The Last Movie You Watched

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep  Hurting Project: Gone Fishin'. It's one of those movies where the production is easily more interesting then the final product: it spent years in development Hell, it briefly had the director of Rocky attached, only for him to be fired and pay his $2 million salary back. One stunt went wrong and killed a stuntwoman (and injured her husband and father-in-law.) It ended up going over-schedule and over-budget, ending up with a budget of $56 million. By the time it came to be released, Disney (who had planned to release it as a Walt Disney Features film, a credit that's still on the opening credits) just cut their losses. It's not even on any Disney-owned streaming platforms like Hulu or Disney+. Given that its physical re-release is from Kino Lorber, It seems to have become one of the very few properties that Disney's just decided they don't want to own anymore.

• Ah, yes, these kids are choosing the Minamata method of choosing their fishing spot right outside the big industrial pipe that's pumping some grey liquid into the ocean.
  
• That kid's smokes managed to create a fucking power outage in a major city for 48 hours.
  
• That salvage office had better have been empty. Somehow, in the first two minutes, I get the feeling that this Joe Pesci role has a higher body count than Tommy in Goodfellas. Seriously, if these two didn't have families, they'd probably be Darwin Award winners.
  
• "they say only idiots use these lures, but it's the idiots that ain't using them that's idiots." Also, is that Willie Nelson? Please tell me this wasn't one of the things he did so he could keep the IRS at bay.
  
• So, now they've got original songs from Willie Nelson and a score that sounds worthy of a David DeCoteau film.
  
• So, you've got a vaguely sinister British guy in an impractical suit who seems to have taken a liking to Joe Pesci's car keys. And nobody seems to notice that he might be up to no good.
  
• Also, Nurse Ratched seems to be looking on, but doesn't seem too interested in actually intervening until the moment where they can actually see what happened with their car but can't stop it.  Seems in character to me.
  
• How does Joe Pesci not recognise his own car? And why is the Con Man so fucked up that he decides to drive their boat into the diner? And why the fuck is this wealthy con man so interested in a beat-up 68 Barracuda?
  
• You know, you'd think they'd call the Glory Glades resort in advance to reserve their spot at the lodge. Or, given that Hurricane Andrew, which happened in 1992, several years before the film was set, destroyed the  lodge, maybe it would have expired by now.
  
• And why the fuck does anyone think that fishing is a good vehicle for a family movie? It's an activity that involves waiting in a boat for hours on end, hoping that you might get a bite at some point. There were a few cartoons around the same time with episodes based around fishing, but even in those cases, it was largely incidental.
  
• Idea for a drinking game for the suicidal: every time Joe PEsci and Danny Glover either act like they're a danger to themselves and others, or mention a previous incident where they do so, take a shot.
  

Next week, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B.

• 1) I never thought Disney would make a film (rated PG, no less) that mentions 'nudie photos'. 2) That's a bikini photo, not a nudie.
  
• Giving two jackasses free reign of a boat that costs more than their homes. Nothing can possibly go wrong!
  
• IF the whole "take a shot every time Joe and Danny act like they're a danger to themselves or others or mention an incident where they were" drinking game doesn't kill you, then taking a shot every time they try to make "Ten" or "Eleven" into a catchphrase will. 
  
• Oh, thaks, I almost forgot how they briefly included a murder knife as a macguffin, only to lose it in the bay before it came into play.
  
•  You know, the sad thing is Joe Pesci's right about how bullshit it is to say how things could be worse when things go shit. Especially when everything gets fucked up like they did. 
  
• Please let there be a giant frog that pukes up a key in this underground cave.
  
• Okay, a gator who barely seems to be moving might be a decent substitute.
  
• I did not expect a direct reference to anal rape in a Disney movie. 
  
• They're really phoning in the whole "Willie Nelson is God" thing.
  
• The canary flies, too, Willie. And at around the same average speed as the eagle. 
  
• You know, maybe instead of leaving these vague inspirational sayings, Willie could actually help catching the con man.
  
• Huh. That fishing line's strong enough that, even when his sea plane's in the air, reeling him in is easy enough. You'd think he'd just rip his shirt.
  
• IS that the same fucking MInamata fishing hole from the beginning?
  
• And the movie ends as they're mooning, nothing in particular, as an alligator (who may or may not have been the same one from the underground cave) watches by in excitement. We don't even get a chomp sound effect. Just roll credits.
  Next week, Aaliyah: Princess of R&B.