The Rewatchables ·
Who won the movie
Kurt Russell
Dion Waiters Award
Teri Hatcher
Overacting Award
Jack Palance
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 49:10
Bill Simmons: Tango and Cash and Roadhouse are said to have deserved sequels more than many films that got them; leaving LAPD to become detectives is an imagined continuation.
Bill Simmons: The stars’ other sequels make the omission baffling; different cities or countries are imagined for a follow-up.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:19:08
Shea Serrano: After struggling for a lesson, the hosts repeat the movie’s claim about avoiding electrocution when not grounded and joke about trying it; this is a transcript observation, not verified electrical guidance.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Prison arrival and the prison escape are distinct favorites among opening, torture, nightclub and final-fight candidates.
Kurt Russell’s action-star appeal leads a range of delighted responses to the absurdity.
Yaz’s Don’t Go and the unidentified saxophone cue for Cash’s disguise are offered.
The prison is liked, but the villain’s lair wins preference.
The automatic belief that the two celebrated cops are corrupt strains the frame-up plot.
Fake newspapers and heroic celebrity cops lead, with violence editing and gratuitous nudity discussed.
Avoid leaving; at most, the brief gap after the escape
No; Tango & Cash is perfect
The American jerk-off insult is recalled.
The lack of a sequel is an outrage; ranking it second among 1980s buddy-cop films is disputed
Patrick Swayze reportedly left for Road House; both resulting casting choices are celebrated.
Jack Palance is assigned the award.
The sweating Total Recall actor and the biker-clothes actor
No — Sylvester Stallone
A sequel report, expanded henchmen, dangerous quarry shoot, heroin branding and a Danish joke are recounted.
Most actors are rejected; the LA Chronicle and Lethal Weapon imitations are endorsed.
Tango is preferred to Ray Tango and Tango and Cash.
The plea, prison transfer, survival, absent surveillance and quarry office make little sense.
Prefer the original or a sequel, with an eight-episode Michael Mann version entertained.
Young Steve Buscemi could enhance the film.
Best director, for the joke of three directors accepting together.
FUBAR’s origin and Cash’s relationship with Kiki are revisited.
Unresolved; the evidence clearing them is weak
The exploding guard-dog prototype and the escape belts.
A movie claim about hanging from power lines is jokingly treated as a lesson.
Craig enjoys the distinct simplicity, cheese and stars of 1980s action films.
