Ep4: Whatcha Gonna Do! 👮

Anthony and John go through a tournament of buddy cop movies, which movie will reign supreme! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's going on, guys? I am the Black Sheep Anthony C. And I am the big John V. From South Carolina all the way to Cali. This is one take, real talk on movies, games, and everything. Pop culture. Or should we say cop culture? I guess we could. Are you a cop? No, I'm not a cop. But today, guys, in today, we decided to do one of me and John's favorite genres in probably one of the most overlooked genres I would say, right? So I guess I guess I don't know how overlooked I'd call it, but I mean, because we don't get as many as we used to. That's why I say it's overlooked a little. It's a lost art almost. But guys, today we're doing a tournament style bracket to see who reigns supreme in the King of Kings of Buddy Cop movies. It's like it's unintentional March Madness. It is. And it's kind of it's a couple caveats here. So me and John both have to have seen the movie. Yeah, there were a couple that got cut for that reason. Yeah, there was a couple that got cut. So if your favorite buddy cop movie isn't here, either John or I have not seen the movie, more likely. It's John, if you guys paid attention to any trivia games that we played on here. Blame his age, guys. Rule number two, they have to be either a standalone movie or the first movie in a franchise. So we can't have part two of a franchise in this. So it's got to be the first movie in that franchise. Like Die Hard Vengeance can't be here. Even though it's the only buddy cop movie in that franchise, it can't be here. Because it's the only one. Yeah, and and Die Hard, the first one, isn't technically a buddy cop movie. Although John does work with a cop, they don't work in unison as a team on it. Not to a degree, you know. Yeah. So John, you have, I'm driving, you have the tournament bracket in your face right now. So tell the people at home or at work or on the road as well what this tournament bracket looks like and how many movies it consists of. So there's eight movies in total, and I apologize, guys. I'm a little hoarse. So there's eight movies in total. We have two byes. We have Lethal Weapon in round one with a bye week, and then we have Bad Boys in Round Six with a bye. Yeah. I mean, though, and the reason those movies have a bye is because those are personal picks from me and John. And there is a viewer personal pick here, which is RIPD from our number one listener, my brother-in-law, Mystical. Yeah. So, John, since Mystical will probably be the first listener. What is RIPD going up against in this bracket? So, do you want me to go in order? Oh, yeah, you can go in. Oh, you can go in order. Let's go in order. All right, so we have Men in Black versus 48 Hours in round one. Okay. And whoever wins round one will be going up against Lethal Weapon. Okay. Then we have in match two, Rush Hour versus R.I.P.D. Match three, the nice guys versus loaded weapon. Match four, we have Hot Fuzz versus Osmosis Jones. Match five, we have 21 Jump Street versus End of Watch. And match six, Tango and Cash versus 7. And whoever wins match six will be going up against Bad Boys. Alright. So I got a suggestion here, John. Because we use ChatGPT to build this tournament bracket. Okay. I will allow one matchup to be swapped. If you had a movie to swap somewhere, what movie would you swap against what? I feel kind of bad for mystical here, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I did too. But I want my boys Tango and Cash to go far. So I'm gonna swap Tango and Cash, and I'm gonna put it. We'll put it in match three, and I'm gonna put loaded weapon. Who is match three against? Match three is hot fuzz versus osmosis Jones. I'm gonna move Hot Fuzz to go against seven. And Tango and Cash is gonna go against Osmosis Jones. So. Well, I kind of hate to do this to you because I'm gonna put Osmosis Jones versus RIPD. Damn, dog. Damn. That was my initial thought. I ain't even gonna lie to you. I didn't know who that matchup was. I feel like that's the fairest fight for RIPD. Okay. So you're moving Osmosis Jones to go against RIPD, and you're gonna put Rush Hour against Tango and Cash. Well, I did not realize Damn. You can change your swap, bro. I did not realize. Ain't gonna lie. That's like UNC versus Kentucky in the first round. That's a that's a battle. We're gonna save that one for last. How about that? Okay, okay. So just for real quick, guys, for match two now, we'll be poor, poor Osmosis Jones going up against RIPD. I don't know if it's poor. I'm just saying, I don't know. We gotta we gotta argue. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I I wasn't looking at when I'd scribbled out, which was rush hour. Yeah. And then if match now four is gonna be rush hour versus tango and cash. That one, I'm not looking forward to that, man. And then you swap hot fuzz to take on seven, right? Yeah, hot fuzz will now be in seven, which is our last bracket that's round six. All right, let's get started. Not what I was looking forward to, man. I just want to give my brother-in-law movie a chance, man. Yeah, I don't want Mystical to think we're dogging it, man. I promise it's not what we're trying to do here. I'll just say it, bro. I just gotta give this movie a chance. So, I mean, so let's just get started, man. Let's just go, let's go ahead and get started. Let's get started. I want to ask one caveat before we move into round one. What's this? Do you I know we said we're not gonna count the franchise. Are you gonna use the franchise to judge? We gotta nope, we gotta use that movie. We gotta use that movie on that movie alone. We cannot bring the franchise and the prestige of the franchise into this argument. That movie has to stand because it's not fair for some Tango and Cash only has one movie. So it's not getting another one. No, it's not getting. We don't know, man. Remake remakes and sequels are happening a dime a dozen nowadays. So it's not fair to a lot of these movies that don't have sequels. All right, I want to make sure for for clarity. All right, but uh, but yeah, if if if somebody brings it up in argument because it is nature, it it must be disregarded. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. All right, but go ahead. Let's let's get started with round one. What's round one? Round one. We've got men in black versus 48 hours. This is really close. I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie. This is closer than what a lot of people would like to think. And depending on who you talk to, you're gonna get if you talk to anybody born after 1990, they're gonna go men in black. If you talk to anybody born before 1990, they're gonna go 48 hours, possibly men in black. Yeah, this was my mom's favorite buddy cop movie, it's 48 hours. But but I have a personal connection with men in black. So that's that's just me. I went to go see this movie the year it came out. And I know everybody's like, God damn, man, what movie did he not go see? You know what I'm saying? Someone does have to listen and they're like, how old is this guy? I know, right. But look, I went for my ninth birthday. If that gives you anybody, you can just search when this movie came out. I went for my ninth birthday party to see, I had a choice between this and Spawn. Safe to say I made the fucking right decision, okay? So when I if for anybody who argues that this isn't a buddy cop movie, you're you're out of your fucking mind. This is a this is a by the book buddy cop movie. It just involves aliens. Okay? This is senior cop training rookie cop to replace him. It is like, bro, this is arguably the best movie of the franchise. Every movie in the franchise, and like I said, I'm not using the franchise. I'm just saying that every move, every movie in the franchise chases this high. And not a lot of movies can, not a lot of movie franchises can say that. You get what I'm saying? Like, you chase the high that you've seen on this from this first movie. It's a lot, it it deep dives into the arc of you know what I'm saying. It gives you a lot of uh backdrop backstory and a lot of stuff building blocks to build off of. You know, I mean you you can make an argument here, John. I'm not I I can argue all day long. Yeah, I was like, so I'm I'm not gonna lie, this is again, this is this is pretty close for me. I kind of go you know a couple ways. So I'm thinking, I think I'm also in the the the men in black boat, just because with 48 hours, like one, I I did see it later in life, right? I was probably already like 16, 17 when I saw it. You know, I don't remember when men in black came out. So we take away our personal feelings for this movie, right? I love that this is like Eddie Murphy's coming out party. And this is literally like Eddie Murphy's coming out party, like one of his biggest roles, like, you know, starting roles. If we look at the numbers, these movies are close as hell. You know, let's take into account that, let's take into account that 48 hours came out in like 1982. And then Men in Black. Yeah, and Men in Black came in at 1997. We're not even talking box office. Let's not even talk box office. Let's just talk, let's just talk, all right, so both these movies are an hour and a half long. You want to know how close these are? 48 hours is an hour and 36 minutes. Men in Black is an hour and 38 minutes. I almost think 48 hours feels too fast. And we wanna we're gonna keep the fans out of this. We're gonna talk strictly critics. You want to guess what the critic score is for uh for 48 hours? I'll guess men in black because I know the critic score for 48 hours. What's men and blacks? I'm gonna say 76. 76. Okay, so what do you think the minute wanted for uh 48 hours? Uh 48 hours I know is 92. All right, 48 hours has a 92. Men in black has a 91.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Okay, okay, all right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

And I'll be fair, I was I was also pulling up the the rotten tomato score, so I didn't see the 48 hours in front of me, so I didn't know. Yeah. Yeah, I'm pulling up both, I pull up both of them at the same time. But like, bro, but men in black edges out a little bit over the IMDB. But anyway, guys, mostly if if you okay, here's the thing. What it boils down to, who captures the who captures the buddy cop formula better? All right, is that what we're gonna base this off of? I I for me, I'm not basing it for you. What whatever it boils to me, I think that Men in Black captures the buddy cop movie, the buddy cop formula a little bit better because Eddie Murphy's a felon. You get what I'm saying? It's more of a felon pretending to be a cop. You you get what I'm saying? Whereas I have uh I have a rebuttal. What's your rebuttal? Okay. I think the and this this close.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

I think what really gives it the men in black, and this is the one thing you gotta consider when you're talking a buddy cop movie, is the chemistry. Yeah. And Tommy Lee Jones in Will Smith is undeniable. Like, uh not that Nick Nolton and Eddie Murphy don't have chemistry, but like at Nick Nolton. Nick Nolton just seems angry the whole fucking time. I'm sorry. Yeah, I was gonna say, like, it doesn't seem like there's there's a lot dynamically, but yeah, 48 hours does it, you know, it's pretty. Like it's it's a great movie to look at. I love like the use of color. But I I you know the thing is, is it's like if you ask me, like, what movie am I gonna rewatch? My answer would be Men in Black. Men in Black. So that that would be my vote goes to men in black. Because as we have said before, a rewatch is very important. So I'm that for that reason, I'm willing to say men in black. All right, men in black, moving on. All right, but do you want to give 48 hours? It's yeah, we gotta give men in, we gotta give 48 hours flower. No doubt, no doubt. I'm not by no means are we disrespecting the legacy that it is. Anything that's on the list is on this list for a reason. For a reason, yeah. All right, what's what's bracket two? Bracket two. All right, Mr. Cool, this is for you, buddy. R.I.P.D. versus Osmosis Jones. And you know what's crazy? What? I love Osmosis Jones. Oh bro, I feel so bad.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

It's so fun, man.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Yeah, and and and R.I.PD is is literally men in black with ghosts, but with ghosts, with dead people. By far one of the I even though it's a bad movie, and and then I think I muted myself there. Can you hear me? Yeah, I was like, oh, critically wise, I think both of these are paying. So I pulled up R.I.P.D. Credit score is 13%. All right. Osbust Jones is 55. Okay. I mean that's that's big. Yeah, it's a big dip. So, and and like Osbos Jones does that. What I love about what Osmosis Jones did, it didn't do the the Space Jam, the it didn't do the Roger Rabbit thing. It did animation, live action, and how the what what and both how both of them affected each other. You know? I mean, if you really want to have a conversation people aren't ready to have. This is just inside out before inside out. This is true. This is true. Osmosis Jones did it first. And then they were first. I think I think Chris Rock and uh Oh man, why am I blanking on his name? Oh. Who plays the the pill dude? David, David Hyde Price. Pierce. David Hyde Pierce. Pierce, Pierce. Larry, Larry. I was like, I know I know his name. Um let's not forget Lawrence Fishburne is Thrax, bro. Lawrence Fishburne Thrax, bro, is a villain. I mean, if we're talking, okay, if we're let's take the buddy cops chemistry, because Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds in this whole thing does make me laugh in RPD. For we harp on Osbosis Jones, let's let's give RPD some shine. For Miskal's like, damn, they're killing me already. You know what I'm saying? So I do like the chemistry in the comedy that we get with Jeff Bridges and Ryan Ringles in this movie.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

Yeah. Yeah, I do, I do, I I do think they're fun. I like the idea. Like, oh man.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

You know. Like because again, it is it is very did not know this movie had sequels, though.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Did not know it had sequels. Like, yeah, I was gonna say, like, you you know.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

I mean it's it's got that. Like, I don't know, I just I'm I'm and again, I'm sorry, mystical. I promise we ain't trying to hate on your movie. But like I don't know if there's anything Redeemable I won't even say redeemable, I mean it's just like what I'm saying is like redeemable about the movie to compete with an Osmosis Jones. Like, whereas, all right, so my biggest gripe with RIPD, and I'll like I said, it's a fun movie, and it's just the the villain which is which is Kevin Bacon is kind of forgettable. And when you compete, when you're comparing the when you're comparing the villain, when you're comparing Kevin Bacon to Thrax, like let's forget the chemistry between the cops. You get what I'm saying? Let's look at the villain. I think that Thrax and Kevin Bacon is it's it's a little distance there. You get what I'm saying? I'm gonna be completely honest. If you didn't tell me that Kevin Bacon, I'm not gonna lie to you. Yeah, and I think that that hurts the movie a little bit. Um, but I I like that, I mean, you know, like low-key, man, Osmosis Jones for kids, it kind of intense, man. It is, especially that ending. That ending for Osmosis Jones, it is. And unlike Mystical, I tried my best. I tried my best to like to give you a because like everything else here is kind of like noted. Yeah, it is and like in and I because honestly, it was almost Zootopia here instead of Osmosis Jones. Yeah, we we were gonna do a Zootopia Zooting free round. Yeah, versus Osmosis Jones movie were like, yeah, it just wouldn't be fair to Zootopia. For us, for us, you know, I know that Zootopia is critically loved. Zootopia is a better movie. I would say Osmosis Jones is a better buddy cop movie. Yeah, buddy cop movie, yeah. So, all right, so okay, so let's let's do the numbers here. You got RIPD pulled up, right? Yeah, it was 13%. 13%. What's the fan score? I don't think it's gonna help. I'm not gonna lie. I know I just want to see how big of a difference is. It was 32. Okay, so 10 more percent for Oswald's Jones, which surprised me. It's at 42%. So, I mean, how long is RPD? Hour and what does that say? Hour 38. Oh, I'm sorry. Guys, it was 38%. Yeah, hour 38. That's what it is. Okay, so three minutes longer. I mean, like I said, by the by the if you ask me which one I would rather watch, I gotta go Osmoster Jones. Yeah, I'm like, I'm gonna say Osmosis Jones.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

This is I feel bad, man. I feel bad.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Yeah. Mystical, I wish I could move it on to the next one, but we can't. Osmosis Jones, move it on.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Alright. Well, next round, we have Loaded Weapon.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

And buddy, I know this one's personal for you, so I'll let you, I'll let you get ready for there. And I have the nice guys. I mean, two, I think you gotta you got a spoof comedy versus a dark comedy. John, you just recently, you just recently watched one of my favorite. Uh what'd you say? I just watched it's first time watching for me. Yeah. John, just I want to hear your first take. Go ahead. Give me your root. Go ahead. I think it's cute. I think there's some tongue-in-cheek humor there. I think a lot of the jokes go on a little too long. I mean, to be fair, it's the 90s. You know what I mean? It's it's the 90s, bro. I mean, a lot of jokes did run on a little small. I do like Emilio Estevez and Samuel Jackson, like, as a pair. It's just so it's so ridiculous. It's so stupid.

unknown 21:23

It is.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

They also they do not mesh. Like, I'd love to see them in like a serious role together. Yeah. But, you know, just you know, little stuff like that where just like the jokes went off, but like it was also just seeing these tropes turned up to 11 is always a fun time. Yeah, it's very naked gun, bro. If you watch naked gun airplane or something like that, it's it's very, it's very in that wheelhouse. You know what I mean? Just like way further. Yeah, way I mean, naked gun is out there, bro. Naked gun is out there.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

That's fair. That's fair.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

But then the nice guys is you know, it's cute. Like it's a darker it's a darker tone, it's a darker comedy. I think Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe have like some of the best chemistry ever. They are so funny, dude. So funny. And considering it's a two-hour movie, it does not feel its runtime, which is very important for the nice guys specifically. Yeah. Yeah, we're not even gonna bother pulling up the uh Rotten Tomatoes score. I'm pretty sure nice guys got like an 80-something or a 90. A 91. Yeah, as I said, so yeah, it's it's not even fair. I love Loaded Weapon, but I'll be a fool to sit here and say that it's a better cop movie than. Yeah, I was gonna say, Jimmy and this is the nice guy. Yeah, it's clear as day, clear as day. Nice guy's moving on. Alright, alright, alright. We ain't even gonna sit here all day talking. Yeah, we gotta do it, man. But but Anthony, it's really, it's really hard. We can save it for the we can save it, we can save it for last. That's uh we can save it for last, but I mean, if we gotta get it over. I'd rather let's tear the band-aid off. All right, what we got? No, this is the best round here, man. We gotta save it, man. All right, well, come on, man, give me a round. All right, let me go ahead. I'm gonna start with our next round. So we're gonna skip one ahead, right? And we have, I ain't gonna lie, Anthony. This probably ain't gonna be very close. End of watch versus 21 jump street. Uh I don't know, John. I don't know. That uh that's close for me. I mean, okay, first of all, John, another, another first watch. I had John, so I, if you guys don't know, End of Watch and Loaded Weapon are two of my favorite buddycott movies for two totally different reasons. I had John, when we were coming up with this list, I had John watch them over the last week. And I don't know what John thought of either one of these movies. So, John, before we move on, what did you think of? I just recently watched End of Watch again tonight, just so we can have a little rebuttal. So, just as a refresher, what did you think? It's a good ass fucking movie, dog. I told you, dude. I told you. Okay, so I went into this. I the only thing I knew about it was Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pinya. Yeah, Michael P yeah, Michael Pinya are are the stars. I knew they didn't like each other when they were shooting it, and they liked each other, and I knew it was found footage. Man, did this movie like it felt so authentically LA? It was really like I liked the different types of cameras. I think their chemistry, I don't know what they did to make these dudes like each other, but bro, their chemistry is ridiculous. Yes, like so organic. Um let me ask you this. Fuck the bullshit. What do you give it? 8.5. I knew it. I knew it. It's a nine for me, dude. It's a nine. I look, I'm gonna tell you. I'm not giving it fair because I'm too biased. The only gripe I have against this movie, the only gripe I can find, and then this is just something like if I didn't rewatch it tonight, I wouldn't even have this gripe. But the only gripe I have against this movie is that the timeline is so it moves so quick and it doesn't tell you where it's going. You know, like it just it skips through a lot of it a lot of time passes without telling you, you know. And and shout out to, and like a lot of people don't know this. Shout out to David Eyre. This is the movie that got him Suicide Squad. Yeah, this was this was a wild. So my only gripe was, and I don't know, maybe this was just how I watched it. The movie's not tonally like visually really darken points. But see, it I think it might just be where you watch it, because I watched it on my phone, and it wasn't I I didn't get any darkness after you said that I continued to watch it, I didn't get dark. Yeah, mine, I don't like I said, I don't know if it was just like, hey, I'm in a hotel room with people and I gotta be quiet or yeah, I think that might have been it. But yeah, no, it didn't get dark on me that bad. So let me ask you a question. And without any spoilers, because we're gonna try to keep this spoiler-free for people who haven't seen it. Oh god, but if you haven't seen this one go, like, watch it. So, so did you feel some type of way towards the end? Oh, yeah, dude. I was like, we'll talk more. We'll talk we'll talk we'll talk more when we start recording. But yeah, I that yeah, but yeah, dude. By far, yeah, it's up there for me with one of my favorite buddy cop movies for you. But uh, and but but yeah, man, great buddy cop movie. Like, this should have been called Band of Brothers. I ain't even gonna lie. But End of Watch is totally authentic. But so is uh so is 21 Jump Street, man. I mean, for what it is. And I'll I mean 21 Jump Street, dude, revitalize the damn the damn buddy cop. I don't know, man. Fuck it. End of watch moving on. Like, let's jump street a little bit of praise. Yeah, but like, dude, I love 21 Jump Street, and it's funny, but in the watch moving on, bro. End of watch moving on. Yeah, in the watch moving on. I was just like, yeah, let's not even waste time. What's next? Okay, alright. Okay, we got hot fuzz versus seven. We get deep water here. We got another maybe we should have put seven versus end of the watch because like they are a little totally more secure. Yeah, and then we should have put hot fuzz because like we should put hot fuzz versus 21 jump streak. Yeah, or hot fuzz versus uh loaded weapons. No, I feel like hot fuzz 21 jump streak more or better because both of them are higher quality. You know, they're vertically higher quality comedies, you know what I'm saying? That's fair. So I so I'm gonna I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit, okay?

SPEAKER_01 28:35

Okay. I like Seven more. I do.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

I think Seven is the better movie, I think it's a better shot, I think it's more entertaining. I don't think it's the better top movie, though. I don't think it's the better buddy cop movie, no. Not not at all. I think it's a better movie, yeah. Yeah, for sure, for sure. Better movie for sure. But we're grading these movies on how they are is buddy cop movies. And I think as much as this hurts me to say, I gotta go ahead and move Hot Fuzz. Yeah, I mean, buddy Cop movie-wise, hot and and hot fuzz is not a slouch in the cinematographography uh section, bro. No, no, no, dude. That's your right does his thing, man. Yeah, and I love Hot Fuzz. Like, I wish it was going against 21 Jump Street here, because that'd have been a stronger battle. I don't know how we skipped over this, but didn't think of it. But but yeah, I gotta give it the 21 jump. I gotta give it the hot fuzz here. I gotta give it a hot fuzz. Yeah, don't worry, buddy. Hotfuzz is going up against uh bad boys next round, so don't get used to seeing it. Hey, I know, right? All right. This could legitimately be a final. Let's finish round one. All right, let's do it.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Tango and Cash versus Rush Hour. I don't want to pick, man. They're pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

So this is actually a first watch for me last year. John, this is one of John's fur favorite buddy cops movies versus one of our both favorite buddy cop movies, even though I think it's more mine than John's, because John can't really quote it. I like uh I have a hot take if you want to hear this real quick. Go ahead. I like Money Talks more. I mean, but buddy, Money Talks not a buddy cop movie. Yeah, it's not, but I do like it better. I love I love both of them. Upalapagatomus. But yeah, I feel like I like Tango and Cash. I enjoy Tango and Cash. And it was a dope take on the buddy cop trope. But damn rush hour, bro. You don't want to hear what I'm about to say. You don't want to hear what I'm about to say. You're gonna say it. Just say it, dog. So I went to saw Rush Hour in movie theaters, right? All right, man. Okay. Anthony, what haven't you seen in movie theaters? Dude, I went to see Rush Hour in 1998 when it dropped. And dude, this movie shouldn't have worked. It shouldn't have worked, bro. It really shouldn't, bro. I mean, it shouldn't work now, but it's still so funny, bro. It's so funny, dude. It is, bro. It's funny. The tropes, like, John, I mean, Jackie Chan, like, bro, and then what what I'm gonna tell you why I love this movie so much. The racial comedy that is done by both men is done in such good taste, it doesn't come offensive to Asians or black people. It's crazy. That's what I was about to say. I was like, it's real tasteful. It's very tasteful. Like, even just on a comedy, and then the fucking chemistry, bro. The chemistry, man, is just undeniable. Like, two people you never thought would have chemistry is like, golly, bro, it shouldn't work, bro. It shouldn't work, it like it should not fucking work, and it does. You know what's crazy, Anthony? It's like there's some deja vu. Two guys who do a podcast together. You might have heard of it. It's called One Take Real Talk. Yeah. That shouldn't have chemistry together. Yeah, it shouldn't work. But yeah, but it does. It does work, man. I'm telling you. But like, dude, I'm just saying, man. I I like dude, I like and I don't like dude. I know it's your favorite buddy copy, but I hate I put it against Rush Hour. I really I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little mad at you, but it's okay. And and like, dude, I like this movie. It's a 100% adrenaline junkie. Like, I love yeah, I love I love the prison scene. I love the prison scene. I like the damn jacked up. Yeah, I like the take the non-serious takes on themselves. I like their playing each other. Like, I like that Sly is playing. I watched, I watched this and Trouble and Big Trouble and Lil China. And what was it, ain't that what it was? Yeah, Big Trouble and Little China. Yeah, you got it. And I like this one better than Big Trouble and Lil China. By far. You know, I'm not gonna lie, I thought you were gonna like Big Trouble and Little China more. We'll save that for later. Yeah. Um but I like this one more because I went on this Kurt Russell thing where like I like Kurt Russell, so I watched the movies that I haven't seen. I watched this, I watched this, Big Trouble Lil China, and I watched The Thing. The thing. Yeah, and and like, dude, by far, if you asked me in what order I would watch what movies I would watch first, it would be this, the thing, and Big Trouble Little China. And but like if you asked me, hey man, we're gonna sit down and watch a movie. Which one are we watching, Rush Hour or Tango and Cash? If you would ask me this last year, it would have been no-brainer. Now I have to think about it. The recency bias is gone.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

The new is worn off.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Yeah. Oh, man. Okay, but we're talking straight chemistry here, right? That's what we're here for, right? Okay, well, I mean, that's not even like, I'm not gonna lie. It's it's I love I love Sly, I love Gurt Russell, it's not close. It's really not. Yeah, we're if we're talking straight chemistry, it's not close. Well, I do think the action is better than Dango and Cash. Like it's a good thing. I can't say that, bro. I can't say that. Dude, you can't say that. Jackie, bro, look, dude, put your gun down. Fight me like a man. Bro, bro, I can't I can't say that, bro. You Jackie Chan puts it all on the line, bro. I mean, so does so does uh I'm not saying they don't. Dude, the set pieces are great in both movies. I can't say either one is better. I can't, I'm and that's honest to God. I can't say I'm gonna live. This could be like, if you'd have told me this was a like like a quarter final or like a semifinal. Yeah. Yeah. No, this is like, and this is also one where like I don't really think there's a wrong answer. Like, I do kind of think you can go either way. Yeah. Quality-wise. Well, I think you just put this shit against seven, bro. You could have just put this against your fault. You did this. Yeah, but I listen, I literally was just wanted to pick Osmos and Jones. You wanted to pick Osmosard Jones. I wasn't even thinking. You got the bracket in front of you. You could have chosen if you felt like that. Bro, dude, I was trying to help out. You could pick load, you could have picked loaded weapon. You could have pick loaded weapon.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

This is your fault, bro.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

This is your fault. Uh anyway, I my vote is for rush hour, bro. We we can't take my vote's for rush hour. I'm sorry. I I I like Tango Cash. Look, I love Tango Cash. I want to give it a little more praise. Just it's so fun. It's a blast. It's such a clean, easy watch. It is. But in my in my in my heart of hearts, I know it's not better.

SPEAKER_01 36:23

So I do have to give it the rush hour.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

All right. But this is some bullshit. It is. It's not my fault, it's yours. You move your cards first. All right, what's what's the next bracket? All right, now we are on to our buy movies. Round one. This is this is another close one. All right.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

It's your fault, Anthony. My fault. Lethal weapon versus men in black.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

Lethal lethal weapon one, right?

SPEAKER_01 36:56

Lethal weapon one. Versus men in black.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

You got two grumpy old men, two young hot shots.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

It's 31 minutes, if you want.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

Oh no. No, we're not. Oh we're not, okay. No, because the call, remember the to start recording. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:21

Okay, we're good. I don't know, just giving me a heads up. Yeah, yeah, you're good. Yeah. This is close, man. This is close.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

You're saying uh I mean, it's close to I mean, like, dude, you got a grumpy, two grumpy old men, two young hot shots. Yeah, black and a white guy. Yeah, to one black, one white guy. I mean, I alright, so I know I I hate I don't want to shoot down another one of your pigs. So, and I know you I know you're gonna argue for lethal weapon here, and I can argue for both weapons. Yeah, I am gonna argue for lethal weapon. Well, I hey, and I don't think that men in black, there's not a case to be made. This is like a 70-30 split. I don't think it's 70-30. I think it's closer. I think it's closer to what you think it is. Because I'm gonna tell you why. I believe, I believe, hear me out, men in black is more distinctively noticeable in the long run than the lethal weapon. In a way, because because the only reason I'm only judging the first one here, because if we were judging the franchise, you would lose here. You know that, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:53

Let me say, let me ask you this. Do they have a line as iconic as I'm getting too old for this shit? I think we got multiple.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

Let me think. Let me think. I don't know it's iconic, because that that line's getting used in everything. Yeah, I'm getting too old for this shit. Yeah. It is the standard. Like it is the standard everybody got movies held up to. Yeah. Everybody uses it. I ain't gonna I'm not fronting on it. I'm not fronting on it, but there's an argument to be at for me in the black. It's closer to 70-30. I'll tell you, it's closer to 70-30, bro. It's close, it's way closer to what you think it is. I'll give you like a 60-40. Hey, hey, hey. I'm thinking, I'll I'm thinking, I'm thinking 55-45, bro. I ain't gonna lie to you. It might be 50-50. I ain't even gonna lie to you, bro. Because we go to Okay, let's go to the numbers.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

I was like, we can go we can go to numbers. I'll pull up at least a weapon, you pull up and I'm black. Alrighty. This did not pop up with rotten tomatoes.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

That's the first time I think that's ever happened. At least the weapon has an 82%. I don't know why it didn't pop up, I don't know. And it's two hours long. It's an hour and 57 minutes. Yeah, it's like it's it's like right at that two-hour mark. Um minimum black is pretty close. Men and black only had an hour 40. Uh uh, it's an hour and 38, but probably I mean, count credits and shit, you know what I mean, a little shorter. But min and black said 91%. And then look, man, I get where you're coming from with this one. But Danny Glover and Mel Gibson, like, we're talking. This is some legendary chemistry, man. Like, the way they bounce off each other, the energy they have, the rhetoric that these two have built, like, as a pair. Gary Bucy, like, remarkable villain. I mean, Izzy, though, like, come on, bro. You listen, you go up to anybody and ask them who's the damn, who's the villain in in Lethal Weapon 1. I argue that Men in Black has the better villain because they're gonna remember the damn, they remember the guy that stretches his face, they're gonna remember the big ass cockroach, they're gonna remember the damn the the two towers that one was a damn UFO. I'm telling you, just a more memorable movie. And then, bro, people are gonna remember the fight on the uh on the lawn, the one. I don't, bro. I'm telling, I think, I think, and I'm being real, I give you, I would give you that, yes, I give you that they um it's the it's iconic duo, you know what I'm saying? But dude, I think, fucking, I think there's more icon, I think there's more memorable. If you ask me which one am I watching, just period. Which one, hey, and which one you want? I'm probably gonna watch Men in Black. That's just me. I know which one you're watching. But I'm just saying, like, I think Men in Black has more iconic moments. I think it's more memorable. I yeah, I give you that it's I'm too, I'm getting too old for this shit. And I give you that it is a traditional buddy cop movie because it's a traditional cop, but I mean like, bro, I man, I'm just saying, you you don't have a more memorable villain, you don't have more memorable scenes. The tunnel scene where the don't push the red button. Look, bro, I get what you're saying. Hey, hey, hey, you know the difference between me and you?

SPEAKER_01 43:04

I make this look good. I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_00 43:10

You don't remember Will Smith suiting up for the first time, putting on the fucking shades, telling him the difference, you know the difference between you and me puts on the shades, I make this look good. Like, bro, come on, bro. Everybody remember that line. But you think you don't remember a lot of folks, so I don't even hold me there. Yeah, but love, bro. And then she'd be like, and then the old old girl sitting here telling the dude that he literally damn ate this dude, took his skin. Like, what's wrong with your face? It's sagging. He pulls it back. Is that better? Come on, bro. Dude, but like, lethal weapon has that perfect tone, it's funny, it's emotional, like it's intense, like it is. I mean it has all these things like. My vote's going to lethal weapons. Okay, I'm gonna let you do this.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

I mean I think we're dead lots.

SPEAKER_00 44:18

I can't say it. I ain't gonna say it's not, but like, just cause something's a fucking standard, don't mean it's the damn best. I'm I'm disagreeing with that. But the chemistry, the impact, the rewatchability, the tone, like the action, like, bro, it's Lethal Weapon. Uh I don't know, man. I I mean, like, I love Lethal Weapon. I do. And I'll give it to you, but I don't think it clears it. I'm gonna be real with you. All right. Let's go to the next round. Osmosis Jones versus the nice guys. I say Osmosis Jones. Osmosis Jones. All right, but hold up now. Osmosis Jones is not gonna make it to the semifinals. Osmosis Jones, more entertaining movie, better cop, better partner chemistry, two cops that don't like each other work together to save a dude's life. Osmosis Jones. I don't have the urge to rewatch the nice guys. Yeah, exactly. I don't have the urge, and that that hurts the night guys. Yeah, but go ahead. All right, what's the next one? Rush Hour versus End of Watch. Who fuck? Fuck hey, what I don't know, man. Maybe it's just recency bias. Maybe it's just the recency bias. I can kind of see end of watch on this. Bro, it's rush hour, bro. I uh like it's rush hour. I know which is the better movie. I know.

SPEAKER_01 45:44

End of watch is definitely better.

SPEAKER_00 45:46

I I know it's like like this is the whole seven thing again. But what we're judging it as, Buddy Cop is more fun. End of watch is like if you didn't like know it was classified as buddy cop, like you probably wouldn't call it buddy cop. It is heavier. Rush hours obviously got better action scenes, but that's just because what it is. But man, bro, like the chemistry, like the two leads and in the watch, they I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, it is, but like, bro, at the end of the day, it's rush hour, bro. This just know this was close. It's it's listen.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

Listen, I'm gonna give it a rush hour. Listen, I'm gonna give it a rush hour.

SPEAKER_00 46:26

The only reason rush hour edges it out is because the natural chemistry, the comedy, and the different levels of emotion that it gives you through the whole thing. You experience joy, you you experience, you know what I'm saying, anxiety, you experience a lot with just that one movie. Yeah, and the watch, you know, like just the the the the amount that you do go through. Yeah, and and the and the one thing I do hold against Ender Watch is the pacing. Rush Hour doesn't suffer from that pacing. End of watch is fast, which is fast. I mean, like, not even just fast, it skims through the timeline, it's just too quick. Some of the things detailed or something. Yeah, some of the exactly. And and that doesn't hurt the movie from being a nine for me. It's just it caught me off guard. Like, damn, I didn't know. End of watch could be a two-hour movie. It should be a two-hour movie. Yeah, it should be a two-hour movie. Yeah, I don't like a rush hour and that rush hour needs to be longer. No, rush hour is perfect the way it is. But go ahead, man. What's what's our next one? I'll be completely honest. We really don't. Like, we can just vote bad boys. What's what's the next one? Hotfuzz. Oh, yeah. I mean, you want to get you wanna argue for Hot Fuzz? I it's funny. It's cute. I mean, I'm gonna tell you why it's not Hot Fuzz, just because they reference bad boys in Hot Fuzz, it's bad boys, baby. Yeah, it's bad boys. I I I don't know if there's an argument that could really be made. Like maybe give it to someone else who's a little more passionate about Hot Fuzz Hot Fuzz. Yeah, Hot Fuzz. And me, I'm not huge on this movie. I mean, I like Hotspuzz. I like it. Like it's cool, but of the spoofs, I'm not gonna lie, it's probably my least favorite. But I mean, it's not really a spoof, it's just a comedy. You know what I'm saying? Like, I would it's not a spoof in the sense of the word of like leap uh loaded weapon or damn naked and naked gun or nothing like that. Okay, the point I was making is just a comedy of the three comedies we have on here. Yeah. 21 Jump Street, loaded weapon, and and hot fuzz, it's my least favorite. Okay. I mean, that's fair. I understand. But yeah, no, but going against bad boys, yeah, nice bad boys. All right, man, what's next? All right. The same thing. We can just kind of skip it. It's loaded weapon versus lethal weapon versus osmosis Jones. It's lethal weapon. Yeah, it's lethal weapon.

SPEAKER_01 48:57

I by the way, the fact that Osmosis Jones made it to the semi-finals is ridiculous. But yeah, so this one's actually gonna be close.

SPEAKER_00 49:09

Do you want to rip the band-aid off, Anthony? I mean, we can. Rush Hour versus Bad Boys. I mean, yeah, my voice is going to bad boys.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

This one, but you know what? Let's let's talk about it. I mean, this is like I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 49:26

I mean, these are these final round material. Yeah, this is final round material. We didn't get an easy win here. And we can slow down a little bit. We would we kind of blitzed them last three, so yeah. It's a lot closer than the last three. Yeah, so the reason I'm gonna say is is bad boys. I totally all right. So one, let's not forget, this is Michael Bay's first movie, right? This is Michael Bay's This is Michael Bay's first movie. I knew it was early, I didn't know it was that early. Yeah, it's his first movie, it's the first action movie since uh Beverly Hills cop with not one, but two black leads to prove that two black dudes can leave a summer blockbuster. I believe I believe it's a summer blockbuster, okay. But to leave the to lead an action movie, you get what I'm saying? And then to have the impact that it did, you know, and then the chemistry that these two carry, bro. Like, so the reason I'ma say it beats out rush hour. Rush hour gives you the reasonable doubt that Carter and Lee have to get has to get to know each other and care about each other. Bad boys has to prove to you that these two have been partners, let alone friends, since high school. You buy it. Well, I don't even like buy it, dog. Like, I'm sold. Like Mart, I've not said Marlon Wayne, because we were talking about uh scary movie earlier. Martin Lauren and Will Smith. Will Smith, like, it's it's so organic. Like talk. It's like Will literally walks in his house in each other's chops. Like it doesn't feel preordained. Like it feels like that's your friend, and and like you believe that's your homie. Exactly. And like, bro, he walks in dude's house like like your brother would. Uncle, and he's got the kids are calling him Uncle Mike. Like, like, dude, just just off of that. Like, let's not even talk about the action. Like, because I could because I'm gonna save that for the argument in the finals. But like, just because the argument that got rush hour here is the chemistry. Rush Hour has chemistry. And and to me, it comes in third place, and and rightfully so, in the chemistry department. It comes in third place. Yeah, part of that I do think comes down to just the amount of time, right? No, not even that, dude. Just just because out of the last three movies that are here, this is the most organic chemistry that's there. Yeah, I mean, I I I agree with that. Like, they are this are this are end of watch, but yeah. That if you were talking about brother chemistry, yeah, that that'd be my two arguments right there. This it's fun, like action obviously goes to bad boys. That's kind of Michael Bay's thing. And this is before Michael Bay went too far with it. Yeah, this is for Transformers. Yeah, I mean, and mind you, this is pre this is pre-Rock Michael Bay. That's an insane sentence to say out loud. Yeah, this is pre-the-rock, Michael Bay. That's all I'm saying. I mean, like dude literally let them drive dude let him let him literally whip around his 1994 Porsche, GT Carrera, in this movie. Yeah, that's that's Michael Bay's personal car that they were whipping in that movie, bro. Like I said, this in Miami. Yeah. That's oh yeah. No, don't get a whole lot of cop movies in Miami. Like, we get a lot, but not a lot. But we're we're gonna save this for the finals. We're gonna save the argument for the finals. It's bad boys. Rightfully so, it's bad boys. I mean, and and I love Rush Hour. It's my second favorite buddy cop franchise of all time. Like, I'm not gonna lie. Honestly, honestly, I I retract my statement. It's the second best chemistry here. I retract my statement. It's the second best chemistry. Because honestly, I'll put their chemistry over Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. And I know you're like, whoa, I really do. I really think that hot that I buy I buy Lee and Carter's relationship more than I do Danny Glover and Mel Gibson's. You know what's crazy? I have it at number one. Oh, you got there, I I don't buy them, I don't buy the relationship over Mike and Mike and Mark. I do, bro. Dude, it's so real. Yeah, but like, dude, I can't. But I'm gonna tell you, I can't, I don't buy it over Mike and Marcus, though. I believe if you didn't tell me that Mike and Marcus are partners or best friends, I think they were brothers. Because they've worked together so long. Yeah, and like I mean, you can correct me on this if I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure like Martin Lawrence and Will Smith are still friends to this day. They are. They are Jackie Chane, all these guys are still friends these days to this day. But but what I'm saying, but what I'm saying is this movie, listen. All right, uh, this movie was the first thing they done together. You're talking two of the two big TV stars that had TV shows on two opposite channels. Opposite channels. One's on Fox and one was on like, I believe it was it wasn't even on ABC, it was on like NBC. So like you got two TV stars, they got the two biggest TV primetime TV shows, sitcoms, that come together and make one movie for the first time working together, and they're supposed to sell you that they've been partners for years and you buy it, bro. That's chemistry, bro. That that that's brotherhood. Well, I'm supposed to buy the these guys, but but listen what I'm saying, though. You get to grow with Carter and Lee. You get to grow with damn Riggs and Murtoff. You don't get that with Marcus and damn uh Mike. Yes, you they iron out their wrinkles, yeah. You see, that's how their relationship works. It it gets to a boiling point. I know this is not using it to make a point. It gets to a boiling point in every single iteration it comes after. That's all I'm gonna say. Someone's gonna be like, where's hard boiled? Like, like it gets to a boiling point to like, man, I can't do this anymore, man. I can't, like, damn, dude. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like it they actually play it so much into four where Mike has anxiety. Because he's done it so long. Exactly. So like, like, that's script that strap, like, that's not part of my argument. I'm just saying, in one, these two, you like they have two total, you gotta think about this. Two totally different styles, right? Which all three of these movies have. All three of these guys, all six of these guys have two totally different, you got Murtaugh who's who lost his wife, you I mean not Murtaugh, you got Riggs, who lost his wife, you got Murtaugh who has a family, okay? You got Carter, who's a bachelor, who speaks English, LA, LA, pure LA. You got Damn Lee, who's pure 1% Hong Kong, you got Marcus, who's a family man, you got Mike, who's a bachelor, you know what I'm saying? Low-key, almost a millionaire, who people think is playing cop. But out of those six relate, out of those three relationships, who do you buy more organically? You say it for yourself. I I can go kind of either way here, man. I'm not gonna lie. But anyway, anyway, let's get to this final, bro. It's it's bad boys moving forward, bro. Yeah, I was like, Bad boys is gonna go ahead of uh of rush hour. And I do love again. I love rush hour. I love rush hour. I can watch, listen, I can watch the first two rush hours, no problem. Three is a little shaky for me. It's a little shaky. It gets a little shaky. It has the funny moments, but that you know what I'm saying. But anyway, all I gotta say is rush hour has a proud bronze medal on its neck. If it was going against Lethal Weapon, it would probably wear a silver medal, in my opinion. In my opinion. Johnna called me crazy, but in my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 58:38

I don't think it's that crazy.

SPEAKER_00 58:40

But we're gonna go ahead and get to the finals. Let's get in the finals, man. You're I know where you're standing and you know where I'm standing. I mean, we knew we knew where we were getting to anyway. You know what? Let's leave it up to fate. Flip a coin? No, he's flipping a fucking coin. We ain't argue all this shit just to get here to flip a fucking coin. Fuck no. No, who we are, bro. Yeah, but dude, there's only one right answer here, bro. And you know it's no, you know there's only one right answer here. Dude, it is a lethal weapon, though. It's legal weapon, it is not. No, it's not. Bro, no, it's not. No, it's not. Bro, let's go tell you. It gets no better than bad boys, and you know it. It gets no fucking better than bad boys. And you know it, bro. From the action set pieces, memorable villains, memorable climax, Will Smith running down his the motherfucking ocean boulevard with his fucking shirt open, becoming a motherfucking movie star. The birth of Will Assange. The birth of Will Assange. There is no men in black. There is no Independence Day without that shot. I'm not going to disagree with you what this did for Will Smith. I'm bro, we could say the lethal weapon did for the genre we're arguing. Okay, but this one tell you. Okay, but that's not, I'm not here nor there. Okay. This is what I'm saying. There's a lot of people who did a lot for a lot of genres, but there's people after them that done it better. Tupac came before Kendrick. Kendrick excelled above Tupac. I'm not disagreeing. Okay, then. Okay, but what I'm saying is, yes, Lethal Weapon is the blueprint. It is. I give you that. It is the blueprint. But bro, you can't deny that it doesn't have a better climax. It doesn't have better set pieces, it doesn't have a better story. It doesn't. It doesn't, it is not a more memorable movie than bad boys. But part of the problem with bad boys. What's the problem with bad boys? Part of the problem with bad boys, right? They start playing each other. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:03

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:04

That's the whole point of the movie. They're damn, they're literally swapped. The girl doesn't know who they are. So it gets awkward for them to play each other. You could see the awkwardness. This is supposed to be awkward. She even says it on the bridge. She says, I thought he's supposed to be the smooth. No shit. That's the whole point. That's not a problem. Like, we're talking about the chemistry, right? And the chemistry is backwards. No, it's not. You don't you don't have to do that with Russia, you know, with lethal weapons. How is the chemistry backwards explained? Because you know they're playing each other. They're not playing each other. They're literally playing the same characters. There's no swapping at all. Like if you if you if you're not paying attention, there's no swapping, but only the names. That's it. Marcus doesn't become more suave and more fucking loose and because he's pretending to be Mike. Mike doesn't let go of his suave and Devonair lifestyle because he's pretending to be Marcus. No. He literally, like, even when he's laying in bed with Julie, he was like, all right, I'm gonna go get the bed. She's like, go ahead, it's your bed. And then he he can't not be stiff because he's a married man. Like, bro, you're you're you're like, I don't get what you're saying. Like, it doesn't make sense. You're trying to make an argument for the for the strength of the storyline that works. It's so good that they even use it. And like, dude, the awkwardness, he's just like, he's so smooth. Like, and then it plays with Marcus's fucking head. Like, oh, I bet his wife is enjoying some of that smoothness now. And then, and then she's like, What do you mean? You know, she said, the gunshots and all this doesn't make you feel funny. And she was like, What do you mean, funny? You know, funny. And he's like, Oh, you don't want that. You know, when I come, I'm bringing the thunder. What she said, she says, Mike, you're acting like you never had a woman in your bed. You know what I'm saying? Or something like that. I'm I'm paraphrasing. She said, You're acting like you never had a woman in your bed. You're acting kind of nervous, you know what I'm saying, like you're kind of married or something like that. And then at the end, when his wife finds out where they are, she's like, I'm here to kill my husband. She said, That would be the tall one or the short one. And she says, the short one, she says, Oh, I thought so. It's a story plot. It doesn't, it doesn't hurt the story. It helps the story, it pushes the story forward. I I'm not disagreeing with that. I don't understand what you're saying. Like, what are you saying? I'm just saying, I'm like, you know, part of the thing we're complimenting is the chemistry, and you know, they play each other. So they're not playing each other. That's the difference. It'd be different. It'd be different than it's just they're using each other's name. That's all it is. They and that's the whole point of the story because he got to the witness first. That's the whole point of the story. She doesn't know who is who. Yeah, that's the whole point of the story. Like, what do you mean? He can't lose the witness. You can't betray the trust of the witness. You say you're somebody, and once you lie to her, she's gonna flee. They can't lose the witness. That's the whole point of the whole story. Like, that's the whole point of the like Bad Boys One. What are you talking about, John? But Lisa Weapons got the better villain. No, they don't. Touche, you crazy as fuck. I don't remember Bad Boys Villain. Who the fuck remembers the villain in Lisa Weapon 1? Nobody. All you can tell me is that all you can tell me is Gary Bush Bush. That's all you can tell me. Bro, Touche, the dude who fucking down, dude, this motherfucker shot Maxine down in a fucking damn suite over heroin, bro. I'll give you credit. I'll give you credit. Bad Boys 2 has the best villain out of the franchise. I'll give you that. But you're not gonna play the fucking damn, the damn old buddy from Bad Boys 1. Like he's forgettable. Hell nah. That fucking chase scene at the airport? Come on, bro. The fucking airport shootout alone. Come on, bro. Get out of here. Get out of here with that. That climax alone is better than lethal weapons. Nah, bro. Leave the weapon as weapon as the fist fight. The fist fight's great. The fight in the factory is incredible. Bro, you forgot your boredom pass. Wow. Get the fuck out of here. Get out of here, bro. No. And that motherfucker said that motherfucker there ran up on him, crashed the car. He said, from now on, that's how you drive. That shit was a bit from the rest of the franchise. What are you talking about, man? Bro, like lethal weapon is so untouched, man. So untouched. Bullshit. It got touched by Bad Boys. It's got emotional texture. Bro, what are you talking about? Bad Boys has it beaten chemistry. Bad boys has it beaten story. Bad boys has it beaten action. Bad boys. Has to be bro all the way around. And so does Lethal Weapon. Lethal Weapon has all those things. It has the chemistry, has the action, it does not have better chemistry than bad voice, bro. Has the rewatchability, like it's fun, bro. It's awesome as all hell. Like, just fucking badass movie, man. And it's always a blast to watch it, like consistently throughout and throughout. I always have a fun time watching it. I always have a fun time thinking about it. I always just enjoy what is you know, like what is what is lethal weapon, right? And I love, you know, Riggs. I love Murtaugh. I'm I'm invested in them. I'm invested in, you know, Riggs getting his shit together. I'm invested in Murtaugh being better for his family and filling out on, you know, being a cop. It's it's so beautiful, man. It's got great action and getting so authentically LA. You know, even from the part where, like, you know, you see him getting out, they're like waiting for an ice vehicle. They're, you know, just right in front of what? Uh, in front of the uh the the ice vehicle when they're fighting in, like, because they fight in front of the yard and there's all the ice on the ground. Bro, this will tell you. That shit is compared to bad boys, that shit's forgettable, bro. I'm being real with you. Bro, you got the fucking, bro, you got the fucking club scene. Marcus gets in the fight in the bathroom, then you got the fucking highway free, the ether scene where they blow a buddy up with the fucking ether. Bro, come on, man. Get out of here. Look, bro, I love both. I think it goes a good coin toss. I don't think so. I think it, I think it's I think it's bad boys, and I think it's like a I think it's a fucking 70. I ain't gonna say a 70, I think it's a 55, 45. And even though we're not talking of, and I ain't using this as a defense, bad boys is the better movie and the better franchise. Lethal Weapon gets caught up, like it gets lost in the mix. It does. Non-memorable villains. The most memorable villain in the fucking franchise is Jetly. And that's in poor. It's just, it's perfect, man. It's not. It's not perfect, bro. It's not perfect, bro. And that's that's you glazing. I'm not, I'm even, dude, I'm I'm a bad boys fan, and I'm here to tell you it's not perfect. It's not perfect, bro. But it's a better movie than damn lethal weapon. Look, man, I'll concede it, but just know it is lethal weapon. It's not because it's not lethal weapon. All right. Well, man. I'll tell you like this. I'll tell you what, we'll leave it at a tie. How about that? I'm cool with that. Let's go. I think this is one where it's very close. We'll come and we'll do a whole debate episode on this. We'll save that conversation for another day. All right, guys. That's another edition of One Take Real Talk. And this has been one take. One shot. Keep it real. Keep it real. Peace. Peace.