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  4. Posted

    I thought you were gonna be more offended that they called Jeremy Irons the poor man’s Alan Rickman...

    I felt it was far IN THIS INSTANCE. Rickman was Snape and Irons was... in this nonsense. So he loses. But of course, no disrespect to my dearly departed Alan Rickman, but he was not Scar in the "Lion King" which is my most vivid association with Mr. Irons (even though he has chosen to be in dreck like this and "Batman vs Superman" in his later years) because I had a hat with his character that said

     

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    that i wore on many a family vacation as a child.

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  7. Posted

    This is the one part of the movie that is air-tight. When Secret Service Girlfriend sees what their escape vehicle is she says in disgust something along the lines of "you got a self driving cab?" If only she had read a little farther in the script she'd have known there was a HUGE payoff coming.

     

    Was I the only one who expected the car to drive on its own while she like got out on the roof and fought bad guys? I was a little underwhelmed by the the rocket launcher thing. I think there was more fun to be had with the self driving car.

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    Omission:

     

    I'm legitimately surprised no one picked this up, but while the focus of Ed Harris' masterplan was to destroy America's enemies, the secondary part of his plan was to assume the office of President of the United States. Unfortunately, as the Secretary of State, he is 4th in the line of succession behind 1) the Vice President, 2) Speaker of the House of Representatives, 3) President pro tempore of the Senate. The writers of the movie must've worried about someone calling out the chain of succession so they added a single line during the Democratic Convention in Orlando where the VP says "and I'm joined here with the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to support the President to reelection" in order to show that if Orlando were destroyed, only Ed Harris would be left to take over.

     

    A few problems with this.

    • First of all, the role of President pro tempore of the Senate is way less powerful than a Majority Leader in the Senate, but is assigned by the Majority Leader. Its the reason you would see Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan together on TV or in the news. You wouldn't just randomly start talking about Orrin Hatch instead of Mitch McConnell. Wouldn't a more meaningful statement to make at a political convention to say "I am joined here by the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate."
    • Secondly, wouldn't it be easier to make Ed Harris the VP so that he is more clearly bad guy with the most to benefit? Its not as if Ed Harris was doing Secretary of State type things throughout the movie anyway and the only time we see the VP is during the speech.
    • Lastly, the even easier solve to this would've been to make Washington DC a target of the geostorm while Ed Harris is off anywhere else to enjoy his newfound Presidency!

     

    When I saw Senate pro tempore leader on the big screen, I knew Andy Garcia wasn't bad because there is no reason to ever say those words except when talking about Presidential succession crises or in a middle school pop quiz.

     

     

    Did anyone think Andy Garcia had more passion for Abby Cornish in the moment she flips the self driving car around and kills all the guys and he says "Marry her!" than the brother with the weird hair ever did?

     

    In the beginning there is that scene where the brother asks her if she would save him or the President and she is like "The President, duh." Maybe they have a secret love for one another and the weird hair brother is just a beard?

     

    I may have indirectly committed myself to writing GEOSTORM fanfic...

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  10. Posted

    Oh! I have another question, why does Ed Harris say the Geostorm took out all the US' enemies? Granted, the political climate may have changed in the near future. But his targets were: 1. Random village in Afghanistan, 2. Hong Kong, 3 Orlando, 4. Tokyo, 5. Rio, 6. Mumbai, 7. Moscow, 8. Dubai.

     

    No North Korea, no Syria/ISIS, No Iran or anyone in the "axis of evil." He didn't even attack the government center in China. He attacked the part that used to be British and is protesting China's authoritarianism. I'm not a statesman but aren't those the people the US would WANT to be running China?

     

    I don't think he was a very good Secretary of State if he thinks Rio is some kind of threat to America? At what? Soccer?

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  11. Posted

    I'm so glad they talked about the brother's hair. I hated his hair. It made me want him to die. I really enjoyed watching this movie. I mean, it was terrible, but fun terrible. I really just wanted more of the principals to die. I said in the minisode thread, I really wanted the daughter to die. I feel like it was a cheat that only brown people/foreigners died. People in Florida MUST have died and I wanted it to be the daughter.

     

    I am only halfway through the episode but I must post this important CORRECTION: Jason says no one has ever been in good hands with Ed Harris. Big disagree. I also think Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and whoever the other astronaut in "Apollo 13" was would also disagree. Ed Harris is the BEST hands. He lands a fucking space ship .

     

    Here are some of my nerd notes.

     

    - This rental was too much. Know your place, GEOSTORM.

    - What is Skydance? Access? Who are these studios?

    - Oh noes the polar bears. Millions died and it's those effing polar bears.

    - Dutch Boy makes me think of paint not SILVER SKATES. I think this is product placement.

    - He's a famous international science guy and he lives in a trailer?

    - The Earth moves. Those satellites appear stationary? Like a web around the planet, but what happens when the planet moves and rotates? How can one be over Afghanistan FOREVER?

    - It's against the rules for Abby Cornish to get married? Why? Secret Service agents can get married. Is it because the dumb hair guy works in the White House? Wouldn't it just be a conflict of interest and they'd put her on the treasury beat or something? This is dumb.

    - Both the brothers are dicks.

    - Why isn't this hard drive not frozen or something if it was exposed to space?

    - Is this how Sean Connery stole the weather? Where do the bear suits come in?

    - Can stuff explode in space? Since there is no oxygen? I don't think so.

    - They are fishing into sand? Like that is not deep enough. I fished once and I know that.

     

    Edited: Uhoh. I said "Bill Pullman" when I meant "Bill Paxton." Jason and Paul F. are going to be so mad at me!

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  15. Posted

    The budget for this was estimated to be $120 mil as per IMDB so let's hope Ed got no less than $20 mil of that.

    WHAT? The effects look like garbage! I mean there was a part where they were driving in lightning that looked like Sharknado.

     

    I wonder if Dutch Boy paint at all paid for the product placement because that was all I could think about. When they explained it was a "Silver Skates" reference I was like "that's a reach, this is product placement!"

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  18. Posted

    I am oddly really excited for GEOSTORM. I haven't seen it but I have seen you guys talking about it in the recs thread since it came out. I ALMOST watched it on a plane last weekend but watched JUSTICE LEAGUE instead. (Everytime Diana wasn't on screen, I was enraged basically.)

     

    I will watch and take some nerd notes this weekend maybe. Butler should've listened about following Allison Janney around. He'd be in I TONYA.

     

    Also for once I agree with the Movie Bitches thr ONLY problem with BLACK PANTHER is not enough Angela Bassett. She is in such good shape (best arms in Hollywood) and I wanted her to smack someone around.

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  21. Posted

    On the episode, I think they only covered that the movie was based on Doris Lessing's novella "The Grandmothers" and didn't mention that Lessing has said her story was based on true events that she heard happened in a small community in Australia.

     

    Paul only briefly mentioned the Doris Lessing novel on the podcast. I read it a long time ago and remember being bored so maybe the movie captured that. I think it's worth noting that she won a Nobel Prize for her contributions to literature not long after "The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels" (on which this is based) was released. I mean, it's not one of her more famous works but I don't know if we've had a Nobel connection on HDTGM before.

     

    "The Grandmothers" begins with the two couples in a restaurant in Australia, and a woman (Mary) comes in and she and Hannah take the children away. The novel then jumps backward to Lil and Roz as children to explain this odd confrontation. This makes sense when you know what Tomspanks already said, that Lessing heard about this happening in Australia and wrote a novel to try to explain how it could happen. The end is Mary finding love letters, which causes the first scene. I think they should have kept the title "The Grandmothers" there is something about that title that feels like it knows how strange this all is.

     

    Although when the collection was published, the New York Times panned "The Grandmothers." Saying, "[...] there are embarrassing bouts of romance novel prose and lots of icky descriptions of her two heroines, Roz and Lil, leering at their offspring."

     

    So maybe the movie got it right?

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  22. Posted

    I am going away next week so I guess I will post this here since I don't know when I will get to listen to the episode.

     

     

    I haven't seen this movie but when I Googled it I was surprised to see it was bases on a short story by Doris Lessing. I have read this story! Why... Would they make this into a movie? Oh odd.

     

    Anyway, I believe the backstory was that this had really happened somewhere in Australia and Lessing tried to write a kind of believable story around it (the kind Nobel prize winners write, not a Nicholas Sparks nonsense).

     

    I'm going to try to dig it up because honest I don't remember many of the details.

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  23. Posted

    I've only listened to half this episode, but I'm so happy that Jessica St. Clair got to watch this one with what I think is the most trashcan barrel fires I've ever seen in a movie. I was hoping it would be one of hers.

    Jessica's distaste for trashcan fires got me thinking. Isn't setting a trashcan on fire something we associate with hobos? Like they did it for warmth during the Depression. I Googled "trash can fire" and discovered that we now have fire resistant trash cans in the world.

     

    Which makes me wonder why is it so common for trash can fires to be in "futuristic" movies when it's such an out-date heating technology?

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  25. Posted

    It has been a harrowing week. I forgot my password. I am Tig. Listeners would hate me.

     

    I wanted to talk about Faberge eggs. Because when listening o thought, "didn't people have weird fake Faberge eggs in the 80s?" I googled decorative eggs and was BOGGLED by the results. It is still a thing. I looked at some hideous ones Wayfair and eBay. I had links but now you will have to do that research yourself.

     

    So maybe if you need a Valentine's day gift, say you care with a weirdly decorated egg. (Is Jason also allergic to ceramic ones?)

     

    It doesn't look like any of the real Faberge eggs are in Philly. There are some in Baltimore, Cleveland, Richmond, DC and New York though.

     

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