The Last Boy Scout (1991): Bruce Willis Action-Comedy

0:01 The Last Boy Scout, Funny can't talk? Am I gonna do the shoot? Bruce Willis Verba Damon Wayams so the play professor wild when. You mentioned the comic speeding bullet of the season, an enormous hit, lots of laughs. That was a mob hell of a factory. Recall The Last Boy Scouts Rededar, now playing at a theater near you. In a world where podcasts reigned supreme. Two friends dare to ask.

0:41 Do You Even? Movie? Hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and movie officionado David Denyer. Spoiler alert, Hello everyone, and welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? I'm, of course your host Enrique Kuto here with double D David Denoyer, or, as I've always called him, the poor man's and depressed man's and autistic man's Bruce Willis.

1:26 Thanks, Bud, Greetings. Fuck do I respond to that? It's okay, buddy. It's hard for a lot of people to take praise. Yeh huh, so, oh it's gonna be a good show. I already started it very very well for me. I mean you also did confuse the movie. Uh not not really kinda. I mean, for a second I thought it was The Jackal ye, but only for a moment. Once it started up, I was like, oh right, the weigh Ins movie yep, although I got to confuse with another one we'll talk about late another way in this movie that I absolutely love. Uh, but yeah, we're talking about nineteen ninety one's The Last Boy Scout to wrap up a kind of sort of back to.

2:09 School called it. We called it back to school back in action, at least that's what I called it. Well, and more importantly, this episode is for our good buddy Trenk YEP listener and buddy Trenk who who wrote in and asked if we could cover it for his birthday. Yeah, so here we are covering it for your birthday. And if you want to write in and recommend a movie you want us to sit down and watch and dissect talk about, crack Wise, et cetera. Yes, you can send us an email at do you even movie pod at gmail dot com or go to douevenmovie dot com and send us a message. We love, love, love to hear from you when we try to read any messages we get at the end of every episode. Yes, so, but this is the the.

2:50 Final non horror movie we're gonna be covering for quite a while because October starts next week. I'm sorry my voice is very scratchy. Oh, it's almost like you chugged a bunch of McDonald's. Before we started with the shot show. Usually I'm the total goblin who would be warfing down a big Mac right before we record. But this time a big Mac and a mcdouble. Oh man, I you know, you know that's just disturbing. Was that disturbing? Because that really because that's just the way I ate for a while, and then I uh, and then when I saw the doctor, he was like, don't do that no more. And I was like, well, maybe I want to, and he was like, take the c ADHD medicine. I was like, oh now I don't want to eat like that anymore. Yeah, although last night I didn't. I didn't end up eating until nine o'clock at night for the whole day. Yeah, and I ate like six pieces of pizza.

3:41 I just kept horking them down. I couldn't stop. I mean, I'm just gonna say, it is your fault for living here at a place that McDonald's delivers very quickly too. Yeah, I live super close to McDonald so if you door dash for a small fee of like nine dollars on top of your eleven dollar meal, you can have your food like fourteen minutes. Yeah, pretty quick. It's shockingly fast anyway, But we're not we're not sponsored, so I'm not going to praise it. That's just you know, I'm all about those Benjamins dalla dalla bills, y'all. Yes so, but but yes, so before we get to the show, to the movie. Rather, Yeah, I have been in the process of not moving out of my home but moving my partner, Rachel, my girlfriend into my home, and it's an experience. So I'm actually a lot less tired than I was last week when I was moving. And then we also did the show.

4:36 I was watching the video back and I was like, my eyelids they're so low. It's fun show still though it was. It was a really fun show. Just an exhausting week, so and this week is going to get much more exhausting. Most likely, Dave is only helping for two hours of the move two two and a half. No, if I'm going ten thirty two. Two, if that's going to lead into that, My point is Dave Dave Denoyer fair weather friend four to. Hours, two hours. Okay, yeah, I see how it. Is, just saying, I mean, is it so much to ask for you to load a truck? What I'm giving you my car for christ Sake, my car that I just put new tie. I put sixteen hundred fucking dollars into that thing. I will drive it.

5:21 Oh oh okay for those I'll say, that's not what the tires car. No, okay, tires are half that though. I mean, I mean, I'll never forget putting a twenty four hundred dollars suspension on my car and then the computer dying Jesus three. It was less than three weeks later. Yea, that would suck. Yeah, well that was what I was thinking. For literally, it was like let it go. Yeah, you can't fight. There were new new tires too, because I remember I was like, what could I do about the new tires, and my mother was like, let it all go. Just it's all lost. Get a new car. You need a new car. That was the entire I remember when you yeah, you had said thing about the computer, because you didn't you reach out to some places to see if it was. Replacing the computer would be at that. This is in twenty fourteen. Money for a Volkswagen would have been about eleven hundred dollars. That's a brand new computer plus the programming and everything, and it would probably fix the problem probably.

6:13 I mean, nobody was willing to guarantee because they can't really diagnose. Or I could have went to other sources, basically go to a Junkyard, because all the Volkswagens from that year was a two thousand, the two thousand, the Beatles, the jet as, they all the same computer. Get one, But then I'd have to find a certified Volkswagen tech that is unscrupulous, who would be willing to push it in. I found one, okay, but then it was like you're still looking at like seven or eight hundred dollars. I think the best was six and no guarantee that it would work at all, and then if it does work, no guarantee it would fix the problem one hundred percent. So I talked to my mother because she was my financial guru, and I was like, what do I do?

6:55 And MoMA was like, get a new car. Get out from under this car now. And the entire reason I put a new suspension on an old car and new tires on an old car was because my mechanic hoop to this day, I still trust very much. Very good mechanic looked at the engine on my VW when it had about one hundred and seventy five thousand miles on it, yeah, and he was like, you got one of those VW's that's gonna if it doesn't hit three hundred thousand miles, it's gonna kiss it. This engine is in amazing shape, to which I replied, what the hell do other people do to their engines? I treated that car like shit, yeah from hey, from my opinion, but no, no, So it ended up being like, oh, well, your engine's an amazing shape. So I was like, then I guess it's worth putting the money into. And then and then that happened.

7:37 Then that happened. But I found out that if I unplugged the battery and then plugged it back in, the error wouldn't come up for about an hour. So that's what I did right before I traded it in. That's a good call. My mother is crooked. She's the only figured that out. She's load was like, do that anyway. So that all being said, been a very busy. Week, and do we want to talk about going to see Speak No Evil by you. We did. We saw the American remake of Speak No Evil in theaters starring. What's his name James McAvoy. Yes, yes, Split macaboy is that is like Jimmy Smith's James Split McAvoy Old School MST three K fans will get that and no one else And that's the way I like it.

8:21 That's fair, But no, I uh, I will. Why don't you give your opinions on it first? So if you have been online or to the theater, then you would know that people are very adamant about the fact that this trailer has been everywhere and has annoyed them to the fact that that apparently they didn't want to see the movie. The complaint about, oh, the trailer's playing too much, I don't want to hear it. When the trailer doesn't play enough, people like you didn't even market it, so. Like, I'm sorry they wanted you to know about this movie. You would be interested because you're a horror fan and you're seeing horror movies all the time. I'm so sorry that they spent money to tell you this movie existed.

9:04 When I heard people complain about like the trailers times, I'm like, don't you just look at your phone during the goddamn trailers anyway, Basically, once you've seen it once and you know whether you want to see it or not, you just go, hey, looking forward to that, and you're back on your phone you're tweeting something very offensive or whatever it is you do with your free time. So no, but I thought it was really fun. Yeah no, I So I went into it not realizing that. For one, the director is the same guy that did Eaton Lake. Yes, Jam Pawkins, and if you haven't seen Eden Lake, I cannot recommend that enough. But also line up something light afterwards. Yeah, nothing crazy, just like funny Games, Yeah, or Shindler's List. Yeah, there we go, you know, something with an upbeat tempo.

9:45 But no, for those who aren't aware or haven't seen the trailer a thousand times with this point, it's basically about a family that is on a retreat in Italy and they get friended by another family that is James McAvoy's side, with him his wife and they have a son and they're like, you know, watch come stay with us, like visit us in the country, come on out. So they end up going and maybe there's some craziness behind the scenes going on. Yeah, there's some some craziness going on where they're not what they seem. Yeah, And which I thought was really funny because the biggest complaint I heard on the internet about the movie was like, well, in the original that's why it was so scary because the guy was so calm, but in the trailer's just actually a maniac. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, the trailers shouldn't tell you what's interesting about the movie, so you'll go see it should be like a family meets some friends and visits them.

10:29 It has a very nice time in theater. September twenty sixth. You know, like what the like? What do you like? Yeah, like, you know, the old, the older I get the more when people complain, I just sound like my Mexican stepdad. I just sound like, what are you talking about? What do you what's your problem? Who cares? I don't want to hear it. Like all of his. Greatest hits come out, yeah, which were generally me just yapping at him and you know, complaining about things. But I was like six, so he was he would It was very funny arguments. But yeah, I also immediately went home after leaving your house when we got back and watched the original, and as somebody who has now seen the original from twenty two, which is a Danish film, it is they are very similar in the execution of the first and second acts.

11:12 The third acts completely different for both. Well, I would say from what I've heard, which I didn't really want to know much about it, so I won't spoil it. But from what I've heard, it's just as simple as shocking everybody. The American theatrical remake was tooled to fit the market of American theatrical movies, so I can't be mad. I haven't watched the originally, I will be very soon. I'm looking forward to it. I'm really going to be interested on your takes on it. But no, personally, I think Speak to Evil is absolutely worth a watch. Go see it in theaters if you can. It's a great time. James McAvoy fucking nails it, just like he does, I mean in everything he's been in the last like five years of You Lie. I found it so unbearably tense in a good way.

11:54 Yes, no, it's it's an intense movie. The last act is so satisfying and so intense and so just you do not see it coming how it all goes. In my opinion, I would have to agree, if you predict the way that movie's gonna go, I hope that after you leave the theater you're on your way to your therapist. Fair enough. Yes, So No, I thought it was a super fun time, super creepy, exactly what you want out of a thriller in the movie theater. Yeah, I enjoyed it, and I will say too, I think the American remake has a little bit more to it for content wise. That makes the film more enjoyable. That's all I'm gonna say. I'm done. Well. I mean it's kind of like the Funny Games remake versus the original. Whenever people say they prefer the original, I'm like, I totally understand it. But for me, the reason I liked the remake slightly more, yeah, is because it was literally geared toward me. It was literally made with American audiences in mind.

12:51 Is that scene in it where they push rewind is that in the original It's I've seen it, Okay, I couldn't remember. But my point is more they set it to where Americans would be more aware of it. That's what I'm saying. Like like, so, to me, I just identified it with it more because they were people like me. Because it was a very close remake, very much almost shot for shot, same director and everything like that. I will say, speak no evil. I did find the characters a bit more enjoyable in the remake as well as the original. Is that just because you hate foreign people? That's not why are there Americans in the original? No, okay, I just heard that there was a lot of it in English. That's why I was. I was wondering. I know there is a lot in English, but there's also, like I said this in a comment on a Facebook page, it's a Danish film by the Danish film and there's parts of it that are the art subtile of all in our English. So I think you're supposed to be in the dark.

13:40 The main So the main characters speak English, I'm telling it so. So the idea is to make you feel as out of the loop as they would, you know, well, I mean they that's methodology has been done in tons of stuff. Yeah, especially like what was it, Oh, there's a movie like there was an action series? It might have been. No. John Wick often if the characters are speak I think was John Wick. There are a few action movies where when the foreign characters are talking and the main character doesn't understand what they're saying. Yeah, they would purposefully not, you know, because you're not supposed. To know what they're talking about. Yeah. Although also, the first time I watched Taken, yeah it was it was a long time ago. It was a boot like a friend had gotten, and the subtitles didn't come with it. Shit, So I thought that the whole film, every time people were speaking, you know, Albanian or whatever they were speaking, I thought we just weren't supposed to know what they were saying in direct contact.

14:27 In a similar relation to that, even though I think I watched it for VHS. The first time I ever saw it Kill Bill, I had gotten a burned from my uncle of Kill Bill, and right when she gets select to the tons of sword and all that stuff, like the explanation of it, nothing no subtitles. Oh man, so you just had to sit there and doing body language readings. I don't know if anybody's seeing Kill Bill a while. There's a lot of subtitles in that movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, there are Yeah, do. You Even movie, will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even movie.

15:09 Let's jump into The Last Boy Scout from nineteen ninety one. So nineteen ninety one's The Last Boy Scout is one hour and forty five minutes. Rateed R for graphic violence and very strong language. I would call the language strong, call. The violence graphic as well. No, no, yeah, that is a violent motherfucker. So director of the film is Tony Scott. He gets just started nineteen eighty three with The Hunger. You've seen The Hunger right with David Bowie, Susan sarandam I have not? You haven't? No, I need to bring over with the Hunger? Yeah, what the hell? Really good vampire movie. So he does that in eighty three, Top Gun in eighty six, Then he does Kenny Login's danger z Own video the same year. Obviously, Beverly Hills Cop Two in nineteen eighty seven, George Michael's One More Try video in nineteen eighty eight, Revenge with Kevin Costner in nineteen ninety, Days of Thunder in nineteen ninety, The King of Ads in ninety one, The Last Boy Scout in ninety one, True Romance in ninety one three, Crimson Tied in ninety five, The Fan in ninety six, Enemy of the State in ninety eight, that he does, the Hunger TV series in ninety seven, Spy Game in two thousand and one, Man on Fire, which he directs and produces in two thousand and four, which I just revisited.

16:12 Man on Fire. That is such a good movie. That that's someone with Denzel's I'll watch it. Oh, it's so good. That's one of my favorites. You know, there's am it's a remake of one with Scott Glenn from the eighties. No, I did not know. I still haven't seen it, but it's actually a pretty more available now than it used to be, so I want to check it out at some point. We do love Scott Glenn on the program. That we do uh Domino in two thousand and five. He's director and producer on Deja Vous in two thousand and six. He directs an episode of Numbers in two thousand and seven. The Taking a Pellem one two three remake in two thousand and nine with the infamous line from John Travolta of lick my bumhole, motherfucker. Yeah I know that, Yeah, she says he says that. To the cop when he's when he's trying to get an arraiment. Donet one point. I like the use of bumhole and then motherfucker. Yep. It's like it's like when you say, like I am freaking tired of these freaking fuckers, you know, like you're just so.

17:00 He does that in two thousand and nine Unstoppable in twenty ten. He also was an executive producer in twenty eleven on Life in a Day. Have I shown you that yet? I can't remember. I don't believe so. So Life in a Day, if I remember correctly, it is Tony Scott and I think Michael Bays also involved it. It was a project they put out to the entire world which was basically, on this day, we want you to record your day and then send us the footage and we're gonna put together a feature film combining all this footage together. Wow, sounds boring. I saw it in college. It's really good. Oh I'm not show I'm not doubting that it might turn out because it sounds it sounds just strange. Well, I mean they'd sort through a lot of footage. I would imagine, so so he's also executive producer on The Gray in twenty eleven, Stoker twenty thirteen, The East in twenty thirteen, Out of the Furnace twenty thirteen, and then unfortunately around twenty twelve, he passed August nineteenth at the age of sixty eight from suicide.

17:51 I remember that happening. I also found out not to get Dowur on this, but I also found out via looking this up with for the notes, that there were two notes found that did not give the reasoning as to why he did it, but he did have two suicide notes written for people that have not the release of the public. Well, you know, I mean, yeah, well, great job, Dave. Let's head out, all right, take care of yourit it. Our writer on the film is Shane Black. He gets a start in nineteen eighty seven with a little film called Lethal Weapon. Oh that's the TV movie. The TV movie. Yes, so he doesn't leave the Weapon as the writer in eighty seven, the writer on Monster Squad in eighty seven, he wrote it. He wrote it with Fred with Fred. Yeah. Leath a Weapon two in nineteen eighty ninety, gets character and story credit for The Last Boy Scout in ninety one, Lethal Weapon three in ninety two, gets character a credit for Last Action Hero ninety three, which I think he was like one of six or seven writers on that movie.

18:42 Back. That wouldn't surprise me. That was a lot of work put into that old job. Yes, long, Kiss good Night in nineteen. Ninety six, absolute classic. We're probably gonna have to talk about that at some point, yeah, like at. Some point as in like Christmas. Yeah, yeah, probably Lead the Weapon four in ninety ninety eight. He gets character credit on Kisskiss Bang Bang. In two thousand and five, he's writer and director on Iron Man three, and twenty thirteen, he's writer and director on Edge, which is a TV movie he did in twenty fifteen. Also writer and director on The Nice Guy's twenty sixteen writer. In direct now their total classic. And also future episode probably Leath the Weapon TV series. In twenty sixteen, he gets screenplay or he gets a character credit four as well as wrote some on as well, Oh Nice The Predator in twenty eighteen, writer and director on He was also an actor in Knight of the Creeps, Predator in eighty seven, Dead Heat, The Hunt for in October, RoboCop three, and Dark Justice in nineteen ninety three.

19:30 All roads lead back to Cappy, Cappy and fry Lick, Yeah, mister Frylick. Other writer on this is Greg Hicks. His this is his only story credit is a Last Boy Scout in nineteen ninety one, and then wrapping us up is our cinematographer who is Ward Russell. He gets to start as a Best Boy in nineteen seventy seven with Record City, Our winning season in seventy eight, The Electric Horseman in seventy nine, The Idol Maker in nineteen eighty, Soggy Bottom USA in eighty one, Independence Day in eighty you know not that Independence Day, Young Lust in eighty four. Then he's a gaffer on Dreamscape in eighty four, Frank and Weeni The Original Short in eighty four, Mussolini The Untold Story in eighty five, Oh Top Gun in eighty six.

20:13 He's chief lighting tech on Back to School in eighty six, Beverly Hills Cop two in eighty seven, Chief Lighting once again, and then Revenge. He is also chief lighting technician on as well. He doesn't hit DP until nineteen ninety with Days of Thunder, so then he does Days of Thunder in nineteen ninety The Last Boy Scout in ninety one, then in ninety five lawnmower Man two Beyond Cyberspace. Finally a real film you were gonna be a true piece of cinema. Is there only two? Or there three? There's two? There's two? Okay. What was the subtitle in that one? Beyond Cyberspace? That's what it says on the thing. I think that's the same as Job's Ward War Yeah, I want to say, yeah. I think they're yeah, the same film. Then he does the X Files film in nineteen ninety eight, Unstoppable in two thousand and four, Cruel World in two thousand and five. He also shot over five hund hundred national television commercials in his career.

21:02 I mean, I believe that. He then retired from filmmaking and currently resides in New Mexico, where he has a still photography business. Oh wow, yeah, wild. Quite a resume. So Ward Russell, we salute you on here and move it on down to our IMD synopsis. We have a private detective's protected female witnesses murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner. Okay, what's your synopsis? My synopsis? When a stripper possessing evidence against a politician is murdered, the private detective hired to protect her and list the help of her ex football star boyfriend to solve the case. Well, Hm, yours is better. N yours is better than IMDb's.

21:46 Thank you for that. It pains me to say it, but it's true. Moving on down to our cast, we have Bruce Willis, who plays Joe Hollendback in the film one hundred and forty eight credits on his resume. By the way, wow, I really did add up yep. Starting in nineteen eighty with the First Deadly, followed by The Verdict in nineteen eighty two. He appeared on Miami Vice in eighty four, the Twilight Zone reboot in eighty five, Then he lands Moonlighting in eighty five, the same year that he lands Seagrums at a Bar. Yeah, followed by. The return of Bruno in nineteen eighty seven, Blind Date in eighty seven, Respect Yourself music video in eighty seven, Then he does Sunset in eighty eight, followed by Die Hard. In eighty eight. Uh, that's the battery commercial. Battery commercial. Nice, nice, that's a good national campaign you can get into.

22:28 He appears on Roseann the same year, followed by In Country. Then in nineteen eighty nine, Look Who's Talking? I I love I know, Look Who's Talking? That film ages like a fine. One, like all three of them, didn't you. Yeah, but one is like a phenomenal film. Two is dogs, No, that's three. Two is fun, Two is the second Kid. Yep. Two is really fun, but it's more of the same, And then three is just a silly goofball, warm hearted Christmas comedy with talking dogs. Yeah, so there you go. Although they're not talking like to people, they can talk to each other.

23:10 You hear their thoughts or whatever. It's if you need me to break down the logic of look who's talking? Now, I will, but you gotta pay me. Ye that's fair. No, that's I love it because it's a Christmas movie and it's cheesy and it's fun and it always makes me cry at the end. But Look Who's Talking. The first film was fantastic. It is a truly excellent dive into this world of the kind of modern woman era where she's raising this kid on her own and trying to figure things out and blah blah blah. I love it. I rewatched it for the first time like eleven years ago, I mean from seeing it on cable as a young kid, and I couldn't believe how clever it was, how fast the jokes were, and how mature it was. I was used to it being I was used to thinking of it as kind of like a cheesy kitty kind of thing.

24:01 Revisits what got you to buy that triple pack, isn't it? Yep? Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, oh yeah, definitely So. Then in nineteen ninety he does Die Hard to followed by Look Who's talking to in nineteen ninety Damn Tuton, followed by The Bonfire of the Vanityes in the same year, nineteen ninety. I have not seen that one. Do you know anything about it except for the nothing the trouble information? Nope, Bonfire of the Vanities is the reason that Dan Ackroyd wasn't bothered with nothing but Trouble, because that's the movie that was chewing up. That was going over budget, overschedule all day long. Yep. So then he does Mortal Thoughts in ninety one, followed by Hudson Hawk in ninety one. Billy Bathgate, and then Last Boy Scott ninety one, as well The Player in nineteen ninety two, post episode of Course, Death Becomes Her in ninety two, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon one in ninety three, Striking Distance in ninety three, Okay Yeah, followed by the Color of Night in ninety four, I Love that film, followed by Pulp Fiction in ninety four, Never Heard of It, followed by Four Rooms in nineteen ninety five okay, followed by The Muppet She Drives Me Crazy music video.

25:01 Now we're talking about cinema. Nobody's Fool die Hard with a Vengeance all right, followed by Twelve Monkeys in nineteen ninety five, followed by Last. Man Standing, Oh Yeah, Yeah, I know, I love that one. That's fun, followed by Beavis and Behead to America, Bruno the Kid in ninety six, Fifth Element in ninety seven, Matt About You in ninety seven, The Jackal in ninety seven, Broadway Brawler in ninety seven, Mercury Rising in ninety eight, Armageddon in ninety eight, The Siege Ally McBeal, Breakfast the Champions, then The Sixth Cents in nineteen ninety nine, Story of Us in ninety nine Whole nine Yards in two thousand. Other honorable mentions include Unbreakable Bandits, Hostage, Sin City, Lucky Number seleven, and Perfect Stranger. Have you ever seen Perfect Stranger?

25:43 I've not seen that one. Do you know about it? I don't think so. So it's an erotic thriller from two thousand and seven with Halle Berry and Bruce Willis where he is I believe her boss and he gets accused of murdering one of her best friends. Oh and she works, Yeah, she works in the company and is trying to piece it together and everything. Okay, it's a really good flig. It sounds fun. Yeah, it's definitely one up your ally. Moving on down our cast list, we have Damon Wayns, who plays Jimmy Dixon this He gets his start in nineteen seventy nine as a writer for the Laugh Factory TV series. Then he becomes an actor in nineteen eighty four with Beverly Hills Cop where he plays the buffet guy, the banana guy at the buffet, Take those bananas. That's David Wayne's. He gets SNL credit in eighty five, The Hollywood Shuffle in eighty seven, Roxanne in eighty seven Colors in eighty eight, Love Colors, Earth Girls Are Easy in eighty eight, punchline I'm Gonna Get You Suck at eighty eight, not necessarily, The News in eighty nine, which he's a writer on punch Rxcumia, Look Who's talking to in nineteen ninety, in Living Color in nineteen ninety, which he's a performer writer had a big hand.

26:39 In in Living Color is a Class. Oh yeah, all five seasons still hold up like I had them at one point. I think I still have at least one through three. But that ship still holds up to this day. Moving on to the Last Stand in ninety one. Then he is the Last Boy Scout in ninety one, Mo Money in ninety two, which he's a writer on, Last Action Hero in ninety three, Blank Man in ninety ninety four, which he's a writer on. One of my all time favorite films is Blank Man. Probably a future episode, I would say so. Major Pain in nineteen ninety five, which he gets screenplay credit for Damon Wayne Still Standing in ninety seven, Eyes on Hip Hop in ninety five, Celtic Pride, the Great White Hype, Bulletproof in ninety six. Then he does the Damon Series in ninety eight, which he's the creator of Godspeed in ninety nine, Bamboozled in two thousand, Marcy X in two thousand and three, and also he was the creator and star of My Wife and Kids in two thousand as well. He's not doing much nowadays.

27:29 H Well, I mean it sounds like he cleaned up. Yeah, I mean he made a ton of really successful movies and TVs. Se like My Wife and Kids got like I want to say, like six or seven seasons. It's a lot of money. Yeah. Moving on down and wrapping up our cast list. We also have Taylor Negron, who plays Milo in the film one hundred and thirty five credits on his resume. That doesn't surprise me. In the eighties and nineties he seemed to pop up in everything. So he starts in nineteen seventy nine with The Last Resort, followed by The Gong Show movie in nineteen eighty, Young Doctors in Love in eighty two, Fastized Verge, Mount High in eighty two, where of course he plays the pizza guy, Easy Money in eighty three, Johnny Dangerously in eighty four, Hill Street Blues, Better Off Dead, fairy Tale Theater One Crazy Summer in eighty six, The Whoopie Boys in eighty six, rivers Edge in eighty six, Punchline in eighty nine, Anything but Love in eighty nine, and also in eighty nine he stars in a little series called Falcon Crest.

28:17 All Roads Lead to Falcon Crest. So Falcon Crest in nineteen eighty nine, Encyclopedia Ground Series in nineteen ninety, dream On in nineteen ninety, Fresh Prince of bel Air in ninety Nothing but Trouble in ninety one, The Last Boy Scout in ninety one, The Ben Stiller Show in ninety two, Civil Wars in ninety three, Seinfeld in ninety three, Mister Jones, Grace under Fire, The Stone Age Angels in the Outfield in ninety four, which is probably the first place I ever saw him. I believe that Freaky Friday remake in ninety five, Biodome ninety six, Spy Hard, Party of five, Touched by an Angel, Duckman, Chairman of the Board in ninety seven, Oh, the Carrot Top movie that would be the one, The Practice in ninety seven, Er in ninety seven, Friends in ninety seven.

28:57 I mean, his list goes on and on. Taylor Negron really had no shortage of roles throughout his career. Well, like I said, I really felt like he popped up in every other thing I saw. And when we looked at the list, yeah, he's in like three movies a year in the nineties minimum and big movies. And unfortunately we did lose him in twenty fifteen to age fifty seven. I want to say it was a dude to cancer if I remember correctly, that's too bad. Yeah it was, But I mean a hell of a career. And I mean if you if you have not seen a Punchline, which is a movie with Tom Hanks and Sally Field where Sally Field is trying to become a stand up comedian and is using Tom Hanks trying to get help. It's set up as a comedy, but it's a really well written drama as well. But Negron has some hilarious bits in that movie. I cannot recommend enough.

29:38 Well, and in this film we get villain Negron, which is my favorite type of Negron. Yes, I would say the same. So unfortunately, as of this recording, The Last Boy Scout is not available streaming free easy anywhere, but you can rent it where rented or by it wherever you get your movies at. Yeah. And when we say free, because this is a part that annoys me. What we mean is this not including with any subscriptions and you can't watch it free with ads? Yeah, I always that's a personal pet people. Whever people say it's free on Netflix, it's like, no, you pay for Netflix, you just don't pay any more. And if, if it ever turns out that the information I give on the show is not correct regarding that, let us know because I would love to, you know, we'd love to let people know where they can watch these as well.

30:19 Well, it's not necessarily that you're wrong, it's that like it can change, Like we can change in a second, Yeah, we do. If looks can kill them, Like three weeks later it was on, it was like free. Little Boys a little more than three weeks. But yeah. Yeah. There were a few movies we've done where they were all of a sudden on like Peacock immediately after we cover. Because they're listening to our show and they want people to watch. I know that Robert Peacock does listen to this program, the founder of Peacock Streaming, So good to see it. Robbie Do You Even? Movie? Will be right back, welcome back to Do You Even Movie?

31:02 What was your first time watching The Last Boy Scout? Uh? It was probably a good I would say probably six or seven years ago. I bought a double feature Blu ray. I'm not sure if it's the one you had or if it was a different one, because my mind wants to say it was a different one, but I could be wrong. I know there's one that's sixteen blocks the Last Boy Scout and Last Man Standing. I think it could be. It could be one of those multi packs. It doesn't really matter. But I had put it on. Oh no, Dave's jumping in. But so I watched it, and I was immediately surprised by how crazy the action was, how silly the dialogue was in a good way, very Shane Black, which is very modern noir with a hint of snidness.

31:47 And you know, I actually think I might have I might have it might have gotten on my radar because I was just looking up like the best of nineties action movies. I can see that. So when I was done watching it, I felt like I had missed out on a movie that was, you know, very reminiscent of lethal Weapon. Yeah, very reminiscent of basically all of the best action movies of the late eighties and nineties. Yeah. So I enjoyed the hell out of it. It was one of those films that when I discovered it, I knew it was going to kind of stay in the rotation, kind of like Long Kiss good Night. When I watched that, I was like, where was this film all my life? Yeah? Very similar, although Long Kiss good Night it's just too perfect it is. It's too perfect a movie. You don't want to compare that to any other thing.

32:32 Oh you kid. But so, yeah, I saw it a few years back. I don't know if I did we watch it together once after. We very well might have because I know we watched Last Man Standing, so I wouldn't doubt if we watched it. We may have been a Friday night pick some years. Could it could be? Yeah, so I think because I want to say, I've seen it twice liked it very much both times. What about you double D. So this was one that really reminiscent. I could reminisce on this one for a bit because this was at the time when I was really in VHS, like I had, I had gotten my first like two, which were Ransom and Faris Buler's day off at the flea market, and basically got the feeling of, oh, I can I can buy movies and bring them to the house now. So I would go to my local bookstore in Troy rerd about books and search through their VHS tapes, and I remember coming across this one and I'd seen like bits of the interrogation scenes on TV, like not much of the action or anything like that, just kind of like some of the witty and funny stuff between Waynes and and Willis. So I got it. I took it home and watched it, and I can honestly say that it was one of my favorite movies for the longest time.

33:34 I watched this VHS so much. I was just kind of shocked at how raw, violent and mean spirited the movie was. I'd be I would agree, it's the violence is done in such a matter of fact realisticness. Yeah, the realism of the violence really kind of makes it just stick really hard. But then the movie's pace is is normal for lack of a better term, So you'll see someone get their head blown off and it is fully graphic, but then they just move right on. Yeah, and it does kind of take you aback for a second, but it also keeps you on your toes, which I think really helps the film's level of suspense. Absolutely. No, I mean it's one of those movies that I'm always looking forward when I get to revisit it, because I always either a notice something different or I just forget how much fucking fun it is until I hit play.

34:24 Yeah, it's a stupid fun movie, it really is. You ready to get into it? Why not? So we open with a song as we hear Bill Medley sing Friday Night, It's a great night for football over the opening credits of the film. Which which honestly I hate to say this, Yeah, but if I don't know that I did, But if I had been flipping through the channels as a young man and saw that opening, would have kept. On for it, right, Yeah. Because it's not not, Because I mean, it makes it look like something totally different. So, like it cuts between a music video of Bill Medley and the band playing the song, and then also clips of just football. Yeah, it looks like it's going to be a football movie. Yeah, And football is in this movie very beginning and references throughout, so you don't. Yeah, there's like maybe one football appears outside of the opening and closing. Yeah, And that would have misled me a lot as a young man. I probably would have been like, I don't know if I want to watch this football movie, but as soon as the opening game is over, there's really no more football.

35:26 I just remember the first time that I watched this and that that song came up, I was just like, what the hell is this? Because that music video is just so up its time? You think, you think, David even the video effects on it, That's what I mean. You think it's like a commercial for the video toaster. Yeah, I'm old. If you don't know what it is, google it. So we opened with a rainy football game as we see a mess of a game happening between the Los Angeles Stallions and I can't remember who else they're playing, but anyway, they're not doing great. They're down by a point. They basically need to have one touchdown to tie the game and a field goal to win. So we cut to the locker room, where we here a guy calling to a guy named Billy Cole saying that he has a call. Billy Cole goes to the phone and we hear a guy say it's Milo and reminding him that there's a lot of money riding on the game tonight and they need him to score a touchdown or else he's history.

36:16 Ooh. So we also meet Shelley Marcone played by Noble Willingham. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Stallions, and he's being interviewed by the news Basically, you know, they're asking like, you know, how's the season going, and you know, does it seem like it's a little rough out there? And he tells him that Billy Cole is like one of the best players out there tonight having the game of his life, kind of just basically put it out there that he doesn't have a worry in the. World, and so far still feels like it's gonna be a goddamn football movie the entire way through. It does. But just wait, no offense to good sports movies. There are totally some great dodgeball. Sure. I love dodge I know, I don't consider a sportsman. I'm sorry, what do you consider it, uh, Rookie of the Year?

36:56 No? Well I do kind of, but no, I mean, I'm just saying like, there are plenty of sports movies that have that as a theme and it works amazingly. But it really right now feels like it's gonna be all about football. Well, maybe something will happen in the game itself that will set it apart from any other football game you've seen before. Like what I mean, what is a guy gonna like instead of tackling people, start shooting them with a pistol or something ridiculous like that. So Billy Cole returns to the field and after just being told he said the game of his life. We see the Stallions are down at the first and ten. They need a touchdown to tire or feel goal to win. We see the play go off, Billy Cole gets the pass. He's heading towards one of the guys to make the touchdown. There's a running back standing in his way, so he decides to take out a pistol and start shooting people on the field. He puts one right between the eyes of one player and then wounds like two others before getting to the end of the field.

37:41 Well, Hell's bells and taco shells. David, Yeah, No, the first time I sat and watched it, Ye, that moment, my jaw was just on the floor like that is. If you're watching The Last Boy Scout for the first time and you have foolishly not put your cell phone away yet, that's when you go, I'm just gonna put this over heah, yeah, I can. I can argue about anything later. I'm gonna put this phone away. Uh no, no, it's it is boy? Howdy does it? Does it? Shot? Honey? Like it? Shock the hell out of me? Right off the bat he just shoots a guy dead like it, right between the eyes, just kills one of them and then just wounds other. We get a close up of these gunshots, by the way, because they did not waste any money on these effects. No, no, they did not.

38:22 So he gets to the end of the field and of course everybody's taking the field at this point coming after him, and he lays on the field or he basically goes down on the onto the field on his knees and he says eight life a bitch and then blows his head off. It is an incredibly memorable opening. Yeah, and it makes you definitely realize that you don't really know what's coming. You do not. So we meet Joe Halliback played by Bruce Willis and he is sleeping in his car. We see three kids come up and they notice that he is passed out drunk, and. He looks full blown homeless. Oh yeah, Like he doesn't even look like he's sleeping in his own car because he's he's laying across the two front seats. He looks like a homeless man broke into a car to sleep for the night. Yeah, well, he does not look like a guy who was just too tired to make it the rest of the way home.

39:07 No, he is on a bender. Yeah, and he's also we don't know if he's even parked by something. He's just in the in his car street. Yeah, he's just somewhere. So the kids put a dead squirrel on him, no reaction, like you do. So then they decide that he's so trashed they're gonna try to steal his watch. One of the kids try to get the watch, and that's when he comes to you and pulls a gun as the kid's run off screaming. Well, he holds that one kid like when the gun right his face and the kid just starts squealing. It's very funny. So that's when he goes back to his house. He gets a call from his buddy Mike Matthews, who is also a private investigator, and he's offering him a job because there is an exotic dancer who wants protected. The job pays five hundred dollars and that he needs to meet him in at his office in an hour to get the job. Yes, and that's when we realize this guy is some kind of not cop but.

39:50 In the realm of movies, yes, he is cop adjacent, cop adjacent, and that's why it's not exactly the same as Lee Weapon. No, no, anyway, here's his black sidekick. Also that sidekick's not fair actually, because they co star in this film, and they really split the frigging job down the middle. They absolutely do, but we also get We also get Joe Hallenback's mantra to himself as he gets into his car. Which which I'm mad they stole that from me. Nobody likes you, everybody hates you. You're gonna lose smile you fuck. Of course I end that with Now, let's get some hash Browns. That's the part that's where it's different, that's where that's mine. So then we go across town. We meet Jimmy Dick's former Stallion's quarterback played by Damon Wayms. He wakes up in a house was another woman, and we can kind of get the feeling that he's had, you know, they've had sex the night before.

40:39 Well, but that's not really the salacious part. Now. The salacious part is the friggin pile of pills yes on the sink nearby, which suggests that something that he's either had a really good night or he's having a really bad morning. About that pile of pills, yeah, which I don't think is ater all. I don't think it's adderall, and that worries me. So he takes the pills and he goes downstairs. We realize he's at a party of one of the players parties, and he stops a guy from sexually assaulting a chick in the hot tubo by using a football and breaking his fucking nose. An incredible scene that establishes the kind of guy he is, because basically, this dude is sexually harassing a woman.

41:22 He's a football player. This is some kind of a team party. House next morning. Yeah, and he's just like harassing would trying to get her to have sex with him, and he starts holding her head underwater. Yeah, and I always like, let her go. He's like a few man all this stuff, and so he just takes the football and hits him. Right right in the middle of the nose. Great scene. Great because we'll think about it though. How efficient. And one thing I have to say about Shane Black, incredibly efficient storyteller. Yeah, if you watch a Shane Black movie and it's over two hours long, you're getting nothing but meat. Yeah, the potatoes, and that's it. Like there's no frosting, there's no icing, there's no piller. In his Iron Man movie, right, Yeah, Oh, it's good, phenomenal. And my point is that, like what do we get from the scene. We get an idea of what his past is in football, We get an idea of his moral compass, and we get an idea of his skill as a football player by his ability to throw that ball super hard and super accurately. So we learned all of that in a thirty eight second sequence. Yeah, very good storytelling.

42:24 Excellent storytelling. And also we get a taste of basically that he is no longer really loved by the players. There's something that happened we don't know yet. But they also call him a burnout. Yeah, and they tell him this is a for team members only, like, get out of here. So that is when we go to see that. Joe comes home and his wife greets him at the door. Except something's really not well in their home life. They just don't really seem to have, you know, good communication going on. I don't know. I mean, I think he was very clear about when he points out that there's someone in the closet. Yes, So he quickly suspects that there is someone in the closet because the toilet seats up and some other things going on. So he's like, you know, do you forget I'm a detective. And he's like, you know, he's not hiding under the bed, So who's the guy in the closet? And she's like, you know, you're fucking crazy.

43:07 It's it's not what you think it is. He's like, all right, well, the closet door stays shut, I'm just gonna put a bullet through it. And excuse me. At the count of three, yes, I'll put a bullet through it. And it's great because on the count of two she realizes he's serious. So, uh, the closet door opens, and who is it Mike Matthews, the guy he was just on the phone with. Yeah, Bruce mcgil is the actor who plays and I love this guy. He's a great my cousin Vinny for one. Ton of stuff stuff. Yeah, but I mean yeah, but no, he comes out and you know, he basically admits, hey man, it's my fault. You know it was an accident. We get a hilarious line from Bruce Willis's about, oh, what did your dick just swift lip in my wife? What did you trip in your your dick stuck into my wife? By the way, the I was trying to think the entire time. We're watching a movie of where I remembered him from the most. Yea, that actor. It's Lawbiding Citizen. Yeah, he's really good in that.

43:56 That's such a good movie. Uh So the en they go outside and will tells me, you know, head or gut, and he's like, you know, a gut. So then Willis punches him in the gut. He's like, you got that job for me? And he's like, you know, hey man, five hundred bucks is five hundred bucks. Like I'll still take the job. Like I'm pissed at you, but like give me the job. So that's when Mike goes to get into his car, he turns the ignition and the car fucking explodes. When we say that something explodes in the Last Boy Scout, we do not mean that it blows up. No, we mean that it fucking explodes. It is a massive boom and then there is just there is just flaming gasoline landing everywhere, so everywhere. For those who don't know, and I may be speaking out of turn because I don't know specifically with this film, but traditionally, the way you get a big fireball is to use a charge that uses like gunpowder or black powder. Yeah, that shoots kerosene into the air. Because the kerosene catches on fire. Yeah, and then it comes a big ball of flame. And because kerosene burns slower than gasoline or alcohol.

45:05 It'll last a little longer. But if you watch movies with really big explosions, if you watch really closely, you can see unlit kerosene just raining down around like because only it can only catch so much. I just want to mention that, like when these cars explode and stuff, you can see that there's something on the car just completely on fire. And I would almost guarantee it was all of that kerosene they were throwing around to make these huge explosions. The explosions are top notch, and this one is no exception. It's the first explosion of the movie. That car flings up into the air. It is engulfed in flames. In fact, in one of the close ups of the car on fire, I swear that they were off on the side with a flamethrower hitting it more because I noticed like the flames were kind of coming and.

45:48 Going to me. I was like, oh man, somebody stands there spraying it. They're like, no, no more fire. Yeah, oh yeah, no. It was Every explosion to this movie is worth remembering. Do You Even? Movie will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even? Movie. So Sarah, his wife, comes out running. She finds Joe on the side, and you know, she obviously is upset. So we see the next the cops have shown up and she's asking Joe, you know, why can't he show any anger, any emotion, Like, you know, why can't you say fuck you, Sarah? I hate your fucking guts. If the cops from here, I'd spit in your face. That might come back at the end of the movie, might plan into the end, it might be a callback, might be a callback. So that's when we cut over to Jimmy, who is at the club where Corey works, and we also find out that he's cheated on Corey, but also find out that Holland Back is at the same bar, meeting with her for the first time.

46:47 Yes, and this is where our two heroes converge with what, for lack of a better term, halle. Berry is very young halle Berry. A very young halle Berryham is the She's basically the oh I had the. Word in my head and then I lost it. She's the inciting She's basically the inciting incident because she's what brings them together, and then what happens to her is what sets into motion everything else in the film, which, by the way, again incredibly efficient storytelling for Shane Black. I know that it takes away some of the romance of a film to say like something is efficient or smart, But there is a concept of how to write a very engaging screenplay, and one of those things is you need to in the first tenish minutes, introduce everything you need to know about the main characters, and then at ten minutes, you need to introduce a problem. The problem in this case is what's about to happen, and then you should spend the next fifteen minutes having the characters hem and haw until they finally decide we're gonna do the thing, and.

47:54 People will be like, well, that's so formulaic. That's the matrix. That's Indiana, that's the Ragers of the Lost Arc, that's heard, that's that is just solid screenwriting terminator. That's exactly all of those films. Yeah, so any most films you consider your favorite probably follow that beat structure to some extent. So here we are already meeting Holly Berry, ready to rock and get things moving. So that's when she meets hellin back for the first time, and he basically says, you know, do you want to wait for the police, like why can't they handle this? And she's like, oh, well, if I did that, I'd probably end up in a body bag. So she's putting out first that there is some serious danger on. Her Yeah, yet still shows up to work, Still shows up. I mean, hey, you know, she's a trooper. So that's when she goes over to talk back to Jimmy and Jimmy ask you know who was that and she says, you know, oh, he's a no buddy, and then she gets called on the stage and starts performing.

48:40 Jimmy takes the opportunity to go over and introduce himself to holland Back, asking him, hey, you're nobody, right, that's a Cory says you're no buddy. Yeah, and he has a great response he says, yeah, but don't tell anybody. They have a great exchange for a bit, but it doesn't go well. Basically Jimmy is not really putting up with what his shit is. And also Joe Hollendback is not a character that has much conversation with people. He doesn't feel the need to. Well, he's not and this is a brilliant move as well. He's not a likable guy. And that's one thing that I also think was really clever, because whether you love him or hate him, you cannot deny that Bruce willis, especially in his prime, which is right now in this film, he was unmistakably and effortlessly likable. You know when he walks into die Hard and says his first lines in the airport or in the airplane rather, you just like him, You're like, Oh, this is a guy like you would hope you get sat next to on a plane because he'll probably be funny, but he'll also notice if you're falling asleep and shut up.

49:36 You know. He's not del Griffith. Although I would pay money to have seen. Did Dell Hard I slightly be to it anyway, but no, No, So the fact that they took this guy who is known to be extremely charming, fun to be around, et cetera, et cetera, and they've made him a letch. They've made him this this dude who is so burnt out on everything, he's down on everything but most of all himself. I love that and the fact that that means we have somewhere to build on. Yeah. Absolutely, Because the thing about these two characters I love is they're both broken in totally different ways, and they I just realized this too. They're not just both broken.

50:21 They were both at the top of the field that they cared about yeah, and then got broken. They got broken yet, which we'll get into more in a little bit on the film. But that's another reason I think this film works so well is these main characters have so much in common that they and the audience don't even really realize right away. Absolutely, so they get into it into a squabble and Jimmy makes the comment you couldn't protect a warm cup of piss. His drink gets knocked over, and Joe even goes, there goes my cup of piss. So that's when he decides to storm the stage. He rips Corey off the stage and they leave the club. And at this point, Joe goes outside to smoke a cigarette and he looks up and he sees a billboard for Senator Calvin.

51:01 Well, you know, for the record, his reaction is how I react to any politician. Yeah, but apparently they have a bit of a history. They have a bit of a history. So he ends up hurling his glass at the billboard. And that's not before he also gets knocked out by reaching for a cigarette that is on the ground that he wants to go put out, goes to light it back up and gets hit from the back of the head and is knocked out. He gets knocked out, but he gets up again. He gets up, ever gonna keep him down. So we see several guys. We also see that Jimmy and Corey are in the top of the club now in the lounge, and that's when we also get a taste of Jimmy's little thing he has, because earlier at the strip club he had said, you know, to Alex the astronaut, and this is I think to Alex the accountant, or no, I think Alex the Account's the other one.

51:42 We basically find out that he toasts Alex every time, and we'll find out why in just a little bit. And Corey tells him that she's got a birthday gift for him and that how would he like to get his old job back. Yeah. So we go to see that Joe is now being walked through the alley by a guy with a gun and he is just the rowing out your mama jokes. This guy, well, this guy is just marching him to his death. What I love about this is so he he marches him and says he's going to execute him. Yeah, so he makes with the funny yeah. And what I love. About this is he solves his problem with humor. He does, and then knocks the gun away, grabs a bottle, and slits the guy's throat. Yeah, yeah, the guy.

52:23 The guy is laughing at one of his jokes and Joe grabs a freaking bottle, sticks the guy in the neck, and then takes his gun of walks. Yeah. Yeah, so not quite killing him with kindness. No, no, still killing him though, also a desert eagle. That was the one thing that. Yeah, he had a desert eagle. The next scene he's literally fine as a dual wheeled Yeah. Yeah, desert eagles got There's basically a period from. About ninety one, ninety or ninety one. Yeah to like ninety six or ninety seven where there was just always a desert eagle in every movie. And I think it's because the Armorers bought him up because people like them. Yeah, but they're a freaking hand. Can outrageous nick cams be the coolest in face off? Well yeah, I mean duh.

53:05 So that's when Joe gets away and we see that Corey is driving home. She's driving in a car. Jimmy is in a car also behind her, but another car pulls up rear ends her, and she goes out past the stop light, pulls off to the side. Jimmy is stopped by the light. Cory gets out of her car to tell the guy off in the other car, and two men step out with machine guns and just light her the fuck up. Yeah, they riddle her full of holes. If she had any more lead in her she'd be a number two pencil. That is very true. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just reporting, dating a fact dog, reporting on the news. Fine, doctor. So that's when Jimmy speeds over in his car. He gets caught in the firefight, and then Joe Hollingback comes running down the street dual wielding a Desert Eagle and his pistol.

53:47 Just blam blam blam blam blam blam. Blam blaming indeed, and this gives Jimmy the option to go ahead and cover him while he gets in the car. And then he runs his car into a guy pinning him against another car, shoots in the car while the guy still live, and then Joe comes up from behind him and kills that gunman. Yes, And then, of course, at that moment, the police begin to arrive. Yes, at which point I love that Bruce Willis's character is just like, back your car up because he's because the guy's all pinned. And then when the cops run up, I love he must know the police because he raises his hands with the gun in his hand and then sets it down on the car. The cops come grab them up, and then we head to the police precinct. Yes, we are at the police pristinct, where we see the commissioner is not believing holmback story. He's even mentioning at one point that Joe saved the President's life and now look at him.

54:32 Yeah, so now we know that he's former law enforcement but apparently secret services. Yeah, so they can't hold anything against them, so they decide to let him go that and that's when he also tells him that, you know, hey, I just got some news that Baynard's been receiving some obscene phone calls. I better not find out it's you. Well, I mean, for the record, I don't know if he's sober enough to dial a phone. Half the time, we. See a flashback then of Senator Baynard with a woman tied in his shower and he is flogging her with a belt. Joe comes in punch it Baynard right in the face, and he also comments that he broke four of his teeth. Yes, so now we understand his moral compass even better as well. So Jimmy and Joe leave the station to go check at Corey's apartment and Jimmy offers the tag along because he installed the security system. But they get there and he's like, all right, you want to disarm it, and Jimmy just kicks the fucking door.

55:19 And yeah, Jimmy's like, I install their security system, I could circumvent it. Yeah, he just breaks the door and goes circum. So that's when they walk in and they find that the place is ransacked. It has completely been turned over, and that is when he tells Joe that he's gonna look around. Joe also goes to search the apartment. We see Jimmy go into the bathroom getting a secret stash of something, and he also finds a message from Corey with an envelope. Yes, and that's where the plot begins to thicken. Yes, so he gets a secret stash along with the envelope and if we find out that is blackmail showing that Senator Baynard and Shelley Marcone having a phone conversation and picture together. They take the cassette they also found in the stash to Willis's car, put it in the deck.

56:00 There's a conversation that starts with viewing the two of them. They get a little impatient, so Jimmy hits fast forward, except fast forward eats the tape. And I love it. He's like, what are you doing that eats the tape. He's like, I don't know how your shitty car works, man. So the evidence is ruined now, and Jimmy also comes to the realization that this was his birthday gift. He was gonna she was gonna blackmail them to get his old job back, and that's why she's dead now because of him. Yep. So he decides that he is going to go ahead and head home. Joe offers a driving back. He's like, no, it's okay, I'll take Corey's car, and while he's walking away, Joe's like, wait, Corey had two cars. We see Joe then speeding up. As Jimmy gets to the car telling him to get out, they pop the hood and what do you know, another bomb age age, a dog choken mother load of plastic explosives. Milo says ten pounds at the one point in that case, and I think that's just what they're using.

56:50 I think they just yeah, they must have gotten in book club or something, because like, ten pounds of C four will blow the fuck out of a car. Yeah, and uh. Yeah it is a big brick of C four. He takes it and as he's getting ready to put it somewhere safe in his trunk, these uh, these these other two guys, these goods is a perfect word. These goons pull up and that's when they want to They want to have the envelope and Joe's like, you know, well, I you know, I don't have it or no, actually he they ask him, you know, how how is he doing basically, and he's like a guys, you're the envelum, Like, oh good, you understand. So that's when he's like, well it's in the you know, it's in the car. Before all this happens, though, he also gets a lot of punches. Bruce Willis gets assaulted in this movie a lot. Oh man, well, there's a part toward the end.

57:31 I even I even point out where Taylor and Negron's character is threatening to cut his face and I'm like, dude, his face is covered and cuts already, why would he care. So he gets a couple of punches thrown at him and he's like, you know, the evidence is in the car, but the trunk's locked. And that's when He's like, okay, well, then go ahead and shoot it. So they go to shoot it, and that's when Joe and Jimmy jump over the side of the hill as another car fucking. Explodes a huge boom, a gargantuan boom. So the car goes up, sending the two Hoods back and killing them. They go over the hill on the side as the car then falls down after Jimmy and. Joe, And at that point, instead of having like a human level of fear, Bruce Willis's character just tells Wayan's character get out of here.

58:12 I'll deal with the cops. Yeah, but I love that, and have a car chase and it reminds me of a Wrongfully Accused where they spoof the fugitive and the train chases Leslie Neilson in the fucking forest. So he tells him to take off. When the cops get there, we watch the commissioner chew out Joe again, and one of the other men that's in the office with the commissioner, another cop, basically goes to shake Joe's hand and he's like, hey, I heard you did for the president. I respect that, you know, which to me was like yeah, sure, or you're just playing good cop, good. Cop, dead cop. Hey. So Jimmy finds Joe outside, telling him they need to get more evidence. It's the last of it burned up now, and Joe tells them, all right, man like, but this is the real shit, like bad guys guns and you know this. There's no turning back, and we'll start tomorrow.

58:54 Right now, I want to go home and see my family. Yeah, oh, and what a good idea. So home and see your family. So Joe goes home to find Dari and his daughter played by daniel Harris, and she is up watching lethal Weapon on the TV at the torture scene. Right at the torture scene, we see good old Melvin Gibstein hanging and getting electrocuted, and she's enjoying. The hell out of it. This is a this is a height of fame. Yeah, Danielle Harris, she had just I think she'd just been in Halloween four five, and she's about to be in Free Willie. Correct, she's about to be in a few other things. Don't tell mom the babysitters dead. So right now she is at her height. And one thing I liked was they put braces on her. I'd never seen her have braces in any other movie. Yeah, but she had, whether they were real or they were put on as a as an affectation for her character. She's sitting there with her braces on, and wouldn't you know you look at this adorable nineties kid that you've always loved, and she looks right at her dad. She hates his goddamn guts man man o man.

59:53 So, I mean he comes in and he's like, you know, like trying to check up on her, and she's really not give him the time of day. She looks at his face and she's like, whoa, what happened to you? And he goes, oh, it speaks. Which there though, that's another really smart writing moment because that shows that her standard opinion of her dad is like, I hate that guy. But the moment she saw he was hurt, yeah, she actually cared for a second, but then went back into because you know, it's complicated. She is mad at him, yeah, but also she didn't want him to be dead or hurt. And we also did forget to mention that his wife, Sarah did mention that the kids have been teasing her about her braces. She's getting in trouble for this thing at school called Satan Clause. That is a character that she made up, right, right, So she's a little dark, a little dark, a little dark.

1:00:35 Do You Even? Movie? Will be right back, Welcome back to Do You Even? Movie. Joe offers her some ice cream and he tells Jimmy that she's upset because he wouldn't let her go to a dance to night because she's thirteen and he didn't want her to be with this boy. And it was up hardy party. Yeah, not a dance at a schools a party like a boy's house. Yeah, and it was the best party of the year and she missed it. So he offers hers some ice cream and she doesn't want it, and she's like, I can't remember what she says that makes him throw it away. I don't know if it's fuck you or which one of these there's. So many and something like that, but he just throws the ice cream out into the back.

1:01:17 Basically, she calls him a fuck up, says that why not because mom calls you a fuck up? And you know, basically when she's on the phone with this guy and with his brother, yeah, with his brother, and like, yeah, he doesn't pay his damn tax taximasee. Yeah, so I mean he we clearly see that him and his daughter are not having a great time, and yeah, Sarah comes in and she's like, Darian, go to bed, what. A great home life. I can't imagine why he'd rather be out solving crimes and almost getting killed. God. So that's when him and Jimmy sit down and they have a drink. That's when Jimmy also explains, you know, this is to Alex the accountant, telling him. Then Willis goes, you know, was your accountants name Alex? And he's like, Alex was my son. I was married before this. My wife was eight months pregnant. A truck hopped to curb one day when she was out and she died. Alex was alive with the incubator for seventeen minutes. So every time he has a toast, he toasts Alex to what he could have.

1:02:08 Become, which is, uh, that's hefty, That's a very hefty. Yeah. So that is when Jimmy also asked if he can use the bathroom. Before this exchange, though, we basically get a side of Bruce Willis that explains what happened with the president, what happened with the Senator and basically how he calls him like the last boy Scout because he's trying to retain that he's a good guy. But I mean he is an ultimate fuck up. Well yeah, well, and he's trying to it's more so he's a fuck up from trying to retain his honor. Yeah, you know, scout's honor. Scout's honor. So he calls him the last boy Scout. And that's when he asked if he can go to the bathroom. That's when Joe comes in to catch Jimmy getting ready to shoot up with the stash that he found at Corey's. I thought he was going to sort it, Oh, stort it. Yeah, yeah, sorry, it's cocaine.

1:02:48 Cocaine. Yeah, So Dave flushes the rest of his stash down the toilet. Of course, Jimmy's pissed about this. Yeah, and also Willis punched him in the face. I forgot about that. Yeah, And I love that he socks him after all that, and then after they cal him down, he goes you know where the front door is. Right after you're feeling sorry for yourself because he delivers this whole dialogue about how you know I was at the top, and you know then my wife and my kid were dead. And then I find out that I'm kicked off the season because Demrell's not working anymore. My pain levels too high. They don't want me on the team. You know where was God then? And he's like, you know, as soon as feeling sorry for yourself, you know where the door is? Yeah, he basically is like, get the hell out of my house. You drug addicted, weird out. So he goes to leave and he gets outside, and that's when Darien apologizes for earlier inside and she also gives him one of his rookie cards and she says, can you sign this? And that's when he signs it to the daughter of the Last Boy Scout. Because Darien also explains that Jimmy was one of her dad's favorite was her dad's favorite player, and that he stopped watching when Jimmy was found guilty of gambling. Because that's one thing we didn't mention so far.

1:03:43 Yeah, he was busted for betting on a game. Yeah. So the next day, Jimmy goes to buy a newspaper. Three guys approach him. He smarts off to them and they throw him over. And overpass onto the street, onto a car, And the first time I watched this, I thought he was dead because they throw literally just throw him over an overpass without like any consideration. Luckily lands on top of a fucking car. He lands on the hood of a car. It breaks his fall just enough, but then he rolls off the car, and a car on the highway just stops early enough to not flatten him. Yep. So back at the station, the commissioner also finds out that Mike matthews car was spotted outside of hallen Back's house.

1:04:26 He puts together that Holland Back was having a Hallenback's wife was having an affair with Matthews, and therefore, I guess, you know, Joe must have killed Mike Matthews. Yeah, I mean, why not so well? And I mentioned it seems like a jump. But keep in mind that they had just had him involved in a second explosion, and this time it was his own car, which suggests that maybe something happened with leftover explosive. He'd used to rig that car because now he has motive and opportunity and they already don't like him, and you know, honestly, at the end of the day. Our relationships are what really matter, Like be friendly to all judges. So that's that's. Your life coaching for this month or for this week, become friends with judges.

1:05:10 At home, Joe gets knock on the door. He is ambushed by Milo played by Tyler Negron, who tases him, calling him Joseph, and that's when a few henchmen carry him out to the car. We also see that the officer who shook his hand earlier at the office pulls up behind Milo and his goons in the car and he walks up and he's like, you know, is there something going on here? And that's when he has the guy's hand him Joe's gun and he goes, yes, they're his officer. There appears to be too many bullets in this gun. And then he pumps that cop full of lead and we get another classic moment. Yeah of Shane Black's clever, especially clever with villain Diles. Oh yeah, the villains are always just funny enough that you kind of like them, but they're evil enough that you need you still you still don't like them.

1:05:50 It just kind of keeps the vibes going. Yeah, So he tells Joseph congrats to Joseph, you just killed a cop as they drive off. Yeah, fucking mondays right. So we also then see a flash of Joe saving the President's life, which was basically he was outside of a courthouse and somebody ran up to the courthouse started shooting at him. He dove in front of the bullets, protecting the president, and that's when Joe comes to being slapped by Chet, played by a very very young Kim Coates. Yes, a baby Kim Coat, a. Baby Kim Coates, And you can see that he's been working Joe over a bit. So Joe asking for a cigarette, he gives him a cigarette. He asks him for a light, and when he goes to light him, he punches him. Joe drops a cigarette and he goes it seems I drop my cigarette. You know, could I have another one? If you touch me again, I'll kill you. So he gives him another cigarette, goes to light it again, punches him, lights a cigarette, and that's when Joe gets up and just punches his nose through his fucking face.

1:06:38 Yeah it's this movie's got so many great moments. Yeah, So he sends him to the grave with a punch, and that's when my look comes out introducing himself. We also see Shelley Marcone showing that we are in Shelley Marcone's estate. Yes, and it is quite the estate because. There is a pool in the house. That's where Shelley is swimming. And he also warns Joe about being You know, I wouldn't be so smart if I was in your position, son, and he smarts off to him again, and so he asked Milo to hit Joe one more time. Hit me baby, one more time. At the station, we see the cops have pulled Hallienbach's wife and Jimmy over at back into the office, and Darien also finds out that Jimmy is at the station. Uh, and he's getting Senator Baynard's address because he thinks that's where Joe's being kept.

1:07:19 I mean it would make sense, yeah. So he tells her he's going to find her dad at Marcones. We are back and he's telling Joe's plan that he is going to bribe state senator so that the legalized sports gambling. He tried to bribe Baynard, but that son of a bitch just wouldn't take his bribe. It was too much. He wants six million dollars. You know that's a spicy meatball. Yeah, I mean, and in six million dollars in nineteen ninety one money is like eight trillion. Eight trillion dollars like that. Also, Baynard sits on the head of the Sports Gambling Commission and he has not been able to take the bribe. So that's when Shelley says, you know, I think it would just be easier to kill that guy than pay him. I mean, it's just business, yep. And Joe is like, you know, well, how how you're gonna pull that off? And he's like, well, I'm glad you asked that. We're gonna frame you for it because of the sordid pass, it's probably gonna work out.

1:08:06 Yeah. My thought when we were watching it this time was that, like thought his response would be, Man, that's a good idea. Damnit. Is that works? Like I have motive, I have every like I have every reason to do it. Shit. So we see Senator Baynard recording a TV spot on in his position of gambling, but he also says that he's excited to see his stallions play tonight. Jimmy, outside of Baynard's house is surprised by Darien, who followed him there because he left the address at the phone booth. And she also brought one of her dad's extra guns for him, which is always nice, you know. I mean some kids would bring a turkey sandwich, yeah, maybe some nutter butter yeah, or a fluffer nutters. Oh man, I didn't need one of those right about now. But no, no, she just brought a good old snub nose thirty eight. Which she puts into his face. It was she points it right at him. It's pretty charming.

1:08:48 So Jimmy sees the Senator's men leave without him, so he decides they're going to follow him, and that's when Darian decides that she's gonna go with him and basically tells him to kiss her ass. We get a whole exchange there. I don't know if it's basic. I think she just says kiss. Kiss my ass, like like twice. So, meeting in the woods with Marcone's men that live by Milo, and they're also meeting the Senator's men, and we also see them swapping a case as the men arrive. Joe is also photographed handing over the decoy case that has the bomb in it. Yep, and now the plan is all in motion. So Joe questions, you know, is there a bomb in that case? And Milo states, yep, ten pounds of C four is on its way to the Colisseum and when your body is found a day later, that photo is also going to go to the cops showing you handing over the bomb. And that's when Joe's like, you know what, you can go fuck yourself. Milo, we said his blade, and he's like, you know, that's really rude. What would you think about somebody if you told them to go fuck yourself. The whole scene that you were saying.

1:09:36 About his face just come. He's holding the knife like I'll cut you, and there's literally just cuts over all of Bruce Willis's face Already, he's had quite a day he has. So Jimmy gets caught by one of Milo's men. Milo orders them to be shot and buried, and as they're being walked off once again, Darien comes up with a puppet. And this is so we didn't mention earlier because there is a lot to cover. Yes that when he first comes in, when she's talking to him, she's only talking to him through this goofy cat puppet she has. She like talks to him, but then wouldn't respond. So the first time she talks to him without the puppet is when she goes, what happened to your face? And he says it speaks. So now she's walking up acting like basically she's perhaps a touched child. He's a little off, a little slow. Yeah, and she's just like, I have a puppet, like, did you talk? Yeah, we make it talk, And finally Bruce willisa's yeah, I will And when he puts his hand in it.

1:10:25 Well, it's such a good it's such a good. Movie to see him immediately just start to grin as he starts making more jokes out of this puppet's mouth. Yeah, he starts exulting the people who are literally about to kill him. He starts, he starts calling Taylor Negron a bunch of uh. He calls him a He says, why did what's his carras? Why did Milo cross the road? Because his dick was stuck him in the chicken. So all the hitchmen are laughing, and that's when Joe surprises them by there's a gun inside the puppet and shoots one right between the eyes. Yeah, he's just head shots and body shots all around. So drops like three four more guys to Ye and Joe and them go running off back the car. Joe, Jimmy, and Darien are driving away from the Henchman. Joe gives Jimmy a gun and Jimmy's like, what am I supposed to do this? He's like, I don't know, shoot the.

1:11:06 Bad guys solid. So there's an intense chase going on. Both Milo and Joe's cars go down the cliff. At one point, Joe crashes into a tree and Milo goes off the roof of the house and lands into a swimming pool, who is owned by Rick Rick Do come and from the verbs? Yes? And the best part about this is the car lands in a swimming pool and then explodes and is on fire while it's in water. And the one thing I was thinking is the guy who's like sitting on his patio, how did he not get hurt at all by being that close to the expo. He was literally just sitting by the pool reading a newspaper. Yeah with his dog, Yeah, with his dog. Yeah. So the car goes up and that's when Joe and Jimmy walk over, and Joe puts a couple extra shots in the car because he's like, you know, do you think Milo survived that? And so Joe's like, bang bang bang bang bang, hopefully not. So then he goes into the pool, shoots the trunk open. They grab the case and he gives it to Jimmy. He tells the guy to call the police and he's like, no way. So he crabs Darry.

1:12:00 And he's no, no. He says call the police, and he's like, oh, do you have a car, and he's like, give me the keys. No way, So he grabs his own daughter and puts it. Guy. He's like, give me your keys or I'll kill this girl. Daddy. I love it because that, to me is just a point of human nature. Yeah, but if he says I'll kill you if you don't give me your car, they might fight you. But I'm holding a gun to a kid's head and it's his own daughter's daughter, putting a gun to her head. He's like, this will be way faster. So we see them take the car, and we also see that Joe and Jimmy are now racing to the coliseum, but they're also gonna try to stop the Center's car and get the bomb from them. Jimmy tries to draw a message, and it turns out to be a circle with some lines, and he's like, what is that. That's not a bomb, Like they're gonna think like fresh fruits in the suitcase.

1:12:41 And meanwhile, all this is happening, his daughter's been left with that gentleman they took the. Car from, and he's calling the police. Yeah yeah, and telling them who they are and where they're headed, which is good, which is good for them. But then he also starts saying, you know, I don't know. I think he's a psychopaths. So then Darien kicks the guy, and then the guy's ordered with a shot to the back of his head from Milo, who is still. Alive somehow, must have been in an air got. Some blood on his head. He looks a little frustrated. I Smidge Mitchell, you know, he's just he's just it's just a you know, another man. N Jimmy puts up his sign that says bomb spelled b O M. The Senator's man rolled down the window and immediately shoot through him, and Willis delivers a great line up I forgot to tell you, Bob means fuck you and polish. So they get into another car chase.

1:13:25 One thing leads to another and their car goes off the side of this overpass. They walk up. Willis ends up walking and shooting the rest of the center's men because they're just gonna kill those guys. So that's when he gets the bomb from them. And also the car phone starts ringing because Milo has driven past and seeing that they're off to the side, so he calls the senator's car phone, answers the phone with hey, motherfucker, and basically tells him to back off or else I'm gonna show your daughter what a hot date I. Am, which I mean, as far as threats go, that is, that is that's a pretty good one. Do you Even Move? He will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even movie?

1:14:10 So Joe takes the bomb case along with a car along with the shotgun he found the car along with shreddershells, which have a ten feet spread because they're used to blow locks by police. Don't know if that's real. I don't know either, but it's cool, but it's cool as hell. So we are at the climax my friends at the game. We arrive at the parking lot next to Shelley Marcone's car using Jimmy's notoriety because Joe is wanted for murder at this point because of the last bombing. Basically, yes, yes, so they sneak or no because the cop because the cop is shot dead a Fro's house, right right, So they sneak into the backway because Jimmy still has a note ride around the place. And that's when the football player from the party grabs Jimmy and he's like, you motherfucker, you broke my nose, and Jimmy pulls out a shotgun and he's like, want me to kick you off the fucking planet.

1:14:54 Shane Black scripts, they really never disappoint. They do not. So that's when they go into an elevator. They think they've got the upper hand, except Shelley greets both men as they step off the elevator and he's holding Darien's hand. Yeah that is uh, that's a bit of a rub. So they are quickly unarmed, and he's telling Joe that Milo is in a highly enlightened place right now with the Senator in his scope, and that you know, since they couldn't get him with the bomb, he's just gonna take him out the old fashioned way. That's when He also starts talking to Jimmy about you know, I had a lot of faith in you man, like you know, you were once my golden boy, but then you turn the pills. What was it? Demor all because you couldn't just stand the pain, grabs his hand, shoots his hand with shoots his hand with a gun, and that's when I think Darien also calls him eat tells him each shit, you fucking read that?

1:15:38 Yeah, yeah, that's that's exactly what she says, So charming girl. Jimmy is now has a hole in his hand, and that's when he also throws a punch of Joe's face and he tells him that they got to tell them the truth. And that's when Joe discloses that you know, hey, you know what, what's gonna happen at this point? You know, I've got a conversation with you and then Bainer talking, and also you know, if anything happens to us, they're they're gonna find out. And he's like, you know, oh, I think I got all those bases covered. And he's like, okay, well, then what's gonna happen? When that tape that I was just mentioning also goes to the mob. I'm sure they'd love to know about your sports gambling IDEA. Brilliant move too, because the mob would lose tons of money on illegal gambling. Yeah, and but that doesn't quite move the needle as much as he hoped. But thank goodness, there's a plan B.

1:16:20 There is a plan B. So he tells them that they also have six million dollars in the car and that it's parked in a BMW out in the lot and that damon. Wayne says the key right here, and Shelley's like, you know, well give me the key. So that's when Jimmy throws it into the fire and he's like, you know, it's one of those new plastic keys, the kind that shred. So they dive over as we watch one henchman just burst into fucking flames. Yeah, again, a lot of fire on the guys just being a guy. So this gentleman is on fire. Joe gets the shotgun, takes out more guys. He one beautiful shot. He hits this guy right in the chest as he flies back against all of Shelley's TVs. Yeah, it's an awesome shot. The TVs start. Exploding, so Shelley runs off away from them, Jimmy and Joe and Dari and go out into the stadium. As Shelley is seeing the briefcase. Now he's out in the parking lot, he shoots the window. He's like, oh, goddamn, they weren't bluffing. So he grabs the briefcase. But I wonder which briefcase he grabbed.

1:17:09 Hmmm. So Joe and Jimmy c where the senator is and the box, and that's when Joe figures out that Milo is also hiding it and the lights that are right across from the box. He sends Darian to find a cop and Jimmy to get Baynard a safe basically get his attention to make sure that he doesn't get killed. So that's when two cops try to stop Joe and he gets the best of them. Milo up in the lights we see he begins to assemble a rifle, and meanwhile, the player that went after Jimmy in the locker room also decides to get the cops out there because he's like, that motherfucker is a shotgun. Can't believe you hit me. So now the cops are on Jimmy. Jimmy steals a horse which is one of the mascot for the Stallions. He goes riding. He gets the game ball from one of his old players. Meanwhile, Hallenback reaches Milo up in the loft. Jimmy throws the ball at the senator right as Milo has him in his sights.

1:17:52 Oh, it's so perfect. He basically stops the bullet, stops the bullet also hits the Center in the face. Yeah, he really just kind of interferes me the bullet. Yeah, so the ball gets blown up. The Center now has a bloody nose and he's pissed. Milo sends Joe over the edge of the lights and the cops show up the helicopter, so Milo opens fire on them. He runs out of AMMO and that's when Joe is like looking for this, holds up his bag, and that's when they just have a brief fight. And by a brief fight, I mean they are just fucking wounding the shit out of each other. Yeah, it's it's pretty brutal, and. Like Milo puts his thumb into Hollingback's wound at one point, Like it's all brutal. No, it's they hate each other. It's great. So that is when he finally gets the upper hand on Milo and he punches him, almost sitting him over the side. The cops show up in full force and just blast Milo full of holes as he falls off the lights right into the rotating blades of the helicopter.

1:18:42 Uh talk about a finale for the bad grow some So there was definitely some. Grow as we see Milo go through the blades and turn into a red liquid. We watched Joe then start to dance as he is on the jumbo Tron and he said earlier in the film that once he solved this case, he was going to dance a jig. Yeah, and he is definitely dancing by the definition of a jig. And we also hear the audience like start to applaud. Yeah, they love it. They love it. They love it. So that is when outside later, Baynard confronts Joe saying, you know he ork started the whole thing. Is son of a Bitch is making and see some phone calls. He probably had the whole assassination plan. Joe walks up to him and goes head her gut and he's like what And that's that. He delivers one blow to the gut and then one to the head before they're separated.

1:19:29 And you know, I mean, I thought it couldn't get any better than the bad guy falling into helicopter blades, but punching a senator makes me happy. But we're not done yet, because Sarah arrives running to Darien and Jimmy tells Joe that he's a real bastard and Joe says yeah, and then some Sarah comes over and apologize to Joe and you know, she's like, you know, I'm so sorry, Like can you ever forgive me? Joe then sweetly tells her, fuck you, Sarah, I fucking hate you. If the tops weren't here, I'd spit in your face, basically doing a call back again to that first scene, and it's a very sweet scene even though the dialogue. Yes, that's when we also see the cops arrive and they're like, you know, hey, where's that briefcase of money and he's like, oh, it's in the car and he's like, oh, well, there's nothing here, and they're like, Marcone took the wrong suitcase.

1:20:14 We then cut to Shelley Marcone's estate as he goes to open his briefcase, and then we watch a bomb go off once again. It cuts to a wide shot of the Hollywood Hills and we see a. Yes, and we see them in the parking lot. See this happen? Yep, like it's the fourth of God damn July. So that is when it is. A several days later, we see Darien and Jimmy out front of Joe's house. Joe and Sarah are hanging out. They seem to be having a good time. They've patched things up. Darien comes over and she's like, hey, Dak and I showed Jimmy and my friends. And he's like, well, honey, he's not a pet and she's like no, like it's really fucking cool. And he's like, you know, hey, watch your mouth. And Sarah even steps in and says, Darien, listen to your father. So we see that the family relationship is going better. Yeah, the family unit is acting as such.

1:20:54 And the movie ends with Joe offering Jimmy a position as his partner. There's a whole exchange about Satan clause and the importance of what you know the tactics are. But just watch the movie to get that dialogue. Because there is so much in this movie. There's so many, so many quotable lines. We couldn't even try to fit them into the show. But that, my friends is nineteen ninety one's the last boy Scout. Goddamn right. So would you like to know what the budget was for the film? I would forty three million dollars for the estimated budget. Pretty big, but pretty reasonable for a movie that size in the nineties. Opening weekend, which is December fifteenth, nineteen ninety one, Christmas times seven million dollars and nine seven hundred, nine hundred and twenty three thousand dollars. That could turn you, That could turn around.

1:21:35 Grossing fifty nine million worldwide. So not really a hint, not really a hint. Yeah, it killed on cable and VHS of course, video filmed over ninety days. Started on March eleventh and finished on June ninth of nineteen ninety one, so they finished in June of nineteen ninety one, and then it was in theater's December. I mean, you know, when you got what was that forty three million dollars year around, you can get shit done. Shot in Los Angeles, cal Fifornia, the movie had a very troubled production conflict and arguments flared between Silver Willis and Scott Wayans and Willis hated working with each other. Silver was described as insane with long, horrible fits of sanity, often compared to a fighter pilot writing as a passenger, and that came from Taylor Negro. Many people have said many things about Jewel Silver.

1:22:18 If you want to hear some colorful things, our friends over at the How Not to Make a Movie podcast has some great Joel Silver. Story Hella stories about Joel Silver. Shane Black commented that he had to do many rewrites on the movie due to studio wanting Willis for this to be a big follow up to die Hard. Willis was reluctant due to similarities of Diehard, specifically saving the wife, so they added the big finale and minimized the wife. That's fair, I mean it definitely kept it from being too similar. Yeah. More problems merged during post production, as the original cut was described as borderline unwatchable work print. Different editors were hired in an attempt to address Scott's tendency for filming excessive coverage with multiple cameras. Editor Mark Helfitch commented there was more footage shot for The Last Boy Scout than any other film I've worked on. Veteran actor. Film editor Mark Goldblatt also brought into work of the film.

1:23:04 He later referred to the experience as one of the most frustrating jobs of his career and often declined to discuss it in detail. He did, however, comment on a podcast that several editors were hired and then fired before him, and that Warner Brothers began testing the movie before it was completely finished. Those test screenings led to studio execs fretting about expanding the budget, and audiences stating how they found Willis's character unlikable. He's definitely unlikable at the start. Yeah, he really turns around. Yeah. Editor Stuart Baird, who'd been the man behind Salvaging Tango and Cash and Demolition Man, was brought in to do the final edit, even securing the film in our rating versus the NC seventeen it had been slapped with due to graphic death scenes. I mean, I can't imagine what they cut out. Yeah. Michael Caman did the score for the film same year as Hudson Hawk, and it was the only score he ever did for Tony Scott. Bill Medley performed Friday Nights A Great Knight for Football, written by Steve Dorf and John Bettis.

1:23:55 Ah Dwarf Dwarf on Golf. The film was based on an original greenplay by Shane Black. He wrote the script after having taken a two year break from writing following the end of a serious relationship. He's quoted as saying, I was busy mourning my life and in many ways the loss of my first real love. I didn't feel much like doing anything except smoking cigarettes and reading paperbacks. All things come around, like doing anything, or excuse me, all things come around. Time passed, and eventually I sat down and transformed some of the bitterness into a character, the central focus of a Private Eye story, which became The Last Boy Scout. Writing the script was very cathartic experience, one of the best experiences I've ever had. I spent so much time alone working on that day. Days I wouldn't speak, three or four days where maybe I said a couple words, and it was wonderfully intense, to where my focus was better than it's ever been.

1:24:40 And I was rewarded so handsomely one point seventy five million dollars for the script. It felt like vindication and I was back on track. Goddamn, Yeah, good for him. With this film, Shane Black became the first writer to sell a spec script for a million dollars. According to Time Magazine, He was originally offered two point twenty five million by Carol Coe Pictures, but the side go with Warner Brothers for lower but record setting bid of one point seventy five so that he could work with Joel Silver, who had also produced a script for Lethal Weapon in nineteen eighty seven. This record stood for sixty seven days until Karako purchased a screenplay for Joe Asara's which became Basic Instinct Mister House a Best Esterhouse, which became Basic Instinct nineteen ninety two for three million dollars.

1:25:20 Yeah, and then he didn't he have the biggest specscript ever for Showgirls? I believe so. Yes, a final collaboration between Joel Silver and actor Bruce Willis. The making of this film, as well as Diehard two and Hudson Hawk took a toll on their professional relationship. Coupled with Silver's out outing from Fox due to production delays and budget overruns on Diehard two, Silver was no longer involved in further Diehard films. Yeah. The only I've only heard a few nice things about Joel Silver. Ever, Yeah, and it's been very few. Tony Scott hated working with producer Joel Silver so much that he based the character Lee Donowitz, movie producer and cocaine user and dealer in his next movie, True Romance, on Silver, and he made made sure for him to look and act just like Silver did.

1:26:02 There are a lot of movie characters based on Joel Silver. YEP. A riot nearly occurred during filming at the Los Angeles Stadium. Hundreds of extras were recalled for a second day of shooting, but last minute decision was made to cancel the recall. The extras were not informed of the decision and arrived expecting a day of work. They were refused pay by the production, and as discontent grew, they began to surge a great against the barrier that surrounded the set. Riot police were called in to dispense the crowd, to spurse the crowd. Yeah, that's a mess. In a New York profile, Joel Silver said that making the film was one of the three worst experiences of his life. Tony Scott also spoke about how miserable the production was, largely because Silver and Bruce Willis took over the production, altered parts of Shane Black's script and made him shoot scenes he hated under threat of being fired and having to forfeit his salary. Jesus Yeah, man, Shane Black and Tony Scott bosted in later years how original or how the original script was far better than the final film. Tony Scott wanted Grace Jones to play the small part of Corey, but producers opposed the idea and Holly Berry was cap instead. I mean they picked somebody they picked well because she ended up having a huge career.

1:27:05 Yeah. Shane Black's original script was very different from the final film. It had a darker tone with more violence, and almost the entire second half of the script was completely different. Besides many changes with plot and characters, Black script also included more focus on the two villains Milo and Shelley Marcone. Milo, for example, was even nastier villain than he is in the film in the script. Besides being a hit man for Marcone, he also had a job as a director of stuff films in which his men would kill kidnap women in fairly violent ways. There was also a scene in the script where he brutally kills an entire family who accidentally showed up near the place where a meeting between him and Baynard's men took place. Other parts that were changed include a big boat chase scene with Joe and Jimmy trying to escape from Milo and his men chasing them through the fog until their boat and helicopter crashed into each other. A shootout and fight between Joe and Marcone's men and Joe's house. Another shootout in Marcone's mansion in which Joe steeks in after killing several guards, Joe and Jimmy saving Joe's wife Sarah from being killed with a chainsaw. In one of Milo's stuff films, Oh my God, different final showed up between Joe and Milo took place outside Joe's office after he chas and tries to shoot Joe while on foot, Milo gets killed by Sarah, who shoots him with Joe's gun.

1:28:09 Well, if my head's spinning, that is so much insane and nasty. Uh. The word fuck is used one hundred and two times and the body count is twenty seven. Jeez, that's uh, that's like more than all the Friday of the thirteenth, though, yeah, the first like three Uh. Mary Stratton Hugo Martin, creators of Doom twenty sixteen, have largely credited Shane Black's script with inspiring the self aware humor and style of the game's narrative. Hmm, that's interesting. Joe Hallenback is physically assaulted twelve times throughout the movie, seven times hitting the face three times, hit on the back of the head, once tasered, and once stabbed. It sure adds up quick. Daniel Harris, who played Bruce Willis's daughter, said an interview that on her first day of filming, after doing her first scene, Bruce Willis told her kid, this is my movie, don't upstage me. Although she indittionally thought that Willis was being mean, she later realized that that's just Bruce. He's just funny like that, and he was actually paying me a huge compliment by saying that.

1:28:58 Yeah, I was gonna say that sounds like actually a really nice thing to say. Bruce Willis. You should show up on set in disguise and ask crew members if they like Bruce Willis or thought he was cool. Crew members knew it was him and found it funny, charming or sad. Source on that, I don't know Okay, Like I mean, what like Undercover Boss, he just like puts on a wig and a mustache. Hey, you like die Hard. The explosion at the end of the movie where Marcon opening the carrying case is the same explosion used in Last Action Hero. Yeah, you pointed out when we were watching it. Sam Raimi was considered for directing the film at one point. That would have been quite the choice. Yeah. Billy Cole's last words, ain't life a bitch before committing suicide, where originally I'm going to Disneyland a common phrase set among Super Bowl winners.

1:29:44 I bet you they could. They were really worried about Disney's reaction because that would have been way cooler. Yeah, because that because that was the thing football players said all the time. Yeah, but I bet they were. They were scared that the mouse would sue them, because that's like that, that's so much better. Yeah. So, in the original script, the entire third act was set on the water. Hallimback's grudge was Senator Baynard. Was completely different from the movie, and in the script, Hallibach was working security for Baynard's family. When Louis Bernard, President Baynard's son, kills a mother and her child in a drunken car accident. When Hollenbach refuses to cover for the President's son, they plant half a kilo a crack in his house. Louis Baynard was also a villain in the script, and in the end both he and his father died.

1:30:26 Geez. The movie sounded very. Dark, Yeah, super deeper dark. So as we wrap up, what are your final thoughts on The Last Boy Scout. Oh, I mean, it's definitely a rented It's a film that might be your favorite, one of your favorite action movies in the nineties. You need to watch it to find out, but I think everybody should. It's worth spending a couple bucks to see it. Yeah, And it's from a simpler time, ironically, a simpler time when things were very complicated, when action movies were getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, and everybody wanted to lethal weapon, the next Diehard, the next Terminator two. They all wanted that. Yeah. And because I grew up in the nineties, that's a very magical feeling. So watching The Last Boy Scout for the first time, just like seven or eight years ago, felt like a time machine, like I was miss this.

1:31:16 This is all the tropes I loved, so it's definitely a rented for me. It's a rented for me as well, with a BYOT caveat. If you're an action fan and you don't own The Last Boy Scout, shame on you for one. But also this is a chance for me to recommend the double featured Blu ray that I have, which also includes The Last Man Standing, which, if you have not seen, one of Bruce Willis's best movies directed by Walter Hill for that matter, super good. So action sequences are a ton of fun. The characters are pretty rough and raw. The Last Boy Scout is an absolute lethal weapon knockoff, but it's so much fun. You're going to have a good time with. A lethal weapon knockoff by the same writer as Lethal Weapons. Yes, Like what I mean, how could I mean? I'm just saying like it's not that much of a doc cause I mean that's all I'm trying.

1:31:59 Yeah, but I mean it follows the formula pretty well, and there's yeah, there's. Exact absolute similarities time. So, as we always liked to end the show with a couple of recommendations, I've got two this week. First one being Striking Distance from nineteen ninety three. This is another Bruce Willis vehicle that I cannot recommend enough. You and I just revisited this a couple years ago. Argo, I like it a lot. Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting as fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on record with allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom. Then I also have from nineteen ninety six Bulletproof, starring Damon Walliams and Adam Sandler. Another one you and I just watched recently. Yeah, that's a hell of a film. Two criminals, Keats and Moses and their friendship. When Keiths turns out to be an undercover cop many years later, the two are forced to work together when Keats is assigned to protect Moses as a witness. It is one of the funnest action films of the nineties that I completely forgot about.

1:32:52 It's a complete mystery to me how it got made. Yeah, but it is so good. If you've ever wanted to Seenior Sandler in an action film, here you go. Weird and funny and outrageous and action packed. So what's your recommendation, Oh well, I'm gonna go a little bit funnier. Oh And one of my favorites of all time, starring Damon Wayne is blank Man from nineteen ninety four. It is about a nerdy character played by Wayans who basically invents a liquid that if you put it on fabric or anything, it makes it bomb proof, bulletproof, knife proof. So he decides to become a batman like crime fighter to clean up the streets of his own neighborhood, which is becoming more and more violent by the day. And while it's a goofy movie with a goofy concept with a lot of goofy execution, it's a very good movie about neighborhoods crumbling and the way drugs and crime and violence ruin those things. I think it's actually a really great film.

1:33:57 It is. It's not as dumb as it looks based on the poster and stuff like that. It's fun, but it's also so nineties. It's like thick with nineties. So I can't recommend blank Man enough. Do we have any emails. We might have? We had one last I checked, so let's see do. Of course, if you want to reach us, you can send us an email at do you even movie pod at gmail dot com and this one is from our good buddy wolf Dan. Awesome, uh, he says, uh uh. The subject line is movie requestka. He says. I don't expect this to be anytime soon, but still wanted to put this out there because I'm pretty sure you guys love this movie too. Nineteen eighty nine's Blind Fury with Rutger Howard.

1:34:43 That's a wacky flick. I remember one specific time me and a buddy had a little too much fun quoting shit fuck shit fuck. Thanks guys, and thanks for that Toy Soldiers review. You guys are too much. And I know it'll be a little late by the time you read this, and I've already said it, but happy birthday, Henrique, Thank you man, Thank you very much. I think you sent me a card and I loved it. Made me cry a little bit, yours, Furrey. Yes, I'm going to keep doing that because it's funny. Wolf Dan. Thanks wolf Dan. We'll put that one under consideration because we both host that movie movie. I like that movie, but I don't know if it's a whole episode like that might be one we could copple together. So you say, now it's that movie's wild so well you have not seen Blind Fury.

1:35:24 My god it is. I mean, Rudger Hower is a blind Murderer. Yeah, it's a remake of Yo Jimbo, the Japanese films. It's so good and wacky. So now as we head out of September, we are heading into October officially Spooky Seas. Yes, and I'm very excited to tell you that for the month of October, which is five count of five Tuesdays, so five shows, we're going to be talking about our favorite Halloween almost a Christmas Halloween horror films. We're gonna be talking about them in length, and it's going to be a kind of crossover show where it's going to be a weekly spooky and do you even movie show? I know a lot of people hear some episodes that do you have a movie on weekly spooky? But this is going to be a special show all about the Halloween movies you should be checking out. And we're going to try our best to pick films that are easily accessible. Yes, so you can join us in watching them during your spooky season.

1:36:15 So that being said, yes, you want to tell them what our first Halloween pick is going to be. Our first Halloween pick for the October lineup is going to be one that I'm very excited about because I get to show you it for your That's my first time we are going to talk about twenty twenty three's Cobweb. Which I am looking forward to finally checking out. I've been It's been recommended to me by people I respect far more. Than your Thanks Bud. No this, I mean this one snuck up on me so much. I will talk about it on the show. It completely blew away expectations. If you saw the trailer or saw the poster and we're just like, that doesn't look like it's for me. Trust me when I say, give this eighty nine minute movie a chance. And do you know where people can watch it if they want to? Get ready? You can find it readily available right now on Hulu, and I believe it is also on I think like five.

1:37:00 It says Disney plus oh shit, and then it's for rent everywhere you rent movies. Yes, for the first time I watched it was on Hulu, so it is still available on there. I cannot recommend this enough and you'll definitely want to listen to it before you listen to our show, because there is a giant spoiler at the end of the movie that you do not want spoiled. Okay, well, on that note, my friends, it's time for us to get out of here. But thank you so much for listening and watching us here on do you even movie? We want to remind you. If you're watching us on YouTube like the video, make sure you're subscribed. Tell a movie loving friend. If you want comment below, we'll try our best to respond to you. Send us an email at do you have a moviepot at gmail dot com. Go to douveamvie dot com for all the information about everything, including our Patreon, where you can access the shows four days early on Fridays. Yes, and of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, I just needed to catch my breath. Holy crap, that was a lot all at once.

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