¶ Intro / Opening
Ready, everybody, let's just get into it. Here we go,
¶ A Quiet Place Day One Review
Welcome back, midnight viewers, do another edition of Father Malone's weekly round Up. I am Father Malone and right beside me as my co host and my bestest pal Ripley.
Hey, what's up with the reverb?
Oh?
I get it?
Okay, I suppose I need to mention someone who never gets mentioned in the booth making us sound good. Is my other bestest pal, our producer, Foxy Brown.
Oh okay, that's better. Fox.
He's a Manx Manx cat from the Isle of Man, and they are weird. They're they're that stubby tailed cap but they look like Tabby's. They don't meow, they click and they trill. Like I said, they're from the Isle of Man originally. And I always wonder if I'm being cruel by keeping her here in the desert. You sure, no, I guess you don't want to be any closer to water than you have to be. Anyway, that's the crew,
that's our team. We've got three recommendations as always, and as always, I hope they're readily available to stream for you, because that's the idea. And you know what, it's summertime. I'm going all the way summer, and I'm going first all the way back to the summer of nineteen ninety seven.
I don't care.
I'm going remember nineties action, all the slow mo, all the bomb bass. They were an affront to any right thinking action fan, and they were glorious. At the center of the whole, McGill was the most unlikely man of action possible, not that or any other moment, seemingly though clearly more than capable, a man who is part of a true American cinematic dynasty. He's a Coppola, after all, and his stage name should have been a tip off that he always had the soul of a comic book hero.
We're talking Nicholas Cage, a man I sat behind at the Boston Film Festival premiere of Vampire's Kiss. His cologne was so overpowering that midway through the film I had to retreat to the bathroom to douse my eyeballs. That's cute. No one's going to need to douse their eyeballs after watching My choice for the week. There are a trio of Nick Cage flicks to choose from, so which one is it?
Have a listen. He's a US ranger, highly decorated, did.
A little hell raising when he's a kid enough, he's defending his wife, got a drunken brawl.
And he killed the guy.
Could happen to you or me?
After serving the last of his sentence, Cameron Pole is taking the first plane home to his wife and daughter.
Today's flight is a special one.
We're populating Louisiana's felt the penitentiary and these guys are the worst of the worst.
See a lot of celebrities among us.
I see eleven Prime Time lives, three regions of Kathy Lee's a January twenty twenty interview, Eve.
That you're looking at punk nothing.
I was just on your cage.
But one wrong flight, Stewardess, what's the end of flight?
Livery today? You can ruin your whole day?
What happened?
Do you hear the fighting man?
Welcome to con Air jivert.
One you're not cleared for and nobody owns that.
Here's a flyer. The issue here is how the plane is brought down.
Shout it down?
Some people off there.
He's got a little girl to come mom too.
He's been waiting for this date for eight years.
Of God, what are you gonna do.
Please think I'm going. I'm go.
This summer. Check your weapons, take.
Your seat, hen at your card, and say your prayers.
Yeah World.
From Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer of The Rock Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, John Malcolvich. Where are they gonna lay on that thing?
How do you feel about the Black tach Tables? On June sixth, who Buncle Up? Conn Air?
Directed by Simon West.
Thank you and have a pleasant Flow.
Nineteen ninety three, an article about the real life airborne prisoner transport nicknamed kan Air caught the attention of a Disney exac who hired a young man who was popular at that moment for a spec script he had written. His name is Scott Rosenberg. I was in la in ninety three and was one of the people who had read Rosenberg's a then unproduced script for Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.
There is a film of it.
Andy Garcia is the lead, and Treat Williams is spectacular as a character named critical Bill. It's really good and I like it a lot, but no film was going to do that script. Justice Aleo noir with dialogue stylized to the point of shattering and a genuine beating heart
at its center. And it's funny, not just in one liners, but the overall attitude, which puts him in line to be one of the worst candidates for a big dumb action film, But in this case he was absolutely perfect because the script he wrote for con Air, whose lead characters include rapists, murderers, and out and out psychopaths with names culled from Southern rock anthems, ends up being the
perfect parody of Jerry Bruckheimer action movies. And before Nick Cage got his hands on the script and turned Cameron Poe into Superman in a Canadian tuxedo, that character was just as bad as the others. He just had more to live for a little later on, Apparently JJ Abrams would do a pass on the film. He did passes for all of Bruckheimer's work, upping the humor quotient, though he seems to have failed to add a mystery box
to any point of the script. Okay, you know the pot Cameron Poe, decent guy, unjustly jailed on his way home. The prison transport he's on has come due by the worst of the worst convicts, and along the way it's explosions and attack helicopters and shearing giant guitar shaped signs in half. But maybe you don't remember or have forgotten the context of this movie and when it came out.
The movie stars Ving Raims, John Cusa, Steve Buscemi, Nicholas Cage, who at the time was pretty much an independent guy, and John Malkovich. Surely this is a somber drama filmed over two weeks in silverl like with a four million dollar budget. Nope, how did they all get in this movie? Well, they did it all for the money, and they all bitched about it, and I don't care. And speaking of the cast, if you're a fan of Dave Chappelle, he's in it. And if you hate Dave Chappelle, he gets
crushed by landing gear. And speaking of the cast, that long and lustrous hair of Cameron Pose.
You know the shot. You see him right now.
He's slowly shaking his head back and forth, ever so slightly, that smile just teasing at the corner of his lips.
That was a fuck you to Bruckheimer.
Cage had grown a beard for the part in addition to the hair, which Bruckheimer nixed immediately, and when he saw the long hair, Bruckheimer said it had to be in a ponytail. So Cage's compromise was no beard, but no pony. And speaking of the cast, I read this interview with Danny Trejoe back in twenty ten. He was asked, of any of his co stars in any of his movies, who wouldn't he want to tangle with? And he said John Cusack. He'd seen Cusack fight and he knew his trainer,
So don't fight John Cusack. Everybody, Chicago listeners, stay back from Cusack.
I love John Cusack.
He's great, and it's completely inexplicable that he's in this movie, but it's so much better for him being there. And I'm going to get real granular about the movie for a second. Climax takes place in Las Vegas, and I live in Las Vegas, and I'm usually not a terrible stickler for continuity.
No, you're right, I completely add.
Look, there's a motorcycle chase down Fremont Street and it's terribly shot and horribly edited. The plane crashes through the hard Rock, which is on paradise. Then the plane lands immediately on the strip, but I'm letting that go.
I'm letting all of that go. I'll let all the bullshit launch.
From every part of this movie, though, But for some reason, this last one actually naws at me. The final fight takes place in a tunnel. We have three here, they're all about thirty feet long. They enter the one downtown, and then they're magically inside the Second Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles.
You know you've seen it in Blade Runner.
In any movie in Los Angeles where they need a tunnel, they I'll go to the Second Street tunnel. So it's very weird, and it's lane. Considering Scott Rosenberg's script ended with the plane crashing into the mirage and then Cyrus and Poe fighting in front of the volcano as it erupts and pours fire all around them, that sounds very heaven. And I'm nitpicking right here because I love con Air. It's crazy and fun and simultaneously is a big dumb action film and is a parody of a big dumb action film.
It's I love it. Watch it right now.
You've been looking for an excuse, and I hear by Grants, Okay, you can go next. I'm just gonna read the call to action, Ripley. We need our listeners to help us or not. They can all wait, apparently, and your pick is going to have to wait.
Can I talk now? Okay?
Okay? I told Foxy she could have a choice this week. We never throw it to her, and she felt pretty strongly about this movie. Oh stop, you're the best for last. We're saving the best for last. Yours is the best for last. You're the headliner. Come on, this is Foxy's choice. You're probably gonna need to go to a theater to see it or purchase it for streaming.
Now.
If you were to ask me up until very recently, what was good about the Quiet Place films, I would have responded that it managed to achieve an unusual phenomenon in the twenty first century, but it was one you could only experience in the theater. It managed to turn the clock back to the seventies or eighties, when the audience was united as a fist, ready to smash anyone that dares disturbed the sanctity of the movie going experience. That was fun to relive. But other than that, I
thought those movies were sloppy sci fi. They weren't even sci fi. Really, they were monster movies that were too timid to commit to its own premise. The zeno more has to be an alien. These things do not. And once you pull the science store open, you'd better be ready, because now my suspension of disbelief is based on your choices about every aspect of the world you've created, putting aside that they're nigh indestructible. Shout out to the tick
the nigh indestructible nature of the creatures. You have a family living on a farm that's way out in the open. They've got have to have trip wires everywhere as alarms. There are trees everywhere, lots of places to get attacked from, and any sound they make is a potential disaster. Any accidental sound and they're all murdered. And a couple of miles from the house is the waterfall, where they can stand around and talk freely because creatures can't hear them. There,
move to the waterfall. What the fuck this is like characters on The Walking Dead for the first few seasons acting like walkie talkies didn't exist.
Where's so and so?
Oh?
I think they went to get such and such. Well, hopefully they meet us at the rendezvous. How about you ask them right now thanks to the magic of Motorola. Anyway, I didn't like either of the Quiet Place movies. I thought they were slow mow versions of twenty eight weeks Later, which is why A Quiet Place Day One is such a shock.
I fucking loved it. This Friday, what.
Do we do.
Save everyone? We can plan?
A Quiet Place Day One starts Thursday.
Lepita Njango stars as Samira, a cancer patient, hospice patient, really, who agrees to take a day trip into Manhattan with the promise of a slice of pizza from her favorite pizza Rhea, which is potentially her last chance to do so, which is when the attack occurs. The initial attack of these aliens arriving on Earth. The urban setting helps propel the film sense of urgency like Gangbusters, and it's already high thanks to the fact that our lead is living
on borrowed time. It's a really remarkable thing they've achieved. Also, it's a pizza quest. Can you imagine anything more noble to be searching for in the face of the apocalypse. It's stunning. But the reason Foxy chose this movie is another cast member, well two cast members playing one character. That character's name is Frodo. That's Samira's cat who she has brought into the city with her in is sort of the third lead in this film. That cat is named Frodo, like I said, and it's played my two
cats named Schnitzel and Nico. They're both fantastic, right, have I plugged enough the cat?
Okay?
The fact is the cat is really important because it starts out seemingly like every other movie would treat it like an object of peril, but then it ends up becoming way more symbolic.
Oh the other cast member, because this is the trio.
It's a it's like a It's a young businessman named Eric played by Joseph Quinn. He's the human torch or will be soon. You know him from Stranger Things, Eddie Munson and his guitar. He is fucking fantastic here as a young man who's just as lost with everything to live for potentially as the Peter Niango is Dune, but they're both in the same boat.
He is just soulful and sweet.
Honestly, there are moments of absolute lyricism throughout the movie, and the carnage is fantastic and immediate. I found it to be everything the previous two films weren't. The effects are peerless, and the ending, oh boy. I want to discuss it because it gets me where I live, but I'm going to leave it to you a quiet place in Day one is now playing. I think you can get it on Amazon Prime as well. All right, yes, we have finally gotten to you. You know what I said,
best for last? I said best for last, and actually
¶ Bill Murray's Meatballs
I wasn't kidding because Ripley picked up on the summertime theme and fucking ran with it. She ended up picking the best summer movie I can think of, or at least it has to be everyone's idea of the best summer camp movie. There's only one word to describe it, meat bows.
You saw what he did to Saturday Night. Now watch Bill Murray Demolish Summer. See three hundred kids from the city escape to the woods for a summer of wholesome fun in the sun.
On the Programmer Rector Jerry Aldine, is that why you're wearing?
Are you expecting an assassination account? Do I have what doctors called.
Very actors play concern to raise?
Are some seriously.
Meet the head counselor who knows the facts of life but forgot them.
Let's go on here.
So this year, each camper will stalk and kill his own bear in our private wildlife preserves.
New camp bolls or even like you all take a load these.
We're going to check this out a little bit later.
I'd like, yeah, for now, but if you don't win, we cut it off. It's more important than the score of this game is to score at the big social at our place.
That I.
It's not how you play the game, but how you win the counts.
Let's tell you.
The human race. A real excitement, of course, is going to come at the end of the summer.
During Sexual Awareness Week.
We import two hundred probus from around the world, and each camper.
Armed with only a furnace of coffee and.
Two thousand dollars cash, tries.
To visit as many countries as he can, and the winner, of.
Course, is named King of Sexual Awareness Week.
You'll be cheering for Bill Murray this summer in meat Balls.
Saw this in the theater when I was five, maybe six, and my only impression of it is Bill Murray swinging a log around.
But it counts.
Saw theatrically nineteen seventy eight, still riding high on the success of Saturday Night Live. Look, I know he had a rough patch at the beginning of season two when he joined replacing Chevy Chase, but he ever came that shit real fast, and by the time of Meatballs he was in his stride. So here he is in his first theatrical lead in a disposable summer camp movie, which is probably never going to be seen again after its initial run, because remember, there's no home video market at
this point. In this nothing of a film Bill, Murray manages to put into performance that will transform American comedy cinema for decades. He legitimizes a character that had been there all along, but it was always off to the side. The wise, cracking, smart ass. Murray manages the equivalent of Stopford putting Rosencrants in Guildenstern front and center.
In Hamlet.
He makes the sidekick the lead, which is another reason that Meatballs, constantly being lumped in with the glood of TNA gross out comedies at the time is so insulting. I'm an urban kid, I have asphalt in my veins, a lot of being carted off to the woods for an extended period was horrifying to me.
Add that a couple of dozen kids who are actually dying to be there. Good God, no, thank you.
But inexplicably, Meatballs and Bill Murray specifically managed to make that scenario appealing, even appetizing. Maybe that's just because it's called meatballs. In a Canadian summer camp movie with an Irish American in the lead is called meatballs. Now, presumably they're calling it to that because the characters are losers, which that was another shift in comedy at the time, the outcasts rising up, slobs against the snobs, and so all these characters and meatballs.
But what a bunch of meatballs on display.
Like Matt Craven, one of the CITs the counselors in Training. He's pretty notable. He'd go on to star in Crimson Tide and Er and Justified. He'll forever be hardware to me. And speaking of forever, there are two female performances that echo through history, and I have to mention them here. One is that girl who talks in gossip in the mess hall.
It seems as though last Summer's hottest couple have split. I can't tell you their names, but her initials are Al, and he's the hottest cic on wheels.
We all know this.
That mosts the last sum in the bushes, But the question is what's your love.
Plumaguein That girl is the nineteen seventies. I knew dozens of her, and I'm glad she's preserved here on film.
Other is Counselor in training Al, played by.
Christine de Bell. Miss de Bell is my first celebrity crush, and that crush has not diminished in any way over the years. She's what heth had been searching for all those years as the actual girl next door, which makes no surprise that she was a cover model for Playboy in nineteen seventy six April nineteen seventy six. So yes, she's incredibly beautiful, but she's also wildly funny and natural. Honestly,
it's the best performance in the film. And on my birthday one year, my girlfriend Amber had missed de Belle make a cameo video for me, saying hello and wishing me well, and she also made it clear that she also knew something very personal about me that I will not discuss on the air. I guess you emailed me if you're curious anyway, she is still as lovely as ever, and she's another great reason to re experience this film.
Oh we forgot to mention Mickey hope to see again next summer. Can I have some applause for this man?
Please come Onday?
Wait about Mickey? How about Rudy Gerner?
I'm going away? You going to Vegas?
If you're going to Vegas, man, I would be up for it because I love that town.
I'm a party guy. I love that town.
Or how about the one line from any comedy that makes me laugh every single time I hear it.
You can change the.
Record, but don't you change?
Are you waiting right here?
This is a silly, breezy, lazy hangout of a film that never devolves into the shenanigans most it'll tend to and remember at the center of this movie as a young boy coping with his mother's death whose father doesn't know what to do with him and ships him off to summer camp summer fun. Yeah, it's good. Go everyone go watch me bolls. Everybody, Okay, everybody happy?
¶ Closing Remarks and Call to Action
Now you got yours? Miss Foxy? Right on? I hope you too.
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A bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.
We GotY so pious, We're gonna sew cats, great Grandpa, and we're gonna get on. We're nos hotties were