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We ring in our 600th episode by taking our movie reviews international. We watched Wolf Warrior (2015) and Wolf Warrior II (2017), two entries in the emerging genre of Chinese action blockbusters. What can these films tell us about the new Chinese century? Does belt and road translate to the cinema? Can Xi thought defeat the neoliberlized menace of CGI blood and lead to the return of true action filmmaking? Is it based to get silly with your homies? All these answers and more await you.

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etienne

upholding xi jinping thought at all times

Robert Alexander Vaughn

His Excellency Comrade Chairman President Xi has forwarded monthly check to the Patreon.

Sirloinofice

Russian, Chinese and American action films are all just: "Oh shit it's the Terrorism."

Sirloinofice

And like that can basically be anything.

Emerson Kerr

Yes! Like proton torpedos for the soul

T

Xi makes Uyghurs sit in the first few rows of the movie theatre so that their necks hurt.

Arjun Jayaraman

Sweet! Movie episode. I almost always download the movies and watch them before listening. Any chance you'll do a commentary track episode again anytime soon?

verbrannt

C&C Generals Chapo tournament when???

Jeff Martin

I have a better collection of Chinese tea cups than any Chapo crew member, including Amber and Chris. Also I can throw on a pottery wheel. Miss me

Nathan Schneider

“Why We Post” is a 2028 documentary produced by Piggy Slop Pictures, it shows the intimate account of three young dry boys shitposting during the last days of the American empire

Jeff Martin

No but seriously imagine how far we would go if every child could make an ink painting of a sparrow

justdave

I'm so impressed that Felix didn't pronounce scissors as 'skizzrs'

WillyGetSilly

Release more austin tickets you fucking cowards

Alex B

Felix's mic feedback is giving me Havana Syndrome

Gengeros

Great episode, can’t wait to listen to more chapo episodes while being drafted and stationed in the South China Sea and Taiwan fighting the CCP.

T

The fight scene that Will said he's never seen before (the guy cutting his own throat a bit to be able to stab a guy) sounds like in the last Hobbit movie when Thorin does it to whoever the main Orc villain was.

Jeff Martin

The USA will probably never teach that the PLA allowed the allied forces of the west to escape. They could have pursued and destroyed the army there. And I wouldn't be shitposting in the comments tbh

Jeff Martin

I'm not a shitty grandkid. I'm a Chapo supporter

Yung Bukowski

Please watch one of the hindu nationalist 300/LOTR mash up movies coming out of India next 🙏

Shimosanz (Brian Sanchez)

I’m glad you’ve finally listened to the people and made Chris Wade 5th mic 😎👍

Mitch H.

One hell of a game. You get the CIA check, the FSB check, the Soros check, then the Xi check. Just masterclass.

TugNuggins

Wait what is this?!!! I need to see this

Yung Bukowski

Search on Tanhaji and Baahubali and thank me later Tanhaji fits that description a lot better but Baahubali is a funner movie

Gengeros

Can confirm digital blood splatter in modern films or tv is the worst shit possible. I see that shit now in civil war documentaries I watch and I say “is nothing sacred anymore”. I would prefer no blood at this point and then either falling over or just cutting away.

Abiel Beluts

Game over. Xi Jingping Flawless victory!

October

With dancing!

Patrick Holt

How have you guys not watched Assembly (2007)? That was the answer to Saving Private Ryan. Action including both the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War.

Chuck

LOL Matt! Good note to Xi. You speak the truth.

BIG VIBES

not lying about russian films

grimbo

Felix learned everything he knows about operators and guns from Tom Clancy video games.

Proboscis Man

President Xi, I personally will make squibs for the PLA-Chapo film corps. However, I am also very stupid, have a low attention span, and illiterate. Therefore, any instruction will need to be given in LEGO-style picture manuals. Please get me out of this country, I hate it here.

CM

There are physical black rifle storefronts in Dallas that you can visit and terrorize fyi

Evelyn B

President Xi i await your liberation of the United States!

Juji Gatame

Frank Grillo is borderline sociopathic post-alt-right chud, sells shirts saying he wants to murder AOC and stuff, the fact that CCP paid him to take a dive in a propaganda film is insanely funny

Juji Gatame

And Brotherhood of War is awesome, randomly watched it one day and got pulled into a brutal violent epic

Yung Bukowski

it doesn't QUITE fit those exact vibes I'm referring to Great movie tho

Greg Forsyth

Are you sure you're not getting him mixed up with someone else, I can't find any evidence of this anywhere. And I have a feeling New York ultra-lib Brian Koppelman would probably not have worked with him on Billions if this were the case.

Ernest Ambrus

That was the funniest half of an episode ever.

siobhan

southern tour doesn’t include florida smh real brandon country sheds a tear

Thom

Always great to see Scott Adkins getting work. The guy's bound for superstardom one day

gilgachest

Can you guys do the eight hundred next? Chinese propaganda movie magic is where it's at

Elspeth Hunt

I didn't know that about frank grillo. bummer, he was really good in the second purge movie

Sam Zeng

Its true China needs more Jews for its movie/television industry.

Sam Zeng

"With Dancing" Thats sick

Thom

highly recommend Ninja 2: Shadow of a Tear to anyone. Also has Kane Kosugi, Sho's son.

Stormy_Ramone

Kush, we're in a post-rust world. Squids ain't coming back. I kinda always knew it'd be Alec Baldwin not Trump that would do the most damage

Stormy_Ramone

Squibs ain't coming back and probably squids too. Thanks Obama /spellcheck.

Jake

happy 600th birthday

Jay

I keep penduluming back and forth between "I gotta learn mandarin" and "tonal language too hard"

Huge Logo

Frank Grillo - under appreciated action hero. 👏👏👏🔥🔥

Dan

The Purge: Anarchy

Faded Dr Jacoby

the sniper wall bang shot has to be an homage to wall properties in cs 1.6

A RHINO

dont take some rando on the internets word for this

Dante

I'm sure china promotion of gay novels, gacha twinks and sweet af war films will win over Americans slowly

archipelago_go

once you learn the tones you can’t un-hear them, but getting the hang of them at first is tough. plus! learning to write characters is super relaxing. you just copy them a bunch of times until your fingers remember them for you

Sean Orr

Here to report that Battle of Lake Changjin not only used 70,000 extras from the PLA, but does indeed use squibs.

Sean Bradley

is anyone getting havana syndrome from this episode?

etienne

sip sip sippin on sum skizzrps

etienne

this ep gave me a headache, slight nausea, secondhand IBS, nervous twitches, muscular fatigue, short term memory loss, sugar rushes, sweats, skin rashes, a sense of vague dread, ear ringing, bad case or the mondays, a flat tire on my car, a slight grey ish skin tone, pubic hair loss, a craving for gravy, and extended half-boners

HeyB00B00

I refuse to believe that any of these films could ever top Rumble in the Bronx

HeyB00B00

Free Y&R Mookey!

calvin kilby

Probably the 300th person to say this but the booze he drinks is called baijiu

JazzWolf

Felix's rant about soy versus silly I found a bit odd. He said soy is when you can't commit to anything or be sincere about anything which I found weird because he doesn't seem to to be able to commit to anything or be able to show himself sincerely enjoying something. Everything he talks about is always jaded cynicism about how nothing will ever get better, nothing is cool, and smug sarcasm. "Dude it's epic, like it rocks, like I love crumping with gritty, it's freaking based dude. It's awesome"

etienne

baiju is so fucking good dude

Daniel

Damn dude really makes u think…. there’s levels to this silly shit….. We’re all at a different point in our journey to fulfill God’s vision of us as silly wittle tricksters and jokers

Evan C.

The Battle at Lake Changjin seems to have Waterloo and War and Peace levels of extras and action in-camera. As well as squibs. Very happy that it’s as successful as it is for those reasons, very excited to watch it. Also what the fuck was that high pitched noise happening mostly when Felix was talking? Am I being brainwashed?

calvin kilby

All booze tastes like Windex to me

archipelago_go

baijiu tastes like paint-thinner. even the kind that comes in the cool pineapple shaped bottle reminded me of an industrial solvent when i was in china

The Children of Jack Acid

If you don't tour through both Tulsa AND El Paso, you should fuck your own SHIT!

justdave

We're here too ✋ (der spider sees all)

justdave

Half boners? You should get that looked at, try going to CVS or the bus station

justdave

Slippin with some skizzr... (i died)

etienne

i just had an out of body experience earlier realizing that one of Felix's now deleted alts is the author of the original shoes look like a fam tweet and also that he went on Reply All as Carl Diggler. Im so, so old

kallampero

I've got a Charlotte ticket to sell. Inquire within.

Evan

That crooked ass patch would never fly in the US ARMY!!!

ALR

you guys might be interested in The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014), it's sort of Tsui Hark's Guns of Navarone

A C

F the Chinese army

etienne

so it's a bit hard to get solid info on this but I read somewhere that there are 4 "subtypes" of baiju, with one of them being the industrial solvent stuff. Again from something I read somewhere: the taste of that stuff being the hardest to "get into" in the world. But anyways. The only place where I can get some of that within bike distance of me is at this one state-owned-monopoly liquor store where the manager is kind of a hipster and orders weird stuff. It means that when I hit SAQ Marché Atwater, there can be no baiju, or maybe one bottle of a brand I've never seen before, or maybe the same as before. Could be anything! Always a surprise. And to the best of my knowledge they never stocked the real mccoy industrial solvent stuff. The bottles I got to buy so far, most I would describe as: Goldschlager multiplied by Chartreuse. There was another bottle I got a couple times that was lower ABV and tasted more like diluted vodka. Anyways I'm dying to get my hands on the avgas subtype baiju but getting specialty liquor where I live is next to impossible because of Big Guvmint

etienne

someone help me, is it the Nongxiang or the Jiangxiang flavour that tastes like CPU die surfactant?

Zarathushtra

He get’s silly with Souls games though. Which is based.

Zarathushtra

Anyone have a well sourced history text on the Korean War? I’m can’t get behind supporting North Korea in any way.

Alexander Corden

The Baijiu you can get in America tastes like expensive perfume mixed with expensive vodka, it rocks

Des Mosome

Dumb dumbs. Hell or High Water.

etienne

season 3 of Blowback is gonna cover it so just give it a couple months

John McNulty

Mixing up Frank Grillo with Vincent Gallo. ANTI-ITALIAN DISCRIMINATION

B

Just give it a shot! It's nowhere near as difficult a language to learn as many people make it out to be imo

Elliot Matheny

All of the Ip Man movies have some pretty hilarious American chud archetypal villains, and strong nationalistic currents, too. Plus you get some epic Donnie Yen kung fu sequences.

Jim McKenna

I liked Max Hasting’s book. Might want to try that one

Valerie

"Heck tar rays" Ah yes, I too was home scowled.

Tei

Felix is sincere about lots of stuff, like animals

cwen

Patriots, Traitors and Empires by Stephen Gowans is excellent and will give you a lot to think about regarding propaganda against the DPRK

Chachalupa

It’s not hard for English speakers, just stop listening to the racists that have told you it is your whole life

Madison Watson

That was the coolest movie ever made, I now Fight For China