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PREVIEW - #208 - A Good Man Out for Justice Above the Law: Special Ops

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/47190155 At the height of his fame, Steven Seagal directed and starred in his passion project: ON DEADLY GROUND (1994), a big-budget action movie about saving the environment and bringing down Big Oil. This legendary disaster is the ultimate Seagal film. Come join us as we have some fun hitting the low-hanging piñata that is the Mojo Priest. PLUS: the ominous Proposition 22 - where it came from, and what it represents.

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Finally, as long as this profit to be made from the polluting of our earth, companies and individuals will continue to do what they want.

0:09.1

Wow, wasn't that great.

0:11.6

I mean, there are some good points in there.

0:14.0

I want to tell you something actually really funny.

0:15.6

According to IMDB, this is in the trivia, producer and director Stephen Seagal filmed almost 40 minutes of footage for the environmental message at the end of this movie and planned to use it all in the final cut.

0:26.6

After pressure from Warner Brothers and a disastrous preview screening where audience members booed, laughed and made obscene gestures for the entire sequence, Seagal cut the final scene down to about seven minutes.

0:36.8

It's still way too long. I'm telling

0:38.7

you, release the Seagal cut. I want to see all 40 minutes of that. This is like, this is like what

0:43.6

they did to David Lynch's dune. Okay, but yeah, you see, you see Charlie Chaplin come at the end of

0:48.8

his film about Hitler, and he delivers a moving speech about how we all must unite, and everybody falls over

0:55.7

themselves, given him Hosanas. Meanwhile, here comes an artist of almost equal stature, Stephen

1:00.9

Seagall, who delivers a speech about, you know, he delivers a speech about a lot of stuff,

1:05.9

frankly, and yet we laugh at him. We laugh. Well, this film wasn't very well received. And I mean, look,

1:13.1

this film is not good. I mean, it's good in the sense of like, it's the perfect foil for this show

1:17.7

because it has Stephen Seagall, it has attacks on big oil. And it's all like mushed together into

1:23.6

this like cocktail that is unlike anything else unlike any other cinematic product from which

1:29.3

I have sipped hence. I mean, it is such a strange movie. As I said, it has this kind of like

1:34.2

almost campy quality. And then yeah, at the end, it's just like so heavy handed, so moralistic,

1:41.3

modeling, didactic. Like the speech at the end, even for this kind of speech,

1:46.2

like he has to deliver it with this kind of tone in his voice where it's just like,

1:50.4

how many oil spills can we endure? Millions and millions of gallons of oil, destroying the

1:55.2

ocean and all the many forms of life they support, et cetera, et cetera. Something else about this

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