On this episode, Cagemas has come again! We discuss Primal.
Elliott:
That's right, Flop House fans, our sixth Kevin Durand movie. It's Durandikkah! It's a miracle!
Official Show Notes[]
Cagemas comes but once a year! Unless, since this one is a little late, it will technically come twice this year, and none times last year. It’s confusing. It’s annual is what we’re saying. We celebrate the work of Saint Nicolas Cage this time with a discussion of the snakes-on-a-boat-and-also-other-animals thriller Primal. And for an august occasion like this one, you need a special guest! So this episode we welcome hilarious sweetheart Josh Gondelman of Desus & Mero and his book Nice Try.
Movie Summary[]
Premise[]
Nicolas Cage is a big game hunter trapped on a transport ship with an escaped killer and his uncaged animals (both in the sense that they're freed from captivity, and no longer with Nicolas Cage). Has the hunter become the hunted, or who's the greatest game, or is Nicolas Cage not trapped in a boat with wild animals wild animals are trapped in a boat with Nicolas Cage?
Final Judgments[]
“Whenever it went big it was kinda fun. But so much of this movie just, like, does not engage with what makes the premise fun. The premise is fun because there's a bunch of animals loose on this damn ship. And that feels like an afterthought.” —Sometimes Kinda Liked It, sometimes Bad-Bad Movie (Dan) @1:13:45
“The action scenes are not particularly thrilling, but it was like... I dunno, dumb in exactly the way I want a movie I watch for the Flop House to be. And, yeah, the actors were fun to watch kindof-act in the movie. Yeah! Thumbs up. ” —Kinda Liked It (Stuart) @1:15:05
“It's like a thumbs-sideways movie. [...] We've said it before, like: I'm sick, I'm lying on the couch, it's a saturday afternoon, this is available; ok, sure, this'll be fine. It's never quite what Stolen is, but it's kind of like Stolen. ” — (Elliott) @1:15:35
“It's like, however much of the movie you watch you'll enjoy that much. It's like a continental breakfast movie.” — Kinda-Liked It (Josh) @1:16:35
Now what if Mad About You was originally called Mad At You and it was about two – a couple that needed a divorce but they refused to divorce 'cause their apartment was so great. And then CBS was like, "We love it. We were wondering if the couple could be in love still." And Paul Reiser's like, "How am I gonna make this work? How could I POSSIBLY make this work?
Dan:
Uhhhh I mean, you watch that show: they're BARELY in love, those characters.
Josh:
That would've been a good name for it, "Barely in Love."
Dan:
Barely in Love.
Elliot:
Barely in Love!
Stuart:
Would've thought it starred bears.
–@1:13:10
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