Ep. 778 - Bad Boys: Ride or Die (GUEST: Paul Scheer)
Added 2024-06-11 13:08:01 +0000 UTCDavid and Jeff dig up their thoughts on Exhuma, ride hard with 30 for 30: Lance, and tread carefully through the waters of Under Paris. Then, Paul Scheer joins us for our review of Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Check out Paul’s podcast, How Did This Get Made? and his new book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma.
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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:12:03)
David - Exhuma, Under Paris
Jeff - 30 for 30: Lance, Inside Out rewatch
Featured Review (~00:45:40)
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
SPOILERS (~01:20:16)
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Comments
Paul was the perfect guest for this one. Felt like he brought up a lot of stuff you guys often don’t talk about in the reviews. Was a good one!
SundayBacon
2024-06-13 14:42:20 +0000 UTCHe does NOT eat a live octopus in this movie, but he’s still in great form…he gives the film both gravitas and some very funny moments!
CDMatthew
2024-06-12 21:41:13 +0000 UTCAs soon as I heard Choi Min-sik I was in. Hoping to watch it today.
Sarah Rosenberg
2024-06-12 19:48:54 +0000 UTCThe amount of times Bad Boys 1 and 2 came up on TotallyRadShow Flickchart VS. without Jeff ever saying he hadn't seen them, I don't know if he had and has now forgotten or never saw them to begin with !
Ryan Goodwin
2024-06-12 04:08:02 +0000 UTCDave, I’m so glad you saw EXHUMA and enjoyed it as much as I did! (I hope I didn’t pester you too much about it…my enthusiasm can get a bit overboard sometimes.) You’re right, that movie is a RIDE that’s scary and creepy AF, but its humorous moments helped to give it some buoyancy, too. Oh, and thanks for the shoutout!
CDMatthew
2024-06-12 02:49:55 +0000 UTCEven if Bad Boys 4 Life had been available for this film I doubt they would have used it. “Bad Boy 4 Life” is a phrase and a song associated with Diddy. Will Smith wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole.
Brian Deaton
2024-06-12 02:37:59 +0000 UTCPaul Scheer is an amazing guest to get but I missed Devindra. This is a Devindra movie. Paul was thinking of Robert Quarles (Neal McDonough) from Justified, not Boyd (Goggins).
David
2024-06-12 02:30:17 +0000 UTCExactly. But I guess it’s what you are focused on. If that incident is still in your head you see it all over. 🤷🏾♂️ I was only really annoyed about the reason for the panic attacks.
David Jones
2024-06-12 02:25:02 +0000 UTCSame. I even read a headline about “the slap” reference but was having such a good time with the film that I didn’t even think about the Oscars
David
2024-06-12 02:17:20 +0000 UTCLiterally fist pumped in the car when the Daves B Movies jingle came on. It’s been far too long.
Jon
2024-06-12 01:32:40 +0000 UTCI’m so removed from the Oscars that I didn’t attach ANY significance to the slap other than Mike needed to get his head back in the game. But I did think the whole time the panic attacks were because he was married and had more to lose now.
David Jones
2024-06-11 22:05:06 +0000 UTCOne of the best 30 for 30 documentaries is Hillsborough. It’s a towering, gut wrenching documentary. Also I think 30 for 30 initially meant 30 documentaries for the 30th anniversary of the start of ESPN
Garry L
2024-06-11 21:28:43 +0000 UTCI Googled it and found out that the term comes from Charles Ponzi, a notorious con artist. Interesting: https://www.historyhit.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-charles-ponzi-how-a-pyramid-scheme-changed-the-face-of-finance-forever/
Jerry Mudd
2024-06-11 20:08:52 +0000 UTCAnd then Will Smith wins Best Actor! Crazy
Jerry Mudd
2024-06-11 20:03:01 +0000 UTCI wonder if there are legit businesses that started as Ponzi schemes but evolved to legitimate.
Danny Champlin
2024-06-11 19:49:09 +0000 UTCIn-seine pun Dave, proud of you.
Chris Cameron
2024-06-11 19:12:18 +0000 UTCYeah, I think any time an audience member goes up on stage to physically assault a performer, that's a big deal, even if the performer doesn't fight back.
Stranger2Reality
2024-06-11 18:51:51 +0000 UTCKind of weird to hear the guys try to normalize the slap like it was no big deal imo. The dude walked on stage and essentially started a fight during a live internationally broadcast show. It's not about the potential danger from the slap itself, it's the fact that he nearly started a brawl and ruined the most important night of many people lives, and the only reason that didn't happen was because Chris Rock was the adult and didn't respond with violence himself. Yeah, people saying he could have killed Chris Rock are silly, but the real disgusting aspect (to me) was the egotistical/selfish nature of the act given the setting. Not at all the take I expected from these guys.
Ben Wesorick
2024-06-11 18:41:40 +0000 UTCI've not seen the Lance Armstrong documentary, but I'm curious about his arc it portrays. I wonder if him saying he wouldn't change a thing because without that, he wouldn't have been able to change, and become who he is now (maybe a better person, I don't know). Or if he is just as straight up mercenary as Jeff described him to be.
Bruce Chang
2024-06-11 18:24:13 +0000 UTCDave, we just had *this year* the movie "The Stranger" on Hulu starring Maika Monroe and Dane DeHaan, which is a Quibi TV series recut into a movie.
Papool Chaudhari
2024-06-11 18:08:19 +0000 UTCIf I’m not mistaken, I believe there was also an animated series of Planet of the Apes that aired in the 70s. Time to get to work, Dave!
AF
2024-06-11 18:05:37 +0000 UTCIs it just me or does Paul Scheer sound just like Dan Trachtenberg?
Jerry Mudd
2024-06-11 17:58:37 +0000 UTCHey guys, you should check out Adil & Belil’s film Rebel. It has their inspired kinetic energy, but with a deeply moving and powerful story. Really worth checking out. Love the show, yall rule!
patrick costello
2024-06-11 17:49:27 +0000 UTCDave, did the Letterboxd comments remind you about the B movie segment?!
Wil Johnson
2024-06-11 17:12:43 +0000 UTCI’m honestly scared for Jeff to watch Oldboy. I was not okay after the ending of that movie.
Tyler Sexton
2024-06-11 16:34:21 +0000 UTCI had an editing mentor who said whenever possible to remove “of” and reverse the wording to save space. Thus… “The Apes Planet” is just ready to be used whenever we need it.
Derek Cheng
2024-06-11 15:47:40 +0000 UTCIt’s funny, on Video Archives Quentin, Roger, and Gala all agreed that Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes was the best title in the entirety of PotA history but you guys hate it 😆
Gareth
2024-06-11 13:48:43 +0000 UTCJeff they couldn’t use Return to the Planet of the Apes because that was already the name of the 1975 animated series https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_the_Planet_of_the_Apes
Gareth
2024-06-11 13:39:35 +0000 UTC
