We want to talk about how we discovered it? Or so first up, we've got how can how can this be seen? So we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and kick you right in the nuts right away. If Looks Could Kill is not super easy to find streaming at all. You cannot rent it, You cannot find it on YouTube or any any place of that nature, unfortunately, and so you have to buy a physical DVD if you want to see it, which you can get from Warner Archive. They have an eight dollars and twenty nine DVD you can get very easily, and that's how you can see it. So, unfortunately, we are talking about a movie that's not super easy to come by, but we are talking about it because we love this movie and we both had it, and because and because there's another film named If Looks Could Kill that David thought, where's this movie? Thought available? That I thought it was readily available. So no, no, it's fine. The only request I had when we started the show is that movies be available, and you were like, no, you did say that we could squeeze one in there from time to time, and you know what this is? This I don't appreciate you saying I would say that sentence any pease, no, David, do you even? Movie will be right back,

15:50 welcome back to do you even? Movie. Let's get jump into who's in front of the camera. We're calling the segment above the line above the line, which is a show business term for people in front of the camera. Yes, so people end things because some actors are things yes, no, no, like things like above the line could also reference sets. It's just anything in front of the lens. So you have Richard Griico, who plays Michael Corbett in this. He had what this was his film debut, his feature film debut. He had been in One Life to Live in nineteen eighty seven. He'd been on Who's the Boss in eighty eight, Facts of Life in eighty eight, of course twenty one Jump Street. He played famously Jammis Booker in nineteen eighty eight to eighty nine, got his spinoff series Booker.

16:33 The same year, If Looks Could Kill comes out, one of my favorite films is probably gonna be a future episode Mobsters also comes out. Oh Chaz, yeah yeah yeah. From that point he goes and does The Demolitionist in nineteen ninety five. He does a lot of B movies between then. At Night at the Roxbury in nineteen ninety eight, he appears in twenty two Jump Street and twenty fourteen Demolitionist. Have we watched that? I don't know. It was one of those titles that I saw in his resume and I was like, I think I've seen it, But was that they were they trying to like write the coattails of demolition Man. Probably it was around the same time, so yeah, probably okay. And he was in that movie you and I watched a couple of years ago, Minutes to Midnight in twenty eighteen, that horror film that was a New Year's Center. Oh yeah, I like that one. Yeah. So you got Richard Rico. He plays Michael Corbyn. He's your main character, your villains in this one. You have Roger Rees who was playing Augustus Storenco. He was in Star eighty in nineteen eighty three. I first saw him as a in the Christmas Carol with George he Scott. In eighty four he plays his cousin Fred. He's in Stopper My Mom Will Shoot in nineteen ninety two. He's, of course Sheriff of Rodingham and Robin Hood been in Tights in ninety three, which is where I will forever know him. Yeah. Absolutely, And it's it's funny that he's the sheriff of rod Adingham and Robin Hood been in tights. But he's like wicked, serious actor he is. I like that about it. Oh yeah's like he could have been in the costner Robin Hood. Apparently a lot of people I didn't realize this, but apparently a lot of people knew him from Cheers. He was on Cheers, on Sheers for a little bit.

17:59 Oh played norm No, no, no, I had no idea he was Cheers. Well. He was also a voice in the nineteen ninety five cartoons Gargoyles. He appeared on OZ. He was in an episode. Oh no, I remember that. He was the in OZ. He was the what do you call it? The newsman. He was like a investigative journalist. Yeah, he was an investigative journalist on it. And he ends up staying in the cell with Cyril O'Reilly and we are not. I have been told, I have been told I'm not allowed to talk about OZ for more than thirty five seconds straight unless the topic of the show is oz So. Yes, but this guy's got a pedigree to end all pedigree, and unfortunately we lost him a few years ago. I want to say it was like I think twenty twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen, we unfortunately lost him. I think to cancer. That's too bad. I mean, well, let me tell you here's one of the most fun elements of movie fandom. Yeah, and I found this out doing my other show, Popcorn Fodder, which you direct, which is a movie hosting show. That what we do, boy time sure does go on. And the more we would do deep dives into the background and history of these movies, the more it'd be like, oh right, Like you know, it's just like every second is further away from when that movie was made. Therefore you're doing an infinite amount of death dedications.

19:18 I remember when we were doing Popcorn Fodder, I started to feeling like Casey Kasem, I just wanted to be like, what am I doing with this goddamn death dedication because I'd be like, boy, that scene sure was silly. When the woman punched the gorilla while she was topless. The man who played the gorilla unfortunately passed away in two thousand and seven. That was that was like, I mean, that didn't literally happen, but it was damn near Like yeah, so unfortunately. Yeah, when it comes to major fandom of cinema, there's just gonna be so many people passing away, and you know, and we're not gonna do only older movies. We'll talk about contemporary ones too, absolutely so, so tell us some more. We also have Linda Hunt, who plays Roger Reza Augustus Storenko's henchwoman. She is ilsa grunt.

20:06 She was in Popeye in nineteen eighty, Year of Living Dangerously in eighty two, David Cronenberg's or is it Croneberger Lynch Dune in eighty four. I think it's Lynch. Yeah, it's David Lynch. Okay. Yeah. She doubled in nineteen eighty nine, Kindergarten Cop of Course in nineteen ninety oh. Oh, and she is one of the for that era, the most recognizable female character actors. Yeah. And she was in Pocahontas in ninety five as the voice of Grandmother Willow. She was in the Relic in ninety seven and I found out this. I've played these games. I didn't even think about it. She's the main narrator on the God of War Games. I had no idea. Yeah, so do you also have Robin Bartlett, who plays Patricia Grover Missus Grover, the French teacher. She was in Oh wait never sorry, Sorry, I almost confused her for that woman who was always screeching in Austin Powers. Yeah, but I'm wrong. But for a second I thought that was her, and I'm wrong. So Robin Bartlett was in Sophie's Choice in nineteen eighty, to Baby Boom in eighty seven, Moonstruck in eighty seven, Lean On Me in eighty nine, Crimes and Misdemeanors in eighty nine, Dangerous Minds in ninety five. Man, you've got a bunch of other people in this, such as Oliver Deer, who is William Deere is the director of this film, which we'll get into the next segment. His son, Oliver Deer plays Kent, who is Corbyn's best friend in the movie.

21:18 He was in Time Writer, The Adventures of Lyle Swan and eighty two. He did Amazing Stories in eighty five. He was in a lot of people did Amazing Stories. We'll get say Amazing Stories as well, which is worth mentioning because when you have a show as massive as say in Amazing Stories, or more so when we were like our eras was like Law and Order, the later Star Trek series. Yeah, if you were a working actor and you didn't set foot on those sets, then you were eating cat food. You know, you were not working kid. Absolutely, So you've got Gabrielle Amoire who plays Mrska Blade. She was instead of a woman in nineteen ninety two Body Snatchers in ninety three, Yes, the good Body Snatchers. Wait, which actress was the main chick, the spy chick. Oh yeah, she totally is in Body Statues, which highly underrated. Definitely a future episode.

22:03 It's a lot about body statures. That is such a great nineties film until the studio ruined the ending. Yeah, hey, you know, I'm not here to be angry. Actually that's exactly what I'm here for. We've also got Tom Rack who plays Zigsfeld. He is another assassin in it. He was in one of my favorite films, The Vindicator from nineteen eighty six. But the reason I put him on here, Enrique, is because he was the pinball wizard Security in the Tail of the Pinball Wizard and Are You Afraid of the Dark, And he's also the Watcher in the Woods and the Tail of the Watcher in the Woods. Wait, so this is which actor the guy that has the hand, the robot hand he was. And there's another Tales from the or Not Are You Afraid of the Dark alumni in this, although it's a brief role during the card scene. Yeah, remember the guy who steps out and says like, beat beating up? Is this older looking British guy? He was old Man Cochrane in the in the the kids playing Hide and Seek in the graveyard. Ye, how we had like the white face in the harmonica. Totally, that's totally him, that's totally him.

23:02 Yeah, Holy hell. Was this shot in Canada? Yeah? Oh well then it's not a mystery at all. That's like going you know, oh it's kind of cloudy. Yeah, they shot it in Connecticut. Yeah. So the last one I'm gonna mention is Frederick Coffin. He plays Lieutenant Colonel LaBrie in this. He was also in Alone in the Dark to Jack Shoulder film in nineteen eighty two, phenomenal flick Shoot to Kill with the Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger in nineteen eighty eight Hard to Kill. He is Segall's best buddy in that, the one that to protect his son at the one point in the train station okay, yeah. And he was also in Wayne's world, of course, because he's the cop where he's like, it's a shame what they did to your program. It was a nice little uh when they go into the diner, he's the he's the guy that also gives Rob Low the body cavity search. Well oh oh yeah, oh him. He's another one of those characters. That's one thing about the nineties I find.

23:49 I don't know how if other people feel this way, Yeah, but I feel like a coziness just from the character actors I was used to seeing in everything when I was a young lad. I get the so and he was one that was in so many films, yeah, so many films. And the last one I want to mention is Robert d Or Rodger Daltrey of The Who makes a brief appearance in this. He is Blade, the secret agent that is killed that basically kind of starts everything in the movie The Who, The Who Who, Teenage Wasteland, Boba O'Reilly, who are you sleep boy? Camp three? I knew you were going to say that. Well, I mean, I'm anything if not predictable. So that is the above line, moving to below the line, who's behind the camera? We had the director William Dear. He did Northville Cemetery Massacre in nineteen seventy six, which sounds like a really fun movie that I saw in his resume. How have we not seen? I'm going to look into and I'll let you know, Okay, because no, that's I'm mad. Yeah. He He directed several episodes at SNL in nineteen eighty one. He did Playboy Collector's Edition Volume two in nineteen eighty three, a classic that both of us are very well aware of. He directed Gary Shandling Alone in Vegas in nineteen eighty four. I have How have I not seen that? It's one of his Ya, it's one of the stand ups. Oh it's a stand up? Okay, well I thought it was a film. I was like, I was like, how have I missed a Gary Shandling vehicle? He did Amazing Stories in nineteen eighty five. Okay, okay. He directed and I believe wrote Harry and the Hendersons in nineteen eighty seven. He did the Dinosaurs TV series in ninety

25:19 one, directed Angels in the Outfield in ninety four, Wild America in ninety seven, and this one Angels again the Outfield. Yeah, I love Adels in the Outfield. Ye, my bad future. Well, it's no Rookie of the Year. That's not Isn't it wild? How that happens that two movies will come out. I mean not that Angels in the Outfield and Rookie of the Year are that similar, but they're about kids playing base baseball, and they happened like right around the same time. And I've heard of that happening a lot in the movie business where completely independent. My favorite example is Observant Report. Observant Report and Paul Blart Mall Cop. Yeah, both being made at the same time, but completely independent. Nobody had any idea that that was happening. No, they did not. So the writer on this is mister Fred Decker. We will probably say his name a little a lot on this on this series. I would imagine, why would we mentioned Fred Decker. I think we're just both big Fred Decker fans. So I feel like his filmography is probably gonna get entirely covered at some point. I mean, I will say that I've always truly admired RoboCop three. I like Robo Cop three. I enjoy Robo Cop three quite a bit. No, no, Fred Decker, I mean is the stuff of legend. Yeah, Fred Decker gave us Night of the Creeps. I just watched Night of the Creeps in the theater for Halloween screening and it holds up. Oh yeah, So well it is a NonStop fun flick. And I'm not just saying that because it turns out I'm pals with the guy that the character JC was named after.

26:51 Shout out to you, Kappy, I know you're watching, and but like, not only because of that, but but it was just it just it just freaking books. Yeah. And then of course the film that meant go ahead. Everything to me as a kid, everything to me, I know, is a little film called Monster Squad, Yes, and Monster Squad for those who are uninitiated. It's about a group of kids who are tasked with defeating Dracula, the Wolfman, mummy creature from a creature not from a black lagoon. And well, I kind of Frank and Stein basically the way I usually like to describe the film is I like to say, Okay, so Dracula, Wolfman, Mummy, Creature, and Frankenson all come to a town looking for an ambulant and only a group of eleven year olds can stop them solid and it is so fun. That movie was such a stalwart VHS when I was a kid, when you were coming up, it was probably hard to find it was. It was one of those movies that was always like in fangoria or horror hend like people were talking about Yeah, well people, a lot of people love that movie. Yeah, but you can well it kind of was a film that was that was made outside of its time.

28:04 It didn't really make sense for it to come out in the eighties, Yeah, because there weren't a lot of monster kids anymore. No, not really, not a ton. The monster kid era was like the sixties. The fifties and sixties was like when Famous Monsters and all these other magazines were at their heyday. So to have this movie with basically the not you know, not litigious versions of universal monsters, because they wanted that film to be at universal. They wanted it to be an actual, like somewhat canonical universal monster. But it makes perfect sense. But Universe was just like, yeah, well it'll it'll flop, but what are they? Oh it did.

28:47 And that's the other thing. Some of my friends. I'm thinking of my buddy wolf Dan, some of my friends, they get mad when I point out that it flopped because They're like, it shouldn't have flopped. And I'm like, I'm not gonna say it shouldn't have. It's a great film. But maybe it's just the jadedness from working in show business for so long. But just because the movie's great doesn't mean it can succeed. No, And that movie's wonderful. It did nothing but capture my imagination and make me have warm and fuzzies and I'll never forget. When it came out on DVD, I was like twenty or nineteen years old, and I grabbed the movie and the first thing I did was I set it aside, and three weeks later I came home. I was living in Jersey at the time. I came home to Ohio to see my mom for my birthday and I was like, we gotta watch this, and I made her put it on her living room DVD player and I was like, we're watching this, and literally about ten minutes in my mom was like, you watched this a million times when you were a kid, and I was like, yeah, because the VHS tape broke broke it, and then I freaked out till we found another one, which was not easy to do. So Fred Decker. And there's even more too, in which you'll touch on a second. Yeah, but I have to say one hundred percent Fred Decker in my world. Og. Yeah, one hundred percent totally bitchin no Love. Fred Decker RoboCop three in nineteen eighty three. As Enrique said, he was also the writer of House in nineteen eighty five, The William Castle or Not William Castle? What William asks about William Castle Knight of the Creeps. Of course, he wrote. He wrote one of my favorite movies, Ricochet in ninety one. It's a highly prolific

30:18 writer. Yeah, and all the stuff he's written, for the most part, has been highly memoried. No, The Predator of twenty eighteen's his last one on the resume right now, which he did with his buddy Shane Black. Yes, he did, which I'm gonna make the joke first, another Black and Decker production. I got to that before everybody else. So Decker did the movie under a title that actually did get released overseas of Teenagent. So that's what the screenplay was, an Agent, Teenagent. That's what you can find all the where was it released as Teenagent? UK? I was gonna make a joke because I was like, well, it couldn't have been in countries without English because they wouldn't get the pun. Do You Even? Movie will be right back, welcome back to do You Even? Movie?

31:07 So Teenage it was the script that came out. Decker has said in an interview, I found that he did not really like the final product so much. It was very different from his script he wanted. He said, Greco wasn't who he imagined. He imagined somebody like Anthony Michael Hall. Okay, I mean I could see that, see I think, okay, because I think Greek's perfect. Anthony Michael Hall would be more of like a spas. Have you ever seen Out of Bounds, the action thriller that Hall did in the eighties with Jeff Kober chasing him. No, oh God, that sounds great. So he's like a farm boy that comes to the city to I think it's his brother. He had to live with his brother for a little bit. While he finds a job and he ends up getting a bag mixed up with like I think it's either money or drugs at a train station.

31:52 Yeah, and the guy Coober follows him home, kills the brother and his girlfriend or his wife, and then Hall is now on the run from this guy with this money or drugs and it's fucking intense. Wow, it is good. That sounds good. No, that sounds really good. Wow. Yeah. No for me, Anthony Michael Hall, I stand by would have made it more of a spaz and I kind of like that. It was more of a Ferris Bueller kind of style. That's absolutely something that as soon as I said it, when I was trying to describe the movie, quickly it dawned on me. I was like, that's actually a really good way to describe it, because Mueller is a great example in cinema of the slacker character that is not perfect though though he's still a screw up. He still makes big mistakes, people still get mad at him, he still struggles to pass his classes. He's more of a guy who thinks he has it all figured out, ye, not someone who actually does. And that's why I love the opening of the movie. Ye Greco or Greg Greco, sorry Greco Greco Roman Wrestling. Rico literally gets his diploma and he's all like, yeah, you know, thanks a lot, and then they're like, uh yeah, the fun is just begun. And he opens it up and it says incocomplete his French class. So anyway, yeah, yeah, I love I love the way this film came together. Yeah, I could see what Decker was going for, but I think that they I can't imagine the movie without a well smarmy butt head. And that's where Darren Stark COM's and he wrote the screenplay. He had done doing Time on Earth in nineteen eighty eight,

33:22 Bill and Ted's excelland Adventure in ninety two. Okay, well, and then they just crap on it. Yep, Melrose Place, it's just back Melro's Place in nineteen ninety two, Beverly Hills, nine oh two one Oho and two thousand. Sex in the City. He did a bunch of Sex in the City, like hundreds of episodes Younger, the VH one show in twenty fifteen, and he also did a bunch of episodes for Milli in Paris, the Netflix show. So he's done a lot of writing and is still doing it to this day. Music in the film is done by David Foster. He had worked with the likes of Chicago Kenny Loggins. He did the soundtrack for Saint Almost Fire, Shaka Khan, One Good Cop, the Michael Keaton movie that I don't know if you've ever seen. Not one of my favorites, but a pretty good score it. It sounds familiar, but yeah.

34:06 Also worked with Whitney Houston and Madonna as well. So the score in this film, for my money really really freaking works. Oh you didn't pay for it, so I do what that matters? Your money doesn't matter here White Boy continuing on this movie, was the cinematographer of Douglas Milsom. He was the focus, poller and clapper on such films as that's what it's said on IMDb. This is where we're going, This is the where we're digging, and do you even movie? This is where we're digging because this is fucking awesome. So wait, just wait, I'll be the judge of that blow up. In nineteen sixty six, Okay, phenomenal movie. Casina Royale sixty seven, A fine movie. A clockwork Orange in nineteen seventy one, a couple people. I have seen that one. Barry Lyndon in nineteen seventy five.

34:47 Okay, that's cool. I'll give you that one. That's cool. The Spy Who Loved Me in seventy seven. He becomes the camera operator on The Shining in nineteen eighty Oh he was the camera operator yep. And then he is a Then he is full on basically cinematographer from this point on. In Highlander in nineteen eighty six, a great film, Full Metal Jacket in eighty seven. Oh, so I came back. He was cooper back to Kubrick. The only thing more impressive than working for Kubrick is working for Kubrick again. Yeah, you either have an incredible wherewithal or a gambling part. Yeah. So Desperate Hours in nineteen ninety, Robin Hood Princes the Thieves in nineteen ninety one. It's pronounced five, Body of Evidence in ninety two, Sunset Grill in nineteen ninety three. Remember that one with Peter Weller, that Cinema of the Noir. I showed you where with the Voodoo and shit.

35:38 Oh yeah, that movie's out of its mind. Rumpel Still Skin in nineteen ninety five. In My opinion an absolute nineties kid classic, because if you didn't watch Rumpel's Stilt Skin. Yeah, as a kid in the nineties, most didn't know. But I'll tell you what you did. Do you looked on in fear at the HS box. Oh my god, yes you did. Yeah. That's a good that's a good creepy box cover. So to cap Milsom nineteen ninety seven breakdown. So this guy has a hell of a resume for cinematography. Moving on to the editor on this, I want to mention. I mean, one of the things that the first things when we became buddies that I blew your mind about was I would tell you, hey, take a minute, look at those cinematographers, because not a joke.

36:24 You can literally look at a movie like pick a big Hollywood movie like I was looking at this is forty. Yeah, literally click on this is forty, click on the cinematographer. Ed It'll be like scroll back, It'll be like first film, Stripped to Kill Two Live Girls. I happen to be a fan of strip to Kill Two Live Girls. But my point being, dps will go from the lowliest film to one of the most important films. Sometimes in less than a decade or even less than a year sometime, if I'm remembering correctly, Dean Coundy, who went on to shoot not only Halloween, not only Jurassic Park, not only he shut Back to the Future right Road House to the Future, but Satan's Cheerleaders. Yes, was one of his first credits, a movie I bought on DVD for like eight dollars and then was like, well that was that was Satan's Cheerleaders, and moved on with my life. So I'm not saying I'm not not to crap on Satan's Cheerleaders, but my point is, you know, you would not you would be like, oh, yeah, of course humble beginnings with Halloween, which just happened to become a classic. Yeah, oh no, my friend, he did Satan's Cheerleaders as well. Yeah. I just love that about cinematographers.

37:37 They get around because the fact of the matter is, and maybe this is going to shock people, but a film has to have a camera, and the camera has to be pointed at things, and it has to be in focus, and Dave has to just cough and cough because he does not respect the audience. And I'll Enrique is right, and also handsome. So there you go. For the listeners and viewers. This is my first time hearing these, so my reactions are all I thought you were saying, this is my first time talking, and I was gonna go, you know what, fair, fair fair? So moving on, the editor of this film is John F. Link. He was an editor on Race with the Devil in nineteen seventy five, Stay Hungry in nineteen seventy six. Okay, a little film called Commando in nineteen eighty five. Oh you mean Suburban Command Suburban Commando? No I do not, I mean I mean the good Commando.

38:29 So Suburban command Oh would you stop? Predator in nineteen eighty seven, Die Hard in nineteen eighty eight, Okay, Roadhouse in nineteen eighty nine, Hard to Kill in nineteen ninety, Hand That Rocks, the Cradle in ninety two, Mighty Ducks in ninety two, The Big Green in ninety five, The Quest in ninety six, and nineteen ninety. Cherry Falls, Well, that's an underrated class Cherry Falls. But also I don't know why you didn't just stop at Mighty Ducks and just let it, let it, let it go, let it ride. So wrapping us up is our special effects, So our key special effects on this was a Lewis Craig. He did Scanners in eighty one. He was an assistant tech advisor. Happy Birthday to Me in nineteen eighty one. I love that one, The Vindicator in nineteen eighty six, The Fly in nineteen eighty six, and then from this point on he becomes the supervisor for special effects with Scanners three, The Takeover in ninety one.

39:17 That one's like. I like those later scanners. A lot of people crap on them. I like, but I'm well, I'm I'm a lifelong Scanner cop apologist. I'm not even gonna call it a fan anymore. I'm just gonna call it an apologelogist. When that Blu Ray four K of Scanner Cop one and two came out, yeah it was. I. I didn't understand how it made financial sense to make a four K only for me. Yeah, but they did. They did, And when life is good, you don't question. It's best not to ask questions. So continuing he did. He was a supervisor on the Quest in ninety six, Silent Trigger in ninety six, The Bone Collector in nineteen ninety nine. Oh okay, I love that one. Art of War in two thousand, Secret Window in two thousand and four, Key Number seven in two thousand and six. I mean that's how you say that, But it's locky number seven, EIGHTM in twenty twelve, Life of Pie in twenty twelve, Birdman in twenty fourteen, Bad Santa in twenty sixteen, and the Death Wish remake in twenty eighteen. So special effects for kis yeah, yeah, and then wrapping us up as our stunt coordinator, because the one thing we will get into once we start talking about our love of this movie are the stunts of this movie. Okay.

40:25 So dig On in Glenn Randall Junior is his name. He worked on Planet of the Apes in nineteen sixty eight, Omega Man in seventy one, Diamonds Are Forever in seventy one, Blazing Saddles in seventy four, Raiders of the Lost Dark in eighty one, Poulter Guys in eighty two, et in eighty two, Return of the Jedi in eighty three, fire Starter in eighty four, Red Dawn in eighty four, Cat's Eye in eighty five, Remo Williams The Adventure Begins in eighty five. I Raw Deal Williams two, Raw Deal, Maximum Overdrive, I have the Tiger, No Mercy, The Fugitive on Deadly Ground Time Cop, The Substitute Traveler with Bill Paxton. Yeah, and wrapping us up the Mask of Zorro in nineteen ninety eight. So the resumes on this movie are why I love this movie. I think, did you think that's why you didn't know that when you originally loved the movie? I did not. I'm just saying so that is finishing us off for below the line. So we are now getting into, as we have it, the trivia of the film. So I don't even know. Actually we probably want to talk about the movie at this point. Actually, now I think about it, I don't know because I did the rundown of it. But now I'm also like, I think we just need to get into why we love this movie. To be honest, I mean, I didn't even know you liked this movie. Oh really, So what was your first experience of this movie? How did you see this? Oh? Come on, it was on HBO, HBO or Cinemax or both all the time. Yeah, it was constantly playing, constantly playing, Yeah, it was always on. I

41:58 would catch the beginning. I'd catch a little bit of the end. I'd catch the middle. I probably didn't see the film from start to finish for years. Yeah, but the sense of humor caught me. And of course the action. Absolutely, the action scenes are insane. But as a young kid, probably you know, eleven twelve years old watching it, the spy gadgets really caught me. But also the scene toward the end where he's picking at his food and the and the super villain is right. Yeah, he tells him, you know that is a plate that Alexander the Great or something ate off of, and then he just takes the plate and drops it on the floor to shatter it. That was what as a kid made me go, I love this movie. That was so funny. That's what I would do. Yeah. My personal experience with it the first time I ever saw it was we had a video cabinet at my parents house. From growing up at our house, a cabinet made of video. Cabinet made of video How does that even work? But doesn't sound like it makes sense. Inside the video cabinet, we had our regular vh stags like bought from the store and whatnot, and then my parents had HVO. We had a copy of bought from the store on VHS stop never so we had a bunch of recorded stuff off HBO and like stars and stuff through the years. And it was a MEMORYX tape that had the had the slip on and everything, and just a little label written in sharpie that said if luks could kill. And this is probably I'm seven or eight at this point, maybe even just a little younger.

43:23 And that was about the time I started going through the video cabinet and like pulling out Diehard to and Breakfast Club and asking Mom and Dad what these movies were and getting told when I could watch them and whatnot, like like ages or times of day ages. That's where you and I differ. I wasn't censored as much as as much as a kid as a kid, honestly, So like I think I know you were you were. You were reckless, you were absolutely was. And it was the adults, your your VHS to the cable was reckless more so than mine. My aunt Betty, my sweet dear aunt Betty, God rest her soul, she had a similar cabinet, just maggoty with weird tapes mostly recorded off of satellite dish with the labels with pencil on them because she would erase them. So she wanted the yeah.

44:12 Yeah, but she didn't just have She had some pre records and do you remember during the pandemic, I remembered a tape and I was like, wait, I'm gonna look it up. So I found by searching through eBay, I found the tape that she let me borrow when I had to Legit had to have been seven. It was fucking Horror of the Blood Monsters. That's the film that my aunt Betty was like, sure, rent you go ahead, there you go. Yeah, my family got away with calling me Rick. Well the white side. The other side just didn't talk to me at all. But no, that was Horror of the Blood Monsters. Like she would literally pull tapes out and be like here you go, and it would be puppet Master four and five, it would be Freddy's Dead, it would be all of these things and she'd just be like, I know you lack them horror pictures there and she just hand it over. Man, that's awesome, completely reckless. And then of course we just we just stole cable.

45:10 So if you had a television in your bedroom, then you can watch Cinemax all night long. And you would. Yeah, you better believe I did. Just wait till we have to talk about a Manuel in space on this show can't wait Do You Even? Movie will be right back, welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? So we had so we had a if it looks could kill written on this and I brought it to my dad and I was like, what is this because by this point I was a huge Bond fans because like my dad and I would watch Bond movies. If you are such a huge Bond fan them, no, then why do you keep keep refusing my invitation and my kindly invitation. Let me tell you how our friendship works for you, guys. I have a beautiful one hundred and twenty inch screen with surround sound, full HD projector. That's that's what I bring to the table, and double d over here. He'll be the first to admit that when he gets a new Blu Ray or four K or whatever, he really really wants to he really wants to watch it on my screen, And I don't blame him, and honestly, but it's also like a very fair trade. You know. It's I got the screen, so you're like, I have this movie, you don't have. I was buying you four k's so we could watch them. Oh, well that was four k's.

46:37 That was a whole other thing. No, I know what I'm saying. That was when I had the first four kids. That was when you first had four k's. And I was like, well, I'm gonna get your die Hard, and I'm gonna get your Brave Heart and a couple other ones I can't think of. I don't think you got me Braveheart, Halloween, Jaws, I got you Jaws, and I got you. You just have a seizure, Like what was that? It was either Jaws, die Hard and something else. I can't remember well anyway, But my point that was a massive die aggression. No, my point is just that we we would watch these movies, we'd screen them, and I offered, because you pick on me for not having a proper James Bond education, because I've seen like two of the Pierce Brosnan movies, and that's about it. You pick on me after I, out of the goodness of my dumb old heart, offer to watch all the James Bond movies in one long marath. God that I think that's me being incredibly generous and reasonable. Yeah, until you factor in that it's gonna take us at least I think here, it's gonna take us at least three days. Yeah, that's why it's generous of me.

47:40 I'm saying, I will give up three days of my valuable time and consume probably enough caffeine to kill a racehorse. Not to mention we're gonna have to build a bitch and blanket for it. You can't be in my blanket fort But I digress again, you sure do so, So I took her my dad and he's like, oh yeah, it's like it's this late eighties which he was wrong, spy thriller that you'll probably like. So I remember popping it on and the one thing that I love about those you know, recorded off of HBO, cable, et cetera, we were missing the first part of the movie. So it starts right as Corbyn walks on stage and gets his diploma. Ands he's incomplete. So like the opening credits and like the whole thing with him in the headphones wasn't on there. Not a big deal, not anything you really miss, So it's fine. I think that as a film lover, you should have turned your nose up and said family I don't even appreciate what you're doing to me. Why not spit in the face of the director? Why not spit in the face of the cinematographer. I could see you as a little kid being like that. I could a little shit. But I had definitely before i'd seen If Looks Could Kill. I had easily seen Diehard. It might have been on cable, but I'd easily seen more action based movies, especially the Bond stuff before this point. But I remember what my mom said about If Looks Could Kill or No. I remember actually the conversation was my dad was he had seen it, and my mom was like, is that the one where the woman has the necklace that kills people? So you're a kid hearing that, and you're like, well,

49:13 I have to see this now, So I pop it in and naturally that scene happens in like the first like five ten minutes of the movie. Yeah, yeah, it does, and it's a cool effect. Yeah. Linda Hunt has Ilse's has this necklace that she takes off and it is basically a whip and she that's how she kills blade Roger Daltrey with it, is she takes it off and cuts him with it and strangles him with it, and like that's in like the first five minutes of the movie, and then from there we just go into more spy stuff and the gadgets and the explosion of the action. So naturally, I just loved this movie and I really didn't go back to it until probably about five or six years ago. I had to find another copy of it online somewhere so I could have it. He stole it. He stole it. He's dole it because he doesn't care.

50:02 It wasn't until a year ago that I just bought the DVD that you can only get of it through Warner Rockive, which we'll talk about at the end. But anyway, I I think If Lukes Could Kill is an absolute blast. You start off with Richard Grico, so he doesn't get his credit and he has to go to France with the well the only the only option is to go on a class trip to France. Yeah, that's the only option, which his parents just love. He's like, you're gonna tell me after you don't graduate, I gotta pay to send you to France. God damn, I love that. That's a great one. So then heh he goes to the airport, he meets up with his French teacher and she's basically like, you know, I'm gonna ride your ass. This is not gonna be an easy credit because he's got his son, whoa whoa A ride is what? Now? He's got sunglasses on, goes headphones on. He's just playing an easy breezy and she basically stops him and says, this is not how the trip's gonna go. And from there we meet Michael Corbyn, secret agent that is in this airport at the same time as they are, and it's not his name, that's the name they picked for the day that he is going to meet with his operative, an operative on the plane. Yeah, So what happens next is Linda Hunt tracks the agent to the airport, kills him and stashes him into a cart, and basically decides the job's done.

51:21 She's all good, Everything's fine. Well, then Michael Corbin ends up inheriting his plane ticket and he gets into first class, and now the whole movie takes off from there because he is going to France and he is mistaken as this MI I six operative and now there's Assassin's after him, there's the good guys after him. And I mean, well, what more can you when David says, good guys the American and some people might disagree with you there just just maybe. But no, I mean you have a little bit of everything in this. You've got the you got the action, you've got the comedy. And I think what works most for this is the story is really well paced. But also it's your characters in this are so much fun.

52:05 Bart Bartlett, Robin Bartlett, who plays the French teacher so much super likable. She's so mean and angry. But then there's this whole sequence where she's trying to get to our main character who's now in first class due to mistaken identity, which of course he's gonna play it cool. He's not gonna he's not gonna give up a first class take it unless they take him out, you know, kicking and screaming. So she's you know, hassling him, and then she ends up getting held at gunpoint in the bathroom by an Air marshal who who like literally is like, I will blow your brains out if you don't, if you don't leave Corbon alone, and then he pulls out his badge. He's like, and this is to show you, I have the right authority to do it. And she's just but she's just a French teacher who's like trying to make this kid who doesn't give a crap about learning French not be such a jerk. And I get why this movie connects with you so well, being a Frenchman as you are. Denier. Oh d you just why would you? You should have just denied, denied, denied. Didn't Shaggy teach you anything, all right, So there you go.

53:16 But uh no, So it's it's a really fun movie. It's it's so like you can you can actually hear the eighties dying during it because it's like it's so a perfect like capsule clothes. It's like a bridge to the nineties because no, it has a lot of the the the kind of excess like I always like to say that the eighties was the era of excess and then the nineties was the air of excess stenialism. Yeah, so you kind of, I mean, you still have like the wild colors and stuff like that. But when you get further into the film and they do things like the honeypot. For those who don't know, a honeypot is a woman whose job is to is too to sleep with a spy to get information or just to kill them or whatever. I mean. James Bond made the Honeypot famous.

54:07 He has these like falling around with the honeypot and he accidentally is stuck in the bathroom because he can't get a foreign container of condoms to open combat condoms that have like they open like a freakin' tin of sardines. Yes, she gets blown up by a missile and when he finds her body, though they show like a heinously dead body, they multiple times they make it clear that the steaks are real. Oh yeah, absolutely, Like I mean, the violence in this is heavy PG. Thirteen And that may not mean anything to you because there was just a period there where it seemed like a lot of the PG thirteen movies. Because now they can be really violent just not show blood. There's explosion. It depends on the kind of violence. Taken doesn't show a lot of blood, and it's very very violent. Taken hit a PG thirteen did h Yeah, But other than the torture scene, which was heavily shortened, yes it was the PG thirteen there was in Taken.

55:01 I mean it's mostly just like punching people and shooting guns in a direction. Yeah, but he gets some blades at some point and then does some he does but not a drop of blood. No, I mean, yeah, that one's definitely a stretch. But then again, I gotta be honest, I barely remember that PG. Thirteen cut because once I got the unrated blue Er, that's all you watch. It was all I wanted to watch. Yeah, so but you see what you're saying. But yeah, I mean the squib there's squibs in this. You've got full on like bodies piling up after a while. Yeah, no, it gets really violent. But I think, honestly, what, like I said, what makes this is your characters. Because you've got Roger Rees's Augusta Storenco and Linda hunt Is Ilsa and Ilsa is this psychotic one with with Zigfeld. The whole time you think yeah, and I mean, and then Roger Rees the whole movie you kind of you're like, well he's a bit so dude, and then right towards like the last twenty twenty five minutes, he kind of loses his shit and true color. So he goes full meglomaniac. Yeah, I mean, he's not just going to steal all the gold in the world. He's gonna fucking print his face on it. Yes he is. He's going to steal all the gold, print new money with his face on it and basically conquer the world as a dictator through economics alone. Yes, that is exactly what he's gonna do. I mean, hell, do you even movie will be right back, welcome back to do you even movie? No? And I mean, and not to mention the fact to you that like he has assassins following the

56:36 French teacher and the students the whole movie that keeps, one of which gets saved by the Americans at one point. Well, they think that they're students and a French teacher. They don'ties. They think they think they're mercenarynaries. They think the French teacher is an is an espionage expert, and that all of the students are posing as students because they're mercenaries, and that they're going to do some kind of massive million terry h attack. Well, and that's again the thing he said about the stakes. At one point, Corbyn's like, hey, I can I can deal with them because his I six operative is like, well, we've got them detained and we'll we'll handle them. And he's like, hey, you know, why don't you let me because he realizes they're gonna fucking kill them. Yeah, No, they're gonna be yeah, And I mean that's again going back to the action in this One of my favorite scenes is when the I six gets him and takes him to the secret headquarters and you walk in and you're used to all that James Bond stuff of seeing how the gadgets work. One of my absolute favorites, there's two of them, is they walk through the parking of the parking sector and they come across this guy at this desk and he's like, he's like, oh, how's it going, Frank, And he's like, oh, hang, I got a call, picks up the phone, and then side of the desk slams and hits and flattens this dummy's head. Yeah. It like obliterates the obliterates it. And then you've got my favorite, which is the cameo of the director William Deer. There's a guy that's literally just holding a bomb he's got he's got the suit on, and they blow up this bomb.

57:57 He gets blown back and they go over to him like yea all right, Frank, He's like, yeah, good. He's like, you want to try to look maybe later, yeah, maybe later. It's like so clearly dubbed in after the fact. It's very funny, so good, but I mean it looks could kill. Is probably a movie that I would absolutely, I mean not probably, I absolutely want to see this fall into more available hands because this movie is so much fun and you and I both nailed it when we were watching it just a little bit ago. That the climax of this film makes the movie. It's so fun, it's so satisfying. You get to see the French teacher go Rambo and literally take off her next scarf and tie it around her head like John Rambo and stuff oozying everybody.

58:37 And there's a great part where she's like, I don't know what to do. He's like, you're the French teacher. Be the French teacher takes off her headband. Yeah, stand ready, yeah, I understand. It's so good and so fun and that's kind of yeah, that's kind of thing, or like that the girl who had a crush on on the main character, well, like it is school, not the girl he meets later on, not his actual love interests, but she ends up like becoming attracted to the weird o best friend. Like there's all kinds of fun, you know, little kind of eighties wrap up tropes. But on top of that is just a NonStop obscene gunfight yea, and the French teacher being this mousey woman who's just kind of a hard ass about our main character now just obliterating bad guys with machine guns. One of my favorite friends. One of my all time favorite lines is so she gets the uzzy and Augustus is planning to basically poison everyone at this ceremony where he's unveiling his Life's just full of world leaders, full of world leaders, and they have all this champagne stacked up, and she's on the balcony and you see the camera pan up to her and you see this uzzy coming to frame. They go into focus and you hear the bars closed and she shoots down this champagne. It's so good, it's excellent.

59:55 Yeah, there's just so many good scenes. I mean literally, you you get to see a annihilated with the rocket launcher who's being stabbed by a scorpion that she's trying to kill Greco with him at that point, she's literally was going to kill him with us with a scorpion. Yeah, which, by the way, it was a type of black scorpion that is the only scorpion with a venom strong enough to kill a person. I googled that because as I was watching, I was like, can any scorpions really kill someone? Yeah? One one that makes sense. I think it was called a bark scorpion. Familiar, So no, it doesn't. You don't know stuff. But uh but no, no, uh so, like not only when he jumps off to go get a condom, which, hey, kudos to him for wanting to have safe sex with a honeypot. Yeah, because at this point he already knows he's playing the role of a secret agent, so he does. It's not even a mistaken identity anymore. He is being the secret agent. But yeah, so he ends up accidentally leaving the scorpion in her so it looks like she's doing some kind of a wild sex dance to a common oak song too. Oh well, there you go. Yeah.

1:00:53 So but no, it's there's so many memorable moments. Well, it's all the violence is almost accidental because like one of the most memorable scenes is when he gets his car. He gets his Ferrari from Lamberger I can't remember, gets his car from the Six Operatives, and he doesn't know any of the buttons at it. It's got rockets, it's got smoked, it's got parachutes. And Mariska, who is, like I said, Blade's daughter, is trying to get in contact with him to let him know like back off from Storenco. I want to kill him. And there's a scene where they're just going down the road and Corbyn is flipping every single switch on this thing. He's firing rockets and blowing up sheds. They're going under the buses because at one point his actual class is on the same road that he is. Yes, and the rocket goes under the bus to hit Zigfeld's car and also Zigfeld.

1:01:37 He gets injured early on the movie where he gets his hand stuck in a freaking snowmobile, and so the rest of the movie he just has this robotic hand that can just do anything like a super powerful robotic hand. It punches through the he freezes the gold at one point in the climax, and he just has hot magma all over his hand at one point for the final fight scene, which is insane too. It was a really good one. But I mean, I don't know what else we can say about this movie except it just it needs a blue ray release so bad. But if you have literally eight dollars and twenty nine cents plus some tax get a copy. You can easily find it from Warner and it's a burn on demand disc. It only has a trailer on it. There's no captions, and I think, does it start right away or does it just go to that menu.

1:02:21 I didn't see a menu. Yeah, it just said start the movie or watch trailer. Yeah, so it's literally old era burn on demand. Yeah. Yeah, she's a cheapest but it's the only way you can find it unless you want to track down a VHS. So if you're listening to this, anybody of Shout Factory or Warner, put this damn movie on blue RAO already please. Oh man, I mean, watch out, guys. It's a hot take. So wrapping us up, we have a some trivia on the movie. The gold coins were actually chocolate coins covered in goldfoil delicious, which is makes more sense than gold coins covered in chocolate foil. There is that makes sense. The spyglasses used in the film. We're also used in Mission Impossible in nineteen ninety six, and the gum was used in a Bond film, The World Is Not Enough in nineteen ninety nine. Storanco's goons were actually played by members of the Montreal Police swat team that checks out. Yeah, now I know why you liked this movie. It's in French Canada and this when this was released March fifteenth of nineteen ninety one, it actually fell into the eleven spot of the box office. It was beaten by the number one at the time, which was Signs to the Lambs, following that New Jack City, following that Sleeping with the Enemy, then Class Action, The Hard Way, Perfect Weapon, The Doors, Dances of the Wolves, Home Alone, and even Godfather three was out at the same time, so it had some tough contenders. Yeah, as we know, David's favorite film and arguably the best film of all time, Godfather three, and it was a bit of a bomb. Unfortunately, fourteen million dollar budget made two million at the box office over the weeekend in seven hundred seven million all in total, So that's brutal. It didn't do super well and one of the last things

1:03:52 I wanted to say in regards to the trivia is while I was doing some research on this, something was brought to my attention that is appsolutely true. This film has a lot, a lot in common with Spider Man Far from Home. Wait what no, no you okay, okay, break it down on brain. What are you talking about? So let's think about Spider Man Far from Home, not no way home, far from home, far from home, which is where he goes on a class field trip and meets not Magneto. I can't think of his name. Jake Gillenhall's villain. I can't think of his name. Stereo, thank you. So there's spyglasses. He's on a field trip with a chaperone that's very not responsible. His classmates do get abducted. At one point he has to save them. He has to go down a building using his spidy senses at one point carrying what's her face?

1:04:45 Mary Jane? That's not Mary Jane though it's a god, I can't think of her name. Zandaia's character. Is it Mary Jane? She's MJ? Yeah, okay, so does MJ. And then not to mention too that there's the whole thing in regards to finding out that you're you thought who the villain was that you were told or the good guy was, because that's what my six dozen looks killed. They tell him that Storenko is not a bad guy. Misterio is unveiled, but unlike that we know immediately, Yeah that Storenko is the bad is that? And that as opposed to it's a big twist. Yeah. In Spider Man, which which, by the way, you've given spoilers to a movie. We did not warn anyone about very good. We said spoiler very good. No, no spoilers for anything.

1:05:26 Oh so we just when you sit down and you enjoy an episode of do you even movie, expect to be spoiled in everything. Everything please everything, No David, Please, no David. So the last, the last little trivia that I want to do is the soundtrack of this film, which I have now listened to for the last like forty eight hours, and I've got to say it's a pretty good soundtrack. You have if Looks Could Kill, the theme song called No Turning Back by Glenn Mildoras, One Hot Country, which is the car chase song by the Outfield who also did Your Love, which is a popular song that people know if they listen to eighties radio at all. I don't want to lose your love. Oh God, that was everywhere. Yeah, loud guitars, fast cars and Wild Wild Living by Contra Band. You've Got One More Time by Trickster Better than the Devil, You know, Kylie Minogue, which is the song with a scorpion that it incinerates the one. There's a sentence you only say a couple times a week.

1:06:18 Teach Me how to Dream by Robin McCauley. All is Fair by the Fix maybe this time by the Stabilizers, Mysal Team by Bengo Tango, which I do love that name and again David Bango Tango or bang Tang Bang Tango. Yeah, Bengo Tang bang Tango sounds like a band. Don't tell me that that I'm wrong, David. Anything sounds like a band, if you if it's weird enough, if you believe, if you gotta have faith for that to work on me. So, any any final thoughts on your side? Enardy que, I mean, first of all, don't ever say that again like that. Uh No, I've always enjoyed this film. I was actually honestly kind of surprised how much you liked it because to me, it was like it was just not in the sweet spot of when you were watching movies.

1:07:02 I remember when you when you reached out to me about it because I had posted on Facebook that I was watching it, which I think was when I had had may or may not obtained that other copy. Oh okay, yeah, I don't remember that. I think that's it. But then it wasn't until about we found out six months ago that I got this DVD. Yeah, and the rest is history. So but no, I've I've always enjoyed the film. I think it's very underrated. I I'll take it one step further than you because you kind of Namby Pamby called out like a shout select or whatever. And I'll put it this way, media conglomerates of the world, if you wish to have your family back, release this film on Blu Ray now. We need it. We need it. Indeed. So this is not an idle threat. It is not. No, it's not.

1:07:50 So I'm gonna give this. The ratings we're gonna have on the show in regards to our final thoughts are either stream it, rent it, or buy it. And unfortunately we have to give that to buy it, which isn't an unfortunate in the fact that you want to buy it, but that's the only option you have. Well, i'd be fair enough. I didn't know we were going to make it a literal stream it rented by it. Ah, that's I have to for this one. It may not be for other episodes. We'll see as we as we go back. I just thought it was figurative. Yeah, this but for me, this is this is a by it. But I would say if it was one that you could actually rent, absolutely rent this movie because it's so much fun, eighty eight minute runtime and also just you get to see like that tale, like Enrique said, a tail close of the of the eighties, and it's like perfectly done in a parody style, but also just has a lot of great action sequences, a lot of great performances. Just a fun movie. Yeah, it's a good time. It's a good time and uh and nobody who matters gets hurt. So last thing I want to say is we we try on we're trying on the show. To have another recommendation to go along with it.

1:08:53 One that I brought up to Enrique while we were watching it is Uh, there's a movie that John Stamos did in the eighties with Geene Says and Robert England and George Lazenby called Never Too Young to Die, which has in the last five or ten years finally got into Blu ray release through Screen Factory or shout Factory, and also you can find it on a lot of retailers that you can get your movies from as well. John Stamos is the son of a superspy that gets killed by Gene Simmons, and so he decides to take over his father's legacy and stop Gene Simmons, who's also has his right hand man played by Robert England. Oh it's a crazy ass movie, but Never Too Young to Die is a great pairing proof looks could kill, But if looks could kill. If you haven't seen it, try try try to track it. Well, if you haven't seen it, then I guess listening to this show kind of ruined everything good about it. Well, you know, okay, fine, we try what we can. Well, fair enough.

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