Above the Law Is A Legit Historical Martial Arts Movie | Joe Rogan

If you ever see Steven Seagal run, there's a couple. If you ever see him running, he runs very strange. And what's the first one he did? That's really good. Love the law. Look at him. Look at how he runs. He runs like a fucking with time. Look at him. Look at him. Can you imagine? He's just built odd. He's just really tall. He does run a little loose with the hands, which is kind of confusing. Which one was this one? This is the second one. That's above the law. I think it's cut. No, it's cut in all the time. Oh, it's a bunch of different movies now, because now he's got more hair. Right, because people goof on him because of the way he runs. He was married to Kelly LeBrock, dog at one time. At one time, he was the man. How many times did I jerk off to Kelly LeBrock and woman in red when Gene Wilder calls for her? This is what it is. His steps are too short, and his wrists flip around. Because he's used to doing Aikido, right? He's used to like... Joe, don't protect him. Everything's like flowing. Please don't protect him with the Aikido club. I'm just saying, that's what it is. He runs like I have a fruitcake. No, don't throw Aikido in there. Those Japanese people work 3,000 years to put Aikido on the map, and now you're going to set them back. That poor Aikido school in Burbank has moved eight times. They keep losing students. They're down to two students wearing a Schmock and a fucking sword. Who's going to go for Aikido less than that? Someone who doesn't really want to fight, and you want to be able to passively get someone away from you, which is not realistic. But the sword part. The sword part could come up if shit hits the fan. If we go back, and you know, if we get knocked into the Stone Age for a nuclear war with Russia. Why are you giving me this Aikido? I need to join again. No. You need to learn how to dodge sticks. Yeah, they moved. They're in Burbank. And I thought about... When I was a kid, I went to Aikido for about two weeks. It's probably fun. The guy's name was Richard Bowe. He was supposed to be a big time in Guttenberg, New Jersey. Mm-hmm. And he taught a lot of deflection stuff. But Steven Seagal and above the law took it to a different level. That throat slam. Oh, yeah. He's got the deflection throat slam. That's fucking beautiful. I had a meeting with a guy in a movie. There was this, like, my agent sent me in to meet with this guy. They were looking for someone to do like a Steven Seagal-type movie. They were looking to... They were gonna try to create an action star. And we actually had, like, an argument about this movie. That move right there. But the best thing... Oh, that's what was his throat? Yeah, that's when it got carried away. Ah! That's when he just went over the top. Oh, that's hilarious. But in the first movie, and above the law, and the one when he fucked up the Jamaicans. Oh, yeah. Which one was that? With swords and sword fights. And then Hard to Kill was when he... That's the one that pissed me off, because, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're in a coma for four years and two days later you're throwing sidekicks. Yeah, and he's putting like... Yeah, needles in himself. Acupuncture needles over himself? Yeah. He fixes himself. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, you know. I loved it. I loved it too. I loved it too. I loved it too. The thing about him, man, is I think in that first movie, it was one of the more unique martial arts movies. Like, above the law, it's almost a shame that he made a bunch of movies that weren't as good, because if you go back to above the law, in terms of like martial arts history, and above the law is a legitimate historical movie in terms of martial arts movies. Because it was the first movie where you got to see a real Aikido practitioner with a hybridized system of martial arts. Like, he was doing Aikido, but he was also throwing a lot of punches and knife hand strikes and a lot of strikes. See if they showed the bodega scene and above the law. But just play this out. That's the bad, oh yeah, all this out. This guy, look, all the bullshit. I mean, I've made fun of him as much as anybody. But listen, his Aikido skills were very legit. He was very legit. Whether or not that stuff's real or not, that's a subject for debate. Whether or not it's really effective when you look at other things like wrestling and jujitsu, is it the most effective way to grow out? Or judo, is it the most effective way? No, it's not. But no one knew that back then. And he, at the time, in the 1980s and 90s, was a world class martial artist. He just had a style that ultimately didn't really prove to be the best style. But so did I. I was doing Taekno. No, no, no, this is hard to kill. A lot of people were doing kung fu. A lot of people were doing things that they thought were legit, but they really, once the UFC came around, we found out, oh, this is not the best way to do it. Now, this is 87. There's a kid in this scene that was just in a movie with Clint Eastwood, The Mule. He's been doing movies for fucking 30 years. I can't. Right now, that dude with the tattoos, how many fucking movies has he's been a bad guy in? Right there, the second guy, that guy right there. Oh, my God, that guy's in every fucking bad guy movie. Every movie. He's great. Who is he? What's his name? He used to live in Vegas, I heard. I'm a restaurant in Vegas. I'm not even sure.