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becoming friends with...Heaven & Hell (1980) (Before The Film) (opens the original)
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before we get anywhere close to heaven or hell, there’s two hours of this nonsense: a sean connery voicemail, not one but two cameo pep talks that both go sideways, and an oral history of every song the coward american radio stations quietly stopped playing in september 2001. because of the 9/11. (check out the intro on YT, there’s more wild 9/11 happenings). we open up our new inbox (hello@becomingfriendswith.com) and then run through the whole pre-show run sheet like children lost at play: y’a
becoming friends with...Heaven and Hell (1980, Our Feature Presentation) (opens the original)
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An angel gets thrown out of Heaven, comes back as a Hong Kong cab driver, gets gunned down, and then has to fight his way out of the underworld with a girl named Red Dress. That’s the movie. It’s somehow stranger than that sounds. This week I drag Rene and Chris into Heaven and Hell (1980), also known as Shaolin Hellgate — the divisive, borderline-unhinged Shaw Brothers picture Chang Cheh shot on and off across five years while the studio’s empire was drifting toward television, then ended on a
becoming friends with...shaolin soccer (Our Feature Presentation) (opens the original)
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The boys dive into Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer (2001), the cult martial-arts sports comedy that Miramax butchered on its way to American shelves and is now quietly held by Paramount in its streaming library. Tracing the film’s rocky journey — from the trailer that spoils the ending, the 23 minutes Dimension Films chopped for the US distribution (including the Golden Leg Fung flashback and key Sing/Mui scenes), and all the way to how Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax sat on it before piracy forced the
becoming friends with...shaolin soccer (Before The Film) (opens the original)
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Before we ever get to Shaolin Soccer, buckle up, because this is the half of the show where the wheels fall off. We open with a live rendition of the Become Friends With theme that may or may not have accidentally invented a weekly remix tradition, immediately pivot into a Kevin Smith ruse discourse nobody asked for, and somehow end up debating whether Kevin Smith owns a thesaurus. From there it’s trailer chaos: The Guest gets a genuine, heartfelt recommendation sandwiched between jokes about Br
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