Pete and J. Burden Discuss Michael Cimino's 'Year of the Dragon' (1985)
The Pete Quiñones Show
Peter R Quiñones
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Pete, welcome back to the Jay Burton show. How you doing, man? |
| 0:04.0 | Doing good, man. I'm so happy to be talking about anything other than what's in the news today. |
| 0:12.1 | Yeah, it's funny because the current events shows, and I'm sure it's the same period, they always do really well. |
| 0:20.0 | But anytime, I say anytime, the times that I do talk about, you know, cars or gun autism or a random movie, I get dozens of messages of people saying, oh, thank God, something else, right? Something to keep me from going crazy. Like one of the local OGC guys sent me a message about that. I did a recent episode with Bagby on Hail Caesar. And I feel like it's a common feeling where a lot of us just sort of feel not to say overwhelmed, but just depressed by the news. Right. It's bad. |
| 0:55.7 | It was bad two weeks ago. |
| 0:57.7 | It's probably going to be bad two weeks from now. |
| 1:01.6 | And so yeah, it's good to sort of get your head above the water. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, man, I'll let you introduce our subject because really before you recommended me this movie, I'd never heard anything about it. I it and so uh yeah man i'll let you start so this movie is okay so this is how i found this movie i'm old enough to have |
| 1:22.5 | gone to video stores and you go to a video store you've've seen everything already, and you're like, okay, |
| 1:30.3 | what is there out there? And there's this Mickey Rourke movie, and I liked Mickey Rourke at the time, |
| 1:37.4 | and it has all this like Asian stuff on it. And I'm like, all right, this looks pretty good called |
| 1:44.7 | Year of the Dragon, came out in 1985. And I look at it and I see, oh, co-written by Oliver |
| 1:52.0 | Stone. This should be, this should be interesting. I liked Salvador at the time. I thought that |
| 1:58.3 | was maybe his best picture, one of the best pictures he |
| 2:01.2 | ever made. And then I watch it. And I'm like, everything in this movie is over the top. |
| 2:09.6 | The violence, the women, the racism, everything is just like, oh, I'm like, oh, this is the kind of movie |
| 2:21.8 | that I can watch over and over again because there's great lines in it, the action's insane, |
| 2:28.8 | there are hit men dressed like new wave artists for no reason whatsoever. |
| 2:37.2 | And you're like they could be hitmen. |
| 2:41.1 | They could also be in Kajagou. |
| 2:43.2 | I have no clue what's going on with the, like, who did the costuming on this movie. |
| 2:50.4 | But the movie is just literally insane from start to finish |
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