WEBVTT 1 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:41.679 Welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly roundup. I'm 2 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:44.759 Father Malone and as always here with me. My partner 3 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:49.359 in crime is miss Ripley Jean partner in everything. Okay, 4 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.079 I stand corrected, and I stand here saddened. I don't 5 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:55.240 mean to begin the show on a downer, but I 6 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.799 do want to say something about some recent passings. And 7 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.719 I'm not even talking about Dema. This is a canine 8 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:05.120 in Memoriam. Yes, I am tempted to throw that mournful 9 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:07.560 Waif song on here as a joke, but there's no 10 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.040 joking when you lose members of the family fans of 11 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.760 our show. No Chris Statue, his pup, Nibbler, has passed 12 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.359 to the great beyond. I had the distinct pleasure of 13 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:21.400 hanging out with young Nibbler. He was super cool and irreplaceable, 14 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.040 as is mister Puggles, my co host on A Little 15 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.599 Old Lady got mutilated late last night, Paul Waller's longtime 16 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.280 bestist of friends. Mister Puggles is off to terrify another 17 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:36.040 dimension with zoomies and grumbles. I was lucky enough to 18 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.519 meet him once via zoom but anyone who's listened to 19 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.400 Paul's show A Year in Horror has definitely heard mention 20 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.480 of that young gentleman. And all of this is just 21 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.560 more proof that we live in a horrifying and chaotic 22 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.920 universe where joy, actual joy, is the rarest commodity in existence. 23 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.879 I myself have lost a lot of family recently, in 24 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.599 addition to the human members of my Dwindling clan. Over 25 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.239 the past few years, I've said goodbye to mister van Go, 26 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.200 a fine orange tabby that loved to fetch and was 27 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.000 always deeply embarrassed when I caught him sleeping in my bed. 28 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:10.080 Go figure. 29 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:15.000 After van we lost Marbles, Oh Marbles. She was a sphinx, 30 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.479 a mean old sphinx, like a little crone, like a witch, 31 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:23.280 and she fucking hated everyone, and she loved me. She 32 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.919 would dance when she saw me coming, and she had 33 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.599 the weirdest move. She would stretch and reach up with 34 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:32.080 both paws and do this crazy climbing motion on my leg. 35 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:35.919 Climb that tree, I'd shout. And then there was Frankenstein. 36 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.719 Frank was also a sphinx, and with all reference to 37 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:42.280 present company, he is the animal that I vibed with 38 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.840 on a sub atomic level. My introduction to Frankenstein was 39 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.560 I was sitting outside reading a book, and he kept 40 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.960 getting closer, sizing me up, and finally I started reading 41 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.039 to him, and he jumped up next to me and 42 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.759 stretched out, and that was that we were inseparable. I 43 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.960 miss him, I miss all of them every day. Maintaining 44 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:03.240 any kind of mental balance is difficult at the best 45 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.800 of times. I can only imagine what Chris and Paul 46 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:10.599 are experiencing. My sincere condolences. I am not gonna recover 47 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.240 when a certain someone kicks off. I'm not talking about you. 48 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:17.680 I'm talking about Foxy Brown. If you must know, no 49 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.319 one is gonna cry when you. I can't even finish 50 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.280 that fucking sentence. I almost cry trying to think of 51 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.360 a seg way. Now there is none. Okay, Before we 52 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.800 get to today's features, I wanted to introduce a new segment, 53 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:34.199 a seasonal segment. It is the Halloween time now we're 54 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.039 counting down the days. As such, it won't just be 55 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.680 ghosts and goblins that will come scrambling out of the darkness, 56 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.960 so will the Halloween playlists. And they're all garbage, you 57 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.919 know they are. So here's our segment. This is Halloween, 58 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:53.919 every single playlist is gonna have Monster Mash every single one. 59 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.280 When people were just making mixtapes, Monster Mash. Every novelty 60 00:03:58.400 --> 00:03:59.479 vinyl you got around this. 61 00:03:59.520 --> 00:03:59.960 Time of year. 62 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.479 Monster Mash good. It's a fucking classic. 63 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:04.080 Add it. 64 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:07.719 You know Bobby Boris Pickett is from Somerville, Massachusetts. That's 65 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:11.000 the same hometown as my late wife. Add the song 66 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:13.280 I don't care if I just guilted you. If a 67 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:17.639 widower says, add Monster Mash, you add Monster Mash. Ghostbusters 68 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.480 is acceptable, but only just and that's only if it's 69 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.879 the Ray Parker original. If you're getting it from one 70 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:26.040 of those bullshit knockoff artists, cover the Halloween hit CDs, 71 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.839 Your Way Out of Line, Thriller of course, Vincent Price, 72 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.839 and Thoughts of Zombies. Add it the Halloween theme not 73 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:36.879 a novelty song, but it's perfect. Add all the tracks 74 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:40.120 from that soundtrack. That's what the randomizer is for. In 75 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.240 between Ghostbusters and Monster Mash, you should hear the tense 76 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.879 sounds of Lorie Strode realizing she's being followed. In fact, 77 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.000 any torture's horror theme is welcome. Elm Street tales from 78 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.720 the crypt Hell Raiser. All right back to the songs 79 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:58.279 Adam's family theme. Of course, unless there's a hammer involved. 80 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:02.720 Anything from Rocky Horror is acceptable. Don't Fear the Reaper. 81 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.959 Don't add this song. I get it. It's about suicide. 82 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.800 It's featured perfectly in the opening credits for the original 83 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.160 mini series of Stephen King's The Stand. It is, in fact, 84 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.639 the only good part of that entire mini series. And 85 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.519 it's in John Carpenter's Halloween, and it's tired, and all 86 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:23.079 anyone is gonna think about is Will Ferrell's gut rejected 87 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:29.519 Werewolves of London. Yes, bad Moon Arising, Yes, hungry like 88 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.199 the Wolf. No, I've heard it done before. 89 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:32.879 Don't do that. 90 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:36.720 Don't add songs that only have the most vague of connections, 91 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:39.839 just the title Your Bats out of Hell by Meat Loaf, 92 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:44.800 Your Devil Inside by Inexcesses, Your Abracadabras by Your Steve 93 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.360 Miller's ghost Town by the Specials gets a Pass. I 94 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:50.959 know it's about nightclubs getting shut down due to violence, 95 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:54.519 but I don't care. It's atmospheric as fuck. Not getting 96 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.279 the pass though. Zombie by the Cranberrys. They're not talking 97 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:03.000 about Daryl Dixon, They're not talking about Barbara at the 98 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:06.000 beginning of Night of the Living Dead, they're talking about 99 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.800 Northern Irish bloodshed? Did you hear about that car bomb? 100 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:10.279 Oh? 101 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:12.800 And would you save me a snickers? There are songs 102 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.600 that seem like they have obvious connections but have none. 103 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.319 Clap for the Wolfman I hear a lot. That's a 104 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.120 song about Wolfman Jack, who does have ties to the holiday, 105 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.480 but it's also a song about getting your song on 106 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:25.680 DJ Wolfman Jack's radio show. 107 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:26.360 Don't do it. 108 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.120 I know you're all gonna add googu Muck, and that's great. 109 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:32.879 The Cramps is my favorite band of all time, and 110 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:35.920 anything to get their sound out there is a bonus 111 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.639 or a virus. But I'd like to hope you're adding 112 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.279 it because it appeared on the soundtrack to Texas Chainsaw 113 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.800 Massacre two, and not because of that musical number in Wednesday. Also, 114 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.199 listen to me closely. You already heard a snippet of 115 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:54.560 the Only Acceptable song from A Nightmare Before Christmas. Every 116 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.240 other song is about how great Christmas is and how 117 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.519 horrible Halloween is. Think about it and stop at it's 118 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:05.279 a Christmas movie. There is plenty of unexplored Halloween material 119 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:09.000 to choose from. Like what how about k Starr the 120 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:12.199 Headless Horseman. You'll be tempted by the dulcet tones of 121 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:16.000 Bing Crosby's cover, but you must resist. K Star and 122 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.519 her orchestra bring the entire holiday to life, and it's 123 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.000 a classic, and everyone will think you've got taste. 124 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:26.279 When the spooks have a Medna jambree, they break it 125 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:28.439 up with a fiendish. 126 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.759 Clean goals are bad, but the one that's cursed is 127 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.000 the headless Austande's the worst way. 128 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.600 He goes down and across the land. 129 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.759 That oh, it is not an all on his hand, 130 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.120 and demons take one look and grow. 131 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.319 Other classics. I put a spell on you. Nina Simone's version, 132 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.040 Is that sacrilege? No, because screaming Jay Hawkins is better 133 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:56.720 served by little demon. 134 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:58.040 Use that. 135 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.720 Rock the great little demon blowing and stopped fire in 136 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:05.240 his eyes this move from his head. 137 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:07.120 You gotta female cool to hear the. 138 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:12.079 Words not o'b scure enough or too old for you? 139 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:15.120 Too bad because you're also in the screaming neighborhood with 140 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.120 screaming the lord such you can use murder in the 141 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.360 graveyard or Jack the Ripper. It's your choice, but only 142 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.680 a fool would pass up the opportunity to watch an 143 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:28.319 entire crowd of costumed characters twitch involuntarily at the ripper's whistle. 144 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:34.679 With a little black bag. I guess also time. 145 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.799 You gotta have Ghouls Night Out by the Misfits for 146 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.759 the ladies. Also for the ladies. Superstition by Stevie Wonder, 147 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.879 just because anything by Stevie is for the ladies. It's 148 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:59.720 a great song, and it's in the Things. 149 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:09.879 On the Wall. 150 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.039 How about Dead Souls by Joy Division add that, add 151 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.879 anything by She Wants Revenge. Look, I'm gonna throw a 152 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.000 link to my Halloween playlist in the show notes. It's 153 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:23.120 called Gula Rama. But I also want to know what 154 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:24.960 you're listening to as the days grow short and the 155 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.679 shadows grow long. Hit me up with that information and 156 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.360 enjoy my playlist. You know what song is definitely going 157 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.399 to be on there, Lou Reed's Halloween Parade. I find 158 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.480 it to be the most relatable song at this time 159 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:38.840 of year. 160 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:42.440 But there ain't no Harry and no Virgin Marry. You 161 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:47.759 won't hear those voices again, and Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita, 162 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:53.159 you never see those faces again. This Halloween is something 163 00:09:53.240 --> 00:10:02.720 to be sure, especially to be here with them. There's 164 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:05.519 the Born Again Loses and the Lavender Boozes, and some 165 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.240 crack team from Washington Heights, the boys from Avenue B, 166 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.840 the Girls from Avenue D, A Jacobill and Tights. This 167 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:22.039 celebration somehow gets me down, especially when I see you're 168 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:23.080 not around. 169 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:26.000 There's no pet of the. 170 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:28.919 Ship. 171 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:33.320 Thank you, HP. 172 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.360 I'm angling to get Ripley featured on Stupid Petricks, and 173 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.639 Ripley gets her due this week in more ways than one. 174 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.559 I squeezed her out of last week's episode nearly entirely, 175 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:44.080 but I'm doing penance now. 176 00:10:44.639 --> 00:11:36.200 This is good boy. 177 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:40.759 I guess I'm next. 178 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:43.720 I shall never come here. 179 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.919 When I saw the trailer for a horror movie from 180 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:57.159 the family Dog's perspective, I had the same reaction I 181 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.039 had when I saw the trailer for Backdraft. How what 182 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.120 the fuck have we gone this long without somebody making 183 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:06.679 a film? It's so insanely simple? How fucking oblivious are 184 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:11.039 we all? Everyone loves horror, Everyone loves dogs. Although there 185 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.480 is a stumbling block, and if you watch the trailer 186 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.759 and you own a dog, it hit you before the 187 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:19.240 coming soon hit the screen. We love dogs, We want 188 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:21.559 to see dogs in movies, but we don't want to 189 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.399 see dogs in peril, and we definitely don't want to 190 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.679 see them harmed or killed. So the premise of the 191 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.200 film is an intriguing one, but it's also kind of 192 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:30.639 a dare. 193 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:31.679 Well. 194 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.480 Let me assure you, without giving anything away, you can 195 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:38.879 see this movie, but should you. Yes, it's a fucking achievement. 196 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:42.279 Indy the Dog actor who stars in Good Boy, should 197 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.799 have his name added to the pantheon of animal stars 198 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:49.039 beside Benji and Rin Tin Tin and Lassie and Jed 199 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.519 and Darla. If you don't know those last two, welcome 200 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:54.639 to midnight viewing. There's a lot you need to catch 201 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.639 up on. This dog puts in a performance. Maybe it's 202 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.679 the Gary Cooper Steve a Queen kind of performance where 203 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.039 Indy's just be in Indie, But I'd counter that the 204 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.840 dog is way more expressive than either of those actors. 205 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:09.360 The film is nearly silent, and while the narrative is 206 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.600 at times purposely confusing, Indy's place in it and his motivations, 207 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:17.399 never are Indy the dog playing a dog named Indy 208 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:21.000 is in fact director Ben Leonberg's pet, and I can't 209 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:23.519 really envision another scenario where it would have been this 210 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:26.759 effective unless you've trained dog from birth to do everything 211 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.320 in a script. So the story is Indie's owner, Shane, 212 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.360 has a terminal illness, though it seems to be in remission. Shane, 213 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.080 after his last hospital stay, has chosen to aescu city 214 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.519 life and take up residence in his grandfather's secluded cabin 215 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:44.080 in the woods. The electricity is shoddy, the weather is terrible, 216 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.360 Shane is frequently in the grips of a nostalgic reverie 217 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.440 or something much worse, and the sounds from the basement 218 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.399 are nothing less than disturbing, and Indy has to deal 219 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:57.360 with all of it. There are scarce scenes that are 220 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.320 super effective in this flick, and overall it's a beauty 221 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:02.600 rendered film. You get used to the fact that our 222 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:04.639 point of view is no higher than three feet off 223 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.799 the ground for the entire film really quickly, as you 224 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.919 do the fact that every human is basically just a 225 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:13.519 set of legs or a silhouette. The atmosphere is killer, 226 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:18.519 and there are moments of genuine shock, and yet something 227 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:23.320 just doesn't quite hang. Everything individually is working like Gangbusters, 228 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.919 but as a whole it feels oddly disjointed. Those scare 229 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.759 scenes that I mentioned as effective. They start out with 230 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.240 slow and quiet setups with mounting dread, and at the 231 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.679 end there's a good jump scare. But somewhere between setup 232 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:40.120 and payoff there's always an odd disconnect. It may be 233 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:43.360 the filmmaker working against that central problem we don't want 234 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:47.000 to see in any peril or panic, but somehow he's overcorrected, 235 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:50.519 because as good as any individual scare or scene happens 236 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:52.960 to be, you never get the sense that the dog 237 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.080 is going to come to harm, and the film ultimately 238 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.559 makes the same fucking choice that nearly every horror movie 239 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:04.399 has been made lately. Horror is grief everybody in any event, 240 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.559 you need to go see Good Boy. It's in the 241 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.480 theaters now. It deserves your money. I don't know how 242 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.679 the filmmaker is gonna follow this up with something else, 243 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:13.840 unless he's been making something with another pet of his 244 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:14.879 for the past few years. 245 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.440 But Good Boy is it worth a look? 246 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:20.519 All right, programs, let's talk tron. 247 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:29.960 Since time began, man has gazed at the stars, and 248 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:42.120 he has wondered, am I alone? So much talk of 249 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:46.639 AI and big tech today, virtual world? 250 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:52.519 What are they gonna look like when we get there. Well, folks, 251 00:15:53.440 --> 00:16:00.840 we're not going there. They are coming here. I would 252 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:08.120 like you to meet Aris, the Ultimate Soldier. He's biblically strong, 253 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:16.200 lightning fast, supremely intelligent, and if he is struck down 254 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:23.039 on the battlefield, I will simply make you another. 255 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:33.159 You think you're in control of this, You're. 256 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:49.679 Not what I am. 257 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:58.440 I'm looking for something, something I do not understand. 258 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:11.079 Hang on, malfunctioning program? 259 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:17.519 Who wants to live? Why is that? It's just a. 260 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:46.920 Fascinating I've now seen every iteration in the theater. I 261 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.599 remember when the first film was released and asking my 262 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.119 cousin Bruce what Tron meant. I was nine. He said, 263 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.680 it's a nickname. His real name is Electronics. And on 264 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.680 some level I still believe that to be true. Okay, 265 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.960 the groundbreaking first film that nobody went to but is 266 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.119 the definition of not just a cult hit, but a 267 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.440 wildly influential one. I figure you know the story and 268 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.119 the story of its sequel from twenty years later now 269 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:14.200 fifteen years ago. But there is one thing I did 270 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.400 want to touch on about those previous films. The first 271 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:21.119 film's world was the game Grid, and that was created 272 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:25.559 and controlled by the MCP through Encom. The second film 273 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.039 does not take place in that world. The second film 274 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:31.279 is The Grid, and that was constructed by Flynn Kevin 275 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:35.400 Flynn's program Clue, also at Encom. The new film, tron 276 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:38.720 Ares takes place in neither of those. This one is 277 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.799 a whole new grid under the control of the Dellinger Corporation. 278 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:45.279 Thus everything is red and not blue or white. That's 279 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.920 David Dellinger's grandson running the show these days, so Dellinger 280 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.680 and by extension, Sark and by extension, the MCP itself 281 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:54.640 was played by David Warner. His grandson was hinted at 282 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.920 in tron Legacy, with Killian Murphy playing the role. This 283 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:01.240 film has Evan Peters from America Horror Story step into 284 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:04.240 the part instead. Something tells me that Killian Murphy wouldn't 285 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.960 have been quite so apoplectic in his portrayal. I'm not 286 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.599 saying Peters as bad. I love him, and I'm still 287 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.880 holding out for a James Cagney biopic starring him. It's 288 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.000 just that he does a lot of screaming. This is 289 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:17.359 a sequel, not a reboot. The first film ended with 290 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.039 Flynn brought back to the world and taking over Encom. 291 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:22.400 The sequel ends with Flynn merging with the Grid to 292 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:25.799 allow his son Sam and newly created organism Cora to 293 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.720 get out and into our world, where they've both disappeared 294 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:34.000 entirely so. Tron Legacy began with Flynn's son, inheritor of Encom, 295 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.240 who's always searching for his dad, doing some mad tech, 296 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.880 and then base jumping off a skyscraper. Tron Aries begins 297 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:44.359 with Eve Kim played by Greta Lee, who's inherited Encom 298 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:46.960 from her sister who's gone missing. By that, I mean 299 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.359 she's dead, but if there's a sequel, I bet we're 300 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:51.519 going to get a digital version of her. We meet 301 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.920 Eve snowmobiling down a treacherous mountain peak before engaging in 302 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.079 some mad tech and solving the film's central problem. A 303 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.440 little dramatic mirroring is fun at all, but the last 304 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.160 movie didn't exactly have a coherent plot line, so maybe 305 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:08.279 don't do that. That central problem is that both Encom 306 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:10.960 and Dellinger Corps are in an arms race for the 307 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.960 Permanence Code. Instead of sending humans into the computer, they're 308 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.279 pulling programs into our world, but they only last twenty 309 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.000 nine minutes. Before derezing. It makes sense for the company 310 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:24.799 to be offering on demand weapons and soldiers to man them. 311 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.359 From a storyline point of view, It's just that I 312 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:29.119 don't give a shit to see them here. I know 313 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.240 I've mentioned this before, but this is an Adams family situation. 314 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:35.160 Wouldn't it be a who to see Gomez buying lettuce? 315 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:35.559 No? 316 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:39.440 Not really, I live in this stupid world. I came 317 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:42.559 to a movie theater to see the grid, the light cycles, 318 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:46.160 the bizarre high line matches, guards that look like they've 319 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.440 been dressed from a sporting good section of an O'Reilly 320 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:51.839 auto parts Alarm bells went off in tron ares from 321 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:56.519 the opening moments for me, a full two minute recap 322 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.079 of the previous films, the players, their places, or lack 323 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:02.880 thereof in the coming narrative. It might as well have 324 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:06.000 been a Star Wars opening kroll for how clumsy it 325 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:09.400 all was. And then the score kicked in and the 326 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.880 film began, and I was hooked. God damn it. I've 327 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.720 said previously, if there's any one thing that's unassailable across 328 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:19.920 this franchise, it's the soundtrack. Each one is so goddamn 329 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:23.200 perfectly attuned to the visuals. This is no exception. This 330 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.480 isn't a Trent resnor Aticus Ross soundtrack. It's nine inch 331 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:29.440 nails and honestly, I can't think of the last time 332 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:32.119 that the score was not only doing as much heavy 333 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:37.000 lifting to create mood and atmosphere, but was actually succeeding 334 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:40.680 like this one does. This soundtrack was a marvel. It 335 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.759 made action more breathless, emotions more deeply felt, and it 336 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:49.440 added this indefinable gravitas to the whole thing. Side note, 337 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:52.079 Ross and Resner, like Daft Punk before them, show up 338 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:54.680 in the film Daft Punk where DJs at a club, 339 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:57.839 Ross and Resner are fighter pilots trying to take down 340 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:01.359 a recognizer. It helps that the whole thing is gorgeously shot. 341 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:04.039 Every scene you can tell has been lavished with attention 342 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:06.440 and care. That shouldn't be a point of discussion with 343 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:09.079 a one hundred and eighty million dollar feature, but even 344 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:12.319 that isn't assured in the current Hollywood landscape. The action 345 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.640 is superlative here, that's hand to hand as well as vehicular. 346 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:17.799 I think the action here is actually stronger than it 347 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:22.279 was in Superman. Now let's talk aries aries. The Ultimate 348 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:25.799 Grid Warrior designed by Dellinger to not only be his 349 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:30.480 standard bearer, but Aries is also the new MCP, although 350 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:33.680 with rolls slightly reversed. In the first film, Sark and 351 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.359 a Dellinger answered to the MCP. Here the MCP answers 352 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.400 to Dellinger and he can deres them in either world. 353 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:46.000 Aries is basically Tron, the character Tron, if Tron had 354 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:48.079 started out with a head full of bad wiring and 355 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.000 eventually had to start making moral decisions and become the 356 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:54.519 blue boy scout we barely know and barely love. Isn't 357 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:56.880 it hilarious that this whole film series is called Tron 358 00:22:57.079 --> 00:22:59.000 and he's only kind of in the first film and 359 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:01.640 virtually not the second, and he is not at all 360 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:05.839 in Aries anyway, Aries himself is kind of a fascinating character, 361 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:08.079 and you're on the journey with him from the moment 362 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:10.759 we meet him, because he is too He begins questioning 363 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:15.599 his programming nearly immediately, and always without lines of dialogue. 364 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.160 I don't know what your opinion of Jared Lado is. 365 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:20.359 All I hear is hate for him. 366 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:20.960 Lately. 367 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:24.079 It's of the he's a creeper variety. I don't care, 368 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:26.839 because that's just the latest angle of hatred towards him. 369 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:29.319 I get it, he's a pretty boy who rocketed to 370 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.240 acting fame and then he decided to be a rock star, 371 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:35.160 and he succeeded at that too. But I have never 372 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:36.839 seen a bad performance from him. 373 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:40.039 But the joker, Shut the fuck up. That was thug 374 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:40.680 a joker. 375 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:42.920 He may not be to your liking, he wasn't to 376 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:45.440 my liking, but it was a committed performance, and a 377 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:46.400 fucking good one at that. 378 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:48.079 I believed him. 379 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.519 I always believe him, from Jordan Catalano right up to Ares, 380 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:55.039 and his performance here is the cleanest I think I've 381 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:58.640 seen from him. No tics, no actorly bullshit, just a 382 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:02.599 confused character trying not only to understand his own agency, 383 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.279 but a place in one of two worlds where one 384 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:07.680 of them is hunting him down and the other one 385 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:10.720 he can only exist in for no longer than thirty minutes. 386 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.000 It's a cool story, and unlike the last film, you 387 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:16.759 don't have to stare at CGI Jeff Bridges with such 388 00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:19.640 a detached horror that you have no idea what any 389 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:22.279 of the scenes he's in are actually about. And I 390 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:24.519 want to point out one sequence in particular. You know 391 00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:27.240 how every film's attempt for the past forty years to 392 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:31.480 visualize cyberspace has been laughably terrible. Is this a spinning 393 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:35.200 information cube? I see before me? It's handle turned toward 394 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:40.839 my obscenely pixeled cursor. Lawnmower man hackers, you remember, well, 395 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:43.119 they give us a scene where Dellinger hacks into the 396 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.759 Ncom mainframe. It's Aris in his team on a mission 397 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:50.440 impossible style sequence, and it's fucking great. Special shout out 398 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:54.440 to Jody Turner Smith as Athena. She's Airy's right hand 399 00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:57.119 and eventual arrival. I remember her as one of the 400 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:00.200 best things from the Nightflyer series from twenty eighteen. 401 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:02.640