The Hard Way (1991) by John Badham, the Hollywood master of the ’80s gritty buddy cop films – featuring Michael J. Fox & James Woods, and Stephen Lang (LL Cool J too). One of the lesser known, that captured the end of the great 80’s genre that we all loved.
The Hard Way (1991) by John Badham, the Hollywood master of the ’80s gritty buddy cop films – featuring Michael J. Fox & James Woods, and Stephen Lang (LL Cool J too). One of the lesser known, that captured the end of the great 80’s genre that we all loved.
I miss James woods before we knew how he really was.
Archimboldi81 on
From me, to you. From me, to you.
too_oh_ate on
James Woods. Pass.
Interesting_Day7175 on
Original release didn’t have these stupid sound effects, of squirting sauce bottles for comedic relief, or the squeaky chair There’s a fortune of sound effects that were added later for DVD that lasted into the HD releases. There’s a scene earlier in the movie with an Indian kitchen staff, that, it’s f’n wild it was inserted for the DVD release, and still is present in any version today.
The original release of the movie, dark, gritty, and none of this comedic shit sound effects.
ZeusDaMongoose on
James woods in real life is just Lester Diamond.
Puppykerry on
A couple of frog dogs!
Vehicle_Electronic on
This movie just randomly popped into my head recently and I thought how under-appreciated it is. It seemed to disappear culturally as soon as it left theaters, but it was a solid buddy action-comedy that fit Michael J Fox well.
ElSlappo on
I saw this on basic cable several years ago and it had one of the funniest swear word edits I’ve seen/heard when ‘son of a bitch’ became ‘slug in the ditch’. Good stuff
MuNansen on
The broadcast version gave me the best swear word replacement of all time: “Slug in a ditch!”
fermcr on
I generally enjoy John Badham movies. He has quite a few good movies from the 80’s and 90’s: The Hard Way, Drop Zone, Stakeout, Nick of Time, Bird on a Wire, Short Circuit, WarGames, …
Drab_Majesty on
Kuffs was the last gasp and a lot better
Hurdy_Gurdy_Man_84 on
I don’t like the film much because
(a) I just cannot bring myself to like Michael J. Fox’s one-note acting. He drags the film down.
(b) The tonal whiplash is too much. You have these mismatched duo shenanigans and relationship problems side by side with a brutal serial killer subplot.
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I miss James woods before we knew how he really was.
From me, to you. From me, to you.
James Woods. Pass.
Original release didn’t have these stupid sound effects, of squirting sauce bottles for comedic relief, or the squeaky chair There’s a fortune of sound effects that were added later for DVD that lasted into the HD releases. There’s a scene earlier in the movie with an Indian kitchen staff, that, it’s f’n wild it was inserted for the DVD release, and still is present in any version today.
The original release of the movie, dark, gritty, and none of this comedic shit sound effects.
James woods in real life is just Lester Diamond.
A couple of frog dogs!
This movie just randomly popped into my head recently and I thought how under-appreciated it is. It seemed to disappear culturally as soon as it left theaters, but it was a solid buddy action-comedy that fit Michael J Fox well.
I saw this on basic cable several years ago and it had one of the funniest swear word edits I’ve seen/heard when ‘son of a bitch’ became ‘slug in the ditch’. Good stuff
The broadcast version gave me the best swear word replacement of all time: “Slug in a ditch!”
I generally enjoy John Badham movies. He has quite a few good movies from the 80’s and 90’s: The Hard Way, Drop Zone, Stakeout, Nick of Time, Bird on a Wire, Short Circuit, WarGames, …
Kuffs was the last gasp and a lot better
I don’t like the film much because
(a) I just cannot bring myself to like Michael J. Fox’s one-note acting. He drags the film down.
(b) The tonal whiplash is too much. You have these mismatched duo shenanigans and relationship problems side by side with a brutal serial killer subplot.