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The Long Good Friday (1980)

🕑 Added 2024-03-25 07:00:21 +0000 UTC

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Emily McCauley

Speaking on when he jumped on bow ties but he’s just always sort of on it, right?

Emily McCauley

Stanger was ahead of the curve. Accept it. I believe he always knows what’s up especially out of this three. Sorry love you all.

Andrew Braswell

Update, it’s Newcomers pod. Comes out soon

Eliana

gabrus, poofter is a slur. if you wouldn't use the f-slur or t-slur please don't use that term.

Pumpkin Pie Hair-Cutted Freak

I was mildly disappointed

Sarah Tippishly

I believe Rade Šerbedžija's country of origin dissolved with Yugoslavia. I heard on Pod Casty For Me he was one of those go to guys to represent Soviet decrepitude as a kind of ambassador for capitalism but he's been nostalgic for Titoism in recent interviews- maybe just because economics across the board deteriorated.

Jacob Lucero

I typically don’t comment but fuck, I had to finally say something…….this was one of those episodes (along with Hard Times, Miller’s Crossing, and I think Yakuza) where I had to stop the podcast and go watch the movie for the first time. What a fucking treat.

Hammerthrust Von Sexron

Wow, that last scene in the Jaaaag. Does Hoskins have more lower teeth than humans?

Joe B

I was a defender of true detective s2 but now that I’ve seen this I’m a lot less charitable towards it. Pizzolatto basically lifted this entire plot for Vince Vaughns storyline. Thanks ABZ for incrementally increasing my media literacy

Charlie Horgan

Man I love to hear people sing the praises of Bob Hoskins. Truly a great actor. I highly recommend Felicia’s Journey. Hoskins is AMAZING in that.

Ant

Anyone else notice the criterion channel looking just better in general than other streamers? I'm no expert, but even if something isn't being upscaled by the TV, some streaming material still has that video-like too many frames a second cheap look, especially when the camera pans across static stuff. Haven't noticed this bummer on criterion, maybe confirmation bias

Antti

You actually have lost your mind. Sorry.

Jon Smith

Hoskins Wolverine, Jason Alexander Cyclops, John Polito Gambit, Larry David Professor X

Trevvie

Great PBS docuseries on The Troubles: https://www.pbs.org/show/once-upon-time-northern-ireland/

Jason E Becker

Hoping this is on the list for the boyz in 2024

Clifford

The Parky is Mine

Andrew Braswell

Anybody hunt down what pod they guested on talking Taxi Driver (1976)?

Ken Collier

Watched Peter Weir's The Plumber (1979) yesterday and was repeatedly distracted by the actor Robert Coleby because he looks exactly like Stanger. I've been on some medication lately, but I don't think I've lost my mind. It's a great little movie, too. youtube.com/watch?v=Bkz2JRwZ4Eg

Liz Arcury

Our middle school sports field was called “Flutie Field” and he’d come to fundraiser events and things

Liz Arcury

Doug Flutie’s Florida home is in my hometown, Melbourne Beach! My parents still live there and we drive by his house all the time, the Batmobile is very visible lol. He talks to my dad when they see each other at the beach or either one of the only two local restaurants. We got all the behind the scenes about his Dancing with the Stars experience, he hated it and said they wanted him to participate in a fake dramatic “arc” and he refused 😂

bloodflart

I prefer the Octopus Murders

bloodflart

I don't think they have the fortitude to make it through half the first early Bond films

Steakmoss

“GOD…DAMN!!! Stone, Nancy get in here” is my new favorite bit.-

eric crahen

shout out forrest lawn!! i worked there

Haunted Screen

This movie IS the top ten Uk gangster flicks, unassailable. Oh and Statham? Started out as an Olympic high diver! No shit, check out the videos

Flappy McGillicuddy-Jones III

Man I miss Stanger Bot

Swoll Tits

Steven Seagal totally got ripped off. My Octopus's Teacher is the far superior film.

Sean Hutchinson

Stanger’s on fire this ep.

Scott Tammel

Great little story of Liam Neeson seeing Helen Mirren on set of Excalibur on Graham Norton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoY0J5jSbTM&ab_channel=TheGrahamNortonShow

Scott Tammel

I recently watched Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland. I had some basic facts down about the troubles but this for me did a great job to kind of put you in the mindset of how it was if you lived in and around those times. Its a very personal look at The Troubles and I find it very illuminating. https://www.pbs.org/show/once-upon-time-northern-ireland/

Stephen Navarrete

"SHUT UP, YOU LONG STREAK OF PARALYZED PISS!" Great movie, great OST.

Arkady_84

Please accept my apology for shamefully commenting regarding Debt for the Enemy of the State episode. I'm filled with terror every time I comment and yet I still do it and I still mess up. Also, a good late career Hoskins is as the villain in Unleashed with Jet Li.

David McElroy

Anyone else looking for a great Hoskins role check out Mona Lisa, IMO Neil Jordan's best movie and a classic lonely-loser-heartbroken-gangster movie.

David Bauer

I missed some of the details around Rodgers bringing up Brazil, but that's one of the movies I always think of when I think of Bob Hoskins. He has a great small part in that. And I loved him as J. Edgar Hoover in Nixon. Also not bad in Enemy at the Gates as Nikita Kruschev.

David Bauer

I'll have to check that out.

Jenn

My husband and I watched Quicksand a few years ago and were wildly disappointed. We were shocked there was a movie with both Keaton & Caine in it that we’d never heard of but after watching it we were like “oh, that’s why.” At the very least we were expecting the “we didn’t know how good we had it” feeling that the Boyz often discuss but sadly not. Has anyone else seen it?

Graham Parker

Apparently Newcomers is doing Scorsese next

Eric Manch

Great book to check out about the Troubles is Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. It's about a decades-old murder-kidnapping that implicates some key members of the IRA, including people like Gerry Adams. Some of the figures mentioned in the book were clearly magnetic personalities within the IRA in the sixties and inspired multiple works of fiction. You can tell for example that both Natasha Richardson's character in The Crying Game and the red-haired Irish terrorist in Patriot Games are both inspired by the same real-life IRA activist who was implicated in the murder-kidnapping in Say Nothing. It's a great read if you want to learn more about the history of the region.

Chabnormal

Northern Ireland is Church of England - Protestant. Ireland is a mostly Catholic country. It's sectarian violence. But also Ireland doesn't like England on their island

Mitch Kapa

For me this movie is in the top 1% of ABZ movies. I'd never seen it until a couple of years ago when Tim Simons was hyping it up on twitter. I do think the plot is a little muddy in that what does it matter that Colin skimmed because the IRA guys who knew he skimmed immediately got murdered. It was the IRA pinning that murder on Harold that mattered I think. But who cares 5 stars.

Thomas

Sooo all the content so far is just bs and riffs… I’m still in… 🤓

Bobby Nitro

Normally the people who own/run a pub are called the landlord, though I do like pub master

MB

Lmao at Shaggy the Draft Dodger

RutgerHauerPowerHour

Just watched this movie for the first time at work. Wow! Great pick guys.

Paul

“Stop picking on Stanger! He can talk about Santa whenever he wants—anytime of the year! 😡”

Michael Pemulis

I miss Flutie's Neugenix commercials.

Loose Goose

Holy shit this movie fucken ruled. Thanks for the intro to it

Thea Michailides

So what is the podcast they referenced guesting on? Random thought, would love a Shadow Wolves covering Who's Harry Crumb

Frank Kimball

Rade Serbedzija broke through to international audiences and was cast in ‘The Saint’, ‘MI:II’, et al. because of his performance in a great movie called ‘Before the Rain’ that’s streaming on the Criterion Channel.

Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)

Licensing isn’t always great with older soundtracks on streaming services. But this score is actually on Spotify!

Megan

Gabrus explaining the high and might intro to Biden got me good.

Berko Pierce

As someone who once accidentally took a big bite of food full of maggots, I'd describe the sensation as similar to eating Rice Krispies or caviar without the saltiness

MB

I don't really "get" Roger Rabbit either. Not my bag. Not enough temporal pincer movements

PatrickKilbrogan

Sometimes, theres a man, well he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s Bob Hoskins

The Buffmaster

Good episode 👍

bloodflart

"London will be Europe's capital" opposite of Brexit right?

bloodflart

Between that and Roger Rabbit I loved Bob Hopkins as a kid

bloodflart

Helen Mirren is the smokest of shows

Frank Kimball

As good as Bob Hoskins is in this, he’s even better in ‘Mona Lisa’, which is also streaming on the Criterion Channel and Max.

bloodflart

Young is relative when it comes to his big ole head

David McElroy

Yea the subtitle typer def never heard of an abattoir! Also they were just wrong sometimes. Pretty good stuff.

David McElroy

Awesome book!

Christopher Davis

For Stanger, "Unleashed," with Jet Li has Hoskins as a gangster co-lead and was pretty decent.

Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)

Loved this movie, watched it with the subtitles on because some of the British slang was hard to catch. And it clearly wasn’t just me. Whoever was in charge of the subtitles must have been American. Multiple times when people were talking, they just gave up and wrote [inaudible] for half the lines ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

VHSMIA

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Great book about the troubles. The Audiobook is narrated by Matthew Blaney who has a beautiful Irish accent. Starts with the people who were “disappeared” by the IRA as a jumping-off point, but covers all of the Troubles.