Ep.#439 - The Avengers (1998), LIVE!

Elliott Kalan

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Dan McCoy

[0:33] On this episode, we discuss the Avengers, live in Oxford, England!

Stuart Wellington

[0:56] Wow!

Dan McCoy

[1:09] Good, you got your cue.

[1:12] Yay!

[1:12] They picked it up.

[1:14] Hello, this is the Flophouse. I'm Dan McCoy.

Elliott Kalan

[1:17] I'm Stuart Wellington.

[1:18] I'm Elliot Kalin. Dan, what do we do on the Flophouse?

Dan McCoy

[1:21] The Flophouse is a podcast where we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it.

[1:25] And we're talking about 1998, the Avengers, not...

Elliott Kalan

[1:30] Dan, I thought the Avengers came out in 2000 and something.

Dan McCoy

[1:34] Elliot, you beautiful fool. You're thinking...

Elliott Kalan

[1:36] This has all my favorite American characters.

[1:39] Captain America, Thor.

[1:42] We took him from the North. He's ours now.

[1:45] Iron Man, a genuine war criminal hero. Thank you.

[1:48] Yep.

[1:49] That's pretty American, actually.

[1:50] Yeah.

[1:51] Black Widow, Russian technically.

[1:54] We'll take her. Sure, why not?

Dan McCoy

[1:55] No, of course, this is the film that was based on the popular British television show, The Avengers.

Elliott Kalan

[2:02] About Captain America, Thor.

Dan McCoy

[2:06] About...

[2:06] Steed? John Steed, is that correct?

[2:09] And Emma Peel?

[2:10] Don't pretend you didn't watch this show when you were younger, Dan.

Elliott Kalan

[2:13] Dan, for the audience who may be listening at home later if we release this,

[2:16] Dan gave a whole presentation about how just totally all over British TV he was as a kid.

[2:21] And now he's like, oh, yeah, I think it's about a guy named John Steed.

[2:24] And he's like a secret agent.

[2:26] In the first season, he had a male sidekick and they were investigating someone's murder.

[2:29] But then in the second season, they took it over a different way.

[2:32] I've never seen it, though. I don't know.

Dan McCoy

[2:33] Well, I mean, this is the funny thing about making a movie, a big blockbuster American movie about the Avengers,

[2:40] because it is not something, I think, widely known on our shores.

[2:47] I did see it a few episodes growing up.

[2:50] It would play on arts and entertainment.

[2:53] Oh, A&E.

[2:54] The basic cables version of PBS before it turned into a place where you watch shitty reality programming.

Elliott Kalan

[3:00] Yeah, they really jettisoned the arts part of arts and entertainment eventually.

[3:04] Yeah.

[3:05] Yep, this is even worse than when they made that Fawlty Towers American remake movie where they were all superheroes again.

Dan McCoy

[3:14] So, yeah, basically my association with it was Diana Rigg looked pretty good in a catsuit.

[3:21] That was my main...

[3:23] Why are you staring at me, Diana?

Stuart Wellington

[3:26] That's all you talked about in the green room.

[3:28] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[3:29] Whenever I'm a little pervy, I just need to look to you for comfort.

[3:32] No, it's cool, dude.

[3:33] Validation that it's okay.

[3:34] I'm in. Yeah, let's do it.

Elliott Kalan

[3:36] So, you're saying this was kind of like when the movie John Carter came out, and the filmmakers were like,

[3:41] people are going to lose their shit when they see a movie of their favorite character, John Carter?

[3:47] The Warlord of Mars?

[3:48] You know, we wouldn't even have American superheroes without John Carter.

[3:51] And the movie came out, and everyone was like, I don't know who that is.

[3:54] I don't know who this 100-year-old character is.

[3:56] And my wife said, it sounds like the kind of movie where George Clooney plays a sad guy.

[4:02] Yeah.

[4:03] Well, should we launch into it?

[4:06] Let's walk through The Avengers 1998.

[4:08] So, we begin with credits over storm clouds and very, almost, they should be ashamed of themselves.

[4:16] Cheap-looking video effects.

[4:18] The titles are kind of like spinning, like they're going down a drain or going up a drain.

[4:24] And this is the first effect a child uses when they are editing on a computer.

[4:30] And then when they turn eight, they go, why am I doing this?

Dan McCoy

[4:32] This is, I shouldn't use this.

[4:33] Honestly, Elliot, I loved these credits because these were the most 1998 credits I have ever seen.

[4:41] And it hit a nostalgia button, and then everything else was sort of downhill from the credits.

[4:45] Yeah, yeah, that's very true.

Stuart Wellington

[4:46] Did you guys, did you guys see this when it came out?

Dan McCoy

[4:48] No.

[4:49] I did, yes.

Stuart Wellington

[4:50] Because it, like, it came out, like, shortly after Men in Black.

[4:54] I felt like it was, like, trying to hit a same tone or an audience as, like, a Men in Black.

Elliott Kalan

[4:59] They were like, you know what people hated in Men in Black?

[5:01] The aliens.

[5:02] Let's take them out.

Dan McCoy

[5:04] I mean, you know, I, yeah, I watched it at the time.

[5:07] I was vaguely familiar with the show.

[5:09] I like the idea of, like, mod sort of spy stuff.

[5:15] Uma Thurman, very beautiful.

[5:17] Ralph Fiennes looks also very beautiful in this movie.

[5:20] Also very beautiful, yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[5:21] So here's my question that I should have done research for before the show, but I didn't think of it until now.

[5:25] When did Austin Powers come out?

[5:27] That's a good question.

[5:28] Because I wonder if they were like...

[5:29] There's no way of knowing.

[5:30] There's no way of knowing.

[5:31] And no one in the audience, look it up.

[5:32] We should never know.

[5:34] He's always been with us, Elliot.

[5:37] If you go back to ancient, ancient cave paintings of Austin Powers.

Stuart Wellington

[5:42] Yeah, baby, they said.

Elliott Kalan

[5:44] It's like in a cave of forgotten memories, Werner Herzog is like,

[5:47] here we see the ancient cave people have used the contours of the cave to adequately express the bulge in the pants of Austin Powers.

[5:56] Mm-hmm.

[5:58] Here they have taken a jutting out of the rock and painted a Union Jack underpants on it.

[6:03] Uh-huh, yeah.

Dan McCoy

[6:04] Yeah, interesting, because it was not a flag that existed at the time, but those, you know...

[6:10] No.

Dan McCoy

[6:10] That was the way they cast the runes and they knew it was coming.

Elliott Kalan

[6:13] So anyway, we're halfway through the opening credits, so let's keep going.

[6:15] Okay.

[6:15] Oh, God.

[6:16] They are very...

[6:18] They're real sub-James Bond credits.

[6:20] There's a lot of silhouettes.

[6:21] There's a lot of silhouettes of umbrellas.

[6:23] And as soon as you see umbrellas in the opening credits, you're like, this movie's going to be awesome.

[6:28] We're introduced to Ralph Fiennes as John Steed, secret agent.

[6:32] It types out 90s style on the screen, John Steed, The Ministry, which is a band, right?

[6:39] Yeah, he plays for Ministry of the Band, right?

[6:40] Yep, yep.

[6:41] Him and Al Jurgensen, yep.

[6:42] Okay.

[6:43] He's classic, classic John Steed.

[6:46] He is the image that most Americans have of an English person.

[6:50] Bowler hat, suit, tie, umbrella.

[6:53] And he's walking through a little country village and everybody in it, the milkman, the cop,

[6:58] the lady with a pram, auto mechanic, they all drop whatever they're doing as soon as they

[7:02] see him and they just fight him.

[7:03] And he has to fight them all.

[7:05] And the fighting is, I would say, sluggish.

Dan McCoy

[7:10] Yeah.

[7:11] Yeah.

[7:12] So, we should address that half an hour was cut from this film pre-release.

Elliott Kalan

[7:20] So...

[7:20] That's a good sign usually, right?

[7:22] Well, that's why much of it makes, much of the plot makes very little sense because they

[7:26] cut a lot out.

[7:26] But that doesn't explain why.

[7:28] Do you think they extended each shot of someone punching or kicking to fill that, the time

[7:32] that was like...

Dan McCoy

[7:32] No, I mention it only to be like, perhaps we can't blame the director for every problem

[7:38] this film has since the producers gutted it.

[7:41] But it is startling how little sense of tension or ability to shoot an action sequence.

[7:50] For a big action movie, this does not have any thrills within it.

[7:55] And part of that's the tone.

[7:56] Part of the tone...

[7:58] I know that the Avengers show was also sort of like very cheeky, like kind of dry...

[8:05] Droll.

[8:05] Very droll.

Elliott Kalan

[8:06] Yeah.

[8:07] Which a droll, for people to know, it's like a droid of a troll.

Dan McCoy

[8:11] Thank you for...

[8:12] Yeah.

[8:13] Yes.

[8:13] We are...

Elliott Kalan

[8:13] If you want a portmanteau explained, just come to me, Elliot Portmanteau Kalen.

Dan McCoy

[8:17] We are in Oxford, the land of dictionaries, so I appreciate that...

[8:20] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[8:20] They don't know...

[8:21] Yeah.

[8:21] That's...

[8:22] I...

[8:22] Actually, I grew up near Portmanteau.

[8:24] I still remember the sound of the fishing boats going out to get the words.

[8:29] But...

Dan McCoy

[8:29] The movie sets a problematic tone from the beginning where it's like...

[8:36] Well, it doesn't seem like Steed cares that much about anything that's happening, so

[8:40] why the fuck should we?

[8:41] You know?

Elliott Kalan

[8:42] That's true.

[8:42] It's...

[8:43] Well, I'm going to blame a little bit of that on the director.

[8:45] Yeah.

[8:45] So it was directed by Jeremiah Chechik.

[8:47] Who I'm not...

[8:48] I didn't know by name, so I looked it up.

[8:49] That I did look up.

[8:50] And he directed a little movie called National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, also known as

[8:54] the first movie I ever saw where I experienced not liking a movie.

[9:00] The first time I ever saw a movie in the theaters and was like...

[9:03] Almost like you have an allergic reaction to something.

[9:05] And you're like, what is...

[9:05] Why is my body rejecting this?

[9:07] I don't understand.

[9:07] Like, I'm not enjoying this movie.

[9:09] Am I using it wrong?

[9:10] What's...

[9:11] Because you normally love Randy Quaid movies.

[9:13] Yeah.

[9:15] He just loves his politics.

[9:18] That's why when...

[9:19] When...

[9:20] In Total Recall, the guy's name is Quaid, and I'm like, when's Randy going to show up?

[9:24] Yeah.

[9:25] So, Ray finds...

[9:26] He's fighting his way through this village very slowly.

[9:27] It turns out it's all training exercise.

[9:29] They're just testing him out as a secret agent.

[9:32] He gives a box of macaroons to the guy who's testing him, which is going to go to his boss,

[9:37] codename Mother.

[9:39] That's right.

[9:39] It's action superstar Jim Broadbent.

[9:44] He's the head of the ministry.

[9:45] Things are about to get topsy and maybe a little turvy.

[9:48] And he tells the prime minister over the telephone...

[9:53] They couldn't get the actual prime minister for the movie.

[9:56] He tells him, the Prospero weather shield is down.

[9:59] Oh, no.

[10:00] The weather shield.

[10:02] And this is presented as if it is a thing that is real that England has.

[10:07] Maybe you do.

[10:08] I don't know what that was.

Dan McCoy

[10:08] And this is also...

[10:09] I mean, I think that this may have meant more to us in the original cut,

[10:14] because it's my understanding that in the original cut we see Uma Thurman,

[10:18] who we will meet soon, working at the Prospero weather shield,

[10:22] just getting out, her husband dying.

[10:24] We don't know in the movie as it exists that she just became widowed.

Elliott Kalan

[10:29] We see Uma Thurman beating up everybody in the Prospero base and shutting it down.

[10:35] But all that's left of that is a couple seconds of security camera footage

[10:38] we see later on.

[10:39] Because when they decided to cut down the movie,

[10:40] they took out one of the action sequences.

[10:44] So then we meet Dr. Emma Peel, Uma Thurman,

[10:47] born and raised in England, right?

[10:49] Yeah, local?

[10:50] No.

[10:51] She's the former head of the Prospero program.

[10:54] And she gets a box of chocolates delivered to her.

[10:57] And when she opens it, there's a note that says, answer the phone.

[11:01] And then the phone starts ringing and she picks it up.

[11:03] And the movie is like, the movie is trying to tell you, this movie is going to be a little quirky.

[11:07] But what it tells me is that there's a lot of unnecessary jobs in the British Secret Service.

Dan McCoy

[11:13] Like...

[11:13] You're adding a step in here that's not necessary, British Secret Service.

Elliott Kalan

[11:17] The phone has a thing that tells you to answer it.

[11:21] Which they use.

[11:22] Because it rings.

[11:23] But anyway...

Stuart Wellington

[11:24] Maybe they cut out a scene where the phone rang and she didn't answer it.

[11:29] Oh.

Elliott Kalan

[11:30] Because she's like, just looking around.

[11:33] She doesn't know what it is.

[11:34] Yeah.

[11:34] She's picking up food in the fridge.

[11:36] Picks up a banana or a croissant.

[11:38] She hits the microwave.

[11:39] Won't stop.

[11:40] Yeah.

[11:41] But we didn't see that scene either.

[11:43] So she is sent to a private men's club.

[11:44] The doorman tries to stop her because no women have been allowed in since the 1760s.

[11:49] She shows she's made of Cerner stuff by walking past him.

[11:53] It's a crack team of security they have at this club.

[11:56] She goes to meet John Steed, who is nude in the sauna reading a newspaper.

[12:01] And it seems this was a test of her as well.

[12:03] We see a little bit of Ralphine's butt.

[12:05] You see a small amount of Ralphine's butt.

Stuart Wellington

[12:08] And this was right after English Patient where you saw a lot of his butt, right?

[12:11] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[12:12] Cool.

[12:12] So this has been our Mr. Skin Corner, if you're interested in Ralphine.

Elliott Kalan

[12:15] And of course, if you missed it, of course, he did full frontal as Robert Moses in Straight

[12:19] Line Crazy on the stage.

[12:23] He didn't really.

[12:24] That would be amazing, though, if Robert Moses is like, well, Governor Al Smith, this is

[12:29] Straight Line Crazy and just pulls his penis out.

[12:32] Please don't tell Roman Mars, my co-host on the Power Broker podcast, that I said that.

[12:37] Anyway.

[12:38] So they give their philosophies.

[12:41] He's all about the rules.

[12:42] She says the rules are made to be broken.

[12:44] This will come into play.

[12:46] Never.

[12:48] And they're kind of smilingly, smugly not liking each other.

[12:51] It's your classic African queen scenario.

[12:54] They don't like each other, but they're going to fall in love.

[12:57] But I know in the show they didn't fall in love, but this is a movie.

Dan McCoy

[12:59] Even though she has just recently widowed, which I discovered.

Elliott Kalan

[13:03] Yeah, she's on the rebound.

Dan McCoy

[13:06] So she's going to be brought into the agency.

[13:10] The ministry.

[13:11] Okay.

[13:13] Sure.

[13:14] The Avengers thing that they do.

[13:15] It's what it's called.

[13:17] But there's a...

[13:17] So normally, narratively, there's a reason you might have a character come in from the outside.

[13:23] It's either so you can show them sort of being trained and learning the ropes and through that point of view character, you learn the ropes.

[13:33] Yeah.

[13:33] Or...

[13:33] Ropes.

[13:35] Or it's sort of a mismatch where it's like, okay, well, Steed has the spy skills, but she's going to bring something else to the table.

[13:43] But instead, this movie does a thing where it's like, oh, Uma Thurman's character is immediately good at all the same things and just seems like another spy.

[13:52] Yeah.

[13:53] So I don't know why it happened.

Elliott Kalan

[13:55] Well, there's...

[13:56] I'll tell you why it happened, Dan.

[13:58] Because they go to the ministry.

[13:59] They talk to Mother, Jim Broadbent.

[14:01] Someone blew up the lab for the Prospero Weather Shield.

[14:03] Security footage shows it's Emma Peel who's the culprit.

[14:07] She's like, but that's not me.

[14:09] I didn't do that.

[14:09] And the only...

[14:10] It says it in the British legal system.

[14:13] The only way to try someone for a crime like this is to let them loose so they can solve the crime themselves.

[14:20] So she's going to team up with John Steed.

[14:22] Take it up with whoever wrote that law book everyone uses in the 19th century.

[14:27] I don't remember.

[14:28] Anyway, so she has to work with John Steed.

[14:31] And Mother's second in command, a woman named Father, she's like, I think Emma Peel may have a split personality or want revenge for the death of her husband who was a spy for us.

[14:40] This is not really brought up again.

[14:41] I mean, the split personality ideas, but her dead husband does not.

Stuart Wellington

[14:44] And Father's played by Fiona Shaw.

[14:47] Yes, that's right.

[14:47] So we got some...

[14:49] It's classy.

[14:49] It's a lot of big names.

[14:50] Yeah, heavy actors.

Elliott Kalan

[14:51] I mean, it's got a great cast.

[14:52] Yeah, it's a fantastic cast.

[14:54] So, but this is one...

[14:55] This is the kind of movie where information is brought up and the characters are like, good, established.

[15:00] We don't have to deal with that anymore.

[15:02] Internately, information is not brought up and the characters pretend that we know what they're talking about.

[15:08] So, they fence for a while, Emma Peel and John Steed, and they talk about research and her background.

[15:16] It's kind of weirdly airless.

[15:17] It turns out they're at John Steed's tailors.

[15:19] He orders a set of boots for her.

[15:21] This will come in important later on.

[15:23] That's good screenwriting.

Stuart Wellington

[15:24] And how...

[15:25] I feel like every scene is either an exposition delivery system or a pun delivery system.

[15:31] Yes.

[15:31] That's exclusively the entire movie.

Elliott Kalan

[15:33] I was going to ask you, how would you describe their banter?

[15:35] Because it's always banter, the banter of two people who hate each other and are pretending that they get along.

[15:41] That's how it felt to me.

[15:41] But how does it feel to you?

Dan McCoy

[15:42] It's banter that doesn't actually have any jokes in it.

[15:46] Yeah.

[15:47] It's just sort of like, we're going to say this to each other in an arch tone, and that's how you know we're being witty.

Elliott Kalan

[15:56] I don't know about you, but...

[15:57] Go to the expert.

[15:58] Yeah.

[15:59] Yeah.

[16:00] I don't know about you, but I could go for a bit of lunch.

[16:02] I could also go for lunch.

[16:05] And it's like, all right, there's no...

[16:07] Okay.

[16:08] Later on, they're what I would call half entendres.

[16:10] They're like not quite even single entendres.

[16:13] But anyway, they leave for the country.

Stuart Wellington

[16:15] They're watched by the most sinister man in England, Eddie Izzard.

Elliott Kalan

[16:19] And Eddie Izzard, who is, you know, is playing a bad guy in this.

[16:22] So they drive to the country.

[16:23] Of course, it's England, so John Steed's car makes tea.

[16:26] That's an American's idea of what English things are.

[16:29] And they're going to see Sir August de Winter, a fanatical meteorologist.

[16:34] And the choir...

[16:35] The choir.

[16:36] The chair.

[16:36] I misread my note here.

[16:38] He's the chair of a group called Brawley, which is a private science weather project.

[16:43] And he is so obviously the villain.

[16:45] And the characters don't seem to know that for half of the scene.

[16:48] And then they seem to pick it up, never talk about it, and just assume from that point on that he's the villain.

[16:53] And it does feel like they cut 25 minutes out of the movie.

[16:56] No, no.

Dan McCoy

[16:57] There's definitely no scene in which they're like, you know that guy who seems like a villain.

[17:01] We have the proof that he's a villain.

[17:03] They just skip over from suspicion to like, okay, this is the bad guy.

[17:08] But we're also just going to kind of dick around for a while and not take him down.

Elliott Kalan

[17:12] So it's played by Sean Connery, who has a house full of...

[17:15] He's a rich weather obsessive with a house full of traps.

[17:18] So like, maybe he's the bad guy who shut down the weather system.

[17:21] And as we'll find out later in the movie, he is related to a private weather service that creates weather that you can order to bespoke weather.

[17:30] And it's like, why'd you bother sending secret agents on this one?

[17:34] Like, there's a problem with weather in the country.

[17:37] Maybe it's the people who can make their own weather.

Stuart Wellington

[17:39] Well, and they go into his house and it's just filled with snow globes.

[17:42] So he's either like a supervillain or like, I don't know, like my weird cousin.

Elliott Kalan

[17:49] So, yeah.

[17:50] So Emma Peel, she meets Sean Connery.

[17:52] He first grabs her by the throat.

[17:55] A certain...

[17:55] Seems like a villainous thing to do.

[17:57] But then he admires her interest in weather and they talk about weather and monsoons.

[18:01] They almost make a double entendre about the phrase being wet, but they do not go that far.

[18:07] And she's like, well, I heard the military cut the funding for your weather technology.

[18:12] And he's like, nothing's impossible.

[18:13] They just didn't have the guts to do it.

[18:15] But I'll do it.

[18:15] I'm doing it right now.

[18:17] And she's like, well, I'll see you later.

[18:18] And meanwhile, John Steed is walking around and there's super winds blowing him around.

[18:24] And anyway.

[18:25] And De Winter knows that Steed is out there.

[18:28] And suddenly it's snowing on Steed.

[18:30] Like all the evidence.

[18:31] They gave them all the clues, Mr. Policeman.

[18:33] Like I don't know.

[18:33] And the evil Emma Peel shows up in a dog sled, shoots John Steed.

[18:39] He wakes up in regular Emma Peel's home.

[18:42] She denies that she shot him.

[18:43] He reveals he's wearing a bulletproof waistcoat.

[18:45] And they banter for a while.

[18:47] And she shows him.

Dan McCoy

[18:48] Yeah.

[18:48] He also is like pretty cool with it.

[18:52] Like I feel like he half doesn't believe like, oh, it wasn't her.

[18:56] But he's also like, yeah, I guess I get shot by women all the time.

[19:01] It's cool.

[19:01] You know, whatever.

Elliott Kalan

[19:02] She stole a snow globe made by this weather company.

[19:06] It's called Wonderland Weather.

[19:07] So they go there.

[19:08] And literally the woman there is just like, yeah, we make our own weather and we sell weather.

[19:11] So if you want weather, it's the place to go.

[19:13] You know, we do it.

[19:14] And they're like, we are recommended by August De Winter.

[19:16] And she's like, yeah, sure.

[19:17] Two secret agents.

[19:19] They mentioned my evil boss.

[19:20] Like, cool.

[19:20] I'll just show you the goods, what we have, you know.

[19:23] I don't know who this actress is who plays this part.

[19:26] But she was fine.

[19:29] So meanwhile, this is when the movie starts.

[19:31] Wait, sorry.

[19:32] Who, I, I'll admit that I don't.

[19:34] Who plays the Wonderland Weather receptionist.

[19:37] Oh, yes.

[19:37] Okay, okay.

[19:38] It seemed like a long, a long role that was supposed to have a joke at the end of it and then doesn't.

[19:42] And she just, they're like, we're going to browse a little.

[19:45] And she's like, okay.

[19:46] And then just walks out of the scene.

[19:47] And it's like, oh, there's no button or anything on the end of this scene, huh?

[19:50] You know, it's...

Dan McCoy

[19:51] I was asking because I couldn't quite hear.

[19:52] But like, I know that the woman who shows up later on in the street with the gun was a part that was offered to Diana Rigg.

[20:01] And she was like, no, thank you.

[20:02] I won't be doing that.

Elliott Kalan

[20:03] It's like, I don't do this anymore.

[20:05] I'm going to wait until Game of Thrones comes on TV so I can be in that.

[20:09] So this is when the movie starts getting, stops being cutesy and starts being quirky.

[20:15] Where August De Winter, he's holding a meeting with all of his other council members.

[20:19] But they can't know each other's identities.

[20:21] So they're all wearing enormous plush teddy bear costumes.

[20:25] And this I know...

[20:27] I was into it.

Dan McCoy

[20:29] This is a thing that I do know is from an episode of the series, as is the MC Escher stairs later on.

[20:36] There are these nods to the series.

[20:38] But what's interesting about them is like, while I can't recall whether they make sense in the series,

[20:45] they sure as shit don't make sense here.

[20:47] They're just thrown in.

[20:49] And I can imagine someone who has never seen an episode of the Avengers being like,

[20:54] what the fuck, why...

[20:54] Did you see that he was just wearing a bear costume?

Elliott Kalan

[20:57] I remember reading a review of this movie and it came out and they're like,

[21:00] for no reason at all, why are they meeting in teddy bear costumes?

Stuart Wellington

[21:03] And this was received well by critics of the day.

[21:06] Yeah, this is a huge hit.

Elliott Kalan

[21:07] Yeah, it won all the major critics of the world.

[21:09] Palm door, yeah.

[21:10] Yeah, yeah, best picture.

[21:11] Yeah, sure, sure.

[21:12] So, I mean, it was nominated for a Razzie for worst picture.

[21:16] But it lost.

[21:16] Yeah, I don't care about that.

[21:17] It lost to Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, which, say what you will about the unnecessariness of that movie,

[21:23] it's basically Psycho.

[21:24] It's like, don't give it a Razzie.

[21:25] Come on, what are you doing?

[21:26] Anyway, this is much worse than that.

[21:27] So, anyway, he goes, I understand this is tough.

[21:30] We're all super villains.

[21:30] If anyone doesn't have the stomach for it, tell me now, resign, I'll give you a million dollars.

[21:34] And two teddy bears raise their hands and he throws poison darts into them and kills them both.

[21:40] At that point, I would just quietly leave the organization.

[21:44] And so they're at Wonderland.

[21:48] Steed and Peel walk into the boardroom and find the dead teddy bear bodies.

[21:52] The movie is handing them the clues.

[21:56] And they unmask one of them.

[21:57] Uh-oh, one of the dead ones was one of the Prospero scientists.

[22:00] They chase after some bears.

[22:02] They split up.

[22:02] There's bears everywhere.

[22:04] John Steed fights Eddie Izzard and some other guys.

[22:06] He uses his umbrella because he's the penguin or something.

[22:09] And Eddie Izzard drives off, but not before first dropping a map to the Brawley secret headquarters.

[22:15] Because, again, the movie is not since seven, where the movie was like, these guys are just screwing it up.

[22:22] Bad guy, walk into the room and announce yourself to them.

[22:26] Like, David Fincher's off camera being like, one of these idiots is going to figure out it's Kevin Spacey.

[22:30] Just like, Kevin Spacey, just show up, just go.

Stuart Wellington

[22:31] Like, David Fincher's the DM and he's like, my players aren't figuring out my mystery.

[22:36] I'm just going to have Strahd walk in here and they'll deal with him.

Elliott Kalan

[22:39] It reminds me, there was a game that you ran us through once.

[22:42] And afterwards, you were like, I set up this clue.

[22:45] If you went over here, I set up this clue.

[22:46] Our characters were just bumbling around doing nothing.

Stuart Wellington

[22:50] And I'm sure I've never sounded more disappointed in my friends.

[22:54] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[22:55] So, anyway, they're on the roof.

[22:59] Emma Peel is attacked and stalked.

[23:00] She's stalked and attacked by one of the bears.

[23:02] The head comes off.

[23:02] It's the other Emma Peel.

[23:04] And John Steed arrives.

[23:05] There are two Emma Peels.

[23:06] And that second, the evil Emma Peel, runs away by jumping off the top of a building.

[23:11] And you know that she survived because they don't cut to her feeding the ground.

Dan McCoy

[23:15] She just jumps into the air.

[23:16] But what if they did?

[23:17] What a beautiful moment it would have been.

Elliott Kalan

[23:19] If they did, it really would have thrown the movie a loop, you know.

[23:21] Instead, she jumps off the building and we cut to the next scene.

[23:24] So, did the characters check?

[23:25] I don't know.

Stuart Wellington

[23:26] Now, I read somewhere that the evil Emma Peel, I guess in the movie, is a clone.

[23:31] But originally in the screenplay, she was a robot?

Elliott Kalan

[23:34] Well, at one point she was a robot.

[23:36] But in the movie, she is supposed to be a clone.

[23:38] But the scene explaining that, again, was cut.

[23:41] So, there's a brief mention of cloning at one point in the movie.

[23:45] And you're just...

[23:45] I mean, the movie is making it easier for the heroes of the movie to solve the mystery

[23:49] than it is making it for the audience to understand the story.

[23:52] Yeah.

[23:53] They don't understand.

[23:53] It's like you wanted the movie makers to be like, John Steed and Emma Peel are not

[23:56] the audience for this movie.

[23:57] Like, anyway.

[23:59] They, mother and father are arguing.

[24:02] And John Steed explains what's going on.

[24:04] And it turns out, the World Council of Ministers is about to meet in London on the day of the

[24:10] patron saint of weather.

[24:14] Which is a real Batman thing to do.

[24:18] And August De Winter, he's testing out some kind of lightning gun.

Stuart Wellington

[24:22] Wait, wait, wait.

[24:23] August De Winter?

[24:25] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[24:26] It's a clever reference to Rebecca.

[24:29] Yes.

[24:30] Just one of many Easter eggs to the work of Daphne DeMoye that's riddled throughout the Avengers.

[24:35] If you'll notice, there was a bird in one scene.

[24:39] And that night...

Dan McCoy

[24:41] And audiences didn't look now at the Avengers.

Elliott Kalan

[24:46] So, that night, Emma Peel, she explains some made-up science stuff as they play chess to John Steed.

[24:51] And there's more banter.

[24:53] And she's found an area of England that has a cluster of microclimates.

[24:57] Could that be where the bad guys are?

[24:59] Let's check the map the bad guys dropped.

[25:03] Meanwhile, father is playing croquet with August De Winter.

[25:06] She's in cahoots with him.

[25:08] Oh, no.

[25:09] What's going to happen?

[25:10] Meanwhile, Eddie Izzard's using a remote control to pilot a swarm of robot bees to attack John Steed at Emma Peel's car.

[25:18] I have to admit that the jump between the croquet game to the bee scene is so abrupt.

[25:23] And I was like, I don't remember where the characters are going.

[25:26] I don't know if these bees are something that we're supposed to be surprised by or not.

[25:29] And the bees look tiny until one of them smashes into the car.

[25:31] It's huge.

[25:32] It's enormous.

[25:33] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[25:34] But I think Eddie Izzard seems to really be enjoying herself in the scene.

Dan McCoy

[25:41] The bee scene, I've got to give the movie at least this.

[25:44] It was the one time the movie seemed to remember that the heroes should look worried that they're being threatened.

[25:50] Yeah.

[25:50] Like, briefly, they're like, oh, shit, they're trying to kill us.

Elliott Kalan

[25:53] Yeah.

[25:54] The bees are shooting guns at them.

[25:55] And then John Steed's shooting a machine gun at them.

[25:58] And there's all sorts of crazy car chases.

[26:01] It's just action extraordinaire.

[26:03] And they run the bad guys off the road.

[26:07] And John Steed and the people are stopped by an older woman, a kind of proper lady in the road.

[26:12] That's Alice, another spy.

[26:14] She's got a huge machine gun.

[26:15] And she shoots one thug and then scares off another.

[26:18] And she's like, mother and father aren't getting along right now.

[26:22] And I'm worried about what's happening.

[26:24] I'm going to help you.

[26:25] And she is the most competent action hero in the entire movie.

[26:28] She is so very clearly the hero of the movie who just walks in.

[26:32] And she's like, let's go to Augusta Winter's house.

[26:34] I know a back door that we can sneak in through in the hedge maze.

[26:37] And they go in the hedge maze and they go, let's split up.

[26:39] She was showing you how to get in.

[26:42] Why are you splitting up?

[26:44] It doesn't make any sense.

Stuart Wellington

[26:45] Also, when the bad guys have a double of one of them, you shouldn't split up.

Elliott Kalan

[26:50] That's another very good point.

[26:52] They get into different traps.

[26:54] Augusta Winter shows up and fights John Steed.

[26:56] It's an umbrella versus a walking stick.

[26:59] And he flips John Steed's umbrella into the air and then disappears.

[27:02] And then evil Emma Peel pops out and punches him.

[27:05] And good Emma Peel, I guess.

[27:07] She's strapped into like, it's some kind of weird machine.

[27:10] I assumed it was a brainwashing machine just based on other movies where people are strapped into things.

[27:16] It's not really explained.

[27:17] But Augusta Winter is like, join me.

[27:19] You won't remember any of this when you wake up.

[27:21] But join me and do some stuff.

[27:22] And then he dances with her until she faints or falls into a trance.

[27:27] He's about to kiss her.

[27:28] Not cool.

[27:29] And then the doorbell interrupts him.

[27:31] And this is the most unbelievable part of the movie.

[27:33] This movie with giant robot bees and a weather machine.

[27:36] Augusta Winter answers his own door.

[27:40] He's got a huge manor house.

[27:42] He's rich.

[27:42] He has weather machines.

[27:44] He doesn't have a guy who answers the door for him?

Dan McCoy

[27:46] He's like, oh, I'm in the middle of doing some really evil shit.

[27:49] I've got to do this evil stuff.

Elliott Kalan

[27:50] Like, oh, man, the door.

[27:52] And now to press the button that will blow up all of England.

[27:56] Ding dong.

[27:56] Oh.

[27:58] I'll see who that is.

[27:59] Excuse me.

[28:00] You know, I'm going door to door telling people about this new solar panel installation plan.

[28:04] You know, you can get money from the government to put solar panels on your house.

[28:07] I'm a weather baron.

[28:08] I have solar panels.

[28:09] Okay.

[28:10] Yeah.

[28:10] Well, cool.

[28:10] Cool.

[28:11] Anyway, who's your cable provider?

[28:13] Oh, this is making me so.

[28:14] Wow, doing double duty.

Stuart Wellington

[28:16] I feel like that's an easy sell to a guy who can control the weather is solar panels.

[28:21] Yes.

[28:21] Yeah, exactly.

[28:21] That's true.

[28:22] Unlimited power.

[28:23] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[28:23] Okay, come in.

[28:24] Come in.

[28:24] Tell me all about it.

[28:25] I'll get back to my evil later.

[28:26] Yeah, exactly.

[28:28] So Alice is at the door.

[28:31] She's pretending to sell church raffle tickets.

[28:33] Then she just pulls a gun out and says, where's Emma Peel?

[28:36] Like, way to blow cover, you know.

[28:38] And Emma Peel walks around very woozy and she's wandering through the bowels of the house and

[28:43] she's trapped in these, like, MC Escher-esque loop stairs and rooms.

[28:46] This scene is great.

[28:48] This, where she's, I'm a sucker for any scene where someone runs out of a room and then by

[28:53] some dimensional magic ends up back in the same room.

[28:55] I go, that's one of my favorite creepy things.

Dan McCoy

[28:58] Yeah.

[28:58] Although, apparently, the way to solve this, you know, physics bending room is just to smash

[29:03] the window and go out that way.

[29:04] Yes.

Elliott Kalan

[29:05] But it's, the window has been disguised as a mirror.

[29:08] Oh.

[29:09] So unless she's Angus Scrimm from the Phantasm movies, she doesn't know to smash through

[29:14] a mirror.

Dan McCoy

[29:14] Yeah, she doesn't look at that and think of it as an exit.

[29:16] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[29:17] She's not, though.

[29:18] That's just to be clear.

[29:19] Yes, yes.

[29:19] In case anyone's wondering, she's not Angus Scrimm from the Phantasm movies.

[29:22] At no point does she tell anyone that they play a good Game Boy.

[29:25] In fact, quite the opposite.

[29:26] She tells John Steed he is not good at chess.

[29:28] Oh, interesting.

[29:29] She's like the anti-Angus Scrimm.

[29:30] I miss that little Easter egg.

Dan McCoy

[29:32] That's a little Phantasm Easter egg.

Elliott Kalan

[29:35] Yeah, Don Cascarelli was on the set and they were like, hey, Don, throw in a line.

[29:38] You're not good at games, boy.

[29:40] So she hears John Steed tapping on a window with his umbrella, something you would not

[29:46] do unless you needed to notify someone on the other side that it's a window.

[29:49] And she hurls, she jumps through the mirror and it leads outside, but she is knocked out.

[29:53] And then Eddie Izzard knocks out Alice.

[29:55] Emma Peel awakes in John Steed's flat.

[29:58] Fair is fair.

[29:59] If one character wakes up after being knocked out in one flat, it must happen the other way.

[30:03] That's called, what, like symmetry.

[30:07] You know, that's narrative symmetry.

[30:08] And he's like, here are the boots I ordered for you from my tailors.

[30:12] And he flirt banters with her as he takes her boots off and puts the boots back on.

[30:16] Something that in another movie might be sexy.

[30:19] Yeah.

[30:20] Yeah, I agree.

[30:21] But here he just seems like a boot salesman.

[30:25] Which, I don't want to shame anybody.

[30:27] Maybe you think that's sexy.

[30:28] That's okay.

[30:29] Yeah, yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[30:29] I love married with children.

[30:31] That's what he does, right?

Elliott Kalan

[30:31] Yeah.

[30:32] Yeah, for anyone with a married with children fetish.

[30:34] Yeah.

[30:35] Wait, wait, wait.

Stuart Wellington

[30:37] I remember when I was, I went to school in Germany in like 2000, 2001.

[30:42] And for some reason, like married with children merch was so fucking popular.

[30:47] Like watching German dudes walk around wearing Polk High football jerseys.

[30:52] It was so funny to me.

[30:54] Because it feels like something that you would have no, I don't know, it feels like something

[30:57] you wouldn't have context with if you're in, like a German person.

Elliott Kalan

[31:01] Yeah, they would be like, they'd be like, why is he not trying hard at his job?

[31:05] I don't understand.

[31:07] He seems to not understand that if he is a shoe salesman, that is the role he has been

[31:12] fitted for by the state.

Dan McCoy

[31:13] So you posit that they are studying it to try and figure out what is wrong with this man

[31:19] and how they can avoid it.

Elliott Kalan

[31:20] It's a brilliant character study of a twisted mind.

[31:24] A man who just refuses to, he refuses to accept what reality is telling him, which is that

[31:31] he should be trying harder to sell shoes.

[31:35] Anyway, married mid-children, is it married mid-kinder?

[31:39] Married mid-kinder.

[31:40] We have no German word for married, so it's called married mid-kinder.

[31:45] The only true marriage is between a human soul and the spirit of destiny.

[31:50] I took two semesters of German in college, I know what it's all about, yeah, sure.

[31:56] So they're about to kiss, but nobody gets to kiss Uma Thurman in this movie right away,

[32:03] because they're about to kiss one father and mother, and some agents burst in and arrest

[32:07] Emma Peel.

[32:08] They've done the thing that they probably should have done earlier on.

[32:11] Meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering over London, and they're not metaphorical storm clouds.

[32:16] They're real storm clouds.

[32:17] To quote William Joel, a storm front is coming.

Dan McCoy

[32:23] That plays better in New York.

Elliott Kalan

[32:25] America's greatest poet.

[32:26] Yeah.

[32:27] I mean, it's either him or, what, uh, Mariah Carey?

[32:35] Sure.

[32:36] So, as storm clouds gather, John Steady goes to the Ministry Archives,

[32:41] which is staffed by an invisible man.

Dan McCoy

[32:45] Now, this is Patrick McNeigh's voice, so that's...

Elliott Kalan

[32:47] Oh, okay, Patrick McNeigh, the original John Steady.

Dan McCoy

[32:50] This is a little cameo.

Elliott Kalan

[32:51] He said, you can have my voice, but I will not show my face in this movie.

Dan McCoy

[32:55] He was very old.

[32:56] I think he was in his 90s, so that also probably...

Stuart Wellington

[32:59] He could have still played the main character.

[33:02] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[33:03] And so, we've got to bring you out of retirement, John Steady.

[33:06] I'm in my 90s.

[33:08] We'll do it anyway.

[33:10] Yeah.

[33:10] I mean, that would explain the sluggishness of the action scenes.

[33:12] That's what I'm saying.

[33:13] They were choreographed for a man in his 90s, yeah.

[33:15] And Steady's like, I found this evil map that the bad guys dropped.

[33:19] Can you tell me about it?

[33:20] And the invisible man's like, yeah, I have all the information that you need.

[33:23] It was on hand in the archives the whole time.

[33:25] I will...

[33:26] And this is one of those things, too, where it's like,

[33:27] if you're gonna...

[33:28] If it's the kind of movie where someone will casually show up as invisible movie,

[33:32] you can't just start doing that two-thirds of the way through.

[33:35] You gotta prepare me for that kind of thing.

[33:37] So, meanwhile, Emma Peel, she's in a padded room talking to Father.

[33:41] She is losing her sanity.

[33:42] She's acting frantic.

[33:43] She's not making any sense.

[33:44] She has stopped making sense, just like that movie told her to.

[33:47] And Father, with evil Emma Peel, they spray knockout gas at good Emma Peel.

[33:52] Oh, no.

[33:53] Why are they doing this?

[33:54] It doesn't help their plan at all.

[33:56] What is this?

[33:57] Speed, too?

[33:59] Why would you bring the woman who can stop you,

[34:02] whose romantic interest is the man who can stop you with you

[34:04] when you're doing your evil thing?

[34:06] Leave her in the padded room in a straitjacket.

[34:08] Anyway, John Steady learns that Augusta Winter used to work for the government.

[34:12] He was kicked out.

[34:13] He's always been close to Father, and she sold him ministry land on an island in London

[34:18] from where he's controlling the weather.

[34:20] This is all information they had the whole time.

[34:23] Yeah.

[34:25] If they had ended the movie with that guy from the beginning being like,

[34:28] well, you passed the test, Agent Steed,

[34:30] I would have been like, yeah, makes sense, sure.

Dan McCoy

[34:32] Is this also sort of around the time that the bad guy just reveals himself

[34:37] by coming in and threatening everyone?

Elliott Kalan

[34:39] Yes.

[34:39] That the Council of Ministers is there in an emergency session.

[34:41] They're addressing the disaster weather that is sweeping the globe,

[34:44] a real problem we are now dealing with,

[34:47] that they are not taking as seriously as the fake weather in the movie.

[34:50] And Augusta Winter enters his Sean Connery.

[34:53] You know he's going to be in a kilt and kind of Scottish garb.

[34:55] Yeah.

[34:55] He announces.

Stuart Wellington

[34:56] Yeah, he's really cheesing it up, right?

[34:59] He is.

[34:59] He's really enjoying himself here.

Elliott Kalan

[35:00] Yeah, he is.

[35:01] He announces he has control of the weather of the world.

[35:03] He plans to destroy London, the city he is currently in, as a start.

[35:08] Then he will hold the world for ransom to his deadly weather.

[35:11] He gives them until midnight.

[35:13] And he is asking for 10% of GNP annually.

[35:17] That's a lot of money.

Dan McCoy

[35:18] This is one of these scenes in a movie like this.

[35:20] I mean, I understand that the thought is, okay, like, no matter what,

[35:24] he's got this weather-controlling device.

[35:26] Like, he's got minions, you know, like, there's...

[35:30] But he's...

[35:31] Not that many.

[35:32] He doesn't even want to open his doors and shit.

Elliott Kalan

[35:34] Yeah.

[35:34] He's in this room...

[35:35] Imagine if he had some minions from Despicable Me run around his house,

[35:37] open the doors.

Dan McCoy

[35:38] But they're just saying banana a lot, so they're not...

[35:40] They say banana, yes, Joe.

[35:41] ...really a threat.

[35:42] Like, he walks into this room filled with people,

[35:44] and no one's just like, get him!

[35:47] You know?

[35:48] He's wearing a kilt.

[35:49] Kick him in the nuts!

[35:51] He doesn't even have the protection of pants on his lower legs.

Elliott Kalan

[35:55] Yeah, I just...

[35:55] That's a good point, Dan.

[35:56] But you should remember, this is Sean Connery.

[35:58] People are scared of him.

[35:59] It's true.

[35:59] They saw Zardoz.

[36:01] They know what he's capable of.

[36:03] Yeah.

[36:03] And that, he was wearing even fewer clothes.

[36:06] Less clothes?

[36:07] I don't speak English.

[36:08] So, anyway.

[36:10] They're in trouble.

[36:11] What are they gonna do?

[36:13] Meanwhile, where were we?

[36:15] Oh, yes.

[36:16] Mother reveals herself as a secret agent, bad guy to father,

[36:20] points a gun at him in the snow,

[36:21] and evil Emma Peel is carrying good Emma Peel,

[36:24] and then father knocks mother over,

[36:26] and mother just ends up lying in the snow.

[36:29] He's just lying there in the snow.

[36:30] And the one funny moment I found in the movie

[36:32] is eventually John Steed runs up,

[36:34] and he's like, you gotta go save Dr. Peel and stop the bad guys.

[36:37] And he goes to help mother get up,

[36:39] and he goes, don't worry about me, I'll be fine.

[36:40] And he just, okay,

[36:41] and runs off leaving mother lying in the snow.

[36:44] And it would have taken him moments

[36:45] to just set him in his chair, at least.

[36:46] Hell yeah.

Dan McCoy

[36:47] Ten seconds more, and then you put the man back.

Elliott Kalan

[36:50] Yeah.

[36:50] That was the funniest joke in it.

[36:51] So John Steed, he finds the padded room they kept him.

[36:54] He's got a computer pocket watch,

[36:56] much like Penny's computer book from Inspector Gadget,

[36:58] and he's tracking something.

[37:00] We will later find out he secretly put a tracking device

[37:03] in the boots he ordered for Emma Peel.

[37:05] Creepy.

[37:05] Creepy behavior.

[37:07] Secret agent stuff.

[37:08] Emma Peel wakes up.

[37:10] She's always,

[37:10] heroes are always waking up to find themselves in places.

[37:12] I'm like, what, did Raymond Chandler write this?

[37:14] What's going on?

[37:15] And she wakes up.

[37:16] She's in a hot air balloon over London

[37:17] with father and bad Emma Peel.

[37:20] Why'd they bring her?

[37:22] And mother points to Steed,

[37:25] and he's like, go to the balloon,

[37:27] go to the balloon, leave me behind.

[37:29] Emma Peel, on her own, disables part of the balloon.

[37:32] It drifts off course.

[37:34] Bad Emma Peel fights good Emma Peel.

[37:36] The balloon, eventually,

[37:37] it crashes through the top of Nelson's column,

[37:39] and then Emma Peel, the good one,

[37:40] falls off of it.

[37:42] Again, the Peels are impervious to falling.

[37:45] Damage.

[37:46] Because she's fine.

[37:47] Nothing bad happens to her.

[37:48] And the balloon crashes into a Wonderland weather sign

[37:50] that was not adequately set up

[37:52] as a thing that was there

[37:53] for them to crash into.

[37:54] It explodes.

[37:56] John Steed, he finds them up here on the ground.

[37:57] She's alive.

[37:58] He was tracking the tag in her boots.

[38:00] They kiss, finally.

[38:01] But John Steed is like,

[38:02] well, that kiss was just to test your identity.

[38:05] I can't admit that I have emotions in any way.

[38:07] And anyway,

[38:09] the mother, now back and on the phone again,

[38:12] assures the Prime Minister his agents are on the weather case.

[38:15] This scene is useless.

[38:16] If you're going to cut anything,

[38:17] cut the scene where Mother is informing

[38:18] the Prime Minister of something we know already.

[38:23] John Steed and Emma Peel,

[38:24] now it's time for them to bring the fight

[38:26] to August and winter.

[38:27] They're in giant inflatable globes

[38:29] that let them walk on water

[38:31] like they're at spring break or something

[38:33] in Piranha 3D.

Stuart Wellington

[38:34] This was in the trailer, right?

[38:35] I feel like this was one of the big images of the trailer.

[38:39] Yeah, it's iconic.

Elliott Kalan

[38:40] Yeah.

[38:41] Yeah.

[38:41] It is.

[38:42] They walk across the river.

[38:44] They go to De Winter's Island weather station.

[38:45] There's another dead Prospero scientist in a bear suit.

[38:48] Who cares?

[38:49] They get into this,

[38:50] they get into a phone booth.

[38:51] Emma Peel knows the secret code to use it

[38:53] to get into the weather lab,

[38:54] a secret code that was set up in a scene

[38:56] that appears in the trailer for the movie

[38:57] but does not appear in the movie.

[38:58] So it just seems like she knows,

[39:00] she just knows a password somehow.

[39:02] There's a lot of going down spiral stairs for a while.

[39:05] Anyway, they split up again.

[39:07] Emma Peel goes to shut down the machine

[39:09] which involves walking on a tightrope

[39:11] to a big globe that she's got to crawl inside of

[39:14] and then pull wires out of.

[39:16] And De Winter,

[39:17] John Steed is going to go fight August De Winter.

[39:22] And they're fighting on like a catwalk of some kind.

[39:24] There's water underneath.

[39:26] When she's going to go shut down the machine,

[39:29] that's when Eddie Izzard shows up.

[39:30] Apparently his character's name is Bailey.

[39:32] This is told to the audience late.

[39:33] It doesn't matter.

[39:34] Who cares?

[39:35] She eventually defeats him.

[39:37] He falls to his death.

[39:38] He doesn't have the Peel sisters

[39:39] falling in vulnerability.

Dan McCoy

[39:42] This is all very edifying too

[39:44] because I watched this movie

[39:46] on the plane coming over here.

[39:47] Your preferred way to watch planes.

[39:49] To watch movies, yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[39:53] Long-time listeners of The Flophouse know

[39:54] Dan's favorite movie theater is in the air.

Dan McCoy

[39:59] Yeah, your emotions are heightened.

[40:01] You know, it works on you.

[40:03] This was the moment at which

[40:04] the couple next to me

[40:06] otherwise seemed very nice.

[40:08] You know, the woman offered me some food

[40:10] she wasn't eating.

[40:11] But they chose this moment.

[40:13] Don't eat that, Dan.

[40:14] They chose this moment

[40:16] to not get a drink from the beverage cart

[40:19] that was coming down their side of the aisle over here,

[40:22] but to order across me

[40:24] two vodkas and apple juices,

[40:28] the drink of toddlers.

[40:32] An alcoholic toddler.

[40:33] Were you like,

Stuart Wellington

[40:34] I want to get in on this shit?

[40:35] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[40:37] I also had a couple sitting next to me

[40:39] and they seemed very unhappy

[40:41] with what I was watching.

[40:43] And it was kind of an older German couple

[40:45] and now I realize

[40:46] they just really wanted to ask me

[40:47] about Married with Children.

[40:48] I know.

Stuart Wellington

[40:49] They're like,

[40:50] finally, we're sitting next to an American.

[40:52] We can ask him about Al Bundy.

Elliott Kalan

[40:53] I don't have to wait

[40:54] until he's finished with his film

[40:56] before we can ask him.

[40:58] My German accent is turning

[40:59] more and more Scandinavian

[41:00] as it goes on.

[41:02] So, Eddie Izzard falls to his death.

[41:04] The London blizzard's getting worse.

[41:06] Steed finds De Winter's control area.

[41:08] There's sword fighting.

[41:09] There's water.

[41:09] There's lightning.

[41:10] Uh-oh.

[41:10] Lightning hits Big Bend Tower.

[41:12] Blows it up.

[41:13] Oh, no.

[41:14] It's going to be so expensive to fix that.

[41:16] And Peele's trying to deactivate the machine.

[41:18] August De Winter overpowers John Steed very easily.

[41:22] Launches him over a railing.

[41:23] And then John Steed just climbs up

[41:25] the other side of the railing.

[41:26] Is he Bugs Bunny?

[41:27] Like, what happened?

[41:28] I don't know how he did it.

[41:30] Ultimately, John Steed stabs August De Winter

[41:33] with his sword cane.

[41:34] That acts as a lightning rod.

[41:36] Lightning then hits the sword

[41:37] and pulls August De Winter up into the sky.

[41:40] Like a lasso?

[41:42] Like a lightning lasso?

[41:43] Is he Pecos Bill?

Stuart Wellington

[41:45] He must, that must, like,

[41:47] if you love the weather,

[41:48] getting killed by lightning

[41:49] has got to be your, like,

[41:50] number one way to go.

[41:51] Oh, for sure.

Dan McCoy

[41:51] I assume it's Thor from the future

[41:54] being like,

[41:55] Avengers belongs to us.

Elliott Kalan

[41:58] It's very funny to me

[41:59] that a movie that's so based

[42:01] around the idea of weather

[42:02] didn't bother to research

[42:03] whether lightning can pull you places.

[42:07] It's not really,

[42:07] it's not like an electric rope anyway.

Dan McCoy

[42:09] That's why Ben Franklin

[42:10] did all that stuff with the kite.

[42:12] He's like, it'll pull me up.

[42:14] I'll be the kite then.

[42:15] Finally, my dream

Elliott Kalan

[42:19] of being a kite.

[42:22] My dream?

[42:23] Because he was auditioning

[42:23] for the role of the kite

[42:24] on Pee-wee's Playhouse.

[42:26] I need to get experience

[42:27] if I'm going to win this part.

Dan McCoy

[42:29] This is all important

[42:30] American history.

[42:31] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[42:33] Yeah, we all learned this in school.

[42:36] Everyone knows the story

[42:37] of Ben Franklin

[42:38] and the kite

[42:39] and the Pee-wee's Playhouse

[42:39] audition that failed.

[42:42] Anyway,

[42:43] that was the name of it.

[42:44] That's a Metallica song,

[42:45] isn't it?

[42:45] The Pee-wee's Playhouse

[42:46] audition that failed?

[42:47] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[42:47] Of course.

[42:48] Yeah.

[42:48] So,

[42:49] a tornado's smashing up London

[42:51] but Emma Peel

[42:52] pulls the right wire.

[42:53] All the weather stuff

[42:54] shuts off immediately.

[42:55] Then she dives

[42:56] into the water

[42:56] so that she can

[42:57] climb back up again

[42:58] out of the water

[42:59] and be reunited

[43:00] with John Steed.

[43:01] But the auto-destruct

[43:02] goes off

[43:03] and it just blows up.

[43:05] It's fine.

[43:06] They don't have to do anything.

[43:06] They don't have to escape

[43:07] or anything.

[43:08] It's just,

[43:08] it's fine.

Stuart Wellington

[43:08] So,

[43:09] wait a minute.

[43:09] So,

[43:10] is the,

[43:10] like,

[43:10] the standard state

[43:12] of all weather

[43:12] no weather?

[43:14] Like,

[43:14] that's what I'm trying,

[43:15] like,

[43:15] wouldn't it just keep

[43:16] doing what it's doing

Elliott Kalan

[43:17] for a little while?

[43:18] Or?

[43:19] I don't know a lot

[43:20] about mad scientist

[43:21] weather science.

[43:22] Okay.

[43:23] But in real life,

[43:24] yeah,

[43:24] weather doesn't just

[43:25] stop when you flip the switch.

[43:27] Yeah.

[43:27] You know,

[43:27] it would keep doing stuff.

[43:29] You know,

[43:29] yeah.

Dan McCoy

[43:29] Yeah,

[43:30] I think it would more

[43:30] gradually return to stasis

[43:32] probably,

[43:33] not right away.

[43:34] fancy words here.

[43:35] I can use words.

Elliott Kalan

[43:38] Can you go to my house

[43:39] and explain to my kids

[43:40] the concept of entropy?

[43:41] Because I could not

[43:41] get it across to them.

Stuart Wellington

[43:44] The concept of entropy?

[43:46] Yeah.

[43:46] Yeah,

[43:46] just show,

[43:47] like,

[43:47] a picture of yourself

[43:48] from,

[43:48] like,

[43:48] ten years ago

[43:49] and then be like,

[43:50] same dude.

Elliott Kalan

[43:51] No,

[43:52] because when I,

[43:52] I don't want to give entropy

[43:53] the credit for that.

[43:54] I want to,

[43:55] I point to that picture

[43:55] and I go,

[43:56] you did this to me,

[43:57] children.

Dan McCoy

[43:58] Elliot,

[43:58] I have to admit,

[43:59] now,

[44:00] I'm,

[44:00] it's very echoey up on stage.

[44:02] I have to assume

[44:03] it's slightly better out there

[44:04] because people are laughing,

[44:06] but I,

[44:06] I heard,

[44:07] when you said entropy,

[44:08] I heard,

[44:08] can you explain the concept

[44:09] of denture baby?

Elliott Kalan

[44:11] Yeah,

[44:12] denture baby.

[44:13] so,

Elliott Kalan

[44:13] so,

[44:14] so,

Elliott Kalan

[44:14] when babies are born

[44:14] they don't have teeth,

[44:15] right?

[44:15] Well,

[44:16] maybe they can have some

[44:18] with denture babies.

[44:19] Join me,

[44:20] won't you,

[44:20] as we go through

[44:21] the wonderful world

[44:22] of teeth for babies.

Stuart Wellington

[44:23] Yeah,

[44:23] the concept of teething

[44:24] is when babies are crying

[44:25] because they want their dentures.

Elliott Kalan

[44:28] They're like,

[44:29] they have tooth jealousy.

[44:30] Yeah,

[44:31] that's exactly what it is.

[44:32] Freud talks about tooth envy

[44:33] in babies.

[44:34] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[44:35] Oh,

[44:36] I want to eat steak

[44:37] and corn on the cob.

Elliott Kalan

[44:39] Don't worry,

[44:40] baby,

[44:40] you will.

[44:41] Be patient,

[44:41] be patient.

[44:42] No,

[44:43] don't grow up too fast,

[44:44] baby.

[44:45] I want to grow up now.

[44:46] Give me,

[44:46] give me my dentures.

[44:47] How do you have a tattoo already,

[44:49] baby?

[44:51] Anyway,

[44:51] mother calls the prime minister.

[44:52] The weather is,

[44:53] is done.

[44:54] But Emma Peel

[44:55] and John Steed

[44:55] have not returned.

[44:57] The next day,

[44:59] August Winter's control pod

[45:00] surfaces in the Thames.

[45:02] Steed and Peel are fine.

[45:03] Why did they do that?

[45:04] Yeah,

[45:04] why do they have a scene

Stuart Wellington

[45:05] where they're like,

[45:05] they've never been heard from again.

[45:07] And then like two seconds later,

[45:08] they're like,

[45:08] here they are.

[45:09] Yeah,

[45:09] let's celebrate.

Elliott Kalan

[45:11] It feels,

[45:11] this is so much,

[45:12] we've said this before

[45:13] about other movies,

[45:13] it feels like someone

[45:14] heard how a movie

[45:15] is supposed to go

[45:16] and then made the movie

[45:17] and they're like,

[45:18] yeah,

[45:18] and then the hero,

[45:19] like everyone's supposed

[45:20] to think they're dead

[45:21] and then they come back

[45:21] and they're not dead.

[45:22] They've,

[45:22] they've,

[45:23] they've arrived again,

[45:23] but it's,

[45:24] they just do it not good,

[45:26] you know?

Stuart Wellington

[45:26] Yeah,

[45:26] there's like,

[45:27] it's like in that,

[45:28] what,

[45:28] the Fifty Shades of Grey movie

[45:29] where they're like,

[45:29] oh,

[45:30] Christian Grey's plane went down

[45:31] and then a second later

[45:32] he walks in the door

[45:33] and they're like,

[45:33] I guess you're cool,

[45:34] okay.

Elliott Kalan

[45:35] It's like my new kink

[45:36] is making everyone think

[45:37] I died in a helicopter crash.

[45:38] Yeah.

[45:39] It's a good one.

Dan McCoy

[45:40] It puts me in mind

[45:41] of the next movie

[45:42] we're going to talk about,

[45:42] Spice World,

[45:43] which very charmingly

[45:44] keeps introducing a problem

[45:46] and then immediately

[45:47] resolving it.

Elliott Kalan

[45:48] That's true,

[45:49] yeah,

[45:49] but they do that on purpose.

[45:51] We're now at the final,

[45:52] the final scene,

[45:53] perhaps,

[45:53] maybe one of the most

[45:55] unnecessary scenes

[45:55] in the movie,

[45:56] which is just

[45:57] Emma Peel and John Steed

[45:58] and Mother

[45:58] having champagne together.

[46:00] That's it.

[46:01] And there's no like,

[46:02] I think you two

[46:03] are going to work together

[46:04] real well from nice on,

[46:05] from now on.

[46:06] They're just like,

[46:07] yeah,

[46:07] well,

[46:07] we went through that,

[46:08] didn't we?

[46:09] We sure did.

[46:11] Cheers.

[46:11] And then that's

[46:11] the end of the movie.

[46:12] It is a movie that

[46:14] at times I was like,

[46:15] did they think

[46:15] they were making

[46:16] an episode of a television show?

[46:18] Because that's what

[46:18] it feels like.

[46:19] It feels like it doesn't,

[46:20] they're like,

[46:21] join us next week

[46:21] for the next movie,

[46:22] you know.

Stuart Wellington

[46:23] Never.

[46:24] And this was a launching pad

[46:27] for Sir Sean Connery,

[46:28] right?

[46:29] He went on to make

[46:30] a lot of good movies

[46:30] after this.

Elliott Kalan

[46:31] Yeah,

[46:31] this was Sean Connery's

[46:33] breakthrough role,

[46:34] yeah.

[46:35] After slaving away

[46:36] in the obscurity

[46:37] of the James Bond series

[46:38] and the Untouchables.

[46:41] Yeah.

[46:42] What's weird is that

[46:43] this was not the movie

[46:44] that drove him to retirement.

[46:45] League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[46:46] was the movie there

[46:47] where he said,

[46:47] I'm not doing this again,

[46:49] ever.

Dan McCoy

[46:50] Until Sir Billy,

[46:51] I'm going to come back

[46:52] to make

[46:53] Sir Billy.

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Elliott Kalan

[47:14] Hooray!

Dan McCoy

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[47:30] Definitely getting

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[47:33] I have not worked

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[50:47] Kalina the Cutthroat

[50:49] by British Fantasy

[50:51] Award finalist

[50:52] Elijah

[50:53] Kintz-Spector.

[50:55] It is a queer

[50:56] fantasy novel

[50:57] about

[50:57] con artistry,

[50:59] dark magic,

[51:00] and relying

[51:01] on mutual aid

[51:02] when systems

[51:03] fail us.

[51:04] It is also a book

[51:05] that is partially,

[51:06] that was partially

[51:07] written at

[51:07] Stuart's Bar

[51:08] Henterlands.

[51:09] Wow.

[51:10] Henterlands is now

[51:11] a literary hub.

[51:12] Featuring immersive,

[51:13] world-building,

[51:14] complex characters,

[51:15] thoughtful politics,

[51:17] goofy bullshit.

[51:18] I like that.

[51:19] And at least

[51:19] one wizard,

[51:20] Kalina the Cutthroat,

[51:22] is out November 26.

[51:24] And if you're wondering

[51:24] how to spell

[51:26] Kalina

[51:27] for Googling purposes,

[51:29] it is spelled

[51:29] K-A-L-Y-N-A.

[51:34] I'll assume you

[51:35] can handle

[51:36] the cutthroat

[51:36] on your own.

[51:38] Order Kalina the Cutthroat

[51:39] by Elijah Kintz-Spector

[51:41] through your local bookstore

[51:42] or online,

[51:43] also available

[51:44] in audiobook.

[51:46] And we've got

[51:47] one more

[51:47] Jumbotron.

[51:49] This is for Tom.

[51:50] It is from Walt.

[51:52] The message goes

[51:53] as follows.

[51:55] For ten years,

[51:56] I've used Facebook

[51:57] to warn of the dark powers

[51:59] of the Tom.

[52:00] But still,

[52:01] his power grows

[52:02] and I'm desperate.

[52:03] So I'll use his favorite

[52:04] podcast against him.

[52:06] To all within the sound

[52:07] of this flopper's voice,

[52:08] beware,

[52:09] Tom's birthday is nigh

[52:11] and he is an actual,

[52:13] literal monster.

[52:14] Cower if you see him approach,

[52:16] but know his wrath

[52:17] comes for us all.

[52:20] So that's for Tom

[52:21] from Walt,

[52:22] who's doing a bit

[52:23] of negging there.

[52:25] But happy birthday, Tom.

[52:27] And now for a few

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[53:45] And now,

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[53:48] Hey,

[53:49] we should do

[53:49] our final judgments

[53:50] whether this is

[53:51] a good bad movie,

[53:52] a bad bad movie,

[53:52] or a movie we kind of like.

[53:54] I will say

[53:55] that this

[53:56] is a bad bad movie.

Stuart Wellington

[53:58] Be careful,

[53:58] you might lose

[53:59] the British audience.

Elliott Kalan

[54:02] Dan,

[54:03] Dan,

[54:04] Ralphine's parents

[54:04] are in the audience tonight.

Dan McCoy

[54:06] I believe

[54:07] it can only

[54:08] endear us

[54:09] to this audience

[54:09] to say that

[54:10] the American version

[54:12] of a beloved British thing

[54:13] is not very good.

[54:15] And in this case,

[54:16] it is not very good.

[54:17] It is inexplicable,

[54:20] disjointed,

[54:21] not thrilling.

[54:22] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[54:23] Yeah,

[54:24] I would agree

[54:24] that it's bad bad,

[54:25] although

[54:26] when I first

[54:27] flew over here,

[54:28] I was having some trouble

[54:29] with jet lag

[54:31] and it helped me

[54:31] fall asleep.

[54:34] I will say

Elliott Kalan

[54:35] it's a bad bad movie

[54:37] with the small caveat,

[54:39] maybe it was because

[54:40] I was also watching

[54:41] it on a plane

[54:42] and the oxygen

[54:43] was so low

[54:44] in my brain.

[54:45] But as it went on,

[54:46] it still wasn't good,

[54:47] but there were times

[54:48] where I was like,

[54:48] you know what,

[54:49] movie,

[54:50] I'm kind of charmed

[54:51] by how little

[54:51] you're trying.

[54:53] It betrays

[54:54] a confidence

[54:55] in what they're doing

[54:56] that it shouldn't have,

[54:58] but it's like

[54:59] the thing where

[55:00] you see someone

[55:00] who is bad

[55:01] at a thing

[55:01] doing it

[55:02] with so much

[55:03] assumption

[55:04] that they can do it

[55:05] that by the end

[55:06] you're like,

[55:06] well,

[55:06] I'm entertained

[55:07] by that aspect of it.

[55:08] But it's like

[55:09] when you see a baby

[55:10] try to chew a corn

[55:11] on the cob

[55:12] or something like that.

[55:13] It's like,

[55:13] baby,

[55:14] you're not equipped

[55:14] for this,

[55:15] but he thinks he is.

[55:16] It's cute.

[55:16] It's adorable.

Stuart Wellington

[55:17] So it sounds like

[55:17] it almost reaches

[55:18] good-bad quality

Elliott Kalan

[55:20] for you.

[55:20] Almost.

[55:21] I think the second half

[55:24] of the movie

[55:25] is good-bad to me

[55:26] because it's so disjointed

[55:27] and it's so kooky crazy,

[55:29] but the first half

[55:30] of the movie

[55:30] is very boring.

[55:31] So skip to the middle.

[55:33] Who cares?

[55:34] Or watch something else.

[55:37] No one's making you

[55:38] watch the Avengers.

Dan McCoy

[55:39] So looking at the time,

[55:41] let's take

[55:43] four or five questions tops.

[55:47] We're going to answer them quick.

Elliott Kalan

[55:48] Okay, it's question time,

[55:49] everybody.

[55:49] We're going to turn the room over

Dan McCoy

[55:50] for the next show.

[55:51] Thank you for coming

[55:52] to this one.

[55:53] Thanks so much.

Elliott Kalan

[55:54] We really appreciate it.

[55:55] I'm going to say my thing

[55:56] that I always say at the top.

[55:57] We want great questions

[55:58] from everybody.

[55:59] So before you ask your question,

[56:00] think to yourself,

[56:02] would anyone else in this room

[56:03] be interested in this question?

[56:05] And also,

[56:06] everyone,

[56:07] a lot of times

[56:07] when we do these shows,

[56:08] people at the top,

[56:09] they like to tell us

[56:09] how great we are.

[56:10] We're not that great,

[56:11] but also,

[56:12] we really appreciate

[56:13] that you're here.

[56:13] So we know you love us.

[56:14] And this is perfect.

Dan McCoy

[56:15] Five people have queued up.

[56:16] No more.

[56:17] Queued up?

Elliott Kalan

[56:18] Oh,

[56:19] people have queued up,

[56:20] Daniel.

[56:21] Oh,

[56:21] well.

[56:22] Someone's been in England

[56:23] for three days.

[56:25] Queued up.

[56:26] Wow.

Dan McCoy

[56:28] I got booed so heartily

[56:31] at last night's

[56:32] Spice World screening

[56:33] that I need to pander now.

Stuart Wellington

[56:35] This was,

[56:35] I'm sorry,

[56:36] we'll get the question.

[56:36] How late were you up

[56:37] thinking about getting booed

[56:38] last night?

Dan McCoy

[56:40] I had the gall

[56:42] to suggest that

[56:44] Dan,

[56:44] don't say anything.

[56:45] They're going to boo you again.

[56:46] While I love the Spice Girls,

[56:48] they were engineered.

[56:50] Boo.

[56:50] Which is simply a fact.

[56:53] Boo.

[56:54] Boo.

Dan McCoy

[56:54] Boo.

[56:55] They answered an advertisement,

[56:57] people.

[56:57] Boo.

Elliott Kalan

[56:58] I want Dan to start going,

[56:59] you're sheep,

[57:00] all of you.

Dan McCoy

[57:01] I also love the monkeys

[57:03] who answered an advertisement.

[57:04] It's fine.

[57:05] Anyway.

Elliott Kalan

[57:06] Next thing you're going to tell me,

[57:07] the Muppets didn't really

[57:08] get together on their own.

[57:10] Yes,

[57:10] please.

[57:10] Question.

[57:11] Thank you.

[57:11] Hi.

[57:12] Elizabeth,

[57:13] last name withheld.

[57:14] I was just wondering if you guys

[57:16] already have any ideas

[57:17] for other bad British movies

[57:19] that you might watch next time

[57:20] that you do a show here.

[57:21] Oh,

[57:22] other bad British movies.

[57:22] We wanted to suggest

[57:23] The Beast Must Die,

[57:24] but I would like to hear

[57:25] if you guys already have any ideas.

Dan McCoy

[57:27] See,

[57:29] the thing that I sort of suggested

[57:32] in my presentation

[57:33] is like,

[57:34] only the best culture

[57:37] from other countries

[57:38] sort of like,

[57:38] makes it to our shores,

[57:39] so it's hard to know.

[57:40] The opposite of beer,

Elliott Kalan

[57:41] where the best beer

[57:42] tends to be kept from America,

[57:43] from other countries.

Dan McCoy

[57:45] I am told that there's a movie

[57:46] about potato men

[57:47] that is not good,

[57:48] but I don't know much about it.

Elliott Kalan

[57:51] Like Mr. Potato Head?

Dan McCoy

[57:53] Is Sex Lives of Potato Men,

[57:55] is this a thing?

[57:55] Am I getting this correct?

[57:57] Okay.

[57:59] What do you,

[58:00] do you have anything?

Elliott Kalan

[58:02] I mean,

[58:03] I'd have to do some more research

[58:04] is the thing,

[58:04] because I feel like

[58:05] there's a period when,

[58:07] I guess post-Full Monty,

[58:09] when I said,

[58:10] England,

[58:11] I'm going to take a break

[58:12] from your movies for a while.

[58:14] Because they were all

[58:14] kind of the same movie.

[58:15] It was all like,

[58:16] check out these blue-collar guys

[58:18] who are going to do something,

[58:20] or check out these old men

[58:22] who are going to do something,

[58:23] or check out these old ladies

[58:25] who are going to do something.

[58:27] And I'm like,

[58:27] Often nude.

[58:28] Yeah.

[58:29] And I'm like,

[58:30] England,

[58:31] you're supposed to be making

[58:31] horror movies

[58:32] that are more creepy than scary.

[58:33] Come on,

[58:34] what are you doing?

Stuart Wellington

[58:35] I don't know,

[58:36] like there was a period of time

[58:37] where I was working

[58:38] for an English company,

[58:39] and my boss's English,

[58:40] and he kept bringing me DVDs

[58:42] of Danny Dyer movies,

[58:43] and those were

[58:44] all pretty bad.

[58:47] Oh,

[58:47] you hit a nerve.

[58:48] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[58:49] Thank you.

[58:50] Thanks very much.

S5

[58:52] Hi,

[58:53] Andrew,

[58:53] last name withheld.

[58:55] Fun fact,

[58:56] Emma Peel's name

[58:57] is apparently

[58:58] a pun,

[58:59] because she was the

[59:00] appeal to men,

[59:01] the sex appeal,

[59:02] the M appeal.

[59:02] What are your favorite

[59:05] absurdly contrived names

[59:06] from movies?

Elliott Kalan

[59:10] Absurd.

[59:11] I mean,

[59:11] this is a TV show.

[59:12] There's a TV show

[59:12] on America right now

[59:13] called Tracker,

[59:14] and the main character,

[59:15] his name should be Tracker,

[59:18] but it's not.

[59:18] His first name is Coulter,

[59:20] which I think is a very funny

[59:21] first name for a TV character

[59:23] to have,

[59:23] because it's like,

[59:24] even Colton would be

[59:25] kind of like a too cool name

[59:26] for this character,

[59:27] but Coulter is like,

[59:28] they put another twist on it,

[59:29] but a contrived name

[59:30] for a movie.

[59:31] Okay,

[59:31] hold on.

Dan McCoy

[59:34] While you think,

[59:36] Tracker was very heavily

[59:38] promoted during the Super Bowl,

[59:41] a thing that I don't care about,

[59:43] but as an American,

[59:44] I'm contractually obligated

[59:45] to still watch,

[59:47] and I was just,

[59:48] I don't know,

[59:49] I found myself,

[59:50] my mind was taken

[59:51] by Tracker.

[59:52] Like,

Dan McCoy

[59:52] don't you understand?

[59:54] He tracks people.

Elliott Kalan

[59:55] He's really good

[59:55] at tracking things.

[59:57] No one's better at tracking.

Dan McCoy

[59:58] He can't find them.

[1:00:00] He just tracks them

[1:00:00] to a certain place

Elliott Kalan

[1:00:03] and then stops.

[1:00:03] He always has to be

[1:00:04] at least 100 feet behind them.

[1:00:05] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[1:00:07] I mean,

[1:00:08] what is it?

[1:00:08] Elan Sleazebagano

[1:00:10] from the Star Wars Episode 2

[1:00:12] who sells death sticks?

Elliott Kalan

[1:00:14] What's Robert De Niro's name

[1:00:15] in,

[1:00:16] what is it,

[1:00:17] Devil Heart,

[1:00:17] Angel Heart?

[1:00:18] Oh, yeah.

[1:00:19] He's like,

[1:00:20] Lewis Cipher?

[1:00:21] Yeah,

[1:00:21] Lewis Cipher.

[1:00:22] That's the best one,

[1:00:23] I think.

[1:00:24] I'm going to throw my support

[1:00:26] behind Lewis Cipher.

[1:00:27] Because he's the devil.

[1:00:27] They might have just

[1:00:27] named him

[1:00:28] S-Stand

[1:00:29] or something like that.

Dan McCoy

[1:00:31] Yeah.

[1:00:32] My name is D-Evil.

[1:00:34] Thank you.

Elliott Kalan

[1:00:37] My name is

[1:00:38] B for Bob,

[1:00:39] L-Zabub.

[1:00:41] B-L-Zabub.

[1:00:42] Bob Lawrence-Zabub.

[1:00:44] Yeah.

S5

[1:00:45] Hey,

[1:00:46] Tobias,

[1:00:46] last name we've held.

[1:00:48] So we've got

[1:00:49] a classic

[1:00:50] weather machine

[1:00:51] super villain

[1:00:52] weapon

[1:00:53] being used

[1:00:53] in this movie.

[1:00:54] what would you say

[1:00:55] are your preferred

[1:00:56] super villain

[1:00:57] world destroying

[1:00:59] device?

[1:01:01] You know,

[1:01:02] if you were going to

[1:01:03] try and destroy the world,

[1:01:04] because, you know,

[1:01:04] you've got to put that on me.

[1:01:06] We're all doing it together.

Elliott Kalan

[1:01:06] We're all doing it together

[1:01:07] as a species.

[1:01:08] It's the most successful project

[1:01:09] humanity's ever embarked on.

[1:01:12] Like,

[1:01:12] that wall in China

[1:01:13] is pretty good,

[1:01:13] but I think

[1:01:14] if we as a species

[1:01:15] got together,

[1:01:16] we could destroy the whole planet.

Dan McCoy

[1:01:17] A really good machine for it.

[1:01:19] weather is pretty classic.

[1:01:21] Like,

[1:01:21] a space laser

[1:01:22] is kind of boring,

[1:01:23] but, you know,

[1:01:24] like,

[1:01:25] it's got a certain

[1:01:26] brute force charm.

[1:01:27] You can't argue

Elliott Kalan

[1:01:27] for efficient,

[1:01:28] it's the most efficient

[1:01:29] way to do it.

[1:01:30] Have you seen Star Wars?

[1:01:30] They blow up that planet

[1:01:31] fast.

Dan McCoy

[1:01:33] Even if it's just

[1:01:33] a big, like,

[1:01:34] giant magnifying glass

[1:01:36] that you put

[1:01:37] in front of the sun.

[1:01:39] Yeah, yeah,

Stuart Wellington

[1:01:39] that'd do it,

[1:01:40] I think, yeah.

[1:01:40] What about one of those

[1:01:41] things that just

[1:01:41] summons Godzillas?

[1:01:43] Like,

[1:01:43] something that summons

[1:01:44] a bunch of Godzillas?

[1:01:45] Yeah, yeah,

[1:01:45] the Godzilla summoner?

[1:01:46] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[1:01:48] I think there's a,

[1:01:50] uh,

[1:01:51] yeah,

[1:01:51] now you've got me

[1:01:52] thinking about that.

[1:01:52] Because if I'm going to make

Stuart Wellington

[1:01:52] something that destroys

[1:01:53] the world,

[1:01:54] I want it also

[1:01:55] to very easily

[1:01:56] kill me in the process.

[1:01:57] So if the good guys

[1:01:58] stop me,

[1:01:59] I'm like,

[1:01:59] oh,

[1:02:00] why did I summon

[1:02:00] all these Godzillas?

Dan McCoy

[1:02:01] Yeah,

[1:02:02] I mean,

[1:02:02] you're making me

[1:02:03] think of Geostorm,

[1:02:05] where there's the plot

[1:02:05] to kill the president,

[1:02:06] which is to create

[1:02:07] a Geostorm,

[1:02:08] and it's like,

[1:02:09] that's going to kill

[1:02:10] a lot of other people

[1:02:11] and maybe not the president?

Elliott Kalan

[1:02:13] He's like,

[1:02:13] me and the Geostorm,

[1:02:14] we have an agreement.

[1:02:15] It's going to get

[1:02:15] everyone around me,

[1:02:16] but not me.

Dan McCoy

[1:02:17] You're holding up

[1:02:18] a headshot to the Geostorm,

[1:02:20] like,

[1:02:20] this is him,

[1:02:21] this guy.

Elliott Kalan

[1:02:22] I think I'm going to say,

[1:02:23] robot duplicate

[1:02:24] of the president,

[1:02:25] gets in there,

[1:02:26] breaks stuff,

[1:02:26] you know,

[1:02:27] and everyone's like,

[1:02:28] why is the president

[1:02:29] doing this?

[1:02:29] And I know it's

[1:02:30] because he's a robot,

[1:02:31] and the robot knows

[1:02:32] it's because he's a robot,

[1:02:33] and the real president

[1:02:33] knows he's been

[1:02:34] replaced by a robot.

[1:02:35] Nobody else knows

[1:02:36] until it's too late.

[1:02:38] Classic.

[1:02:39] Stealthy.

[1:02:40] Yeah,

[1:02:40] very stealthy.

[1:02:42] The perfect crime.

[1:02:44] There's no law against it.

[1:02:46] If they,

[1:02:46] they bring,

[1:02:46] they arrest me,

[1:02:47] I'm like,

[1:02:47] show me in the law book

[1:02:48] where it says

[1:02:48] you can't replace

[1:02:49] the president

[1:02:49] with a robot.

[1:02:50] Well,

[1:02:51] we never had to write one.

[1:02:52] He's right.

[1:02:53] thought it was implied.

[1:02:55] And I guess that dog

[1:02:56] can play basketball.

S6

[1:02:59] Yes.

[1:03:00] Sean,

[1:03:00] last name withheld.

[1:03:02] I watched this film

[1:03:03] a few days ago,

[1:03:04] and it was

[1:03:04] a painful experience.

[1:03:07] So,

[1:03:08] I just want to talk

[1:03:09] about a better aspect

[1:03:10] of British culture,

[1:03:11] and ask Stu,

[1:03:12] when are we going to get

[1:03:13] some analysis

[1:03:14] on slang,

[1:03:15] or at the very least,

[1:03:17] when two worlds collide?

[1:03:19] Oh,

[1:03:19] I've forgotten the name now.

Stuart Wellington

[1:03:20] You're asking about

[1:03:21] slan?

[1:03:23] Slang.

[1:03:24] Slang?

S6

[1:03:25] The album

[1:03:26] after Adrenaline.

[1:03:27] Oh,

[1:03:28] shit,

[1:03:28] okay.

[1:03:29] And for everyone else,

[1:03:30] what's your favourite

[1:03:31] Def Leppard song?

Stuart Wellington

[1:03:32] So,

[1:03:32] sometimes when a band

[1:03:33] like Def Leppard

[1:03:34] has made hit

[1:03:36] after hit

[1:03:36] after hit,

[1:03:37] sometimes you've got

[1:03:39] to get a bad one

[1:03:40] out of you,

[1:03:41] you know,

[1:03:41] and that one's slang,

[1:03:43] which is how

[1:03:44] we pronounce it.

[1:03:47] And yeah,

[1:03:47] it's kind of a bummer,

[1:03:49] but I feel like

[1:03:50] they turned it around

[1:03:51] a little bit

[1:03:52] in euphoria,

[1:03:53] you know,

[1:03:53] like not the show euphoria,

[1:03:55] the album

[1:03:55] by Def Leppard.

[1:03:57] But yeah,

[1:03:58] I mean,

[1:03:58] it's a bummer

[1:04:00] and that's okay.

[1:04:01] I feel like it makes

[1:04:02] the other ones

[1:04:03] feel better

[1:04:04] by comparison.

[1:04:07] I don't know,

[1:04:08] you have close standards

[1:04:08] for leopards

Elliott Kalan

[1:04:09] that can't even hear.

[1:04:10] It's making music.

[1:04:11] Yeah,

[1:04:12] it's amazing.

[1:04:12] Yeah,

[1:04:13] how is it?

[1:04:13] It's the Beethoven

[1:04:14] of leopards.

[1:04:15] Yeah.

S6

[1:04:18] I think it's about

[1:04:19] three or four years

[1:04:19] I've been waiting

[1:04:20] for that closure.

[1:04:24] All right,

[1:04:24] this is the last question.

Stuart Wellington

[1:04:25] this close to buying

[1:04:26] a Def Leppard sweatshirt

[1:04:28] at Primark today.

S7

[1:04:31] So I'm Mark,

[1:04:32] last name withheld.

[1:04:34] I saw this film at 17

[1:04:35] when it came out

[1:04:36] in the cinema.

[1:04:36] I paid for this.

[1:04:39] And then,

[1:04:39] I mean,

[1:04:39] you really paid

[1:04:40] when you watched it,

[1:04:41] and I think as a kid,

[1:04:42] I loved movies

[1:04:43] and this was the first film

[1:04:44] I saw just like you

[1:04:45] with Christmas Vacation.

[1:04:46] I came out of it

[1:04:47] and was like,

[1:04:48] holy shit,

[1:04:48] films can be bad.

[1:04:50] Like,

[1:04:50] I had the same experience.

[1:04:51] So I think my question is,

[1:04:53] what was something

[1:04:54] you saw in a film,

[1:04:55] could be recent,

[1:04:55] could be much further back,

[1:04:57] but that you saw

[1:04:58] and was like,

[1:04:58] this broke something

[1:05:00] I always believed

[1:05:01] about films.

[1:05:02] It could be good or bad.

Elliott Kalan

[1:05:04] Ooh.

[1:05:04] That's a very good question

[1:05:05] that I wish I had time

[1:05:06] to think about.

[1:05:07] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[1:05:07] But we're under the gun here.

[1:05:08] Whenever we get

[1:05:09] a good question,

[1:05:10] I'm like,

[1:05:10] oh no,

[1:05:11] no,

[1:05:11] no.

Elliott Kalan

[1:05:14] I mean,

[1:05:15] the,

[1:05:16] I don't know,

[1:05:17] this is not something

[1:05:18] that I saw,

[1:05:18] well,

[1:05:19] it's something I've seen recently,

[1:05:19] but it's a movie

[1:05:20] that I saw a long time ago also.

[1:05:21] Recently,

[1:05:22] my wife and I went to go see

[1:05:23] a screening of the movie

[1:05:24] The Fall,

[1:05:24] directed by Tarsem Singh,

[1:05:26] which we saw

[1:05:26] when we were first dating

[1:05:27] when it came out

[1:05:28] in theaters the first time,

[1:05:29] and it's an amazing movie,

[1:05:30] and that's one of those movies

[1:05:31] where like,

[1:05:32] it's a movie that is so

[1:05:33] kind of,

[1:05:35] so pretentiously

[1:05:37] up its own butt

[1:05:38] at times,

[1:05:39] but it's so beautiful,

[1:05:40] and there's things

[1:05:41] in that movie

[1:05:41] where I'm like,

[1:05:42] oh,

[1:05:42] I didn't know you could

[1:05:42] make a movie like this.

[1:05:43] This movie that is like,

[1:05:44] the story is,

[1:05:46] kind of,

[1:05:47] feels like it's being made up

[1:05:48] as it goes along

[1:05:49] to a certain extent,

[1:05:50] and there's a child performer

[1:05:51] in it who's clearly

[1:05:52] an amateur,

[1:05:53] but she's so charismatic,

[1:05:54] and she's holding,

[1:05:56] holding her own with Lee Pace,

[1:05:58] so yeah,

[1:05:59] Lee Pace,

[1:05:59] the child performer,

[1:06:00] and then you're watching

[1:06:02] images in it

[1:06:02] where you're like,

[1:06:03] how did they make that image?

[1:06:04] Like,

[1:06:04] how did they do that?

[1:06:05] And so that's one

[1:06:06] where I'm like,

[1:06:07] oh,

[1:06:07] there's stuff they're doing

[1:06:08] in this movie

[1:06:09] that I've never seen before,

[1:06:10] and I really love it,

[1:06:12] but it's one of those movies

[1:06:12] where you show it to someone

[1:06:13] and half the time

[1:06:13] they're like,

[1:06:14] what am I watching?

[1:06:15] Like,

[1:06:15] what are you doing to me?

Stuart Wellington

[1:06:17] I think for me,

[1:06:19] I remember loving a lot

[1:06:21] of like Hong Kong cinema

[1:06:22] and martial arts movies

[1:06:23] like Jet Li

[1:06:24] and Chow Yun-Fat,

[1:06:26] and then when they started

[1:06:28] coming over

[1:06:29] and doing American

[1:06:30] English language stuff,

[1:06:31] I'm like,

[1:06:31] man,

[1:06:31] this is terrible,

[1:06:33] and it's because they,

[1:06:34] you know,

[1:06:34] it's realizing like,

[1:06:36] oh,

[1:06:36] these actors who are

[1:06:37] such great performers

[1:06:38] in the hands of somebody

[1:06:39] who doesn't know

[1:06:39] how to make a good movie

[1:06:41] is not gonna,

[1:06:42] they're wasted.

[1:06:43] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[1:06:44] I wish I had an answer,

[1:06:46] but I don't,

[1:06:47] and so,

[1:06:48] in the interest of moving us along,

[1:06:49] I won't try,

[1:06:50] but if you can catch me afterwards,

[1:06:53] I'll think of something.

[1:06:54] One more.

Elliott Kalan

[1:06:55] He does mean catch,

[1:06:56] like he's gonna run away.

[1:06:57] Yeah, yeah.

[1:06:58] Catch me if you can.

[1:06:59] Hee, hee, hee, hee.

Dan McCoy

Elliott Kalan

[1:07:02] We have one last question.

[1:07:04] Shit.

[1:07:05] A lot of pressure.

[1:07:05] Sorry,

[1:07:05] am I allowed to swear?

[1:07:06] Oh.

[1:07:07] Wow.

[1:07:08] Okay.

S8

[1:07:08] Calm down, sir.

[1:07:11] You don't really have to rush.

[1:07:12] No microphone.

[1:07:13] All right.

[1:07:13] First off,

[1:07:14] I just want to say

[1:07:14] thanks so much, guys,

[1:07:15] for coming over here

[1:07:16] for the first time ever.

[1:07:17] Oh, thank you.

[1:07:18] Good speaker, everyone here.

[1:07:20] Thanks so much.

[1:07:21] And thanks for just

[1:07:22] taking our brains

[1:07:23] away from themselves

[1:07:24] when we listen to you guys

[1:07:25] for hours after hours

[1:07:26] over and over and over again.

[1:07:28] Question time.

[1:07:29] Okay.

[1:07:29] I've got one and a half questions.

[1:07:31] Uh-oh.

[1:07:32] The half question

[1:07:33] I'll go with first.

[1:07:33] Elliot,

[1:07:34] have you gone to that Popeye's

[1:07:36] over there?

[1:07:36] No.

Elliott Kalan

[1:07:38] I promised my wife

[1:07:40] I would not go to the Popeye's

[1:07:41] while I was here.

[1:07:42] What?

[1:07:42] She said,

[1:07:42] I'll be so mad at you

[1:07:43] if you spend time in England

[1:07:45] going to Popeye's,

[1:07:46] a place that we have

[1:07:47] in our neighborhood

[1:07:48] that you go to already

[1:07:49] too much.

[1:07:50] Popeye's is rare over here,

[1:07:51] so...

[1:07:52] When you walk into

Stuart Wellington

[1:07:54] the one in your neighbor,

[1:07:55] they're like,

[1:07:55] hey,

[1:07:56] it's like Norm and Cheers.

[1:07:57] Yeah, exactly.

[1:07:59] The huge Mr. K,

S8

[1:08:00] you know it.

[1:08:01] I say break that promise,

[1:08:03] go to the Popeye's.

[1:08:04] Okay.

[1:08:04] Do you.

[1:08:05] Proper question, though.

[1:08:06] Okay, got to go.

[1:08:07] This film apparently had

[1:08:08] like half an hour

[1:08:09] of cut material.

[1:08:10] I believe the next film

[1:08:12] also had about

[1:08:13] half an hour of cut material.

[1:08:14] One of my favorite films,

[1:08:15] Event Horizon,

[1:08:16] apparently secretly

[1:08:17] had half an hour

[1:08:18] of cut material.

[1:08:20] Do you guys have any films

[1:08:21] that you've heard

[1:08:22] that there's like

[1:08:22] this secret

[1:08:23] extra cut material

[1:08:24] that doesn't exist

[1:08:25] anywhere in the world

[1:08:26] that you'd love to see?

Dan McCoy

[1:08:28] I mean,

[1:08:28] the classic one

[1:08:29] is there's a lost version

[1:08:30] of the Magnificent Ambersons

[1:08:32] that I would love to see

[1:08:35] as it was originally intended.

[1:08:36] I mean,

[1:08:37] because I love the movie

[1:08:38] as it exists,

[1:08:39] so I doubt very much

[1:08:43] that the original vision

[1:08:45] of Orson Welles

[1:08:46] was worse than what we got.

Elliott Kalan

[1:08:48] And I,

[1:08:48] this is the other classic one,

[1:08:50] I want to see that

[1:08:50] seven, eight, nine hour greed

[1:08:52] that Eric Von Stroheim made,

[1:08:53] and they were like,

[1:08:54] what are you doing?

[1:08:55] And they were like,

[1:08:56] you have to cut this

[1:08:57] to an hour and a half,

[1:08:58] and he cut it down,

[1:08:59] and he's like,

[1:08:59] four hours is the best I can do,

[1:09:01] and then they fired him.

[1:09:02] But I really,

[1:09:03] I'd love to sit through that,

[1:09:04] because there's a version,

[1:09:06] there's a restored version

[1:09:07] of Greed that's like

[1:09:07] three and a half hours long

[1:09:08] or so,

[1:09:09] and they just use stills

[1:09:10] for all those scenes,

[1:09:11] and it's amazing.

[1:09:12] It's an amazing movie,

[1:09:13] even with just the,

[1:09:13] as remnants, you know.

Stuart Wellington

[1:09:15] I'm just learning

[1:09:16] that you can cut stuff

[1:09:17] out of movies now.

Elliott Kalan

[1:09:19] Stuart thought

[1:09:20] it actually happened,

[1:09:21] yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[1:09:22] I'll have to think

[1:09:22] of something later.

Dan McCoy

[1:09:23] You'll have to track me down.

[1:09:24] Stuart thinks that movies

[1:09:25] are just shot.

[1:09:26] Thank you so much.

[1:09:28] Cheers.

[1:09:30] Thank you to everyone here.

[1:09:33] Thank you to the

[1:09:35] St. Audio Podcast Festival.

[1:09:36] Thank you to Oxford Town Hall.

[1:09:38] We got another one coming up.

[1:09:40] Thank you again.

[1:09:42] I've been Dan McCoy.

[1:09:43] I've been Stuart Wellington.

Elliott Kalan

[1:09:45] I'm Elliot Kalin.

[1:09:46] Thank you, everybody.

Dan McCoy

[1:09:56] Thank you for being here

[1:09:58] in this cavernous space.

Stuart Wellington

[1:10:04] I think this is

[1:10:06] probably the nicest room

[1:10:08] we've been in, right?

[1:10:10] Yeah, no,

[1:10:10] by far the nicest room.

[1:10:12] What about when we played

[1:10:13] the Las Vegas Sphere?

[1:10:15] What about that?

[1:10:17] Wait, or did I dream that?

[1:10:18] You're thinking of U2.

[1:10:20] Oh, right.

[1:10:21] That was not us.

Elliott Kalan

[1:10:22] It's going to be so cool

[1:10:23] when we play the Sphere

[1:10:24] and they play that

[1:10:25] with no sound.

[1:10:26] All on the Sphere.

[1:10:28] It'll be amazing.

Dan McCoy

[1:10:30] Thank you for being here.

[1:10:32] This is the first time

[1:10:33] we've been,

[1:10:34] well, not been in the UK.

[1:10:35] We've all been in the UK.

[1:10:36] He did.

[1:10:36] I mean, we're men of the world.

[1:10:38] Couldn't get a third

Elliott Kalan

[1:10:38] of the way through that sentence

[1:10:39] without having to add

[1:10:40] a proviso.

Dan McCoy

[1:10:42] The first time

[1:10:43] we've done a show

[1:10:44] outside of the continental

[1:10:46] North America.

[1:10:49] That's true.

[1:10:49] Yep.

[1:10:50] Yeah.

[1:10:51] So,

[1:10:52] woo!

Elliott Kalan

[1:10:55] We brought,

[1:10:56] we brought,

[1:10:56] we brought all of our

[1:10:57] A-game England material.

[1:11:00] It's like,

[1:11:00] we're podcasting

[1:11:02] on the other side

[1:11:03] of the stage.

[1:11:05] I wrote some-

[1:11:06] Dan, I don't have

[1:11:07] any more England material.

[1:11:10] Maximum Fun.

[1:11:11] A worker-owned network.

[1:11:12] Of artists-owned shows.

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Ep.#439 - The Avengers (1998), LIVE!

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