Blue Steel (1990)
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Who talked about it
Blank Check — Patreon
- Jordan Hoffman: 3 lines in Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free)
- Unattributed: 38 lines, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Point Break: 2 lines craft ×1 verdict ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Point Break.
Both of Bigelow's films open with a training sequence.
“she makes 2 movies in a row that basically start with a training sequence because Point Break starts with Keanu shooting the targets”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Zero Dark Thirty: 2 lines contrast ×1 lineage ×1
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lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Zero Dark Thirty.
Both end on one woman obsessively chasing one man, then sitting silently in a car.
“the ending of this movie is almost identical to the ending of Zero Dark 30, where it's one woman who has been methodically obsessively just trying to stop this one man”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:22:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Aliens: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Aliens.
The locker-room dressing scene is shot like the gear-up in Aliens.
“shot like aliens.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:10:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
American Psycho: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (theme):
Blue Steel → American Psycho.
Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind.
“pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Dirty Harry: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Dirty Harry.
The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force.
“Dirty Harry done the same thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Halloween: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Halloween.
Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel.
“I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
House Party: 1 line programming ×1
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programming (programming):
Blue Steel → House Party.
Number four that weekend was House Party.
“Oh, house party. house party.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Jamie Lee Curtis: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
Blue Steel → Jamie Lee Curtis.
Blue Steel should have launched a new phase of Curtis's career but did not.
“it does feel like this movie should have been the start of a phase in her career that didn't totally kickstart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:12:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Joe Versus the Volcano: 1 line programming ×1
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programming (programming):
Blue Steel → Joe Versus the Volcano.
Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks.
“Oh, Joe versus the volcano?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
K-19: The Widowmaker: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → K-19: The Widowmaker.
One host likes K-19; others call it handsomely boring and dour, unlike the livelier Blue Steel.
“It's a handsomely boring movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:25:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Lord of the Flies: 1 line programming ×1
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programming (programming):
Blue Steel → Lord of the Flies.
Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies.
“The 1990 Lord of the Flies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Michael Mann: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Michael Mann.
The supermarket scene's look is so good Michael Mann could do no better.
“Michael Mann could do no better.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:32:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Monsters, Inc.: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Monsters, Inc..
The opening training reveal is like the start of Monsters, Inc.
“It's the beginning of Monsters Inc.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Mother: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Mother.
Unlike Mother!, Blue Steel gives you a grounding character.
“And my biggest struggle with mother is, I think, you don't have a grounding character.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Near Dark: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Near Dark.
The score recalls the Tangerine Dream score in Near Dark.
“it's very similar to the Tangerine dream score in your dark.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Prince of the City: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Prince of the City.
Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City.
“Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Salt: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Salt.
Salt was written for a man and barely changed for a woman; Blue Steel is specific to its heroine.
“And the whole shtick was like, it was written for a guy, but then a woman stepped in and didn't change the movie at all.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:08:27 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
Sea of Love: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Sea of Love.
The opening sets up a middling Pacino-style cop movie before breaking the frame.
“You know, like a middling kind of like sea of love or whatever, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Sergio Leone: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Sergio Leone.
The finale is a Sergio Leone shootout on Wall Street.
“then it's Sergio Leone shoot out at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:22:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Someone to Watch Over Me: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Someone to Watch Over Me.
Prefers Bigelow's New York picture to Ridley Scott's New York picture of the same moment.
“You put this up against his New York picture at the time, someone to watch over me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:06:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The opening fake-out is almost as good as the Kobayashi Maru reveal in Star Trek II.
“I would say it's almost as good as Star Trek 2, the way they pull it back.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
Superman: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Superman.
The helicopter date with aerial photography is a Superman thing.
“It's a Superman thing, and there are those amazing, like, the helicopter photography going around”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
The French Connection: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → The French Connection.
Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case.
“French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
The Hunt for Red October: 1 line programming ×1
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programming (programming):
Blue Steel → The Hunt for Red October.
The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one.
“It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
The Hurt Locker: 1 line verdict ×1
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verdict (verdict):
Blue Steel → The Hurt Locker.
Tentative ranking puts Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker at the top of Bigelow, with Blue Steel in the top tier.
“I think I think it's Zero Dark 30, uh, and and, um, you know, uh, the Footlock, whatever the locker.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
The Terminator: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (theme):
Blue Steel → The Terminator.
By the end Ron Silver is an unstoppable Terminator.
“And he's like, the terminator at this point.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:20:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
The Wolf of Wall Street: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (theme):
Blue Steel → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him.
“He's like a wolf of Wall Street type.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Tony Scott: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Tony Scott.
Bigelow's 90s images carry a weight beyond the stylization of 80s Tony Scott-era films.
“there's a weight to the images in this movie that feels like a real evolutionary step beyond the like stylization of the 80s”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:06:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Trading Places: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Trading Places.
The handheld stock-exchange floor is gritty and well done, though no Trading Places.
“I mean, it's no trading places.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Transformers: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Transformers.
The same cinematographer, Amir Mokri, shot Blue Steel and Transformers 3 and 4, which the speaker calls a great-looking movie.
“Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:59:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
Tron: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Tron.
The helicopter-date score sounds like Tron.
“It sounds like Tron.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Zoolander: 1 line programming ×1
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programming (programming):
Blue Steel → Zoolander.
Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film.
“It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan, first at 0:51:25, 3 times
- recommended in The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft, first at 1:33:34, 1 time
- anecdote in Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free), first at 0:07:26, 1 time
- subject in Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free), first at 0:01:53, 15 times
What was said about it, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
Blue Steel → Jamie Lee Curtis.
Blue Steel should have launched a new phase of Curtis's career but did not.
“it does feel like this movie should have been the start of a phase in her career that didn't totally kickstart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:12:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (7)
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contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Trading Places.
The handheld stock-exchange floor is gritty and well done, though no Trading Places.
“I mean, it's no trading places.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Someone to Watch Over Me.
Prefers Bigelow's New York picture to Ridley Scott's New York picture of the same moment.
“You put this up against his New York picture at the time, someone to watch over me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:06:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Salt.
Salt was written for a man and barely changed for a woman; Blue Steel is specific to its heroine.
“And the whole shtick was like, it was written for a guy, but then a woman stepped in and didn't change the movie at all.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:08:27 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Mother.
Unlike Mother!, Blue Steel gives you a grounding character.
“And my biggest struggle with mother is, I think, you don't have a grounding character.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Zero Dark Thirty.
Blue Steel is more upfront about its feminism than Zero Dark Thirty.
“this movie is at least more upfront about its quote unquote feminist aspects than Zero Dark 30 is”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:35:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → Sea of Love.
The opening sets up a middling Pacino-style cop movie before breaking the frame.
“You know, like a middling kind of like sea of love or whatever, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Blue Steel → K-19: The Widowmaker.
One host likes K-19; others call it handsomely boring and dour, unlike the livelier Blue Steel.
“It's a handsomely boring movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:25:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (11)
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craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Tony Scott.
Bigelow's 90s images carry a weight beyond the stylization of 80s Tony Scott-era films.
“there's a weight to the images in this movie that feels like a real evolutionary step beyond the like stylization of the 80s”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:06:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Aliens.
The locker-room dressing scene is shot like the gear-up in Aliens.
“shot like aliens.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:10:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Michael Mann.
The supermarket scene's look is so good Michael Mann could do no better.
“Michael Mann could do no better.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:32:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Monsters, Inc..
The opening training reveal is like the start of Monsters, Inc.
“It's the beginning of Monsters Inc.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Point Break.
Both of Bigelow's films open with a training sequence.
“she makes 2 movies in a row that basically start with a training sequence because Point Break starts with Keanu shooting the targets”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The opening fake-out is almost as good as the Kobayashi Maru reveal in Star Trek II.
“I would say it's almost as good as Star Trek 2, the way they pull it back.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Transformers.
The same cinematographer, Amir Mokri, shot Blue Steel and Transformers 3 and 4, which the speaker calls a great-looking movie.
“Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:59:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Superman.
The helicopter date with aerial photography is a Superman thing.
“It's a Superman thing, and there are those amazing, like, the helicopter photography going around”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Tron.
The helicopter-date score sounds like Tron.
“It sounds like Tron.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Near Dark.
The score recalls the Tangerine Dream score in Near Dark.
“it's very similar to the Tangerine dream score in your dark.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:05:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Blue Steel → Sergio Leone.
The finale is a Sergio Leone shootout on Wall Street.
“then it's Sergio Leone shoot out at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:22:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (5)
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lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Halloween.
Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel.
“I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Dirty Harry.
The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force.
“Dirty Harry done the same thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Prince of the City.
Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City.
“Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → The French Connection.
Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case.
“French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Blue Steel → Zero Dark Thirty.
Both end on one woman obsessively chasing one man, then sitting silently in a car.
“the ending of this movie is almost identical to the ending of Zero Dark 30, where it's one woman who has been methodically obsessively just trying to stop this one man”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:22:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (5)
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programming (programming):
Blue Steel → Zoolander.
Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film.
“It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Blue Steel → The Hunt for Red October.
The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one.
“It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Blue Steel → Joe Versus the Volcano.
Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks.
“Oh, Joe versus the volcano?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Blue Steel → Lord of the Flies.
Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies.
“The 1990 Lord of the Flies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Blue Steel → House Party.
Number four that weekend was House Party.
“Oh, house party. house party.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (3)
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theme (theme):
Blue Steel → American Psycho.
Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind.
“pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Blue Steel → The Wolf of Wall Street.
Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him.
“He's like a wolf of Wall Street type.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Blue Steel → The Terminator.
By the end Ron Silver is an unstoppable Terminator.
“And he's like, the terminator at this point.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:20:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (2)
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verdict (verdict):
Blue Steel → Point Break.
Ranks Blue Steel above Point Break.
“I think it's better than Point Break.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Blue Steel → The Hurt Locker.
Tentative ranking puts Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker at the top of Bigelow, with Blue Steel in the top tier.
“I think I think it's Zero Dark 30, uh, and and, um, you know, uh, the Footlock, whatever the locker.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:24:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
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fun, about
Blue Steel:
Ron Silver fights behind a Sabrett hot dog cart in the Wall Street shootout.
“He's hiding behind a Sabrette's kosher hot dog cart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Blue Steel:
Clancy Brown's scene in the squad room is the movie in miniature: he ignores her, tells a gross joke, then shuts her down.
“Hijacks the movie for 90 seconds to make a gross blowjob joke, then takes note of her and is like, shut the fuck up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:32:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Blue Steel:
Opening reveal: the hallway arrest is a training test, and Curtis's mistake is that she ignored the woman as a threat.
“She didn't take the woman seriously as a threat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Blue Steel:
The 22nd precinct on her collar is a fake precinct, since renamed for Central Park.
“It's on her collar, the 22nd precinct, which is the fake precinct.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:46:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Blue Steel:
The gun is the One Ring: Silver obsesses over its power once he holds it.
“But it's almost like the gun in this movie is like the one ring.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:02:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Blue Steel:
Bigelow's name in the bullet casings: the cops joke the only other Meghan Turner is an 88-year-old lady with an oxygen tank.
“Unless he's got an oxygen tank fetish, he's in the U.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Blue Steel:
Opened number five with 2.8 million dollars and made 8.2 on a roughly 16 million budget; debuted at Sundance and came out through MGM after Vestron went bankrupt.
“It opens number five at the box office with 2.8 million dollars.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:26:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Jamie Lee Curtis: actor (The Big Picture, The 1990 Movie Draft)
- Jamie Lee Curtis: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Jamie Lee Curtis: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
- Roger Ebert: critic (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Oliver Stone: producer (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Richard Jenkins: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Tom Sizemore: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Kathryn Bigelow: director (The Big Picture, The 1990 Movie Draft)
- Kathryn Bigelow: director (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Kathryn Bigelow: co-writer (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Ron Silver: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Ron Silver: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
- Clancy Brown: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Elizabeth Peña: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Philip Bosco: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Kevin Dunn: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Mike Starr: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Louise Fletcher: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Eric Red: co-writer (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Amir Mokri: cinematographer (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Edward R. Pressman: producer (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Vestron: studio (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- MGM: distributor (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))
- Sergio Leone: director (comparison) (Blank Check — Patreon, Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free))