Episode 346: Locked Down

Tag[]

Dan: On this episode we discuss Locked Down.

Stuart: Based on the works of Jon Bon Jovi, I — fuck. [Dan laughs] No! I'm done! I'm never doing one of these again. You guys pressured me into doing something I didn't wanna do —

Dan: Wow. What?

Elliott: Wait, you told us — hold on.

Stuart: — and now I feel like an idiot —

Dan: What??

Stuart: — Everybody's listening now, I feel like a fool —

Dan: Hold on.

Elliott: Dan, Stu, I — Dan, what's going on?

Official Show Notes[]

Whaaat? Our second Doug Liman movie in so many episodes? It’s certainly hard to give Locked Down as much shit as we gave Chaos Walking — especially when it co-stars Elliott’s old flame Annie. Anyway, we hope you enjoy our usual shenanigans. Life seems to be looking up, right? Are we wrong?

Movie Summary[]

Premise[]

Waiting to go their separate ways after the end of a lockdown, Linda and Paxton, a disgruntled London-based couple, attempt a high-risk heist at a store that surprisingly brings them closer together

Final Judgments[]

“But she's Anne Hathaway, I love Anne Hathaway, so over time I loved her too. Yeah, I think I had fun.”
—Movie I Kinda Liked (Dan) @ 54:08

“I would say halfway through, or certainly two-thirds of the way through, and it's like, "Oh, no, this is a glossy goofy movie that just happens to be set during lock-down because that gives the premise — that creates a heist that's hard to do."”
—Movie I Kinda Liked (Elliott) @ 56:02

“I agree with both of you, the movie kind of won me over.”
—Movie I Kinda Liked (Stuart) @ 57:06

Episode Highlights[]

Tangents[]

Elliott's Nasally Sexiness @0:50
Neal McDonough, the Husky of Actors @1:20
The Flop House owns Animorphs now @1:39
Doug Liman and Steven Knight @2:50
Sonic @5:55
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Sonic-Upload-Question-Mark.com @1:03:10
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Pitches[]

The Adventures of Baron MunchWHOsen?: "A show where Terry Gilliam pretends that he's younger and interns at a magazine or a publishing house" (Dan, Stuart, and Elliott) @1:08:00

Quotes[]

Dan: As I teased before, the movie broke me down over the course of it —

Elliott: I mean, "won me over" is another way to say it.

Dan: Yeah, it won me over — well, I do think it did break me down a little bit because it constructed a barrier to itself with a lot of the dialogue.

— @54:08

Stuart: It is very overwritten for what is just a goofy movie.

Dan: Yeah

Stuart: It's not THE Goofy movie, again, I have to clarify that every time I bring that up.

Dan: — Or A Goofy Movie.

Elliott: Let's make it clear — yeah — if any one is watching this thinking it is the Goofy movie starring Goofy and his son... Goofit?

Dan: Max

Elliott: I don't remember what it is. Max. It is not that. This is Locked Down, starring Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor

Stuart: It's also not Lockout, aka Space Jail, starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace.

Elliott: What a movie!

— @57:36

“That's when Ben Kingsley's the bad guy, he's Ben Grimsby”
—Stuart @1:04:50

“I don't know how they snuck in, I don't know how that welding chimp and Babu Frik snuck in to that movie but they made it worthwhile I guess”
—Elliott @1:14:04

Ad Break[]

Maximum Fun[]

Sawbones @1:00:42
Heat Rocks @1:01:24

Sponsors[]

Squarespace @1:02:11
Betterhelp @1:05:06

Listener Mail[]

Mailbag Song[]

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Letters[]

Dan and Lincoln's shared accent; What movie would be better if it went through a fan-fic transformation? @1:07:26
- "unfortunately a lot of our major movie franchises DO seem to be going through fan-fiction transformations" (Elliott) @1:09:47
- "Not 50 Shades of Gray because they already made Twilight" (Dan)
- Captain America/Bucky (Stuart)
- Just more characters having sex in general (Dan)
- Unexpected pop-culture references in Loki and In the Heights (Stuart)
- Does not like fan crowd-sourcing; does like one person putting their twist on something (Elliott)
- Universal Monsters (Elliott) @1:14:12
- Invisible Man remake was the successful, transformative one (Dan)
- Forrest Gump for Millenials: a Randall Flagg figure? (Elliott)

Dan's Hot Takes; Is Fury Road the most Metal Movie? from Dan McCoy @1:16:19
- Yanking Elliott's Mank Crank
- Heavy Metal is right in the title (Stuart)
- Valhala Rising (Elliott)

The Great Bikini Offroad Adventure and movies the Flop House brought into the Cultural Zeitgeist @1:19:05
- Stuart's Unofficial Trilogy
- The Taking of Pelham 123, The Gunfighter (Elliott)
- Questionably accurate imdb fact about Dan and the Bikini Car Wash Company (Dan)

Recommendations[]

The Neutral Ground (2021) by CJ Hunt (Dan) @1:21:47

The Sparks Brothers (2021) by Edgar Wright (Elliott) @1:25:42

Thief (1981) by Michael Mann (Stuart) @1:28:49

Stinger[]

Stuart: Man, I would love the twist of the movie — basically the movie would be like, "Hey, fuck you! I twisted you! I gotcha!"

Elliott: [laughs] Or the movie says that, or...?

Stuart: Yeah, like immediately as soon as the twist happens, just like... freeze frame and zoom in on the characters' faces.

`Dan:`	On this episode we discuss Locked Down.
`Stuart:`	Based on the works of Jon Bon Jovi, I — fuck. [Dan laughs] No! I'm done! I'm never doing one of these again. You guys pressured me into doing something I didn't wanna do —
`Dan:`	Wow. What?
`Elliott:`	Wait, you told us — hold on.
`Stuart:`	— and now I feel like an idiot —
`Dan:`	What??
`Stuart:`	— Everybody's listening now, I feel like a fool —
`Dan:`	Hold on.
`Elliott:`	Dan, Stu, I — Dan, what's going on?

`Dan:`	As I teased before, the movie broke me down over the course of it —
`Elliott:`	I mean, "won me over" is another way to say it.
`Dan:`	Yeah, it won me over — well, I do think it did break me down a little bit because it constructed a barrier to itself with a lot of the dialogue.

`Stuart:`	It is very overwritten for what is just a goofy movie.
`Dan:`	Yeah
`Stuart:`	It's not THE Goofy movie, again, I have to clarify that every time I bring that up.
`Dan:`	— Or A Goofy Movie.
`Elliott:`	Let's make it clear — yeah — if any one is watching this thinking it is the Goofy movie starring Goofy and his son... Goofit?
`Dan:`	Max
`Elliott:`	I don't remember what it is. Max. It is not that. This is Locked Down, starring Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor
`Stuart:`	It's also not Lockout, aka Space Jail, starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace.
`Elliott:`	What a movie!

`Stuart:`	Man, I would love the twist of the movie — basically the movie would be like, "Hey, fuck you! I twisted you! I gotcha!"
`Elliott:`	[laughs] Or the movie says that, or...?
`Stuart:`	Yeah, like immediately as soon as the twist happens, just like... freeze frame and zoom in on the characters' faces.