On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are discovering that we’re actually highly trained super-duper killer spies. Except we’ve lost our memories and can’t recall our brutal pasts. Also, we’re hanging out with Samuel L. Jackson. Whaaaaaaaattt?! Yep, it’s the 1996 film from Renny Harlin, The Long Kiss Goodnight.
I think I dig this whole sleeper agent/memory loss sub-genre of action films. There’s something so mysterious about a normal, probably meek-looking person who could be your next-door neighbor suddenly transforming into a badass killing machine intent on exacting revenge. Yeah, you do not want to get in their way. They’re now on a mission, and that mission is to kill every dang fool who wronged them in the past.
And just last week they baked you a whole tray of snickerdoodle cookies. Who would have ever guessed?
I guess that explains why everyone is so into weirdo murder mystery podcasts these days. I don’t get it, so I guess they’re just not for me. On the other hand, why are there so many people interested in listening to gruesome stories about people being murdered? And not just one episode. No, instead there are entire podcast shows dedicated to the terrible subject. Entire swaths of the Discovery network of channels are devoted to that stuff. What’s the appeal there?
Perhaps I’ll never know. I mean, I don’t want to make myself feel crazy anxious all the time or have nightmares. No, thank you. Instead, we should all just be happy to watch a pretty campy Geena Davis-Samuel L. Jackson film from the ‘90s. Doesn’t that sentence alone take you back to a time when all action movies had infinite bullets, insane explosions, and a soundtrack that makes you wonder if synthesizers were the only instruments available back then?
The only travesty about this film is the fact that Geena Davis’s career took a bit of a hit after the one-two underperforming punch of Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight. It’s Geena freaking Davis. She’s excellent. I mean, we all saw Thelma & Louise, right? She should have been, and should still be, an international superstar. Okay, she’s not hurting for work, but I would love to see a McConaughey-style renaissance for her. A Davis-sance, if you will. Friends, let’s make it happen! Geena Davis for season four of True Detective!
(Recorded on April 19, 2021)
Links to Stuff We Mentioned:
The Long Kiss Goodnight - IMDb
The Long Kiss Goodnight trailer - YouTube
Audio Hijack - Rogue Amoeba
Stance Socks
Socks - MeUndies
(C’mon, Stance and MeUndies! You sponsor everyone else. Why not us? We like money!)
Lilo & Stitch - IMDb
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - IMDb
Samuel L. Jackson - IMDb
Geena Davis - IMDb
Renny Harlin - IMDb
Lethal Weapon 4 - IMDb
Memento - IMDb
Jingle All the Way - IMDb
Lethal Weapon - IMDb
Heavy Metal - IMDb
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