It's been nine long years since Gore Verbinski graced our screens, and while A Cure for Wellness remains a hidden gem around these parts, the director's unique blend of spectacle and storytelling has been sorely missed. So Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is more than just a welcome addition to the anti-AI canon: it's also a return to form for one of our favorite big-budget genre filmmakers.
What would you do if a man burst into your diner and told you he was from the future? That the world was going to end today unless a group of strangers followed him, potentially to their death? That’s the premise of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, the latest film from fan favorite Gore Verbinski. The perfect mashup between Ready Player One and Black Mirror, Verbinski’s latest straddles the worlds of sci-fi and horror, as Sam Rockwell’s Man From the Future does his best to save humanity.
In this short excerpt from the podcast, Monagle (me) discusses why the school shooting narrative in Verbinski's film feels shockingly necessary:
It doesn't feel transgressive. It shouldn't feel transgressive. This is something that we have to live with as a nation, and we're not going to do shit about it until people have their moment of truth that makes them retihink te values systems that allow this to happen. And as silly and absurd a movie as this is, it's [done] in much the same way that horror allows us to confront our demons.
The Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die episode of the Certified Forgotten podcast is now available to stream on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, or the podcast platform of your choice.
