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Episode #733: The Rookie (1990) (Patreon)

Published:
2024-04-09 04:00:03
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2025-08-21 18:46:32
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2026-06
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“Once again, it’s Clint Eastwood as a cop, so he is costing everyone millions of dollars.” - Chris

On this week’s We Hate Movies, our dumbest theme month yet, SHEENPRIL continues with a wild conversation on the totally outrageous Clint Eastwood movie, The Rookie! How hilariously inept is Raul Julia’s car thief mastermind? How incredible is the opening car carrier chase sequence? How great is this cast full of real-deal character actors? Did Sheen’s character really need to drive that motorcycle through the door? Couldn’t we get a little more Tom Skerritt and a lot more Lara Flynn Boyle? And what are the odds this movie was a re-worked “one last case” Dirty Harry film?

The Rookie stars Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Lara Flynn Boyle, Pepe Serna, Marco Rodríguez, Xander Berkeley, Tony Plana, Paul Ben-Victor, and Tom Skerritt as Eugene Ackerman; directed by Clint Eastwood.

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Paul

After listening to this episode, listen to The Action Boyz podcast’s hilarious take on this flick.

Cody Downs

Funny note on the country club scene, if you decide to peak at it again: the food on all the plates on the greens is franchise restaurant style spaghetti and all the "glass" plates & forks are clear plastic! Thanks for finally covering this film, guys! Take care 👌

Z

I love how this movie uses almost the same visual pallette as To Live in Die in L.A., especially during the scene when Sheen torches the bar.

Jason

All my favourite snoody expensive country clubs exclusively serve Buca di Beppos.

Andrew Dean

It’s totally 100% an r-word scene. It’s just that Clint (both director and character) has a really problematic macho take on it

MarkNM

"Let's give Dirty Harry a partner, and make it like Lethal Weapon, but boring." -Warner Brothers, probably

Noura Sarayel

She definitely rapes him. People frequently do experience elements of arousal when they’re being sexually assaulted, but that’s mainly about placating the attacker in order to keep them from getting more violent. With that said, I *do* think that Clint Eastwood the director, as opposed to his character, might be indulging in a bit of a sadomasochistic fantasy with that scene. It feels like the *style* is horny over what’s happening to the character, if that makes sense.

Felipe Sobreiro

You recently talked about Sonia Braga's niece Alice, who was in Hypnotic. (And Sonia Braga herself is in The First Omen!)

MarkNM

It's both "Just lay back and think of England," and "I'll be telling this story at the bar for years."

John Locke

Best part of the movie. The visible crew members at 1:24:25. When loco is beating up Sheen's girlfriend. And I really need help understanding why Clint brought the ransom money to Rau Julia. You were no longer kidnapped. Wtf???

Paul DeCoursey-Clark

I remember almost nothing about this, other than the guys 'catching' each others' punches and even as a child thinking it was a dumb movie.

John Locke

It certainly is played oddly. Sheen gets jealous when he sees the footage. At least it wasn't an orangatang.

Samuel McGuire

Eric. It’s ‘Carceny’, not whatever the hell you said. 😂

Samuel McGuire

What was the hot dog brand Chris mentioned? Humboldt?

Matthew Kennedy

Kingdom of Sausages? New WHM lore droppin', blessed be the Sausage Clause

D Arthur

She had a razor and had already cut him. If the presented genders were reversed there wouldn’t be a debate about whether it was sexual assault.

HockeenightsCT

Memphis Raines might have had a more intricate plan for stealing those cars than Benjamin Franklin Gates did for stealing the Declaration of Independence.

Smaug

I've enjoyed The Rookie and Terminal Velocity the most this month. I had never seen The Rookie before, can't believe I hadn't witnessed that Clint greenscreen fireball one-liner. I don't understand this money exchange at the end at all, it makes no sense

RJ Cunningham

When Skerritt was like “ok here’s 2 million dollars, but, only thing you have to do, is forgive yourself.” And Sheen being like “fuck no” and leaving with the money elicited a cheer from me. That may have been the easiest lie to ever tell, I’m glad he didn’t. The bar scene where Sheen goes nuts, tosses that dog 40 feet, completely sucked me in for the last hour. When Sheen sees the video of Eastwood in the you-know-what scene, he makes the funniest fucking face. It’s such confused disgust. Also, what was the point of all the narrative mirroring at the end? But this movie I think proves that famous rule where having at least 2 Cheers actors in a movie makes it an automatic A+

Ray

Not quite a limousine match, but Bradshaw did rebrand himself as JBL, like a rich oil tycoon thing. And he would come in with a limousine, I'm sure someone got bounced off of it.

JohnG

If any of the WHM gang wants to join my PLEX, they can. I've noticed several things over the years that the gang say is "unstreamable" that I already have available to stream on my plex. I've heard Chris mention he looks on plex for some things already. Drop me an invite request. My plex username is 'gathly'. Or you could give me a plex username or plex email, and I can send an invite.

Deano Rezzz

Having a real Dad-fernoon with this one. Kind of enjoyed it

Jamaharona

This episode was hilarious!

Billie Jackson

Clint Eastwood getting his nipples licked sounds like it belongs in Tightrope. Maybe in the part of that film in which he's getting all oiled up for sex.