Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 2: We welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up.
Speaker 2: I'm Father Malone and with me with one point in
Speaker 2: the grave is miss ripley Gen. How are you you,
Speaker 2: young cheater of death? Nonplused by the concept of mortality?
Speaker 2: What a good girl you are? We got death on
Speaker 2: the brain here at the roundup, thanks once again to
Speaker 2: the Rube Goldberg villain of all time, the Final Destination Films.
Speaker 2: But before that the business. We've got a three way
Speaker 2: battle for musical episode going on right now. The contenders
Speaker 2: American Pop, Little Chomp of Horrors and The Singing Detective
Speaker 2: that is the seven hour British mini series. I encourage
Speaker 2: you to vote for hoping that it would make frequent
Speaker 2: collaborator HP tremble, and it did. He does not want
Speaker 2: to do the Singing Detective. I would encourage you to
Speaker 2: vote for it more, but things are looking grim for
Speaker 2: two of our entries. One is pulled way ahead. It's
Speaker 2: obviously Little Shop of Horror. It's obvious we've all seen it,
Speaker 2: and it's obvious we all love it, or do we?
Speaker 2: Voting is still open. Hell, it's not too late to
Speaker 2: throw in another contender. If you're so inclined. Let me
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Speaker 2: a future film. Go there links in description. That's what
Speaker 2: the podcasters say. And now a returning segment because it
Speaker 2: was so much fun. Last week, in honor of Vangoria
Speaker 2: Magazine's Terror Teletype, their column regaling you with upcoming releases,
Speaker 2: we present once again the Frightening Facts Machine. I'm well
Speaker 2: documented at this point with my feelings about nostalgia. I
Speaker 2: fucking hate it, at least the preponderance of it. I
Speaker 2: look back on my life with plenty of fond memories.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't, And there are times when our past seems
Speaker 2: way more palatable than our present. But the way some
Speaker 2: people armor themselves with the iconography of their youth is
Speaker 2: just a little square, little sad, which is nothing to
Speaker 2: say for the nostalgia industry that's sprung up over the
Speaker 2: past thirty years. When I was a kid, to get
Speaker 2: a piece of merchandise from a film you loved was
Speaker 2: nigh impossible. Obviously, if Star Wars was your thing, you
Speaker 2: were golden. In fact, anything that came out geared toward
Speaker 2: kids was going to have some level of toy or
Speaker 2: t shirt or memento that you could hold in your
Speaker 2: hot little hands. No one could claim Johns was for kids.
Speaker 2: But I had a board game that featured a giant
Speaker 2: plastic shark with a hinged jaw connected by rubber bands.
Speaker 2: You'd have to take things out of his mouth, like
Speaker 2: a wagon wheel and hope it didn't snap shut. That
Speaker 2: was officially licensed. But where was my action figure of
Speaker 2: Captain Blake, the murderous ghost from John Carpenter's The Fog. Well,
Speaker 2: he's standing on my microphone right now, because at some
Speaker 2: point someone figured out that we were all denied our
Speaker 2: idiosyncratic goodies, and there's a lot of money to be
Speaker 2: made in that regard. Yes, I am guilty of trafficking
Speaker 2: in a mild form of nostalgia, but I don't want
Speaker 2: to live back then. Right now is the best time
Speaker 2: and always has been. Yes, even in this fucked up
Speaker 2: time line. Everybody, I bring up nostalgia because I couldn't
Speaker 2: help but feel the way I did it five years old,
Speaker 2: standing outside a theater in Danvers, Massachusetts, staring at a
Speaker 2: giant s emblazoned on a movie poster for a cinematic
Speaker 2: experience that was about to blow my young mind. Of course,
Speaker 2: we're talking about Superman. James Gunn's Superman, the Savior of
Speaker 2: the DC Universe, maybe the Savior of a Warner Brothers pictures.
Speaker 2: Certainly feels that way. Seems like once upon a time,
Speaker 2: a movie that had gone wildly over budget and out
Speaker 2: of control was the only one that could make or
Speaker 2: break a studio. We miss you, United Artists. That movie
Speaker 2: Heaven's Gate by Michael Chimino, the one that destroyed United Artists.
Speaker 2: It is a terrible film. There's been a reevaluation of it,
Speaker 2: and people have convinced themselves otherwise, but they're wrong. It
Speaker 2: is not good. It is boring as fuck. Do you
Speaker 2: know that they built an entire western town and then
Speaker 2: Chimino said the road wasn't quite wide enough. And when
Speaker 2: they went to tear down half of the town to
Speaker 2: rebuild it a few feet back, he told them no,
Speaker 2: tear down both sides and to move them equidistant. That's
Speaker 2: the kind of shit that should destroy a studio, not
Speaker 2: the fucking Man of Steel. Why is so much freighted
Speaker 2: on our Kryptonian friend, Kyle el moneymen in middle management?
Speaker 2: Of course? Okay, you know what, I am nostalgic for
Speaker 2: the days of Jack Warner and people who gave a
Speaker 2: shit about movies that understood it was a business. But
Speaker 2: recognize the value of the show. Boy, You don't have
Speaker 2: to remind anyone of the opposite anymore. You know, there's
Speaker 2: a business to this show. Yeah, we all fucking get that. Now.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be great if someone in charge of getting
Speaker 2: movies made was actually interested in entertaining you? First? I
Speaker 2: suppose that's what James Gun is. I'm not the biggest
Speaker 2: fan of that guy. I think he delivers solid medium
Speaker 2: entertainment with hints of greatness and humanity here and there,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, although he'll forever be tainted with
Speaker 2: attempting to have Nicole Pearlman's name taken off of that
Speaker 2: Guardians of the Galaxy script, that plot, that story, those characters,
Speaker 2: and that configuration. Nicole Perlman, the Walkman. That's James gone. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they should have put him and partner Peter Safford in
Speaker 2: charge of the whole company, and not just DC, because
Speaker 2: no matter what moves they're making creatively, they've still got
Speaker 2: the specter of David zasliv hanging over them, ready to
Speaker 2: cut a few more corners and shave off another slice
Speaker 2: of the once great home of James Cagney and Raul
Speaker 2: Walls and Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel and fucking Stanley Kubrick. Anyway, Superman. Yes,
Speaker 2: I got the chills when John william Score kicked up
Speaker 2: in the latest end final trailer for the flick. Overall,
Speaker 2: it seems very exciting, not just the action, which looks great,
Speaker 2: but in the scope and scale of the film. The
Speaker 2: fact that he's managed to introduce Crypto the super Dog
Speaker 2: and we're all cool with it is a real achievement.
Speaker 2: That may be owing to the time we live in
Speaker 2: and how acclimated we've become to shared universes. But still,
Speaker 2: not only Crypto, but there's a green lantern and a
Speaker 2: Hawk Girl and Metamorpho and a bunch of other characters
Speaker 2: you've never heard of. That suit has grown on me.
Speaker 2: I dig that Kingdom come S emblem on the chest.
Speaker 2: Everyone looks great. Lois actually behaving like a journalist is
Speaker 2: pretty great, and Gun is reliable when it comes to
Speaker 2: the intimacy of his characters. He never lets an epic
Speaker 2: film let the epic overwhelm the other aspects of his films,
Speaker 2: and hopefully that will continue here. Couldn't be more excited
Speaker 2: for Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor along thin Lex that
Speaker 2: is just as fierce him as our hero. I'm totally
Speaker 2: down and I hope this movie does all the business
Speaker 2: because I want it to do well, but really because
Speaker 2: I love Warner Brothers and I'm hoping it will survive.
Speaker 2: But I'd also be curious to see how Gun handles
Speaker 2: the films going forward. We've never had a decent brainiac
Speaker 2: and this Superman seems cosmic as fuck, so fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't think we've ever gotten a
Speaker 2: truly great Superman film. For me, Superman two is as
Speaker 2: close as you're gonna get, and at the same time
Speaker 2: that movie is as wonky as hell. We packed a
Speaker 2: chamber to take with you just in case you feel
Speaker 2: like removing your superpowers. It can also give them back
Speaker 2: to you, even after the crystal technology that drives it
Speaker 2: exploded all over the place and then it can turn
Speaker 2: the entire room into a superpower removal chamber while protecting
Speaker 2: the occupant. Don't even get me started about the Saran
Speaker 2: rap s. How did that happen? Who thought? You know what,
Speaker 2: Superman doesn't have enough distinct powers, Let's make him make
Speaker 2: plaster of Paris copies of himself. What do you think, listeners?
Speaker 2: Is there a Superman you swear by a lex you love?
Speaker 2: Hit me up and let me know everything sends Superman
Speaker 2: to his garbage? There, I said it? What else we got?
Speaker 2: The new trailer for Ballerina came out. That's the newest
Speaker 2: spinoff for the John Wick franchise. This one stars Anna
Speaker 2: de Armas and Gabriel Byrne in that greasy fucker Darrell
Speaker 2: from The Walking Dead? What's his name? Hygiene McGee? No,
Speaker 2: that can't be it. Well, he's in it, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: What is a quick scene at the beginning is an
Speaker 2: appearance by John Wick himself, Keanu reeves. The movie seems
Speaker 2: to have the snappiness of the Wick movies, and it's
Speaker 2: got flame throwers always welcome. Here's a film franchise I
Speaker 2: stopped actually caring about after the first film, but I
Speaker 2: found that spinoff series The Continental to be a fucking hoot.
Speaker 2: I think I may have even covered it here on
Speaker 2: one of the early episodes of The Roundup. So here's
Speaker 2: helping without the weight of mister Wick and all the
Speaker 2: various secret societies and agendas and endless enemies, that this
Speaker 2: will be a good film. Ballerina is out at the
Speaker 2: end of June. Spike Lee is back with Denzel Washington
Speaker 2: their new film Highest to Lowest. Great looking trailer, can't
Speaker 2: tell you one fucking thing about what the story is.
Speaker 2: Lots of cop cars bombing around New York subways, guns, money,
Speaker 2: I don't know what it's about. I don't care. Sign
Speaker 2: me up elsewhere. Joe Kazinski, director of Top Gun Maverick,
Speaker 2: is back with Brad Pitt in f One, a film
Speaker 2: about Formula one racing that I will wait to watch
Speaker 2: when I'm at home. I don't care how violently the
Speaker 2: IMAX speakers are gonna rumble your seat, or how you
Speaker 2: really need to see it on the big No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I subscribe to George Carlin's take on NASCAR when it
Speaker 2: comes to racing movies. Driving around for eight hours in
Speaker 2: a circle does not impress me. Elsewhere, I think we
Speaker 2: can conclusively say that the Cohen brother who d all
Speaker 2: of their crime features is Ethan. God bless you, Ethan.
Speaker 2: You've always been my favorite. He's following up his inaugural
Speaker 2: solo effort, the irreverent crime drama Drive Away Dolls, with
Speaker 2: another irreverent crime drama, Honey Don't. Both films starred Margaret Qualley,
Speaker 2: but joining her here are Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and
Speaker 2: as a cricket evangelist, Captain America himself, Chris Evans. Both
Speaker 2: films are co written by Tricia Cook, who just happens
Speaker 2: to be missus Ethan Cohen and has been his editor
Speaker 2: since Labowski. I know they cut their movies under the
Speaker 2: pseudonym Roderick James, but you know she was doing the
Speaker 2: actual splicing while they paced around and bounced balls off
Speaker 2: the floor. Okay, anyway, moving along, boy, everything's a franchise
Speaker 2: these days, but the vanguard when it comes to multiplicity
Speaker 2: in cinema has always been horror. For every James Bond,
Speaker 2: there's a Freddie and Adjason. For every Rocky, there's a
Speaker 2: Leatherface and the Pinhead Skywalker family. Please meet Candy Man
Speaker 2: and Chucky and his lovely bride. Also give Michael Meyers
Speaker 2: the glad hand while you're at it. Don't mind him
Speaker 2: shy not mute. We think the explosion of horror franchises
Speaker 2: came during the slasher boom of the seventies and the
Speaker 2: entirety of the nineteen eighties. I named quite a few
Speaker 2: just now, and with them came the undeniable points of connection.
Speaker 2: At their heart, a group of young people facing some
Speaker 2: new life or new challenge are picked off one by
Speaker 2: one by a killer, masked or otherwise. The killer's motive
Speaker 2: and modus are irrelevant, but there is a killer, and
Speaker 2: our protagonists will fight their way through the length of
Speaker 2: the picture, regardless of how long the span of time
Speaker 2: passes on screen, till either all of them are dead
Speaker 2: or way more likely a soul survivor remains. Any innovation
Speaker 2: on that formula has been purely in plot or character arcs. Oh,
Speaker 2: this guy shows up in your dreams, This one's inside
Speaker 2: a puzzle box and will drag you to hell, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: One by one, they hunt and kill our heroes beginning,
Speaker 2: middle and end, and there wouldn't be any true innovation
Speaker 2: to the genre until the late nineteen nineties Not So
Speaker 2: Fast Scream franchise. Pointing out tropes while acting them out
Speaker 2: doesn't alter the formula one fucking bit. Now, the true
Speaker 2: pioneer when it comes to slasher movies started out as
Speaker 2: a spec script for The X Files. Jeffrey Reddick, the
Speaker 2: creator of the whole series, was trying to get a
Speaker 2: TV agent and his favorite show was X Files, so
Speaker 2: he cooked up a spec script about a recent article
Speaker 2: he'd read about a woman who'd been warned not to
Speaker 2: board a plane which later crashed. He never submitted to
Speaker 2: Chris Carter, convinced the idea merited its own feature, scaling
Speaker 2: the adults characters down to high school seniors. But the
Speaker 2: X Files will not be denied. More specifically, my favorite
Speaker 2: writers on the show, and actually my favorite television writers
Speaker 2: of all time, Glenn Morgan and James Wong. They cut
Speaker 2: their teeth on twenty one Jump Street Show. They were
Speaker 2: into Johnny deppu Wie before any of you. They created
Speaker 2: one of the best ni fi shows of the nineties,
Speaker 2: Space Above and Beyond, which I've covered in a previous
Speaker 2: episode if you'd like to check that out, and they
Speaker 2: shepherded my favorite season of television of All Time season
Speaker 2: two of Millennium, Chris Carter's sister series two, The X Files.
Speaker 2: They also made a bunch of movies. Some of them
Speaker 2: are very very good about half of them, and then
Speaker 2: there's some middling, and then there's Chun Lee Street Fighter
Speaker 2: with Lana Lang from Smallville. Morgan and Wang had come
Speaker 2: off X Files in Space Above and Beyond a Millennium
Speaker 2: and another failed pilot for a gangster show that had
Speaker 2: seven families each based on the Seven Deadly Sins, which
Speaker 2: sounds fucking amazing, and they were looking to get into
Speaker 2: features when this script, which originated years prior as an
Speaker 2: attempt at X files, found its way into their expert
Speaker 2: x files hands. They retained the basic setup, jettisoning basically
Speaker 2: everything else, and injected the entire affair with a sense
Speaker 2: of melancholy in dread consistent with teenage grief. And while
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Reddick had Death as an actual figure that speaks
Speaker 2: and acts and actually kills the teens, it was Morgan
Speaker 2: and Wong who came up with the first true innovation
Speaker 2: in slasher films since those idiots decided to go back
Speaker 2: to the summer camp. They made their villain Death itself invisible,
Speaker 2: reinforcing death's inevitability from the get go. You can't fight
Speaker 2: it if it's not there, And because of that they
Speaker 2: created the French signature, the Rueb Goldberg Death. Everyday, objects
Speaker 2: so safe on their own, once put in motion and
Speaker 2: in tandem, will result in a grisly death for all this,
Speaker 2: of course, after the major catastrophe that begins each of
Speaker 2: the films. Let's be honest, that's really how we tell
Speaker 2: them apart plane crash, logging, truck, roller coaster, NASCAR and
Speaker 2: suspension bridge all relatable to varying degrees. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to see f one, so the likelihood of me going
Speaker 2: to a NASCAR event are fucking slim to none. But
Speaker 2: I've been near massive machines so close that they might
Speaker 2: kill you. And we've all been on planes or on
Speaker 2: roads with perilous looking cargo trucks. If you find Final
Speaker 2: Destination two really got under your skin, then the Pacific
Speaker 2: Northwest is not for you. Or we've all driven over
Speaker 2: a bridge that gives you vertigo, no matter how far
Speaker 2: from the edge your vehicle. So what have they concocted
Speaker 2: for us this time? In our latest entry? In what
Speaker 2: is arguably my favorite horror franchise of the past twenty
Speaker 2: five years, and the first film in the franchise since
Speaker 2: twenty eleven, fourteen long years. They've done it again. Who
Speaker 2: can't relate to partying at a supper club on top
Speaker 2: of a space needle with a glass dance floor in
Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties. Family, You don't get to pick the
Speaker 2: one you get, just gotta love the one you got it.
Speaker 3: I always knew this day would come.
Speaker 1: I got it. I don't think you got it.
Speaker 3: I held him off for years.
Speaker 1: Charlie, get up here.
Speaker 3: He's a relentless son of a bitch. Won't stop till
Speaker 3: he finishes the job. Death is coming for our family.
Speaker 2: I say it.
Speaker 1: All, Grandma, what's happening to us?
Speaker 3: Years ago? I had a premonition that started at all.
Speaker 3: I saw what death was about to do. I saved
Speaker 3: a lot of lives that night, everyone lives that were
Speaker 3: never meant to be saved. But Death doesn't like it
Speaker 3: when you mess with his plans.
Speaker 4: This book, it.
Speaker 1: Will show you everything you need to know to keyheart
Speaker 1: family safe. It all started with Grandma. Death is coming
Speaker 1: for us because we were never supposed to exist.
Speaker 4: Only by embracing death. Would it passed you by?
Speaker 2: Maybe that's not actually coming for our family, because that
Speaker 2: would be crazy good luck when I think back in
Speaker 2: all the time I wasted in my youth in space needles,
Speaker 2: dancing on glass dance floors in the sixties. Look, I'm
Speaker 2: not saying they shouldn't do a period piece. I love
Speaker 2: a period piece. I thought this whole film was going
Speaker 2: to be a period piece. But honestly, how many layers
Speaker 2: of separation do you want with the audience. This whole
Speaker 2: scene may as well have taken place on moon Base Alpha.
Speaker 2: It's beautifully photographed and expertly designed. I loved the actors,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. Is it Nascar? Bad? Fuck?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: This ranks above NASCAR easily, and if I'm gonna rank them,
Speaker 2: this film Bloodlines not to bury the lead, but is
Speaker 2: definitely better than Nascar and the plane crash. But is
Speaker 2: it better than logging truck and roller coaster?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Ripspick will get you the best of the series. This
Speaker 2: is in the middle. Overall. It isn't one step forward
Speaker 2: two steps back. It's more like hopping in place. For
Speaker 2: every groovy new idea they introduce, there's some ham handed
Speaker 2: plot contrivance or lamentable dialogue. In fact, whatever your preference
Speaker 2: of any of the Final Destination films, rewatch them all.
Speaker 2: Tell me Morgan and Wongs don't have the best characters
Speaker 2: and the best dialogue. Hands down. I said, hands down,
Speaker 2: pause too. One of those ideas in this film is
Speaker 2: that the survivor saved everyone, which is like a couple
Speaker 2: one hundred people, and those people married and had kids.
Speaker 2: So now it's taken death fifty years to catch up
Speaker 2: with its initial survivor and her family. And because the
Speaker 2: path of destruction is so clearly marked fathered a son
Speaker 2: to grandson, etc. There's no need for our leads to
Speaker 2: fumble around looking for clues as to who's next, which
Speaker 2: is pretty fucking great, But that bumps up against the
Speaker 2: only good thing about NASCAR, which was that if you
Speaker 2: eluded death during a disaster, you weren't allowed to die
Speaker 2: until got to you in its own time and pattern.
Speaker 2: Mackelty Williams tries to kill himself multiple times and can't.
Speaker 2: So how does that jibe with a lineage? Does that
Speaker 2: mean your kids can't die before you? Maybe it's not contradictory,
Speaker 2: and it's a possible tributary to explore in future flicks. Nevertheless,
Speaker 2: there aren't that many rules to this universe, so adherence
Speaker 2: is key. I can't forgive the Terminator franchise for stating
Speaker 2: so implicitly that the time machine can only send a
Speaker 2: living tissue to our present. Then in the next film
Speaker 2: they sent a liquid metal robot. But this film does
Speaker 2: hold up other films precedents. This one's a bit more
Speaker 2: hopeful than others in that it teases that Kimberly Corman
Speaker 2: from the logging truck. She continues to live, though how
Speaker 2: might be a bit slippery in the morality department. We'll
Speaker 2: see more on that in future films, I'm guessing. Also,
Speaker 2: we're given an extended family instead of fellow survivors. Here
Speaker 2: in fact, none of the characters are involved in the
Speaker 2: initial catastrophe at all, and there are some reasons to
Speaker 2: really admire that, particularly with cousin Eric, the tattoo nose
Speaker 2: ring fellow. You've no doubt spied in the trailer for
Speaker 2: what happens to that nose ring. That's not a spoiler.
Speaker 2: It's in the trailer and it's on the poster. His
Speaker 2: character goes through the only real personal turmoil in the
Speaker 2: entire flick. He's great, by the way, played by Richard Harmon,
Speaker 2: who was weirdly in a Smallville episode about an exploding plane,
Speaker 2: but also did really great work on the show The Killing,
Speaker 2: Remember that with Joel Kineman. Love that series, and he's
Speaker 2: Captain Boomerang and the Arrow Verse. The other great performance
Speaker 2: in this film, the fucking jewel of a performance comes
Speaker 2: from Rayah Kilshtett as our leads mom. She is great here.
Speaker 2: I had no idea. I was already a fan of hers,
Speaker 2: but she's the fourth sister in the obi Wan series
Speaker 2: and Tails from the Empire, and she had a great
Speaker 2: run on Dexter back in the day The Kills. Like
Speaker 2: the rest of the film, they're middling. I will say
Speaker 2: that CGI Gore has gotten really good. There are moments
Speaker 2: watching people come apart where it all becomes like just
Speaker 2: so many more pieces of a Rube Goldberg machine, gears,
Speaker 2: com skulls, femurs. It's very heavy for an old Gorehound
Speaker 2: to see some of it done this well. I'm a
Speaker 2: sucker for practical, but practically can suck just as bad
Speaker 2: as lame digital effects. Let's be honest. I think bloodlines
Speaker 2: opens a franchise up to greater possibilities, which is exactly
Speaker 2: what a sequel ought to be doing. It's doing pretty well,
Speaker 2: so I hope you get more and we get some
Speaker 2: folks in there who can make things more relatable. That's
Speaker 2: the engine that drives this series. I've never been pulled
Speaker 2: into a madman's nightmare world, but I have boiled a
Speaker 2: kettle next to a very sharp knife, much like Kristin
Speaker 2: Kloak in the plane crash. And that's the thing. The
Speaker 2: more outlandish kills are warranted in each of the films.
Speaker 2: You got to top the last one. But enough with
Speaker 2: the explosions. That's all I'm gonna say. If for no
Speaker 2: other reason, you should see bloodlines in theaters to honor
Speaker 2: the specter that looms over the entire franchise. Death may
Speaker 2: not make an appearance in any of the movies, but
Speaker 2: his assistant certainly does. Mister Tony Todd. This is his
Speaker 2: last big screen role, and he does not disappoint. But
Speaker 2: you'll be disappointed in yourself if you don't go. What
Speaker 2: about you, Ripley, How do you rate this flick? Not
Speaker 2: enough dogs? There were dogs at the barbecue, Not enough
Speaker 2: of them Okay, hit it, HP, sip J, thank you, HP,
Speaker 2: call a cab and take the tape of tonight's show
Speaker 2: straight to the Museum of Broadcasting. So what is it,
Speaker 2: little girl? Which destination is final? Which reigns Bloody Supreme,
Speaker 2: logging truck or roller Coaster? You're fucking right, good girl.
Speaker 2: Roller Coaster is the best film in the franchise. Shove it.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I gave the email address and the
Speaker 2: Insta handle. I like that logging sequence and the crushed
Speaker 2: flat sequence. Beyond that, I do not care for those characters,
Speaker 2: and I do not care if they live or die.
Speaker 2: Final Destination three, on the other hand, with the return
Speaker 2: of series originators Glenn Morgan and James Wong, is the
Speaker 2: high mark of the series. These guys have understood exactly
Speaker 2: what these movies are from the get go. There's no villain,
Speaker 2: making it pure thrill ride and why not take that
Speaker 2: to its logical conclusion with a fucking theme park and
Speaker 2: a fucking roller coaster and a group of high school
Speaker 2: seniors ready to take the horrifying leap into adulthood. Plus,
Speaker 2: it has the series' strongest lead performance by missus Obi
Speaker 2: Wan Kenobi Mary Elizabeth Winstead is ew and McGregor a final.
Speaker 2: This the Nason Touchstone. Love to see him in one
Speaker 2: of these, not to mention the late Shirley Walker's phenomenal score.
Speaker 2: And it has the Tanning Beds and those girls you
Speaker 2: remember them, you remember their type. Ah, the Tanning Beds,
Speaker 2: Paris Hilton Clones burning Alive to the strains of roller
Speaker 2: Coaster of Love by Tommy Lee. What could be better?
Speaker 2: One of those two actresses, Crystal Lowe, is great here
Speaker 2: and in another Morgan Wong flick their remake of Black Christmas.
Speaker 2: She's great there too. I was hoping she'd get to
Speaker 2: scream Queen's status, but she seems banished to Hallmark Christmas
Speaker 2: movies these days. Remember those aloof Goth kids They were
Speaker 2: actually funny. That's Morgan and Wong again. Their dialogue is
Speaker 2: always sparkling, and it has the fucking roller coaster, which
Speaker 2: is a great sequence. And if you go on YouTube
Speaker 2: you can watch all the behind the scenes shit where
Speaker 2: they built their own roller coaster, which is also pretty
Speaker 2: fucking cool. I mean, it would suck if you were
Speaker 2: one of the actors, but I'm not. What I am
Speaker 2: is in love with this movie. It is a perfect
Speaker 2: combination of the first two films. The wit and character
Speaker 2: depth and emotion from the first matched with a bravura,
Speaker 2: unhinged approach to kills that they took from the second.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're all burning through the catalog as this
Speaker 2: new one is released, and I commend you for it.
Speaker 2: But if you're only gonna watch one again, or if
Speaker 2: you've never seen any, start at the top final destination
Speaker 2: three and that's gonna do it for the roundup this week,
Speaker 2: make sure you tune in Friday. We've got another. Well, honestly,
Speaker 2: it might be Tales from the Dark Side, it might
Speaker 2: be thunder Art. I haven't decided.
Speaker 4: You're at the.
Speaker 2: Whims of a madman. Listeners, if you want to support
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Speaker 2: Ripley Jean, I'm Father Malone. Here's a bit from final Destination,
Speaker 2: which one.
Speaker 4: You figure out the design, you can cheat death. Alex,
Speaker 4: You've already done that by walking on the plane. Your
Speaker 4: friend's departure shows that death as a new design for
Speaker 4: all of you. You have to figure out how and
Speaker 4: when it's coming back at you. Play amante Alix if
Speaker 4: you think you can get away with it, but remember
Speaker 4: the risk of cheating the plan, of disrespecting the design
Speaker 4: could incite a fury that could terrorize Oh, my grandmother,
Speaker 4: and you don't even want to.
Speaker 3: Fuck with that, daddy, Okay.
Speaker 4: Then well, yeah, I'm sorry, were broken and no heart,
Speaker 4: no file. I'll see you, sir. H two