[PREVIEW] 🎙🧚♀️ #075 - The Last Boy Scout
from Commentary Fairy
Where there's a Willis, there's a Wayan. In one instance at least. Despite being a film that would seemingly dredge up a stadium-ful of bad memories for Bruce Willis, Tony Scott, Joel Silver and Shane Black... it's actually not a bad time, thanks mostly to Shane Black's script, or at least, whatever remains of it after Willis and Silver tried to punch it up by breaking off its nasal bone into its brain cavity. Discussed in this episode: Getting fatally tangled up in the Wayans family tree Great ball control, not-so-great gun control Bruce Willis' permanent hangover Recklessly timed cheating Steamy, sweaty, smokey, nasty 90s chic The most spectacular failure in the history of hired protection Hallenbeck's wildly inconsistent bodyguard career: Flashback 1) dives in front of two bullets to protect his client. Flashback 2) breaks into his client's bathroom and punches them in the face. Jimmy's super bad luck with women he Dix The naivety of assuming that players pulling firearms and shooting other players would hurt football viewership Awkward-as-hell old-school one-camera celebrity interviews with faked, after-the-fact interviewer coverage (eg: https://youtu.be/SNVy9Woniqk?t=451) (See also - a critical plot point in Broadcast News) Armed, hero-guarding henchmen possessing the kind of trust that would allow an unfaithful wife to sleep with the entire city of Los Angeles and never get caught The most conflict-free film production since Apocalypse Now Ownership of the football team still not entitling you to a decent parking space Ignoring the potential collateral damage of a bomb going off in a residential area because yay - we got the bad guy! Thanks to Mr. Porter for the suggestion! (if you want to sync it up to the film, we hit PLAY @ 6:57)
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