The Flintstones
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
None of us had seen this movie since it was released in 1994 and although its reputation certainly preceded it, I'm not sure we understood the extent of what we were signing up for here when we picked it.
It's not going to come as a surprise to anyone that this wasn't a particularly good movie, but The Flintstones is a really interesting counterpoint to some of the other big screen adaptations we've covered on this podcast. On a purely superficial level, this is a film that preserves everything about the cartoon its based on. And yet, it all falls completely flat. Why is that? We think the answer's pretty clear.
Topics include: how The Grapes of Wrath influenced one of the earliest incarnations of this, the astounding number of writers that came and went from this project after that, the one really controversial casting choice, the glut of unnecessary subplots, why this all seems more like the plot for a sequel than the inaugural film in a franchise, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, yabba-dabba do you remember the Flintstones? |
| 0:05.3 | You love it. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.7 | And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Flintstones. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you. Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Flintstones. Although it premiered in the 1960s, the Hannah-Barbera cartoon series The Flintstones was a mainstay on Saturday mornings decades after it went off the air. |
| 1:02.0 | And when you're adapting source material with that level of staying power into a feature film, there are a few cornerstones you want to make sure to include. |
| 1:09.3 | Corporate embezzzzlement marital strife |
| 1:11.8 | economic woes class warfare |
| 1:14.8 | child endangerment |
| 1:16.4 | and lynch mobs |
| 1:17.7 | you know all the stuff you'd find in a container |
| 1:20.7 | of Flintstone's vitamins |
| 1:21.9 | because what the fucking |
| 1:24.8 | fuck is this |
| 1:26.9 | here's the thing this was never what the fucking fuck is this. |
| 1:30.4 | Here's the thing. |
| 1:36.9 | This was never going to be a good movie because not one of the more than 35 screenwriters who contributed to it ever really knew what kind of film it should be. |
| 1:42.1 | And imagine you're the 29th guy they bring in to do a draft of |
| 1:45.2 | this. What are you even bringing to the table at that point? Too many cooks in the kitchen, |
| 1:50.0 | rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. There are a lot of adages that apply here. But part of the |
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