The Long Good Friday (1980)
Added 2024-03-25 07:00:21 +0000 UTC
The boyz discuss The Long Good Friday.
Speaking on when he jumped on bow ties but he’s just always sort of on it, right?
Emily McCauley
2024-11-28 04:17:26 +0000 UTC
Stanger was ahead of the curve. Accept it. I believe he always knows what’s up especially out of this three. Sorry love you all.
Emily McCauley
2024-11-28 04:15:48 +0000 UTC
Update, it’s Newcomers pod. Comes out soon
Andrew Braswell
2024-04-12 20:04:13 +0000 UTC
gabrus, poofter is a slur. if you wouldn't use the f-slur or t-slur please don't use that term.
Eliana
2024-04-06 19:12:13 +0000 UTC
I was mildly disappointed
Pumpkin Pie Hair-Cutted Freak
2024-04-06 17:29:46 +0000 UTC
I believe Rade Šerbedžija's country of origin dissolved with Yugoslavia. I heard on Pod Casty For Me he was one of those go to guys to represent Soviet decrepitude as a kind of ambassador for capitalism but he's been nostalgic for Titoism in recent interviews- maybe just because economics across the board deteriorated.
Sarah Tippishly
2024-04-04 19:30:16 +0000 UTC
I typically don’t comment but fuck, I had to finally say something…….this was one of those episodes (along with Hard Times, Miller’s Crossing, and I think Yakuza) where I had to stop the podcast and go watch the movie for the first time. What a fucking treat.
Jacob Lucero
2024-04-02 07:18:46 +0000 UTC
Wow, that last scene in the Jaaaag. Does Hoskins have more lower teeth than humans?
Hammerthrust Von Sexron
2024-04-01 01:43:26 +0000 UTC
I was a defender of true detective s2 but now that I’ve seen this I’m a lot less charitable towards it. Pizzolatto basically lifted this entire plot for Vince Vaughns storyline. Thanks ABZ for incrementally increasing my media literacy
Joe B
2024-03-31 14:04:11 +0000 UTC
Man I love to hear people sing the praises of Bob Hoskins. Truly a great actor. I highly recommend Felicia’s Journey. Hoskins is AMAZING in that.
Charlie Horgan
2024-03-31 13:14:07 +0000 UTC
Anyone else notice the criterion channel looking just better in general than other streamers? I'm no expert, but even if something isn't being upscaled by the TV, some streaming material still has that video-like too many frames a second cheap look, especially when the camera pans across static stuff. Haven't noticed this bummer on criterion, maybe confirmation bias
Ant
2024-03-31 01:29:27 +0000 UTC
You actually have lost your mind. Sorry.
Antti
2024-03-30 18:51:43 +0000 UTC
Hoskins Wolverine, Jason Alexander Cyclops, John Polito Gambit, Larry David Professor X
Jon Smith
2024-03-28 03:12:03 +0000 UTC
Great PBS docuseries on The Troubles: https://www.pbs.org/show/once-upon-time-northern-ireland/
Trevvie
2024-03-27 18:14:31 +0000 UTC
Hoping this is on the list for the boyz in 2024
Jason E Becker
2024-03-27 11:36:50 +0000 UTC
The Parky is Mine
Clifford
2024-03-27 04:52:18 +0000 UTC
Anybody hunt down what pod they guested on talking Taxi Driver (1976)?
Andrew Braswell
2024-03-27 02:09:56 +0000 UTC
Watched Peter Weir's The Plumber (1979) yesterday and was repeatedly distracted by the actor Robert Coleby because he looks exactly like Stanger. I've been on some medication lately, but I don't think I've lost my mind. It's a great little movie, too. youtube.com/watch?v=Bkz2JRwZ4Eg
Ken Collier
2024-03-26 19:33:24 +0000 UTC
Our middle school sports field was called “Flutie Field” and he’d come to fundraiser events and things
Liz Arcury
2024-03-26 18:24:22 +0000 UTC
Doug Flutie’s Florida home is in my hometown, Melbourne Beach! My parents still live there and we drive by his house all the time, the Batmobile is very visible lol. He talks to my dad when they see each other at the beach or either one of the only two local restaurants. We got all the behind the scenes about his Dancing with the Stars experience, he hated it and said they wanted him to participate in a fake dramatic “arc” and he refused 😂
Liz Arcury
2024-03-26 18:20:49 +0000 UTC
I prefer the Octopus Murders
bloodflart
2024-03-26 17:18:58 +0000 UTC
I don't think they have the fortitude to make it through half the first early Bond films
bloodflart
2024-03-26 17:17:46 +0000 UTC
“GOD…DAMN!!! Stone, Nancy get in here” is my new favorite bit.-
Steakmoss
2024-03-26 16:00:39 +0000 UTC
shout out forrest lawn!! i worked there
eric crahen
2024-03-26 01:15:37 +0000 UTC
This movie IS the top ten Uk gangster flicks, unassailable. Oh and Statham? Started out as an Olympic high diver! No shit, check out the videos
Haunted Screen
2024-03-26 00:42:01 +0000 UTC
Man I miss Stanger Bot
Flappy McGillicuddy-Jones III
2024-03-26 00:09:07 +0000 UTC
Steven Seagal totally got ripped off.
My Octopus's Teacher is the far superior film.
Swoll Tits
2024-03-25 23:44:51 +0000 UTC
Stanger’s on fire this ep.
Sean Hutchinson
2024-03-25 23:29:37 +0000 UTC
Great little story of Liam Neeson seeing Helen Mirren on set of Excalibur on Graham Norton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoY0J5jSbTM&ab_channel=TheGrahamNortonShow
Scott Tammel
2024-03-25 21:49:43 +0000 UTC
I recently watched Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland. I had some basic facts down about the troubles but this for me did a great job to kind of put you in the mindset of how it was if you lived in and around those times. Its a very personal look at The Troubles and I find it very illuminating.
https://www.pbs.org/show/once-upon-time-northern-ireland/
Scott Tammel
2024-03-25 21:37:11 +0000 UTC
"SHUT UP, YOU LONG STREAK OF PARALYZED PISS!"
Great movie, great OST.
Stephen Navarrete
2024-03-25 21:36:25 +0000 UTC
Please accept my apology for shamefully commenting regarding Debt for the Enemy of the State episode. I'm filled with terror every time I comment and yet I still do it and I still mess up.
Also, a good late career Hoskins is as the villain in Unleashed with Jet Li.
Arkady_84
2024-03-25 21:23:43 +0000 UTC
Anyone else looking for a great Hoskins role check out Mona Lisa, IMO Neil Jordan's best movie and a classic lonely-loser-heartbroken-gangster movie.
David McElroy
2024-03-25 20:29:41 +0000 UTC
I missed some of the details around Rodgers bringing up Brazil, but that's one of the movies I always think of when I think of Bob Hoskins. He has a great small part in that. And I loved him as J. Edgar Hoover in Nixon. Also not bad in Enemy at the Gates as Nikita Kruschev.
David Bauer
2024-03-25 19:54:35 +0000 UTC
I'll have to check that out.
David Bauer
2024-03-25 19:53:09 +0000 UTC
My husband and I watched Quicksand a few years ago and were wildly disappointed. We were shocked there was a movie with both Keaton & Caine in it that we’d never heard of but after watching it we were like “oh, that’s why.” At the very least we were expecting the “we didn’t know how good we had it” feeling that the Boyz often discuss but sadly not. Has anyone else seen it?
Jenn
2024-03-25 19:02:44 +0000 UTC
Apparently Newcomers is doing Scorsese next
Graham Parker
2024-03-25 18:44:22 +0000 UTC
Great book to check out about the Troubles is Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. It's about a decades-old murder-kidnapping that implicates some key members of the IRA, including people like Gerry Adams. Some of the figures mentioned in the book were clearly magnetic personalities within the IRA in the sixties and inspired multiple works of fiction. You can tell for example that both Natasha Richardson's character in The Crying Game and the red-haired Irish terrorist in Patriot Games are both inspired by the same real-life IRA activist who was implicated in the murder-kidnapping in Say Nothing. It's a great read if you want to learn more about the history of the region.
Eric Manch
2024-03-25 18:40:23 +0000 UTC
Northern Ireland is Church of England - Protestant. Ireland is a mostly Catholic country. It's sectarian violence. But also Ireland doesn't like England on their island
Chabnormal
2024-03-25 17:40:04 +0000 UTC
For me this movie is in the top 1% of ABZ movies. I'd never seen it until a couple of years ago when Tim Simons was hyping it up on twitter. I do think the plot is a little muddy in that what does it matter that Colin skimmed because the IRA guys who knew he skimmed immediately got murdered. It was the IRA pinning that murder on Harold that mattered I think. But who cares 5 stars.
Mitch Kapa
2024-03-25 17:39:39 +0000 UTC
Sooo all the content so far is just bs and riffs… I’m still in… 🤓
Thomas
2024-03-25 17:20:43 +0000 UTC
Normally the people who own/run a pub are called the landlord, though I do like pub master
Bobby Nitro
2024-03-25 16:42:47 +0000 UTC
Lmao at Shaggy the Draft Dodger
MB
2024-03-25 16:02:30 +0000 UTC
Just watched this movie for the first time at work. Wow! Great pick guys.
RutgerHauerPowerHour
2024-03-25 15:49:26 +0000 UTC
“Stop picking on Stanger! He can talk about Santa whenever he wants—anytime of the year! 😡”
Paul
2024-03-25 15:31:33 +0000 UTC
I miss Flutie's Neugenix commercials.
Michael Pemulis
2024-03-25 15:19:31 +0000 UTC
Holy shit this movie fucken ruled. Thanks for the intro to it
Loose Goose
2024-03-25 14:20:13 +0000 UTC
So what is the podcast they referenced guesting on?
Random thought, would love a Shadow Wolves covering Who's Harry Crumb
Thea Michailides
2024-03-25 14:13:03 +0000 UTC
Rade Serbedzija broke through to international audiences and was cast in ‘The Saint’, ‘MI:II’, et al. because of his performance in a great movie called ‘Before the Rain’ that’s streaming on the Criterion Channel.
Frank Kimball
2024-03-25 14:09:27 +0000 UTC
Licensing isn’t always great with older soundtracks on streaming services. But this score is actually on Spotify!
Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)
2024-03-25 14:07:26 +0000 UTC
Gabrus explaining the high and might intro to Biden got me good.
Megan
2024-03-25 13:59:46 +0000 UTC
As someone who once accidentally took a big bite of food full of maggots, I'd describe the sensation as similar to eating Rice Krispies or caviar without the saltiness
Berko Pierce
2024-03-25 13:59:26 +0000 UTC
I don't really "get" Roger Rabbit either. Not my bag. Not enough temporal pincer movements
MB
2024-03-25 13:44:44 +0000 UTC
Sometimes, theres a man, well he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s Bob Hoskins
PatrickKilbrogan
2024-03-25 13:38:35 +0000 UTC
Good episode 👍
The Buffmaster
2024-03-25 13:36:18 +0000 UTC
"London will be Europe's capital" opposite of Brexit right?
bloodflart
2024-03-25 13:12:07 +0000 UTC
Between that and Roger Rabbit I loved Bob Hopkins as a kid
bloodflart
2024-03-25 12:36:26 +0000 UTC
Helen Mirren is the smokest of shows
bloodflart
2024-03-25 12:35:40 +0000 UTC
As good as Bob Hoskins is in this, he’s even better in ‘Mona Lisa’, which is also streaming on the Criterion Channel and Max.
Frank Kimball
2024-03-25 12:34:43 +0000 UTC
Young is relative when it comes to his big ole head
bloodflart
2024-03-25 12:34:29 +0000 UTC
Yea the subtitle typer def never heard of an abattoir! Also they were just wrong sometimes. Pretty good stuff.
David McElroy
2024-03-25 12:33:25 +0000 UTC
Awesome book!
David McElroy
2024-03-25 12:32:38 +0000 UTC
For Stanger, "Unleashed," with Jet Li has Hoskins as a gangster co-lead and was pretty decent.
Christopher Davis
2024-03-25 12:09:15 +0000 UTC
Loved this movie, watched it with the subtitles on because some of the British slang was hard to catch. And it clearly wasn’t just me. Whoever was in charge of the subtitles must have been American. Multiple times when people were talking, they just gave up and wrote [inaudible] for half the lines ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)
2024-03-25 12:08:04 +0000 UTC
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Great book about the troubles. The Audiobook is narrated by Matthew Blaney who has a beautiful Irish accent.
Starts with the people who were “disappeared” by the IRA as a jumping-off point, but covers all of the Troubles.
VHSMIA
2024-03-25 12:02:12 +0000 UTC
Holy shit, I watched this last night and it’s amazing. The amount of European actors in this who I’ve seen in a million things is crazy. Great movie.
ShangDangus
2024-03-25 10:58:17 +0000 UTC
Spotting a young Brick Top was a nice surprise
Gilligan(The marooned Ranchero)
2024-03-25 10:54:18 +0000 UTC
Don’t single out that Stanger lies. Now every time he speaks I 2nd guess everything he’s saying.
Don Knott Steiner
2024-03-25 10:45:00 +0000 UTC
This was great, thanks a bunch for making me check it out.
Dark Angel Of The Year
2024-03-25 07:24:50 +0000 UTC
I pulled a Stanger and accidentally watched The Long Goodbye starring Elliott Gould and an uncredited mustachioed Schwarzenegger. Not disappointed.
Cole Trickle
2024-03-25 07:01:32 +0000 UTC