Double Impact

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Using his entire repertoire of acting skills to, to, to bring depth to both.

Uh, and, and you know when the film pretty much opens up after the, you know, the or- the first scene, when it opens up to Van Damme doing the splits and showing his bottom to those girls, um, in the yoga class or the martial arts class, whatever it is, that, yeah, this is, this is a film you wanna watch the rest of.

Um, but no, all, all jokes aside, Double Impact is genuinely brilliant.

And I watched it last summer and I was like, "Oh my God." Like, I remember watching this for the first time as well.

Uh- [laughs] ...

Double Impact.

Double Impact was good, wasn't it?

Aye.

What was the one when he was in the jail? The Sandman was coming after him.

And I think they did maybe even another version.

But this second version, Sheldon Lettich was there, writer of Bloodsport, director of Lionheart, Double Impact.

friend of Jean-Claude Van Damme and so he sees this movie Van Damme's over just finishing kickbox shooting kickboxer in Thailand and let it gets in touch with him he's like dude you better get back here right away This, this, because this is a disaster, like your career might just be over with this film.

And so this, by the way, I've heard in various places, but it's most detailed in Sheldon Lettich's book, or it's a book about him written by a guy named, I think, Corey Dana called From Vietnam to Van Damme.

A lot of fun coming up, and I'm excited to record all of it with you, Zach.

But as always.

hey it's me Jean-Claude Van Damme and you know how I make movies where I always play myself and I like have a twin but I'm joined with my twin here isn't that right I call him David that's in the script but it's really it's I have Jean-Claude Van Damme and I've got DCVJ he's my he's my doppelganger he's my doppelganger so hey hey DCV yeah double impact DCVJ uh you know you know the dark side you know the dark side DCVJ dark side yeah I'm good why Yeah, because I'll catch you on that next time, okay? Get you on the dark side, yeah? Yeah.

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... steelbook from 88 Films.

Uh, they're putting out Double Impact.

They had already released this on 4K and said, "You know what? The search for more money is on.

Let's put out a steelbook." Nothing new, of course.

And she also starred in the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.

And she was terrific in it, too, as a villainess called Double Impact.

Gee,

that's good.

Yeah.

So well done, Leanne.

Double Impact.

Thank you.

I'm really happy.

I was like, "I'm missing..." Uh, oh yeah, and I also got Double Impact.

Nice.

Double, Double Impact was hiding in there, too.

I was like-

Dude

And double the best damage.

Double impact.

We're doing an episode on Double Impact.

How you doing, guys? Welcome to the show.

How you doing, Drew? Say hi, Chris.

It's my technology, and I

say...

Played Double Impact, and then the house goes, playing Double Impact, and then all the TVs all around the house, all the screens automatically flip to, like, 2B or Voodoo or something, where I still have to watch commercials or some shit.

And this was, at the time, his biggest commercial success movie, and probably his, other than Universal Soldier, Dave.

So we are doing Double Impact.

This one was picked by our good friend and patron, Gareth, Dave.

After last week's Best of the Best, I have been so excited about this, 'cause we've gone back to our martial arts roots, Dave.

Yeah

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but it, there was always with Double Impact.

I think it's quite a...

I think you would.

I never put it on, but that was from Double Impact.

Oh, shit, you going old school now, I see.

Yeah, we got a minute and 51 seconds.