Ep. 863 - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff go for a swim with The Plague, go undercover with the 4K edition of Hard Boiled, and sharpen their weapons for Blades of the Guardians. Then they assemble an unlikely troupe to save the world from a dark future in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Does Anybody Want AI Entertainment?
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on the RAMaggedon getting worse
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:17:26)
David - Hard Boiled 4K, Megadoc (Criterion)
Devindra - The Plague, Scarlet, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, On This Day…1776, Industry
Jeff - Blades of the Guardians, Nirvanna the Band the Show
Featured Review (~01:09:58)
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
SPOILERS (~01:25:00)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm David Chen and Sack Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm David Chen and somewhere on this podcast, it's possible to say the optimal mix of words to save humanity. |
| 0:29.4 | I've only tried 862 times before now. |
| 0:32.4 | Maybe this time we'll actually do it, guys. |
| 0:35.3 | Joining me today is Dividure Hardware. |
| 0:37.5 | Wow, they finally made a movie about my life motto. |
| 0:42.5 | And Jeff Kanata. |
| 0:43.8 | I was going to say the same thing as you, Dave. |
| 0:45.5 | It's been 27 times I've teamed up with you knuckleheads and we still haven't saved |
| 0:49.1 | the world. |
| 0:50.7 | One day. |
| 0:51.7 | Those are, of course, all vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast |
| 0:55.3 | we'll be reviewing good luck, have fun, don't die. |
| 1:00.0 | The latest film by Gore Verbinski, you know, this is wild guys that we have these filmmakers |
| 1:07.1 | who make literally some of the biggest films of all time box office always. I'm talking about like Sam Ramey, Gore Vribinski, and then we literally just don't hear for them for like a decade, basically. Well, it's not my choice. Yeah, yeah. It's more like, you know, oh, we use you up to make a trilogy. You make one bad movie and then you're spent. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's... I would argue there was more make one bad movie, and then you're spent. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:47.2 | I mean, it's... I would argue there was more than one bad movie in there, but, you know, let's... There was one very bad. I was like, are you talking about Ramey or Rubinsky now? Anyway, regardless, because they both made trilogies. They both, yeah, trilogies and then bad movies follow. Yes, that's right, that's right. Anyway, really glad to have Gore back on the scene. |
| 1:47.2 | Gorse's right. That's right. Anyway, really glad to have Gore back on the scene. |
| 1:53.6 | Gour's back. And we'll be discussing his new film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, which is available right now in theaters in the United States. |
| 1:57.8 | You can find more episodes of the show at the filmcast.com. Email us at slash filmcast.com. |
| 2:03.0 | Right at the top of the show, I have have a big announcement which is generally you can sign up at patreon.com slash film podcasts get ad-free episodes early access episodes and |
| 2:09.3 | exclusive bonus after arc episodes that are available only to patrons this week the after work is |
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