The Gray Man w/ David Hallgren

his week on White Pants, Trash-Staches and Leaning Lloyd®:

Greg and Joe are joined by special guest David Hallgren (a true Gray Man expert who's seen this movie 11 times) to dive into the Russo Brothers' 2022 action spectacular — a $200 million Netflix gamble that continues to pay out for roughly 2 people on this episode.

Ryan Gosling plays Sierra Six, a CIA black ops mercenary who uncovers agency secrets and becomes the target of every assassin on the planet. Leading the hunt? Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a sociopathic former colleague with white linen pants, a trash-stache, and zero regard for anyone else. Also featuring Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfre Woodard, and DRONES. SO MANY DRONES.

Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from a Mark Greaney novel, this movie delivers massive action set pieces from Austria to Prague to Croatia — including a mid-air plane explosion that happens 30 minutes in (because why wait for the finale?), and a Prague square shootout where a man handcuffed to a bench somehow survives thousands of bullets.

Is it the greatest bad movie ever made? Joe thinks it might be top three.

Is it a little too CGI-muddy for Greg's taste? Absolutely, but he's coming around.

Does it feature Chris Evans saying "I shot him" with the most gleeful delivery in cinema history? You're darn right it does.

Greg, Joe, and David discuss leaning Lloyd, the art of the trash-stache, why Alpha Teams One through Three can't hit anything, and whether this franchise would be better in someone else's hands. They also discover that this movie gave them five new tropes, from "busting a gas line" to "gun in fancy foam box" to "talking about missing vital organs."

As with every episode, this is the conversation that needed to happen about this movie. Also: Drinking Games (prepare for trope overload), Very Important Questions, Joe's Real Back of the Box (with a bonus alternate version from their lost first recording), and more.

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