PREVIEW: Bonus 39 In the Line of Fire (1993)

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Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Our 'movies about presidents' series continues (probably for four more years) with a much better movie this time. 1993's Wolfgang Peterson joint In the Line of Fire, featuring Clint Eastwood again (are we... doing a Clint Eastwood season now?) as jaded old Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, veteran of a particular epic fail in Dallas 1963, up against the 90s serial killer shtick of rogue CIA super-assassin John Malkovich and, even more dauntingly, the merciless side-eye of fellow agent Rene Russo. A superior slice of 90s Hollywood nonsense with a nice line in gentle self-mockery and some adorable early digital effects.

This is a fun one, kids.

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0:00.0	IDSG bonus episodes are a regular extra just for Patreon backers of myself or Daniel.
0:06.1	Here's a preview of the new one.
0:09.1	Wanted. Ambitious individual for leadership position.
0:14.4	Be prepared for difficult application process and stressful work environment.
0:19.9	Challenges, many. Rewards, numerous. Failure. Possible.
0:26.4	Your employer, the American people. The few chosen have been the presidents.
0:35.7	I just, I mean, we'll get into this, but you know, this is the same guy who did Air Force One.
0:39.6	And Air Force One comes after this.
0:41.3	And this is just so much better.
0:42.6	It's so much better than Air Force One.
0:44.5	This is so much better than Air Force One.
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:47.1	It's weird, isn't it?
0:48.1	Because it feels like Air Force One is consciously an attempt to kind of do this again. This is something that struck me watching in the line of fire was,
0:56.2	oh, so this was before Air Force One.
0:58.4	So Air Force One is one of those movies where the director is kind of,
1:02.8	you know that really, that really good thing you did,
1:05.0	that thing you did that was so successful and made a lot of money?
1:07.6	Do that again.
1:08.5	Just do that again.
1:09.3	It's like, what am I thinking?
1:11.8	The Green Mile.
	...

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