WEBVTT 1 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:34.840 Ready, everybody, let's just get into it. Here we go, 2 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:39.320 Welcome back, midnight viewers, do another edition of Father Malone's 3 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.359 weekly round Up. I am Father Malone and right beside 4 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.000 me as my co host and my bestest pal Ripley. 5 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:48.039 Hey, what's up with the reverb? 6 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:48.520 Oh? 7 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:49.159 I get it? 8 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.719 Okay, I suppose I need to mention someone who never 9 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.719 gets mentioned in the booth making us sound good. Is 10 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.640 my other bestest pal, our producer, Foxy Brown. 11 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.600 Oh okay, that's better. Fox. 12 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.719 He's a Manx Manx cat from the Isle of Man, 13 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.680 and they are weird. They're they're that stubby tailed cap 14 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.680 but they look like Tabby's. They don't meow, they click 15 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.359 and they trill. Like I said, they're from the Isle 16 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.640 of Man originally. And I always wonder if I'm being 17 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.599 cruel by keeping her here in the desert. You sure, no, 18 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:24.959 I guess you don't want to be any closer to 19 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.280 water than you have to be. Anyway, that's the crew, 20 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:31.920 that's our team. We've got three recommendations as always, and 21 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.359 as always, I hope they're readily available to stream for you, 22 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:38.599 because that's the idea. And you know what, it's summertime. 23 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.200 I'm going all the way summer, and I'm going first 24 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.079 all the way back to the summer of nineteen ninety seven. 25 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:44.640 I don't care. 26 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:49.319 I'm going remember nineties action, all the slow mo, all 27 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.560 the bomb bass. They were an affront to any right 28 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.840 thinking action fan, and they were glorious. At the center 29 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:59.239 of the whole, McGill was the most unlikely man of 30 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.640 action possible, not that or any other moment, seemingly though 31 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.840 clearly more than capable, a man who is part of 32 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:10.240 a true American cinematic dynasty. He's a Coppola, after all, 33 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:12.280 and his stage name should have been a tip off 34 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.039 that he always had the soul of a comic book hero. 35 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:18.479 We're talking Nicholas Cage, a man I sat behind at 36 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:23.000 the Boston Film Festival premiere of Vampire's Kiss. His cologne 37 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:26.120 was so overpowering that midway through the film I had 38 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:30.439 to retreat to the bathroom to douse my eyeballs. That's cute. 39 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:32.960 No one's going to need to douse their eyeballs after 40 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.919 watching My choice for the week. There are a trio 41 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.759 of Nick Cage flicks to choose from, so which one 42 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:39.000 is it? 43 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:58.599 Have a listen. He's a US ranger, highly decorated, did. 44 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:03.759 A little hell raising when he's a kid enough, he's 45 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:08.719 defending his wife, got a drunken brawl. 46 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:13.080 And he killed the guy. 47 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:14.879 Could happen to you or me? 48 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.159 After serving the last of his sentence, Cameron Pole is 49 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.639 taking the first plane home to his wife and daughter. 50 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:27.919 Today's flight is a special one. 51 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:31.879 We're populating Louisiana's felt the penitentiary and these guys are 52 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:32.639 the worst of the worst. 53 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:34.039 See a lot of celebrities among us. 54 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:36.759 I see eleven Prime Time lives, three regions of Kathy 55 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.719 Lee's a January twenty twenty interview, Eve. 56 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:41.360 That you're looking at punk nothing. 57 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:43.560 I was just on your cage. 58 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:46.840 But one wrong flight, Stewardess, what's the end of flight? 59 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:51.639 Livery today? You can ruin your whole day? 60 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:54.280 What happened? 61 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:55.439 Do you hear the fighting man? 62 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.120 Welcome to con Air jivert. 63 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.599 One you're not cleared for and nobody owns that. 64 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.479 Here's a flyer. The issue here is how the plane 65 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:06.120 is brought down. 66 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:06.879 Shout it down? 67 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:08.199 Some people off there. 68 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.000 He's got a little girl to come mom too. 69 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:12.000 He's been waiting for this date for eight years. 70 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.120 Of God, what are you gonna do. 71 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:15.879 Please think I'm going. I'm go. 72 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:22.480 This summer. Check your weapons, take. 73 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:26.600 Your seat, hen at your card, and say your prayers. 74 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:29.160 Yeah World. 75 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:36.040 From Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer of The Rock Nicholas Cage, 76 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:40.639 John Cusack, John Malcolvich. Where are they gonna lay on 77 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:41.160 that thing? 78 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.360 How do you feel about the Black tach Tables? On 79 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:57.120 June sixth, who Buncle Up? Conn Air? 80 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.319 Directed by Simon West. 81 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.120 Thank you and have a pleasant Flow. 82 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.439 Nineteen ninety three, an article about the real life airborne 83 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:09.920 prisoner transport nicknamed kan Air caught the attention of a 84 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.480 Disney exac who hired a young man who was popular 85 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:15.680 at that moment for a spec script he had written. 86 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.839 His name is Scott Rosenberg. I was in la in 87 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:20.720 ninety three and was one of the people who had 88 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:24.240 read Rosenberg's a then unproduced script for Things to Do 89 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:25.680 in Denver When You're Dead. 90 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:27.480 There is a film of it. 91 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.560 Andy Garcia is the lead, and Treat Williams is spectacular 92 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:34.480 as a character named critical Bill. It's really good and 93 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:38.480 I like it a lot, but no film was going 94 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:42.439 to do that script. Justice Aleo noir with dialogue stylized 95 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.720 to the point of shattering and a genuine beating heart 96 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:49.040 at its center. And it's funny, not just in one liners, 97 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:52.079 but the overall attitude, which puts him in line to 98 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.720 be one of the worst candidates for a big dumb 99 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:59.240 action film, But in this case he was absolutely perfect 100 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.240 because the script he wrote for con Air, whose lead 101 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:07.279 characters include rapists, murderers, and out and out psychopaths with 102 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:11.720 names culled from Southern rock anthems, ends up being the 103 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:16.279 perfect parody of Jerry Bruckheimer action movies. And before Nick 104 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:18.759 Cage got his hands on the script and turned Cameron 105 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.600 Poe into Superman in a Canadian tuxedo, that character was 106 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:24.879 just as bad as the others. He just had more 107 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:28.000 to live for a little later on, Apparently JJ Abrams 108 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:29.920 would do a pass on the film. He did passes 109 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.680 for all of Bruckheimer's work, upping the humor quotient, though 110 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.639 he seems to have failed to add a mystery box 111 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.000 to any point of the script. Okay, you know the 112 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.439 pot Cameron Poe, decent guy, unjustly jailed on his way home. 113 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:43.879 The prison transport he's on has come due by the 114 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.439 worst of the worst convicts, and along the way it's 115 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:51.000 explosions and attack helicopters and shearing giant guitar shaped signs 116 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.079 in half. But maybe you don't remember or have forgotten 117 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.079 the context of this movie and when it came out. 118 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:03.800 The movie stars Ving Raims, John Cusa, Steve Buscemi, Nicholas Cage, 119 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.000 who at the time was pretty much an independent guy, 120 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:11.480 and John Malkovich. Surely this is a somber drama filmed 121 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.439 over two weeks in silverl like with a four million 122 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:19.399 dollar budget. Nope, how did they all get in this movie? Well, 123 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:21.720 they did it all for the money, and they all 124 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:24.879 bitched about it, and I don't care. And speaking of 125 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:27.360 the cast, if you're a fan of Dave Chappelle, he's 126 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.480 in it. And if you hate Dave Chappelle, he gets 127 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:33.959 crushed by landing gear. And speaking of the cast, that 128 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.360 long and lustrous hair of Cameron Pose. 129 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.480 You know the shot. You see him right now. 130 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.879 He's slowly shaking his head back and forth, ever so slightly, 131 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:48.040 that smile just teasing at the corner of his lips. 132 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.120 That was a fuck you to Bruckheimer. 133 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.519 Cage had grown a beard for the part in addition 134 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.040 to the hair, which Bruckheimer nixed immediately, and when he 135 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.040 saw the long hair, Bruckheimer said it had to be 136 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:02.639 in a ponytail. So Cage's compromise was no beard, but 137 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.879 no pony. And speaking of the cast, I read this 138 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.600 interview with Danny Trejoe back in twenty ten. He was asked, 139 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.360 of any of his co stars in any of his movies, 140 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.120 who wouldn't he want to tangle with? And he said 141 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:18.839 John Cusack. He'd seen Cusack fight and he knew his trainer, 142 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:23.800 So don't fight John Cusack. Everybody, Chicago listeners, stay back 143 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:24.839 from Cusack. 144 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:26.079 I love John Cusack. 145 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.319 He's great, and it's completely inexplicable that he's in this movie, 146 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.720 but it's so much better for him being there. And 147 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.720 I'm going to get real granular about the movie for 148 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:37.679 a second. Climax takes place in Las Vegas, and I 149 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.000 live in Las Vegas, and I'm usually not a terrible 150 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.360 stickler for continuity. 151 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.159 No, you're right, I completely add. 152 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.240 Look, there's a motorcycle chase down Fremont Street and it's 153 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.879 terribly shot and horribly edited. The plane crashes through the 154 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.679 hard Rock, which is on paradise. Then the plane lands 155 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:57.440 immediately on the strip, but I'm letting that go. 156 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:59.240 I'm letting all of that go. I'll let all the 157 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:00.240 bullshit launch. 158 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.080 From every part of this movie, though, But for some reason, 159 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.480 this last one actually naws at me. The final fight 160 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:10.519 takes place in a tunnel. We have three here, they're 161 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:15.120 all about thirty feet long. They enter the one downtown, 162 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.039 and then they're magically inside the Second Street tunnel in 163 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:19.279 downtown Los Angeles. 164 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:20.720 You know you've seen it in Blade Runner. 165 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.879 In any movie in Los Angeles where they need a tunnel, 166 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.240 they I'll go to the Second Street tunnel. So it's 167 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:29.639 very weird, and it's lane. Considering Scott Rosenberg's script ended 168 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:33.360 with the plane crashing into the mirage and then Cyrus 169 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.159 and Poe fighting in front of the volcano as it 170 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:40.600 erupts and pours fire all around them, that sounds very heaven. 171 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.519 And I'm nitpicking right here because I love con Air. 172 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:49.039 It's crazy and fun and simultaneously is a big dumb 173 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.679 action film and is a parody of a big dumb 174 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:52.320 action film. 175 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.360 It's I love it. Watch it right now. 176 00:09:54.679 --> 00:10:00.080 You've been looking for an excuse, and I hear by Grants, Okay, 177 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.320 you can go next. I'm just gonna read the call 178 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:06.159 to action, Ripley. We need our listeners to help us 179 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:10.399 or not. They can all wait, apparently, and your pick 180 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:11.320 is going to have to wait. 181 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.080 Can I talk now? Okay? 182 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:17.519 Okay? I told Foxy she could have a choice this week. 183 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:19.840 We never throw it to her, and she felt pretty 184 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:24.080 strongly about this movie. Oh stop, you're the best for last. 185 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:25.679 We're saving the best for last. Yours is the best 186 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:31.080 for last. You're the headliner. Come on, this is Foxy's choice. 187 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:32.960 You're probably gonna need to go to a theater to 188 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.679 see it or purchase it for streaming. 189 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:35.679 Now. 190 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.120 If you were to ask me up until very recently, 191 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.519 what was good about the Quiet Place films, I would 192 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:47.080 have responded that it managed to achieve an unusual phenomenon 193 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:49.759 in the twenty first century, but it was one you 194 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:53.200 could only experience in the theater. It managed to turn 195 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:55.759 the clock back to the seventies or eighties, when the 196 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.600 audience was united as a fist, ready to smash anyone 197 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:02.639 that dares disturbed the sanctity of the movie going experience. 198 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.879 That was fun to relive. But other than that, I 199 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.480 thought those movies were sloppy sci fi. They weren't even 200 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:11.200 sci fi. Really, they were monster movies that were too 201 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.960 timid to commit to its own premise. The zeno more 202 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:17.399 has to be an alien. These things do not. And 203 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.360 once you pull the science store open, you'd better be ready, 204 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.480 because now my suspension of disbelief is based on your 205 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.519 choices about every aspect of the world you've created, putting 206 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.960 aside that they're nigh indestructible. Shout out to the tick 207 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:36.080 the nigh indestructible nature of the creatures. You have a 208 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:39.279 family living on a farm that's way out in the open. 209 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.720 They've got have to have trip wires everywhere as alarms. 210 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.159 There are trees everywhere, lots of places to get attacked from, 211 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.639 and any sound they make is a potential disaster. Any 212 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:54.080 accidental sound and they're all murdered. And a couple of 213 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.039 miles from the house is the waterfall, where they can 214 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.879 stand around and talk freely because creatures can't hear them. There, 215 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:04.720 move to the waterfall. What the fuck this is like 216 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.240 characters on The Walking Dead for the first few seasons 217 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.519 acting like walkie talkies didn't exist. 218 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:10.879 Where's so and so? 219 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:11.440 Oh? 220 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.240 I think they went to get such and such. Well, 221 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:15.639 hopefully they meet us at the rendezvous. How about you 222 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.360 ask them right now thanks to the magic of Motorola. Anyway, 223 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:22.240 I didn't like either of the Quiet Place movies. I 224 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.759 thought they were slow mow versions of twenty eight weeks Later, 225 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.639 which is why A Quiet Place Day One is such 226 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:29.159 a shock. 227 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:34.240 I fucking loved it. This Friday, what. 228 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:34.600 Do we do. 229 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.519 Save everyone? We can plan? 230 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:30.840 A Quiet Place Day One starts Thursday. 231 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.759 Lepita Njango stars as Samira, a cancer patient, hospice patient, really, 232 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.440 who agrees to take a day trip into Manhattan with 233 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.919 the promise of a slice of pizza from her favorite 234 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:44.639 pizza Rhea, which is potentially her last chance to do so, 235 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:48.320 which is when the attack occurs. The initial attack of 236 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.879 these aliens arriving on Earth. The urban setting helps propel 237 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:56.000 the film sense of urgency like Gangbusters, and it's already 238 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:57.919 high thanks to the fact that our lead is living 239 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:02.200 on borrowed time. It's a really remarkable thing they've achieved. Also, 240 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:06.600 it's a pizza quest. Can you imagine anything more noble 241 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.039 to be searching for in the face of the apocalypse. 242 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:12.480 It's stunning. But the reason Foxy chose this movie is 243 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.840 another cast member, well two cast members playing one character. 244 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.600 That character's name is Frodo. That's Samira's cat who she 245 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.240 has brought into the city with her in is sort 246 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.240 of the third lead in this film. That cat is 247 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.440 named Frodo, like I said, and it's played my two 248 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:32.440 cats named Schnitzel and Nico. They're both fantastic, right, have 249 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:33.879 I plugged enough the cat? 250 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:34.480 Okay? 251 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:37.840 The fact is the cat is really important because it 252 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.480 starts out seemingly like every other movie would treat it 253 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.639 like an object of peril, but then it ends up 254 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.240 becoming way more symbolic. 255 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.000 Oh the other cast member, because this is the trio. 256 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.879 It's a it's like a It's a young businessman named 257 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:55.600 Eric played by Joseph Quinn. He's the human torch or 258 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.840 will be soon. You know him from Stranger Things, Eddie 259 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:02.960 Munson and his guitar. He is fucking fantastic here as 260 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.600 a young man who's just as lost with everything to 261 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:08.679 live for potentially as the Peter Niango is Dune, but 262 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:10.559 they're both in the same boat. 263 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:12.840 He is just soulful and sweet. 264 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.360 Honestly, there are moments of absolute lyricism throughout the movie, 265 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.320 and the carnage is fantastic and immediate. I found it 266 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.000 to be everything the previous two films weren't. The effects 267 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.879 are peerless, and the ending, oh boy. I want to 268 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.200 discuss it because it gets me where I live, but 269 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.039 I'm going to leave it to you a quiet place 270 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.759 in Day one is now playing. I think you can 271 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.120 get it on Amazon Prime as well. All right, yes, 272 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.159 we have finally gotten to you. You know what I said, 273 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.720 best for last? I said best for last, and actually 274 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.600 I wasn't kidding because Ripley picked up on the summertime 275 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.559 theme and fucking ran with it. She ended up picking 276 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:52.759 the best summer movie I can think of, or at 277 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.120 least it has to be everyone's idea of the best 278 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:59.600 summer camp movie. There's only one word to describe it, 279 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:01.639 meat bows. 280 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:06.080 You saw what he did to Saturday Night. Now watch 281 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:33.000 Bill Murray Demolish Summer. See three hundred kids from the 282 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:36.320 city escape to the woods for a summer of wholesome 283 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:37.440 fun in the sun. 284 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.639 On the Programmer Rector Jerry Aldine, is that why you're wearing? 285 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:46.240 Are you expecting an assassination account? Do I have what 286 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:47.240 doctors called. 287 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.120 Very actors play concern to raise? 288 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:50.360 Are some seriously. 289 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.480 Meet the head counselor who knows the facts of life 290 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:58.279 but forgot them. 291 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:00.519 Let's go on here. 292 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.360 So this year, each camper will stalk and kill his 293 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:05.880 own bear in our private wildlife preserves. 294 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:10.960 New camp bolls or even like you all take a 295 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:11.400 load these. 296 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.440 We're going to check this out a little bit later. 297 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:17.880 I'd like, yeah, for now, but if you don't win, 298 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.240 we cut it off. It's more important than the score 299 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.920 of this game is to score at the big social 300 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:23.720 at our place. 301 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:23.839 That I. 302 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:33.599 It's not how you play the game, but how you 303 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:38.200 win the counts. 304 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:39.039 Let's tell you. 305 00:17:47.400 --> 00:18:22.240 The human race. A real excitement, of course, is going 306 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:23.359 to come at the end of the summer. 307 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:25.240 During Sexual Awareness Week. 308 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.279 We import two hundred probus from around the world, and 309 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:28.279 each camper. 310 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:30.720 Armed with only a furnace of coffee and. 311 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.559 Two thousand dollars cash, tries. 312 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:34.559 To visit as many countries as he can, and the winner, of. 313 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:36.880 Course, is named King of Sexual Awareness Week. 314 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:46.920 You'll be cheering for Bill Murray this summer in meat Balls. 315 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.519 Saw this in the theater when I was five, maybe six, 316 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.759 and my only impression of it is Bill Murray swinging 317 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:56.440 a log around. 318 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:57.160 But it counts. 319 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:01.000 Saw theatrically nineteen seventy eight, still riding high on the 320 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.799 success of Saturday Night Live. Look, I know he had 321 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:05.799 a rough patch at the beginning of season two when 322 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.680 he joined replacing Chevy Chase, but he ever came that 323 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.400 shit real fast, and by the time of Meatballs he 324 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.680 was in his stride. So here he is in his 325 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.240 first theatrical lead in a disposable summer camp movie, which 326 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.480 is probably never going to be seen again after its 327 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.519 initial run, because remember, there's no home video market at 328 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.799 this point. In this nothing of a film Bill, Murray 329 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.880 manages to put into performance that will transform American comedy 330 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:35.359 cinema for decades. He legitimizes a character that had been 331 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:38.400 there all along, but it was always off to the side. 332 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.720 The wise, cracking, smart ass. Murray manages the equivalent of 333 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:45.799 Stopford putting Rosencrants in Guildenstern front and center. 334 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:46.480 In Hamlet. 335 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.680 He makes the sidekick the lead, which is another reason 336 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.200 that Meatballs, constantly being lumped in with the glood of 337 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.240 TNA gross out comedies at the time is so insulting. 338 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.559 I'm an urban kid, I have asphalt in my veins, 339 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.599 a lot of being carted off to the woods for 340 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.960 an extended period was horrifying to me. 341 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:06.640 Add that a couple of dozen kids who are actually 342 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:10.160 dying to be there. Good God, no, thank you. 343 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:16.240 But inexplicably, Meatballs and Bill Murray specifically managed to make 344 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:21.160 that scenario appealing, even appetizing. Maybe that's just because it's 345 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:24.599 called meatballs. In a Canadian summer camp movie with an 346 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:28.799 Irish American in the lead is called meatballs. Now, presumably 347 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:32.200 they're calling it to that because the characters are losers, 348 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:34.480 which that was another shift in comedy at the time, 349 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:38.559 the outcasts rising up, slobs against the snobs, and so 350 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.160 all these characters and meatballs. 351 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:41.759 But what a bunch of meatballs on display. 352 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.559 Like Matt Craven, one of the CITs the counselors in Training. 353 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:47.839 He's pretty notable. He'd go on to star in Crimson 354 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:52.400 Tide and Er and Justified. He'll forever be hardware to me. 355 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.640 And speaking of forever, there are two female performances that 356 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.240 echo through history, and I have to mention them here. 357 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:01.960 One is that girl who talks in gossip in the 358 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:02.480 mess hall. 359 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:06.079 It seems as though last Summer's hottest couple have split. 360 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:09.240 I can't tell you their names, but her initials are Al, 361 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:12.400 and he's the hottest cic on wheels. 362 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:14.759 We all know this. 363 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.359 That mosts the last sum in the bushes, But the 364 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.039 question is what's your love. 365 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:24.160 Plumaguein That girl is the nineteen seventies. I knew dozens 366 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:26.960 of her, and I'm glad she's preserved here on film. 367 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.279 Other is Counselor in training Al, played by. 368 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:34.279 Christine de Bell. Miss de Bell is my first celebrity crush, 369 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:36.680 and that crush has not diminished in any way over 370 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:39.359 the years. She's what heth had been searching for all 371 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:42.599 those years as the actual girl next door, which makes 372 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.400 no surprise that she was a cover model for Playboy 373 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.400 in nineteen seventy six April nineteen seventy six. So yes, 374 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:54.240 she's incredibly beautiful, but she's also wildly funny and natural. Honestly, 375 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:57.200 it's the best performance in the film. And on my 376 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:59.960 birthday one year, my girlfriend Amber had missed de Belle 377 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:03.400 make a cameo video for me, saying hello and wishing 378 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.200 me well, and she also made it clear that she 379 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:08.440 also knew something very personal about me that I will 380 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:10.960 not discuss on the air. I guess you emailed me 381 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.000 if you're curious anyway, she is still as lovely as ever, 382 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.599 and she's another great reason to re experience this film. 383 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:20.200 Oh we forgot to mention Mickey hope to see again 384 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:23.319 next summer. Can I have some applause for this man? 385 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.559 Please come Onday? 386 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:29.880 Wait about Mickey? How about Rudy Gerner? 387 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:33.640 I'm going away? You going to Vegas? 388 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:35.920 If you're going to Vegas, man, I would be up 389 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:37.400 for it because I love that town. 390 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:39.240 I'm a party guy. I love that town. 391 00:22:39.559 --> 00:22:42.160 Or how about the one line from any comedy that 392 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:45.279 makes me laugh every single time I hear it. 393 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:46.759 You can change the. 394 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:48.839 Record, but don't you change? 395 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:53.519 Are you waiting right here? 396 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:57.440 This is a silly, breezy, lazy hangout of a film 397 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:01.319 that never devolves into the shenanigans most it'll tend to 398 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:03.640 and remember at the center of this movie as a 399 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.720 young boy coping with his mother's death whose father doesn't 400 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:08.200 know what to do with him and ships him off 401 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:13.240