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You guys are underestimating the simply brilliant script. That line was oh-so-subtle foreshadowing. By 1988 they knew that Beta had met its demise, therefore Beta guy was predicting his own untimely death. Chelsea Field was VHS, and she survived until the end of the film. At least that's the explanation if the writers had predicted the fate of the two video formats in 1983 and decided to keep the line long after the line proved prescient yet outdated at the same time.

According to Blake Harris's Oral History, Stephen King screened movies for the crew with his own running commentary. The original Godzilla and...wait for it...Night of the Living Dead.

Since Donald Trump is everywhere these days, I feel obliged to point out that the second Mrs. Donald Trump, Marla Maples, makes her screen debut in this film. In this scene she is either being assaulted by a flying watermelon or she just realized she forgot to sign a prenup.

This is not such a fun comment, but did anyone find it a bit insensitive that, of all the U.S. cities to destroy, they chose Charleston, SC? Given the recent events of this summer? Assuming that it was filmed before the attack, couldn't they have ADR'ed that dialogue and chosen to destroy an east-coast city that wasn't recently shaken to its core by a racist gunman? To at least give the historical black church more than a month to recover before it was decimated along with the rest of the city? Too soon, guys? On a separate point, I expected them to bring up the fact that, according to IMDB, the crew was fired when they asked for a union contract, and " the majority of the film was shot with a replacement crew of unskilled technicians." Any verification there? There were definitely some moments where the technical work felt suspect. When Tara Reid uses her prosthetic chainsaw, it was only hinted at with a couple brief glimpses. One could be forgiven for not realizing what she actually did. Where was the money shot?

Dear Jo, Thank you for your thoughtful note. Yes, I am banging your husband, and it took all of a few weeks after moving here to do so. In fact, it was so easy, I didn't even have to try. Within a few days he was stalking me in the middle of the night, dropping off a bike as some sort of Sparksian courtship ritual. I rebuffed him for this creepy gesture and he still had me posing for family photos on the beach with his cereal commercial kids before we even held hands. I was able to seduce him while looking over my shoulder for my psycho alcoholic husband. I seduced him while displaying absolutely no personality whatsoever: no interests, no original thoughts, no taste in any particular music or culture, no sense of humor or wit. Pretty sure my only skill was that I knew how to smile. Maybe he took one look at me and thought, "That is a woman with whom I can listen to Mark Twain audiobooks." Oh, and I still managed to seduce him despite that one time he thought I was a murderer. So perhaps your hold over him isn't as strong as you'd like to think. Perhaps you weren't as perfect a mother as you thought. Your son was obviously not prepared for the day when a new woman would come along - maybe that's a letter you could have written him? Is that unfair? Yes, but so is dating your imaginary ghost neighbor's husband. And I noticed you wrote your son on his 18th birthday and his graduation day, and to your daughter on her wedding day. SEXIST MUCH?? Yours, Katie

I still "can't even" fathom how the husband-cop was supposed to be a reveal. The first half of this movie plays just like a Sleeping With the Enemy knock-off, all the while pretending that it's not Sleeping With the Enemy. Then this "reveal" is that it actually is Sleeping With the Enemy. The whole time I was thinking: I wish I was watching Sleeping With the Enemy instead. The reason Safe Haven doesn't work is because the "reveal" is less outrageous than the misdirect. If we had been led to believe the opposite: that in the first hour that she was an abused wife who turns out to be a legit murderer now stuck in a Nicholas Sparks romance - that would have been a reveal. But can we talk about how Sleeping With the Enemy is so much better? 1. We have a sense of the timeline - we see Julia Roberts plot her escape for months. Katie's first step after running out the door is to get a dye-job at her neighbor's (which is perfectly blonde and gorgeous, despite the rushed circumstances), thus delaying her escape just long enough for her husband to almost find her at the bus station. We have no idea for how long Katie and Kevin have been married - how long did it take her to realize he was an abusive alcoholic? 2. The bad guy in Sleeping With the Enemy is methodical and threatening. There is a logical thread of clues he uses to find Julia Roberts. Kevin just gets lucky. 3. Julia Roberts is also methodical and brave. Katie jumps at everything and does stupid shit like calling her neighbor from a landline and not defending her false murder rap. 4. Sleeping With the Enemy knows what kind of movie it is. Safe Haven is a thriller/romance/family drama/ghost story (like they said, several movies going on at once). One genre weakens the other. By the way: Sleeping With the Enemy: good movie!

edit: a little late on that one... looks like I need to start screening my posts. Nice screen grab.

After their escape from prison, T&C pursue a remarkably well-coordinated attempt to exonerate themselves, without actually coordinating. Tango goes after the crooked cop, and Cash goes after the audio expert. What a coincidence that they each decided to pursue a different witness! Clearly they had not been in cahoots since the escape, due to their surprise reunion later on.

Did anyone else notice the subtly phallic tower, upon which the climax of the movie occurs? And lest you think I'm crazy, consider: Not to mention the "snake in the mailbox".

The coroner says "There would have to be some bone fragments or teeth or something. I've got nothing to indicate there was ever a body at all. Just ashes and car parts." So which is it - are the robots completely synthetic? In which case, a Robot Ellie that was harvested out of a real person would be inconsistent with all the other robots. Or were all the robots originally people, with the remains of their skin, bones, etc. - which would be inconsistent with the coroner's findings.

Can someone please explain this quote to me, from Stallone's 'talking head' interview: "To tell you the truth, the truck is the most important thing for me. I, I don't really...It doesn't matter if I become the champion or anything, that's not the most important...I, I need this truck." If he didn't care about winning, and all he wanted was the truck (presumably to start his own business), then WHY THE FUCK DID HE SELL THE PERFECTLY GOOD TRUCK HE ALREADY HAD TO BET ON HIMSELF IN THE TOURNAMENT??

OMISSION Thank you for pointing out the parking lot attendant from Ferris Bueller's Day Off ("Relax! I'm a professional!") - it almost makes up for neglecting to mention him as one of the goons from your previous live Super Mario Bros. show. Love the podcasts.

Great podcast! I agree that Amazing Spider-man sucked, and wish it also got some HDTGM treatment. How was Emma Stone not creeped out by a guy whose uncle tells her she's on his screensaver, and later he shows up on her fire escape?

Why am I listening to a 15 minute plug for a TV show?