Ronin (1998)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Do you remember your first DVD? "Shat The Movies" listener Ken C. does. And he forked out the dollars to share it with you.
"Ronin" was a throwback movie even on the day it was released, feeling more like 1968 than 1998. It was prime Robert De Niro before he started his string of comedies, and it was legendary director John Frankenheimer's final picture, an ode to all his car-chase spectaculars that came before.
Reverence for a bygone era aside, the Shat Crew couldn't help but notice some bumps in the picturesque French roads of "Ronin." Abundant MacGyver tricks, rampant Michael Bayisms, questionable Irish accents, Teflon bullets, and dad-fashion euro dudes.
If ever Dick Ebert sparkled on the "Shat The Movies" review, "Ronin" was it. Big D shares Army stories, breaks down the epic ambush scene, mourns Princess Di, and cringes at French police cars too small to fit his 6'7" frame.
Here's to a movie that threw CGI aside, illustrated the beauty of France, and said farewell to one of the greatest car-chase directors of all time. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Big D is the reason why cops drive forward explorers. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, if I got arrested in France, they'd have to strap me to the roof of the car. |
| 0:07.0 | It's like a Christmas tree. |
| 0:09.0 | That's true. I do believe that. |
| 0:11.0 | We've got this big American. What do we do? Do we let him go or strap him to the car. |
| 0:15.8 | We do not have a pickup truck for a man of your stature. |
| 0:19.4 | You are free to go American. |
| 0:21.2 | Go. |
| 0:22.2 | Remember when we first met John McLean |
| 0:25.0 | our god I picked him up from the plane and took him down to Nacatomi Tower |
| 0:30.0 | at the Christmas party and the terrorists were over zealous but it was sweet when they |
| 0:36.5 | killed Ellis and with a little help from Allen drama clay kicked us welcome back to chat the at the podcast where we answer the |
| 0:44.9 | question with the movies we love and grown up really that good. |
| 0:47.2 | Have you ever got yourself thinking why don't they make movies like they used to? |
| 0:50.6 | Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie |
| 0:53.8 | Rental at Blockbuster Video? Do you even remember what Blockbuster Video was? |
| 0:57.6 | Have you answered yes and this is the podcast for you. I'm one of your three co-host, Roger Roper. |
| 1:01.3 | And alongside me in the same room here in the Florida studios is Big D, Dick Hebert. |
| 1:06.0 | Good evening. |
| 1:07.0 | And Jean, the man in the wheelchair lions. |
| 1:11.0 | My price just went up 300%. And each week we take a look back in time and decide if our |
| 1:15.8 | favorite film still hold up each week the audience selects from six movie |
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