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PATREON SNEAK PEEK Ep 127: The Abyss
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James Cameron's incredibly troubled masterpiece was one of three water-based sci-fi action flicks released in 1989 and our favorite movie of the month. Starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn, it follows a team of underwater oil drillers and Marines as they try to recover a nuclear submarine that is suspected to have been taken out by Russians. Spoiler alert: We have more underwater aliens to deal with, but this time in a James Cameron fashion, which means epically.
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Transcript
Introduction and Near-Drowning Incident
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So we have Finler and two other like unnamed guys. I mean, they get names later, but we didn't meet them. ah They drown. um But almost drowns ah the doors closing on him. He goes to try to stop it and forgetting because I only time I watched this movie recently was when we watched it a year ago. One year ago. Yeah.
Comparing Theatrical and Alternate Movie Endings
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Which was the first so probably fucking 20 plus years.
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Speaker
Yeah, I think I'd seen it when I was younger, but it's not really a thing that's available. So or not it wasn't. I can't wait to get to the end of this to compare endings and you can tell me which one would have been theatrical. I guess I saw theatrical, but yeah. Yeah, you had to have seen the theatrical. Yeah.
Rescue Scene with Bud, Catfish, and Sunny
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Um, but like bud puts his hand up to stop the door and I was like, well, there goes, there's fingers. Like, but his, his ring stops the door from closing. Uh, catfish and sunny show up, cut the wires. They save him catfish. But he sounds like a bluegrass variety show for the six. Welcome to catfish and sunny
Casualties and Dark Humor
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show. yeah power
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But so we've got four, oh, so there was three other guys and there was four crew members are dead. One Navy SEAL is dead and a part jammer is in a coma. jammers and We do get a partridge in a pear tree joke in this movie. oh that's right oh it is I was like, Oh, but watching a Christmas movie.
Michael Biehn's Character and Humor
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for Because what is Michael Bean says it when they're talking about, oh, he's list they're listing off. She's listing off the ah symptoms of the NP, the end penis or whatever. Each penis ah happiness. And it's like happiness. It's like it's this and this and this. And he's like an apartridge in a pear tree. Oh, he's an asshole. I got it. Yeah. He plays a good asshole.
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Speaker
He does play a good asshole. Yeah. But still when he's when he's not playing an asshole, like you don't hate him. You
Reflecting on 'The Terminator' and Pre-COVID Life
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know what I mean? Some people can't turn it off. Some people just like when you see him, like you're just a villain. Yeah. But with him, I'm like, oh, I'll also root for you. Yeah. No, he's because in I mean, he's a fucking sad sack and terminator, but he's you're rooting for him still. Uh huh. Mostly because he's trying to stop, you know, the extinction of humanity at their own hands. Shitty homeless sweatpants and all, dude, still rooting for him.
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Speaker
You're just wearing a guy's clothes that you found on the street. Anyway, that is a pre covid world, but you. Yeah. Hey, we don't know what his future look like. Maybe that we do. We saw it. You'd be lucky to have pants at all. We saw Skull Beach. We say we saw Skull Mountain.
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Speaker
Yeah, I mean you've seen the future but I don't count Genesis or any of those. I i think Terminator and Terminator 2 happened and then the rest were just a fever dream.
The Absurdity of 'Terminator' Sequels
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Speaker
I like that. like There's more. Oh, poor. Yeah, there's Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, Terminator Genesis, Terminator, there's another one in there, Dark Fate. Is Salvation 1?
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Salvation is one, uh, Terminator, uh, two electric Boogaloo, uh, dark fate was, I think the most recent one that's in, uh, uh, Linda Hamilton and Arnold both came back and they have to try to explain why a robot aged.
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So stupid. Stop making them or just fucking do you
Expanding Universes Beyond Main Sagas
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know what? Like, OK, make it like a Star Wars universe and just get away from the Skywalker saga. Like, get it. Yeah. Well, the rat doesn't count. So eight guys and two girls.
Party Anecdotes and Lindsey's Actions
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Lucky. Been to that kind of party. I made a movie about it. No, no, not yet. So Lindsay goes out. in room for available women But the ratios can be the exact same. You're going to have eight other people here. Yeah.
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We'll be right back.