Episode 22: The Rock
Before cracking right on with the Craig years, We take a quick stop off to check in with what can be argued (and is, by us) to be Sean Connery's final Bond film- The Rock!
This 1996 Michael Bay movie features Connery playing a quipping british spy, imprisoned for three decades for stealing a microfilm containing, canonically, All the US Government's secrets (Tell me that isn't Bond. I fucking dare you. Pussy). As the only man to ever escape it, Bond must infiltrate Alcatraz along with Nicolas Cage and defuse Ed Harris' VX Gas missiles.
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Comments (23)
I'm kinda late to the party, but this was once my special interest area. The reason a lot of movies have very similar soundtracks is because directors and/or editors will use temporary music while they sort everything out, and only after all the visuals are time locked does the composer start composing, because they need to know how to sync the music up. Often directors and producers get too used to the temp tracks and keep telling the composer to make it more like the temp tracks up to the point that it starts to sound like a "legally distinct" knockoff type deal. And famously Hans Zimmer has been made to copy his own music multiple times, causing the Gladiator main theme to be awfully similar to the Rock main theme, and the Pirates of Caribbean main theme is awfully similar to the Gladiator main theme. It's happened to John Williams a few times as well. Sometimes directors get too attached to the temp music to the point they fire the composer and just license the temp music, probably most famously with 2000 A Space Odyssey. I'm not saying you have to like the score, but it's not Hans Zimmer's fault that it's so similar to so many of his other scores, and he himself is quite resentful of the situation.
misheard abi saying "cage and bond" as "cajun bond" about 5 separate times. i don't like this concept but now it's out there in the world i guess
007 this is a "craw dad"
I love the opening, especially as I listen to all KJB episodes at 1.5x or 2x speed :)
Did I hear correctly that they're not doing any more Connery movies? Does this mean no Russia House? Boooooo!
When you... move is the word I'm going to use here, move to doing Assigned Podcast At Birth, I'd like to put in a suggestion for watching the misunderstood classic, Split Second. It's full of Rutger Hauer hauering the FUCK out of the scenery, and would be a lot of fun to hear you rip apart one of my favorite movies that went absolutely nowhere and did absolutely nothing for anyone except me and my friends : )
anything with scenery-chewing gets a vote from me
I love that Alice's brain came up with the Unified Bond Theory. it means she's one of the few people that would listen to my 'Logan's Run is a sequel to Dr Strangelove' theory
patreon loaded a bit weird so it refreshed just after abi said "TEN HUT" and then nothing and that was the funniest shit
Call me an idiot, but I'm constantly getting Ed Harris and Peter Weller mixed up. Great episode as always, friends. Thanks for all the laughs, and take care.
a mainline episode for the rock, but not casino royale (1967)? or is that coming after you do the craig one
That intro blew me away. I am by now acclimated to Alices and Devon's intros but MAN was that good lmao.
As a quick aside, the thing about "His Wife" already being on the headstone before him being buried isn't entirely uncommon for headstones for family graves. At my old workplace there was a headstone that had a bunch of family and their death years, and one name that had "1977 -[BLANK]" on it, meaning the poor lad had to go see his parents grave and see his own headstone as well. So while it's definitely there for the audiences benefit, it's not entirely unrealistic
Well, that opening awakened something in me.
Switching back and forth between wtyppod and kjb to be hated and then cared for
They could have just used the tunnel from the mainland is my hang up here.
Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Nic Cage is nuts for the Beatles which is why he references the Beatles classic "Rocket Man" when he... oh.
it's a real testament to Michael Bay's particular talents that he managed to take this plot and these actors and churn out a movie as dogshit as The Rock
Doing a bit where I try to convince the CIA that the Maduro government has a park full of cloned dinosaurs that they intend to let loose in American cities.
If you have played Resident Evil 6, you will understand that there is an ancient ruins/mine under every US location of note.
"Lemme see your Soy Face!" "...Shir?" "You got a Soy Face? Aaaah! That's a Soy Face! Now let me see your Soy Face." "AAAHHH!"
Hell yes! This is the bridge to put National Treasure-verse in Bond-verse.