June 14, 2025 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the long-awaited announcement of a sequel to Mel Brooks cult-classic sci-fi parody film ‘Spaceballs’ AND Jackie Chan revealing that he didn’t understand anything Chris Tucker said during the filming of the first ‘Rush Hour’ movie…PLUS - Mark Rahner has a review of the new John Wick spinoff film ‘Ballerina,’ in the Rahner Report - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KF I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
KFI Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on YouTube and the
iHeartRadio app. Who here does not love Spaceballs? Carnecia, I
know you haven't seen the movie because you haven't seen
anything before nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I think that's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, here we go, Here we go. Tell me about Spaceballs. Then,
as I was saying, Spaceballs is a genuine cult classic,
I'm gonna step in front of the bullet for your
currently ship.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you, Mark mo Are you ready for this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yes, I've never seen Spaceballs? He told me that last night.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
How can you, as a centophile, a movie critic, a
mel Brooks fan, not ever have seen Spaceballs?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
How is that possible? I just never got around to it.
I was busy whatever year it came out, and there
goes all my credibility about everything forever.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Uh, you've seen Star Wars, right, Yeah? I think so?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, Okay, it is a takeoff on Star Wars, not
clone Star Helmet.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So at last we meet for the first time, for
the last.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Time before you die. There is something you should know
about us.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Sloane Star. What I am your father's brothers, nephew's, cousin's
former roommate.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
What's that make us? Absolutely nothing?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Which is what you are about to become prepared to die.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You have the read and I see your schwartz is
as big as mine.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
It is hilarious even to this day. You have to
imagine where the schwartz is are placed. Yes, the Schwartzes
are not their belt level schwartzes.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We talk about this because there is going to be
a new Spaceballs coming out and it's going to be
on Amazon Prime and streaming is perfect. I don't need
to go to the theater to see something like this.
Just like Coming to the Coming to America two axel
f that Beverly Hills Cop four, you get to find
out where the beloved characters are, what's been happening in
(02:44):
the meantime, get them do one last curtain call together,
and then you can move on.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
This is cool because now mel Brooks actually looks like Yoda.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Hello, dang today mel alone, but he is going to
be in the movie. He is connected to this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
They're bringing back Rick moranis They're bringing back Bill Pullman.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Unfortunately, obviously you can't have John Candy. He's gone.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But this is another example of you want to do
these movies, these legacy sequels while you can while the
majority of the cast is here. In other words, this
might be mel Brooks's last hurrah. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Did you see his sequel to History of the World.
I did. Unfortunately I did not like it. Okay, all right,
that's where I thought this was going.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, Well, the History of the World is they didn't
take as many chances as they should have. It didn't
feel like they wanted to really do a History of
the World part two.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Well, I think some from part one might not have
translated so well to the twenty first sex Oh no,
it would not have.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And I don't need to spell those out. No, not
at all. But Spaceball's, I think, is a little more innocuous.
You don't have to worry about as much. Is more
crude sex jokes, I think than anything. That's more silly
than anything. Well, who doesn't love crude sex jokes. Look,
I'm all for it. I grew up on Benny Hill.
Let's have it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, yeah, I would say it's in the vein of
Benny Hill.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, but they bringing back Bill Pullman, and they're also
adding his son, Lewis Pullman, which is very cool, very cool. Now,
I don't know if he's going to play his son.
He is, yes, Oh he is gonna play son. Yes
he is.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
That's that's what's so great about it. It is fantastic
that just that alone to me to carry on the
lone star.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Legacy. I believe he's star shot. Mmmmm hm.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's probably going to be some sort of homage to
John Candy or some sort of connection. I don't think
you could do a space Balls too and not at
least acknowledge him somewhere.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It could be a photo of John Candy barf on.
What does anyone remember the name of the r V spaceship?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I forgot right now? I ah, why would you do that?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Someone looking up for us, if you're in the motown chat,
let us know what was that's the name of the
r V spaceship in Spaceball.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Let me look it up real quick. R V space ship.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Spaceball Egle five, Eagle five, Yes, Egle five. So if
they brought back to Egle five, and I know they will,
there'll probably be some sort of homage or acknowledgment to
John Candy. But that kind of makes my point. You
have to do these. Thank you. Daniel brought it up
right on the screen. That's why we have the YouTube.
He brought it right up just as we were talking
(05:29):
about it. You have to have these sequels while you can.
And now we're at a time where everyone who loves
movies is asking for them and they don't have to
be great. It's almost like a reunion show for the
Brady Bunch or you know, the Jeffersons. You just want
to be able to have one more family reunion. Has
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anyone seen Daphne Zuniga in decades?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I've seen Rick Brandison decades or he retired to spend
time with his kids, right, And they.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Didn't catch that. They didn't catch that. Some of my
best material, it all ends up in the same place. Okay, Mark, Yes,
Rick Brannas did this movie called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I've heard of it. You didn't see that movie Carnegie
Part two. I've never heard it called part two. That's
pretty cute. There is a part no, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Name part two. It's like a Honey I Shrunk the
Kids again. Yeah, no, it's oh no, isn't that the
baby one? Okay, now we got to look it up
now because I can't remember all this. Honey, I shrunk
the kids too, or I shrunk the baby too, Honey,
I blew up the kid.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That sounds like child.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, that's when they had the baby and they made
him like bigs of the same size as the marshmallow.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, big baby. But Rick moranis is back to
Mark's point.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He had retired, he had left Hollywood in that regard.
They couldn't get him out of retirement, even for like
a Ghostbuster's cameo role.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah. Yeah, and it would have been nice to see
him in that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I guess the right person got to him and said, hey,
if we do this spaceballs.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But maybe Meil reached out to him.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's like if mel Brooks were to call you, you say yes, that's.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Almost to it. Yeah, say yes, this.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Would be something that's gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I have a good feeling about this one because it
doesn't have to have a level of quality. It just
needs to be silly. And if it's genuine mel Brooks silly,
I am completely in Well.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Also, it's not like the last three to six Star
Wars films haven't given us plenty to mock.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Oh, I promise that they will go in on those
too much material when we come back.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We have to talk about Jackie Chan in the First
Rush Hour where it looks like, if you've seen the
First Rush Hour movie, Jackie Chan's character has no idea
what Chris Tucker's character is talking about. There's a story
which came out earlier this week which said that no,
it was real Jackie chand had no idea what Chris
Tucker was saying.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
We'll tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I Am six forty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's Later with mo Kelly live everywhere on YouTube and
the iHeartRadio app. Not too long ago, of course, they
released the movie Karate Kid Legends and it stars Ben Wang,
who's a young actor Chinese born actor, and he and
the whole cast I Say Ralph Ma show, Jackie Chan.
(08:39):
Ben Wang sat down with Kelly Clarkson on her show
and Ben was talking about how he learned English originally
and what he used to learn English, and that led
into a story about Jackie Chan and his early days
in Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Listen to this tip me in front of the TV.
I watched TV or learned English. That a great way
to teach your kids English. Just haven't watched the cartoon network.
And it's specifically the infomercials. Infomercials are really it turns
out it's I realized this. They're really good for language
learning because the the you know, you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Know Billy May's shamlow.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, he really projects you over a nuncias. Everything is
like this, so you're getting all the fanatics. Yeah, right,
and then and he's like he's demonstrating so whatever he's doing,
he's like he's like the absorption, the absorption, and you're like, kay,
I'm a kid. I'm like, I don't know absorption is.
But the water's going to the towel, like that's probably
got something to do with it. And then it just
pick and then it repeats every single commercial break, so
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you start to start taking up on it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I love if Billy Mays is your introduction to America.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That is really quite fascinating and interesting. How you and
the cartoon stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I do think as well, when you watch like cartoons,
it's like easier for kids and stuff our children's books.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
That's even for adults.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
They learn that way, like different languages.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
But you had to get used to fast paced English.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Right? Was it during Rush Hour Russia?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
How did that go? I don't know the whole movie.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I don't even know what Chris talk is saying for
me that Now my dialogue coach check right behind the camera.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You're turned that. You know Chris Talker?
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Have you seen every shop different dialogue?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
This so fast?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I know, yeah and quite.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
And he projects it's hard for me and I speak faster.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Okay, so check that out.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now you heard Jackie Chan what he said about just
doing Rush Hour. Now, when I play the scene for you,
it's going to seem different in this light. Please tell
me you speak English.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I'm Detective Carter.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Do you speak any English?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Do you understand the words that are coming out of
my mind? Evidently not?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now that scene does not play as well in today's
environment politically incorrect. But you if you go back and
watch Rush Hour, you realize that, according to that Kelly
Clarkson clip, Jackie Chan had a dialogue coach who was
just pointing at him at the end of Chris Tucker's
lines to just go ahead and say you're line.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So think about that in regard to this scene.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Well, for nothing, you ain't gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Touch my hat the bitch voice.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
These boys gonna get you a great ye ass ken
a touch of black Man's ready, yo, wife, You can
do that in China, but you even get your ass
killed out here. Man. Jackie Chan had no idea what
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Chris Tucker was saying. Absolutely nothing completely changed. I want
to just go back and watch the movie to look
at Jackie Chan's facial expressions.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Because he doesn't know what's being said to no idea.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh but before we get out of here, we've been
teasing this and now it might be the time the
seventieth anniversary celebration of disney Land. Who wants to go
to either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure A four four
family four pack one day passes. Okay, you can go
(12:30):
to Disneyland, or you can go to Disney California Adventure.
Carnacian give me a number between one and ten.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If you are caller number seven, you will win a
family four pack and you can use that as part
of Disneyland's seventieth Adversary celebration. You can go to Disneyland
or Disney California Adventure Park. Caller number seven, Oh, carnation,
Since I had you choose that number? Have you ever
been to Disneyland. You're a New Orleans Natives, so you
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maybe not have.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I did go to Disneyland, but it was the one
in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It was for like a band troop. Okay, so you've
been to disney World, then, all right, now I've been
to both. Since I'm from LA, I'm going to be
partial to Disneyland. Epcot Center is obviously much larger than Disneyland,
but I prefer Disneyland. If you are a caller at
number seven, you will win a family four pack to
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either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park. I don't know,
you know, why don't we just close the phones and
I'll just use the tickets? Tell Twala we're not going
to take a win her. No, Stephan, I'm being serious.
Why Why are you laughing? Why don't we all go? Okay, yeah,
we got Mark Stephana. Twala can't go, he's too busy,
(13:51):
and me and Daniel Carneish, I'm sorry, you can't go either.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Well, she's from New Orleans, which kind of renders Disneyland's redundant.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It's a step down though.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, Caller number seven, you will win a family four
pack that the phone lines are going crazy with good reason.
Caller number seven for that family four pack as part
of Disneyland's seventieth anniversary celebration.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Please tell me you speak English?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm Detective Carter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Do you speak any English? Do you understand the words
that are coming out of my mouth? It's Later with
Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
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Speaker 3 (14:35):
When we come back, we have the Runner Report. Mark.
What is in the Runa Report tonight?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, right, we're gonna talk about Ballerina.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Ooh and we haven't talked yet, so I have no
idea how you feel about it?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Okay, I like it. I'll bring into this discussion because
I'm gonna take a little left turn in the middle
that you might appreciate.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Sounds good.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Mark talks about pop culture.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Ron and Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Kf I AB six forty. It's a Later with Mo Kelly,
let's get to Mark Runner and the Runner Report.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
All right, we never got a chance to talk about
Ballerina last week. There was something going on. I can't
remember what it was, so we're gonna play some catch up.
The full title is from the World of john Wick Ballerina,
which is kind of a mouthful. We've had four John
Wick movies with Keanu Reeves, all entertaining and fun, especially
if you're a violent sociopath. We had a spin off
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TV show called The Continental, which didn't do a lot
for me. I think I dropped it after an episode
or two. Now we've got a spin off movie with
a female lead, Ballerina with anadarmis. Sorry, it's from the
World of John Wick Ballerina. Do we need this? Here's
a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I know you, I know your pain. This isn't done
until they're dead. We do not swear to this, Senias.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
When you think of me, you should think of five.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
These people that you're looking for. I'm in this hotel
right now, Risen.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
From the Ashes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, you don't have to get.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You don't choose to be a killer.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You are chosen.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You are chosen and you could hear some of the
mayhem in there, but the mayhem's pretty impressive. I am
agnostic on a de Armis as an action heroin and
an action star, and even as an actress hero. A
Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde left me cold. I don't even
think she shook her Cuban accent for that. The year
before that, in twenty twenty one, she had a small
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role in the embarrassingly bad James Bond movie No Time
to Die, and she seemed able to do some action
in that. Here's where we got to digress and aggress
the elephant in the room and risk pissing some people off.
Female action movies and shows are tricky to pull off,
and it's rare when you see one that actually sells
the fights with a woman star, especially against men. Remember
Haywire with Gina Carano from twenty eleven, or pretty much
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anything with Michelle Yo when she was younger good female
fight action. Atomic Blonde with Charlie's Stern wasn't bad either,
And we could go down the list, because I try
to watch most of them. Peppermint Ava, the Woman King,
those weren't quite as good. The pragmatic aspect is this last.
I look this stuff up. Women have an average twenty
five to forty percent less strength than men and a
generally higher percentage of body fat. Don't blame me. There
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are always exceptions, but we're just not the same. If
you think taking note of that is sexist, your argument's
not with me. It's with biology of Galactus, the great
god Cthulhu. I don't make the rules, but I dealt
with the physical differences myself a lot during the time
I taught taekwondo when I was younger. Yes, women against
men were generally a mismatch. But on the other hand,
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and Mo, you might relate to this, the female students
were always the first ones to hurt me during sparring
and haul off and kick me without hesitation in the balls.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's true. Okay, that's accurate. Thank you for that.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And that's where Ballerina is smart right out of the
gate by addressing that little five foot six on a
Yarmus plays a woman who, when she's tiny, her father
gets killed by bad guys. Then she's taken in and
trained by a ballet assassin group you know those. It's
led by Angelica Houston from the Wick Verse movies. The
Wick World, and during all the training she's told directly,
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you're not going to beat men fighting on their own terms.
You gotta fight dirty, fight creatively, fight like a girl.
And the results are pretty entertaining. They're hyper choreographed, but
they're fun. These wik movies I do what Bruce Lees
Entered the Dragon did in nineteen seventy one and what
Jet Lee's Kiss of the Dragon did in two thousand
and one, and surprisingly few others have really bothered with,
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which is they give hyper violent martial arts fights all
the lavish production value of a real, big Hollywood movie.
Ballerina is a terrific looking movie, with real actors, great
sets and locations, a cool score. The last act takes
place in a little European mountain village entirely populated by
bad guys, and it looks terrific. Old Gabriel Byrne is
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back on film. He's the leader of the bad guys.
Norman Ritus from The Walking deads in it, but not
as much as the trailers might lead you to believe.
Keanu Reeves appears his Wick and it's more than just
a cameo, so you can forget about the class action
suit on that front if you care. Ballerina is set
between John Wick. Chapters three and four. Ian McShane and
Lance Reddick are back from the Wick movies. Rehdick died
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in twenty twenty three, and his scenes in Ballerina were
apparently the last things he ever filmed. So if you're
skeptical Ballerina, why not deliver on the action. I'm here
to tell you it's packed with relentless psychotic violence, fists, knives,
compound fractures, face shots, the same kind of gun foo
from the Wick movies, and not just gunfu. As Anna's
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character Eve breaks the rules of the Wick world to
get revenge for her dad in places that are off limits,
we get ice skate foo, we get flamethrower foo, we
get some hand grenade foo. It does get pretty Warner Brothers.
Let's be clear, it's all pretty dumb. I mean, Wick
still has his bulletproof suits, so you know you're not
watching the French connection here. And the story, to the
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extent that one even exists, is just a delivery device
for a bunch of action set pieces. It only has
a fraction of the character of the Wick movies, and
poor old Gabriel Burns reduced to that cliche of the
boss who keeps sending henchmen after an unstoppable killing machine.
Bring her to me, kill her. We've seen it a
million times. I don't even know why they bothered putting
Norman Ritas in it either. He's barely in the movie.
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This may be indicative of troubled production.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You may.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I've read that Ballerin was pushed back a whole year,
had a bunch of reshoots, was taken over by Chad Stahelski,
the director of some of the Whig Stuff. We'll never
know the truth because it's not like the filmmakers are
going to come out and spill the beans in interviews.
Every big movie has reshoots from Marvel on down, and
it doesn't matter. What's on the screen matters. And what's
on the screen is honestly some fun trash. It's nice looking,
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got plenty of creative violence, but there's nothing memorable about it.
It's not a very good movie. It's poorly written and
barely written. What winds up being weird is that Anna
Diarmis can sell the action, but she just doesn't have
the charisma to make you care much about her. I
like Keanu Reeves, but he has what you might call
a limited range, and he still blows her off the
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screen whenever they're in a scene together. I wanted to
leave her behind and go with him. I went in
agnostic about her and came out the same way. She's
no Pam Grier. Okay. I feel like there's terminology for
something that's kind of fun for a couple hours of pounding,
but forgettable and kind of cheap when you look back
and think about it. And I feel like Tuala might
know what that word is. Maybe it'll come to me.
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I don't need a sequel to Ballerina, but I'll probably
watch it if they make one, because, like I said,
I try to watch most of them.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
We have you seen this yet?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I have not, But I do have a question, and
I think you answered it as to whether Honor to
Armis is an actual star in her own right or
is she a good co star?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
In movies, you can't really predict or explain how an
actor strikes everybody. There might be some people who think
she's the greatest actress on earth.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Like, I said the Blonde movie, which a lot of
people were raving about, I didn't understand I didn't. I mean,
I feel like she gave a lot to that performance,
and it was it was a pretty explicit thing. But
if you can't even shake your accent to try to
sound like Marilyn Monroe, you got to you gotta let
me in on what you're going for here, because it's intentional.
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I think we take Keanu Reeves for granted. I mean
he's Yeah. I love Steve McQueen, but he had his
limitations too. You had to put him in the right thing.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I mean Keanu Reeves, he's not. It's not that
he has a lack of range. I think he accentuates that,
which he does very well. We're not looking for a
biopic with Keanu Reeves. We're not looking for a period
piece by a large with Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Didn't need him in Shakespeare, not at all.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But he works very well in this hyperbolic action genre
that he dominates. And maybe Ana de Armas has not
found that vehicle for her yet. The things I've seen
her in I thought she was fine as a complimentary piece, but.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I don't know if I want to I don't know
about that language though.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, see now you have to make it weird.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I'm just saying, nobody wants to be called a complimentary piece.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's what co stars saw.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
She was a good co star, and I think to
me she was the only real standout that I remember
from uh, that horrible James Bond movie.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yes, that's great. It was a fun scene. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And the thing about Ballerina is that, even if you
don't think she's much of an actress, they just keep
the violence so constant, so relentless, and so well choreographed
and just insane.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You don't care who's I have a problem here, Mark,
This is for me.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
If you think about it as a movie of quality, no,
it sucks. But as far as just fun stylized violence,
if that's all you're going in for you you're gonna
get what you paid for.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But I understand what you're saying, Mark.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I my hang up with movies, especially Once, which feature
a lot of martial arts action. I am hyper critical
of a lot of scenes where you can see, Okay,
that's the stunt guy who's never taken martial arts before.
They're just certain things, or you can see that's an
actor who has barely thrown a real kick in their life.
There are just certain things that you can see, like
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when you watch movie like White Men Can't Jump, you
could tell who actually played basketball before and who didn't.
You could tell that Wesley Snips was not a basketball player.
They're just things that you could look for and discern
when it comes to these movies. My thing is I
want the martial arts aspect of the choreography to be tight.
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And yes, there are physical limitations, but you can also
craft the scene. And I haven't seen the movie, but
you can craft the choreography to make it more believable
when you have this one hundred and twenty five pound
woman taking on these two hundred and forty pound dunes
and she.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Looks like she can take and give a kick, and
god knows how much balsa wood stuff they destroyed throwing
her through it right in the movie. And that's fine,
but I just I wish they'd spent some more time
giving her even trace elements of character. And that's a
pretty thorough review there, Mark Ronald, I'm exhausted. I gotta
lie down.
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three four for Name that movie cult Classic And of
course it's going to be Father's Day edition. And you
may not know this, but there are some science fiction
movies out there which were really about a father child relationship,
father son, father daughter. And there are movies that you
may have known in loved for years, or other movies
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that you may not have even thought about. We talked
about Interstellar maybe a week or so ago. It's about
secret space travel and the grief of a dad watching
his kids grow up from a distance and his very
Matthew McConaughey's character very special relationship with his daughter Murph
in that movie. And I don't know if Mark Ronnie
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you would agree, but I believe that the movie Contact
is probably one of the best space I'll say science
fiction movies ever made.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I agree, and pardon me, I just took a sorry, no, no,
I should have held up my hand or something, or
put on a big lobster bibs that you could see it.
But there's an amazing shot in Contact which follows the
little girl all the way up the stairs and into
the shot in the mirror. Look it up on YouTube.
It's astonishing, and I still to this day I have
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no idea how they did it.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
All I know is it's one of the smartest science
fiction movies about again, first contact with alien intelligent life.
How they the inclusion of math, the inclusion of the
theory of how it would impact religion, the god question.
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But at the heart of that movie, it's about a
daughter's love and longing for her father who's passed.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
On, and the aliens choose the form of Jodie Foster's
father as something that she can understand and relate to,
because when you think about it, I picture aliens as
more like the unseen ones from two thousand one, which
would be so different and so far advanced from us
that we couldn't possibly understand them.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
So it's more likely thank You and an all powerful,
mysterious God created the universe and then decided not to give.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Any proof of his existence or that he simply doesn't
exist at all, and then we.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Created him so we wouldn't have to feel so small alone.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I couldn't imagine living in a level God didn't exist.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I wouldn't want to. How do you know you're not
deluding yourself? I mean for me, i'd need proof proof.
Did you love your father? What your dad?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Did you love him?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yes? Very much? Prove it.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But the all time classic movie, as it relates to
a father and his child, never told you what happened
to the father.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
He told me enough, he told me, you kill me.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
No, I am the father at all.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And I gotta say, this is not Mark Hamill's finest
moment acting in this scene.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Crew, that's impossible.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
You know, you.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Can destroy the emperors. I don't know if he's upset
or he has a hemorrhoid.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Well he's sort of ugly, crying like Claire Danes in
that scene.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yes, stretching up his face. It wasn't his finest moment.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, but let's face it, the Star Wars movies are
they really about acting?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Are they?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
They're not. Okay, No, they're not.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
KFI Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on YouTube and the
iHeartRadio app. Who here does not love Spaceballs? Carnecia, I
know you haven't seen the movie because you haven't seen
anything before nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I think that's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, here we go, Here we go. Tell me about Spaceballs. Then,
as I was saying, Spaceballs is a genuine cult classic,
I'm gonna step in front of the bullet for your
currently ship.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you, Mark mo Are you ready for this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yes, I've never seen Spaceballs? He told me that last night.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
How can you, as a centophile, a movie critic, a
mel Brooks fan, not ever have seen Spaceballs?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
How is that possible? I just never got around to it.
I was busy whatever year it came out, and there
goes all my credibility about everything forever.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Uh, you've seen Star Wars, right, Yeah? I think so?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, Okay, it is a takeoff on Star Wars, not
clone Star Helmet.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So at last we meet for the first time, for
the last.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Time before you die. There is something you should know
about us.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Sloane Star. What I am your father's brothers, nephew's, cousin's
former roommate.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
What's that make us? Absolutely nothing?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Which is what you are about to become prepared to die.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You have the read and I see your schwartz is
as big as mine.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
It is hilarious even to this day. You have to
imagine where the schwartz is are placed. Yes, the Schwartzes
are not their belt level schwartzes.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
We talk about this because there is going to be
a new Spaceballs coming out and it's going to be
on Amazon Prime and streaming is perfect. I don't need
to go to the theater to see something like this.
Just like Coming to the Coming to America two axel
f that Beverly Hills Cop four, you get to find
out where the beloved characters are, what's been happening in
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the meantime, get them do one last curtain call together,
and then you can move on.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
This is cool because now mel Brooks actually looks like Yoda.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Hello, dang today mel alone, but he is going to
be in the movie. He is connected to this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
They're bringing back Rick moranis They're bringing back Bill Pullman.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Unfortunately, obviously you can't have John Candy. He's gone.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But this is another example of you want to do
these movies, these legacy sequels while you can while the
majority of the cast is here. In other words, this
might be mel Brooks's last hurrah. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Did you see his sequel to History of the World.
I did. Unfortunately I did not like it. Okay, all right,
that's where I thought this was going.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, Well, the History of the World is they didn't
take as many chances as they should have. It didn't
feel like they wanted to really do a History of
the World part two.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Well, I think some from part one might not have
translated so well to the twenty first sex Oh no,
it would not have.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And I don't need to spell those out. No, not
at all. But Spaceball's, I think, is a little more innocuous.
You don't have to worry about as much. Is more
crude sex jokes, I think than anything. That's more silly
than anything. Well, who doesn't love crude sex jokes. Look,
I'm all for it. I grew up on Benny Hill.
Let's have it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, yeah, I would say it's in the vein of
Benny Hill.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, but they bringing back Bill Pullman, and they're also
adding his son, Lewis Pullman, which is very cool, very cool. Now,
I don't know if he's going to play his son.
He is, yes, Oh he is gonna play son. Yes
he is.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
That's that's what's so great about it. It is fantastic
that just that alone to me to carry on the
lone star.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Legacy. I believe he's star shot. Mmmmm hm.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's probably going to be some sort of homage to
John Candy or some sort of connection. I don't think
you could do a space Balls too and not at
least acknowledge him somewhere.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It could be a photo of John Candy barf on.
What does anyone remember the name of the r V spaceship?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I forgot right now? I ah, why would you do that?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Someone looking up for us, if you're in the motown chat,
let us know what was that's the name of the
r V spaceship in Spaceball.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Let me look it up real quick. R V space ship.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Spaceball Egle five, Eagle five, Yes, Egle five. So if
they brought back to Egle five, and I know they will,
there'll probably be some sort of homage or acknowledgment to
John Candy. But that kind of makes my point. You
have to do these. Thank you. Daniel brought it up
right on the screen. That's why we have the YouTube.
He brought it right up just as we were talking
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about it. You have to have these sequels while you can.
And now we're at a time where everyone who loves
movies is asking for them and they don't have to
be great. It's almost like a reunion show for the
Brady Bunch or you know, the Jeffersons. You just want
to be able to have one more family reunion. Has
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anyone seen Daphne Zuniga in decades?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I've seen Rick Brandison decades or he retired to spend
time with his kids, right, And they.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Didn't catch that. They didn't catch that. Some of my
best material, it all ends up in the same place. Okay, Mark, Yes,
Rick Brannas did this movie called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I've heard of it. You didn't see that movie Carnegie
Part two. I've never heard it called part two. That's
pretty cute. There is a part no, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Name part two. It's like a Honey I Shrunk the
Kids again. Yeah, no, it's oh no, isn't that the
baby one? Okay, now we got to look it up
now because I can't remember all this. Honey, I shrunk
the kids too, or I shrunk the baby too, Honey,
I blew up the kid.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That sounds like child.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, that's when they had the baby and they made
him like bigs of the same size as the marshmallow.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, big baby. But Rick moranis is back to
Mark's point.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He had retired, he had left Hollywood in that regard.
They couldn't get him out of retirement, even for like
a Ghostbuster's cameo role.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah. Yeah, and it would have been nice to see
him in that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I guess the right person got to him and said, hey,
if we do this spaceballs.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But maybe Meil reached out to him.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's like if mel Brooks were to call you, you say yes, that's.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Almost to it. Yeah, say yes, this.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Would be something that's gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I have a good feeling about this one because it
doesn't have to have a level of quality. It just
needs to be silly. And if it's genuine mel Brooks silly,
I am completely in Well.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Also, it's not like the last three to six Star
Wars films haven't given us plenty to mock.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Oh, I promise that they will go in on those
too much material when we come back.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We have to talk about Jackie Chan in the First
Rush Hour where it looks like, if you've seen the
First Rush Hour movie, Jackie Chan's character has no idea
what Chris Tucker's character is talking about. There's a story
which came out earlier this week which said that no,
it was real Jackie chand had no idea what Chris
Tucker was saying.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
We'll tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (08:17):
I Am six forty eight.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's Later with mo Kelly live everywhere on YouTube and
the iHeartRadio app. Not too long ago, of course, they
released the movie Karate Kid Legends and it stars Ben Wang,
who's a young actor Chinese born actor, and he and
the whole cast I Say Ralph Ma show, Jackie Chan.
(08:39):
Ben Wang sat down with Kelly Clarkson on her show
and Ben was talking about how he learned English originally
and what he used to learn English, and that led
into a story about Jackie Chan and his early days
in Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Listen to this tip me in front of the TV.
I watched TV or learned English. That a great way
to teach your kids English. Just haven't watched the cartoon network.
And it's specifically the infomercials. Infomercials are really it turns
out it's I realized this. They're really good for language
learning because the the you know, you.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Know Billy May's shamlow.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, he really projects you over a nuncias. Everything is
like this, so you're getting all the fanatics. Yeah, right,
and then and he's like he's demonstrating so whatever he's doing,
he's like he's like the absorption, the absorption, and you're like, kay,
I'm a kid. I'm like, I don't know absorption is.
But the water's going to the towel, like that's probably
got something to do with it. And then it just
pick and then it repeats every single commercial break, so
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you start to start taking up on it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I love if Billy Mays is your introduction to America.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That is really quite fascinating and interesting. How you and
the cartoon stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I do think as well, when you watch like cartoons,
it's like easier for kids and stuff our children's books.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
That's even for adults.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
They learn that way, like different languages.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
But you had to get used to fast paced English.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Right? Was it during Rush Hour Russia?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
How did that go? I don't know the whole movie.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I don't even know what Chris talk is saying for
me that Now my dialogue coach check right behind the camera.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You're turned that. You know Chris Talker?
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Have you seen every shop different dialogue?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
This so fast?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I know, yeah and quite.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
And he projects it's hard for me and I speak faster.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Okay, so check that out.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now you heard Jackie Chan what he said about just
doing Rush Hour. Now, when I play the scene for you,
it's going to seem different in this light. Please tell
me you speak English.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I'm Detective Carter.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Do you speak any English?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Do you understand the words that are coming out of
my mind? Evidently not?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now that scene does not play as well in today's
environment politically incorrect. But you if you go back and
watch Rush Hour, you realize that, according to that Kelly
Clarkson clip, Jackie Chan had a dialogue coach who was
just pointing at him at the end of Chris Tucker's
lines to just go ahead and say you're line.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So think about that in regard to this scene.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Well, for nothing, you ain't gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Touch my hat the bitch voice.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
These boys gonna get you a great ye ass ken
a touch of black Man's ready, yo, wife, You can
do that in China, but you even get your ass
killed out here. Man. Jackie Chan had no idea what
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Chris Tucker was saying. Absolutely nothing completely changed. I want
to just go back and watch the movie to look
at Jackie Chan's facial expressions.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Because he doesn't know what's being said to no idea.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh but before we get out of here, we've been
teasing this and now it might be the time the
seventieth anniversary celebration of disney Land. Who wants to go
to either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure A four four
family four pack one day passes. Okay, you can go
(12:30):
to Disneyland, or you can go to Disney California Adventure.
Carnacian give me a number between one and ten.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If you are caller number seven, you will win a
family four pack and you can use that as part
of Disneyland's seventieth Adversary celebration. You can go to Disneyland
or Disney California Adventure Park. Caller number seven, Oh, carnation,
Since I had you choose that number? Have you ever
been to Disneyland. You're a New Orleans Natives, so you
(13:00):
maybe not have.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I did go to Disneyland, but it was the one
in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It was for like a band troop. Okay, so you've
been to disney World, then, all right, now I've been
to both. Since I'm from LA, I'm going to be
partial to Disneyland. Epcot Center is obviously much larger than Disneyland,
but I prefer Disneyland. If you are a caller at
number seven, you will win a family four pack to
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either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park. I don't know,
you know, why don't we just close the phones and
I'll just use the tickets? Tell Twala we're not going
to take a win her. No, Stephan, I'm being serious.
Why Why are you laughing? Why don't we all go? Okay, yeah,
we got Mark Stephana. Twala can't go, he's too busy,
(13:51):
and me and Daniel Carneish, I'm sorry, you can't go either.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Well, she's from New Orleans, which kind of renders Disneyland's redundant.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It's a step down though.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, Caller number seven, you will win a family four
pack that the phone lines are going crazy with good reason.
Caller number seven for that family four pack as part
of Disneyland's seventieth anniversary celebration.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Please tell me you speak English?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm Detective Carter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Do you speak any English? Do you understand the words
that are coming out of my mouth? It's Later with
Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
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Speaker 3 (14:35):
When we come back, we have the Runner Report. Mark.
What is in the Runa Report tonight?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, right, we're gonna talk about Ballerina.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Ooh and we haven't talked yet, so I have no
idea how you feel about it?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Okay, I like it. I'll bring into this discussion because
I'm gonna take a little left turn in the middle
that you might appreciate.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Sounds good.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Mark talks about pop culture.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Ron and Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Kf I AB six forty. It's a Later with Mo Kelly,
let's get to Mark Runner and the Runner Report.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
All right, we never got a chance to talk about
Ballerina last week. There was something going on. I can't
remember what it was, so we're gonna play some catch up.
The full title is from the World of john Wick Ballerina,
which is kind of a mouthful. We've had four John
Wick movies with Keanu Reeves, all entertaining and fun, especially
if you're a violent sociopath. We had a spin off
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TV show called The Continental, which didn't do a lot
for me. I think I dropped it after an episode
or two. Now we've got a spin off movie with
a female lead, Ballerina with anadarmis. Sorry, it's from the
World of John Wick Ballerina. Do we need this? Here's
a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I know you, I know your pain. This isn't done
until they're dead. We do not swear to this, Senias.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
When you think of me, you should think of five.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
These people that you're looking for. I'm in this hotel
right now, Risen.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
From the Ashes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, you don't have to get.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You don't choose to be a killer.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You are chosen.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You are chosen and you could hear some of the
mayhem in there, but the mayhem's pretty impressive. I am
agnostic on a de Armis as an action heroin and
an action star, and even as an actress hero. A
Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde left me cold. I don't even
think she shook her Cuban accent for that. The year
before that, in twenty twenty one, she had a small
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role in the embarrassingly bad James Bond movie No Time
to Die, and she seemed able to do some action
in that. Here's where we got to digress and aggress
the elephant in the room and risk pissing some people off.
Female action movies and shows are tricky to pull off,
and it's rare when you see one that actually sells
the fights with a woman star, especially against men. Remember
Haywire with Gina Carano from twenty eleven, or pretty much
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anything with Michelle Yo when she was younger good female
fight action. Atomic Blonde with Charlie's Stern wasn't bad either,
And we could go down the list, because I try
to watch most of them. Peppermint Ava, the Woman King,
those weren't quite as good. The pragmatic aspect is this last.
I look this stuff up. Women have an average twenty
five to forty percent less strength than men and a
generally higher percentage of body fat. Don't blame me. There
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are always exceptions, but we're just not the same. If
you think taking note of that is sexist, your argument's
not with me. It's with biology of Galactus, the great
god Cthulhu. I don't make the rules, but I dealt
with the physical differences myself a lot during the time
I taught taekwondo when I was younger. Yes, women against
men were generally a mismatch. But on the other hand,
(18:14):
and Mo, you might relate to this, the female students
were always the first ones to hurt me during sparring
and haul off and kick me without hesitation in the balls.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's true. Okay, that's accurate. Thank you for that.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And that's where Ballerina is smart right out of the
gate by addressing that little five foot six on a
Yarmus plays a woman who, when she's tiny, her father
gets killed by bad guys. Then she's taken in and
trained by a ballet assassin group you know those. It's
led by Angelica Houston from the Wick Verse movies. The
Wick World, and during all the training she's told directly,
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you're not going to beat men fighting on their own terms.
You gotta fight dirty, fight creatively, fight like a girl.
And the results are pretty entertaining. They're hyper choreographed, but
they're fun. These wik movies I do what Bruce Lees
Entered the Dragon did in nineteen seventy one and what
Jet Lee's Kiss of the Dragon did in two thousand
and one, and surprisingly few others have really bothered with,
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which is they give hyper violent martial arts fights all
the lavish production value of a real, big Hollywood movie.
Ballerina is a terrific looking movie, with real actors, great
sets and locations, a cool score. The last act takes
place in a little European mountain village entirely populated by
bad guys, and it looks terrific. Old Gabriel Byrne is
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back on film. He's the leader of the bad guys.
Norman Ritus from The Walking deads in it, but not
as much as the trailers might lead you to believe.
Keanu Reeves appears his Wick and it's more than just
a cameo, so you can forget about the class action
suit on that front if you care. Ballerina is set
between John Wick. Chapters three and four. Ian McShane and
Lance Reddick are back from the Wick movies. Rehdick died
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in twenty twenty three, and his scenes in Ballerina were
apparently the last things he ever filmed. So if you're
skeptical Ballerina, why not deliver on the action. I'm here
to tell you it's packed with relentless psychotic violence, fists, knives,
compound fractures, face shots, the same kind of gun foo
from the Wick movies, and not just gunfu. As Anna's
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character Eve breaks the rules of the Wick world to
get revenge for her dad in places that are off limits,
we get ice skate foo, we get flamethrower foo, we
get some hand grenade foo. It does get pretty Warner Brothers.
Let's be clear, it's all pretty dumb. I mean, Wick
still has his bulletproof suits, so you know you're not
watching the French connection here. And the story, to the
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extent that one even exists, is just a delivery device
for a bunch of action set pieces. It only has
a fraction of the character of the Wick movies, and
poor old Gabriel Burns reduced to that cliche of the
boss who keeps sending henchmen after an unstoppable killing machine.
Bring her to me, kill her. We've seen it a
million times. I don't even know why they bothered putting
Norman Ritas in it either. He's barely in the movie.
(20:57):
This may be indicative of troubled production.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You may.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I've read that Ballerin was pushed back a whole year,
had a bunch of reshoots, was taken over by Chad Stahelski,
the director of some of the Whig Stuff. We'll never
know the truth because it's not like the filmmakers are
going to come out and spill the beans in interviews.
Every big movie has reshoots from Marvel on down, and
it doesn't matter. What's on the screen matters. And what's
on the screen is honestly some fun trash. It's nice looking,
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got plenty of creative violence, but there's nothing memorable about it.
It's not a very good movie. It's poorly written and
barely written. What winds up being weird is that Anna
Diarmis can sell the action, but she just doesn't have
the charisma to make you care much about her. I
like Keanu Reeves, but he has what you might call
a limited range, and he still blows her off the
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screen whenever they're in a scene together. I wanted to
leave her behind and go with him. I went in
agnostic about her and came out the same way. She's
no Pam Grier. Okay. I feel like there's terminology for
something that's kind of fun for a couple hours of pounding,
but forgettable and kind of cheap when you look back
and think about it. And I feel like Tuala might
know what that word is. Maybe it'll come to me.
(22:06):
I don't need a sequel to Ballerina, but I'll probably
watch it if they make one, because, like I said,
I try to watch most of them.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
We have you seen this yet?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I have not, But I do have a question, and
I think you answered it as to whether Honor to
Armis is an actual star in her own right or
is she a good co star?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
In movies, you can't really predict or explain how an
actor strikes everybody. There might be some people who think
she's the greatest actress on earth.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Like, I said the Blonde movie, which a lot of
people were raving about, I didn't understand I didn't. I mean,
I feel like she gave a lot to that performance,
and it was it was a pretty explicit thing. But
if you can't even shake your accent to try to
sound like Marilyn Monroe, you got to you gotta let
me in on what you're going for here, because it's intentional.
(23:00):
I think we take Keanu Reeves for granted. I mean
he's Yeah. I love Steve McQueen, but he had his
limitations too. You had to put him in the right thing.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I mean Keanu Reeves, he's not. It's not that
he has a lack of range. I think he accentuates that,
which he does very well. We're not looking for a
biopic with Keanu Reeves. We're not looking for a period
piece by a large with Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Didn't need him in Shakespeare, not at all.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But he works very well in this hyperbolic action genre
that he dominates. And maybe Ana de Armas has not
found that vehicle for her yet. The things I've seen
her in I thought she was fine as a complimentary piece, but.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I don't know if I want to I don't know
about that language though.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well, see now you have to make it weird.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I'm just saying, nobody wants to be called a complimentary piece.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's what co stars saw.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
She was a good co star, and I think to
me she was the only real standout that I remember
from uh, that horrible James Bond movie.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yes, that's great. It was a fun scene. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And the thing about Ballerina is that, even if you
don't think she's much of an actress, they just keep
the violence so constant, so relentless, and so well choreographed
and just insane.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You don't care who's I have a problem here, Mark,
This is for me.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
If you think about it as a movie of quality, no,
it sucks. But as far as just fun stylized violence,
if that's all you're going in for you you're gonna
get what you paid for.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But I understand what you're saying, Mark.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I my hang up with movies, especially Once, which feature
a lot of martial arts action. I am hyper critical
of a lot of scenes where you can see, Okay,
that's the stunt guy who's never taken martial arts before.
They're just certain things, or you can see that's an
actor who has barely thrown a real kick in their life.
There are just certain things that you can see, like
(24:51):
when you watch movie like White Men Can't Jump, you
could tell who actually played basketball before and who didn't.
You could tell that Wesley Snips was not a basketball player.
They're just things that you could look for and discern
when it comes to these movies. My thing is I
want the martial arts aspect of the choreography to be tight.
(25:12):
And yes, there are physical limitations, but you can also
craft the scene. And I haven't seen the movie, but
you can craft the choreography to make it more believable
when you have this one hundred and twenty five pound
woman taking on these two hundred and forty pound dunes
and she.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Looks like she can take and give a kick, and
god knows how much balsa wood stuff they destroyed throwing
her through it right in the movie. And that's fine,
but I just I wish they'd spent some more time
giving her even trace elements of character. And that's a
pretty thorough review there, Mark Ronald, I'm exhausted. I gotta
lie down.
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three four for Name that movie cult Classic And of
course it's going to be Father's Day edition. And you
may not know this, but there are some science fiction
movies out there which were really about a father child relationship,
father son, father daughter. And there are movies that you
may have known in loved for years, or other movies
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that you may not have even thought about. We talked
about Interstellar maybe a week or so ago. It's about
secret space travel and the grief of a dad watching
his kids grow up from a distance and his very
Matthew McConaughey's character very special relationship with his daughter Murph
in that movie. And I don't know if Mark Ronnie
(27:47):
you would agree, but I believe that the movie Contact
is probably one of the best space I'll say science
fiction movies ever made.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I agree, and pardon me, I just took a sorry, no, no,
I should have held up my hand or something, or
put on a big lobster bibs that you could see it.
But there's an amazing shot in Contact which follows the
little girl all the way up the stairs and into
the shot in the mirror. Look it up on YouTube.
It's astonishing, and I still to this day I have
(28:19):
no idea how they did it.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
All I know is it's one of the smartest science
fiction movies about again, first contact with alien intelligent life.
How they the inclusion of math, the inclusion of the
theory of how it would impact religion, the god question.
(28:41):
But at the heart of that movie, it's about a
daughter's love and longing for her father who's passed.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
On, and the aliens choose the form of Jodie Foster's
father as something that she can understand and relate to,
because when you think about it, I picture aliens as
more like the unseen ones from two thousand one, which
would be so different and so far advanced from us
that we couldn't possibly understand them.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
So it's more likely thank You and an all powerful,
mysterious God created the universe and then decided not to give.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Any proof of his existence or that he simply doesn't
exist at all, and then we.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Created him so we wouldn't have to feel so small alone.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I couldn't imagine living in a level God didn't exist.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I wouldn't want to. How do you know you're not
deluding yourself? I mean for me, i'd need proof proof.
Did you love your father? What your dad?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Did you love him?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yes? Very much? Prove it.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But the all time classic movie, as it relates to
a father and his child, never told you what happened
to the father.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
He told me enough, he told me, you kill me.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
No, I am the father at all.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And I gotta say, this is not Mark Hamill's finest
moment acting in this scene.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Crew, that's impossible.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
You know, you.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Can destroy the emperors. I don't know if he's upset
or he has a hemorrhoid.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Well he's sort of ugly, crying like Claire Danes in
that scene.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yes, stretching up his face. It wasn't his finest moment.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, but let's face it, the Star Wars movies are
they really about acting?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Are they?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
They're not. Okay, No, they're not.
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