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we absolutely love each week Yeah, I read as

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Yeah As much as I don't care for the original

I'm also thinking about Going back and doing

some you know looking at some older film like

really old like Recently on another one of our

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of James Bond, Michael Knight. bullet and uh

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time I actually listened to one of their episodes

all the way through. Um, oh, that's what it was.

It was, um, it was McQueen, Hasselhoff, Connery,

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Michael Knight. Frank Martin from Transporter

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I don't even know where I was going with this

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and I've heard so much about Bullet and I wanna

see it, but watching the older films outside

of, like, the Three Stooges and the Thin Man

movies, it really scares me because, like, I

didn't like the Thomas Crown Affair. The original

Thomas, like, it just wasn't my thing. So looking

at some of these older films... really does scare

me. I'm not going in with any preconceived notions.

I'm not gonna go in and trash a movie. That's

the point of NYR right now at this moment in

2014. Films that we absolutely love or films

that we haven't really, like in my, you know,

me personally, I haven't ever seen. So, you know,

I'm trying to expand my movie palette As it were

and this time around we're gonna be talking about

2003's SWAT Did you see this in theaters, uh,

you know, I'm trying to remember if I did I think

I did I think my dad dragged me to go see it

and he wanted to go see and I thought this is

gonna be awful, you know Well, I mean cuz most

at the time you had a lot of the TV series that

were becoming movies and you know You had things

like bewitched which was god -awful You know,

so I was my expectations were really really low

for this movie and then we went to go see it

and I'm like Damn, this is pretty good The 2003

SWAT is obviously based off of the 1975 television

series starring Steve Forrest, Rod Perry, Robert

Ulrich. SWAT was before my time. It really was.

It was five years before my time and it only

lasted two seasons. It only got 37 episodes in

a row. It only got 30s. I'm really surprised.

I mean, like the 70s and 80s for television,

I mean, it was a melting pot of cheesy cop shows

or, you know, over dramatic kind of drama these

and everything else. And I'm really surprised

SWAT only lasted two seasons. I mean, I really

am. So I know the theme song, and I've heard

of it and all this and all that, and I know of

the original theme song. What is absolutely hilarious

to me about the 2003 film is that they got Hot

Action Cop to do an updated... It's called Samuel

L. Jackson, but... It's based, you know, they

start off with the you know, but they start off

with it and then they go on and talk about You

know part of the movie and everything else But

this movie I I love this movie. I don't think

I saw this in theaters in 2003. I'm sure I Honestly

don't think I've seen this in the theater. I've

seen it multiple times on video DVD and more

most recently when i watched it was on uh...

it was on stars or something or other yeah i'd

i'd think that's the last time i thought maybe

it was on like affects or something but or no

i'd know i haven't seen on regular basic at all

it's like on stars or uh... uh... you know it

was it was all of my movie package channels like

that oh yes so so i didn't have to watch the

uh... you know TV version Yeah, although I have

to say it wasn't all that bad I mean, you know,

there were certain things that were cut out You

know all the swear words and everything which

that happens and seeing some of the guys get

shot that happens But you know other than that

it wasn't too different from what I saw, you

know, so I mean it wasn't bad right All right.

So as we said came out in 2003 It is starring

Samuel Jackson Colin Farrell Michelle Rodriguez

LL Cool J Jeremy Renner is in this I believe

this was the first role I'd seen him it like

this before he got His big push. Yeah to where

he is now And hot damn I liked him in this I

thought it was great him playing the bad guy

Yeah, I was I was a little surprised and how

he was being kind of an ass in this film and

I was kind of like, okay And then just to see

him kind of switch up. It was it was kind of

like this isn't bad I really kind of like him

playing like this So You are going to hear the

trailer and then we're gonna come back with or

you're gonna hear a couple of clips or something

I don't know if I'm gonna actually put the full

trailer in here But you're gonna hear something,

we're gonna come back with thoughts on the overall

plot of the movie after this. Alright, we are

back here on M Wire. So, Jim Street, played by

Colin Farrell, who is a former U .S. Navy SEAL

and hotshot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department,

and his SWAT team are sent to stop a gang of

robbers who have taken over a bank. So this is

how we open the movie. Jim Street and Gamble.

I think it's Brian Gamble, I think, is his name.

Yeah. Oh lord. They made Jeremy Renner a Corrupt

cop white man's version of Brian Gumbel. Oh My

god, so they go in and I do remember I do remember

having the DVD of this movie and I do remember

watching the special features the director was

saying at the time they were looking at the LA

police riots and they wanted to kind of mimic

that as far as the the opening scene with the

chopper going around and all the radio chatter

that you hear and everything else. I really do

like that. I thought that was interesting. Basically,

they go in, they get a hold order, and they obviously

gamble, disobeys the hold, shoots a hostage to

get the bad guy, and the shit just hits the fan

from there. Yeah. What did you think of the opening

scene? You know I thought it was pretty awesome

Especially when you consider that the guys who

showed up there when they were first coming out

you see these guys Wearing body armor that are

coming out and battling against the cops. I mean

it they literally this is Art imitating life

in this respect because they actually did have

this happening with the LAPD at one time And

the LAPD actually started running into a gun

shop to pull out Assault weapons from the gun

shop that were being sold to take down these

guys with these with this body armor And it was

just it was amazing to see that they actually

pulled this in and did it It was I really really

enjoyed how they put all this together and they

actually brought you into the action. You kind

of got that the You know thrown into the heart

of it and the guys are you're seeing bullets

flying around you type of thing I really like

that feel Mm -hmm. Yeah, absolutely. I love that

high -action feel without their really be like

You know gunfights and car chases and car crashes,

and you know cars crashing into buildings It's

all high adrenaline stuff, but this movie in

this opening scene. It made it feel like it was

in slow motion Yeah, I mean you know he does

the role he does the shot hits the hostage hits

the hits the the bad guy and You know Bob's your

uncle They go, this actually reminds me of something

that was eight years prior to this release, Speed.

It reminds me a little bit about Speed and Keanu

Reeves and everything else, but I still love

this. I love this look at the LAPD SWAT team,

even though it's a fictional version of the LAPD

SWAT team. Now around this, well, actually about...

Three years three or four years after this I

had gotten into all those reality shows on A

&E like Dallas SWAT Detroit SWAT where you actually

see the the actual live you know the the real

SWAT team so that This movie you know three or

four years after it released on you know in theaters

and on DVD and everything else kind of you know

started a trend where you would have all these

all these SWAT reality shows which is kind of

nice and it's kind of something a little different

and a little bit more educational than most reality

television is. Yeah. I mean, anybody and their

uncle can have a towing reality show or a show

about, you know, hey, we're a famous family.

Let's have seven seasons of a show and whatever

else. Let's put our drama to the world or whatever

else. But no, this movie, the opening scene and

then you kind of get the calm down scene where

you see that Gamble and Street are in trouble,

obviously. This scene reminds me of the Top Gun

scene where Goose and Mav are in trouble. Obviously

neither Goose or Mav had to snitch on each other

and Street doesn't snitch. Right. You know, Street

doesn't, you know, rat out his partner, although

everyone assumes that he did. And I think that's

interesting about the Street character is that

they portray him as this strong, silent type,

and you don't really know what he's gonna do.

But he's not, you know, he's no 1987 Dolph Lundgren

as He -Man. I mean, Colin Farrell is an actor

who has a lot of muscle on him, and he is in

shape for this movie, but they kind of mask it

with a lot of his fashion in the film, which

I think is a cool way to do a character like

that, where you have the strong, silent type

here in Street, but he doesn't have to be...

The big surly strong like the literal sense of

the word of strong silent type So as as this

is going on obviously street and gamble split

up You know their partnership is no more gamble

goes off and does God knows what we then switch

to Alex Alexander Montell Very unfortunate last

name Bet that's his middle name Alexander Montell

Williams Who is a who is a French drug lord who's

coming back into the country to kill his uncle

and he gets caught in doing this by Driving his

uncle's car that he basically stole even though

he says he borrowed he basically stole the car.

Yeah Don't they stop him for for a broken taillight?

Something like that. Yes, something like really

idiotic. Yep Yep, and then and then they look

at the registration and then they you know, they

have to call it in and everything else and they

detain him and He ends up in jail what I like

about this movie is how they have the two plots

that are really separate in the beginning you

have the whole plot with Street and Gamble and

then you flash forward in time where Street,

you know Went ahead and took the cage job And

I guess obviously gamble Went off on his own

outside of the LAPD And I What I love about this

is how it's two completely separate plots, but

they slowly once Hondo comes in when Samuel Jackson

comes in the plot slowly gradually Start to mold

together. Yeah, because I mean it's all it's

really like watching two separate movies. It's

you know, it's like You know, you've got the

left hand over here and the right hand over here

and neither one of them have anything to do each

other and then at some point somehow They meld

together so well Yeah, they it was This was a

well -written film. I gotta say because of those

two plots that came together and you know you

are seeing kind of what's going on with the drug

lord and you're starting to see what You know,

you're kind of seeing this other path with Street

and you know him going through SWAT and going

through kind of the training well I shouldn't

say training but like getting into all the special

weapons and tactics things they're doing and

You see them kind of developing him up as this,

you know rookie character. I guess would be the

best way to put it Mm -hmm, and then you see

in the background you see everything that's going

on with Montel and Him, you know going to jail

and screaming out that he's gonna pay 100 million

dollars to anybody who can rescue him You know,

I love that, you know, cuz I would have thought

that somebody would have cut that off You know

that if it was any real news story that we've

done Oh, no, no. No, we're not gonna allow this

to be aired at all because we don't want that

to get out But no, no Yeah Yeah, I just love

how he says it. $100 million to whoever gets

me out of here. And it's like, you know, it's

just like, wow. And I think the only other film

I really have seen this guy in, the guy that

plays Montel, what's his name? Oliver Martinez,

I believe is unfaithful with... god what's the

name of that actress um oh god what is the name

of that one um there was it was richard gear

and uh let's see richard dianne lane that's what

it was um You know that was really the only other

movie I had seen him in and that was actually

a year before this But I like him as a bad guy.

He's pretty you know you see him you you see

him come into the to the restaurant and you know

he's being all nice and Next thing you know slit

yeah, and he just walks out with you know with

He plays a damn good bad guy. Oh, yeah Yeah,

I don't know what it is with these French guys.

They they seem to play just these evil villains

Yes, but he pulls this off so well Yeah, absolutely

So we've got him being jailed and as this is

going on Hondo You know kind of looks at Street

and he kind of knows like he wants Street on

his new SWAT team is that that he's gonna have

um... and you know he gets straight out of the

cage, has them go driving for him and they're

going driving around uh... looking for the other

team members uh... i believe the first one they

get to is the guy that won't eat an american

hot dog this is your straight laced by the book

cop that doesn't like rookie like this guy Reminds

me something out of police academy. Honestly,

I mean this guy I could totally see that You

know and he goes through and you know I Could

see something like, you know, just you know saying,

you know, give me a hot dog with ketchup That'd

be fine. But no this guy goes through An entire

menu of ingredients he doesn't want on it or

he does want on it. And you can clearly tell

he's not SWAT material. He looks like he's better

suited for Wall Street as far as his physical

appearance than anything else. So we get that.

And then the next guy we get to is... Mr. Mama

said knock you out. He shows up in the weirdest

places. Last time I saw him before this movie

was 2002. 2002's Rollerball with Chris Clime

was in Rollerball. LL Cool J. I love him. He's

a great actor. I like some of his music. Even

though I haven't really gotten into the series

from the beginning I've seen several different

episodes over the years of NCIS Los Angeles with

him and and D 'Artagnan himself Chris O'Donnell

I should say Robin. Yeah, you know And I like

them in that show. I like the character that

LL Cool J plays and this one here Plays another

damn good character and he's chugging after this

guy I mean like full -on sprint and it was absolutely

amazing so we also get on the team we get boxer

and TJ and the final one they go to meet is a

guy by the name of Chris Sanchez only Chris is

not a guy and Chris is not attached to Vin Diesel

this time around. Oh Come on now. Oh Yeah, come

on now. So yes, Michelle Rodriguez as Chris Sanchez

and she's I I don't want to say Spitfire cuz

I feel like I'm you know talking from the 50s

She's one hell of a lady cop, and because she

has too many complaints, they won't allow her

to try out for SWAT. And I think it's also because

of Captain Fuller's very narrow -mindedness that,

oh, she's a girl. She doesn't need to be on SWAT

kind of thing. Captain Fuller, I know I've seen

him someplace. I really do. But I just can't

remember. Larry Poindexter, what an unfortunate

last name to be saddled with. Larry Poindexter,

I swear, when I saw him in this movie, I was

like, where have I seen that guy before? Did

you ever see American Ninja 2? No. Once I saw

him, I looked him up on IMDB. I'm like, oh shit,

yes, I remember him now. I I'm looking at his

I think it might have been criminal minds or

bones that I've seen an episode of him in I'm

real like I'm looking at like I don't recognize

anything That he's I mean I recognize the shows

that he's done, but I don't recognize his characters

From the shows that he's like I mean I know all

about resilient aisles. You know so yeah, you

know but really don't he's one of those actors

that he has a voice and a face I know I've seen

it somewhere before but even looking through

here I there's nothing in this that tells me

maybe the TV series Las Vegas maybe I remember

him from that but other than that I mean everything

else I do not remember like I don't remember

seeing him in anything else other than this movie

so Captain Fuller has basically you know this

this very narrow -minded view of who should be

on SWAT because because Street is on his shit

list he doesn't want him on there because Sanchez

is a girl he doesn't want her on there but Hondo

says I'm putting you on there and I'm putting

her on there just to piss the captain off And

that's something I loved Hondo just his whole

character any the man Like I don't even care

about getting a credit card, but the man makes

me want to call capital one It doesn't any role

Samuel Jackson ever plays and I know lately he's

He's all about the fury and the Marvel movies

and all that and everything else, but holy crap

anything this man does is Amazing. I mean this

guy this is one of those actors that could sit

there and read the damn names out of a phone

book and you would just be amazed at what this

guy does. He was shaft for Christ's sake. Yes.

Well, and it's funny that you mentioned him reading

names out of the phone book because just before

we did this, I happened to find, uh, I happened

to find his narration of the book, Go the Fuck

to Sleep. He's like all the kittens are asleep

my dear why the fuck won't you go to sleep? After

spotlight on Samuel L Jackson go the fuck to

sleep So, Hondo gets his team. So it's Hondo,

obviously team leader, Street, Sanchez, Deke,

TJ, um, crap, Boxer, you know, TJ McCabe, Boxer,

and... Yeah, I think that yeah, it's boxer TJ

Deke Chris and in street. Yeah, yeah and They

go out and do the training and I love the way

Jackson and Farrell interact. Oh, yeah, like

they're like their characters. It's so well done

I love that about their Kelly when they're on

the training range is like don't beat them so

bad that I can't get a rematch Okay, whatever

hey man, that's my money man, you know Yeah,

I Love how each character is very different from

like you these are basically Five or six people

that you've essentially most of them picked off

the street Pun intended. Yeah, you know, you

know picked off the street and you know it really

oh god reminds Seven strangers This is essentially

what would really happen if SWAT had a real -world

season on MTV And they all come together they

do this training and obviously Street wins Because

he's an excellent marksman. Oh, yeah So they

come together they do that They go out on a call

But the guy who was barricaded in his house And

this invention that Street has been working on,

you know, this guy, you know, they say over the

radio that the guy is, you know, he's hearing

aliens and everything else. This whole thing

with this hook invention that Street has come

up with is that, you know, you shoot it into

the wall and you pull a wall. Okay, the analytical...

the side of my brain that says oh my god this

makes this movie so fucking stupid because it's

questioning me what's making me ask this question

is that is that like the LAPD has to pay these

people back right like i i know they're criminals

but you can't just just i mean it it's like superheroes

you can't just go around destroying people's

houses without having some sort of repercussion

right right so we get this and and We see the

guy in the house going around going around and

all of a sudden He sees the two hooks come in.

He's like it is the damn aliens. I was Absolutely

love that scene So we get to gamble gamble being

the one that gets Montell out And that that's

where the two plots written, you know, that's

where the two plots of the movie really, you

know a line and we get to the fact that you know,

the SWAT team is gonna go in and obviously secure

him and deliver him to the prison and Gamble

and his team break him out They then have to

chase Gamble and his team Through the sewers

and train tracks and everything else and I'm

telling you when they were walking up to that

train. It's speed all over again. It really is.

I'm not saying that to mean it to be bad at all,

but like seriously, I really, you know, this

is drawing an illusion of speed. So they go through

the train, they go down into the tunnel and of

course, once you get below The train tracks of

course the radios aren't gonna work which leads

fuller to oh well they're in on it They're gonna

help him escape and whatever else of course We

see gambles city Claymore which obviously street

tackles Deke and saves him from setting off the

trip wire and and Montell is like what's the

matter didn't you hear something? No, that's

the problem So they put a chain lock on this

fence that leads out of this drainage tunnel.

And Street goes back, gets the claymore, blows

the door open, and we get to the big final scene

where we have this plane coming in on the 6th

Street bridge. Yes, and there's actually a really

funny story about this. I remember actually seeing

the night that they were filming this. where

they're showing them at the 6th Street Bridge.

There was a car chase that was going on, LAPD

was chasing these people, and it was all over

K -Cal 9. And they actually, you see the guy,

and he's hauling ass, and all of a sudden he

comes right up through the 6th Street Bridge,

drives right through the movie set, almost clips

the plane that's sitting there on the 6th Street

Bridge, and just keeps going right through, and

you see like the film crew is standing there,

and you see this, this is all taking place from

a chopper view. But you can see the film crew

standing there and going, uh, what the fuck is

this? Is this in the script? I mean, you could

you could see them literally doing that and kind

of going, what the hell just happened? It was

all was so great. And and the news reporters

are going, oh, yeah, they're going right through

a filming. Yes, there's apparently a new movie

coming out that they're going to have a plane

in it. And so when I saw this scene, I'm like,

oh, shit, I remember this. Oh, okay. So overall,

I love the plot. I love the characters. I love

the actors. The fact that Street and Boxer actually

have some sort of anti -chemistry against each

other because Street is dating Boxer's sister.

I do love that. You know, Samuel Jackson. just

amazing LL Cool J and Matt. All of the actors

in this movie are really great. I didn't mention

this, but in order for them to get past in the

earlier part of the movie, in order for them

to be approved to be the SWAT team or to be the

premier SWAT team, they have to do the course

with the airplane. And Apollo 440's time is running

out. It starts by... I love that scene! Oh, yes!

I freaking love that scene. I love the look on

Fuller's face when part of the somebody shot

and they missed and it hit the window where the

where the observation people are and Fuller's

like, holy shit. Glad that wasn't a real bullet

because yeah, I love that scene. I love everything

about this movie. What are your overall thoughts

on the plot the characters it was a lot better

than I expected it to be the characters were

The only one who I really didn't care much for

was Michelle Rodriguez. It was I mean Partially

was just because I felt like she was just there

and she was this, you know tough Latina cop type

thing But everybody else I thought did just a

really great job even a little cool Jade that

surprised me because that was really my first

time seeing him act other than toys and Yeah,

toys was coming in, you know See him actually

act and he was funny. He was good. I was really

surprised by this I thought holy shit. He he's

good at this, you know, and of course you got

Samuel L Jackson who's just ah Shit, we gotta

go in after these guys now, you know, I mean

he's just good in everything he does honestly.

Oh, yeah I mean, really. The only time before

this movie, as I said, that I saw L. Cool J was

Rollerball. He was in Charlie's Angels as Mr.

Jones. He was in Any Given Sunday. He was in

Caught Up in 1998. But before that was his television

series. In the house from 95 to 99. Yeah, he

played Marion Hill. I love that show See and

I have to admit I never saw it. I knew that it

was on but I just never saw it I oh god, I love

that show. It was so that really shows his His

comedy it really does I mean, we're not going

to sit here, folks, and go through all these

people's filmographies. Renner has gone on to

have an amazing career. I do want to highlight

on Josh Charles because this is Mr. Knox Overstreet

from Dead Poet Society. Chris, Chris, I love

you, Chris from Dead Poets Society. I knew every

time I see Josh Charles, I know I recognize him

because I like his voice. I like the way he looks

as far as his roles or anything else. He hasn't

really done... He was Detective Fowler and Four

Brothers in 2005 since SWAT. Recently like I

mean he had brief and he had a role in brief

interviews with hideous men in 2009 and He's

got bird people this year that like it's been

five years since he has done anything Well, I'm

gonna step in just a little bit. He has been

showing up on the good wife and he's had quite

a few episodes there uh... my dad well yeah i

don't know yeah i mean as far as film also sorry

five years since he's done films but well for

the last five years he's been will garter on

the good wife yet you're right uh... but i'd

always right every time i see my like hey it's

the kid from dead points this is one of the kids

from the board society uh... you know colin farrell

He plays so many awesome movies. He really does.

There's there's so many Colin Farrell movies

that I really enjoy the recruit with him and

Pacino What else? See one of the few that I think

that he bombed in and I don't think it was necessarily

him I just think it was bad writing was when

he played bullseye and daredevil Yeah, hey at

least it's one of the only movies that might

be the only movie he actually uses his original

his real Irish accent in true so He was in horrible

bosses So there is that. He was in Epic. I don't

know if that's saying anything. He was recently

last year in Saving Mr. Banks, the thing about

Walt Disney. This year he's got Winter's Tale,

Miss Julie, and Solace. Next year he's got The

Lobster. For television he was on Scrubs for

an episode. He was on falling for a dancer for

an unknown number of episodes probably just one

But I mean, he's a reason really good actor and

I love him in these types of roles. Yeah He's

really actually pretty good. I mean, you know

with the exception of him being picked up for

total recall in 2012 I know that one and daredevil

probably the worst ones that I've seen him in

I've liked him in everything else. He's a great

actor. Yeah. And I mean, we'll be here talking

all night about the man. Oh, yeah. I mean, the

dude pulp fiction. Yeah. You know, he's got his

filmography is a mile long, started in 1972.

Oh my god. Patriot Games, Fathers and Sons, the

original Jurassic Park. He was in The Meteor

Man. Oh my god, I can't believe he was in that

movie. Like I said, Pulp Fiction. Assault at

West Point, The Court Martial of Johnson Whitaker.

187. My favorite that I've got to mention. Where

is my super suit? Don't mess with me, woman!

God, I can't wait till they do that sequel. Like

I already said, Shaft, Rules of Engagement, Star

Wars Episode I, Out of Sight. I forget who he

plays. Well, it says it right here. Ira Henry.

He was uncredited in that movie. Coming up he's

got and of course he's you know obviously like

we said Nick Nick Fury in the in the Marvel movies

he's got Let's see. He's got reasonable doubt

this year. He was in RoboCop Barely lethal Kingsman

the Secret Service and obviously the next one

for Fury after the Winter Soldier is Avengers

Age of Ultron And according to Wikipedia, he's

in pre -production for Tarzan in 2016. I have

no idea what he's gonna be doing in Tarzan. 3D

action -adventure film directed by David Yates,

written by Stuart... Okay. Um... What? Why? No.

Do I even want to ask? Oh, the young guy. Okay,

no. I saw the last name and I'm like, wait, no.

Like, no, you cannot have... ...Stellan in that,

but apparently Alexander Skarsgard is gonna play

Tarzan in this movie. Okay, I can see that. You

know, I'm not... I just saw the last name and

the first thing I thought of was... Jerry yeah,

Jerry from Jerry from Good Will Hunting, and

I'm like Stalin stars don't know yeah Natalie

Portman's professor in for But no that'll work

you know overall swat amazing movie has a really

cool Soundtrack to it It really does. The music

in it is really cool. What is so interesting

and kind of, it's kind of sad that iTunes doesn't

have this right, but the score does have Time

is Running Out and Samuel Jackson by Apollo 440

and Hot Action Cop on it. So those songs will

be in this episode somewhere. What I want to

talk about now before we kind of... Get out of

here for this movie Is the kind of behind -the

-scenes stuff for this one because this is interesting

at least to me Directors that had to pass on

this movie because They were all busy with other

projects Michael Bay Rob Cohen Antoine Fuqua,

Michael Mann, Joel Schumacher, Tony Scott, Zack

Snyder, Roger Spotswood, or Spottiswood, and

John Woo were all approached to direct the film

before Clark Johnson signed on. I'm happy that

this is a Clark Johnson film, honestly. Yeah.

If this was Michael Bay's SWAT, the explosions

would be ten times bigger and ten times as many.

And the shaky cam would come in and it would

just buck the hell out of all of us. Yeah, we

had enough of that in Bad Boys. You know, so

those are the directors. Stars that were supposed

to be on this. Mark Wahlberg was the first choice

for the role of Jim Street but turned it down.

I like Mark. I like him as an actor. Post...

Boogie Nights. But I can only see Colin Farrell

in this role. Paul Walker was originally cast,

and had even started training for the part, but

had to drop out due to filming Too Fast to Furious.

This probably would have been a better movie

for him than Too Fast Too Furious. Well, that's

a discussion for another day. Yeah. Colin Farrell

eventually replaced him. Vin Diesel was offered

to play Deacon DK. I cannot see, like, I cannot

see that. Yeah. I do. He passed because he was

in production for Chronicles of Riddick. At one

point during the early stages of development,

Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for the

role of Hondo. But he declined and Samuel Jackson

took the part. Thank God. I love Arnold in the

Expendables movies. I really do. But oh my God,

there's no way Arnold could play Hondo. Hondo

has the fin - like, even if it wasn't me saying

this because it's Samuel Jackson, but Hondo as

a character seems like he has that finesse. He

has that sarcasm. And Arnold is... Straight over

the top rope. I'm not saying he's a straight

laced actor or he's not, but I mean, he is so

over the top that it's beyond belief and it would

have ruined the role. Yeah. I mean, the whole

Austrian accent would have just killed it for

everybody. It would have been like, no, no, no.

Why can't you get to the chopper? Yeah. But overall,

love SWAT. I think it's a really, really fun

movie. It's interesting to look at it, and I'm

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creepy voice? So we are back here on movie week

review for episode 111 SWAT. Final thoughts for

me, I love every bit of this movie, I love how

it starts where you have a falling out and then

you have the rebuilding of, you know, St. Eustace

rebuilds his reputation and Hondo comes back

from something or other and, you know, obviously

we go from there and we also have this counteracting

plot with Montel Williams and everything else.

and uh you know you've got all that going on

and then the two plots converge and it just becomes

a chase and i dug it i thought it was really

cool i absolutely love it um i'm not gonna do

this but if i was going to do this the only reason

why i would take a half point off of this movie

is because of the damage to the To the mental

guy because the guy was he wasn't a criminal

he was he was um What do they have what do they

call it in um police jargon? Um, he was a 51

50 Yeah, mental mentally ill patient or yeah

They have some cold mmh something or other, uh,

but it's it's mental health Yeah, I've some something

rather but honestly This movie is perfect. It

really is from beginning to end. Everything is

enjoyable. Um, you know there and what's so good

about this? I know you said you don't like uh,

Rodriguez's character and you don't like her

being in the movie. But what's so cool about

it is they didn't feel the need to constantly

like there's teasing between her and straight.

Oh, yeah. She's not a like she is a member of

swat. She is not A female love interest for any

of the, I mean, hell, Deke's married, Hondo's

married, Boxer's married, I don't know what the

deal is with TJ, because obviously TJ double

-crosses them and joins Gamble. But I'm really

glad that they didn't make her a love interest

for Street or any of the other characters. So

for me, between the action, between the music,

You know all of it. I love this movie gets perfect

five out of five stars. What about you? Okay,

I am gonna give it Yeah, you're probably gonna

be pissed off at me for this. I'm gonna take

off that half point because Only because the

plane flying in the whole thing with the plane

at the end that just seemed really Unbelievable,

I mean, you know, you've got this plane coming

in low and it's gonna land in the middle of the

city to get them out That just seemed a little

far fetched for me. How are they going to be

able to pull this off without nobody noticing?

You know, granted, you know, all of the cops

were out running around to all the other airports

to stop them and try and catch them if they took

off. But it was still just a little unbelievable

because of that. But other than that, you're

right. I mean, it was a great movie. It was this

was a kind of a sleeper movie hit for me because

I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as good.

I expected it to kind of fall flat on its face

because there were a lot of things that were

coming out that were Movies, you know based on

TV shows as I said before I I thought you know

this is not gonna hit well and Surprise surprise

surprise You know if you take this one, and you

put it next to another TV show movie that came

out right around the same time I believe it was

um Little thing with Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller.

Okay, I take I take this over that any. Oh, yeah.

Yeah Yeah, start being a hutch Yeah, that was

just that was just poking fun at star ski and

hutch. This was more It was more serious and

I will I will give you that any day of the week

I mean, well, I did like the ending of Starsky

and Hutch when they're obviously the original

Starsky and Hutch. I mean, I will I will say

that one thing about that movie is they really

did allow Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson to really

emulate the original characters and really keep

on their their main personalities and it was

a decent you know TV movie adaptation from the

TV series but there's some stuff in that movie

that is just way, way too unbelievable. With

The Plane, I'll give that to you, you're only

taking a half point off. I mean if you were gonna

sit here and say, you know, oh it's only gonna

get one and a half stars that it's a terrible

movie, then I'd have a problem. But you know,

it's like... The plot came together well, the

action scenes are well executed, the music is

great, the acting and the characters are great.

One little nitpick isn't, you know, in a half

a point. I mean, it's still four and a half stars.

I will say that there was a sequel that came

out, a video sequel. None of the original cast

members reprised their roles. So I've actively

ignored that, even though it is on Netflix. Yeah,

this will be like Atlantic Rim or something,

you know, Sharknado 2. I have a feeling it will

be just as bad Some movies do not need sequels

Some movies just just don't need sequels Alright,

so thank you for joining us here on MWIRE. Where

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so... Thank you for, we hope you enjoyed this

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time. Next time, it's going to be myself and

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MWire. And we're gonna talk about 2012's Dread.

We're also gonna briefly talk about in the intro,

1995's Judge Dread. Good luck with that. The

main focus of the episode will be on the 2012

Carl Urban, you know, Dr. Bones version, but

we do we. It's kind of like this, you know, we

didn't really go too far into the series of SWAT

because I frankly don't remember it. I remember

the theme song. That's about it. Yeah, like I

said before my time. So we'll go into Judge Dredd

just a little bit. But like probably in the intro,

but the main discussion obviously is going to

be the 2012 Carl Irvin Dredd. And then after

that, I think we're going to do a little spotlight

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went to heaven. So we may be doing that. Halloween

this year, as I said, we're going to be doing

Beetlejuice with movie revolt Dan and myself.

And then after that, it's going to be Ben Affleck

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