I did, his little appearances on office hours are great too
Last Film You Watched
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Tommy Chong
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Crashed early, woke up at the witching hour, ended up watching Blazing Saddles....g'damn, racism AOTS.
Yeah Tim is hit or miss, but his hits are just so good I don't care. The Coffin Flop skit, the zipline, Brian's hat etc.
I still watch the advert for TC Tuggers on about a weekly basis
Tommy Chong
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Different times, mate…
There’s no way you could get away with a comedy skit like this today.
I was researching something quite different, anyway, stumbled upon this wonderful little romp and snagged a review from reddit...
@McBain have you considered retrospective legal action?
Sadly, this one has nothing to do with the fictional Simpsons movie series. The film also stars Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, and April O'Neil's boss from TMNT (1990) in the only other film I ever remember seeing him in. Even though it's always fun to watch Christopher Walken, the (bad) writing here is really the star. It's frankly difficult to describe how stupid the plot of this movie is without a lot of detail, so I apologize in advance for writing so much:
TLDR: Walken and a team of Vietnam vets decide to abandon their lives and overthrow the entire government of Colombia as revenge for the death of a soldier he met ONCE, for one day, decades earlier, who became a rebel leader there and died in a failed coup.
The film starts in Vietnam. The US command has just sent word to all units to retreat to base as the war is officially over. Walken is a POW fighting to the death in a cage match against VC troops (sounds WAY cooler than it is). He's rescued when a passing infantry team in a chopper spots the POW camp from the air and decides to liberate it, despite being outnumbered 20-1.
18 years pass. One of the chopper soldiers is living in Colombia, and has somehow become the leader of a leftist insurgency there. He tells his gf (Alonso) that if something ever happens to him, to contact Walken, now a welder living in NYC. Remember, he met Walken ONCE, on the last day of the war. Rebel leader guy dies in his terribly planned coup attempt, so Alonso gathers all of her village's money and travels to NYC to recruit Walken. Walken doesn't seem at all surprised about this, and immediately agrees to abandon his life in America that he's built for the last 18 years, and go attempt to overthrow the government of Colombia to avenge chopper/rebel leader dude.
He first finds and recruits the other guys in the chopper that day (who again, he met ONCE), who have since become a NYC police detective, a surgeon working in a major hospital, and a billionaire arms dealer. All of them also immediately put aside their entire lives, families, fortunes and careers to join Walken. Overthrowing the government of a sovereign nation just sounds like fun, I guess. They need money to fund a rebellion, so their first thought is "hey, why don't we rob a bunch of drug lords!" (?????). Makes sense. So they kill a [Poor language removed] load of American drug lords, just mercilessly murdering people like there's no tomorrow, and stealing all the drug money. They never once consider the potential legal ramifications or brutal revenge that might befall them or their loved ones from slaughtering a bunch of drug lords on US soil, but you're not supposed to think about that, I guess.
So they buy a ton of weapons to support a rebellion and finally head to Colombia in a tiny private plane. Strangely, the coup starts long before they land. It's almost like the movie wants to point out that they're not useful in any way here. The Colombian air force is about to shoot them down, when Walken radios a US fighter pilot patrolling in the region and somehow convinces him to defy orders, enter Colombian air space, and commit numerous acts of war by shooting down a bunch of Colombian jet fighters and attacking ground installations. The fighter pilot lands, and decides, hey, [Poor language removed] it, I guess I'll abandon my country, desert from the US armed forces, and defect to this rebel group because...um...because Christopher Walken asked me to? Finally, despite spending most of the war in their little plane, this tiny group of five or six guys then leads the coup and topples the government. Fire and death consume the landscape as countless people are slaughtered. But Walken cheerily laughs and smiles. Hooray! We destroyed a nation!
I can't describe how stunningly dumb the whole thing is. But hey, it was incredibly fun to watch
TLDR: Walken and a team of Vietnam vets decide to abandon their lives and overthrow the entire government of Colombia as revenge for the death of a soldier he met ONCE, for one day, decades earlier, who became a rebel leader there and died in a failed coup.
The film starts in Vietnam. The US command has just sent word to all units to retreat to base as the war is officially over. Walken is a POW fighting to the death in a cage match against VC troops (sounds WAY cooler than it is). He's rescued when a passing infantry team in a chopper spots the POW camp from the air and decides to liberate it, despite being outnumbered 20-1.
18 years pass. One of the chopper soldiers is living in Colombia, and has somehow become the leader of a leftist insurgency there. He tells his gf (Alonso) that if something ever happens to him, to contact Walken, now a welder living in NYC. Remember, he met Walken ONCE, on the last day of the war. Rebel leader guy dies in his terribly planned coup attempt, so Alonso gathers all of her village's money and travels to NYC to recruit Walken. Walken doesn't seem at all surprised about this, and immediately agrees to abandon his life in America that he's built for the last 18 years, and go attempt to overthrow the government of Colombia to avenge chopper/rebel leader dude.
He first finds and recruits the other guys in the chopper that day (who again, he met ONCE), who have since become a NYC police detective, a surgeon working in a major hospital, and a billionaire arms dealer. All of them also immediately put aside their entire lives, families, fortunes and careers to join Walken. Overthrowing the government of a sovereign nation just sounds like fun, I guess. They need money to fund a rebellion, so their first thought is "hey, why don't we rob a bunch of drug lords!" (?????). Makes sense. So they kill a [Poor language removed] load of American drug lords, just mercilessly murdering people like there's no tomorrow, and stealing all the drug money. They never once consider the potential legal ramifications or brutal revenge that might befall them or their loved ones from slaughtering a bunch of drug lords on US soil, but you're not supposed to think about that, I guess.
So they buy a ton of weapons to support a rebellion and finally head to Colombia in a tiny private plane. Strangely, the coup starts long before they land. It's almost like the movie wants to point out that they're not useful in any way here. The Colombian air force is about to shoot them down, when Walken radios a US fighter pilot patrolling in the region and somehow convinces him to defy orders, enter Colombian air space, and commit numerous acts of war by shooting down a bunch of Colombian jet fighters and attacking ground installations. The fighter pilot lands, and decides, hey, [Poor language removed] it, I guess I'll abandon my country, desert from the US armed forces, and defect to this rebel group because...um...because Christopher Walken asked me to? Finally, despite spending most of the war in their little plane, this tiny group of five or six guys then leads the coup and topples the government. Fire and death consume the landscape as countless people are slaughtered. But Walken cheerily laughs and smiles. Hooray! We destroyed a nation!
I can't describe how stunningly dumb the whole thing is. But hey, it was incredibly fun to watch
@McBain have you considered retrospective legal action?
supertoffee98
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Going to try and watch it on Sunday night. Bracing myself for the usual run-out-of-steam sequel nonsense
Interesting that it's written and directed by David S Goyer who wrote the first & second Blade, wrote all three Nolan Batman films and Man of Steel. I guess even the best writers have off days (or films)
supertoffee98
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First and second film were amazing, felt like they were two parts of the same story with the first half mirroring the second half. Just subtle stuff like Buzz losing his arm in the first film, Woody losing his in the second. Learning about Buzz's space origins in the first film, learning about Woody's TV show origin in the second. Clever writing esp for kids stuff, 3rd film didn't live up to it for me and not seen the 4th.
BlueStevie35
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Watched a few films this week as I’ve been off work
Demon Slayer Infinity Castle - one of my favourite animes, first part of the final arc of the show that I missed in cinemas last year
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - the original 1990 film, still an absolute classic that I can near enough quote word for word at certain scenes
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things - zombie/vampire horror from the 70s, absolute crap with a cast of very punchable people
Better Man - the Robbie Williams biopic with a monkey replacing him, absolutely enjoyed it and they did a great job recreating certain aspects of his life and making funny scenes of others (leaving Take That while swinging from a swing in Barlow’s mansion garden then taking a watermelon for one)
Demon Slayer Infinity Castle - one of my favourite animes, first part of the final arc of the show that I missed in cinemas last year
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - the original 1990 film, still an absolute classic that I can near enough quote word for word at certain scenes
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things - zombie/vampire horror from the 70s, absolute crap with a cast of very punchable people
Better Man - the Robbie Williams biopic with a monkey replacing him, absolutely enjoyed it and they did a great job recreating certain aspects of his life and making funny scenes of others (leaving Take That while swinging from a swing in Barlow’s mansion garden then taking a watermelon for one)
Going to try and watch it on Sunday night. Bracing myself for the usual run-out-of-steam sequel nonsense
It’s not like awful just nowhere near as good as the first two. Introduces too many new characters and the big bad isn’t scary at all.
Tommy Chong
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Well, I heard there might be some interesting surprises this time around…
Probably not…
But surely Andy is all grown up by now, FFS!
The Nature Boy
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Double bill last night…
Mute Witness followed by The Faculty
Mute Witness followed by The Faculty