Oh heck yeah
The joke among critics and I guess weirdo teenagers was that the movie made back its budget due to most people buying a ticket just to see the Star Wars trailer, then leaving without watching Meet Joe Black.
But I’ve seen it who knows how many times. Three hours too long? No, three hours too short.
Oh baby, Primal Fear Rewatchables just dropped.
Always glad to find that someone else appreciates that movie. I’m always agitated that everyone on the Rewatchables - primarily Bill - will only ever mention it to briefly say how bad it was. I’m kind of surprised that Claire Forlani completely failed to launch, but I suppose the bogus narrative around this movie was probably quite harmful to her.
I’m only now bothering to put together that between this and Legends of the Fall, it was a go-to move for Hopkins to play a father who inflicted great pain on his offspring by transparently favoring the other one. I suppose that’s the kind of part you get after you establish yourself as the GOAT of emotional unavailability in The Remains of the Day.
Oh shit, this is extremely exciting news. I was actually going to coincidentally throw on Primal Fear earlier today, and only bailed out to Legends of the Fall because PF was on some service I don’t have right now. They’ve got the Simmons/Ryan/Fennessey A-team too. This is gonna be good.
or McConaughey. it’s right there in the name
meant to post earlier, we caught two fantastic docs yesterday, both available on Prime, the Pink Floyd one is 20 years old but somehow I’d missed it all these years
WTF, they all agree that it was a miss that Marty Vail didn’t consider an insanity defense, and they talk about it like it just went totally unaddressed as a possibility in the movie. Marty explains clearly to Frances McDormand why he isn’t doing that the second it becomes a relevant consideration.
Anyway, good episode. I loved them going through their favorite courtroom drama tropes. Laughed out loud at “I’m pretty sure that John Mahoney saying ‘you were balling him, for Christ’s sake’ is an HR violation.”
The scene where they meet is also fantastic.
It is. Basically have zero complaints about the movie except that I’m forced to acknowledge that the bit at the very end (Brad Pitt walking back over the bridge) is pretty bad and creates this impossible “uhh, so what happens right after the movie?” situation.
“I wish you could have met my father.”
“Me too.”
At some point after this they’ll presumably discover her father’s newly dead body, and it will be clear that nobody else knew that he was dead or about to die. Coffee shop Brad Pitt is going to have some real questions to ask.
I love that scene!!! I performed it for my high school theater class with a partner. We practiced all of the little details like stirring our coffee at the same time. Now I wanna put that movie on, but the Netflix series on Gladiators is too good to turn off.
LMAO this is so obvious once you mention it. Need a funny or die skit that re teams Claire Forlani and Brad Pitt as the same couple many years later as she tries to explain what happened yet again.
They can even still get Anthony Hopkins!!
There could never be a place like Disneyland, or could there? Let me know.
Jim, it’s here. It really is here.
I haven’t listened in a long time as I just stopped really listening to audio only podcasts, but I used to listen to it religiously and loved it. It was often hysterical and some of the guests are really good on it too.
Saw the new Indiana Jones movie today. I had a good time, but they didn’t really recapture the magic of the earlier films.
I saw it too. Pretty good as far as nostalgic money grabs go. Didn’t have a romantic love interest, didn’t have him pretend to be 20 years younger. The villains were interesting and had personalities. Points for having Operation Paperclip be a major plot point.
Downside was the younger CGI, while not in the uncanny valley still just isn’t believeable. I don’t know if they ever will be. I’m sure they’ve done some research but I don’t know they just can’t cast a younger Indy. There wasn’t some kind of new magic to really draw me in. I don’t think there could be though. A big part of Indiana Jones is a rogue-ish adventure feel and that’s a young man’s game. There’s only so many hidden artifacts that Jones can save from the Nazis. All that being said, I feel like this was about the best that could be done, and it could have been so much worse.
Tango & Cash wins the rare trifecta of being on Rewatchables, Flop House, and How Did This Get Made. I’m going to give it a watch then listen to all 3 pods and report back.
I’m going to watch Draft Day tonight because it sounds like a funny Rewatchables.
Oooooooo
I have seen this one many times but can imagine there’s a lot to tear apart.
