Category: Action films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 107 – Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

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An American hero’s story continues…

Or does it begin? Missing in Action 2 was supposed to be released as the first. Why? Because it’s a Cannon film! No explanation needed.

On this episode, a look at the Chuck Norris film, our first foray into all things Carlos Ray Norris, karate black belt / meme machine.

Does it hold up? Does a bear being chased by Chuck Norris shit in the woods?

All Cannon films are awesome. It’s a fact.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 101 – Dolemite

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You rat soup eatin’ no good honky m*tha f*cka!

We enter blaxploitation territory with the infamous Rudy Ray Moore vehicle, the boom mic heavy cult classic Dolemite.

He plays the title character, imprisoned for drug running and trading in illegal furs (!). In exchange for his freedom, Dolemite cuts a deal with a corrupt warden to go back to the streets and clean house, as his antagonist Willie Green has been taking over while Dolemite’s been rotting in the can.

Dolemite is not just a gangster but an entrepreneur and stand-up comic who owns a nightclub devoted to none other than himself. How large is an audience for a Dolemite-themed club? Inexplicably large.

Dolemite is a charming, inept mess and showcases the terribly unfunny standup of Rudy Ray Moore (may RRM RIP).

Really Awful Movies: Ep 98 – Cage

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Lou Ferrigno AND Reb Brown. This is basically B-movie heaven for us on the Really Awful Movies Podcast.

In CAGE, the two muscled legends are soldiers in ‘Nam, and Billy (the go-to name for someone who is a bit slow-witted) is wounded by shrapnel. This causes him brain damage. The sergeant whose life he saved, Scotty (Brown) later helps him recuperate and basically becomes his caregiver.

Now that we’ve explained away deaf Lou’s speech as the result of a brain injury, we can get on with the lunkheaded UFC-style cage-fighting subplot.

Two low level mafiosi are in debt to some goons and they figure the giant Billy, whose muscles have muscles (and then have more muscles) would make for a great cage fighter. So they kidnap him. And put him in a tournament run by Chinese gangsters. And Scotty has to find him before it’s too late.

Racist, offensive, stupid, and yet fun-filled (just the way we like ’em) we delve into the little known (and for good reason) CAGE.