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Police Story
Jackie Chan redefined action cinema with 1985's Police Story, a film that transcends mere entertainment to become a masterclass in physical performance and stunt work. As Inspector Ka-Kui, he delivers a perfect blend of comedy and death-defying action that demonstrates why he remains unmatched in martial arts filmmaking.
Police Story doesn't just entertain – it represents a filmmaking philosophy where authenticity trumps everything. Modern viewers accustomed to CGI and safety wires will be astonished by the raw commitment on display. Every punch, kick, and fall reverberates with the knowledge that real bodies are in motion, taking real risks. Chan's end-credit bloopers showing the injuries sustained during filming have become a signature, reminding us of the human cost behind the spectacle.
Ready to witness action filmmaking at its purest? Watch Police Story and discover why Jackie Chan is revered not just as a star, but as a pioneering artist who forever changed how action sequences could be filmed, performed, and experienced.
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast. This is a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse and I'm Jason.
Speaker 2:Don't be a cop if you want to live to be a 100.
Speaker 1:You want this line on the recruitment poster, because this week we recommend Police Story Baby story baby police story baby yeah, police story, baby. It's my favorite version of this movie kung fu babies. Jason, you've never seen this. No, is it not amazing? I thought it was genuinely a good movie it's thoroughly a good movie. It's thoroughly a good movie. It's funny, the action is awesome.
Speaker 2:I like, even though it's kind of old, like the comedy was pretty good, it was great.
Speaker 1:Jackie Chan's one of the funniest actors we've ever had, and we do not appreciate him enough. You know everybody loves him, but it's you never. Every time you think of Jackie Chan you're like oh yeah, he makes a silly rush hour movie Right when. It's like cool, but it's like funny and like early 2000,. It's like, hey, this guy's been funny since the 70s, baby.
Speaker 2:Is that when this movie was made?
Speaker 1:This was 1984. Nice, yeah, eighty four.
Speaker 2:It was better than a lot of movies from that era. Yeah, it was better than a lot of movies from that era.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's wild to think that like I think they were kind of making better action movies overseas in the 80s than they were over here, because there's still like a realism to this movie, versus if you watch like Tango and Cash and like even though Point Break was nineties, it's just like okay, this is silly.
Speaker 2:And there's this over here, like yeah, we're just making fun police story movies and things like that Immediately thought of point break whenever he was in the beginning action scene, when he he always fires up in the air, yeah Right. Instead of shooting into a bunch of people like do a point break, what?
Speaker 1:do you mean that's totally normal? No, that's what you should be doing. We have to catch the bad guys in America. But he didn't catch them. Yeah, and I think it's one of those things that when you watch this movie, when you think of you know kung fu movies or, like you know, mixed martial, martial arts movies and things, you always think, oh, back in the day, back way back when you know, when we didn't really even have cars or anything. People were just running around chopping each other and stuff like that. You know. When you think of like foreign you know martial arts movies or kung fu movies and things like that, you always think of like you know, like Enter the Dragon or whatever you know like Enter the Dragon or whatever you know like old timey things.
Speaker 1:So you never really think about like, oh yeah, they were probably using the same type of moves like in the, for you know, the policemen and stuff like that's what is going to be their hand to hand combat. So it's like very interesting to see in a movie like, oh yeah, they still might fight like that. I don't know if they do, of course.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have no idea but it's fun to see in a movie. I wonder if, if it was like in China, like Japan, where they don't allow people to have weapons like guns.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Only the police are allowed to have guns. Yeah, like the military.
Speaker 1:So I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, but it's like super. Is this kind of fun to see a little drug, you know? Movie.
Speaker 2:A little drug movie. A little drug movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what do you think about the way like Jackie Chan fights, Is it not? It is wild how I don't know flawless it looks, but also, at the same time, it looks like he has no idea what it's about to happen.
Speaker 2:It's so seamless.
Speaker 1:Everything he does and it's fun at the end of the credits when you see him just like the pencil on the desk and he kicks it with his foot and he tries to catch it while he's got all these phones In the movie.
Speaker 2:It's just like that was probably first try but you know he's had to do it like 15 times probably try, but you know he's had to do it like 15 times probably.
Speaker 1:But he's because he's so charismatic and, yeah, smooth but also hilarious at the same time it's, and I think it's also when they fight they have that like it's so spastic, but then when they're doing the moves it's so smooth. It's. It's wild to watch.
Speaker 2:I love how he because he, because he'll go from one guy and then like something, like the girl's getting taken, so he'd jump over here, kick him in the face, then jump back over here and kick that other guy in the face, yeah, and you see all the bad guys going, like where the hell is he going?
Speaker 1:It's just, and I guess it's also because they're kind of wearing suits when they're fighting, so it's even it kind of adds to the chaos, like just visually kind of adds to the chaos, like just visually. But man, there's something so fun about his fighting style and like just the his fights in general and they're so creative. Yeah, it is wild, just like with him, with like the uh, the clothes hanger thing, like you know in the department store.
Speaker 2:They're trying to hit him with bats.
Speaker 1:He's just like spinning it around and it's like and he takes the umbrella off that one dude, yeah, it's like this man is amazing, this is wild and of course, it's always fun to learn that he got so hurt during every single movie he's ever filmed, essentially Because you know, if he does something and it missed, the actual thing hits him in the head.
Speaker 2:That was one of my favorite parts of Rush Hour, because they do the same they show the bloopers at the end. Yeah, it's the best every Jackie Chan movie does.
Speaker 1:It's amazing, yeah it's like we need to bring that back, like the John Wick movies needed this, just like seeing Keanu Reeves just accidentally hit himself in the head with a gun. It'll, of course, take you out of the movie, but who cares right?
Speaker 2:it's just a movie. Yeah, I've done. I've hit myself with those. When I was a kid, I shot. I was squirrel hunting and I shot, but the gun was so small I couldn't hold it in my shoulder, so I held it up in front of my face and it just hit me right in the eye, gave me a black eye, wow, great job, that's really smart. It seemed like it might have hurt a little bit.
Speaker 1:So outside of like Rush Hour, do you have any Chan movies or even just like kung fu movies or kind of martial arts movies?
Speaker 2:yeah, I can't really think of any of them, right now but, have you ever seen Legend of the Drunken Master? No, but I'd like to. I've seen bits and pieces of it well, you've seen Ip man yeah, ip man or whatever.
Speaker 1:I still have to watch that. Those are really fun, and some fun ones is like Kung Fu Hustle Enter the Dragon. That's a good one.
Speaker 2:I used to own the entire but like library of Bruce Lee movies, like on VHS, I never really watched a lot of Bruce Lee movies I did when I was a kid.
Speaker 1:I at least watched Enter the Dragon. That's the main one I remember.
Speaker 2:I mean they're not all great, it's just kind of cool Of course you got the classics like Kung Pao, kung Fu Hustle.
Speaker 1:You seen Kung Fu Hustle?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I've seen bits and pieces of Kung Pao.
Speaker 1:You have to watch Kung Fu Hustle because it's very silly but it's so good. And then, probably one of my favorites is Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon. Oh yeah, that movie is beautiful in every way, with the tree jumping Visually. Oh yeah, the action, the story's even great Ninja Warrior, or what was it Ninja Assassin yeah. It was just wild. I haven't seen that one, but it's so crazy, it's insane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so gory and stupid, stupid, oh god, oh man, that's fun yeah, because, uh, they actually jackie chan was actually in enter the dragon.
Speaker 1:He was just like a thug in prison though, um, but yeah, he, like jackie chan's been working since 1962. He was a juvenile back then when he was working, but he's been around forever and he's still doing movies I haven't seen any of his newer movies.
Speaker 2:He's way too old.
Speaker 1:No, let's see what was his last. Well, he's going to be in the new. They're doing a new Kung Fu or Karate Kid or whatever. I guess that's already maybe come out. I don't know who even wants to, but he tried to make his comeback. What was that movie? I think he directed it himself the Foreigner in 2017. Apparently, it was supposed to be really good. I don't see it, but yeah, so he was quite older then, but he still has it. God dang it. Yeah. Well, let's hop into some of the fun facts.
Speaker 1:So the reason that Police Story had such a plain name was because every time Jackie Chan started a new project in Hong Kong, everyone else followed. For example, when Drunken Master 2 came out, every filmmaker started making drunken boxing movies. Oh great, with Police Story, no one knew what to expect except a police movie, and at that time in Hong Kong cinema, no one had ever made a kung fu police movie before Nice. Yeah. So essentially, anytime he was making a movie, some American audiences or somebody's like it's time to do exactly what Jackie Chan's doing. It's funny that that was happening then, because whenever, like movies that come out now, there's always like Asylum. Have you ever heard of Asylum Productions, I don't know. They essentially would make extremely low budget sci-fi movies based off like Pacific Rim had the movie Atlantic Rim. It's just really shitty cgi. It's like worse, almost worse than sci-fi, original sci-fi movies. Uh, cgi like sharknado and stuff.
Speaker 2:It's even worse than that type of cgi is like cartoons with yeah, it's like when deep impact came out, um, fucking dante's peak was right behind it, yeah, or volcano you had armageddon and uh, whatever, that other one that came out right right with it, and a lot of those things that was deep impact.
Speaker 1:A lot of those things were came out at the same time and a lot of that was is that one studio would hear that, I think with deep impact. They had that idea and the studio, like refused it. And another studio said well, we're doing Armageddon. And they're like, oh shit, we have to do Deep Impact quick, it's that type of thing.
Speaker 1:But, like with Asylum, the whole point of it was to confuse grandmas and parents. So when their kid asked for something like Pacific Rim, they'd go and be like, wait, what was the name? Atlantic Rim? Oh, let's buy it for them. They'd go and be like, wait, what was the name Atlantic Rim? Oh, let's buy it for them. And then they'd get it and their kids hate them for the rest of their lives, sneaky as hell, because they also did like Transformers, movies like that, and so it's kind of funny that even back in the day people were still trying to do that shit trying to confuse people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so funny, and then I only got really one more fact. So this is about the amazing stunt at the end that they show three times in a row.
Speaker 2:The pool, thing? Oh, the pool where he throws the woman off the building.
Speaker 1:No, where he like grabs onto that pole with all those things.
Speaker 2:Oh, the pole, I thought you said pool, yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's hear about how injured he got.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:So in an interview that's included with the film's Criterion release, Jackie Chan estimates that his crew had already been shooting in the mall for several months by the time they got to the pole stunt. The police story production was under some degree of pressure from the mall to wrap up. By the time the pole stunt was set up, the sun had begun to rise because they were filming at night in the mall. For everything, there was going to be a lot of broken glass to clean up before the mall opened in the morning. While Chan is somewhat infamous for taking the time to get stunts right, in this instance there was a real sense of urgency. Chan and his team did not rehearse the stunt and, as if the stakes weren't high enough, there were no wires, crash mats or safety nets to catch him. If Chan missed the pole, there would be nothing to catch him or break his fall. The original plan was to power the lights with low-voltage car batteries, but as they discovered on the day, the car battery just wasn't able to power the whole structure, so they plugged the lights into the sockets. This meant that the voltage of the building itself could potentially electrocute Chan. To assure Chan's understandable concern, the tech crew assured him that if anything went wrong they would simply cut the power. Chan perched on the guardrail six floors above his final destination, a prop kiosk shielded by sugar glass, which is breakable glass. He told the crew that he would give a signal before initiating the stunt. Essentially said, when I nod, I'm going. Chan was, by his own admission, rather scared. A member of the JC stunt team snuck a good luck totem into Chan's pocket during a hug, as Chan tells it. A crew member mistook a nervous neck motion for the go signal. Someone shouted rolling and the deathly quiet atrium filled with the motors of all 12 high-speed cameras. That amount of cameras coverage was exceptional at this time, especially within Chan's own filmography, but they only had one shot at it and they only had 400 feet of film. Knowing this, Chan let out a scream and jumped. That was the scream he said. By Chan's estimate, the distance from the guardrail to the pole was about 8 feet, which he cleared without a running, start from an unstable crouching position During the descent.
Speaker 1:The string lights did not electrocute Chan, but they did have a different, unforeseen effect. Incandescent light bulbs are hot to the touch. They can even ignite paper and certain kinds of cloth with direct contact. The heat, coupled with the friction of the descent, resulted in the second degree burns on Chan's palms Fucking A. The instant Chan hits the floor, he gets up and starts fighting. This is all the more impressive considering, as Chan's relays in his autobiography, the impact of the fall dislocated his pelvis and caused a back injury that could have been paralyzing. As Chan tells it, his adrenaline was so high the stuntman that the stuntman he wails on had to tell him to stop. They wrapped the chute and had a celebratory beer at 6 in the morning. Chan then made his way to Heart of the Dragon set, where he promptly crashed.
Speaker 2:God damn, I thought you were going to say he went to the hospital.
Speaker 1:No, where he should have gone, he just was like I got another movie I have to do Jesus, yeah. And so, other than just the burns on his hand, jackie Chan injured his seventh and eighth vertebrae and dislocated his pelvis on the pole slide when he crashed into the kiosk. And so they. When they were using the sugar glass, they had to make it twice as thick. They made it twice as thick so it looked like real glass, which created a bunch of injuries on it. And the girl that plays Selena, she did all her own stunts and she like just doing a simple roll rolling over a table, she like bruised her pelvis and stuff like that. So, um, fun thing about jackie chan movies is they look great. Uh, the worst part about jackie chan movies is everybody always gets hurt it's gonna be impossible to ensure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's wild, but they just, they just like you're seeing the uh, the video of jackie chan watching.
Speaker 2:He's like showing his granddaughter his movies, or like scenes from his movies and she looks over to him. She's like grandpa.
Speaker 1:You're awesome yeah, that's so sweet, you're so cool. How do you do this?
Speaker 2:yeah, she's like I can't believe you did that yeah, I mean, it's just like I.
Speaker 1:I mean it's kind of, you know, when you think about growing up, especially at the time we did, you know, we watched Jackie Chan movies and he's kind of our first like human superhero we actually saw, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, just because I mean, there was like Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but even then, like he didn't even do all of his stunts, he would do the fights, but you know you wouldn't see Jean-Claude Van Damme jumping off of like six-story things, unless with no padding or anything.
Speaker 2:Well, nobody knew that back then. We didn't, yeah, of course. But it's just watching the bloopers.
Speaker 1:It's kind of just crazy what he was literally doing just to entertain us. You got to respect it. It's like those horses.
Speaker 2:I don't like diving. Jackie Chan should have teamed up with a horse. Yeah Kung.
Speaker 1:Fu, kung Fu horse. I'd watch that every day of my life and then that horse lives and then they could fight in Kong Pal the cows that fight in that movie. Oh man, I have to watch that. Yeah, you have to watch it. I can't believe. I watched that a lot as a child.
Speaker 2:I started it, I was like this is stupid and I turned it off.
Speaker 1:Wow, that seems so. Unlike you. It was too stupid.
Speaker 2:It's so up your alley, bro maybe I just didn't get it at the time maybe we'll have to do like a commentary over it, like just watch it. I remember them saying like we trained him wrong to be, just to be funny yeah, and so what that movie is is so there's actual, so there's.
Speaker 1:They take scenes from actual old kung fu movies and they just put him in it, that's and that's kind of what they're doing and they're overdubbing a lot of the actors from the old movies. Like there's this one girl in it. Every time he talks to you she's like I can't even do it. It's so ridiculous. He's got a tongue that talks.
Speaker 2:It's great, my mind will be much more open now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, just you know if you're just having a nice relaxing night so, yeah, I think we should hop into the plot and while we're going through the plot, make sure you you think about hey, what's the point of this movie and what hurt the most?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think it's.
Speaker 1:You know, it's just a basic movie, so I think the point is going to be to entertain, but think about what, on a deeper level, this movie could be about. Okay, yeah, all right, jason, you ready to get into police story? Oh yeah, hell, yeah, hell, yeah, hell yeah. I apologize for how I'm going to pronounce the names. I'm so sorry. I did not look up how to do it beforehand. I regret it.
Speaker 2:And we're just using AI.
Speaker 1:Yes, so the Royal Hong Kong Police Force is planning a major undercover sting to arrest crime lord Chu Dao. They call it Operation Boar Hunt and I love during this part, during this whole scene. It's got this like just fucking guitar, Just like let's go. And it's so good compared to the rest of the movie, the score where it's like do-do-do-do-do.
Speaker 1:So John Coe is Dow's right hand man, Inspector Chan Kai Kui, or Kevin Chan as they also call him, which I won't be calling. Yeah, there we go, I will just be calling him. Chan is part of the operation alongside with other undercover officers stationed in a shantytown. It's like just made out. It looks like just plywood and just very thin. Did they build the shantytown? I would hope so, because it's no longer there. The entire shantytown is blocked off once Chan and his honorage enter the area, or Chudo, I mean, enters the area and completes a drug deal to buy drugs from his supplier. However, the criminals spot the officers from the earpiece worn by them. They got to get better earpieces, you know.
Speaker 2:This is A4, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know this is probably top of the line. This is like how about this? We just don't wear them then and just be like, let's all just know when to go. Okay, give us away immediately. Um, then we see that chow dow, chow does. Um, girlfriend selena is with them and she, holy shit, this is hard to do man's cool.
Speaker 2:Do they just let anybody go on these police things? Yeah, without police training.
Speaker 1:Well, Selena's there, for you know, with the criminal essentially, and she's just told to stay in the car. And then, and then you know, the police show up and then Jackie Chan grabs Selena and chains her to the steering wheel, but first she like slaps him and she's like and spits in his face. Yeah, he slaps her and it's like I'm going to spit too to the side of you, and then the. But then everybody starts to notice that all the wires are there and then a shootout ensues between the two groups. Several cops are scared of the intense gunfire.
Speaker 1:One guy shoots a mirror and Jackie Chan helps, chan helps many of them. Men remain calm and mount a resistance to the goons. Got the one guy that was shot the mirror. He like shoots a guy and just pees himself. Yeah, that's the guy that will later be known as inspector man um. And then you got civilians. They're either fleeing the town or caught in the crossfire. Uh, jackie chan persists in his chase. The criminals are trapped because of the roads being blocked, so they just decide to blow through the shantytown with.
Speaker 2:Jackie Chan following.
Speaker 1:They all make it down to the bottom and Chan eventually following on foot as the drug lord attempts to escape in a double-decker bus. How great is the scene, though it was really fun when he's going down through there. How dangerous is the scene, though it was really fun when he's going down through there. How dangerous is that. So many people got hurt during that scene.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, there's people standing on roofs of like where the cars are coming through the building. I'm sure lots of people died. I remember when I first saw this I was like, oh, this is how we're opening the movie. What's going to happen later in the movie? But what a great idea. They're gonna happen later in the movie, but what a great idea. They're just like hey, there's this town made of very thin plywood. What if we made of sticks? What if we drove three cars through it? But what a great way to get away. You know it's so fun.
Speaker 2:This is a great idea. I love that they have double decker buses yeah I didn't know they had those.
Speaker 1:Yes, and the fun does not end here Because Chan manages to get in front of the bus by hopping on the back, riding on the side with an umbrella, even fighting men while cars are passing by. He's running on top of the cars. He gets knocked down off the bus, though. He runs on foot to cut through all the winding roads and blocks the path with a civilian's car and his revolver. He fires his revolver, bringing it to a halt by threatening to shoot the driver with his service revolver.
Speaker 2:The other guy had a knife to the driver's throat.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah. The criminal tries to bribe Chan with his briefcase of money to let him go, but Chan refuses. I love when the bus comes to a stop.
Speaker 2:And everybody flies out the window.
Speaker 1:That's not how the stunt was supposed to go. It looks great, but they were supposed to stop and they were supposed to fly onto the car to break their fall, but they all went straight to the ground.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he stopped too soon probably.
Speaker 1:Well, the air brakes were better than they thought they were. Oh yeah, as they were getting ready to jump out, the bus stopped too soon and they all fell on the ground I did like how, when people were scrambling to get away, they're just jumping out windows. Yeah, they're like, let's get out of here but what a fantastic way to open the movie that was so fun it's so great. It's just like ah, I wish I watched this as a kid, because I kind of watched it as an adult and I was like man.
Speaker 2:As a kid I would be trying this stuff man, he does like the cool reload with his revolver.
Speaker 1:Yeah that revolver will have a big story like be part of the story later. So later Chan is reprimanded by Superintendent Raymond Lee for letting the operation get out of hand, but subsequently presented to the media as a model police officer. To please the police brass, chan is asked to star in many promotional ad campaigns to help him recruit for the police force, posing on a motorcycle. It's like open your eyes.
Speaker 2:Open some really wide Open your mouth.
Speaker 1:Wider, wider, and he's like what do you mean? And he's like just act normal, just be yourself Busting up someone doing drugs and on a boat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was great. What's that boat one? He heads off the guy smoking opium or something. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:And then him on the boat with the little wife jacket.
Speaker 2:The life jacket and the horn, the little sailor hat and everything.
Speaker 1:It's like what so? And on his next assignment is to protect Chowdhury's secretary, selina Fong, who is pressured to testify in court about Dao's illegal activities. I love this part because they they bring in Chan and he's just like they're like, all right, you're going to do it. He's like, can someone else do it? And they're like no Great. That's why I was like, oh, this just going to be a really funny movie.
Speaker 1:Actually, in reality, lee had arranged this so he could keep an eye on selena through chan. As per the law, lee was within his rights to assign protection to prosecution witness. Selena chan is paid 30 a day. The rate has never been raised, apparently, so it's very low for like just protecting someone and only getting $30 for the assignment. It's like bring your own wallet yeah, bring your own wallet, because your only bonus is $30. Chan's senior inspector, uncle Bill, superintendent Lee, play a very smart game. He grants bail only to Selena and insists that she talks to him alone, without the lawyer Chaeyoung, who had come to bail. Selena Lee's plan is to give the impression that Selena has agreed to cooperate with the police in exchange for their dropping all charges against her, which is great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought that was really smart.
Speaker 1:Because the lawyer leaves and they all just start getting up just looking out the window just like, yeah, we got nothing to do here, just trying to make her so confused that whenever she leaves and they're like what did they say? Like nothing, really. I didn't say anything and they're all like, well, you should probably die now Such a smart idea, yeah, damn so good.
Speaker 2:I love how annoying he is to her, though, yeah.
Speaker 1:He's following her around, yeah, and then, like she's annoying to him, he's annoying to her, it's like all great, and he's going to make every wrong decision possible. So Selina, now under the protection of Chan, goes shopping and continues about like nothing is different, much of the dismay of Chan. In the meantime, cho's lawyer convinces um dow, who is still in police custody, to hire an assassin to get rid of selena. He cannot believe that selena agreed to testify against her, but knows that selena has been with him for only a year.
Speaker 2:So it's like, yeah, get the fuck out of there, you know I know, like when they're at her apartment and he tries to scare her from the window and like, okay, so they just said. We just saw the scene where the boss, the gang boss, it says, hire someone to kill her. And then you got this other guy and then it turns out that he's working with Jackie Chan to like, try to convince her to cooperate yeah, essentially so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they get back to her apartment and she's like you're not coming in. That was the silliest death I know it's so wild because he's just like peeking in the window and he's trying to scare her, to be like, oh, I need the protection. So they hire this guy and he comes in with a mask on and he's just like, oh, I'm going to kill you. Oh, I'm so close, you're coming.
Speaker 2:He's so good, I thought are they being serious right now? Is this supposed to be the real killer.
Speaker 1:Because he takes off the mask.
Speaker 2:He's like oh no, Hides it with a knife.
Speaker 1:And then in his mask there's all these feathers from the pillow and he's constantly having to blow them out. Great bit, this movie has so many good bits.
Speaker 2:She knocks him unconscious and he has to pretend like he's not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and even before that, like they're grabbing each other and they're just like kind of dancing. It's just to be like, oh, he's really getting me in between the whole time. They're like all right, get out now. Then she calls the police and so they have to fight over to where the phone is like hey, pull the cord out. And they do that. It's so good.
Speaker 2:I love all the vases she keeps smashing on them. Get bigger. Yeah, they get bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1:It's such a good bit. And they do it in the rule of threes because it's one small one, a medium one, and then she grabs the giant one. He's like whoa, yeah. And she's just like trying to pretend to like get out, it's great. And then she's like she gets the phone. He's like hold on, I'll make the call. Because he's like completely knocked out, there's no way to get him out. And he's like, all right, yeah. And then he's like I quit, I'm not doing this anymore, it's too dangerous Because of her, yeah. And so it's just like it's just to get her. It's like all right, take my jacket, you don't need. He's like she doesn't want to go change or anything. And so he's pretending to be very cautious out in the hallway, like looking over the corner, and they get in the garage and it's like the score is so silly during this point, it's great. But then they end up making it to the car.
Speaker 2:They're ambushed by the actual villains and this is when it's amazing, right?
Speaker 1:It's like Jackie Chan's just doing his Jackie Chan shit, kicking people through windows, he's flipping over cars. Cars are being destroyed like they're in a car crash, but it's just him throwing people into it or getting thrown into it. It's throwing someone through the windshield and then diving off a car to drop kick them while in the windshield metal.
Speaker 1:Sweet, it's good, hey, good, that's all I gotta say. Um. But then, um, they're scared away. When selena threatens them with chan's revolver, which she found in his jacket, that's great, she puts it out to the guy's dick, yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1:And she freaks the fuck out dick, yeah, it's like nah, and she freaks the fuck out and then, like Chan's, like oh, this is serious, like we actually got to get out of here for real this time. So they get back in the car to drive to this place where Chan records Selina's confession. Selina says that Chao Tao was a friend of her father and had helped the family out when times were tough. So then they got together and when Chan arrives at his apartment with Selena, he is surprised by his girlfriend Mae and her friends who are throwing a birthday party for him. But Mae becomes angry with Chan after seeing Selena was only wearing lingerie and his jacket. It's classic Silk pajamas.
Speaker 1:Yeah but it's supposed to be like underwear.
Speaker 2:He used cake in the face once twice, three times. Rules of three baby.
Speaker 1:This movie does it. So one of Chance's friends, who also throws a cake in his face, goes and gets Mae. Selina was going to tell him Mae is back, but she tells her to not say anything. But of course this makes things worse.
Speaker 2:As he complains, she's trying to help you.
Speaker 1:Jackie, yeah, that Mae is. Or Kevin, as Chen says, that Mae is a baby and will call, crying and wanting him back. Still not noticing her, even though, because her, even though because he's got a towel over his head and she's just like behind him, still not noticing her. Uh, may calls him from inside the house. He pretends she is crying and begging for him to come back, but he turns around and receives a third cake to the face may runs out and he runs after her.
Speaker 2:Good bits bits, bits, bits funny as far as she's trying to save him. Yeah, she's like don't you have anything nice to say about her? She's like nah that bitch sucks.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have so many ladies kissing me after this. I'm Jackie Chan.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is great. When I first watched it I was like I didn't realize this was a comedy, a hell of a good comedy.
Speaker 1:Right, comedy, a hella good comedy right and it's just, it's all and it's kind of got the pace of a fight. Yeah right, like a an actual, like kung fu fight, because it's kind of quick, there's so much happening like moving around and rustling, and it's just great. And the facial you got to like watch their faces because their facial, especially the two girls, because they're kind of slyly smiling at the same time and it's like, oh, they're enemies five seconds ago. And because they're kind of slyly smiling at the same time and it's like, oh, they were enemies five seconds ago and now they're just like I don't know what to do in this situation.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't be. If I was her. I would not be able to keep it together. Yeah, especially when he's on the phone and she's right behind.
Speaker 1:I'd be like dude, turn around. It's great, but the fun does not end because Shan later explains to May that Selena is a witness, but after much bumbling and embarrassment causing her to leave the scene, such as pulling her off the moped yeah, what the hell man.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think he would admit to I think he's just like he's trying to stop her.
Speaker 1:And then he's like he pulls her off. He's like holy shit, I didn't know I could do that. And then she gets back on and tries to drive off and he lifts the moped up. She's like let go. And he sets her down and she's like bumbling all over the place with it. It's so good man, this May she. You know what.
Speaker 2:Love her.
Speaker 1:Love her in the movie. You know, we know that he's a hero. He's a high stress job and she's like. I just love him, even though he keeps doing the stupidest thing. Keeps doing the stupidest thing, yeah, it's classic.
Speaker 2:It's classic you know a couple stuff in movies but it's great. I thought, no, if I was her I'd be pissed.
Speaker 1:I'd be so pissed yeah, but it's just like I don't know if she ends up going to the trial. So you know she knows it's supposed to all be, you know like part of it or whatever. But I don't know. It's just such a good bit. I love it. It was really funny, so fun.
Speaker 2:Meanwhile, the fucking trial. Why are they all wearing wigs?
Speaker 1:oh wait, hold on what is going on, let's get there, let's hold on.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, zelina discovers that the attack at her apartment was a sham because she sees that the guy that was attacking her was in a police photo with him um, and decides to slyly record over a confession about working with a chow Tao Tao that took place in the car ride there. She pretends to sit on a cactus, knock water on him and herself and starts to seduce him and tricks him to sleeping in his bed. She's like sitting on the cactus, like oh, he's like no, that's my favorite cactus, that's my pride and joy as he's like bending down to pick it oh.
Speaker 1:he's like no, that's my favorite cactus, that's my Friday joy. As he's like, bending down to pick it up puts the water over his head. So when he lifts up and knocks it all over, she's like oh, I'm so wet. He's like, oh, I can't sit on this couch.
Speaker 2:It's not comfortable enough.
Speaker 1:Maybe I can go into your bed, yeah.
Speaker 2:Which I'm sure won't come back into the trial.
Speaker 1:So she goes to bed and then he's like oh wait, this actually might be a thing. And she's like oh, don't touch me, and goes and sleeps in his bed. And he has to sleep on the couch Great bit, deserved it. So many good bits. But while they're asleep she sneaks away, while Chan is sleeping and is not present at all for the trial the next day won't she get arrested for not being there.
Speaker 2:She doesn't, she was subpoenaed.
Speaker 1:Well, she knows that if she gets out of the situation then her, the boyfriend, the criminal, will protect her. So she's like if I get away, the trial goes horribly, he'll know where I can stay to be protected, Okay. But yeah, he wakes up. He's like oh, crap, crap, I'm late for the trial. He can't find her.
Speaker 2:He goes.
Speaker 1:There's this guy trying to get in a trying to parallel park and yeah, he's the first and he goes and he's perfectly that guy's like, yeah, you better run before I beat you up, and he's like that was a hell of a parking job yeah, so good.
Speaker 2:I mean it's obvious that they like pulled the car, yeah, like towards the spot yeah, I, I know it's so obvious, it's so good.
Speaker 1:So then we get to the trial. The trial is going horrible because the defense lawyer is really good Way better than the prosecution the best witness they have is Chan, but his arguments are dog shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this trial is. Is this supposed to be funny?
Speaker 1:I think so. I think it's supposed to be a bit, I don't know. I think it's supposed to be a bit.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Everyone looks goofy, it almost seems like they're trying to make fun of like British and American trials right. It seems like it might just be a joke towards like our the way our court systems work, so the best witness they have is Chan, but the lawyer is able to cause doubt at every turn. The prosecution is losing, but they still have the tape. But when?
Speaker 2:they play it. It is recorded over. I love how they bring in the big speakers yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1:And like everybody kind of starts laughing because it sounds like they're about to have sex and stuff. And then we cut to. We cut to Chu Dao I know how to say Chu Dao and he how to say it Chu Dao and he kind of looks upset. He's like wait, were they actually having sex? It made me feel bad for him for a second.
Speaker 2:But yeah, she can't believe. I mean at this point she knows he's the biggest moron ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, he's obviously not taking everything as seriously as he needs to.
Speaker 2:He's obviously tricked to do all of this.
Speaker 1:I do love at the beginning, when Chan is, he puts his hand on the Bible and stuff and like raises it and then waves it. It's like so cute.
Speaker 2:But surely they don't do that? In China, christianity is not even legal.
Speaker 1:That's why it makes it almost kind of seem like they were picking fun at people. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I wonder if that's to get like American audiences, for them to like understand what it is to Chinese audiences. They're like this is funny to American.
Speaker 1:We're like this is how it should work. So, though Chudo is released on bail, he wants revenge against Chan. His men say that Chudo should send Selena away with a one-way ticket because the case is not over and if they find more evidence they could lock him up. He can't flee because all his money is in evidence. No-transcript. I just love it that Chudo does not want to kill Selina, but at every turn, someone in his like posse or whatever, is constantly like do you want me to kill her? And they're all like. You can find a woman anywhere. There's plenty of attractive ladies everywhere.
Speaker 1:That's the way most movies play it that's what I kind of like about this villain is that he actually likes this girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's like taking care of her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it never seems like at any point he wants to do almost anything that he's doing, except for if it involves the police. He's very willing to kill them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like drugs in China is a huge thing. They will execute you if you have drugs in China.
Speaker 1:It definitely probably is lightened for audiences, you know.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's what's supposed to make him the evil guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's got drugs. He's got the drugs, which is the worst thing you could do. He's also the coolest guy around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because he's got all the drugs. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Everybody loves this guy. So Chan steps in cow poop and dances, moon walks it off. Music is really silly. Then I was like is this about to start playing Michael Jackson? We learn he's been transferred to a different town because of his failures, and it's definitely a small town. There's cows everywhere, one cow town he is stuck at the office alone, may calls, but all the phones all of a sudden start ringing. There's like a girl that's being beaten by her husband and one's getting raped.
Speaker 1:One's getting raped. One lost a cow, one lost a cow it's all played for laughs. It might be the thing that ages the worst at the end. And it's like something about like the girl got raped like a year ago and he's like, why are you just now pronouncing it now? And he's like, oh, do they have pills for this? And I'm like, what is this scenario? Is there something being missed in translation here? And like May this whole time is trying to have a conversation with him about like hey, we got to meet the mom, or my mother, you have to pick the place. And then eventually, somehow she hears that Chan says, hey, you need to take morning after pills.
Speaker 1:Essentially, and she's like my mother doesn't need these pills and hangs up. But this is so good, this whole thing.
Speaker 2:It's so cool.
Speaker 1:How can you just do that Right? You shouldn't.
Speaker 2:You should just answer one phone at a time. How can you?
Speaker 1:be that talented that you can just do all this stuff with these phones and not get like he's tangled up. But you know he's tangled up. But you know he's just so good at maneuvering them and like him kicking the pencil yeah, catching it and just like putting the wrong phone on the wrong receiver and then he's like he hung up one but the one on the receiver is still there and he's like I'm so confused, good, bit.
Speaker 2:It was really funny so and he's trying to eat his soup. Yeah, yeah, he's got his ramen.
Speaker 1:He unhooks all the phones. He's like I'm the best police officer ever. Then, yeah, it takes two pencils to eat the erasers. He's like there's one phone that rings in the captain's office and he goes and he like stumbles and falls over and answers it. It's like, oh, this is the phone company, this so good. So. And then we see he's going to meet May. He makes things worse by ditching her when his friend Snake Eyes calls saying that they are going to kill Selina. But Snake Eyes was told to say that to get Chan there. And there's this whole bit with between May and Chan where his parking brake doesn't work so he has to hold the car while he's talking to her, and he tells her to hold it while he goes and runs and talks on the payphone and then she just like does not care and the car almost hits him so good.
Speaker 1:It's like this movie, just like constantly has jokes.
Speaker 2:It's wild. Yeah, they're pretty good jokes. Yeah, especially for 1984. Especially for 1984.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then Chan finds and frees Selena, but is attacked by several Chew Do's men. When fellow police inspector or inspector man police inspector man is what they call him arrives, he reveals that he had been working with Chow Dao and thus Selena's capture was merely a ruse to trap Chan. No, and to Inspector Man's grim surprise, the plan is also to include Dao's men killing him with Chan's gun to frame him for murder. Doing so, Chan is able to run out with Selina, throwing her off the building, letting her escape, but he is captured and left in a field, drugged, essentially.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I love when he just throws her off.
Speaker 1:it's like whoa, he's like trust me bro yeah, it's like oh so fun, though I would love to be thrown off the thing into a pool, though no way man I'd love it. He's so scared you never just jumped off of. I have jumped off a roof and how did we make it?
Speaker 2:I don't know, man.
Speaker 1:The kids will never understand how great it was without supervision.
Speaker 2:Oh man, it's the best but then you you can actually hurt yourself, like I hurt my neck pretty bad in a pool. Really I had a high dive, over eight feet of water, yeah and I went straight to the bottom and like hurt my neck I hit it so hard I had paint on my teeth like blue paint from the bottom of the pool.
Speaker 1:Hey, jason, don't do that bro.
Speaker 2:I think that's why I can't look like turn my head all the way over here.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ bro.
Speaker 2:I went to sit down next to my dad. He's like, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 1:Honestly, I can't tell you I honestly I can't tell you. You're gonna be so mad if I told you I was doing so much stupid stuff you have no idea, so funny so Bill Cho tries to tell superintendent I think it's a lie, superintendent, lie that he is innocent.
Speaker 1:The lie doesn't believe it. Um Chan calls May and takes her bike and goes to the police station. Now a fugitive cop killer Chan must try to catch Chu Dao and clear his name, taking his superintendent as hostage in order to escape custody, and pops off on him saying all he does is sit in office while they risk their life. It's like if someone dies, all it means for you is paperwork and a bow at a funeral. Hell yeah, though he soon lets his superior go free.
Speaker 2:Chief Blue Squadron or his sergeant.
Speaker 1:What a great little scene. You got to see Jackie Chan actually act hard. Yeah, because all of a sudden it got serious and I was like I'm fucking in it. Now let's go, jackie. Like I'm fucking in it, let's go, jackie, let's get him. He's tired of all this shit, let's take down everybody. But yeah, it was sort of a great little scene.
Speaker 1:Just like all of a sudden all the frustration like these Chinese cops may have like in real life comes out on this one guy. It's funny Like he comes out and there's all the cops in the room and they're like put your hands on the desk. Everybody's like get the sharpshooters out and everything. But then like he just drives a little bit and then lets the superintendent go and he's like it's like I was never going to hurt you. And he's like yeah, well, I also believe you, but I can't act like I do. And he's like oh, it's like once I get back, I'll send people after you, so you better hurry. It's like classic stuff we always see in movies, but it's done really well here Like you have to succeed or you're going to go to jail.
Speaker 2:Yeah, essentially yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like I got to do my job still, but no, it was like a really fun, good scene and it got a little tense for a second, which was kind of something we needed because this movie was so silly and like the action has been so bombastic a little bit, so it's like nice to get like this real, like shit, like things are dark.
Speaker 1:Now he's he's being framed for murder. We saw this guy die who was just needing money and I don't know. It's great. So now Chan is on the hunt. He goes to snake eyes to get info after using a forklift to like trap a guy on the wall, which is great and I was like we could do that at work.
Speaker 1:Probably would have crushed him maybe, yeah, probably be dead a little bit, yeah. And then he goes to meet May outside the shopping mall and he's just like sitting there waiting at the mall and we got a serious Chan now he's all bruised up, yeah, and he looks rad. Yeah, then May's like I'm scared.
Speaker 2:This has been quite a couple days for me. She's like why am I here? This looks dangerous.
Speaker 1:It's like I have a feeling I'm going to be important to the plot, though, so I better stay. So Selena goes to Chu Dao's office at a shopping mall to download incriminating data from Chu Dao's computer system. Chu Dao notices this.
Speaker 2:She's not downloading anything, she's printing it. Right it right. Yeah, they didn't have flash drives printing the information with a really slow printer I can't help it.
Speaker 1:We're in this century now.
Speaker 2:This is how we talk about the guys like someone's stealing my data. Yeah, because no, man, I guess using a printer.
Speaker 1:I guess like you can just like tell that it's all been going through from another computer.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm sure that. I'm sure that existed, maybe, maybe, probably.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so he notices it and he and his men rush to the shopping mall to intervene. Chan and May are who are monitoring Chu Dao's activities, follow and then searing ensuing carnage. Chan defeats all of Chu Dao's henchmen and they're destroying them all. Essentially, there's a baseball bat fight. That was awesome. This is great. This is where he's got the little clothes hanging rack. He's throwing it around. Everybody's getting thrown all over the place. There's so much broken glass.
Speaker 2:Everything's falling down.
Speaker 1:There it is. How can we cause destruction, break every glass in the building?
Speaker 2:I know there was one point where he jumped, there's like shells behind him and he did a flip, yeah, and then I was like, oh, and he only knocked off one little picture. I don't know, I feel like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's this slow motion flip and it feels like he was supposed to go into the rack Into the wall and knock everything down. And then he didn't, and it's like well, that's a bummer, fuck you shells. You're not getting out of this fight so easily Because they do the slow motion flip and it's like that's all we're doing the slow motion for. So it seems like they probably only had one take to do and it didn't work, and the other guy's like ah, it's good.
Speaker 1:But I love that. He's like fighting off five men. But what's great about these fight scenes with all these people they're all attacking at once and something that doesn't happen like old action movies right, it's always one on one, but it's like a thing that happens in all the Kung Fu movies, like they always kind of get attacked same time a lot of times. That's probably the best way to go and I think the fun of that is because, you know, with their fighting style there's a lot of like absorbing hits and things, and so whenever you see them take the hits, you can see his posture change and everything and it makes you want to punch stuff. You want to learn kung fu? Yeah, and it's just like, yeah, it makes it believable that this guy can do this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there are some people who can legitimately fight off like defend themselves against multiple, like surrounded by multiple attackers. Well shoot. Half of them become stuntmen and join the movies. It's great we see them actually do it on screen.
Speaker 1:Then we see Selena. She gets a baseball bat, hits a guy and then she kind of gets thrown everywhere. And then one guy like he kind of neutralizes one of the guys and then a different guy jumps on a motorcycle and he's like it's time to up the ante of this fight and drives a motorcycle at him. But then Jackie Chan does all these dope ass moves, gets on the motorcycle and drives him through a bunch of glass and it's like people are dying at this point. I know it's sugar glass, but it's still probably stabbing people. It could still cut you, I guess. And then, after I say all that in my notes, I put hell yeah, so fun. We're going to have to do more jacket challenges.
Speaker 2:That was amazing. Yeah, a whole jacket challenge.
Speaker 1:So the briefcase containing the computer data falls to the ground of the floor of the mall. But Chou Dao retrieves it after attacking Mei, because Mei tries to get it and they like throw her downstairs and then they kind of push her around and beat her a little bit and it's like don't you fucking touch Mei so Chan. At the top of the floor he gets the idea I need to get down there fast. What should I do? Should I slide down this pole?
Speaker 2:Bring me a horse.
Speaker 1:Yes, so he slides down a pole wrapped in light bulbs to the ground of the floor and he like, falls through some glass and then, like on a kiosk, and he catches Chau, braces his body, but the rest of the police force quickly arrives to prevent him from further taking matters into his own hands. Selena attests to them that Chau killed Inspector man and the evidence of his crimes is in the briefcase. Um, so yeah, when he goes down the pole, did you expect to see it three straight times in a row?
Speaker 2:no, it was just so awesome. This is a dope stunt. You guys don't understand how dangerous this was, so you're getting it three times because he almost died.
Speaker 1:I think we need to normalize this in movies hurting our actors? Well, no, if there's, like a if there a crazy realistic stunt that someone did, I think we should, and it's that wild.
Speaker 2:Show it three times. I mean they did do it kind of like in Face Off, yeah, face Off, and shows like what's his fucking face.
Speaker 1:I mean, like John Wick should be doing this. Yeah, when he does an awesome stunt, it's usually only in like really cheesy things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like movies and shows. But uh, Like Chuck Norris, that's what I was when he's the Texas guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, texas Ranger.
Speaker 2:Texas Norris, texas Norris. Hell yeah, I used to do that shit show.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean, what a stunt so great. Do you prefer this stunt or the car stunt at the beginning in the town? I kind of actually think the car stunt at the beginning is so insane looking and the way it's filmed is so great and it's just like, wow, chaos everywhere. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:I think the car one was yeah really cool, even though this one is the one that scares me the most. It's very scary. It's only dude, he just especially after learning how he did it. It's like you just did it. There's nothing to protect you.
Speaker 2:It just makes me feel bad for hurting us. It's like wow.
Speaker 1:Hey, thanks, man, you made a great movie though.
Speaker 2:He should have his fellow officers bring crash pads wherever they go, just for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Chews, the defense attorney shows up and accuses the police of misconduct and you just see Jackie Chan, just like God.
Speaker 2:Dang it. I just want to kill everybody.
Speaker 1:So he ends up beating up the lawyer and then he's like ciao.
Speaker 2:Come here and just lays into his stomach.
Speaker 1:And it's so satisfying. He punches him like 30 times I know, and the guy's like ugh and satisfying.
Speaker 2:He punches him like 30 times I know, and the guy's like, and then like hits him into a shopping cart, pushes him into some glass how is he not pooping his pants right?
Speaker 1:I can't his body's like I don't know what to do. I'm just stunned at the moment. But he's stopped by all the other policemen tons of, and essentially it all. They all win justice is served.
Speaker 2:It was great the sergeant police, the lieutenant, wrote there.
Speaker 1:He was like, oh, this paperwork's gonna suck he's like what paperwork I didn't say shit, yeah, you're right, we'll do it together, we'll do the paperwork together. Then he loves paperwork and that's it the end. And then you see all the stunts being performed and it's great Like you kind of see it like how they did it. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2:Jackie Chan was so young in this movie, I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like he's got so much career left, it's crazy. So many more people faces to kick so many times that he's going to get hit with a ladder in his face. I to kick so many times that he's gonna get hit with a ladder in his face. I think I can't remember whichever the one is where it's like a very snowy movie because I remember he's like the way he's dressed and like they're like skiing and stuff and there's just one ladder bit where he does so much shit with a ladder man.
Speaker 2:It rules I wish I could I wish I could remember which one. It is, I remember, rush hour 2, when they're in las ve, he tries to like jump through a tiny little window yeah, he's like where they hand out the chips, yeah, and he just keeps busting ass over and over and over trying to get into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh so funny.
Speaker 1:The movie I was talking about is Jackie Chan's First Strike. I remember that was one of the. I think that was one of the first ones I've watched him in. I don't know if I've seen it, it's. It's all I remember is there's a part where he's like fighting with a ladder. And then I remember seeing the bloopers and I was like, oh ouch, dude jesus ladders hurt when they hit your face. You know, I've never been hit by a ladder me and my friend richard, you know we liked wrestling and ladder matches.
Speaker 1:So we on a trampoline, would hit each other with ladders, what softly you know like. But then there was times where we're like we're just like the point where we're gonna like lay, lay one of the one of us on a ladder and then like jump on us just even because, like I know, it's like, oh, it won't hurt that bad, and I'll just, I'll fake the like hit and I'll just go and set him down. Or he sat me on the ladder, like on my back, and I was like we can't do this. If you just jump while I'm on this ladder, it's going to hurt my frail boy body. But anyways, jason, what's the point of police story?
Speaker 2:I don't know, it's kind of a fun watch.
Speaker 1:Don't talk bad about your girlfriend.
Speaker 2:I guess Maybe just you know don't try to impress everyone. Take your job seriously.
Speaker 1:Because he does a great job. When he starts taking the job seriously, he gets real angry. He wins, but before all that he was kind of being nonchalant about everything and he lost and you can punch your way out of any problem yeah, and just you know you got to learn how to keep your love life and your work life separate punch life from your love. Yeah no, I think the point is to make a hell of a hell of a good movie action movie fun action movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like it's stood up, you know yeah, and that justice always fucking wins.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every time it needs to please justice always fucking wins.
Speaker 2:Yeah, every time it needs to Please.
Speaker 1:justice always win.
Speaker 2:And our core system. We need to bring back the wigs.
Speaker 1:I think we do, we do. That's the one thing that we did not keep from our when we became America versus London, because you know that's what they do in England they wear their silly little wigs. Yeah, a lot of that shit here we're just like eh, we'll just put the robe on. Too good for wigs, we'll put the robe on and we'll just put innocent people in prison. We cure syphilis.
Speaker 2:We don't have to wear wigs anymore.
Speaker 1:Now. Our hair doesn't need the protection.
Speaker 2:We don't have as much lice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, All right. So we're gonna hear next here in the next category the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, Fine. It's where we discuss the good of the film something that we like, the bad something we didn't like, the ugly, something that didn't age well. And the fine, something that did age well. The good is pretty easy. Jackie Chan is just a really good action star and very likable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I thought they did a really good job with the comedy and it was sometimes a little overly silly, but most of the time it was genuinely funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I think the mesh between, like the three different, the seriousness and the comedic parts, I think it meshed really well. Yeah, and you got to see Jackie Chan's butt. Yeah, the first time I'd never seen his butt, never seen it, like I had to pause for a minute Just admire it I had to put a fan on me.
Speaker 1:Um, for the bad to me it's like sometimes the score is what made it too silly. Oh for sure, like you don't need the music. We know it's supposed to be funny. Um, but that's all I had for the bad. Nothing really, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't really have anything bad. I mean maybe a more evil villain, but it was.
Speaker 1:I don't know what I kind of liked about it is that it wasn't. It almost seemed like sometimes.
Speaker 2:It fit the movie that he wasn't so evil.
Speaker 1:Like he would have been a killing sadistic person, but it was just he's like. I just have to do it to get past the law.
Speaker 2:The movie wasn't serious enough for him to be like that.
Speaker 1:It would have been yeah, but he was willing to kill, but he never wanted to kill. It was just the law was forcing him to kill, which is just like well, just don't do that either.
Speaker 2:All that's just making it worse, and I'm wrong.
Speaker 1:You're wrong and you're right. The ugly I put. He's kind of bad at his job. Yeah, until he decides to be serious and good at it.
Speaker 2:I think some of the stunts didn't really age that well in my opinion, but which ones? We've come a long way. Oh, like the pole thing. Well, not just that, but like I don't know, some of the fight scenes, like the, just like the props and stuff I don't know, you know, some of it just didn't seem like of course it's not realistic, but like I don't. Just I feel like sometimes, when they were trying to be serious with a stunt, it was ended up being silly yeah, like I mean just even with the pole, showing it three times was kind of a silly decision um, and yeah, I don't know, I guess I'll have to disagree a little bit.
Speaker 1:I thought like this I thought it all kind of looked great um, maybe there weren't enough stunts, yeah yeah, well, I mean, I do understand, like with the cactus and stuff like that and the drain.
Speaker 2:That was intentional, yeah, intentionally funny.
Speaker 1:But it's like okay what we doing here, but like I loved it every second of it, it was great bits for me. Well, yeah, I already said he's kind of bad at his job. If he was a better police officer, this movie would have been 20 minutes long, or a better boyfriend, yeah, um the fine.
Speaker 1:Um, I just put like Jackie Chan's old movies man like honestly when he got to once he came to America and started doing kind of rush hour, like after the first rush hour, like his American stuff wasn't that good, like Shanghai Nights and stuff like that, it's just like kind. It just kind of hurt him his career a little bit and he eventually just went back to China and did all his movies.
Speaker 2:there Was Shanghai Night, the one with Owen Wilson. Yeah, I kind of liked that one. I liked it as a kid.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen it as an adult yeah, me neither but you could just tell that he almost kind of became a bit of himself, right, like it's just.
Speaker 2:It could have had something to do with American racism towards Asian people, because the movies just became like oh, we're doing a characteristic of Jackie. Chan.
Speaker 1:now we've got an Asian guy yeah, and it's like always like hey, you know what's funny about this situation? You don't speak good English.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know that's fucked up, but then when?
Speaker 1:you watch these old movies of his, it's like take this motherfucker serious. He's awesome, though Rush Hour is kind of a really great, perfect film. Yeah, the smart thing of that is like you have like two people of color and it's just like. That is. Yeah, it's great. That's what makes it like work, more than versus. Like wow, I'm Owen Wilson, jackie Chan, I can't understand the words coming out of your mouth. Wow, I'm a cowboy, you're. You're a Chinese man. Wow, we're stuck in this scenario with each other. We don't get along well.
Speaker 2:Wow that's a good one, that's a good impression, yeah hell yeah, I'm gonna make that's gonna be in my.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna have to clip that and make that on social medias alright, so that's the end of that category Now we're going to move to our double features, where we recommend a movie to go alongside this movie. Jason, did you have anything?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you could always say something like Rush Hour. Yeah, of course I remember, chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are fucking hilarious together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of my favorites of his. It's also directed by Jackie Chan, it was co-directed with him and another name I just won't be able to say, but it's essentially the guy. He gets drunk and he becomes an amazing. That's the drunken master. Yeah, legend of drunken master. He, when he drinks, he becomes like this. He's got this weird like type of. Kung Fu, or he's like.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think that's an actual style of fighting and it's so fun to watch people do it, because after I watched it I was like I gotta look this shit up. This is great and the movie's just T to be good. Yeah, it's like it's.
Speaker 2:I remember it might be my favorite. I've seen only like one clip of him, like he's like people are trying to hit him but he's swerving, he's, you know, swerving, and then he just like leans back, takes a big chug of some drink and he comes back up and just bops him with it.
Speaker 1:I know it's so good he's, jackie Chan is so talented, golly, yeah, if you haven't seen Legend, the Drunken Master, it's. It's funnier than this movie and, like, the action is probably a little bit better. It's just, it's about the same length. I mean, honestly, I think Drunken Master is kind of a masterpiece. It's just a. It's about the same length. I mean, honestly, I think drunken master is kind of a masterpiece and the movie we just did is a masterpiece, just not as much of a masterpiece in my eyes, I don't know, it's just the. The drunken master is a little bit more serious, sillier. So if you don't want a more silly movie, then that's not the thing to do. Um, but yeah, yeah, that's our episode. Oh, did you do one? Did you ever play the? Oh, you said Rush Hour, that's right, oh yeah, Rush.
Speaker 1:Hour, one of the Rush Hours, pick one, the first one. The other ones are. There was a video game that featured.
Speaker 2:It was a fighting game like Mortal Kombat style, but it featured the Wu-Tang Clan. Oh, have you ever played that? No, I, no, no. No, it was so good. And each member of the woot because there's a lot of wu-tang clan members, yeah, but they all have their own fighting style, and old dirty bastard was the drunken fighting style yeah, drunken monk fighting style. It was always my favorite. Yeah, it was such a it was a hard game.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna look at that. All fighting games to me are hard it was so hard, but it was so fun.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna look this up.
Speaker 1:Oh, shaolin Style. Yes, yeah, I do remember that game. Looks terrible.
Speaker 2:It probably is.
Speaker 1:PlayStation 2, maybe Everybody trying to get on that Tekken and Street Fighter in Mortal Kombat. All right Now. That concludes our episode on Police Story. Hey, jason, I think you know I'm about to go on vacation to Florida. This is our last episode. We're doing this in August and you'll hear it from two weeks from when we're recording and when I get back from vacation. Usually we take it around. If we take one around August and it goes into September when we get back, it's officially Halloween in our house, so that means it's officially Halloween after this episode on our podcast. So it's time for five to six days, five to six weeks of horror movies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't wait, because it's the best genre movie ever and we're going to do a movie that we promised we were going to do before but we had to cancel it. We're finally going to do probably my favorite zombie movie Return of the Living Dead, war Brains.
Speaker 2:War.
Speaker 1:Brains. So good, zombies talk. Baby, it's punk rock zombie time. Oh no, woo, I hope you like Acid Zombie Rain. I hope you like Dogs Cut in Half.
Speaker 2:It's still a movie.
Speaker 1:I hope you like that. That's a good question, bert. We literally named our cat after the character Bert. Oh, it's so good, we're gonna have Dakota on. I hope we can get all the scheduling right and we're gonna fucking knock it out, um, but yeah, so join us. Next week it's officially Halloween season. Um, sorry if you don't like scary movies it's my favorite genre.
Speaker 1:So we always do more than just four weeks of horror movies. So we're gonna do six to seven. We're also eventually gonna start doing special episodes, potentially Not guaranteeing it Just depends how much time we have to record over the next few weeks. We're gonna do where. We're gonna do a bit where in the VHS movies, the anthology movies that started in the late 2010s we're going to do segments of those movies because they're just done in like little 20 minute segments and on like maybe Wednesdays or Thursdays, we'll release an episode just over one segment and we'll do it throughout the Halloween season. So I want to do the VHS movies, but I feel like it'd be more fun to talk about each segment separately so we can really dive into, like the director that directed it and stuff. And you know, maybe at the end we'll rank the segments and stuff, like that Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'd be fun, cool. So make sure you join us next week for that. We probably won't start the V next week, but the week after we probably will, because we have to end it before Halloween, because we also have to film an extra episode on Halloween 3 our commentary on it. We also have to do that. Holy shit, we may be doing too much now, but, yeah, join us next week for Return of the Living Dead. Baby Dakota's coming on. Yeah, leave us some fan mail. In the description we have a link that you can click and you can just text us some fan mail. Or at the bottom, we recommend at mailbag. Uh, we recommend mailbag at gmailcom. Also, leave us a review If you like police stories. Say thanks for recommending police story. Everybody should listen. Um, and then I'd like to thank Joey Prosser for our intro and outro. Um, you can follow him on X at Mr Joey Prosser. And this has been the we Recommend Podcast. I've been Jesse, I've been Jason and bye, more byes.
Speaker 2:Thanks for watching.
