Mike S tweets Hard Boiled

Once a week our mad twit Mike S from the Corner of Terror will shanghai The Basement's Twitter account and tweet along to a non-horror movie, all for your Internet pleasure. Cool, yes!?! We think so. 

For his latest exercise in 140 characters or less, The S decided to enter the slow-mo, dove-infested world of action maestro John Woo with 1992's Hard Boiled. His thoughts are cut and paste below.

You know a movie is introducing a bad ass character when they start with a shot of tumbler of tequila being poured... #HardBoiled 

Somehow, I always imagined that Jazz would fit into a Hong Kong action film quite well... #HardBoiled 

I love how 1990's films aren't as glossy looking as more recent films. Easier on the eyes, I find. #HardBoiled 

I think it would be cool if North America had tea houses that allowed you to bring your pet birds to. #HardBoiled 

Cue the slow-mo entrance of some baddies. #HardBoiled 

The tea house shoot out is one of the reasons John Woo is considered the Master of action scenes. #HardBoiled 

I have to wonder though, how much of the Police Department's budget was spent on the ammo used in the tea house shootout #HardBoiled 

Just saw a chicken take flight during the shootout... precursor to John Woo's trademark doves taking flight, maybe? #HardBoiled 

#AwesomeLines: "You're such an asset. Give him a gun & he's Superman- give him two & he's God!" #HardBoiled

John Woo has a walk on role in #HardBoiled... as a club owner named... Mr. Woo.

I tend not to trust guys that use handkerchiefs to avoid putting prints on turn stiles... #HardBoiled 

The library scene mixes slow-mo and flashbacks nicely. #HardBoiled 

#ThingsYouDontSeeInNorthAmerica: Religious shrines in Police buildings. #HardBoiled.

When your woman hands you your underwear wrapped in plastic wrap... you know you're in trouble. #HardBoiled 

Wanna win the heart of a Hong Kong ganglord? Bring him beef jerky... #HardBoiled 

HelpfulHint: If your top shooter gets killed- hire the shooter that killed him... He's obviously better. #HardBoiled 

I can tell the guy in the black pants, turtleneck, jacket and shades is a bad ass... #HardBoiled 

Arguments in the office ALWAYS draw crowds... #HardBoiled 

Cue the gang members riding out for a hit on motorcycles... #HardBoiled 

The warehouse shootout is a marvelous concerto of destruction. #HardBoiled 

When the good guy is slowly loading his shotgun- you know things are gonna get real... #HardBoiled 

Cue the smoke grenade... and hell breaking loose... #HardBoiled 

I'm really amazed that more actors weren't hurt doing these action scenes... #HardBoiled 

My niece would love the zebra print car seat covers in this car... #HardBoiled 

#AwesomeLines: "Woe betide anyone who tries to stop me." #HardBoiled

I have bad dreams about being shot and losing an eye... Unlike the baddie on the boat, I survive. #HardBoiled 

I think we're about to head into the hospital shoot out... which is close to an hour in length... AWESOME! #HardBoiled 

It's amazing how easy it is to pose as a cop in action movies from the 1980's & 1990's... #HardBoiled

I'm not sure I'd classify blood splattered across a window as being... "nothing" #HardBoiled 

If I were to have a secret lair, the entrance would be in a morgue... or a men's room. #HardBoiled 

Some cool MacGyver shit going on with gunpowder right now... I expect a boom soon. #HardBoiled 

And the hospital mayhem kicks off... #HardBoiled 

Yeah, show how tough you are by kicking a hospital patient... Real manly, dude. #HardBoiled 

I can only imagine the time it took to choreograph all the people in the hospital shootout... #HardBoiled 

The way the one cop holds his pistols, his shots would wind up in the baddies' privates... #HardBoiled 

I love how one of the baddies jumped up on a bench in front of a window just so he could get shot through it... #HardBoiled 

I'm curious... who pays for the property damage after a shootout like this? #HardBoiled 

#HelpfulHint: NEVER slap a woman with a gun. Seriously, dude. It won't end well. #HardBoiled

John Woo did the "opponents on opposite sides of the wall and shooting at each other" in "Hard Target" as well. #HardBoiled 

The true hero of the movie is the baby the puts out the fire on the cop by peeing on him... #HardBoiled 

Never force the hero to say he's impotent... you'll lose an eye. #HardBoiled 

With the shot of a sailboat heading into the distance, #HardBoiled comes to an end- and so does this week's tweet-along.

I'm going to give #HardBoiled a good... with awesome sauce and a side of kick ass. 

Tune in to @camethebasement next Sunday at 7 p.m. PST as Mike S. tweets along to another non-horror film.

You can follow Mike S @TerrorCorner.   

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