This is the greatest action movie of all time | So Bad It's Good #85 - Showdown in Little Tokyo
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We dove back into the Dolph Lundgren pool this week, and brought along Brandon Lee and Tia Carrere. Legendary SBIG director, Mark L. Lester made this glorious movie that's full of everything a piece of entertainment needs. Gunfights, fistfights, bewbs, and terrible dialogue abound.
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Lee's character is actually hilarious. He's such a dork & a weirdo. And Lee plays it campy af. It's actually awesome.
Love how Dolph Lundgren can act, is tall, handsome, muscular, with multiple degrees in chemical engineering, dated Grace Jones and still has a career. That's a good life.
Was a real fighting champion too. Guy is literally perfect.
And, kicked cancer's ass.
Basically the opposite of waddling Sifu.
Defeated Cancer also
And is dating/married to a seemingly great fkn chick that's his daughters age, 30-ish. Hot damn, now that's a life, right up there with Sly and Arnold.
Rapid Fire with Brandon Lee is a great flick.
Looking forward to it.
Agree it's awesome
It's kind of funny how Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa is just universally referred to as Shang Tsung nowadays. In actuality, he's a very chill, laid-back dude from Hawaii, but he just plays over-the-top villains so damn well.
I didn't know he's from Hawaii - that's cool. I always enjoy him in movies.
Always liked him in his small role in Nemesis where he actually plays a good guy.
@@scott8658 That role was probably the closest to his actual personality.
He was a good guy on Nash Bridges too.
As far as I know, he's from Japan. Maybe he lived in Hawaii afterwards?
Dolph was an athlete for sure, an actual kickboxer and not just an actor. He is pretty under rated as an action star for whatever reason.
I love how Dolph dresses up full kimono and kills everyone with a machine gun 😂
Haha yeah forget the nunchuks etc
Just dress as a samurai or something and use a machine gun
I can suspend my disbelief for a lot of things, but a man snapping his own neck with his bare hands is where I draw the line. 🤣
One of Dolphs first movie appearances was in the Bond movie A View To A Kill with Roger Moore. He has no lines, and points a gun at Christopher Walken for about 2 seconds. He was dating Grace Jones at the time, so she got him a background bit. Blink and you'll miss him.
LOVE this movie! Brandon and Dolph really do play well off of each other! RIP Brandon....
Fun Fact: Brandon Lee was originally cast in the first Mortal Kombat right before his tragic death...
He would've been a kick ass Johnny Cage
@@pa.encema2821The irony would have been through the roof and I'd have been there for it!
"you may be wondering why Erin is brandishing a knife..." is so much funnier than it should be.
She brandishes it a lot now.
Maybe she was practising for Showdown in little tokyo ... 2
Bad dialogue or no, Brandon Lee had more charisma in his eyebrow than I'll ever have in my entire body.
He died way too young and he was going to be something. The Crow proved he had the talent and charisma to be a leading man.
I don't agree with Jason about bad dialogue,this was a badass movie about Yakuza and revenge story and dialogues like these are not so weird.
I think the only unecessary dialogue was that one of Brandon about the size of Dolph's dick.
Yes this one was very stupid.
@@LordMalice6d9 shit his dad died too young as well, only 32.
@@nunosantos00 yep. That line was……a serious “huh?” moment.
@@lone6718 He could simply say "Just in case of we both die i wanted to tell you You're a giant motherfucker"😂😂
“I heard you coming that time” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 The commentary was amazing gentlemen… bravo!
That "You have the right to be dead" line might be the best one that Brandon Lee delivered in the whole movie. How he managed a take without breaking into laughter is miraculous. Then again that line is up against some stiff opposition. Allegedly.
When Jason sat up after Brandon Lee delivered the famous "You have the biggest" line, it sounded like his leather chair creaked "Excuse me?!?" from its confusion as well lmao
this was his first major foray into movies and his "official" introduction in hollywood. hence why they laid on the references to his dad so thick in this movie too. they were basically banking on his legacy.
Ahh, thanks.
His... Legacy of Rage?
Yeah, he made one Hong Kong action movie, and it was okay.
It had the bad guy from Bloodsport (1988)
The way you both turned beet red after the line "That time I heard you coming" makes this my new favorite episode ever.
This is actually a "Great Shitty Movie!" One of my favorites as a young boy. It had everything and especially a great rewindable scene for young lads going through puberty🤣
Lots of scenes for teenagers 🤣
Between this movie and Wayne's World, Tia Carrere was one of my biggest childhood crushes. She was also in an action-comedy called Hollow Point, which is another slice of b-movie awesomeness, but maybe a little too self-aware to fit into "so bad it's good" territory. Still a fun watch, though.
@@JasonBrant for me, it was Salma Hayek in Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn, two Very Important movies to 15yo Megatron 🤣🤣🤣
@@jculver1674 SCHWING!!
@MR Bigglesworth Penthouse? You were lucky. All we had was Easyriders at the local 7/11.
This movie is a forgotten gem.
I love Brandon Lee in this. I know he wasn’t at peak acting here. But I see that he showed that he had at least some comedic timing.
And well the crow, that Was a whole other level.
But at the end of the day. He was taken from us way too so.
The Crow would have been Brandons ticket to bigger and more serious roles in general. Guy just had insane amount of charisma and could also act.
I remember seeing The Crow in the theater and being surprised at how much better his acting had gotten. He was definitely on the cusp of greatness.
Such a shame he went so young.
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@@JasonBrant At least he got to see the dick of Dolph before passing. That's something worthy on a bucket list.
"Did you hear me coming too?" LMFAO! 🤣
But it wouldn't actually surprise me. He literally has paper thin walls.
I'm from Poland and I remember watching (ca. 1995) this movie in TV early in the evening. It raised some controversies, that such violent movie was aired at 8 pm.
7:03 Could Dolph had picked a smaller table to hide behind? Really, how in the hell is that supposed to help him?
At the end, the street performers carrying battle ready sharp swords ...
Just one of the many details this gem has
The dialogue in this was brutal. 😳😂
Sooo bad 🤣
It's right up there with Action Jackson bad. Then again, the action just about makes up for it so that helps.
My whole life, I've been an avid film watcher, so when i was 11 years old my dad picked this one out and rented it from the video store for me to watch. I've never forgotten it and remains an often recommended film for others.
26:26 Correct, Jason! My son's fencing instructor also recommended that 'gold standard' of sword-fighting as worth watching! 🤺🤺⚔
I absolutely LOVED this when I was a kid. It's 100 percent a perfect bad/good movie.
Al Leong was the ultimate 80’s henchman! His hench skills were leaps and bounds beyond others in the henching business.
Loved this movie when I was kid. Brandon Lee was so cool and charismatic!
It's a great movie.
@@JasonBrant cheesy as hell now but still entertaining
I didn't even press the 'Like' button because it is a SBIG episode..... I pressed it because of the awesome, laid-back but at the same time informative way you advertised the sponsor! You guys rock. On with the video...!
This movie poster hung in my bedroom as teenager with pride ! You all are the best in the game for bad movie reviews!
It's become a tradition to watch the actual movies while getting high and I have a morbid appreciation for for thyoes of film with each new episode, thanks a bunch lord brant
I smoke so much, these guys are pretty much all I've watched the last week
I have watched SILT a few times over the years. It is great 80's cheese, even if the movie came out in 1991. Dolph's outfit for the final part is as ridiculous as it gets. And when I saw you were going to review this movie I just knew Tia Carrere's line would not go unnoticed.
Happy birthday, Brian!
Showdown in Little Tokyo was awesome. I have it on DVD.
Loved it.
Jason, you and Brian's reactions to the horrible dialogue were priceless. I have a feeling they may have put all of the money in the action scenes.
-“Of course it explodes. Why wouldn’t it?“
-“Who’s in charge of safety at that parade?”
Gold
Not going to lie, from the moment it was announced that Showdown in Little Tokyo was the next review, I kept thinking, ‘I wonder how the guys will react to *that* Brandon Lee line.’ Didn’t disappoint. Jason’s reaction at 20:03 was mine too 😂
When You put this up I immediately had to watch it. The difference between Brandon and Dolph's dialogue is that Brandon's supposed to be the wisecracking partner in the buddy cop duo and the wisecracks just suck....at least until we get to THAT line, which is probably the most unintentioally hilarious line of dialogue I've ever heard in any movie ever.
Mark Lester also did Armed & Dangerous, Roller Boogie, Class of 1984, Commando, Firestarter and Class of 1999 which you've already seen.
If you want to see another great bad Brandon Lee movie, hunt down Lazer Mission.
Thanks, Kevin!
I concur about LASER MISSION; stunningly cheesy.
23:22 Gerald Okamura wields a long thick pole and Brandon Lee reaches for a significantly shorter and thinner pole. Amazing symbolism after the Big Dick Dolph Lundgren dialog. Great character study of a man who is insecure about his size, can relate. Learn to love your Little Tokyo.
Definitely noticed that parallel
Just goes to show , how you use it ?
I'm guessing when the boss refused to take the henchman's finger it was "Apology not accepted!"
19:23 to 20:15 maybe the funniest minute in the history of SBIG. I cried laughing.
Please, PLEASE add a clip of Erin watching Brandon deliver the "biggest dick" line. I imagine her reaction at about 75% of the fabled "HURRRRRR" moment.
This film is the definition of what your channel stands for. Glad you liked it!
Surprised Brandon and Dolf didn't fuck in this, the dialogue was is so odd 🤣😂
When you announced that you were watching this, I dying inside waiting to see your reaction to the "biggest dick I've ever seen" line.
I haven't even seen this movie in decades and remember hearing that doing a double take of "WTF!?".
Glad to see you actually getting to enjoy a martial arts movie though!
Have they watched blood sport, Lion heart or kick boxer yet?
What a line, haha.
We've watched all three of those Van Damme movies.
@@JasonBrant Actually, the line is "....the biggest dick I've seen on a man." He's seen bigger where exactly? Maybe he spent a lot of time around horses in his youth but...
You all missed the best part as he finishes the line with "on a man."
Well, that went from one of the funniest moments in SBIG history to one of the most awkward.
The problem I see with Brandon Lee's performance... they tried to make him the comedic partner... he's better in the more serious roles. Check out Rapid Fire, he did that right after this one (and right before the Crow).
Will do!
I think what is wrong with Brandon's performance is that he's "trying" to act instead of just "acting".
That's a good way of putting it.
His lines might be a little phoned in but I think Dolph is a bit bland in comparison.
Totally. Like jason said its a combination of it being his early work and poorly written dialogue.
When I saw the title, I started laughing, because I had a vision of your faces when _the line_ drops.
DId our expressions meet your expectations?
@@JasonBrant Absolutely! I saw this movie like 25 years ago and even as a teenager (or maybe because of that) I couldn't stop laughing when I first heard that. That's the only thing I could remember of this movie for years after and how the baddie dies. Coincidentally, I've just got this film on VHS as part of a collection that someone didn't need any more.
Instant smile on my face when I saw this pop up on my feed. I grew up watching it and as a kid I never realised how bad some of the dialogue was, with that said it’s still a awesome film! I honestly burst out laughing when you guys said “did he just actually say that” haha 😂 Great video guys, look forward to the next one!
Still had one my favorite lines. When they attack warehouse. Big bad goes your dead. Dophl yells back" hell suck so we came back. Another one those hidden gems
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Happy Birthday! I've never seen nor heard of this movie but I'm a huge Brandon Lee fan since the crow and some of his earlier work. Thanks for all the horribly awesome movies and the laughs. 😁
Much appreciated. This one is a must watch!
My Sunday morning routine used to be yard work then rest. Now it’s yard work and then So Bad it’s Good. My Sundays are much more exciting now. I anticipate what great movie I get to watch and cry laugh at. I then purchase some of them for my collection. I bought the Cannon Films collection because of your channel. Please never stop being who you are because this reminds me of me and my best friend hanging out. I see him every other weekend when he comes to stay and I started watching bad movies with him. It’s great. So thank you.
Some of those lines made me legit choke, that was just pure art. Thank you guys for the laughs.
Also I couldn't get over how danzig on Brian's tshirt looked like annoying orange.
I knew this would be glorious. You both laughed hysterically at a man breaking his own neck.
Says a lot about you….
and me…😂😂👍
"Rising Sun" with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes also featured Yakuza rocking the vintage rides. Some of the same actors too, I think.
"You have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man" is a line with several levels. I think that's probably the cleverest bit of writing in the whole film!
Happy Birthday, Brian!! I’m so glad i sent you this!! That was awesome!!! Thanks again for the laughs!! 💕💕
You were so right about this one!
8:51 The guy in the Tommy Bahama shirt is the boss's inept cousin, brought into the Yakuza as a favor to his mom.
I watched this when I was in high school back in the day. My buddy basically described Brandon Lee's character as a valley guy. Great movie.
Great movie.
Happy Belated Birthday, Brian!
Showdown in Little Tokyo is a classic.
I knew the "big dick" line was coming(hah!), but I forgot about "I heard you coming" 😂
The body double for Tia Carrere was Tera Tabrizi. She did a few movies and Playboy appearances. It's funny Tia wanted a double because she went on to do Playboy herself at some point.
Brandon had done the Kung Fu tv movie and a few other things by this point in his career. Always kind of hammed it up, but this was especially hammy. He got better though, did better in Rapid Fire the following year and of course in his last role as Eric Draven in The Crow.
I think Brandon was great in The Crow in part because his character had no limits and he approached it that way. He said to one interviewer something like "You tell me how somebody who's coming back from the dead is gonna behave?"
Thanks for posting! You have been on a real streak with these!
The Duelists is also a source of some amazing sword fights, some of the best in the movies.
For real guys and gals never change, you have another 20 years of watching bad movies easy
Did u hear me coming too 🤣🤣🤣. Actually spat my coffee out. 80s had the best cultural misappropriation. Imagine a star dressed as a Sioux warrior nowadays. The world would implode
Heads would explode.
Jonny Dep as a Comanche.
@@shawnhurlburt3158 forgot about that. So did the paying audience 🤣
Their reactions were priceless 🤣
I always thought everyone missed that coming quote
Nobody ever mentions it
I love this film, the fight choreographies are awesome, although it's Brandon Lee that does all the cool stuff. Dolph is a true badass in real life, but doesn't do a lot of acrobatics or agile stuff on screen. Brandon Lee was also pretty charismatic.
thanks guys, this was so funny. The dialogue was so odd, your faces were priceless 😂 😂. it was the strangest line I never expected to hear😂
It's funny you mentioned Princess Bride as the gold standard sword fight because it also has the scream you mentioned earlier
For those wondering, Tia Carrere is still acting - she's tended to do bit parts in stuff, usually only appearing in one or two episodes or as a smaller role in films. Her biggest recent role was as a regular in AJ and the Queen, a Netflix series from 2020 that was cancelled after one season.
Fun fact: she's been in both Scooby-Doo and Tom & Jerry, as well as all four Lilo and Stitch films.
Thanks for the info!
@@JasonBrant Happy to be to assistance. :)
Tia in Lilo & stitch . I dont think I fully realised that. But I feel I did hear her in parts of it
Tia as Nani, Lilo's older sister and legal guardian
An aside,
- Jason Scott Lee as David, Nani's surfer boyfriend
Would also act as Bruce in Dragon the bruce lee story
Showdown in Little Tokyo is one of my favorite movies rest in peace Brandon Lee I also usually watch this with Bloodsport but I feel like just watching two action movies at the same time
Rapid Fire is one of Brandon Lee's greatest films, as far as martial arts goes. I liked Showdown in Little Tokyo, I thought Dolph and Brandon made a fun, unlikely pairing. Dolph ain't lyin' either, lol. If he did manage to hit Brandon, he wouldn't know what hit him. He broke Sly Stallone's jaw in Rocky 4. Sly wanted it to look real, so he told him to hit him with all he had. Dolph didn't like the idea, but Sly talked him into it. Wrong move, hehehe.
Agreed. Second to the Crow, Rapid Fire is a great 90s action movie. Very overlooked.
@@davidbeyerle6996 Oh yeah, Brandon really showed off some unique moves in that flick. I loved the table getting kicked up into dude's face in the art gallery fight scene. That whole scene and the apartment fight scene were great. The fight scenes in the movie were creative, he used a lot of objects and the environment, to his advantage.
I think I figured out there dialogue difference: Dolph had a ton of seasoning with bad dialogue where Brandon Lee hadn’t at that point.
This director also did the amazing Commando from Arnie!
Rando henchman at 23:47 getting gunned down looks a LOT like Zorgs assistant talking about firing people from the Taxi company in 5th Element
Love that shirt Jason 🤣 I want to buy that "THE CREAM WILL RISE TO THE TOP" shirt when I am rich enough to afford to blow money on such things
Best WWF promotion ever was Savage and Warrior, thousand times better than pre workout to get you pumped up!
Cup of coffee in the big time, yeah.
@@JasonBrant i have a buddy who KILLS the Macho Man impersonation haha I have him send me audio clips every now and then with outrageous takes on stuff and I play it on my weekly live news show from time to time. Add the heavenly harps in the background like he is in purgatory yeeeeah...It is frign funny as hell cause he sounds so close you'd think it's him
On set, you can see in Brandon’s facial expressions that he delivered his ridiculous lines with an appropriate cheekiness, enthusiasm and cowabunga Sega 90’s attitude. During ADR, he was clearly directed to deliver them in a way that matched Dollph’s performance. Your brain is then left with attempting to register these opposing performances and some how make sense of it…which it can’t.
this is such an under rated gem. I have this movie on vhs and DVD. I always loved it growing it. Brandon Lee was on his way to becoming a huge star. if he had lived through the crow he would of gone on to have an amazing career. him and Dolph had good chemistry in this movie. this movie is just an outstanding shlocky campy action movie. thank you guys for watching it
Okay, now I'm just confused. How do you put "shlock" and "great career" in the same sentence?
I loved this.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927 a lot of people with great careers have to go through A LOT worse movies than this in order to get to good stuff. check out tom hanks in "he knows you're alone".
I laughed so hard watching this review that I couldn't breath. 🤣 Great review!
Thanks!
Always happy 2 see these videos :) the "I heard you coming line" LOL.
Movies from back when movies were STILL amazingly entertaining.
Love your content Jason!
The look on your faces at the dialogue is freaking GOLD... 😅
You know when you commented on Tia, I was like yeah what did ever happen to her. I look up her IMDB and she is a pretty busy girl. After this movie her career exploded. Im not sure how this movie contributed to that happening.
Oh and btw whenever Tia Carrere is mentioned I always mix her up in my head with Tila Tequila. I’m not sure why.
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Super stoked that your channel subscribers are steadily rising. You guys deserve it! Never thought I’d love watching folks watching terrible movies! It’s the literal best.
Guys, I'm a new fan. I've watched a few of your Segal ones to start, but this had me laughing my a off!!
Love the content!
YES!!! You guys finally did! This is a forgotten classic that no one saw coming!
Yayyy! I've been hoping for this one since I found your channel. Dunno how Brandon delivered some of those lines with a straight face, or at all 😄
And Happy Birthday!
I was waiting for their reaction to that word famous line! Lol
No idea how he managed to say that without cracking up.
The delayed laughter at the post sex scene had me in fits of laughter 😂 you two have great chemistry like tia and dolph did in the movie 😂
Well maybe not the same chemistry, I hope or his wife ain't happy
Man, I LOVE this film and a shame Brandon Lee's accident cost us a great rising action star. Not sure A-list but he'd be there when Arnie and Sly began fading and can totally see him headlining his own TV show.
Much like some of the other commenters, I honestly loved this, warts and all. Yeah, the dialogue was a crime against performing arts (sentence the writers to 100 hours of community theater), but this was fun as hell. And yes, I was CRYING laughing at the Biggus Dickus jokes the rest of the way.
Happy Birthday, Brian! Hope it was a great one, and Jason- thanks as ever. This has become a Sunday afternoon ritual for me, and I'm really glad you do it.
Can't wait to see what you have in store for Independence Day weekend - y'all have a happy and safe 4th of July.
Thanks!
Hey guys! Love the channel, and this review was awesome! Just wanted to mention this because you seemed surprised to see Dolph using a katana. Dolph holds a 4th degree blackbelt in Kyokoshin Karate (which unlike Segal's bullshido, is a legit marital art) and was a European karate champion prior to being in film. He isn't just a big dude, he's a real fighter who put Stallone into the hospital during the Rocky 4 filming.
19:23 - Your reaction to this is my favorite moment in SBIG history. 21:20 they’d all get equal amounts of electricity. They’re literally a circuit.
I haven’t seen it for a couple decades now so I don’t want to overhype it, but I seem to recall Brandon Lee being a bit “better” than this is Rapid Fire, which is still pretty bad and yet has just enough decent cheesy action to perhaps make it worth your while! I seem to recall several nods to Jeet Kune Do in many of the fight scenes, which at the time was fairly unique (this was well before FMA became a favorite martial art style for action flicks) and a nice tribute to Bruce.
Lmao, he broke his own neck!!! AMAZE BALLS!!! 10/10
Brilliant filmmaking 🤣
YES!!! I've waited this day. Love this movie. Also i highly recommend Kill Squad from 1982. Watched it last night with bunch of friends and there was not a single soul who was not laughing their balls off.
Added it to the watchlist. Thanks!
19:54
I actually spit my water, thanks Brian! And happy birthday!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks 🤣 🤣
Yes!!! I didn't think you'd ever get around to this one. It had no right to be so good, but it is. 🤣
Loved it!
Brandon Lee's over acting was a little distracting but still, classic action shlock. Love it!
Also, at 19:20 I weezed laughed so hard I stopped breathing for a minute.
That was so amazing 🤣
hands down one of my favorite action movies as a child. I remember staying up late to watch on HBO. Mainly because of my dream woman Ms. Tia, and the sushi and boobs scene. I think it might be the first female bush id ever seen. I was A HUGE Bruce Lee fan and I made sure to watch any Brandon Lee stuff I could find. I was still too young to recognize straight to home video horrible movies. I just loved action, and this movie has everything. Bikers running meth, Yakuza, boobs, and the beautiful Ms. Tia. What ever happened to her?
I remember seeing this one with friends a long time ago. We were into a Bruce Lee phase and saw this movie in Blockbuster. I think it was a year or more before The Crow even came out. We were all excited Brandon Lee was in it and still laughed our asses off over the terrible dialogue. Still, this is such a great movie! It's a testament to the director and actors that they made this script somehow work!
HAPPY BARF DAY!! Hope this movie is the cake you wanted
🤣 Thanks!
Brandon Lee had two prior movies in the 80’s. Legacy of Rage- 1986 and Laser Mission in 1989. He was also in the Kung Fu TV spin-off in the late 80’s too. Kung Fu: The Next Generation 😬, not to be mistaken with Star Trek The Next Generation. 🤣
On the Bespoke Post ad, you opened Ninja III: Domination. This brings me joy.
I love this movie, even though it has bad dialogue and such. My favorite Dolph Lundgren story, alluding to his bad assery, is the time that burglars broke into his home and I think they tied up his housekeeper. They started stealing stuff, until they saw pictures of the owner. They instantly apologized and left. Dolph was a legit bad ass before he got into acting, if you call what he does acting ... Anyway, this is one of my favorite Brandon Lee movies along with The Crow and Rapid Fire.