Cocaine Bear

So Justin, tell us about Cocaine Bear.

This was your

pick.

This was my pick.

And I kind of regret it because, spoilers, it's not a good movie.

We've actually seen this before and we all remembered it being better than it was.

But what it apparently was is we remembered all the good parts and forgot how there's some serious pacing issues.

Huge pacing issues.

It's got terrible CGI.

The CGI bear looks so bad.

Yeah, I guess.

It does.

It really does.

And it's got also way too many characters, but I'll talk about that later.

What I want to talk about right now is the inspiration for this movie because it's a little bit fascinating.

This movie was made because this story about a bear that OD'd on cocaine got popular on social media and became kind of a thing, even though the original event happened in 1985.

What?! ! Yeah, I didn't realize that.

I just looked it up for this episode, and I thought it would happen much more recently than that.

But no, it was 1985.

How

did that come back up into social media, like, what, 40 years later?

I think probably someone learned about it and posted it on Reddit, and then it just went viral from there.

And after that, someone said, oh, we should capitalize on the popularity of this story and make a movie.

And then, unfortunately, they did.

So in 1985, a black bear in Georgia is 175 pound black bear found a duffel bag of cocaine.