BC MARCH MADNESS 2025 - Day 9

Zach Neal

No 52 Pickup? No the Big Bounce? No Life of Crime? No Cat Chaser? I should have read the fine print.

Alex Takacs

I'm just gonna sit down for 10 years and wait for a time when people finally take their head out of their ass about Jackie Chan.

Regis L

yeah, same. :I

Crash Calhoun

100% agree on your Be Cool take.

colony of birchmen

I have read a ton of Elmore Leonard and love his movie adaptations. However, Police Story would yield some amazing reactions and Be Cool is the shittiest thing I've maybe ever seen in a theater.

bscronin

Cmon it’s gotta be police story what are y’all doin

Marzi Margo

I can only assume that The Big Bounce is excluded from the Elmore Leonard series only because it happens to be one of the worst films of all time.

Nick

This is an incredible matchup for Round 1, both so great that it could honestly be the Finals. Jackie deserves to go much further in the bracket, but backdooring into perhaps the individual best films of Soderbergh, Tarantino, and Sonnenfeld is just too powerful.

Ryan Baker

Man, all my favorites are losing this year.

Jack R

Jackie Brown…you mean my wife?

Will McLaren

Rush Hour or Shanghai Noon/Knights series would give more to talk about with less movies.

Good

They should’ve made it rumble in the Bronx . rush hours movies . first strike . who am I. Those would’ve been way better than a police story.

awoodring

Elmore Leonard all the way

Good

Because you all know what does commentaries gonna be like. It’s a waste of three months. And I love Jackie Chan but for commentaries no thank you

Good

I love police stories but just like John Wick is it gonna be three months of “Oh wow awesome” Jackie Brown is 10 times better commentary

Eoin Joy

Was looking forward to the near zero possibility of "supercop: the cop that can't be stopped"

Wyatt Smith

Really bummed police story is so far behind. Have the crew ever talked Jackie Chan? I can’t remember a time.

Patrick Pottorff

It’s a shame Police Story won’t win because even if ACAB, the first Police Story is hands down the greatest action movie ever.

longhornsteve

Should include either Mr. Majestyk or 3:10 to Yuma imo

Andrew Wyslotsky

Had to go police story, I hope we somehow get Rumble in the Bronx and Drunken Master someday as well

Manish Agarwal

“These are the end times for Dewey Crowe!”

Jon Ryves

Police Stories are great but the Leonards feel like better discussion movies for the guys

LongJohnSivers#1Fan

True. There is also a good argument on what is the best or your favorite. Those first 3 are all some of my favorite movies. My opinion changes a lot, but right now- it's Get Shorty. It's streaming on YouTube. It's so funny and so cool. Travolta is amazing in it.

George Dunne

I think they should add all of Justified to the list of Elmore Leonard. It's only six seasons and a reboot.

Gabe

You watch more than Hollywood films.

Sean Corp

You could make the argument that Leonard adaptations represent the best work of three great filmmakers. The choice is clear.

Marty TC (child-sized Cardassian)

Too baaaad, baybeeeee

John Dog

Maggie Cheung is in these?!! *Googles "ballot stuffing"*

John Dog

I've been meaning to do Jackie Chan properly for years - this would be the perfect excuse. On the other, hand, no-one's ever talked about Tarantino or Soderberg on a podcast before /s

Daniel Citron

I love Jackie Chan but I do have to squint through my fingers at how he treats Maggie Cheung in those movies

justn

FIRST!

Jacob Moore

This is “New Police Story,” “ Police Story: Lockdown,” and “Supercop 2” erasure

J M D

ohh boy elmore leonard would be amazing!!!!!

John W

Police story is that meme of Pam from The Office, "It's the same picture"

Douglas Hahner

Police Story gets my vote because of lack of Mr. Majestyk in the Leonard films.

Adam Grzegorczyk

Eh I think Police Story is too visual for people who don't watchalong

Rachel Milligan

SAME

Jordan Grimes

100 percent. I think the boys should just do the Police Story films themselves because it will never have the support during MM.

John Toerner

Jackie Chan!

Drew McWeeny

It feels like Elmore Leonard is winning only because not enough people have seen the POLICE STORY films.

Brian Redford

Some of the greatest action movies ever with Michelle Yeah. Or some good movies. Those Leonard movies would make for some good main feed under their directors. Not interested in them as watch alongs.

John Holder

Also he's a govt puppet now, but I still love every movie he made from 1978 to 1998 or so. Handover ruined Chinese cinema.

Ryan Howard

He already lost.

John Holder

No! Bad Blankies! Come on, Jackie Chan, A-whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

JFox

Same.

Adam Martin

I think there’s a lot more to talk about with Police Story than just the action. While the action is incredible and the stunts are the main draw the plots are good and the humor is fantastic

Andrew Rogers

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniesoteriou/jackie-chan-flung-son-2-across-room-michelle-yeoh

Jon Ryves

Andrew Rogers

Short answer, not a great dad. Definitely not an ally.

Jon Ryves

I remember 52 Pick-Up making it on the Screen Drafts Leonard list, good argument for that one

Dylan Weaver

Was really hoping for Touch to make the cut. It's such a an oddball, but I kind of love it.

M

I just watched the first three Police Story movies, and I would happily watch them again.

Despairing Radical

I'd not heard; what's the sitch?

Flappy McGillicuddy-Jones III

Man I am on the wrong side of all of these what does that say

Chris Lynch

I love Dennis Farina, and out of sight soooo much! “Hey Ray, do you ever wear one that says undercover?” 😆 But I want a Soderbergh series

Andrew Rogers

I used to love Jackie, but he's a little problematic these days... Far less than many, for sure...

Tom

Police stories would be a funnier time. But this is still a win whoever gets to move up.

Liam Palmer

There are more Leonard films than that though. There are the two “3:10 to Yuma” films, there’s “Hombre,” there’s “52 Pick Up,” there’s “Stick,” which was one of a handful of the films Burt Reynolds directed, there’s Paul Schrader’s “Touch…”

Christopher Teuma

I'd vote for Elmore Leonard if they covered 52 Pick Up and Stick.

CJ Foss

fuck

Bryan Lazzaro

Police story getting done dirty here

Adam Martin

I mean I feel like that was the assumption with Kubrick too. “No one needs another podcast talking about Kubrick”

Joel Barber

Not fair.

Matt

Idk. My assumption is QT is so far from getting covered on the basis that no one needs another movie podcast with two white dudes in their 30s taking about QT.

Phillipe Bosher

Fuming at this split. The Police Story films are some of the greatest action movies of all time and y’all are letting it slip through our fingers!! Come on!!

Harrison Cordle

I want crazy action every time!

Douglas Wykstra

An interesting contrast, with the proposed Police Story series being overly comprehensive (does Crime Story have any connection to the other films?) and the Leonard series being hilariously selective.

Garrett Swaney

Would be fun to add the Justified pilot (I know this will never happen but I love that show so damn much)

Adam Martin

As much as I would love to hear them talk about Get Shorty I feel like they will get around to QT for Jackie Brown I wanna hear some Chan Chat

Clark Zeis

People don't know about Police Story

Anthony Oleszkiewicz

Leonard movies will cut into the inevitable Tarantino series and feel less like a unified developing franchise.

bobbitt15

Couple of the Leonards I'd rather see covered on the main feed eventually. Police Story it is

Carolyn

Jackie Brown ❤️

Jordan Grimes

Cmon Elmore Leonard needs to end with 3:10 to Yuma instead of Be Cool.

Njord

(Also: first)

Njord

I think the Leonard movies give you more to discuss, whereas with Jackie’s movies you can find yourself waiting for the next action scene to start.

Ryan O'Leary

Will you also cover all 6 seasons of Justified as well as limited series event Justified: City Primeval

Tyler

Gotta throw the big bounce on that Elmore leanord breakdown

Connor Crehan

Fund the Police Story