The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996): Holiday Action Classic

0:00 Heiner Mcolor rolling Stone says Long Kiss is super sexy and action charged, and juggles jokes and jokes with a Matt Ferber and turns on the fireworks. Hey, honey, this is a really good if they know him or rap hell. Gina Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are the action team of the farm. Yes, I miss Daisy, I'd be honkin. What a ride? Take it The Long Kiss? Good Night? Rate it Off? Starts Friday at a theater near you. In a world where podcasts reign supreme, two friends dare to ask. Do You Even?

0:41 Movie? Hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and movie aficionado David Denyer. Spoil alert. Well, hello everyone, and welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? I'm your host Enrique Kuto here with double D Louis de Nooie, and we have a very special holiday episode for you all. Yes we do.

1:21 Yeah, yeah, perhaps perhaps, But before we get to that, I have something I need to complain about. Okay, So my name Enrique Kuto. With the H yeah yeah yeah, with the h that's silent that that throws everybody. And then and then people get in they get self conscious too, because then they're like, oh, should I not have said Henry Kna. I'm like, no, it's fine. Yeah, you say h is all day long. You could say henri Que totally a right. A lot of my friends have been like, can I still call him like Henrick? Is that okay? I'm like, yeah, it's fine. You'd say both, It's fine. Yeah, it doesn't matter me. It's just when people say, hey, how do you say your name? Yeah, I will be like Enriquequez. But if they say, like, what's your name Enrique? But if they said, hey, Henrich, yes, yeah, yeah, it's fine.

2:04 It doesn't bother me in the least. But having that first name combined with Kuto or Kotou and Portuguese Couto also not a common last name at all. It is not very few of us out there. Yeah. So I work in show business. You do, and one of the things you have to do is track what's going on in the world involving you and your product, whether it's movies, podcasts. So I have Google alerts set up to like, for instance, I have a Google alert setup for do you even movie in quotes? In case something somewhere posts about us. Yeah, I have one for my own name. I have one for every movie I've ever made. Stuff like that. Yeah, so I can find when people are blogging or news stories come out or whatever.

2:59 Well I didn't know, Well now I know so much about it that apparently in Brazil, which is so that's the thing. Usually when I get a Google alert for my name and it's not me, it's a soccer player from Brazil, all of a sudden, my Google alert is full of notifications every hour because apparently there's a guy named Andrique Kotou Nobrega in Brazil who is currently negotiating like the biggest trade deal Brazil has ever had with China in the history of Brazil. They are publishing news stories hourly about this massive deal for days. So my feed is nothing, nothing but stuff about Brazilian trade, which, oddly enough, is one of the few hobbies I.

3:55 Don't have, which is surprising. It is following Brazilian trade. Well, now I follow it. Well, now you have to. So I love that text you sent me yesterday. I was just like, that's hilarious. That was today? Was it today? Yeah? Goddamn the days are blending. Yeah, so that is annoying. I need my name to go back to being unusual again. Don't ever tell you about the time I got a review for my movie Bleeding Through and at the end of the review it said it said Enrique Kutos quickly becoming one of my favorite foreign filmmakers. Yeah, I remember you tell me that. That was fucking funny. That was like that was like like eleven years ago, while ago, but very very funny. So I've also done like I worked once for a university somewhere I won't say where. Yeah, and they sent me when they sent me my tax paperwork, they sent me a non citizen tax tax I don't know. Instead of a W nine you sent me. They sent me like the non citizen tax papers that's nuts. And I wrote them back and I was like, I may sound exotic, yeah, but I'm from Ohio, from Ohio, and I have a social Security number and it has my name on it.

5:06 So if we could just just not you know, I was like, look, either either let me skip, you know, either pay me under the table, yeah, or pay me as a citizen I suppose. I guess, boy, that's boring. So I have something to report. No you don't, I saw wicked since last time. Oh yeah you did. I did yeah, it was. It was a spur of the moment thing. I had a friend text me and my roommate and I both were free this past Sunday, and she was like, you know, do you guys want to go see Wicked? And I had known ahead of time because I'm a nerd, so I deep dive on that stuff that this is technically Wicked Part one. Yeah. They started letting us know that right before it actually came out. So when the title screen pops up, it says Wicked Giant, and then then in the corner just says part one.

5:48 Part one. Yeah. So two hours and forty minutes, and oh my god, yeah it was. And I knew that going in. I had had research ahead of time and whatnot. And I've got to say, overall, like I like The Wizard of Oz. I think it's a great movie. I usually will probably watch it like once a year, honestly, because I think it's just a mesmerizing film. I did not know a damn thing about Wicked, except for that it was a novel, it was a popular stage play. I knew a couple songs. From it, and I assume it takes place in Boston. In Boston, did you see that article. I think it was. I can't remember if it was a click, if it was hard Times or something, but it was like Boston's are having a hard time deciding if they're gonna go see Wicked or not, but can't stop talking about it.

6:30 Solid Yeah, but anyway, so went to the theater saw it. Honestly, I'm gonna give it a four out of five. I actually had a really good time with it. If you're a musical fan, if you're not a musical fan, I think there's something to like in the movie for everybody, especially if you enjoyed The Wizard of Oz. It's basically the prequel story of Glinda and al Faba, who is the Alfaba al Faba who is the Wicked Witch of the West, becoming friends when they were in school together. It's basically the origin story of the Wicked Witch. I I gather you gather that from the title Wicked and having the Wicked Witch of the West on the cover. That's fair. Yes, yes, awesome, but no. Overall, like I thought, it was a fun movie. If you don't want to sit in the theater for almost three hours, then I would probably wait for streaming because I would honestly, bet it'll probably hit like the first part of January or so at this point.

7:20 Yeah, I don't know. Popularity, it's hard to tell. But no, if you are Wizard of Oz fan, if you've been curious about it and you are looking for a fun time to the theater, it's a good time. It's got good songs. It's not a full on, like full blown musical, like there's maybe seven songs in the whole movie. Well, I mean, it's based on a book, which is which they then turned into a stage of stage play. Yeah, and the stage play apparently is only like three hours altogether. So the fact that they've broken it into what's going to be basically six hours to tell the whole story theatrically is pretty impressive. Yeah. That's that's the word. That's the word. Yeah. But no, if you're curious about Wicked, I had a lot of fun with it. It's it's uh. It did not feel long to me too. I will say that, even though it was like two and a half hours, didn't feel that long to me. So I was fine with it. But no, I give a wicket a four out of five if you are a fan, four out of.

8:07 Five wow, wow, Okay, that's that's massive praise. I was so the first hour I was just like, this is fun, you know, cool, like I'm having a good time with it. And then it does something like right about the ninety one hundred minute mark where it just sucked me in and I was just like, Okay, I want to see what's going to happen now. So the storytelling is a little slow in the beginning because you're learning the characters, learning the institution they're going to and all that stuff. But and also I will say the plots kind of a bit jumbled that first hour as well. But once you get past that first hour mark, it really it did not feel long to me. By the time it was ending, I was like, yeah, this seems about right, like this is this is probably work, kind of like that time Hateful eight where we thought Hateful it was getting too long and then it ended.

8:49 Yeah, it was like over almost right after I had started thinking how long have I been sitting here? So it's credits, but no four out of five for me. I gave it a four five on letter Box. I had a good time with it. I will probably watch it again when it comes out. I'm not going to rush out and see it by any means. But I'm excited for the second one to see where is going to go. So I give Wicked a seal of approval after a couple of weeks ago, kind of running it through. The dirt, running it through the dirt. Yeah, we said some shit about it. Not I'm not going to go see it. You're not gonna go see it. I mean I don't like so much at all. I mean, it's not in the Heights. You have a yeah, say you have, you have a couple that you'll let slip. But yeah, you are tough with musical by law. I had to like in the Height sing I'm an American Hispanic. It's a law. But have you seen Hamilton? Hell no, Yeah, I think.

9:32 So, I don't doubt, I don't care, I don't. So Wicked gives Dave's seal of approval. Hen and it gives it whatever. Although honestly, if Hamilton in a movie, I probably would go. See that freaking thing that they released a Disney Plus was supposed to be theatrical, but then COVID happened and they dropped it on Disney Plus. Yeah, it's fun. I've watched it a couple of times. That's that's that's good. I've also literally like listened to Hamilton like driving to Wasteland because it's the perfect length of it, like a full CD for that drive. Well, it can't be a full CD because the CD seventy four. It's set. Yeah, it's a full set. By the time you're getting to the last song, you're arriving at the Royalton end.

10:18 Do You Even? Movie will be right back, welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? I had the delight of having a cold. You did over the weekend to lead me right into holiday stuff, which is ideal. That was what you d do. It's what you I also had a cold at the end of October. Ye, possibly I gave it to you or you gave it to me. Well we will. There was like no way, no, we can ever know. It's like that time that you caught COVID mysteriously and I didn't have it. Your mom didn't have.

11:00 Nobody I had come in any form of contact with hat it. Only I did. It must have been hiding in the house just waiting. But no, that was the worst part. So I get sick by like Thursday or Wednesday or Thursday, I'm full blown sick. But we had seen each other Friday and Sunday and Tuesday, and then you got sick that same so there's literally no way to know. And then Rachel didn't get sid and get sick. But this time around she made me sick. That sounds like her. Yeah, but I told her, Hey, I understand living together, sometimes we're going to make each other sick, sometimes literally solid Yeah, thank you. I really did say that to her. Yeah, you know it's you know, you pour your heart out over a couple of coney dogs. So but no, So I just want to mention that when I get sick like that, like the way I was, and very long, boring story short, I can't lay down when I sleep right now, which is sucks. It should hopefully be over and just under a yeah it's sleep apnea stuff. Yeah, sleep crapnia, that's what they should call it. But so I'm like on the couch, sitting up just like with a neck pillow, just like in and out of existence.

12:17 So I put on I found out with my new iPhone I bought that I got three months of Apple Plus. So I put on Killers of the Flower Moon and just like drifted in and out of it for three hours seven minutes. I still like that movie. It really was good. But uh, but yeah, I would like in and out, in and out. Oh and then I watched. Wolves, and you didn't watch the director's cut of Napoleon. I thought about it. I was wondering, actually didn't want a movie with that much action because it wake me up too much. Speak for yourself, well, fair, jeez, dated like four times that day. Yeah, but you were like you were stupid. But but no, I but I watched Wolves, the movie with uh, Brad Piltney and George c. It was good. It was really good.

13:03 Uh. It wasn't quite as jokey or as humorous. It was humorous, but it was it kind of It was a little more serious than I thought it would be. It was a little bit more complicated I thought it'd be, And honestly, I thought it was attempting ironically enough to be very like a Shane Black script. I could see that, which is the bizarrely perfect transition is indeed to us talking about tonight's movie The Long Kiss good Night from nineteen ninety six. We are kicking off our holiday lineup with a if you've seen die Hard the umpteenth time, and you're looking for a Christmas movie that has the balls, the villains, the jokes that die Hard does. I would say Long Kiss good Night is definitely a good contender with that.

13:52 I would say so yeah. So The Long Kiss good Night from nineteen ninety six, two hours in one minute, rated R for a sob stantial amount of strong bloody violence and for strong language. All right. Director on the film is mister Rennie Harlan, who gets his start in nineteen eighty six with Born American. He goes on to shoot Prison in nineteen Direct Prison in nineteen eighty seven, followed by Renney. Harlan's first film was Born in America or an American because he wasn't, No, he was not. He was born in like Sweden. Yeah, he had a couple of short films went on there, but like his first theatrical was that R first feature was that one'. It's Just Funny from Sweden. He made Born American. Prison in nineteen eighty seven, Night Mary Elm Street for the dream Master in nineteen eighty eight, My favorite, It's a good one. Wild Force. The band did a music video Sophia in eighty eight did another Wild Force vehicle in a video in eighty eight called I Want You to Stay Then in nineteen ninety, directs Die.

14:45 Hard to one of my favorite movies, too. Follows that up with the Adventures of Ford Fairlane in nineteen ninety Cappy Cappy follows that up with Cliffhanger in nineteen ninety three. I love Cliff Hanger's fun. Did you see we're getting a remake? Oh my god, I think it's going It might be going direct to streaming. They've got a poster out right now. I wouldn't it's gender swapped. Uh really, I mean, I'm not even trying to be an edge lord about it. It's just like. In the movie Stallone's character. The whole point of why he's the Cliffhanger, I'm just gonna call that is that he's like a buff dude who can like pull people up when they're gonna die. They're doing the exact same pose on the post or two for the new one. That's the thing they've remive me so far.

15:29 It seems a little odd, but I'm surprised it's not a mini series. I'm too, honestly so. Cliffhanger in nineteen ninety three, Gladiatoriot in nineteen ninety three, follows that up with a little film in nineteen ninety five called Cutthroat Island and talk about a cutthroat production for mister Harlan Unfortunately. Yeah, The Long Kiss Good Night follows that in nineteen eighty six, followed by Deep Blue Sea in nineteen ninety nine, Deepest Bluest the music video four Deep lu See with Ella cool J. He also directs tracks in two thousand, Driven in two thousand and one, Minehunter in two thousand and four, Exorcists the Beginning in two thousand and four, as well The Covenant in two thousand and six, then goes on to do The Cleaner with Samuel Jackson in two thousand and seven. I like that movie Solid. That was a random Netflix fine for me. I didn't when I started playing it.

16:12 All of a sudden, I went Rennie Harlan. That was a Circle K DVD buy from my parents' house when I lived there back in the day. A Nice followed that up with Twelve Rounds in two thousand and nine, Five Days of War in twenty eleven, does episodes of Bird Notice in twenty eleven, coverd affairs in twenty twelve, Devil's Pass in twenty thirteen, Graceland and twenty thirteen, Legend of Hercules in twenty fourteen, Skip Trace in twenty sixteen, which is the Johnny Knoxville Jackie Chan film. Oh yeah, I like Skip Trace. Legend of the Ancient Sword in twenty eighteen, Bodies at Rest twenty nineteen, The Misfits twenty twenty one, Refuge in twenty twenty three, The Brick Layer in twenty twenty three, and most recently The Strangers chapter one in twenty twenty four, Chapter two of course coming next year. I really liked The Strangers Chapter two.

16:54 It got shipped on by a lot of people. But it but a lot of people bought tickets for it. Is very true as well. Our writer on the film, as Enrique mentioned, is mister Shane Black. We talked about this gentleman with The Last Boy Scout a couple episodes ago. He writes nineteen eighty seven's Lethal Weapon The Monster Squad in eighty seven as well Lethal Weapon two. He gets a character in story credit on The Last Boy Scout. In ninety one he gets screenplay credit leath the Weapon three, and ninety two gets character credit Last Action Hero in ninety three, The Long Kiss good Night in nineteen ninety six, Leath the Weapon four in ninety eight, gets characters and story credit, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in two thousand and five, Iron Man three and twenty thirteen, Edge in twenty fifteen, The Nice Guys twenty sixteen, Leath the Weapons series in twenty sixteen as well, and The Predator in twenty eighteen.

17:36 Man, that is a hell of a the hell of a lineup. Yeah. Moving down to our cinematographer, we have Gueromo Navarro, who gets his start in nineteen eighty six with a more a la oh God, I wrote this and I don't that right there? Oh a moore a La vueta velta jelte de la. Esquina escina in nineteen eighty six, Bath Through Intimacy in nineteen ninety one, that's a title. Cronos, The gimmod Toro film he shoots in nineteen ninety two, The Cover Girl Murders in ninety three, ABC After School Specials in nineteen ninety four, The Cisco Kid in nineteen ninety four. Then in nineteen ninety five he shoots a little film called Desperado. Oh so he does a cinematography on Desperado, follows it up with Four Rooms in nineteen ninety five, From Dust Hill, Dawn in nineteen ninety six, Dream for an Insomniac in ninety six, as well The Long Kiss Good Night in ninety six, Spawn in nineteen ninety seven, Jackie Brown, Salsa in Love, Stuart, Little Spy Kids, The Devil's Backbone Broke in Silence Imagining, Argentina, Hell Boys, Zathura, Pans Labynrith, The Nativity Story, Night at the Museum, hell Boy two, I Am Number four, The Resident, which was that Hammer comeback film.

18:44 Oh Yeah, Okay Yeah, follows. That up with Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part one, Mockingbird Lane, which was the failed relaunch of the Monsters. Deeply failed, deeply failed. Yeah, Twilight Saga Breaking Down Part two in twenty twelve, Pacific Rim twenty thirteen, Museum s Here to the Twobe in twenty fourteen, Star Trek Discovery episodes, Cocaine Godmother for Netflix, Godfather of Harlem in twenty nineteen, Doolittle and The Unforgivable in twenty twenty one. Man That is a lot of great sh shooting. Both Jackie Brown from dust till Dawn is one thing, but then Desperado Devil's back. But I mean he worked with Del Toro several times. Yeah, really good. A lot of good stuff. Moving down here, I'm to be synopsis It says government agents come for annisiak, woman who gradually remembers her past.

19:29 I mean that's a little sparse. Jesus. My synopsis says Samantha Caine has been living a peaceful life for eight years until a bump on the head results in memories resurvicing of her old life as a lethal secret agent. I guess I could have said government assassin. Damn it. Yeah, I mean that's like kicking a seven year old and taking his bike, Like you won, it's yours. It's a win. Moving down to our tag lines, we have the most spectacular action scenes you've ever seen. I mean that's not I mean, this movie is pretty freaking crazy. Yeah. Then we have eight years ago. She lost her memory.

20:10 Now a detective must help her remember the past before it buries them both. What's forgotten is not always gone. That's supposed to be a tag line in the tagline section on IMDb. That's a long tagline. Those are the only two, believe it or not. Usually a movie only has one tagline, yeah, unless you're blood Rage. Well, well, most movies only have one title. That's also true unless your Nightmare in Shadow Woods also true? Again, do You Even? Movie? Will be right back, Welcome back to Do You Even? Movie?

20:53 The Long Guest, Good Night currently streaming on Paramount Plus. You can also rent it on a Rent it or by it on Prime Fandango any place you get your videos. I will say the Blu ray I believe is still fairly cheap and there has not been a four K or anything yet, so that's the only version you can get of it. And it looks and sounds great, looks good. We was rocking my whole living room on the surround system. Yes, it was moving down to our cast. We have Geena Davis who plays Samantha Caine slash Charlie in this. She gets her started in nineteen eighty two on Tootsie, follows it up A night Rider in eighty three, Buffalo Bill, Fantasy Island, Family Ties, Redminton Steel in nineteen eighty five, Fletch in nineteen eighty five, follows that up with Transylvania six five thousand, The Fly in eighty six, Beetlejuice in eighty eight, Earth Girls Are Easy in eighty eight, The Accidental Taurus Quick Change in nineteen ninety, Felmo and Luiez in ninety one, A League of their Own in ninety two, Hero in ninety two, Angie in ninety four, Speechless, Cutthroat Island, The Long Kiss, Good Night, Stuart Little, The Geena Davis Show in two thousand, which I did not even know was a thing.

21:53 Really, yeah, I didn't know that at all. It went from two thousand to two thousand and one, Stuart Little two in two thousand and two, Will and Grace Commander in Chief in two thousand and five, Accidents Happen, Coma in twenty twelve, A World When Marty was There, The Extosist Series in twenty sixteen, Gray's Anatomy twenty sixteen, Glow Series in twenty nineteen, Ava in twenty twenty, and most recently this year was in Blink twice. She's the Mom. Yeah, she was the mom. Shit's really good, really good in that. But you know what she wasn't in what Beetle Juice. Beetle Juice. She was not in Beetle Juice Beetle Juice. No, but you know who was though, Jeffrey Jones. His face and is likenes that's talking about his clamation self.

22:38 Aye yye yi oil Boy. Samuel Jackson plays Mitch Hennessee in the film two hundred and four credits on this gentleman's resume. By the way, how many two hundred and four, two hundred and four, this isn't a bridged version of his of his resume to three all two hundred and four, My god. So starting in eighty one, big big role for him was in Ragtime, follows up an eighty eight, Would Coming to America do the Right Thing in eighty nine, See of Love, Goodfellas in nineteen ninety, Jungle Fever ninety one, Juice ninety two, Menace to Society in ninety three, Jurassic Park in ninety three, True Romance in ninety three, Pulp Fiction in ninety four, Kiss of Death in ninety five, Die Harvard, The Vengeance in ninety five, Hard eight and ninety six, A Time to Kill in ninety six, Long Kiss of Night in ninety six, Jackie Brown in ninety seven, Spear out of Sight the Negotiator Star Wars episode won the Phan of Menace in ninety nine, Deep Blue Sea in ninety nine, Shaft in two thousand, Unbreakable in two thousand, Triple X two thousand and two, Swat two thousand and three, Kill Bill Volume two in two thousand and four, The Incredibles Coach Carter Stinks on a plane, Black Snake Moan Afro Samurai in two thousand and seven, Ah Yes, Cleaner in two thousand and seven, Iron Man, lake View terras Solman.

23:47 The list goes on and I love that's a really good dude. We bought it over that early in our friendship. Yeah, that's a really good thing. I really like. Have you seen Solman with him and Bernie Bernie mack? No, that sounds awesome. There are MB singers that are doing a reunion tour and they're traveling out in the car. Did I not see that, dude? It's so funny. Oh, that sounds great. Rapping us up on our cast is Craig Berko, who plays Timothy in the film. He gets a start in nineteen seventy three on The Young and the Restless, followed by ABC After School Specials in nineteen eighty seven, Love Note in eighty seven, Amen New Heart Wings, Murphy Brown, Empty Nest, Red, Dwarf Star, Mad Men of the People in nineteen ninety four, The Long Kiss of Night in ninety six, Till Till There Was You in ninety seven, Sour Grapes, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Matt About You, The Suburbans, The Thirteenth Floor, Ally mcbeal's Sex in the City, Dicky Roberts, Formal Child, Star Ah A Classic Danica, Cinderella Man, Scary Movie Four, Boston Legal, Nip Tuck, Superhero Movie, Headcase, The Good Wife, Damages The League, The Change Up, The Mentalists, The Three Stooges, Elementary, Unforgettable, Hot in Cleveland, Catfight in twenty sixteen, Blue Budge twenty eighteen, The Blacklist in twenty twenty two, and most recently was on the new Curb Your Enthusiasm in twenty twenty four.

24:58 Wow. Yeah, guy's been working. He definitely has been working. So what was your first time seeing The Long Kiss Good Night? Sir? You showed it to me, did I? Yeah? You want to know how I remember that because my Blu Ray fucked up and we had to go to buybacks to buy a new copy while we were watching it. Holy crap that did happen. And my buybacks receipt is still in that copy up there. That is hilarious. Yeah, we had literally gotten through like maybe the first like minute of credits and then it just started like glitching out and pixelating really bad. So then we had to tribe to buy backs, which luckily they. Had one, which shockingly they had one. Yeah there was one back. Yeah then.

25:40 But yeah, no, I I this movie fell into into my ubra because it was a blind by VHS purchase at a flea market back in Piqua when I was a kid still getting VHS tapes, and I remember the guy had had a sale that was like, you know, by, I think it was like by four get the first to get the fifth free, and I think they were all basically the same price, so I remember the exact stack I got. I went home with Fright Night, Money Talks, Fast On, Druge, Matt High, True Romance, and The Long Kiss Good Night, and I watched all five of those like as soon as I got home. I mean that's a pretty solid stack. Yeah, And I remember I think I was watching The Long Kiss either first or second. I can't remember if True Romance was high on the list because I think that was the first time ever saw true Romance. So I think I saw True Romance and The Long Kiss good Night back to back for their first times nice, So it was being I was just blown away by this movie. Obviously, the action somehow gets crazier in scenes, the jokes are hilarious, and overall the story just unfolds to a really good thriller and just it's Renny Harlan, You're not gonna have a bad time.

26:45 Well, I think that what the film does is it escalates like double time every time, yeah, which at first is a little exciting, and then by the middle it's quite a bit exciting, and by the end it's insane. It's insane because it'll be like, oh, car exploded, Well, now everything's gonna do, everything's gonna explain, and then you're like, oh, now everything explodes, Like no, now literally everything's going to. And now cars are raining from the sky on fire. Yeah yeah, no, like for real. It's just it's an exercise and ESCALATIONI. Yeah, So are you ready to get into it? Why the hell not? All right? So we open with shots of we see handwriting that says Charlene Elizabeth Baltimore. We see shots of a handgun. We see some cryptic pictures and whatnot that we're not putting together. But we also see a nice Christmas setting.

27:29 They're panning through a house. We see some Christmas gifts, some decor, a nice family portrait. Well, yeah, it's the holidays, and. We also cut to a Christmas parade as we see various floats horses. We also see Samantha Cane played by Geena Davis, and she tells us that she was born eight years ago on a beach in New Jersey, washed up pregnant on a shore with a blank key, and that was the only memory that she has of anything before then. And I mean, there aren't many worse fates than washing up on the shore of New Jersey, but fair enough. She says that she has photo retrograde amnesia, which basically makes it so that she cannot recall anything from the past. But definitely there is a past life that we have not gotten into at all yet.

28:09 Clearly. Yeah, so she is a teacher now. She has a little girl named Caitlin. She has a guy that she's seeing name how We see them walking through the snow having a good time. We also cut to her daughter and her friend in a treehouse as her daughters explaining the issue with her amnesia to her friend, and Samantha pops up and she's just like, hey, Caitlin, can you help me in the kitchen? Also, do you remember where it is? And like just joking with her, like really cute stuff. Yeah, Yeah, it's you know, it's very clear that she's digging the mom life. Yeah, and she's also very well loved in the community, as we see in the next scene as her and how are having a Chris's party with friends. Hale gives a really funny toast where he basically says that he doesn't swear, smoke or drink. Oh shit, I do smoke and drink.

28:49 Yeah, it's pretty solid, pretty funny. And also at this point, Gena Davis catches a kid Ronald's, smoking at the party and she tries to steal a cigarette and tries to steal a cigarette and she just basically tells him, no, have a cookie instead, and that may come back in the well. Well. She tells him that if if she catches him smoking one of those, he'll be he's gonna wind up in a ditch or he's gonna bury him or something. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we next see Mitch, who is played by Samuel Jackson, and he bust into a hotel room with a guy that is in bed with a woman, and he's got two guys with him disguised as cops that are clearly not cops. Yeah. So he starts basically going in on the guy, saying that he's under arrest of prostitution and that if he wants to fuck with him, he can gladly send him to a place where he can be fucked in the ass.

29:31 Like he has three renditions of this to basically say, I'll fuck with you if you fuck with me. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, he has the one of the guys start reading him his rights, and he's basically coaxing the guy and guiding him through reading him his Miranda rights, and then that gentleman also ends up vomiting. Yeah. So we find out that this is actually a scam that he's running because the woman that was in bed is actually his assistant and he is actually he's a private dick. Basically right private investigators. He's a private investigator, And we also find out that he's been doing the scam for a bit, because she even tells him they have to stop using bombs. But his assistant that also informs him that they have a lead on the Samantha Caine. Case, and worth mentioning two things about Samantha Cane. So number one, she mentions standing in front of the mirror naked, wondering where all the scars came from, because she has lots of scars, not like an obscene amount, but plenty, plenty of scars. And number two, she mentions that even as she's been settling into her life, she's been trying to find out where she came from, and that at first she was hiring great private detectives and then decent ones and now whoever's cheapest, Yeah, just whoever's cheapest, and clearly Samuel Jackson.

30:42 Is the cheapest. Mitch Hennessy, by the way, Mitch Hennessy. Do You Even? Movie? Will be right back, welcome back to do You Even? Movie? So she informs him that they have a lead on the Samantha can Cane case because they found a credit card in a shoe box with a woman that has recently passed and it has Samantha Cayne's name on it. So he decides to call her and basically say that they're going to check into this a little bit more so. That is when we find out that Samantha is driving her friend Earl home, who has been drinking at the party.

31:25 They wreck because there's a deer in the road, and that sends Samantha through the front of the windshield out into the snow, and she wakes up and kind of has a bit of flashes of memory that we see come back to her, but we still can't put together much. And you saying she goes through the windshield into the snow is a gross simplification. It is a terrifying car crash. They hit this deer, she flies, I would say easily. What fifty that the deer's kicking Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because her buddy, I think her buddy is dead. I want to say, I don't know for sure, we never see, but yeah. Also her buddy played by the great Alan North, who many main from SEENO Evil, Greno Evil. He plays a cop and basically everything. Yeah, and this one, he's a drunk.

32:06 He's just a drunken this one. So she emerges from the snow, she's a little bloody, and she's having memory flashes and then she just wonders over the deer and sees it's in pain, so she just decides to break its fucking neck. Yeah, without any hesitation, no hesitation whatsoever. So then we cut to the Jersey Correctional facility where we see a man sitting in the wreck room alone in front of the caged TV. Because you know they're in the institution. That's how you know you're in a good place. Yeah, and the television is behind a full blown cage. So he's smoking a cigarette and all of a sudden, on the screen flashes the image of Samantha as missus Claws in the parade, and he just starts losing his shit, basically screaming, it's impossible, you're dead. What the hell's going on? We cut away from him. We're now in the hospital.

32:47 How is visiting Samantha, who is sleeping, And that's when we cut into her dreams as we see Samantha looking back at herself in a mirror as the woman in front of her, which is her, changes to a woman that's like her but now has short cut, dyed blonde hair. Yeah, and we're starting to get the sense that it's coming back to her. Yeah, and the woman in the mirror says, you want a cigarette, and she's like, I don't want a cigarette. I don't smoke. She's like you used to. And she also says that she's coming back and her name's Charlie, and get used to it. You know, I know that amnesia is very rare, and in fact, most cases of claimed amnesia are faked from what I've under what I understand, Yeah, but imagine how terrifying it really would be if you had no memory of your past. Yeah, you would wonder like was I a bastard? You know? Was I a son of a bitch?

33:35 Was I Dave? Like? What could I have been? No? Exactly, but no, it's a really cool space to play in. Yeah, this whole idea that she's basically as we're going to come to see, she's almost like like how a sleeper cell is shown, you know, like she has all these skills inside of her mind that she doesn't even know about until they start unlocking. Well, she's not accessing all of her brain yet, she's only. Accessing what was that movie The Lazarus Project? Well that one too, but there was the other one, Liz, No, what was that movie? The actionvie with the girl the like female assassin and all the animal pictures. It wasn't Lucy. That's the one with the animal pictures.

34:17 Animal images. Oh God, I get I don't even know. One of my great pet peeves is the the cinematic trope of saying that we only use like five to ten percent of our brains. Maybe the writers who keep saying that only use that much of their brains, but the rest of us, we use the vast majority of our brains. Yeah, for many things, such as retaining learning that that's not true after the first time we fucking heard it. Yeah, it drives me crazy. But now there was some there was some action movie that I was really looking forward to, but it opened up with like like how they make you the perfect killer sassin fighter or whatever is we activate the rest of your brain?

35:03 And I was like, God, that wasn't Lucy. I think it was Lucy. Yeah, Lucy with a not Charlie's theirn. I think it was Lucy. Was that a Luke Bassan? Yeah? Yeah, Charlie so Hanson, I think I think it was the same time as that, and under the skin we're close together. It's probably Lucy. I was not a fan, but I but it's hard for me to stay invested when they say something that stupid. You mean, Lucy spoiler the movie where it turns out that she's basically turning into a computer slowly. Yeah, I remember. So Charlie is in this dream with Samantha, and we should also point out, as you pointed out, that she's basically in a Hell Razor to dream apparently. Oh man, no, it's like Renny Harlan definitely was thinking of Hell Razor two when he showed that moment, because she's standing there with the mirror in front of her and the wind blowing her hair around and then the blood trickling like it's so Hell Razor.

35:55 And I noticed on this viewing for the first time that the all of those times where she's meeting Charge, except for I think the one time in the hotel, they're on the cliff, and I never put that together. Oh yeah, yeah, you're right. So, so basically from that point she is told that her name's Charlie and she's gonna love her. And that is when we cut to a neighborhood where we see Mitch sitting with his son Todd and he's showing him a place that he got for him. Todd's mother requests that he comes in, and Todd informs him that he can't accept the gift because you know how mom is. So we kind of see that Mitch doesn't really have a great relationship with his son, and well, he has a good relationship with his son, but the mom really doesn't want him around because she doesn't trust him. Yeah. Yeah, so that is when we also see that Mitch gets a page and his assistant informs him that they have found a letter that has Samantha's original handwriting on it.

36:40 They found a stash of stuff from the old woman as well, and that he is going to go see her tonight because they're going to go track this stuff down and see if they can dig a little bit more into her past. At Samantha's they're prepping dinner, but Samantha is struggling with cutting a carrot, even how it's kind of giving her some crap for it, when suddenly she starts chopping like a pro chef. Yeah, she is just slicing through everything, through everything like a vegematic. And they get celebratory. They start throwing her peppers, They start throwing all these things, and at one point they tossed her a tomato and she's balancing the knife on her finger at this point, and as the tomatoes tossed to her, she throws the tomato, throws the knife, and the tomato gets stuck into the wall. Which is such a great moment because then when the camera cuts back to Geena Davis, she goes, chefs do that?

37:21 Chefs do that? Yeah, because she she's convinced at this juncture that she must have been a chef because she has all this muscle memory. Yeah. Yeah, and how seeing this is obviously a little nervous. Yeah, that would startle me a little bit. So we cut to an airplane hangar where we see a man chained up who's being interrogated by our villain Timothy, and he basically tells this guy that he knows when somebody's lying just by looking into their eyes. Timothy also gets a call on his cell phone and we find out that one eyed Jack, the man that was in the cell watching the coverage of Samantha on the TV, has escaped from prison and that due to seeing Charlie, he has gone crazy and he wants to find her. Timothy was supposed to have killed Charlie, who is called Charlene by this point, well, right, and that's when he basically says, all right, I'll look into this, and he kills the guy he's interrogating, and that's when we get the first introduction of Timothy, who is a motherfucker in this.

38:08 Movie, well somewhat literally. Hey hey, now, So. That is when we then cut to the ice rink the next day, where we see Caitlyn and Samantha on the ice and Caitlyn's having some trouble skating. She's afraid, and she actually, you know, tells her that, you know, she doesn't know she wants to do this, and that's when Samantha's like, you can do this, you know, go out and skate. So Samantha goes out and skate, gets about a couple of feet and then falls and she's crying, saying she wants to go home, she's hurt. When suddenly Samantha's tone changes a little bit to the Charlie tone that we heard in the dream, and she basically tells her to stop being a little baby, get up. Life is pain, and she will skate to the shore and not fall again. Do you wonder do we understand each other? Hey, that's that's that's some parenting. So later that night, my dad, my dad thought that would work. I could see that, Oh you could. Yeah, it didn't.

38:56 It didn't. It didn't. No, you know, it made me worse. I can also see that. Yes, thanks. So later that night, snow is falling outside of Samantha's house and Hal checks on Caitlyn, who we see is now in a cast. He then goes up to the treehouse where we see that Samantha is, you know, she's just cuddle up against the side, and that's when we're found that Caitlyn suffered a fracture and she's feeling so bad because not only does she not remember what she said to her, she has no memory of what happened, so she kind of had a black autbum a. So Caitlyn has accidentally suffered a fracture and she feels terrible for it, and that's when Howl goes to comfort her. But even Samantha flinches and she's like, you know, and he's like, hey, don't be afraid of me. She's like, it's not you I'm afraid of I'm basically afraid of me.

39:38 Yeah, Yeah, she's afraid she'll, you know, effortlessly react and break his face. So I know what you're thinking so far. To your listener, if you haven't seen this movie, you're like, man, when is this going to get into the action. Well, we suddenly start to hear some carollers, and we see how it starts to smile because the sound of carolers makes both of them happy. But we cut to the caroler singing and we see that somebody in the Carolyn group has a gun on the carrillers, forcing them to sing. Yeah, which I mean, that's how I have to get a lot of the people around me to have festival festive cheer. Frankly some years, that's how I feel with my whole family, getting everybody on board for the holidays. Yeah, I'm like, you're gonna smile, You're gonna eat the fucking ham everyone's happy. Give me your Amazon wish list code.

40:25 So Samantha goes to the door and she's got a bowl of eminems. So she's gonna give the carrot, which I thought was odd. Just a bowl of eminem's. Is that what it is? Because it's what it's what he trips on. Oh uh, I mean usually you give them something. Yes, yeah, do you even movie will be right back, welcome back to do you Even movie? Anyway, So she goes to the door with some can and that's when one eyed Jack comes through the carriller's spread and he's got a shotgun. He fires one shot as Samantha tries to fight him, and we see that the shot misses her. Holle even tries to step in and help her but Jack, but he ends up slipping.

41:12 And that's also when Jack slips as well on the bowl of candy, firing a shot that goes right through the wall, blowing a hole through the fucking wall. Yeah, this shotgun packs a wallop. It does, indeed, So Samantha, thinking fast, grabs Caitlin hurls her across the hole into the treehouse because it's just the lightning's perfect. Right through the hole in the wall onto the treehouse and it's a sweet looking fact. So she starts fighting with Jack. They make their way into the kitchen. He's got her over the sink at one point and she grabs a pie, smashing it into his face, which is now bloody, and he falls to the ground. She not only punches him in the back of the head, but then just stands right over him snaps his neck right in front of Howl. Yeah, she roughs him up, and it's not just with anger and aggression, it's with a level of like of martial arts discipline, precision. Yeah.

42:02 Yeah. And not only that, but then she also just like takes a little cream off the top of his head from the pie and says, chefs do that as she licks her fingers right in front of Howl. Yeah, with fucking blood. Blood, indeed blood, She's tasting blood and cream yep, which I mean, if cream can cut the terrible taste of coffee, I guess it'll make blood okay too. Who knows. So sirens ring out as police arrive. We also see that Mitch is there because Samantha runs out to see if Caitlyn's okay. Mitch tells her that Caitlin's okay. They're pointing their guns at her. The next morning, though, we see that Samantha and Mitch are going on a trip to try and find out more about her identity, and she tells Caitlyn to keep a candle lit in the window for her. I know it's a very emotional time for you. David to keep a candle lit in the window.

42:42 It candle for your mom. And writes her portable cell number on her cast as well, and even gives her bear a bracelet which has the key that we mentioned in the beginning for the safety deposit box that I just gave that away. Whoops, Wow, where's the button? Spoiler alert? Yeah, my bad. So that is when we also see that she is assuring her that, or that's when how it basically tells her, you know, hey, no matter what you find out about the person that you used to be, I'm still going to love you for who you are. You know, I'm not afraid of you. Nothing that you can do is going to make me afraid of you. I'm still going to. Love you every time you go away. So that is when we see that they cut to the White House and we are with the President who is discussing Charlene's resurfacing.

43:28 That escalated quickly, Yes, all of a sudden. Now we're at the White House. Yes, So they're upset because not only has this mess been dumped into his lap, but also he is he's upset because they wanted to secure government funding. And that's when he also has the line of you all come to me every year one of your government funding, wondering where it went healthcare. Well, he's threatening him. He's saying like he's basically saying like, if you don't solve this, then I'm putting it in health health instead, which I love that. That's the threat, is like, well, I'll put the money for your operation into healthcare. Yeah, I see you like that. That's what we meet Leland Perkins, who is I think he is. Is he a head of the government agency something something like that. Yeah, And he's talking to the President.

44:08 So Samantha and mitchroll dripping along the road, and that's when she, you know, he's like, you know, are you cold? And she's like yeah, and he's like, Okay, go ahead and turn the heat on. It doesn't work, but it makes a really annoying sound. It makes a distract you from how cold it is. Yeah. So we also see her looking at the postcard that's addressed to her, finding out that she had addressed it to her fiance. Mitch almost drives off the road admiring a woman jogging, and this causes a whole conversation of them to basically talk about the attraction that men have for that sort of thing, and that this is kind of their initial bonding that they have basically kind of sensing each other. Get to each other. So she sees that the name is Nathan Waldman that is signed in this book that was in the Samantha Canes stuff that they got, So she decides to make a call to the number that's on there. So we cut to a nice estate where we see a man who is Nathan, you know, enjoying his dinner, or at least he's trying to. But the woman that he's with has a dog and it will not stop licking its ass.

45:01 So that's that's when the phone starts ringing, and Samantha is calling him obviously, and he instantly recognized her voice and calls her Charlie, and she says, you know my name, and he what's my full name? And that's when he says, your full name is Charlie Elizabeth Baltimore. He tells her she may be in danger and that they must meet at a train station tomorrow. So later that night, Mitch and Samantha have stopped off at a motel as Samantha practices her name. As we saw in the credits, Initially the opening credits, we also hear Niche Mitch narrate what he's doing by a blues tune that he basically sings everything he does. DA gotta put. The keys in my pocket, So she picks up on that, and that's also when we see that he notices that she's been cursing a lot more because she's messing up with the writing and she's dropping a couple f bombs, and he's like, you know, do you curse this much?

45:51 Usually because like when I met you, you were a real Fooie I Burnt the muffins type of person, and she basically tells him to mind his own business. She's not amused. She even shuts the door because he's smoking the hotel room and she doesn't want to smell it. So that's when they've gotten Samantha Cayne' stuff at this point, and she's in the room now with a suitcase. She pulls everything out of the suitcase and starts finding a secret compartment in the suitcase, opening it up to reveal a high powered rifle and a knife. And her reaction is not fear. Her reaction is simple awareness, as she immediately assembles the rifle, so without any hesitation. No hesitation whatsoever, and there are at least twenty pieces of this rifle and she puts it together like it's nothing. And that's when by this time, she's by a mirror and she turns into the mirror to see that Charlie is also in front of her with the rifle. But also Charlie cuts her throat, waking her up. So Samantha comes out of a dream and that's when she looks on the bed to see the rifle is still fully assembled.

46:42 Well, I mean, they ain't doing any good for you. In pieces, so she goes to grab it and hide it. That's when Mixed spooks her by walking through the door and she accidentally fires a shot right next to Mitch as he ducks down. Next we see that Mitch is wanting to leave. He's handing her money back, saying that he's done. He doesn't want to be a part of this. The situation's getting out of hand, and that's when she pleads with them, adding that her memory feels like it's locked inside her head. Do you know what that feels like? And that's when Mitch also exposes that he spent four years in prison and he is not going back. Yeah, she says, it feels like my brain is locked up. I'm locked up inside my brain and I can't get out. Do you know what that feels like. He's like, yeah, I do, and I'm not gonna do it again. So we see them driving on the road in the night, and that's when Mitch tells her a story about seven years ago he was in an Atlanta cop and there was a partner he had that didn't like him, and that they were also manning the evidence room and one day a thing of bonds went missing and an anonymous tip basically e leaked that they were in his closet.

47:33 And she's like, oh, so he framed it and he's like, oh, hell, no, I stole the damn things. No, I did it, yeah. Adding he's never done one right thing in his life and that takes skill. Mitch then takes the money back, telling her that he will drive her to the train station to meet Walden so they can figure out what is going on. So the next morning, they arrive at the train station ten minutes early, and Mitch states that he's got a bad feeling as he grabs a pistol from his trunk as they go in. Samantha goes to sit at the bar and sitting down, she is handed a Budweiser, and to the left of her, we see that Timothy is also at the bar, and he asked her, you know, do I know you await? Is that a pickup line? And they kind of exchange a little uh not flirtatious, but like. Well, I mean he's really feeling her out. He's feeling her out.

48:13 He's well, I think his thought is that he's being funny by flirting because they're in public. But when he notices she reacts just like a literal stranger. Who just you know, is being does not recognize him. Yeah, he Because that's the moment is when she says like, I don't think we have bet and he's like, you have, Yeah, we haven't. Yeah, he's very surprised. Yeah, So that's when he walks out to the center of the room and he basically tells his men via over the earpiece that they're going to move in and kill them both. So we see him give the order. A gentleman begins to approach her as Mitch's joined her at the bar now and we see a guy with a nice hat he's walking up. We think it might be Walden or they think it is. Nope, it's an assassin. As he draws a silence pistol out, but before he can get a shot off, Mitch shoots him dead.

48:54 Boom. I mean it is an epic shot. Yeah, And men just siege on the station. At this point, we see civilians getting shot down. They're mowing down everything trying to get to Samantha and Mitch, and they are just blowing this train station lobby up. And that's when Mitch and Samantha go up the stairs. They get an oozy off a gunman and that's when Mitch tells her that he's got three shots left. She's got one clip to spray and prey. Except the grenade comes around the corner and he says, fuck it. Run. That's a great moment, very shame black kind of moment. Yeah. So they're running. There's nowhere to go, and that's when Samantha says, yes, there is. Taking his gun, she shoots through a window. They jump and they go running at the window, jumping through the window, going right down into an ice pond. But she uses the machine gun to shoot through the ice and they plummet through safe and sound, except they're freezing fucking golds.

49:39 A little, a little on the chilli side, baby. So they quickly run back to the parking lot as Nathan shows up running down one of the gunmen that's right close to them, and he tells them to get in now. Mitch comments on them jumping out a window, and that's when Uh, Brian as Brian Cox is one of my favorite lines of this movie, where he's like, yes, yes, it was very exciting, and tomorrow we'll go to the zoo. It was very exciting, and tomorrow we'll go to the zoo. A very shame black life. Yeah. Yeah, So that's when we meet Nathan Walden and that's when he basically explains that he gives Samantha a gun, and that's when Mitch is like, you have any more of those? And he's like, yes, I actually have two more, one in my belt, one on my leg that may come back later. So he also comments that her name is Charlene and that she the school teacher. Samantha never existed.

50:24 It was a cover that was created that she bought, revealing that she's an assassin for the government and was trained by him. He tells her that October ninety eight, she was assigned to take out an ammunition dealer, but when she failed that she would basically disappeared, and he comments that Douglas is clearly aware. Now as the train station proves that he has sent men on her, Mitch is suspicious and as they get to a destination, he grabs a tire iron from a trunk approaches him, and that's when Brian Cox is like, hey, you know, what are you thinking? But both Samantha and Mitchell in On are in this together and they basically take Nathan down to the ground, stealing his car. As Samantha comments the next move is to meet the fiance on the post. Mitch is obviously uneasy about this, but the two drive out of the country. Yeah, why the hell not?

51:06 Do You Even? Movie? Will be right back, welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? So we see them pull up to a nice house with a farm, and we see a man chopping wood played by the great David Morse. He's shocked to see her as he states that she believes his name is Luke and she was going to marry him. That's when he drops his wood and embraces her. Calling her Charlie lifting her up. But that's when Mitch waste no time at all showing him the gun, saying she's like my sister and right now I don't trust you, yeah, or she's like my daughter.

51:46 Well, and this is you know, this is where we're really starting to figure out that these two have bonded, yeah, in a special way, and that's important to the story. Absolutely is. So the three stand in a stable as the guy known as Luke tries to explo that they were in love, and Samantha starts rattling off facts that she knows about him, asking to speak to him alone, as Mitch watches from a distance. As Mitch is watching, Nathan sneaks up, putting a gun to him, putting him against the wall and telling him to drop the rifle. That's when he informs him that he got the address from a notebook in his pocket, along with the address above the strip club, and this drawing of a penis when he goes, that's not a dick, that's a duck. Everyone's a critic. So that's when he also tells Nathan the situation, and Nathan informs her that Max that is the name that Uncle Max is one of the the aliases they have in this that he's actually the agency, and if they're engaged, it means that the guy Luke is a target. So Charlie was due to assassinate this guy. So they run out, screaming to Samantha as a helicopter shows up and cars emerge around them. We see Timothy is in the helicopter waving to her with the rifle, and that's when the guy had known as Luke punches her, knocking her out, which revealing that he is actually Douglas.

52:52 Well, and that's one of the I would say one of the themes of this film is identity, Yeah, and suddenly and not so subtly. Yeah, Because constantly we're thinking somebody is something that they're not, that they're one person when they're really somebody else. But we also have characters who think there's somebody when they may be somebody else, somebody else, And it's not always a bad thing no either. So when Samantha comes to, she finds herself tied to a water wheel, as Douglas explains. Douglas speaks to Timothy, who is now with him, stating he believes her amnesia until she showed up here, and now he wants to know what she knows and who she's told. Da da da da duh. He's gonna kill that white woman, dada.

53:34 So he cranks the wheels, sending her down into the freezing water, and that's when she sees the corpse of Nathan, who they've already previously drowned. We keep her down there for about twenty seconds before wheeling her back up. Timothy questions if she remembers anything at all, and he once again is convinced that she doesn't and tells Douglas to drown her before he leaves. And should be mentioned, the water is freezing her lips coat. She comes out with her lips blue. Yeah, the first time. They're all in winter coats and everything because it's snow around. Yeah, like just they really sell how cold it is. So Douglas asked her if she's told anyone again, and Samantha states that she's not Charlie, and Douglas comments he hates to see her like this as she was once a hell of a spy, Samantha, as Charlie states, watch your back, I'm not done yet. So that's when he loves her back into the water. We see flashbacks of one eye, Jack and Timothy opening a trunk as he instructs Jack to dump her, not do anything with her, just kill her and get over this with And that's when we see Jack and Charlie on the edge of a cliff as he's going to inject her with something to poison her. She suddenly comes to stabbing him in the eye with the syringd which we forgot to mention he is missing one eye and even comments that he wants his eye back, yeah.

54:41 You know, well yeah maybe, yeah. Yeah, And he goes running and she goes running. That's when he fires off several shots at her. One of them hits her in the side as she goes over the side of the cliff, basically showing the audience now that Charlie is back, that this, this rush of memory has brought Charlie back. Charlie. So that is when back in reality, Samantha is emerged from the water as Charlie calling Luke Douglas now and telling him to let her go and she'll let him keep his legs. He questions why is she back, what's going on? And she comments, since he touched her, she thinks that he needs that she needs to have a bath, so Douglas lowers her back into the water again as Charlie goes to work on the ropes of one of on the her right hand, getting her hand free, and then she goes into Nathan's pants, retrieving the pistol that he had mentioned in the car as well. Yes, so she is now armed. He wheels her back up and says she breaks surface. She fires three shots into Douglas, dropping him to the ground. She frees her other hand and approaches him, and he calls her Samantha, begging for his life. And that's when she questions who's Samantha and asks where is Mitch? And when we see Mitch, My god, my heart always breaks for that moment. I forgot about that. Yeah, because he is clearly at the bottom of his basement, tied up. They've stripped him and he's been beaten, so he's just sitting there just basically waiting to die. Suddenly the door opens, we hear gunshots, and then we see this door open and this flash of beam of light comes through and Charlie stands at the top.

56:00 Yeah. No, it's awesome. It's an awesome moment. So now we're in New Jersey finally, which eccent. So that is we see that Charlie is now in full swing. She's doing her hair, doing her nails, doing her makeup, changing everything about her, and Mitch is asleep in the other room, not realizing any of this is going on. Well, yeah, so that is at the point. Then Mitch also gets up and we see that Samantha has torn up pictures of her Caitlin and Howe and they're in the trash and he retrieves one of them. She has some kind of a strange anger towards the Samantha light. Towards the Samantha life indeed, So that's when he retrieves one of them from the trash. As Charlie enters the room, he is confused by her new appearance, and even she comments that his wound looks infected, and so she goes to distract him, lifting up her top as she rips the bandage off.

56:50 Such a great moment again, so Shane Black. So that's when she introduces herself as Charlie, and of course this is taking Mitch aback and she's like, you need a drink and he accepts. So Charlie informs him Samantha never existed and was just a creation, adding look what she did to her, commenting on her large ass She requests that they change the subject from Samantha as Charlie tells him her plan is to enroll back in the agency and start basically taking jobs again. So that's when we see Perkins receives a call from Charlie telling him that since Douglas is dead, she completed her assignment. She adds that she wants to come in, and Perkins tries the director to a safe house, but Charlie tells him that she's calling the shots and he and will reach back out when she's ready to speak to him. Perkins then asks Timothy, who is in the office with him, if he heard the call, and Timothy questions if she remembers Douglas, does she know about Project Honeymoon now, and that's when Perkins tells her that he has twenty four hours to find her and kill her, and he cannot have anyone know that Timothy is working for him or it's his ass So the White House has no idea that he's got a fucking arms dealer on his payroll.

57:49 Yeah, you know that might actually I think it'd be fine. Yeah, you know fine. So Charlie informs Mitch that she doesn't trust Perkins and expects him to trace the call to their location and if Mitch is captured into then that proves good reason that she should not trust Perkins. Hey, that's pretty sound logic. So that's when they go back to the hotel suite and Charlie tries to put the moves on Mitch, biting his ears, groping him. Mitch isn't having it, telling her that he believes that she wants to fuck him simply to basically kill the last side of Amantha. Samantha holding up the picture that she had torn, and that's when she gets upset again. He's not much of a cad after all this. Now, So that's when Samantha decides that she's going to leave the hotel for a little bit. She starts walking the street and a guy to ask her, you know, does she wants some company? And she says jokingly says no, no, I think if I go this way, I might get raped.

58:38 And that's when the guy's like, well hey and holds up a gun, telling her to go into the alley, so he gets her into the alley and that's when she's looking around for other Headhunters and Mitch then shows up as he's got the gun pointed on Samantha and basically tells the guy that because the guy's like, this is a big fucking gun, and Mitch goes, this isn't a ham on rye listening a ham on rye a giant fucking hand cannon. On this guy. Three fifty seven magna, Yeah. Three fifty seven, And that's when Charlie quickly dispatches the one head hunter, and then three others show up and she dispatches them quickly, confirming that Perkins does want her dead. She says they need to get out of New Jersey. Good luck. Actually that's one of my favorite lie. He says, many have tried and failed. Yeah. Mitch even contemplates if she needs him anymore, and that's when Charlie comments, good point, before shoving Mitch out the door onto the street, and Mitch, being the absolute hero that he is, just lays on his back, pulls out a cigarette, lights it, smokes it, and she rounds the block like a couple times, like speeding through, then pulls up next to him is like, hey, get in.

59:36 It's a great I there's so much to love about this film. So Mitch asked, you know, does he have used for him now? And that's when she says, yes, she's leaving the country and she needs money in a new identity and Mitch's like, oh, yeah, well, let me just go into where I have all this money, and that's when she had she doesn't need to worry about that because the key that's on her charm bracelet is actually for a safety deposit box in Boston and that they have to return to Honesdale to get it. Honesdale. That sounds like a Central Jersey to me. So we see the next morning they've arrived as Charlie leaps out of the moving car telling basically telling Mitch that if there's any trouble, to warn her by honking. And that's when she sneaks over a fence and finds Ronald smoking a cigarette, and that's when he's like miss Kane and she's like, Ronald, what I tell you about smoking?

1:00:21 Taking a cigarette from him, taking a hit, And that's when she also says, if you tell anybody you saw me, I'll come back and fucking kill you. Yeah, yeah, do You Even? Movie will be right back. Welcome back to do You Even? Movie. So that's when Samantha sneaks into the house. She's searching for Caitlin's bear because that's where the charm bracelet was put around its neck, and that's when she finds the bear with the key. Charlie looks out the window though, as she looks over to the church where they're having the Christmas program and looks through a scope of her rife full looking at Hal and Caitlin. Suddenly Mitch sounds the horn, warning her that intruders are here. As we see, company has arrived and is pursuing him in the car, firing at him. So then she goes out the back door.

1:01:10 We see a pair of skates. She grabs the pair of skates, and then fucking Samantha as Charlie is completely skating across this rink, keeping up with Mitch and these guys that are shooting on them, And then the car goes onto the ice and she starts gunning them down on the ice on skates. It's guys, you gotta you gotta see this. Yeah, you gotta see this movie. So she gets everybody dead in the car and that's when. With such a quickness, i mean, shown three times that the windshield and three guys are dead. And Mitch witnesses us all. So we see Caitlin at the at the church as the program's finishing, and that's when Timothy swoops in, gassing her, kidnapping her, even shows the youth leader a gun and basically tells her to stay out, stay out of this, and stay quiet, don't tell anybody. So Charlie and Mitch continue driving as he asks could she and shot them the shoulder, and that's when she tells him to back off. Charlie's phone starts ringing as the call comes in from Timothy telling her that he has Caitlin and he asks for her location.

1:02:05 As she gives it, he tells her he doesn't like cell phones that he wants her to go to a landline. That's when Charlie hangs up, tells Mitch the situation, and Mit suggests why don't they trace the call? And she's like, well, how are we going to do that? And he's like, let's go to the phone. Company, you know, i mean, sounds obvious. So they break into the phone company. They've got their guns and that's when they tell one of the workers that she's got forty minutes to basically do a trace and run a patch, and that's when Timothy calls in. Charlie asks him to verify. Well, let me back up for a second, because when Timothy calls in, Samuel L. Jackson is at the desk and he's like holiday inn. And that's when Timothy asked for her room, and that's when Charlie asked like that she is at the location. She keeps him on the line, and that's when they find out that he is at Niagara Falls and that she also that he's going to keep Caitlin until she arrives, and also that he got the number off her cask and confirming that he does really have her. So that's when she decides that they're going to go to Niagara Falls because that is the confirmation of where Operation Honeymoon was going to be started. So Mitch and Charlie arrive at Timothy's compound in Niagara Falls. We see Perkins is there and Timothy look over Caitlyn as Charlie breaks down the plans for Mitch that she is going to lay down cover fire for him and she's gonna try to sneak in as well and give him give her a signal if anything goes wrong. Charlie tells him that they're gonna they may possibly blow her head off and this is the last time that she'll ever be pretty. She kisses him on the cheek and advances towards the compound.

1:03:27 It's a very sweet moment, so really great. Yeah, we see that the compound is heavily guarded, but Charlie quickly dispatches one of the guys and then she notices a candle burning in the window. I can remember when I can see why you were choked up by that. So she quickly kills the guard that's guarding Caitlin by knocking on the door and she shoots through the peepole. That's when she sneaks Caitlyn out, but Mitch watches her, and that's when Timothy sneaks up very lethal weapon like with what's his face? Oh my god, I can't think of the villain's name and lethal weapon. That is the guy from lyyl Lah and Halloween six, the head of Shadow Company. Steaks up on the way the Siper arrival.

1:04:07 Yeah, so that's when we find out that he was completely onto this plan. He alerts his men. Lights come up in the yard, and that's when she's blasted at and she falls into a basement, at a basement that is now being riddled with bullets, and as the ricochet off hitting kerosene, one man threatens to drop a match if she doesn't want to back down, and that's when we also see that Caitlin was gifted a doll by Perkins. It's a peeing doll, and we just see that she looks out of this doll, looks at the kerosene, and that's all we get for this moment, for a moment. So Mitch and Charlie are apprehended, held in front of Perkins and Timothy, and Charlie puts together the operation Honeymoon was put together for budget cuts in the government. Project Honeymoon was intended to be a false flag chemical bomb detonation in Niagara Falls planned by the CIA in an attempt to blame Islamic terrorists and secure more funding. Charlie realizes that Timothy and a new group are plotting to restage the attack led by Perkins in this case, and Mitch asked about faking the attack, and that's some Perkin confirms, you know, you can't fit killing four thousand people, So I guess we're just gonna do it.

1:05:03 Hey, you know what, if it's anything worth doing, is worth doing, right. So they're gonna do it via a chemical bomb on a semi that they're going to send into a nearby town. And that is when he also states that they're going to suffocate Charlie and Caitlin into a freezer that is also at this spot. And that's when Charlie takes a second to tell Timothy to look into Caitlyn's eyes because that night that her and Timothy had a rendezvous before everything went south, they had sex and Caitlin is his daughter oo, and she's like, you know, look into it, look into he rise if you don't believe me. That's a great moment too. So when he looks the kid in the eyes, regardless of the fact that the child may favor him slightly. Yeah, what sells the idea that he sees himself in the little girl's eyes is his acting and the music. Yeah, because the music swells and becomes really intense telling us that the reality is that he sees his own eyes in her eyes. And I I love that moment because that is such a hard moment to imagine doing well. But in reality, all it took was the music.

1:06:10 And Gena Davis just basically uses his own words against him and basically says, am I lying, And he's pissed so he walks out, and that's when Geena Davis as Charlie tells Caitlin that they're gonna hibernate just like the bears did, because the intention is to kill them both, suffocating them in the freezer. Yeah, so that's when we also see that they shut the door, turning the freezer on to kill Charlie and Caitlin, but Charlie gets to work hacking at the ground outside. Timothy's men load the chemical bomb into the tanker for the attack, while Charlie digs under the freezer door, making a small gap and then using Caitlyn's retainer and the doll with the kerosene in it as she as the doll, pies the kerosene. Which filling the peeing baby doll with kerosene. Genius, so good, genius.

1:06:54 So that's when she goes to work on the ground trying to pound it and get a spark going. Meanwhile, Timothy goes to visit Mitch, who was tied to a chair in the hotel that's on the compound, telling him that since it's Christmas Eve, he'll give him a choice a knife or a gun, and he also throws the knife right at his crotch but misses, like barely. Well, I I on purpose. On purpose, Yes, So Charlie can't get the spark going. She starts to break down, crying, and that's when Kaitlyn pulls out matches from her cast, saying that she kept the matches in there to make sure that she was able to light a candle for her every night. And Charlie grabs on to Caitlin starts embracing her, and that's when Caitlyn's like, are we gonna die? And She's like, no, We're not gonna die. They're gonna die. Man, She's gonna be describing that to the therapist.

1:07:36 Yeah, so lighting the fire, Timothy is about the fire on Mitch. And the bomb goes or the fire, the explosion goes off, and fucking Mitch is blasted out of the window of this hotel one hundred feet into the snow. Yeah, and he. Still has the knife attached to his chairs. He breaks the ground. The guard comes up to him, he takes the knife, rams it right into a skull. Such a badass mood. It's oh my god, this this finale is about to get so crazy about too. So he sees that the explosion was definitely Charlie calls her a foxy bitch, and that's when Charlie and Caitlyn go outside and Charlie begins killing Timothy's men as she tells Caitlin to hide. Mitch getting a hold of a walkie talkie watches as Caitlin taking a hiding spot in the cargo of a truck just happens to be the truck that they've loaded the bomb onto.

1:08:22 What are the odds? So we see Timothy tell his men the plan is not changing, and as they are to go on a schedule loading the corpse that they are duping the crime onto and into the car that they're going to have basically because they're going to set the bomb off five miles down the road, the car is going to crash and the semi is going to crash, causing the bomb to go off when it reaches three hundred and twelve degrees. That's when the chemical bomb will. Go off, which is almost as good as the plot of Speed, I guess. A little bit. So Charlie is reached by Mitch, who tells her he's gonna go after Caitlin with her his back up. Through the scope, we see Mitch start to make his way to the ground of the truck, and she is giving him cover fire. He's also laying down some fire as well, but unfortunately he's ambush and shot down beside the truck, and we think this probably is the end of what is Samuel Jackson's story in this movie.

1:09:06 I mean, damn, he is bloody, he is hurt. So the truck begins to move out, with Caitlin still inside. A bloody Mitch wiggles in the snow by the dupe car. Charlie races off through the snowy forest, shooting a guard dead and into the car and stealing it. But Timothy is onto her, sending more men and even sending the chopper back into the year. After her get through the chop. So we cut to the nearby town where a Christmas Eve celebration is in progress. Charlie speeds through the town. She hops onto the bomb truck, throwing the driver out and she begins driving the car through the town with Timothy's men right in pursuit. Getting the truck out of town. Charlie goes to break but in the smarts of the plan, the brake line's been cut, so as soon as she hits that brake, that break line severs, and now she has no control as she's going down a fricking incline.

1:09:47 Yeah, and yeah, I'll be going down an incline in a pick or a semi truck. Is not easy, no, and that's with breaks. And that is when she says the beautiful line of suck my dick, every one of you bastards. As she rams through the brick wall of this bridge, Charlie crashes the truck, turning it onto its side. The truck skirts along the road, hitting right into Timothy's car, which Timothy's car then flips over, and Charlie is surfing on top of this semi Yes, yes, so she collides, flipping the car, sending Charlie flying. Timothy ambushes her as they get into a brawl with Timothy arm with a knife and she even comments, oh honey, only four inches, and that's what Timothy says, you will feel me, So she warms her arms herself with a chain and the two fight over and throwing themselves over the side of the bridge. As Timothy is sent into the water below. Charlie clings to a chain fence climbs back up as Timothy has also survived and emerges on another side.

1:10:39 Jeez, it's so much action. The ending is it's almost mind belding. Do you even? Movie? Will be right back, welcome back to do You even? Movie? So Charlie runs to Caitlin as the helicopter begins firing on her, shooting a flare into the gunman's chest. As he completely goes, a flame falls out of the helicopter and he catches himself on some Christmas lights that are strung up on the bridge, and that basically holds him in place, which may come back in a second. Who knows, Oh, I don't know. So that's when we also see that Charlie rescues Caitlyn as she tells her to run. Caitlyn begs her not to leave, but Charlie tells her that she's right behind her, and by this point Charlie is succumbing to her wombs and collapses right on the bridge, so Caitlyn turns around as she stops running, looking back.

1:11:34 That's when Timothy flags down the helicopter to pick him up. Caitlyn joins Charlie at her side, apologizing for leaving her, calling her mommy, telling her to get up, basically doing everything in the scene at the ice rink before. Yeah, and that's when she's basically says, you know you can't die. Stop being a little baby. You're not dead, and she starts crying, ordering her to stand up right this minute. Charlie comes too, slowly getting off the ground. The two walk as we see Timothy now in the helicopter telling his men to take them to the bridge. He is not leaving until this bitch is dead, so he quickly finds Charlie and Caitlyn on the bridge, opens fire, and that's when they take shelter on the side of the truck and Charlie, using the truck radio, begs for help as one of the government men is like, no, no, we can't do it. I'm sorry, whereas suddenly a bloody Mitch comes into frames sitting in the driver's seat of the dupe vehicle, drives out, commenting you can't kill me, motherfuckers, and.

1:12:27 We're not even selling it hard. On his bringback, they have a like a electric guitar whies out of the back of this semi driving onto the road. He joins Charlie on the bridge with Caitlyn as tim Timothy keeps firing on them. She gets Caitlyn into the car and draws Timothy's attention away and he follows her to the center of the bridge where the helicopter guy's body is still a flame. But now she sees those Christmas lights are hanging and they might be some leverage to pull her up. As she slices the strate out of Christmas lights, it sends her up. As she grabs machine gun off the dead guard fires an entire clip into Timothy, who falls out right on top of the semi on the bomb. Because we did forget to mention that she did tell Timothy that she was that he was gonna die screaming and she was gonna be there to watch.

1:13:13 Well, that's always good to keep your promises. Yeah, So she fires an entire clip into him. He falls on top of the truck and that's when she says, I told you you'd die screaming. You motherfucker. Such a good line. And that's when we also see that he is now on top of the tanker. She gets into the car with Mitch. The bomb is getting ready to go off. Mitch is speeding away. We see two one the truck blows up. And when I say this truck blows up, the bridge blows up. The bridge is out. Everything in the eyeshot a. Ready Harlan fireball that we have come to know and love. As we see them speeding away from nothing but flames behind them, and that's when literally it starts raining cars that are on fire because the bridge is blown up.

1:13:54 Set these cars on fire, so they're raining down in. Front of them. It's a sight to behold, really is. It really makes you feel like it's Christmas. So we see them get away from the center of the bridge, which is completely gone now there is no bridge, and that's when sometime later down the road, Mitch pulls off to the side, stating he can't drive anymore. And he even asked Charlie if she's okay, and she's like, are you stupid? And he tells Caitlin that she's got her mommy's eyes and let no one tell her different. And Charlie tells him, hey, hang on, don't you remember we're rich now as she holds up the bracelets. Yep. So we see Charlie sometime later in the future driving down the road in a corvette as the President calls her apologizing for Perkins, you know, telling him wrong, and even offering to bring her back into the field and that he's got a handsome sum for her if she wants it. She turns him down, but she's saying that she's got all the money she needs, but there is a favor that well.

1:14:43 She says, you'd be surprised how much money a teacher can make, and we. See that she's got the loot at this point, So that's when she also asked the President for a favor, and that's when we cut to Larry King live. Yes, and it is literally actually Larry King and. Mitch is a guest on there as they're exposing the eruption that has happened in the government, and he's a special guest being interviewed by Larry. Yeah, I love I love that moment too, because he's just he's just chewing it up. Showing anything. And we also see that Todd and his mother are watching, so his son and his ex wife are watching. We cut back to Charlie, who is now living as Samantha again. They bought a farm and in a countryside. She's enjoying lunch with how but we also hear that an annoying cricket is right by them and they're eating I think they're eating chicken and yeah, and that's when she takes her knife, throws it, and the cricket stops chirping.

1:15:31 It's a pretty great moment because you don't really you just kind of don't even think about the cricket sound because they're outside. They're outside. Yeah, yeah, and then it just stopped, just stops. So that's when Hale and Samantha joined Caitlin. As we see they bought a farm. Now they're living in the countryside. They're happy. The camera pulls out. We see the beautiful house, the farm, animals and everything, and that, my friends, is nineteen ninety Six's The Long Kiss good. Night and I mean a perfect happy ending. Yeah, definitely a feel good action movie. Yeah, where nobody we liked gets hurt. No, not at all. Well, Nathan, so would you like to know some fun things about the film. They better be fun. What would you guess the budget is?

1:16:12 I mean, it's a lot. I'm gonna guess higher than I was going to cause Rennie Harlan. Yeah, and it was ninety six ninety six. This is post cutthroat Island too well. Because it wouldn't be one hundred because that was like terminator too money at that time. Nine hundred So fifty five close, sixty five million dollars budget opening weekend, which was October thirteenth of nineteen ninety six. Fair enough. It makes nine million, sixty five or nine million, sixty five thousand, three hundred and sixty three dollars. It grosses in US and Canada thirty three million, grossing worldwide eighty nine million. Okay, so modest, modest success. Shane Black became the first writer to sell a script for four million dollars.

1:17:02 He later admitted that this caused a lot of envy among his fellow screenwriters, as well as accusations of commercialism. He voluntarily retired from the blockbuster industry for almost a decade as a result. Well, you know, it's not that hard to do when you just got to check for four million dollars. Yeah, screenwriter Shane Black sold the script for the movie with the intention of Rennie Harland directing it and Geena Davis starring in it. Harlan then told him he and Davis were contractually bound to make Cutthroat Island in nineteen ninety five first, which became one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. Black later stated that this may have caused bad advertisements that worked against the film as well. Yeah. I feel like it. I would have imagined it would do better, but then again, I mean, you just never know. Yeah. The plot is loosely inspired by the Robert Ludlam novel The Boorne Identity, which was made into a movie of its own a few years later. A spy who hunts terrorists, gets shot, almost drowns, wakes up with amnesia, and uses clues to patch together their past links to a shadowy government agency. Brian Cox, by the way, appears in both films. Hey He Does Yeah. The film is famous for being one of three big budget films that came out the indie studio New Line Cinema in nineteen ninety six and underperformed. The other two were The Island of Doctor Burreau and Last Man Standing.

1:18:07 Oh Man okay. Up until their release is Newline Cinema had specialized in low to medium budgeted genre pictures. Yeah, that's yeah, those are big movies for the Newline at that time. Samuel L. Jackson said in a GQ interview that he read the script and really wanted the role, but the studio said it was written as a white character. Jackson then met Gina and Rennie at a Christmas party and he told them he loved the script and wanted the role, and Rennie said, you want to be in my film, that you've got it, and. That was that. Hey, Rennie's not a dope. On The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon in twenty fourteen, Jimmy Fallon in twenty nineteen, Samuel Jackson listed Mitch as his favorite role. I could see that, yeah, although I don't know. His character in Jackie Brown was pretty great too, pretty great.

1:18:48 But Mitch has a lot of redeeming qualities too. I really like him. Gina Davis and then husband director Rennie Harlan checked how long she could hold her breath in their bathtub to prepare for the water torture scene. Well, you know, the weeks are long. You get bored why not. At one point in The Long Kiss good Night, Jackson's character Mitch Hennessy and Geena davis amnesic spy Charlie, escape from pursuers by jumping out of a window, firing a machine gun at the ice below so the water can cushion their fall. Jackson told host Jennifer Hudson that filming the scene required the actors to actually be submerged in freezing cold water again and again. It was negative thirty seven degrees that day. Jackson were called. They cut a hole in the ice and they put a hot tub in it to make sure we didn't float away because there was a current in the lake. They had to break the ice because it would freeze over between shots and we would get in. They told us to count to five and we would come up. Then we would crawl across the ice and they put us in the hot tub while they looked at the replay. Unfortunately, the initial replay wasn't good enough for director Rennie Harlan, who was married to Davis at the time, so as if the sub zero swimming wasn't hard enough, Jackson and Davis had to perform the stunt repeatedly we did it like five times, Jackson said, I have never felt anything like that in my life. You know the headache you get when you drink milk too fast, multiply that by twenty oh lord, My brain was like, what are we doing.

1:20:04 Davis also happened to talk about the stunt recently during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden last October. She said the actors only did three times, but given the excruciating pain of the freezing water, it's understanable that she and Jackson have slightly different memories of that moment. It was like being hit in the head with the sledgehammer, Davis said of the experience, I couldn't see, think, or hear. I can't even imagine that. That's insanity. For the record, Gena Davis did her own stunts for the film too. Geez, yeah, that's nuts. Do You Even? Movie will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even?

1:20:45 Movie. One of the movie's original locations was a historic grand hotel in Musaka, Ontario, the one hundred year old Windmere House. During filming, however, the hotel fire and burned to the ground. The heat from the film lights were initially blamed for causing the blaze, but it was never proven that the lights started the fire. Wow, yeah, that's right, that's blame the film production. Yeah, but the line, yes, it was very exciting. Tomorrow we Go to the Zoo was recycled from Shane Black's original script for The Last Boy Scout. Oh I could see that. Yeah. The ice skating scene were scripted to end with Samantha performing a double axle flip and simultaneously firing over her upside head. After two aerial rig configurations and sub zero conditions and several attempts at green screening failed to hold any convincing fluency to the actions, it was dropped from the final cut of the film.

1:21:38 Where did they film this again? Was it because it was insanely cold? Yeah? It would have been Ontario. Oh yeah, that makes sense. Shane Black's original script was much darker for the film and more graphic than the final film. Amongst the many differences that included alternate action sequences, more violence like the scene where Mitch and Charlie are captured and get tortured. Both characters also had bigger backstories in the original script to Mitch, at one point tells Charlie how he was gang raped in prison, and how his wife refuses to let him see his son because of what happened to him. Charlie also had more of a dark backstory in the script in the final film as well. Yeah, she tends to pack it with the heavy stuff. Then it gets and then it gets drawn back a little. Bitah, I told you I read the original Last Boy Scouts script. After reading that one, Yeah you did, dude, Jesus.

1:22:22 In the first draft of the screenplay, Mitch dies in the from his bullet wounds. Test. Audiences liked his character and performance so much that the ending was reshot letting him live to save the day and redeem himself. Oh wow, Yeah, I mean, because it is a pretty happy ending. Gina Davis was the first female actor to ever say suck my dick in a movie in this film. She was the first one to say it in a movie in this film, WHOA. In several scenes from the hotels, the mini bar contains vodka, a Finnish brand Finlandia obviously plays there by Rennie Harlowe. Oh he's finished. During development, New Line Cinema considered turning the lead character into a male Steven Sagall and Sylvester s Alone were considered suitable choices. If the lead had gone that way, wouldn't have worked. Craig Ferguson auditioned for the role of Timothy.

1:23:07 Oh my god, I could see it. Yeah, I don't like it, but I can see it. Yeah. I like Craig fergus I love Greg Versus. This is the last page of Black's original nineteen ninety four scripts stated there would be a sequel called The Kiss After Lightning that never happened. While a possible sequel was reportedly in the works in two thousand and seven, no sequel has ever been produced. As of twenty twenty four. Yeah, well, I mean I don't know that we need more. Yeah, you know, I kind of like knowing that Samantha gets to live her happy life. Yeah, that'd be terrible if like they just Seege on the farm, like that's the opening of them. You mean, like what they did to Rambo and Commando. I mean, I love I love the Rambo movies. Yeah, but when they started adding Rambo movies after part four, they his story ended so happy in four, yeah, with him finally going home.

1:23:55 Well, not to mention how dark last blood I mean, Last Blood was satis fine, but fuck yeah. Yeah. That's all I'm saying is like that that was the one where they were like, and we're gonna do more. Yeah brutal. Yeah my god. So what are your final thoughts on nineteen ninety six? Is The Long Kiss good Night? It's one thousand percent to rent it. If you're an action movie nineties movie nut, then you'd want to own it for sure. But this is definitely a movie worth plopping down your four ninety nine to watch an HD. I couldn't recommend it enough and it's got just enough Christmasy moments to make you feel a little bit festive. Yeah, it's actually packed with Christmas surprisingly. Yeah no, I'm well it takes place at. Christmas can So it is also rented for me as well, with a caveat to buy it if you are a physical media collector or an action aficionado. This movie is so much fun because you're not used to seeing Geena Davis play these type of roles at all.

1:24:47 No, no, and she's perfect, perfect for it. So, I mean, if you if you like a good female badass, this is one of those movies if you're looking for a Christmas action film, and you've watched Diehard so many times, even though I was still watch it every single year on December first, looking for something new. This is a great one to fill that gap, and you will probably have a good time with some friends if you want to include them as well. Yeah, I would have to agree, So yeah, it's a. Runner for both of us. We always like to end the show with a couple recommendations. I've got too this week, the first one being Kiss, Kiss, Bang Bang, a shame black screenplay from a direct directory Will Say or No, I don't know if you do. I don't know. I think not Joel Schumacher. Who did it? I can't remember who did it? But will you don't know? My bad from two thousand and five. It is currently available to rent on Primer Voodoo. It says, after being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder.

1:25:37 Mystery directed as well by Shameela Oh. It is Shameluck directed. Okay, yeah. Second recommendation is nineteen ninety six is a Racer with Arnold Schwarzenegger also available to rent on Primer Voodoo, a witness protection specialist becomes suspicious of his coworkers when dealing with a case involving high tech weapons. I do enjoy me, Summer Raser. It's a good one. Yeah, definitely a good one. What's your recommendation. Well, I'm gonna go obvious. I'm not going to go for a D cut. I'm going to go for something you've probably seen, but maybe it's time for a revisit. Okay, I'm going with nineteen eighty seven's Lethal Weapon, written by Shane Black. Yes, and if you haven't seen Lethal Weapon, I it is confusing to me. But the IMDb synopsis is two newly paired cops who are complete opposites put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers. That's basically it, basically, but it's a lot of fun. It's hilarious, and I'm sure you could find it somewhere to watch.

1:26:29 Yeah, and Christmas to the tease. That's what I'm saying. And it has Christmas in it so it fits the season. It's got all. It's the movie that introduced us to all the Shane blackisms in action films. Yeah, so that's going to be my recommendation lethal weapon. And do we have any emails this week? Maybe? Yeah, we do, We actually do. Okay, So this first one is from our buddy Tyler Tyler who's probably going to join us on movie night for Thanksgiving. Hell yeah. The subject line is suggestions. Hey boys, a thought occurs to me. Have you guys considered covering any documentaries, animated films, or even foreign films?

1:27:11 Animated is definitely a possibility. I don't know about documentary. I don't think a doc documentary would really fit. But we've done one foreign film. Yeah, so far. The Christmas just another Christmas, which is phenomenal on Netflix. Watch it for the Love of. God listener episode here is Cry. Yeah yeah, it's good stuff. But documentaries, no animated. Maybe I really want to revisit. Cool World co World. I would be done. When I was a kid, way too young, I was watching it on Cinemax, so I'd love to watch it as an adult and see if it's any good. So I will be watching that. I think it hasn't come out yet. Has it hit Blu Ray last year? I want to say oh, okay, Yeah, maybe Rachel has a copy of that.

1:27:52 I think she might. But yeah, so I would love to revisit that. There aren't a ton of animated movies that I'm not into. But I'm not opposed to animated and. Foreign movies absolutely, It's just a matter of availability, which I know is funny for me to say that, as some of our movies haven't been available lately. But yeah, no foreign films. I'm absolutely I'm into a huge category three, which is Hong Kong movies right now. So yeah, I would absolutely talk about foreign films. Yeah, so I'm sure it'll come up eventually. Yeah, And we are trying to keep the movies relatively relatively accessible, although a lot of them end up not being readily available to watch to fucking keep track anymore, Yeah, cry about it. Oh man, this is a long one. Okay. This is from our viewer Daniel. The subject is Louis in all caps with two exclamation points, and then Life with Louis Louie. Louie is right at the stop at the top cast he said, sorry, got caught in nineties nostalgia.

1:28:46 Great show Life with Louis. I loved Life with Louis when I was a kid. Anyway, hope this reaches you guys before you got you before you guys do the episode before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately this came in on Saturday, so not quite. We do the shows about a week out. Yeah, Louis, I totally agree with you that Thanksgiving turkey is super dry. Not a fan. I'm just saying when my cousin makes it, it is unbelievably moist all the way through. But also, you're a fool if you're into the white meat. Anyway, That's fair. People call me weird because I love Deli turkey but don't like Thanksgiving turkey. I also don't like Deli ham, but love bone in hamir. That part I do find weird because I like both types of ham.

1:29:33 To me, cold cut turkey is just so different from absolutely roasted turkey. I hope you guys have a wonderful and joyous Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for both of you guys that get me through a lot of my work days with both podcasts, do you even movie and Weekly Spooky Awesome? Thank you, we appreciate it. Thank you for all you do to keep us entertained and giving, at least some of us new experiences in the movies you suggest and review. That's awesome, happy to do it. Dave's not doesn't thank you, but I do. I thank you my apologies. Yeah. Sure, So with that all being said, yes, sir, I just want to remind everybody you can email us like these gentlemen did at dooevenmoviepod at gmail dot com, or just go to dooevenmovie dot com for all the information you could ever need about the program. We love to hear from you. If you're watching us on YouTube, leave a comment. We respond to as many of them as we can, which is generally all of.

1:30:27 Them, yep. And if you're listening to us on the podcast feed, make sure you're subscribed and leave us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts please Spotify. So what are we watching next week? David? So, next week we are diving into I think a quintessential film of our friendship, because I think this was one where it was just like you like. This, I love this, Oh man, I've always loved this movie. We're talking about nineteen ninety four's The Ref starring Dennis Leary, Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis, J. Simmons. I mean, the list goes on and on for that one. There's so many people, so many. Yeah, that one is currently available to rent on Prime and Fandango. I will say that if you, if you are a physical media collector, just buy the DVD because with it being a Disney title, technically there's no telling them we're gonna get a blue Red.

1:31:08 I mean, one year it was on Netflix, one year it was on Disney Plus. It bounces around like crazy, it does. I bought it the HD version on Voodoo Doo Yeah, which is now Fandango at Home. Or Go at Home. Yeah. So, but yeah, it'll be the ref from nineteen ninety four starring Dennis Leary, and that movie is a screen. And I do do want to remind everybody that the Long Kiss good Night was a recommendation from our buddy Maurice, which just goes to prove again that if you have a movie you want us to do, send us an email. We would love to hear from you and think and hear what your thoughts are on what we should talk about. You never know what might happen. You never know. All right, my friends, Well it's time for me to get out of here so I can go Inhale fumes to get the rest of this new kiss out of my head. Fair, I am not fully recovered from my cold.

1:31:52 Get I am ready to not talk anymore, which is a shock to most people. They would assume that me being unable to talk is fatal. But uh yeah, so we're gonna get out of here, so everybody stay safe out there, and uh chefs do that. Signing off the podcast See you next Tuesday.