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Where it all started
Greg and Joe go back to where their love of great bad movies began, 1993’s Cliffhanger, starring Sylvester Stallone. Learn how greatness and badness can coexist in a movie to make both perfect films and lifelong friendships. As with every episode, we have the conversation that needed to happen about this movie. Also: Drinking Games, Important Questions, Joe’s Back of the Box, and more.
Joe’s Back of the Box
Still processing a tragic death on a rescue mission eight months prior, Gabe (Sylvester Stallone) must push those feelings aside to save his friends who have fallen into the hands of a ruthless gang of thieves. He must race across a beautiful (but deadly) scenery, while fighting his inner demons and the bad guys at the same time. This movie will have you on the edge of your seat right up until the final, dare we say, Cliffhanger…
The REAL Back of the Box
This movie has it all:
- A tragic back story that the hero must overcome
- A tough but vulnerable helicopter pilot damsel in distress
- A best friend to win back who lost his girlfriend in the opening scene
- FRANK
- John Lithgow as the bad guy affecting some kind of accent
- Travers, who is only capable of yelling his lines and seems to be in a different movie than anyone else
Want more? Of course you do.
- Needless explosions
- Bad guys who are terrible shots
- Convoluted plot devices
- Shots of Sylvester Stallone in the snow and nothing but a t-shirt
- SURPRISE BATS
If you are still not interested in this movie, I don’t know what to say. Obviously you don’t like cool things or to have fun in your boring, gray, non-Cliffhanger-watching life.