‹ All people
Running Scared
Film credit
Steven Bauer
Stats
- Episodes featuring their films
- 1
- Movies in this archive
- 1
Rewatchables episodes featuring their films
Displaying 1 episode
Mentioned in discussions
In the discussion (1)
Approx. transcript time · 01:10:42Read transcript
- Joey Pants is eligible, but Stephen Bauer receives the final choice.
What’s Aged the Best?
Cop names; angry lieutenants; rival buddy cops; Steven Bauer’s look; uncontainable villains; unannounced visits; dead-body escalator; friendship; poster; company cars; croissant mockery; Chicago bars
In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:43:48Read transcript
- Ray Hughes and Danny Costanzo are praised as archetypal cop names.
- Dan Hadea preserves the angry-lieutenant tradition and prompts a long Inspector Todd riff.
- A buddy-cop movie with rival buddy cops is admired even though the “young” rivals are the same age as Hines.
- Stephen Bauer’s layered clothes, beard, and unwashed energy are described as peak mid-1980s texture.
- A villain committing murder and immediately returning to the street is defended as an essential action-movie staple.
- Unannounced visits are remembered as common before cellphones; a recent personal doorstep visit shows the habit has not entirely vanished.
- A dead bad guy descending an escalator, “you are the detectives, go and detect,” and the poster are preserved as memorable images.
- Company cars, including the detectives’ unmarked car, prompt nostalgia for shared workplace vehicles.
- The period’s derision toward croissants is treated as a comic cultural marker.
- Chicago bars look unusually good on film and function as the characters’ living rooms.
Displaying all 2 discussions
