Hello, my name is Justin DeClewer, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And this is a very important episode, more important than most important, because it's our hundreds one.

And we're going to be talking about Jackie Chan. I think that you and I,

we each have our areas of expertise. We have our things that we love. And this more than anything

is the topic that unites us. It's the one that we discuss probably the most. Jackie Chan.

And we kind of made a joke of it when we discussed doing an episode on him that,

oh, it'll be our hundreds episode, seemingly never believing we would make it that far.

The thought, you know, when we started this podcast, when I very reluctantly started this podcast

and was ashamed to have a podcast in the early days, that we would make it to 100 was just too much. But now here we are. We've watched a handful of Jackie Chan films. And for better or worse, this podcast is my life now. So, you know. Hey, hey, hey. This is my legacy. You have other miscellaneous podcasts. You also participated. That's true. But this is the one that grounds you, that defines who you are, that will be carved upon your gravestone.

Ah, when you put it that way.

And it's been building to this, Jackie Chan.

So, when did you fall in love with everyone's favorite kung fu comedian, Will?

I would say pretty much the time that anyone uh of

our age and skin color on this continent fell in love with them kind of in that rumble in the bronx

era i mean you remember seeing the the ads for rumble in the bronx where i remember seeing it on

tbs is the first time i saw rumble in the bronx I taped it on VHS and I watched it over and over and over again. The only action star who does all his own stunts. Well, I should jump in right now and say that Jackie Chan does not do all of his own stunts, even in his prime. Wait, Wait. Wait. What? This is what we're going to do with

this episode. We're going to like break some of those. A couple of myth busters. But the first one I

saw was First Strike. I also remember being very impressed by seeing on TV a clip from the blooper

reel from First Strike where he's jumping through the ladder and he keeps hurting

himself over and over again as he jumps through the ladder. So I think that there is that level

of endearing quality to him, the fact that you see these blooper reels and you see him try to do

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