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We're closing out September with the mother of all Hong Kong action flicks in John Woo's Hard Boiled! 



CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.

(00:00:19) - Intro.

(00:01:34) - Our film for this week: HARD BOILED!

(00:02:35) - What did our cast know about the movie going in, and early impressions.

(00:14:10) - Talking about the production of the movie.

(00:26:12) - Time to get into the film (and a brief discussion of jazz and its coolness).

(00:34:18) - John Woo's jazz club.

(00:36:08) - Tony Leung's eagerness to do undercover murders.

(00:38:13) - La Li Lu Le Lo.

(00:43:48) - The old school and new school of HK triads have different philosophies.

(00:50:31) - Break!

(00:50:55) - We're back, let's blow this warehouse to smithereens.

(00:59:40) - How did all this manage to happen less than halfway through the movie?!?

(01:04:01) - Barreling toward the hospital.

(01:07:18) - All hospital from here on out.

(01:12:52) - Let's just shoot guns and blow stuff up and fight Philip Kwok forever.

(01:22:14) - The final showdown with Mad Dog, and the exit from the hospital.

(01:26:37) - Johnny's humiliation fetish routine.

(01:31:49) - Final thoughts.

(01:36:01) - Outro.