In this episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush and Andy Pate dive into a pressing topic in the entertainment industry: Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Brothers. The discussion highlights the implications of this monumental buyout, exploring how it might affect the dynamics of streaming services and theater releases. The hosts analyze why Netflix felt compelled to purchase Warner Brothers and how this move could potentially reshape the streaming landscape by enhancing Netflix’s content offerings while posing challenges to traditional theaters. They also compare Netflix’s strategy to Disney’s streaming approach and discuss the broader ramifications for movie studios and viewers
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It’s finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. So I tell him I’m a pro jack. And who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama himself. So we finish 18, and he’s going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says, oh, it won’t be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that coming. and movie reviews with Andy Pate.
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I think that you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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What do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world.
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Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I’m done. Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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And it’s Friday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, and we’ve got movie reviews today. We’ve got NFL picks. We’ll do… Second hour, movies. What? British what? What are we doing? The British are coming.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Movies with British characters. Pretty broad. Okay. Movies with British characters.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. It doesn’t have to be a British movie per se, although most of them are.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
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Yeah. That should be a lot of fun. It’s pretty easy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
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And by the way, that doesn’t mean you just say James Bond. You can pick a James Bond. This one, that one, whatever. We keep it open.
SPEAKER 07 :
So in other words, be creative. Is that what we’re trying to say here?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, be creative, be flexible, have fun.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, be creative, be flexible, be fun. All right, so you had some other things on your mind that you wanted to start with today before we actually get into movies in the next segment.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, I want to talk about the fact that just came out that Netflix apparently is buying Warner Brothers. Now, Warner Brothers had gone up for sale, and I actually thought Paramount Skydance was going to be the leading bidder. In fact, I think they were the leading bidder. But it looks like Netflix is going to be the ones buying Warner Brothers, at least buying their studios.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s a pretty sizable sum, right, of money?
SPEAKER 21 :
I think 82.
SPEAKER 07 :
Is that right, Charlie, like 80-some billion, I want to say? Yeah. That sounds right, yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
I think it was 82 billion. Okay, so there are a lot of things that go into this, John. And what matters, what people are going to care about is how does this affect us, right? We’ll get to that in just a moment. First of all, why would Netflix do this? Content. Netflix has really struggled with one big thing, content. They haven’t had a lot of original content that’s any good. You know, they have some popular things like Stranger Things, which is waning in popularity. It’s nothing like it was in its first couple years.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
And, you know, they are really struggling having enough things that are interesting that are drawing people to buy their streaming service. That’s the whole thing. That’s the whole thing about Netflix. They want you to subscribe to them. Okay. Okay. And here’s the big question, though. How is this going to affect the quality? Okay, how is this going to affect a lot? Well, first of all, how is it going to affect theaters, right? Because the first thing people think about is, well, Netflix, the CEO of Netflix, has come out and basically said theaters are a thing of the past. And everything should be seen at home. Now, of course, he’s going to say that. Why? Because he runs a streaming service.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s his business.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right, of course. But, you know… He’s coming out right now and saying, oh, no, no, what we’re going to do is release things in the theater per normal. But what they want to do is shorten the runs of these movies in the theaters. And so it used to be that movies would go to the theaters and be locked in for 90 days. In other words, locked out from rentals for 90 days. Mm-hmm. That has shrunk, especially because of COVID, all the way down to 30 days for a lot of movies. A lot of movies, especially if, you know, when you get one that’s a real dog, it can be even sooner, right? And so Netflix is now going to release Warner Brothers movies, but they’re probably going to make it to streaming quicker. Now what this means with Netflix, of course, is that they’ll probably be able to raise their prices, right? Because they’re going to have the latest Warner Brothers movie. It’s only going to be in the theaters a couple weeks. If you don’t see it in that time, shortly thereafter, you’re going to have to have it on Netflix. Here’s the problem. What are the three things that I always look at when I review a movie every week?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we do, of course, the quality. We do the political. We do the moral.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right. Quality, political, moral, religious. Okay. The second two are preaching. Right. Does the movie preach at us? And if it does, in what way? Right. Okay. When you have people subscribe to one of these services… the streaming services, you then have guaranteed revenue across the board, right? And what they’re doing is they’re subscribing because they want one, two, three different things that are on the service, and they don’t care about the rest. But you’ve got guaranteed revenue across the board because they are subscribed to the service. Now, when you have guaranteed revenue, John, do you have to provide higher or lower quality?
SPEAKER 07 :
Lower, of course. You don’t have to do as high a quality.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right. You don’t have to do as high a quality. We’ll get into that in a moment. We’re going to be talking about Disney. But what is next? What about political and more religious? Now, take a step back. If you don’t have guaranteed revenue and you’re just releasing a movie on its own to the market, right? Yeah. Are you going to be as apt to preach and cut your market? You see, because aren’t you going to want the most people in the market you can possibly get?
SPEAKER 06 :
Of course.
SPEAKER 21 :
So you’re going to be less apt to tell half the market that they are politically stupid or morally backward, you know, religiously backward, right? And so you’re not going to be as quick to cut a lot of people out. See how that works?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. Okay. Here’s where I’m going with this, John. Disney, of course, is the best known as the company that has been streaming for quite some time with Disney+. And, of course, you can see all their movies and all kinds of original content that they have. And then they went out and bought Star Wars. They went out and bought Marvel. All right, so you got Disney, you got Star Wars, you got Marvel, you got all this stuff. Pixar, exactly. And so they took over all those things. Well, what happened with the quality of all those things once they were taken over by a company that had guaranteed revenue as their base? What happened with their quality? All three went down dramatically, right? Pixar movies, are they nearly as good now as they used to be? No. Pixar movies, do they preach more or less?
SPEAKER 07 :
More.
SPEAKER 21 :
More. Are they far more left wing or are they more? Right. Notice what they’re doing. The second that they have guaranteed revenue, they don’t have to care as much about getting your dollar in the theater, right? And so what do they do? They preach more. They preach more politics. They preach more on now. Have they cut back? Yes, because here’s what happened. They became so cocky with that, that they overdid it. They overreached. Right. And then they did light year and they did strange world and they did some other things and they angered people so much that they’ve had to cut way back. This is why frozen three is so far out in, in a release. Why? Because they were going to probably make, um, Elsa gay. OK, and well, now they are at least having to hedge on that or at least hold back, maybe not do it at all. This is affecting them. Disney, because of Disney Plus, if you look on Disney Plus and their original programming on there with their original Star Wars themed shows that they have on there or their Marvel themed shows that they have on there, they are incredibly left wing. All of them are heavily anti-Christian. All of them. Okay? I mean, it is nothing but one long sermon against Christianity, against the right, against… Well, I’m just going to say it, John. The people who just elected a president. That’s half your market.
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Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
Not a very good thing to do. Now, Netflix is going to buy Warner Brothers. Netflix has a guaranteed stream of revenue. So… They get people – right now when Warner Brothers puts out a movie, that movie has to hopefully appeal to the entire market, right? Right. And also be of a higher quality. What do you think is going to happen with Warner Brothers now? We’re not going to see anything for a couple years, right? Everything is already in production and getting ready to be released. But after that, what do you think you’re going to see from Warner Brothers productions when it’s owned by Netflix?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, you would hope that things would not go downhill, but – Hope. What do you expect? I don’t know. I mean, the one thing that you have to remember with Netflix is even though it doesn’t seem like they have competition, they do. Because there’s still a lot of other streaming services that are out there from Prime to Paramount to Peacock to whatever. I mean, you can go down the list. So they do have a lot of competition. So it’s not like they can just rest on their laurels and say, gosh, now we’ve got all this content. We don’t need to do anything to keep it solid. Because like any other business model, Andy, if they slough off, somebody else could come along and take market share.
SPEAKER 21 :
Very true. But keep in mind, Netflix is already well known to be, if there’s a competitor with Disney for being rabidly left-wing, it is Netflix.
SPEAKER 07 :
Agreed. Not disagreeing with that.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. And so when they have something locked in, look, they want Warner Brothers, obviously, because they need a major studio to put out major productions. And obviously, they can also put out all the old movies that Warner has and suddenly release them on Netflix. That’ll be great, by the way. I think that’s going to be a good thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
I don’t think this is all bad. I think there are some nice things. I subscribe to Netflix. Yes, a liberal service. Okay. Yeah, me too.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s one of the few that I actually have.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I enjoy some of their programming. I’ve got to be honest.
SPEAKER 07 :
I like some of the old stuff at times.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, 90% is junk.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, yeah. In fact, it’s kind of true with all of them. There’s only 10% that’s actually any good, and the rest of it’s like, yeah, this isn’t that good.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right, and every now and then they’ll put out an original film that’s actually good. Remember that one they had about the biopic of the guy from Norway who was fighting the Nazis? Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
It was very good, right? Yeah, good point.
SPEAKER 21 :
The problem is most of their original stuff is garbage. I worry about Warner Brothers. Here’s what I worry about. Number one, I think it’s going to speed up. things to streaming even quicker from the theaters, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing. Why? Because once they’re thinking more streaming and less theaters, they’re going to be thinking less competition and less caring about the quality political and moral religious views on each thing. They’ll feel more free to preach and less driven by the actual quality. Why? Because, well, you’re going to see it if you subscribe to our streaming service, which you already subscribe to.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
I know I don’t want to put out too many bombs because, of course, that’s going to hurt my subscriptions. But overall, people, once they’re locked in, stay locked in. And I think more people are going to lock in. But I think it’s going to be really interesting going forward. Honestly, I generally am totally in favor of capitalism, still am. If they want to buy it, go for it. If you made the best bid, great. That’s where I am.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
But the result for the consumer I don’t think is going to be great long term. I think that they are going to become more like Disney. Disney Plus wrecked Disney, and in so doing, it wrecked Pixar, it wrecked Marvel, and it wrecked Star Wars. All of them went completely, I’m just going to say it, to hell.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
And they’ve ruined all those franchises. And hopefully that doesn’t happen with Netflix. Hey, maybe Netflix will learn from what Disney did and come in and say, nope, we’re going to inject a bunch of money and we’re going to put out great stuff. Could go either way. I don’t know. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, again, I think given there is still solid competition in the streaming end of things and given that they have made some smart moves in the past. I was reading the other day about the time where And the head, the CEO, the main investor that started everything actually went to Blockbuster and said, hey, let us run your streaming, not streaming, let us run your DVD end of things. We’ll make it better. We’ll make it work. We’ll pay us $50 million and we’ll handle everything. And Blockbuster was like, basically, buy us for $50 million and we’ll handle all of your DVD rentals and so on. And all the while, they were still working on their streaming end of things as well. And, of course, Blockbuster laughed them out of the room. That was foolish. That was very foolish because it wasn’t too long after that that Blockbuster was broke and Netflix was one of the richest companies on the planet. So they’ve made some really good moves in the past. Will they continue is the question.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s the question.
SPEAKER 21 :
My big concern with Netflix’s content, like I said, overall their content is not good. And this is why they’re buying Warner Brothers. Because they need more. Well, they get to release. Look at all the Warner Brothers movies that have come out. I mean, my goodness, right? So they get to release all of this on Netflix right away. That’s just going to be a huge dump. of content onto netflix for re-release that’s great okay uh going forward i just don’t know i don’t know if they will break out of what disney plus did to disney i mean you could talk to your son about what disney plus has done to disney i mean you know it’s been a disaster i’m hoping they don’t go that way i’ll just tell you right out john as a capitalist the less You are worried about the more guaranteed revenue revenue you have in any project, the less invested you’re going to be in quality for individual projects.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And again, can’t argue that. And that’s typical with a lot of companies. The again, the kicker here is going to be how how much or how do they view their competition? Right. That’s the question. How do they view their competition?
SPEAKER 21 :
In other words, will they learn from Lightyear and Strange World and those things?
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 21 :
Maybe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Maybe. We’ll see. All right. Let’s do this. We’ll come back. We’ll actually do reviews as we come back. And real quick, I should have asked Andy, what two movies are we actually doing today?
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Okay. We’re going to be doing Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and Fackham Hall.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Five Nights at Freddy’s. I can’t say that. That’s a lot of them. That’s a mouthful there.
SPEAKER 21 :
I know. Say that five times fast.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And then what’s the second one?
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Fatcom Hall.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 21 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for a movie?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, this week, absolutely.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. It’s been a rough week.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, just ready. It’s Friday. I like Fridays.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I do too. Okay, a recent horror hit gets a sequel in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.
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So you want to… Tell me about your bad dreams.
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It’s always the same.
SPEAKER 03 :
You’re dead. We’re never gonna be able to move forward. until you deal with some of the mess you left in your head.
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My father was a monster. You know that.
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Everyone called it an accident, but it wasn’t until years later when those five children went missing. But I knew she was murdered by him.
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Are you ever gonna go back to Freddy’s, I mean?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think my sister is here.
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Where are you gonna run to?
SPEAKER 03 :
What do they want with my sister? Half of this town will be dead by morning.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, creepy. What do you think, John?
SPEAKER 07 :
It seems creepy.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, well, John, there were three surprising horror hits in the past couple years. There was Megan, remember that one? Black Phone, huge hit. And Five Nights at Freddy’s, also a huge hit. That was one that actually didn’t get great reviews, but I said, this is actually a better movie than the reviewers thought, and it’s going to do well, and it did gangbusters. I mean, it did big business. Okay, well, all three of them in 2025 got sequels. Now, so far, we got two duds. All right, Megan, two, not good. Black phone, two, not good. And here is hoping for five nights of Fridays. Here we go. First of all, you have three main characters. Mike, and he was the security guard. We’ll get to him in a moment. His girlfriend, not really girlfriend, Vanessa, and his little sister, Abby. All right. Now, Josh Hutcherson, he returns as Mike, a security guard who once spent five nights guarding a closed down Freddy Fazbear’s pizza parlor. It’s like a Chuckie Jesus. Now, Mike helps his 11 year old sister, Abby, played by Piper Rubio, and his not girlfriend, Vanessa Elizabeth Lael. In the first film, the three had to run from a group of possessed animatronic animals at Freddy’s. Turns out they were possessed by ghost kids with anger issues, John. And they had big anger issues because, of course, bad things happened to them at Freddy’s. Now, surprisingly, Abby misses her animatronic friends, the ones who kill people. She’s grown to miss them. It’s a year later. She tells her classmates about those fateful five nights and cares about the child ghosts. Vanessa is still recovering herself, both from the five nights and she had a very abusive childhood. And in this movie, they really explore what she went through with her dad. Okay. It’s all over, right? No, it’s not all over. A YouTube ghost chaser, one of these ghost chasers. Have you ever seen them on YouTube?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. One of these YouTube ghost chasers and her team, they go to Freddy’s and they unleash the monsters. Now, they don’t just terrify at Freddy’s, but now these monsters are actually out in the community. We learn more about the murdered kids who became not-so-friendly ghosts and a new monster that plays puppeteer to the others and even possesses people. Oh my goodness. So we have a mystery, John. How did this monster come to be? So will Mike solve the mystery? Will the animals keep killing or finally be stopped? And will we finally stop showing YouTube ghost chasers in horror movies? Let’s find out. I hate that. I know. It is getting so overdone, John. I’m sorry. This is like three movies just this year where we’ve had YouTube ghost chasers. Three or four. I’m tired of it. Okay, what works in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2? Once again, this had a good crowd. Just so you know, there was a really good crowd there, and they were people who were there for the sequel. These were the groupies of Five Nights at Freddy’s. Okay, first of all, the possessing puppeteer, the new one, adds new depth to the story because we find out what is the spirit behind this puppeteer. What happened to the person who created this spirit behind the puppeteer, and how is that going to affect the story going forward? That is very interesting. It adds new depth to the story. Okay, what else works in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2? Oh, no. Nothing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nothing.
SPEAKER 21 :
I mean, we’re about to crash and burn here. Are you ready? Okay, what doesn’t work in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2? Oh, gosh, so much. First of all, John, very poor pacing. Scene after scene of awful dialogue delivered in slow, stunted fashion. Oh, my gosh, it’s awful. It’s so wooden. Virtually no energy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
You ever come in and done a show where you just had no energy?
SPEAKER 07 :
Not very often.
SPEAKER 21 :
Not very often, but you know, just multiply that by five.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
I mean, virtually no energy. Every interesting action piece, like at one point you have these piranha bots under the water.
SPEAKER 07 :
Piranha bots.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes. I mean, well, they’re little toys and they’re under the water and they, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 21 :
You understand.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I get you.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, and that goes virtually unexplored and unexplained from there forward. It’s just like, hey, man, that was actually a pretty cool action piece. Do something with it. They don’t. You barely see them. Breathtakingly bad acting, especially by the younger actors. Wow. You know, I’ve told you before, I had a friend named Russ when I was in high school, and he called child actors train seal acts. Yeah. You know, and he was just really – no, they’re not always that bad. Sometimes they’re wonderful. Not in this movie, John. Piper Rubio and her classmates come off like kids struggling to remember their lines in a school play. Mm-hmm. Horrible. I wanted the animatronics to get them all. I really did. Just take these kids. Just take them off. Take the actors and take their parents. Take everybody. Get them out so that they are never in a movie again. Elizabeth Lail, she’s strictly there for her looks. I mean, I’m sorry, but she was dead in this movie. It just did not work. Josh Hutcherson. He’s talented, John. He’s a very good actor. But he seemed like an actor reading lines to get a paycheck he desperately needs to pay off gambling debts. Gotcha. Oh, my gosh. For him, this film resembled a hostage video. It was like Nicolas Cage in Carpenter’s Son. I mean, Josh, what do you have, 15 ex-wives? I mean, are you having to really get the money? Because you agreed to this script, buddy, and that is on you. And he looked bored. He looked uninterested. He looked like, what am I doing here? Somebody let me out, please. Oh, it was awful. Lots of implausibility. Why does Abby miss her murderous dead kids? Okay. Has she ever thought about getting living non-murderous friends? I mean, there’s probably a school for that, you know, a club for that at school.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
Living non-murderous friends. We get together once a week. I mean, my goodness, what a stupid thing. Why can monsters be controlled by a demon puppeteer, right? This central one controls them, but they can be shut down by a computer. So they’re having to get to a computer, a special computer, and shut down the monsters remotely. What? John, that’s weird. Yeah. Help me. I mean, is this is this demonic or is it computer? Well, some kind of combination. Yeah. Where is where do you draw that line? This is stupid. Yeah. Oh, worst part. Worst part. Here we go. Abby’s class at school is doing a robotics fair. Now, take a step back for a moment. She’s 11.
SPEAKER 07 :
Probably not.
SPEAKER 21 :
11 year olds designing functional robotics that actually work. What were they all homeschooled by Stephen Hawking? I mean, John, this is ridiculous. You’re watching this and they’ve got this teacher who I’ll just say it. He’s being set up as this really nasty, mean, angry teacher. Obviously, you’re setting him up for what?
SPEAKER 07 :
Failure.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. And to be taken out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
He’s like a villain that you like watching it. You know, I mean, yikes. It’s just awful. And by the way, his acting was terrible. But what difference does it make in this movie? But I was just like, you’ve got to be kidding me. So you got all these kids and you see them at their desks. They’re designing, you know, screwing things together, working on the circuitry and all this. I’m thinking, what? And John, this wasn’t even like this year. This was decades ago. Okay, this is set in an earlier time. I couldn’t believe it. Okay, here’s another one. Josh, he turns on Vanessa, you know, the hot chick, as if she brought this trouble on them somehow. I mean, how? How did she bring it on? What, by having a dad who abused her? I mean, come on. You know, Josh, you have a sister who likes demon kids possessing robots. Maybe that’s a problem. I’m just saying, nah, blame the hot girl.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
It made no sense. None of this made sense. I was in pain. The people in the audience were in pain. Although, here’s the thing, the groupies, and there were some in there, you can always tell super groupies, okay? Because they’re giggling at things that normal moviegoers are just going, this is boring me out of my skin, and they’ll be giggling at these segments, okay? I’ll get to that in a moment. The groupies are going to see this movie very differently from everybody else. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes. They gave Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 12%. Whoa, that’s nothing. Nothing. That is a half star.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s a nothing burger.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. And I mean, you should have seen some of the reviews. They were vicious. They were mean, as I was just now. Okay. It was awful. It was a horrible movie. I was sitting there thanking the almighty God, actually, that I got to see the movie Y2K last year because that was worse. So at least I had already hit rock bottom. Wow. And I got to see The Carpenter’s Son a few weeks ago, which was just as bad. So at least this didn’t shock me with its awfulness. All right. They gave it 12%. The groupies, the fans who went, the audience score, 89%. Remember how I told you. People can convince themselves if they want a movie to be good, they will convince themselves that movie is good. Wicked 2, okay, the second wicked movie. Let’s face it. I’m not saying it’s a terrible movie. It’s just not a very good movie, okay? It’s not a very good movie. They, and by the way, Wicked 2 has dropped off surprisingly after week one. It was really surprising to people. They expected it to perform much more strongly. No, folks, the groupies went and then nobody else wanted to. Okay. And it’s still going to make big money, but not like it was expected to. Well, this one is going to make huge money in week one and that’s it. It’s going to fall apart. It’s awful. But the groupies don’t care. They gave it 89%. Quality, I’m giving it a half star. How often do I give half stars? Like three times a year?
SPEAKER 07 :
Not very often, yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, some years once. Some years, you know, in a really awful year, three or four. But, I mean, it’s incredibly rare. Political three, moral religious three, didn’t say much of anything, didn’t care. I mean, yeah, demon possession, but who cares? I mean, you’re expecting that in a movie like this, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s just so awful that you don’t even…
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, it’s almost like there was somebody there saying, I want to preach bad things to you. And I’m like, I don’t care. I don’t care. Maybe they said something. I didn’t see any message that I cared about because I was tuned out. There were claw marks on the inside of the door of the auditorium with me trying to get out. This was awful. Okay. Do I recommend going to Five Nights at Freddy’s 2? No, I do not recommend going to Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. And, folks, I mean, if you saw the first one, I’m just going to tell you this. The first one I thought was fresh, interesting. Josh Hutcherson did a really good job. The girl who played his sister died. Abby Piper Rubio was actually very good as a young actress. She’s grown up a little and gotten worse, which is very unusual. Oh, she’s terrible. Oh, gosh. Really? I don’t know what happened, John. I don’t know what happened. So there we go. We went three for three. Megan was terrific. Megan, too awful. Black Phone, fantastic. Black Phone, too awful. Five Nights at Freddy’s, excellent. Five Nights at Freddy’s, too awful. 2025, you are the year of the bad horror sequel.
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SPEAKER 19 :
The best export we have is common sense. You’re listening to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 21 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush. Together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for another movie?
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, John. I want you to combine two things that you never thought you would combine. Okay?
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
Downtown Abbey and Naked Gun.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, jeez. Okay. No, yeah, I would not combine those.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, I would not either. I’ve never even thought of this. But let’s see how it works out in the British comedy, Fackham Hall.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well done, Father. England, 1931. Welcome to Fackham Hall, home to the Davenports. Finally, one of our children is to be wed.
SPEAKER 11 :
After so many years of courting, she’s finally found the right cousin.
SPEAKER 14 :
It was a different time. A simpler time.
SPEAKER 11 :
You’re here for the position of hall boy, is that right?
SPEAKER 14 :
You’ve brought all the wine up from the cellar. Yes, ma’am. And closed the cellar hatch. A time of manners. Stop gawping and do your job properly. A time of modesty.
SPEAKER 10 :
For God is strong and mighty and made us all. Hard as life may be, he is there to show the way.
SPEAKER 14 :
And a time of murder.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m here regarding the murder of Lord Davenpool. I’m afraid you’re too late. Someone’s already done it. I believe the murderer to be And if there’s anything out of the ordinary, you can be damn sure I’ll notice it. If you want a real suspect, try looking into that orphan boy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Same. What on God’s flat earth is going on? How does anyone know when they’re in love?
SPEAKER 09 :
Maybe there’s just something in the air.
SPEAKER 06 :
You are a bunch of whiny c- Sorry.
SPEAKER 10 :
You may kiss the choir boys. You may kiss. The choir boys will now sing Ave Maria.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, there are some funny moments in this. Sounds funny. Yeah. At one point, it’s funny, the inspector. It could be anyone in this room. It could be me. Where was I on that day? He starts investigating himself. It’s just a ridiculous film. Okay, here we go. Ben Radcliffe. I don’t know if you’ve seen him before. He’s a good young actor. He’s funny. He stars as Eric, a likable pickpocket who stumbles into a job as a porter at a prestigious English estate, Fackham Hall. The setting is very downtown Abbey, John, and you can tell they’re spoofing downtown Abbey and having a lot of fun with it. Well, the Davenports, they reside at Fackham, and they are a previously wealthy family that has kind of hit on some hard times due to the Depression. Now they need one of their two daughters to marry a cousin who is inheriting the estate once their father dies. And that’s okay because it seems like everybody only marries their cousins.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, gotcha.
SPEAKER 21 :
It’s kind of funny. Okay, the eldest daughter, Poppy, played by Emma Laird, she is set to wed her cousin Archibald, played by Tom Fenton. He’s a funny actor. But that goes awry, and she leaves him at the altar. The youngest, Rose, played by Thomasine McKenzie. I’ve seen her in a few things. She’s ready to do her part. But then she meets young Eric, and it’s love at first sight. Not good for the family’s fortune, John. Worse yet, there’s a murder, and hapless Eric is framed for it. Frame the poor guy. Why not? So we have a mystery, a forbidden romance, and a family on the brink. Can we catch the murderer? Can Rose avoid marrying cousin Archibald? And what secrets lay behind the scenes with Eric’s past? We find out in Fackham Hall. That’s the story of Fackham Hall.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sounds fun.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think it’s a fun story. Okay, what works in Fackham Hall? Well, first of all, John, this is a pure spoof with lots and lots of silly jokes. And that’s a refreshing departure from all the serious stuff coming out right now. Just relax. Watch the gags. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. We’ve kind of needed that, haven’t we?
SPEAKER 07 :
No thinking.
SPEAKER 21 :
Did you see the Liam Neeson?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I did not. I need to. I haven’t seen it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, it’s not great on the level of the early Naked Guns, but it’s funny. It’s got a lot of good, funny stuff. I enjoyed it. Okay, next. In Fatcom Hall, a lot of fun is poked at British elites marrying and their families. And the whole thing is done Downton Abbey style. It’s very funny. There are tons of sex jokes, of course, and a slight gag, a sight gag, sorry, with a far too young man going to war, and it’s hilarious. I’ll just say it’s very funny. As the gags get bawdier and raunchier, it actually helps the movie. It makes it funnier. The minister kept, and you heard this, reading run-on sentences in the wrong order, then correcting himself.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
I’m going to tell you, that was some of the funniest stuff in the movie. It really was. And you’re like, well, that’s wrong. I know, but that’s the whole point. Okay. He’s incompetent, and it’s funny how he does it. There was only me and one other guy in the auditorium, John. Nobody knows about this movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, is it?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, we both laughed more than most films this year.
SPEAKER 07 :
Really?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Okay, what doesn’t work in Fackham Hall? Well, honestly, the jokes just miss too much. They definitely do. That’s the risk of doing these airplane-style comedies. It only works if it’s really funny, really often. You’ve got to keep it going. Have you noticed that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
And I’ve noticed how like Airplane 2, right, it wasn’t nearly as funny. It didn’t hold up. And the thing dropped off the map immediately. Naked Gun 33 and a third, same thing. It just didn’t hold up the humor enough. You really got to stay on your game with the funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, because here’s why. You got nothing else going for the movie. Gotcha. I mean, there’s no actual story. There’s nothing real going on here. It’s only humor. Next, it’s really hard to blend a naked gun and Monty Python style. The two, it’s hard to blend them. And here’s why, the timing, it just feels off. The comedy is all about timing, John. Comedy is all about timing. It’s not just delivering the right line. You have to time it exactly in the right way with the previous line and the following line and the responses. Everything in the scene around that line, that zinger, that one-liner, has to be timed and executed perfectly. And I mean… I’m going to – this is just a little bit from my past year. I used to actually do cartoonistry, and I did like a Farside-style cartoon called Stickman. Yeah, it was actually very popular. It was at like 20-some colleges.
SPEAKER 20 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I had a lot of fun doing it. And the interesting thing about it – and you would learn this if you studied the Farside – Is the humor in it is so much of the spacing. If you move a character just a quarter inch to the left, all the humor is going to be killed in that scene. Is that important? So the timing, the spacing, the wording, everything is so important. Anyway, the reason I’m saying all this is that if you look at the first two Naked Gun movies, they nailed it. The timing was just exquisite.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right? On the humor. In this, the timing oftentimes was off. Not always, but oftentimes. So there were many times when a funny line or sight gag was offered, but the setup and the delivery killed it, or at least hurt it. And you could really tell that in Fatcom Hall. Finally, the biggest problem was in the directing. Okay, why? Why do I say that? Because it’s the directing that is framing all the gags.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. How much time, how much delay here, how much buildup, how much delay, don’t go too quickly into it and so forth. It’s almost like directing horror, right? Got to have just enough buildup to the kill.
SPEAKER 07 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 21 :
You see how it goes? And this guy, it was just off. That’s all I can say. And you’ll notice that if you see Fackham Hall. Now, all in all, this at least provided enough spoof laughs to entertain. It really did. More than most films. And I haven’t seen that in quite a while. How do I rate this against Naked Gun? I think, I mean the one with Liam Neeson, the recent one, I think this one had about as many laughs as Naked Gun. Really? Yeah. Pretty close. And, you know, maybe if I saw Naked Gun again, I’d say, no, actually, that’s a little funnier. I can’t remember. It’s been a few months.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
But this one had nearly as many big laughs. Okay. Not much of a story, but neither did Naked Gun. That’s the whole point. Okay. Rotten Tomatoes gave Fackham Hall 82%. That’s pretty good. Yeah, they liked it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that’s really good.
SPEAKER 21 :
I can’t go that high, but I do think it’s a worthwhile movie. I’m going to give it three stars. Quality. Political, three. Moral, religious, one, for obvious reasons. I mean, come on, it’s not trying to be a three. Okay, that’s the whole point of the movie. But it wasn’t telling me… you know, Jesus is evil, worship the devil. I mean, it wasn’t that kind of, it’s just disgusting.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s just crude slapstick humor, right? Very crude.
SPEAKER 21 :
Very crude, especially down the stretch. But it’s being that way on purpose. And let’s be honest, a lot of those crude moments in Naked Guns, Bridesmaids, things like that, are very funny. You know, there’s something about Mary, you know, That can really work. And at times it really did. In fact, I would say in the last third of the movie, a lot of that stuff was really hitting.
SPEAKER 07 :
Really?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I enjoyed it. Did I have a good time going to Fackham Hall? I did, John. I did. I kind of needed this, especially since I had just seen Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. And I was hurting. I was hurting. I was going through a lot, you know, and it was either go and get counseling or go to Fackham Hall. I went to Fackham Hall and I’m glad I did. Do I recommend going to Fackham Hall? Yeah, I do. Folks, I don’t recommend going to it with high naked gun level expectations.
SPEAKER 07 :
Just go and have fun.
SPEAKER 21 :
Go have some fun.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, a couple minutes left of this particular first hour on this Friday edition, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate. Of course, Charlie Grimes, our engineer. All right, Andy, two minutes left. NFL picks, of course, next. Yes. And then movies.
SPEAKER 21 :
The British are coming.
SPEAKER 07 :
The British are coming.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, any movie that has a British character or a British theme, anything British. I did that for Fackham Hall.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
Which obviously, Fackham Hall, they make a lot of fun, obviously, of the names. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s funny. All right. And closing out this hour, and again, as you guys all know, listen, we’re pretty loosey-goosey when it comes to movies and so on. Send us your best guesses, 307-200-8222. I’ll add them into the list. I’ve got quite a few, although… And this is one where you just think a little bit about… settings and accents and things along those lines, and you’ll come up with plenty of movies. It’s really not that difficult.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, it’s not hard.
SPEAKER 07 :
There’s actually a lot of them.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
More than you think.
SPEAKER 21 :
You know, and what I’d like to hear from some people are, what are your favorite, say, your three favorite James Bond movies?
SPEAKER 07 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. And we’ve done Bond before, remember?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we’ve just done the whole genre of that, right?
SPEAKER 21 :
Because we were also doing movies, we were doing songs, we were doing car scenes, and so forth. But I think everybody has their three go-to Bond movies. I do.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that’s a good question. I haven’t really thought about it that way. I haven’t really thought that way.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, think about it over the break, and when we come back, you and I will offer our favorite Bond movies.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, give us one little update on the whole bomber deal. I know we don’t usually talk a ton of politics today, but just give us one little update. We’ve got a minute. Go for it. You can fill us in.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. After four years. And by the way, they did it with the same evidence. OK, so the Biden administration for four years had the evidence to find the pipe bomber, the J6 pipe bomber, and never did, John. Amazingly, for some reason, they never did. And the reason is they dropped the entire investigation after a couple of months in. Apparently it wasn’t going the way they wanted. I don’t know. But here’s what has happened. They have now got a very solid suspect. I’ll just call it a suspect till we know for sure, right? But they are very confident that they have a suspect in play. And this suspect is somebody who, if it turns out to be this gentleman, then the left is going to be very, very upset for two reasons. Number one, of course, the guy is a hardcore leftist, apparently. Early reports are we’re talking Antifa-level anti-ICE activists.
SPEAKER 07 :
The whole nine yards.
SPEAKER 21 :
The whole nine yards. He is a black gentleman. And, of course, that will anger the left because they actually care about that kind of thing. Right. And also, the big thing is this. We have to keep in mind that those bombs were placed at a time on J6 where they drew attention from the Capitol.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good point. There you go. All right. Hour 2 is coming up next. Don’t go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 06 :
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