239: The Rocketeer
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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This week, we're discussing the early 90s flop The Rocketeer! We talk about how Cliff is a truly UN-compelling hero, why this is the most dangerous technology ever presented on film, and how the bad guy's evil plan would for sure never work.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.6 | I high-bye, everybody. |
| 0:26.9 | I high-bye, I want to know, welcome to I Hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:29.7 | I am Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:30.7 | I am Kattingus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:35.6 | This week, we are continuing Mediocre Superhero Month by talking about the rocketeer. |
| 0:40.4 | Yes, we are. |
| 0:41.7 | Now, this falls into what I would describe as my favorite genre of I High-Bi-Li shows, I suppose. |
| 0:49.8 | Okay. |
| 0:50.8 | Which is to say, movies that you barely remember from your childhood that you are wildly underwhelmed by as an adult. |
| 0:58.3 | Because I saw this when I was very, very wee, I saw it at my kindergarten boyfriend's birthday party. |
| 1:07.0 | I sat next to his mum, I found all of the guns and gunfire a bit too scary, and so I've had it built |
| 1:13.2 | up in my mind for quite a while, of like, oh yeah, the rocketeer, you know, I remember that |
| 1:19.1 | being very violent and like, and the director of it, Joe Johnston, who we've talked about before, |
| 1:25.3 | did Honey I Shrunk the Kids, obviously won an Oscar for his work on the Indiana Jones stuff, |
| 1:30.2 | and based on his work on this movie, was hired to do Captain America the first Avenger, |
| 1:35.6 | like they literally were like, there's only one person who has done this before. |
| 1:39.6 | Who's done this before, and it's him. |
| 1:41.3 | So I was really excited to revisit this movie, and I was surprised to find that the rocketeer is |
| 1:49.0 | essentially, what if Iron Man was absolutely dirt shit at his job? |
| 1:55.2 | Like, what if Iron Man fucking sucked ass at his job in this episode movie? |
| 2:04.3 | Like, the best thing you can say about the rocketeer is that it is a completely accurate movie |
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