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Hero and the Terror (1988)

🕑 Added 2024-09-02 07:00:04 +0000 UTC

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Fan_of_giants_420_69

My family sings a crazy version of Happy Birthday that actually includes the part from the restaurant

Brian Ferrara

Hey Action Boyz, Marry fuck kill: glitter, paste, popsicle sticks.

From Parts Unknown

Not the era, but Leo in The Departed is a fairly significant one

Andres Van Antwerp

If you were considering some dockside eats in Pedro I would highly recommend the restaurant 22nd st landing! Known for its swordfish and you could take a beautiful walk along the marina afterwards!

Andres Van Antwerp

Hell yeah! A San Pedro mention in this episode by Stanger! Pronouncing it correctly with the hard E!

Dan Skisak

Sometimes I say I'll get around to watching the movie and not listen to the episode til I do. If it's a Chuck movie, I'm watching right away.

Don Knott Steiner

Is death by neck snap still a viable kill in R-Rated action pictures? The most I’ve seen them in these recent years are PG-13 movies to avoid blood, but it’s been forever since I’ve seen a hero come from behind to take a soul via decapitation by hand under an R rating.

Dustin

I'm with you. I liked it. Chuck is so inoffensive you want him to be happy.

Joe B

Will is right Phil. You’ll get through this, captain podcast loves us all

Will See

You'll be ok Phil, one day at a time.

Jonnykillsaw

It’s gonna be hard work but I believe in you

Phil Landry

I'll never recover from this

John Arminio

I... found myself really enjoying Hero and the Terror. I know Chuck Norris isn't the, uh, strongest performer, and the movie would have been improved if you got a better actor in the lead role (William Petersen, Carl Weathers, Bruce Willis, etc.), but I greatly prefer Vulnerable Chuck over the unflappable warrior thing he does in Invasion U.S.A. or Lone Wolf McQuade. Oh, the emotionless, invincible murder machine kills all the bad guys in the end? WHAT A SURPRISE! Chuck playing this father-to-be, wholeheartedly in love with his romantic partner, yet afraid to acknowledge his own PTSD, is surprisingly appealing and endearing. It doesn't all work, but I appreciate Chuck trying to get out of his Cannon Films comfort zone.

Horace Jallowman

Thanks Rodgers!

Alec Ogg

Speaking of K-9, a German shepherd or bloodhound could’ve sniffed out the Terror’s hideout in seconds. Especially using items from his cell at the asylum as a smell reference.

Gabrus, Rodgers, and Stanger

NY Times, Dec 2018: “ What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again. Ah, but if you, like an impertinent child seeking a logistical timetable of Santa Claus’ nocturnal intercontinental journey, demand a more detailed definition — a word of warning: The path to enlightenment is littered with trade secrets, vapors, aluminum ingots, C.I.A. levels of obfuscation, the invisible regions of the visible spectrum, a unit of measurement expressed as “10-6 m” and also New Jersey.”

Phil Landry

A Google search yields dozens of "how glitter is made" results...

Chabnormal

13:05 speaking of wrecking actual cars. The last Die Hard, A Good Day To... they crashed a shit load in that film.

Phil Landry

"Violently watchable"

Gabrus, Rodgers, and Stanger

I will work harder to be a ray of positivity like you Jonny.

Jared Niles

I read this like it was Kurt Russel's log in the Thing

Lando Mo

does Bladerunner count?

PatrickKilbrogan

Today I learned Glitter and Soylent Green have a lot of similarities

Jon Richardson

Just running the numbers - he’s been in therapy for 6 months and his therapist/girlfriend is 9+ months pregnant? 🤔

erik nehring

I thought this movie was going to be about chuck fighting a monster polar bear.

Will See

Hell yeah

Adam Ross

If they do Prime Cut, can we dress up as Weenie for the Chicago or KC live show?

WigeyInTheStreetsMitchyInTheSheets

It received 1.5 mass shootings worth of attention, which feels right since three of the last four Republican presidents have either been shot or shot someone else. Probably all four if you count Bush Sr’s time in skull and bones.

pube

good input johnny

Jonnykillsaw

Oh cool. Another story about Roger’s not liking someone

bloodflart

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/joey-chestnut-beats-takeru-kobayashi-netflix-hot-dog-eating-contest-unfinished-beef-1236127068/ thoughts? have you seen the old 30 for 30?

bloodflart

trump jokes are so spot on, insane him getting almost assassinated isn't even being talked about anymore.

Frank Kimball

Looking forward to that ‘Diggstown’ episode; Michael Ritchie-wise, ‘Prime Cut’ would also be fun to hear covered, and ‘Smile’ (1975) would be great for Shadow Wolves.

Boogie

Shocked how much I liked this one, I thought Chuck did a great job, Plot reminded me of The Relic.

K. D. Campbell

This is Bot/Gorgon erasure

Hammerthrust Von Sexron

Glitter is a war crime. Daughter has a dress impregnated with it. Sheds. Microplastics you can’t get rid of. It’s in my newborns diaper, in my hair. Vacuum does nothing.

Rich Zerbian

Yeah, Maniac and NYR are both pretty over the top gruesome but I think Maniac Cop 2 would be a total over-the-plate fastball of an ABZ movie, Oktookey or otherwise.

Steve

Prince of Tides is probably the big one. Also the Bruce Willis movie Color of Night, and maybe Dressed to Kill?

Joe B

Glitterbombs are why I had to abandon Vermin Supreme as my presidential candidate . I can’t condone that platform

Joe B

Yea I was out gardening and started singing to an inchworm

Jenn

Any other old Hollywood musical fans get really thrown off hearing “Danny” and “Kay(e)” a lot during this ep?

Nathan Rodriguez

For my money, the Ak-Mak sesame cracker is the crunchiest cracker on the market. All crunch, no flavor.

Scott Blacula

I'd have to walk through a car wash to clean myself off after a marathon of Fulci, Ferrara, and Lustig. Let us know if you ever manage to do it!

David D.

Condoms For Karate Guys.

Rich Zerbian

Idk if I’ll ever get around to actually watching Hero and the Terror, but this was a real fun listen all the same. 💪 Not sure where else to shoehorn this request in but I have a great Horror Boyz fantasy lineup. The theme would be Grimy NYC horror and action-horror and the movies would be: Maniac (1980), Ms. 45 (1981), Maniac Cop 2 (1990) (no shade on part 1 but the amazing car chase in 2 makes it more ABZ appropriate), New York Ripper (1982)

Mitch Kapa

Steve James' voice is so nuts it was just one degree away from being Matt Berry in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

bloodflart

Ben prob has the next 10 years planned out for movies, with alternate options for which of the boyz dies first

bloodflart

i think if i was glitter bombed in my office i just wouldn't clean it up

Andrew Morgan

when handling documents at the library, please DO NOT mark them up with ink (the most egregious thing Danny O'Brien did in the movie).

Hard To Gwil

Not quite a shrink, but Monkey Shines has my vote

Adam Lewis

"I like the way you incorporated the martial arts into your reconstruction of Carl Dreyer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'."

Adam Lewis

That could have been the best possible '90s SNL sketch if DDL had ever been persuadable to do it.

Adam Lewis

But shinobi have no honor!

Don Knott Steiner

On the Chuck Norris Criterion set, Flim Historian Tim Lucas states on the commentary that a film print did exist with that masturbation scene, and was originally shown with the cut that was premiered at the Venice Film Festival. But has since been lost to time when the cut of the movie was destroyed in a fire at the French film academy it was stored at. There is a fan cut that has gone around conventions with a recreation of the scene spliced together using footage from the international trailer, but no official uncut footage of the scene exists today.

Don Knott Steiner

If you guys have November set, and Ninjavember isn’t gonna be there, then that’s fine. But if it’s still on the menu, and you haven’t recorded it, then I recommend you seek out Shinobi: Band of Assassins. It is basically the kissing cousin to the Lone Wolf & Cub films(even shares actors with one actor reprising a similar character in the later movies) except it’s from 62, and it is very ahead of its time, also very influential to later ninja movies. It’s so influential, one scene from You Only Live Twice is lifted directly from this movie, and inserted into that Bond flick. I can say it could go toe to toe with a lot of action films of the 80’s, and maybe even beat out many in storytelling, as well as pacing. The only problem is it’s currently only available on Blu-ray in a two disc box set that was released this year. So you might have to wait to do this whenever Radiance is able to license it to a streamer. I couldn’t even find it on the Archive. So keep it in your back pocket for a much later recording.

j f

glitter is just micro plastic. fuck that shit.

Canadian Day Player

If Cannon had not had such weird / convoluted / sketchy / ultimately failed business practices and corporate governance structures, it’s conceivable that a single comprehensive library of action IP would now be available for reboot and reimagining. New Jack American Ninja, Bloodsport, Cobra and Lifeforce could completely suck but in the right hands maybe not. Think Missing In Action but in Afghanistan, guess the associated politics would be a little cringe.

Flappy McGillicuddy-Jones III

Rodgers, Stanger, Gabrus & Gwildor

Clifford

My 10th grade history teacher hated glitter and told every class he would give you an F if you used glitter on any project. His office was glitter bombed as a senior prank that year. He was also the girls soccer coach and dated one of the girls on the team and brought her to a faculty picnic a couple months after she graduated. He was also an asshole.

K. D. Campbell

I watched this one at 1.75x and it does look like he’s terrorizing his hero.

Brix

One of those shirts that's like Classic action movies &Classic rating system &Classic podcast &Classic men

Dark Angel Of The Year

What are some other good examples of 80s / 90s protagonists fucking their shrink besides this and Basic Instinct? Feel like it was pretty widespread as a trope but can't think of anything. Sopranos explicitly calls it out early on where Tony starts getting horny for Dr. Melfi and she shuts it down.

FiddlersGreenDay

Wait, what's wrong with preacher curls, Gabrus?

Roscoe 112

I Haffa Tooner Dad

Andrew Lamberson

Nunley’s referenced

The Buffmaster

Chuck Norris is Daniel Day Lewis, compared to Steven Seagal.

Adam Ross

This could have been a 46-minute TV pilot and still felt padded for time. I loved it.

Hammerthrust Von Sexron

There’s got to be an edit with him jerking off

Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)

First time I might have genuinely said out loud “what even is this movie?” while watching it

Dark Angel Of The Year

The Girl Watchers ad Rodgers mentions at the start is based on Francine Gottfried, a 21-year old office worker with nice boobs, who wore tight sweaters and took the same route to work every day. Word of mouth spread steadily among Wall Street creeps, until one day in September '68 five thousand of them poured into the street to stare and yell at her. The next day the crowd had doubled in size but her boss told her to stay home, and she started taking a different way to work afterwards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Gottfried (there's a Dollop episode on this from like a decade ago that stuck in my brain)

Wesley Dolan

The opening nightmare flashback scene was surprisingly intense. But the cutaways to Chuck writhing around topless in his bed came off as softcore porn.