Are you getting too old for this
shit? Is your fishing boat sitting in your
driveway just waiting for you to finally retire from the force? Are you
paired up with some loose cannon oddball hotshot young punk who takes
too many unnecessary risks? Friend, have I got the solution for you!
Plug in the wireless device of your choice and give a listen to episode
61 of the Flickers From the Cave podcast! In this edition we take a look
at two prime examples of the buddy cop movie, well, sort of. Our
first offering is 1991's
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, starring
Don Johnson in fine form and
Mickey Rourke apparently trying to remember
how to act. Although not really a buddy cop flick, our heroes are low
level criminals fighting big corporate corruption, it manages to feature
pretty much every cliche associated with buddy cop movies. Moving on,
we take a look at
Tango & Cash from 1989, starring power house duo
Sly Stallone and
Kurt Russell. With a cast rounded out with an impressive
array of character actors, from
Clint Howard and
Michael J. Pollard to
Brion James and
Robert Z'dar, this movie had everything it needed to be
the definitive buddy cop movie. Everything that is except a script that
made any sense what so ever!
Faults be damned, these are both way more
entertaining than they have any right to be, considering how utterly
devoid of common sense they are. If you want to watch a really good
buddy cop picture, go get
Lethal Weapon or
48 Hrs. If you want to see
characters named after cigarettes and an epic super truck versus monster
truck battle, turn off your brain and settle in with these two. As
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