WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:05.599 Weird wad. 2 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.920 Welcome MAC midnight viewers to find them Alone's weekly round up. 3 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:02.679 Wipe away those cobwebs, dust off those post Halloween blues. 4 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:05.680 It's a new week and it needs a rounding up, 5 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:07.879 and I've got the perfect co host to do just that. 6 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:11.159 She tried to steal all my candy. Damn right, I 7 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.280 foiled you. There's tricks and then there's capital offenses. Don't 8 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.680 steal candy candy. People are nice, ask we'll share. Yes, 9 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.640 sharing the hosting duties with me is the delightful missus 10 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:27.519 ripley jeans. Okay, I know I've been going first a 11 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:36.959 lot lately. Jesus you her hp K, Thank you hp 12 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:42.680 You are a much lovelier guest than Harvey Peacar, Harvey 13 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:47.480 peak Car. What's your guy going on? Dog? That should 14 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.519 help ease us out of the all hallows with drolls. Finally, 15 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.079 time to talk the MCU here on the round up. Now, 16 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:58.599 if you listen with any regularity to Anthology's attack, you'll 17 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.159 know I am a big old comic book fiend from 18 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.680 back in the day the seventies. Y'all. You could buy 19 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.480 stacks of old comics at any shop. Random titles from 20 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:11.080 random characters, completely out of sequence, if you were lucky 21 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.680 to get any consecutive issues of anything. The regular titles 22 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:17.400 were still being pumped out regularly, but there was forty 23 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:20.280 years of accumulation of comic books that most people thought 24 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:22.879 were worthless. I didn't care about the condition of the 25 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:26.759 book or the genre. It was all sustenance. But the 26 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:29.319 older I got, the more refined my palette. And while 27 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.639 I still read a lot of Batman Captain America, as 28 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:33.840 the years went on, the comics I was reading had 29 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.639 very little to do with traditional superherism. My guys were 30 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.199 John Constantine, though the comic He Sprang from Swamp Thing 31 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:45.000 is my true blue favorite over there at Detective Comics. 32 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:47.960 But at Marvel, oh baby. Ever since the dit code 33 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.639 nominated sixties, Marvel had a weird tributary branching off from 34 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:57.039 the usual fair First and foremost, they have Ghostwriter. Oh yes, 35 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.319 and they also have Blade, who first appeared in Tomb 36 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:03.199 of Dracula. I have that issue framed on my wall. 37 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.879 But you heard right, Dracula had his own series. Actually 38 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.199 he had a few series. Not to mention Morbius, I 39 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:12.120 know it was a terrible movie, but the point being 40 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.479 there were two vampires with their own titles. Doctor Strange 41 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.960 obviously spent some time in the underworld, and they've got 42 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:22.400 Mephisto and Man Thing and Monster of Frankenstein. You have 43 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:26.319 superhero fatigue. Fuck you. I have been waiting for the 44 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:31.199 supernatural this whole time. Finally, finally we got were Wolf 45 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:33.719 by Night, which, if you've only seen that horrible black 46 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.000 and white version, they released it the last second, I'm 47 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.039 assuming because they were in a slump and didn't want 48 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.199 this to be another wrung down the ladder, so they 49 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.599 tried to play up the campier aspects of the story. 50 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.360 Watch it in color. It is remarkably better. I mean 51 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:48.840 it shouldn't be, except, of course, it was conceived of 52 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:50.960 and shot to be a color film. What is this 53 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:54.360 trend about desaturating film down to black and white? It's 54 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.759 always forced and always a gimmick. But before we got 55 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.599 to an honest to god were Wolf and proper monsters 56 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.520 and monster hunters in the Marvel universe, Wanda Vision introduced 57 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:08.479 us again finally to the use of magic in Wanda's arsenal. 58 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.080 She started out a mutant, which she always was, but 59 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.280 Wanda is so pale a character when you snack her 60 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.600 up against the Scarlet Witch. The standout of that show 61 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.480 was its antagonist, although really Wanda was the hero and 62 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:23.360 the villain, a little known and seldom front and center 63 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.279 character that debuted back in nineteen sixty nine in a 64 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.279 run of Fantastic Four of All Titles. She was a 65 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.680 governess to Sue Storm and read Richard's kid Franklin. Her 66 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:38.439 name is Agatha Harkness, and this is Agatha all along, Nagatha. 67 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:53.560 Everything, the covernless Witch. Agatha No, what really happened to you? 68 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:03.160 Seekest tho the road to all that's fall and face. 69 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.279 She took every little bit of power I had. 70 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.160 Gathers sisters, fun, I'm something a covered water. 71 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:13.839 We gotta get back on top. 72 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:16.360 I'm gonna walk the road. 73 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.720 Join me, dok you so wake? 74 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:22.439 Thy power of. 75 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.279 The Witch's road will give you the thing you want 76 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.120 most if you make it to the end of the cover. 77 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.360 The road is a death wish shine. 78 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:39.360 Heard you guys were having a party? 79 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:45.639 Hey, shall I down? 80 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:53.360 It will test us wit and our knowledge of the craft. 81 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:58.839 We don't even know what we're up against. Our worst nightmares. 82 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:01.879 How do we have this trial without any power? 83 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:10.959 We survive like witches have been doing for centuries. What 84 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:12.079 happens next? 85 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.480 I just need these witches to give me to the end. 86 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.120 The bodies are really piling up. 87 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:31.879 Why do you let them believe those things about you? 88 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.240 Because the truth is too awful. 89 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.319 Time to finish the road, last one. There is a 90 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:47.519 nice person. 91 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:51.360 Follow me, my friends too. 92 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.600 This is Thede, the Witch's road that Marvel needs to 93 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:06.519 be following. Stop trying to replace your heroes with similar heroes. 94 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.319 There are other genres, and horror being the best of 95 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:12.560 them means that that's the way they should be. Headache, 96 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:16.040 see I don't care, it's my podcast. WandaVision left Agatha 97 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.720 powerless and banished, ultimately another of the Scarlet Witch's victim. Here, 98 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.240 she's pulled back to the world of reality and lack 99 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:24.399 thereof by a young man who needs to find the 100 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.519 Witch's Road, a path made famous through song, and the 101 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.519 song is good. It's gonna get stuck in your head. 102 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.279 The young man is referred to as the Team throughout 103 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:37.519 the entire series. Any attempts to speak his name becomes 104 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:41.199 scrambled by magic, keeping his secret throughout. It's kind of 105 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.040 like kill Bill, Remember and Kill Bill. Anytime the bride 106 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.160 said her name, they'd throw up a censor bar and 107 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:48.759 have this horrible bleeping sound, and then you find out 108 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:51.199 her name is Beatrix Kiddo, and who the fuck cares 109 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.639 because it has no impact on anything else in those 110 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.879 and those films useless, and as we know, nothing useless 111 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:00.759 can be truly beautiful. It's a lot more purposeful here, 112 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:04.519 and it actually serves the story, the story concerning Agatha 113 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.560 assembling a coven and taking to the Witch's Road in 114 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.959 an attempt to regain her powers. It's very Wizard of Oz, 115 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:15.040 which they actually play with here pretty delightfully. Speaking of delights, 116 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:19.240 the entirety of this fucking cast, Catherine Hahn is worth 117 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:23.680 her weight in Disney Stock. She absolutely destroys in anything 118 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:26.759 she's in. Here's some extra credit homework for you. Check 119 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:30.399 out Parks and rec season four campaign Shakeup. That's her 120 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.120 first appearance as Jennifer Barclay. She'd end up doing ten 121 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:36.879 episodes and they're all fucking killer. As a contrast, check 122 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:39.799 out her performance in A Revolutionary Road from two thousand 123 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.559 and eight. That's the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. 124 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.039 It's a romantic follow up to Titanic. No, it really isn't, 125 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:53.200 but Catherine Han is fantastic here, probing so much heart 126 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:55.480 out of a heartless character, and they keep her as 127 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.759 heartless as when we left her, which is refreshing. I'm 128 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.639 gonna withhold my waterfall of praise for Patty Lapone when 129 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.480 we cover Penny Dreadful. Deborah Joe, repped from that seventy show, 130 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.360 does her usual solid work. Ali On shows up as 131 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.919 Alice Wu Gulliver, who feels like an original character but 132 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.960 actually debuted back in twenty seventeen in Doctor Strange. She's 133 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.000 known as the Wu Usually. The standout I want to 134 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.399 say is Ombrey Plaza. She is consistently surprising with her 135 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:24.600 range and depth of characterizations, and there are scenes in 136 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.240 this series where Plaza, a character even darker than Agatha, 137 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:32.840 absolutely broke my heart. I wanted to say she's the standout, 138 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.960 but that title goes to ssher Za Meta. She was 139 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:38.600 on SNL for four seasons where they never managed to 140 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.399 lean into her strengths. At the time, I thought that 141 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.799 strength was comedy, but after this it's pretty much everything. 142 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:48.399 Where's her show? She deserves one, and she easily gives 143 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:51.200 everyone a run for their money here. The time spent 144 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.200 on the road is tremendous. It's like a glossy hammer 145 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.120 horror film interior for exterior, and it fucking works. But 146 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.919 nearly everything here does. First and foremost is its adherence 147 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.039 to the occult a horror television show that loves horror, 148 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.519 how novel, and it actually scared me. It was a 149 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:11.519 jump scare, which ordinarily I would dismiss, but filmmakers have 150 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:13.759 been playing with jump scare dynamics for the past twenty 151 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.080 five years or so, all massive attempts at misdirect, so 152 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.679 much so that they telegraph the scare as obviously as 153 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.399 the ones they're trying to replace. So when a jump 154 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:25.159 scare does work, I gotta give it credit. Oh In, 155 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.840 the Salem's Seven make their flesh and Blood first appearance 156 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:32.799 here on film. They're a group of villains created by Lenuen, 157 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:36.799 co creator of Swamp Thing. They're a decent and dreadful 158 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.840 menace here, and I'd like to see way more of them. 159 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.639 Your opinion may vary on the current state of the MCU, 160 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:45.120 but Agatha all along is a great step in the 161 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.440 right direction. Can we get the Midnight suns up in 162 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.200 active already. Oh you know what here, I'm going to 163 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:52.919 weigh in on Blade where I think they're going to 164 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.279 go with Blade. Whenever they get to that battle World 165 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.720 plot line, we are not going to get a standalone 166 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:00.000 Blade movie. He's going to appear in a big old 167 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:03.080 Avengers movie, and when we get them, it's gonna be 168 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.279 Wesley Snipes again. After that, we'll get a standalone Blade 169 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.320 film with our new Blade. Hopefully they're writing that script 170 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:14.480 right now, right now for us start paate years in 171 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.320 the future. Think of how polished it could be. Think 172 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:20.320 of all the weird references and other non starter properties 173 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.720 you could layer in. Excellent choice, Mike ca nine Companion. 174 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.080 I mean, we want nine straight hours of it, so 175 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:27.840 I can't imagine you're choosing anything else. 176 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:28.399 Me. 177 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.080 Well, i'll tell you. Agatha got me thinking about other 178 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.240 comic book adaptations that might make one say I was 179 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.759 a comic book. So in that vein here's ghost World. 180 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.200 What do you think you're doing? A noise rock and 181 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.240 roll baby? Freedom of speech, that kid rule. 182 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:54.639 They can't believe we made it. 183 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.799 We graduated high school. How totally amazing. I can't help 184 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.200 but feel I had some small part how you turned out. 185 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.679 Sometimes I think I might be going crazy from sexual frustration. 186 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:12.480 You just hate every single guy in the face of 187 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:13.759 the earth. That's not true. 188 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.879 I just hate all these extroverted, pseudo bohemian losers. You 189 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:23.120 guys up for some reggae tonight? Do you have any 190 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:24.399 other old records besides these? 191 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:27.639 Who does him? He's the man with the records? 192 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:32.600 What are we in slow motion here? 193 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:34.960 What are you hypnotized? That's some more kids? 194 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:41.200 Why don't you John who? Gina hasan who? I'm allowed 195 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.120 to place one student from your graduating class for a 196 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.960 full one year scholarship, and I took the liberty of 197 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:47.960 submitting your name. 198 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.960 This could be a really great thing for you. Would 199 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:55.960 I have to take classes and stuff? Well, I'm just 200 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:57.720 not the kind of guy who has a type. 201 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.200 Every guy has a type. 202 00:12:59.320 --> 00:12:59.919 What about her? 203 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.320 Who would you grow up with her? 204 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:02.879 As small as she's breathing? 205 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:08.600 Hey? 206 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.320 Hey, you? How many times I tell you? No? Shut 207 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:13.879 those ups? Get the head out of my store? What 208 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:17.000 do you think this is? Commed? American? Dude? Learn the rules, 209 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:19.279 loosen up? 210 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:20.519 Heard the music? 211 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:32.440 Ghost World the Underground comic book comes to life. We 212 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:33.159 have to get together. 213 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.039 This summer. Yeah, that'll definitely happen. 214 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:39.799 Written by Daniel Klaus and Terry's wy Goth. Directed by 215 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.399 Terry's wyg Goth. Deserve beer any alcohol. 216 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.320 After about five minutes of this movie, you're gonna wish 217 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.600 she had ten beers. Ever see a film with a 218 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:53.480 character you relate to a little too much? Now take 219 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:55.799 that movie jump ahead a quarter of a century, and 220 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.200 now you relate way too much to another character. That's 221 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:02.080 ghost World for me. The film is loosely based on 222 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.600 the Wildly Inventive in Wildly Indie eight Ball comics by 223 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.159 Daniel Klaus. The plot for the film what Plot, Who Cares. 224 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:12.840 The movie chronicles the adventures of Enid Coleslaw played by 225 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.919 Thora Birch, and her best friend Rebecca played by Scarlett 226 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:21.480 Johansson Johnson Joe Hanson. I get conflicting accounts as they 227 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.039 graduate high school and are faced with the onrush of 228 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.120 adulthood and responsibility. All set in the netherworld of every 229 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:32.600 town America. A horizon crisscrossed with telephone and power lines, 230 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:36.960 televisions flickering from every home and apartment window, and there 231 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.679 are strip malls as far as the eye can see. 232 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.519 This is the first feature film from Terry Zwygoff, who 233 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:47.480 previously had only ever directed one documentary. Sure the documentary 234 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:51.320 was the fucking masterpiece Crumb, about famed underground comics hero 235 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:54.720 R Crumb. Hey remember in Return of the Jedi, Jaba 236 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.480 had that little hairless bird demon that cackled at everyone. 237 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.639 That character's name was Salacious B. Kram, after Robert Crumb. 238 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.039 On the surface, it seems appropriate given the ogling of 239 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.960 Princess Leah, but really, if you know the man's work, 240 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:11.440 you know she was not his type at all. Anyway, 241 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.320 zwygov makes every wrong step as a filmmaker if you're 242 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:19.039 a studio exec. No stars, no plot, no early two 243 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.039 thousands strung together collection of songs shout out as a soundtrack. 244 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:26.320 The lead character's choices are painful and at times make 245 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.480 you question their viability as a human, never mind a protagonist. 246 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:34.039 Oh and the detachment and melancholy right down to the 247 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:39.399 lilting spare piano score. It's also very, very funny, hilarious 248 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.279 in places. Klaus and Swagoff Pepper the frame with the 249 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:45.960 greatest collection of oddballs and weirdos since well Crumb. Honestly, 250 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.720 there are characters who have maybe two minutes of screen 251 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.120 time without any dialogue that I remember more vividly than 252 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:55.720 anyone in the latest Joker movie. Incidentally, did you see 253 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:59.679 Quentin Tarantino crowing that that's a masterpiece? Okay, Quenton, you're 254 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:04.720 still edgy, irrelevant? We get it. I mentioned Birch and Johansen, 255 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.840 but this is the indiest of indie films, so naturally 256 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.960 it's also got Steve buscemi Ileana Douglas, Bob Balaban, and 257 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:15.720 in an uncredited cameo, the Late and Aluminous Miss Terry 258 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:20.559 Gar Klaus and Zwagoff would collaborate again on Art School Confidential, 259 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.919 which we'll probably cover at some point. That was an 260 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.480 original screenplay, though not based on a comic, so it 261 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.559 doesn't qualify for tonight's show. Zwygoff is one of the 262 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:32.159 cheap Suit Serenaders. That's our Crumb and the Cheapsuit Serenaders, 263 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.080 a jazz combo that plays music from the twenties and thirties. 264 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.399 As such, we get a lot of jazz and blues 265 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.639 in the film, including the absolutely haunting Devil Got My 266 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:42.960 Woman by Skip James. 267 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.279 Here Go. 268 00:16:49.879 --> 00:17:08.880 Go Game. The soundtrack overall is spectacular, including the opening number. 269 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.680 That was John Pei Chanho from the absolutely bonkers Indian 270 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.119 film Gum Nam. You heard it in the trailer. I 271 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:17.480 do want to point out that the lovely Olivia Jean 272 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.039 did an incredible cover of it on her night owl LP. Yeah, 273 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:24.960 Olivia Jean exactly like Ripley, gene your name for her, 274 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.319 you know, because she's fucking awesome and you're fucking awesome. Oh, 275 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.519 we finally agree on something, ghost World from two thousand 276 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.319 and one. You'll immediately take to it or you will 277 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:36.640 fucking hate it. Seems to be the way of things. 278 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.759 But as one final enticement, it's one of my favorite 279 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:43.359 endings of any film ever. All right, now, this was 280 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.119 supposed to be the segment where we talked about Robert 281 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:50.119 Semechis's new film here starring Tom Hanks. You know that 282 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:53.319 gimmicky lockdown camera and we have to endure a family 283 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.079 as they get old and die. Barring the quality, it 284 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:58.799 is an unusual premise for a film, but even more 285 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.640 so for a comic book. That's where that one came from. 286 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:04.079 But I couldn't slep my weight to the cinema this weekend, 287 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:07.640 so instead I have a different oddball comic book adaptation 288 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:10.200 also starring Tom Hanks. 289 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:14.839 Peter, I can't come to your concert tonight if I'm working. 290 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:25.279 What what's Papa's job? He works for. 291 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:28.440 Mister Rooney, who's got a hug for a lonely old man. 292 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:34.039 Papa didn't have a father, so mister Rooney looked after him. 293 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:38.119 You rule this town is God rules yours. I love 294 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:44.799 mister Rooney. We had nothing. He gave us a home. 295 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:51.279 He goes on missions for mister Rooney. Take enough, Paul, 296 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:55.279 take Mike with you. They're very dangerous. 297 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:01.519 That's why he brings his gun to wonder. 298 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:08.680 How are your dream You sell everything? Can you keep 299 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:09.160 a secret? 300 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:14.880 He's my son, a man of honor, always keeps his word. 301 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:19.079 I go tomorrow when they find out where God, they're 302 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:19.880 gonna come after us. 303 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:27.759 I have to protect you now. I'd like to apologize, 304 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:28.640 especially to you. 305 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:34.559 You would like to apologize. Sons are put on this 306 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:39.200 earth to trouble their fathers. Natural. Uh, you gotta take 307 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:42.119 him now. I know what to call. There's a guy 308 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:44.880 who's done some more for us in the past. To 309 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:47.519 be paid to do what you love and at the 310 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:51.400 dream get out? Can I quite you band him? At 311 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:52.279 the same time. 312 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.359 Why did they dream myself? Far us? 313 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:00.079 What for this happened? Was not your fault? Won't an? 314 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:08.960 Now was a little boy? What are you gonna do? 315 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:12.319 Just one last thing? And then it's. 316 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:16.240 Done with that? 317 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:17.319 For the tract mind. 318 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:36.640 We need it? Oh yeah, yeah, wed it. This is 319 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.440 the life we chose, the life we lead, and there 320 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:43.319 is only one guarantee, none of us you'll see heaven. 321 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:49.920 Michael Cutton Road to Perdition, the gangster movie. That was 322 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:52.880 a comic book, you goddamn right, and a really good 323 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:55.920 one by Max Allan Collins. Not only that, it's got 324 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.599 Daniel Craig and Stanley Tucci and Tyler Hawklin and Jennifer 325 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.759 Jason and Paul fucking Newman. And Sam mendes is behind 326 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.559 the camera. Actually it's the phenomenal Conrad Hall behind the camera, 327 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:09.839 who'd win an Academy Award for his work here. But 328 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:14.359 Sam Mendy's is directing. You can't lose. It's too much talent. 329 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:18.480 The source material is too good. I didn't like this movie. 330 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.079 Hanks is miscast. He's great as your friend and neighbor. 331 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.599 I believe him in a villainous role. But this guy, no, 332 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:29.960 not Midwest contract killer Michael Sullivan shortened from Osullivan in 333 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.759 the book for no particular purpose. Sullivan works for the 334 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:35.240 Looney crime family, and when his son witnesses some of 335 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:39.640 the family's activities, the entire Sullivan family is marked for execution. 336 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:44.960 Solid premise, but for some reason the film just lacks momentum, 337 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:47.680 which is odd because it's an on the lamb trying 338 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:51.480 to evade capture story. It ought to be crackling along. Instead, 339 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:53.920 it just kind of limps. It's like Sam Mendy's was 340 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:57.640 afraid to spoil the overall sense of seriousness. These are 341 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:02.200 serious men engaged in see is business. I wasn't expecting 342 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:05.359 the untouchables, but would a few breathless action moments hurt? 343 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.640 In the book, the relationship between O'Sullivan and his wife 344 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:11.279 Annie and their children is a sweet one that ends 345 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:14.839 in unexpected tragedy. In the film, Annie might as well 346 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:18.160 be wearing a sign that says put bullets here. The 347 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:22.559 book like its inspiration the famed Japanese series Lone Wolf 348 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:25.599 and Cub which was also the inspiration for the Mandalorians. 349 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:29.200 But you know that, nerds, that's about the relationship between 350 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:31.759 father and son more than it is a revenge tale. 351 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:34.799 The film, however, is a slow grind toward an eye 352 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:38.279 for an eye for an eye justice. Unfortunately, it doesn't 353 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.480 have one new thing to bring to the table in 354 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:45.680 its execution. Wait not true. Along the way, it does 355 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.400 manage to come up with one innovation. A character created 356 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:52.680 for the film, McGuire played by Jude Law. Oh how 357 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:56.960 I love maguire like a grubby, psychotic Luigi, a freelance 358 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.119 killer who shoots crime scene photos as his day job. 359 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:04.240 A truly grotesque and disturbing individual. You can imagine him 360 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:07.640 and Anton Shaguraz buddies. He's put on Sullivan's trail by 361 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:10.400 Paul Newman, eventually catching up to him at a diner 362 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:13.000 in the middle of the night, and it is everything 363 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:15.759 I hoped the rest of the movie would be. Nobody 364 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.039 cares if a screenwriter alters a book for the better, 365 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.200 And this is the best scene in the film, Hanks 366 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:26.079 in Law having a quiet conversation about nonsense, both fully 367 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:29.519 aware of who the other is while they maintain their facades. 368 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.359 Listen to the disdain and admiration in Law's voice as 369 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:35.599 he takes stock of Sullivan's lives. 370 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:42.000 To be paid to do what you'll love that the dream. 371 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:51.759 I guess so yourself. You Selman, machine parts, machine parts. 372 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:54.599 That's wonderful. 373 00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:57.680 No, that's wonderful. If it had been a two hour 374 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:00.440 movie of Sullivan and Maguire sizing each other up and 375 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:02.480 trying to get the upper hand while they're sitting in 376 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:05.960 a diner, I would have been down. It's that good. 377 00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:08.559 I mentioned DP Conrad Hall, so you know. The whole 378 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.799 thing looks beautiful, as do the locations and sets and 379 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.200 props and costumes. It's gorgeous. It's just too busy being 380 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.000 an important movie to deliver in an entertaining movie. The 381 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:20.319 book is about breaking the cycle of violence in this 382 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:23.119 family's life, maybe about breaking the cycle of violence in 383 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.440 everyday life. It's open to interpretation, but the ending feels inevitable, 384 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:30.599 as any great work should. The film also has the 385 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.799 sense of inevitable, but not because there's no other way 386 00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:35.200 the story could have ended. It's more of a shrugging, 387 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:38.920 well let's get this overworth kind of inevitability. Not a 388 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:42.039 great place to present your film from. But what do 389 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:44.079 I know. I'm just a fake Irish priest who talks 390 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:47.400 to his dog all day. The fact that I understand 391 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:49.960 your replies has no bearing on my credentials. If anything, 392 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:53.039 it makes them worse. Anyway, thank you once again, midnight 393 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:55.440 viewers for joining us here. Tune in at the end 394 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:57.240 of the week. We're going to be diving back into 395 00:24:57.279 --> 00:24:59.480 the dark Side. That's Tales from the dark Side. We're 396 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:01.920 taking a look at Comet Watch and a Dream Girl. 397 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:05.680 That's a good episode of Midnight Viewing. I'm not vouching 398 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:08.720 for the quality of the material reviewed. All I'm saying 399 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.599 if you want to get in touch with me fatherm 400 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:13.039 Alone seven to one at gmail dot com. If you 401 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.400