The Rewatch Party

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  1. Jul 19

    The Rewatch Party 255 - Mission Impossible 4

    We break radio silence now as Nick has been deep in Romulan space with shields up and unable to transmit.   Join us this week as Tom Cruise gets thrown into a Russian prison, breaks out before breakfast, sneaks into the Kremlin, climbs the tallest building on Earth with a pair of malfunctioning oven mitts, and somehow that's only about half of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. This is the movie where the franchise stops apologizing for itself and fully embraces Tom's quest to personally terrify the insurance industry. With Elise out this week, it's just Nick and Anthony behind the microphones. They celebrate Simon Pegg graduating from "guy in the van" to full IMF field agent, wonder why Jeremy Renner spent a decade auditioning to inherit every major franchise, and ponder how much more effectively we couldsolve international incidents if only we could sprint faster. The conversation veers through Bruce Springsteen T-shirt trivia, Dean Martin prison break soundtracks, Russian nuclear paranoia, Pixar easter eggs, the increasingly ridiculous Mission: Impossible spy gadgets, and whether the fake hallway projector might secretly be the dumbest brilliant idea ever put on film. Somewhere in there they also discuss Ghost Protocol, arguably the movie that turned Mission: Impossible into Hollywood's gold standard for practical action spectacle. So grab your self-destructing cassette tape, double-check your climbing gloves, and remember: if your mission goes catastrophically wrong, just run faster.

  2. May 10

    The Rewatch Party 252 - Samurai Cop (1991)

    Nick celebrates a birthday the only reasonable way possible: by forcing everyone to watch Samurai Cop, where every line sounds recently invented and every explosion feels personally insulting to the physics underpinning our reality. Nick, Anthony, and an in person Elise marvel at director Amir Shervan somehow stretching a reported $7,000 budget into helicopters, katana fights, cocaine deals, and the most aggressively fake wig ever committed to film.  This movie was apparently filmed under conditions normally associated with a hostage negotiation. Actors wore their own clothes. Most scenes were done in a single take because film stock cost money. Entire chunks had to be reshot months later after the lead actor changed his hair, resulting in continuity so broken it becomes performance art. The discussion keeps circling back to baffling production decisions, including a helicopter pilot conducting phone-sex dialogue during a drug bust, stunt performers visibly changing ethnicity mid-fireball, and car chases where everyone politely uses turn signals.   There’s also an alarming amount of time spent trying to map Samurai Cop onto the Kevin Bacon cinematic universe while determining whether Z’Dar counts as human or geological formation. It’s a celebration of glorious incompetence, impossible continuity, and the kind of filmmaking where nobody involved seems entirely sure what movie they’re making.  So pull the club out of your ass and Samurai Cop a feel on one of the few movies that genuinely earns the phrase "you just have to see it to believe it".

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