Speaker 1: Okay, So if you listen to the Toy Story five episode,
Speaker 1: you'll already know that this is an extra episode this week.
Speaker 1: It's not a bonus because it should have come out
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. It is the summer. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of movies coming out. There's a new movie every
Speaker 1: single week. I have to stay on top of it.
Speaker 1: I left town. I did not do my due diligence.
Speaker 1: But I'm on it now, which means this week you
Speaker 1: get two episodes. Next week you get two episodes. It's
Speaker 1: possible that it will happen again later in the summer,
Speaker 1: but not because I'm behind. Because there are just so
Speaker 1: many movies to watch right now. It's a great time
Speaker 1: to be me. I'm going to a screening tonight. But
Speaker 1: it also means it's a lot of work. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of labor. But you don't need to worry about that.
Speaker 1: My labor is your game. So enjoy this extra episode
Speaker 1: this week. It's Scary Movie. I'm Ronald Young Junior, and
Speaker 1: I'm leaving the theater.
Speaker 2: Wait, you don't need every day, all right.
Speaker 1: This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after
Speaker 1: seeing scary movie. Scary Movie written by Marlon Wayans, Sean Wayans, Keenan,
Speaker 1: Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayns, and Rick Alvarez. Directed by Michael
Speaker 1: Tidds starring Marlon Wayans, Sean Wayins, Anna Faris and Regina
Speaker 1: Hall and as usual, for complete listing of the cast
Speaker 1: and crew, you can go to the link in our
Speaker 1: show notes. It is just Me Today. Scary Movie is
Speaker 1: the sixth installment in the Scary Movie franchise, which began
Speaker 1: in two thousand. It is a parody film about horror movies,
Speaker 1: which at the time was largely lampooning movies like Scream,
Speaker 1: I Know What You Did Last Summer and others. It
Speaker 1: mostly lampoons horror movies, but it inserts a lot of
Speaker 1: varied pop culture references as well. There were four of them,
Speaker 1: and I actually went back and did a little bit
Speaker 1: of research and realized that of the I'm sorry, there
Speaker 1: were five of them. And I went back and did
Speaker 1: a little research and realized that when these came out,
Speaker 1: these were the ages I was when each of these
Speaker 1: movies came out. So I'll just say my age, and
Speaker 1: you should just know the corresponding is one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four and five. So I was sixteen seventeen, nineteen, twenty two,
Speaker 1: and twenty nine. This last installment, I am forty forty one.
Speaker 1: I'm forty one. I think I'm forty one, I'm forty two.
Speaker 1: I'm forty two. Oh my god, I have to think
Speaker 1: about that. Yes, I am forty two. And the reason
Speaker 1: why it's important to point out those ages is to
Speaker 1: say that sixteen and seventeen, for the first two to
Speaker 1: come out, means that the type of humor that I
Speaker 1: was being shown in these movies very much fit what
Speaker 1: I thought comedy was at the time that I was
Speaker 1: sixteen and seventeen, which was slapstick, funny, perverse, in your face,
Speaker 1: not really subversive. And when it comes to parody generally,
Speaker 1: it's not always that A show like Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 1: or movies like Airplane or the ones from the Files
Speaker 1: of the Police Squad Naked Gun, films like that really
Speaker 1: kind of set the standard for what parody does when
Speaker 1: it's done very well. I don't know that scary movie
Speaker 1: in those days really rose to the level of parody
Speaker 1: that exists as we know parody, as we know what
Speaker 1: parody can actually be. It's important for me to say
Speaker 1: all that because watching this I think it's making me
Speaker 1: realize that sometimes what filmmakers think parody is is just
Speaker 1: making references and doing some whatever you would call a
Speaker 1: cinematic version of a pun would be. And when I
Speaker 1: say a cinematic version, I mean they're not just speaking
Speaker 1: something or smashing something together. They're really they're really just
Speaker 1: it is whatever. I can't explain, I can't articulate it
Speaker 1: any clear by saying the cinematic version of a pun.
Speaker 1: I laughed at this movie. And there were parts in
Speaker 1: this movie that really felt familiar and good. Most of
Speaker 1: those parts involved the Wayans or Regina Hall and Anna
Speaker 1: Faris outside of that, and actually any of the familiar
Speaker 1: faces that were in the Scary Movie one and two franchises.
Speaker 1: The movie itself lampoons the idea that the Weighans were
Speaker 1: involved in one and two but were not involved in three,
Speaker 1: four or five. I want to say, maybe they were
Speaker 1: involved in three. They certainly weren't involved in four and five.
Speaker 1: So it and it talks about that in these films
Speaker 1: and yeah, so yeah, that's right, I'm looking it up now.
Speaker 1: So the third one was David Zucker, who did some
Speaker 1: of the movies I just mentioned, which is naked gun
Speaker 1: and airplane films like that. This was tricky because this
Speaker 1: is a film that is justifying its existence by lampooning
Speaker 1: the films that it used to lampoon when they were popular,
Speaker 1: And to be clear, it's lampooning today's versions of those films.
Speaker 1: Scream has how many sequels? They just did a remake
Speaker 1: of I Know what You Did last summer. It's making
Speaker 1: fun of those films by using characters that were originated
Speaker 1: as parodies of the original films. I hope you followed
Speaker 1: that logic. So because it's doing that, it justifies its existence.
Speaker 1: If this movie had come out and was making fun
Speaker 1: of the original versions of those still then I would say,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Who cares? But it's actually making
Speaker 1: fun of the fact that they are still making these films.
Speaker 1: I watched the behind the scenes of Scary Movie two
Speaker 1: the extras on DVD, which incidentally was the first DVD
Speaker 1: that I watched on my own DVD player in my room.
Speaker 1: My parents got me a PS two. They did not
Speaker 1: know it was a DVD player, which for a seventeen
Speaker 1: year old kid, you could imagine what that would mean.
Speaker 1: So this was the first film I watched that, and
Speaker 1: I watched the extras and all that, and one of
Speaker 1: the things that they said at the time is that
Speaker 1: Scream is a satire and we're doing a parody of
Speaker 1: a satire, Which is funny because those films continue to
Speaker 1: be satirical in a lot of ways in the new
Speaker 1: versions that they do, because they're very they're very self referential.
Speaker 1: They in the film. Part of the film is to
Speaker 1: talk about the film itself and its relationship to the
Speaker 1: world and the world in which it is set. So
Speaker 1: scary movie. I hope y'all are standing with me on this,
Speaker 1: But scary movie, this new one that this newest iteration
Speaker 1: is doing that it's also parodying this satire, which is
Speaker 1: a difficult thing to do. I remember Marlon Wayne's said
Speaker 1: in his behind the scenes footage interview, he says, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're doing a parody of a satire. This isn't easy.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's pretty tricky. But the Wayans are funny,
Speaker 1: and there's parts of this movie that are flat out
Speaker 1: very funny. I laugh. And most of those parts again
Speaker 1: involved Anna Faris, Regina Hall, and the Wayans brothers. They
Speaker 1: included this other the main plot includes their kids or
Speaker 1: the Next Generation down a bunch of gen Z folks.
Speaker 1: And at one point in the movie when I thought
Speaker 1: that this was going to be a film that was
Speaker 1: really talking about the relationship between gen X and older
Speaker 1: millennials and them feeling out of place in a world
Speaker 1: that is changing, and that involves a lot of kind
Speaker 1: of figuring out what the rules are that are created
Speaker 1: by the generation that is inheriting the culture, whether that
Speaker 1: be trans politics or queer politics at large, race, all
Speaker 1: of that. I thought that that's what this movie was
Speaker 1: early on, and part of it is. But then it
Speaker 1: kind of shifts and it just decides we are not
Speaker 1: concerned with a plot or a thread that you need
Speaker 1: to follow. We are just gonna throw references at you,
Speaker 1: wall to wall jokes, jokes, jokes, jokes, jokes, references, references, references,
Speaker 1: and that's where the movie kind of goes from Okay,
Speaker 1: this was sharp, Okay, this was funny, to oh, y'all
Speaker 1: are just having a good time and you're kind of
Speaker 1: having it at my expense. And I think at this point,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't think I'm gonna take this seriously, or
Speaker 1: actually maybe you just think we're just putting something in
Speaker 1: the theaters that people are gonna watch. Who knows how
Speaker 1: much money it'll make. We'll find out who knows. Let's see.
Speaker 1: That's what it feels like at some point to say
Speaker 1: that it's a reboot, I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: call it that, I would just say it's another installment
Speaker 1: in a franchise that continues to do the same thing,
Speaker 1: which is make fun of others things. And then also
Speaker 1: because there's times in which I thought the film was
Speaker 1: being very sharp in that it was doing the original
Speaker 1: this is a parody of a satire and meaning that
Speaker 1: when it sticks to making fun of scream, when it
Speaker 1: sticks to that or making fun of horror as a
Speaker 1: genre that works, but then it kind of loses its way.
Speaker 1: Then it's not doing that. And when it's not doing that,
Speaker 1: it's it's not nearly as enjoyable as a movie. And
Speaker 1: it's not a movie that knows what it's doing. There's
Speaker 1: some funny jokes in there. There is a joke about
Speaker 1: Jermaine Jackson and tub which I laughed out loud at.
Speaker 1: There are some familiar faces that show up, but most
Speaker 1: of all, it is just reference after reference. Here's all
Speaker 1: the movies that are referenced here the substance Smile, Scream,
Speaker 1: Get Out Weapons, Final Destination. It follows ma Ciners, Texas,
Speaker 1: Chainsaw Massacre, Saw Megan, Airplane, Candy Man, Wicked Wednesday, John
Speaker 1: Wick Knows Faratu, and Drop and those were just the
Speaker 1: ones when I started writing it down about two thirds
Speaker 1: of the way through the movie. So it's it's not bad.
Speaker 1: It's not bad, per se. I think it's a good
Speaker 1: reason to get out of the air, to get into
Speaker 1: the air conditioning. And again when I Anna Ferris and
Speaker 1: Regina Hall genuinely made me laugh when they showed up,
Speaker 1: and they remind me of where they came from. They've
Speaker 1: done a lot of different things since they did Scary Movie,
Speaker 1: but them showing up for this, it just reminded me
Speaker 1: of how silly and fun they are and that felt good.
Speaker 1: And I wish they that the weigh Ins and Rick
Speaker 1: Alvarez would have leaned into that instead of going in
Speaker 1: the direction that they did, which is that Marlon Wands
Speaker 1: gets high, which actually, even when I saw him as shorty,
Speaker 1: I still laughed. He was still funny. And Sean being closeted,
Speaker 1: which at this point I'm not sure what the joke
Speaker 1: is anymore. Yeah, in twenty twenty six, those jokes fall
Speaker 1: a lot flatter because it almost feels like it'd be
Speaker 1: easier if he were just openly gay. And I say
Speaker 1: that in the spirit of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: where they have this closeted character mac who and that's
Speaker 1: the joke that he's in the closet, but then at
Speaker 1: one point he comes out, and then the jokes getting
Speaker 1: to be even sharper and funnier because he's actually gay,
Speaker 1: but he's also one of the worst people you've ever met,
Speaker 1: and the jokes come into the fact that this is
Speaker 1: a person that is the thing thing that they are
Speaker 1: claiming and positing. Now that they're out of the closet,
Speaker 1: are almost more funny because you wonder if this is
Speaker 1: even a good person, so be it's wild to watch
Speaker 1: a person who's not a good person hide behind a
Speaker 1: marginalized identity as if that identity alone makes them good,
Speaker 1: which is a whole new box of jokes that you
Speaker 1: can riff on in a show like It's Always Sunny
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. So there's an opportunity to do that here
Speaker 1: in Scary Movie as well. I think that's about the
Speaker 1: most that I can say about this, And with all
Speaker 1: that being said, I think it's a three star movie.
Speaker 1: It's probably lower, but I laughed a lot. I think
Speaker 1: maybe I should give it a two point seventy five
Speaker 1: just to be responsible. But I would watch this again,
Speaker 1: and I think I was trying to stay true to
Speaker 1: the rating, so two point seventy five. I would watch
Speaker 1: this with other people because there were some parts in
Speaker 1: there that were very sharp and I thought well done.
Speaker 1: But it's a mess. It's just a lot of slop
Speaker 1: in terms of it's not AI slop, but it is
Speaker 1: a comedy parody slop, I would say, so yeah, And
Speaker 1: with that, leaving the theater is a production of Oh
Speaker 1: It's Big Ron Studios. I mixed this episode. You should
Speaker 1: be noticing that movies are coming out pretty rapidly because
Speaker 1: it's June. So there's a lot of coordination I have
Speaker 1: to do to make sure I see everything. And if
Speaker 1: I miss something in a week, like say I'm going
Speaker 1: out of town, I'll be in Tribeca or if i'm
Speaker 1: I'm recording another podcast, so I have to travel around
Speaker 1: for that if I find myself out of pocket working
Speaker 1: on other things. What I found is that I end
Speaker 1: up with either more movies that I expected or not
Speaker 1: enough movies. So I kind of have to stay ahead
Speaker 1: of that through a lot of planning and effort and
Speaker 1: looking at the calendar, double check things, signing up for screening,
Speaker 1: sometimes buying tickets on my own. It's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: This is real labor, and I'm working on other shows.
Speaker 1: I'm working on something that I can't say the name
Speaker 1: of yet, but I'm very excited for folks to hear.
Speaker 1: The pilot is coming out on Patreon very soon. All
Speaker 1: of that is stuff that I'm doing for OH It's
Speaker 1: Big Round Studios. I'm still grinding away. I am still
Speaker 1: the same sixteen year old boy who enjoyed Scary Movie
Speaker 1: and had big dreams, but now have even bigger responsibilities
Speaker 1: and have to work to get them all done. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's labor. It's labor of love, but it's still labor.
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Speaker 1: link in our show notes. Show art from Heather Wilder,
Speaker 1: theme music by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. For more information
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. I'm Ronald Young Junior and I'm forty
Speaker 1: forty one. I'm forty one. I think I'm forty one.
Speaker 1: I'm forty two. I'm forty two. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: have to think about that. Yes, I am forty two.