Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast

Elliott Kalan of The Flop House fame returns to the pod to fully usher our boys into the era of Bad Movies and Bad Hair! First up is The Taking of Pelham 123, Tony Scott's penultimate film and a remake of the 1976 thriller classic about a heist aboard a New York City subway train. But this time, the slow-burn tension and grimy tale of a Big Apple suffused with sleaze and danger is replaced by a slick, post-9/11 NYC and John Travolta in Orange County Chopper cosplay doing The Most. Not even Denzel can put the brakes on this train! Then, we pull some sleight-of-hand and move on over to Next, wherein Nic Cage plays a greasy, showboating magician with the magical power to see two minutes into the future. He could use it to help FBI agent Julianne Moore save the world from nuclear catastrophe, but instead he'd rather mack on Jessica Biel, who's young enough to be his daughter. It's a bonkers movie with an even more bizarre ending, and saunters far from the Philip K. Dick story it's based on.  Pledge to our Patreon