The Flop House: Episode #49 - Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

[0:00] This week, we take on a movie made for anyone who ever played a video game

[0:03] and thought to themselves, I wonder what her story is.

[0:08] Street Fighter, The Legend of Chun-Li.

[0:30] Hey everyone, and welcome to the Flophouse.

[0:39] I'm Dan McCoy.

[0:40] I'm Stuart Wellington.

[0:42] I'm Elliot Kalin, don't you know.

[0:45] So guys, this is the podcast where we watch a bad movie and we chat about it.

[0:50] Yeah, why are you telling us that? We've done this before.

[0:52] Ex post facto. Well, I'm telling you that for the audience.

[0:54] Hey, I just got that bit where you say, don't you know.

[0:58] That's like Irish, right?

[0:59] Were you an Irish baby born in Thailand?

[1:02] Yeah, I was an Irish baby.

[1:04] My parents were missionaries who died when I was a baby,

[1:06] but I still have an Irish accent.

[1:07] You retain elements of your Irish accent.

[1:09] Yeah, and I became a well-known thief on the streets of Thailand

[1:12] stealing baskets of fish.

[1:14] Sure.

[1:14] We saw a film that had the exact same plot.

[1:18] Yeah, well, that was the backstory.

[1:20] That was like the plot of the movie?

[1:22] The plot of the movie.

[1:24] It was a backstory for the main bad guy.

[1:26] Yeah, well, I mean, he was loosely based on me.

[1:28] I'm not a villain, and he's older than me.

[1:32] It was also based on the popular...

[1:35] Everything else, though, is exactly the same.

[1:37] You've taken your conscience and inserted it into a baby.

[1:42] Yes, yeah.

[1:43] But in this case, that was just to keep it safe.

[1:46] Yeah, of course.

[1:46] That character was also based on the Hanson song,

[1:49] Mmm, Bison, the popular Hanson song.

[1:53] That was fucking terrible.

[1:55] Well, we watched Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li, in case you were wondering.

[1:59] Yeah.

[2:00] So, it's based on the popular video game.

[2:03] And the word legend is very loosely used.

[2:06] Series.

[2:07] Street Fighter.

[2:08] Yeah, I mean, doesn't...

[2:09] Street Fighter 2.

[2:10] We all remember Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2 Turbo Edition, Super Street Fighter 2.

[2:14] Turbo Remix.

[2:16] Street Fighter 2.1.

[2:17] Yeah.

[2:18] Beta.

[2:18] Street Fighter XP.

[2:21] Yeah.

[2:21] You play those in arcades down in Chinatown, right?

[2:25] Against kids

[2:26] I mean, I didn't play them in Chinatown

[2:27] Oh, you mean now?

[2:28] Yeah

[2:29] Yeah, yeah, yeah

[2:29] Well, I'm a tourney guy

[2:30] I go for the tourneys

[2:31] Sure

[2:32] Who's your guy?

[2:34] Which guy do you like to play with?

[2:36] Well, it depends on how I'm feeling that day

[2:38] Sure

[2:38] If I'm feeling a character who's a little lighter on his feet

[2:40] I'll go with Vega

[2:41] Because he's got a Spanish gay thing that's very Almodovar

[2:45] But, you know, if I wanted a character who's more of a bruiser

[2:48] I'll go with Blanca

[2:49] His electricity attack is good

[2:51] For keeping the kid I'm playing against

[2:53] Off balance

[2:54] And he has really cool chest hair

[2:56] And you like to make the sound effects

[2:58] When he wins you like to make that same sound effect

[3:01] I like that the other characters

[3:03] Are vaguely human

[3:03] He's just some kind of beast

[3:06] Why would they let him into the

[3:09] World Warriors tournament

[3:09] I'm just surprised he's wearing pants

[3:11] Guys to set this up for not nerds

[3:14] Which makes up as much as 5% of our audience

[3:17] You are overestimating

[3:19] Street Fighter 2, of course, was a member of the popular genre of video game known as the fighting game.

[3:25] The side-scrolling fighter.

[3:26] Yeah, fighting games, of course, known for their plots.

[3:30] For a sprite-based fighting game.

[3:31] Yeah, which make it the best thing to adapt into a film, a feature film.

[3:35] I mean, you know, sometimes, you're being a little sarcastic, Dan.

[3:39] I think I detected some sarcasm.

[3:41] That might not be coming through to the audience.

[3:43] The literary term would be irony.

[3:45] Sure.

[3:45] Is what I'm doing.

[3:46] Sure.

[3:48] Well, you know, the movie Mortal Kombat was really good.

[3:55] So I had high hopes going into this one, to be honest with you all.

[3:59] Since Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter were the two big games.

[4:01] And the kids would divide up whether they were a Street Fighter person or a Mortal Kombat person.

[4:05] Yeah, and there were like dance battles between the groups of kids.

[4:08] Yeah, yeah.

[4:09] Wrap-offs.

[4:11] Wrap-offs.

[4:12] Based on the content of the game.

[4:14] Slam-offs.

[4:15] Dozens fights.

[4:17] You know, things that happened in the 90s is what I'm sure I'm thinking about.

[4:21] Oh, yeah.

[4:22] Yeah, Bosnia, Lewinsky trial.

[4:27] MC Hammer.

[4:29] MC Hammer, Jurassic Park.

[4:32] Yeah, all these things.

[4:33] So, yeah, so this movie is based on...

[4:38] It's based on Street Fighter, but not really.

[4:40] Because it's based on a character, well, a couple of characters, but primarily one character from Street Fighter.

[4:47] They have written a story, and they have given some of the characters in the story the names of Street Fighter characters.

[4:52] That's what it comes down to.

[4:53] And in one case, the glove of a Street Fighter character.

[4:57] Yeah, and the Haruken fireball power.

[5:00] Yeah.

[5:00] Sure.

[5:01] So, I don't know.

[5:02] I feel like we've probably already confused everyone, so let's start with a synopsis.

[5:08] Okay.

[5:09] Shouldn't we?

[5:10] Yeah, that's fine.

[5:10] Can we start with Thanatopsis?

[5:13] The classic American poem by William Cullen Bryant?

[5:17] No.

[5:18] Okay, well then let's do a synopsis then.

[5:20] I would take a stab at it because I feel like this always goes to Elliot,

[5:26] but I was sort of sick today, so my brain is a little hazy.

[5:29] About 12 minutes into the movie, you got up and made popcorn for a while.

[5:33] Yeah, for about another 12 minutes.

[5:34] Here, let me take the reins here.

[5:37] You take it this time.

[5:38] So there's this little girl who's like half Chinese and half, I guess, English.

[5:43] i don't know something yeah and she and her dad are in thailand played by uh well not played yet

[5:48] no they're in hong kong but eventually she'll be played by kristin crook also uh a mixed race

[5:54] actress who doesn't look at them yeah so they're in uh they're in hong kong you said yeah and uh

[6:01] he's like teaching her kung fu and she loves her dad and then uh a bunch of ninjas show up and

[6:06] michael clark duncan show up and start beating up her dad and then uh neil mcdonough who in this

[6:12] movie uh is playing a character named m bison how many other movie fly mouse movies has been

[6:17] he's been because he was in 88 minutes as the as the imprisoned killer oh yeah right and i think at

[6:23] least one other one flop house listeners may remember him as being the guy with the transparent

[6:28] eyes he has the clearest blue eyes you can get lost in them he looks like he's addicted to the

[6:34] spice from dune yeah but they're not like absolutely but they're not like paul newman

[6:38] blue eyes where you're like, oh, what a handsome man.

[6:41] It's like, you know, this man

[6:43] has no soul, and it's reflected

[6:45] by the fact that his eyes have no color.

[6:46] Yeah.

[6:48] In this movie, I think his character didn't...

[6:51] Well, I'm getting ahead of myself.

[6:52] Whoa, let's just say...

[6:54] They kidnap the dad.

[6:55] Yeah, this evil dude takes her dad,

[6:58] and then, I guess, they just let her live

[7:00] in this giant house.

[7:01] Well, the family's still rich.

[7:03] I guess they're still wealthy, yeah.

[7:04] And she's a piano prodigy.

[7:06] She's a piano prodigy, and her mom...

[7:08] figures into the movie exactly none her mom is dying of uh cancer or something she dies and then

[7:15] she grows up and then uh she dies and then she grows up no i'm talking about chumlee chumlee

[7:21] okay sorry main character she so she's don't be so literal she goes like wandering around looking

[7:26] for her dad or something and then she runs in runs afoul of these bad guys and then she meets this

[7:32] weird ancient uh like trainer or something who basically a sensei named gan yeah named gan he's

[7:39] just wandering the streets waiting for someone to train yeah he's popping up and he's got a spider

[7:44] web tattooed on his hand yep he used to be part of the big crime organization that m bison neil

[7:50] mcdonough runs called shadloo what is it shadalow shadalow and uh isn't like the but he gave he said

[7:57] he changed his ways now he protects the people of the slums of bangkok but also isn't the like

[8:02] the shell corporation for the bad uh bad guys named the esperanto corporation neil mcdonough

[8:08] also runs the esperanto corporation and esperanto securities which is a huge name after the popular

[8:13] failed uh made up language that was meant to bring us all together and it's a good cover it's a good

[8:20] it's a good it is one of the two most successful uh man-made languages or yes the other one those

[8:27] the most successful

[8:27] artificial languages.

[8:28] Sure.

[8:29] So, let's get back

[8:31] to the tale.

[8:32] Legend.

[8:33] Now,

[8:33] so Chun-Li starts

[8:36] You haven't even introduced

[8:38] Chris Klein

[8:38] or Money Blood Glow.

[8:40] So, okay, let's

[8:44] while Chun-Li

[8:46] He has to find his place

[8:47] in the scroll,

[8:47] the ancient scroll

[8:48] he's been reading this off of.

[8:49] I've got my scroll laid out.

[8:51] Chun-Li's being trained

[8:52] by Dan.

[8:52] Yeah, Chun-Li's being trained

[8:53] by this ancient master.

[8:55] While that's happening,

[8:57] Chris Klein, who is doing his best Jason Lee impression as a hard-boiled Interpol agent cop guy,

[9:04] who is always wearing V-neck T-shirts and rolled-up sleeve button-down shirts.

[9:10] It's like a part Bruce Campbell would play if Bruce Campbell was really greasy and had no charisma.

[9:16] And he is partnered up with Moon Bloodgood.

[9:20] That's the actress's name.

[9:23] That's not the character.

[9:24] The character's name I don't remember.

[9:26] It's also not the name of a fictional werewolf.

[9:28] Yeah, it's a real name.

[9:29] And she is apparently some kind of slutty cop.

[9:33] I don't...

[9:33] She's part of...

[9:34] Well, here's the...

[9:35] It's the weird thing is she's part of the Bangkok Homicide Division, but she doesn't

[9:40] look really very Asian either, and she's always walking around in really low-cut tank tops

[9:45] and things.

[9:46] Yeah.

[9:46] Well, but she's...

[9:48] I mean, I thought she was part of Interpol.

[9:49] Isn't that what Chris...

[9:50] I don't think so.

[9:51] I thought...

[9:52] Well, Chris Klein is working with Homicide.

[9:54] Yeah, she shows up with, like, SWAT guys at one point, I think.

[9:56] Yeah, she's part of that thing.

[9:59] She's local.

[10:00] So there are, like, crime solvers.

[10:04] We've got to talk about the races of the people who play the characters.

[10:06] So they're, like, our police characters, effectively.

[10:10] And they've got a lot of really witty banter.

[10:12] The kind of banter that you have no idea what the fuck they're talking about most of the time.

[10:17] But they just say everything with a smirk on their face.

[10:20] Yeah, you know it's a joke basically by the delivery, not by the content.

[10:23] And eventually Chun-Li starts doing some shit to try and beat up...

[10:29] That's accurate.

[10:32] Eventually she does.

[10:34] She starts going after, like, the Bison's company.

[10:38] And then somehow she crosses paths with the cops.

[10:42] And then...

[10:43] Something...

[10:44] M. Bison's company is trying to take over the waterfront slums of Bangkok.

[10:50] And then that subplot is dropped.

[10:53] Who cares?

[10:53] Sure.

[10:54] And something called the White Rose is being brought into Bangkok that M. Bison really wants badly.

[11:01] And no one knows what it is.

[11:02] It must be some kind of super weapon, Elliot.

[11:03] Yeah, it must be something amazing that they have to take from him.

[11:05] Or Liz Taylor's new scent, perhaps.

[11:08] These have always brought me luck.

[11:10] But the—sorry, so they decide they need this White Rose thing, and Chun-Li is trying to take down M. Bison.

[11:16] Yeah, Chun-Li tries to, like, find it, and then she ends up getting captured by Bison.

[11:20] She seduces one of M. Bison's, I guess, female lieutenants.

[11:23] And then they have a fight scene in a bathroom.

[11:25] Yeah, well, no, we'll get into that scene in more depth later.

[11:27] A painfully erotic battle scene.

[11:29] So she eventually gets captured.

[11:32] She meets her captive father, who's been alive all these years.

[11:37] And then her dad gets killed.

[11:39] M. Bison snaps his neck right in front of her.

[11:42] Yeah, and then he's like, okay, whatever, you suck, and he leaves.

[11:48] There's no way you can stop me, and he leaves.

[11:50] And then, of course, his two henchmen let her escape after she beats them up.

[11:54] And then she runs through the streets, and then she gets shot, and then she gets saved.

[11:58] She gets shot, and then she's being chased by the two clumsiest henchmen in the world.

[12:03] They're running through these crowded Bangkok streets,

[12:05] but they'll be knocking over fruit stalls and things,

[12:09] but there's plenty of room to run around the fruit stalls.

[12:12] There's one scene where a guy was literally shooting over a bunch of greenery.

[12:18] There's like a foot clearance, but then he felt like, oh, God, and he had to push the greenery over.

[12:22] It's messing up my vision.

[12:24] They could very quickly catch her, but they have to slow down and push over all these stalls.

[12:30] And then when the villains are almost at her, the townspeople rear up and throw fruit at them, and they run away.

[12:36] Yeah, you know, I think maybe those guys, just like one of their tasks for later on in the day,

[12:41] they went into their Microsoft Outlook and were like, task, push over fruit stalls.

[12:46] Like, ah, well, we've got to do this, and we've got to do that later.

[12:48] Why don't we just, we're here, let's get this out of the way.

[12:51] Knock some fruit over on the ground.

[12:53] So yeah, so she gets shot, and then her sensei shows up.

[12:58] Who she thought was dead because his house blew up.

[13:01] Yeah, he got hit by a missile launcher or something.

[13:03] And he shows up, and he uses magic to heal her bullet wound.

[13:08] And then they hang out for a bit, and then somehow they split up again.

[13:13] And then she goes and finds the cops who...

[13:16] Who have seen her once, and she doesn't know their names.

[13:20] But she finds Chris Klein and says, I need backup.

[13:22] Yeah.

[13:22] And I don't know how she doesn't know his name, because he's constantly saying, Nash, out.

[13:27] I'm Nash.

[13:29] It's me, Nash.

[13:30] It's Nash.

[13:30] Yeah.

[13:31] Bring men in.

[13:32] And people are just shouting Nash.

[13:33] It's really weird.

[13:34] Nash, goodbye, farewell, amen.

[13:37] Nash.

[13:38] Yeah.

[13:41] So they end up, there's a showdown at the wharf.

[13:46] Yeah.

[13:47] And they realize.

[13:48] At the lieutenant wharf.

[13:49] Yeah, and some people get, some bad guys get killed.

[13:52] And then they find out that the White Rose was Bison's daughter all along.

[14:00] Bison's daughter who, when he was a young man who grew up on the streets of Thailand as a fish thief.

[14:05] Who, he needed to, this makes no sense.

[14:10] But he took his pregnant wife to a cave because he needed to appease the dark gods to get rid of his conscience, which I guess was holding him back in the crime game.

[14:18] Like he could be advancing, but the conscience was getting in the way.

[14:21] So he plunges his hands into her pregnant belly, and it's much less exciting than it sounds, and puts his conscience in his infant daughter.

[14:30] And that's the white rose that he wants to get because he seems to have lost track of her at some point.

[14:34] And I've always been under the impression that if a person wants to get rid of their conscience, they're basically almost there already.

[14:42] Like, you know, if you're the kind of person who's interested in divesting yourself of your conscience, you can basically just decide not to care about things and just do it that way rather than mystically putting your conscience in an unborn child.

[14:55] Yeah, I mean, at that point, if you've already made the decision that you're going to, like, stab your pregnant wife in the belly with your hands, I think you're probably okay.

[15:03] You probably got a pretty good control over that conscience

[15:05] You're pretty evil

[15:06] Maybe that's the twist

[15:07] Maybe it's like Dumbo's feather

[15:08] The power was already in him

[15:11] It's very uplifting and inspiring

[15:14] That's the message of Street Fighter

[15:16] So Bison takes his

[15:18] Daughter conscience

[15:20] To his house

[15:21] And all our good guys end up showing up at some point

[15:24] And there's some battling

[15:27] Fight to the finish

[15:28] Yeah there's a fight to the finish

[15:29] And Bison ends up getting his head

[15:31] snap, twist it all the way around.

[15:35] And then

[15:36] everybody's okay at the end.

[15:38] No surprises.

[15:41] I like your summary, Stuart, because it's

[15:43] sort of like a six-year-old talking about

[15:44] a movie he saw last night.

[15:46] And then this happens.

[15:47] Oh man, and then this other piece happens.

[15:50] There's a bunch of battling.

[15:50] There was not nearly as much battling

[15:53] as I would have expected.

[15:54] There's maybe five fight scenes in a 95-minute movie.

[15:58] And none of them are like...

[16:00] It's not like they're old boy hallway marathon-length fight scenes.

[16:04] Like, they're just your normal, like...

[16:06] Yeah, a couple wire stunts.

[16:07] Yeah.

[16:08] A couple grabbing each other's arms and then, like, shifting your position around and grabbing their arm again.

[16:13] There's a very disappointing scene fight with Vega, another Street Fighter character who wears a mask and has three blades on one hand, like Wolverine.

[16:21] Sure.

[16:22] And she takes him down in, I don't know, like two minutes?

[16:26] Yeah.

[16:27] A minute and a half?

[16:27] Yeah, not very climactic.

[16:29] And then you expect...

[16:30] He's made out to be like the Boba Fett of this universe.

[16:33] Yeah.

[16:33] And I almost assumed like, oh, okay, well, he'll come back at some point for revenge.

[16:38] No, he's just gone, you know.

[16:40] Yeah, like, I can only imagine that in the movie theaters

[16:45] that all the guys who, you know, plunked down all their hard-earned money

[16:50] to play the video game in the arcade

[16:53] who like to play with this Vega character

[16:55] were really disappointed that their favorite character

[16:57] was not doing any of his signature battle in the movie.

[16:59] And not even wearing matador pants, as he does in the game.

[17:03] Which is probably the best part about it.

[17:05] Yeah, well, Ed's saying, in the game, everyone has these very specific outfits that they wear,

[17:09] and in the movie, they don't even go to that length of having them put on the costumes.

[17:14] He did slice through a chain-link fence at one point, and I believe that he would always fight within a cage.

[17:20] Oh, yeah, you're right.

[17:21] That's true, in like a tapas bar.

[17:23] Yeah.

[17:23] So you think it was a tapas bar?

[17:26] It was a bar of some kind, and he's Spanish.

[17:29] Probably a top star.

[17:30] The plane flies to Spain when you're about to fight him.

[17:32] He stops for a few olives in between.

[17:34] In the video game, this character has really very effeminate sound effects when he does things and when he gets punched.

[17:44] And he holds a rose.

[17:45] But he doesn't do any of that in this movie.

[17:47] No.

[17:47] Not that that makes this a bad movie.

[17:50] They kind of rob zombie eyes of the character.

[17:52] Like he's a big lumbering idiot.

[17:54] Yeah.

[17:54] So, guys.

[17:56] Sure.

[17:57] So it's a bad movie.

[17:58] Yeah, well, there are a few things worth talking about.

[18:01] I think that one of them is that amazing sequence we talked about before

[18:07] where, for some reason, Chun-Li tracks down this woman

[18:11] who, I guess, is a bigwig in the M. Bison crime corporation.

[18:17] Yeah, Shadaloo.

[18:17] And figures that this is her way to get a message to M. Bison.

[18:22] And so she goes into this club, which is called, what, Insomnia?

[18:28] Is that what it's called?

[18:29] Yeah, it was called Insomnia.

[18:31] In really, like, cartoony, colorful letters.

[18:34] Yeah, in, like, burrito bar letters.

[18:36] And she walks in, and she's wearing, like, a granny sort of outfit

[18:40] with her hair up in two sort of Charm Wars-like figures.

[18:44] To put it in terms that our audience will understand,

[18:47] she's dressed like Mon Mothma, but she has hair like Leia in the first movie.

[18:51] And she catches this woman's eye from across the room.

[18:56] Sure.

[18:57] And there's immediate electricity.

[18:58] I guess that we're meant to think that this was her plan all along.

[19:03] I guess so.

[19:04] She's like, I've researched this lady, and I know that she's a lesbian with a fetish for bun hair.

[19:09] For Leia.

[19:09] Yeah, and so...

[19:11] It was hot.

[19:11] That was a hot scene, man.

[19:12] It was hot.

[19:13] It was like that scene in That Basic Instinct.

[19:15] It was the least hot lesbian seduction scene, I think, ever in movie history.

[19:20] Yeah, as a straight man who, you know, sorry to our lesbian listeners, you know, as...

[19:26] Yeah, sorry, Dan's not into you.

[19:28] He's taken.

[19:29] No, I'm apologizing to our lesbian listeners

[19:32] for doing the straight man thing

[19:34] and fetishizing lesbianism a little bit.

[19:36] Sure, like Missy Monday or something?

[19:38] Yeah, sure.

[19:39] I would normally think, okay, sexy scene.

[19:43] Our sexy heroine is going to seduce this lady.

[19:45] No, they sort of dance awkwardly around each other.

[19:49] It's almost like a lesbian seduction

[19:51] at a seventh grade dance.

[19:53] They don't get that close to each other

[19:56] And they kind of feel weird

[19:57] They can't dance

[19:59] But that means

[20:01] Electricity between them

[20:02] The hench lady or boss lady

[20:05] Follows her into the ladies bathroom

[20:08] And then

[20:09] Locks the door

[20:10] And you're like scissoring

[20:12] They're going to lie on the ground and scissor each other

[20:14] For some reason it's assumed we'll find it sexy

[20:16] That they're having sex over a toilet

[20:18] But no that's not what happens

[20:21] That is the sexiest place to have sex

[20:24] We've already covered that

[20:25] just a bunch of fighting yeah instead of sex it's a bunch of punching a lot of like it is

[20:32] one of the best fight scene in the in the movie i would say maybe that's how lesbians have sex

[20:36] i don't know i don't have no personal you know first i've only seen the movies and those are

[20:41] made for straight guys yeah so it could be just a bunch of kung fu fighting yep wait that's what

[20:46] that was it was made it looked like a bunch of arm bars and like smashing each other into things

[20:51] yeah it was well they were fighting in a confined space it was like the fist fight in from russia

[20:55] with love oh okay or the trailer and kill bill it was it was also a lot like uh it was like that

[21:00] fight scene in the in the bathhouse in eastern promises yeah yeah exactly only except that was

[21:06] sexy only that was sexier yeah as a straight man i will say seeing megan morgan naked seeing the

[21:12] back of his scrotum it was it's very exciting that's the best part of the scrotum

[21:18] that sounds like you're talking about it like you're gonna eat it that's a cut of meat that's

[21:26] the prized cut we give that to the most honored guest this is the filet mignon scrotum

[21:32] so yeah that that scene was really good uh you were talking earlier about how

[21:39] this movie plays uh plays it kind of loose with the the ethnicity of its actors yeah the main

[21:47] the lead actress so i guess dan looked up on wikipedia i guess and she is half chinese but

[21:52] she really doesn't look it and you know the main character the main villain is he operates out of

[21:58] hong kong but he is i but he's supposed to be irish like he's white the as you as you pointed

[22:04] out before we like really got into things so i think that the audience may have missed it oh he

[22:09] does have an irish he does have a spite coming to china despite being a baby yeah despite growing

[22:14] up well thailand despite growing up in thailand he has an irish accent because his parents were

[22:18] irish so i guess it's genetic and hyrum gringold or whatever her name is blood goods she has

[22:24] she does not she looks like maybe she's i mean i don't know what her ethnicity is but she does

[22:30] not look thai like chris klein is the other hero he's what's weird is he works for interpol but

[22:37] he's not english like all the ethnicities are weird but it's also maybe he was she's like

[22:42] native american maybe i don't think you walk around with a name like blood good and not that

[22:46] might not be her real name something tells me blood good might not be her real last name that's

[22:50] just her vampire name but it's one of these it's it's very very much like a movie like movies from

[22:56] the 30s like the hatchet man or the good earth where the main characters are supposed to be asian

[23:00] but they're played by white or white looking actors and then in the back you have real asian

[23:05] people who are extras who don't say anything and it's just weird that in a movie made i guess what

[23:10] they made it in 2008 that set about a character named chun li who's chinese that you don't have

[23:16] a chinese actress and if it's in thailand you don't have like a thai actress it was just very

[23:21] weird like as if audiences table today will not go to see movies with asian characters or something

[23:26] yeah it's not like the movie like theoretically if you're making a movie based on street fighter i

[23:31] mean there's i'm guessing a relatively large asian market for this sort of thing i would think so

[23:37] because i mean that's all those guys i see playing the fucking thing down at the arcade well it does

[23:42] seem like an odd choice like ethnographer stewart wellington it does seem like an odd choice on

[23:47] another level that they didn't go out and get like a hong kong action star to play this role

[23:52] instead they're like jackie chan yeah jackie chan and drag some like it chun li hot a female

[23:58] action star stewart chun like it hot that's no that's good i like it yeah you guys are fighting

[24:03] for best jokes tonight i guess anyway let me say what i was going to say before elliot injected

[24:10] that hilarious pun like they could have gotten someone you know of the correct ethnicity who

[24:16] could also fight but instead they're like let's get that girl from smallville and like cut it

[24:21] together with the stunt double why not get what's her name from crouching tiger yeah dragon which

[24:27] one zhang jimmy oh yeah i don't remember how to pronounce her name yeah i bet you could do that

[24:32] stuff not michelle yo she's too old for the role yeah unfortunately but uh but like a young michelle

[24:37] yo yeah like super cop type okay so you're now you're doing like wizard magazine style cast

[24:43] yeah the way you cast it just based on what someone looks like for venom eddie brock's a

[24:49] big guy and he's blonde so howie long is a definite gambit would be jean-claude van damme

[24:54] of course wolverine glenn danzig sure let's take them all off i don't remember who else they had

[24:59] Peter Weller should be Vision

[25:01] because he's as awesome as Robocop.

[25:03] Captain America would, of course, be Howie Long.

[25:09] Two roles.

[25:10] It's a tour de force for Howie Long.

[25:14] In Marvel Comics, the movie.

[25:17] He's not really doing anything.

[25:18] I mean, he's not since his ads with Terry Hatcher.

[25:21] He's in ads with somebody else now,

[25:23] and it feels like he's cheating on Terry Hatcher.

[25:25] I love those ads because it was like,

[25:28] are we supposed to believe they're married

[25:29] or they're roommates or what i had you know i would see those ads and i i would have no i had

[25:36] no idea who hallie long was and so like uh he's a football star duh exactly well exactly firestorm

[25:43] and and you have met me before you are aware that i would not know a football

[25:48] secondary role in broken arrow yeah but that's the thing like years later i learned that they

[25:53] weren't married i'm like what why were they in those commercials together they were cheating

[25:58] on their spouses it doesn't make any sense that was like right after lois and clark too it was a

[26:02] it was yeah it was my terry terry hatcher calls those her her years in the wilderness sure between

[26:08] lois and clark and desperate housewives heaven's prisoners heaven's prisoners is somewhere around

[26:12] there gross all right thumbs down on her on that in that movie grody let's just let's just think

[26:19] about the cool surface how about that okay all right so here's something else that bothers me

[26:24] about this movie so apparently jen uh again again jim in the holograms jim is my name

[26:33] no one else is the same jim is my name so so the sensei yeah his character apparently he's got

[26:40] magic powers yeah he can make hadoukens and heal people he can do that and he can like

[26:45] heal cuts he's like a scientologist he uses his mind power yeah he's got a fucking sweet apartment

[26:51] if he's got a real nice loft space until i mean obviously it doesn't have a lot of missile

[26:55] protection michael clark duncan blows it up oh yeah michael clark duncan's in this movie too

[26:59] i just feel like if he has magic powers then things should be a lot simpler than well it's

[27:03] kind of like d wars dragon wars yeah where robert forster has these amazing magic powers but he does

[27:10] all he does is appear occasionally and pull the hero out of jams but it's very obvious that robert

[27:15] forster could solve the problem all by himself like he's got magic powers yeah it's again can

[27:21] kind of do this he doesn't need chun li at all no i like to think that he's obsessed with the

[27:26] idea of getting somebody else to do it so he's like lazy yeah he'll put in the months we have

[27:35] to assume of training but he's well he's motivated but he doesn't like leaving his house yeah maybe

[27:40] He's agoraphobic.

[27:41] Maybe that's what it is.

[27:42] Well, he does have a really nice house.

[27:44] One of my favorite scenes in the movie, Chun-Li first encounters again.

[27:47] He's being beaten up on a subway platform, and she saves him, but she doesn't see his face.

[27:52] And then later, you see his spider tattoo on his hand.

[27:55] This is five minutes into the movie.

[27:57] Five minutes in.

[27:58] Then about eight minutes in, ten minutes in, she goes to a marketplace and bumps into a janitor sweeping the sidewalk,

[28:05] and she notices he has the same spiderweb tattoo.

[28:07] She can't get around this guy.

[28:07] He moves so quick, like a dancer.

[28:09] Yeah.

[28:10] but then he she goes into a store feet away and the woman says you need to find again the man with

[28:17] the spider web tattoo and you have to go to bangkok and then the next scene is her leaving

[28:23] her house and flying to bangkok it's like that dude was just he's just a couple feet away like

[28:27] sweeping the ground right outside well as soon as she shows as she like she mentions it then shows

[28:32] the tattoo they of course have a flashback in like that's like sepia tone of her like seeing

[28:38] the guy with the tattoo like from three minutes

[28:41] ago. Like, are they

[28:42] expecting the audience to be like

[28:44] like, oh

[28:46] oh, but he had the tattoo

[28:49] oh, I see what they did, that's amazing

[28:51] The audience spends so much

[28:52] of its brain power remembering combos

[28:54] that it cannot take

[28:57] in plot development. I think that the audience

[28:59] for the Flophouse does not realize

[29:00] what we now know to be true

[29:02] having had to watch all these

[29:05] which is the extreme

[29:07] um commonness of flashbacks to things that happened five minutes before yeah like if you

[29:13] only watch good movies you would not be aware that this is a thing but having watched so many bad

[29:18] movies there's so many flashbacks like no one making a bad movie from earlier in the film yeah

[29:23] no one in making a bad movie has any faith any faith in the audience's short-term memory like i

[29:29] mean i i guess maybe they're all stoned maybe they all have bad like short-term memory themselves i

[29:35] I think they expect that this movie is bad.

[29:37] Only stupid people will see this movie.

[29:39] Do you think test audiences insisted that they add in those flashbacks?

[29:44] I think test audiences were like,

[29:46] Whoa, wait a minute.

[29:47] This guy with the cobweb hand came out of nowhere.

[29:51] How is this?

[29:53] Foreshadow that.

[29:54] Test audiences gave this movie an A+.

[29:58] It's testing through the roof.

[30:00] This is doing great.

[30:02] We've never had such a great response.

[30:04] The dials were actually set backwards by accident.

[30:07] So everyone was going, boo, terrible.

[30:10] But it was registering as fantastic, best movie ever.

[30:14] We haven't really talked about comparing this movie to Street Fighter the old one

[30:21] with Raoul Julia and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

[30:22] Oh, we can do that.

[30:23] I can't join in because I've not seen that old one.

[30:26] I haven't seen it since I was a kid.

[30:27] I haven't seen it since it was in the movie theater.

[30:29] Raoul Julia and Neil McDonagh have very different ways of playing M. Bison.

[30:32] The same character, yeah.

[30:34] Yeah, Neil McDonagh is more of an evil businessman,

[30:38] whereas Raul Julius is more of a kind of like Stalin Mao-type character.

[30:44] Yeah, he also, there was a certain fatalism in Raul Julius' performance.

[30:48] Like, obviously now we know why.

[30:51] But, yeah, it was...

[30:54] But there's this, you know, there's this, like,

[30:57] almost a sadness that kind of hangs over him.

[30:59] Oh, God.

[30:59] Well, he definitely brings more to the role just by virtue of being Raul Julia.

[31:05] Yeah.

[31:05] And, I mean, I think...

[31:08] It's the sheer Raul Julia-ness.

[31:09] Combined with the fact that, I mean, his opponent, like his nemesis, adds weight to him.

[31:15] You know, when his bad guy, like the good guy that he's fighting is Jean-Claude Van Damme as opposed to...

[31:20] JCVD.

[31:21] Yeah, as opposed to some chick from Smallville.

[31:23] Like, that makes him seem more badass, you know?

[31:26] It is weird, though, the part where Jean-Claude Van Am starts speaking French

[31:29] and M. Bison goes, oh, mi amor, and starts kissing up his arm.

[31:33] That's weird.

[31:34] That was a little weird.

[31:37] They didn't do that in this movie.

[31:38] No.

[31:39] Raul Julia is an interesting case because he's a very good actor

[31:41] that nobody can seem to remember any of the movies that he made.

[31:44] So it's like, Raul Julia, oh, he was a great actor.

[31:47] Adam's Family, Adam's Family of Values.

[31:49] Kiss of the Spider-Woman.

[31:51] Street Fighter.

[31:52] Maybe they don't remember Kiss of the Spider-Woman.

[31:53] That was his big prestige.

[31:56] Addams Family.

[31:57] Addams Family is the role he will forever be associated with.

[32:03] Sure.

[32:04] No, I was going to say...

[32:05] Or Three Penny Opera.

[32:06] We have not talked about Chris Klein's Tour de Force performance.

[32:10] Yeah, he's fucking incredible in this movie.

[32:12] I didn't realize Chris Klein could play another character, but what a character.

[32:17] You know, you think Chris Klein, you're like, I imagine dopey guy.

[32:21] Maybe dopey jock.

[32:22] Sure.

[32:23] not so in this movie your your your you know non-union keanu reeves sure i like him more than

[32:31] keanu reeves yeah yeah we learned about elliot today well what i don't like is it is it like the

[32:38] the like eroticism and manly sensuality he brings to the yeah it's almost it's the exact opposite

[32:45] of that actually like he's so bland that he brings makes blandness into a part of the character

[32:49] kind of like paul walker paul walker is genuinely bland yeah okay but anyway here is trying so hard

[32:56] not to be bland in this role yeah chris walker as nash is he is like constantly moving around

[33:02] in weird ways looking at things in crazy ways glowering into the camera he delivers all of

[33:07] his lines as if they are the wittiest toughest things that this like sarcastic but sexy detective

[33:14] could be saying you know he thinks he's in like in a in a episode of californication it feels like

[33:19] yeah you know well he also like the character i think is conceived as if this guy oh he hasn't

[33:25] showered in a couple days you know he's fished some coffee out of the the garbage to to drink

[33:31] in the morning like he's he's had five cigarettes before breakfast but he looks like the disney

[33:37] version of that like he's been scrubbed and then some like careful oil has been applied to his hair

[33:42] you know and then every once in a while it seems like he's like his line delivery feels like he's

[33:47] channeling sean hayes or something it just gets way too you are really obsessed with sean hayes

[33:52] because he is out of time that dude is fucking hilarious he is so funny there's a great moment

[34:02] where chris klein is uh being sarcastic they they have encountered chun li she's escaping from the

[34:08] nightclub and she runs through a strip club and while she is there she knocks out a bunch of gun

[34:12] men by kicking them while swinging around the stripper pole and moon again sounds more exciting

[34:17] than it is yeah it's really not and moon blood good says to him like maybe she's just an angry

[34:23] stripper and chris klein's like oh yeah an irate pole dancer decided to go ahead and it's like

[34:30] sorry the levels your hand your hand motions they can't see the hand but uh but it's literally like

[34:36] damn you were saying when we're watching movies like the director said like here you're being

[34:40] sarcastic and chris ben was like no i got it i've been practicing yeah i know how to do this

[34:45] i got this one coach so really there's a big like it is the is the most ridiculous sarcasm

[34:52] uh yeah my favorite part was when all the police and interpol people find out that you know uh the

[35:00] bad guy has been secretly buying a property using his his shell corporation esperano cores esperano

[35:06] security and all the police look out the window to the giant tower that says esperanto security

[35:12] right outside of their office and then he's like oh my god they've been buying a property

[35:16] uh whatever they've been lowering like uh the prices and stuff so they can buy it up cheap

[35:22] let's get on it and they all like run out the door yeah let's let it's like where are we going

[35:28] what are we doing what happened why is how do how do we get on it uh how did we find like are they

[35:34] run and go find lawyers or something like i like to imagine as soon as they like get out of the

[35:39] office like they're talking to each other it's like do you know what we're supposed to do no i

[35:42] don't i just thought that it would look good if we were if we ran out i left my keys in there

[35:46] i gotta go back would it be weird if i went maybe i should wait until he leaves there it feels like

[35:53] there are two movies going on here which is the very boring chun-li movie yeah and then the

[35:57] kind of hilarious action cop spoof with chris klein and moon bloodgood and it's like i would

[36:04] like i wish it was all that movie like that they are in the kind of movie where they show up where

[36:09] the uh the villains enemies have all been left on the pier with their heads cut off placed on

[36:15] plates in front of them and they're like huh on their own plates and everything well dinner's

[36:21] served you know like all this made up stupid crappy witty jokes and like the uh and they're

[36:27] just really over the top and dumb like i wanted to watch it was almost like someone saw shoot

[36:32] him up and was like yes finally someone gets the way an action movie should be taken seriously

[36:37] and decided to add that into street fighter street fighter legend of chun-li well i want

[36:42] to address something that you briefly did before which was that um as you say like these are kind

[36:46] of like parallel plot lines and the first time they run into each other is at that um that fight

[36:53] in the strip club and they see each other only briefly before chun li runs out and in that

[37:00] moment well but they don't know who this woman is at all um and then we see uh chris klein on the

[37:09] computer looking her up as you said elliot he must have googled her image so he just has her face in

[37:15] his head not her name like he scanned his brain and put that picture into the computer and said

[37:20] find this picture right and so she he sees an article about her being a pianist a respected

[37:26] pianist who's disappeared and then every time they look at up the news in this movie it is on the

[37:34] worst ugliest designed like newspaper fake website biggest website is like all open white space

[37:41] rather than real website which would be a bunch of ads all over the place big red block letters

[37:46] Because they make all this big deal about how secretive this Shadow Lao Corporation is

[37:52] and the bad guy, Bison.

[37:54] But, of course, Chun-Li goes to her local library, internet cafe or something,

[38:00] immediately just Googles, I'm guessing, Shadow Lao or something,

[38:03] and immediately that fucking Neil McDonough's face pops up.

[38:07] On a newspaper, there's like Esperanto Corps buying lots of property.

[38:10] But anyway, these two main characters don't know each other at all.

[38:16] And all of a sudden they just run into each other face to face once and then Chris Klein looks them up.

[38:22] And then all of a sudden at the end of the movie...

[38:25] I don't know, he looks like a cop.

[38:26] At the end of the movie all of a sudden she shows up in his apartment and is like,

[38:32] I'm going to go down to the docks and take these guys down.

[38:34] I need some backup.

[38:35] And he's like, alright, sure, whatever, I'm on board.

[38:39] I think he said it probably a little bit wittier with a weird leer on his face.

[38:44] Sure.

[38:45] Or Scowl.

[38:46] Oh, God.

[38:48] Great movie.

[38:49] Oh, it is a really stupid movie.

[38:51] I think you really summed it up, Bess, in that this movie only makes sense because you've seen other movies.

[38:56] Like, so many decisions.

[38:58] The plot is by the numbers, but it's so by the numbers they didn't bother to hit all the numbers.

[39:04] You know?

[39:05] Yeah.

[39:05] And they're just like, ah, the audience knows how movies work.

[39:08] They'll fill in the gaps.

[39:10] Yeah.

[39:10] Okay, so we're running over time, so we should do our final judgments really fast.

[39:14] Sure.

[39:15] And then move on.

[39:15] We had a lot more to say about this than I thought we would.

[39:17] Is bad.

[39:19] Yeah, is this a good bad movie, a bad bad movie,

[39:22] or a movie that you kind of liked in some way?

[39:23] I will go with Elliot in the sense that

[39:25] if this movie was all about Chris Klein,

[39:28] I would think it was hilarious.

[39:30] It would be a good bad movie.

[39:31] Because it is the worst performance I've seen

[39:34] in a major release film that I can remember.

[39:36] And it's hilarious.

[39:38] But everything with our actual main character

[39:41] is boring, boring, boring.

[39:43] So that's what I have to say about it.

[39:44] Bad, bad. I agree.

[39:45] I'm going to go good, bad on this one.

[39:47] Whoa!

[39:48] Because everything about this movie is so stupid and terrible

[39:53] that it makes it kind of fun to watch it because it's so dumb.

[39:57] Okay, it was a good movie to make fun of. I'll give you that.

[39:59] Yeah, that's...

[40:00] Oh, what were you going to say?

[40:01] That's all I was going to say.

[40:02] And it's only 95 minutes long, so it's not like Seven Pounds,

[40:05] which was roughly 18 hours long.

[40:07] Yeah, and felt like 49 hours long.

[40:10] So before we get into our recommendations,

[40:13] we should talk about the contest,

[40:17] the Flop of the Floppers contest.

[40:19] Sure.

[40:19] The contest, the classic Seinfeld episode.

[40:21] Yeah, that's been sweeping the nation.

[40:23] We got a record turnout of entries this year in the contest.

[40:29] I think we got one and then one guy who maybe was entering

[40:32] but didn't make it clear.

[40:33] And so congratulations, Dash.

[40:36] You've won the contest.

[40:39] Wait, did you say Nash?

[40:40] No.

[40:40] Chris Klein's a great character from The Legend of Chun-Li.

[40:43] No, I said Dash, the character from The Incredibles.

[40:45] Oh, okay.

[40:46] Never mind.

[40:46] Congratulations, Dash.

[40:48] If you're out there, get in touch with us at theflophousepodcast at gmail.com.

[40:53] Do what you can to prove to me that you're not a crazy person, since we are going to

[40:59] invite you to spend time with us.

[41:01] Yeah, or be crazy.

[41:02] Yeah.

[41:03] And we'll work out the details of you coming for one of these podcasts.

[41:09] Hanging out.

[41:09] Yeah.

[41:10] Drink some beer and eat Popeye's.

[41:11] Yeah, seeing how the magic happens.

[41:12] Yeah.

[41:13] Oh, I can taste the Popeye's already.

[41:15] Maybe he'll get lucky and get to watch the Wolverine movie with us.

[41:21] Yeah, we could always put a hold on that one until...

[41:24] Yeah, I can't wait.

[41:24] We can see Wolverine briefly as a Civil War soldier in the opening credits.

[41:29] Oh, stop teasing me.

[41:32] So, now we should talk about movies that we actually liked in some way.

[41:37] Okay.

[41:37] Recommendations.

[41:39] anyone want to start yeah sure uh i was really sick last week um so i was you know i was watching

[41:46] some movies and i watched uh the movie double impact starring jean-claude van damme in both

[41:53] of the starring roles uh and bolo young is the bad guy uh there's some good fighting um there's

[42:02] a couple pretty good boob shots sure all together yeah all together like and i kind of built those

[42:09] boobs that boob shot up in my head when i was a kid boobs yeah i built them up in my head like

[42:14] i didn't like build them out of legos or or like paper papier mache um but yeah you know it's it

[42:22] was it was a it was a good flick all right thumbs up um that's not the one double impact what's the

[42:29] is it maximum what's the one with species overdrive what what's the one with the girl

[42:34] from species in it with jean-claude van damme i have no idea not double impact though right

[42:39] no okay maybe lionheart yeah oh it's the quest that's what it is sure it's like it's like

[42:47] maximum blowhard or something or okay i haven't seen that one you're thinking of lorenzo's oil

[42:52] lorenzo's oil no not sudden death oh well anyway walk in the clouds

[42:57] uh-huh walk in the van dam in a walk in the end like water for chuck death of a salesman

[43:04] like water um so i was sort of uh sick today so i have a lot of time did you guys have a touch of

[43:12] the swine flu well we made out yeah oh the mumps no i mean i don't think i had the swine flu mine

[43:19] was more pooping based yeah mine's swine poop mine's totally no it's not out yeah so i don't

[43:26] I don't think we had the same thing because I just pooped a lot.

[43:29] Did you poop a lot, Dan?

[43:31] I would like to just recommend my movie, which is...

[43:34] It's called Poop.

[43:35] Everybody poops the movie.

[43:39] Starring Keanu Reeves.

[43:41] 89 minutes of just people sitting on the floor.

[43:44] It's like one of those Faces of Death things, but with pooping.

[43:47] I watched Trick or Treat like you did last week, Stuart.

[43:51] Yeah, man.

[43:52] And I enjoyed it.

[43:53] I think I enjoyed it even more than you did.

[43:54] What?

[43:56] But I'm not recommending it, because that would be a redundant recommendation.

[43:59] Sure.

[43:59] Repeat recommendation.

[44:01] I also watched Roman Polanski's Repulsion,

[44:05] but I don't think that that needs to be recommended to anyone.

[44:08] It's a classic film.

[44:09] A lot of people know about it.

[44:10] A lot of build-up to the movie you're going to recommend.

[44:12] I just don't want to leave anyone out.

[44:15] I don't want Roman Polanski to feel bad that I didn't mention Repulsion.

[44:18] Roman Polanski has a lot to feel bad about.

[44:21] Yeah, well, that's why I don't want to add to it, Elliot.

[44:25] it's not even french i don't know why you had a french accent yeah um but i'm gonna recommend

[44:33] uh vampires that's vampires with a y uh it was made during the uh brief or not so brief

[44:41] 1970s craze for lesbian vampire films um and of all the lesbian vampire films i've seen i think

[44:50] i would place it at the top sure i put it above uh the vampire lovers which is probably number two

[44:56] what about embracing the vampire isn't that above daughters of darkness what about emmanuel meets

[45:00] dracula number three also about vampires wins no shit it's a pretty weak vampire a pretty weak

[45:08] dracula yeah but um yeah i liked it better than those other ones didn't misty monday make a

[45:13] dracula movie or a vampire movie uh daughters of dracula i think oh you said that already i guess

[45:18] I guess that would be the fifth lesbian vampire film

[45:21] That I've seen

[45:22] Where does that one rank?

[45:25] That's probably number five

[45:26] It's more of a softcore

[45:30] Born film than a vampire movie

[45:32] Still counts

[45:32] I'd like to find out

[45:36] How you rank things

[45:38] I'll send you an excel chart

[45:41] After the podcast

[45:43] It feels kind of like a hammer horror film

[45:46] But not as incredibly slow

[45:48] as many Hammer horror films can be.

[45:50] MC Hammer horror film.

[45:53] It's from the same period,

[45:55] but it was, I think, a Spanish production

[45:58] that was trying to borrow some of the same feel.

[46:02] And it has a lot of long sequences

[46:05] where nothing happens and it's just atmospheric.

[46:07] Keep selling it.

[46:10] In general, I think it's pretty solid.

[46:13] I mean, if you want to see an exploitation film

[46:15] that has a few actual haunting images,

[46:18] and also Lesbian Vampires.

[46:20] I recommend Vampires with a Y.

[46:22] Sure.

[46:23] And now that's V-A-M-P-Y-R-E-S.

[46:27] The title isn't Vampires with a Y.

[46:28] No, it's also not Vampires at the Y.

[46:32] That's a completely different movie.

[46:34] I'll recommend two movies.

[46:37] One is in the theaters right now,

[46:38] and that is a movie that a lot of people have not liked,

[46:42] but I did, called Where the Wild Things Are,

[46:45] that i thought is was very good very well done it is not a fun movie and not necessarily enjoyable

[46:52] to sit through at times but it's a very emotionally honest movie it feels like and i like the way they

[46:57] did a lot but there are some like twee spike jones touches that are kind of irritating uh

[47:03] but overall i said a plus kind of okay uh and the other movie is not in the theaters now and hasn't

[47:09] been for 70 years and that is john ford's stagecoach which i recently watched again so

[47:16] that i could edit it down to about seven minutes and watching it again i was like this is a really

[47:21] good movie like i'd forgotten how fun it is and it's really fantastic movie so that also has an

[47:26] irishman in it um i don't does stagecoach most of john ford's movies do they have victor mclaughlin

[47:34] I assumed that the drunk was an Irishman.

[47:36] Thomas Mitchell, the drunk doctor?

[47:38] Yeah.

[47:38] No way.

[47:39] He's probably of English stock.

[47:42] Okay.

[47:42] Sure.

[47:43] So now what do we do?

[47:44] Now we sign off, buddy.

[47:46] Okay.

[47:47] You guys don't have any wacky things to plug?

[47:49] I do.

[47:49] Yeah, what do you plug?

[47:50] You want me to plug something?

[47:51] Sure, plug something quick.

[47:52] Well, this isn't for like another month after recording this,

[47:55] but my next film screening at the 92nd Streetwide Tribeca,

[47:58] December 2nd, which is a Wednesday at 8 p.m.,

[48:02] I'll be showing The Miracle of Morgan's Creek,

[48:04] Preston Sergis' funniest movie, bar none,

[48:07] with special guest Christian Schaal of Flight of the Conchords

[48:10] to talk with me about the movie.

[48:12] So, again, that's December 2nd, 8 p.m.,

[48:16] 92nd Street, White Tribeca, if you're in the New York area.

[48:19] And if you look it up on 92whitetribeca.org, I think is the website,

[48:26] or 92whitetribeca.org.

[48:28] I don't know why you feel like you need to put this in the thing.

[48:31] i will i will add a link to it on the website and it'll make a lot easier people know about it i

[48:36] sure and i'm gonna plug uh charlene's bar which is where i go drink after recording these things

[48:43] so if you want to find stewart that's where the place to go yeah charlene's bar charlene's bar

[48:48] flatbush in brooklyn flatbush avenue between park and sterling yeah wow dan what do you want to plug

[48:55] like your office or something or uh my sketch group has a show in long island city that's

[49:03] coming up and that we will soon have a monthly show at the magnet theater but i will put links

[49:09] to those on the website i will not burn up extra tape talking about those right tape this is being

[49:14] recorded on a computer yeah but the internet isn't it as i pointed out several times um my computer

[49:20] only takes a certain amount of stuff before it breaks that's right you guys are pushing it right

[49:24] now so i would like to sign off my name is dan mccoy i'm stewart wellington i'm elliot calen too

[49:31] good night bye i can't choose an elegant as well so we'll let the listeners puzzle that one out

[49:39] i'm stewart i'm talking blah blah blah say something about your penis i'm dan i'm also

[49:52] talking. I never talk about my fucking dick, though.

[49:53] Gloria Stewart

[49:56] or something.

[49:56] Well, I never talk about Gloria Stewart.

[49:59] I thought you were going to do it like this.

[50:01] I'm Elliot.

[50:02] The mint apparently also has vitamin A,

[50:05] C, E, and zinc.

[50:06] I'm going to take one. Vitamin Z for zinc.

[50:10] Come back, zinc.

[50:11] Come back. Come back. Come back, zinc.

[50:14] Zinc. Zinc. Zinc.

[50:20] Hi, it's Dan here.

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The Flop House: Episode #49 - Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

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