Speaker 1: Ready, everybody, let's just get into it. Here we go,
Speaker 1: Welcome back, midnight viewers, do another edition of Father Malone's
Speaker 1: weekly round Up. I am Father Malone and right beside
Speaker 1: me as my co host and my bestest pal Ripley.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's up with the reverb?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I get it?
Speaker 1: Okay, I suppose I need to mention someone who never
Speaker 1: gets mentioned in the booth making us sound good. Is
Speaker 1: my other bestest pal, our producer, Foxy Brown.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's better. Fox.
Speaker 1: He's a Manx Manx cat from the Isle of Man,
Speaker 1: and they are weird. They're they're that stubby tailed cap
Speaker 1: but they look like Tabby's. They don't meow, they click
Speaker 1: and they trill. Like I said, they're from the Isle
Speaker 1: of Man originally. And I always wonder if I'm being
Speaker 1: cruel by keeping her here in the desert. You sure, no,
Speaker 1: I guess you don't want to be any closer to
Speaker 1: water than you have to be. Anyway, that's the crew,
Speaker 1: that's our team. We've got three recommendations as always, and
Speaker 1: as always, I hope they're readily available to stream for you,
Speaker 1: because that's the idea. And you know what, it's summertime.
Speaker 1: I'm going all the way summer, and I'm going first
Speaker 1: all the way back to the summer of nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm going remember nineties action, all the slow mo, all
Speaker 1: the bomb bass. They were an affront to any right
Speaker 1: thinking action fan, and they were glorious. At the center
Speaker 1: of the whole, McGill was the most unlikely man of
Speaker 1: action possible, not that or any other moment, seemingly though
Speaker 1: clearly more than capable, a man who is part of
Speaker 1: a true American cinematic dynasty. He's a Coppola, after all,
Speaker 1: and his stage name should have been a tip off
Speaker 1: that he always had the soul of a comic book hero.
Speaker 1: We're talking Nicholas Cage, a man I sat behind at
Speaker 1: the Boston Film Festival premiere of Vampire's Kiss. His cologne
Speaker 1: was so overpowering that midway through the film I had
Speaker 1: to retreat to the bathroom to douse my eyeballs. That's cute.
Speaker 1: No one's going to need to douse their eyeballs after
Speaker 1: watching My choice for the week. There are a trio
Speaker 1: of Nick Cage flicks to choose from, so which one
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 2: Have a listen. He's a US ranger, highly decorated, did.
Speaker 1: A little hell raising when he's a kid enough, he's
Speaker 1: defending his wife, got a drunken brawl.
Speaker 3: And he killed the guy.
Speaker 1: Could happen to you or me?
Speaker 4: After serving the last of his sentence, Cameron Pole is
Speaker 4: taking the first plane home to his wife and daughter.
Speaker 2: Today's flight is a special one.
Speaker 3: We're populating Louisiana's felt the penitentiary and these guys are
Speaker 3: the worst of the worst.
Speaker 2: See a lot of celebrities among us.
Speaker 3: I see eleven Prime Time lives, three regions of Kathy
Speaker 3: Lee's a January twenty twenty interview, Eve.
Speaker 2: That you're looking at punk nothing.
Speaker 3: I was just on your cage.
Speaker 2: But one wrong flight, Stewardess, what's the end of flight?
Speaker 3: Livery today? You can ruin your whole day?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 3: Do you hear the fighting man?
Speaker 2: Welcome to con Air jivert.
Speaker 1: One you're not cleared for and nobody owns that.
Speaker 2: Here's a flyer. The issue here is how the plane
Speaker 2: is brought down.
Speaker 5: Shout it down?
Speaker 2: Some people off there.
Speaker 5: He's got a little girl to come mom too.
Speaker 1: He's been waiting for this date for eight years.
Speaker 2: Of God, what are you gonna do.
Speaker 4: Please think I'm going. I'm go.
Speaker 2: This summer. Check your weapons, take.
Speaker 3: Your seat, hen at your card, and say your prayers.
Speaker 4: Yeah World.
Speaker 3: From Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer of The Rock Nicholas Cage,
Speaker 3: John Cusack, John Malcolvich. Where are they gonna lay on
Speaker 3: that thing?
Speaker 2: How do you feel about the Black tach Tables? On
Speaker 2: June sixth, who Buncle Up? Conn Air?
Speaker 5: Directed by Simon West.
Speaker 2: Thank you and have a pleasant Flow.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety three, an article about the real life airborne
Speaker 1: prisoner transport nicknamed kan Air caught the attention of a
Speaker 1: Disney exac who hired a young man who was popular
Speaker 1: at that moment for a spec script he had written.
Speaker 1: His name is Scott Rosenberg. I was in la in
Speaker 1: ninety three and was one of the people who had
Speaker 1: read Rosenberg's a then unproduced script for Things to Do
Speaker 1: in Denver When You're Dead.
Speaker 2: There is a film of it.
Speaker 1: Andy Garcia is the lead, and Treat Williams is spectacular
Speaker 1: as a character named critical Bill. It's really good and
Speaker 1: I like it a lot, but no film was going
Speaker 1: to do that script. Justice Aleo noir with dialogue stylized
Speaker 1: to the point of shattering and a genuine beating heart
Speaker 1: at its center. And it's funny, not just in one liners,
Speaker 1: but the overall attitude, which puts him in line to
Speaker 1: be one of the worst candidates for a big dumb
Speaker 1: action film, But in this case he was absolutely perfect
Speaker 1: because the script he wrote for con Air, whose lead
Speaker 1: characters include rapists, murderers, and out and out psychopaths with
Speaker 1: names culled from Southern rock anthems, ends up being the
Speaker 1: perfect parody of Jerry Bruckheimer action movies. And before Nick
Speaker 1: Cage got his hands on the script and turned Cameron
Speaker 1: Poe into Superman in a Canadian tuxedo, that character was
Speaker 1: just as bad as the others. He just had more
Speaker 1: to live for a little later on, Apparently JJ Abrams
Speaker 1: would do a pass on the film. He did passes
Speaker 1: for all of Bruckheimer's work, upping the humor quotient, though
Speaker 1: he seems to have failed to add a mystery box
Speaker 1: to any point of the script. Okay, you know the
Speaker 1: pot Cameron Poe, decent guy, unjustly jailed on his way home.
Speaker 1: The prison transport he's on has come due by the
Speaker 1: worst of the worst convicts, and along the way it's
Speaker 1: explosions and attack helicopters and shearing giant guitar shaped signs
Speaker 1: in half. But maybe you don't remember or have forgotten
Speaker 1: the context of this movie and when it came out.
Speaker 1: The movie stars Ving Raims, John Cusa, Steve Buscemi, Nicholas Cage,
Speaker 1: who at the time was pretty much an independent guy,
Speaker 1: and John Malkovich. Surely this is a somber drama filmed
Speaker 1: over two weeks in silverl like with a four million
Speaker 1: dollar budget. Nope, how did they all get in this movie? Well,
Speaker 1: they did it all for the money, and they all
Speaker 1: bitched about it, and I don't care. And speaking of
Speaker 1: the cast, if you're a fan of Dave Chappelle, he's
Speaker 1: in it. And if you hate Dave Chappelle, he gets
Speaker 1: crushed by landing gear. And speaking of the cast, that
Speaker 1: long and lustrous hair of Cameron Pose.
Speaker 2: You know the shot. You see him right now.
Speaker 1: He's slowly shaking his head back and forth, ever so slightly,
Speaker 1: that smile just teasing at the corner of his lips.
Speaker 2: That was a fuck you to Bruckheimer.
Speaker 1: Cage had grown a beard for the part in addition
Speaker 1: to the hair, which Bruckheimer nixed immediately, and when he
Speaker 1: saw the long hair, Bruckheimer said it had to be
Speaker 1: in a ponytail. So Cage's compromise was no beard, but
Speaker 1: no pony. And speaking of the cast, I read this
Speaker 1: interview with Danny Trejoe back in twenty ten. He was asked,
Speaker 1: of any of his co stars in any of his movies,
Speaker 1: who wouldn't he want to tangle with? And he said
Speaker 1: John Cusack. He'd seen Cusack fight and he knew his trainer,
Speaker 1: So don't fight John Cusack. Everybody, Chicago listeners, stay back
Speaker 1: from Cusack.
Speaker 2: I love John Cusack.
Speaker 1: He's great, and it's completely inexplicable that he's in this movie,
Speaker 1: but it's so much better for him being there. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to get real granular about the movie for
Speaker 1: a second. Climax takes place in Las Vegas, and I
Speaker 1: live in Las Vegas, and I'm usually not a terrible
Speaker 1: stickler for continuity.
Speaker 2: No, you're right, I completely add.
Speaker 1: Look, there's a motorcycle chase down Fremont Street and it's
Speaker 1: terribly shot and horribly edited. The plane crashes through the
Speaker 1: hard Rock, which is on paradise. Then the plane lands
Speaker 1: immediately on the strip, but I'm letting that go.
Speaker 2: I'm letting all of that go. I'll let all the
Speaker 2: bullshit launch.
Speaker 1: From every part of this movie, though, But for some reason,
Speaker 1: this last one actually naws at me. The final fight
Speaker 1: takes place in a tunnel. We have three here, they're
Speaker 1: all about thirty feet long. They enter the one downtown,
Speaker 1: and then they're magically inside the Second Street tunnel in
Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: You know you've seen it in Blade Runner.
Speaker 1: In any movie in Los Angeles where they need a tunnel,
Speaker 1: they I'll go to the Second Street tunnel. So it's
Speaker 1: very weird, and it's lane. Considering Scott Rosenberg's script ended
Speaker 1: with the plane crashing into the mirage and then Cyrus
Speaker 1: and Poe fighting in front of the volcano as it
Speaker 1: erupts and pours fire all around them, that sounds very heaven.
Speaker 1: And I'm nitpicking right here because I love con Air.
Speaker 1: It's crazy and fun and simultaneously is a big dumb
Speaker 1: action film and is a parody of a big dumb
Speaker 1: action film.
Speaker 2: It's I love it. Watch it right now.
Speaker 1: You've been looking for an excuse, and I hear by Grants, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can go next. I'm just gonna read the call
Speaker 1: to action, Ripley. We need our listeners to help us
Speaker 1: or not. They can all wait, apparently, and your pick
Speaker 1: is going to have to wait.
Speaker 2: Can I talk now? Okay?
Speaker 1: Okay? I told Foxy she could have a choice this week.
Speaker 1: We never throw it to her, and she felt pretty
Speaker 1: strongly about this movie. Oh stop, you're the best for last.
Speaker 1: We're saving the best for last. Yours is the best
Speaker 1: for last. You're the headliner. Come on, this is Foxy's choice.
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna need to go to a theater to
Speaker 1: see it or purchase it for streaming.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: If you were to ask me up until very recently,
Speaker 1: what was good about the Quiet Place films, I would
Speaker 1: have responded that it managed to achieve an unusual phenomenon
Speaker 1: in the twenty first century, but it was one you
Speaker 1: could only experience in the theater. It managed to turn
Speaker 1: the clock back to the seventies or eighties, when the
Speaker 1: audience was united as a fist, ready to smash anyone
Speaker 1: that dares disturbed the sanctity of the movie going experience.
Speaker 1: That was fun to relive. But other than that, I
Speaker 1: thought those movies were sloppy sci fi. They weren't even
Speaker 1: sci fi. Really, they were monster movies that were too
Speaker 1: timid to commit to its own premise. The zeno more
Speaker 1: has to be an alien. These things do not. And
Speaker 1: once you pull the science store open, you'd better be ready,
Speaker 1: because now my suspension of disbelief is based on your
Speaker 1: choices about every aspect of the world you've created, putting
Speaker 1: aside that they're nigh indestructible. Shout out to the tick
Speaker 1: the nigh indestructible nature of the creatures. You have a
Speaker 1: family living on a farm that's way out in the open.
Speaker 1: They've got have to have trip wires everywhere as alarms.
Speaker 1: There are trees everywhere, lots of places to get attacked from,
Speaker 1: and any sound they make is a potential disaster. Any
Speaker 1: accidental sound and they're all murdered. And a couple of
Speaker 1: miles from the house is the waterfall, where they can
Speaker 1: stand around and talk freely because creatures can't hear them. There,
Speaker 1: move to the waterfall. What the fuck this is like
Speaker 1: characters on The Walking Dead for the first few seasons
Speaker 1: acting like walkie talkies didn't exist.
Speaker 2: Where's so and so?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I think they went to get such and such. Well,
Speaker 1: hopefully they meet us at the rendezvous. How about you
Speaker 1: ask them right now thanks to the magic of Motorola. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I didn't like either of the Quiet Place movies. I
Speaker 1: thought they were slow mow versions of twenty eight weeks Later,
Speaker 1: which is why A Quiet Place Day One is such
Speaker 1: a shock.
Speaker 2: I fucking loved it. This Friday, what.
Speaker 3: Do we do.
Speaker 5: Save everyone? We can plan?
Speaker 2: A Quiet Place Day One starts Thursday.
Speaker 1: Lepita Njango stars as Samira, a cancer patient, hospice patient, really,
Speaker 1: who agrees to take a day trip into Manhattan with
Speaker 1: the promise of a slice of pizza from her favorite
Speaker 1: pizza Rhea, which is potentially her last chance to do so,
Speaker 1: which is when the attack occurs. The initial attack of
Speaker 1: these aliens arriving on Earth. The urban setting helps propel
Speaker 1: the film sense of urgency like Gangbusters, and it's already
Speaker 1: high thanks to the fact that our lead is living
Speaker 1: on borrowed time. It's a really remarkable thing they've achieved. Also,
Speaker 1: it's a pizza quest. Can you imagine anything more noble
Speaker 1: to be searching for in the face of the apocalypse.
Speaker 1: It's stunning. But the reason Foxy chose this movie is
Speaker 1: another cast member, well two cast members playing one character.
Speaker 1: That character's name is Frodo. That's Samira's cat who she
Speaker 1: has brought into the city with her in is sort
Speaker 1: of the third lead in this film. That cat is
Speaker 1: named Frodo, like I said, and it's played my two
Speaker 1: cats named Schnitzel and Nico. They're both fantastic, right, have
Speaker 1: I plugged enough the cat?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: The fact is the cat is really important because it
Speaker 1: starts out seemingly like every other movie would treat it
Speaker 1: like an object of peril, but then it ends up
Speaker 1: becoming way more symbolic.
Speaker 2: Oh the other cast member, because this is the trio.
Speaker 1: It's a it's like a It's a young businessman named
Speaker 1: Eric played by Joseph Quinn. He's the human torch or
Speaker 1: will be soon. You know him from Stranger Things, Eddie
Speaker 1: Munson and his guitar. He is fucking fantastic here as
Speaker 1: a young man who's just as lost with everything to
Speaker 1: live for potentially as the Peter Niango is Dune, but
Speaker 1: they're both in the same boat.
Speaker 2: He is just soulful and sweet.
Speaker 1: Honestly, there are moments of absolute lyricism throughout the movie,
Speaker 1: and the carnage is fantastic and immediate. I found it
Speaker 1: to be everything the previous two films weren't. The effects
Speaker 1: are peerless, and the ending, oh boy. I want to
Speaker 1: discuss it because it gets me where I live, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave it to you a quiet place
Speaker 1: in Day one is now playing. I think you can
Speaker 1: get it on Amazon Prime as well. All right, yes,
Speaker 1: we have finally gotten to you. You know what I said,
Speaker 1: best for last? I said best for last, and actually
Speaker 1: I wasn't kidding because Ripley picked up on the summertime
Speaker 1: theme and fucking ran with it. She ended up picking
Speaker 1: the best summer movie I can think of, or at
Speaker 1: least it has to be everyone's idea of the best
Speaker 1: summer camp movie. There's only one word to describe it,
Speaker 1: meat bows.
Speaker 3: You saw what he did to Saturday Night. Now watch
Speaker 3: Bill Murray Demolish Summer. See three hundred kids from the
Speaker 3: city escape to the woods for a summer of wholesome
Speaker 3: fun in the sun.
Speaker 4: On the Programmer Rector Jerry Aldine, is that why you're wearing?
Speaker 2: Are you expecting an assassination account? Do I have what
Speaker 2: doctors called.
Speaker 3: Very actors play concern to raise?
Speaker 5: Are some seriously.
Speaker 3: Meet the head counselor who knows the facts of life
Speaker 3: but forgot them.
Speaker 2: Let's go on here.
Speaker 4: So this year, each camper will stalk and kill his
Speaker 4: own bear in our private wildlife preserves.
Speaker 2: New camp bolls or even like you all take a
Speaker 2: load these.
Speaker 4: We're going to check this out a little bit later.
Speaker 2: I'd like, yeah, for now, but if you don't win,
Speaker 2: we cut it off. It's more important than the score
Speaker 2: of this game is to score at the big social
Speaker 2: at our place.
Speaker 4: That I.
Speaker 3: It's not how you play the game, but how you
Speaker 3: win the counts.
Speaker 4: Let's tell you.
Speaker 2: The human race. A real excitement, of course, is going
Speaker 2: to come at the end of the summer.
Speaker 4: During Sexual Awareness Week.
Speaker 3: We import two hundred probus from around the world, and
Speaker 3: each camper.
Speaker 4: Armed with only a furnace of coffee and.
Speaker 3: Two thousand dollars cash, tries.
Speaker 4: To visit as many countries as he can, and the winner, of.
Speaker 2: Course, is named King of Sexual Awareness Week.
Speaker 3: You'll be cheering for Bill Murray this summer in meat Balls.
Speaker 1: Saw this in the theater when I was five, maybe six,
Speaker 1: and my only impression of it is Bill Murray swinging
Speaker 1: a log around.
Speaker 2: But it counts.
Speaker 1: Saw theatrically nineteen seventy eight, still riding high on the
Speaker 1: success of Saturday Night Live. Look, I know he had
Speaker 1: a rough patch at the beginning of season two when
Speaker 1: he joined replacing Chevy Chase, but he ever came that
Speaker 1: shit real fast, and by the time of Meatballs he
Speaker 1: was in his stride. So here he is in his
Speaker 1: first theatrical lead in a disposable summer camp movie, which
Speaker 1: is probably never going to be seen again after its
Speaker 1: initial run, because remember, there's no home video market at
Speaker 1: this point. In this nothing of a film Bill, Murray
Speaker 1: manages to put into performance that will transform American comedy
Speaker 1: cinema for decades. He legitimizes a character that had been
Speaker 1: there all along, but it was always off to the side.
Speaker 1: The wise, cracking, smart ass. Murray manages the equivalent of
Speaker 1: Stopford putting Rosencrants in Guildenstern front and center.
Speaker 2: In Hamlet.
Speaker 1: He makes the sidekick the lead, which is another reason
Speaker 1: that Meatballs, constantly being lumped in with the glood of
Speaker 1: TNA gross out comedies at the time is so insulting.
Speaker 1: I'm an urban kid, I have asphalt in my veins,
Speaker 1: a lot of being carted off to the woods for
Speaker 1: an extended period was horrifying to me.
Speaker 2: Add that a couple of dozen kids who are actually
Speaker 2: dying to be there. Good God, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: But inexplicably, Meatballs and Bill Murray specifically managed to make
Speaker 1: that scenario appealing, even appetizing. Maybe that's just because it's
Speaker 1: called meatballs. In a Canadian summer camp movie with an
Speaker 1: Irish American in the lead is called meatballs. Now, presumably
Speaker 1: they're calling it to that because the characters are losers,
Speaker 1: which that was another shift in comedy at the time,
Speaker 1: the outcasts rising up, slobs against the snobs, and so
Speaker 1: all these characters and meatballs.
Speaker 2: But what a bunch of meatballs on display.
Speaker 1: Like Matt Craven, one of the CITs the counselors in Training.
Speaker 1: He's pretty notable. He'd go on to star in Crimson
Speaker 1: Tide and Er and Justified. He'll forever be hardware to me.
Speaker 1: And speaking of forever, there are two female performances that
Speaker 1: echo through history, and I have to mention them here.
Speaker 1: One is that girl who talks in gossip in the
Speaker 1: mess hall.
Speaker 5: It seems as though last Summer's hottest couple have split.
Speaker 5: I can't tell you their names, but her initials are Al,
Speaker 5: and he's the hottest cic on wheels.
Speaker 2: We all know this.
Speaker 5: That mosts the last sum in the bushes, But the
Speaker 5: question is what's your love.
Speaker 1: Plumaguein That girl is the nineteen seventies. I knew dozens
Speaker 1: of her, and I'm glad she's preserved here on film.
Speaker 2: Other is Counselor in training Al, played by.
Speaker 1: Christine de Bell. Miss de Bell is my first celebrity crush,
Speaker 1: and that crush has not diminished in any way over
Speaker 1: the years. She's what heth had been searching for all
Speaker 1: those years as the actual girl next door, which makes
Speaker 1: no surprise that she was a cover model for Playboy
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six April nineteen seventy six. So yes,
Speaker 1: she's incredibly beautiful, but she's also wildly funny and natural. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's the best performance in the film. And on my
Speaker 1: birthday one year, my girlfriend Amber had missed de Belle
Speaker 1: make a cameo video for me, saying hello and wishing
Speaker 1: me well, and she also made it clear that she
Speaker 1: also knew something very personal about me that I will
Speaker 1: not discuss on the air. I guess you emailed me
Speaker 1: if you're curious anyway, she is still as lovely as ever,
Speaker 1: and she's another great reason to re experience this film.
Speaker 2: Oh we forgot to mention Mickey hope to see again
Speaker 2: next summer. Can I have some applause for this man?
Speaker 3: Please come Onday?
Speaker 2: Wait about Mickey? How about Rudy Gerner?
Speaker 5: I'm going away? You going to Vegas?
Speaker 4: If you're going to Vegas, man, I would be up
Speaker 4: for it because I love that town.
Speaker 2: I'm a party guy. I love that town.
Speaker 1: Or how about the one line from any comedy that
Speaker 1: makes me laugh every single time I hear it.
Speaker 3: You can change the.
Speaker 2: Record, but don't you change?
Speaker 5: Are you waiting right here?
Speaker 1: This is a silly, breezy, lazy hangout of a film
Speaker 1: that never devolves into the shenanigans most it'll tend to
Speaker 1: and remember at the center of this movie as a
Speaker 1: young boy coping with his mother's death whose father doesn't
Speaker 1: know what to do with him and ships him off
Speaker 1: to summer camp summer fun. Yeah, it's good. Go everyone
Speaker 1: go watch me bolls. Everybody, Okay, everybody happy?
Speaker 2: Now you got yours? Miss Foxy? Right on? I hope
Speaker 2: you too.
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Speaker 1: with this bit of wisdom from conn Air. Define irony.
Speaker 1: A bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a
Speaker 1: song made famous by a band that died in a
Speaker 1: plane crash.
Speaker 4: We GotY so pious, We're gonna sew cats, great Grandpa,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna get on. We're nos hotties were