This week, Oz and Curtis hit Episode 99 with True Lies — the movie that asks, “What if James Cameron made a spy thriller, a marriage comedy, a horse chase, a Harrier jet rescue, and a Bill Paxton humiliation reel… all at the same time?”
Your two favorite members of the Let’s Talk About Flix-iverse break down:
The Movie Marriage:The Terminator × Mr. & Mrs. Smith × The Stupids. And honestly? It tracks.
Harry Tasker, Arnold at peak “I don’t blend in anywhere but I will pretend to be a computer salesman anyway.”
Helen, Jamie Lee Curtis turning an accidental spy assignment into a self-confidence arc that ends in a limo dangling off a bridge.
Gibb, Tom Arnold’s greatest role: a divorced, exhausted government agent who lives in vans and delivers perfect one-liners.
Simon, Bill Paxton’s sleazy used-car-salesman fake spy who pees himself twice and still somehow steals the movie.
The Crimson Jihad, a terrorist organization written in 1994 when Hollywood was, uh… not subtle.
The Harrier Jet Finale, featuring Arnold flying a billion-dollar aircraft like it’s a rental car and yeeting a terrorist off a missile with the line “You’re fired.” Cinema peaked here.
Dana, who survives clinging to the cockpit with bare arms on shattered glass because she’s 12 and apparently made of adamantium.
It’s bombastic, chaotic, very 90s, occasionally problematic, but endlessly fun — Cameron’s most unhinged blockbuster before he discovered blue people.
Final Verdict:
Oz — 12 Daaaanas Curtis — 89 Düschkus
Next week: Episode 100 (!!) as the boys celebrate with Dead Alive — the blood-soaked, lawnmower-powered, New Zealand masterpiece that proves Peter Jackson was weird long before Middle-earth.
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