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This week, on Making a Virtue of Incredulity:
It’s time to celebrate the heroes at the Bio-Cover Unit, and make fun of families who bizarrely graze each other’s faces with their fingers.
Joe decides if loving this movie is wrong, he doesn’t want to be right. Greg has divisive, controversial takes on John Travolta and Boat Chases, and an unfettered love of loud fabrics and BOOM SHOES.
This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Anderson, Montgomery, Berkely, Pinkus, Gianelli, and Winters.
Joe’s Back of the Box
When Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) plants a bomb that threatens all of Los Angeles, Sean Archer (John Travolta) must go undercover to find its location as… CASTOR TROY. Using the latest technology, Sean Archer becomes Castor Troy. He must fight his own demons and himself as the real Castor Troy blackmails the doctors into making him Sean Archer. Under the masterful hand of action legend John Woo, this explosive and philosophical action movie runs the gamut from the sublime to the incredible to the unbelievable… Face off with your fears and see what dreams may come!
The REAL Back of the Box
This movie is bonkers. Like, legitimately ridiculously crazy. It makes no sense and it doesn’t need to. If you were there in 1997 and I said, “John Woo, John Travolta and Nicolas Cage” all you would have asked is “where and when.” This movie has it all, 1990’s action, unchecked casual sexual harassment, doves flying in slow motion, and actors and a director all working in completely different films. Does it hold up? Does it need to? Or is this peak cinema? All I can say is that I love this film dearly and am willing to suffer all the consequences of this choice.