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The Flop House: Episode #59 - Law Abiding Citizen
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After a month-long break, the Plothouse Gang is together again to try and abide law-abiding citizen.
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The Plothouse Gang
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The Plothouse Gang
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The Plothouse Babies
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headquarters underground next to the prison connected to a solitary confinement cell
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by a tunnel and every night he is sneaking out of his cell and rigging up traps to kill
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people and then getting back into his cell again.
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And he sets up a bomb at the mayor's office for some reason and Jamie Foxx, realizing
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that the law is impotent at this point, puts it under Gerard Butler's bed and allows
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Gerard Butler to blow himself up.
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Case closed.
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Case closed.
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The case of the murdering guy, over.
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Chalk another one up for the district attorney.
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Another slam dunk.
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So it's an incredibly stupid movie.
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And it would want you to believe that it's about, I guess, the limits of justice or the
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limits of the legal system.
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Our liberal legal system, letting criminals go free.
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There's a lot of like, what about his civil rights?
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I don't care about his civil rights anymore, you know, and things like that.
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And a judge who is incredibly eager to let people off of charges for any reason.
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Yeah, there's a point where like Gerard Butler says he's going to confess, hasn't signed
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a confession yet, and then makes an argument in court that because he hasn't done it and
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there's no other evidence, he should be going free, even though he's agreed to sign a confession
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in the future.
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And the judge is like, yeah, I'll allow it.
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And then he starts railing against the judge like, see, you did this last time.
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No, no, you're always letting criminals go free to kill and kill again.
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Yeah, you kind of set her up.
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And he plays a game of cat and mouse with the cops saying like, I'll tell you where
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this missing person is that I've kidnapped if you bring me a steak lunch, you know, and
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things like that.
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At 1230 and when it comes a little late, oops, a T-bone steak, the bone being the important
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part.
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Yes, because then he then uses that to kill his cellmate.
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And for pretty much no reason except to get him into solitary, I guess.
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Luckily, the prison only has one solitary confinement cell and he's already dug an
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amazing tunnel.
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There's got to be a non-murder way to get into solitary.
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I mean, it was either that or I don't know that much about prison, like try to punch
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a guard, maybe just like pee in a cup and throw it on a guard.
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Yeah.
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OK, I guess that'll get you there.
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I mean, at least for a day, I mean, especially once he starts his murdering rampage, he'll
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stay in solitary.
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He's doing it.
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Maybe there's some something we don't know about between him and his cellmate.
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Maybe he certainly didn't seem to be friendly.
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No, I mean, there's definitely a little bit of antagonism there, like just sexual tensions
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to her.
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I guess you're probably right.
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I mean, this interpreter does look pretty good.
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As I said, watching it, how can a man in such good shape look so doughy?
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He's got a 50s bodybuilder look where it's like he's muscular, but he's not slim.
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He's not svelte.
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But also when you like take his shirt off, like you can see the definition of every muscle.
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Chiseled.
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It's just that his face was...
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I mean, there's no Ryan Reynolds, but...
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And his back.
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Well, you see him nude from the back and he's kind of a lumpy guy.
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It seems like maybe...
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Those are muscles.
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But they don't look good.
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Someone attached some clamps to his extra face flesh and just like started like pulling
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them out.
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Like in Brazil.
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Or maybe it's like his face gave birth at some point and it just has a tightened back
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up.
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Wow.
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You really hate Gerard Butler.
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He's going to beat the crap out of you.
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Yeah.
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And this is the best performance we've seen from him so far in the film.
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I mean, I certainly...
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I would rather that he won over Jamie Foxx in this film.
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Yeah.
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Well, Jamie Foxx is the least likable hero, I think, in movie history in this movie.
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Yeah.
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He learns no...
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What's up with Jamie Foxx, guys?
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I mean, like sometimes, some days he's like a rapper.
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Some days he's an actor.
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Some days he's a comedian.
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Yeah, that is crazy.
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Uh-huh.
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What's the deal?
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How do you explain it?
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Can't cut it down.
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He's a modern day renaissance man.
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No, but...
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I mean, just think...
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Don't know what to think, you know?
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Listen, Damon Wayans just wrote a novel about old ladies.
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So anyone can...
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About old ladies?
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Yeah.
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Wait, what?
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It's in like the Tyler Perry mode of uplifting vaguely religious novels about black people.
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That kind of old lady.
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Yeah.
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Not like...
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A Madea style old lady.
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Yes.
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Not just...
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I don't know.
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Not like a Miss Marple mystery or something.
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I wish it was like a Murder, She Wrote type thing.
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Yeah, but one of the reasons why Jamie Foxx is so unlikable is he refuses to learn his
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lesson all throughout the film, and when he finally does learn his lesson, the lesson
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he learns is that the legal system doesn't work, rather than, maybe he shouldn't have
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done a plea bargain for this horrible, horrible murder.
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Yeah.
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Just apologize to him.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Seems kind of weird at this point.
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Send him some flowers.
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Yeah.
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Send him some flowers, you know?
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Mm-hmm.
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Oh, man.
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And people keep dying.
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Yeah.
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Ten years of tunneling.
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Yeah, that was...
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I mean, there was that really cool moment where he, Bernard, or Gerard Butler, set himself
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on fire.
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Bernard Butler.
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Bernard Jutler.
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For Bernard Jutler, the bomb exploded, and there was like that moment of him kind of
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like looking at the camera, and he's like surrounded in flames, like a phoenix reborn
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from the ashes, except, yeah, he doesn't come back, I mean, he's dead.
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Except for law-abiding citizens, too.
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He's being accepted into the maw of hell.
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Law-abiding citizens.
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Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
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See?
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Symbolic.
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Yeah.
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But also, like, Jamie Foxx, as part of his job, I guess, just blew up a man in the prison,
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like, and then in the next scene, he's at his daughter's cello recital, and everything's
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okay.
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Now, I don't know a lot about the job of a...
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Of a DA.
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Of an assistant district attorney.
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This is after he's been sworn in as the DA.
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But even before that, like...
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The mayor says to him, you're doing a terrible job, the city is on high alert, everyone's
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worried, I'm gonna have to swear you in as DA.
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Viola Davis, by the way, the mayor.
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Academy Award nominee Viola Davis swearing in Academy Award nominee Jamie Foxx.
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Academy Award winner, didn't he win for Ray?
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Did he?
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Oh, maybe.
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I think he did.
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Then maybe he's an Academy Award winner.
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Now, what I don't quite understand is, I didn't realize that the job of the assistant district
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attorney was to, like, run around and go to crime scenes and, like, solve fucking crimes
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and shit.
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Is that really the case?
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Well, it's really more, I guess, administrating the office that organizes the arguments in
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court against these cases.
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Yeah, I mean, taking all the evidence that is brought to them by the police and then
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you, like, building a criminal case against the person, right?
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Yeah, he is at the scene of the crime very often.
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Yeah, and, like, any time something might be happening, he's jumping in a helicopter.
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I mean, I think that the district attorney's office has its own investigators, but I don't
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think they would be taking lead on the thing.
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Well, the district attorney isn't, like, a McGruff figure, though.
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Sure he is.
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He's a dog in a trench coat.
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Also, there's one guy who's, like, apparently holding the entire city in a grip of terror,
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but the newspapers never show his picture.
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We never actually see the city behaving erratically in any way.
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Yeah, we're just told about it.
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Gerard Butler is able to sneak into City Hall just wearing a mustache at the very end
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of the film.
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And a cap.
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And a cap.
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Well, there's a lot of subtleties to his disguise.
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It's, like, the way he holds his body, his voice.
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He's got a slightly more gravelly voice when he's talking to people.
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He's like Lon Chaney.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Anyway.
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I guess the reason anyone would see this movie is...
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For Gerard Butler's turd-a-face.
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Gerard Butler.
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I mean, he becomes a different character every time.
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But I guess for the elaborate kill scenes, which, uh...
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Yeah, it's like a Saw movie, but with a vigilante instead of...
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Well, I guess Saw is kind of a vigilante.
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Well, he's a vigilante for living your life to the fullest.
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Oh, okay.
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So it's like defending your life with Albert Brooks, but...
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Yeah, it's a lot like that, defending your life.
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Isn't that...
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Doesn't that take place in outer space or heaven or something?
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No, it takes place in heaven.
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Oh, okay.
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Same thing.
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I mean, I guess heaven is as far out of space as you can get.
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Yeah, I mean, it's pretty much outer space.
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But yeah, like, it's basically like a bunch of crazy Rube Goldberg things where people
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are set up and then they're gonna die, right?
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Well, and then it gets...
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Well, not even that crazy.
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I mean, like...
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I mean, they're crazy in that they're weird, but there's no Rube Goldberg.
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Well, the craziest one is the first one.
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He gets where he gives a...
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Or I guess after the lethal injection where the other killer, he has a...
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He's given him a gun, and then when he pulls the trigger, spikes come out of the handle,
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which have some sort of pufferfish poison on them, which then paralyzes him so that
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Gerard Butler can cut his body parts off.
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Yeah, and by the way, when pufferfish was mentioned that early in the movie, I was looking
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forward to a much crazier movie than this ended up being.
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Yeah.
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Well, there's something so unnecessary about it.
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It's a poison from the bladder of a pufferfish, and it's like, why not just say there's a...
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I've just paralyzed you with a toxin.
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Yeah, just tell me you gave him the Hong Kong cocktail and leave it at that.
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And eat your adrenaline up.
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But then later, it's mostly like exploding phones, exploding cars.
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Well, not exploding phones so much as like a phone that shoots the judge through her head.
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Well, and it apparently only goes off when she's in the presence of our main characters.
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It was timed to go off only in an ironic moment.
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So she says, well, that's the great thing about being a judge.
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You can do whatever you want.
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Opens up phone, a phone blows her head off.
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Famous last words.
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Well, this brings me...
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They are.
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They're quoted everywhere now.
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This brings me to what I kind of felt was the stupidest scene in the movie, which is...
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The cello?
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No, it was after Gerard Butler said, you know, show me you've learned your lesson.
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You can stop all this or whatever.
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Like, let me go or, you know, tomorrow at 6 a.m., everyone dies.
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And so...
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Or let me go by 6 a.m.
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By 6 a.m. or everyone dies.
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And so, like, the law people are all, like, pulling an all-nighter for some reason.
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And they're all together.
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I think law people is the second.
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They're all together in the law people offices.
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Sure.
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Law people room.
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Yeah.
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Jamie Foxx, you know, everyone is looking up at the clock.
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And the minute hand goes to 6.
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and looks around like, well, we didn't die.
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And guess we're going to live forever.
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Guess the danger has passed.
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And then they all leave.
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And of course, get in their cars, which blow up.
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One by one.
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Yeah.
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And one of the women, one of the people
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Jamie Foxx works with, Leslie Bibb,
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named after, of course, the article of clothing,
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the Leslie.
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She is just, we know she's going to die because we haven't seen
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her for like an hour in the movie.
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Or we have, but just in brief moments.
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And then she starts talking about her boyfriend
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with Jamie Foxx.
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And it's like, OK, well, we've learned
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something personal about you, so you're going to go.
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But then she gets in her car.
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All these other cars start exploding.
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And she looks at Jamie Foxx like, what do I do?
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I don't understand.
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Where can I, huh?
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And doesn't seem to figure out that she has control
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over the doors of her car.
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Yeah.
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And it's really a shame, because in the 10 years that
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have elapsed since the first case,
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she really did not age very much.
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No.
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Nobody did.
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She had great jeans.
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You could say that.
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Wait, like in her body, or like the things she was wearing?
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Both.
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Yeah.
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Because I didn't see the second.
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Maybe I missed that.
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I'm just imagining.
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You've got to assume.
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The casual scene.
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Yeah, the casual wear.
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She's out drinking with her fellow law people.
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At the law bar.
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Yeah, where all the law students are at.
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They're like hillbilly sexy jeans
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with panels cut out of the butt.
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OK, that sounds sexy.
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Wow, you have constructed a more elaborate fantasy
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around this than.
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Well, listen, she's a lawyer, right?
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Yeah, what, like a half shirt?
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So she cuts loops on the weekends.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Lawyers love wearing Davey Dukes around.
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Well, then I guess she died as she lived, you know?
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In a car.
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Yeah, in a car.
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Exploding.
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I mean, from the portrait you've painted.
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I don't think I mentioned that at all.
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It seemed like the 10-year difference was so unnecessary.
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It could have been one year later or three years later.
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I mean, he dug a lot of tunnel, right?
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And that's not a euphemism.
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I normally would use that as a euphemism.
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What would it be a euphemism for?
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We'll cover that later.
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Yeah, no, that's a 10-year project.
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I mean, planning all this masterminding out and then
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having a warehouse that you dig a tunnel
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through the prison for.
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You've got to do that really quietly, I imagine.
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But the thing is, also, Gerard Butler's character
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is like, it's established, what, midway through the movie
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that he was like a crazy CIA assassin operative.
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I'm surprised he didn't just get like, well, yeah.
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Well, let me get back to my point, Daniel.
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I'm surprised that a character that already has
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that moral flexibility, his first outlet is like,
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okay, let's see what the justice system is going to do.
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Like, that seems crazy.
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I'm surprised his first thing was to kill the guy.
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That was his fall from grace.
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Like, he'd given his life to the U.S. government
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and then he sees how he gets repaid.
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But then he doesn't take his problem to the U.S. government.
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He takes it to the Philadelphia justice system.
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Also, when-
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And also, why doesn't the government step in
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and help him out with this?
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Also, when he's later on trial,
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how come he has the exact same judge
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and the exact same prosecutor that presided the trial
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over the murderers of his family?
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That seems crazy.
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You have to assume this movie takes place in a world
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where Philadelphia has been decimated
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by some sort of virus or zombie plague.
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There's only about 45 people left in the city.
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That's what happened those 10 years we didn't see.
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So it's kind of like in the second half
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of the Akira graphic novels.
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Exactly, yes.
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Where they're living in the ruins of Neo-Tokyo.
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Yes.
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Or between Mad Max and Mad Max 2, Road Warrior.
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Okay.
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Where there's been a nuclear war and society has crumbled.
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Wait, there's been a nuclear war
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between Mad Max and Mad Max 2?
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Yeah.
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There wasn't one before Mad Max?
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In the first Mad Max, it's like-
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It was just like a-
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In the first Mad Max-
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The first one was-
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Things were just shitty.
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Yeah, it was just a white-line nightmare.
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Exactly.
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Wow.
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It was just a white-line nightmare, yeah.
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But yeah, in the first movie, things are bad,
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but you still have lawyers, the government,
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regular television broadcasts.
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What happened between Road Warrior
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and Beyond Thunderdome?
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We're not just talking about the sound dubbing.
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No!
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Between Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome,
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George Miller got too much money.
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People started building Thunderdomes all over.
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And Barter Towns.
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So many Thunderdomes.
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Well, but you could see,
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well, you make that Barter Town
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is the beginning of a new organized society.
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It's like an Old West type place.
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It's a cycle goal.
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It's the same process you see in like
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McCabe and Mrs. Miller.
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Right.
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Or season two of Deadwood.
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Okay.
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I think we've learned something.
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I like Thunderdome.
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Did you?
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Yeah, I still kind of do.
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Yeah.
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I just don't quite know why.
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There's a lot of dumb things.
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It's the most Tina Turner-y about all of them.
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Well, because it's the only one she's in.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's fine.
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I'm cool with that.
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And there's, yeah.
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I actually like the first one the best,
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which is kind of unpopular.
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I like the second one.
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It's kind of a weird call.
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Yeah.
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I just like how low budget it is.
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I love how she's pushed to have
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the big pieces of metal on them, but.
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Well.
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Well, we're not talking about the movie
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we watched anymore.
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I'm a law-abiding citizen.
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Yeah, which, I mean, it's kind of a strange title,
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don't you think?
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I mean, he's.
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He's anything but.
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I agree.
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That's the other thing is,
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the whole thing is he keeps saying,
[25:24]
I'm a law-abiding citizen,
[25:25]
I'm a regular Joe, and the system's done me wrong.
[25:28]
But he's not.
[25:29]
He already, like you were saying,
[25:31]
he already lives in this morally gray world
[25:33]
of CIA assassinary.
[25:35]
And, I mean, this is a movie, I guess, like,
[25:38]
who is, this movie's targeted toward people who.
[25:41]
Yeah, people.
[25:42]
Who, well, yeah, human beings.
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People who watch movies.
[25:45]
I assume.
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Presumably.
[25:46]
Not one of those movies for dogs.
[25:47]
Death penalty advocates is targeted to.
[25:50]
People who hate the Constitution and civil rights.
[25:52]
Yeah, and a little bit to people
[25:55]
that are just way into vigilantes and revenge movies.
[25:59]
Like people who just really love Rorschach
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from The Watchmen, and.
[26:05]
The Watchmen, I'm not really familiar
[26:07]
with what you're talking about.
[26:10]
So, but what I think is strange
[26:13]
is that they also, like, they had to throw in your face
[26:15]
that annoying title, like, law-abiding citizen,
[26:18]
and you're like, okay, yeah, sure he is,
[26:21]
and he's blowing a bunch of people up.
[26:22]
Like, at no point, I don't know, it's just irritating.
[26:25]
It's just a level of bad attitude.
[26:28]
It is a very, it's irritating and stupid.
[26:30]
Well, it's.
[26:31]
Stewart's review of the movie.
[26:31]
I don't know, it's just irritating.
[26:33]
It's a movie that at no point stopped
[26:35]
to think through what the hell it was about
[26:37]
or saying or what the audience was supposed to think
[26:40]
other than like, whoa, the head blew up.
[26:44]
Except for it clearly thought
[26:44]
it was saying something profound.
[26:46]
Yeah, it just didn't know what it was.
[26:47]
The early bits where they're trying to, like,
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show this guy's, like, how the legal system
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just can't handle, like, a.
[26:55]
A murder case.
[26:56]
Yeah, a murder case, like a fucking open and shut case.
[26:59]
They're trying, they try and make it seem like,
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oh, the legal system's so fucked up,
[27:03]
and they just throw out all these random
[27:04]
legal mumbo jumbo, like, phrases,
[27:07]
and I guess they're just assuming that their audience
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is just gonna nod their head and be like,
[27:11]
wow, that's terrible, man.
[27:13]
He's right, he's right.
[27:14]
Yeah, this is based on a documentary.
[27:17]
But, like, the audience just saw, like,
[27:19]
a woman get, like, killed and then raped,
[27:22]
and so they're immediately gonna be, like,
[27:25]
siding with Gerard Butler on this one.
[27:27]
I don't know, it's so stupid.
[27:28]
But they thought, well, also later he says, like,
[27:31]
all right, I'm gonna confess to these crimes,
[27:34]
and then, you know, and then they go to court,
[27:36]
and it's like we were already talking about.
[27:40]
He makes the case then that they can't hold him
[27:43]
because of the confession.
[27:44]
It's like, why didn't they get the confession
[27:46]
as soon as, before the arraignment?
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You know, just like, they set the legal system up
[27:51]
to be so incompetent that it's unbelievable.
[27:53]
And the preceding scene where this veteran prosecutor,
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I mean, over 10 years of experience,
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interviews this guy, and Gerard Butler keeps saying things
[28:02]
like, I wanted to murder them, or I thought about it,
[28:06]
and he's like, oh, great, I got a confession.
[28:08]
And, like, even I, I have no fucking idea what I'm doing.
[28:10]
And I'm like, yeah, he didn't say anything.
[28:12]
He never said, yes, I killed him, yeah.
[28:16]
It's stupid, it makes me mad.
[28:17]
Even just, like, he murders a man in his cell,
[28:19]
and then he never seems to be brought up
[28:22]
on charges for that.
[28:23]
They just throw him in solitary and then leave him.
[28:25]
Like, that's another crime he has to answer for, you know?
[28:29]
It's not like once you're in jail, they're like,
[28:31]
well, whatever he does here, he's already being punished.
[28:33]
Can't convict him of murder twice.
[28:35]
Yes, you can.
[28:36]
Double jeopardy.
[28:38]
You already committed a crime.
[28:39]
We can't convict him of another one.
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I guess you're free to go.
[28:42]
He was too smart for us.
[28:43]
He parked near that hydrant before killing those people,
[28:47]
so now we can't get him for the later charge.
[28:49]
They find him, they find the body at property he owns.
[28:52]
They have video of him dismembering this guy alive,
[28:55]
and they're like, we don't have a strong enough case.
[28:58]
We gotta do what he says.
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No, I mean, if anything.
[29:02]
Well, he had his dismemberment mask on.
[29:04]
You gotta remember that.
[29:06]
That's just ridiculous.
[29:08]
I think this movie makes me push all the harder
[29:10]
for a no escape style prison island,
[29:15]
where you ship guys off so they can't build tunnels
[29:18]
and sneak back and forth.
[29:19]
Or some sort of death race.
[29:21]
And you know what?
[29:22]
Also, I think this movie was great because.
[29:24]
Some sort of moon prison.
[29:25]
You know, we were just talking about
[29:26]
how awesome this movie was.
[29:28]
And I was really happy.
[29:29]
Was that what we were doing?
[29:30]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[29:31]
I blacked out for an hour.
[29:32]
Well, your testimony is not valid anymore.
[29:36]
Listen to the tape, Heather.
[29:38]
Good one, Dan.
[29:38]
So we.
[29:39]
Open shut case.
[29:40]
But one of the things I do wanna bring up
[29:41]
is that this movie brings back a triumphant return
[29:44]
to the evidence dungeon.
[29:46]
Ah, yes.
[29:47]
Because they do find a dungeon filled
[29:48]
with like newspaper clippings and semtex
[29:51]
and everything's labeled.
[29:52]
All of his disguises are there.
[29:54]
Shit loads of blueprints.
[29:55]
And that dude has a lot of disguises.
[29:57]
In a room that I think there's like,
[30:00]
Yeah, about a foot of water at the bottom, if I recall.
[30:02]
He stores all his fucking disguises down there, like the humidity would ruin those.
[30:07]
Well, I just love that the entrance is underneath his cherry refurbished 50s Cadillac that he keeps in a warehouse.
[30:15]
Like, it doesn't get any more, like, superhero-y, super villain-y than that.
[30:21]
I can accept the evidence dungeon here, though, a little bit more,
[30:23]
because it's, like, more his lair that he has to... his operations have to go from.
[30:28]
Although it is always hilarious to me when a criminal feels like they need to put up their news clippings on the wall, like...
[30:35]
In case they forget why they're doing it.
[30:36]
Yeah.
[30:37]
It bothers me more, the evidence dungeon, when it's in, like, a serial killer film, when it's, like,
[30:42]
okay, I know that serial killers, you know, often take trophies, but they're usually, like...
[30:47]
Is that true, or did just movies tell you that?
[30:49]
No, that's true.
[30:50]
But, like, it's usually, like, in the way of, like, a personal item or, like, a body part...
[30:53]
It's like a compulsion.
[30:54]
...or something.
[30:55]
Oh, okay.
[30:56]
They don't then, like, make collages of murder and post it on the wall, you know,
[31:01]
or, you know, cut out the phrase, serial killer murders again, and put it up...
[31:08]
They don't?
[31:09]
Well, all right, I've...
[31:11]
Do you think they ever go on their Macbook or whatever?
[31:13]
...not personally been in any serial killer's evidence dungeons?
[31:15]
They go on their Macbook and type serial killer murders again, and then print it out in different fonts?
[31:18]
They've got a Google Alert set up for serial killer, and they're always hoping it's them that's being talked about.
[31:23]
Yeah.
[31:24]
Well, do you think with the death of print, do you think serial killers...
[31:27]
You're going to see a lot more email printouts taped up to walls.
[31:30]
Yeah, a lot of, like, Twitter posts.
[31:32]
Yeah.
[31:33]
Sure, a lot of bloggers.
[31:34]
Well, they're...
[31:35]
OMG, serial killer strikes again, you know.
[31:38]
They're going to get, the serial killers are going to get those electronic picture frames,
[31:42]
and it's just going to be, like, a photo slideshow of all their clippings.
[31:49]
Oh, like, for on their desktop?
[31:50]
Mm-hmm.
[31:51]
Okay.
[31:52]
And then, in the future, it'll be, like, holograms.
[31:55]
Mm-hmm.
[31:56]
Yeah.
[31:56]
Like, maybe hologram videos of them doing it that they made.
[31:59]
That just play on the wall over and over again.
[32:01]
That sounds awesome.
[32:01]
In front of their video screen.
[32:02]
It's me killing this person.
[32:03]
Makes it look like they live next to a jungle.
[32:06]
Wow.
[32:06]
Out the window.
[32:07]
Oh, that's pretty cool.
[32:08]
And, wait, also, like...
[32:09]
They're like Back to the Future Part II?
[32:11]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[32:12]
You get dominoes, and it's like a tiny little pizza, and then you put it in a thing, and it becomes a giant pizza.
[32:16]
And everyone faxes your fire to each other.
[32:18]
Yeah.
[32:19]
And wears their solar shades from Pizza Hut.
[32:21]
Everyone faxes your fire.
[32:23]
This is a fad that swept the nation in the future.
[32:26]
And you got flying cars in Jaws 15.
[32:28]
Yeah.
[32:29]
By the way, they've got some catching up to do.
[32:32]
So, well, this is one of those things where it's like...
[32:33]
To make it into Jaws 15.
[32:34]
It takes place in 2015, right?
[32:36]
Back to the Future II?
[32:37]
They're like, ah, here's an interesting thing.
[32:39]
A dust jacket on the book.
[32:41]
Well, I don't know if those are really gonna go out of style in the next five years.
[32:44]
Well, here's another thing about Back to the Future Part II.
[32:49]
This is the podcast for Law Abiding Citizens, by the way.
[32:52]
If Biff created a separate timeline, how did he fly back to the original timeline in the time machine,
[32:59]
which allowed Doc and Marty to go back?
[33:02]
That doesn't make any sense.
[33:03]
Wait, what do you mean?
[33:04]
What?
[33:05]
When Biff went back to give himself the...
[33:08]
This is the character Biff from the movie Back to the Future II.
[33:11]
Yeah, Biff Henderson, late show with David Letterman, stage manager.
[33:14]
He created a divergent timeline, the horrible timeline.
[33:20]
Biff World.
[33:21]
But then...
[33:22]
It's called Biff World.
[33:23]
But the only way that Marty and Doc get back to that timeline...
[33:26]
Is that what it's referred to in various Back to the Future fans?
[33:29]
Among BTTF fans.
[33:31]
Let me finish it.
[33:32]
That's what it's referred to as.
[33:33]
The only way that Marty and Biff are able to go back in time is because Old Biff then returns to the original timeline.
[33:41]
And if he'd created a divergent timeline, he would have just gone ahead into the future of that divergent timeline.
[33:47]
But that's where they were.
[33:49]
No.
[33:50]
The original timeline, Marty and Doc were at the future version of Marty's house.
[34:00]
In Biff World.
[34:02]
No, not in Biff World.
[34:04]
Biff World was later.
[34:05]
And they go to the future to save Marty's kids.
[34:09]
And that's when Biff takes the almanac and he goes back.
[34:12]
And then he creates a divergent timeline.
[34:14]
But he somehow flies back to the future in the original timeline.
[34:18]
I don't remember that part of the movie.
[34:20]
Oh, for God's sake.
[34:21]
This has been such a waste of time.
[34:22]
When do Jules and Vern come in?
[34:24]
Man.
[34:25]
Again, people across the nation turning off their podcasts.
[34:29]
Dinosaurs in the Back to the Future cartoon series in one episode.
[34:32]
They created a world where dinosaurs continued evolving and had like a people-type civilization.
[34:38]
Oh, that sounds awesome.
[34:39]
Do they wear suits and stuff and tennis shoes with their claws poking out of them?
[34:43]
And drive cars.
[34:44]
That's awesome.
[34:45]
They may not have worn shoes.
[34:46]
Oh, that's too bad.
[34:47]
I think we can all agree, though, that the best part of Back to the Future 3 was ZZ Top playing the barn dance.
[34:57]
I mean, it's up there.
[34:58]
I don't know if that's the best part.
[35:00]
Yeah, it is.
[35:01]
This is a movie that takes place in the Old West.
[35:03]
I mean, it's awesome.
[35:05]
Like Silverado.
[35:06]
It doesn't have the Frisbee.
[35:07]
Like Silverado.
[35:08]
It's like their old-timey version of Doubleback that they're playing.
[35:12]
Yeah, I mean, it's up there with, I guess, the best moments from Young Guns, too.
[35:15]
Yeah.
[35:16]
Sure.
[35:17]
Oh, man.
[35:18]
Or that James Boys movie that came out about ten years ago.
[35:21]
Yeah.
[35:22]
Do you remember that one about the Jesse James gang?
[35:24]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[35:25]
Or like the Newton Boys.
[35:26]
No.
[35:27]
Yeah.
[35:28]
They're safe crackers.
[35:29]
It's a lot like Assassination of Jesse James.
[35:32]
Stop talking about stuff.
[35:33]
Yeah, yeah.
[35:34]
The same kind of thing.
[35:35]
Or like Appaloosa.
[35:36]
Yeah.
[35:37]
Westerns.
[35:38]
Yeah.
[35:39]
Anyway.
[35:40]
Saracen Falls.
[35:41]
Let's move on to judgments because we've clearly—
[35:42]
Our final judgments?
[35:43]
Our final judgments on Law Abiding Citizens.
[35:45]
Final judgments.
[35:46]
The three categories are, is this a good bad movie, a bad bad movie, or a movie you actually
[35:51]
kind of liked in some way?
[35:52]
Elliot, go.
[35:53]
Me first?
[35:54]
Well, I have to tell you that I did enjoy the energy behind some of the kills, such
[36:00]
as we didn't even mention the robot with a gun and a missile that shoots up a car in
[36:05]
a cemetery right after a funeral.
[36:08]
But I am going to have for the lack of logic and goodness in the movie, I'm going to have
[36:14]
to give it a bad bad rating.
[36:16]
Yeah, you know what?
[36:17]
I'm going to say—
[36:18]
And how incredibly unlikable the hero of the movie is.
[36:20]
You do want Gerard Butler to win because at least he looks like he's like having a good
[36:24]
time, you know?
[36:25]
He's kind of cutting it up.
[36:27]
What did you say?
[36:29]
No, I'm going to say that part of me wants to say something good about this movie, like
[36:37]
slightly good bad because it's just so stupid.
[36:39]
Like, the thing about the movie is you can't really—
[36:41]
I guess you could have a good time watching some of it.
[36:44]
Yeah, I mean, you can't really laugh at it.
[36:46]
It's not like a bad movie that you laugh at because it's incompetent so much as a bad
[36:51]
movie that you kind of enjoy just because nothing makes sense.
[36:55]
Like, it is so dumb.
[36:57]
There's not a brain in its head.
[36:59]
However, ultimately, it's not enough.
[37:02]
Like, I think it's just a bad bad movie.
[37:05]
Yeah, I mean, I think my biggest problem is I'm going to give it a bad bad.
[37:11]
I think the reason I liked it so little is it had that almost like conspiratorial attitude
[37:17]
of like the filmmakers nudging you, the viewer, like, you know what I mean?
[37:21]
This justice system is fucked up.
[37:23]
And you're like, well, you're just making crazy shit up.
[37:26]
Yeah, don't assume that we agree with you, movie.
[37:28]
Yeah, it's like the old racist guy at the bar who's like, you know what I mean?
[37:32]
You're like, no.
[37:35]
He's like, come on.
[37:36]
You're like, what are you talking about?
[37:37]
I thought I was going to say like Dave Sim in Cerebus having his female characters say
[37:42]
crazy things against men and then using that as evidence that women hate men in the real world.
[37:47]
That's true, but that's a completely crazy person.
[37:50]
Yeah.
[37:51]
Oh, well, then the racist at the bar, we can go with that analogy.
[37:53]
And mine is less of like a vague reference.
[37:56]
Well, it's not vague.
[37:57]
Mine was way more specific than yours.
[37:59]
Extremely specific reference.
[38:01]
The problem is perhaps that it's so specific that a very small portion of our audience will understand.
[38:06]
Let me explain again.
[38:07]
It's like the scene in If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino.
[38:11]
Okay, sure.
[38:13]
Keep going.
[38:14]
Okay, if I can reference Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth for a second.
[38:27]
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[38:28]
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Now back to the show.
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We have some letters, but I don't have them for us to read
[39:30]
because I didn't hook up my printer today and print them out, so that's on me.
[39:38]
Well, do you remember what they said?
[39:40]
I imagine one of them went, Dear Flophouse, I love your show.
[39:43]
Stuart is really funny when he talks about his penis.
[39:45]
Elliot sure knows a lot.
[39:46]
Well, that's all I know about the Flophouse.
[39:48]
Goodbye, signs some great listener.
[39:50]
Joe Everyman, last name of hell.
[39:54]
Oh, shit, don't answer that.
[39:57]
No, I don't remember the specifics, although there was one.
[40:00]
That was very happy that I put up a message on our website saying that we were still something that existed
[40:06]
So, okay. Yeah, we did take that. We should apologize for the long break. We took although you know what?
[40:11]
Yeah, we're no pay. So why should we have a lot of stuff like you've been busy and you've been busy, too
[40:17]
And well, I you know, I've been unemployed for a little while now and are you gonna talk about this?
[40:23]
Yeah, like no, it's just it's rough. Yeah, it's rough out there
[40:28]
I imagine it is like shopping for for guns to kill yourself shopping. Yeah bullets for the guns
[40:35]
Yeah going to tea party bro. Well, I was gonna try and go the crossbow
[40:40]
Well
[40:42]
Yeah, it seems cool it seems like that would be really hard to like just like hold up to your
[40:50]
Need to wind with it. Yeah that normal that like the
[40:54]
Like that they would usually protect themselves with a large pavise
[41:00]
This
[41:01]
Killing yourself plan seems less well put together than well, even though the one where you catapulted yourself
[41:09]
Just into the distance. Sure. Yeah, that was the problem. That was the lack of foresight
[41:13]
I didn't actually have a clear vision. I didn't have like a vision of success. Yeah
[41:17]
You shouldn't have done it and like in front of the ocean to know. Yeah, that's true. It's soft landing
[41:23]
Time you tried to so it kill yourself with kindness
[41:26]
That didn't work. Yeah, you felt really good though. I mean for a little while. Oh
[41:31]
Wait from all the ice cream you're you're eating
[41:34]
He thought he'd compound it with a death by chocolate. But yeah
[41:38]
And my and my grilled cheese hamburgers I was eating. Yeah
[41:43]
Between two pieces of grilled cheese
[41:46]
But it's between grilled cheese sandwiches or just pieces of cheese, no, that's just a cheeseburger no, no
[41:53]
No, I'm saying you take two grilled cheese sandwiches
[42:00]
You make a really thin like with a panini press so they're like more I mean you could I like a big Texas toast
[42:07]
You mean that's cuz you know, I'm from the country
[42:10]
You also make the cheese sandwiches on French bread on French toast. Yeah, well, it's really thick
[42:15]
That's what I make. That's what I'm doing like a nice bro. You make maybe grilled cheese sandwiches out of French bread pizza
[42:26]
The top is red bear and then you
[42:31]
Wait on what the the the cheese sandwich that's made of cheese
[42:40]
Yeah, well, you know like I like to call it a steak burger but that just classes it up
[42:45]
Yeah, it's like a big Friday on top of the whole thing
[42:51]
Rings the national sandwich of Uruguay and some guanciale
[42:56]
unsmoked bacon
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comes from the hogs jowl
[43:00]
Wow, very specific. Yeah, it's delicious
[43:03]
Well, so that my guys
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Sandwich I think the recipe should go up on the website
[43:15]
Let's make it a
[43:17]
transcribe that
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Yeah, what movie would you name that sandwich after in our flophouse cookbook would it be the law-abiding sandwich? Yes
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The thing about that sandwich is that uh
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It you know kind of turns everything on its ear everything that like you've been come to believe
[43:35]
Come to believe about this world while you kind of pokes holes and all the hypocrisy of it all
[43:40]
It just takes 10 years though everything everything you used to thought a sandwich was used to thought
[43:47]
The sandwich was it's cool
[43:50]
It's been a while since you've done a lot of improv, right?
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Okay
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Letters were there there were we answered the first one?
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I will have those for us the next time
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Anything else in this podcast we what we do now to close things out and to not seem like we're jerks is
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we talk
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Everyone's looking around because I have my phone is ringing off in the distance and Halloween Halloween theme is mine
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So I thought Michael Myers was coming to kill. I was very distressed trying to find the DVD player
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So I could turn off that shitty movie. Okay
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Wow, okay
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Now we talked about movies that we saw recently
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or not so recently if we haven't seen anything recently that we liked and would recommend that you watch perhaps in lieu of
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law-abiding citizen
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Well, I'm gonna go first guys
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Two nights ago. I went to see the midnight showing of Iron Man 2 what?
[44:52]
Midnight showing I know he just couldn't wait. Yeah, I couldn't wait. I had to see what was gonna happen and
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Then I had to leave after about 30 minutes because my girlfriend got sick, but the first 30 minutes were really good
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I really enjoyed it. So I recommend the first 30 minutes of Iron Man 2 and you Raymond
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Leaving because your girlfriend gets sick. Absolutely
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Because well, well, she would appreciate it. Yeah, she'd appreciate you're a really nice guy if you don't go
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I
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Kind of wanted to see how whiplash was gonna fight Iron Man. Yeah. Well, that was the thing
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And it like the first 30 minutes. They asked a lot of questions and I'm looking forward to see the answers, you know
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You're a real sweetheart spirit that we learned America's sweetheart. Mm-hmm. I want to recommend a movie
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I watched called road games. Did you see all of it? I saw all of it
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I first heard about it because it was no your wife got sick about 30 minutes. Yes. I was like shut up
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And just road games but
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The road games are in road games. Okay, I I watched on DVD
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It's I saw I heard about this movie first because it was in that movie not quite Hollywood about
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Exploitation. Yes
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the recent documentary
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yeah about
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Australian exploitation, but uh, it
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It stars Stacy Keach who I always have enjoyed star of the ninth configuration
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Yeah, and it has a very young Jamie Lee Curtis in it. Ah star of blue steel. Uh-huh, and
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It's very true lies
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It's she in that
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Yeah, it's a small part. Yeah, it's very
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Overtly a like a Hitchcock
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Not not a pastiche, but it's very influenced by Hitchcock the the movie is like about a long-haul truck driver
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who has a
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Refrigerated truck full of meat and there's a killer out there
[46:53]
Who's been killing hitchhikers and over the course of driving the truck?
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It's sort of a rear window situation where he can like
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See into people's cars and there are people that he keeps passing and it's like midnight meat truck. Mm-hmm
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and he becomes convinced that one of the people that he sees is the killer and
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It's just a lot of fun
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I mean, I think that the late 70s early 80s were kind of like the last gasp of like really good fun
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Just solid thrillers like before everything got stupid and and twist oriented. This is a
[47:29]
Very carefully constructed suspense and the guy directed this
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You know big Hitchcock fan
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Like I said went on to direct psycho 2 which is a a film that did not need to happen
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But if it had to happen you
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Psycho 2 was a much better like sequel than you would sort of expect. So it's really better than psycho 3
[47:47]
Yeah, but I mean, how's the twist at the end of road?
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No twist
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But there's a dingo and in the in the movie the guy has a dingo
[47:58]
Drive
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Really much of a twist. No, I'm just saying it's fun. There's a bingo in it. Okay
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This is a movie I may have recommended on the show before but maybe I have I don't think I have
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I haven't had a lot of time to see a lot of movies and the one I'm watching
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I've seen three movies in a row now that I didn't particularly care for
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And I can tell you what they are
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Sure, why not bag on some other movies while we're at it born on the 4th of July
[48:27]
It was Matt not very good the cheap detective, which I thought was Matt. Mm-hmm
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that's that's the that was the follow-up to murder by death and right now I'm nearing the end of Munchausen the
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1943 I think it is
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Nazi film about Baron Munchausen where there's nothing really Nazi in it
[48:45]
They wanted to make like a Technicolor big-budget fantasy film to compete with the other ones being made around that time like Wizard of Oz and I
[48:52]
guess
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Thief of Baghdad and things like that. Nazi kids need entertainment, too. And it is so
[48:59]
Like the dirt they are so worried about the details of the time period making sure everyone knows
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What's going on all the time and all the characters are jerks. So it's not that great
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but
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there is there is
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topless women in it, which is strange, huh, right for a fantasy film from the 1940s, but uh
[49:16]
a movie that I watched rewatched recently
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To show it to my fiance when she wasn't feeling so well and get her mind off things was this movie called dames
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Which I don't have to talk about which is a Busby Berkeley film from the 30s
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That's one of his less heralded ones
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But I enjoy it more than 42nd Street and or many of his others
[49:36]
About and it's the same basic thing about like these people want to put on a show they need money
[49:42]
This the parents are disapproved of this girl's wanting to be on the stage
[49:47]
Blah blah blah, but it's really goofy. Like everything about it is really goofy and silly and as
[49:53]
Ludicrous as possible the big names in it aside from Dick Powell and Ruby Keillor
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Zazu pits
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Guy Kibbe, Hugh Herbert, big names.
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Household names.
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Oh, yeah.
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But kind of the cream of the crop of the supporting players
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that we're at, I guess it was.
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Yeah, I've heard of one out of three
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of those people you mentioned.
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I don't even remember what studio was, MGM or Warner
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Brothers or something.
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But the cream of the crop of the second tier guys.
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And it's really goofy and silly.
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And there are some musical numbers in it
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that, being Busby Brookley numbers, are crazy.
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There's one that I've shown people a number of times
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called The Girl at the Ironing Board,
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where Joan Blondel, who's the other big star in it,
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is a 19th century laundress singing about her crushes
[50:40]
that she has on all the customers of the laundry,
[50:42]
just based on the underwear that they send in,
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that she has to wash.
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And how turned on she is by washing this underwear.
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So this is a movie from 1934, I think.
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And it's a lot of fun.
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Sure.
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All right, so that's three recommendations
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for Back to the Future Part 2.
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So I guess that's it, guys.
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Yeah, it's been good.
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Well, it feels good getting back in the saddle.
[51:06]
We were a little rusty.
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Yeah, you know.
[51:08]
Well, I'm just not very funny, so.
[51:10]
What?
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Yeah, I was waiting for you guys to, you know, thank me.
[51:13]
I refuse to dig the final response.
[51:15]
I was just looking for compliments.
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Thanks, dude.
[51:17]
No, you're really, come on, Stuart.
[51:18]
You're the dude that holds us together.
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Oh, you guys are fucking crazy.
[51:21]
You're the Michelangelo.
[51:22]
Come on, you're the Raphael.
[51:23]
I won't buy the crossbow.
[51:25]
Wolverine, come on.
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Yeah, if anyone has a job for Stuart, write in.
[51:29]
Yeah, weird, yeah.
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Harness the power of the internet, why not?
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I'm a lot like Wolverine.
[51:36]
He's the Wolverine of the group.
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I'm the best at what I do, bub.
[51:39]
And what you do is, is it pretty?
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No, never, or rarely at least.
[51:44]
I'm surprised you've talked about your prowess
[51:46]
so much in public and the size of your penis
[51:49]
that you haven't gone in for pleasuring women who order
[51:52]
pizzas with extra anchovies.
[51:54]
You know, I considered it, but I figured
[51:57]
I'd spend too much time learning how to dance with them
[52:00]
and like helping them kind of solve their various issues.
[52:02]
And now I'm not really into that.
[52:04]
All right.
[52:05]
Well, you could just deliver pizzas then.
[52:07]
Oh, yeah.
[52:08]
To lonely California housewives.
[52:10]
Divorcees.
[52:10]
Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
[52:11]
We'll continue to job counsel Stuart off air,
[52:14]
but for now, I've been Dan McCoy.
[52:16]
I've been Stuart Wellington.
[52:18]
I am Ellie Kalen, now and forever, no beginning or end.
[52:22]
Wow.
[52:22]
Eternal.
[52:24]
Meowt.
[52:25]
Meowt.
[52:26]
Meowt.
[52:27]
Meowt.
[52:28]
Where did you pick that up?
[52:29]
I don't know.
[52:30]
It's, I don't know.
[52:31]
It was this.
[52:34]
And then I inherited singing meow to every song.
[52:37]
Yeah.
[52:38]
Well, it works.
[52:39]
It works, biatch.
[52:41]
Well, you can sing pretty much anything, can't you?
[52:44]
Yeah, I mean, I guess.
[52:46]
Not the, not the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
[52:50]
the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
[52:53]
Not the, not the, uh, meow mix song.
[52:56]
No.
[52:57]
Can't sing meow to that.
Description
0:00 - 0:33 - Introduction and theme0:34 - 2:24 - We waste a few minutes talking about how long it's been since we've invaded your ear-holes.2:25 - 35:39 - We discuss Law Abiding Citizen, the most egregious movie title crime against hyphens since The 40 Year Old Virgin.35:39 - 38:18 - Final judgments38:20 - 39:25 - Station identification39:26 - 44:07 - We attempt to re-create a Flop House Movie Mailbag from memory, and we make fun of Stuart's fragile mental state.44:08 - 52:10- The sad bastards recommend.52:11 - 53:01 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.
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