Amidst the cinematic escapism offered by their review of ‘The Unholy Trinity,’ John and the panel deliver insights into the geopolitical landscape affecting the Middle East. They delve into Israel’s decisive actions against Iran’s potential nuclear threats, highlighting the contrasting views within the global political arena. Beyond the political debate, the episode seamlessly transitions between conversations on classic Western movie conventions and advertisements, offering an entertaining blend of cultural critique and contemporary analysis.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Happy Friday. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes. And, yes, there’s a lot of world news. We won’t get into a lot of that today because it is movie day. We’re still going to do movies. And the reality is, folks, there will be a lot more information that we can report on and talk on Monday and Tuesday, which we will definitely do. But unless you’re living in a cave or under a rock, yes, there were reports. I even said this yesterday. Donald Trump warned that, hey, even the U.N. came out, the spineless U.N. came out and said Iran is not doing what they’re supposed to be doing in regards to their spinning of, you know, nuclear material and so on. And they’re, you know, they’re basically close to a nuclear bomb. Not anymore, because Israel responded last night and basically said in our time last night, you know, enough is enough. We’re not doing this. It was very strategic. They’ve probably been planning this for quite some time. Years. There’s rumors out there even that Trump did a little bit of deflection for them to help with some of this, which would not surprise me. Reality is, folks, and please bear with me here. Any of you that are on the side of Israel shouldn’t have done this. And a lot of you, by the way, are either on the left or you’re a dumb libertarian. And I say dumb libertarian because while I have libertarian leaning, some of you are just stupid in your thought process. So I’ll leave it at that. But even some of you that say that, let me give you this comparison. There are a lot of people, even gun-toting, hardcore, Second Amendment-loving conservatives that would say, we don’t want a madman to have a gun. We don’t want somebody that’s mentally ill to have a gun that, A, they could either use to hurt themselves, or worse yet, hurt someone else. Now, I don’t agree with red flag laws and all of that, but I am one that says, listen, parents, people, relatives need to be paying attention to when people are having real psychological problems. I don’t think those people should be handling and around weapons because it’s just a recipe for disaster. So I take that same scenario and say, so we’re going to let Iran, a country of absolute total nut jobs, have a nuke? Are you people that are against Israel? Are you that crazy that you don’t understand the comparison of what I just said?
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Yeah, and by the way, do you understand the capacity of their missiles? Right. How far they can deliver these? Correct. Guys. Correct. I mean, my goodness, these people are insane. Israel, first of all, I applaud you. Second of all, I applaud you.
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Yes. Okay. I feel better today than yesterday.
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Yes. It needed to be done.
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And Trump, by the way, gave them 60 days.
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That’s right.
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Israel waited. I don’t think, folks, and for those of you listening, you can steal my comparison and use it with anybody that you would see going against Israel and ask them the question, the comparison that I just laid out. Because, by the way, they aren’t different. It’s exactly, exactly the same comparison. Other than Iran has the ability, instead of just killing one or a few people with a gun, they can wipe out an entire nation with a nuke.
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Right. And the big difference here, the red flag laws, of course, I worry about them. Why? Because who is deciding mental health?
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The government. It’s arbitrary. Right.
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Do you want the government determining who is mentally healthy enough to carry a gun? Obviously, if you could have, I don’t know, God decide, sure, I’d be fine with that. But I don’t trust the government. Meanwhile, with Iran, you don’t have to guess.
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They’ve proven who they are.
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It’s in their charter, the removal of Israel from the planet, guys. I mean, come on. They have said, if we get the capacity, we will remove Israel from the planet.
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The infidel.
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The infidel, yeah. And by the way, then it’s us.
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And that’s us, too, by the way.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s us, too. And it’s not just because we like Israel. They’ve got a lot of reasons to hate us. And I’m telling you what, folks. I had to say that, and we’ll get into it Tuesday. These libertarians want to blame us, our allegiance to Israel. They say that’s what puts us at risk.
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I’m saying it straight. You guys say that, and yes, word will get around that you heard me say this. You’re an utter moron.
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Really quick here, John. Does Europe like Israel? Yes. No. Well, some do.
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Not all are against them.
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No, very few. Very few. Generally, Europe has been overrun with leftists. You do have a couple of governments now that have been switching to the right, but that’s recent. Correct. Okay. If you look back over the last decade or two, Europe has been far to the left, and they’ve hated Israel. And we have been having to protect Israel and the world states. The reason I say this is this. Well, they haven’t been nice to Israel, and they’ve been overrun by Muslims.
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True.
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Did that protect them? No.
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No.
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Is it keeping their women from being raped and their buses from being bombed?
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No.
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No. No. Okay.
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No. No, it isn’t. What’s interesting, really quick, again, we’ll talk more about this on Tuesday, but if you look at even some of the quote-unquote fellow Muslim nations, and I told Richard even early this morning before Saudi Arabia, for example, even came out and made their announcement as to what was going on between Israel and Iran. I said, yeah, this will be some token. We don’t agree with it. They shouldn’t be doing it. But on the same token, let’s go make money selling oil, and we’ll sell more now than we did before. At the end of the day, that’s really what Saudi’s message was, by the way.
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Oh, yeah.
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I mean, they have to say something, because it’s a fellow Muslim country.
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Of course.
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But at the end of the day, they’re like, yeah, let’s just go sell more oil.
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John, I don’t care what they say. What do they do? Nothing.
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Nothing. Why?
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Because they want to sell more oil, and this drives up the price, and they hate Iran anyway.
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You know on your water faucet at home, when you want more water to come out, you turn the spigot a little bit?
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Yeah.
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That’s what they’re doing.
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Right?
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Exactly. Just opening it up a little more.
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You know, I mean, in Tehran, they were hearing explosions, right? But in Saudi Arabia, they were hearing ka-ching.
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Yeah.
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Okay, they don’t care. No. They don’t care. Now, really quick here before we go to break, and then we’ll do some movies.
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Go ahead. Yep.
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I do have one real concern. The last four years of Biden. Biden, the biggest imbecile in the history of the United States, okay, left the door wide open to America. And you say, oh, these are all just consuela coming through to, you know, work, I don’t know, to clean rooms at a motor, you know, Motel 6. No, folks. When you have that flood of people, 10 to 15 million, I think it’s closer to 15 million people in four years coming through, don’t you think that radical Islamic terrorists from Iran are going to come in and seed themselves amongst us? Sure. Absolutely. By the way, well, look what the Jews did. Look what Israel did in Iran. They had their agents who were in Iran. who took out a lot of their, you know, weapons defense, which was brilliant, by the way. This is, by the way, this is going to go down as one of the most brilliant strikes in military history. I mean, worldwide.
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Targeted, pinpoint, all of that.
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Absolutely. They had the Mossad that went in there and was, and who could be more brave than people spending all these years undercover in Iran as, oh my gosh, it’s incredible. Anyway.
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We’ll get a movie of that someday.
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There’s got to be a movie on that, but setting that aside. They camped out. They were ready to take out their defense systems. Do you not think that people from Iran are doing the same here when we left the door open for four years?
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Good point. Yeah, great point.
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Way to go, Biden. So if anything happens to us over the next few weeks.
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That’s on Biden.
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That’s on Biden.
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Are you ready for a movie? Absolutely. All right, John, you know it’s been too long, and I mean really too long since we’ve had a Western.
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It is. You’re right. Why is that?
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In my opinion, they’re expensive to make. Okay. You generally need a pretty large cast, and even if you have a smaller cast, you’ve got to set up these old Western towns. It’s just not as cheap as a horror movie.
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Okay.
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You don’t just need a cabin in the woods. Makes sense. Okay. Well, let’s kick back and watch The Unholy Trinity.
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Where you headed? Trinity. And just who might this be? My pa. Mind if I ask how he passed? He was framed. You might need this. They call me St. Christopher, by the way.
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Welcome to Trinity. Sheriff, my name is Henry Broadway.
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That would make your father Isaac Broadway. Let me give you a bit of advice. Keep your ancestry between us. Not every man who’s known is loved.
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I know your daddy real well. Me and him stole enough gold, paved the streets of heaven. You think I know where that cold is? I don’t know. Do you? In case it ain’t obvious, you will find that gold.
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Henry! They’re coming on the side! Stay back!
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You killed one of those men. Now you ride with me.
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I bet anything I own at Henry Broadway just hid that gold. What are we waiting for?
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Let’s go!
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They’re coming for you.
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People are right up.
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I’m still faster than they are. What you want is not your gold. It’s blood.
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And this matters!
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town has its heroes and villains. Don’t get caught on the wrong side of that coin.
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I don’t want to be no villain. Man don’t know what he is till his back’s against the wall.
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All right, John, what do you think? Sounds good, right?
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It does sound good.
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Yeah. All right. Well, there are many subplots in this film, so to make it understandable, I’ll simplify. Ready? An old guy named Isaac is being hanged. Now, his estranged son, Henry, is played by Brandon Lessard. He comes to see it. Before his execution, Dad tells Henry he was wrongfully accused, so kill the guy who did it, the sheriff of a town called Trinity. Are you with me so far? All right. Henry goes to kill the town sheriff named Gabriel. He’s played by Pierce Brosnan, but that’s the wrong guy. See, it was Gabriel’s predecessor, along with Henry’s dad, who built Trinity and the two had a falling out. Well, that falling out was over gold, of course. Isaac, he took a bunch during the Civil War and supposedly brought it to Trinity. Yeah. Gabriel and his trophy wife, Sarah, well, they’re rumored to be living in the house under which the treasure is buried. Are you still with me? Yep. All right. Along with Henry and Gabriel, a third major character is St. Christopher. He’s played by Samuel Jackson, who I love. He’s a former slave who had a rough life, but he’s no angel. St. Christopher is a scary dude who wants the gold, but he does some good as well. In time, he forges, well, I would say an uneasy alliance with young Henry. This is important because Henry is now on the run since he has been accused of killing some guys in town. Still with me? All right. If you’re still following all this, might I mention Sheriff Gabriel is tracking an Indian woman named Running Club. That’s her name, Running Club. She’s accused of killing the previous sheriff. Well, the point of all this is to say you’ve got an awful lot going on in a 95-minute film.
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Got it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, it really is. There’s quite a bit moving around here.
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Yes.
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A lot of moving pieces. Well, ultimately, we’re seeing two groups tracking two suspects, right? Because you’ve got Running Club, who’s running away, and you’ve got young, what’s his name? Yeah. I forget. The young guy, Henry. Young Henry is running away, too. So they’re being tracked. You’ve got two groups who are tracking them. You’ve got a divided town. You’ve got plenty of gunfights and standoffs. Will justice prevail? Will the gold be found? What will become of Sheriff Gabriel, St. Christopher, and young Henry, the unholy trinity? What do you think? Doesn’t sound bad.
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A lot going on.
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Yeah. Well, what works in the unholy trinity? First of all, Pierce Brosnan. John, he’s magnetic. Isn’t he?
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You don’t picture him being a cowboy either.
SPEAKER 07 :
No. Well, what it is is you could tell they say he’s from Ireland and he’s got a thick Irish accent and he does it perfectly, of course. And there are a number of people in this town who are Irish.
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Oh, perfect.
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You can tell with the accents. Yeah. Well, he’s so polished, John, especially with his Irish accent. But he’s wise and he’s real. He’s just a really good guy. Now, while St. Christopher is a very conflicted villain, Samuel Jackson deftly conveys his full range. Samuel Jackson, I got to tell you what, you know, in a way, he’s like John Wayne. He always plays himself. Samuel Jackson always plays Samuel Jackson. But you know what? That’s what we buy the ticket for. Because I want to see Samuel Jackson. He’s just so enjoyable to watch. Now, while many plot lines are happening, here’s what I liked. They tie together just fine. And a lot of the critics didn’t think so. They think, ah, it’s all over the place. It doesn’t tie up. Actually, I think the plot lines tie together. It’s very easy to follow. I had no trouble at all. The gunfights, they’re pretty well done. And the scenery is great. Now you’ve got the Indian. She is played by Koryanka Kilcher, and she was fascinating. They should have done more with her character’s background. So this is a little bit of a jab I’m taking at the movie. If they had built up her background more, she would have been a more interesting character because you could tell she’s a good actress with a cool character, didn’t do enough with it, but at least something cool in the movie. This is something. A surprisingly respectful religious tone. Hmm. Even though you’ve got prostitution, you’ve got a little bit of skin.
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You had that then.
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Plenty of profanity. Well, yeah, it’s a rugged old Western mining town. Obviously, it’s not a clean place. It was interesting that young Henry is very religious. His dad was religious, even though he wasn’t a great guy. It’s just kind of interesting how they play that. I was surprised. Now, there are some good plot twists and shocking moments with Samuel Jackson in the final third. I enjoyed that, and he did it well. Finally, Brandon Lessard, he played his role well. Very innocent, but he learns quick, and he’s very, very loyal. All right. What doesn’t work in The Unholy Trinity? Well… Right at the beginning, you start with some implausibility, which really I didn’t like. Would a man preparing to hang… Okay, so he’s brought out with some others to be hung, right? Would he be able to walk out to the crowd and talk to his son?
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Probably not.
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No! And they allow him to do that, and you’re like, um… No. He’d be chained up there waiting for his turn. So I had no idea why they did that. Next. While the plot lines, they come together fine. A few should have been better developed. I mentioned that earlier with the Indian lady. They just kind of rushed this. This is one of those rare movies where I say they should have added 10, 15 minutes. Wow. Yeah.
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Give more depth.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, give a little more depth to these characters. Because they do tie it together, but when they tie it together, what they’re tying together, they haven’t built up. And you’re just kind of like, eh, okay, it’s okay. The writing is average. How can you not have more humor with Samuel Jackson?
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Good point.
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Samuel Jackson is another one of these guys who can read the phone book, and it’s funny. I mean, the guy has it. So you’ve got to use it a little more. They did it once or twice, but not enough. There’s a couple moments of shooting that had the bad guys just standing in the open to be shot. I hate that. Guys, make them move around more. Make them be behind things. Make it tougher, okay? And a lot of times they did, but a lot of times they didn’t. And I didn’t like that. Here’s another thing. There are kids in the film. And, of course, that adds the innocence and you’re worried about them getting hurt. But they seem to be there for no reason. Just thrown in there. Do more with the kids. Bring that innocence. Let’s show the fear in their eyes a little bit more because these are terrifying moments. And finally, this movie doesn’t know how to end. Now, this really struck me. You ever see that uncomfortable moment when the party’s over and somebody doesn’t know how to say goodbye?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Yeah. They’re hanging around.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, and it’s not that they even want to. They just don’t know how to say goodbye. It’s awkward. How do you just, okay, well, bye, you know. And it’s just one of those awkward things. This movie, at the end, goes on about five full minutes. Too long. Maybe seven. Okay. You’ve come to a pretty good ending point. Wrap it up right there. And they don’t, which is kind of weird. All right. Rotten Tomatoes hated this movie.
SPEAKER 03 :
Really?
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20%.
SPEAKER 07 :
20%. Wow. I was looking at audience reviews. They were more like 75%. I’m closer to them. I gave this quality three stars. I thought this was a pretty good movie. I really did. There were obvious weaknesses to it. I don’t deny that.
SPEAKER 03 :
It wasn’t a perfect movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but this wasn’t a bad movie. I don’t understand why people think it was bad. I just looked at it and I thought, look, Brosnan is doing a great job. Obviously, you’ve got Samuel Jackson. I think this young kid did a better job than I expected. So, you know, and you’ve got this terrific young actress as the Indian girl. I just felt do more with them. That’s all. That’s why I’m only giving it three, not four. All right. So I’m giving it three stars. Political three, more religious three. you know more religious obviously it’s got the language shows a little skin you’re back in a rugged old western town but it was surprisingly religious at times which really blew my mind i haven’t seen that in quite a few years so the unholy trinity do i recommend going to the unholy trinity yeah i do because we haven’t had a west first of all we just haven’t had a western in a long time so unless this thing is bad i’m going to recommend it and secondly it’s not that bad
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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?
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I never saw the first one of this one, though, so is that going to hurt me?
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It’ll help you. Actually, it’s going to make it better for you. Although the first one, John, I’ll get into that in a little bit. Well, Disney’s live-action remakes have lost big money, as you know. They’ve been a disaster. Will DreamWorks do better? Let’s see with How to Train Your Dragon.
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We’re all descendants of the finest dragon fighters from everywhere the Vikings ever traveled to. These beasts are a threat to all of our lands.
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It’s time, Hiccup.
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I’ll have to kill you. I will, because I’m a Viking. Hear that? I’m a Viking! I won’t hurt you.
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Maybe they’re not as bad as we think they are.
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In case you forgot, our parents’ war is about to become ours. Figure out which side you’re on.
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We’ve killed hundreds of us. And we’ve killed thousands of them.
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Truthless, no. He’s a friend.
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You all need to see this.
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I’m not one of them.
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Wow, you’ve lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend. What are you going to do about it?
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Probably something stupid.
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Well, you’ve already done that.
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It’s something crazy. What’s up to us?
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Us?
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Stick with me.
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How to Train Your Dragon. What do you think, John? Sounds good. All right. Yeah, it really does. Well, first of all, John, the bar has been set high with the original being a rare, rare five-star movie.
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I was going to say, that’s like one of your favorites, right?
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Well, your son and I, Richard, and I both agree this may be the best cartoon ever made.
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Okay.
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Okay, it’s certainly in the top five of all cartoons. How many cartoons have been made? Thousands.
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Yeah, good point.
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Okay, it is truly elite because it was so beautiful to watch, great music, outstanding acting, hilarious humor, great story. I mean, it had everything. Here we go. Mason Timms, he stars as Hiccup, a scientifically-minded young boy in a Viking village called Berk. This Norse village community has one trademark. They fight dragons. Okay. Well, naturally, Hiccup, he doesn’t fit amongst these rugged Vikings. I mean, John, even the women are tougher. But while Hiccup loves his inventions, he wants two things. First of all, to impress his father, Stoic, the leader of the village, and then to woo the beautiful Astrid, who is tougher than him as well. Okay, you know the rest. Actually, you don’t, but most people do. Hiccup thinks he has shot down a Night Fury dragon, which nobody has ever seen, but they get attacked by him. But when he goes to find the beast, he can’t kill it. In time, Hiccup befriends Toothless the dragon. Well, studying Toothless, Hiccup learns much about the dragons, and thus he becomes a star in the dragon fighting training sessions. Problem is, Hiccup doesn’t want to kill dragons. Plus, a greater mystery is unfolding, since the dragon’s lair appears to have a much greater threat than any of the Vikings ever imagined. Along the way, we see all the classic characters. We got, of course, Hiccup, Stoick, Astrid, but you got Gobber, Fishleg, Snoutlout, Roughnut, Tuffnut. The gang’s all here. You don’t know these names, but they’re famous. This went on to do two more movies and a TV show. So these are all very well-known characters. But can there be peace between Vikings and dragons? Can Hiccup protect Toothless while wooing Astrid and impressing his father? And can the great threat be stopped? And most of all, can a live-action remake of a great cartoon not suck? And that is the question. I mean, really, that’s the one that everybody’s wondering about how to train your dragon. Right. Ready? What works and how to train your dragon? Well, first of all, Mason Timms, he makes a decent hiccup for a regular movie, for a live action movie. Okay. He holds up pretty well. He kind of looks apart.
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Okay.
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Gerard Butler. Now, he was stoic. He was the voice of stoic in the original. And now he plays stoic in this movie. And, of course, he’s perfect in this movie. Gerard Butler lit up the screen.
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Love that guy.
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I always loved Gerard Butler.
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I don’t know what he is outside of movies, but I love him in movies.
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Yeah, couldn’t care less. All I know is there are times where I’ll see a movie of his and I’ll think, oh, the movie was boring. Still like Gerard Butler. Right. Exactly. It’s kind of like John Wayne. I’ll watch a movie. Not all of them were gems, right? And I’ll be like, eh, that wasn’t so good. Still like John Wayne. Yeah, exactly. Well, Gerard Butler was great. The flight scenes are spectacular. Even a little bit more so than the cartoon, which is saying something, trust me. CGI Toothless is pretty identical to the first film. Adorable, powerful, enlightening, fast, and really, really well done. Really quick, though, getting back to the scenery. It is just spectacular. It is so beautiful. And I know that a lot… I’m told a lot of it was done in Ireland. I’m told. And, you know, which is beautiful. But also, a lot of it looks like it may be CGI enhanced. Just incredible. It almost made Lord of the Rings look bad. I mean, really amazing. The CGI interaction with live characters is flawless. The action is impressive. Very good. Basically, this is an extremely… You know what? It’s an impressive visual feast. That’s what it is. Okay. I saw it in 3D. It held up. You know, sometimes you see a movie in 3D and you’re kind of like, eh, could have seen it without 3D. Wouldn’t have made any difference. Here it did. It’s worth seeing in 3D. And finally, if you never saw the first film, you’d think this was a good new film.
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Okay.
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All right. You’d look at this and say, this is a good film. All right, what doesn’t work in How to Train Your Dragon? Unfortunately, there are some big things here. First of all, the drop-off from Jay Barakel to Mason Timms for Hiccup is… I don’t even know how to describe how big it is. Jay Barakel was the voice of Hiccup in the cartoon and brought… An amazing geeky, nerdy awkwardness to the role that made it so funny because he was so different from all the Vikings around him. And I know Mason Timms is trying to do that. He just doesn’t have it. He can’t do it. He came off as way too plain compared to Jay Barakul’s hiccup. Next, this story is exactly the same. That’s the first. I mean, it’s the exact same story, but it takes a half hour longer to get there. And you feel that half hour a lot. I felt it. I was like, move it, move it. Come on. This thing is really dragging. Nico Parker. She’s the young actress who plays Astrid. She reminds me a lot of last week’s star in Ballerina. She is drop-dead pretty. I mean, staggering. My wife and I were talking about, wow. This young supermodel will dazzle in the next Maxim cover, probably. But, John, she can’t act. Oh, my gosh. She says a lot of her lines. Now, the original Astrid in the cartoon had so much personality and there was so much timing, so much of the humor in the first cartoon. It’s the timing. I’ll get to that in a moment. And this girl, her delivery in the lines, none of it was funny. None of it worked. OK, it was just there. And she’s just really, really pretty. OK, and doing her thing. And and she has fight sequences where they CGI her body and she’s doing flips and things around. Wow. Real looker. You know, we’ll see her in the next magazine. But my goodness, this girl cannot act. And it was noticeable. OK. The comedic characters, and there are many in How to Train Your Dragon, they’re decent. But the lack of timing and delivering of the… I’m sorry, I just didn’t have it. There’s so much timing. in humor okay several of the young characters who were the young cast characters who are supposed to be his friends who are training with him there’s this chubby one i forget which one he is that kid did a pretty good job the rest didn’t they didn’t have it at all they they weren’t funny they weren’t funny at all and it was a huge drawback here get this i heard virtually no laughter in the audience this is how to train your dragon No laughter. I was listening, okay? I heard almost no… Now, I saw lots of faces who were awe-inspired, right? The little kids are watching. Oh, my gosh, look at these scenes. You’re flying over clouds and all this kind of stuff. But there was virtually no laughter. Classic lines were delivered like average high schoolers reading a play. Awful. They didn’t have the timing. And it just seemed to me like… I don’t know. I don’t know what they were doing when they were doing the casting for this film. Get people who are interesting, who are different, who can really pull it off. Or here’s an idea. They should have written many new comedic lines and used much better actors. Make this funny in a different way. Give it its own funniness if you have to. Or have those lines read to where they really hit home. And they didn’t a lot of the time. I’m not saying never, but a lot of the time they didn’t. People weren’t laughing. Finally, just a smidge of wokeness. Adding black and Asian characters, which obviously I don’t mind that, but this is a Scottish village.
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Of Vikings.
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Yeah, they weren’t there. No, they weren’t there. I’m sorry. Plus, they had more female leadership.
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Which they wouldn’t have had then either.
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Yeah, it just wasn’t very realistic.
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Sorry, they just wouldn’t have. No, I mean, Astrid… That was the times that were… Right or wrong or otherwise, it is what it is, right, Andy?
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Yeah, Astrid has a goal of becoming the next chief.
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That ain’t going to happen.
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Right.
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Not most times.
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No, it wasn’t. And, you know, once again, not something that… You know, drove me nuts. It wasn’t that big of a deal to me, but just a little bit of a little bit of wokeness. It’s like, you know, guys, just if you’re just going to tell the story, then just tell the story. Don’t insert little stuff like this. Because it reminds me that I’m not watching a story of what happened back then. I’m watching people today talk about a story back then. Right. And I’m already seeing people who can’t act very well. So don’t make it even more noticeable.
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Yeah, I get it. Makes sense. No, I get it. That makes total sense, Andy.
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Right. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes, they gave this 76%, which you might think is good. Yeah, it’s good, but it’s way below the original, and it should be. Quality, I’m going to give it three and a half stars. Now, for me, it was two and a half. All right. I’m being very friendly because I believe especially… Maybe people who’ve never seen the original and don’t have higher expectations.
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Like me.
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Like you. Although, if I were you, just watch the cartoon. Okay? It’s not a musical. You’ll like that. Okay. It’s just so much better. Okay. But… I think that a lot of people just get so blown away by visual feasts that they’re very forgiving on the lines being not funny. But it’s like, guys, look around the audience. Don’t you notice none of you are laughing? Okay, this is largely a comedy, and none of you are laughing. I’m going to give it three and a half for general audiences just because I think they’re going to be forgiving. A political two and a half. I took off just a bit for the wokeness. And more religious three. There’s nothing wrong with it. Do I recommend going to How to Train Your Dragon? Doesn’t matter. You’re going to go to How to Train Your Dragon. Everybody’s going to go to How to Train Your Dragon. I mean, come on. It’s going to be a huge movie. And I will say this. You’re going to get a visual feast, and while it is longer than it should be, it is still only two hours and five minutes, so it’s not one of these two-and-a-half-hour remakes. How to train your dragon. One last thing. Is it better than the Disney remakes? Yes.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, question of the day from yesterday. Which famous product was originally marketed as the esteemed brain tonic and intellectual beverage? That would be Coca-Cola. Invented in 1885 by a pharmacist from Atlanta. That’s why that’s where their headquarters is, of course. And first appeared in 1886. And there’s a company that… Fortunately, tried to screw it up, realized really quickly that that wasn’t going to work out and went back to the original formula and saved it.
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Yeah, new Coke.
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What a joke that was. I mean, whoever thought that was a great idea should have been like ran out of the back and tarred and feathered.
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I know. It’s just like, no.
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As bad as the guy that came up with the Budweiser thing with Dylan Mulvaney. It was. It was. Probably the same guy. I know. Just swing and a miss. Jeez. I tasted it. It was just like. Oh, it was awful. Oh, gosh. It was so awful. It was just disgusting. It was like generic. Cola. It was so bad, Andy. Anyways, that’s the answer of the day. Today’s question of the day. What is the name of the fictional camp where the original Friday the 13th movie is set? What is the name of the fictional camp where the original Friday the 13th movie is set?
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Oh.
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Any ideas? And Charlie says no.
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I just cannot remember, no.
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Okay, we’ll answer that for you guys on Monday. In the meantime, if you know the answer, go to the Facebook page, Rush to Reason Facebook page, and you can answer it there. So tomorrow, and I talked a little bit about this during Ready Radio, and again, not trying to freak anybody out or make anybody majorly change their plans, but as I said during Ready Radio, if you’ve got plans or had plans, have plans, me the way I say this, To be in the downtown area, you know, tomorrow, probably after lunch, and then, you know, into the evening time. Say, for example, you had, I don’t know who would do this, but maybe you had, you know, maybe dad loves Texas, D, Brazil, downtown, and that’s where you’re going to go for Father’s Day. Well, actually. I wouldn’t.
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I was planning on rioting.
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Oh, that works, too.
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I mean, you think I’ll fit in?
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No. Well, that Packer jersey or shirt you’re wearing, you might. Actually, you might.
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Yeah, we’re always angry.
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At any rate, if you’re somebody that has, I should say, plans to do something along those lines, would I rethink that? I personally probably would. I don’t think I’d be going anywhere near downtown tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. No, I wouldn’t either. Now, they will be doing it in the suburbs as well. There are some suburbs. There are a multitude of suburbs where there’s – and how big will it be in some of the suburbs? Honestly, it’s going to come down to participation in those areas, the makeup of those areas. You’ll see some where it will be bigger than others. You guys know where the hot spots are for certain things and where the cold spots are. Boulder, for example, probably fairly large in Boulder. Yeah. Will it be fairly large in Erie? Probably not. I mean, I don’t know if Erie’s even going to have one, but that’s the comparison I’m using.
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I think it’ll be pretty large in Fort Collins and Colorado Springs and these areas. I think Parker will be a decent-sized one. Look, this is incredibly hot.
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Parker days are all competing with, so it’s hard to say.
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Well, it’s just going to be a mob crowd because you’re going to have too many people all around because of both at the same time. And that’s the problem Parker’s going to have. I worry about Parker tomorrow because they don’t have the cops to handle this.
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No, they don’t have the resources. And they already had a big event scheduled, not counting these knuckleheads that want to show up.
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Exactly.
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And I mean, folks, I mean knuckleheads in the most serious of ways. Total knuckleheads.
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Bottom line, John, these knuckleheads have almost unlimited funding behind them.
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And a majority of these are paid people, by the way. I need to keep reminding everybody of this. These are, in a lot of cases, yes, there are some folks that are just showing up, going along for the ride, in some cases not even knowing why they’re there. In fact, there’s people interviewing them. They’ll prove why. Let me rephrase that. There’s only one reason they’re there. I hate Trump. So I’m going to go protest because I hate Trump. I have no idea what else is going on, but I hate Trump, so I’m here.
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Sure.
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Total knucklehead move, by the way.
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The issue is, once again, they’re protesting for the right to break the law. Basically, they want I mean, look, we want to invade the country and we feel people who invade the country illegally should be allowed to stay.
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Tomorrow is the no King’s Day. It’s all against Trump, which is the big issue. Anti-ice, you know, things that were going on earlier in the week and they dovetail into one another. But but supposedly tomorrow is it is the no King’s Day in response to Donald Trump.
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Last thing before break.
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Which, by the way, is even dumber than the anti-ice stuff.
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Is that the dumbest title you’ve ever heard for an event?
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Yes. Yes.
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I mean, there’s nothing about Trump that in any way, shape, or form is a king.
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No, Andy.
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He lowers the power of government. I mean, it’s ridiculous.
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You have absolute knuckleheads that get involved in these things. And again, and there’s been, you know, man on the street interviews with some of these people where other than the fact that they hate Trump, I mean, you rattle off, you know, why are you doing this and what’s going on with that? And, you know, what is this? And none of them can answer any of that. It usually ends up with the middle finger, an F you and I hate Trump. Right. I’m not joking. This is the intelligence level of these individuals that are at these particular events when it’s all said and done. And I am not exaggerating in the least. No.
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And a lot of them are highly educated and stupid.
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It’s incredible. Yeah, they’re educated idiots. Yeah. Very well put. They’re educated idiots. They have no idea what they’re doing, why they’re there, what’s going on, what they’re protesting for. You ask them, you know, what has Trump done wrong? He’s just Trump. Literally, I’m not joking. That’s the answer you’ll get back. He’s just Trump.
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Yeah, and folks, these imbeciles, and I mean they are imbeciles, not just because I disagree with them, they’re just dumb. Because of that piece of paper they have, they can get a better job than you from some companies. I’m not kidding.
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You were right. All right, we’ll talk more about that Monday and Tuesday, of course. Up next, favorite Western movies. Give us a call. Send us some text messages. Some of you already have been. I’ve already added those into our list. If you want to continue to do so, 307-282-22. We’ll be right back. Hour number two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We’ll be right back.
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The Rich Guy.
