Jeff Gerstmann joins the east coast crew as we attempt to answer the most pressing questions of our time: Who is Womack, and is he, in fact, a piece of shit?
An audio accompaniment to your movie viewing pleasure with your friends at Giant Bomb.
This podcast is an audio supplement, meant to be played simultaneously with the film The Rock. We are watching the film via a US Blu-ray release. Streaming and rental options can be found here.
Two housekeeping notes:
1. The commentary begins at the Blu-ray's 14 second mark. That's unusually far in for an opening, and it looks like the disc we watched has an extra ten seconds of black screen before the first logo starts to fade up. Depending on where you're watching, it might start closer the 4 second mark instead of 14. As we say in the commentary, it's right as the outline of the Sphinx becomes visible in the Hollywood Pictures logo.
2. There's a moment after I hit play where I thought I hit the wrong button, but I didn't. The movie starts with the normal timing. Please disregard my reaction. I would have cut it but it would have made for a weird bit of silence at the top and I didn't want to throw people off.
Oh man, this is going to be nuts, although listening to Dan freak out while watching “The Rock” would have been priceless. This movie is Dan in a nutshell.
@bill_mcneal: There are quite a few films that should be on their list. Naming just a few: Broken Arrow, Starship Troopers, Speed, Deep Rising, Mortal Kombat. And my personal dream pick: the Dawn of the Dead remake.
Alex is close, but not quite: the cinematographer, John Schwartzman, is actually Jason Schwartzman's brother. (Half-brother, as John's mom isn't Talia Shire.)
Their father, Jack Schwartzman died in the early '90s.
Turns out I've been misquoting this movie for years. Like Alex, I quote The Rock maybe once per week, except in my case it's always: "My map was in my head!" Turns out, the line is "My blueprint was in my head", which is not nearly as quotable.
I'm going to keep misquoting it, to hell with it. I'm right, the movie's wrong.
It's a shame Dan couldn't be there, but having Jeff on was great. Also, only having 4 people helped, there was a lot less talking over another going on. Fun episode.
O please, give us a film and 40's of starship troopers. I love that B movie level scifi and satire (even if I didnt know that it was satire when I first saw it.
@ybbaaabby Dead ringers is the movie you are thinking about with the twin gynecologists. I oddly just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. I liked it but it got even weirder then I thought it would go.
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