Episode 27.5: The Foreigner

Alex Hubbell

I'm very late to this but M-Wickesteen rifle

Bex

I'm not going to lie, I've listened through the entire series and there have only been a handful of movies that I've wanted to go watch/rewatch and this is one for some reason. 🤷‍♀️

Barabones

Watched this with some friends last night, and I was honestly surprised the movie didn't go anywhere with the fact that the wife also had the exact same motivations as Jackie. She's mad that the people who killed her brother were allowed to go to jail instead of being executed. The main differences between her rampage of revenge and the protagonist's is that she had to do it in deceptive lady ways instead of based protag direct action ways.

Joseph Oswald

Abigail was correct

John Morgan

I was going to write a long rant about how Alice is wrong, and Jackie gets wrecked in tons of fights. I was going to link The Young Master final fight and everything. But I relistened and she makes a valid point. Even when Jackie is getting his shit rocked he is simply too athletic, and his movements too animated to convey a believable sense of injury or exhaustion. Anyway Devon is right too, cheers.

Violet

No, Alice was right.

cybercrime

I watched this before listening to the podcast and one element of the movie im surprised they didnt bring up on either side is chance. They only stop the bombing by chance as the flight was delayed, and pierce brosnan being flipped by the british (which would of course be hideous for ireland) is only undone by chance also because jackie chan goes to the right conclusion, that he was involved with the attacks, because he takes the false lead that the go between guy planted as real. I could see different readings of it, both nihilist and anti-violence, but i do think it contributes to the text substantially

Simon Bitdiddle

Excellent discussion and I do agree with both sides. That being said, I am looking forward to the Court's discussion of Puma Man's Donald Pleasance as elder abuse or willful camp.

FBH

Was this Chinese produced cause this seems very PRC

Drunk Karsa

Holy shit I’ve just realised I read the book this was based on when I was about 13

Cate Kneale

Counterpoint: Zardoz

Cate Kneale

Bromley *is* the worst London suburb. I'd also like to speculate that the Wagatha Christie method of investigation also came from this movie because No Time to Die is not the only one to use that.

we're a bit past the era for them, but i think the first Incredibles movie might be fun to do a bonus episode on. it's got the 60's-spy aesthetic and motifs, the music slaps, and it even has robots blofeld!

P S

Biggest problem with the movie is that “time bomb with two minutes to go” is literally the least likely scenario in which torture will help you

An Actual Dog woof woof

Uh ra up the ra

DukeNukem64x

Yay Liam? Yay Liam!

FortressPlotter

I would have respected the choice to have all Liam Hennessy's lines dubbed over, like when Gerry Adams would appear on BBC News

The Beak TM

Can’t believe we got one bad ass old man Jackie Chan movie but 3 bad ass old Liam beds on movies

ZombieDwarf

10:00 He's Gevvy Adams.

Ctolm

I appreciate that this movie's take on the Met is "Probably wouldn't take a bribe, would torture and murder a woman." If at some point you'd like to return to Ireland for an episode I'd love to hear your takes on "Michael Collins", a light hearted romp about a time British intelligence forces got what was coming. Featuring Bond alum Charles Dance and Julia Roberts doing the second worst Irish accent in history - giving Devon full licence to really go whole hog.

Alfred Lang

7:39 ... huh ... does your bromly also have the sewage treatment plant and settleing ponds ?

HJC

it's got our name on it