Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 2: We Welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up.
Speaker 2: I am Father Malone and with me mimicking my voice
Speaker 2: and disappearing all over the room is missus ripley Gen?
Speaker 2: How are you, miss ripley Gen? Fucking creepy? Welcome back
Speaker 2: to the roundup proper. We had a crossover episode last week,
Speaker 2: so let's get back to business. I injured myself pretty
Speaker 2: severely on an e bike left foot. What are you
Speaker 2: snoring about? My left foot is immobilized for the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, which is incredibly painful, but also a
Speaker 2: wonderful excuse to sit around and watch movies. I know
Speaker 2: you're not pleased with the current state of walks, baby,
Speaker 2: but it will improve. I promise. Is Superman going to
Speaker 2: save the world? It looks that way. Definitely gonna save
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers. First time. I've been excited for a Superman
Speaker 2: movie since Part three, and I can be forgiven for
Speaker 2: getting hyped about that one because the previous one had
Speaker 2: Terrence Stamp as General Zod. Surely the Excellence train would
Speaker 2: continue checking down that track.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Also, I was ten. I've been a Michael Rosenbaum guy
Speaker 2: since Smallville As far as Lex Luthor. Yes, Hackman was
Speaker 2: great in the two movies, but he was bawled only
Speaker 2: as a joke at the end of one of them.
Speaker 2: Rosenbaum was freshly shorn each day, and he got to
Speaker 2: bring a depth and emotionality to that character that the
Speaker 2: previous two hour flicks couldn't hope to deliver. And frankly,
Speaker 2: what have we had since then? Rapists and creeps as
Speaker 2: Lex Luthor allegedly, Kevin Spacey and Jesse Eisenberg, these are
Speaker 2: our Lex Luthor's Now Clancy Brown has been voicing him
Speaker 2: for a while. I believe Gean Carlos Bosito is doing
Speaker 2: his voice on Harley Quinn. There are actually way too
Speaker 2: many fucking good voice actors to single out any more
Speaker 2: of them. Plus I'm lazy, and those are the only
Speaker 2: ones I remember now. I was one hundred percent in
Speaker 2: favor of the continuing with Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor. He's older, now,
Speaker 2: he's wiser. He'll bring a certain gravitas to Lex. There
Speaker 2: isn't no one who could replace him. Nicholas Holt, hold on, now,
Speaker 2: this fanboy needs to fan hisself. Every fucking image we've
Speaker 2: seen has looked great. He's had only a few lines
Speaker 2: so far are in the dozen or so trailers we've received.
Speaker 2: But the latest trailer is the one I've been waiting for.
Speaker 2: It's the Lex versus Superman trailer where mister Luthor is
Speaker 2: front and center. I was interested before, I am totally
Speaker 2: stoked now. The joke of Lex has always been the
Speaker 2: same as the one with the Joker in Batman. If
Speaker 2: it came down a hand to hand combat, the fight
Speaker 2: is over instantaneously, so it's widely important who they cast
Speaker 2: as their nemeses. And for the first time since Rosenbaum,
Speaker 2: I think Lex can actually go toe to toe with
Speaker 2: the Man of Steel. You know how everyone's always droning
Speaker 2: on about how Batman is the smartest superhero I ever noticed.
Speaker 2: The Joker is always a step ahead of him. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I've encouraged everyone to go see the new Superman movie
Speaker 2: to save the studio. Now I'm saying, this movie just
Speaker 2: looks fucking great and you should go see it. Anyway.
Speaker 2: One last thing, that bubble looking Mega Man suit that
Speaker 2: they featured in every trailer. You know, it's flying around
Speaker 2: and it's heat visioning and punching and shit, it is
Speaker 2: not Henry cavill I will eat my shoe, my immobilizing boot.
Speaker 2: If it is anyone but the new Supergirl. They're going
Speaker 2: to task master her here. She'll be a villain for
Speaker 2: the entire movie and then whoops, look it's a fellow Kryptonian.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they won't blithely kill her in the opening movements
Speaker 2: of her own movie. Was that a spoiler for Thunderbolts?
Speaker 2: You're fucking right it was.
Speaker 3: Wait did you hear that?
Speaker 1: Rip?
Speaker 4: Look Out?
Speaker 3: Pals from a Row.
Speaker 2: Got a letter from Shane Mackie talking about pulling out
Speaker 2: his old DVD's of Tales from the Dark Side so
Speaker 2: he could follow along with the main show that we
Speaker 2: do on Fridays. He mentioned he got those discs at
Speaker 2: a convention back when it was a lot harder to
Speaker 2: acquire television shows, not everything was on VHS, never mind DVD.
Speaker 2: But he also wrote in to inquire if I was
Speaker 2: familiar with the television series Darkroom. For those of you
Speaker 2: who don't know, Darkroom was an anthology horror series hosted
Speaker 2: by James Coburn that ran on ABC in nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: one for one season. Actually watched every episode of it
Speaker 2: when it ran there's one with Billy Crystal as this
Speaker 2: low rent criminal who finds a makeup case from an
Speaker 2: old Hollywood star, and every makeup that he puts on,
Speaker 2: he actually becomes that thing. I loved it. Anyway. There
Speaker 2: are a couple of amusing things about being asked about
Speaker 2: this show, Shane. First of all, a writer by the
Speaker 2: name of Rockney O'Bannon wrote a spec script for Darkroom,
Speaker 2: but the show had already been canceled when he submitted it,
Speaker 2: so he held on to it, submitting it later to
Speaker 2: a new Twilight Zone series that was being put together
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty five. That episode was Wordplay. It is
Speaker 2: one of the greatest half hours of television of all time.
Speaker 2: Never mind that one series, and Rockney O'Bannon would later
Speaker 2: go on to create SeaQuest in Farscape, and he's a
Speaker 2: friend of the show anyway. Another amusing thing is that
Speaker 2: before we began looking at Tales from the Dark Side
Speaker 2: of this season, we almost did Darkroom, but we deemed
Speaker 2: it too inaccessible to the general public. The only reason
Speaker 2: I have it now is that I bought it from
Speaker 2: a dealer at a convention world. Baby, Thank you, Shane,
Speaker 2: and thank you for your kind words about miss Foxy Brown. Okay,
Speaker 2: what's with this fucking tie business? Let's get it on.
Speaker 2: Eric Idyl remains the samee Python these days mag In
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three he appeared in Monty Python's The Meaning
Speaker 2: of Life, and in that their final cinematic endeavor, he
Speaker 2: appeared as a piano man entertaining a crowd at a
Speaker 2: restaurant with this song.
Speaker 4: Good even listen, gentlemen, here's a little number I tossed
Speaker 4: off reason to the cull. Doesn't it all be nice
Speaker 4: to have a penis? Doesn't it rightly good to have
Speaker 4: it on? It's swell to have a stiffy. It's divine
Speaker 4: to own a dick, from the tiniest little taggia.
Speaker 3: To the world's biggest prick.
Speaker 4: So three Charles for all, Willie or John Thomas. Who
Speaker 4: if your one eyed Charles, a snake, your piece of pork,
Speaker 4: your wife's best friend, your pussy or your cock, you
Speaker 4: can you can slip it in your sock, but don't
Speaker 4: take it out in public, or they will stick you
Speaker 4: in the dock and you won't come.
Speaker 2: At age twelve, i'd heard most of those names, and
Speaker 2: dick and cock and prick I'd even heard at that
Speaker 2: tender age one eyed to trousers snake. John Thomas, on
Speaker 2: the other hand, that was a new one on me.
Speaker 2: Randomly specific John Thomas. Who was he? And was he
Speaker 2: renowned for being a penis or having a huge one both.
Speaker 2: As it turns out, John Thomas didn't show up in
Speaker 2: literature until around the eighteen seventies, but the phrase had
Speaker 2: been around for almost two hundred years prior. They think
Speaker 2: it was the name of a servant, initially a servant
Speaker 2: being an appendage of the master, plus time, plus the
Speaker 2: general dirty mindedness of people everywhere, and now if you
Speaker 2: name your kid John Thomas, it's like saying my kid
Speaker 2: is named Schlong, a fact that delighted me to no
Speaker 2: end when a rival for my late wife's hand ended
Speaker 2: up naming one of his kids John Thomas first and
Speaker 2: middle name. Oh boy, such good times. I still love it,
Speaker 2: as amused as I was to learn that it does
Speaker 2: not compare to the fucking peals of laughter from fourteen
Speaker 2: year old me sitting in a theater in Revere, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: as the trumpets are braying and the credits are rolling
Speaker 2: in what has been promised to be an all male
Speaker 2: action extravaganza with sweat and blood and bullets and jungles,
Speaker 2: and a writing credit comes up written by Jim and
Speaker 2: John Thomas. Oh boy, I so wanted it to just
Speaker 2: be Jim Thomas and his impressive dick and not a
Speaker 2: couple of sibling writers as it turned out to be.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine the audacity of registering your cock as
Speaker 2: your co writer at the writers Guild? Which one is
Speaker 2: doing the typing? People will wonder? You know it's Jim's
Speaker 2: doing the typing and John Thomas is just pacing around
Speaker 2: and being a dick. Anyway, the movie is Predator. You've
Speaker 2: read the episode description. I think it's funny. Every podcast
Speaker 2: likes to play dumb in their introductory segments these days.
Speaker 2: What could it be, audience, He didn't click on the
Speaker 2: fucking episode name anyway? Predator by the Thomas Boys and
Speaker 2: directed by John McTiernan in his sophomore effort as a filmmaker, Diehards,
Speaker 2: John McTiernan Hunt for Red October's John McTiernan. If you've
Speaker 2: not seen his debut feature Nomads, I think you ought
Speaker 2: to go watch it immediately. Helen Shaver's a doctor who
Speaker 2: treats this patient, who's a photojournalist that's been following a
Speaker 2: group of well nomads as they travel through the unseen
Speaker 2: twilight world of early morning Los Angeles. It is atmospheric
Speaker 2: and creepy and cool, and it's got adam Ant and
Speaker 2: Mary Warnoff as two of the nomads, and Pierce Brosnan's
Speaker 2: so young and virile, and hear suit doing either the
Speaker 2: best or worst French accent you'll ever hear. Here's some
Speaker 2: of it now.
Speaker 1: The old man on that devakos to tell a tale
Speaker 1: of the dangers of traveling far, of hunting alone.
Speaker 3: On the eyes, no one might no longer know what was.
Speaker 2: So mctiernan's directing. Schwarzenegger is the star. Carl Weathers is
Speaker 2: in there. Get to Da Chapa, you know the movie,
Speaker 2: and if you haven't, go YouTube Predator and to Jean
Speaker 2: Claude van Dam where you'll see him running around the
Speaker 2: Mexican jungle and what looks like an insect made of nerf. Yes,
Speaker 2: it is ridiculous, but remember it was meant to be removed.
Speaker 2: The creature is a stand in so they can do
Speaker 2: the invisibility trick that the Predator employs. Ninety percent of
Speaker 2: the time. It is a dumb design considering what they
Speaker 2: landed with. But don't let that footage fool you they
Speaker 2: were making the same movie. Also, don't let that footage
Speaker 2: of Nick Cage and that ultra shiny Ledlitz Superman outfit
Speaker 2: fool you either. That was a fucking costume test. There's
Speaker 2: no guarantee any one thing you see in that video
Speaker 2: would have ended up on screen, but that cocksucker Brian
Speaker 2: Singer used to carry around a still frame of that
Speaker 2: costume to silence anyone who is criticizing his take on
Speaker 2: Superman with that fucking horrendous Superman returns. Oh anyway, A
Speaker 2: couple of other bits of Predator weirdness. Did you know
Speaker 2: that Optimus Prime is the voice of the Predator. All
Speaker 2: those weird clicks those are Peter Cullen, who is a
Speaker 2: giant in the voice industry. Apparently he based the vocalization
Speaker 2: on the sound he heard of a dying horseshoe crab.
Speaker 2: I have never once in my life wondered what a
Speaker 2: dying horseshoe crab would sound like, But now that I
Speaker 2: know it sounds like a Predator, it actually kind of
Speaker 2: makes sense, doesn't it. Super screenwriter Shane Black is one
Speaker 2: of Dutch's team in Predator. Before spending his entire screen
Speaker 2: time telling pussy jokes, Black wrote Lethal Weapon and The
Speaker 2: Last Boy Scout. And I think he was writing The
Speaker 2: Long Kiss Good Night around the time of filming. Apparently
Speaker 2: he was a spy on, said producer Joel Silver, installed
Speaker 2: him to keep an eye on still fledgling filmmaker John McTiernan.
Speaker 2: And I said, gee, that's kind of underhanded. That's kind
Speaker 2: of underhanded. Schwarzenegger's ballooning salary quote would keep him out
Speaker 2: of the planned sequel, so naturally they scrapped it and
Speaker 2: artistic integrity blossomed. Nah, they said, fuck it, the giant
Speaker 2: rubber suit is the star. After all, that first film
Speaker 2: wasn't called Dutch. Remember Dutch with Ed O'Neil in Perpetual
Speaker 2: Adorable Machine Ethan embry. Guy's like fifty years old and
Speaker 2: he's still cute as a button. Anyway, I know Predator
Speaker 2: two is an inferior film. Maria Kunchiita Alonzo's presence alone
Speaker 2: drags it down at least a whole letter grade. She
Speaker 2: cannot act in Spanish or English, and I'm glad she's gone.
Speaker 2: Wait is she dead? I'm gonna feel really bad. If
Speaker 2: she's she's not good, Good riddance. Who needs you. But
Speaker 2: the idea of taking the first film scenario and dropping
Speaker 2: in into downtown Los Angeles during a gang war during
Speaker 2: a heat wave and set a decade after the previous film,
Speaker 2: making Predator two a futuristic sci fi movie, they needed
Speaker 2: some innovations in Los Angeles that weren't yet innovated, so
Speaker 2: their solution was to set the movie in the far
Speaker 2: flung future of nineteen ninety seven. Let me tell you
Speaker 2: when I saw this movie on opening weekend in Danvers,
Speaker 2: Massachusetts in nineteen ninety During the opening a title card
Speaker 2: let you know that this is seven years into the future,
Speaker 2: and then you hear that Rico suave guy singing. That
Speaker 2: was chilling. If that guy was still relevant seven years now,
Speaker 2: then we are headed for a dystopian outcome worse than
Speaker 2: Blade Runner, worse than The Terminator Gerardo without Schwarzenegger. Producer
Speaker 2: Joel Silver threw some lethal weapon actors at the sequel,
Speaker 2: Danny Glover and Gary Busey, and as the film's quasi villain,
Speaker 2: the leader of the Jamaican Posse oh No, the Jamaicans
Speaker 2: are coming run. I know there were actual gangs in
Speaker 2: New York at the time, but it's still funny. The
Speaker 2: leader of the posse, King Willie, was played by the
Speaker 2: magnificent Calvin Lockhart. He was the villain in one of
Speaker 2: my favorite films of the nineteen seventies, Cotton Comes to Harlem.
Speaker 2: But also in the seventies, he was the lead in
Speaker 2: a film that was all but lost until recently. That
Speaker 2: movie is The Baron. Here is a shameless self plug.
Speaker 2: Go over to the Projection Booth podcast check out their
Speaker 2: episode on The Baron. It features some devastatingly incisive analysis
Speaker 2: by me. Predator two opened up the Predator's world in
Speaker 2: tons of ways, including how long they've been visiting Earth.
Speaker 2: Danny Glover's Harrigan is given a flintlock pill still engraved
Speaker 2: to Raphael and Doolini from seventeen fifteen. It also let
Speaker 2: us know that there were other Fox franchises that served
Speaker 2: as hunting grounds when we got a look inside the
Speaker 2: Predator's trophy case, which included a xenomorph skull from the
Speaker 2: Alien films. Apparently, director Stephen Hopkins saw one in Stan
Speaker 2: Winston's creature shop and thought Hey, this would be cool,
Speaker 2: and thus he inadvertently kept both franchises alive in the
Speaker 2: public consciousness the majority of the public. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you were a fan of Predator, you could still get
Speaker 2: your fix with the dark Horse comic books. Hilariously, the
Speaker 2: first run came out before Predator two, but the story
Speaker 2: took place in New York during a heat wave, featuring
Speaker 2: Dutch's brother. Because you can't have a direct sequel unless
Speaker 2: the new lead is related, so stupid. Predator actually had
Speaker 2: a really cool run in dark Horse. All throughout the nineties, though,
Speaker 2: the theme of desperate, perhaps antagonistic people have to put
Speaker 2: aside their differences and fight the Predator were pretty prevalent.
Speaker 2: There were tons of cool crossovers as well, Predator versus Batman,
Speaker 2: Predator versus Transformers. The best was Archie versus Predator, where
Speaker 2: the Predator comes to Riverdale and kills every fucking one
Speaker 2: of them and is eventually subdued by Veronica. Great stuff,
Speaker 2: but cinematically, we wouldn't get a standalone Predator flick for
Speaker 2: almost twenty years with Predators WHOA Okay, I was not
Speaker 2: going to forget you this time. Hit it HP.
Speaker 3: God K because it's.
Speaker 2: Thank you, HP. You know it's official. Arnold said he's
Speaker 2: entering the governor's race. At least that's what everyone thinks.
Speaker 2: He said. That is an actual David Letterman joke. Blame
Speaker 2: him somehow. I am in no way surprised by your choice,
Speaker 2: young Ripley Geen. What a good girl you are. Aliens
Speaker 2: Versus Predator is the first time the Predator film's got fun.
Speaker 2: The alien films too, If I'm being honest, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying they haven't been thrilling or frightening or breathtaking in
Speaker 2: the past, but they haven't been. An honest to God
Speaker 2: paid for the entire ticket book at the Carnival Thrill Ride,
Speaker 2: combining a fifteen year old dropouts understanding of science and
Speaker 2: a seemingly boundless knowledge of the old Chariots of the
Speaker 2: Gods nineteen sixties seventies idea of how alien life exists
Speaker 2: and how it's been interacting with Earth since time immemorial.
Speaker 2: Aliens Versus Predator is a bottle film. Our heroes and
Speaker 2: villains are all trapped in a puzzle box, this one,
Speaker 2: for all intents and purposes, being a Mayan pyramid found
Speaker 2: in Antarctica. The fact that this movie exists at all
Speaker 2: is a minor miracle. Can you think of two completely
Speaker 2: disparate cinematic worlds that dovetailed so nicely into one another
Speaker 2: and were held by the same copyright owner. I can't.
Speaker 2: And it assembled a fucking killer cast Sanah Lathan. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure why she wasn't huge. She's Blade's mom, for
Speaker 2: fuck's sake. It also had Bishop himself Lance Hendrickson as
Speaker 2: the Whyland from Wayland Utani. It had Spud from Trainspotting
Speaker 2: and Tommy Flanakan from every fucking badass roll of the
Speaker 2: past twenty years. And you know what else it had.
Speaker 2: It had heart Kid. That might not mean anything in
Speaker 2: this slick day and age, but it once had a
Speaker 2: hallmark of quality. Jesus, what am I talking about? It
Speaker 2: also had three predators on the loose in an untold
Speaker 2: number of Zeno morphs, all skulking and scurrying around with
Speaker 2: a few humans trying to stand out of their way,
Speaker 2: and eventually teaming up with a predator to face the
Speaker 2: greatest cinematic villain of all time, the Alien. I know
Speaker 2: we're here to talk about the predator, but I am
Speaker 2: fucking stoked that we're getting a new alien television series
Speaker 2: and you are going to hear all about it. Consider
Speaker 2: yourself threatened. That film made one hundred and eighty million
Speaker 2: off of a seventy million dollar budget, which is just
Speaker 2: enough of a profit to get the film that that
Speaker 2: sort of success deserves. Alien Versus Predator Requiem. What a
Speaker 2: fucking piece of garbage that movie was. When it was
Speaker 2: announced that there was going to be an Alien Versus
Speaker 2: Predator movie, Jim Cameron bemoaned the fact that it was
Speaker 2: just like a Universal's Frankenstein meets wolf Man. There's no
Speaker 2: more relevancy. They're just milking it. Well, he was wrong
Speaker 2: about AVP, and he even admitted it such, But those
Speaker 2: criticisms are dead on here. Written by Shane Salerno, the
Speaker 2: scribe who gave us Armageddon and ghost Rider and the
Speaker 2: stories for most of those Avatar movies. It stars a
Speaker 2: bunch of nobodies, It's made by a bunch of nobodies,
Speaker 2: and is in fact a direct sequel to AVP. That
Speaker 2: movie ended with a stinger, an alien bursting out of
Speaker 2: a predator's chest. It was a cheap jump at the
Speaker 2: end of the movie, just to rattle your cage and
Speaker 2: maybe hinted a possible sequel. Well, here's what happened. That
Speaker 2: predatorship crashed in a small American town and the entire
Speaker 2: series turned to shit. Do not watch it if you haven't,
Speaker 2: And even if you have watched it, I bet you
Speaker 2: haven't seen it because it is the murkiest fucking film
Speaker 2: I have ever seen or not seen. Fred Olin Ray
Speaker 2: had better lighting packages in his disposable movies. Now. I
Speaker 2: don't know about you, but when I heard Robert Rodriguez
Speaker 2: had a Predator movie coming out, I got pretty stoked.
Speaker 2: The movies are mainly nonverbal, so he can't really louse
Speaker 2: up the dialogue too bad. No matter how bad the
Speaker 2: script was going to be, overall, the action was going
Speaker 2: to be fucking incredible because that's what he does best.
Speaker 2: And apparently it's based on a script that he had
Speaker 2: been asked to write back in nineteen ninety four. K
Speaker 2: NB Effects took over for the creature effects, and the
Speaker 2: psychotically good cast was assembled. Adrian Brody, Alice Braga, Toefer,
Speaker 2: Grace Young, Walton Goggins, Lawrence Fishburne, Danny Trejoemherschela Ali. We've
Speaker 2: got a team of badasses as usual, fighting for their
Speaker 2: lives in a jungle against the predators. But here that
Speaker 2: crack squad of heroes were actually assembled by the predators themselves,
Speaker 2: their soldiers and criminals and hunters and fucking psychopaths, all
Speaker 2: plucked from Earth and dropped onto a safari planet. People
Speaker 2: really like Predators. I saw it A Man's Chinese on
Speaker 2: opening day, which had great presentation, obviously, and I agree
Speaker 2: with most of those people. Kinda, it's great. Kinda, and
Speaker 2: Adrian Brody is good. Kind of the movie is fine.
Speaker 2: Just like AVP, it's good enough, but somehow not good enough.
Speaker 2: Both films just leave you feeling a little bit hollow.
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to put my finger on now
Speaker 2: about the Predators their weapons specifically. Since the first film,
Speaker 2: they've all been able to cloak themselves. They've all had
Speaker 2: a shoulder cannon with that three dot laser target. They've
Speaker 2: all had medkits and arm blades and arm bombs. Predator
Speaker 2: two gave us the spear and a net gun and
Speaker 2: those disc blade thingies. In Predators, the newest innovation is
Speaker 2: that they use pack animals to hunt nasty little quadrupeds
Speaker 2: called hell hounds or predator hounds. I don't know why
Speaker 2: they need them. These creatures, whose entire personality is based
Speaker 2: on hunting, use a bunch of near feral beasts to
Speaker 2: hunt down and potentially mul their prey. It was the
Speaker 2: addition of these hell hounds that finally made me realize
Speaker 2: the sad truth about our predatory friends. They're like those
Speaker 2: cocksuckers who hunt foxes or did is it outlawed? It
Speaker 2: fucking should be outlawed using hounds to chase down a
Speaker 2: defenseless animal and then fucking ride up on your horse
Speaker 2: and blast it, you fucking cocksucker. Putting aside the hell hounds,
Speaker 2: think about these predators for a minute. All those weapons
Speaker 2: I mentioned a bunch of them invisibility alone gives them
Speaker 2: the equivalent of some asshole shooting lions from a Safaris jeep.
Speaker 2: Real fucking sporting. Remember in part two when it wouldn't
Speaker 2: kill Maria Canchido Alonso because she was pregnant, because they're
Speaker 2: so fucking noble all of a sudden, But they will
Speaker 2: go after of you if you're armed. Sure, our projectile
Speaker 2: weapons are the equivalent of a fucking slingshot to a
Speaker 2: creature who travels across galaxies to hunt for Fun. But hey,
Speaker 2: you know what am I equippling about? What I mean
Speaker 2: is I love these movies. I just have a hard
Speaker 2: time reconciling that these guys just hunt for sport. I mean,
Speaker 2: if they remain villains, then that's not a problem. But
Speaker 2: after two AVPs, I'm starting to think of them as heroes.
Speaker 2: How am I not supposed to side with them? Oh?
Speaker 2: Just make the Predator that will break the fucking spell.
Speaker 2: Shane Black, Shane Black. I cannot believe I'm saying Shane
Speaker 2: Black wrote and directed the movie that is worse than Requiem?
Speaker 2: Is it worse? Somebody tell me? Obviously, I think it's
Speaker 2: a better film just in general. But the fact that
Speaker 2: it's Shane Black and I can't decide if it's as
Speaker 2: bad a movie as the one I just dismissed as
Speaker 2: a piece of shit, somehow makes it worse. Shane come back, Shane.
Speaker 2: Was it the casting thing? They're all really good performers.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if they work in this configuration.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone was served well in the movie,
Speaker 2: certainly not the audience. Say what you want about any
Speaker 2: of the other films. There's always someone to hang on to.
Speaker 2: And take the ride with I didn't get that character here,
Speaker 2: so I didn't really give a shit. When the big
Speaker 2: old twist shows up, there's a predator that hunts predators,
Speaker 2: the predator, if you will, spoiler alert. And it's huge,
Speaker 2: and it's a good idea, and it should have been
Speaker 2: a new species altogether, some planetary species that hunts the predators.
Speaker 2: Sign me up for that movie, baby, but that movie,
Speaker 2: this movie the Predator, Sign me down, sign me off.
Speaker 2: I will not even rewatch it to see if my
Speaker 2: opinion will change. It will not. And I thought at
Speaker 2: the time, that's it. We will not see his kind again,
Speaker 2: not in this lifetime, that noble predator. And then wait
Speaker 2: a minute, what the fuck is this out of nowhere
Speaker 2: slice of predator? Pie pray? Holy fuck, I don't gotta
Speaker 2: tell you. Prey was a sleeper hit, and it was
Speaker 2: a deserving hit. You have to love when a true
Speaker 2: fan gets a hold of a property. Prior to Prey,
Speaker 2: Tracktenburg had directed only one other feature film, but it's
Speaker 2: a hell of a debut ten Cloverfield Lane. That was
Speaker 2: the John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead paranoid. Have we or
Speaker 2: haven't we been invaded? Flick excellent stuff. Well, with Prey,
Speaker 2: he shakes the whole fucking series to its foundation, quite literally,
Speaker 2: taking the action back to the great planes of seventeen
Speaker 2: nineteen and focused on a commanche healer who dreams of
Speaker 2: being a hunter, but she's constantly being laughed off by
Speaker 2: the rest of her tribe and to the motherfucking Predator,
Speaker 2: which they cleverly wrap up in Comanche folklore. The action
Speaker 2: is visceral, The characters are fucking sparkling. This is the
Speaker 2: first film to really dispense with the firearms and get
Speaker 2: these characters hunting each other with their wits and their surroundings.
Speaker 2: Speaking of firearms, it's seventeen nineteen. Our lead to Naeru,
Speaker 2: played by the fucking incredible Amber mid Thunder, is given
Speaker 2: a flint lock by a trapper named Raphael and Olini.
Speaker 2: I know Tracktenburg initially wanted to set this film during
Speaker 2: the Civil War. I wonder if he said it one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years earlier, just to tie it into
Speaker 2: the Predator two. If so, fucking bravo. I think in
Speaker 2: any other scenario I would have been rolling my eyes
Speaker 2: with the mighty fan service mambo going on. But for
Speaker 2: some reason here it worked. Also, it managed to keep
Speaker 2: all the white people to a minimum. We've seen them
Speaker 2: tangle with the Predators enough, which is kind of why
Speaker 2: the call back to Predator two is important. Think about
Speaker 2: it now, I think even a blind man could see
Speaker 2: that there was going to be another Predator film coming
Speaker 2: down the pike after the success of Prey. Luckily for us,
Speaker 2: it's Tracktenburg again at the Helm, and again it's taking
Speaker 2: us two unfamiliar locations in time periods Predator bad Lambs.
Speaker 2: It seems to be set on an alien world. I'm
Speaker 2: told it's the Predator's alien world and it's in the future,
Speaker 2: and it has androids and it has potential Wayland Utani connections.
Speaker 2: That movie, Predator Badlands is coming out in November, and
Speaker 2: I am not sure there's a film I'm more interested
Speaker 2: in seeing this year, so we are going to have
Speaker 2: to wait. Actually, no, there's a new Predator film right
Speaker 2: fucking now, and it's on Hulu and it's from Dan
Speaker 2: Trachtenberg and it's animated. It's Predator, Killer of Killers.
Speaker 1: My son, tell me why we fight because our enemy
Speaker 1: still lives.
Speaker 3: You all have traveled, fought and miss the warmth of who.
Speaker 4: But ninth?
Speaker 1: Think you come only one thing, killing the monster.
Speaker 3: You're not hearing me. There's something else up in the
Speaker 3: sky and it's not human.
Speaker 1: I pray you bloody your spear tonight.
Speaker 3: You are ready.
Speaker 1: Now, there's only one way to kill it. We must
Speaker 1: write together.
Speaker 3: Here we go, what happens if we survive?
Speaker 2: Holy fuck, this is a great movie. I'm burying the
Speaker 2: lead as always. What can I tell you? I'm a
Speaker 2: sucker for anthologies, So are you if you're listening to
Speaker 2: this show. I'm also a sucker for animation, and clearly
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for these goddamn dreadlocked pussy face beast
Speaker 2: from another world. Killer of Killers is three stories, all
Speaker 2: on Earth, all on different countries and time periods, pitting
Speaker 2: warrior against warrior. First up is The Shield, a Viking
Speaker 2: tale about Ursa, a Viking leader on a mission of
Speaker 2: revenge kill the head of a rival clan who was
Speaker 2: responsible for her own father's murder. The animation and battle
Speaker 2: stuff is so fucking cool in this one, plus it
Speaker 2: subtly links the entire affair to Beowulf, with the Predator
Speaker 2: coming in at the end as a stand in for Grendel.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to spoil any of these. To that end,
Speaker 2: I can't really give you all that much more except
Speaker 2: to say that the action here is so fucking brutal
Speaker 2: in ways that some films could barely fathom, and it
Speaker 2: manages to avoid the problem of most animated action, where
Speaker 2: everything seems too perfect, too choreographed. Somehow the style of
Speaker 2: animation it's a computer generated fake of hand drawn styles,
Speaker 2: but the fluidity of the movement and that combined manages
Speaker 2: to leave room for what appeared to be accidents or flaws,
Speaker 2: which end up reinforcing how realistic it all is. I
Speaker 2: know that's a confusing assessment. The flaws make it perfect,
Speaker 2: but I don't know how any other way to describe it.
Speaker 2: That same feeling carries over to The Sword. The second tale,
Speaker 2: set in sixteen oh nine in Feudal Japan, a tale
Speaker 2: of two brothers who paths diverge, with one becoming a
Speaker 2: warlord and another in ninja. On the day the brothers
Speaker 2: are to reunite to continue a battle from decades before,
Speaker 2: they are joined by a new competitor. My favorite moment
Speaker 2: in that first Predator film comes fairly close to the end.
Speaker 2: Schwarzenegger goes off the cliff into a pool of water
Speaker 2: in the canyon below. He's dragging himself to the shore,
Speaker 2: panting and spitting up water and trying to recuperate, and
Speaker 2: he doesn't notice as a splash about fifty or so
Speaker 2: feet behind him. In the theater, I saw it, but
Speaker 2: most of the audience didn't notice, which I thought was
Speaker 2: really fucking clever of the filmmaker, making an invisible alien
Speaker 2: just show up in the background with no bones about it.
Speaker 2: This story The Sword seemed to be filled with breathless
Speaker 2: moments just like that. Oh and Tracktenberg isn't afraid to
Speaker 2: give us new weapons in the Presator's arsenals. We've got
Speaker 2: a wrist mounted a rope dart, some heat seeking harpoons,
Speaker 2: there are explosive darts, a serrated whip, and there's this
Speaker 2: fucking shockwave glove thing. Oh man, oh man. Each of
Speaker 2: these stories, I'd like to point out, would work as
Speaker 2: a short film on its own. The fact that they
Speaker 2: tie in so seamlessly to one another is one of
Speaker 2: the movie's charms. The final story is called The Bullet
Speaker 2: and we're in World War two baby North Africa, and
Speaker 2: we are dealing with fighter pilots and a Predator pilot
Speaker 2: and dog fights and the Andrews sisters I mentioned breathless
Speaker 2: right There's also an epilogue that I'm gonna say fuck
Speaker 2: all about right now. Suffice to say, I think we
Speaker 2: are in good hands with the Predators for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2: I was excited for bad Lands. I am fucking beyond stoked.
Speaker 2: Now we are going to leave you here, but before
Speaker 2: we do one last bit of predator trivia predatrivia. There's
Speaker 2: now a genus of a goblin spider called Predator unaps
Speaker 2: because its face looks like the predator's mandibles. In addition,
Speaker 2: there are now a bunch of subspecies, all with strict
Speaker 2: predator nomenclature. There's the Predator Unaps Schwarzeneggery, the Predator Unaps
Speaker 2: Makelliot for Carl Weather's character mack Elliott. There's the Predator
Speaker 2: Unaps of Varta for the filming location, and the Predator
Speaker 2: Unaps Peter Hawley for Kevin Peter Hall, the original actor
Speaker 2: to play the Predator. The latest classified is named the
Speaker 2: Predator Unaps Vayucha, which is now the accepted name for
Speaker 2: the Predators. Gang Aliens are xenomorphs because of an offhanded
Speaker 2: line in Aliens, and now the predators are the Yaucha
Speaker 2: because of a line in Prey. Have we hunted enough
Speaker 2: facts for you, young lady? I don't care what you say.
Speaker 2: I think we have. So we're gonna piece out gang
Speaker 2: tune in this Friday. We are going to hopefully be
Speaker 2: taking a look at andor finally with Antonio Lapour. Thank
Speaker 2: you for joining us here at the roundup. HP is
Speaker 2: our composer. We're on weirding Way Media. If you want
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Speaker 2: you all for joining us here on the roundup. We're
Speaker 2: gonna leave you, well, what else do you think we're
Speaker 2: gonna leave you with?
Speaker 1: This stuff will make you a goddamn sensual tyrannosurce just
Speaker 1: like me,