TERMINAL VELOCITY with Rob Hackett!

It’s Die Hard in a skydiving spy caper!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a flying penis!

For this episode, Phil and Liam are joined by special guest Rob Hackett, a producer for James Wan’s company Atomic Monster and a HUGE fan of this wacky1994 skydiving flick. Rob has actually worked with TERMINAL VELOCITY’s director Deran Sarafian, giving him a unique insight into Sarafian’s personality, history and creative process. 

The film’s premise is as follows. After a mysterious woman named Chris Morrow (Nastassja Kinski) seemingly falls to her death during an attempted tandem parachute jump, daredevil skydiver Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) is deemed to be responsible. When Ditch begins his own investigation into what really happened, he finds himself plunged into a deadly world of intrigue and international espionage...where nothing is what it seems.

Rob discusses his memories of seeing the film on opening night, and how it became a comfort-blanket film for him over the ensuing decades. This video-store classic straddles many genres: action, thriller, spy movie, Western and film noir, giving the guys plenty to discuss as they analyze its anatomical parts. It has also has some particularly strong connections to DIE HARD 2, which makes for some interesting discoveries in the ‘Die Hard DNA’ section.

The fellas talk about Charlie Sheen’s brief run as an early-90s action star, the daring casting of Natassja Kinski as the film’s real hero, and the two colorful villlains of the piece, played by James Gandolfini and Christopher McDonald. They also dig into the film’s sexual politics, and debate whether the movie is attempting to be progressive in its subversion of traditional gender roles. The guys then parachute down to the ‘Die Hard Oscars’ to hand out some awards, before Rob and Liam go head to head in the ‘Double Jeopardy Trivia Quiz’!

 TERMINAL VELOCITY trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzjb5OeYng 

At the time of release, TERMINAL VELOCITY is streaming on Hoopla and is available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple/iTunes, YouTube, Vudu, Direct TV, AMC and all the usual platforms.

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