xXx LIVE! w/ Rob Huebel

28:52And I know you, well, you ski, Rob. Do you snowboard? I don't snowboard. Please don't hold that against me. Okay. But Rob, I just, you know, you didn't say anything. But Rob is a parachutist. I did skydive You did? In college I was a member of the skydiving club Until my parents found out Wow Did you consider yourself extreme? This was before extreme was even a word Got it Well I'm so sorry if I offended you before By what I said I've been sitting here seething Wait what were you going to say about the snowboarding Or the avalanche Well okay so when he's snowboarding that's pretty extreme, okay?

29:34It's a death wish. I mean, what he does is... He makes it extreme. He makes it extreme. It's insane. And by the way, my favorite part of this movie is he does all these things and none of them work. And after every sequence, some of the bad guys are there, like, we're right here. And he's like... I laughed so hard. But other than that, and when he goes down the railing on the caterer's silver platter, the catering platter. Driving is not extreme. Okay. I'll give you that. What other ways? I would argue that. With that GTO? Well, we're skipping ahead again. I don't want to break the rules. But there's no other way.

30:18This is my main complaint with the movie. Otherwise, it was perfect. There's no... He doesn't use any of his skills to solve this, honestly, like a crisis that's about to hit humanity. It could end the world. End us all. There were going to be poison gas bombs, missiles shot at every big city. Hamburg. I'm so upset about that. When I finally figured out what the mission was, I was so angry. But I do have one thing that you haven't talked about that's extreme. What's extreme? Well, take a look. Yes. Oh, extreme fucking. Oh. Look at his tongue.

31:08This poor actress. The things I'm going to do for my country. Extreme sex. He's such a gentle kisser. That's the one thing that made me laugh. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute. wait a minute we need to talk about these kissing scenes we need to talk about what what is happening between these two actors he kisses is it Asia Argento the first time he kisses her when she says I hope you liked it that will never happen again it was so gross it was so gross that's the only way it's so he takes his fucking huge mouth and like shoves it on her but then like just kind of smears her face you know paul said he was gentle i i i think he is gentle because he's got such a hard edge but gentle lips like there's a moment gentle lips, slow tongue cause he is cause they're both they're both kissing different parts of each other's mouth extreme kissing man by the way I was so caught in the first scene where a girl's like you should come work for me he's like alright I will and he kisses a stranger on the lips She loves it.

32:47In front of his girlfriend. Is that his girlfriend? Eve is his wife. I think they're in a situation. No. Eve is a business affiliate. Affiliate. He's just doing business. It's a multi-level marketing operation. But yeah, his kid. I did feel bad for that actress who has no lines. I did too. They're in the world's biggest Airbnb. They're just moving around from fortress to fortress in this movie. They're in a fucking castle. And the main bad guy, what's his name? Yorgi. Yorgi is like, yes, the previous owners decided to move out. Okay. Information that plays no part of anything. i know i i mean later on i was like are they dead are they you know i don't know what happened there's so many like little facts like that and at one point there's such a treasure trove of information that xander finds out about like his whole crew where their ranks were what their birthdays are what cars they drive and they go how do you get this information he's like you'd be surprised so much luck will get these guys talking it's like so wait did you like did Did this guy do a shot of tequila?

34:13And you're like, give me that guy's birthday. What's that guy's birthday? What's that guy's birthday? What's that guy's birthday? What are we? What's his birthday? What's his mother's? The fucking computer program shows their parents' names. And then he goes home. He's like, bank account, bank account, bank account. Like, he has banking numbers. He has pin numbers. But that's where, as we were saying over there, I thought that was the end of the movie. When he goes to meet Sam Jackson at the opera rehearsal.

34:53The NSA has a front row seat to any opera rehearsal. But Rob, you know that if half of your face is a scar, you have to love opera. Come on. There's no other. You have to.

35:13I love that also it's like, why do I have to come in early? We don't have a matinee today. It's a Tuesday. Well, the NSA is here. We got to just, we got to do the full opera. That reeked to me of like, they couldn't afford all the extras. So they were like, well, just shoot it. No one will be there. All the extras were in that club. The Tesla coil club? that is made of Tesla coils. Like, I love it. Give me a cool club, but those Tesla coils are too big and it feels very dangerous. Did we also, this is going way back. I'm so sorry. This is extreme narration. This is an extreme one. Watch, this is the whole plot of the movie.

35:53Extreme border sky gets recruited, saves the world. That's it. We can go back and forth all night. I did love seeing Rammstein perform live. That was in the opening thing. At his party, that was Romschein. I don't know who the Tesla coil guys were. I'm sure that's someone famous in Czechoslovakia or whatever. Okay, here's my main issue. So we move away from extreme sports, and he sort of becomes like a gadget guy, which seems not totally in line with his character, but I guess he was into tricking out his car. Okay, fine. Remember those great cameras he built? That's true. That's true. Fine, fine, fine.

36:33But then at a certain point, He is outside the compound, one of the compounds, the basement area. And he sees what they are doing, which is creating a missile that's going to drop some sort of poisonous gas and kill 10 million people. And he is watching through his x-ray glasses. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The best scene in the entire room. And we'll talk about those x-ray glasses in a second. The penetrators. The penetrators. but instead of because of course Yorgi then keeps all the scientists inside and I know by the way that these scientists were planning on killing people it's like these aren't great people fine but Vin Diesel these are elderly men watches they're not elderly they had white hair some people with white hair are fucking cool it's a room full of Steve Martins that's all

37:33he watches them die a group of them the most miserable deaths and does nothing I couldn't believe it my favorite part of that was yes he's doing all of that but the way it is shot is he is having those binoculars in front of a brick wall so he is like so the wide is just him on his knees staring at a brick a brick wall and we already know that he has the option of seeing them naked he could have watched their like naked dongs die i also why doesn't he do anything i mean this man is really i really had a problem with that He stands by and watches them all die. He could make a move. He was outnumbered, June.

38:28He was outnumbered. It's also a pretty ballsy move by the bad guy to shoot off the toxic gas missile in the laboratory. But wait, now this is what I was so confused by. It seemed like it went out or like it shot into the roof. And then I thought, oh, did it go out into the world? No, it just kind of crashed into the roof. Yeah. It was slippery stuff. I don't know how it works exactly. It can only be dissolved by water. It has to go deep underwater. Deep, deep water. Deep, deep water. Deep, deep water. And by the way, as deep as whatever that river is. That apparently... There's a lot of deep rivers in Czechoslovakia.

39:11By the way, he definitely swallowed a lot of that poison. Because you're telling me he's going underwater, he took a little bit of a gulp of that poison. Oh, he sure did. when he got out, he was so kind of Bora Bora and so kind of like, he was so out of it. By the way, I do think it was, I thought it was the funniest thing, like, you know, your James Bond moment, like, he comes up from the water, he's like, I'm so cold, I'm so cold for her. He was shivering, he was also shivering so loud, and I'm jumping ahead, but she heard him. She was on the other side of the bridge. Sam Jackson is consoling her.

39:49on the death of her boyfriend of two days, telling her that she can now come to America because he's a man of his word. Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh. I hear... I think I hear some shivering. I know that shiver. Here's what's so weird, because, okay, there's so many just weird... The sexuality of this movie is very disturbing. Thank you. Okay, it's very strange. And when they first introduced those x-ray glasses and he sees one of the NSA agents like getting ready to target shoot. The lady. The lady, lady agent. He, what's so strange about this film is that they stay on the skeleton. Thank you.

40:42For so long. Thank you for saying that. For so long. I was so ready. Like, ooh, baby. After I... Your exoskeleton. After I Googled triple X movie, I was so ready to see a naked lady. You're not going to. They showed like four frames of her buttocks, and then they go to a dead skeleton lady. It was so strange. And they were... Here it is. I'm just going to go back. That's Melania, right? There she is. I'm almost certain that's Melania. Well, here's the other thing, too. You would see under the bra, right? It wouldn't be like, oh, yeah, this has one function that just gets you to underwear. And then one function that gets below underwear.

41:32And then one function that's fucking skeleton, maybe. Like, it's like, I don't even understand how technology would even work to be like, you want the underwear mode? We got the PG-13 version of these goggles out there, too. like that's so strange and he just seemed so into the skeleton version of her ooh nice femur I want to kiss it with my big lips yeah oh she's got osteoporosis

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43:19A thousand. Me too. In the movie. I was so jealous of Shavers. I was like, who the fuck is this guy? Yeah. What happened to Shavers? But Shavers has to be more annoying than Xander. And I feel like Xander is really abrasive. So it's like, we got to make this guy more of an asshole. And he's like, yeah, dude. You fucking love this, man. check out this cool bullets, dude. He's yelling. He's like, and like he compliments Xander by going like, oh, Xander is more palatable based on shavers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you got to jack it up, buddy. So we like our lead more. Also, shavers spent way too much time developing such an assortment of different types of tranquilizer darts.

44:03So many. There's like six different kinds. There's one that just has red paint, or as Xander says, mostly red paint. And then there's like one that's like knocks you out. And then there's a couple of like hollow tip, like cop killer bullets. Like all of them were odd though. And especially when they're, the sequence where he's leaving one of the compounds and he's like blowing up all of their motorcycles and their cars so they can't find him. And he puts on the band-aids. It's supposed to be so cool. You know what I mean? like we're going to blow some shit up. And I'm like, I have those Band-Aids.

44:44Doesn't he also go like this? He goes, these Band-Aids, man, they're fucking C4, fucking Band-Aid. He goes, Band-Aids. No, they're not Band-Aids. He just told you they're fucking C4s. Fucking don't need Band-Aids. But why were they Band-Aids? This is how I thought of it. He's like, oh no, Yorgi, you got a paper cut? Let me put this on you. And then boom. There's never a reason to surprise someone with a Band-Aid. No adult needs a Band-Aid put on very quickly. It's not asked for, no. I also feel like this is just a very small detail, but there was another bad guy that said that he likes smoking so much that he, you know, because Xander is very pro-health for some reason.

45:38even though he's into extreme sports and risking his life for dumb reasons all the time the guy that smokes as everyone does in europe he shits on that guy really hard a couple times and the guy goes like i love smoking so much i would smoke in my sleep which of course comes back to bite him later with the heat seeking missile and we all know that miss heat seeking missiles are picking up the intense heat signature of a cigarette. But it's a heat-seeking... All right. The heat-seeking missiles, it posits that they just want to seek the hottest thing around. Is that how they work? Again, this is...

46:24Right, is that how they work? And that other guy programmed it for him. He's like, program it! And he programs it. I'm like, to what setting? I also like the movie is the movie is like they make them. Yeah, there's like a cigar. I only have cigar on here. It's a cigarette, man. Also, that smoking guy looks so much like Elon Musk that when he got killed, I was like, yeah, crazy, crazy stuff. Oh, my God. I also just think like it was like are we that dumb they really drove it in like because even with the cigarette thing doesn't he go like I told you that would kill you like keep on smoking it'll kill you I did it you see I'm the one who killed you for smoking also this is another just small detail but like the solar powered submarine was the ricketyest fucking prop like there's one point where they get on it and you're like, they just spray painted that.

47:30It's like so wobbly. When it was solar powered? But it was in a basement the entire time. It's solar powered. Ahab. Why would you make it solar powered when your entire plan for world domination is relying on it? He says all it has to do is go underwater, come up to get some sun and do its business. Which sounds like it takes big shits. Like a dog? What? I also like... Look, I'm not going to be here to poke holes in this movie. No, let's not do that. Let's not do that. But the bad guy's plan is to launch these all over the world. Oh, I can understand it. Everything goes away. But it doesn't...

48:19At least in Goldfinger, it's like, oh, I'm going to wreck the world's gold supply, and then I'm the only person who has gold, so I will become super rich. or I'm going to do this one thing and then I will benefit. But what he creates is just a world of like chaos and – Anarchy 99. I think that's the idea. And by the way, I do think that they – Once your villain is like an anarchist, it's like we don't have to fucking tell you anything about anything. We're so extreme. It's just like whatever. Yeah, it's just like whatever. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I also was thinking in my head that this plan is a couple years behind schedule because they were Anarchy 99 and it's Anarchy 2002.

48:59Like, I'm like, we had big plans. 99 was supposed to be, we're working on it, man. Y2K kind of set us back. Like, we didn't update the year, okay? Because Anarchy 03 doesn't sound cool. 02 sounds weird. Anarchy 2 is not cool. Can I ask a question about the extent of the love affair between Xander and Yelena. Like, why? Why do we give a shit about their... When did she at all indicate that she was into this? Well, he can see what's going on in her eyes. And that's without the binoculars. From when she drove by when he shot the guy. She could see a lacrosse. And it was so quick. You are so smart.

50:01That is. That's exactly what it was. We were told that. So the whole movie is based on their love and commitment because of that. That one glance that he saw. And he saw her humanity. Did you find it romantic when he goes, why don't you chisel a little bit off your heart? That was one of his go-to lines. We could chisel off your heart. I just wrote down chisel off your heart, but I think that is... She was eating some ice, and there was some sort of ice reference there. Yeah, and he goes, why don't you chisel it? That's a pretty good way to attract ladies. Absolutely. Put them down. You put them down.

50:41They love it. Absolutely. By the way, I did laugh at the very end when our main bad guy, Yergi gets away on a speedboat and Vin is, Xander's shooting at him with like a big gun and he is a terrible shot. And I mean, not that, I'm sure it's hard to do that, but after we've been told over and over that he's amazing at everything, it was so satisfying to see like, no, except that. And by the way, for all the tests that Gibbons are going to give him, I'm like, why don't we give him a gun on one of the tests? Never. That might come up on a speaker. It's by mission, the gun, maybe. It felt like the day they shot that.

51:26How did you pronounce the bad guy's name? Yergi? You put a little bit more Y in it before. Oh, did I? Yergi. But he gets shot, and he bites down on a blood capsule, and there's just a dribble of blood, but then his motorboat hits a mountain with the instantaneous explosion, like the biggest explosion I've ever seen in my life. Like I don't know if a boat explodes that quickly. It was carrying only gasoline. It was just a boat full of gasoline. Let's go to the crowd here because obviously you might have some questions. All right. All right. Well, Pete, you brought the notebook. So let's see. Oh, you have a how did this get made notebook?

52:07No, no less. Notebook. Oh, yeah. All right. So what do you got, Pete? So I kind of go back to the villain's plan. And he talks about how that when they're going to be setting off this, no country is going to know and they're all going to attack each other. But the Czech and the Americans both know this is going down. So then in theory, everybody knows. So what is the point? Anarchy, baby. Anarchy 99. All right. Tim, how are you doing? I'm doing great. I wanted to talk about the nature of the program. The nature of the extreme sports. That's it. Okay. Or this podcast. This podcast. What we do is we make fun of bad movies.

52:53Samuel Jackson's idea has nothing to do with extreme sports. He goes into that big room and they say, nothing's working. And he says, that's because they can smell the training on these guys a mile away. We need the bottom of the barrel. We need the disreputables. and even though we don't know everything about all of them i pulled five of their dossiers wow where did you find this it's they're the ones that they do a close-up on on the screen they're on for like 0.5 seconds so you pause where does they come from wow okay this is amazing hold that up just so the audience can see oh he has copies oh wow tim has brought copies Wow, can I have one just to look at?

53:36Do you work for the NSA? He has QR codes they can pass out

53:43Alright, so Tim Tim, by the way, I was going to give out a prize tonight I'm going to give you the prize Paul, do you know everyone's name in the audience? Sometimes I do Sometimes I do Alright, so you tell me Alright, so I'm not going to read the whole thing But you've got five Go ahead and read the whole thing you've got five candidates one of them is an unemployed drifter who's known for armed robbery and he was arrested in 84 for selling doses at a Grateful Dead concert so not extreme

54:19not extreme also in the other category one of his details is that according to his sister he is a coward

54:31please go to the top guy please go to the top right guy from whose last known location was lake peru please well this guy is kind of extreme he's a disgraced former stuntman he's been blackballed by every major film studio for his unpredictable onset behavior and violent tirades against film directors. I would watch this movie about him. I would. So you've got Stuntman. Another guy is a heroin peddler. You've got... Yeah, this one, this guy. Are you asking him if you can? I know. Tim, would it be cool if I borrowed the microphone and never let anyone take the mic? But I trusted you. This one where it just says, there's like things about them.

55:18and goes, hates to spend money. And this one, owes the Dallas district attorney a big favor. So you got four guys. Maybe one of them is kind of extreme. But Samuel L. Jackson's plan is not to get extreme guys. It's to get violent criminals who he can quote, unquote, program. Who are on strike three. Yeah. So this, on this other guy's other, one of his details is that he is quote unquote very programmable so Vin Diesel out of all of the guys is the only one that works he's got triple x tattooed on his neck for the three strikes they call him x the whole reason the triple x program exists and the reason why it's based in extreme stunts is Xander Cage wow alright Tim you're going to get a prize that's great alright hi how are you Hi.

56:17Okay, the thing is with Eve, because you guys were wondering what she did, that era was the time when like all of the like Bam Margera was selling his own tapes and stuff like that. So they would have recorded their own stuff and then sold it on like the black market and also at like Best Buy. That's fine. I know that. And I understand that they would sell their own DVDs. Is she their manager? What is she? She seems to be compiling all of them or she's like the female version of the guy who did the girls gone wild. She's Joe Francis? Joe Francis?

56:58She is the action version of Joe Francis. Okay, now I understand. By the way, no further questions. I love it. Now I understand. I got it. Thank you so much. Rob Hubel and I have a picture with Joe Francis. Paul, don't say that. We didn't know. We didn't know. We did not want to be in that picture. We also have a picture with Spencer Pratt. I know. Yeah. But when Joe Francis bombarded us, put his hands around us, and said, take a picture, I said, we're going to regret this for decades. And yeah, I said, hopefully no one will announce it in a crowded theater. Alright, what is your question, sir?

57:35I'm wondering, because we see that Samuel Jackson does a lot of tests for Vin Diesel. He puts together elaborate things. At the end of the movie when he's on the beach gently kissing the woman, he says, well, you passed the Gibbons test? Are we to believe that the test was just saving the world? Or was this whole Yorgi thing maybe an elaborate ruse? And that's what the Gibbons test was. Great question. Well, wait, so then... Well, there is a sequel. There's two. Two? Yeah, one... So the second movie, which we did here on the show, and you were here for... Did I do... Nah. Was I here? You were not here for that.

58:14I was not here. This is the first time I've met Xander Cage. Well, technically... It doesn't sound like it. We did a whole other movie with this... Not me. Thank you. Oh, wait. She wasn't there? No. Oh, thank you, Tim. I was feeling really crazy. Was that... Tim. That was Tim. Who was there? Tim, do you remember? Tim, I want to go to, like, a party with you. Okay. So it was me, Jason, and Adam Scott. I wasn't there. And he sang the second... I wrote a Grease 2 song for Jim. Of course. Sorry. Oh, okay. Wow. Look at that great memory. Tim. Tim, do you have my home address? I hope not. All right.

58:54Hey, what's your name? What's your question? My name's Jared, and I'm curious about the potato village. Yes. Like, those people had no reaction to the potatoes blowing up. They were just casually walking down the street going like. Thank you. Like, who are those hardcore guys? The year's harvest of potatoes. How are we going to get around this potato cart? I know what we'll do. will shoot the rocket launcher out of the gto blow up all the potatoes and when he's driving away the potatoes kept coming down those potatoes like i was like oh that was the whole year's worth of potatoes right there check fries um all right son of pete is this son of pete yes this is son of pete uh i would just like to can we talk about the amount of people that were fit into that tiny box on the mountain that he was trying to destroy with the avalanche like there were like 20 people on those snowmobiles that just kept on going, going, going.

59:51Yeah, he got that little box, and then he hangs on. Again, Xander Cage doesn't look cool a lot because he's like, he hangs on to that little... That was fucking so cool. That was extreme, babe. Paul... Whoa! There we go. He just... That was so extreme. That was so extreme. Very extreme. For the listener, Paul just hopped up on the stage fucking do push-ups, I'll do anything. I'm ready for it. Yeah, we haven't really talked about the avalanche, the self-induced biggest avalanche ever. Which... Okay, so there's no way you could ever... You're never able to train for a situation like that. I don't think so.

1:00:36Well, maybe sometimes you have a little silver tray, you can practice. You can practice your snowboarding. But he takes two grenades. Also, I should point out that Amazon told me that when he's snowboarding, sometimes he's snowboarding goofy and sometimes he's snowboarding not goofy. I guess two different stuntmen. So he throws the grenades behind him very casually, causes the fucking biggest avalanche ever made to take out an antenna which is sitting by a road. Drive your car up to the antenna and push the antenna over. I thought he was trying to get away from those guys. That's what he was doing?

1:01:29Am I wrong? As you say it, I'm like, it does seem like... Am I wrong, son of Pete? Sorry, whose son are you? Son of Pete? Sorry, I don't know the family. I don't know everybody's name I'll be honest I know Tim because he knows where I live but son of Pete wasn't he trying to take out that radio tower he was trying to take out the whole building because it was like the communications building the communications building why couldn't he have just thrown the grenades at it the youth the youth are going to save us the youth will save us son of Pete says shouldn't he have just thrown the grenades at the building.

1:02:09No reason to skydive out of a plane flown by the skeleton lady. The skeleton lady can fly a C-17. He skydives out of that on a snowboard and then lands on top of the mountain, goes all the way down the mountain, and then stops on a cliff, causes a giant avalanche to take out the communications bunker that he could have just communications and quotes we don't know yeah what was here's another question why not if you did want to create an avalanche why not throw it forward right right

1:02:56right let's throw it forward so you don't go you don't have to chase you you get off to the side you can let it clear all of the snow from the last thousand years and then you safely walk down that's what James Bond would do that fucking wimp, that nerd I'm going to get into some specifics about this movie in a second but I will tell you this much, obviously we have an opinion about this movie, there are people out there with a different opinion, it is now time for second opinions.

1:03:36Hello, I am Jennifer. Yes. Bear with me since this is acapella. He's on a snowboard. He's sliding down. Samuel L. Jackson is watching. All the explosions won't take off the coat. cause fur is awesome it's awesome whoa

1:04:10triple x is so fire

1:04:17amazing great job this is why people move to LA I love it they want to get into the biz by the way we didn't talk about the coke we didn't talk about the coke We should have fucking started with the coat. We really should have. Was that his coat that he brought to the Czech Republic, or did they give that to him to go undercover? Well, I don't think he packed anything for this trip. But it looked so right on him, and it looked like he felt so himself in it that I don't know. I can promise you that Vin Diesel has that coat in his home right now. Yeah. And probably wears it out like five nights a week.

1:05:05Well, to me, what I think happened in that coat is like, he was in that movie and be like, that coat is fucking ridiculous. And then he was like, oh, people like my coat. And then because when we came back in XXXIII, he's like, I got to bring back the coat. And people are like, no, no, no. People didn't like, it wasn't because it was cool. It didn't work. but he embraced it in a weird way. But I honestly think it looks good. I thought it looked great on him. But he stands out more than a cop. Absolutely. At one point, she's also wearing a crazy coat that I thought, that's a robe. But it wasn't.

1:05:39It was a coat. And it was wild to see them. But isn't a coat a robe? No. So a coat can't be a robe. A coat isn't like an outdoor robe. No. What's a trench coat? Isn't a trench coat an outdoor robe? Hold on, Tim. Tim has something to say. I'm sorry. We've had this conversation. She was totally there. I got confused. She wasn't there on Hobbs and Shaw. You guys have had this coat conversation. She said it's a coat like ten times and everyone ignored her. She's like, it's a coat, you guys. It's a coat. And you guys wouldn't listen to her.

1:06:24And then they have this whole entrance for him in this jacket. Yes. Then he wears in the rain. It's a coat. It's also the worst jacket to wear in the rain. No, it's terrible. He then also has, like, three other very weird jackets. Yeah. They're coats, you guys. They're all coats. Oh, my God. Tim. Tim. Tim. Nobody likes a time traveler. Wow. I have to admit, Tim, I was a little worried because when I saw the title XXX in my calendar, I thought, this seems familiar. But I didn't question it further. But when Paul said we did it on the podcast just now, I thought, uh-oh, Piscatio. But then you said it so confidently that I wasn't there.

1:07:21I'm looking right. here on reddit yep you were here june the return of sander cage with paul june jason and adam scott well tim didn't remember and i didn't either he's a time traveler oh my gosh all right well let's get back to amazon reviews here um this movie gets an average rating of 4.6 out of five stars what 78 percent of the reviews are five-star reviews, and they're not ironic. Patricia O writes, Vin Diesel, XXX, is the newest action star of the millennium. To me, XXX is the man women want to be with. Me especially. He's muscular, handsome, knows how to kick some serious, in quotes, heinie, and drives cool cars like a gto snowboard and etc i'm gonna read that sentence one more time drives cool cars like a gto snowboard and etc vin diesel is the total package vin diesel you are the best keep making these movies they're so hype and they're fun to see title vin diesel is the hottest man five stars.

1:08:51Whoa. How do we know, how old was Vin Diesel when he made this movie? I think Vin Diesel would be 34. Thank you, Tim. Tim, you can't just say shit and everyone's going to believe you. Everyone's just like buying whatever Tim says. Oh, okay, yeah, 34. Okay, yeah, Tim knows. L.M. Rodriguez from the Bronx in 2003 writes, yes, it copies Bond cliches. Yes, it's confusing at the beginning. Yes, the plot is irrelevant. Yes, it's loaded with stupid jokes. So what? It's an action thriller of first class. It moves. It sizzles. It flies through the air and the rooftops. Low points should have been made for adult audiences.

1:09:38They should have suppressed the stupid jokes. At the beginning, when Vin Diesel is racing on the highway pursued by California police, he talks to the audience. Ah, please. this technique is called quote-unquote comic relief and it was in quotes bad another low point too bad they had to get that stupid bg-13 rating so what if kids hear f words and see some naked woman they will not be perverted forever and their souls will be safe as yours and mine. If you're a parent and believe your kid or kids don't use harsh language ever, well, then you're living on another planet. By the way, I'm sure the Russian mafia and all the crooks in the world use plenty of F-words and its endless variations on a daily basis.

1:10:32Not in this film. It's as clean as the Council of Churches had produced it. High points. Stunts were unbelievable, especially the avalanche sequence, which is the best ever. I didn't know that Vin is such an accomplished snowboarder.

1:10:53He is great. He did his own stunts to perfection. By the way, all the stunts in this movie were superb. Another high point, the movie improves as it progresses towards the end. James Bond should go home and cuddle with his cat five stars this James Bond's from the Bronx

1:11:22you can't really top that but I will say that I like this one just from a Kindle customer the title is an honest film and the review is simply a film that accomplishes everything it sets out to do five stars And I do believe that to be true. Well, Sam Jackson, at the very end of the movie, when he's in Bora Bora, and Yelena is slathering Vin with sunscreen. But not on that head. As a bald man, I want... Get it on the top. You don't need it just on the chest. So he calls him and he goes, Hey, call me. We got a whole new thing to talk about. Like, that's what the NSA leaves on your voicemail? He is as specific as Matt Hoffman.

1:12:15Yo, dude, tell me about that cool stunt you were talking about. Everyone is a little vague in this movie. I'll tell you this. You know, people think, oh, actors don't prepare. Well, Vin Diesel did prepare. He did two weeks of rock climbing training to get his body in shape. Two weeks. Rock climbing not featured in the film. Also, two weeks seems like something you might do on a vacation. It's like, I got certified on scuba on Hawaii. I wouldn't say I was training to do underwater stunts. You know, two weeks feels like he kind of quit. First choice to play this, Eric Bana. He said no. And the first choice for Yorgi was Ewan McGregor.

1:13:07interesting side interesting side note Sony put up a billboard for this in Hollywood before the script had been written I don't think that's I think that is a first okay so final thoughts any final thoughts gosh I mean I I feel like we did it I feel like we've seen all of them now and we what's your favorite like when you see all three now you've seen the whole thing what do you think well it was really nice which one but which one is your favorite if you had to narrow it down think about it for a second I think because this is really where his story starts you know where we get to meet him and then to remember where he goes is so crazy by the end of the third one that I think probably I like this on the best but they all have highs and lows.

1:14:05High points and low points. I will just say that I'm so glad that the world was saved from a solar submarine. I can't sleep at night. I'm always worried about being attacked by a solar submarine. I will say the one thing we didn't talk about, but one thing worth noting is, yes, the Q in this movie, Shavers, did something interesting, which is this is supposed to be a spy movie. It's supposed to fit in but he did give him an american flag parachute so when he does parachute at the end it's like well we know that that's the enemy right if we want to aim at that guy he's basically wearing who he is on a parachute right there i guess i'm also just like we can wrap it up but i'm just like anarchy 99 yorky's plan to deliver this gas via submarine is so strange like that has to be the hardest way to drop a...

1:15:04What about when Xander takes the missiles, picks them up, and points them down? He takes them out of the missile launcher, just turns them down. That's what he does when he has an erection. He doesn't want people to see. Pushes it down.

1:15:24But also, he could have just... I don't know. Couldn't he have just put it well first of all just taking it out of the power source sure dumped it out but just put it down also just on the side of the so he didn't have to go down with it he gulped a lot of that water and all those fish are dead I think the reason the movie is so loose and fast with like the Czech Republic you mean fast and furious is because they asked the Czech Air Force to loan two of their jets for the film. And the Czech Republic said, why two? Take the entire fleet. And they said, all we want is$50 ,000 to donate to the Pilots Hospital and can you buy beer for everybody here?

1:16:15And they said, yep. Wow. Whoa. The Czech Republic gave up their entire air force for this movie. Was it worth it? Absolutely. Absolutely. I saw the, like, I think the, which I find this hard to believe, but Amazon doesn't lie. It said the budget for the movie was$70 million. $70 million, made$40 million opening weekend, made$142 million, and the States made$277 overseas. That's crazy. I mean, I think that's a pretty good$70 million. dollars. I do too, actually. It's not bad. All those explosions? All that snow? All that snow. All those tranquilizer bites? All those kisses? That fucking jacket, bro?

1:17:09That's 20 million bucks right there! Alright, so would you recommend this movie? I would start and say absolutely, but on 1.5 speed. By the way, why didn't Why didn't you tell me that that was an option? Sorry, Rob. I didn't know that that was an option. Sorry, Rob. Sorry, Rob. Next time. Next time. Yeah, I would recommend it. If you've seen the other ones, you'll probably love to go back and enjoy this one, too. Yeah, it's a real fish scenario of the franchise. Rob? Was there a question? Would you recommend the movie? Would you recommend this movie? Would I recommend it to who? I guess listeners of the podcast, really.

1:17:48You know what I would do? I would recommend this to assholes. Okay. That's how I feel. That's how I feel. No offense. No offense if you like the movie at all. Like, I think you're probably an asshole, though. All right. June, anything you want to plug? I'll plug Elle, which is on Prime Video. Also on Prime Video. Are there any fun facts about you? Do you go from Ollie or Goofy? I haven't had that setting on where you can find fun facts, but now I'll watch it tonight and put that on. Yeah, I watch it a lot of times. I'm like, who is that person? June Diane Rayfield. That's disturbing.

1:18:32Rob, anything you'd like to plug? What should I plug? Do a show. I'll plug our show, Dark Web. We do a show on YouTube together. I'll plug that. This is way in advance, but I'll plug the Rumi and Michelle scene. I can't wait for it. So exciting. I can't wait for it. All right. Thank you, Los Angeles. You've been an amazing crowd. Thank you. That is a wrap on Extreme Summer. But you know what? We'll always have our time in the Xander Zone. Thanks, as always, to our pals at Largo. I'm talking about Flanny Griffey and skills in the booth. And guess what? Next week, we are taking an August vacation.

1:19:13Yep. Just like your favorite therapist, We are taking a week off and in place of Last Looks, we will be re-releasing one of our favorite episodes on the movie Little Italy. And if you're like, Paul, how will I know which movie you're covering, you know, on the next episode if there's no Last Looks? Well, you're in luck because at the beginning of that Little Italy re-release, I'm going to record a new intro announcing our next movie title. And don't worry, we're still going to talk more about Triple X on a future supersized Last Looks. So don't forget to send us your triple X corrections and omissions by leaving a voicemail at speakpipe.com slash HTTGM or by writing to us on our discord.

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