Going Under
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this tenth episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John talk a little about this week’s movie, the 1991 submarine farce “Going Under,” but devote most of the episode to discussing the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia, and the way the world has underestimated the power of democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Up, periscope, batten down the hatchet and anchors away. |
| 0:12.5 | The U.S. |
| 0:15.5 | South, stand. |
| 0:17.5 | Wonder! |
| 0:18.5 | ...the end of the sea. Or on the weapon. |
| 0:21.6 | Oh. |
| 0:22.6 | Get ready for the ride of your life. |
| 0:27.6 | Captain, slip out of it! |
| 0:30.6 | Now hear this, now hear this. |
| 0:34.6 | We are going under. |
| 0:38.3 | We are going to Welcome to Episode 10 of Unclear and Present Danger, a podcast about the political and military thrillers of the 1990s and what they say about the politics of that decade. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm Jamel Bowie. I'm a columnist for the New York Times |
| 1:27.6 | opinion section. My name is John Gans. I write a column for Gawker. I have a newsletter |
| 1:33.3 | called Unpopular Front, and I'm working on a book about American politics in the early 90s. |
| 1:39.8 | Today we are talking about Going Under, a 1991 farce directed by Mark W. Travis and starring |
| 1:46.8 | Bill Pullman, Wendy Shaw, and the great Ned Beatty. Going Under was never actually |
| 1:52.6 | released in theaters and only got a straight VHS release. There aren't really many reviews |
| 1:58.5 | of it, but TV Guide did give it just two stars. |
| 2:01.6 | And I think it's fair to say that this is basically a forgotten movie. |
| 2:06.3 | There's no box office information. |
| 2:08.2 | There's no budget information, although the movie looks pretty low budget. |
| 2:13.7 | Very low budget, in fact. |
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