Episode #788: In the Line of Fire (W❤️M)
Added 2025-03-06 11:00:06 +0000 UTC“Leary, to me, does not seem like a man of the people…” - Chris
On this month’s W❤️M, Listener Request Month brings us a conversation on one of the all-time great Ass Magnet Movies, Wolfgang Peterson’s In the Line of Fire! How fantastic is John Malkovich in this movie? Why did we need the romance angle, especially with the cheap ice cream of it all? How hilarious is all this bad photoshop of Eastwood in the JFK photos? And isn’t it great watching Clint play piano? PLUS: How hard does this movie biff its perfect ending?!
In the Line of Fire stars Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Fred Thompson, Gregory Alan Williams, Clyde Kusatsu, Elsa Raven, Steve Hytner, Patrika Darby, and Tobin Bell as, for some reason, Mendoza; directed by Wolfgang Peterson.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Man, that little aside about Scott Eastwood was like the in between scenes on street fighter 2 😬
Dennis Stack
2025-06-18 20:03:22 +0000 UTCThe viewer request month talk reminds me of how every year I Worry my will get disqualified for one reason or another. So next year please post a list of requested movies you said no to.
Mark D Myers
2025-04-16 01:16:32 +0000 UTC"Trouble with the Curve? Pigeon betting
James Bergquist
2025-04-01 20:03:45 +0000 UTCMcDermott over Mulroney and Pullman over Paxton for me.
Brendan 'Timbzy' Timbs
2025-03-23 08:11:19 +0000 UTC"John Malkovich is slinging ropes at the president." What is this, my search history?!
DMAC
2025-03-14 15:09:22 +0000 UTCThere was a TV show called LA to Vegas that Dylan McDermott was in. Dermot Mulroney stared in an episode that I thought was funny.
Dawn Elicia Billings
2025-03-13 01:22:25 +0000 UTCRegarding Clint Eastwood doing a voice, which Andrew asked: he does a pretty good impression of John Huston’s inflection throughout WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART, which is a great, albeit underseen, movie of his
Felipe Sobreiro
2025-03-11 20:31:42 +0000 UTC1:40 I'm means it's not the same as pissing on a grave but... back in high-school my buddy was so hungover and afraid to go home he spent several hours moaning, vomiting in a cemetery. Just laying there for hours with his head poking out his car.
adam mason
2025-03-11 04:19:55 +0000 UTCAs the gang are avid Seinfeld fans, I was a little surprised no one wanted to note the Kramer vs Plaza Cable bit draws largely from this movie. I was doing that Leo meme when I watched this years after Seinfeld.
Oh! That Guy.
2025-03-11 02:37:50 +0000 UTCAlways loved this one. Still has one of the best teaser trailers I have ever seen.
Ed Harris
2025-03-10 18:44:13 +0000 UTCGiven how much it was discussed, I'm calling it here - if this movie came out 5-10 years later, during the hey day of every movie getting its own bells & whistles website, this one would have an interactive version of Leary's murder board for people to explore.
Todd B
2025-03-09 00:20:18 +0000 UTCI honestly think that Cabin legitimately, genuinely, becoming more and more upset at Eric (and for EVERYONE?) that it is impossible to deny that he would NOT sleep with Clint Eastwood..... is just the funniest thing I will hear in my lifetime. Waytago again guys. Brilliant episode!
Chris MacLeod
2025-03-08 18:09:17 +0000 UTCFrank Drebin Vs Jason Bourne
Joseph Xavier
2025-03-08 01:32:46 +0000 UTCI’ve listened twice already, so good!! Andrew - amazing Malkovich!!! Steve, I also often think about that weird gun and I don’t even own A gun.
Jaime Lee Ezell
2025-03-08 00:48:35 +0000 UTCDuane Barry reference! Holy shit I just watched that two parter for the first time yesterday. Remarkable television!
Brandon Shrader
2025-03-08 00:44:09 +0000 UTCWas anyone else pulling for Cabin to introduce himself as Chris CabIn The Line of Fire?
Julien Schwab
2025-03-07 18:18:24 +0000 UTCHeard’s performance was so small I had to double check his IMDb and was shocked at his lack of cache after being Terrible Dad. Unfortunately seems his career never took off due to being a bit more Alex Cutter than Professor Riger in his personal life
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-07 17:34:48 +0000 UTCWhen I was younger I always thought enemy mine was a prequel or somehow connected to the last starfighter.
Jason
2025-03-07 11:30:13 +0000 UTCCalifornia was very much still a swing state back in 1992, when this filmed. Clinton was the first Dem since LBJ to win it in that year's election!
Z
2025-03-07 11:11:17 +0000 UTCCan’t wait for Andrew, Chris, and Steve’s new side show, “The Heard Herd.”
Brent Cowan
2025-03-07 06:11:12 +0000 UTCI have been saying for years that we need to allow average and weird looking character actors to have bit parts in these big films. Where are the next generation of Wallace Shawns, Zelda Rubensteins, Austin Pendletons and Peter MacNicols of the world when we need them the most?
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-03-07 02:59:01 +0000 UTCEnemy Mine is probably a WHM. It’s a bit of a weird movie that goes off the rails in the third act. I’d love to hear all your thoughts because it will go weird places I am sure
Dan sulin
2025-03-07 02:09:18 +0000 UTCRoger Corman. Famous wage thief. Told the Fantastic 4 actors it was a pilot and the show was more likely to get picked up if they gave up their salary to help pay for effects.
The Wheel
2025-03-07 02:02:40 +0000 UTCPreferred adaptation of the book The Day of the Jackal, this or The Jackal, Clint/Malcovich or Gere/Bruce? I think I like Jackal better, even though Line of Fire is undoubtedly a higher quality flick and I really enjoyed it over the weekend
Smaug
2025-03-07 00:22:39 +0000 UTCNeat scotch and Clint Eastwood on the big screen, that is a REAL dadfernoon
Tim O'Connor
2025-03-06 23:26:02 +0000 UTC"Alright, Frank's partner, if you're not a cop, tell me right now you're not a cop." *Ape partner making kissy noises* "Well, that's that." I'm over her bowled over laughing. XD I, for one, wholeheartedly welcome Ape-ril 2.0 this week!!
Busiris
2025-03-06 21:11:24 +0000 UTCUgh this season of Love is Blind is SO BORING
Rod
2025-03-06 20:47:57 +0000 UTCLove Eric just really giving it to John Heard for no reason. Also, kudos to the guys for showing more restraint than I would have been able to in not constantly praising the ideas of Malkovich's character given... everything.
Derek Baxter
2025-03-06 20:20:36 +0000 UTCWatching the credits and waiting for Mahoney to pop up after Russo and it was was McDermett. I rolled my eyes but sure. When next popped up Gary Cole I was near apoplectic and literally said aloud “there better be an “And” in front of Mahoney’s name.” I didn’t think it would actually happen but next up popped that fucker Fred Thompson and I thought the 90s were a sane time, there is no way Thompson gets credited over Mahoney. I actually was about 80/20% he would NOT be the “And” at that point, vs my previous 90/10% (after Gary Cole’s credit) And then came the “And John Mahoney,” and in my excitement realized I am quite the loser, but oh what excitement it was *also Gary Cole getting the credit before Thompson is hilariously poor work on Thompson’s agents part, the same agent that landed Fred the autobiography title “Teaching the Pig to Dance”
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-06 19:25:42 +0000 UTCIf I recall right, SNL did a skit with Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney where it was a game show where people had to tell which was which. Which was hilarious that they were in on the joke. This was maybe 12-13 years ago?
Lar
2025-03-06 19:04:45 +0000 UTCAndrew’s Malkovich is the best I’ve ever heard. 💯
Samuel McGuire
2025-03-06 18:49:18 +0000 UTCGary Cole is fine but Gary Coleman would've been amazing!
Daryl Williams
2025-03-06 18:11:03 +0000 UTCMalkovich’s plastic assassin gun is what you might now call a Shinzo Abe Special
Aaron Dowler
2025-03-06 17:44:29 +0000 UTChttps://whm.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_List
I.C. Weiner
2025-03-06 17:28:13 +0000 UTCDear WHM, I hope you guys will have a chance to discuss ‘DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN’.
Paul
2025-03-06 16:37:52 +0000 UTCFor single serve, late 80s early 90s, wooden spoon ice cream, I’m from Hoodsie country. Were big in New England. That wooden spoon feels so 1950s Americana thinking back
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-06 16:17:07 +0000 UTCI love the movie in line of fire but I would love love love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love love love love to hear you guys review, if you haven’t already, Beverly Hills cop. Or did you? Let me know I wanna listen to it Unless it’s live, of course
Sharon P
2025-03-06 16:11:12 +0000 UTCWhen I was in high school a kid in my grade was scanning and printing $20 bills at home and the secret service showed up to question him, which is how I found out they investigate money crimes. I scanned one side of a $1 bill in our school's computer lab to use the image in a powerpoint project and my teacher came up behind me and clamped a hand on my shoulder and said "After everything that's happened here you're scanning MONEY?" I am 44 years old and my asshole is still fused shut
Chris Rose
2025-03-06 15:41:05 +0000 UTCClint does a voice in WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART as a John Huston surrogate. It goes as well as you think it would.
MarkNM
2025-03-06 15:40:45 +0000 UTCMy Dad and I saw this in the theatre. He’d sneak booze in but wouldn’t mix it in coke or whatever. No mixed drinks for my old man. Order a small water, dump that out in the bathroom, pour the scotch into the empty cup.
Jason
2025-03-06 15:37:55 +0000 UTCCan’t believe my request got picked this year! This episode was fantastic.
James
2025-03-06 14:43:27 +0000 UTCGiven the subject matter, you guys are models of restraint here. My tongue would have been cube steak after four minutes.
MarkNM
2025-03-06 14:33:56 +0000 UTCjust watched this while working, about to check out the ep. tall glass of water in hand, coffee ... in the other hand! Love you guys. Erick, thanks so much for the recent hooker EP, this bluesuit needs them things like Hooker needs a hot-plated pizza!
Zora McBride
2025-03-06 14:16:27 +0000 UTCCan Clint Eastwood play the piano anymore? Of course he can Well he couldn't before!
Les Whinen
2025-03-06 13:17:40 +0000 UTCOk when Andrew made those monkey kissing noises I legitimately laughed out loud
ediblegenius
2025-03-06 13:08:52 +0000 UTCQuick, everyone - rendezvous with Clint's ass!
Tim O'Connor
2025-03-06 11:26:38 +0000 UTCFantastic 4? Yes, the OG
Jan
2025-03-06 11:16:19 +0000 UTCBest plastic gun ever
Jan
2025-03-06 11:15:55 +0000 UTC
