decided to watch one of my all-time favorite comfort movies, the fugitive. casting real cops as the chicago detectives such a great move. these guys look like they even to this day believe that harrison ford’s character did it. even after seeing the movie - ThreadSky

fleerultra.bsky.social • 11 days ago

decided to watch one of my all-time favorite comfort movies, the fugitive. casting real cops as the chicago detectives such a great move. these guys look like they even to this day believe that harrison ford’s character did it. even after seeing the movie

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ruprecht-monkeeboy.bsky.social•11 days ago

The best shocker back in the day for me was "The Usual Suspects." Off the charts twists and turns. It was brilliant at that time.

dankeevy.bsky.social•11 days ago

There is a lot wrong with movies from the 90s, but I always feel like casting was at the razors edge of the discipline. Also, Fugitive has the best farce parody movie in Wrongfully Accused.

drbirdman.bsky.social•11 days ago

One of those cops was my second cousin- fascinating dude who was acting on stage in Chicago for his entire retirement

teresalfenton.bsky.social•10 days ago

I love that movie.
I watch it every time it is on tv.
The cast is terrific.

notpickard.bsky.social•11 days ago

Andreas Katsulas is such a good heavy

fenothefox.com•11 days ago

The Janitor..............

mathghamhna.bsky.social•11 days ago

Kimble!?

saltzman.bsky.social•11 days ago

Don’t forget to watch another amazing film from the same writer after: Pitch Black

filledwithstraw.bsky.social•11 days ago

Wait wait.. what? Same writer?

saltzman.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yep. All the Riddick stuff

boonedaniels.bsky.social•11 days ago

Did I just read that they are releasing it in 4k?

amyoddo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Streaming channel?

dcactuary.bsky.social•11 days ago

Wore out my vhs copy of this

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

i had a laser disc lmao. my laser disc collection was basically the fugitive and several ren and stimpy episodes.

dcactuary.bsky.social•11 days ago

I’m pretty sure I got my parents to buy me a used copy from one of those rental places at the grocery store… man the world has changed haha

wats.ink•11 days ago

the actual chicago PD would send him back to jail for all the laws he broke while on the run, and most american prosecutors would say "even if he's proven to be innocent that doesn't mean his conviction or death sentence should be thrown out"

lucystag.bsky.social•11 days ago

Counterpoint: he's a really handsome white guy.

whiskeyandwry.bsky.social•11 days ago

The scene were Tommy Lee Jones tries to kill an unarmed Kimble that's not threatening anyone feels weird now, but apparently I'm a minority in that opinion.

lucystag.bsky.social•11 days ago

When he's leaving the prison (?) and the doors are closing, and TLJ fires? That's gotta be his worst cop moment.

whiskeyandwry.bsky.social•11 days ago

I think it's a hospital, but yeah. He last shot is when Ford is lying on his back with his foot stuck between the doors and Jones just tries to shoot him in the head.

lucystag.bsky.social•11 days ago

I can never remember which it is, and I've only seen that movie like 15 times.

He also fires right by a bunch of not even alleged murderers! Bad.

janisclark.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's the prison.

tfosteroaks.bsky.social•11 days ago

One of my all-time faves. A consistently satisfying rewatch. The fact that I can still get tense and wound up with suspense, even knowing the outcome -- that's the sign of a great movie.

janisclark.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is why we watch it every time it comes on. Like last week. This one and Shawshank Redemption.

tfosteroaks.bsky.social•11 days ago

I have lost track of the number of times I have watched Shawshank. :) Morgan Freeman rules the voiceover!

jameswilliams.bsky.social•11 days ago

Last time I watched it, I realized my favorite small moment is when the feds start following the guy into the prosthesis lab, like they’re just putting together that Kimble actually believes he’s innocent.

elimgarak240b.bsky.social•11 days ago

Never knew that bit of casting trivia, very cool

chilichimp.bsky.social•11 days ago

Same, I just assumed they were very bad actors.

tgt75.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Dick Rosetti is passin' out bulltns."

alphabetzel.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s got a young Julianne Moore! It has it all!

hangincurve.bsky.social•11 days ago

The original script had Kimball going back and finding Moore’s character, convincing her he was innocent and enlisting her help to gather evidence, ending with them being romantically entangled…but it was cut from production

alphabetzel.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh interesting! I didn’t know that. Woulda been hot.

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

AND jane lynch! some great cameos

pagesandpages.bsky.social•10 days ago

wearing gay pride pins no less

garyalexander.bsky.social•11 days ago

the one armed man is babylon 5's gkar / tng's commander tomalak

sausalitocheese.bsky.social•11 days ago

Andreas Katsulas, huge number of credits to his name. Also notable in Max Headroom which was a groundbreaking show.

ilovepets420.bsky.social•11 days ago

don't you mean ambassador tomalak?

garyalexander.bsky.social•11 days ago

👀

robertcunningham.bsky.social•11 days ago

Neil Flynn is the cop who yells "KIMBALL!" at him on the subway!

I really need this woven into the next season of Shrinking somehow.

oksettledown.bsky.social•11 days ago

that tomalak guy was bad business I tell you hwat

amandahrubes.bsky.social•11 days ago

Poor Sela Ward

danzyl666.bsky.social•11 days ago

Have you ever thought about how many of those same cops heard about some 10 year old kid in the suburbs effectively torturing 2 house thieves on Christmas a few years earlier?

painedumonde.bsky.social•11 days ago

Probably the same guys that regularly dropped off at Homan Square.

cobrollins.bsky.social•11 days ago

definitely top 10 maybe top 5 from the decade of the 90s

semicharmedquark.bsky.social•11 days ago

“I didn’t kill my wife”. “I don’t care” Oh how I laughed at that line as a kid. Then I became an adult and was like “oh.”

hivecities.bsky.social•11 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/hivecities.bsky.social/post/3lkma2caesu27

ericmichel.bsky.social•11 days ago

i say this every time i'm proven correct about something and yet no one ever barks

jurph.bsky.social•11 days ago

You have to come work in my office. I promise I would give you a note-perfect "A-roo-roo-roo-rar" every single time until people begged us not to do The Bit.

I don't even care what your trade is. We can make this work. You know how to send e-mails? Draw on a whiteboard?

mazzarino.bsky.social•11 days ago

I've seen it 10 million times and I didn't know this. Cheers.

tft.io•11 days ago

It is the movie that most captures what my time in Chicago was like — obviously not the medicine or law enforcement, but the aesthetic and the super grounded places and people and accents and everything. God I love it so much.

kimphilbywasbad.bsky.social•11 days ago

And geographical accuracy.

They say “he’s in Pullman” and the finger goes to Pullman on the map and the next shot is a Pullman corner

I’ve been in the office with that view of the Wrigley clock and the wells street EL bridge is just blocks away

tft.io•11 days ago

Yes!

patrickw.bsky.social•11 days ago

Ron Dean, one of the cops, actually was not a cop but went to prison for killing a cop. He also was a cop in The Dark Knight and one of Andrew Davis's frequent Chicago guys.

rotodisc.bsky.social•11 days ago

Ebert said that no one shot Chicago better than Andrew Davis and he’s right. I’m pretty sure there are also real cops in /The Package/ which is a terrific Hackman picture.

drewmcd.bsky.social•11 days ago

We went to see Raymonda at SF Ballet the other night and the whole time I just had Tommy Lee Jones’ voice saying, “where you at Raymondo?” Repeating on a loop in my head.

https://youtu.be/RshOReqAOBY?si=qhH_BCR6XS8vDeyF

paulrichardson82.bsky.social•11 days ago

And they cast a hospital janitor as a transit cop.

fenothefox.com•11 days ago

Ohh, yeah, yeah. I was in a Harrison Ford movie, but y'know what? I chose this life instead because it's a little more glamorous.

themilo.bsky.social•11 days ago

One of my favorite parts of Scrubs

paulrichardson82.bsky.social•11 days ago

Mine too

cleverhandlehere.bsky.social•11 days ago

Dunno who you mean, that’s Dr. Jan Itor!

ridertoast.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hard target search of every out house hen house dog house chapo trap house Grover house

timrandosaurus.bsky.social•11 days ago

https://youtu.be/OSPN0_hoNM8?si=1OyOJpRx7B0vgT3Z

chilichimp.bsky.social•11 days ago

lol, Grover house

ccutrona.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s one of those movies I will always watch. Doesn’t even matter when I come in—I’m watching to the end.

lmason.bsky.social•11 days ago

I love that they basically just showed up to the parade and started filming without everybody being clued in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tmqh_cBxd4&ab_channel=WeirdedWonder

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

“every time i look in the mirror pal. except for the beard of course” is such a good line, tells you how clever and resourceful he is. every scene in this movie whips

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

man imagine being the doctor whose careless ass is saved from killing a kid by a convicted killer on the run from the police lol. definitely some racial subtext to that whole scene too

jamellebouie.net•11 days ago

the whole movie has serious racial subtext! it is really cooking with its depiction of how kimball’s whiteness is his single greatest asset

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

yeah i think we talked about this on the pod!!

david.uncensored.zip•11 days ago

Just adding the link in case anyone reading the thread was curious where.

isocket.bsky.social•11 days ago

Love the movie. Never understood how Julianne Moore got such high billing in the credits. Maybe a subplot got cut?

jamellebouie.net•11 days ago

yes, there was a whole romantic subplot that got cut

sportsrealist.bsky.social•11 days ago

Was the movie edited to put Kimble on the lam in Chicago for longer than first planned? I haven’t seen The Fugitive in a while but recall the Marshals getting the tip on his rented room and their search making it seem like he just got there yet the earlier montage suggested more time had passed.

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

yeah the only confusing bit/editing issue is they make it seem like lots of time has passed but then his fake id remnants are in the trash like he literally hasn’t been there long enough to change the trash once.

wats.ink•11 days ago

it makes sense that they cut this, but i'd watch it on the special features

isocket.bsky.social•11 days ago

Aha, figured it was something. Thanks!

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

oh i didn’t know this!

andgracetoo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Thank you. This always bugged me.

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

i absolutely hate it when my best friend and colleague at the research hospital switches the samples on me. it is the worst.

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

“you never give up richard” is such a good line. bro you falsified research to get a drug to market that will kill people, took out a hit on your best friend, and are angry at him? insane narcissist.

phillypagooleus.bsky.social•11 days ago

“Youlll nevah find heeemm”

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

final note is that i’m not sure i noticed before that what he says to girard at the end is not he killed my wife, it’s “they killed my wife.” nichols just one cog in an evil machine

chetramey.bsky.social•11 days ago

I know it, Richard. I know it.

https://clip.cafe/the-fugitive-1993/they-killed-wife/

david.uncensored.zip•11 days ago

Come for a thriller about a man clearing his name, stay for the critique of profit above all motivations.

jeffbiggers.bsky.social•11 days ago

Check out Andrew Davis new thriller https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/the-fugitive-director-andrew-davis-returns-to-action-novelist-1235059224/

garyvii.bsky.social•10 days ago

Same! Will I'm late to my dinner party

dr-ohm.bsky.social•11 days ago

What I truly like is the doctor was played by a fairly unknown actress who was UTTERLY CONVINCING as a doctor, an immediate standout

llzerox.bsky.social•11 days ago

and something about that crappy egg sandwich he throws together in the hospital room always looks so good

smegmaticsmotrich.bsky.social•11 days ago

Almost as good as Wrongfully Accused

cartermoon.bsky.social•11 days ago

One of the all time greatest “stop and watch it every time it plays on cable TV” movies

thematterickson.bsky.social•11 days ago

My GF and I once travelled to Florida for the express purpose of going to Spring Training games. We were late for one of them because the movie was running, on basic cable.

cartermoon.bsky.social•11 days ago

My mom and I watched chunks of Fugitive on cable easily 15 times as I was growing up, it’s honestly mesmerizing, perfect movie to get sucked into at any point!

robacoustic.bsky.social•11 days ago

My favorite bit is when he's leaving the courthouse and tells the guard "There's a guy in a blue coat back there, he's yelling and screaming and I think he has a gun." Jones comes into the room five seconds later and gets tackled by security guards. I wish I could think on my feet like that.

wolfmanzack.bsky.social•11 days ago

"what is this, the trenchcoat convention?" kills me every time

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

he’s such a great dirty ex-cop. everyone crushes it in their roles

teflonslinky.bsky.social•11 days ago

Lifetime performance by Ford, top tier performance by Jones. Just a treat of a film.

footenotes.bsky.social•11 days ago

One of my fave #CompetencyPorn movies

noamchompers.bsky.social•11 days ago

think me up a cup of coffee and a chocolate donut with some of those little sprinkles on top

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

lmao i almost posted about that line too! it’s so good. all their banter is top tier

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

joey pants complaining about always being yelled at and then when tommy lee jones yells at someone else being like “yes! there you go!” also a great detail

notoriouscrk.bsky.social•11 days ago

When Tommy Lee Jones is examining evidence in front of his office window, and you can just see, by the minutest change in his facial expression, when he decides Harrison Ford is innocent…

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

the whole “so why did richard kimble kill his wife?” “she was rich.” “he was a surgeon he was already rich.” “yeah but she was MORE rich” scene reminds me of the idiotic debate around the budget fight.

willowkist.bsky.social•11 days ago

Sometimes I just mutter: "She was more rich," and walk away

jarekfa.bsky.social•11 days ago

Unironically it makes more sense than the actual pharma FDA approval motive of the actual killers.

manuclearbomb.bsky.social•11 days ago

The a other marshals rolling their eyes at this is great too

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

lmao yes! I was just saying this https://bsky.app/profile/fleerultra.bsky.social/post/3lklxor4hx22q

haroldfjord.bsky.social•11 days ago

Making your own political reply to your nonpolitical post I like it

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

if you shut down the government he’ll be able to fire people and close agencies

he’s already firing people and closing agencies

yeah but he’ll be able to do it faster

bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social•11 days ago

Schumer makes a lot of sense as a Chicago detective

fannyperpendicular.bsky.social•11 days ago

Not a ton of options...they will ignore court orders...appeal, lose, appeal, lose...all the while doing it anyway.

benlbuchanan.bsky.social•11 days ago

"We might end up in a constitutional crisis if we stand up to his blatantly ignoring the constitution."

polantaris.bsky.social•11 days ago

Or, my personal favorite, "If we protest he will declare martial law but if we do nothing he won't have to."

magixpunx.bsky.social•11 days ago

Where's the leverage if you shut it down?

tubapeter.bsky.social•11 days ago

Never underestimate a rich guys willingness to do something terrible just to become more rich.

brad-carpenter.bsky.social•11 days ago

My wife watching the ID channel has proven to me that cops and detectives are mostly idiots. I know more than a handful of times she or I have solved the case or asked the question that would have stopped its going cold for 20 years (while barely paying attention), yet those pigs...

swolecialism.bsky.social•11 days ago

it always fucking kills me that the Marshals team decide to re-investigate the murder basically because they are professionally offended by how bad the chicago cops are. it's not even really their job at all, they just can't stand it

amdiamanti.bsky.social•11 days ago

I love how they try to cover it as "we need to understand his motivations in order to find him" and we all know they know it's bullshit. 😂

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

lmao yes

skydome.bsky.social•11 days ago

The incredulity from the deputy Marshall when he calls from Sykes’ place and Pants is like “get the CPD over there!” and she says “we’ve got a care there now!?”

swolecialism.bsky.social•11 days ago

rewatched it the other day and it's just unbelievable how fast it moves, too. if they made it now it'd be thirty minutes longer and feel two hours longer

jamellebouie.net•11 days ago

i mean part of that is the opening sequence which is just bravura filmmaking

patrickw.bsky.social•11 days ago

My guy Andrew Davis!! Let the man make his new book into a movie!!

swolecialism.bsky.social•11 days ago

we used to know how to make a movie in this country.

audiolibrarian.bsky.social•11 days ago

i have been meaning to re-watch this, so thanks for the reminder!

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•11 days ago

As someone who has worked on federal criminal cases in Chicago this seemed right to me

thecorkmaster.bsky.social•11 days ago

The same police department found it damning that Richard Kimble’s fingerprints were all over the scene of the crime, you know, Richard Kimble’s bedroom.

smashie603.bsky.social•11 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/smashie603.bsky.social/post/3lkmkzietck2x

stismail.bsky.social•11 days ago

(BTW, the original series was so popular back in the day that if Lt. Gerard made a promotional appearance in costume, he'd have been lynched in many, many countries.)

marcuskelson.bsky.social•11 days ago

such a good film...

kagathon.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh no. You’re gonna get radicalized once you internalize that the drug killed people…

fleerultra.bsky.social•11 days ago

oh trust me i’ve thought through all the implications. talked about it at length on @unclearpod.bsky.social !

kagathon.bsky.social•11 days ago

I don’t remember that part of the convo, may need to listen again 😅

benspky.bsky.social•11 days ago

Have you seen Peter Watkins' films? He does some really interesting stuff with casting real cops playing versions of themselves in Punishment Park and La Commune.

jodybmovie.bsky.social•10 days ago

I did not know that. Time for a rewatch.

david.uncensored.zip•11 days ago

Fugitive is one of the 4 movies I own on VHS still. Even though I don't have a VCR.

hockeenightsct.bsky.social•11 days ago

It is our greatest St. Patrick’s Day movie

suzybea.bsky.social•11 days ago

going to look and see if i still have it on tape

mrtherapydog.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's on Pluto

frankmaggiore.bsky.social•11 days ago

86ad6.bsky.social•11 days ago

I've spent some time talking with the film's director, Andy Davis. He's a real mf. Very kind and funny and down to earth. He even took my Steven Segal jokes in stride.

nanahasthoughts.bsky.social•11 days ago

Such a great movie!

yourkingmob.bsky.social•11 days ago

The people with a higher incidence of "neck thoughts" than cops are pro wrestlers.

livingstonfan.bsky.social•11 days ago

I had to suspend my suspension of disbelief when the single woman picked him up hitchhiking in the dark and rain.

shakespeherian.bsky.social•11 days ago

Fugitive remake where the cops pick Harrison Ford up on Infiltrating A Parade or something and even though they have no idea he's wanted fugitive Richard Kimble he spends eight months in a CPD black site

themilo.bsky.social•11 days ago

That is basically the plot of episodes 8-10 of Andor 😅

themilo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Andor pulls off a huge heist against the Empire, then goes on vacation and gets arrested for being near the scene of a crime and is thrown in jail for months, all while the Empire higher-ups are desperately looking for the people who planned and pulled off the heist.

bfg008.bsky.social•11 days ago

I love Andor so much.

mariversusmari.bsky.social•11 days ago

we have such a different sense of comfort :P my all-time favorite movie for when things gone real shitty is Bird Cage. wonder what does (if so) it say about me? and what does our choice of conf. movie say about us?

deliciousmalk.bsky.social•11 days ago

The most well deserved Oscar in recent memory for Tommy Lee Jones

jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social•11 days ago

TLJ: did Lenz go in this fishing trip?

1 Armed Man: You don’t see him in the picture do ya?

TLJ: [turns, looks at him like ‘you really want an ass beating that bad?’]

regjoe.bsky.social•11 days ago

You may enjoy this article if you haven't read it already.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/the-fugitive-movie-oral-history-cast-director-1234789685/

chilichimp.bsky.social•11 days ago

"roll that back, I want to hear the SOUND of an ElEvAtEd Train."

chilichimp.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's so good. One of my favorites as well.

I also like popping in the Negotiator from time to time for similar vibes of cop-brain.

jurph.bsky.social•11 days ago

I was doing classic movie double-features for my teen, and "Fugitive/Negotiator" was one pairing. (Others included "Aliens/Terminator 2", and the one I'm most proud of, "Fight Club" / "The Prestige".)

chilichimp.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hell yeah, those are all great.

learning2b.bsky.social•11 days ago

Saint Patrick’s Day type of movie 🍿 ☘️

pmurray63.bsky.social•11 days ago

Spend 22 minutes discovering all the challenges they faced. You'll be even more amazed at how it turned out to be such a good movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzt0crHh7KI

thecorkmaster.bsky.social•11 days ago

Watched it again a few weeks ago and thought the Chicago PD is the most realistic portrayal of police in a movie ever. Can’t investigate, can’t shoot, can’t chase down a perp, can’t see a wanted fugitive in front of them if he shaved his beard.

sheriswokowski.bsky.social•11 days ago

Real life reporters in the final scenes, too.

bennomarx.bsky.social•11 days ago

I don't know about a "comfort" movie, but it's definitely one everyone should watch at least once.

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