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Deep Impact
A comet is coming, the clock is brutal, and somehow Deep Impact still finds a way to be tender. We dig into why this ’98 disaster film sticks: not the most explosions per minute, but the most honesty per moment. From Morgan Freeman’s calm President Beck to Mimi Leder’s unflashy, human-first direction, we trace how the movie earns its tears—through choices, not cues. The Messiah mission gets there fast and feels real: harpoons, glare, and the kind of leadership that sounds like reassurance, not hype. When the nukes split the comet and the plan shifts from triumph to triage, the film’s heart shows up in the hard parts: a national lottery, family drama, and what a single seat on a helicopter is worth.
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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. Cities fall, but they are rebuilt. Heroes die, but they are remembered. Because this week we recommend Deep Impact! It's a really good Morgan Freeman. Was that a good Morgan Freeman? I have no Morgan Freeman. I was like, I guess I'll just try something real quick. I don't think I've ever tried it, dude. For the moment. Morgan Freeman. Great American actor. Our president and our god. Jason, did you enjoy Deep Impact? I did. Did it hurt your heart? A little bit. It was just it was all sad.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so much sadness.
SPEAKER_00:I I think I've realized that like when I watch movies super early in the morning, like I am emotionally uh sensitive. I'm just like very sensitive. Because it just kept cutting to people crying and like sad faces. And I was like, keep it together, keep it together. Um, so I guess you know, this or Armageddon, Jason.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know, man. That's tough. I mean, I guess Armageddon because it's more fun, but I did enjoy this one.
SPEAKER_00:I actually I think Deep Impact is my between the two. Because so, first of all, like 30 something minutes shorter. Yeah, that's nice. God bless America. Let's go.
SPEAKER_02:Hmm.
SPEAKER_00:Um, but I also like this one more. It's it's more of a serious look at what might happen. Yeah. You know, takes it a little more seriously, which is nice. It really makes you feel hey, this would suck. By the way, did you know this sucks?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and I feel it was it was uh it felt comforting in a weird way that Morgan Freeman as president had a plan.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. That wasn't just could you could you just imagine if it happened now? Donald Trump, yeah. Democrats send a comment straight for sending ice to the comment. Oh damn. Um, but I wouldn't object to that. Uh so like I think it was like the shots of people like watching around the world as president speaks, you know, like whenever he's like, we're gonna die. And then you just see people just like kind of it's especially like whenever you have the family with um Leo, little uh Elijah Wood, and you got like the two families sitting together, like the super pregnant wife, and they're all just kind of watching around, just like, oh, is is the asteroid gonna like comic gonna blow up? And then they're all sitting there, and then you just see that no, it's not, and it's just like um everybody just becomes very worried for a second, and it's just it's kind of chilling, especially when it like pans to the pregnant woman. It's like no blowing up the beat. I mean, and then like seeing the kids, it's I don't know. It's just it I feel like this movie earns the emotional weight of it versus Armageddon, where it's like, hey, you know that shitty guy that's been kind of dumb and you don't really like. Well, now he's gonna say in a very emotional speech, and we're gonna rev up the sound the soundtrack to make you force you to feel emotions even though we did not earn them at all because this guy's been shitty the whole time. And but and you know, I guess uh this overall the characters were better in this. I think so too. Not as fun. I do agree that this movie's not as fun because I spent like the last like 30 minutes and like um so do you prefer a more serious take or do you like movies? Do you think the this movie should have more action?
SPEAKER_01:I like the more serious take.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And it's also great that this movie um less than 50 minutes in, you're on the asteroid or a comet. And it's like, hey.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, we're in space, we're on the comet. He's like, we don't need that slow walk to the space shuttle.
SPEAKER_00:We don't need you to feel like these are heroes. It's like instead, this movie's like, hey, these people are shitty right now. Uh, but then we're gonna convince you, hey, they're actually just people. They might mess up just the right way. Yeah, exactly. Um, so do you think it got um do you think it got how people would react accurately?
SPEAKER_01:I I guess. I mean, I expected a lot more panicking.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they just kind of breeze through and be like, hey, on the news stuff is happening, but not in these characters' lives.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. They gave the announcement and he's like, don't do shit. The military's gonna be out there. We're gonna figure it out. Rot looting is, you know, we're gonna we're gonna take control of everything, martial law.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like, hey guys, go to Colorado, go to a mountain. What is taking so long? Leave your leave the East Coast. Go to mountains, if you've heard of them. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:He should have said that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I hate it when I write panic, but I also like, you know, we just had the snowstorm and try to ordered Walmart delivery today, and like half the stuff had to be substituted because you know, people panic bought everything. Yes. Which is what would happen if that happened. Well, we'd probably just all start killing.
SPEAKER_01:I'd like to know he's gonna enforce the uh price, the no price gouging. I know.
SPEAKER_00:It's like, hey, it turns out can't happen. We learned four years ago that doesn't work. And hey, if they go up, they don't go back down, apparently. Never surprising. Um, so uh does this movie not have enough distract destruction?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. I had a lot like the part with the wave is crashing into everyone.
SPEAKER_00:We need more.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that was that was kind of badass.
SPEAKER_00:Like two to three more minutes of just like, here's things getting destroyed. Yeah. I mean, it's watching, you know. But I guess that was kind of the problem with Armageddon too. It's like, hey, we want to see the asteroid hit more places. Why are you just showing like one or two instances? Like, we want destruction on Earth. Like, I don't really care. That's why um kind of kills me, uh killed me a little bit about Armageddon. They do all that stuff on the asteroid, and I'm like, disaster movie, I want to hit Earth. Not I want to spend 40 minutes on an asteroid that just looks the same over and over.
SPEAKER_01:Well, um, if you think about it though, most of those asteroids are gonna hit the water anyway.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because yeah.
SPEAKER_01:This and these two things could be happening. What if they were both having both movies at the same time? The other side of the earth is two shuttles, like the other side of the United States, and these people like send one up at the same time and they meet up there, like, hey, what are you doing here?
SPEAKER_00:Hey, what are you doing here? It's like, hey, watch out. We got a guy with space dementia. By the way, did y'all bring any guns with you? No, why would we need guns? We're going on an asteroid. It's like, I know that. Well, we brought two. Also, one of them's a gatling going, like, what?
SPEAKER_01:Give us all your nukes.
SPEAKER_00:Uh um, so yeah, a line was edited in the president's uh press conference scene. So President Beck stated, Life will go on, we will prevail. Originally, President Beck said Life will go on, we will prevail. This is not Armageddon. The producers were like, nah, dog. I don't know if you heard Armageddon's coming out. We can't do this. Which um, so uh Deep Impact was in development first, as Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks were working on the project before Disney's Armageddon was rushed into production to compete, following the premise of a similar impending asteroid threat. Um, and apparently, um, while it's not definitely proven as legal theft, Disney widely believed to have fast-tracked Armageddon to directly compete with Paramount Steep Impact after learning of its premise. Both films featuring similar plots stopping a world uh ending to asteroid. Um there was something uh so there's like an allegation by uh screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin. Uh stated that a Disney executive took notes during a meeting where he discussed the film's premise, suggesting the idea was lifted then. So yeah, Disney was just straight up, we can do it. But better. But ultimately this movie made um so I guess uh Armageddon made 554 million. Deep Impact only made 349 million. But because Armageddon was so much more expensive to make, um what was it? Yeah, it was like uh So yeah, Armageddon had a hundred and forty million budget versus Deep Impact had a$75 to$80 million budget. And so it ended up making it was more profitable, as they say. That's crazy. Yeah. Um and let's see, it had a bunch more. So uh Morgan So yeah, Morgan Freeman wanted his character, President Beck, to be wearing an earring. Director Mimi Letter um turned him down. Later we see President addressing the nation from the Oval Office, his sleeves are rolled up, and one of Freeman's tattoos is showing showing. The director like this gave the president an everyman look.
SPEAKER_01:I imagine earrings were very popular back then. Yeah. You know what movie I want to see? They remake one of these, yeah. Like comet crashing in the earth. You send the people up there with all the nukes, then they find out, oh shit, uh the comet's not actually gonna hit us, it's gonna miss us by like an inch. And then the guys up there are like, we got all these nukes. What are we gonna say? How about we give them a hell of a fireworks show?
SPEAKER_00:You hold the earth hostage for money. That's true. It's like, it's like send us a bunch of cash up here. Like, where are we gonna spend it? I don't know. We'll create an economy on Mars. Like it's Sky Mart. Um, so subsequent to his performance as the U.S. president in this film, Morgan Freeman, whose name was added largely largely in jest, received a score in the 90s when a survey of Americans who were asked who would they feel most competent to have a pres as president, he handedly beat all the candidates, including many well-known actual contenders for office. So people were like, hey, we'd rather have Morgan Freeman as a president than other presidents at the time. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um you see they're trying to steal Morgan's feet Morgan's thunder. With all the penguin pictures that they're posting now? Oh man. Who is so there's these a series of photos coming out. Um and there's like Donald Trump, RFK Jr., like each of them like walking with penguins. And it's just like famous penguin with a like from a movie where this guy did uh he watched all these penguins and then one of them just kind of walked off to its death, like to the mountains. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I remember that.
SPEAKER_01:I I think that's what they're trying to, I guess do with the president. What?
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. It's so weird. We live in a weird time. That's just strange.
SPEAKER_01:We live in a very weird time.
SPEAKER_00:Um, so uh just a couple more things. So in a 2016 interview with New York Times, Lori McCreary, president of the Producers Guild of America and uh Morgan Freeman's producer partner, recounted that when Mimi Letter wanted to cast Freeman as the U.S. president, the studio objected on the basis that it wasn't realistic to cla cast a black person as president. McCurry recalled that one studio exec said, We're not making a science fiction movie. You can't have Morgan Feeman play the president. So uh, and like other than the obvious racism and the fact that Obama became president 10 years later, um, the execs were like, or um, the people making the film were like, it is a science fiction movie. We're going to space.
SPEAKER_01:You think Barack saw this movie and he and he saw Morgan up there? He's like, that's gonna be me.
SPEAKER_00:Uh uh Morgan Freeman. He my phrase favorite uh movie president. I did everything I could to be just like him, even at a tattoo, just like this. That'd be sick. Um, let's see. Uh produced by Steven Spielberg. Um, the movie came into being when producers Richard D. Zanuk, David Brown, wanted to make remake the movie Worlds Collide, which happened in uh 1951. He wanted to do it with Spielberg, with whom he had worked he'd worked on with Jaws. However, Spielberg had just optioned the 1993 novel The Hammer of God by Sir Th Sir Arthur C. Clark about an asteroid on a collision course of the earth and uh humanity's attempts to stop it. And they're like, hey, what if we did both and mixed them together? Um, this also was the highest-grossing movie by a female director until the movie What Women Want came out. Nice. Yeah. Um, and I guess so the so the film portrays the wave that stuck New York City crashing over and around the towers of the World Trade Center. How bad do you think it smelled after that? That wave hit. Oh, dude. There's everything smell fishy. Dead bodies everything.
SPEAKER_01:Bodies and trash and sewer. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So um I guess the b the buildings were barely above water at the end of the sequence, surviving the wave. After the events of September 11th, terrorist attacks, some television broadcasts of the film were edited to remove the buildings. The tidal wave also incorrectly comes from the west from Jersey, not the south from the Atlantic. But yeah, so they're just like, hey, we can't have the towers in there. And it's like, I don't know, man. Oh, yes. Like, I get it, but also it's just like we got maybe not.
SPEAKER_01:Um maybe it's too soon to play disaster movies. I don't know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Uh let's see. I think that was there were some other things. Oh, this one was funny. So John John Favros, uh director of Iron Man. Hell yeah. Um, said that it was so uncomfortable for the cast to film in the astronaut suits that during breaks they had to be hung on a rack in their suits and brought outside to get air. This led to some awkward moments whenever a studio tour bus came by. So they're just literally in their suits being hung up, just like I was like, I thought that was pretty funny. Um, and uh last thing I'll do. So the first cut of the film had more scenes with Leo Biederman and Sarah. However, in response to poorly received sneak previews, these scenes were drastically reduced. So I guess they had like a kiss and stuff, and people were like, these are 14-year-olds. I'm like, okay.
SPEAKER_01:You should have taken those rings and put them in the Mordor. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, so did that uh because I remember you're like, oh, don't think it doesn't have like a child wedding. Yeah. Do you think it works so for like the reasoning of the film?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I mean, it's a good reason to probably think I'm gonna try to save your family.
SPEAKER_00:Let's get married.
SPEAKER_01:One of the few reasons children might want to get married. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00:Because it's not like it's like, hey, we don't even actually have to be married. It doesn't really matter once an astral comet hits our earth. I think at that point it's like if you just want to hang out on the other side of the arc, you can. Yeah. But and I'm glad they didn't cut too much more out because the stuff with like Sarah leaving her family and just like cutting to like the mom crying and stuff. Yeah, I thought worked very well. Oh, yeah. I think adding the little detail of the two families, like just being scared was uh something that Armageddon kind of needed. Yeah, some feeling. Yeah, some art. Some heart. Not just making everything as stupid as possible. Hearts explode. And instead and this movie also gave us a realistic look at what America was, not like a weird 1960s version of America. Um not saying I mean, we obviously go listen to Armageddon episode. Uh, I do like that movie. It's just comparing the two. I'm gonna nitpick.
SPEAKER_01:Do you think we really have these underground bunkers that can hold millions of people? Um if there was a yes.
SPEAKER_00:I you know, I don't want to be like a conspiracy guy, but if we don't think that there's a plan for our presidents and just the 1%. Yeah. I mean, Jeff Bezos, he's probably got like a secret. He like in Mount Everest or something. Like, yeah, I just bought it.
SPEAKER_01:It's like Wakanda, it's just uh an image put outside for them to make it look like it.
SPEAKER_00:Maybe that's why Donald Trump wants Greenland so bad. He wants to build something up there.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe he thinks that's where Wakanda is. Yeah. Go get all of their super rare or vibranium or whatever.
SPEAKER_00:I love that film. Wakanda forever. I'm gonna be the next Black Panther. I don't know why I I'm terrible at Donald Trump. I try to do more of like the gravelly thing, but it's just not working. Um, two things. One thing I really want to say about this movie that sucks. The father. Boy, could we not have gotten a different actor to be the father. Yeah. I mean, like uh Leone does a great job in this movie. I think it's probably one of my favorite performance performances of her as uh Jenny, right? Yeah, Tay Leone. Um, but she has to do a lot of work for that father. God, every time I pause, I'm like, all these great actors you got in this movie. And this is your idea for who should be this guy.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the the moment he kissed her on the nose, it was so felt so weird.
SPEAKER_00:There's something off-putting about him. He's not a very it didn't, he didn't come on. He's probably probably like a great like actor from whatever country he's from, but like it just did not work in this movie, and it's really such a bummer because that part where she like hugs and says daddy at the end was so heartbroken breaking, but it it would have been even better if it wasn't that guy. It's like just give us anybody other than him. Um, that's my like biggest tip with this movie. I'm like, I hate this guy.
SPEAKER_01:Taylor kind of looks like the girl Tom Cruise.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, interesting. She looks like Tom Cruise with a wig.
SPEAKER_01:She really does.
SPEAKER_00:That's so funny. Um the director is Mimi Letter Leader, L-E-D-E-R. Um, she's actually kind of like a pretty uh good director, and I didn't even really know of her. I mean, mainly she's on this movie, a shit ton of like uh TV series, um, TV shows she's directed, and then she came out with uh a movie in 2018 on the basis of sex is supposed to be pretty good, and then she was also directed and produced the morning show that's on Apple TV Plus, which um is like a big deal, apparently. But I was just like, Whoa, I've never heard of her, and I did not know she directed this movie, and then all of a sudden I'm like, Oh, I've seen some of these things she's done, and I'm like, wow, cool. Someone that no one ever talks about, and it's just kind of interesting that she was pretty good. Yeah, okay, I think that's it. Uh apparently, I guess uh the guy who did speed, John Dubaunt, he there's like two more um asteroids hitting Earth movies that were gonna come out this year the same year. One was called Bright Angel, and it was gonna be uh directed by John DeBaunt, the guy who did speed, and another one was a Native American centered story called Ghost Riders in the Sky. That sounds badass. I know, it sounds great, right? They should make that now. These films were not made because of their staggering price tag. The DeBaunt project would have cost almost$200 million in 1997, and because Dean Pimpack made it into production ahead of them, they rendered it unmakeable. So, yeah. Um they just weren't trying hard enough. Yeah, exactly. The other one is like, oh, it's a movie about Native Americans. Sorry. We're not gonna do that. Be great if we did that now, though, since you know, we're uh we could play that song Riders on the Storm. Hell yeah. Love that part. And uh I think it's the the sequel of Blues Brothers. Is it people hate that movie? I watched that movie a thousand times. Blues Brothers 2000. Like when I was a kid, I loved that movie. Nice. I'd watch the car crash over and over. It wasn't until like 10 years later that I watched like the original Blues Brothers, and I was like, this movie's two and a half hours long. Damn, oh god. What the hell? I never want to watch that again. It's so good though. It sounds like two hours. On a mission from God. So good. It is really good. I've got four whole chickens. The second movie is not good at all now. But you know, as a kid, it was a perfect movie. All right. Before we get into the plot, think about what the point of the movie is. What is it trying to say? Um, and let us know. There's a link in the description that you can click on and send us a message. And at the bottom, there's also our email. We recommend mailbag at gmail.com. Um, for we usually get like maybe 10 to 20 uh downloads a day uh a day. And yesterday, which was a Wednesday, January 27th, we had 200 downloads. If you did that, send us a message. Thank you. Because I want to know why randomly that happens sometimes. So if that was you, let me know. Um, and thank you, by the way. Leave us a review. So, Deep Impact, 1998. Let's see how impactful this impact was. So, two Midwestern teens, Leo Biederman. I have to say Biederman that way. Biederman. Um, and his astronomy club partner slash girlfriend, Sarah, detect a previously unknown comet in the sky. Their findings are sent to another astronomer named Wolf uh for confirmation. The some bitch won't stop chewing on that pizza, and it's very annoying. Wolf finds to his horror that the comet the kids discovered is in orbit that will impact Earth. A distracted wolf takes its disk drive data and rushes off to warn their authorities. I was like, did we ultimately we didn't have CD, we had beta. We had to have it. I mean, but like at that time everybody had like the floppy disk, though. It was like the main way. Good old reb reliable floppy discs. I used to love playing with them because you know you get that little metal piece that you can kind of move back and forth, and it's like, hey, don't touch the piece under it. I'm always like, touching the piece. Um but uh Wolf is killed in route in an accident. Collision with a truck. The truck driver was so dumb. It was hilarious. So this movie, the point of the movie is don't smoke and don't text and drive kids. At least it's kind of a more believable version of uh why a car crack. I remember Army of the Dead, the Zack Snyder movie, directed movie, where it's like, how did the whole zombie apocalypse start? Um, the most ridiculous uh blowjob in a car scene ever. It was so obnoxious. I was like, so stupid. Um then it's a year later, MSNBC journalist Jenny Lerner is on the trail of what she thinks is another Washington, D.C. sex scandal. Haha. Can you tell that who our president is was when this movie came out? Bill Clinton. Clinton. Yeah. She also learns from her mom that her estranged father has remarried and is a bad actor. That's the worst part, Bob. She's investigating a story she thinks is about a senior cheating on his wife with someone named Ellie. They confront him and he says it's the biggest story she will ever break. Um, then she's like kind of driving, and then like the F some FBI corner her and it's like, get in the car. That was kind of scary. Yeah. Probably, yeah. I mean, well, definitely happened, I'm assuming in real life.
SPEAKER_01:Probably not as much to the media, but I'd be so scared if they told me to pull off into a closed-off off ramp. Yeah, I'd be like, I'm just gonna drive through it. Yeah, just go.
SPEAKER_00:So then we meet the U.S. president played by Morgan Freeman. He personally takes Ginny aside and asks that she sit on the story and something else until he has a chance to hold a White House press briefing. Gin Lee reluctantly agrees, but only on the condition that she gets asked the first question in the press room. She does not know what Ellie is yet. She still thinks it's just someone cheating. And I kind of love that about this movie. Oh, where she has no idea. Like she just is accidentally in this situation.
SPEAKER_01:That's why, oh man, that's why she's so like shocked whenever she's at the press conference. Okay. I thought he told her.
SPEAKER_00:Well, no, oh no, she goes in like um, yeah, because later she learns through some classic 90s internet research uh dinosaurs that what she thought was Ellie, this new name is of the senator's mistress, was actually an acronym ELE, an extinction level event. And some of the things like on the side, like the ads or whatever, it says a wave's coming for you, and things like that. And it's like, oh, that's what happens in real life. That's what happens a wave comes for. Um, so the ELE in question is comet Wolf Biederman.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I love the last name Biederman. That sounds like that comet should have glasses and a pocket protector. Right. Get bullied by other comets.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, Wolf Biederman, you nerd. Why don't you go hit Earth? I do love the name. Maybe I will. Like all day today. I've just been in my head, Biederman. Biederman. Bieterman. Uh, which will impact Earth in a matter of months. Apparently, the late Dr. Wolf's findings were salvaged in his crash wreckage, I guess. Floppies are tough. Apparently, the whole car was on fire. Yeah. Um, the impact of Wolf Biederman is expected to be the most devastating world event since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Um, so sworn to silence until the press conference, a clearly agitated Jinny has a tense meeting with her divorced father, her uh father that's been divorced to her mother, who remarried a much younger woman. Ginny unapologetically tells her father that he needs to reconcile with her mother, and she abruptly leaves. Yeah. Um I love the daughter being like, I know you probably hate me. It's like you don't get to say that much. Don't say anything. When this is an event of like, hey, you're the same age as the daughter, you're just like, I know you don't like me. I'm so sorry. Let's try to be friends. This is what's if at any point you want to talk, yell at me, and maybe we can make some sort of relationship here. We can try. If not, I totally understand.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, don't try to act like the stepmom to an adult woman.
SPEAKER_00:You need to respect me, honey. Okay. I'm your mother-in-law. Just be like, that will never happen. Um, so at the White House press briefing, the president tells all, including two plans. Oh, well, not too just including a plan to deal with the pending castar catastrophe? Cat Oh my god. Reboot beep boot my beep catastrophe. Dial up. Um, the first is in an international manned space mission called Messiah that will carry powerful nukes to blow the comet's core into smaller pieces. Um, I'm sure it'll work. Fuck yeah. Worked in one movie. Could work in this one. Uh, the president says that life will go on and that humanity will prevail. He also says that both Wolf and Biederman both died. Uh, but they learned that Leo's alive and he's gonna have a lot of sex.
SPEAKER_01:Nice. Yeah, that's that guy yells out the stadium.
SPEAKER_00:Apparently, that was an ad-libbed line, and like everybody behind him, like all the hooting and cheering, that was all that like people were like, we didn't know he was gonna say that. So they all started cheering and stuff. I was like, that guy? Hell yeah, man. That's exactly what a kid would say in that. Yes, yes. Um, but I also love that whenever they're watch the Bieterman family's watching on the news, and like people start coming outside, he's like, He's dead. Let's go, let's go agitate this family now. Um, the press conference, um it'd be nice if we could have a press conference that's handled that well, you know. Oh yeah. So like I don't know. I guess that the last president that would have done a good job at a press conference where a national either comment's gonna hit us would have probably been Barack Obama.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I would've I'd rather hear it from him than this guy.
SPEAKER_02:You're all fucked. We're all gonna die.
SPEAKER_01:No, he'd probably have like a his own line of like Trump life preservers and jackets like don't work. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You just sink. So um also the spaceship messiah, they call it the messiah, um, because I guess they named it after the first space shuttle that was built. And I guess the astronauts who went in it, it was so big they're they um they said like Jesus Christ really loud. And people are like, oh, let's call it the Messiah. And they got that name and named the spaceship that's the first one explode. Don't know. Probably did. I just felt like I had enough hurt, so I didn't want to see any more death. So the spaceship, Messiah crew, a cocky young team of U.S. astronauts with one Russian cosmonaut, reluctantly add a plus one to their ranks, an Apollo era veteran named Sturgeon Tanner. Um, Robert Duvall, ladies and gentlemen. Robert Duvall, I love him. It's just he's so good in this movie. Yeah, he's such a calming presence. It's great.
SPEAKER_01:So and his whole thing is like, I'm old. I'm old, but experienced.
SPEAKER_00:I know what I'm doing, okay? So Tanner reminds his new crew that he is the only one among them who's ever landed on the moon and space station, and that's the and that skill would be particularly handy on their mission. They have only done it in simulations, and he's like, This isn't a video game.
SPEAKER_01:The way he says the video game is so it's like one of them video games you've been playing.
SPEAKER_00:Back in my days, we didn't have video games. It sticks. Um, but yeah, because they're all kind of just being like, he doesn't need to be up there. It's like we don't need to be like looking after him and stuff, you know. Just because he's older doesn't mean he's gonna be any better at this. And he's like, I can hear you. I'm over there.
SPEAKER_01:So dope.
SPEAKER_00:So then we cut to five months later. Pretty uh great little skip of time there. It's uh I'm glad they didn't show any more, and we cut some time out.
SPEAKER_01:This weird the the time thing. So whenever um Tay Leon meets up with Morgan Freeman and he tells her about the extinction level event, he's like, a year ago we knew about this.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and that's when the Biederman stuff was happening.
SPEAKER_01:That's when that was happening.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's the wolf the so like the wool, the very beginning, the little prologue happens with Biederman finally and Wolf dying, and then it cuts to a year later, TA Leon. And then this is five months later after all that. All right, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I missed the year later part, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Um I'll yes. Because it doesn't tell you. He just says it in that line of dialogue, I think. Um so it's five months later. Ginny is promoted to anchor, and the Messiah spacecraft reaches the comet with Wolf Biederman. Fucking love saying it. And things go horribly wrong. What? Comet though? The fucking comet looks so good in the movie. It does look really cool. And like the little spaceship there, and I'm like, whoa. Nice.
SPEAKER_01:Like how they had like the harpoons shoot out of it to help it land. Yeah, it's really cool.
SPEAKER_00:I know, I was like, cool. It didn't need to be the most intense fucking thing on the history of the planet, like an RBM. It got every it's like this movie is very efficient in getting everything that it needs to to be like, oh, that's pretty good. Yeah. Which is maybe why it just does enough to do that, but doesn't go like above and beyond, which would be make it great.
SPEAKER_01:Why wouldn't they get together with all everybody who's got space power to go all the as a team? Go into space. All right.
SPEAKER_00:I know, right? It's just like all the spacecraft. How about this? If this one fucks it up, we got another one coming right earlier. But they don't want to have time. Well, if like all of them, like, all right, we get China, we get Japan, we get Russia, we get America, and whoever else also has a lot of space. America will go first because you know, America first, baby. And then it's like, all right, so that one kind of worked, but didn't really work. So, all right, next team, go. And it's gotta keep breaking it up.
SPEAKER_01:Just keep crashing into it after one after the other.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but um probably they only use America's team because America. Hell yeah, right?
SPEAKER_01:Nobody else is really that worried about it. Yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:Um, and uh also like comparisons to Armageddon versus uh this movie, the they successfully land pretty easily, which is yeah, I mean not very easily, but uh it's also nice to see like everybody wearing, worrying, and then Robert Duvall is like in charge and then he like lands it and he's like, oh, fucking did it. I had to do it. Otherwise, all the everybody'd be like, they shouldn't have sent that old man up there. But yeah, so the missiles successfully lands. Two specialists from the ship are or three are lowered uh down to the comet's unstable surface in order to plant the nukes deep in its core. However, the comet is denser than anticipated. Um yeah, so they seem to be able to drill into an asteroid comet pretty easily with just by being astronauts and having one little thing drill. Got one of those interesting crank drills. Yeah. It's like they press a button and it's drilled itself. It's like we didn't need to take an entire team up here. Um, they at first um they're struggling to get the one drill messes up. So you got one team doing a drill, and the other team, of course, one has to mess up. And then you have the guy from Super 8 uh in the movie that's like goes down into the hole and like flip kicks it down a couple times, then gets out. But they're also kind of rushing against the sunset. Oh, yeah, which is fucking crazy cool. It's so good. Um, and so like as the sun's rising, he's coming up out of it, and they're all like, shit, sun.
SPEAKER_02:So they all turk put their visors on, and the guy comes out and he's like, My eyes, my eyes, not the bees, not the bees.
SPEAKER_01:Um that reminds me of I wonder if that's where the V S and Butthead uh movie got that. What? They burn their eyes from looking at the sun.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, maybe. Well, I don't know. It's just kind of like a thing that we're always told growing up, don't look at the sun. And uh, it turns out it's right. Remember when we had that eclipse, that like really rad eclipse, like around 2016, 17, something like that? I don't know. Um everybody had to be like, don't look at it with your eyes. Look at it with binoculars. And then the number one search after the eclipse was my eyes hurt. Yeah. Is that an issue? Did you look at it with your eyes? No. Well, why didn't look at it? I did uh the whole because I didn't have glasses, which really sucked. Did you do the box thing? No, I just um I had like a really old shitty phone I was about to replace, so I didn't care if it got like the camera or anything got messed up. So I just kind of turned my back to the sun and I put my phone facing me. I just kind of looked over that way.
SPEAKER_01:Did a selfie with the sun? Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't take a selfie, which is a really dumb decision of me. But probably wouldn't have been able to see your face. I didn't really want to like miss the whole eclipse happening. Uh still one of the coolest things I've experienced. It was really great. Um but yeah, then he comes out. Uh they but they successfully did the nukes at depth and they book it off. But one of the astronauts, uh medical officer specialist Gus Partenza, Don Favravo, is killed at high speed debris during the ship's escape. Uh the and as they're getting out, I love um just another reason that like I kind of makes me like this movie more than Armageddon is there's the part where the cosmonaut, the Russian guy, is like, hey, we have to go back and get him. And he's like kind of getting revved up and just Robert Duvall, uh Tanner, whatever his name is, is like so like calming him down. It's like we can't, we got this, we don't have enough fuel to go get him. And then he's like, We have to go get him. He's like, It's okay, it's okay. It's just like the way he says it's okay, like three times. I was like, and then the cosmonauts like realizing he's like, We can't, we can't do it. He's he's just gonna be floating in space. Just a very, very good actor dude. I love directing, and it really does show it's like the difference between a male director and a female director in terms of you know how emotional one is versus how just like, hey, aren't these dudes weird? This guy has sex with underage girls. No I'm a boy. And this girl's like, yes, well, um, one of the one of our characters is gonna have like an issue with the divorced parents, and we're gonna have um, you know, just very sensitive scenes in here, and it's like, I don't know. It's just funny to kind of see them both like side by side. It's like the same movie, female director and male director, and it's like, wow, you can really tell the difference between sensitivity between the directors.
SPEAKER_01:She's like, get back in there and kiss Elijah Wood, or I will. Yeah. He's a child. I know. So she's just as bad, but she just didn't film any of it.
SPEAKER_00:Oh but I I will say there was so much tension. There, I felt way more tension, weirdly, even though this scene was only like five-minute scenes on this comet than I felt the entire time they were on the comet or asteroid in Armageddon. Yeah, it's all exploding and shit. It's wild. It's like all this like forced uh action and dumb decisions is supposed to be like, oh, I'm on the edge of my seat. But I was like, I was actually more on the edge of my seat on this like five-minute little scene on the comet. It's crazy. Um, also, I love when they cut to them breathing in their spacesuits. Sounded like monkeys. So the nukes are eventually detonated. The president goes live with the news of the mission. I love it because we don't know if it worked or not. Obviously, it didn't because it's only halfway through. But the comet is not vaporized, it's merely split into two smaller chunks that remain on the same trajectory. Yeah. Trajectory towards Earth. He tells America, plan B. So the second plan involves a series of giant underground caves deep in the American heartland that will serve as an arc in case the Messiah fails. The arc will preserve key specialists, foodstuffs, animals, seeds, cultural artifacts, and a random group of citizens drawn for a lottery, some not random, because you know they're it's like, ah, yeah, we gotta take Bob Dylan. You know, we gotta get him out of there. And then also these very important politicians that have to live. Oh god. Um, and then nations around the world are also doing the same thing with caves. So plan B with the underground art goes into the full effect, and the lottery results are announced. The effects of the modern the random lottery are devastating. Young married couples are kept together, but people over a certain age will not be followed into the arc. That was messed up. It's like anybody over the age of 50, and then you cut to um Ginny's mom just being like well shit. I mean, uh, like that's what is so good about this movie is just like things like that where like oh if it and but if an asteroid's gonna hit me, I hope it does it before I'm 50. Cause you know, it just like kind of made me think like, oh man, like if I got picked and my mom didn't. That'd be crazy. Cause I always thought, like, oh, Sarah wanting to stay with the parents. I'm like, don't be stupid. But then I'm like, I don't know. Yeah.
unknown:Right?
SPEAKER_00:It's like, would I rather just live and forever feeling terrible that I just left my mom to die from a giant tidal wave or ice age, new ice age that's gonna happen, you know? God damn. That's a uh fun movie. Um, so yeah, um, Ginny is selected, but Beth, a rival coworker, that's kind of like, I can't believe you got a front row seat. The White House lady. Yeah. Uh um co-worker with a newmore baby is not uh Leo Biederman and his family are selected. Uh the comment was this covery, so of course he's gonna be picked. Uh, but his girlfriend Sarah and her family are not fucking brutal. It's so crazy if they didn't put him. Yeah. Leo. So we actually picked a family, you're saying. Hey. Hey, come on. Everybody's gonna say, hey, you remember when Bieterman hit us? And he's like, whatever happened to him, uh Biederman hit him. Stop hitting yourself, beaterman. So the messiah's discussing what they should do. They have enough fuel to make it back to Earth, but uh, due to the damage of the radiation shield, they'll be glowing in the dark. Hell yeah. And then being crushed by an asteroid, but they're all like, let's fucking go home. Yeah. Like we're all gonna don't want to be stuck in space with no earth, right? I don't know. Because you fly around a little bit, see if you can land a little later.
unknown:I don't know, right?
SPEAKER_01:Right. And then you can like wait until you have to go down and then just kind of show up. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's like, do you really want to go? But they all have families, of course, so that's why they all want to go. But it's one of those things where it's like, you really just want to go down to entire earth being looted and everybody going insane. Yeah. Everybody's gonna hate you because you didn't get the job done.
SPEAKER_01:Well, you didn't die in the initial impact, so you're gonna be you're gonna have a head start.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like, uh, we'll land after the asteroid hits. We'll see what's going on down there first.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you go to the arc, you're like, hey, remember us?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Let us in.
SPEAKER_01:We're astronauts.
SPEAKER_00:I think that's why you have to kind of go down. It's like, all right, we didn't destroy the asteroid. If we get there fast enough, I'm sure we'll be on the arc, even though we don't know about the plan, I'm sure. So as time passes, Ginny is constantly reporting on looting, killing, and other shit that would totally happen. Leo comes up with a plan to marry Sarah so her family and her so her and her family can come with pretty clever plan, pretty quick, quick planning there, Leo. Also they gave him a plus one. Uh they gave him a plus like five. Nice. Yeah. Um, as the comet looms ever closer, Ginny's lonely mother commits suicide. Sad. Damn. Uh, Ark Slecky, Leo decides to marry Sarah. The I already said that. Um, oh yeah, so she commits suicide and Leo decides to marry Sarah. We see it happening. It's like, oh cute, whatever. And everybody's like, yeah, we're all gonna make it and live. So, and on the Messiah, Tanner and Manash bond in a sweet little scene. They're discussing their life, and Tanner reads them Moby Dick. Yeah, that was cool. That was such a good scene.
SPEAKER_01:I was like, read to me, papa.
SPEAKER_00:Really worried. He's like, You guys don't have real books here. Like, we have Moby Dick and stuff, and then they kind of talk about their lives and stuff, and then it's like, all right, chapter one, Moby Dick. And then they kind of start laughing, and I'm like, ah, fucking just letting people be decent characters in the movie. It's so sweet. It's wild. And I think that's what what really makes doing this little project that we're doing with these four movies like so in fun and interesting. It's like, hey, we get to see the comparisons and like what works better and what the difference between me and you are in terms of like, hey, what what we like and don't like. Um, so hopefully people listening also like that. Yes. So the Bietermans and Sarah families are being picked up, but her family, including her newborn baby brother, are refused permission. Sarah's like, I ain't going, I'm dying. Check again, please. Yeah. Hell of a breakup. You know, it's like, uh, I'd actually rather die here than go with you. We're getting a divorce. Um It's like just being a parent at that point, like, um, if you were like Sarah's father, right? And she's like, no, I'm staying with you, and you're like, fucking go, right? Or would you be like, yeah, come die with me? Come die with me. Or would you be like, don't leave that bus? I'm throwing her in there, handcuff her and to Leo.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think I would have just um made her go if I could. Right, just like throw her on the bus. Just get in there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So Ginny learns that her mother has committed suicide and then decides to go sit out in the rain. Uh, because it's like, how do we show someone sad? Um, and her father goes to talk to her, but she refuses, says, I'm an orphan. Um, so Leo decides that he's going back to. Sarah and leaves the arc, um Ginny Fathers uh goes to her work to show her photos to show that she isn't an orphan. And I was just like, oh, this would really work if it was a better actor as a father. It would work so well. I mean, it kind of works, but it just doesn't I would be like curled in a ball if they actually got a decent father.
SPEAKER_01:It would be funny if if she was they're hugging and it's really sweet and they're about to die, and then the stepmom shows up.
SPEAKER_00:It's like, gotcha bitch.
SPEAKER_01:She pushes her out of the way.
SPEAKER_00:But it turns out uh he she left him because it's like, uh, hey. End of the world. End of the world. Am I gonna hang out with this old man? It's like I got a few months to live. I was I was hoping you'd die and I get the money, you know? Yeah. Um so yeah, they uh so they decide they're gonna shoot more nukes at the at the two pieces of the comics. Uh this is like the president telling them that it's like their last resort situation, but they fail and they're still heading toward Earth. The president makes one last speech. He tells them that the smaller of the comets will first land and it will hit the Atlantic Ocean. It will cause a wave like over a thousand feet high and it will hit Washington 40 minutes later. Hell yeah. And destroying everything on the East Coast. The second comet will hit Canada and will cause everything to go dark for two years. All plant and animal lives will be gone within a few months. Good night and good luck to us all.
SPEAKER_01:Or that uh atomic winter.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Uh potentially.
SPEAKER_00:It's uh I don't think it will be a good time. No. But thank God for the messiahs up there. Yeah, it's like a reference to the ship and also like goes. Um, the messiah team decides on one final course of action. They will impact the messiah spacecraft on the largest of the two chunks of inbound comet using the craft's own nuclear-powered Orion pulpulsion system in hopes of vaporizing the larger fragment because they have like four nukes also on it. But this in turn is a suicide mission. Look on the bright side. At least we'll have schools named after us. Yeah, oh, they will. Because that's what happened to the people that died. Uh um in that one space explosion. They named schools after them. Yeah. Um, so the news crew we have been hanging out with is taking Ginny and six people to higher ground. Uh Ginny to the arc, the other people to the high ground. So they have to draw sticks to see who goes. And everyone that has the shorter sticks gets to go, the others don't. Um, and then we see like the rival like uh journalist Beth and her newborn draw the long sticks, and it's like, no, she just gets to go, okay? Um, Ginny feels bad. Jenny decides to give up her seat uh at the arc for Beth, who is like, uh, because like they're going to go get into the plane, and then Beth's sitting in like the little kids section of the newsroom or whatever, and she's like, What are you doing here? It's like there's traffic jam, we won't be able to get home, and my daughter likes it here, and it's like, God, uh, damn it, dude. Holy shit. It's like little things like that is something that I absolutely love. Yeah. Yeah. Um, just a little bit of humanity. Exactly. You know? Um, but yeah, so she gives up her seat for the uh Beth and her baby. Um, and then Jenny's-let her end but kick the baby out. Yeah, it's like, you can't get in here, bitch ass baby. Yeah, looking at me all smug. It's like, yo, what you looking at? What you looking at, baby? Huh? Baby's out of here. Somebody give me some baby handcuffs. Get this baby out of here. He's unruly. Oh, yeah. We had to uh I can't. I was gonna try to do my Obama, but like uh yes, we uh had to. Damn, I've completely lost it. So fuck it, cutting this. Um, so Jenny is left on the helipad looking at pictures of a father as a fleet of helicopters fly off. And it's a dope fucking shot. So Leo takes Sarah's father's dirt bike and finds Sarah's family hopelessly gridlocked in traffic as people flee in a blind panic. Sarah's mother gives Sarah her baby brother and tells Leo to take care of her children. Leo takes his young wife and the baby on a bike as they head for higher ground, leaving Sarah's mother heartbroken and crying. Such a good scene. Ah. And in probably the saddest scene of the movie, um, Ginny reunites with her strange father on the very beach where they once played when she was five years old. And it's in the picture that we see earlier. Um, they're apologizing and things like that. As the comet hits the Atlantic, a giant, freakishly large tsunami is about to crash upon the shoreline. Ginny, her voice trembling, cut clutches her father's closely and says with the vulnerability of a frightened little girl, Daddy. It is fucking fantastic, bro. It was really good. It's fucking urn. It looks rad. It's just like that. That is what I think when someone's writing a script, that's the thing they saw first in their head when they're gonna write a script, right?
SPEAKER_01:Um first ones to go.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. It well, it's just like, you know, if you think usually whenever people think this is how I was when I thought of like script ideas and things like that, there's always just a scene or just like a picture in my head that I'm like, oh man, if I could just make something around that. Yeah. And I feel like That's the smoke. If someone was writing a script, it'd be like they started off with um father and daughter hold each other as a giant wave crashes into them from an app, a comet.
SPEAKER_01:And it's like, I know, that was awesome. When it was like when the the tide or like it's what do you call it, the undercurrent or whatever?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, it kind of comes in parts underneath. So good. Have you ever like um watched anything about tsunamis and things like that? It's so interesting how they work. Like, I remember because I guess it was the one that hit Japan like a decades ago or something. They're they knew it was coming, I guess, or something like that. Or is this like are people who research tsunamis? They had like a boat out in the middle of the ocean, and they're like, Hey, why the fuck did you not tell us there was a tsunami coming? They're like, What do you mean? It's like, how did y'all not know it? It's like, I mean, we had like a little wave earlier, but it wasn't anything because it was just like so, like in the big part of the ocean, you know, the deep part, it's just like but then like it just gets sucked in and it comes over there.
SPEAKER_01:It's like, I don't know, kind of learning about tsunamis was like very interesting and also hard to it's hard to watch videos of people seeing a tsunami coming in there and they're like they didn't know it was coming, and they're like, Oh, look at the water, isn't that cool? People are walking toward it and they're like, Oh shit. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.
SPEAKER_00:Wait, why water get bigger? I know, and it's just like uh brutal. There's apparently, I think it's called like impossible or something. Got Owen Wilson and Naomi Watts, I believe, in it. Apparently it's supposed to be a pretty good um like they're in a tsunami situation. Oh, cool. I wanted to like recommend it with this movie, but wow, hey, where'd where'd all the water go? Wow. We got it in there, baby. We got it. You just have to. So oh so the comets fragments. The comet's pregnant? The comet fragments oceanic impact sees Washington, D.C., New York City underwater as submerged landmarks and skyscrapers break off and float away.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I love how the Statue of Liberties just sitting there and it gets and you see its head like floating down the street.
SPEAKER_00:Cloverfield's like, hey, that was gonna be me. You only had to wait 10 years. That was my head to knock off. Um, but yeah, and then of course you get the Twin Towers, and it's just impossible to not watch some of these older movies when the Twin Towers gets hit. That it's just like fuck, fuck, right? Um, so most of the crew of the Messiah are given chances to say their tearful goodbyes to their spouses and loved ones in mission control. Fuck me, it worked so well. Um, before they commit talking to the baby, yeah. Oh god. Yeah. And it's like before they're essentially gonna like uh commit suicide by saving the world from Wolf Biederman. All the crews get to say goodbye except Tanner, but he says goodbye to his uh, I'm assuming, dead wife. I could for a second it made me seem like I thought I was like, wait, were they divorced or dead?
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, she was dead because he was when he was talking to his sons, I think he mentioned it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. Umash's wife and baby show up last second. Uh, he gives a very uh heartbreaking speech. It really worked. Um uh I put I'm dead inside while writing this. So they collide with the asteroid as Manash says, uh finishes saying goodbye to his newborn baby.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, they said after that, all this heartfelt stuff, they just say like bazinga as they crash.
SPEAKER_00:Bazinga. Oh bugger dude. Um the plan works! The larger comet chunk is vaporized and the messiah is destroyed in the process. Flooding from the impact reaches deep inland. Untold millions of people are killed. Eventually the waters recede and a small measure of balance is restored. Leo and Sarah survive and watch as the giant meteorite explodes overhead. We then see a uh like ending uh epilogue with the White House and the Capitol being rebuilt as President Morgan Freeman gives his inspiring speech. Cities fall, but they all rebuilt. Heroes die, but they are remembered. I feel like I almost went JFK on the one. The end. Little did he know that 12 years later he'd be playing the president again. Man, what doesn't it suck to like all those people stuck on the road? Is that if 10 minutes earlier, if they just got out of their cars and ran up the hill, they would have been fine. I mean, they know it's gonna be big water. Fucking brutal. Especially if like you're Sarah and um Leo, it's like they could have made it. They could have just made it. If they just like So Sarah, you don't think Sarah and Leo made it? Well, no, they did make it. They got it up the hill and you see them like looking over the room. Yeah, everybody's gonna be like her parents could have just ran up the if they ran up the hill an hour earlier, they'd been fine. What if Leo was just like, follow us? Yeah, hey, take that card, take it in the woods. I don't know. Um, but yeah, that's deep impact. What do you think the point of deep impact is? Definitely has a message.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. I was I was thinking about this, and a lot of people and a lot a lot more people in this movie kept kept cool heads, I think. Which is nice.
SPEAKER_00:It's like, what if we didn't get like everybody that scored a two on the IQ tests did stuff in a movie instead of Armageddon where it's just like, yeah, we got our dumbest people on it.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. Um at the same time, they could have moved everybody off of the everybody should have left their homes way earlier. Yeah, if they would have let them know, like early warning system. That's the point.
SPEAKER_00:Those were like the those were the plot holes that kind of was like I had to ignore. Like while watching him, like, guys, you've had a year to prepare. I know like all this is being like, hey, they might destroy the comet, so let's not worry. Like, ah, they got that little nuke situation that they're gonna try. Don't worry. But then, like, once the nukes don't work, it's like, all right, like wherever the nearest mountain is, I'm going. Yeah. All right, I'm going to Gallenburg. Everybody move to the mountains. Yeah. That'd be cool. Um for me, I thought I think the point of the movie is to appreciate what we have. Like that's true. You know, like throw away all the hate that you have for someone or others and to come together as one and good things will happen. Ginny and her father are like the astronauts on the Messiah. Gin or Ginny and her father, and like the astronauts on the Messiah. Ginny got to be held by someone she loved before the world ended, something that she would have not gotten to do without learning to like forgive because of the asteroid and stuff. And if the astronauts didn't learn to work with Tanner, the entire planet would have been destroyed. Stop the fucking bullshit and let's come together, darn it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Marry a child. If the world's gonna end, then it's okay.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. After you said that, maybe we should get hit by a comment. Marry a child if you are a child. Let's let's put that part in there too, Jason.
SPEAKER_01:Let's make that very clear.
SPEAKER_00:Let's have our children get married. Two other children. Ooh, actually, one more point. Um, so there's the part where the bigger comet gets blown up, and then like Ginny and Leo and Sarah make it. They're standing like on the mountain, and you see all the pieces of comet like fly over.
SPEAKER_01:Great, beautiful. She signs, she then she divorces him on the spot. We're too young for this.
SPEAKER_00:Actually, I'm marrying my baby brother now. Oh, you're too old for me, Leo. Uh dumb, dumb joke. All right, uh, before we get into our next category, I want to know your rankings of the four movies we did. Armageddon, Deep Impact, Volcano, Dante's Peak.
SPEAKER_01:I think it goes Deep Impact, Armageddon.
SPEAKER_00:I thought you like Armageddon more than this.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean, I like this movie more, but Armageddon's more fun to watch.
SPEAKER_00:It's something like if it was on, you'd be like, oh yeah, I'll just check out wherever it's at. When it's in the background, Deep Impact, you'd be like, I don't feel like crying, I'm gonna watch Deep Impact. I don't want to hurt. Yeah. Okay, yeah, I get it. All right, go ahead. Keep going. Sorry, interruption. And then uh Dante, then Volcano. So mine was gonna mine's uh Deep Impact, then Dante's Peak. Nice Dante Speak for me is just like it's not the best movie. Let's be real. Um, but like if I was like home and like, oh, Dante's Peak's line. Let me just let me just check out where it's at. It's it's kind of like a warm blanket movie, weirdly for me. I don't know. Old peers. Um and then I'll do Armageddon, then Volcano. Poor Volcano. But I will always remember Tommy Lee Jones taking that man's jackhammer.
SPEAKER_01:What's up? I done right.
SPEAKER_00:When you think someone's not jackhammered enough, you go take that jackhammer and you jackhammer harder, damn it. It's like, dude, the machine does all the work for you. Why are you taking it?
SPEAKER_01:You're not doing your reminded me of the when he played uh Too Faced in Batman Forever.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Oh, still the crazy Too Faced there is. Way better than Dark Knight's Two Face. Um I agree. Way better. Um God, that'd be great if you turned into Too Faced and he just started acting like Tommy D. Long's too far.
SPEAKER_01:He just they splash acid on his face and they just remove him and just replace him with the totally gun.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, work work for me. All right, so we're gonna hit our next category: the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we discuss the good of the film, something we liked, the bad, something we didn't like, the ugly, something that didn't age well, the fine, something that did age well. Um so for the good for me, I put the serious sad tone of the movie. Uh, it fits more with what is happening.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think so. That was kind of mine too. Like the a lot of the characters have like deep introspection and like a lot of character building going on.
SPEAKER_00:And development, right?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's what I meant.
SPEAKER_00:The only character development in Armageddon is uh pretty much just Bruce Willis being like, you know what? I actually do like Ben Affleck. I like Ben more than you now. Yeah. Um, so for the bad, I put the father, just the actor. He just oh, it's just such a weak point of the movie. I don't know what it is. Maybe maybe he is acting good and I just don't like his face. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:As far as bad goes, I don't know. Seeing it was bad that Elijah Wooden didn't immediately turn into Frodo back in the street. That's true. He would have rings. He would have really sucked it.
SPEAKER_00:She goes, Yes, I will marry. He tries to grab one ring out.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Or she puts it on and becomes invisible. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:This isn't the right movie. I actually want to look up who Maximilian Shell is, the guy that played the father. See what I know him from. I will say what my ugly.
SPEAKER_01:My ugly was going to be the name Rittenhouse. Really? Why? Because of the shooter. I know. That has not aged well. Not aged well.
SPEAKER_00:Apparently. Oh, I'm not. Nope. Not a political podcast, but I understand. Uh, what didn't age well for me is uh sorry, bro, but the father. Hey, that this guy's taking so many cheap shots from me.
SPEAKER_01:He did pretty good facial hair, if you know if nothing else. He did. He did. He did. So he aged well as a person.
SPEAKER_00:Um and the fact that most people find Armageddon better. I just two there's totally different. I mean, I'm just, it doesn't like not age well, but I just wanted to put something other than The Father because poor guy. But if you do like Armageddon more than this movie, hell fucking yeah. Way to go, guys.
SPEAKER_01:I heard I heard someone else talking about this these two movies together, and Armageddon is like right wing, deep impact's definitely left wing. Right, yeah. Right. It's so wild how that happened. Um it's just the difference that a little empathy can can bring to a movie. I think you don't have empathy.
SPEAKER_00:What Republicans don't have empathy? Empathy running. I have no idea. It's not a political podcast. If you are a Republican, but it could be go watch Arm Again and have a hell of a time. I'm looking at like a camera, I guess. I'm like looking away from you, thumbs uping the wall. Doing the Fallout Boy? Yeah. Like good show, though. Not the band. Show kicks ass. Yeah, the season two's coming out. I think I'm just gonna wait for it all.
SPEAKER_01:We're almost done with season two. Wait, did he release all of them? Oh, not all of them. Oh, okay. Well, we've gotten like eight episodes in or something.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, snap.
SPEAKER_01:So good. I can't wait to watch it again.
SPEAKER_00:Um, what aged well? Morgan Freeman is president.
SPEAKER_01:All right. He does. I mean, we actually did it again in Olympus Fall.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. He's been president like three or four times. Yeah, what else has been in as well? He's God and he's our God and he's our president. Oh man. Morgan Freeman. I just can't help but look up to this guy. Yeah. It's just there's so much regalness to him. Or there like he seems like he should be in charge of everything. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Like leader that everyone looks up to. Love the old boy.
SPEAKER_00:Do you have anything else for the fun?
SPEAKER_01:No.
SPEAKER_00:Alright, we're gonna hit up our next category, double featured. It's where we recommend a movie movie that goes alongside this movie. You want to go first? You want me to go first?
SPEAKER_01:Uh mine is going to be uh Melancholia.
SPEAKER_00:Have you seen this one? Shit, I haven't. That's Bar uh Bars Von Trier? Bars? Lars Von Trier. Sorry. Yes, it is. Yeah. He makes weird ass movies. It's like at uh Kristen Dunst. Kirsten Dunst. Kirsten Dunst. It's like her. She's at a wedding. She's super sad. She's so depressed. And it's like, hey, there's a we're all gonna die.
SPEAKER_01:There's a planet. They hidden behind the sun. It's gonna kill everybody. I really do gotta watch it. It's so sad and depressing. A lot of his movies are.
SPEAKER_00:I would say his movies are not easy to watch. Have you ever heard of the movie Antichrist? No. So like the beginning of that movie. Spoilers for Antichrist. Peter Teal? So no. It's like uh Peter Teal knows about the Antichrist. It's this um it's a movie. It starts off, it's got um uh he plays Green Goblin. I'm blanking on his name in the Spider-Man movies. Yeah. Um I'm so sorry, guys. My brain just doesn't fucking work. And neither is my computer. Let's go. Now I'm gonna have to edit. Damn it. William Defoe's in it. And uh another actress that's good um in it. And like it starts off with like William Dafoe and this character having sex um while there's like a with the green goblet. While there's a child like walking around and the child gets like out of the crib and like falls to his death out of the window, and it's all about grief and like blaming each other and stuff. And then so they're like, hey, we're gonna go out to like this cabin, and uh the wife kind of starts going, they they both kind of start going a little cuckoo, and um there's some genitalia violence in it. Whoa. I remember hearing about the movie from my friends, and they're like, You should watch it, it's fucked up, and I was like, Okay, and then I was like, it's kind of boring, and uh don't want to watch any more of it. Um that was my first Lars Frontier movie. Then I also watched his movies called Nymphomaniac, which is kind of about this girl and her journey through sex and stuff.
SPEAKER_01:Does she have sex with that? And um, she's like a uh Well, that's that's necrophilia.
SPEAKER_00:Uh she's like addicted to sex and stuff like that. Um then it just has it just has like a shitty ass fucking ending. Everybody pumped those movies up to me, and I was like, I don't know, man. It was fine. People like it was such a good ending, and I was like, Ah, it just seems like a dumb ending. Anyways, I don't watch a lot of his movies, but I have always wanted to watch that. I heard that was really good. Um, my double feature is a movie that people had issues with because it was nominated for an Oscar and we couldn't disappreciate that it was a decent movie. Don't look up. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of the part. It's not like this movie. It is people doing what would really happen if this had a situation happened in our today world. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um it's fucking awesome.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And what and if there would be another recommendation, it would be uh a friend for the end of the world.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, Steve Krill?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:That one's really good too.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I remember that movie. Um Don't Look Up. I didn't I actually never watch that movie, but it's pretty good. Don't look up Adam McKay. He did Step Brothers. Cool, right? I fucking love Step Brothers. Um but yeah, the cast fucking rules. Jennifer Lawrence has maybe like some of the like the best joke in the movie. It's because this one guy, it's like this general or whatever. He's like, hey, can you buy me like this bag of chips? And they buy them it, and then it turns out they get the chips for free.
SPEAKER_01:And like it took 10 bucks from them.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And it's so funny. It's it's just like such a classic thing. Comedy is a three, because she mentions it three times, and on that third note, when it hits, it hits so good. Also has a really good, sad ending. Um, and just so fucking the past crushes it. And Jason, man, there's our little that was our little four-movie little project we did there.
SPEAKER_01:It wasn't as deep as I thought it would be.
SPEAKER_00:What? The impact. It was fun though. It was it was cool to watch movies that are like other movies. I'd if I ever find out there's four moon like two more movies like each other, we'll do them.
SPEAKER_01:That was there's there's like 14 movies that are like this. It's like Alephis has fallen, and then uh what was the other one that came out like uh newer ones like that just aren't as good.
SPEAKER_00:They all just kind of look like shit. It's like, even though I guess all these were technically considered shitty for the time, they're all poorly reviewed. Uh, but you know, still I fucking liked all of them. I mean, just volcanoes are sorry, but sorry, volcano. It was still fun, they're all fun movies, and that's what disaster movies are supposed to be. Magma. I've never heard of magma. What color is it? Red? But it's coming to the end. So uh, you know what? I'm ready for some fucking zombies, right? Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02:Boom.
SPEAKER_00:28 days later is what we're doing next, baby. The best zombie movie. It's more of a virus movie, and uh, but who cares? It's a zombie movie. So much, I guess. Yeah, it's great. The soundtrack, oh, the song, this the just the score of it is so good. Love it. Um, and it has one of my favorite I accidentally turned into a zombie scene. Whoa. With the crow. Oh, yeah. What's up? Great meta moody R.I.P. baby in the movie, not like in real life.
SPEAKER_01:Well, you were gonna say when he looks up and the blood drops in his eyeball.
SPEAKER_00:That's it. Okay, it's like a bird's like pecking.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I thought it was just if he was on the monkey bars or something. No. Okay. Let's watch the movie, we'll figure it out.
SPEAKER_00:It's on AMC Plus right now.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that was that sucks so much. Yeah, wear eye protection always.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, especially during blood diseases. Jesus. Um, yeah, so join us next week for that. Thank you for listening. Leave us some reviews, send us some fan mail. It's over in the description. Click the link at the top, email at the bottom. We recommend mailbag at gmail.com. Um, seriously, please leave us reviews. It's how we get noticed and recognized. Um, thank you for listening. We really appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed our little four-movie stint here that we did. Um, if there's any other type of like theme, like a monthly theme or something, like I want to do this year, like the three man with no name uh movies. That's the Clint Eastwood movies. It's like cool uh uh for a few dollars or whatever the first one's called. And then like the good, the bad, the ugly. Uh I've seen that one. Fistful of dollars. That's what it's called, and then a few dollars more, and then the good, the bad, and the ugly. Um, they're all three good. And uh it's that classic like spaghetti Italian Western films. Oh lost so good. And then maybe uh we'll probably also I have an idea of like after doing those three movies, maybe doing like one a month and then the next month do Tombstone to just be like a shot in the face of like, oh shit, that's an American movie. Completely different. Um but yeah, if you have if anybody has if you have any ideas of like a little like monthly list of movies, if you want us to be like, hey, do four movies from this director, you guys pick or whatever. Um, that'd be fun to do. Let's do all the Lord of the Rings in one episode. Uh well, I we could do it. We'll do the director cuts. I'll have to have three uh I'll have three SD cards to talk about it. Um, but yeah, just just if you just want to chat, hit me up. Um so yeah, thank you, Joey Frosser for Frosser. Thank you, Joey Prosser, for intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr. Joey Prosser. This has been the We Recommend Podcast. I have been the dashing handsome and charming Jesse. And I have been Jason. He's also dashing and handsome over there. You can't see him. He's wearing a V-neck. It's sexy as hell. Oh man, almost popping out with some uh with some uh jogging pants. Hell yeah. Um thank you. And uh, what's a good quote from this movie? Daddy? No, no, bye!
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