MM18: Dying on Walter Hill feat. Sleazoids
🕑 Added 2024-05-01 11:00:14 +0000 UTCWill and Hesse are joined by Josh Lewis and Jamie Miller of the Sleazoids podcast to investigate the “blood, whiskey & shit” world of director Walter Hill. Tough guy action, guns, squibs, and lean & mean style abound in both Southern Comfort (1981), a Vietnam allegory transposed to the Louisiana bayou, and Extreme Prejudice (1987) a narco-border transposition of The Wild Bunch.
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LAST CHANCE: join Will & Hesse this Saturday, May 4th for a screening and talkback of DEATH WISH 3 at Littlefield in NYC: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chapo-trap-houses-movie-mindset-screening-of-death-wish-3-w-will-hesse-tickets-877569192077
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Dark Alliance
That's what the John Milius' original script hints at supposedly.
Dark Alliance
Cinema
Equality State Of Mind
I'd bet you, but there's no way to settle it.
Ksizzle
Clancy browns character in extreme prejudice taking a moral grandstand when ordered to kill the sheriff makes even less sense cause earlier in the movie he says he hates cops. He literally says he likes fords cause he saw one run a cop over 😂 and its not like he undergoes an arc in this movie that changes his mind or anything
Lizard
Found a copy of Extreme Prejudice and The Long Riders on VHS for a dollar today and plan on forcing my boyfriend to watch them with me very excited
Patrick Taffe
Will imitating being eaten by attack dogs surprisingly funny bit; love this man
Will N
My favorite extreme prejudice trivia is Ironside saying in an interview there was something like 45 minutes of the movie with Andrew Robinson as his CIA cohort that all got cut out
J.P. McD.
Future episode pre-comment: the Patlabor Blu-rays look incredible
J.P. McD.
I get sad about the Total Recall escalator guy too sometimes, but then remember that he’s not real
Boaz Corey
You need to at least look up the scene in Crossroads where Ralph Macchio (it's actually Ry Cooder's hands) has a guitar battle with satanic Steve Vai.
Lazarus Roth
Dude, that area is cold in winter. I was a little too inebriated this past January and we set off kayaking. Rolled into the water about ten minutes from the cabin. Water hit like a sledgehammer took me a good while to focus and swim back to shore. Northern Louisiana is chilly.
Lazarus Roth
Just read they filmed this on the Louisiana side of Caddo Lake. My girlfriend and I are watching the first fifteen minutes and realized it’s the same area we go every New Year.
Samuel McGuire
Wait. Has Jacques seen “Southern Comfort”??
Rohmer Simpson
Here I am
Rohmer Simpson
Yes to this
Rohmer Simpson
CROSSROADS IS GOOD ACTUALLY
Dustin Nelson
I had to lookup the Southern Comfort ending to be sure what happened and apparently the version released in Iran added gunshots and stuff to suggest that the Cajuns had been contracted to kill those guys by the army itself as some kind of combat experiment 😳
David den Daas
I thought the bayou was hot? Why are these guys wearing huge coats? Why is no one is sweating?!!!!!
David den Daas
For a movie made in the early 80's there is a lack of ciggies... 🚬
David den Daas
The hell you looking at... 🚬
David den Daas
The regulations on hair length and facial hair were preeeeeeety lax in the US Army back in the 80's and that is why China is winning today... 🚬
David den Daas
The no-scope shot on the canoe is sick. There is at least 7" of rise on that musket ball and probably 19" of drop from the apex of the shot. To hit a moving target with those parameters is ridiculous. That's not accounting for wind or tidal movement even! Those guys never had a chance........🚬
Dustin Nelson
Never heard of Southern Comfort (1981) before, checking it out now! I'd seen Extreme Prejudice (1987) since it's in the Vestron Video bluray line
Ernest Ambrus
Just watched Southern Comfort. Holy shit this is anxiety inducing. What a movie. Newfound suspicion of anything Cajun. Brion James is terrifying.
RG13
Hesse needs to do a Bonus episode on Polanski’s The Tenant.
RG13
And Will, as well.
RG13
RG13
Jerry Reed just took credit. Amos had to get his arm gobbled off by a swamp critter in order to go down in blues history.
RG13
Why buy when you can rent? Now I don’t have to sit through Wild at Heart.
Everett
The one armed trapper feels like a reference to the Jerry Reed song Amos Moses about a guy that can trap an alligator with one hand because his other one was bit off.
Blair Rancich
I feel like I watch alot of movies, then Will gets going listing them and I wonder if I've ever *actually* seen any
etienne
it's pure extra
Grant Klevgaard
The crossover episode dreams are made of! I hoot and holler every time Will does the “jackrabbit slap-a da bear” Wilford Brimley impression from Hard Target!
JKL
Great episode! Does the MM ep count as one of the two Chapo podcasts for the week? I was never sure of that, not that I’d complain if it does.
JD
Rip Torn's performance as a crazy country singer in 'Payday' is breathtaking, don't miss it he destroys in every scene.
Louis
what ww2 movie do they reference at the very end?
Fingerless
within the deeply honor bound culture of the Cajun people, it is considered disrespectful to shoot at someone
Christopher Small
The Assignment? More like the REassignment! Amirite
Tim O'
Southern Comfort is easily accessible on YouTube 🫡
Kev Harper
However.. Extreme Prejudice is Hill's masterpiece.
OtherRussert
Start the ball, Tector!
Kev Harper
Crossroads is an American classic
Zack Burke
Ry Cooder is super cool, and an LA guy.
Patrick Taffe
Amped to watch Southern Comfort; sounds like the quality of war horror Garland's Civil War could only dream of
OtherRussert
Crossroads cutting floor scene is the best!
Drew
It's good we have Hesse cuz no one else would speak truth to hotness about Powers Boothe looking hot as hell in this
Smooth Shrek
Too many coastal elite movies! Do the people’s movie! Do Shrek!
RG13
I probably owe them about $600 at this point.
RG13
I’ve been listening to Sleazoids since Will was a little girl in pigtails.
Chris
Will's "scary guy with panty-hose over head" ranking is Tom Noonan in Manhunter erasure
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Ry Cooder one of the GOAT film score composers, The Long Riders score especially. Cajun name and vibe but he’s from Santa Monica
Anomalie
All I could think while watching Extreme Prejudice was domestic gladio
Chris
Josh name drops Stone Cold so I wanted to mention that the Stone Cold episode of We Hate Movies (which Josh guests on) is a fucking blast
Plainwrap
Man I'd fucking pay to have that memory, Total Recall style.
MCL
Crossroads is sick too
Karl
Stucky dies by getting stuckied in quicksand
Javier Bremond
Serious about that too love the show
Javier Bremond
Whoa Southern Comfort might be one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Thank you for putting me on, when my wife wakes up I’m going to annoy her by explaining the plot in way too much detail. I’m on the west coast she gets up early don’t be judgy
David Hughes
Good job, team! Teed the rewatch up so nicely, plus I’m gonna watch The Lost Patrol for good measure
Chris
I will always remember Southern Comfort as one of two movies I was basically held hostage and made to watch in the back of a tour bus with the now deceased former singer of Gwar, Dave Brockie. He had seen it so many times that he essentially replaced the entirety of the dialogue by voicing it all himself.
Roswell moon
Sleazoids rise up
Ben Walsh
Supernova with Mr Coppola...
NYCM&AHole
Hells yes. Jack butler cuttin’ heads
Blank
“That hill is named Walter” lol’d
DoleWand
Crossroads is an awesome movie, Steve Vai and Ralph Macchio have a guitar battle to be the best blues man, 10/10 movie
Joey Fazzoli
Holy shit. This guy’s movie autism made the ep 100x better
Charles Calvert
Wanted to share maybe my favorite trailer ever. https://youtu.be/vCqRCutZsGo?si=nZ3LgzdMDGwyHAFS
Charles Calvert
Easily my two favorite Walter Hill joints, Peckinpah Reborn!
SlowTrickle
Crossroads wasn’t bad, Ralph machio has a guitar duel against devil Steve via
SlowTrickle
Finally a movie I’ve seen. Southern Comfort used to be on Bravo when bravo showed interesting movies
SLEAZOIDS podcast
Thanks for letting us geek out about Walter Hill! 🫡
demonsweat
Going to the lobby to get myself a treat
Here, Try This
Idk why you’re talking shit about Crossroads, better movie than this half assed Vietnam in Louisiana Peckinpah knockoff bullshit
Xander Norris
Mhm
Matt Miller
First?