Episode 72 - Mar 15, 2023
Anaconda
Episode 72: Anaconda (1997)
Theme: Guilty Pleasures
Hosts: Oz, Curtis & Special Guest Don Shanahan
This week, Oz and Curtis welcome their very first guest — Rotten Tomatoes–verified reviewer, fellow bald educator, and cousin-adjacent legend Don Shanahan — who arrives armed with a movie marriage so good it instantly earned him a return invite: Jaws meets Jungle Cruise with a hearty Scarface-sized mountain of cocaine. The result? Anaconda — the only creature feature where the snake isn’t even the most unhinged predator on the river… because Jon Voight’s face exists.
Join your two favorite members of the Let’s Talk About Flix-verse (plus Don S!) as they unpack:
How this documentary crew somehow includes JLo, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, Kari Wuhrer, and Eric Stoltz but not one person qualified to be there.
Why Jon Voight plays a “Paraguayan” snake hunter like he’s doing a De Niro impression during dental surgery.
How Eric Stoltz spends 80% of the movie unconscious like he’s on medical sabbatical from Back to the Future.
Why the CGI snake is aggressively terrible yet still somehow not the worst effect in the film.
How Owen Wilson dies looking EXACTLY like Owen Wilson pressed into a Stretch Armstrong.
How the film’s best actor is a puppet snake with a fully functional scream and a working sense of comedic timing.
Why the regurgitated Jon Voight wink deserves its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
How Ice Cube survives everything because today… was a good day.
From barge-based seductions to monkey bait, from exploding dams to throat-cam cinematography, Oz, Curtis, and Don slither through a guilty pleasure so aggressively 90s it should come with a free AOL trial and a bottle of Surge.
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Final Verdict
Oz — An entire cast of names with about 2.5 actors’ worth of talent
Curtis — 56 Paraguayan Ponytails
Don — 79 Feet of Anaconda Skin
All — Still not sure how this movie passed PETA approval, but certain that snake scream was Frank Welker going feral.
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