I Dig Crazy Flicks with @CatBusRuss
Episode 282 - Missouri Comic Con: 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match
CatBusRuss once again presented a TEDTalk about what might be the greatest year in action movies, 1985. Sylvester Stallone had "Rambo: First Blood - Part II", Arnold Schwarzenegger had "Commando", and the Cannon Group threw everything at them. But as this panel evolves, could Sho Kosugi, Taimak, or perhaps Julius "Sho'nuff" Carry walk out as the king of violence?
It was a smaller audience, but they were more than happy to participate in determining the champion. By the end of his time, Russ got to sell his ideas to a crowd of aspiring cosplayers. They were a crowd that appreciated 1985 cinema in general, and offered up new contenders to the action hero title. That is, if you think Marty McFly, Andrew Clark, and John Bender were action stars.
Our host continues to research this year in action cinema, and this led him to find the second attempt to make Jackie Chan a movie star in America. "The Protector" is essentially "Rush Hour 2". Instead of Chris Tucker accompanying Chan to bring justice to Hong Kong, it was a pre-prime Danny Aiello as comic relief. How does this work out with the most serious Jackie of the 1980s? How serious can it be when you have a showdown between Chan and Big John Studd?
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Episode 283 - Miike's "Dead or Alive" & John Carpenter's Fan Expo 2026
It has been a rough month for CatBusRuss. His new warehouse job is expecting 11-hour days starting at 6 pm, and with every other weekend being mandatory Saturdays, he considers himself lucky to have the strength to check out the last day of Fan Expo Chicago. Then the convention organizers kicked him between the legs.
Was it a worthwhile trip? Yes. Our podcast host got to hang out with ThePoeticCritic, gave out of all his "I Dig Crazy Flicks" promotional buttons and pins, and got to ask "The Horror Master" John Carpenter a question at the "Halloween" panel. Unfortunately, if you did not give Fan Expo all your money up front, they could care less about how your experience was. They basically decided that one-day visitors are losers.
Russ had been to three conventions last year hoping to get an autograph from Keith David, and the legend had to cancel all three appearances. Life happens, the podcaster understands that. Unfortunately to Fan Expo, life only happens to celebrities. If you cannot make it to all three days of their attempts to take all your money, you do not matter. The fault for not getting his signature this time solely rests on Russ.
Sorry you were not in a position to buy a fan experience in advance. It is your fault for not calling in sick to work. And you call yourself a "fan". A fan will bend over backwards to accommodate Epic Conventions' income like Russ did at the 2022 Fan Expo Chicago.
And fans should only want to bow down to celebrities. If they go to panels facilitated by other fans, where is the money for us to make?
It kind of makes CatBus wish the convention would have concluded like the end of Takashi Miike's "Dead or Alive". Russ will be on "Collateral Cinema" for their annual Miike episode. To give you a preview of what is to come over there, our host got a really incisive rewatch in and does his best to provide us with a limited review of this brilliant feature.
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Episode 284 - Doom (2005) & The Dungeonmaster (1984) with Ta2Squid & TrashPanda
Thankfully, they all had libations prepared for the chat, so it ended up being a fun conversation ranging from
Russ arguing that the "Iron Eagle" franchise was superior to Tom Cruise's, sharing wrestling tattoo stories, and some opinions from Kolin's little kids. If you come prepared with a cocktail or cannabis product, you should feel comfortable hanging out with the three of them on this recording.If you want to feel like a healthy winner, try a flavor from
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