SIDE HUSTLE III: C IS FOR COSTNER, GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME: UNTOUCHABLES AND THE POSTMAN
Kevin Costner had a special run of films in the 80s and 90s. If you weren't there, trust us! He did. He turned small roles into leading roles and used all of the cachet to make Dances With Wolves, which grew so out of hand that trades referred to it as Kevin's Gate. It made a gajillion dollars and won all the Oscars so he showed them! His peculiar mix of straight-forward American decency and rascally antiauthoritarian streak made him truly unique as a baby boomer superstar and then as an Oscar-winning director.
We start this week's episode with fave guest Erik, of the Blood & Popcorn podcast, to talk 1987's UNTOUCHABLES, directed by Brian DePalma from a script by David Mamet. Costner's breakthrough as Elliott Ness. Erik also takes us through a little of Costner's renaissance withYellowstone along with his latest passion project as star-director, HORIZON. Which began life as a single movie and now may be... FOUR? Costner has never shied away from ambition, even when it lays him low.
Speaking of... with a shelf of awards and a lifetime of "Haha I did a better movie than Goodfellas" Christmas cards addressed to Scorsese, Costner embarked on his proper follow-up as director to Dances With Wolves in 1997 when he released the 3 hour post-apocalyptic THE POSTMAN, a movie so earnest you almost feel bad for thinking it is terrible. Then years go by and you think "maybe it has aged well now that we are in a CGI IP-laden hellscape."
Nope, it is still one of the mind-meltingest bad studio films to ever come out. Ever. But you know what? If not for its "your butt has fused to your couch, here is a couch toilet toilet" length, it could be one of the all time great bad movies. Some of the creative choices are so wrong one imagines Scorsese sending Costner a lifetime of Christmas cards saying "at least I didn't direct The Postman" because of it.
Not shockingly, Erik taps out after the brilliant Untouchables and lets Ken and Thomas marvel at the beauty of The Postman on their lonesome.
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SIDE HUSTLE III: C IS FOR COSTNER, GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME: UNTOUCHABLES AND THE POSTMAN
Kevin Costner had a special run of films in the 80s and 90s. If you weren't there, trust us! He did. He turned small roles into leading roles and used all of the cachet to make Dances With Wolves, which grew so out of hand that trades referred to it as Kevin's Gate. It made a gajillion dollars and won all the Oscars so he showed them! His peculiar mix of straight-forward American decency and rascally antiauthoritarian streak made him truly unique as a baby boomer superstar and then as an Oscar-winning director.
We start this week's episode with fave guest Erik, of the Blood & Popcorn podcast, to talk 1987's UNTOUCHABLES, directed by Brian DePalma from a script by David Mamet. Costner's breakthrough as Elliott Ness. Erik also takes us through a little of Costner's renaissance withYellowstone along with his latest passion project as star-director, HORIZON. Which began life as a single movie and now may be... FOUR? Costner has never shied away from ambition, even when it lays him low.
Speaking of... with a shelf of awards and a lifetime of "Haha I did a better movie than Goodfellas" Christmas cards addressed to Scorsese, Costner embarked on his proper follow-up as director to Dances With Wolves in 1997 when he released the 3 hour post-apocalyptic THE POSTMAN, a movie so earnest you almost feel bad for thinking it is terrible. Then years go by and you think "maybe it has aged well now that we are in a CGI IP-laden hellscape."
Nope, it is still one of the mind-meltingest bad studio films to ever come out. Ever. But you know what? If not for its "your butt has fused to your couch, here is a couch toilet toilet" length, it could be one of the all time great bad movies. Some of the creative choices are so wrong one imagines Scorsese sending Costner a lifetime of Christmas cards saying "at least I didn't direct The Postman" because of it.
Not shockingly, Erik taps out after the brilliant Untouchables and lets Ken and Thomas marvel at the beauty of The Postman on their lonesome.
THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.
Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail.com
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Ken: Ken Koral
Jack: jackk1096