Welcome back midnight viewers. Father alone Here, we're doing something a little bit
different. Hopefully this is the start of a trend. We realize that you
love anthologies. We love anthologies, We all love anthologies. But we also
realize that sometimes it can be a bit limiting, particularly when a series we're
covering just isn't available to the general public. So in an effort to improve
that particular situation, I'm gonna be taking a look at things that are a
little bit more current, sometimes sometimes a little bit older, and sometimes not
anything to do with anthologies at all. But all will definitely be available on
streaming or YouTube or somewhere. I will update you as we go along.
And joining me here is my co host for the first time. She is
new to the team, new to podcasting. Everybody say hello to Ripley,
Ripley, how are you doing? All right, let's start with a I
think technically you can call this a horror movie. It's gone Zilla minus one.
It's currently streaming pretty much everywhere. Everyone's talking about it. Everyone's raving
about it. Everyone but me. Gota minus lah. Yeah, that's right,
here's your hot take. I did not like Godzilla minus one. I
love the opening third of that film, and that was about it. Now,
why everyone is going crazy for it is because it's finally taking that franchise
seriously for the first time and I don't know, fifty sixty years and it's
doing a pretty good job and grounding it with human characters you actually could potentially
care about is another great direction to go in. Unfortunately, the story of
the Kama Kazi pilot who didn't perform his Kama Kazi duty and he's still alive
and he harbor's guilt, and I wonder where this is going. Oh man,
I won't get into spoilers or anything. I just was not turned on
by the plot of this film. I kind of saw it from the opening
scene where we were going by the end, and that's exactly where we went
to. But I will say the opening attack of Godzilla, his first sort
of appearance, is really incredible and absolutely worth your time. So I'm not
gonna say don't watch this movie. I'm saying I didn't like this movie.
I'm gonna kick it over to Ripley. Ripley, what do you think of
Godzilla minus one? So you think I'm wrong? What do you know?
You've never seen any Gunzilla movie, but this one. Next up is The
Boys that's on Amazon Prime. This is the season four they just entered,
and definitely more of the same. The virus Q soups. This is insane
and desperate, even for you, well, insanely desperates where we are,
don't you thank you? Let's go chop chopping motherfuckers. Let's say it's a
Babel good versus people. I'm declaren hut season on Star Ladders. We can't
religious is fucking happening to me again? Look, we've all done bad ship.
What's insane is that our solution to every problem is murdered. Violence isn't
brave, vice is power. That's a spirit jam who wants a creamy,
delicious milkshack. We're ever gonna win against monsters. We need to start acting
human. You're a fucking welcome sust. I don't know that they're going anywhere
interesting so far this year it just seems to be more bad behavior and blood
bath. And although Kimmico seems to have become I don't know all powerful this
season, she pretty much regenerates on the spot. No matter what you do
with her, cut off her hand here it is blow her up well,
here she is. I always wonder when people blow up if they don't have
two parts, if the two parts don't regenerate on their own, is that
a possibility or does it have to be the brain section only? I don't
know. Anyway, there's a whole lot of that this year. But obviously
Eric Kripkey is doing the Lord's work out there, swinging and amazingly, the
crazier sort of QAnon right wing folk out there have only just cotton to the
idea that the series has been making fun of them the entire time. I
don't know how that's possible, but it is. Anyway, Boys, definite
thumbs up. There a recommendation go check that out season four if you haven't
seen it at all. It is a parody of superhero movies if you don't
even know what I'm talking about, but it is well worth your time anything
with Carl Urban and it is going to be fantastic. What's that? Oh
yeah? Ripley wants everyone to know that Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined the cast
of the Boys this season. You might remember who's the comedian back in the
day on Watchman. I guess he's on The Walking Dead too. Okay,
find you like Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Okay, next out to season two of
House of the Dragon. That's on Max no longer hbo. I guess the
targarian who sits the iron throne. It's not just a king or a queen.
They are a protector of the room. No, I find myself in
an impossible position. Oh, hey, King, Hey God, the enemy
us up to my throne. We're going to King clonding. Well, what
are we going to do about it? We must play the board before us
proceed, which is the fuck? Dignity war is comming. Neither of us
be with uh here we are too many character names, too many dragon names.
I'm clueless to whoever anyone is referring to at any one time. Nevertheless,
I remain or riveted to the series, even though they're turning my favorite
character, who is Eggon, the boy who did not want to be king,
into another Geoffrey not appreciated. I like that guy. Let him be
good too much? White hair? Huh? I kind of agree with you.
Anyway, where's this series going? Anyway? Is that? Here's my
thought that if the pirate boy, you know, the white haired boy with
the with the eye patch. See. I don't know his name because I
don't know anyone's name. Allison, that's a name, Auto. I guess
that's one too. I'm really hoping Pirate Boy turns into a hero and switch
asides by the end of this. And I don't know, maybe Damon.
That's the only other character's name I know, because that's doctor who I hope.
I hope he eventually switches sides as well, and I want those two
to go at it is that weird? I don't know. I'm enjoying the
show anyway, even though it's mostly confusing. I told you we are not
talking about Star Wars this week. Okay, God, last night a Jedi
was murdered. The Jedi justify their galactic dominance in the name of peace.
But that piece is a lie. What are you not they acolyte? This
one I've actually been anticipating. I was actually excited about the idea that we
get to witness the birth of the Synth some hundreds of years before maybe a
thousand years, don't know, it's one hundred years, I guess before the
fall of the Republic. Is it a thousand? Who knows? It's very
unclear. Nevertheless, we're given to given a whole new set of characters,
all of which are terrifically boring. Nothing new in the Star Wars universe here
at all. If anything could make me long for the days of Boba fet,
this is it. Man. It's really unpleasant to watch. Yeah,
well, you're finishing the series on your own, little lady. The cast
is universally poor, except a couple of standouts. Li Jeong Jay I'm hoping
I'm pronouncing that right. That is the lead from Squid Games. He's a
Jedi here, fucking phenomenal seeing him as a Jedi, and that you actually
get the sense that he's a decent Jedi when they're telling a tale where the
Jedi were maybe a little bit iffy. Jonas Junie Sutamo I think that's his
name. He's been playing Chewbacca ever since Peter Mayhew became too frail to continue
the role. He shows up here as a Wookie Jedi that we never get
to see in action. Spoiler alert, you never get to see the Wookie
in battle. Now. I'm usually have a co host here, I mean,
I've got one here with Ripley, and she's staring at me right now.
But she's really uninterested in everything I've been talking about. She's more of
a classic cinema girl. But this is a new experience for me being on
my own, so I enlisted some aid in the form of HP, the
host of Night Mister Walters, a taxi podcast, had him drop by so
we can talk about some things that are current and potentially enjoyable, starting with
the trailer for Here, the new Robert Semechis film, which is if you
haven't seen it, go check it out on YouTube right now. It is
a film. The conceit is that the camera is locked down from prehistoric times
up until a house is built, and then we're basically watching the lives of
a family played here by Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. It's a Forrest Gump
reunion, and I hope it's filled with all the same emotion and all the
tongue clucking at the underground social movements of the time. Hey Dad, I
couldn't meet Margaret. It's nice to meet you, Margaret. Nice to meet
you, mister young Tom. Sure does want to do that. Sure does
take a straight to stronger course to the corner of be Live made through White
Queenland. So fast she hasn't got time to make you this time. It's
time time with your time business. Right here is where we want to be.
You know, if you like, you could spend the rest of the
night here. I could spend the rest of my life here. This was
our home. We lived here. Anyway, Here is me and HP.
I have seen the trailer for the fucking movie, right, and I would
liken it to the Walt Disney World Carousel of Progress, but that had a
lot more motion in it. Well, here it's a fucking stage play,
man, it is, But I, for whatever reason, I'm now it's
based on a graphic novel. I don't know if you knew that is the
graphic novel one panel only, but well, yeah, well it takes place
in this house and it kind of cuts back between like really prehistory and I
haven't gotten I haven't read the whole thing all the way through. But that's
understand that this isn't something that Samchis and Eric Roth came up with on their
own. Okay, this is an adaptation. Now, I now like the
movie even less. How about that. I'm look, I'm looking forward to
it. I I'm definitely going to see it, you know, me,
I love Robert Samakis. I think he's a fucking great filmmaker. I wouldn't
call him a genius anymore. I wouldn't say he's like like a fucking you
know whatever, but like he's been stumbling a lot the past twenty five years.
Fair, I'm always looking for a good one from him, but there's
something about every one of them that's just off, Like the man used to
make classics. No, I don't disagree with you, but I can tell
I recently I was rewatching The Forrest Gump. You can say whatever you want
about politically what that movie means. I still think it's very effective. I'm
still brush. It still gets dusty for me when he's at Jenny's grave.
I'm just I'm sensitive about that. I don't know. It always affects me,
and I get the sense that this is going to push a lot of
those same buttons. I mean, clearly, by the end of this whole
thing, his wife has Alzheimer's or something, and he's bringing her back to
this house where you've seen all of this stuff happened. Yep, yep,
I get it. I'm sure I will be manipulated, but I'm ready for
that. I kind of want to you're ready for the master manipulator that is
Robertson meck I mean, I'm intrigued, and I like, there's something about
the young Tom Hanks that reminds me of Mazes and Monsters. Maybe that's got
to be irrationally excited to see it. Tom Hanks and his friends get caught
up in a deadly game of fantasy. I am the control until they take
it too far. I propose we played Mazes and Masters in a real setting.
It won't be a head too bad for one of them, because now
there's no turning back. This is only a game. Somebody Mazes and Monsters,
you know, would you be more I would be more excited if Robertson
Mackus remade Mazes and Monsters and did a deaged Tom Hanks and then we get
his version of that story. Wouldn't that be awesome? Tell me that wouldn't
be fucking great? Actually, you know, I was joking a second ago,
But now that I think about it, if it's playing with fantasy worlds
and dungeons and dragons and madness and all these kind of and and well,
yeah, I mean, look now I just like this idea as a movie,
and we don't necessarily need a dh Tom Hanks, but that would that
would be the extra cherry on Tom. It would be I want to see
the return of Pardue the Holy Man with his bag of spells squaring off against
Kevin Peter Hooks in a goblin costume. Absolutely, and then you know his
vision of like going to heaven. It's basically just like a drainage pipe that
that they've that they've white lit on one end? Was it the Great Hall?
That's where he's going to know? The tower? The Tower? Well?
No, but but but he keeps talking about the Great Hall and they
figure out it's because his brother's name was Hall. Oh, he's trying to
go back to find his I see, I remember everything about this movie.
I love this movie. That's crazy. I love What's funny, HB is
when was the last time you watched it? I don't know, a couple
of years. Probably I watched it last year, and you know you remember
it better than I do. I loved it. Have you seen The Acolyte?
I have not. I was actually thinking I haven't seen anything on Disney
Plus and forever? Is it any good? No? I thought you were
gonna say that it's really good. No, that's not good, absolutely not.
The guy from Squid Game is like, this is a Jedi in it?
The guy from South Korean, Yeah, he's great, cool, he's
great, like as a Jedi, fantastic. Everything else about the show is
fucking nonsense. It's set up as a mystery. There's only like six characters.
There's a character who has not been revealed but keeps showing up in a
mask. Yet we've only been introduced to six characters. Do you think one
of the six characters that we've met could possibly be in that mask? I
would put money on that if I was a betting man. Sure. As
it turns out and it's one of those six characters, they just revealed it
in the latest episode. Oh my god. Yeah. It seems like every
new Star Wars TV show is touted as like, Okay, this one is
going to redefine Star Wars. This is forget about that, you know,
the Force awakens and all that nonsense. This is really going to be and
it never is. Like Obi Wan was okay, the Mandalorian got bad,
Boba Fett was terrible. So I've lost faith that in any of this really,
But Andor was great. I didn't watch, and you should watch,
and it's the only one you should have watched. As it turns out,
I'm telling you watch and or it's I will. It's remarkable. It is
the adult star Wars we were promised in nineteen eighty three. By the way,
have you had a chance to watch that Andrew McCarthy movie Bratts? Of
course I did. If you were coming of age in the nineteen eighties,
the brat Pack was near the center of your cultural awareness. But for those
of us experiencing it from the inside, the broad Pack was something very different.
On June tenth, nineteen eighty five, New York Magazine published Hollywood's brat
Pack. I just remember seeing that cover and thinking, oh. From then
on, my career and the career of everyone who was involved was branded to
the brad Packer. And he not interested in talking about the brad Pack.
For years, I turned everything down. How can we're talking to me because
you called me? It was time that we cleared the air In a couple
names, I love your stuff, Hey, thank you. I hated the
brad Pack for a decade. What a disaster. If you could have the
brad Pack name not exist, would you yeah, I liked it. I
liked it too, I only ended up feeling bad for Emilio Estimator. Well,
he was the only one who genuine seemed apprehensive and kind of waylaid by
the whole thing. Like he didn't really say a whole heck of a lot,
he was just kind of, I don't know. He seemed very discomfited
by the whole thing. He seems like the guy who was actually working at
it and building a decent career. And he's the one that brat Pack derailed.
Everyone else either ended up fine or ended up exactly where they were going
to be anyway, except for the US dives well and the fact that the
article was really about him in the first place. Yeah was, and he
seems wounded by it still, like everyone else is like, ha haha,
remember those days, Brad back blah blah blah. I mean, the rest
of us still seems like he's fucking hurt. Yeah, no, well he
and Andrew, did you read McCarthy's book. Incidentally, I had read it,
I don't know, a couple of years ago. It's not bad.
It's not bad. I'm sure it's fine. I have no interest in Andrew
McCarthy. I learned a lot about him, a lot that I didn't know
about it. I thought it was fairly interesting. But anyway, he because
he alludes a lot of the movie, he alludes to his upbringing and the
fact that he was kind of a dropout and that kind of affected his worldview
and his view of his career and how he approached things. Anyway, I
like the movie. I thought it was I thought it was good. It
wasn't what I had expected from the advertising. But anyway, Yeah, we're
not here to talk about Andrew McCarthy or the missing Judd Nelson or was he
really missing? I I mean, I know that I don't miss him.
Yeah, I see there. There there's a little soft spot for I have
for him because of him being in Fandango. To hear Anthony mole Hall on
the fucking David Spade Show. No he but no, he's not but heard
at all. He feels great. He's you know, he's out there working
man. He's been working all along, like he had that fucking Dead Zone
series and ship like he's just a work an actor. He was in Edward
Scissorhands. Yeah, exactly, he's been doing it. Yeah, I tell
the story about that. Actually, he was like, I walked into the
meeting and Tim Burton was just so delighted that I looked so different than he
had last seen me, as like a tiny geek, like I was this
giant, fucking jock, and he was like, oh, okay, I'll
put him in the movie. He was supposed to be the lead in Full
Metal Jacket. Kubrick called him and said, you're the most original actor since
Jack Nicholson. I want you to be in this movie. Why is Anthony
Michael Halm not in the movie? Did he explain why? Yes, The
negotiations, which lasted ten months, were he was basically, and this is
actually kind of understandable, he was basically going to get paid no more than
he had been getting paid as an actor, even though this was the moment
that he was supposed to go for a big payday in a big role,
right, and during the time period for shooting, which was no less than
a year, he could have done it two or three movies and made triple
that, you know, So he was trying to negotiate time, I think,
and Krubrick is sort of unforgiving when it comes to that, sure,
but I mean it's a chance at immortality. Yeah, uh yeah, I
mean, I mean, I'm I'm sure he regrets it. It's the last
Georgy great Stanley Kubrick movie. All Right, I want to thank HP for
dropping by and help me out here in this inaugural episode. No, I'm
not going to make a habit out of it. Yes, you're the co
host. Sorry, Okay, moving on, and I guess that brings us
to my latest obsession. This one also can be found on Amazon Prime.
I'm a little late to this one, so forgive me. I'm only on
the first season. The second season apparently dropped at the beginning of May.
I'm talking about Outer Range. I want to pray for the Supper. Dear
God, we pray for our family. When us that you forgive us,
when as that you show us the way here, cause we're in trouble and
they made this crazy world. So maybe you can give us some sort of
hint as to what you're up to, cause I don't have the first fucking
clue. There is a big distance between you and us. There's a great
void, and I'm asking you to fill that void. I'm asking you to
fill that void. I'm asking you to come down here and explain yourself,
because this world of years isn't quot adding up man, there is a great
void. The outer range is a neo Western I guess we could call it.
Taking Place in Wyoming stars Josh Brolin, stars Josh Brolin, Imagen Poots,
what an unfortunate name. She's great, though literly Taylor, Tom Pelfrey,
and Louis Pullman. While most of those are the Abbot's, Imagen Poots
is a sort of hippie wanderer who has settled on their land at like I
said, takes place in Wyoming on a ranch where the western pasture just happens
to have a giant circular hole in the ground that nobody has discovered except for
our lead, Josh Brolin. What's down that hole? Who knows? It
is an episode? Rather, it is a series kind of worthy of Lost,
and that it keeps defying expectation at the end of every episode. I'm
totally obsessed with it. I've loved Josh Brolin forever and ever. I gotta
say this is the series that my girlfriend when I my girlfriend andber and I
were watching it and she turned and said, Wow, I never knew he's
a really good actor. So there you go. Go check it out for
Josh Bullin alone. But it is eerie and weird and thoughtful so far.
Like I said, you might have a greater knowledge of it than me,
But if you're in my boat, I'm telling you the first four episodes so
far have been fucking phenomenal. Got four more to go. I've heard that
the quality drops off in the second season, but I do not give a
shit because most of those people don't know what they're talking about. Witness the
second season of Millennium. Every anyone remember that show. Lance Hendrickson as a
psychic who could tap into the mind of serial killers, but turns out in
the second season that being able to see through the eyes of the serial killers
only one of Frank Black's gifts. Turns out he's more tied into prophecy and
how the world is actually going to end. And everyone said that that season
fell apart. Disagree. It surpassed that first season, and it certainly kicked
the ass of that bullshit backtracking third season they did. I don't think Millennium
is available for streaming anywhere right now, but god damn it, go watch
a Millennium season two. If you can't reminded me a lot of Outer Range,
And you know, we don't get too many Westerns, certainly not enjoyable
ones, but throw a little bit of sci fi and time travel and all
sorts of assorted weirdness that you get out of Range. Should point out the
show was created by Brian Watkins, and he was the showrunner for the first
season. Apparently left at the end might account for some of the grumbling about
season two. I guess they are currently in limbo as far as the season
three, the show hasn't been canceled, but it also hasn't been renewed.
But that's nothing new from Amazon Prime anyway. I'm hoping that the quality maintains.
I hope I'm not steering you in the wrong direction. This is one
that I think we can all enjoy together. Outer Range on Amazon Prime.
Check it out. And now it's time for Ripley's Picks. Ripley's Pickle's I
Don't Know. It's a classic film. It's available on Netflix right now.
One. If you haven't seen you definitely should, and if you have,
you should watch it again. In this game, what with the imminent release
of Beverly Hills Cop axl F. I'm gonna encourage. Actually, I'm not
encouraging. It's Ripley right rip, there you go. She is recommending Beverly
Hills cop. It is available on Netflix right now. If you haven't seen
it in forever, go watch it immediately. This is Eddie Murphy at the
absolute height of his power, proving what a fucking charming and wholly new action
hero for the nineteen eighties for all time. Really, do you a good
cople And look, we're talking about a friend of mine here. Let's take
a close look at that one. A hutlum friend to a professional hit.
How do you know what was a professional hit? Let me tell you something
excellent. These guys out in LA they're all independents. They go out,
they do this thing. They don't ask anybody's permission. And you're gonna go
out there to try to find Mikey's killers. Excellently, you're out of the
league. Check it in today, sir. That depends this hotel. Real,
it's passive. It's two hundred and thirty five dollars a day. Fine,
what's the charge session of a concealed weapon? Sturbing the piece? Sister
of the piece? I got thrown out of a window. This is the
cleanest and nicest police car I've ever seen in my life. This thing's nice
in my apartment. Everybody free. You don't hand on the title? Wow,
what's wrong man? What's on the hofday? Contact me? Wo' you
doing all this? Good? Mag Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills come coming from
Paramount. This started out as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle. You can certainly see
that in the third act, which remains pretty much unchanged from the original screenplay.
But once Eddie Murphy came on, it became an entirely different animal,
a much more enjoyable animal. The other major factor involved here is Martin Brest,
who is a filmmaker who never gets enough credit. He made the perfect
action film in Midnight Run, just about a year or two after Beverly Hills
Cop did not come back for Beverly Hills Cop too. If you're a big
fan of Tony Scott and what he wropped upon the world with the Jerry Bruckheimer
Don Simpson style of filmmaking, then you know, certainly after you watch this
one, I believe that one's available too. You can check that one out.
I'm not a fan of that one's certainly not a fan of the third
one, which is crushing to me because that one was directed by John Landis,
who has no business turning in anything mediocre. The man made American Werewolf
in London and the greatest werewolf movie of all time. If you have a
problem with that, I don't care. You're wrong. But Beverly Hills Cop
is still to this day incredibly funny, incredibly charming, incredibly brutal. One
forgets just how brutal some of the scenes are in that film. It is
definitely a cop movie with a comedic character involved. Also, his boss in
Detroit is played by an actual Detroit Detroit policeman who apparently ran for mayor at
one point and didn't win, which I'm so disappointed in the people of Detroit
for not voting for Axel Foley's boss as as their mayor. You damn right
wise, ass. The mayle called a chief, the chief called a debuity
chief. The debuty chief just chewed my ass out. You see, I
don't have any bit of it left, don't you. I certainly would have
voted for him anyway. It is near close to a perfect film, and
even if it's not perfect, it is one enjoyable time. That's a pretty
good pick. Rip Gee, I think I've talked enough and you've indulged me
enough. We're gonna be doing this every week, so I hope you're enjoying
it. Tell me if you are. You can write to me directly.
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