Volcano

We finally answer the question, is Volcano better than Dante's Peak? We have a lot of fun discussing this movie. Can a Volcano cure racism? Do people really not know what magma is? Should Roark be allowed to see his daughter again? Give us a listen!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome, Setup, And Volcano Pick
• 1:05 First Impressions And Dante’s Peak Comparisons
• 2:15 TLJ, Don Cheadle, And ’90s Casting What-Ifs
• 6:20 Science Talk: Magma Logic And Geology Gaps
• 9:45 Storm Drains, Heat, And Rats: Suspicion Rises
• 13:30 La Brea Blows: Manholes, Lava Bombs, Mayhem
• 18:20 Rescue Spectacle And The “Bad Dad” Thread
• 23:40 Racism Subplot And Tone Whiplash
• 28:10 Subway Inferno And The Zodiac Sacrifice
• 32:30 Barrier Plans, Water Dumps, And Basketball Physics
• 36:55 Beverly Center Countdown And Building Demo
• 41:00 Aftermath, Themes, And What Actually Worked
• 45:20 The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Fine
• 49:00 Double Features And What’s Next: Armageddon

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:02

Hello and welcome to the We Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch, and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. And I'm Jason. Look at their faces. They all look the same. Cause this week we recommend Volcano!

SPEAKER_01: 0:27

Dude, how upset would Pennywise be if a volcano happened in Derry? Right?

SPEAKER_00: 0:33

Oh, it he would be the volcano. It'd just be his face on the volcano. Um, so uh what'd you think of volcano?

SPEAKER_01: 0:41

Uh it is uh I think I came up with a new name for this type of movie. I hope. What? Rescue Service Porn. Yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_00: 0:52

OEM baby. Yeah, it's just like one of my biggest things about this is everybody just starts like taking orders from um what's his name? TLJ. Yeah, Tommy Lee Jones. Um, and I'm like, how does anybody know to take orders from this guy? Everybody just knows super important. A lot of the time he's running around without his jacket, and I'm like, everybody's just like, we gotta listen to this guy, Tommy Lee Jones. Well, so I will say that I 100% before doing this pod was like Dante Speak over Volcano. Um, because the first time I watched it, you know, we watched Dante's Speak first, and I was starting to drink and stuff, and then we went to Volcano, and I think I was desensitized a little bit. I will say I did like this movie a lot more on second viewing because it was like, especially because I do notes in the morning, so it's like, oh, there's stuff happening versus Dante Speak. There's not that much stuff happening at the beginning. Yeah. So I was like, cool, I do like volcanoes a little bit more. Um, well, not volcano uh more this time, but uh did you like Dante Speak more or volcanoes?

SPEAKER_01: 2:00

Yeah, I like Dante Speak more. I think I think I did.

SPEAKER_00: 2:03

100 times more, I think. Maybe this like Dante Speaks is just like it's just a movie and it goes. This movie is trying to do a bunch of stuff, and all the stuff it's trying to do doesn't work.

SPEAKER_01: 2:15

It feels like except the volcano stuff. It definitely feels like the made-for-tv version.

SPEAKER_00: 2:20

Well, like the lava looks great in this. Yeah. This movie, I was like, wow, I guess because I was kind of like drinking and stuff when I watched it the first time, I was like, I thought it looked a little silly, but then I was watching it now and I'm like, this kind of rules. Yeah, I mean, yeah, the lava's cool. And if you are what it's I think it just depends. Like you might be a person that's like, I want 10 minutes of movie and then I want volcano. Versus Dante Peaks is like, I want 40 minutes of movie and then 30 minutes of volcano. Yeah, I guess so. Um, so I think it just depends. But Tommy Lee Jones knocks us knocks us out.

SPEAKER_01: 2:55

It's like how spicy you want your food at the Thai restaurant. Yeah. Well, do you want three chili pepper or do you want like four or five? I usually just go for the two.

SPEAKER_00: 3:02

Yeah, I just do like as little chili pepper as possible. Just put a little bit of pepper.

SPEAKER_01: 3:07

Well, that's just the no, that's just like the five-star rating of chili of hotness, right? I'm not sure they actually had chili peppers.

SPEAKER_03: 3:13

I've had Thai food once and it upset my stomach, so I just haven't really had it again.

SPEAKER_00: 3:17

I think that's the goal. Um, so what did this movie have or didn't have compared to Dante's Peak?

SPEAKER_01: 3:26

Man Burning Alive and Lava. That was rule.

SPEAKER_00: 3:29

That was cool. The Zodiac Killer himself. Oh, yeah, hell yeah. Um well, I guess a big thing this movie has that Don Yeah, that's true. That Dante Peaks didn't have is um Tommy Lee Jones, which is always a plus. And um fuck, why am I blanking on every single person's name? Don Cheadle. Oh, you didn't have that? I love Don Cheadle. It's like every time it put went back to Don Cheadle, I was like, are you sure we don't want to hang out here anymore? What do you call that hat he's wearing? Oh, like where yeah, I don't know what they call those. It's like an Irish type. I'm glad that those aren't a thing anymore. I actually have one. Oh. Or I used to. I don't know where it's at anymore. It's not like a beret. That was when I was trying to be cool and it I was a hipster. It's never gonna happen. I even had suspenders.

SPEAKER_01: 4:24

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 4:24

Yeah, I went through a thing in college where I glowed up a little bit and I was like, I should stylize myself more. And uh didn't wear them that often. Pretty embarrassed to wear any of it ever. I've also had suspenders sometimes. Another thing this Dante's Peak that didn't have that this movie has is Keith David just drives up and parks this car and is like, I'm a part of this movie now. It's like, okay. Yeah, the lieutenant cop just comes out of nowhere. It's like, where's he been? There's been a volcano for like four hours here. Yeah, I love how sneaky this volcano is. Oh, it was just like pop. It's like anywhere, you won't see me. Then it's like, oh, you think you beat me? I'm under the ground. Um, so uh Tommy Lee Jones or Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 5:15

It's I mean, I wish Tommy Lee Jones.

SPEAKER_00: 5:17

I was I wish they were in both movies.

SPEAKER_01: 5:18

I wish, yeah, why can't they just both do it? Why couldn't Tommy Lee be smart and call Pierce Brosnan over? Like he's he's probably in Hollywood. Yeah, right. It's probably not that far of a commute.

SPEAKER_00: 5:29

I think if I had to choose I think I'd choose Tommy Lee Jones more than Pierce Brosnan. I watched uh the first Pierce Brosnan um James Bond. It's it's so I mean there was like the first like 30 minutes of the movie, I was like, what is happening? I literally don't know anything that's happening. It's just like going scene to scene, and I'm like, what's the plot here? And then it's just like I don't know. I guess because the new bonds were so good with Daniel Craig and they're more uh better just put together films than those. I was like, oh, cool. And this was they're so silly, but I guess that's why. Does it have a satellite fight? I don't think so. Yeah, but uh does it have a uh female assassin that kills people by like starting to have sex with them and then crushes their sides? I love that about her. That's so weird. Um girl power. So after this movie ends, uh LA becomes a barren wasteland because no one is ever gonna fucking live there now. Right? Uh yeah. I mean, Hollywood's like, I guess we are going to Atlanta.

SPEAKER_01: 6:41

No, they're just gonna make it fun. I mean, you just gotta get out of there at that point, right? It's like, oh wait, it's still active. Oh no. I'm supposed to go to LA this this uh this year in for a wedding. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00: 6:55

You should check out the La Brea Tar Pits.

SPEAKER_01: 6:57

I'm flying into LA and then we're driving somewhere else. So I'm not gonna be in LA.

SPEAKER_00: 7:00

Oh gotcha. Apparently, uh my favorite my favorite thing about the La Brea Tar pits is anytime someone's like, Yeah, I can't wait to go to the La Brea Tar Pits, and then they do, they're like, it's just it's just a pit of dirty liquid water.

SPEAKER_01: 7:16

Judging by what I saw in this movie, they're just right across the street from everything else.

SPEAKER_00: 7:21

Yeah, it's just a little thing there.

SPEAKER_01: 7:23

That's insane. That's it.

SPEAKER_00: 7:24

That's all it is. And apparently it's not that interesting to look at. Does it smell bad? I don't know. I'd assume it smells like tar, right? What does tar smell like? Uh similar to what when they do road work, I'd assume.

SPEAKER_01: 7:41

But it smells like sulfur.

SPEAKER_00: 7:42

Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_01: 7:43

Probably stinky.

SPEAKER_00: 7:44

Sulfur, sulfur-y road work. Jason, why didn't volcano fix racism?

SPEAKER_01: 7:51

It did, didn't you see?

SPEAKER_00: 7:53

Not really, because the racist, like the guy was like, all right, it's like, hey, get this man some help. And then like they're trying to look at each other, and the guy's like, I'd still arrest him. Tomorrow, I'm arresting him.

SPEAKER_01: 8:04

Coming back for you.

SPEAKER_00: 8:05

The most fucking shoehorned plot ever. And I guess this was because of what the LA riots, they're just kind of making a it's like, hey, that's something that was happening in LA. So let's put it on. I don't know if it was like during 1997. I know like it was 1991. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 8:22

Was it were they rioting over the fact that this movie came out?

SPEAKER_00: 8:27

Because like the guy says like Rodney King, I'll be the volcanoes version of Rodney King, and that happened in like early 90s, 91, I want to say volcanoes just beat the shit out of him. It was just like it was so annoying. So when the guy is arresting them, I'm like, oh, are we seriously doing this? Is the volcano not enough of a movie for these people? There's a volcano. Make another movie about the other thing. I feel like it's so weird.

SPEAKER_01: 8:57

If this movie was made today, it would just be uh a wave of I don't know, wokeness. They're fighting back against the volcano would be it'd be a blue wave. Right. They're pushing back. This is erupts. Hey! Yeah, everyone it touches becomes more colorful and vibrant.

SPEAKER_00: 9:17

And everyone would be like, no, I thought we were away from this landman cured wokeness. I thought. Um, no, I just I seriously, and then with the line, because it's like, look at their faces, they're all the same. I was like, I don't even remember that line. It's like where the little kid's like, here, let's help find your mom. What does she look like? He's like, look at their faces, they all look the same. I'm like, are we right? This was this so that big of a plot point. I don't think it was.

SPEAKER_01: 9:48

I totally missed it.

SPEAKER_00: 9:50

That's what doesn't make sense. It's so shoehorn, it's so wild.

unknown: 9:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 9:56

Everyone's dark when you're covered in gunk. Yeah. So the lava was primarily made of methylos? Yikes. People clicked off the podcast. Uh, the thickening agent used in fast food milkshakes. Ooh, gross. Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 10:13

I didn't need to know that, Jesse. Eat that lava out there. Now I'm never gonna have another milkshake.

SPEAKER_00: 10:18

Fuck me, dude. I mean, it's just well, what do you know what that word even means mean either? I know what cellulose is. There's weird stuff in everything, bro. You can't eat fast food at all if you don't like gross stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 10:30

No, but I like being ignorant of it because it's delicious.

SPEAKER_00: 10:34

So at around 23 minutes, Rachel mentions an incident in Perchutin? I hate whenever I forget how to I look up how to pronounce the words and then immediately forget them when I do it. She's referring to the 1500-foot volcano that emerged over over a few months in 1942 in uh perchutan Michira, Mexico.

SPEAKER_01: 10:57

Yeah, you could just say that. Mexico.

SPEAKER_00: 11:01

That'd be better instead of looking like a damn idiot trying to do this. God, worst podcast ever. Not nearly as good as Good Hang podcast with Amy Polar, which is one of the best Golden Globes. And I'm so glad that she had a podcast for six months and it's the greatest podcast on the planet. Hey, you know what it is? It's a podcast where a celebrity interviews other celebrities that have stuff to promote, you know, like all the fucking podcasts a celebrity has. So glad we're gonna do that. Look at all these famous people I know. I did listen to it and I was like, huh. I'm not gonna listen to it. They paid a lot of money to get that award. I don't know. It was like an entertaining enough podcast, but I was like, this is the best podcast.

SPEAKER_01: 11:45

I don't want to ruin my Parks and Wreck, I mean, a polar. I don't I hope so.

SPEAKER_00: 11:50

No, I mean she's completely good in it. I mean, they're like, there's there's really nothing wrong with the podcast. I was just like, this is the best podcast? It's just a podcast to help promote other movies. Oh, wait, is that why it won? A Golden Globe. I wish she would do a podcast just pretending to be the Parks and Wreck. Leslie Note. Leslie Note'd be great. It would be amazing. All the guests on it are from Parks and Red. And have like local news with crazy shit. Uh Perd Haplet. Now you've heard with Perd. All right. So during the sorry, I just had a Burt Macklin. I just had to get that. Yes. Literally named a cat after it. So during the evacuation of the Wilshire Boulevard, after the rise of the volcano, two workers make a comment about Hirinomish. Oh my god, Bosch, the painter Bosch. While they moved various paintings. Bosch was a Dutch painter famous for his paintings about the afterlife and apocalyptic visions. Hell yeah. It's like this is heavy. Yeah, it's because Bosch. Oh, damn.

SPEAKER_03: 12:56

It's like, it's just another thing where it's like, what is this?

SPEAKER_00: 13:01

Um, Gillian Anderson from X-Files was considered for the role Dr. Amy Barnes. Uh, the role of Mike Rourke was originally offered to Ed Harris and Bill Pullman. Um, Tony Lee Jones, no one compares to him, but uh Bill Pullman would have done a pretty decent job. Yeah, I think Bill Pullman would have been fine. And then it would have been great because Bill Pullman and Michael Respoli would have teamed back up from their roles in uh while you're sleeping. Damn. You know, because uh it's so good, dude. It's ridiculous. Like it's just like kind of a cheesy little, you know, around the holidays type of uh romantic comedy. No, it's got Sandra Bullock in it, dude. Nice, she fucking rolls. Um but yeah, like the because Natalie put it on and I was like, this movie is so silly, and now I'm just like, this movie fucking rolls and it's so silly. Um, but yeah, uh Michael Respoli plays Joe Jr. And he's hilarious. A little bit rapey, but everybody was in the 90s in movies, right? You know, whatever.

SPEAKER_01: 14:07

That's kind of a theme.

SPEAKER_00: 14:08

Um well, so before we hop in the plot, we want you to think, what's the point of volcano? I mean, what the hell is this movie trying to say? Pretty obvious. Kind of try kind of just trying to randomly throw in a point of it. But um, yeah, and if you have an idea what the point of the movie is, or if you have any comments about the movie in our description, we have a link at the top. You can click and text us, or at the very bottom, you can go to our email. We recommend mailback at gmail.com. Cool, Jason, 1997, volcano. Damn. Um, all right, let's say. Uh so this movie did not make as much money as Dante Speak because Dante Speak was like, we have to get out before volcano, and it'll make more money. Strike while the higher is very much similar to Deep Impact in Armageddon, which we'll be covering over the next two weeks. But uh the budget was 90,000 90 million dollars and the gross was 122 million dollars. So um I I think it technically hit I don't think the budget was smaller, so I think somehow. So um I think it might have actually made more money overall in terms of profit. Uh but who cares? So all right, volcano.

SPEAKER_01: 15:17

I just kept thinking of the underpants gnomes from South Park. Yeah. Step one, volcano. Step two, step three, profit.

SPEAKER_00: 15:26

Step two, nothing. All right. Um so volcano. First, we hear news and radio programming while seeing the people of Los Angeles do their thing. But we get flashes of a volcano underground. We have people randomly yelling at someone because a leader doesn't want a subway.

SPEAKER_01: 15:45

Oh, it's like the it's like the ooze from Ghostbusters. Ooh, yeah. Because everyone's so angry the volcano had to come out. Or the Power Rangers movie. They have ooze. I don't know. Who did that too?

SPEAKER_00: 15:58

I don't know. They just have ooze. Nice. We did have a lot of ooze. Was it Ivanooos? No. Whatever his name is. Yeah, boy. I always wanted to eat it. In downtown Los Angeles, an earthquake strikes, Mike Rourke, played by Tommy Lee Jones, heads to the City Office of Emergency Management, insists on coming to work to help out on with the crisis, even though he has taken vacation with his daughter Kelly. How is it that both volcano movies have two people that are gonna be the leads of the movie and they're both need vacations? Dante speak and volcano. Isn't that wild? People are constantly talking about they need a vacation. Yeah, I mean, we have a problem with not giving people enough vacation time in this. Specifically, people who deal have to deal with volcanoes specifically.

SPEAKER_01: 16:42

They said then the next movie is gonna be about air traffic control just losing their goddamn mind.

SPEAKER_00: 16:49

I mean, that would be a good disaster, maybe volcanoes and tornadoes and waves. Land that plane. So Rourke hires Anita as the babysitter for Kelly while he is away for work. The Office of Emergency Management is a permanent division of the city of LA. In the event of an emergency of natural disaster, the director of the division has the powers to command and control all the resources of the city. That's the little like thing that flashes on the screen before. So it could be like, oh, that's why Tommy Lee Jones is gonna be in charge of everything. Gotcha. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01: 17:24

Not like the guy who gives you a play-by-play of the volcano on his phone.

SPEAKER_00: 17:28

Love that guy. Emmett, I think his name's Emmett, right? So we see some cops in a neighborhood breaking up a fight. One cop hates black people. We have some people betting on how big of an earthquake it was. We meet Dr. Amy Barnes, who has to speak to the public about the earthquake.

SPEAKER_01: 17:46

She got I'm pretty sure she got her degree on uh Ariz University of Arizona. Yeah. Phoenix online.

SPEAKER_00: 17:53

You don't think she you don't think she comes off as a normal, totally accurate geologist? Not really. Yeah. Uh it's it's very frustrating because I think Ann Hayes does a good job, as good as she can do with the role, but they don't they constantly want to make her write, but nobody wants to listen to her. And it's just like they don't ever give her like facts to like properly be like, no, there is a volcano. They're constantly like, get out of here, lady, and then she had gets to come back, I told you so. And it's like, well, there is no scientific proof. You have to give us more facts. And it's just like they kept they made her the smartest person in the movie, but they made her to where it's like, why would anybody believe you? It seems crazy with everything that you say.

SPEAKER_01: 18:40

Yeah, everything she says has kind of like the the feel of hearing someone say, I saw it on TikTok.

SPEAKER_00: 18:45

Yeah. Like I I heard it somewhere, and then they make her do stupid things, and it's just like, what? Like when she goes into the tunnel, which we'll get to very soon. It's like no, this isn't what she should be doing. And I don't know. That's the most frustrating part about this movie is it's like write the characters better. Yeah. Right. Um, so Rourke Associates Emmett Reese, played by Don Cheadle, hell fucking yeah, love Don Cheadle. Notes the quake caused no major damage on the city, but seven utility workers are later burned to death in a storm drain Emma Arthur Park. And it rules because when they get there, like all the like the yellow green get like steam's coming out, and he's like, Yeah, that was kind of cool. Pretty great, pretty great. Despite the city's Department of Public Works spoiled alive on steam. Ugh. A little bit, yeah. I think so. I think that'd be painful. And our girl old Rachel. Uh, that's I think that actually might be a new fear I have. Uh what happens to her. Um, so yeah, that despite the city's Department of Public Works insistence that the incident had nothing to do with the trimmer and was just an accident, the PWD supervisor says that the workers hit a steam pocket and got scalded without warning. Uh, Vork himself look at the Injuries and nose, no such burns. Those that such burns cannot be caused by steam. And it's like, yeah, dude. Uh, y'all got that much steam all the time? How's this just like, ah, it's no big deal? This is a steam pocket. Be like, what are you talking about? That's some insane steam.

SPEAKER_01: 20:18

You can't get the same burns from a hot pocket.

SPEAKER_00: 20:20

I will not work for the PWD. So Rourke tries to halt the subway lines, which run parallel to where the mishap took place at a as a precaution. Metro chairman Stan Olber, played by the Zodiac killer, though refuses, feeling there is no threat to the trains. Olber says that people depend on the subways to get back home, and he is reluctant to shut it down unless there is a concrete evidence of any danger to the trains. This movie's does something that uh no other LA movies do. Being like, hey, do you know LA has trains? I didn't know that. Yeah, they have like a whole subway system and stuff. Um and it's just like, hey, what? Uh I guess they could drive or take a bus, you know? You could just shut down one train, right? I don't think that many people use LA train systems.

SPEAKER_01: 21:07

Yeah, because all you ever hear about is how bad the traffic is.

SPEAKER_00: 21:10

Yeah. They sure use more subways. But you know, it's also LA where they have earthquakes, so why in the world would anybody take a subway there?

SPEAKER_01: 21:18

They want to eat fresh.

SPEAKER_00: 21:19

Yeah. Um, so uh against regulations, Rourke and a colleague Gator Harris, aka Joe Jr., venture down the storm sewer in the park to investigate. Rourke takes the risk as he did not want to wait three days for getting a report from the PWD. Uh they are nearly burned to death when hot gases suddenly flood the storm drain. The temperature rises to an extent that it kills all the rats in the drain, almost melts the suits worn by Rourke and Gator. Gator? Rourke exits the tunnel and tells Emmett to close the subway line and to find a geologist. Fuck me a geologist. God dang it, get me a geologist. Um This was a good scene, though. This was a pretty good scene. Um, just like the going down, it's like getting hot, and then you see the little like crack into the ground, and then it like uh makes like a panther noise, like starts growling at him, like, don't get near me.

SPEAKER_03: 22:15

Back off.

SPEAKER_00: 22:16

But then it kind of lights up. Uh I don't know. And then like my favorite part is whenever he kind of um Tommy Lee Jones like touches his suit and it's just like melting. Yeah, and I was like, that fucking rolled. And I like how the And the fakest dead rats have you ever seen.

SPEAKER_01: 22:33

I've seen a lot of fake rats. I don't know, dude.

SPEAKER_00: 22:36

The squirrels in Dante's Peak look better than the rats of this. The squirrels look pretty bad in Dante's Peak.

SPEAKER_02: 22:44

Yes. Dude, I keep feeling I have to burn.

SPEAKER_01: 22:50

The lava, it reminds me a lot of Minecraft.

SPEAKER_02: 22:52

Yeah?

SPEAKER_01: 22:54

I guess. Yeah, it's very below the surface.

SPEAKER_00: 22:58

That's true. Everywhere you go, there's lava, apparently. Um so we see La Brea starting to bubble up. We see Dr. Jay Calder and Norman Calder discuss it opening a condo or living in that condo or something. And Rourke X-Y calls and chew him out for leaving his daughter. Because, you know, yeah, dude, you shouldn't left your daughter.

SPEAKER_01: 23:18

Yeah, that's a recurring theme, uh, I think with him. I think because Ashley was like, go back to your daughter, you idiot. Like everybody in the movie is telling him the same thing. Yeah, for real. It's like She is your responsibility and you are failing. Yeah, uh bad dad. Definitely bad dad.

SPEAKER_00: 23:37

Uh Linda. Uh what was her name in Dante's Peak? The mom at Dante Speak. Wando. Wando, yeah. She's uh much better mom than Tommy Lee Jones is a bad dad. Um, so yeah. Um yeah, and the only reason I put that condo thing is, well, because you got the doctor and like the city councilman or whatever guy, and it's just like a stupid added plot point that doesn't make any sense where he's like, Oh, you should stop helping people. Ugh. Thing at the end, it's like, all right, but uh this condo is the one that they're gonna knock down later. So Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. So geologist Dr. Amy Barnes believes a volcano may be forming near the city with magma flowing underground, but cannot come up with enough evidence for Rourke to take action. Her only data point is that the water in the lake at MacArthur has gone up in temperature from 62 degrees to 68 degrees in twelve hours. Barnes says it takes a geological event to do this. She asks for time to collect samples from the storm drain, but Rourke cannot permit that, as it is already too dangerous. Um Two things. Uh, what's magma? Are you fucking kidding me? You don't everybody knows what magma is. Magma. Right? Am I insane? Uh no, I think it's supposed to be commonly known. Yeah, and it's like liquid fire. And so the OEM head guy is like, what's magma? Did he not have to go to school at all? I thought she said schmegma. Correct. Don't probably plenty of that also in LA. Full of it. Um, but yeah, it was just like, it's such a poorly done, hey, we need to explain to the audience what's going on and why this is happening. So let's make our lead character who should be smarter than this, ask what magma is.

SPEAKER_01: 25:27

They should just have Bill and I come on there and explain it to everyone, my children.

SPEAKER_00: 25:31

It's like it'd be more like, okay, well, at least I'm not frustrated at the characters. Um and apparently Rourke and Amy like each other. And it's just like, what? Because they kind of have like an art, because they get in an argument, and then Rachel's like, uh, he likes you. And then she's like, I hate him. It's like, you like him too. And it's like, let's shoe more stuff in here, why don't we? Let's do as much as we can. But um, and this is also kind of the frustrate frustrating part, because it's like she probably could have went down there now and tried to maybe take samples, uh, and it wouldn't have been as big of a deal. But it wasn't really matter because they wouldn't probably get the samples back in time. But um, I do like that it is kind of cool to learn that like 62 degrees to 68 degrees in 12 hours is very random. Because he's like, Oh yeah, it is a pretty sunny day, and it's like this is like thousands of gallons of water. So it has to be something crazy that did it.

SPEAKER_02: 26:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 26:28

That's good to know, I guess, if it's even accurate at all. Um, but this movie compared to Dante's Peak, does not seem accurate.

SPEAKER_01: 26:36

Not especially. Except for when like the tires explode on the trucks. That's kind of what I was expecting to happen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 26:44

Yeah, right. Um, I also love that it takes like uh they're like, hey, shoot the tires out of this bus. All the cops are like, hell yeah. We've been waiting. Finally. Can we just shoot the volcano? Would that help? Yes. So uh we see the elephants in La Brea start sinking. And it's like, oh, poor elephants. And early in the morning, Dr. Barnes and her her assistant Rachel go back to MacArthur Park to investigate the scene of the accident. After descending into the storm drain, they discover a crack in the ground, which released the gases earlier. While they are taking soil samples, a massive earthquake strikes, and Rachel is killed when she falls into the crack because the dummy was fucking straddling the crack. That's what she said. It's like, hey, you know, this is probably the thing that killed these men in the sewer. So how about not put your entire body over it?

SPEAKER_01: 27:40

She was playing hops.

SPEAKER_00: 27:41

But this is uh, yeah, watching it this time I was like, ooh, falling into a pit, right? And just like, no one's ever gonna be able to save me, and I'll probably die anyways. But uh kind of something I don't want to do. But if you're already fall falling, might as well just go head first. Yeah, right. Or just like, please have a heart attack before I hit the ground. So Rourke and his daughter are heading to oh yeah. Um Yeah, so the Matt there's a huge earthquake. Uh Tommy Lee Jones and his daughter is at their house and he's like running around. They get under the uh uh frame of a door, and I was like, oh cool. Yeah, I didn't think I guess you have to know how to do all this stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 28:23

Yeah, they have a lot of earthquakes there, apparently. I like how she said uh you just get in the door frame and kiss your ass goodbye. Yeah. And he's like, I'm calling the cough. Calling Anita. Anita hug and kiss.

SPEAKER_00: 28:37

I'm gonna make her spank you. Because then I won't be able to see you anymore if I did it. Um so yeah, and then he's like, you know what I should do? Drive with my daughter in a car.

SPEAKER_01: 28:50

So Rourke and his dog. You remember when he pulled the eggs off the stove and the dog immediately like licks them when they fall on the ground?

SPEAKER_00: 28:55

Yeah, and it's just like, those are hot eggs.

SPEAKER_01: 28:57

Right, and then the pan, too, right?

SPEAKER_00: 28:59

Oh cool, yeah. I remember my dog uh kind of really taught my dog a lesson. Uh, because you know, we finish cooking and we go and sit down and start eating, and then you know, we just think my dog's getting a drink of water, and instead, nope, puts his paws up on the stove and like gets a little too close to the and it's like hey, we've been telling you not to do that, bro. But he was fine and he's okay. He's he's fine enough. So Brooke and his daughter are heading to OEM when suddenly near the La Brea tar pit, smoke rises out along with lava bombs.

SPEAKER_01: 29:34

That'd be awesome if the elephants start coming out of the tar pit.

SPEAKER_00: 29:37

Yeah, it's like the volcano tone turn the elephants real.

SPEAKER_01: 29:41

That'd be sweet.

SPEAKER_00: 29:42

So, and then steam explodes from the sewer system, sending steel grates flying into the air everywhere, while a subway train filled with passengers derails underground. Um, Rourke and his daughter continue to drive and then runs into Dr. Calder, who is helping a firefighter. Chaos is everywhere, and it's super loud until it goes extremely quiet. This is this was a fucking rad scene, though.

SPEAKER_01: 30:05

Did you see this is the part where the the fire truck uh tips over?

SPEAKER_00: 30:09

And then the one like one of the firefighters gets launched out of the door. Well, it's because like a lava bomb hits it, turns it over, and then a guy goes flopping just straight up in the air, like 20 feet. Yeah. Oh god, I love that. I will say, like, this all the action in it is pretty dope. This scene has a lot of dope ass action. Like all the manhole covers flying over the air because steam is really cool. They're stuck in the chaos. The issue is the whole time you're like, Rourke, fucking turn around and drive the opposite direction. You have your daughter in the car, you idiot. So it's like, if we even though like really cool things are happening, I'm still just like wanting to punch the TV because like everybody's making every dumb decision. The only person that doesn't make a dumb decision is the doctor in this movie. She's like, Well, I'm a doctor and I have no kids, so I should be able to save these people.

SPEAKER_01: 31:09

Yeah, she has uh she tells uh Rourke like your daughter is more important. It's like get her out of here.

SPEAKER_00: 31:16

She didn't have a kid and she knows it. And he's like, you know what? You take her. You take her. You take this dumb bitch off my hands. I hate her. You seem responsible. Her wife forces me. She's your daughter now. My ex-wife forces me to hang out with her. Um, but yeah, all this kind of leads to uh the point to where uh it's this chaos is happening. Tommy Lee Jones is trying to get a firefighter out of the fire truck, and then it's this it just goes so quiet, and it's like, hell yeah. It's this great like buildup of tension, and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, everything's fine. Then it's like, nah, bitch.

SPEAKER_01: 31:53

I know, I felt so bad for that guy. You know he's gonna die.

SPEAKER_00: 31:57

Yeah, it's like uh stuck. So um then uh all of a sudden a newly formed volcano just rubs from the tar pits and lava begins to flow freely through the city's boulevards, and it looks rad. That was pretty cool. Looks so good, and just like, yeah, and then you got all the smoke coming out. Problem is Dante's peaks, Dante's peak, uh the volcano just looks rad. And then when the smoke comes out of it looks better, but uh Dante's Peaks needed more uh Dante's Peak. Stop saying it wrong, Jesse.

SPEAKER_01: 32:31

It needed more firebombs, it needed more lava bombs. Yeah. I thought it was really funny whenever the lava bomb is coming and she's everybody was like, get the fuck out of the way. She's like, wait, no, stop. You want to know where it's gonna fall first.

SPEAKER_00: 32:46

Well, let's see, it's arching, so I'm just gonna run the direction it came from. Like, why do you gotta sit there and wait last second to dodge out of the way? This isn't like Elden Ring or something.

SPEAKER_01: 32:55

This is like, okay, now you can run.

SPEAKER_00: 32:56

It's like, I think it would have been alright just running away, right? I mean, I mean it's a good point. I don't know. I've never uh it's probably fine to just run. Yeah, just like, all right, so it's coming this direction, so I'll go that direction. So the lava incinerates everything in its past path and it kills two firefighters in an overturned truck. Then Rourke becomes separated as Kelly is injured when a lava bomb burns her leg and is taken to Cedar Sinai Hospital along with other patients, and the care doctor Jay called her. Um, so my biggest thing, hey Kelly, fucking move from the lava. Because she sees the lava coming, then she gets out and she's like, Dad, just standing there looking at the lava. It's like back up, walk towards your dad. Oh, then the lava bomb lands next to her. Yeah, she had plenty of. She wouldn't have been there if she was a smart person and ran away from lava.

SPEAKER_01: 33:48

You're just saying, because you just have to take time to process it.

SPEAKER_00: 33:50

It's like if it was fast-moving lava, you know, and it like just overran her, then one thing. This is slow ass lava. You can outrun this lava. So outrun it.

SPEAKER_01: 33:59

I mean, I would kind of be looking at lava way too long because it's cool. Yeah, it's cool as well.

SPEAKER_00: 34:05

Yeah, take a peek and be like, all right.

SPEAKER_01: 34:08

Wow, I kind of want to see what it does to this car. I should probably know what like move 20 feet down the road then.

SPEAKER_00: 34:14

You can watch her. Yeah, right. I know. It's wild. It's just like none of this would happen. She just moved. And uh, how about you get your daughter to a safe place before stopping 5,000 times? You have a responsibility, which is something that I love that Kelly says. It's like, because um the daughter Kelly, she's like, What about me? It's like, I have a responsibility to do this. Like, I'm your responsibility. Remember me? You made me. I didn't want to be in this situation, but you had to have sex. Um, but also I do love that uh there's the guy in the car that works for a news station just like telling the audience, hey, this is happening. Hey, this is happening, or like, we can see. Yeah. We don't need this guy just constantly yelling the whole time.

SPEAKER_01: 34:58

Yeah, he's giving a play by play by everything.

SPEAKER_00: 35:00

It's like we can we can see all this happening. Why is this guy in it? Oh, because they needed to give take a cell phone from him. That's the whole reason this guy character exists, is so we can have a cell phone.

SPEAKER_01: 35:10

And when they're looking at um Rourke from the helicopter on the news, and they're just like, oh my god, and then they just cut to him, they're like, hey, there's a guy. Oh, this guy doesn't even know what he's doing.

SPEAKER_00: 35:20

It's like follow him around. Hey, helicopter, there's a volcano. You think you want to get a picture of that? It's a little bit cooler than a guy running in the streets. There's just a starstrup. There's just too much stuff happening in this movie. So we see chaos ensuing all over the place, people walking around on fire, wishbone almost being consumed on the wall. Yeah, this was around when wishbone was like that type of dog was in like every movie in the 90s. It's wild. It's probably the same dog every time. You got that fucking bone, though. Yeah. I know. They're like, my dog's in there. The dog's like, hey, get me out of here. And then he goes and he's like disbarstes the lava. It's fucking my bone. So good. Um, and then uh, so we see a black man asking fire truck, asking for fire trucks and going to go get help. Dr. Barnes Barnes shows up and cries while looking at a volcano because Rachel would have loved to see this. There's like screaming and people, chaos all around. Rachel would have loved this. It's like, lady, she would have loved the destruction. I'm glad one person on the planet would have loved it, but no time no one else does right now, okay?

SPEAKER_01: 36:37

I have a big problem.

SPEAKER_00: 36:39

It was just it was just such bad. It's like, really? That you choose to put that line in there. So people are saving some uh Bosch paintings because they are heavy. This is heavy. Well, it's yeah, because Bosch usually uh something, something, something's heavier in the future about God and humanity. It's like, no, I just meant it's heavy, and he's like, Oh, it is a funny line, but it's just like, what the fuck are we doing? So uh Rourke is gonna overturn a bus to stop um whatever that red stuff is coming out of a volcano. Cause uh people oh god, it's so infuriating this movie. Because right, because you have the cops there, and it's the race, there's the racist cop there, and they're like, all right, we gotta overturn this bus. Uh, so we need to shoot it at the towers and push it um so that we can stop this. He's like, or could and I think Tommy Lean Jones says, like, stop whatever this is. And then Dr. Barnes is like, it's lava. And the cop's like, what? It's lava. I'm like, there's a volcano shooting out lava. What are you talking about? How do you not know what this is yet? And he's like, okay, it's lava. Whatever you want. All of y'all so far behind in what's happening right now. You see a volcano shooting lava, it's lava.

SPEAKER_01: 37:53

Stupid as fucking dialogue. I know, but and then when they push the bus down and everyone's like cheering, like, it's working. It's definitely not.

SPEAKER_00: 38:01

It's like it's it just goes around it. Yeah, it goes around it. But you know, it's like when water meets a thing, it just flows into another way. It's like, what are they talking about? So work, roaring barnes. There's like, I guess, like a man just sleeping next to a tree. I don't know. I don't I guess he just didn't hear anything happening around him. Um, so they decide to save the unconscious man, but they get stuck between the overturned bus and a fallen palm tree. And it's like that's ridiculous. So fuck it. Just a classic situation. And so they um instead of running and jumping over the palm tree, they uh the firefighters so much easier. The firefighters are gonna grab, get the little firefighter ladder, move it over there. So they put the man on it and they're like, all right, let's go. And it's like a lot of weight. Then all of a sudden there's the hose that is on the firefighter ladder, and it starts to burn. The homeless one is just like, it's on fire. What the hell? Just let me die next time. Now I'm homeless and I have burnt feet. Um, and the ladder starts to kind of break, but then they fall to safety. Um, except for that one guy that's on fire. So, you know, yeah. That guy's gonna have a rough day. And, you know, probably just gonna have to live with that pain. Clothes would have been like they would have been. So the fire hose catches fire, but their clothes doesn't. Yeah, exactly. So Rourke and Dr. Barnes devises a plan to organize a stacking of concrete barriers and digging ditches at the intersection of Wilshire Bar Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue to create a cul-de-sac to pull the lava or whatever that stuff's called.

SPEAKER_01: 39:35

Well, he he says first he calls it a horseshoe, and then someone's like, What? Yeah, and then he goes, a cul-de-sac. Like, you didn't know what a fucking horseshoe looked like.

SPEAKER_00: 39:43

Because it turns out every everybody that has some sort of power or some sort of responsibility in LI LA, they're like, Sheesh. It's like wild. And so And then like some of the most infuriating stuff's about to happen. So the black man from earlier comes and asks a fireman for help, and instead of gets arrested by a racist cop, like, what are we doing here?

SPEAKER_01: 40:13

Yeah. No, that's that seemed that seemed like the most normal thing that happened.

SPEAKER_00: 40:17

I feel like if you're racist and you have the situation of arresting a black man or worrying about a volcano. Yeah, yeah. There's a fucking volcano in LA, you dumbass racist racist cop. How about some things trump other things?

SPEAKER_01: 40:38

No, we just need a guy that can't use his hands around us for a while.

SPEAKER_00: 40:42

Here's what I wanted in this movie: someone sees the volcano, and they're just like, just sort of running and screaming. It's like, what the hell's going on? Didn't think this was possible. Instead, you just got a cop like, hey, like man, you touched a white man. Time to arrest you. And it's like, are you fucking serious? So annoying. But meanwhile, Olber leads a team through an underground tunnel to a derailed train to look for survivors before lava reaches the train. When they get on the train, most of the passengers are unconscious because you know, odd as balls in there. They save everyone, but Olber notices the conductor is still missing, goes back to find him. He finds the conductor alive, but unconscious. Just as the lava starts reaching the train and begins flowing underneath it, Olber is like, he starts doing like the Lord's Prayer, but it sounds demonic as hell. Um, this scene is kind of metal though.

SPEAKER_01: 41:36

Though, yeah, with the shoes and those wings.

SPEAKER_00: 41:40

Then he gets to the end of the train, he's like, just leave the unconscious, dude. He'll probably actually die pretty quickly, and you know, he won't even see it. Just dip his head in the lava head first, then jump.

SPEAKER_01: 41:50

Use his body as a mat, like a stare.

SPEAKER_00: 41:53

So the the fucking zodiac killer is just like jumps in the lava, then throws the guy. Yeah, it does like a bench press. I was like, first of all, it's too hot. You're exhausted, your feet are burning, you jump in the lava, you're melting.

SPEAKER_01: 42:09

Right? And you face plant.

SPEAKER_00: 42:10

It's just like, yeah, you killed both of each other. You should just left, but you know, it's fucking crazy. But it rolled.

SPEAKER_01: 42:18

I do like how it kind of just melted into the lava like terminator. Thumbs up.

SPEAKER_00: 42:25

It's just like, wow, cool. Okay, cool. So Barnes starts playing basketball and notice that the lava's going a far different direction.

SPEAKER_01: 42:37

I was hoping that she would just start playing basketball.

SPEAKER_00: 42:40

Hey, Tommy, you wanna go?

SPEAKER_01: 42:41

She starts dunking. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 42:46

Yeah. But she grabs the basketball just to like put it on the ground to see where it rolls, and it's just like, ah. Okay. Cool. You couldn't just tell. She's like, it's a it's a circle. It's a slope. So that means the lava's gonna go a different direction. Tony Lee Jones is like, okay. So uh suddenly Keith Davis shows up. Um he tells the racist copy tells the racist cop to stop arresting people, dumbass. Um the concrete barriers show up, but it's not enough, so they are going to create a barrier for barrier for the lava to pull up so they can dump a ton of fucking water on it so the lava will dam itself. Rourke. We're going to put as many people in front of it as it takes. Listen up, people. Let me tell you what's south of us. No more museums, no more department stores, just homes. People, if we turn and run now, they're going to be defenseless. You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me another plan, but don't tell me we're backing down, backing out. And it's like, there's just fucking let Tommy Lee Jones cook, baby. Give him some marshmallows over that lava. Um, but I feel like it's a pretty sound plan, you know? Pull it up, dump a bunch of water on it, right?

SPEAKER_01: 43:58

Yeah, it seems pretty good.

SPEAKER_00: 43:59

Yeah. So everybody gets into place and starts moving cars and barriers. The man that is in handcuffs taunt the racist police officer. Oh, it was fun. And then the non-racist police officer uh is like, God, uh, because he can't move the barrier. So the non-racist police officer uncuffs the man and he helps move the barrier and ends racism.

SPEAKER_01: 44:18

Gets their shoulder to shoulder lifting it together.

SPEAKER_00: 44:21

I'm about to be the volcano version of Rodney King.

SPEAKER_01: 44:23

And it kind of does the slow-mo of them like looking at each other.

SPEAKER_00: 44:26

Yeah, and it's like, even the racist cop's still like, oh, dude. Can't wait to arrest you again. Like, if you walked into a dark alley, I'd find you. Like, uh it's such a shame that the racist cop doesn't die in this movie. Yeah, he should have. It's he couldn't have learned his lesson. I guess learn his lesson and then just like one lava bomb dispersed. I don't know, dude. It's just insane. I was like, no, he's still gonna be a racist cop. Yeah. Um, but yeah, you know, it's just like, what are we doing? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_01: 44:59

So we're breaking the chains, Jesse.

SPEAKER_00: 45:02

Breaking barriers here. We set up a barrier. We had to break barriers to make a barrier.

SPEAKER_01: 45:06

Break down these emotional walls.

SPEAKER_00: 45:08

So we get a quick scene of vets helping burnt animals, and they bandaged a snake.

SPEAKER_01: 45:12

That was so cute. The dog with the bandage on its head. Yeah, that one made sense.

SPEAKER_00: 45:16

It's just like bandaging the snake. That was funny. I mean, I guess snakes need bandage, but it just looks stupid as hell. Yes. It's like, why'd they show it? I don't know. It made no sense. It made no sense at all. It's like they're just like, hey, we have an idea. What if we showed like what would happen to pets in this situation? That is true. This is the emergency responder team. It's like the emergency responders are so good in this movie, and Dante's Peak, the National Guard's like, we'll be there five days from now.

SPEAKER_01: 45:49

You're right. They're really on top of the game.

SPEAKER_00: 45:53

I feel like uh Dante's Peak is more accurate, so how it be. I will be, I don't know. Donald Trump's got us somewhere else. We can't be over there.

SPEAKER_01: 46:00

All the firefighters took the day off. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 46:04

Oh, there's a big firefighter convention in San Francisco.

SPEAKER_01: 46:08

Oh man, that would be so sexy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 46:10

This is where we film our uh uh calendars. I don't know. So they get the barriers up and it begins to pool. The authorities then dump massive amounts of water from helicopters and from the firefighters on it to form a crust. The operation is successful. But Dr. Barnes later theorizes that Magna is still flowing underground in one of the subway tunnels heading north. And it's like, oh fuck, are you serious? Get this lady away from me.

SPEAKER_01: 46:35

I love how all the responders are like leaning over the barriers looking at the lava and their faces weren't melting. That was great. I would do it too. I'd be like a closer look.

SPEAKER_00: 46:44

I gotta take a week, I gotta take a peek. And your eyebrows just sizzle. And uh the way that Dr. Barnes knows that is she goes into a tunnel because they're like, something's not right. It should be exploding more. Like there must be some sort of flow somewhere else. And they're like, so she goes into this one tunnel that is luckily blocked and like it puts a thermometer in it, and it's just like shit's hot. You better get out of here. So she runs. So um Rourke and Barnes they go to the manhole and put a camera down in it, and lava quickly burns the camera. Barnes calculates that the main eruption will occur at the Beverly Center, which is right where Cedar Sinai is located. After calculating the speed of the flowing lava, determining the lava will reach the end of the tunnel in 30 minutes. Also, racist cop asked for them to send help to man's neighborhood who was asking for help. Oh, that's nice. See, he did learn his lesson. Racist is over. There's no more racist cops. Um pretty cool scene though of them putting the camera down and the lava overtakes it. Um so through work's direction. Oh, also forgot to mention, um, so like uh Hard Rock Cafe uh paid a lot of money to get in this movie. Really? Yeah, uh, because it's the main advertisement of the whole movie. Nice. Because this is like it just keeps cutting to Hard Rock Cafe. I'm like, how much how much of the 90 million dollar budget do they put into this movie? So um, yeah, so through Rourke's direction, explosives are used to create a channel in the street to divert the flow of lava into Bologna Creek, which will later flow into the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Barnes deduces through a geological map that the street is sloping in the opposite direction. Rourke is at a loss and ejected. Um people are like, what are we gonna do? It's like um throw some buses on the back. You know, I love it because like this Tommy Lee Jones is fucking, you know, is a good actor. He says, I know, I sent them over there along with my daughter. And he's like, I I don't know. He's just like, I I don't know what to do. His like dejected look, I was like, damn, he's such a good actor. So ridiculous. Um, but yeah, so uh Rourke devises a pl another plan to demolish a 22-story condominium building to block the lava's path from flowing towards the hospital and the rest of the west side of Los Angeles, redirecting it into a nearby storm drain. Rourke tells Barnes to go find his daughter and make sure she gets somewhere safe. And you know, just this person that's been kind of act correct about every single thing in this movie. You're just like, hey, can you like leave the movie while I do all the cool stuff, please? Like, thanks.

SPEAKER_01: 49:19

Kind of metal to just block it to bring down an entire building. Oh no, I mean on top of the lava.

SPEAKER_00: 49:24

Uh they only have 13 fucking minutes to do it. I don't think they uh had any chance of actually so you have to get the explosives, which whoever just had that was pop it out of people's ears, and it's oh yeah, we got our explosive shucks right here. We thought that might be good for the lava.

SPEAKER_01: 49:40

So Kelly, who's got a guy on the street like explosives, explosives, because anybody seen any terrorists around you?

SPEAKER_00: 49:49

This would be a great time for them. Shit. Gotta end it. We gotta end everything in this movie. It's like we ended terrorism by working together. Hell yeah, we did. Volcanoes bring people together. They do. They really do. So Kelly, Rourke's daughter, who has been chilling at the Hard Rock Cafe taking care of two little kids for some fucking reason. She loses a little boy who's just running around for some reason.

SPEAKER_01: 50:10

Yeah. From five to seven.

SPEAKER_00: 50:11

Yeah. She goes to look for the kid, and it's just like, Kelly, you gotta just let that kid go, man. It's like, sorry. Um, so the Aravo Lux erupts, causing chaos. Fire is shooting everywhere. It's red. Yes. So good. As Olava arrives, Mike's co-worker Gator and LAPD bomb squad officer are trapped under debris, debris. So, damn, Joe Jr.'s got to sacrifice their lives to detonate the final explosive charge.

SPEAKER_01: 50:42

And it's just so um they knew they had to sacrifice someone.

SPEAKER_00: 50:47

Well, it's well, they're just like, all right, yeah, we're ready, go detonate when you're ready. And it's like no Joe, you stay. Yeah, I would have been like, I'd have been like, hold on, uh dumbass stuck under debris, but I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_01: 51:00

Um you do it, hands in the Joe, you're stuck.

SPEAKER_00: 51:03

Yeah. Uh, but there is a quick little fact about this scene. So um we already had the thing where the the doctor that's taking care of people at the hospital, um, her husband or fiance or whatever, like comes up and is like, You gotta get out of here. This is ridiculous. Stop trying to save people and do your job. I she's like, You can get out of here. I don't care. And he's like, Oh, I'm leaving. He was supposed to be going to this condo that they're about to explode. Nice. Um, and I guess there was a scene shot uh of him being in the condo as it explodes because like yeah. I don't know, right? It makes no sense. But they were like, ah, yeah, we don't want to put that scene in there because it'll it'll mess with uh the sacrifice of the two people, the emotional sacrifice of the two people having the bomb detonated with him. I'm like, it wasn't that emotional, it didn't really care that much. Sorry. Could have added it. I'm glad you didn't get it. It could have been like a more fun moment. Yeah. Funny. So Mike then spots Kelly nearby trying to retrieve a little boy she was watching who wandered off. The two are in the direct path of collapsing building, of course. Mike barely manages to save them from being crushed as the building collapses.

SPEAKER_01: 52:13

It's such a corny scene, like with all the special effects. It's just like not so special.

SPEAKER_00: 52:18

It's like, what? It's like this is why we had the daughter in the movie.

SPEAKER_01: 52:23

And the daughter is just sitting there watching the building fall and he pushes her out of the way, I guess.

SPEAKER_00: 52:28

Yeah, I guess like he rolled underneath another building, so it's just like just enough space. So but the plan succeeds and the lava flows directly into the ocean, looks pretty rad. As it begins raining, and it's like, are you fucking now? It rains. Their trio emerges from the rubble unscathed and reunites with Barnes. It's like at least kill one of them.

SPEAKER_01: 52:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 52:51

Somebody's gotta die. Broken leg or something.

SPEAKER_01: 52:54

No, they all have to go to parenting classes. Yeah. Apple does a fire false.

SPEAKER_00: 52:58

He never saw his daughter again.

SPEAKER_01: 53:01

He pushes her into the wall.

SPEAKER_00: 53:02

I mean, for real, because like she's gonna Kelly's gonna go home and be like, so you got out of that situation? Yeah, it's like, so explain to me the whole situation. Well, um, so there was an earthquake, so dad decided to drive somewhere, and then every a volcano happened, and he was like, left me in a car. In front of the volcano. In front of the volcano, and then like I got out, and I was an idiot, and I didn't run away from the lava, and then I got burned. And then he was like, Hey, random stranger, take my kid, and then he has no idea where I am. Uh, but then like they just started giving me responsibilities for some dumb reason.

SPEAKER_01: 53:44

Started throwing kids at her.

SPEAKER_00: 53:45

Yeah, and then like one kid ran away, and I was like, I have to protect this kid, but then dad saved me at the last second. It's like, you'll never see your father again. CPS immediately. It's like you're never going to LA either. But um, so Emmett shows up alongside their dog, and it's like, okay, forgot there's even a dog that they don't. Emmet tells him about all the other emergencies around them, but Rourke tells him he's heading home with his daughter. Um, nah, dude. They still like at this point. It's like, oh, so now he's leaving. He's like, there's a lot more things to be doing around here. How about you take the rest of the day off? They're going to ice and then come back tomorrow to see the lava flows. Yeah. Um, and this is also we kind of got the this is where we get the line. Look at their faces. They all look the same. So at the tar pits.

unknown: 54:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 54:39

At the tar pits, the volcano has taken shape above ground and has since been named Mount Wilshire Shire. As the movie concludes, it remains active. And then Randy Newman starts to sing. Yes. That was the vibe of the movie. You got a friend in me.

SPEAKER_01: 54:57

Is that Randy Newman?

SPEAKER_00: 54:58

Yeah. This is LA song, though. I was just like, yeah, that's that's what I was thinking after volcano. Randy Newman. So, um, Jason, what's the point?

SPEAKER_01: 55:13

Uh, watch out for those volcanoes, they'll get you. Yeah. Yeah. Pop it up in the street.

SPEAKER_00: 55:18

Natural disasters can cure racism.

SPEAKER_01: 55:20

They can.

SPEAKER_00: 55:21

And listen to scientists.

SPEAKER_01: 55:23

Yeah. Although this one didn't really have a lot to say. Well, as far as that goes.

SPEAKER_00: 55:29

It was just like, it was that's what's oh, I know we kind of talked about it earlier. It's just so frustrating how much they're just like, the scientist knows everything, but she can't prove anything because we're not allowing her in the movie to prove anything until after it happens. And then she has to be like, Told you so.

SPEAKER_01: 55:43

And it's just like And that wasn't even they could have made the whole movie without her because it had nothing to do with she didn't do anything. Yeah, they had nothing to do with predicting any kind of catastrophe. It was just dealing with the aftermath.

SPEAKER_00: 55:57

I mean, the two biggest things she does is like, don't run until you know where the lava bomb's gonna flow. Watch out for lava. Hey, this lava's gonna flow this way, and it's like, well, they don't really have a good idea of how what lava is, so I mean if you told them that the lava's gonna flow that way, they'll be like, wait, are you sure this is lava? Um But yeah, and I think also the point of the movie is that um no matter what, don't put your daughter in I don't know. I'm gonna cut all that out.

SPEAKER_01: 56:36

Emergency response teams need a raise, probably. Yeah, for real. I think they make minimum wage.

SPEAKER_00: 56:41

And it's gonna really suck because they're probably gonna be like, we actually can't pay you, we gotta rebuild this whole entire city here. Um I just like when I watch a movie like this, I'm like, I wonder what Tom Hanks was doing during this.

SPEAKER_01: 56:54

What was he? He's 97?

SPEAKER_00: 56:56

Well, I would just like you think he's just like in his home, like, oh shit. Damn, I hope Tommy Lee Jones is taking care of this.

SPEAKER_01: 57:04

Oh man, I wonder if if there is like if people are gonna try to step up like that, people who have played roles like that, they're gonna try to step up, or are they just gonna be smart and get it?

SPEAKER_00: 57:15

They're just like, oh, uh, yeah, where's my private jet? I'm out of here. None of them are gonna do that. It's like when all the fires happen, I mean, they all just left. Yeah, smart. We're out of here. Could we potentially, you know, use our money and wealth to save homeless people that are also being caught in the destruction? No. Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_01: 57:41

Not everybody is brave as Harold Ford.

SPEAKER_00: 57:42

When our fancy ass houses that are hella insured uh burn down, we'll be like, Yeah, my house burned down. And everybody's like, Aww. Did you help anybody in the situation with your money? Nah. I mean, I don't know. They may have like donated it and stuff to help whatever, but you know, they just got out of there. They're not heroes, they're just people who play stuff, they just play things on TV. So um, guess I had some things to say about celebrities. I just I just watched the Golden Globe. So it's just like you see also like the rich and wealthy, and it's like it's always fun to watch them at the Golden Globes because they all get you know drunk, but you know, you see all those famous people saying how much they love each other, and sometimes it's like, okay. It's fun. So we'll hit our next category. I might cut all that because I don't know. Um, it's called the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we discuss what we liked about the film, the good, what we didn't like, the bad, what we thought didn't age well, the ugly, what did age well, the fine. Um, for me, I put for the good, I put um Tommy Lee Jones Jones' acting in certain parts and some of the special effects in certain parts. Uh, but not in all parts.

SPEAKER_01: 58:48

Only in certain parts. It's also gonna be my bad. Yeah. No, yeah. Mine was kind of the same. I mean, Tommy Lee Jones, I kind of have a soft spot for him. I love that guy. It's just the way the movie is.

SPEAKER_00: 59:00

The way he talks, the way his face looks, I don't know. It's just all of it. Something about his face. I know. I was thinking like we should do the fugitive soon because he's so good and he delivers one-liners like a G in there. Um for the bad, I put uh shoehorn racial commentary. Racial commentary? Doesn't belong in the movie. Uh I appreciate what they're trying to do, but uh if you can't do it right, don't do it.

SPEAKER_01: 59:24

Right? Yeah. Um my bad was just like the cheesiness of all the the rescue people. Yeah. Like uh the guy on the train. The zodiac killer. Like he that was so cheesy.

SPEAKER_00: 59:37

That was so wild. And like it's funny because like to me, I'm like, I I needed fifteen more things of that.

SPEAKER_01: 59:44

And it they he runs into the the subway train and or the he's obviously never been in an emergency situation. Like he doesn't it's almost like he doesn't know what to say. Yeah. He's like, look at everybody. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 59:59

I mean which I guess those are kind of parts where I'm like, yeah, I mean, they kind of probably got it right. This is the whole I don't know. They the reason they have him rescue the guy is because he was a dickhead the whole time. So they're trying to, you know, a character arc of he's an asshole, but oh wait, no, actually he's a good guy and he sacrificed himself. But it's just like, I don't know, man. I actually like fucking Mario threw him off the thing, because you know he had a mustache. Um it's like I I think at a this this guy would have just been like, I don't know, we can't save everybody. We gotta most people, let's go, right? Yeah, it or they I don't know. Yeah, it was just kind of cheesy. Turns out me and Jason wouldn't save people in this situation.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:43

No, I would try.

SPEAKER_00: 1:00:44

I mean I'd tell you I think there's just a point where you're like, I don't, I don't know, we could both die. And at this point, I gotta think of myself.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:00:52

Yeah. I'd throw you in front of the lava. I mean, like, if it was like my wife, I'd be like, yeah, I'd jump in lava and throw her to safety. For sure. But also. She probably would have been long gone by that point. Yeah. I'd just be like, damn, my feet hurt. It's like, I'm gonna wake up. Um, so yeah, for the ugly, I put a cop would probably uh arrest a black man while standing next to lava. That's probably a true thing that would happen.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:19

Yeah, you're right about that. That was, yeah, like I said, it's the most normal thing that I saw, the most accurate thing in the movie to me. Wild. Now, would he just like let him walk around? No, he would have put him in the car, right?

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:33

Yeah, put him in the car, put it in reverse. The lava. That's probably what he had done.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:37

It's just like a great, I it's just a great chance for that cop to get away out of the situation. Yeah for good.

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:43

I gotta take this man in.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:44

Yeah, I gotta book him downtown. What do you do?

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:46

He asks for help during a volcano situation. Oh, yeah. This is probably gonna take all day. I'll see. And also, like, what kind of kills me is that we're supposed to be like the other cop is supposed to be like the good guy cop, right? But when he because after they he arrests the man, the racist cop, the good cop's like, what are you even doing? It's like, I'm booking this guy. He's like, all right, he's yours. And it's like, how about you go, hey idiot? Don't do that. Let him go. I don't know if he would have listened. Pull a gun out on him. I don't know. It's like at a certain point, it's like, because we're supposed to be like, oh yeah, the good cop.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:24

And it's like, who's this gonna allow him to because they're always gonna have each other's back unless it's heinous?

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:30

Yeah, because I'm sure it'd be like after all this, and they did Arrest the Black and be like, Yeah, you can ask my partner, he'd be like, Yeah, he he touched a fireman.

unknown: 1:02:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:41

Alright, uh, so for the fine, I put um the movie, it's fine.

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:46

Yeah, it's it's it's I liked it more the second time I watched it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:50

It's a great, like, damn, I drink a little bit too much the next day. Oh, it's on TV. Yeah. Uh all right, yeah, I'll just put it on. It's some cool visuals sometimes.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:00

Definitely had a lot of laughs watching it. Yeah. How ridiculous it was sometimes. It was pretty ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:07

It's a wild movie. Cool. Uh, let's move to our next category, double features. So we recommend a movie to go alongside this movie. Jason, what you got?

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:17

Little uh movie, I don't know if you've ever heard of it, Sharknado.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:21

Woo!

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:23

Same movie. Same movie. I don't know. It just made me it makes me laugh. Yeah. And this movie made me laugh. Yeah. Sharknado probably a better movie. Natural catastrophe. It's got terror read, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:39

Yeah. And uh you just gotta watch out for sharks and tornadoes. Um, I chose the movie, so I actually don't recommend Geostorm that much. But my double feature is Geostorm. It's when the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth. It's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat for a world while Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. My recommendation is watching this movie and then listening to the podcast, How Did This Get Made? Where they cover Geostorm. It's hella fucking funny episode. I actually re-listened to it recently, and then I was like, sure, re-watch Geostorm. But um, if you're just like bored, got fucking nothing to do, and you want to half pay attention, put Geostorm on. There's some cool visuals. I mean, it looks like shit, but there's some cool visuals. It's essentially like um, what was the movie I recommended last time? Uh where Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid. Oh, yeah. No, that's yours. Uh that was 2020.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:44

I'd say after tomorrow. Day after tomorrow. Yeah, the day after tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:47

That's kind of similar, you know, like the whole thing. Everything's cold. Everything, everything's cold in this, dude, and there's waves and shit.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:54

And they're like burning the all the books in the library. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:56

They're like, save the tax code. It's like, nah, I'm good. That's that's all the ones I'm burning first. Um, but yeah, so watch GeoStorm or whatever. There's just really not a lot of like great movies I would recommend to go along with these the two movies we got, you know.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:15

Oh, what about the nose arc one? That's a disaster film, kind of.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:19

I actually never saw that. I've never seen that. I heard it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:23

It's crazy. The depiction of the Nephilim was real fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:28

Jason, that's a conclusion of volcano. That was fun. That means we're going to our second part of movies that are the same movies. We're gonna do Armageddon first. Yeah, yeah. Whoa boy. That did not age well. Cannot wait. Uh, I hope you like asteroids that sound like lions and tigers. So much. Because these asteroids roar, baby. And hey, um Bruce Willis's character, terrible fucking character. God-awful.

unknown: 1:06:03

Oh, what's it?

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:04

All of them are. What's the band that plays the song? Aerosmith. It was their only top ten like hit they ever had was this song. Are you sure about that? Really? It was the only one that they ever made like a it was ever a big hit. Oh all the other ones, like they were good, but they never got to the last is peak Aerosmith.

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:24

It's like wild. Like they're like uh, you know, like if you listen to their greatest hits, like five of the songs are like the exact same song. It's like crazy. Uh I can't remember any of the songs now, but I'm like, these all the songs are almost essentially the same. But I fucking love Aerosmith. And Aerosmith's daughter. It's so ballsy that they had they played an Aerosmith song during a sex scene with Aerosmith's daughter. Oh man. It's insane. That's gonna be weird. Uh yeah. But I mean, I guess it's part for the course since it's just a personally dancing in like a lot of his music videos. So you know what's she? Yeah, that's really weird. It's wild. Uh the whole movie's wild. Uh there's no likable characters.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:10

Oh no, Steve, but shame me. But shame me. I love him.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:13

Yeah, he is fun in it. I'm just trying to remember if he, you know. And then you know, wow, there's an asteroid. Wow, I gotta go outer space to kill an asteroid. Wow.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:25

Can't wait to get back to being a cowboy, I guess. Yeah.

unknown: 1:07:30

Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 1:07:31

All right. So yeah, join us for Armageddon next week. Leave us some fan mail. Leave us some comments. Like, follow, subscribe. Um, leave us some good reviews. We'd love to hear it. Haven't had any uh this past week, so that's okay. Uh only hurts my heart a lot, but that's fine. Just keep uh liking and following uh Good Hang Podcast. Yay, it's a perfectly fine podcast, but you know. Whatever. The Good Hang? Yeah, Good Hang Podcast. Or the hanging brain. That's what it's called. Uh it's a video podcast, but I don't I never watched it, so that might hang brain. Oh, but yeah, I'd like to thank Joey Prosser for our intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr. Joey Prosser. And this has been the We Recommend Podcast. I've been Jesse. I've been Jason. Um, volcanoes, you know. I hope I hope I don't see hope I hope it I hope it doesn't happen to me. Bye.