Episode #733: The Rookie (1990)
Added 2024-04-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC“Once again, it’s Clint Eastwood as a cop, so he is costing everyone millions of dollars.” - Chris
On this week’s We Hate Movies, our dumbest theme month yet, SHEENPRIL continues with a wild conversation on the totally outrageous Clint Eastwood movie, The Rookie! How hilariously inept is Raul Julia’s car thief mastermind? How incredible is the opening car carrier chase sequence? How great is this cast full of real-deal character actors? Did Sheen’s character really need to drive that motorcycle through the door? Couldn’t we get a little more Tom Skerritt and a lot more Lara Flynn Boyle? And what are the odds this movie was a re-worked “one last case” Dirty Harry film?
The Rookie stars Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Lara Flynn Boyle, Pepe Serna, Marco Rodríguez, Xander Berkeley, Tony Plana, Paul Ben-Victor, and Tom Skerritt as Eugene Ackerman; directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
This episode was hilarious!
Jamaharona
2024-04-16 11:42:04 +0000 UTCHappy Sheenpril to those who celebrate
Brendan Kneeland
2024-04-15 02:25:26 +0000 UTCHaving a real Dad-fernoon with this one. Kind of enjoyed it
Dean
2024-04-14 18:13:38 +0000 UTC2014's absolutely shitty The Judge truly is a stayed tuned and a half.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-04-13 04:14:15 +0000 UTCIf any of the WHM gang wants to join my PLEX, they can. I've noticed several things over the years that the gang say is "unstreamable" that I already have available to stream on my plex. I've heard Chris mention he looks on plex for some things already. Drop me an invite request. My plex username is 'gathly'. Or you could give me a plex username or plex email, and I can send an invite.
JohnG
2024-04-12 15:36:14 +0000 UTCNot quite a limousine match, but Bradshaw did rebrand himself as JBL, like a rich oil tycoon thing. And he would come in with a limousine, I'm sure someone got bounced off of it.
Ray
2024-04-11 18:37:51 +0000 UTCWhen Skerritt was like “ok here’s 2 million dollars, but, only thing you have to do, is forgive yourself.” And Sheen being like “fuck no” and leaving with the money elicited a cheer from me. That may have been the easiest lie to ever tell, I’m glad he didn’t. The bar scene where Sheen goes nuts, tosses that dog 40 feet, completely sucked me in for the last hour. When Sheen sees the video of Eastwood in the you-know-what scene, he makes the funniest fucking face. It’s such confused disgust. Also, what was the point of all the narrative mirroring at the end? But this movie I think proves that famous rule where having at least 2 Cheers actors in a movie makes it an automatic A+
RJ Cunningham
2024-04-10 19:24:50 +0000 UTCI've enjoyed The Rookie and Terminal Velocity the most this month. I had never seen The Rookie before, can't believe I hadn't witnessed that Clint greenscreen fireball one-liner. I don't understand this money exchange at the end at all, it makes no sense
Smaug
2024-04-10 17:01:07 +0000 UTCLake of skin 😂
TDB
2024-04-10 13:33:09 +0000 UTCMemphis Raines might have had a more intricate plan for stealing those cars than Benjamin Franklin Gates did for stealing the Declaration of Independence.
HockeenightsCT
2024-04-10 11:58:42 +0000 UTCShe had a razor and had already cut him. If the presented genders were reversed there wouldn’t be a debate about whether it was sexual assault.
Not the Black Jobs
2024-04-10 01:36:06 +0000 UTCNah
RJ Cunningham
2024-04-10 00:48:41 +0000 UTCKingdom of Sausages? New WHM lore droppin', blessed be the Sausage Clause
Matthew Kennedy
2024-04-10 00:35:47 +0000 UTCWhat was the hot dog brand Chris mentioned? Humboldt?
Samuel McGuire
2024-04-09 21:31:31 +0000 UTCEric. It’s ‘Carceny’, not whatever the hell you said. 😂
Samuel McGuire
2024-04-09 16:32:49 +0000 UTCIt certainly is played oddly. Sheen gets jealous when he sees the footage. At least it wasn't an orangatang.
John Locke
2024-04-09 16:28:52 +0000 UTCI remember almost nothing about this, other than the guys 'catching' each others' punches and even as a child thinking it was a dumb movie.
Paul DeCoursey-Clark
2024-04-09 16:22:29 +0000 UTCBest part of the movie. The visible crew members at 1:24:25. When loco is beating up Sheen's girlfriend. And I really need help understanding why Clint brought the ransom money to Rau Julia. You were no longer kidnapped. Wtf???
John Locke
2024-04-09 16:15:27 +0000 UTCIt's both "Just lay back and think of England," and "I'll be telling this story at the bar for years."
Mark Ibarra
2024-04-09 15:34:48 +0000 UTCYou recently talked about Sonia Braga's niece Alice, who was in Hypnotic. (And Sonia Braga herself is in The First Omen!)
Felipe Sobreiro
2024-04-09 13:33:34 +0000 UTCShe definitely rapes him. People frequently do experience elements of arousal when they’re being sexually assaulted, but that’s mainly about placating the attacker in order to keep them from getting more violent. With that said, I *do* think that Clint Eastwood the director, as opposed to his character, might be indulging in a bit of a sadomasochistic fantasy with that scene. It feels like the *style* is horny over what’s happening to the character, if that makes sense.
Noura Sarayel
2024-04-09 13:20:37 +0000 UTC"Let's give Dirty Harry a partner, and make it like Lethal Weapon, but boring." -Warner Brothers, probably
Mark Ibarra
2024-04-09 12:58:40 +0000 UTCIt’s totally 100% an r-word scene. It’s just that Clint (both director and character) has a really problematic macho take on it
Andrew Dean
2024-04-09 12:58:28 +0000 UTCAll my favourite snoody expensive country clubs exclusively serve Buca di Beppos.
Jason
2024-04-09 12:00:41 +0000 UTCI love how this movie uses almost the same visual pallette as To Live in Die in L.A., especially during the scene when Sheen torches the bar.
Z
2024-04-09 07:57:04 +0000 UTCFunny note on the country club scene, if you decide to peak at it again: the food on all the plates on the greens is franchise restaurant style spaghetti and all the "glass" plates & forks are clear plastic! Thanks for finally covering this film, guys! Take care 👌
Cody Downs
2024-04-09 04:39:56 +0000 UTCAfter listening to this episode, listen to The Action Boyz podcast’s hilarious take on this flick.
Paul
2024-04-09 04:05:16 +0000 UTC
