WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:04.960 Weird. 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:58.159 We welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up. 3 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.560 I'm Father Malone and with me with one point in 4 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:05.560 the grave is miss ripley Gen. How are you you, 5 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:10.200 young cheater of death? Nonplused by the concept of mortality? 6 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.840 What a good girl you are? We got death on 7 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.000 the brain here at the roundup, thanks once again to 8 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.040 the Rube Goldberg villain of all time, the Final Destination Films. 9 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:23.439 But before that the business. We've got a three way 10 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.799 battle for musical episode going on right now. The contenders 11 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.680 American Pop, Little Chomp of Horrors and The Singing Detective 12 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.680 that is the seven hour British mini series. I encourage 13 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.879 you to vote for hoping that it would make frequent 14 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:39.920 collaborator HP tremble, and it did. He does not want 15 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:42.239 to do the Singing Detective. I would encourage you to 16 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:44.760 vote for it more, but things are looking grim for 17 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.000 two of our entries. One is pulled way ahead. It's 18 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:51.519 obviously Little Shop of Horror. It's obvious we've all seen it, 19 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.159 and it's obvious we all love it, or do we? 20 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:56.959 Voting is still open. Hell, it's not too late to 21 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.519 throw in another contender. If you're so inclined. Let me 22 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.920 know at Father Malone on the socials. That's where you're 23 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.640 most likely to find me. But don't forget Father Malone 24 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.439 seven to one at gmail dot com For everything else 25 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.039 or something else I don't know, hit me up vote 26 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.039 for a musical, tell me I'm wrong about something, request 27 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:18.240 a future film. Go there links in description. That's what 28 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.439 the podcasters say. And now a returning segment because it 29 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:25.560 was so much fun. Last week, in honor of Vangoria 30 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.840 Magazine's Terror Teletype, their column regaling you with upcoming releases, 31 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:39.919 we present once again the Frightening Facts Machine. I'm well 32 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:43.280 documented at this point with my feelings about nostalgia. I 33 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.479 fucking hate it, at least the preponderance of it. I 34 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:48.800 look back on my life with plenty of fond memories. 35 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.919 Who doesn't, And there are times when our past seems 36 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:54.840 way more palatable than our present. But the way some 37 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:58.319 people armor themselves with the iconography of their youth is 38 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:01.719 just a little square, little sad, which is nothing to 39 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:04.159 say for the nostalgia industry that's sprung up over the 40 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.479 past thirty years. When I was a kid, to get 41 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.800 a piece of merchandise from a film you loved was 42 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.280 nigh impossible. Obviously, if Star Wars was your thing, you 43 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.879 were golden. In fact, anything that came out geared toward 44 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.439 kids was going to have some level of toy or 45 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:19.680 t shirt or memento that you could hold in your 46 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.919 hot little hands. No one could claim Johns was for kids. 47 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:24.680 But I had a board game that featured a giant 48 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.800 plastic shark with a hinged jaw connected by rubber bands. 49 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:29.960 You'd have to take things out of his mouth, like 50 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:33.080 a wagon wheel and hope it didn't snap shut. That 51 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.919 was officially licensed. But where was my action figure of 52 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:40.240 Captain Blake, the murderous ghost from John Carpenter's The Fog. Well, 53 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.759 he's standing on my microphone right now, because at some 54 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.639 point someone figured out that we were all denied our 55 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.639 idiosyncratic goodies, and there's a lot of money to be 56 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:51.599 made in that regard. Yes, I am guilty of trafficking 57 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.000 in a mild form of nostalgia, but I don't want 58 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:57.039 to live back then. Right now is the best time 59 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:59.759 and always has been. Yes, even in this fucked up 60 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.360 time line. Everybody, I bring up nostalgia because I couldn't 61 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:05.560 help but feel the way I did it five years old, 62 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.280 standing outside a theater in Danvers, Massachusetts, staring at a 63 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.840 giant s emblazoned on a movie poster for a cinematic 64 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.279 experience that was about to blow my young mind. Of course, 65 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.800 we're talking about Superman. James Gunn's Superman, the Savior of 66 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.959 the DC Universe, maybe the Savior of a Warner Brothers pictures. 67 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.920 Certainly feels that way. Seems like once upon a time, 68 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.439 a movie that had gone wildly over budget and out 69 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.639 of control was the only one that could make or 70 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:36.160 break a studio. We miss you, United Artists. That movie 71 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.839 Heaven's Gate by Michael Chimino, the one that destroyed United Artists. 72 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.319 It is a terrible film. There's been a reevaluation of it, 73 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.399 and people have convinced themselves otherwise, but they're wrong. It 74 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.920 is not good. It is boring as fuck. Do you 75 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.759 know that they built an entire western town and then 76 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.959 Chimino said the road wasn't quite wide enough. And when 77 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:56.920 they went to tear down half of the town to 78 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.040 rebuild it a few feet back, he told them no, 79 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:03.399 tear down both sides and to move them equidistant. That's 80 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:05.879 the kind of shit that should destroy a studio, not 81 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.000 the fucking Man of Steel. Why is so much freighted 82 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:13.040 on our Kryptonian friend, Kyle el moneymen in middle management? 83 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:16.480 Of course? Okay, you know what, I am nostalgic for 84 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:18.959 the days of Jack Warner and people who gave a 85 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.120 shit about movies that understood it was a business. But 86 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:25.120 recognize the value of the show. Boy, You don't have 87 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.519 to remind anyone of the opposite anymore. You know, there's 88 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.959 a business to this show. Yeah, we all fucking get that. Now. 89 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.079 Wouldn't it be great if someone in charge of getting 90 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.920 movies made was actually interested in entertaining you? First? I 91 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.800 suppose that's what James Gun is. I'm not the biggest 92 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.879 fan of that guy. I think he delivers solid medium 93 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.160 entertainment with hints of greatness and humanity here and there, 94 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.160 don't get me wrong, although he'll forever be tainted with 95 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:51.639 attempting to have Nicole Pearlman's name taken off of that 96 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.920 Guardians of the Galaxy script, that plot, that story, those characters, 97 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:01.120 and that configuration. Nicole Perlman, the Walkman. That's James gone. Anyway, 98 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.399 they should have put him and partner Peter Safford in 99 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.399 charge of the whole company, and not just DC, because 100 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.120 no matter what moves they're making creatively, they've still got 101 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:12.120 the specter of David zasliv hanging over them, ready to 102 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.560 cut a few more corners and shave off another slice 103 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.560 of the once great home of James Cagney and Raul 104 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:25.759 Walls and Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel and fucking Stanley Kubrick. Anyway, Superman. Yes, 105 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.279 I got the chills when John william Score kicked up 106 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:31.519 in the latest end final trailer for the flick. Overall, 107 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:35.319 it seems very exciting, not just the action, which looks great, 108 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.199 but in the scope and scale of the film. The 109 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.279 fact that he's managed to introduce Crypto the super Dog 110 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.959 and we're all cool with it is a real achievement. 111 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.079 That may be owing to the time we live in 112 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.360 and how acclimated we've become to shared universes. But still, 113 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:51.680 not only Crypto, but there's a green lantern and a 114 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:54.439 Hawk Girl and Metamorpho and a bunch of other characters 115 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.160 you've never heard of. That suit has grown on me. 116 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.879 I dig that Kingdom come S emblem on the chest. 117 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.720 Everyone looks great. Lois actually behaving like a journalist is 118 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.319 pretty great, and Gun is reliable when it comes to 119 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.120 the intimacy of his characters. He never lets an epic 120 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:12.279 film let the epic overwhelm the other aspects of his films, 121 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.279 and hopefully that will continue here. Couldn't be more excited 122 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:19.360 for Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor along thin Lex that 123 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.319 is just as fierce him as our hero. I'm totally 124 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.560 down and I hope this movie does all the business 125 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.120 because I want it to do well, but really because 126 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.439 I love Warner Brothers and I'm hoping it will survive. 127 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.160 But I'd also be curious to see how Gun handles 128 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.480 the films going forward. We've never had a decent brainiac 129 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.040 and this Superman seems cosmic as fuck, so fingers crossed. 130 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.000 You know what, I don't think we've ever gotten a 131 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.360 truly great Superman film. For me, Superman two is as 132 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.399 close as you're gonna get, and at the same time 133 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.240 that movie is as wonky as hell. We packed a 134 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:52.639 chamber to take with you just in case you feel 135 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:56.360 like removing your superpowers. It can also give them back 136 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:58.879 to you, even after the crystal technology that drives it 137 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.720 exploded all over the place and then it can turn 138 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.639 the entire room into a superpower removal chamber while protecting 139 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:08.079 the occupant. Don't even get me started about the Saran 140 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.360 rap s. How did that happen? Who thought? You know what, 141 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.639 Superman doesn't have enough distinct powers, Let's make him make 142 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.120 plaster of Paris copies of himself. What do you think, listeners? 143 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.759 Is there a Superman you swear by a lex you love? 144 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.759 Hit me up and let me know everything sends Superman 145 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.519 to his garbage? There, I said it? What else we got? 146 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.839 The new trailer for Ballerina came out. That's the newest 147 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.159 spinoff for the John Wick franchise. This one stars Anna 148 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:38.559 de Armas and Gabriel Byrne in that greasy fucker Darrell 149 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.799 from The Walking Dead? What's his name? Hygiene McGee? No, 150 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.360 that can't be it. Well, he's in it, I'm sure. 151 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:47.720 What is a quick scene at the beginning is an 152 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:51.679 appearance by John Wick himself, Keanu reeves. The movie seems 153 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.679 to have the snappiness of the Wick movies, and it's 154 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:57.480 got flame throwers always welcome. Here's a film franchise I 155 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.120 stopped actually caring about after the first film, but I 156 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.399 found that spinoff series The Continental to be a fucking hoot. 157 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.240 I think I may have even covered it here on 158 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.759 one of the early episodes of The Roundup. So here's 159 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:09.759 helping without the weight of mister Wick and all the 160 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.399 various secret societies and agendas and endless enemies, that this 161 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.240 will be a good film. Ballerina is out at the 162 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.559 end of June. Spike Lee is back with Denzel Washington 163 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.480 their new film Highest to Lowest. Great looking trailer, can't 164 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:25.399 tell you one fucking thing about what the story is. 165 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:30.080 Lots of cop cars bombing around New York subways, guns, money, 166 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.320 I don't know what it's about. I don't care. Sign 167 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:36.480 me up elsewhere. Joe Kazinski, director of Top Gun Maverick, 168 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.240 is back with Brad Pitt in f One, a film 169 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.919 about Formula one racing that I will wait to watch 170 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.320 when I'm at home. I don't care how violently the 171 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.639 IMAX speakers are gonna rumble your seat, or how you 172 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:48.679 really need to see it on the big No, I don't. 173 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.000 I subscribe to George Carlin's take on NASCAR when it 174 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.679 comes to racing movies. Driving around for eight hours in 175 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.840 a circle does not impress me. Elsewhere, I think we 176 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:00.399 can conclusively say that the Cohen brother who d all 177 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:04.120 of their crime features is Ethan. God bless you, Ethan. 178 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.240 You've always been my favorite. He's following up his inaugural 179 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.919 solo effort, the irreverent crime drama Drive Away Dolls, with 180 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:15.840 another irreverent crime drama, Honey Don't. Both films starred Margaret Qualley, 181 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:19.240 but joining her here are Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and 182 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:23.720 as a cricket evangelist, Captain America himself, Chris Evans. Both 183 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.000 films are co written by Tricia Cook, who just happens 184 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.200 to be missus Ethan Cohen and has been his editor 185 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.240 since Labowski. I know they cut their movies under the 186 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.639 pseudonym Roderick James, but you know she was doing the 187 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.919 actual splicing while they paced around and bounced balls off 188 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:41.000 the floor. Okay, anyway, moving along, boy, everything's a franchise 189 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.279 these days, but the vanguard when it comes to multiplicity 190 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:47.440 in cinema has always been horror. For every James Bond, 191 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.440 there's a Freddie and Adjason. For every Rocky, there's a 192 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.639 Leatherface and the Pinhead Skywalker family. Please meet Candy Man 193 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:57.879 and Chucky and his lovely bride. Also give Michael Meyers 194 00:10:57.919 --> 00:10:59.879 the glad hand while you're at it. Don't mind him 195 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:04.279 shy not mute. We think the explosion of horror franchises 196 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:06.639 came during the slasher boom of the seventies and the 197 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.120 entirety of the nineteen eighties. I named quite a few 198 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.559 just now, and with them came the undeniable points of connection. 199 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.440 At their heart, a group of young people facing some 200 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:18.120 new life or new challenge are picked off one by 201 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.679 one by a killer, masked or otherwise. The killer's motive 202 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.960 and modus are irrelevant, but there is a killer, and 203 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.159 our protagonists will fight their way through the length of 204 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.480 the picture, regardless of how long the span of time 205 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:32.240 passes on screen, till either all of them are dead 206 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.840 or way more likely a soul survivor remains. Any innovation 207 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:40.559 on that formula has been purely in plot or character arcs. Oh, 208 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.200 this guy shows up in your dreams, This one's inside 209 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.799 a puzzle box and will drag you to hell, doesn't matter. 210 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:49.159 One by one, they hunt and kill our heroes beginning, 211 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.600 middle and end, and there wouldn't be any true innovation 212 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.960 to the genre until the late nineteen nineties Not So 213 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.879 Fast Scream franchise. Pointing out tropes while acting them out 214 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.080 doesn't alter the formula one fucking bit. Now, the true 215 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.000 pioneer when it comes to slasher movies started out as 216 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:09.279 a spec script for The X Files. Jeffrey Reddick, the 217 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.120 creator of the whole series, was trying to get a 218 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.919 TV agent and his favorite show was X Files, so 219 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:16.320 he cooked up a spec script about a recent article 220 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:18.679 he'd read about a woman who'd been warned not to 221 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.960 board a plane which later crashed. He never submitted to 222 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.799 Chris Carter, convinced the idea merited its own feature, scaling 223 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.840 the adults characters down to high school seniors. But the 224 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.360 X Files will not be denied. More specifically, my favorite 225 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:35.039 writers on the show, and actually my favorite television writers 226 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.159 of all time, Glenn Morgan and James Wong. They cut 227 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.320 their teeth on twenty one Jump Street Show. They were 228 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:43.080 into Johnny deppu Wie before any of you. They created 229 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:44.919 one of the best ni fi shows of the nineties, 230 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.320 Space Above and Beyond, which I've covered in a previous 231 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:49.320 episode if you'd like to check that out, and they 232 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.759 shepherded my favorite season of television of All Time season 233 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.639 two of Millennium, Chris Carter's sister series two, The X Files. 234 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.320 They also made a bunch of movies. Some of them 235 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.919 are very very good about half of them, and then 236 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.039 there's some middling, and then there's Chun Lee Street Fighter 237 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.200 with Lana Lang from Smallville. Morgan and Wang had come 238 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.919 off X Files in Space Above and Beyond a Millennium 239 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.559 and another failed pilot for a gangster show that had 240 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.720 seven families each based on the Seven Deadly Sins, which 241 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.320 sounds fucking amazing, and they were looking to get into 242 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.519 features when this script, which originated years prior as an 243 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:25.240 attempt at X files, found its way into their expert 244 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.200 x files hands. They retained the basic setup, jettisoning basically 245 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.480 everything else, and injected the entire affair with a sense 246 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:36.399 of melancholy in dread consistent with teenage grief. And while 247 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.639 Jeffrey Reddick had Death as an actual figure that speaks 248 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.720 and acts and actually kills the teens, it was Morgan 249 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.759 and Wong who came up with the first true innovation 250 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.279 in slasher films since those idiots decided to go back 251 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.679 to the summer camp. They made their villain Death itself invisible, 252 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.799 reinforcing death's inevitability from the get go. You can't fight 253 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.240 it if it's not there, And because of that they 254 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:04.559 created the French signature, the Rueb Goldberg Death. Everyday, objects 255 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:06.919 so safe on their own, once put in motion and 256 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.200 in tandem, will result in a grisly death for all this, 257 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:13.000 of course, after the major catastrophe that begins each of 258 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.200 the films. Let's be honest, that's really how we tell 259 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.960 them apart plane crash, logging, truck, roller coaster, NASCAR and 260 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:25.440 suspension bridge all relatable to varying degrees. I'm not going 261 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.559 to see f one, so the likelihood of me going 262 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.039 to a NASCAR event are fucking slim to none. But 263 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:32.519 I've been near massive machines so close that they might 264 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.919 kill you. And we've all been on planes or on 265 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:38.480 roads with perilous looking cargo trucks. If you find Final 266 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.600 Destination two really got under your skin, then the Pacific 267 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.919 Northwest is not for you. Or we've all driven over 268 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.480 a bridge that gives you vertigo, no matter how far 269 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.799 from the edge your vehicle. So what have they concocted 270 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:53.480 for us this time? In our latest entry? In what 271 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.720 is arguably my favorite horror franchise of the past twenty 272 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:59.159 five years, and the first film in the franchise since 273 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:04.480 twenty eleven, fourteen long years. They've done it again. Who 274 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.120 can't relate to partying at a supper club on top 275 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.320 of a space needle with a glass dance floor in 276 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:16.720 the nineteen sixties. Family, You don't get to pick the 277 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.120 one you get, just gotta love the one you got it. 278 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:23.919 I always knew this day would come. 279 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.120 I got it. I don't think you got it. 280 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:31.480 I held him off for years. 281 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:33.919 Charlie, get up here. 282 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:43.240 He's a relentless son of a bitch. Won't stop till 283 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:52.360 he finishes the job. Death is coming for our family. 284 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:53.879 I say it. 285 00:15:53.960 --> 00:16:08.960 All, Grandma, what's happening to us? 286 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.279 Years ago? I had a premonition that started at all. 287 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:28.840 I saw what death was about to do. I saved 288 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:32.759 a lot of lives that night, everyone lives that were 289 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:35.519 never meant to be saved. But Death doesn't like it 290 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.039 when you mess with his plans. 291 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:42.159 This book, it. 292 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.039 Will show you everything you need to know to keyheart 293 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:49.600 family safe. It all started with Grandma. Death is coming 294 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:52.279 for us because we were never supposed to exist. 295 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:59.720 Only by embracing death. Would it passed you by? 296 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:07.240 Maybe that's not actually coming for our family, because that 297 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:17.119 would be crazy good luck when I think back in 298 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.680 all the time I wasted in my youth in space needles, 299 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.480 dancing on glass dance floors in the sixties. Look, I'm 300 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.599 not saying they shouldn't do a period piece. I love 301 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.160 a period piece. I thought this whole film was going 302 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:31.400 to be a period piece. But honestly, how many layers 303 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.519 of separation do you want with the audience. This whole 304 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.400 scene may as well have taken place on moon Base Alpha. 305 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.359 It's beautifully photographed and expertly designed. I loved the actors, 306 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.880 but I don't know. Is it Nascar? Bad? Fuck? 307 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:45.000 No? 308 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.359 This ranks above NASCAR easily, and if I'm gonna rank them, 309 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.599 this film Bloodlines not to bury the lead, but is 310 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.039 definitely better than Nascar and the plane crash. But is 311 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:57.839 it better than logging truck and roller coaster? 312 00:17:58.599 --> 00:17:58.680 No? 313 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.720 Ripspick will get you the best of the series. This 314 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:05.160 is in the middle. Overall. It isn't one step forward 315 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:08.079 two steps back. It's more like hopping in place. For 316 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.279 every groovy new idea they introduce, there's some ham handed 317 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:15.200 plot contrivance or lamentable dialogue. In fact, whatever your preference 318 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.000 of any of the Final Destination films, rewatch them all. 319 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.480 Tell me Morgan and Wongs don't have the best characters 320 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:24.119 and the best dialogue. Hands down. I said, hands down, 321 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:28.079 pause too. One of those ideas in this film is 322 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:31.480 that the survivor saved everyone, which is like a couple 323 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:34.359 one hundred people, and those people married and had kids. 324 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.160 So now it's taken death fifty years to catch up 325 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.599 with its initial survivor and her family. And because the 326 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:43.240 path of destruction is so clearly marked fathered a son 327 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:45.720 to grandson, etc. There's no need for our leads to 328 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.839 fumble around looking for clues as to who's next, which 329 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.920 is pretty fucking great, But that bumps up against the 330 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:55.559 only good thing about NASCAR, which was that if you 331 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.119 eluded death during a disaster, you weren't allowed to die 332 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:02.519 until got to you in its own time and pattern. 333 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.200 Mackelty Williams tries to kill himself multiple times and can't. 334 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:09.880 So how does that jibe with a lineage? Does that 335 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:14.039 mean your kids can't die before you? Maybe it's not contradictory, 336 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.599 and it's a possible tributary to explore in future flicks. Nevertheless, 337 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.759 there aren't that many rules to this universe, so adherence 338 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:24.279 is key. I can't forgive the Terminator franchise for stating 339 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.359 so implicitly that the time machine can only send a 340 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.400 living tissue to our present. Then in the next film 341 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.519 they sent a liquid metal robot. But this film does 342 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.279 hold up other films precedents. This one's a bit more 343 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:39.400 hopeful than others in that it teases that Kimberly Corman 344 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.920 from the logging truck. She continues to live, though how 345 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:46.279 might be a bit slippery in the morality department. We'll 346 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:48.720 see more on that in future films, I'm guessing. Also, 347 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.720 we're given an extended family instead of fellow survivors. Here 348 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:54.839 in fact, none of the characters are involved in the 349 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:58.000 initial catastrophe at all, and there are some reasons to 350 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:02.079 really admire that, particularly with cousin Eric, the tattoo nose 351 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.240 ring fellow. You've no doubt spied in the trailer for 352 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:06.799 what happens to that nose ring. That's not a spoiler. 353 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:08.759 It's in the trailer and it's on the poster. His 354 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.680 character goes through the only real personal turmoil in the 355 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.880 entire flick. He's great, by the way, played by Richard Harmon, 356 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.880 who was weirdly in a Smallville episode about an exploding plane, 357 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.359 but also did really great work on the show The Killing, 358 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:23.720 Remember that with Joel Kineman. Love that series, and he's 359 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:27.480 Captain Boomerang and the Arrow Verse. The other great performance 360 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:30.599 in this film, the fucking jewel of a performance comes 361 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:34.599 from Rayah Kilshtett as our leads mom. She is great here. 362 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.440 I had no idea. I was already a fan of hers, 363 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.240 but she's the fourth sister in the obi Wan series 364 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.559 and Tails from the Empire, and she had a great 365 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:46.359 run on Dexter back in the day The Kills. Like 366 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.960 the rest of the film, they're middling. I will say 367 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:53.160 that CGI Gore has gotten really good. There are moments 368 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:55.960 watching people come apart where it all becomes like just 369 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:59.599 so many more pieces of a Rube Goldberg machine, gears, 370 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.640 com skulls, femurs. It's very heavy for an old Gorehound 371 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:05.559 to see some of it done this well. I'm a 372 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:08.519 sucker for practical, but practically can suck just as bad 373 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:12.200 as lame digital effects. Let's be honest. I think bloodlines 374 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:15.799 opens a franchise up to greater possibilities, which is exactly 375 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:18.599 what a sequel ought to be doing. It's doing pretty well, 376 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:21.000 so I hope you get more and we get some 377 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:23.880 folks in there who can make things more relatable. That's 378 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.200 the engine that drives this series. I've never been pulled 379 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:29.920 into a madman's nightmare world, but I have boiled a 380 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.640 kettle next to a very sharp knife, much like Kristin 381 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:34.920 Kloak in the plane crash. And that's the thing. The 382 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.559 more outlandish kills are warranted in each of the films. 383 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:39.519 You got to top the last one. But enough with 384 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:43.119 the explosions. That's all I'm gonna say. If for no 385 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:46.960 other reason, you should see bloodlines in theaters to honor 386 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.480 the specter that looms over the entire franchise. Death may 387 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:52.359 not make an appearance in any of the movies, but 388 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.200 his assistant certainly does. Mister Tony Todd. This is his 389 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.559 last big screen role, and he does not disappoint. But 390 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:02.839 you'll be disappointed in yourself if you don't go. What 391 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:05.160 about you, Ripley, How do you rate this flick? Not 392 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:09.680 enough dogs? There were dogs at the barbecue, Not enough 393 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:18.440 of them Okay, hit it, HP, sip J, thank you, HP, 394 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:20.680 call a cab and take the tape of tonight's show 395 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:24.079 straight to the Museum of Broadcasting. So what is it, 396 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:28.799 little girl? Which destination is final? Which reigns Bloody Supreme, 397 00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:34.519 logging truck or roller Coaster? You're fucking right, good girl. 398 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:37.960 Roller Coaster is the best film in the franchise. Shove it. 399 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:40.440 I don't care. I gave the email address and the 400 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:43.839 Insta handle. I like that logging sequence and the crushed 401 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:47.480