Badlands Story Hour Ep. 173: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Chris Paul and Burning Bright return from Gart to break down Gore Verbinski's 2025 dark sci fi comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, written by Matthew Robinson and starring Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lou Richardson, Michael Pena, and Zazie Beetz. The premise is delightfully strange. A man from the future shows up at a Los Angeles diner on his 117th attempt to recruit the exact right combination of patrons to stop a rogue AI from ending the world. The guys give Verbinski his flowers (Pirates of the Caribbean, Rango) and argue this film is far smarter than its modest box office…
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