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Final Judgments[]
“This is just kind of... there. I don't DISLIKE this movie, but there's not... like, it's almost like everything's in perfect balance, good and bad, such as to make it nothing. [...] if you're dozing on the couch, this would be a great way to spend your time. ” —Kinda-Liked It (Dan) @1:07:20
“It's not... terrible. It's just kinda like... alright. In a world where there are 40 superhero movies a year, it seems, coming out, there's room for a mediocre superhero movie like this. ” — Kinda-Liked It (Elliott) @1:08:40
“It just washed over me and is going to be forgotten” —Bad-Bad Movie (Stuart) @1:19:10
“Hypothetically I like a lot of this stuff, but it's just... the movie is almost as empty as that weird hospital. It's just like there's not enough in it!” —Bad-Good Movie (Arnie) @1:10:45
Now why don't you just run them together and be Arniekamp? Just be like a one-word, like a "Madonna", or a "Cher", or uh... a "Prometheus." You know, just a one-word name. You know?
Dan:
(laughs) "Prometheus."
Elliott:
They're icons, icons! Cher, Madonna, and Prometheus.
Dan:
Arnie, I wanna stop talking about your name and actually start talking about your work. How does it feel –
Stuart:
I mean Prometheus only had, like, the one hit though.
Dan:
...ok.
Stuart:
I don't think it's fair to put him in the same –
Elliott:
Uuuuuh, fire is a big hit, Stu. And he could have – it's not fair to judge him against the records of recording artists who were not chained to a rock so a vulture can rip their liver out every day.
Stuart:
That's true
Elliott:
That's gonna impede your work.
–@04:05
Stuart:
The attempt to do coming of age – like a "coming of age" story, or a "coming into your powers" has been done so many times. And so many –
Dan:
Or coming in bears.
Stuart:
Yeah, or coming into bears. (Dan laughs) But, like, I mean after seeing Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse where we see –
Arnie:
Wait, wait, I'm so sorry, I gotta stop. Dan, it's the other way around. It's not "coming into bears", it's the other – that's gross.
Dan:
"Good. Things. Come. In Bears!"
Elliott:
No no, it's getting OUT of bears! You wanna get OUT of that bear!
Stuart:
Yeah, you wanna get all the come out of that bear.
Elliott:
Oh, no!
Dan:
(laughing) Good. Things. Come. In. Bears.
–@1:09:35
“While watching it I did invoke a philosophy that we've espoused on the show a few times which is 'If this movie were a better movie, this movie would be good.'” —Dan @1:11:55