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Tie Me Serial Killer Down, Sport · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 2: then you can listen to us say awesome things like this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm concerned about Nicolas Cage.
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  Speaker 3: A studio hired a handful of writers. Four or five writers.
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  Speaker 3: Write me a natural disaster epic. And then they picked Twister. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now you had four finished scripts. One was Dante's Peak.
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  Speaker 3: One was Volcano. And so they all went to other
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  Speaker 3: studios to shop them around.
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  Speaker 1: Here, rewrite this a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And so, I mean, that's exactly what they do is
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  Speaker 3: that they hire a handful of writers. And then once
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  Speaker 3: they pick the script they want, there's two or three
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  Speaker 3: other scripts finished. So people are like, well, shit, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to go shop this over to Paramount.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how often do you have a movie that
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  Speaker 2: far down the line where it's not all about the killer?
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  Speaker 1: You know, because you watch that first movie.
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  Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time with those kids and
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  Speaker 2: we don't even see Mick for like half the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Like it is a good amount of time getting to
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  Speaker 2: know these kids. It's all about them setting up the, the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, waiting for the tension to show up when
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  Speaker 2: he's there. So like it all kind of works on
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  Speaker 2: that level. Whereas this one right out the gate, we
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  Speaker 2: get nothing but him killing some cops.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I still enjoy Jack. I think that the movie
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  Speaker 3: is perfect for what it was. It encompassed every character.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, everything you loved about, you know, just fun
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  Speaker 3: horror that wasn't necessarily a gore fest.
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  Speaker 2: This looks dumb, but like maybe there's something else going
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  Speaker 2: on here. I'm like, no, there's not.
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  Speaker 1: Only something else. There's nothing going on here.
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  Speaker 2: It is the most minimal amount of effort you could
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  Speaker 2: put into a movie.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it would be, you know, like maybe
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  Speaker 1: too much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I feel like it would be very, very contrived.
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  Speaker 3: It would be like very, very much like, uh, well,
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  Speaker 3: final destination again, where they go back to the mental
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  Speaker 3: home and get the girl who's keeping herself safe, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or they go back to the, you know, the guy
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  Speaker 3: who once dealt with this menace, you know, and, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it could work, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: I kind of like knowing that he was so fucking
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  Speaker 3: traumatized that you'll never hear from him again. He's under
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  Speaker 3: special care. He's basically not good for anything anymore. And
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  Speaker 3: you don't really realize it right off. But it's like,
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  Speaker 3: last movie, we saw them hand the baton three times.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, here's our main character. Oh, she's dead. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the other girl's gonna be our main... Oh, she's dead.
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  Speaker 2: So we did this, and some dude out of the
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  Speaker 2: blue becomes... At least last time, it was all three
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  Speaker 2: of them, and it just kept switching.
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  Speaker 1: But this guy was.
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  Speaker 2: Out of nowhere became our main character by the.
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  Speaker 1: End of the movie.
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  Speaker 3: It makes it as chaotic for the people watching as
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  Speaker 3: the movie is trying to be.
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  Speaker 2: So, the one I did an episode on years ago
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  Speaker 2: was Primeval. So, 2007, a news team is sent to
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  Speaker 2: capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Our director
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  Speaker 2: here did Rogue. 2007, an American journalist encounters a man-eating crocodile.
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  Speaker 1: This is the same damn.
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  Speaker 2: Movie, the same year.
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  Speaker 3: But again, I don't feel like they did it in
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  Speaker 3: a way that was just, like, exploitive. Like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think it was done to just be like, oh, look,
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  Speaker 3: more gore, you know? It was like, the times it
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  Speaker 3: did happen in this movie were brutal as hell.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you were almost not expecting to see it because of, again,
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  Speaker 3: of the way they filmed you don't see certain things.
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  Speaker 3: And then they just show you certain things, and it's
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  Speaker 3: almost even more jarring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of.
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  Speaker 3: I know we put it on our list, but then
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  Speaker 3: it was $ 20 when it got released.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, shit, dude.
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  Speaker 3: It is not worth $ 20, I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: I spent like two bucks, and I was like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I should have picked something else, man.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was annoyingly bad.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then that's where it also becomes very, like, Texas
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  Speaker 3: Chainsaw 2, like, you know, House of a Thousand Corpses-ish,
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  Speaker 3: you know, where he's got decor made by, like, bones and.
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  Speaker 1: Which we all have, you know. No, totally, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But I just, you know, like, with the Christmas lights
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  Speaker 3: wrapped around, like, skeletons and shit, it felt very much
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  Speaker 3: like your Twisted Murder Ride haunted house sort of, like,
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  Speaker 3: catacombs of evil. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm calling him out for anything that's questionable, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying impossible, but I do not remember in the
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  Speaker 2: first movie at any point.
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  Speaker 1: Does Mick get involved in like pop culture? Like he
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  Speaker 1: is of his own.
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  Speaker 2: He is out in the middle of nowhere and everything
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  Speaker 2: is just him sort of taking his, his, you know,
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  Speaker 2: doing his Mick thing. But he is like of his
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  Speaker 2: own little world. He is not even part of our world.
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  Speaker 2: In this movie, he makes maybe three different references.
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  Speaker 1: Or other people. And he knows what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just like, is he somebody who would be involved in,
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  Speaker 2: And paying attention to pop culture?
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  Speaker 3: You can throw on half of his films for pure
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  Speaker 3: shits and giggles. And then he's also handed some... Now,
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  Speaker 3: unlike Steven Seagal, he's handed some genuinely insane scripts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels very, if not post-apocalyptic, at least in
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  Speaker 2: this country, the Old West, where... As long as you're
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  Speaker 2: away from the law, man, you can shoot somebody and
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  Speaker 2: throw some dirt on them and move on with your day.
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  Speaker 1: And, like, nobody cares. So it definitely has that, like.
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  Speaker 2: Old West feel for America or nothing else post-apocalyptic, which
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  Speaker 2: is back to the road warrior. Everything comes back to
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  Speaker 2: the road warrior.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of directors that are old and still killing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That was the one time you see him lose his
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  Speaker 3: fucking cool.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean.
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  Speaker 3: That was like the one time in the movie, and
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it was very specific, that they made
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  Speaker 3: it to where he was not in control at that point.
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  Speaker 3: He straight up was like, you're fucking caught in it.
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  Speaker 1: Fucking fist up against the guy. He was furious.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like this is just a great example of
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  Speaker 3: independent Australian filmmaking that turned into something bigger and is
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