Episode #785: Primal Fear
Added 2025-02-18 05:00:04 +0000 UTC“[This movie] has the vibes of The Fugitive...” - Andrew
On this week’s episode, WAIT-WHUT-uary goes into legal thriller territory with a chat on the totally entertaining courtroom drama, Primal Fear! What an absolutely phenomenal cast, no? How hilarious is John Mahoney getting so psyched over all that Chinese food? Wouldn’t we all have watched that Andre Braugher Goodman TV spin-off it feels like they’re setting up? How great is it to have another movie where the great city of Chicago is a character? And how about that twist, huh? Can they make movies like this again, please? PLUS: Welcome to our new podcasters-only bar and dispensary, Pod Suds & Pod Buds™️!
Primal Fear stars Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, Terry O’Quinn, Steven Bauer, Joe Spano, Tony Plana, and the late, great Andre Braugher as Tommy Goodman; directed by Gregory Hoblit.
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Comments
Steven Bauer is also GREAT in Thief Of Hearts.
Christopher Oxentine
2025-02-25 03:34:00 +0000 UTCCouldn't agree more with Andrew about Braugher on Brooklyn Nine Nine. The Halloween episodes alone.
Tala Hobballah
2025-02-24 03:23:39 +0000 UTCI loved that Andre Braugher played a gay, straight man. His ongoing battle of witch based insults with Kyra Sedgwick killed me.
Frank Grimes
2025-02-21 21:08:28 +0000 UTCInvestigator for a hotshot attorney seems like such a cool job, lol. Some light B&E, foot chases, dropping off porno tapes in the dead of night and being a lil stinker on the witness stand...looks fun!
Chris Rose
2025-02-21 17:17:06 +0000 UTCEvery time a listener doesn't format their Listener Request Month voicemail properly they put Cabin in the stocks :'(
T Herron
2025-02-20 02:42:54 +0000 UTCThis movie was on every wretched WatchMojo list. Free Luigi and put them in jail.
Eren Keskin
2025-02-19 19:42:57 +0000 UTCGod I HATE this trend of 'miniseries -- unless it's successful, then anthology series?' I don't need Presumed Innocent S2, I don't need Beef S2, we didn't need Big Little Lies or The Terror S2...yet another societal evil for which I blame Ryan Murphy. I swear he just ran out of ideas at the end of American Horror Story S1 and just went "uhh...new story!" And now it's a thing.
Rose Esposito
2025-02-19 19:39:13 +0000 UTCBravo, gentleman. I was crying through the entire thing. I guess that's why I'm paying the big Patreon bucks
Keith Henry Brown
2025-02-19 15:43:53 +0000 UTCImagining Gentle Giant Andrew flogging our beautiful boys as penance for getting some IMDb trivia wrong had me laughing on my ride home.
Derek Baxter
2025-02-19 04:08:55 +0000 UTCWhen I heard that Tim Blake Nelson was starring in “Captain America: Brave New World”, I thought he was playing President Nerd!* *Better movie. “Captain America, this is President Nerd. Stand down! Red Hulk is mine.”
Paul
2025-02-19 01:21:12 +0000 UTCI'm hope ing for some real stinkers for viewer request month because these guys are taking it two easy on them selves.
Mark D Myers
2025-02-18 21:58:39 +0000 UTCCome down to the Gettin' Place we have the new Splatterhouse for the Easter Season.
DMAC
2025-02-18 19:54:14 +0000 UTCTAAAAHHHHHM IS ON MAH SIDE, YES IT IS
MarkNM
2025-02-18 18:57:14 +0000 UTCOh no no, nothing wrong with a movie that's not afraid to be a movie. That wasn't a ding.
MarkNM
2025-02-18 18:35:53 +0000 UTCGod damnit why am I that guy screaming THE PHANTOM? Slam Evil.
Jonnie Sea
2025-02-18 18:35:18 +0000 UTCHey, nothing wrong with slick and formulaic! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-02-18 18:33:23 +0000 UTCOh yeah, it's been on the to-do list since the first Obama administration, but we will 100% be getting to that movie some day. It's a WILD ride. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-02-18 18:32:52 +0000 UTCI'm so proud these boys didn't do no hamster talk about Mr Gere. Poor man went thru so much
Paterick Caddery
2025-02-18 17:30:25 +0000 UTCY'know, Roy Szyszka has a nice ring to it. Eric is fine and all, but Roy Szyszka is a name you can really set your watch to.
Jason
2025-02-18 17:22:36 +0000 UTCGiven the direct mention of Fallen, I'm shocked it's not already an episode.
StylinGreymon
2025-02-18 16:58:54 +0000 UTCI LOVED this movie but have not revisited it in many years. Multiple personalities really had a hold on us in the 90s
Kate
2025-02-18 16:41:25 +0000 UTCI went to 3 years of law school and accrued $200k in debt for the privilege, all to learn what Stephen distilled in a sentence: If it happened before, you get to do it.
I.C. Weiner
2025-02-18 16:12:16 +0000 UTCThe second book is just Martin Vail but book 3 deals with Aaron's return when Martin becomes a US Attorney and starts prosecuting militias Edit: Aaron is the villain in all 3. I only read book 1 & 3 because the "Justice Center" in which I was detained for 30 days only had those 2 availablr
James C Harris
2025-02-18 15:41:31 +0000 UTCAn extremely mature lack of gerbil comments in this episode Thought Steve was getting there with his final “ass magnet” comments
RJ Cunningham
2025-02-18 15:38:13 +0000 UTCPrimal Fear; a dark, gritty movie from when dark and gritty meant...kinda slick and formulaic.
MarkNM
2025-02-18 15:17:35 +0000 UTCDon’s Plum 2 really got me, we were robbed of the DPCU! It would’ve given Kevin Connolly something to do other than Entourage, Gotti and then producing the Entourage podcast
Aaron Dowler
2025-02-18 15:12:08 +0000 UTCI remember my parents watching this in 96, so I was maybe 11. I walked in during the "help her" part. Kinda a reverse "what are yoooouuuu watching "
Les Whinen
2025-02-18 15:03:01 +0000 UTCI just learned this a moment ago, a few comments up! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-02-18 14:53:50 +0000 UTCWait, THIRD book? There are more adventures with Aaron? - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-02-18 14:53:19 +0000 UTCI thought the twist in the book was that the kid did have MPD but the evil persona was dominant. I know in the third book the evil persona evolves into an evil preacher who has a militia backing him
James C Harris
2025-02-18 14:12:07 +0000 UTCMe sitting at home yelling, The Phantom!
Josh Wurtz
2025-02-18 13:02:39 +0000 UTCFirst watched this one in a psychology and law class with a cool teacher that happily popped in R-rated movies when the subject seemed fitting. Was glad to revisit it tonight! I was 100% on the same wavelength as Andrew as this almost feels like The Fugitive could be happening simultaneously with this movie.
Busiris
2025-02-18 07:41:14 +0000 UTCDid you know that there was a trilogy of books and this is just the first part?
Robert Muse
2025-02-18 06:16:35 +0000 UTCI would have liked a Boozy Judge Shoat spin off with Alfre Woodard. Fuck knows I would be hammered all the time too if I had to deal with Richard Gere on the regular.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-02-18 05:13:04 +0000 UTC
