Speaker 1: Weird. We welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly
Speaker 1: round up. I'm Father Malone, and sitting to me in
Speaker 1: a one horse open sleigh is Miss Ripley Jean. You
Speaker 1: are never going near a one horse open sleigh you
Speaker 1: and horses. No, it'd be like that dog's barking jingle
Speaker 1: bells song that will no doubt be hearing this month,
Speaker 1: except without the melody. Yes, it's the holiday season, so
Speaker 1: there's every possibility will be wall to wall Christmas horror
Speaker 1: movies here at the Roundup, but not this week. We're
Speaker 1: doing unconventional Christmas movies today. Your Lethal Weapons, Your Long Kiss,
Speaker 1: Good Nights, Your Last Boy, Scouts, basically anything written by
Speaker 1: Shane Black, Your Kiss, Kiss, Bang Bangs. You're Nice Guys?
Speaker 1: Was the Predator set at Christmas? If it isn't, it
Speaker 1: should have been. You know, he gets shipped for doing
Speaker 1: that set in every movie in Los Angeles at Christmas.
Speaker 1: I think it's endlessly charming, and I guess you have
Speaker 1: to spend some time there to appreciate the artifice of
Speaker 1: it all. There's absolutely no discernible change in your surroundings
Speaker 1: except for one month. All the street lights are festooned
Speaker 1: with glitter and tinsel. It's surreal and wonderful, which is
Speaker 1: a good way to introduce our first film if I
Speaker 1: was describing it to you with total irony. This is
Speaker 1: Red One.
Speaker 2: Four eight, four hundred and ninety nine five hundred.
Speaker 1: Let's go heavy, got it? Constronged?
Speaker 2: Nick?
Speaker 1: God, brush your shoulders, salt. Red One is gonna Loover evening? Ladies,
Speaker 1: what are you so excited about? Of course your boyfriend's here. Okay,
Speaker 1: who's with Red? Someone took Nick. We're gonna find him.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing in Jack O'Malley. He's probably the best tracker
Speaker 1: in the world. You guy's a legend.
Speaker 2: What am I doing here?
Speaker 1: Last night?
Speaker 2: Red One, also known as Saint Nicholas Myra, was abducted
Speaker 2: from the North Pole Complex.
Speaker 1: Are you saying Santa Claus has been kidnapped? Garcia? What?
Speaker 1: You can't trust this guy? He's on the list? You
Speaker 1: don't mean that list NL four? Are you telling me
Speaker 1: this clown is a level four naughty lister, A level
Speaker 1: four naughty lister. Oh so funny. You're gonna help us
Speaker 1: find Nick? Come on, let's go. There is much in
Speaker 1: here that is not of the natural world. Who's that grampus.
Speaker 2: What are they doing? They're playing crapsh slop.
Speaker 1: Think if you don't need me here, I might just
Speaker 1: go back to the car. We need to prepare for
Speaker 1: the possibility of no Christmas.
Speaker 2: There's worst ways to go out and trying to save
Speaker 2: Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: Last week I'd bemoaned spending two hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars on Gladiator two. I take it back. That was
Speaker 1: a wise investment given the level of filmmaking going on there.
Speaker 1: Red One a whimsical children's Christmas movie. It has to
Speaker 1: be a kid's movie, because if it's not, then the
Speaker 1: filmmakers hate us, or at least hold us in some
Speaker 1: kind of contempt. Also cost two hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1: Elf cost thirty three and they shot that in New York.
Speaker 1: But then Elf seemed to come from a place of love.
Speaker 1: You know how every year, someone you know, or some
Speaker 1: hacked television reporter will inform us that Christmas has become
Speaker 1: too commercialized. Red One is that sentiment in cinematic form,
Speaker 1: an incredibly bald cash grab, an attempt at a franchise.
Speaker 1: Our first clue should have been the author, Chris Morgan,
Speaker 1: The mad bastard behind the Fast and the Furious films.
Speaker 1: You don't hire him for a standalone though that would
Speaker 1: be a subtle hint. The big cleague light of a
Speaker 1: hitt is that anything with Dwayne Johnson, and it is
Speaker 1: an attempt at a franchise. So here's the plot. Chris Kringle,
Speaker 1: help us all Santa is real. He's got a bodyguard,
Speaker 1: he gets kidnapped. Bodyguard turns to a regular human who
Speaker 1: hates Christmas. But it is a hell of a tracker
Speaker 1: to find him. Guess what happens? Well before Captain America
Speaker 1: can figure out that Christmas is magic thanks to Black Adam,
Speaker 1: we have to visit all the other holiday folk. See,
Speaker 1: there's an organization that keeps peace between the mythological creatures
Speaker 1: and Jesus Christ. How about it's just too foggy to
Speaker 1: deliver the presence and you need a special reindeer to
Speaker 1: do it. This is a bastardized Men in Black slash
Speaker 1: Nightmare Before Christmas slash Marvel film. Is Chris Morgan just
Speaker 1: a pseudonym for an AI bot? Because if you just
Speaker 1: fed in what people like about Christmas movies, out would
Speaker 1: pop this thing. What's particularly galling a side of everything is.
Speaker 1: It was directed by Jake Kasden. I had the highest
Speaker 1: of hopes for him as a filmmaker, son of one
Speaker 1: of the best screenwriters pound for pound ever produced, Lawrence Kasten.
Speaker 1: Empire Strikes Back, Raiders, The Lost Dark, Silverado, Continental Divide
Speaker 1: is a great script. Now, I know, talent isn't genetic,
Speaker 1: although in Jason Rerightman's case, I think he inherited all
Speaker 1: of his dad's talent. But Kasden's first film is the
Speaker 1: absolutely terrific Zero Effect with Bill Pullman. It's a modern
Speaker 1: day take on Sherlock Holmes. It's literally an adaptation of
Speaker 1: Scandal in Bohemia. But it is so odd and so fun,
Speaker 1: just absolutely bucking all nods to what a commercial film
Speaker 1: should be. An unlikable lead, a convoluted and at times
Speaker 1: completely inessential plot, a studio film that was a gentle
Speaker 1: character study. Oh Man, the future looks bright for young Kasden,
Speaker 1: and then he did Walk Hard. The Dewey Cox Story
Speaker 1: a film that has forever sharpened my criticism when it
Speaker 1: comes to musical biopics. And it's absolutely hilarious. You know
Speaker 1: what's not funny? Red One, Not one joke Lands I
Speaker 1: did like the polar Bear, and Crampis is great. He's
Speaker 1: played by Christopher heive you, that crazy redheaded wildling from
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones, and he was in the prequel to
Speaker 1: the thing. He is always great. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: All the flights of fancy and glittering CGI cities and
Speaker 1: talking polar bears can't disguise the fact that there's not
Speaker 1: one original thing going on here. Let me describe Chris
Speaker 1: Evans' introductory scene. Now, he's a world class mercenary minus
Speaker 1: the military garb and training. He's hired by clandestine wealthy
Speaker 1: people to infiltrate enemies and steal secrets, which is what
Speaker 1: he's doing in the opening scene. While on his way
Speaker 1: to do that job, he goes through a Starbucks, steals
Speaker 1: a coffee, steals a newspaper, and continues to the job. Ooh,
Speaker 1: he's slick. We're meant to think he's a real troublemaker
Speaker 1: this one. What if there was a cop in that Starbucks?
Speaker 1: Even if he's slick, even if he can talk his
Speaker 1: way out of it, why would he seek the attention
Speaker 1: on his way to a highly illegal job that he's
Speaker 1: being paid no doubt? Hundreds of thousands of dollars to due.
Speaker 1: And it's not like he's reckless this way at any
Speaker 1: other point in the film, it's just boring shorthand what's
Speaker 1: the laziest way we can show you who this guy is.
Speaker 1: This occurs immediately after I should point out a flashback
Speaker 1: to him as a child behaving in exactly the same fashion,
Speaker 1: A hat on a hat. Two hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1: Back in eighty five, the Salkins, the Superman producers, they
Speaker 1: released a thirty million dollar flop called Santa Claus the Movie,
Speaker 1: a movie I'll note that was originally going to be
Speaker 1: directed by John Carpenter. He got as far as casting.
Speaker 1: People thought they were nuts spending that money on that
Speaker 1: idea for a movie, and it was a flop, but
Speaker 1: it was original and it had John Lithgow as the villain.
Speaker 1: Red One has Kiernan Shipka, an actress. I still can't
Speaker 1: figure out if she's any good or if I just
Speaker 1: remember her fondly from Mad Men. Gee. I want to
Speaker 1: say something really positive about Red One here. Evidently a
Speaker 1: good fifty million dollars of the budget was because of
Speaker 1: delays due to Dwayne Johnson. I guess anything that reduces
Speaker 1: his role in popular entertainment is a positive on that level.
Speaker 1: I highly recommend red One Boy. You said it, you
Speaker 1: go next, HP, for the love of all that is tense,
Speaker 1: will get us out of here.
Speaker 2: Sip.
Speaker 1: That's right, HP. And right after this, the lovely Darlene
Speaker 1: Love is stomping behind to sing, baby, please come home.
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Rip? Wow, that's a
Speaker 1: Christmas movie? Yeah, you're right. Holy shit. Speaking of terrible movies,
Speaker 1: this is Cobra. Society is breeding a new kind of criminal.
Speaker 1: It's also breeding a new kind of cup. Meet Cobra.
Speaker 1: He does the job nobody wants.
Speaker 2: Did you use unnecessary deadly force?
Speaker 1: I used everything I had. You know you have an
Speaker 1: attitude problem. Yeah, but it's just a little one. You
Speaker 1: think you would recognize what you saw him?
Speaker 2: You ken?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was it?
Speaker 2: Kill?
Speaker 1: You? Do what you have to do to get a
Speaker 1: lead on this mania. If I find do what you
Speaker 1: do best? Just alone. Is Cobra the strong arm of
Speaker 1: the law. Crime is the disease. He's the cure. Late
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five, I went to a creation convention.
Speaker 1: You used to refer to sci fi conventions by who
Speaker 1: was putting it on back in the day that meant creation.
Speaker 1: When a convention was a little more pointed, like Star
Speaker 1: Trek or Doctor Who, they would probably call them one
Speaker 1: of those, but they were still being put on by
Speaker 1: creation anyway. Late in eighty five, I had become friendly
Speaker 1: with a bunch of poster dealers, and one of them
Speaker 1: pulled me aside because he had a brand new one
Speaker 1: sheet for a film that wouldn't be coming out until
Speaker 1: the following year. My twelve year old heart nearly exploded
Speaker 1: when he pulled out that red and black image of
Speaker 1: sunglassed and match stick sliced alone with some high tech
Speaker 1: looking machine pistol in his hand with a laser sight.
Speaker 1: I bought it that day, and I hung it on
Speaker 1: my wall until May twenty fifth, nineteen eighty six. That's
Speaker 1: when I saw the film. I took the poster down
Speaker 1: to that afternoon. If someone were to ask for a
Speaker 1: time capsule selection of the platonic ideal of an eighties
Speaker 1: action film, you'd probably put in die Hard or Lethal Weapon,
Speaker 1: anything by Joel Silver really, but I suggest that those
Speaker 1: movies were the exceptions to the rule. The majority of
Speaker 1: eighties action big dumb, self important self serious could be
Speaker 1: represented best by Cobra Marian Kobretti. He's the top dog
Speaker 1: of the zombie squad, the man you call when there's
Speaker 1: no one left to call. He sits around the house
Speaker 1: in mirrored shades and leather driving gloves, eating cold pizza
Speaker 1: that he's cutting into tiny or slices with a pair
Speaker 1: of scissors, and watching Toys r Rus commercials. This happens
Speaker 1: in the movie and it is my favorite fucking scene.
Speaker 1: So Cobretty. That's a made up surname, sliced alone. Made
Speaker 1: up that name so he could have the nickname Cobra. Legitimately,
Speaker 1: Cobra is the baddest of badasses. He's monosyllamic. He's not
Speaker 1: afraid to kill a suspect and knock out a journalist
Speaker 1: for asking him if that was necessary. He has no
Speaker 1: time for pencil pushers or due process. He's a man.
Speaker 1: This is Dirty Harry for morons. I mean that lovingly.
Speaker 1: That film Dirty Harry got criticized at the time for
Speaker 1: lionizing the rogue cop, but that movie is more complex
Speaker 1: than that. Harry's actions cause him to quit the force
Speaker 1: at the end. No one remembers that because there were
Speaker 1: sequels to be made, but the moral ambiguity was there
Speaker 1: and it is at play. Actions have consequences and result
Speaker 1: in a feeling of hopelessness, certainly not joy. Remember Callahan's
Speaker 1: speech to the bank robber. I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the truth. In all this excitement, I have
Speaker 1: kind of lost track myself. But he in this is
Speaker 1: a forty four magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world,
Speaker 1: and would blow your head clean off. You've got to
Speaker 1: ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well?
Speaker 2: Do you a bunk?
Speaker 1: For all it's seeming badassary, it's a joke between cop
Speaker 1: and criminal. He knew how many bullets were in the gun.
Speaker 1: Contrast that with Cobra as he confronts a killer, he
Speaker 1: just relaxes mego, do you want to talk? We'll talk.
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for a good conversation.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to you. Are you bringing
Speaker 1: the television cameras in here?
Speaker 2: Now? I'll bring it in.
Speaker 1: Can't do that. Why I don't deal with psychos? I
Speaker 1: put them away.
Speaker 2: I ain't no psychle Man, good disease.
Speaker 1: And the cure Another movie you could put in a
Speaker 1: time capsule is Beverly Hills Cop. Great flick, a movie
Speaker 1: that would in many ways signal the death knell of
Speaker 1: films like Cobra. Beverly Hills Cop proved that you didn't
Speaker 1: need a slab of granite as your action protagonist. You
Speaker 1: can have a witty, fun character and still provide gritty,
Speaker 1: visceral action. Which is amusing because a couple of years
Speaker 1: prior to Cobra, Sylvester Stallone was offered Beverly Hills Cop,
Speaker 1: and he accepted, did a draft of the screenplay where
Speaker 1: Axel Foley became are you ready Axel Cobretty. That's right,
Speaker 1: Cobra taking down the stuffed shirts and privileged of Beverly Hills. Now,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say Stillone had a character in his head
Speaker 1: in search of a screenplay. But here's the thing. He
Speaker 1: didn't go off and write his own movie featuring Cobra. Instead,
Speaker 1: he got the rights to a novel called A Running
Speaker 1: Duck by Paula Gosling, which he adapted, turning its lead
Speaker 1: character Mike Malchek of Vietnam era Sniper and now Cop
Speaker 1: into Marion Kobretty. His name is Marion so sly can
Speaker 1: let you know that he's comfortable with his feminine side. Incidentally,
Speaker 1: that book A Running Duck would be renamed fair Game,
Speaker 1: and then that would be made into another film of
Speaker 1: the same name, which starred Cindy Crawford and Billy Baldwin.
Speaker 1: So the film follows Ingrid Nudesen, a model played by
Speaker 1: Brigitte Nielsen in a Harpo marxwig, and she witnesses a
Speaker 1: murder and has to be protected by Cobretti and his
Speaker 1: partner Gonzalez. Incidentally, Gonzales is played by Rene Santoni, who
Speaker 1: we talk about a lot here on the Round Up.
Speaker 1: We talked about him during the Clue episode he played
Speaker 1: Poppy on Seinfeld. He's here along with Andrew Robinson to
Speaker 1: subtly remind us that Dirty Harry was a good movie,
Speaker 1: so this must be a good movie too. That's right,
Speaker 1: Both of those guys are in Dirty Harry. The villain
Speaker 1: is played by Brian Thompson. I think most people would
Speaker 1: recognize him as the alien bounty hunter from The X
Speaker 1: Files or Shao Khan from Mortal Kombat, though for me,
Speaker 1: he is forever and always the spandax Clad Also Harpo
Speaker 1: marx wigged helicopter pilot from the climax of the great
Speaker 1: film Miracle Mile, a movie we are going to definitely
Speaker 1: be covering at some point. Brian Thompson has a group
Speaker 1: called the New World where they all get together and
Speaker 1: clang axes rhythmically before going out and committing really clumsy murders.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they needed the top guy from
Speaker 1: the Zombie Squad. It seems if you just put a
Speaker 1: plain clothes female officer by herself on literally any street,
Speaker 1: these fools are gonna show up. I mean, Bragite Nielsen
Speaker 1: is driving toward the murder scene and Brian Thompson takes
Speaker 1: off his pante hoose mask, walks to the center of
Speaker 1: the street and looks directly in her face. This is
Speaker 1: their leader. Oh boy. I know Brigitte and Sly were
Speaker 1: married during the filming of this, and I gotta say
Speaker 1: I'm shocked they're not still together. Sparks are flying down
Speaker 1: at the Sparkler factory that does not appear in this movie.
Speaker 1: Guess what. I am recommending this movie overall as much
Speaker 1: as Ripley is, Oh stop, we agree more than we don't.
Speaker 1: This is the dumbest of dumb, dumb action movies. Sure,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of examples of action films that are
Speaker 1: poorly made on top of everything else and can function
Speaker 1: on the level of kitsch. But for pure unadulterated campiness,
Speaker 1: you have to go to a film with a budget
Speaker 1: of thirty million dollars. Thirty million and eighty five. Raiders
Speaker 1: of the Lost Arc cost twenty two years prior, and
Speaker 1: that was set in the thirties. Remember that shot of
Speaker 1: the sun coming up and they're digging, and Indy pulls
Speaker 1: on his hat and they're all burning hot silhouettes. God,
Speaker 1: that was beautiful. Cobra does have one actual piece of
Speaker 1: beauty in it. I'm not a car guy, but even
Speaker 1: I will admit the sheer, gorgeous gorgeosity of Cobra's ride.
Speaker 1: It's a fifty mercury lead sled, apparently mister Stallone's own vehicle.
Speaker 1: When they started smashing it to shit, I got really upset.
Speaker 1: I know they made stunt cars, but it's just irresponsible
Speaker 1: showing something so beautiful beaten so badly. Fuck you, Tyler Dirt,
Speaker 1: my turn, unconventional Christmas pick, It's better off dead. Does
Speaker 1: it ever feel like everyone's got more going than you do. Oops,
Speaker 1: that everyone is smart. Shit, you're al Myers kid.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am.
Speaker 1: Pretty stupid to me. Thank you, you say, the best
Speaker 1: skier in town just ran off with your girlfriend. Even
Speaker 1: your younger brother does better than you do. And that
Speaker 1: nobody even cares.
Speaker 2: That's broke up quickly. Oh that's nice.
Speaker 1: Well you might be right, but remember one thing. I
Speaker 1: haven't even been to New York City. Nobody was ever
Speaker 1: better off dead. The truth is I gonna obski you
Speaker 1: any day of the week.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, you want to wrest, I'll take you
Speaker 2: on any day.
Speaker 1: Sucker, go that way really fast. If something gets in
Speaker 1: your way. Fun turn, all you need is juts. All right, now, turn, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna race, I'm gonna lose, and I'm gonna die in
Speaker 2: that order.
Speaker 1: Out and you'll never doubt yourself again.
Speaker 2: Ski on one skime better off dead. And that's a
Speaker 2: real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good
Speaker 2: white boy like this, an abnormal look at a normal teenager.
Speaker 1: Just as Cobra was dirty Henry for dumb dumbs, better
Speaker 1: off dead is Harold and Maud for fans of Mad magazine.
Speaker 1: This came out the same year I got that Cobra poster.
Speaker 1: I am the audience for this. I'm sure you were too,
Speaker 1: if you're listening midnight viewers. Just like the next year,
Speaker 1: I was the target for pee Wee's Big Adventure. And
Speaker 1: there are some parallels, not least of which is eg Daily.
Speaker 1: She's Dottye in pee Wee's Big Adventure and appears here
Speaker 1: as the singer at the dance, singing the title song.
Speaker 1: Is there anyone who doesn't love her? Did you see
Speaker 1: Valley Girl? But the tone is even more of what
Speaker 1: I'm getting at this film Peewee seemed to signal not
Speaker 1: necessarily a wave of like minded filmmakers, but at least
Speaker 1: an opening into the studio system for those not necessarily
Speaker 1: interested in the types of films being targeted at us.
Speaker 1: You know the John Hughes of it all? Kids, don't
Speaker 1: they related to John Hughes movies because he was giving
Speaker 1: adult voice to teenager's wildly unfocused burst of changing body
Speaker 1: and personality. But it was a lie. No one talked
Speaker 1: like that. Name one motherfucker whoever said zoom dweeby to you.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything in Better Off Dead represents reality
Speaker 1: in any way but man, it does feel like being
Speaker 1: a teenager. The surreality included the stop motion Hamburgers voiced
Speaker 1: by David Lee Roth, the Howard Cosell voiced competitor in
Speaker 1: a daily drag race, that girl dating the basketball team.
Speaker 1: This is a weird one and kind of a marvel
Speaker 1: that it got made. So Laine Meyer is dumped by
Speaker 1: a girl. The luminous Amanda wiss I once had a
Speaker 1: conversation about nothing at all with her in a casting
Speaker 1: agent's office back in the mid nineties. In the entire time,
Speaker 1: my mind was screaming, it's Tina, that girl that appears
Speaker 1: in all your nightmares. Because of that fucking sequence in
Speaker 1: Nightmare on Elm Street. It was really hard to keep
Speaker 1: it together. Then Lane spends the rest of the movie
Speaker 1: attempting to kill himself. I love this movie. This is
Speaker 1: going to sound like sacrilege, but this movie does have
Speaker 1: one aspect that is stronger than Harold and Maud. Harold
Speaker 1: is just pretending Lane wants to do it. Intention matters,
Speaker 1: and because of that intent, everything around Lane is necessarily heightened.
Speaker 1: Your mom's cooking is bad. Check out the tentacle monstrosity.
Speaker 1: Lane's mom is whipping up sincerely on rewatch. I found
Speaker 1: myself looking away during her meal presentations and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of them, way more than I remembered, and
Speaker 1: they are nauseating. That's Kim Darby as the mom. I
Speaker 1: think most would know her from this, but you want
Speaker 1: to check her out in True Grit, that's the original
Speaker 1: with John Wayne. She's young Maddie in it, and she's
Speaker 1: fucking amazing. Oh, I guess this is becoming a bit
Speaker 1: on the show actors with their voices replaced. We had
Speaker 1: Rene Santoni replacing Lee Ving's voice as mister Body and Clue.
Speaker 1: And in this movie that persistent newspaper boy, you just
Speaker 1: heard it in your head. I didn't even need to
Speaker 1: cut in the clip. Well, that kid, Damien Slade, he
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like that. The voice berating John Cusack for
Speaker 1: two dollars belongs to Yano and Naya. Speaking of Christmas movies,
Speaker 1: he plays Grover Dill in a Christmas Story, Scott Farkas's
Speaker 1: Evil Toady. All the Christmas entertainments are colliding. There is
Speaker 1: so much of this movie that lives in my brain.
Speaker 1: Curtis Armstrong's top hadded advice Lane, I've been going to
Speaker 1: this high school for seven and a half years. I know, dummy,
Speaker 1: I know high school girls. Diane Franklin's advice Kikizas, I
Speaker 1: totally believe she was a French actress man e. G. Daly,
Speaker 1: Amanda Wiz, Diane Franklin, hell Bugite Neil, and just a
Speaker 1: cavalcade of formative attraction. On this week's round up. I'd
Speaker 1: be curious to hear what younger folk have to say
Speaker 1: about this film. Actually, if you've never seen this film
Speaker 1: and watch it, then drop me a line. Email address
Speaker 1: is in the description. If you haven't seen it in
Speaker 1: a while, give it a watch, and also drop me
Speaker 1: a line. I'm curious if you think it held up.
Speaker 1: I think it did. It even reaffirmed a theory of mine.
Speaker 1: Rich Little never sounded like anyone he was impersonating. He's
Speaker 1: doing the Howard Cosell voice here, and he does not
Speaker 1: sound like Howard kosal As an Awes spectacle. A word
Speaker 1: has it that upon seeing the film while in the
Speaker 1: middle of filming another movie with director Savage Steve Holland,
Speaker 1: Well here, I'll just read you what Savage Steve had
Speaker 1: to say in an interview with The Sneeze back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four. So we're all watching the Better
Speaker 1: Off Dead screening that night and John walked out of
Speaker 1: the movie about twenty minutes into it. He walked out
Speaker 1: and he never came back. The next morning, he basically
Speaker 1: walked up to me and was like, you know, you
Speaker 1: tricked me. Better Off Dead was the worst thing I
Speaker 1: have ever seen. I will never trust you as a
Speaker 1: director again, so don't speak to me. And I said,
Speaker 1: what happened, what's wrong? And he just said that I
Speaker 1: sucked and it was the worst thing he had ever seen,
Speaker 1: and then I had used him and made a fool
Speaker 1: out of him and all this other stuff. And I
Speaker 1: was just stunned because it was funny as shit and
Speaker 1: he was great in it, and he was helping me
Speaker 1: edit it through the summer. It was sort of like
Speaker 1: the breakup that I made Better Off Dead about. It
Speaker 1: was so out of left field that it just floored me.
Speaker 1: And he was at dailies every night too. I feel
Speaker 1: like I let him down, and it totally surprises me
Speaker 1: so much, because I have to say, the most important
Speaker 1: person to me about that movie was John. I really
Speaker 1: wanted him to love it as much as I loved it,
Speaker 1: and once he said all that stuff. It was like
Speaker 1: a girlfriend who breaks up with you. You can't fight
Speaker 1: with her. It's like everything is so great, and then
Speaker 1: they say, I hate you out of nowhere, there's really
Speaker 1: no argument you can have. I had my heart broken.
Speaker 1: That was the second time my heart was broken since
Speaker 1: that girl. That Better Off Dead was about honors to God.
Speaker 1: I have a solution. Are you listening you franchise Obsessed Studios.
Speaker 1: This one is a guinea same lead actor, Hire Savage
Speaker 1: Steve Holland to write and direct a new Hot Tump
Speaker 1: Time Machine starring John Cusack. This will feature Laine Meyer
Speaker 1: going back into Better Off Dead. I not only give
Speaker 1: you this idea for free, I will pay you for
Speaker 1: the final product, probably multiple times. How often do you
Speaker 1: get an offer like that? Who's offering you that get
Speaker 1: out of here? We are getting out of here, Mary
Speaker 1: ex Miss Midnight Viewers. You may now return to your
Speaker 1: Hallmark channels and your rankins on basses. I will leave
Speaker 1: you with this bit of holiday advice. If you watch
Speaker 1: a movie on that holiday, it's now a holiday movie.
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Speaker 1: Special hello to all of our UK listeners. We've had
Speaker 1: an uptick in listenership across the Atlantic. Blackwood, that's in Wales.
Speaker 1: How cold is it in Barnsley right now? I see
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Speaker 1: We rounded it up again and again. I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: you with a few words from Better Off Dead. This
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Speaker 2: Cheer.
Speaker 1: I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.
Speaker 2: Yes you have your.
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Speaker 1: feel I do love someone.
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Speaker 1: So I find it out a way, happy, found out
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