Wednesday, July 22, 2020

FTM 548 - CONGO

Grab some green drop drink and some sesame cake and listen to Patrick and Adam Riske go ape for Congo.



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Also discussed this episode: Spookies (1986), The Experts (1989), Greyhound (2020), Friedkin Uncut (2019), The Turning (2020), Relic (2020), Beastie Boys Story (2020), Cousins (1989), Grease (1978), The Baxter (2005), Fatal Affair (2020)

23 comments:

  1. Oh, I am so looking forward to this. Like, an unusual amount.

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  2. Nothing can go wrong-o
    I’m in the Congo...

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    1. "Things are pretty bad in the Congo right now"

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  3. Delroy Lindo is the absolute highlight for me. At least once a week I'll just say "STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE" out loud to mysel . And day is instantly better

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    1. A friend of mine once brought sesame cake to a dinner party for the exclusive purpose of telling people to stop eating his sesame cake. Fairly sure I was the only one who got the joke.

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    2. C'mon, be honest...Is this "friend of mine" named "Brian?" It's cool, were all family here. We'd all do the exact same thing :p

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    3. I wish I could commit to a bit that hard.

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  4. I and two friends watched Devil in a Blue Dress last night based on PB/JB's recommendation. We thought it was pretty decent, but were disappointed to find the individual in the blue dress was not even a femme fatale, far less a devil! That said, Cheadle was indeed great.

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  5. Though this isn't the case, Greyhound feels like something filmed during the pandemic - as if Hanks and HBO were prepping one of their season-long WW2 miniseries, but were then told, due to covid, they could only film with a cast of 20 on one New Zealand soundstage, and that, rather than make a proper feature film, with characters, subplots, quiet scenes, and all that, they'd just be filming several action sequences. Luckily, they'd already shot one scene of civilians in a San Francisco hotel, featuring Elizabeth Shue (random but not unwelcome), so they could use that, too. The result is thus pretty much one 80-minute barrage of naval warfare, credits, and that that one hotel scene.

    As such, it's fairly well done, treading a line between keeping things comprehensible to laymen, but with an absolute minimum of moments that feel like exposition for the audience's sake. As a trivia dork, I am obliged to observe there are voice cameos from Star Trek: Enterprise's Dominic Keating and U-571/Downfall/Valkyrie's Thomas Kretschmann. Overall, it was fine for a single viewing, but I would have appreciated that full miniseries, or at least a more conventional, character-filled drama, rather more.

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    1. The important thing is that despite the single, seemingly unnecessary hotel scene, they paid off those god-damned monogrammed slippers.

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    2. Shue is stakes. I wanted Hanks to survive to love Shue.

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    3. I had zero idea it was Shue until the end credits. :P

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  6. Top 10 highest-grossing films of summer 1995:

    1. Batman Forever
    2. Apollo 13
    3. Pocahontas
    4. Casper
    5. Die Hard with a Vengeance
    6. Crimson Tide
    7. Waterworld
    8. Dangerous Minds
    9. Congo
    10. Braveheart

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  7. I saw Congo only once, it was the NBC Saturday Night Movie back when Ryan Seacrest used to host it. So every time it went to or came back from commercial, we got to spend 30-120 seconds with Ryan, lucky us. I don't recall much, but I do remember after the hippo attack scene his factoid was "hippos kill more people every year than any other mammal besides human. And now, a message from Crest." He was no Joe Bob Briggs (that could be a good thing in hindsight)

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  8. man this was a great episode. This movie has escaped me for forever. Even though I've heard Adam talk about it here and there in passing, I dont think I ever even knew what it was about exactly, but it sounds appealing as heck right now

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    1. I would support this! Adam and Patrick, if this happens I want in!

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  10. I would have to watch Goldeneye over Congo, but I will also get a Congo tattoo if Biden wins and my family has a vaccine by the end of 2020. Hell, I'll get a Conga tattoo if I ever fell comfortable enough to go to the movies, because that might be NEVER and movie theaters are my churches. How sad is that.

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  11. Ahhh, a Patrick+Adam show is like antidote to the Quarantine Blues. Thanks guys, I really needed this.

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  12. Great podcast! I LOVED Jurassic Park back in the day when I was a young teen, so you would have thought this would have been on my radar. But, i didn't care to seek it out and it has since gone unseen. I am not motivated to change that!

    Oh, and I seem to remember Jumanji (the original) featuring hippo attacks, but I am not willing to watch it again to confirm. :)

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  13. I had never seen this before today, but boy it was a lot of fun. I somehow missed it when it came out, and since then always had the impression it wasn't very good. Although I have been intrigued since listening to the How Did This Get Made episode on it, where I believe lots of jokes were make about the scientist wanting to fuck the gorilla.

    I was a really fun watch. There were some silly inconsistencies, like Laura Linney's boss yelling like an evil madman "I need a new cash cow!! I want those diamonds!!", and not even a minute later Linney saying "You had better not be sending me there to get diamonds". And after parachuting and watching the plane get blown up, Dylan Walsh says "I have to call this off"...little late to be making that decision, lol.

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    1. Greyhound was fantastic. I was a little worried about it being all CGI going in, but I honestly forgot about it after 5 minutes. When it ended, I was thinking "over already?", which is about as good a reaction a movie could get.

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