A famous 1968 action movie starring Steve McQueen. It is best known for its legendary car chase scene, which set the standard for all movie car chases that followed.
An annual 24-hour sports car race held in France. It is the ultimate test of how fast and reliable a race car can be, as teams drive non-stop for an entire day and night.
A famous Hollywood actor from the 1960s and 70s who loved fast cars and motorcycles. He did a lot of his own high-speed driving in movies and even raced cars in real life.
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I'm recording my local now.
I'm recording my local too.
Wow. All right, let's fucking do it.
Ford tries the charm.
Hello and welcome to, oh wait, we got a clap.
Fuck!
All right, 321
Juicy ass clap. All right, we're doing it.
We're welcome to our fourth try.
You won't have heard the previous three tries.
We're having a day.
Welcome to the fourth try of trying to record our fifth bonus episode of
Ryan Griezmo on the movie bullet.
I am your host, Victoria Scacci, and her you pay me money.
So you probably know who I am.
We deeply appreciate it.
I'm here with my co-host who also appreciates it.
Hi, my name is Jordan Hofstetter.
My pronouns are she and her.
Yeah, I already said this joke to you, so it's not going to land.
But the audience hasn't heard it before.
So maybe maybe someone in their car will chuckle.
Bullet notes.
I am so bad.
We aren't watching LaBah.
LaBah just happened.
It would have been so timely.
I will say, I think people having any attachment to this movie and therefore wanting to hear
us talk about it, I have to assume our audience is trying to, and I love you all so much,
especially those who are hearing this because you are helping us both pay bills.
Why would you make us watch this?
I'm going to be honest, none of the movies we picked are super good, great.
I mean, I think LaBah is a vibe.
And you know, Bullet's half a spectacular movie if I can just completely take the check-offs
gun of my thesis and just fire it into the airpoint break style for a little bit.
Like, this is like half of a really good movie, and then it feels like it is Hideo Kojima
cutscenes of bullshit no one cares about.
You know, I'd like, it's...
How dare you smirch the Hideo Kojima method of video game making.
I love Metal Gear Solid.
Yeah, but at least at Metal Gear Solid, the things that are happening are like people
talking about their war trauma or being gay with one another, often at the same time.
But here, it's just like, damn, Steve McQueen is going into rooms looking around and leaving rooms.
And I just think that you could, even if it just, and also, there's like not a lot of music at the back
half of this thing for question mark, or at least 2B somehow
like stripped out, sorry to the listener who wants me to stop using 2B.
I, I ran out of time, I wasn't going to spend money on Bullet and then Jellyfin, our Jellyfin
server was down for the weekend as we were moving some stuff around, so I, I couldn't
like easily.
Well, I watched it on 2B, there were some great ads.
Who has it for you?
2B, not the lady from near, uh, Autobotta.
Steve McQueen in the 2B outfit?
Bad?
Is that bad?
Well, so I had never seen all of Bullet before.
Who had you not?
No.
I hadn't, I hadn't seen it.
And I should really like preface, um, because you're going to be like, gee Vicki, it sure
seems like you got bored and didn't pay attention to the movie as closely as you should have
for your job, to which I say, I watched this, um, to which I say, I watched this at the
end of Pride weekend.
We had a full bottle of very nice gin on the coffee table.
I had an ungodly number of lesbians in my apartment.
I had been wearing kink gear all weekend, and so I was somewhat distracted at points
in the movie.
And the thing is, is like, so I, we actually did a double feature when we watched this.
We watched Bullet first, and then at my wife's insistence, we watched the original, um, Mel
Brooks, the producers, because it's one of her favorite movies.
Good choice.
It was his hundredth birthday on Sunday as well.
Yeah, that was part of why she wanted to watch it.
And the thing is, is like, I, I remember, and I was wondering like, hmm, maybe I didn't
keep up with Bullet because I was, you know, drunk and, um, otherwise distracted.
Um, did I mention I got a new collar at Pride?
Nice.
Cool.
Good.
Uh, I will say, uh, drunk is probably the correct way to watch Bullet.
I have eat, cause I was, I was stoned at an attempt for the back half after the police
chase.
I was just like, how about it?
About this episode
Hosts Victoria Scacci and Jordan Hofstetter tackle the iconic 1968 film Bullitt, offering a hilariously unfiltered critique of the cinematic classic. While the legendary San Francisco car chase remains a high point, the hosts debate the film's agonizingly slow pacing, comparing Steve McQueen’s silent wandering to video game cutscenes. Sharing personal anecdotes from a chaotic Pride weekend and experimenting with altered states to survive the dry spells, they dissect why only half of this legendary car movie actually holds up today.
Hello! For this month's bonus episode, we let our listeners vote, and they chose Bullitt (1968) as our movie review! Neither of us enjoyed this one, because it's not very good! Next month we're doing a Q&A episode, so I'll be posting on Patreon shortly for us to receive your questions!
