Ep. 78 Hard Boiled

“Nostalgia is one of our saving graces.” On the latest episode,
hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg take things back to
their heroic bloodshed drenched pasts to discuss John Woo’s ne plus
ultra of Hong Kong action cinema, Hard Boiled. Like many a greasy
teenage malcontent in the early 90s, their exposure to the films of
John Woo was key in setting them on a life-path of undeviating film
nerd-dom. Join them as they discuss their shared love of Tequila,
rice like family, one corrupt cop, one vicious hitman and 10,000
bullets - it’s a celebration of John Woo’s golden age with a focus
on Hard Boiled, the film that took an extreme sub-genre to its
extremes, the extremity of extremity. Their conversation touches on
the importance of melodrama and big emotions in heroic bloodshed
films, the surprising similarities of the careers of John Woo and
Wong Kar-Wai, and the sheer joyful awesomeness of massive action
sequences. It’s as purely celebratory as the show gets. Support our
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twitter.com/TheLastMachine Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two”

 Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas”