August 16, 2025 • 29 mins
In this week's episode of Father Malone's Weekly Roundup, we explore the themes of parasites and fairytales. We've got Pen Pals from Around the World. The episode provides a deep dive into the Alien franchise, critiquing films such as 'Alien,' 'Aliens,' 'Prometheus,' 'Covenant,' and the new TV adaptation 'Alien Earth' by Noah Hawley. We also review the horror film 'Weapons,' directed by Zach Cregger, praising its unique storytelling and horror elements.
00:00 Welcome Back to Father Malone's Weekly Roundup
01:41 Pen Pals from Around the World
06:35 Alien Earth
20:17 Weapons
27:04 Conclusion and Upcoming Episodes
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00:00 Welcome Back to Father Malone's Weekly Roundup
01:41 Pen Pals from Around the World
06:35 Alien Earth
20:17 Weapons
27:04 Conclusion and Upcoming Episodes
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@midnight_viewing
FatherMalone71@gmail.com
patreon.com/fathermalone
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Weird, Weird.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Welcome back midnight viewers to found the Malone's a weekly
round up two weeks in a row, don't get used
to it. And this week is all about Paris Sites
and fairy Tales. Sincerely, both titles are both. How's everyone doing?
Have you made plans? For October fourth and fifth? Here
in Las Vegas at the Silverton Casino, Midnight Viewing is
going to be on display. We've got a booth, we've
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got stuff to give away. We've got me and HP
and Chris Stashu. We're gonna have surprise guests and we'll
be recording the whole time, So stop by and say hello.
And if you can't make it, we'll be rounding up
that weekend here as well. Something to look forward to
that's important, considering the two things I was looking most
forward to have arrived. We're discussing them tonight. Should we
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do weapons or Alien Earth? First? Good point, We're doing neither.
Psych Actually, it's time for the mail.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Round.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Just a reminder you can contact Midnight Viewing and me
and Ripley at Midnight Underscore Viewing. That's our Instagram. That's
our only Instagram. The fan the Malone account is long gone,
I'm afraid, so you can get in touch there or
at Father Malone seven to one at a gmail dot
com or the Patreon channel gone. A missive from Richard
Dorta letting me know he's a new listener who found
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us via the Night Mister Walters podcast. That is the
podcast run by frequent co host and show composer HP.
It's about the television series Taxi. Apparently frustrated with the
infrequency of Night Mister Walter's episodes, he had to seek
more frequent lands and we are nothing if not frequent
here at midnight viewing. Welcome aboard. Richard Dallas Norville wrote
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in to let us know he's got yaucha fever. HP
and I are covering the Predator film series. That's yaoucha
fest every other Friday. Dallas has been revisiting the flicks
and I convinced him to watch Prey and his life
is now much better by the way, Yes, Dallas, you
should see the movie together immediately. The more I think
about that film, the more I like it. Dallas even
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shouted out HP for his work on the show. Amazing work.
I don't know if he's doing amazing, it's work been like,
definitely always great to hear from you, Dallas. Shane Mackie,
haven't heard from you in a minute. Stomped into chat
a little about that misbegotten Saturday Night movie from last year,
and since you're looking forward to the weapons review, I
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guess we'll do it first. Oh guess and guess not.
I've been checking the comments on Spotify. That's new to me.
Sorry if you've written to me prior. I'm trying to
answer them all. But we've got like one hundred and
eighty episodes, so it's taking a while. Trish Dabkowski wrote
in about another yahoucha fest flick, Predator two. We mentioned
Kent McCord is in it. He was once the star
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of Adam twelve. Trish wrote in to remind us that
he was also on the television series Farscape. Thank you
for reminding me. I had intended on bringing it up.
It's just that when I start talking Farescape, I can't
really shut up about it. Kent McCord played the lead character,
John Crichton's dad. He was great in it. You know
who I loved on that show? I mean, everybody but
Sikkozu the Leviathan expert. God damn she was sexy all
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the women on that show.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I once saw Gig Edgeley at a comic con once,
and it was before they opened to the public, and
she looked over at me, and I looked away like
a fucking schoolboy. You know what. The other great thing
about far Escape is see what I mean. Thank you,
Trish lovely to hear from you. Thank you for listening.
Derek wrote in about the Patreon show HP Hates Me.
That's the show where HP picks old pieces of entertainment
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that are barely tolerable in one way or another and
makes me watch them because he hates me. We did
one about the Billy Crystal nineteen eighty six special Don't
Get Me Started. Derek asked, what does a near forty
year old HBO comedy special by Billy Crystal say about
you who cares get over yourself. I don't know if
I can answer your questions without a few of my own,
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but I'll do my best. It's supposed to say about
me that my friend chose a special for me to
watch and then we reviewed it. I don't expect anyone
to care. And while I have tried on numerous occasions
to escape the skin. I truly cannot get over myself.
But I'm actually wondering where you're coming from. Is there
something you'd prefer us to cover? Please forward it along.
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And finally, tenth Letter wrote in about our Fantastic four coverage.
Here's what he had to say. Uugh, sounds silly, but
I'm not into man boy movies. So Reid has a mustache,
which I don't think he's ever had in the comics
because mister overexposed Hollywood star won't shave. I see this universe.
That universe multiverse crap is just bad, inconsistent, uncreative writing.
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Thanks for the sum up. Like every other video game
esque movie in existence, I know I can quite safely
hard pass on this. I prefer my comics in book form,
and I salute you, my purest friend. Keep turning the pages.
It's so fucking satisfying, isn't it. I think Marvel made
a big mistake when they took that sound of pages
whispering out of their production logo. Let me know a
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title worth looking into, tenth Letter. That's a j James Jason,
Jeremy jehosaphat that's a g okay that's the end of
the letters. But let me just mini review something really quick.
I had intended to do an entire episode about Red's Sonia,
but then I saw it not good. Here's their one innovation.
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That character always had this weird catchphrase about how she'll
only go to bed with the man who can't defeat
her in combat. That's gone. As for the rest, the
lead actress is game, but she's struggling mightily because the
script is poor and the action is sub hercules the
legendary journeys. It's very volumetric, if you know what I mean. Sorry, Red,
hit it, HP, Thank you HP. You know Jerry Folwell
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frequently wondered when Mulder and Scully were going to do it.
Let me tell you about my first experience with Alien.
One of my best friends as a young boy was
Brian McMahon. Brian was my horror buddy. He was as
obsessed as I was with all the fucking horror movies
we could get our hands on, and Brian's parents weren't
so finicky when it came to toys, so of course
he had a sowd Off shotgun toy that ejected plastic
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shells when you broke it open, and yes he had
the requisite Aurora models of Frankenstein et ce. But best
of all, he had the alien action figure from Kenner
the Star Wars people, so you know you can trust them.
It was eighteen inches authentically detailed, mechanically operated jaws. I'm
reading from the packaging as seen in the movie. Relive
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the exciting action with the creature itself moveable tail to
swing by spring loaded arms to crush its victims. Not
a toy that was going to appear in my house
anytime soon or ever. Wait, there's more press the back
of the head on the bottom. His mouth opens and
the gruesome teeth move forward, his evil brains glow in
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the dark. That was the part that bothered me about
the figure, The fucking skull underneath the translucent dome of
his head. That design is the original alien design. If
you look at the production stills taking under harsh light,
the fucking thing practically screams at you. In the finished
film atmosphere being one of those things that kept getting
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Ridley Scott work, you barely perceived the skull at all,
and all future versions of the Big Chap that's what
everyone calls the original design would be skull free, seeing
something so human inside the most otherworldly thing I'd ever
seen was the really disturbing part. Everything else was just
fucking cool. So I got to meet the alien before
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I saw the movie, and thus began my life of
not giving a shit if something was spoiled. Not that
you can spoil Alien. Everyone thinks of that movie as
having one major twist, the alien hiding in Caine and
the dinner sequence explosion. But that's just one surprise. You
know what the Nostromo was hauling surprises. We get a
distress call. No, it's a warning. Hey look eggs ah shit, Hey,
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I'm okay. That's a relief past the salt. Oh my god. Well,
at least it was a tiny thing. Wait what is that?
Don't worry. Everything's gonna be fine. Captain Dallas is just
gonna crawl. Oh god, Ash, we could really use some help.
You're an android, you pick up when I'm laying down here.
We remember Alien so fondly because it was a fucking
surprise factory. In addition to being the greatest science fiction
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haunted house movie of all time and inadvertently introducing a
global audience to the notion of lovecrafty and horror terror
from beyond space that we should really pray never finds
its way to Earth. It succeeds as social commentary, as
a science fiction epic, taking George Lucas's Lived in future
ideas and applying it to real world scenarios. It works
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as a horror movie as a creature feature, it is
a perfect film. In any attempt to replicate it seems
like folly, which is probably why no one ever has.
James Cameron was smart enough to know not to even try.
He knew escalation was the only response, bringing in marines
and queens and hordes of our once lonely big chap
and from there we've had a mix and match salad
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bar of films, all drawing from the same two sources,
and all in different balances. Alien three was an Alien
major and an Aliens miner Resurrection the opposite. The AVP
films are all Aliens Zero, Alien and Prometheus and Covenant.
I don't care. I do not rate them at all.
I say live and let live to different interpretations and
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alternate timelines and multiverses. Invariants. However, Prometheus and Covenant suck.
My Alien comes from somewhere in the darkness of space.
It has nothing to do with humanity in either design
or creation. Man perverts God's will and creates monsters. Really
deep Ridley, Mary Shelley says, Hi, that doesn't mean I
hate backstory or prequels or attempts at shading in the
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corners of a universe. I think Alien Romulus was a
huge step forward, the most positive step forward since Ripley
sent the Queen spiraling out of an airlock. Yes it
was you, You killed that queen, good girl. The problem
with Romulus was zero likable characters, and while I appreciated
all the nods to the Alien Isolation video game, it
just kind of reminded me that I'd rather be playing
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in that universe than watching poorly conceived characters running from
face huggers. You can hear my review of it from
August of last year. An Alien TV show seemed like
a joke at first, the way the idea of a
Pirates of the Caribbean film sounded ridiculous until Johnny Depp's
name started appearing on the posters. That's the way I
felt when I read that Noah Hawley was creating and
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going to be show running that automatically meant a few things.
It was going to be truly limited. Every season of
every show, serialized or not, that Holly has been involved
with tells a complete story beginning, middle, and an end.
It also meant that we'd be in the hands of
an adaptation veteran. If his only previous credit was Legion
the Effects series starring Dan Stevens an Aubrey Plaza, then
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I'd at least be optimistic that show was an X
Man adaptation, with Stephens playing David Holler, the son of
Charles Xavier. The lead character's dissociative disorder allowed for fragmented
storytelling with a wildly unreliable narrator, producing three seasons that
not only visually and structurally, were able to give us
the TV equivalent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mine,
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but it did so while honoring the spirit of the
original source material. Adapting a comic book to the screen
is one thing. The unfucking believably tall hurdle of turning
a theatrical film into a successful television series is entirely another.
But then he did that too with five seasons of
The Incredible Fargo, a series that jumps around in time,
end plot and characters season to season. Anchored by Minnesota
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and the incredible Cohen Brothers film, it not only makes
a nifty companion piece to the film Fargo, it frequently
manages to remake and rework the Cohen's other films. It's
really an anomaly of a television series, and the quality
jumps up and down, just like anything serialized over a
number of years. But ultimately these are very smartly written
shows that turned out not only to pay homage to
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its forebear, but recognize and amplify what was so damned
good about the original to begin with. And he does
it here again. I'm genuinely gobsmacked by his work here
on Alien Earth. He gets what's so incredible about that
first film. He understands the need to prize as much
as lay Easter eggs every which away. Hey, they got
a drinky bird from the Nostromo in Romulus. Yeah, here's
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the fucking bridge of the Nostromo, and here's Mother's control room.
It isn't the Nostromo. They're still floating out in space
waiting for the supposed distress signal to wake them up.
But here's Holly giving us the goods Right up front.
The USCSS Magino, a Wayland Utani deep space science research
vessel is heading back to Earth almost in its orbit,
and it's packed with specimens from distant worlds, and it's
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a dead ringer for the Nostromo in exacting detail. I
know because I've been running through its corridors trying to
get away from that motherfucker whenever I'm playing the Last
Survivor mission on Alien Isolation. When we meet the crew,
they're just waking up, and it's all very familiar, not
just paralleling the first film's events, but introducing a group
of characters that are genuinely likable. And then it goes
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further by giving us flashes of what's eventually going to
befall them. Here's a hint. It's the Zeno Morph and
it's glorious. The classic dome of the Big Chap and
everything I know. Cameron has specified that his Aliens were
soldiers and the Big Chap was a drone. That's why
his have more cartilage looking bony heads. But that's the
one thing I think Aliens is lacking. Maybe the dome
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was too reflective. Either way, I love that dome and
I love this alien and yeah, things go really bad,
but instead of floating out in space, the imagine is
on a collision course with Earth.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
How's our girl, She's ready.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You're going to be the first person to transition from
a human body to a synthetic because I'm special.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's right, You're very, very special.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
We have a down space draft.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I want what's on that ship.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We can do it.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
We're fast, we're strong, we don't break.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
It's like a zoo that the animals got out.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
This ship collected five different life forms from the darkest
corners of the universe, Monsters, invasive, species, predatory. We don't
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lock them down.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It will be too late.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
When I mentioned Holly's dedication to giving us new and
surprising twists in the series, I meant it. Here on
Earth were introduced to three kinds of android. Since pure
machine like Ash or Bishop or Call, then there are cyborgs,
humans with synthetic implants, and now new to the scene
are hybrids, synthetic bodies downloaded with a human's consciousness. This
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latest process is innovated by Kid Cavalier, a boy genius, trillionaire,
the ultimate tech bro. Although his reasoning thus far is
actually pretty philosophical, but then Thanos wasn't wrong in theory,
so don't think I'm praising him. He runs Prodigy Corporation,
a rival of whaleen Utani. We knew there had to
be rivals out there. Why is fucking Whale and Utani
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responsible for everything in the universe. The first full hybrid
is Marci, a terminal eleven year old girl who, in
her new synthetic and adult body, adopts the name Wendy.
Holly loves a theme, and here it's Peter Pan. The
island nation near Singapore controlled by Kid Cavalier is named
in Neverland. The group of fellow hybrids that will eventually
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join Wendy are called the Lost Boys, and their adopted
names follow suit with Smee and Nibs and Curly Hell.
During the process of transfer for human to synthetic, they're
actually watching the Disney cartoon Peter Pan, which I know
twenty century Fox is now owned by Disney, so the
wheels are a little more lubricated these days. Nevertheless, it
had me flashing back to Gremlins when those fucking terrors
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are sitting in a theater watching snow White before the
film runs out and they continue their murderous assault. It
seems so wrong and yet so right. Same here mainly
because Holly embraces the parallels rather than trying to bury them,
and he manages to not be beholden to Peter Pan.
Wendy and her cohorts may not ever grow old like
the original Lost Boys, but then they didn't have to
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deal with terrors from beyond space. This group of Lost
Boys is mentored by Prodigy Corporations chief Synthetic Kirsch, played
fucking perfectly by Timothy Oliphant. That really is the one
thing all of these iterations of the Alien franchise has
gotten right. The Android or Synths as we're calling them
now I named the Luminaries earlier. Kersh is a welcome
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addition to their pantheon. So we've got a Wayland Utani
ship crashing into a Prodigy city, and its contents are volatile,
to say the least. That's the setup for the first
two episodes, and luckily for Kid Cavalier, he's got a
squad of Hybrids who are perfectly suited to secure that
crash site and investigate what's inside the ship, which is
about as far as I'm going to go without spoiling anything. However,
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I said, Holly understands the importance of the new when
it comes to reinterpreting a film or series. He's doing
it here with way more than plot and character and location.
He's doing it with tropes we've come to not only
rely on, but have become kind of boring. The crash
of the Magino into a city scape would be the
entire episode in lesser hands and lovingly rendered. Buildings would
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crumble and totter, and people would scream and run, more
interested in the action and actual terror from the human perspective,
thus giving echoes of nine to eleven that are undeniable.
It's horrible and unexpected, and it fucking works. And the
nerd in me loved that the Maginaut's engines were still
firing as the first responders were trying to sort out
what the fuck to do. And I haven't even mentioned
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the other specimens that are lurking inside the ship. Of course,
there'd be other alien life forms. We'd be picking them
up all over if we were colonizing other worlds. These
do not disappoint. Neither does the music. I want to
point out Jeff Russo, he's the composer, and I had
no idea it was the guitarist and lead singer for Tonic.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yep, you kidd Onless she Loves.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He's had some interesting assignments, the latest which seems to
be house composer over at Star Trek. He did Discovery, Picards,
Strange New Worlds, and even the Misbegotten Section thirty one,
not to mention Umbrella Academy and that Ripley series No
Not Her, Oh not You the Patricia highsmiths rically No
not You. Russo does a great job here, not only
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with his original work, but when he quotes, he's doing
it from the original Jerry Goldsmith's score, and particularly the
stings way more effective than telling another alien to get
away from her.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You bitch.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I can't think of a possible segue here to weapons.
So here's the trailer.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
This is a true story that happened in my town.
So this one Wednesday is like a normal day for
the whole school, but today was different. Every other class
had all their kids, but missus Gandy's room was totally empty.
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And do you know why? Because the night before, at
two seventeen in the morning, every kid woke up, got
out of bed, walked out stairs and into the dark,
and they never came back.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't understand at all. Why just her classroom? Why
only hurts?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Where are children?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
We have a lot of emotional parents who I think
it's best if you keep some distance from this place.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That's throw Where are you? Where did you go?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
This is where the story really starts.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How's that for tantalizing? What is it with sketch comedians
suddenly turning into fucking monster horror filmmakers Jordan Peele from
Key and Peel and now Zach Kreiger from The Whitest Kids.
You know this guy hit the scene with a fucking
sledgehammer three years ago with Barbarian. I told you in
the last episode to watch Barbarian. I'm telling you again.
Go watch Barbarian. It's kind of a perfect blend of
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horror and dread and humor, all the while delivering complex characters,
which is doubly true of weapons. You heard the setup.
An entire third grade class goes missing one night. Even
more maddening, they did so of their own volition, walking
out and running into the night, as captured by many
many ring cameras. Those early shots of the children waking
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and taking to the night. Arms swung back like birds
or missiles running against the backdrop of sleeping suburbia are gorgeous,
and all scored to George Harrison's Beware the Darkness, just
one of a half dozen of my favorite songs of
all time, like Percy Sledge's Dark End of the Street
and my literal favorite Harry Nilsen tune Gotta get.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Up, Got get up, gotta get out, Gotta get.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Home for the morning comes water.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Family, got a big day, Gotta get home for the
sun comes up, up and away, got a big day,
sar Cat's day. I gotta run run, Yeah, gotta get home.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Isn't that great? Craiger fragments the story immediately fast forwarding
to nearly a month after the event, and that assembly
at the school that you heard in the trailer. That
scene branches out, rewinding a day or two and giving
us five separate points of view weapons ends up resembling P. T.
Anderson's Magnolia more than anything, though, while Magnolia's characters and
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stories share a tenuous connection a theme, really all of
the stories here are leading us to the one tale. Overall.
Those points of view are Justine played by Julia Garner,
the film's nominal protagonist. It's her class that's gone missing.
Archer a father of one of the missing children whose
obsession with finding him will either kill him or set
him free. He's played by Josh Brolin. Then there's Paul,
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played by the once upon a Time Hans solo Alden Ehrenreich.
He's a cop in the town and a former flame
of Julia. James, a homeless drug addict played spectacularly by
Austin Abrams. He was on The Walking Dead and Euphoria.
Then there's Marcus, the schools put upon principle, played by
Benedict Wong. Can we put mister Wong in everything? Please?
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There is no project he will not make him better.
And finally, and most revealingly, there's Alex, played by then
eight year old Carrie Christopher. Alex is the only child
in Julia's class who didn't go wandering that night. I
really can't say any more other than the kid was
fucking amazing. I've dealt with plenty of precocious terrible child
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actors over the years on Tails from the Dark Side
and Night Gallery and Twilight Zone eighty five. Not a
fucking whiff of that here He's great. Each of the
separate stories are economical and interesting, and in some cases
take you far from the main plot, involving you more
in these people's personal lives than your average scare show allows,
which is a hell of a neat trick considering the
film's central mystery involves seventeen missing children. But is it scary? Fuck? Yes,
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it is and dreamy and personal and weird and thrilling
in skin crawling, and it functions as a hell of
a meditation on addiction and its widespread lingering effects on
the lives of everyone it touches. And it's funny as
funny as together was Boy. Horror is really hitting a
stride recently, like Alien Earth. I'm loath to reveal anything else,
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but I'd like to note if a nature documentary shows
up in a horror movie, you should pay attention, just
saying your mileage may vary when it comes to the reveal.
Sometimes no answer is better than disappointing one. I myself
love an open ended mystery. This ain't that Craiger isn't
interested in stringing you along, And I, for one, was
right there with this flick every step of the way.
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The supporting cast. There's a supporting cast after five leads. Yeah,
and it's just as strong. Toby Huss is a fucking gem.
He's the chief of police here and father to Paul's
fiance Donna, who is played by podcast legend June Diana Rayfield.
Toby Huss, though you probably know him as the whizb
I'm the Wizist, but he's made a career of gentle,
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authoritarian characters. But I just wanted to point him out
and say how fucking good he is. Justin Long and
Sarah Paxton show up as parents of one of the
other missing kids. And Amy Madigan is also in the film,
and she's fucking spectacular. What a real life duo she
and Ed Harris make just powerhouses in every direction. You
know what, I take back what I said earlier. Do
not see Barbarian that's readily available on streaming. Go to
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the movies and put your money down for this one.
I encourage that a lot, But this is it.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
If you're not supporting this, you are not supporting horror.
And if you're not supporting horror, then get out of here.
We're getting out of here. Tune in Friday. We've got
the latest tannels from the Dark Side, and the Friday
after that will be Aliens Versus Predator. But if you
want to hear that right now, it's on the Patreon
channel Patreon dot com slash Father alone. You'll get episodes
in advance, weeks in advance sometimes, and you'll have access
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to shows not in the main feed, like HP Hates Me.
The latest episode is up where HP made me watch
Corey Haymes me myself and I, a self released video
made to convince the industry he was sober and ready
to work, all the while being high as a fucking kite.
Next Monday, we'll probably not be another round up. That's right.
I'm like SNL. I'll come in hot and I'll bail,
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but it will be a new show. Not a new show,
but show you haven't heard. That'll be my own weapons mystery.
Until then, until we meet again, I'm Father Malone for
Ripley Gene. We're gonna leave you with a bit from
Alien Earth.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
The ship touchdown in seventeen thirty. It's a deep space
research vestval C class wayland Utorny survivors on the ship
unknown calms it down. Ship must have clipped the tower
but we have forces on the ground. Mass casualties, i'd
imagine among the residents. Luckily it was the founders of
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the festival. Hundreds of people were at the park, sir.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Not now, let's good.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
No triage, the rescue by income it called up the
reserves and keep this quiet until.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
We know the damage.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
We can do it.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
And the ship.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
A deep space research vessel loaded with who knows what?
I think that's ours. Now she won't like that, Yeah,
so she can sue. Show show show, show
Weird, Weird.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Welcome back midnight viewers to found the Malone's a weekly
round up two weeks in a row, don't get used
to it. And this week is all about Paris Sites
and fairy Tales. Sincerely, both titles are both. How's everyone doing?
Have you made plans? For October fourth and fifth? Here
in Las Vegas at the Silverton Casino, Midnight Viewing is
going to be on display. We've got a booth, we've
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got stuff to give away. We've got me and HP
and Chris Stashu. We're gonna have surprise guests and we'll
be recording the whole time, So stop by and say hello.
And if you can't make it, we'll be rounding up
that weekend here as well. Something to look forward to
that's important, considering the two things I was looking most
forward to have arrived. We're discussing them tonight. Should we
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do weapons or Alien Earth? First? Good point, We're doing neither.
Psych Actually, it's time for the mail.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Round.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Just a reminder you can contact Midnight Viewing and me
and Ripley at Midnight Underscore Viewing. That's our Instagram. That's
our only Instagram. The fan the Malone account is long gone,
I'm afraid, so you can get in touch there or
at Father Malone seven to one at a gmail dot
com or the Patreon channel gone. A missive from Richard
Dorta letting me know he's a new listener who found
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us via the Night Mister Walters podcast. That is the
podcast run by frequent co host and show composer HP.
It's about the television series Taxi. Apparently frustrated with the
infrequency of Night Mister Walter's episodes, he had to seek
more frequent lands and we are nothing if not frequent
here at midnight viewing. Welcome aboard. Richard Dallas Norville wrote
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in to let us know he's got yaucha fever. HP
and I are covering the Predator film series. That's yaoucha
fest every other Friday. Dallas has been revisiting the flicks
and I convinced him to watch Prey and his life
is now much better by the way, Yes, Dallas, you
should see the movie together immediately. The more I think
about that film, the more I like it. Dallas even
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shouted out HP for his work on the show. Amazing work.
I don't know if he's doing amazing, it's work been like,
definitely always great to hear from you, Dallas. Shane Mackie,
haven't heard from you in a minute. Stomped into chat
a little about that misbegotten Saturday Night movie from last year,
and since you're looking forward to the weapons review, I
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guess we'll do it first. Oh guess and guess not.
I've been checking the comments on Spotify. That's new to me.
Sorry if you've written to me prior. I'm trying to
answer them all. But we've got like one hundred and
eighty episodes, so it's taking a while. Trish Dabkowski wrote
in about another yahoucha fest flick, Predator two. We mentioned
Kent McCord is in it. He was once the star
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of Adam twelve. Trish wrote in to remind us that
he was also on the television series Farscape. Thank you
for reminding me. I had intended on bringing it up.
It's just that when I start talking Farescape, I can't
really shut up about it. Kent McCord played the lead character,
John Crichton's dad. He was great in it. You know
who I loved on that show? I mean, everybody but
Sikkozu the Leviathan expert. God damn she was sexy all
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the women on that show.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I once saw Gig Edgeley at a comic con once,
and it was before they opened to the public, and
she looked over at me, and I looked away like
a fucking schoolboy. You know what. The other great thing
about far Escape is see what I mean. Thank you,
Trish lovely to hear from you. Thank you for listening.
Derek wrote in about the Patreon show HP Hates Me.
That's the show where HP picks old pieces of entertainment
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that are barely tolerable in one way or another and
makes me watch them because he hates me. We did
one about the Billy Crystal nineteen eighty six special Don't
Get Me Started. Derek asked, what does a near forty
year old HBO comedy special by Billy Crystal say about
you who cares get over yourself. I don't know if
I can answer your questions without a few of my own,
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but I'll do my best. It's supposed to say about
me that my friend chose a special for me to
watch and then we reviewed it. I don't expect anyone
to care. And while I have tried on numerous occasions
to escape the skin. I truly cannot get over myself.
But I'm actually wondering where you're coming from. Is there
something you'd prefer us to cover? Please forward it along.
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And finally, tenth Letter wrote in about our Fantastic four coverage.
Here's what he had to say. Uugh, sounds silly, but
I'm not into man boy movies. So Reid has a mustache,
which I don't think he's ever had in the comics
because mister overexposed Hollywood star won't shave. I see this universe.
That universe multiverse crap is just bad, inconsistent, uncreative writing.
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Thanks for the sum up. Like every other video game
esque movie in existence, I know I can quite safely
hard pass on this. I prefer my comics in book form,
and I salute you, my purest friend. Keep turning the pages.
It's so fucking satisfying, isn't it. I think Marvel made
a big mistake when they took that sound of pages
whispering out of their production logo. Let me know a
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title worth looking into, tenth Letter. That's a j James Jason,
Jeremy jehosaphat that's a g okay that's the end of
the letters. But let me just mini review something really quick.
I had intended to do an entire episode about Red's Sonia,
but then I saw it not good. Here's their one innovation.
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That character always had this weird catchphrase about how she'll
only go to bed with the man who can't defeat
her in combat. That's gone. As for the rest, the
lead actress is game, but she's struggling mightily because the
script is poor and the action is sub hercules the
legendary journeys. It's very volumetric, if you know what I mean. Sorry, Red,
hit it, HP, Thank you HP. You know Jerry Folwell
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frequently wondered when Mulder and Scully were going to do it.
Let me tell you about my first experience with Alien.
One of my best friends as a young boy was
Brian McMahon. Brian was my horror buddy. He was as
obsessed as I was with all the fucking horror movies
we could get our hands on, and Brian's parents weren't
so finicky when it came to toys, so of course
he had a sowd Off shotgun toy that ejected plastic
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shells when you broke it open, and yes he had
the requisite Aurora models of Frankenstein et ce. But best
of all, he had the alien action figure from Kenner
the Star Wars people, so you know you can trust them.
It was eighteen inches authentically detailed, mechanically operated jaws. I'm
reading from the packaging as seen in the movie. Relive
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the exciting action with the creature itself moveable tail to
swing by spring loaded arms to crush its victims. Not
a toy that was going to appear in my house
anytime soon or ever. Wait, there's more press the back
of the head on the bottom. His mouth opens and
the gruesome teeth move forward, his evil brains glow in
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the dark. That was the part that bothered me about
the figure, The fucking skull underneath the translucent dome of
his head. That design is the original alien design. If
you look at the production stills taking under harsh light,
the fucking thing practically screams at you. In the finished
film atmosphere being one of those things that kept getting
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Ridley Scott work, you barely perceived the skull at all,
and all future versions of the Big Chap that's what
everyone calls the original design would be skull free, seeing
something so human inside the most otherworldly thing I'd ever
seen was the really disturbing part. Everything else was just
fucking cool. So I got to meet the alien before
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I saw the movie, and thus began my life of
not giving a shit if something was spoiled. Not that
you can spoil Alien. Everyone thinks of that movie as
having one major twist, the alien hiding in Caine and
the dinner sequence explosion. But that's just one surprise. You
know what the Nostromo was hauling surprises. We get a
distress call. No, it's a warning. Hey look eggs ah shit, Hey,
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I'm okay. That's a relief past the salt. Oh my god. Well,
at least it was a tiny thing. Wait what is that?
Don't worry. Everything's gonna be fine. Captain Dallas is just
gonna crawl. Oh god, Ash, we could really use some help.
You're an android, you pick up when I'm laying down here.
We remember Alien so fondly because it was a fucking
surprise factory. In addition to being the greatest science fiction
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haunted house movie of all time and inadvertently introducing a
global audience to the notion of lovecrafty and horror terror
from beyond space that we should really pray never finds
its way to Earth. It succeeds as social commentary, as
a science fiction epic, taking George Lucas's Lived in future
ideas and applying it to real world scenarios. It works
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as a horror movie as a creature feature, it is
a perfect film. In any attempt to replicate it seems
like folly, which is probably why no one ever has.
James Cameron was smart enough to know not to even try.
He knew escalation was the only response, bringing in marines
and queens and hordes of our once lonely big chap
and from there we've had a mix and match salad
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bar of films, all drawing from the same two sources,
and all in different balances. Alien three was an Alien
major and an Aliens miner Resurrection the opposite. The AVP
films are all Aliens Zero, Alien and Prometheus and Covenant.
I don't care. I do not rate them at all.
I say live and let live to different interpretations and
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alternate timelines and multiverses. Invariants. However, Prometheus and Covenant suck.
My Alien comes from somewhere in the darkness of space.
It has nothing to do with humanity in either design
or creation. Man perverts God's will and creates monsters. Really
deep Ridley, Mary Shelley says, Hi, that doesn't mean I
hate backstory or prequels or attempts at shading in the
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corners of a universe. I think Alien Romulus was a
huge step forward, the most positive step forward since Ripley
sent the Queen spiraling out of an airlock. Yes it
was you, You killed that queen, good girl. The problem
with Romulus was zero likable characters, and while I appreciated
all the nods to the Alien Isolation video game, it
just kind of reminded me that I'd rather be playing
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in that universe than watching poorly conceived characters running from
face huggers. You can hear my review of it from
August of last year. An Alien TV show seemed like
a joke at first, the way the idea of a
Pirates of the Caribbean film sounded ridiculous until Johnny Depp's
name started appearing on the posters. That's the way I
felt when I read that Noah Hawley was creating and
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going to be show running that automatically meant a few things.
It was going to be truly limited. Every season of
every show, serialized or not, that Holly has been involved
with tells a complete story beginning, middle, and an end.
It also meant that we'd be in the hands of
an adaptation veteran. If his only previous credit was Legion
the Effects series starring Dan Stevens an Aubrey Plaza, then
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I'd at least be optimistic that show was an X
Man adaptation, with Stephens playing David Holler, the son of
Charles Xavier. The lead character's dissociative disorder allowed for fragmented
storytelling with a wildly unreliable narrator, producing three seasons that
not only visually and structurally, were able to give us
the TV equivalent of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mine,
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but it did so while honoring the spirit of the
original source material. Adapting a comic book to the screen
is one thing. The unfucking believably tall hurdle of turning
a theatrical film into a successful television series is entirely another.
But then he did that too with five seasons of
The Incredible Fargo, a series that jumps around in time,
end plot and characters season to season. Anchored by Minnesota
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and the incredible Cohen Brothers film, it not only makes
a nifty companion piece to the film Fargo, it frequently
manages to remake and rework the Cohen's other films. It's
really an anomaly of a television series, and the quality
jumps up and down, just like anything serialized over a
number of years. But ultimately these are very smartly written
shows that turned out not only to pay homage to
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its forebear, but recognize and amplify what was so damned
good about the original to begin with. And he does
it here again. I'm genuinely gobsmacked by his work here
on Alien Earth. He gets what's so incredible about that
first film. He understands the need to prize as much
as lay Easter eggs every which away. Hey, they got
a drinky bird from the Nostromo in Romulus. Yeah, here's
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the fucking bridge of the Nostromo, and here's Mother's control room.
It isn't the Nostromo. They're still floating out in space
waiting for the supposed distress signal to wake them up.
But here's Holly giving us the goods Right up front.
The USCSS Magino, a Wayland Utani deep space science research
vessel is heading back to Earth almost in its orbit,
and it's packed with specimens from distant worlds, and it's
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a dead ringer for the Nostromo in exacting detail. I
know because I've been running through its corridors trying to
get away from that motherfucker whenever I'm playing the Last
Survivor mission on Alien Isolation. When we meet the crew,
they're just waking up, and it's all very familiar, not
just paralleling the first film's events, but introducing a group
of characters that are genuinely likable. And then it goes
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further by giving us flashes of what's eventually going to
befall them. Here's a hint. It's the Zeno Morph and
it's glorious. The classic dome of the Big Chap and
everything I know. Cameron has specified that his Aliens were
soldiers and the Big Chap was a drone. That's why
his have more cartilage looking bony heads. But that's the
one thing I think Aliens is lacking. Maybe the dome
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was too reflective. Either way, I love that dome and
I love this alien and yeah, things go really bad,
but instead of floating out in space, the imagine is
on a collision course with Earth.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
How's our girl, She's ready.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You're going to be the first person to transition from
a human body to a synthetic because I'm special.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's right, You're very, very special.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
We have a down space draft.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I want what's on that ship.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We can do it.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
We're fast, we're strong, we don't break.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
It's like a zoo that the animals got out.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
This ship collected five different life forms from the darkest
corners of the universe, Monsters, invasive, species, predatory. We don't
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lock them down.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It will be too late.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
When I mentioned Holly's dedication to giving us new and
surprising twists in the series, I meant it. Here on
Earth were introduced to three kinds of android. Since pure
machine like Ash or Bishop or Call, then there are cyborgs,
humans with synthetic implants, and now new to the scene
are hybrids, synthetic bodies downloaded with a human's consciousness. This
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latest process is innovated by Kid Cavalier, a boy genius, trillionaire,
the ultimate tech bro. Although his reasoning thus far is
actually pretty philosophical, but then Thanos wasn't wrong in theory,
so don't think I'm praising him. He runs Prodigy Corporation,
a rival of whaleen Utani. We knew there had to
be rivals out there. Why is fucking Whale and Utani
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responsible for everything in the universe. The first full hybrid
is Marci, a terminal eleven year old girl who, in
her new synthetic and adult body, adopts the name Wendy.
Holly loves a theme, and here it's Peter Pan. The
island nation near Singapore controlled by Kid Cavalier is named
in Neverland. The group of fellow hybrids that will eventually
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join Wendy are called the Lost Boys, and their adopted
names follow suit with Smee and Nibs and Curly Hell.
During the process of transfer for human to synthetic, they're
actually watching the Disney cartoon Peter Pan, which I know
twenty century Fox is now owned by Disney, so the
wheels are a little more lubricated these days. Nevertheless, it
had me flashing back to Gremlins when those fucking terrors
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are sitting in a theater watching snow White before the
film runs out and they continue their murderous assault. It
seems so wrong and yet so right. Same here mainly
because Holly embraces the parallels rather than trying to bury them,
and he manages to not be beholden to Peter Pan.
Wendy and her cohorts may not ever grow old like
the original Lost Boys, but then they didn't have to
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deal with terrors from beyond space. This group of Lost
Boys is mentored by Prodigy Corporations chief Synthetic Kirsch, played
fucking perfectly by Timothy Oliphant. That really is the one
thing all of these iterations of the Alien franchise has
gotten right. The Android or Synths as we're calling them
now I named the Luminaries earlier. Kersh is a welcome
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addition to their pantheon. So we've got a Wayland Utani
ship crashing into a Prodigy city, and its contents are volatile,
to say the least. That's the setup for the first
two episodes, and luckily for Kid Cavalier, he's got a
squad of Hybrids who are perfectly suited to secure that
crash site and investigate what's inside the ship, which is
about as far as I'm going to go without spoiling anything. However,
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I said, Holly understands the importance of the new when
it comes to reinterpreting a film or series. He's doing
it here with way more than plot and character and location.
He's doing it with tropes we've come to not only
rely on, but have become kind of boring. The crash
of the Magino into a city scape would be the
entire episode in lesser hands and lovingly rendered. Buildings would
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crumble and totter, and people would scream and run, more
interested in the action and actual terror from the human perspective,
thus giving echoes of nine to eleven that are undeniable.
It's horrible and unexpected, and it fucking works. And the
nerd in me loved that the Maginaut's engines were still
firing as the first responders were trying to sort out
what the fuck to do. And I haven't even mentioned
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the other specimens that are lurking inside the ship. Of course,
there'd be other alien life forms. We'd be picking them
up all over if we were colonizing other worlds. These
do not disappoint. Neither does the music. I want to
point out Jeff Russo, he's the composer, and I had
no idea it was the guitarist and lead singer for Tonic.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yep, you kidd Onless she Loves.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He's had some interesting assignments, the latest which seems to
be house composer over at Star Trek. He did Discovery, Picards,
Strange New Worlds, and even the Misbegotten Section thirty one,
not to mention Umbrella Academy and that Ripley series No
Not Her, Oh not You the Patricia highsmiths rically No
not You. Russo does a great job here, not only
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with his original work, but when he quotes, he's doing
it from the original Jerry Goldsmith's score, and particularly the
stings way more effective than telling another alien to get
away from her.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You bitch.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I can't think of a possible segue here to weapons.
So here's the trailer.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
This is a true story that happened in my town.
So this one Wednesday is like a normal day for
the whole school, but today was different. Every other class
had all their kids, but missus Gandy's room was totally empty.
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And do you know why? Because the night before, at
two seventeen in the morning, every kid woke up, got
out of bed, walked out stairs and into the dark,
and they never came back.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't understand at all. Why just her classroom? Why
only hurts?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Where are children?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
We have a lot of emotional parents who I think
it's best if you keep some distance from this place.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That's throw Where are you? Where did you go?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
This is where the story really starts.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How's that for tantalizing? What is it with sketch comedians
suddenly turning into fucking monster horror filmmakers Jordan Peele from
Key and Peel and now Zach Kreiger from The Whitest Kids.
You know this guy hit the scene with a fucking
sledgehammer three years ago with Barbarian. I told you in
the last episode to watch Barbarian. I'm telling you again.
Go watch Barbarian. It's kind of a perfect blend of
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horror and dread and humor, all the while delivering complex characters,
which is doubly true of weapons. You heard the setup.
An entire third grade class goes missing one night. Even
more maddening, they did so of their own volition, walking
out and running into the night, as captured by many
many ring cameras. Those early shots of the children waking
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and taking to the night. Arms swung back like birds
or missiles running against the backdrop of sleeping suburbia are gorgeous,
and all scored to George Harrison's Beware the Darkness, just
one of a half dozen of my favorite songs of
all time, like Percy Sledge's Dark End of the Street
and my literal favorite Harry Nilsen tune Gotta get.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Up, Got get up, gotta get out, Gotta get.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Home for the morning comes water.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Family, got a big day, Gotta get home for the
sun comes up, up and away, got a big day,
sar Cat's day. I gotta run run, Yeah, gotta get home.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Isn't that great? Craiger fragments the story immediately fast forwarding
to nearly a month after the event, and that assembly
at the school that you heard in the trailer. That
scene branches out, rewinding a day or two and giving
us five separate points of view weapons ends up resembling P. T.
Anderson's Magnolia more than anything, though, while Magnolia's characters and
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stories share a tenuous connection a theme, really all of
the stories here are leading us to the one tale. Overall.
Those points of view are Justine played by Julia Garner,
the film's nominal protagonist. It's her class that's gone missing.
Archer a father of one of the missing children whose
obsession with finding him will either kill him or set
him free. He's played by Josh Brolin. Then there's Paul,
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played by the once upon a Time Hans solo Alden Ehrenreich.
He's a cop in the town and a former flame
of Julia. James, a homeless drug addict played spectacularly by
Austin Abrams. He was on The Walking Dead and Euphoria.
Then there's Marcus, the schools put upon principle, played by
Benedict Wong. Can we put mister Wong in everything? Please?
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There is no project he will not make him better.
And finally, and most revealingly, there's Alex, played by then
eight year old Carrie Christopher. Alex is the only child
in Julia's class who didn't go wandering that night. I
really can't say any more other than the kid was
fucking amazing. I've dealt with plenty of precocious terrible child
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actors over the years on Tails from the Dark Side
and Night Gallery and Twilight Zone eighty five. Not a
fucking whiff of that here He's great. Each of the
separate stories are economical and interesting, and in some cases
take you far from the main plot, involving you more
in these people's personal lives than your average scare show allows,
which is a hell of a neat trick considering the
film's central mystery involves seventeen missing children. But is it scary? Fuck? Yes,
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it is and dreamy and personal and weird and thrilling
in skin crawling, and it functions as a hell of
a meditation on addiction and its widespread lingering effects on
the lives of everyone it touches. And it's funny as
funny as together was Boy. Horror is really hitting a
stride recently, like Alien Earth. I'm loath to reveal anything else,
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but I'd like to note if a nature documentary shows
up in a horror movie, you should pay attention, just
saying your mileage may vary when it comes to the reveal.
Sometimes no answer is better than disappointing one. I myself
love an open ended mystery. This ain't that Craiger isn't
interested in stringing you along, And I, for one, was
right there with this flick every step of the way.
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The supporting cast. There's a supporting cast after five leads. Yeah,
and it's just as strong. Toby Huss is a fucking gem.
He's the chief of police here and father to Paul's
fiance Donna, who is played by podcast legend June Diana Rayfield.
Toby Huss, though you probably know him as the whizb
I'm the Wizist, but he's made a career of gentle,
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authoritarian characters. But I just wanted to point him out
and say how fucking good he is. Justin Long and
Sarah Paxton show up as parents of one of the
other missing kids. And Amy Madigan is also in the film,
and she's fucking spectacular. What a real life duo she
and Ed Harris make just powerhouses in every direction. You
know what, I take back what I said earlier. Do
not see Barbarian that's readily available on streaming. Go to
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the movies and put your money down for this one.
I encourage that a lot, But this is it.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
If you're not supporting this, you are not supporting horror.
And if you're not supporting horror, then get out of here.
We're getting out of here. Tune in Friday. We've got
the latest tannels from the Dark Side, and the Friday
after that will be Aliens Versus Predator. But if you
want to hear that right now, it's on the Patreon
channel Patreon dot com slash Father alone. You'll get episodes
in advance, weeks in advance sometimes, and you'll have access
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to shows not in the main feed, like HP Hates Me.
The latest episode is up where HP made me watch
Corey Haymes me myself and I, a self released video
made to convince the industry he was sober and ready
to work, all the while being high as a fucking kite.
Next Monday, we'll probably not be another round up. That's right.
I'm like SNL. I'll come in hot and I'll bail,
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but it will be a new show. Not a new show,
but show you haven't heard. That'll be my own weapons mystery.
Until then, until we meet again, I'm Father Malone for
Ripley Gene. We're gonna leave you with a bit from
Alien Earth.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
The ship touchdown in seventeen thirty. It's a deep space
research vestval C class wayland Utorny survivors on the ship
unknown calms it down. Ship must have clipped the tower
but we have forces on the ground. Mass casualties, i'd
imagine among the residents. Luckily it was the founders of
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the festival. Hundreds of people were at the park, sir.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Not now, let's good.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
No triage, the rescue by income it called up the
reserves and keep this quiet until.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
We know the damage.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
We can do it.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
And the ship.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
A deep space research vessel loaded with who knows what?
I think that's ours. Now she won't like that, Yeah,
so she can sue. Show show show, show
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