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B‑Movie Bravado: Bryan Kristopowitz’s Guide to Forgotten Action Gems · Cinema Yūgen

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G'day. That's right, it's that time again.
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Time for Cinema! Look at... Look at...
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Welcome back! Yes, Eugenites, welcome back.
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Brian Kristopovits is here with his new release, A Great Book.
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I'm a straight to video aficionado this is
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right up my alley not coming to a theater near
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you 50 grade direct to video action flicks
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from the early 2000s brian kristopovitz
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has released this his first book and from
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bare manor media which looks at
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the direct to video action films of the era
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where dvds were on the rise this
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book is now available on amazon and bare
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manner media's online shop
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we'll put the links in the description globe trotting
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mercenaries ruthless assassins sci-fi apocalypses
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cyborgs ninjas ex-special forces
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operators real badass scumbag cops
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down and dirty hand-to-hand martial
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arts brawls car chases gun battles galore
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knife fights explosions all of
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that and more is what makes up the direct-to-video action
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movie genre especially from the early 2000s direct-to-video action flicks brian
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kristopovitz has written the book you don't have to worry he's done the hard
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work all you have to do is get into it and he has done an eloquent, excellent.
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Job not coming to a theater near you 50 great direct to video action flicks
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from the early 2000s please welcome my guest to talk all about it here he is
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the direct to video loving.
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Maniac brian kristopovitz g'day brian hi kent thanks for having me great to
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have you mate You're going to give us the 411, hey?
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Yes, I'm known for that. That's been your gig for a while now,
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since like 2008, isn't it?
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Well, 2005 is actually when I started. 2005, yeah.
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Yeah, I didn't start writing about B-movies sort of exclusively until about 2008. Right, right.
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And what was the, I mean, you mentioned it a few times in the book,
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in your introduction, and it's also in your author bio, you mentioned, you know, B-movies.
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You don't see B-movies as a slur. Can you talk a little?
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I say B-movie is not a slur. Yeah.
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Mostly because...
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There's still a B-movie genre, regardless of what it is, horror,
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action, science fiction, whatever, is that it's somehow a lesser movie than
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a so-called A-movie. Right.
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And I've had people in the movie business, some people are really cool about the idea of the B-movie.
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They're totally fine with it. But some people are just, it's like the worst thing in the world.
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They don't want to be called that. They don't want to be associated with that.
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They seem to think that they're doing something that's above a B-movie or beyond it in some way.
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And that's just strange as hell to me.
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And I'm very much pro-B-movie.
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If you're in the B-movie business, you should embrace that.
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Oh, totally. I mean, you're talking to a guy who started off working in video stores.
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So yeah, straight to video is my bread and butter, baby.
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It doesn't get any better. I know that you don't cover this in the book because
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you're from the start in the 2000s.
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But if you had started in the 90s when I was working at a video store,
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man, you've probably seen a lot of these movies too.
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I was watching it just the other day again. And did you ever see that Mario Van Peebles movie solo?
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Yes. It's a bit like, it's a bit like soldier.
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It's a bit like Kurt Russell's soldier where he's like a, he's a failed,
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you know, experiment in, in,
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you know, at the ultimate soldier and they just sort of throw him away and he's
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got all like come back and get vengeance against the evil corporation that.
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Discarded him yep yeah that that was it yeah
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that was a pretty good pretty cool movie i remember back then
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i mean mario van peebles was still sort of
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coasting off of the success of new
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jack city yes and he was and he was able to to do a full-on sci-fi action movie
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that he probably wouldn't have gotten if new jack city hadn't been a huge success
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right right yeah yeah because he was sort of the headliner on that, you know,
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and look, he's a pretty, he's pretty good, man.
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Like I liked it. I remember liking his character and like Heartbreak Ridge,
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unless we forget, unless we forget because the documentary, I think it's coming
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out next year is the shark that he was in, he was in George's revenge.
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Yep. Yep. Lots of cool stuff.
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Badass, badasses, which he made about his, his father, Melbourne Van Peebles.
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Yeah. lots of cool mario van people stuff yeah
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he's he's did a western recently i
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can't remember the name but uh he did a
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western recently like a low budget western yeah he well he he did posse yeah
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yeah but i mean he did yeah i know he did that but he did like another he's
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he's done like another one recently i saw him like press for it he did that
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movie about the the battleship.
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Yeah i can't remember the name that but he was in that he
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did this guy he was in that scott atkins movie yeah yeah
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but i suppose which i mean the only reason i bring up the the the 90s because
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it's great to see some of the straight to video titles from then getting sort
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of their just deserves now one in particular it's again it's not in the book
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but it's it's it's a straight to video one was a split second, that Ruka Hauer movie.
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Now that, that went straight to video back in the day. No one really gave a rats, but yeah.
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Thanks to MVD did a beautiful job of, uh, yeah, that, that Blu-ray DVD is fantastic.
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I actually saw a split second here in America. I saw it in the theater. Oh, okay.
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You were one of the lucky punters that saw a screening.
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Yeah. I, my, uh, my dad took me to it.
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Cool. Cause I, uh, my one friend, my next door neighbor had seen it.
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And so I bugged my father. to take me to see it.
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And he didn't really care for it because he didn't really care for that kind of movie.
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But, oh, that was just great seeing that in the theater.
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I mean, it's great. It's like Blade Runner meets Alien meets Predator,
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you know, with Rutger Hauer. And it's great.
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It's got Rutger Hauer in the trench coat, the big guns.
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I love it. I mean, he lives off coffee, anxiety, and chocolate. kind of like me and his.
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Partner there Dick Durkin yep he was fantastic yeah I love that movie Alan Armstrong
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who was also in my favorite movie Kroll plays the constantly pissed off police oh fucking nuts,
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his epic meltdown down the hallway there yeah yeah he's like i'm supposed to
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have a pb on someone who looks like fucking lucifer with a long fucking tail and big fucking horns.
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Great stuff so what made you want to sit down mate and and and collect these
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your 50 50 of the best straight to video releases what made you want to,
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wrangle these together into this wonderful book, which, by the way,
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people check the links in the description, not coming to a theater near you.
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50 great direct to video action flicks from the early 2000s.
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What, uh, what prompted you, Brian, to, to sit down and collect these in this collection?
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Well, basically the first thing that I was doing was I had been,
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I had been transferring old reviews that I had been doing from the.
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Floppy disks to a thumb drive okay cool and i and i had mentioned it on facebook,
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because it was it was like an arduous thing for me
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to do because i'm not very technically i'm not technically savvy in
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that way and i had mentioned that i
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was doing that and someone like my friend wednesday lee
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friday had asked me oh wow are you
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gonna turn that into a book right and i
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hadn't thought of that at all and after she
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asked me that i was like i am now why not
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that's basically how that all started and yeah you know i mean i mostly i decided
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to do an action book or an action-centric book basically for two reasons one
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i love these movies i genuinely love them.
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And you should write about what you know and what you love I believe that I believe that in general,
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that made all the sense in the world and the
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second reason was there aren't that many books out in the world there isn't
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much action movie or cinema scholarship about direct to video movies of any
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genre no I mean I found like.
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I found like two authors that, that had done something like,
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like not quite similar, but close enough.
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David J. Moore did two books and Outlaw Verne did a book about Steven Seagal. Yeah. Yeah.
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Seagalology. Great book. Yep. And that was, that was all I could really find
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because everything else that I, that I knew about and that I could find out
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about everything was about the.
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Well, I did, I technically did one, but not, it's not, well,
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it was called straight to video, but it was basically, I had a,
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but it was, it was mine, mine, they're all fiction.
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Even though the third book does have a comment. Well, essentially it's a book
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with my, my idea was a book with a commentary track.
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Um, and I got people like Vernon Wells, Richard Stanley, Ed Neumeier.
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And what, what happened with that book? it's called conquest
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of the planet of the tapes straight to video three
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with the series it was about getting people who
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loved like you and me straight to video movies and basically write their ultimate
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straight to video movie as a fiction as a as a short story and collected them
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all but with the and each time i would do one like you brought up the outlaw
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verne he did the forward for the first book,
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Anthony Ferretti, who did the Sharknado movies, did the forward for the second book.
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And so when I was trying to get a forward for the third book,
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I'd put out, you know, requests to a whole bunch of people and I got them all.
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And I thought, you can't have a book with 13 forwards.
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But because I had asked them all to sort of give me their 411, if you will,
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on what their career and what it was like promoting films and working on films
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during the heyday of VHS, I thought, well, because I've got all of these,
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I can space them out through the book.
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I can put a couple of people's stories. And then, oh, here's Randall Frakes,
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who wrote Hell Comes to Frogtown, giving his 411 on, you know,
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the glory of the VHS. Oh, that's cool.
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Were there still VHS tapes when you were, I mean, did you see the end of video
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stores, or were they gone by the time? Oh, no, no.
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One of the things that I did that's kind of implied in the book,
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is that pretty much every review that's in the book is from a movie that I rented
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from a video store. Rough.
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The, I, I had in about 2000, late 2007, I had a new video store actually open
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up just down the street for me. All right.
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That's, that was sort of my, sort of my kick in the ass to, to get writing about B movies.
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Because when I walked into that video store, it was called family video.
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When I walked into that video store, I had seen movies there,
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both in like the new release section.
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And in, they had this section that was like two for a dollar.
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I saw all these movies from like Lionsgate that I had never heard of.
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And I had been going to like Blockbuster and Blockbuster was still a thing at the time.
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Yeah. I'd been going to Blockbuster and I had, I'd seen all kinds of stuff there,
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but in this new video store, there was stuff there that I had never, ever heard of.
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And that was like, uh, the movie Afghan nights with, uh, Michael Madsen.
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Never heard of it. Never saw anything about it ever until I walked into that video store.
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And that's, that was my sort of my I gotta do this now.
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No I mean video stores were always the you know just,
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beautiful libraries when I was a boy.
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There was a massive one. I remember it wasn't, it wasn't close.
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We had to drive a fairway to go to it, but they had like, I don't know,
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30,000 titles. It was. Wow.
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And I could spend hours just walking around, like just looking at all the,
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all the movies and then eventually get around to picking some.
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I i famously pissed off both my
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mother and my wife for taking infinite amounts
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of time selecting movies in video
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stores because i would pace around and oh i haven't seen that maybe i'll watch
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that i don't feel like that you know i mean you you've got to be in the mood
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sometimes for certain certain things even now when i'm standing in front of
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my dvd shop i'll stand there sometimes she said you've been standing there for 45 minutes.
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And I go, well, I've seen, I've seen everything here. I'm deciding what I'm
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in the mood for again. You know what I mean? Well, yeah.
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It happens to me too. Yeah.
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I mean, it's. The day experience is completely different from the streaming experience.
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Yeah. And that's the one thing that people complain about with the whole streaming
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thing is that people spend, people complain that they spend more time looking for something to watch.
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It's true. Than actually watching anything. Yeah, because I,
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particularly with the streamers, the ones that I've looked at,
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I'm constantly on the look through for movies that I remember from back in the
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day, haven't seen for ages, and hopefully they might have them,
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but there's still quite a few.
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And that's one of the things I lament about the video era is there were quite
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a few films that existed that did not survive the transition to a DVD and digital. They've been lost.
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So, I mean, there are a few that I have on very old, bad DHS copies.
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There's a few of them that are able, I used to have one of those videotaped
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to DVD converter machines. Remember those?
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Yep. And man, I put that thing to work so bad because I was putting movies on
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discs that I knew or I figured would never be seen again. And...
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Turned out to be so that they are lost to
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time and and i fear that with with when streaming eventually swallows up you
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know everything physical eventually that will be the case again there'll be
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films that will be lost yeah well i mean tubi seems to be the one that has the largest.
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Library of stuff i mean oh yeah that's like the tubi's like the video story
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i used to have when I was a kid, it's got the trauma films.
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It's got all the full moon pictures.
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It's got every ninja movie you can think of.
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It's got Fred Williamson's Westerns, which boss, have you seen that one?
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Uh, yeah, I saw it years and years ago. Oh man, that's great.
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That's such a great movie.
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Oh man. People who haven't seen Fred Williamson's Westerns, Michael Joe White
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actually did a, a spoof, but like, you know, he did black dynamite.
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He did a Western one that there's actually a spoof of, of Fred Williamson's Westerns that he did.
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Like, I haven't seen that yet, but I know, I know what that is. That looks great.
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It's called Black Hat Harry or something like that. I don't know.
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I forget the name, but it's. Although a friend of mine had seen it.
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I think David, you know, David, David, I think David has seen it and he said
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he was kind of disappointed.
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Like, and, and I, and I trust David's
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opinion. So when he was sort of disappointed, I was like, oh, okay.
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Because Black Dynamite, I thought was good.
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But yeah, he was a little bit. Yeah. Black dynamite was good.
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And the black dynamite cartoon was great too.
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Oh yeah. Did you see the one, the Amazon moon bitches one and he's up in space
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and they literally call him, Hey, big black astronaut dynamite.
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I think because he's an astronaut, it was funny. You know? Oh man.
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That's a hoot. Like, and the movie's great too. Like they're going to take,
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they're going to take away the orphans, not the orphans. they used to be an orphan.
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This is a great movie. And the flashbacks, where he's like, Jimmy,
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13-year-old black dynamite, and I'm telling you not to do drugs.
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That was great. That's what I love about your reviews, Brian,
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is you put your favorite lines in.
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Not enough people do that. I like to do that, too. I don't have to pull the
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time with reviews, but if there's a line that sticks out, Or sometimes even
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the delivery of a line. Because some of the lines are pretty simple.
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They're not tremendously eloquent, but the delivery.
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You know what I mean? Yep.
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Sometimes I notice that myself with the lines that I put in that section,
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that they don't seem all that great.
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If you hear it in the context of the movie, it's always there for a reason.
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Yeah, like someone's delivery of it, you know.
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I mean, there's lines that are great lines.
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But there's, there's lines that are really simple and it's, it's purely,
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it's purely like a situation joke.
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If you're there in the moment and the way the line is set, it's just like,
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bam, you know, even if it's like a throwaway sort of line, like, um,
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like, uh, I love that talking about split second before my favorite,
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it's one of my favorite lines in movies is when the, the captain,
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Alan Armstrong has given Rutger a bunch of shit and he says,
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you know paranoid people with guns are a menace and he grabs dick
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dirk and what tie and he goes you'd be paranoid too if you had
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some dipshit like this following you my my
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my one of my favorite lines in that sort of that area of the movie too is when
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he's come when the kid the captain said something like uh you couldn't get a
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bazooka you surprised you get a bazooka and uh couldn't get a probably Irish
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says he couldn't get a permit.
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Oh, that's great stuff. And then, and, and also to what, what's included in
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your book here again, audience check the links in the description,
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not coming to a theater near you 50 at the great director of video action flicks
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of the early two thousands,
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Brian Kristopovits links in the description.
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Another thing you talk about in the book, Brian is of course,
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the sort of direct-to-DVD careers of some of the biggest one-trick ponies in
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cinema history, like Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren.
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Now, I've seen a lot of these.
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We were talking the other day. Flight of Fury is genius.
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People haven't seen Flight of Fury. This book comes out through Bear Manor Media,
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and I've actually been in a few Bear Manor Media books.
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I don't know if you were in them too. I remember it was a couple of years back
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and they did a series of three and they were kind of like, you had to write
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sort of sarcastic reviews for like Chuck Norris movies.
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Oh, that was David Hayes. That's right. Were you in those as well?
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No, I, I, I missed out on that. Oh, okay.
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No, well, I, I, I, I bring a flight of two reasons.
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One, because I love it. And two is because I was the one who wrote the.
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The review in that book for the Steven Seagal ones.
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You know, that was the one I actually picked.
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Like no one, I was, I was waiting to see. Cause like everyone had sort of picked like the big ones.
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And I was waiting to see if anyone was going to take it. And I waited and I
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waited and I thought, yeah, no one cares. That's great. I do.
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Because it's genius. This is a cross between Firefox, The Rock,
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a whole bunch of movies like that, but done really cheap and really shitty.
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But with so much charm, because the plot is ludicrous.
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They break steven seagal out of prison because he knows too much yet they wiped
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his memory lucky enough they didn't wipe all of the flight training because
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he's the only cat that can fly this special,
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super u-beaut it's like the plot that's basically the plot if anyone's seen
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the pilot of airwolf it's a little bit like the pilot the plot of the pilot
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of airwolf someone has stolen the u-beaut.
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Airwolf helicopter in this case a stealth aircraft and,
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And they need Stringfellow Hawk to come back and be the man he used to be.
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And in this case, it's Steven Seagal. And he's great. He puts absolutely fuck
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all effort into anything. Even his fighting in those latter movies.
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I don't know if you agree.
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It seemed like he was just sort of throwing people around.
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The martial arts sort of disappeared the older he got.
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And it just becomes a case of like he chops them on the shoulder and then throws
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them into the wall kind of shit.
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Oh yeah i mean that's that's definitely part of
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it i mean but i think i think in flight of fury he
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is he's a little he's a little
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more involved with it he's a little oh yeah yeah except for
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that car chase bit where he's driving very pedestrian yet
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when it cuts to the wide shots of the actual cars it was obviously filmed at
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a different time the chase is more hectic but when it cuts back to steven he's
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kind of just he's like vin diesel was in that ravine crossing scene in that
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i think it It was serious. Uh, what was it?
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Was it fast nine? I think it was fast. You know, the bit where him and thing
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are in the car and they swing across the ravine,
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and he doesn't even break a sweat or flinch or anything because he just knows
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that they're going to land safely.
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Well yeah i mean you know
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big steve there he's i mentioned
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in the intro to my book that you can
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tell how invested he is in the movie by how often it looks like he's actually
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fighting and how often it's actually his voice yes and in flight of fury it's
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mostly his voice yeah like like the ones that you point out like the ones where
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he's like his double like does a lot
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and he's just basically the bits where he's talking attack force 2006 is attack
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force yeah is is probably the worst movie outside of against the dark that he.
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Not to be confused with alone in the dark but because i mean with attack force,
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i mean i i don't know how his voice double and
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his stunt double didn't have like top billing with him
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you know exactly the top of the poster bbd cover steven
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seagal his voice actor in a stud double
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because and and
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i mean the thing about this seagal movies from the direct-to-video era and i
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i think you see this in in most of the the sort of the the old action star type
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movies that went direct to video,
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is that they're just incredibly interesting, right?
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They're not as polished as the big deal Hollywood movies that they've made.
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They're not as technically sound, but their plots are interesting,
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and they're bizarre as hell.
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They're weird, but they're interesting.
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And a lot of times, even when a guy like Seagal will play the ex-Black Ops CIA guy, etc.
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It's it's great reading it's great reading the reviews
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everyone is like he's an ex cia he's an
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ex something he's an ex something something something
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oh yeah but i mean he's always in those
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movies in those movies it's he's somehow
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more interesting than whatever he
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was doing in like under siege as the ex
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navy seal turn right yeah
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he's such a badass but you know he he's just he just wants to cook now yeah
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and i mean the same goes for wesley snipes for uh for van damme to a degree
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although van damme is a little more mel he seems to engage more in melancholy than.
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Just a straight up badass i mean if you saw that movie he did last year darkness
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i can't remember the name of it at the moment but he did a movie last year that
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was uh that was really interesting.
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Oh, okay. I missed that one. One of his most interesting performances.
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I saw the one where he was a gardener.
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He's a gardener. Well, I can't rubbish that. I've written a movie.
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I wrote The Handyman, for God's sake.
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Catching that, trying to catch that wave. We've had the beekeeper and the bricklayer.
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And yeah, next we're going to have the telemarketers.
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Well, why not? He's the telemarketer with a past.
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Oh, yeah. He's ex-Black Ops, CIA.
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Yeah. And one day he's doing his telemarketing thing,
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and he accidentally calls someone who's being kidnapped by a covert whatever
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because they know the secret to something because they saw something they shouldn't have,
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and he's forced to come out of retirement and hang
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up his headset and stop selling you know
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sunscreen and oh hell yeah
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man it'd be like the greatest movie ever right there why not
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get me i'd buy you know they're doing they're doing everything else i mean brian
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our childhoods are not going to disappear there's a masters of the universe
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coming out next year there's more ninja turtles coming i mean yeah another star wars movie i mean.
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Well franchises can't die franchises can't
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die they just you know they they they
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disappear for a little bit make too much money for people well you
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know it's like what uh far said there in
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transfers four you know wizards don't die
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they're just metaphysically inconvenienced i love transfers
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four i got when i was talking to tim thomason way
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back when and we were talking
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about the trances movies because i know you're a fan but i said
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man i love i love four and five the
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medieval ones and he's like you like that and i'm like yeah that's
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you know i mean come on it's medieval times they're
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vampires they've got names that are like from
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shakespearean plays you've got the play yeah the the characters from the tempest
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yeah and yeah what's not to love especially because Tim is completely like I
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know it's like fish out of water stuff because he's completely contemporary but I like that.
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Like they're all medieval and stuff. And he's like, you know,
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what the fuck are you doing, man?
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Yeah, that was great. I mean, I had hopes that those four and five would lead
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to more trancers movies where it would really needed a, and you really need
30:37
Jack, Jeff really needed a better send off.
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Like six was. Yeah. Six is six is an interesting idea, but it's just not good. It's not a good movie.
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Yeah. It's just a cop out. It's like, because, you know, they,
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they couldn't, obviously they didn't have something that was interesting enough
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for Tim Thomason to do. So it's, it's him.
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They couldn't afford him anyway.
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As I had one filmmaker tell me they went after, who's in a trances movie too.
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He's the, he's the bad guy in trances too, Richard Lynch.
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They went after Richard Lynch ultimately for a role that Tim Thomason would
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fill. Have you seen that?
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What? what vampire vampire no
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samurai priest vampire hunter yes yes
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i i saw that movie i saw that movie when it was
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live evil oh you've seen okay yeah well i just the director gave me live evil
31:32
to check out because i said i completely missed this uh so i've seen the the
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the newer restored cut but i said i'd love to see this live evil so he gave
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me a a copy of it yeah not terry he's a great guy.
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Yeah. I'm interested to see, I'm interested to, to compare and contrast.
31:49
Now the live evil with the.
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Well to me i mean the the
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original live evil is very much a sort of grindhouse type
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action horror movie where i
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think samurai priest vampire hunter leans more
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a little into like comic book-ish right
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right it still has all the same elements but it's
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more it opens it up it's opened
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up a little bit more and it's it's more some it's
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weird saying this for a vampire movie but it's somehow more fantastical right
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it's great yeah beautiful stuff
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love it as i loved reading not coming to a theater near you 50 great direct
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to video action flicks from the early 2000s brian chris stopovitz mate i love
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your work keep up all the good work before we run out of time could you tell
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our lovely listeners where they can get your fabulous book,
32:46
Well, you can get it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and pretty much anywhere books are sold.
32:53
I even saw a listing of Walmart's website.
32:56
So pretty much anywhere you can buy a book, you can get it.
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Well, the old WWF videotapes, if you don't see them in the store,
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ask for them. Demand them.
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Not coming to a theater near you. 50 great director video action flick from
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the early 2000s. My guest has been Brian Kristopovits.
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Brian, thank you for being on Cinema Yugen.
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Well, thank you for having me, Ken. It was great.
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Yes, great bloke, Brian Kristopovits.
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Not coming to a theater near you. 50 great direct-to-video action flicks from
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the early 2000s. Say that two times fast.
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I'll give you a free beer.
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Get down to the links in the description. Brian's a great bloke.
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These are all great films. all things bright
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and beautiful all movies great and small
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we love them all here at cinema yugen brian kristoff
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