Support the show for $3.11/month at http://Patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a bonus episode every week, including access to all previous bonus episodes In deciding to detour from our normal programming and cover a meta-topic of the show, the 2011 Nicolas Cage film Drive Angry 3D, we discover what may be the most Facebook movie of all time, and the spiritual predecessor of the Qanon movement. Milton (Nicolas Cage) has escaped from hell, and he will stop at nothing to deliver justice to the sick satanic pedovore cult who has murdered his daughter and is planning on sacrificing his infant granddaughter to dark lord George Soros. He's coming, and hell's coming with him. Listen to our episode on Unhinged with Kino Lefter at http://patreon.com/kinolefter
Oh, did you like that Joker correctional officers meme?
I loved it.
Amazing.
I love, I love identifying with the Joker while in force, brutally enforcing law and order.
And I get that shit from like people on my Facebook feed and the guy who shared that is not a correctional officer.
And I don't think he knows any correctional officers, but there's still the idea of cosplaying as like I work At the Edmonton Remand Center, where like 75% of our inmates are indigenous, like, this is epic.
This is really cool.
Like, it's just such a fucked up- like, Alberta's a profoundly fucked up province, but layering on our, you know, disgusting carceral system on top of it is something else.
I, it's, it's like, I don't know, you're a special kind of guy when you look at, like, the institution of correctional officers.
Not even if, you know, if you are a correctional officer, you obviously are a very special kind of person.
But to be a fan of that, and I imagine what, when you look at a meme like that, where Joker is labeled a correctional officer, or whatever, and the guy next to him on the subway is labeled a normal person who thinks they're having a stressful day, you know?
To identify with... I imagine what's going on in that viewer's mind, that fan's mind, is like, wow, yeah, sure, people in the pen, they're fucked up, like they're sick fucks, but imagine being in charge there.
Imagine having to run that place.
Imagine how twisted that shit would make you.
You'd be more fucked up than any one of the inmates there, I guarantee it.
So it's like a way to like, I don't know, have your cake and eat it too.
Have your like twisted, dark, you know, fantasy about how you're in charge.
About how you're in charge and running things and in total control.
Ugh, yeah.
It's a very fucked up psychology behind that.
Every CO that I know and have known are like the fucking worst people.
I told you about the guy I know that like was talking about one of his friends, how he's friends with this famous person.
He's friends with this famous skateboarder.
He's like, yeah, he's like, we're buds.
We're like friends.
They weren't friends.
He was the guy's guard.
Oh my.
They weren't friends.
He was, he was Christian Hisoi's, Christian Hisoi's like prison card.
And, uh, and so, but he like talks about, he wanted to do this like skateboard brand and he was like, yeah, like my friend Christian Hisoi is like into it.
And I like know these people through Christian Hisoi cause we're friends.
And then I took, then he told me how they met and he was like, yeah, I would like, you know, give him extra food.
Shit.
Oh my god, dude.
It's like that moment when I was like, I didn't know this guy was a cop until that moment.
And I was like, I fucking hate you so much.
Yo, A, I can't be racist.
I have 10,000 black friends.
Yeah, exactly.
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Alright, I'm Alexander Edward.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
We're Minion Death Cult.
The world is ending.
The sick, pedovoric, satanic cult is responsible.
We're documenting it.
What's up, everybody?
Thank you for joining us.
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We really appreciate you folks.
We have a special guest here today.
We have Evan from Kino Laughter.
How you doing, Evan?
I'm doing well, boys.
Nice to see you again.
Always a pleasure to collaborate, and I am very excited about the content of this week's episode.
I've been looking forward to it for a little while and happy to be here.
You were, I think, looking, you know, no shots, but I think you were looking forward to it more than I was because I totally forgot we were recording this episode.
We, uh, this is kind of like a part two, okay?
Tony and I were recently on KenoLeft or PrimoLeft.
Squad!
Primo Laughter, which is the Patreon for Kino Laughter, talking about a movie called Unhinged with Russell Crowe playing a just your average white working-class person who wants to kill women with his lifted truck.
Severely normal, man.
Very, the most normal.
The most understood pain.
Today we are talking about Drive Angry 3D.
So, this is almost like a battle of the road rage movies here.
Or should I say a duel of the road rage movies.
I feel like what Unhinged was trying to get across is arguably even better represented in Drive Angry 3D.
I think, yeah, yeah.
This has been a... Drive Angry has been a long-standing bit or reoccurring theme of Minion Death Cult.
Um, and it was, uh, I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name, uh, Kateri or Kateri Molinaro, who suggested us doing an episode on Drive Angry, because it frequently comes up in episodes.
Tony had not seen Drive Angry.
It is one of my favorite movies, one of the best Nicolas Cage movies in my opinion, and sorely underseen and underappreciated.
It kind of gets lost in the late era of Nicolas Cage movies.
It gets lost with Knowing, it gets lost with whatever the other premonition... He has like a whole series of movies where he can just tell when stuff's gonna happen, right?
There's like Knowing and Next and then National Treasure.
I think he knows some stuff in those movies, but...
This is a standout film, in my opinion, okay?
And so we decided that it would be a fun episode to do, it would be an easy episode to do in an otherwise busy week.
It was very convenient that Evan had asked us to watch Unhinged with him, and This came up right after, so of course I asked Evan to be on this episode and then completely forgot that we had planned all of this and I was like stressing out.
I'm like, what the fuck is the Patreon episode gonna be about?
There's a few different things, but I gotta look into it.
And then Evan was like, so what time are we recording tonight?
And that was a couple days ago and I was like, oh yeah, we had this all set up.
So I'm glad that we're doing this episode.
It was supposed to just be like a fun sort of, you know, interesting sidetrack to the normal programming of the show.
But upon rewatch, I feel like that this could be one of the most Facebook movies in existence.
Absolutely.
Yes.
This is 100% a Facebook guy movie with a big spoonful of QAnon thrown in.
I believe this could be the first QAnon movie.
This movie came out in 2011, predates, you know, Donald Trump's candidacy, at least, you know, the final candidacy.
But it predicts a lot of what was swirling in the Facebook user's mind up to and, you know, our present moment, I feel.
I will make that case as we go along, and perhaps the case will be made for itself, just going through the plot here.
Before I go into it further, Tony, were you able to purchase a 3D TV and Blu-ray player in order to watch Drive Angry 3D?
No, not for this original screening, but there is all of that on the way.
um i am i went back and i changed my uh i didn't rent it again i purchased it now i now own it on youtube um and I don't know.
I tried to make the 3D happen.
I got pretty pitted.
I got very high and I thought the movie wasn't real.
So I had to re-watch the ending last night.
And I need to watch that in 3D.
This movie is as real as it gets.
This is a sworn enemy album of a movie.
I gotta tell you real quick.
I've done this before to you and it's not fair.
I need to stop.
I don't know why it took actual years for me to watch this movie.
It's just one of those things where every single time Alex recommends something it's usually a banger and this proved that.
What's your first impression of the movie?
Just briefly before we get into the plot.
How do you feel about it?
The only way this seemed like this could have happened to me, this movie could have existed, is if it was like an ex-cop thing, where it's like a child telling a story and then an adult making it happen.
You know?
Yeah, that's fair.
And that fucking rules.
It rules.
It's like, you know, super metal, epic, you know...
Just everything, just going, completely going for it, and I really enjoyed it.
Yeah.
What about you, Evan?
What about you, Evan?
How do you feel about this movie?
Drive Angry 3D, which is the official title of the movie, by the way, everybody.
I'd say that my way into the Drive Angry universe was of course car culture.
Growing up I was a big gear head, so the presence of a 1969 Dodge Charger put me in the seat pretty much instantly.
When I saw it originally when it came out, I think we rented it.
I... The full impact of Drive Angry didn't really move me.
I was just like, okay, this is a weird Nicolas Cage action movie among other weird Nicolas Cage action movies.
Upon the revisit, I can clearly see that this was an arthouse film.
This is a forgotten masterpiece.
It is.
And it takes so many like great choices in kind of like a like a grindhouse genre that a lot of films don't really make now.
I feel like there needs to be almost like a, there's an interesting comparison between this and Mandy where Mandy is almost like an elevated version of this like really gory, grotesque action movie.
But Drive Angry has almost nothing else besides for like this pursuit of a crazy dream.
And that's why I was very excited to revisit it.
And yeah, I think my life's on a different course now after experiencing Drive Angry.
Yeah, this movie definitely deserves, this movie is halfway between, between Crank and Mandy.
It's, it's somewhere in the middle of there.
I definitely think it deserves to be discussed in the same, uh, in the same circles as Crank and Crank 2.
Um, it's, it makes all the choice, very interesting choices.
Like, it's not afraid to do very stupid things and, and lean into them.
And I, and I love that.
Basically the premise of this movie is that Nicolas Cage has escaped from hell.
His character Milton has escaped from hell in order to save his infant granddaughters from the satanic sickos who have murdered his daughter.
And the tone of the movie explains that hell is like one giant penitentiary.
So, the story of this film is literally like I'm just an ex-con trying to go straight and get my granddaughter back.
It's a cross between, what I have here in my notes, is it's a cross here between Con Air and Mandy.
