Finally we get to watch a truly great movie, Alex Cox's seminal punk classic Repo Man, which... wait, what? We're watching Repo MEN? That piece of shit? Oy. Meanwhile, Stuart retains his man of mystery status by not revealing where he's working, Elliott gives us anecdote after delightful anecdote about Tommy Wiseau, and Dan reveals a secret plot to repossess Abraham Lincoln's organs.
0:00 - 0:33 - Introduction and theme. 0:34 - 27:35 - Jude Law and Forrest Whittaker repossess both our will to live and to discuss the movie Repo Men. 27:36 - 33:19 - Final judgments, and Elliott's rambling Lethal Weapon 2 digression. 33:20 - 49:04 - A brimming Flop House Movie Mailbag. 49:05 - 58:50 - Instead of recommendations, Elliott gives us a firsthand report on San Diego's ComiCon. 58:51 - 59:41 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.
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Since Elliott is in California to prep for his wedding/attend ComiCon, and since Dan was sick for literally a week with some sort of death virus he picked up in Delaware, there's no new show this week. However, to tide you over, we present this...
FLOP HOUSE SIDE PROJECT PLUGS CORNER.
Elliott:
The most hyper-verbal of the floppers would like to promote his next film screening at 92Y Tribeca (part of his "Closely Watched Films" series) -- John Ford's The Hurricane.
Out of print on DVD!
Handsome Polynesian native Jon Hall finds himself jailed and trapped in a battle of wills with law and order-obsessed colonial governor Raymond Massey. Desperate to return home, Hall attempts a series of daring but unsuccessful escapes. Just when it seems things can't get any worse - the hurricane hits.
Directed by John Ford, the great master of American filmmaking and with an all-star cast featuring Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor and Academy Award-winner Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is a glossy, romantic, larger-than-life melodrama so rousing it once caused fistfights to break out among Soviet troops. As exciting and entertaining as it is unabashedly corny, the center piece of the film is a frighteningly realistic hurricane that's still impressive over 70 years later.
Elliott will discuss the tragic loss of innocent film escapism, where a South Seas adventure fits into the oeuvre of a director best known for John Wayne westerns and whether a movie is racist if the actor playing the Polynesian hero is only half-Tahitian.
Plus! A second movie unavailable on DVD—cut down to 10 minutes so you get only the best parts!
Director: John Ford. 104 min. 1937. 35mm.
Wed, Aug 4, 2010 8:00pm 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street $12.00
Dan McCoy
Mr. Mournful Sigh has less to sigh about this week with the publication of his second humor piece at Slate.com. At this rate he'll be able to quit his day job... whenever Slate stops paying Internet rates and starts paying him screenplay rates. But it's a funny piece, and you should read it. It's about Inception. Which is a movie. You like movies, right? I mean, you listen to a movie podcast. So we just figured... OH WHATEVER.
Also, you might enjoy this video, the latest episode of the other wing of his vast Internet empire, the web series 9 AM Meeting:
Stuart Wellington
The dreamboat of the Flop House crew doesn't have anything in particular to plug, but in the absence of his soothing bass rumble, the ladies might enjoy this glamor photo, shot tastefully from package-level.
What actors possess the sheer athleticism and breezy charm to sell a mismatched-partners action-comedy? According to the producers of From Paris With Love, it's John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. We'll let you discover whether they're correct. Meanwhile, Dan gets oddly formal, Elliott lets us in on some Kelsey Grammar secrets; and Stuart establishes our pecking order, human centipede-style.
0:00 - 0:16 - Introduction and theme
0:17 - 34:17 - Luc Besson-produced films are usually good for some dumb thrills. Remove the thrills, and you've got From Paris With Love.
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You've probably noticed by now that there's no new Flop House, this week. That's because we were busy doing American things like seeing a baseball game, grilling up a storm, and watching Toy Story 3 (damn you Toy Story 3 for making us feel emotions!).
In fact, we've been so busy that we didn't find the time to post this message about no new episode until well after we normally post the new episode. However, rest assured that we have been thinking about all you wonderful listeners (in-between shooting bottle rockets at each other), and we'll have a new episode up at the end of this week.
Brent Spiner hopes you had a better Independence Day than he did.
Free ranging conversation about bad movies with a comedy focus. Hosted by Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington. Theme music by Keith Burgun. Flop House logo courtesy of John McCoy
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