WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:04.960 Weird. 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:58.000 We welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up. 3 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.679 I'm Father Malone, and with me barking at all the 4 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.920 thunder lizards, is miss ripley gen? How are you rip? 5 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.879 And how is everyone? Hope you had an enjoyable holiday? 6 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:09.920 I think right now is a good time to remind 7 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:15.359 everyone that George Lucas is a prophet undeniable. Now, Nerds, Okay, okay, 8 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.599 you're right. You can go first hit at HP to. 9 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:21.400 Ship K. 10 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.879 Thank you. New York City has two million rats. We 11 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:29.920 used to have eight million rats. Now we're down to two. 12 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.200 You know what that means we lose four electoral votes. 13 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:38.040 Speaking of NYC, in nineteen seventy seven, the randomness of 14 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.920 lightning strikes. Three lightning strikes plunged the entirety of New 15 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.159 York City into darkness for three days, during which there 16 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.640 was looting an arson the likes of which no major 17 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:50.719 American city had seen since the Civil War. It's this 18 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:54.280 same bit of happenstance fate that caused Henry Buttle to 19 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:56.799 get snatched up by government thugs and not Henry Tuttle. 20 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.879 In Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece, of Brazil, the same bit 21 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:04.040 of twisted cosmic humor that allowed every system to fail 22 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:08.319 on Jurassic Park's inaugural weekends some thirty years ago. They 23 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.719 recreate that situation here, but they make it even more random, 24 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.800 which would be lovely if it wasn't a fucking commercial 25 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.520 Jurassic World the Confectionery Age. I lost count of the 26 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:21.319 number of product placements in this very cynical follow up 27 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.439 to the endlessly creaking along Jurassic series of films. Studios 28 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.919 realize that if we get a movie every couple of years, 29 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:31.280 that we can't be nostalgic for it. Right The bit 30 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.479 of business at the film start that pulled a fucking 31 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.280 grown out of me. In the theater, a technician in 32 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:40.039 an environmental suit walking through a giant clean room of 33 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.520 a facility approaches an air lock door, but before he 34 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:47.759 goes through, he scarfs down a Snickers and lets the 35 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.759 wrapper fall to the floor, which then gets sucked into 36 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.479 a door mechanism, and the next thing you know, some gigantic, 37 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.000 unseen dinosaur is chowing down on the candy enthusiast and 38 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.840 potentially everyone else in that facility. Which facility, oh, is 39 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:02.840 it the one on Eastla New Bar. No, it's the 40 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.400 other one East La Sorna, no Isla de Moerde. No, 41 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.800 how about wherever the fuck that giant theme park they 42 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.599 built was. Nope, this is a yet another facility we've 43 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.680 never heard of until now. Boy, oh boy, let's get 44 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.039 into it. This is Jurassic World Rises or something. I 45 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:20.000 don't know. It's bullshit. 46 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:37.199 I don't care. 47 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:46.800 Nor on the island we're headed to. Two dozen species 48 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:48.759 have survived there alone. 49 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.039 The theme park owners did experimental work. Maybe only the 50 00:03:54.080 --> 00:04:22.839 worst ones here. I don't see that every day forever. 51 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:32.959 Let's go. If we get this DNA, millions of glad. 52 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:41.240 You said, maybe we should make this quick. Huh, don't move. 53 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.519 We put ourselves in a place where we don't belong. 54 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.439 Survival is a long shot. That's kind of our specialty. 55 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:59.879 She's scared, she's scared of what the hell? 56 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:08.720 Why we're not going to let you get hurt? 57 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:15.839 Okay? 58 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.360 Okay? Then was a source? 59 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:20.199 We found it? 60 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:21.800 No, it found us? 61 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:51.839 Okay, dig this. 62 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:55.040 It's thirty years later and now the dinosaurs that were 63 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:58.160 freed and roaming the earth have mostly died off, except 64 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:01.480 for an area around the equator which most closely mirrors 65 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.120 the environment they originally existed in. Okay, that's a fine start. 66 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.000 The film is also cleverly predicated on the notion that 67 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.600 the public at large no longer cares about dinosaurs. They're 68 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:13.800 a novelty whose time has come and gone. 69 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:14.040 Now. 70 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.199 I don't know if that screenwriter David kept making a 71 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.439 comment on the series as a whole, but it is 72 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:22.680 apt apt as a motherfucker. Also, this development dispenses with 73 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.160 all the skullduggery and evil corporations and government agencies trying 74 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.800 to weaponize dinosaurs or whatever the fuck right right, Nope, 75 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.199 this is once again they get in and gather the 76 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:37.240 dinosaurs mission like Part two or Part five, only now 77 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:40.000 they're trying to get blood samples from these three particular 78 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:43.120 species for a pharmaceutical company who is then going to 79 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:45.639 use that dino blood to turn it into I don't know, 80 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.639 it doesn't make any goddamn sense. And notice the script's 81 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:52.120 super fucking obvious structure. One dinosaur is in the water, 82 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.319 another is on the land, and another flies Act one, 83 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.360 Act two, Act three. I'm being generous that this in 84 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.879 any way resembles drama. This is a fetch quest extravaganza 85 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.720 where the cut scenes never fucking end. It is not sweet, 86 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.680 certainly not sweet as a delicious bag of EM and m's. 87 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:10.879 I know they're eating M and ms because not only 88 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:12.680 do they feature the bag, but there are half a 89 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.839 dozen reaction shots that involve characters popping em and ms 90 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.639 into their mouths. I'm surprised they didn't remake the Mister 91 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.959 DNA cartoon with JK. Simmons voicing his green eminem so 92 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.560 candy commercial. That's one way you can view this film. 93 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.399 Another is bargain basement knockoff. Yes, it has two genuine 94 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.800 stars in the cast, Scarlett Johansson and Mhersla Ali as 95 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.879 two mercenaries hire to lead the team. But then it's 96 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:40.040 not quite Noah Wiley as the sensitive paleontologist, and not 97 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.800 quite Cliff Curtis as a dad whose family gets caught 98 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.279 up in the mayhem while they're trying to sail across 99 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.040 the Atlantic don't ask. Then there's not quite Emmy Rossam 100 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.600 as one of the potentially most annoying characters in the 101 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:56.839 entire film series. And then, most disconcertingly is not quite 102 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.720 Julian McMahon as the pharma company's evil represent Jillian McMahon, 103 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.879 of course, from Niptok and Fantastic Four, died just a 104 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:08.120 few days ago, so this actor's resemblance to him resulted 105 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:11.240 in this thought. Literally every time he came on screen, 106 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.920 man Jillian McMahon was only fifty six and he was 107 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:19.480 in shape. I'm fifty two and I'm not. That's not 108 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:21.839 the filmmaker's fault. But then maybe they should count it 109 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:24.439 as a bonus, because during those times I wasn't thinking 110 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.160 how fucking boneheaded this entire film was. We meet not 111 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.000 quite Noah Wiley, while the museum he works at is 112 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:34.879 dismantling their dinosaur exhibit from lack of interest. Though we're 113 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.200 told five years ago there were lines around the block. 114 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.720 Five years ago there were lines around the block to 115 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.279 see fossils when there were dinosaurs randomly showing up and 116 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.480 causing traffic jams in major American cities. That makes sense, 117 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.000 But at least we get to see that when dinosaurs 118 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:52.039 ruled the earth banner one more time. Ah, remember when 119 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.120 that came down and the t rex roared. This movie 120 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:57.720 isn't counting on you to remember the other films fondly. 121 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.759 It's holding you down and drawing on you. It's so 122 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.919 desperate to rekindle those old memories, down to mirror image 123 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.440 sequences like when the not quite velociraptor is trapped in 124 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.519 the ceiling above a young girl and snapping at her, 125 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.600 or when the heroes are huddled in a pantry and 126 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:16.440 not quite Velociraptor is stalking around, Which isn't to say 127 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:19.360 there isn't anything new. There's a water dinosaur. We haven't 128 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.440 had those before, right except half a dozen times now, 129 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.000 or flying dinosaurs, except we have. You're getting the idea. 130 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.200 This is all mashed up from other films, where the 131 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.000 first act is actually a really long take on Jaws, 132 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.799 and the finale is basically Aliens, right down to the 133 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.320 newest dinosaur menace. Wait, and once you see him, you'll know, 134 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:40.799 because the newest and latest secret facility is a genetic 135 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:44.399 lab where they've been breeding entirely new species of dinosaurs 136 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:48.240 to combat waning public interest. That's new, except it's not. 137 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.720 That's Jurassic World. That was the first film, and then 138 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.519 again in the sequel when they had cloned children, and shit, 139 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.559 they dropped that plotline fast, didn't They kind of felt 140 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:00.000 like they were drifting into dinosaur human hybrid territory, which 141 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.679 which could have been interesting, certainly more interesting than what 142 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.720 we got here, because it's just more dinosaurs. They're a 143 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:08.679 little bit different. They've been genetically changed. We're told they 144 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:11.960 have a new Tatanosaurus, which is like a brachiosaur, only 145 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:15.600 it's fucking huge, which is the game here, Bigger baby. 146 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.519 Then there's the Ketsiquatalis. I mean, I couldn't tell the 147 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.279 difference between those and an old terradon, but it's supposed 148 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.200 to be scarier. And to be fair, the Ketsiuatalis sequence 149 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.919 is the best in the movie. It's actually harrowing. The 150 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:30.399 rest isn't, even though the movie spins itself in fucking 151 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.960 circles trying to make us care about these characters, tragic 152 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.360 grief soaked backstories for the ones we know who won't die, 153 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.120 and then straight up annoying end or bad characters just 154 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:43.000 primed for lunch. You know, it occurred to me during 155 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.720 the t rex attack. Of course there's a t rex 156 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.519 attack sequence. It's in his contract. It was during the 157 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.240 t rex attack sequence. Then I suddenly had a feeling 158 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.399 I haven't had watching a movie in forty years. I 159 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:58.080 was sitting in a Theater in Revere, Massachusetts, watching Friday 160 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:02.399 the Thirteenth, Part six, when it finally clicked, Jason is 161 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:06.440 the hero. I want those people to get machetied. Once 162 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.840 that happened, I found myself enjoying Jurassic World Revival ten 163 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.679 to a great deal more. Instead of near misses, I 164 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:16.279 considered the attacks near hits. Oh almost, you'll get him 165 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.000 next time, Dinosaur. I know you can do it. The 166 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.000 disparity and likable characters between the first film and this 167 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.200 is stark. You just looked at Alan Grant or Ellie 168 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:28.919 Sadler and you were like, I'm on board wherever they're going. Here. 169 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.279 They just pour on all this useless backstory and you 170 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.320 don't give a fuck. They don't even really get going 171 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.840 for half an hour. That's the cut scene. I'm talking 172 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.279 about the first cut scene. There are many more to come, 173 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:45.320 along with speeches on morality and everyone oohing and eyeing 174 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.159 some natural beauty five minutes after one of their friends 175 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.639 was eaten in front of them. Ah yeah, yeah, Okay. 176 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.960 Here's where I ranked the Jurassic movies. Jurassic Park Masterpiece, 177 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.759 The Lost World. You should watch Jurassic Park again. Jurassic 178 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:05.480 Park three Allen. Jurassic World high heels. Huh, Jurassic World 179 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.679 Fallen Kingdom. You should watch the Lost World again. I 180 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:12.000 never thought I would say that. Jurassic World dominion. We're 181 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:15.919 still doing these huh. And now Jurassic World Rebirth melts 182 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.279 in your mouth, not in your hand. You should save 183 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.480 your money, do not support this film. Instead, you should 184 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.120 support the fine folks at Mars. 185 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:23.720 Mmm. 186 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.000 Doesn't a candy bar sound good right about now? You 187 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:28.879 can't have chocolate. 188 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.559 It'll kill you. You know, I don't care. 189 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.679 You're not taking the risk. We've been down this road. 190 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:34.039 Lady. 191 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:39.279 Listen, everybody. Things are looking pretty grim these days. My 192 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.320 gen X brain is absolutely firing with thoughts of an 193 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:46.000 earlier age of panic. Back in the early eighties, when 194 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:49.440 we all assumed a nuclear firestorm was imminent. I lived 195 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.440 in almost permanent terror as a young man. I saw 196 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:55.759 that Quanti documentary The Man Who Saw Tomorrow about Nostradamus, 197 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:57.919 and it really put the whamie on my head. But 198 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:00.960 like most things in life, there was a to a problem, 199 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.519 and that solution could be found at the movies. One 200 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.200 of the best decisions I've ever made was sneaking into 201 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:09.840 Boston to see a screening of Steve Dejarnett's unsung classic 202 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:14.080 Miracle Mile. You know, the nineteen fifties were America's golden age. 203 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.960 They were an age of prosperity. It's no wonder so 204 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.080 many people are trying to get back there, what with 205 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.200 the communist witch hunts and the institutionalized racism, and the 206 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:26.399 rampant sexism, and the crippling terror of all out nuclear war. 207 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:29.960 You know, in his novel Lullaby, Chuck Pollinik positive that 208 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.799 every generation wants to be the last, And thanks to 209 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:35.399 the fine people of the greatest generation, that became not 210 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:38.240 only a possibility, but in the minds of many, a certainty. 211 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:40.720 As the Cold War slammed in the high gear over 212 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.320 the next few decades, Hollywood attempted to varying degrees of 213 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.960 success to illuminate and or alleviate the fear of this 214 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:51.720 fresh technological nightmare. These films would fall into two distinct categories. 215 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:54.799 The first would dramatize the events leading up to armageddon 216 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.960 and the efforts by military and government officials to stave 217 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.039 off such an incident. Movies like Fails in War Games 218 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.919 and No Doubt the best of them. Stanley Kubrick's Doctor 219 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.960 Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 220 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.240 the Bomb. The second category was all about the aftermath, 221 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.799 which itself would split into two diverse types, realistic as 222 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:17.279 in The Day After or Threads and fantasy, best exemplified 223 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.360 by The Terminator in The Road Warrior. Few, if any, 224 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.000 of the films managed to capture the levels of personal 225 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.039 paranoia and creeping menace that the nuclear threat managed to 226 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.399 inflict on everyday life. For that film, moviegoers had to 227 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:31.879 wait till nearly the end of the Cold War. The 228 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:33.960 Air was nineteen eighty eight. In the film was the 229 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:38.159 most nihilistic and simultaneously optimistic of the genre. Miracle Mile 230 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.279 Love can true spin your head around? 231 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:41.080 God? 232 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:41.840 Where do you begin? 233 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:44.000 Well? 234 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:48.639 Hello, we must have been meant to be together. It's 235 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:49.200 too bad you. 236 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.320 Have to work tonight, only till midnight. 237 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:53.200 Fate is a funny thing. 238 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:55.799 Take a nap because you're going to need all your 239 00:14:55.879 --> 00:15:10.279 energy tonight. It was one of those strange nights. 240 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.080 Finally meet the right girl and you're blowing. 241 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:21.120 That could ruin a whole day in a big way. 242 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:24.440 Dad, it's happening. This is really hit. 243 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.039 This is the people This is a joke, right. 244 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:28.039 It's really happening. 245 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.960 Happening, This can't be true. 246 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.360 Well I'll be dead if we don't get out of here. 247 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:37.159 Nobody believes this, do they? 248 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.960 By be not funny to make a list for me 249 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:41.240 people who want to bring along. 250 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.919 We gotta get Julie. It's Julie, Harry Bropin. Who are you? 251 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:46.320 Who are you stopping? 252 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:52.120 Let me off? I don't stopping nothing. Jump, don't hurt me. Man, Man, 253 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.519 I got knock and beat you, pioneer, I got everything. 254 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:59.120 If it doesn't happen, I'll tell you what doesn't happen. Man, 255 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:03.320 I'm dreaming. That's what I'm dreaming. 256 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:09.120 You all ready to go? 257 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.320 You're the pilot. Pray you know anybody. 258 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.559 Could play helicopter helicopter pilots for all the helicopter pilot 259 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:16.279 barker clothes. 260 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.000 What's a problem. It's true. 261 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:23.960 Love can be exciting, trust me with this, even terrified. 262 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:30.320 Really I love you that nothing could prepare you for 263 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:35.679 an experience like this? Why did you hear mirror mile? 264 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.320 But I'm just a guy who who picked up the pro. 265 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.759 As far as Anthony Edwards, fresh from his success as 266 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.120 Goose and top Gun and Mayor Winningham. The film's plot 267 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:56.600 is a deceptively simple what if scenario. What if late 268 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.919 one night you picked up a ringing payphone and heard that. 269 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:07.480 Dad speech? How come the foe was busy? Just not Jesus, Look, 270 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:12.119 I'd wake you. It's it's happening. I can't believe it more. 271 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:15.119 We're locked into it. Fifteen minutes in counting Christ, they're 272 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:20.039 this kid taking it to fucking take it. I'm sorry, 273 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:22.839 I shouldn't swear. I'm sorry, but this is it, This 274 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.119 is really it. This is the big one for Arthur 275 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.000 sixty six, azy d. You don't if I told you 276 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.880 what happened, if it ever came down, Well, it is. 277 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:32.039 We don't know why. I mean, why what are we? Huh? 278 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.599 It's for real, Dad, there's no drill. We shoot our 279 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.160 wad in fifteen minutes. They're gonna pick us up in 280 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:38.559 five or ten, and you can get it back in 281 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:40.640 an hour and ten, maybe seventy five minutes. 282 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:43.039 What exactly you're talking about? 283 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:48.160 I'm talking about nuclear fucking war. Who is this? Oh, 284 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:50.839 where's my dad? Don't get my dad? 285 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.200 You're dad, there's nobody here. 286 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:56.279 Where's he supposed to be? 287 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.640 How the hell would I know you're orange. I'm in 288 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.160 North Dakota. Hey is this something I had a prank? 289 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:08.200 Or something? Prank? Oh god? Is this two five four 290 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:13.240 nine four? One? Uh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah it is. 291 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:14.920 But listen, it's just a phone booth. 292 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:15.680 It's a It's a. 293 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:16.920 Phone booth at a coffee shop. 294 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.519 I heard it ringing? Is this seven? One four? Did 295 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:20.799 I two and three? 296 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:21.200 Ship? 297 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.119 Oh? I think they hurt me? 298 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:26.880 Shit? 299 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:33.720 Oh man, they see me on the monitor? Fuck? Can 300 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.880 I patching the red Lannex? Come to do this? You're 301 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:39.759 gonn nail my ass. Tell Dad? Just tell him that 302 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:42.359 I am sorry about that summer. Okay, you'll know what 303 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:42.680 I mean. 304 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:44.039 All right, all right, look that's enough. 305 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.759 Just tell anyone this is a joke, right, yes, sir? No, 306 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:51.400 he know it's right. I was just checking the circuit, sir. Wait, 307 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:58.480 what's curing? Did I trace? 308 00:18:58.960 --> 00:18:59.240 Listen? 309 00:18:59.279 --> 00:18:59.960 It's probably a fella. 310 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.640 I need to joke around on the phone like this. 311 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.400 Who are you? Who am I? 312 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:07.279 Listen? 313 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:09.480 I'm just a guy who picked up the phone. 314 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.119 I mean, I don't know if this is a wrong 315 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:13.559 phone number or a. 316 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:17.200 Joke or what what happened to Chip? 317 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:21.000 He was just joking, right, forget everything you've just heard 318 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:22.759 and go back to sleep. 319 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:32.279 Hey, Hey, a simple scenario, but one's reaction would be anything. 320 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:35.880 But is the call genuine? Should you warn others? If 321 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.039 it is, how safe can you make yourself in the 322 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:41.039 two hours before the devastation begins? How many of your 323 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:43.119 loved ones could you collect in that time? And if 324 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:45.559 the call is fake, you'll run the risk of becoming 325 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.119 the Atomic age chicken little yelling to any and all 326 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:50.720 who listened to The sky is falling? So what should 327 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:53.200 Harry do? The one thing he's definitely not doing is 328 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:56.200 going back to sleep now. The actual Miracle Mile is 329 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.079 a stretch of the Wilsher Corridor in Los Angeles. It 330 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:01.839 was developed in the twenties and thirties by A. W. Ross, 331 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:04.200 who made the precient decision to design the area to 332 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.359 be seen while driving rather than walking. This became known 333 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.359 as the linear downtown model and would be adopted by 334 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:15.960 virtually every major metropolitan city worldwide. The street itself is 335 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:19.440 aligned with shops, restaurants, museums, and, most importantly, for the 336 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.519 sake of the film, the LaBrea tar pits. The tar 337 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:26.400 pits are a naturally occurring phenomenon with tar Technically asphalt 338 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:28.519 bubbling up from the earth. It's been at it for 339 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.839 tens of thousands of years, and during that time snared 340 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:34.640 an untold number of animals, not to mention everything from 341 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:38.559 plants to insects to grains of pollen. The boiling asphalt 342 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:41.799 preserves the specimens with some of the oldest fossils dating 343 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:45.480 back thirty eight thousand years. Harry, a trombone player with 344 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:47.599 a traveling big band combo, is in town for a 345 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:51.000 gig and killing time at the tarpits. He meets local 346 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:53.920 girl Julie, and the attraction is instant and mutual. They 347 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:56.519 spend a near perfect day together, culminating at a concert 348 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.400 at the old Pan Pacific Auditorium, where if you listen 349 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:00.880 close you can here at Livia Newton. 350 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:01.240 John. 351 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.400 Julie and Harry then make plans to continue their date 352 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.680 when Julie finishes her waitressing shift at midnight, but a 353 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.480 freak accident knocks out his building's power in his alarm 354 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.480 clock and Harry oversleeps arriving three hours late, Julie's gone, 355 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:16.440 leaving Harry to deal with a collection of late night 356 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:19.200 la oddballs played by some of the best character actors 357 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.680 of all time. Olan Jones, who's played so many waitresses 358 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:24.359 in her career that I think we as a nation 359 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:29.079 owe her a collective tip. Robocomp's boss Robert Dewey, security 360 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:32.960 chief Tasha Yarn, Denise Crosby, and Earl Bowen. You'll probably 361 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.200 remember him as Doctor Silverman and the Terminator films. If 362 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.160 you like the Terminator movies, you're in luck because we 363 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:42.960 have Jeanette Goldstein and the always awesome Brian Thompson. Whether 364 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:44.920 or not the calm was authentic, it's enough to spook 365 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:47.839 the Diners Denizens into a hasty trip to Lax, where 366 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:50.240 a plane has been chartered to fly them to the 367 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:53.279 Southern Hemisphere. Harry remains behind with a promise that if 368 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:54.799 you can make it to the top of the Mutual 369 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:58.319 Benefit Life Building, a helicopter will be ready to transport 370 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.160 him in several others to the airport. At this point, 371 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:04.240 the film becomes virtually real time, as Harry navigates the 372 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:07.440 empty landscapes of early morning Los Angeles in an attempt 373 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.160 to reunite with Julie and whisk her away from danger, 374 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:13.480 which proves easier said than done, forcing Harry to enlist 375 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:16.200 the help of Wilson a car stereo thief played by 376 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:19.519 Michael T. Williamson, who was Bubba, the shrimp loving Vietnam 377 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:22.079 Pallo Forest Gump. It's kind of weird that he played 378 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:24.960 Bubba and a character named Wilson. With the clock ticking 379 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:28.960 relentlessly on, they run up against overzellist cops and armed citizens, 380 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:32.359 one of them played by mister Blue himself novelist Eddie Bunker, 381 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:36.759 before Harry is finally reconnected with Julie. Though released just 382 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:39.559 prior to the Soviet collapse, Miracle Mile was written a 383 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:43.400 decade earlier by Steve Dejarnett. The script was immediately optioned 384 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:45.880 by Warner Brothers, who baulked the idea of entrusting a 385 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.640 neophyte filmmaker with directing, and with Dejarnet unwilling to change 386 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:52.359 the script, it sat unproduced for years. At one point 387 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:55.759 it almost became the Twilight Zone movie. It eventually landed 388 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:59.279 on the first ever Best Unproduced screenplaylist, currently known as 389 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:02.839 the Blacklist. De Jarnet made an unprecedented move at this point. 390 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:05.039 He took his salary for writing the first draft of 391 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:08.599 Strange Brew the Bob and Doug McKenzie movie, and used 392 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:12.480 it to buy back his screenplay. His rewrite garnered even 393 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:15.039 more interest, and Dejarnett turned down an offer of nearly 394 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:17.519 half a million dollars to sell it out right, convinced 395 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:19.839 that he was the best filmmaker to tell the story. 396 00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:22.920 And what a story, Because the call isn't a prank. 397 00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:25.759 The world begins to awake to a living nightmare, and 398 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:28.240 we end where we begin, at the libre at tart Pits. 399 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:32.240 It's a horrifying ending. It's brutal and frustrating and heartbreaking, 400 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:37.799 but also beautiful and amazing and hopeful. Because nothing is permanent. 401 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.359