In this episode, we explore the lasting legacy of capitalism and how it fortified the United States in overcoming global conflicts. John, together with movie reviewer Andy Pate, shifts gears to discuss Wes Anderson’s latest film, ‘The Phoenician Scheme.’ Combining candid reviews and engaging narrative, their discussion offers both critique and admiration, providing an insightful spin on current cinematic trends.
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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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Jim Ray, 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. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I’m done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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All right. Happy Friday. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes. And yes, we’ve got a lot of storm things going on around us right now. And for those of you may be listening to a replay of this show, it is June the 6th, D-Day. We’ll talk about that here in a moment as well. But yeah, lots of storm things going on around us. And if things get really dicey, yes, we are a… A emergency alert station, so occasionally we may get interrupted depending upon what storms are doing around us. And all I can say right now is just be vigilant, keep your eyes open, pay attention to what’s going on. Could be tornadoes, large hail. They said maybe even up to 2-inch hail, which is good size. It’s damaging hail, unfortunately. But, yeah, be aware of that and be paying attention.
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How soon are they saying that could hit the area?
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Like us now.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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I’m not seeing anything.
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Depending upon where you’re looking, and some folks are even texting in that there are places right now that are looking really bad, even up towards – it’s heading from north down south, by the way. So they’ve got texting coming in from up north right now as we speak saying, yeah, it looks like a pretty good-sized storm. It will move to the south is what they were saying even earlier today with the weather. So that’s exactly what they predicted now until about –
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six or seven depending upon timing so just be aware of all of that and pay attention and be safe most of all well i may be running down and moving my car you may i went in the garage today just i mean i and i barely know but i barely did so john well as you know on these friday shows i put in a lot right of prep i mean it takes people have no idea how many hours and so i was buried in prep i had no idea a hailstorm was coming through
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No, and again, the only reason I knew is I was watching some things this morning video-wise on it, and I’m like, oh, okay, well, I think this afternoon I’ll – I don’t normally do that because my truck barely fits in the garage, but went in the garage. Anyways, today is also the anniversary of D-Day, and I was talking this morning to my son about that, and, you know, it’s been several times – This is not a joke. Several times in the world events where the United States has come to the rescue of the world, literally, and I’m not exaggerating in the least when I say that. One of those days, the anniversary is today, to where we literally saved the world from German and also potentially Japanese annihilation, and I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that, Andy.
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You know, it’s incredible, though. Only half of one country on the planet will admit that. The conservative half of America.
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You are right.
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Everybody else would say that we haven’t done a thing and we are the problem.
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Yeah, well, tell that to the families of the men that died that day that in some cases barely even got, maybe didn’t even get out of the boat as the ramp was coming down. We’ve seen some of the images of that.
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Oh, sure. Put a couple feet on the beach, you’re gone.
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The water was blood red because of the amount of souls that we as a country lost that day. By the way, I hope everybody needs to realize, yes, we did it because of the world, but we did it to really help out those European countries that were struggling in the war effort at that time. And then on top of that, we had a lot of, I believe, intervention, which, again, certain parts of the country, Andy wouldn’t believe, but intervention by God himself. The weather was very cooperative. for us that day that helped us out immensely, that had that not been the case, who knows what the outcome would have been. Let’s just say that between the United States of America and the Lord himself, we saved the world from speaking German today.
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Oh, I agree. You know what, John? I think there’s a message about what happened then for what’s happening now. Obviously, we’re not going through D-Day. That’s not what I’m saying. But what I mean is this. You said that Europe was really struggling. And here it was, all it was was the Germans. Okay, and they overwhelm Austria and so forth, and then the Italians, and they branch out. But the thing is, is that the rest of Europe should have been able to outnumber them, overwhelm them easily, be prepared. But they weren’t prepared, and here’s why, John. Because they did not understand the fury of pure evil. They did not understand what it’s like to deal with pure evil. Okay, now, when I look at what the Trump administration right now is trying to deal with, with these criminal illegal aliens coming in, okay? And I look at these liberal judges trying to look for every way possible to let them off the hook, to delay their release, and also, by the way, putting some of our ICE agents in harm’s way now overseas. You know, when I look at what these liberals do and I look at how young people react to it and how they’re marching in the streets, you know, for the people in Gaza, and I just want to look at these people and say, you have no idea about the fury You have no idea of what overwhelmed Israel on that day on October 5th. You have no idea. You have no clue what it means to actually go up against pure evil and the fury of it because Europe without us was going to be buried. What does that say?
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No, you are correct. And I’ll add one more thing to everything you just said. The other thing that they didn’t have in their favor that we did that enabled us to literally win two world wars, capitalism.
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Oh, yeah.
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Capitalism.
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We were the arsenal of democracy. And people say, hey, that’s great. And I say, yeah. Why do you think that is?
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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 a movie? Both of these, yes. All right. Well, John, you know Wes Anderson. I don’t know if you know much about him, the director. He makes strange, quirky films with lots and lots of stars. This is kind of what he does. And his latest production is The Phoenician Scheme.
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At this moment, rescue workers are laboring to recover and identify the remains of Zsa Zsa Korda, international businessman, maverick in the fields of armaments and aviation, among the richest men in Europe. This was Korda’s sixth recorded airplane crash. He is survived by 10 children, nine boys, one nun, his daughter Liesel.
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I’ve appointed you sole heir to my estate. Which you may come into sooner rather than later.
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Why? It’s been six years since our last meeting.
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I have my reasons. Which are what? My reasons? I’m not saying. I’m saying I’m not saying.
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Why are you shooting my ceiling? This is a robbery on behalf of… I understand that. I’m asking about my ceiling. You idiots are destroying a magnificent nightclub.
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One thing you’ll never know because you can’t. The truth. I suppose I’m moved by this absurd performance.
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And actually, John, that’s a statement about all of Wes Anderson’s movies. Lots of absurdity, lots of absurd performances. It’s very common. Now, his last movie, I’ve got to mention this, was Asteroid City.
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Wow. I couldn’t watch that one.
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Well, did you watch any of it?
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Yeah, as much as I could, and then I had to turn it off. Sorry. Right. It was just too out there for me. I’m sorry.
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Well, yeah, what it was was just oddity for oddity’s sake. Now, Asteroid City was hailed by critics, hailed by critics.
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I know.
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I hated it.
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I did, too.
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I said this is terrible. I said it is awful for audiences. It is trying to be artsy for the arts’ sake, not for entertainment. You’re trying to impress yourself, not entertain us.
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I couldn’t get past 30 minutes.
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Yeah, it was horrible. I warned everybody against it, and it bombed.
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And you were right.
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Word of mouth. Destroyed that thing.
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It was awful, Andy. It was awful. You were correct.
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I mean, looking at what’s going to happen economically to Canada over the next six months is about equal to Asteroid City.
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I can’t argue that.
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Okay, anyway, it seemed like it was made for the directors and actors, not for the audiences. Now, would this movie differ? Here we go. In the Phoenician scheme, Benicio Del Toro. I like him. Always have. He stars as 1950s Eastern European billionaire Zsa Zsa Korda. And Zsa Zsa has a complex life. He is competing with other moguls. He’s targeted by assassins and governments. And he has strained relationships with his nine kids. Yes, nine kids. This includes his daughter, an almost Catholic nun named Liesel. And she’s played by Mia Threepelton, who is a young actress I just love. Anyway, she’s good. It also includes Zsa Zsa’s maniacal brother, Nubin, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s bad. Well, with danger everywhere, Zsa Zsa decides to put his affairs in order. But instead of choosing one of his sons, he chooses Liesel to be his successor. She agrees, provided Zsa Zsa helps her learn who killed her mother. She suspects him. He denies it. Then with the help of Bjorn, who is an entomologist and tutor. He’s played by Michael Cera, who, by the way, is terrific in this role. He’s been a little bit underwhelming lately, and I thought he really knocked it out of the park. Anyway, with the help of Bjorn, Zsa Zsa works to complete a series of land deals. No mention of Greenland or Panama, just land deals. And his enemies are fighting it every step of the way. They want to stop him from doing this. This is Zsa Zsa’s Phoenician scheme, setting up a self-supporting empire. But this requires getting key investments from a wide range of characters in short time. Ultimately, Zsa Zsa wants to leave good things to Liesel. But more and much more is going on here beneath the scenes, beneath the surface. There is Zsa Zsa’s second cousin, Hilda, played by Scarlett Johansson, and he wants to marry her. There are business cohorts played by Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston. Do you see these incredible names, right? There’s an elaborate game of cat and mouse as Zsa Zsa must outwit assassins and shady business people. Can Zsa Zsa survive? Will Liesel ever care for him again? Will his grand scheme work? That’s the story of the Phoenician scheme. What do you think?
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Sounds interesting.
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Interesting, right. It sounds interesting. Now let’s see if they put a movie around the interesting. Okay. Well, what works in the Phoenician scheme? First of all, naturally, the cast is spectacular. While the film is Anderson’s usual brand of quirkiness, very quirky. So in that way, it’s just like Asteroid City. But the best ones in this movie are Del Toro, Threepleton, and Sarah, and they are all fascinating characters. As you’ll remember from Asteroid, nobody was fascinating, right? These are fascinating characters. They work very well together. They have very, very good chemistry. Unlike the awful Asteroid City, notice how I keep mentioning that? I have to. I’m sorry. A movie that bad leaves a taste in the mouth of a lot of people, and they’re afraid to see the next one. Well, unlike that, this espionage movie has a decent pace, for the most part. The characters actually matter. Rather than just mouthing lines to continue a boring plot, this is better. At least some of the characters matter. The look features bright and colorful pastels with great costumes and some witty lines throughout. Finally, there is some action with plane crashes and guns. The interesting thing is because everything is so monotone and deadpan, whenever something actually does happen, it feels sudden. And that’s a real staple of Anderson’s movies. Now, what doesn’t work in the Phoenician scheme? Somewhat false advertising. The trailer looks like much more action than the movie. Okay? The movie does not have as much action as the trailer. 90% of the time, once again, the characters just spew lines with deadpan looks. This is what they do. All of them. It’s strange watching so many renowned actors going out of their way to not act. I mean, it’s just a strange thing. By the way, did you notice that with Asteroid?
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Yeah.
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All these big-time actors going out of their way to not act.
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Right.
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Right. And they’re all cardboard cutouts. And they could have put some no-name actors in these roles with the same results. I mean, Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson. Good point. You didn’t need any of them.
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Good point.
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Okay. The script can be too business technical. And the entire scheme is uninteresting. I really don’t care what he’s building. The characters, except for Liesel, are such cardboard cutout stereotypes, it’s hard to care about them. It’s like every actor is portraying a character type, not an actual person.
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Hmm.
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Weird. Yeah. Have you seen movies where they do that? You’re watching a bunch of characters, not people. Right. And I can’t get involved with characters. I need people on screen. The pace does slow down. All right. It’s better than the previous movie. Definitely. But it does slow down. And though the whole film is bizarre, there isn’t enough humor. There is some. And I enjoyed it, but not nearly enough. And finally, there are some unnecessary stabs at Christianity. Not much. A little bit. but just some, but totally unnecessary. It has nothing to do with the story. Unnecessary. Okay. Rotten Tomatoes gave the Phoenician scheme. This is a little bit surprising. They gave it 77%. And the reason it’s surprising is Wes Anderson is art for art’s sake. Usually his get higher, right?
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90%.
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I believe Asteroid said he was over 90%. It was up there anyway. And Rotten Tomatoes gave it only 77%. I’m going to give it quality two and a half stars. Okay. It had enough wit, enough story, certainly enough chemistry between the main three characters to hold up a movie and keep your interest throughout. This was not a dreadful nightmare like the previous show. This was actually a pretty decent movie. It was cool to look at many times. And I was rather, you know, entertained by some of the art of it. Okay. Political three, more religious. I’m going to knock it down to two. because I’ll just say it was not friendly to her faith. Okay. Overall, do I recommend going to the Phoenician scheme? No, I don’t. But I will say this. If you are somebody who can tolerate the Wes Anderson style, where a bunch of very famous people don’t act and speak in monotone 90% of the time, but this is their way of doing something avant-garde, something artsy, something different, if you’re into that… Go to this movie. I think The Phoenician Scheme is one of his best movies in years. Otherwise, no, I think you’re going to be bored. I don’t think it’ll work for you.
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The best export we have is common sense. You’re listening to Rush to Reason.
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Welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLC 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for another movie?
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Hope this is better than the last one.
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Ah, I’m pretty confident. Okay, here we go. Hey, John, what if John Wick was Jane Wick? Hmm. Ah, girl gets a spinoff in But Pellerina.
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I know a school where they teach Johnson’s. I could take you there if you’d like.
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To stop the assassin, you must become the assassin. You will always be weaker. You will always be smaller. You want to win? Improvise. Adapt. Cheat.
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Welcome to the Continental.
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Eve Makaro of the Ruskaroma. What a pleasure to see you again.
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You have no idea what you just walked into. They killed my father.
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This isn’t done until they’re dead.
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You are him.
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The one they called the Baba Yaga. How do I start doing what you do?
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Looks like you already have.
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What do you think, John?
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Previews look really good.
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How do I start doing what you do? Well, you got to work your way up from the bottom. Okay, John, there are so many elements here. Tell me what you think of these. Tell me if you like them. You combine the Red Room of Black Widow with the intensity of John Wick. Add in some La Femme Nikita and Kill Bill. And there you’ve got it. You go, girl. Sounds good. All right. Anna de Armas. She stars as Eve, a super fighter on a mission of vengeance. Sound familiar? As a child, Eve loses her father, and this little orphan is taken to the Rusca Roma. That’s where they train. Here she is trained to be an assassin by the director, played by Angelica Houston, who also trained John Wick. But Eve must learn to overcome her small stature against larger opponents. Wow. So why is this film called Ballerina? Well, La Rusca Roma is also a ballet school, and she was given one of these little glass things with a ballerina that moved around in it when she was a kid. So, you know, the ballerina. Killing without remorse requires a focused purpose. Have you noticed this? If you don’t have it – and this is something you learn in this film – You can’t just train to do this and train to do this. If you don’t have something painful driving you inside, you’re not going to be able to kill without remorse. You’re going to think too much of the feelings of others. And she has something driving her, and that’s revenge and great loss. Eve wants revenge for what happened to her father. But of course, she first has to prove her worth on a couple of missions, slicing and dicing her way while mastering her skills. Eventually, Eve learns disturbing truths about what happened to Dad, and these lead her to an Austrian mountain village, which was beautiful, by the way. Aren’t they all? Austrian mountain villages.
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I think so, yeah.
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Yeah, where almost everyone is an assassin. Eve is tracking a ruthless cult leader called the Chancellor, played by Gabrielle Byrne, and she also receives help from Winston, Ian McShane, and, of course, John Wick, Keanu Reeves. So you have nonstop killing scenes with bad guys and girls coming from everywhere. Can Eve get her revenge? Will she learn who to trust? Can anyone stop the ballerina? That’s the story.
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Sounds good. Sounds really great.
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Well, what works in ballerina? Diarmus, first of all, is as athletic as she is beautiful. Perfect caricature of deadly intensity. And she looks like a model. I mean, just right off a runway. Probably has done a lot of modeling. Too many girl action films show scenes where small girls somehow punch and wrestle as strong as muscle-bound men. It always looks silly, doesn’t it? Does that bother you? It bothers me.
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Yeah, because it typically doesn’t happen that way.
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Yeah, and you see this little girl throwing these big guys around just because, I don’t know, she had leverage. And they make it clear in this movie, just having leverage isn’t enough. That’s not going to work. I like that. Ballerina battles are more realistic. now the fun set designs are there for killing like nightclub a weapon seller scene which is really terrific the killing that goes on in that one is really well done and the austrian town there’s a nice blend of new and old characters cameos are fun but not obligatory i actually like them the fight scenes are inventive and fresh especially there’s a flamethrower battle which is outstanding i mean ultra that’d be kind of cool yeah and it was cool Oh, here’s something, John. No agenda. No gratuitous skin.
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Nice.
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Yeah, think about that. You’ve got Ana de Armas, and you don’t have any gratuitous skin. This is pretty cool. So they just make a movie.
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Which is kind of true to John Wick, because that’s really how they’ve been.
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Well, yeah, but I was kind of wondering if they would deviate when you’ve got Ana de Armas. I was thinking, okay, is this going to be a skin flick, an action skin flick, and that kind of thing. Nope. So good they didn’t. Yeah, they didn’t.
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Good for them.
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And finally, John Wick, he has more screen time than I expected in this. It was more than just a little cameo.
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Not just a cameo appearance, actually.
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He actually did more, and it works well. I enjoyed it. Okay, what doesn’t work in ballerina? Well, Ana de Armas lacks that Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron charisma.
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Okay.
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She’s just gutting it out. And so you’ve got this beautiful young actress gutting out this performance. You… You want to feel for the character because she’s going through all these terrible things, right? But if they had gotten a much more interesting young actress, somebody who could bring more personality to the role, I think it really would have helped, John. And she really can’t. The story gets tedious. It simply takes too long getting to the point. All right, get to it. Hurry up. At some point, you know, I’ve seen the same roll over and pull somebody over and then put the knife up into. I’ve seen it 18 times. Get to the point. All right, next. The whole ruthless leader of a deadly cult thing has been done so much. It’s been done to death, literally. Some silly sequences. Like when she has a sword. Here’s one that really drove me nuts. She has a sword. She’s in the middle of a room. OK, she’s got a sword and bad guys coming from everywhere. Well, they’ve all got guns, machine guns. All right. And a bunch of these guys with machine guns, they rush at her one by one so she can slice and dice them. Any of them could have just taken a step back and shot her at this in this scene. And most scenes were not like that. Most scenes were directed much better. This is toward the end. But I was just like, would you run out of stuff? Guys, this is really lame. I mean, come on. There’s a side story with a little girl that adds nothing to the movie. They’re trying to add some emotional punch and heft into this film that it was lacking. It didn’t work. It just stretched it out. All right. Rotten Tomatoes gave this the same score as the previous movie, 77%. I like this better than the previous movie quality. I’m going to give it three and a half stars. It is not a great movie, but it’s definitely a good movie. It’s serviceable. It’s kind of it’s very different because she doesn’t have his personality at all. It has, I think, more believable action and better set designs and so forth. In that way, it’s kind of on the level of the beekeeper. All right. I probably enjoy the beekeeper a little more just because of his personality. It’s much more compelling. But this has a lot of good things in it. So I’m going to give it three and a half stars. Political three, more religious three. Doesn’t say a thing either way. I like that. Keep all that out. Just give me a movie. Ballerina. Do I recommend going to Ballerina? Yes, I do. And I’ve been looking forward to this movie for a long time. All right, this is a movie I really wanted to see. This is one of the, oh, probably a half dozen movies this summer that I really wanted to see.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’ve hyped it up pretty well.
SPEAKER 09 :
They have. They’ve hyped it up a lot. Look, it matched the hype. It didn’t go past it, though. It wasn’t a movie where they had a really interesting young actress who would really draw you in. Right. Who would be quirky in some way, interesting in some way, funny in some way, have the right, you know, interesting facial expressions that would convey something or would go ultimate deadpan and make it work that way. She doesn’t do that either way. She’s just a beautiful young woman having to go through hell to get where she wants to go. We’ve seen that 80 times, but not a bad movie. Do I recommend going to ballerina? Yes, I do. I think you’ll have fun.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate. We had our two movie reviews today, The Phoenician Scheme and Ballerina. And I usually get this question from time to time. What did Andy think of X movie? And then I’ll go back in the notes, look, and so on. they’re they’re all um you know we’ve got them all listed you can go back in time on our shows and find them but uh as i as i do for folks that text in if there’s a movie that you want to know what did andy think of it i i keep notes on that so it’s not that hard for me to you know go back and find uh it’s all indexed out on my end so it’s not hard for me to go back and find a movie that andy’s reviewed and then give you exactly what his score was i keep notes on all that so it’s real simple so
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, can I really quick here? I’ve got my best list.
SPEAKER 04 :
Go for it. We’ve got time.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, I haven’t done this for a few months.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let me get a question of the day out of the way real quick. Yeah, go ahead. Let’s do that. And then you can do that. Then it gives us plenty of time that way. Yesterday, what type of masonry enables rocks to move during an earthquake? Ashlar masonry. Masonry. Masonry. I didn’t know… This came from Machu Picchu. They use it there because that’s an earthquake-proof city. So a little factoid that some of you now know that I didn’t know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wait a minute. So it enables rocks to move during an earthquake.
SPEAKER 04 :
So things don’t tumble down.
SPEAKER 09 :
They shift in a good way.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they moved with it instead of against it, I guess you could say.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, all right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, there you go. Today’s possible question, which actor was in the following movies? The Outsiders, Wayne’s World, and Tommy Boy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, well, I know it off Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go. So answer that on the Facebook page. Okay, give us your list there, Andy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, really quick here. This is from 2024 last year, and the reason this is kind of pertinent, why? Rentals. You can go back and look at some movies from last year and have some fun. Okay, first of all, my best movies of the year. Honorable mention, Saturday Night was surprisingly good, and One Life with Anthony Hopkins was pretty good. Number 10, Gladiator 2 was not a bad sequel. Not quite as tight and good as the first one, but it was good. Number 9, Reagan. A little long, but pretty good. Number 8, A Quiet Place Day 1, surprisingly well made.
SPEAKER 04 :
I have not seen that. I’ve got to stop and watch that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it was surprisingly well made. Number 7, Transformers 1. These are all four-star movies, and that was a really good movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was the cartoon, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Soren gave it five stars. He went to it because I recommended it. He said it was incredible. Number six, Cabrini. Pretty good little movie there. A little slow at times, very well acted, well done. Number five, Alien Romulus. Finally, another good Alien movie. Very scary, excellent action, edge of your seat, good stuff. Number four, Hard Miles, the movie about the bike… Bicycling Gear in Colorado.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
And it was really, really very good. Number three, Ordinary Angels, which was a very good movie. Very touching and funny at the same time. Number two, The Wild Robot, a cartoon. It was a very good cartoon. Best one I’ve seen in a couple of years. And finally, number one, Young Woman in the Sea with Daisy Ridley as Gertrude Ederle. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Great movie. Yeah. Absolutely. Richard in Colorado Springs. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hi, hi. Hey, I’ve got five movies I’ve seen in the last month. Okay. Oh, let’s hear it. Okay. One is Novocaine. You seen that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I gave it a… That was probably my best movie of the year so far, or tied for best.
SPEAKER 05 :
I know. That was great. How about Sisu? S-I-S-U. Oh!
SPEAKER 09 :
I thought I was the only one who’d seen that. I gave Sisu either four or four and a half stars. I can’t remember.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it was pretty up there.
SPEAKER 09 :
It was one of my top movies of 2023.
SPEAKER 05 :
Another great movie. Okay, Barnyard Party Animals. Did not see it. How was it? Oh, you’ve got to see it. Okay. That’s all I can say. There’s one thing, if you do see it, you’re going to question. But otherwise, it’s a really nice movie. Okay. And then Drive Angry with Nicolas Cage.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, I didn’t see it. Nicholas has been running kind of hot and cold lately. How was that one?
SPEAKER 05 :
I liked it. I mean, I think it was different from most of the mainstream Nicholas Cage movies, but it was very compelling. Great action, too. Okay. And then the last one, Serbia with Canoes. Serbia? Serbia. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know it.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’ll be worth your watch.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thank you, sir. Another departure for Canoe Reefs.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. How old the movie is, that one?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. How old? I don’t know. I think it might have been 218. Okay. Okay. I’m not sure, but thanks for taking my call.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you’re very welcome, Richard. Thanks for the add-on. Did you ever see Sizzu? No, it’s another one I just… Oh, the second one. So by the time the second one’s out, maybe I’ll watch the first one.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s brutal, and I really enjoyed it. I gave it at least four stars, I know.
SPEAKER 04 :
So in anticipation of Accountant 2, I actually watched Accountant, the first one.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, how’d you like it?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, it’s a great movie.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, see, I enjoyed it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s a great movie, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Really quick here. I want to give… There are a lot of… I’m just going to not say anything about them, but I’m going to reel off my 10 worst movies of the year. Number 10, Lisa Frankenstein. Oh, I got to throw in honorable mention, Trap.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
And Tarot. They were both bad.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ve avoided those on purpose.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Lisa Frankenstein, number 10. Number 9, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Number 8, The Substance, which got 90%. It was terrible. Which one was that about? It’s a…
SPEAKER 04 :
Demi Moore. Oh, it was the stupidest movie ever. Demi Moore. Yeah, I saw it. It was dumb.
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And I told people. It was the grossest movie I’ve ever seen. It got awesome reviews. I said, do not see this movie. It is a dud. Do not see it. It is gross. Number seven, The Crow. What a terrible remake. Number six, The Watchers. Boring. Number five, Imaginary. Boringer. Boringer. Number four, Dragon Keeper. Boringest. Oh, wait, there’s three more. Number three, Joker 2. Oh, my gosh. What a disaster. Number two, Skin Care, which was just depressing beyond all get out. And once again, number one, Y2K, worst movie of probably the last two or three years. And then one last thing. I want to give five pleasant surprises up for the year of 2024. Honorable mention, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Surprisingly good.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you liked it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. Number five, Arthur the King. Nobody knows about this movie except me and you. I liked it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s a great movie.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ve been recommending it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, it’s a great movie.
SPEAKER 09 :
Number four, the little ballerina vampire, Abigail. Mm-hmm. Definitely worth a watch. Number three, if you like something more arty and scary, but really well made and incredible acting, Oddity. Number three. Number two, Land of Bad with Russell Crowe as a drone pilot.
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Great movie.
SPEAKER 09 :
I thought it was very underrated. And finally, number one, most pleasant surprise was Flow. It’s a cartoon about a little cat.
SPEAKER 04 :
No words. Yeah, that’s the one with no words, right? No words at all. They don’t speak, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Cartoon about a little cat surviving rising waters in a flood in a post-apocalyptic world. The people are all gone. Very surprisingly good. There you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Anyway, that’s a lot of movies you can rent.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah, and then we’re going to get into more of those, of course, this next hour. For those of you maybe that don’t know, favorite teen movies, and that’s kind of its own genre, and we sort of insert some of those from time to time anyways, but we’ll do full bore here this next hour. If you want to start texting in some of your answers, feel free to do so. Favorite teen movies, we’ll do that next hour. Okay, one last thing I wanted to mention before we – and you’re seeing this, and Andy and I can talk about more of this even on – But this came out in the Wall Street Journal today. Companies are quietly watering down their climate claims in the latest investor reports. In other words, figuring out no one cares, Andy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. It’s all part of companies leaving woke.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. No one cares. In fact, some might even not invest with you because you are doing that nonsense.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Right. Well, it’s really surprising to see companies actually wanting to do this thing called making money.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, profit.
SPEAKER 09 :
What a thought. Profit. In other words, rewarding merit and rewarding real science, not junk science.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, for example, American Airlines highlighted its focus on ambitious climate goals in a report last year. This year, just a few weeks ago, nothing about that at all. Phrase is gone.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nobody cares. Totally gone. You know why? Because everybody cares about drill, baby, drill. People want our own energy. People… They’ve had it. Why did it take people so long? I mean, you’ve got a million predictions from people like Al Gore that came totally not true.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think between them not coming true for one, Andy, and then I think, and Grant, I know the hardcore lefties, they think you and I are crazy that they are coming true and this stuff is happening. You’re a loony because it isn’t. It ain’t happening.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
But between that and them looking at, okay, what is this actually costing me at the end of the day? And, oh, by the way, all of you that are promoting this are the same guys flying around on your private jets telling me I can’t drive.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right?
SPEAKER 09 :
They’re guilty by hypocrisy, and they’re also guilty by, you know, association with other issues. The same people who believe that we’ve got this climate apocalypse coming also believe men can have babies.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean—
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re the craziest, the craziest, the craziest. No, you’re right, Andy.
SPEAKER 09 :
They also believe we don’t need a border. They also believe that there’s nothing different about having a lot of people from Arab lands move in here versus some other lands. They don’t think you need to vet them. And they don’t care that a bunch of killing happens as a result. They shut their eyes to everything real. They say, go ahead, let that guy into the girls’ locker room, no problem. And I think people are just looking at them saying, we don’t want to hear any of what you say. And what’s happening right now with these companies abandoning the environmental nutsiness is just the latest part of it. What do you think?
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree, and I think a lot of them are finally realizing that, A, this is costing us bottom line. Yeah. B, there’s a lot of customers, a lot of consumers out there that not only, A, care about it, but might even be turned off in doing business with us if that’s all we focus on. And I get it. There’s some of those companies, Andy, where they are hardcore to that 30% of individuals that are hardcore lefties that are going to go buy that product just because it’s some renewable whatever, whatever, whatever. But that’s not the majority of companies. And you have to be a niche company to even make money in that world, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, I agree. John, sorry to stroke your ego here, but you are a brilliant businessman. You really are. So what I want to ask you a question is, look at the state of California.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
What if they did the exact same thing? No, seriously. With all their environmentalist nutso regulations, what if they remove them all tomorrow? What would happen with their economy over the next five years?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, first of all, instead of having an exodus of people leaving, you’d have the opposite. Right. Many more people would be coming back because they do have some of the best weather, climate, all of that of probably any state in the country.
SPEAKER 09 :
And resources.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, they are loaded with, we always talk about their oil off the coast, but they also have minerals. They’ve got it all there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Agriculture, the whole nine yards.
SPEAKER 09 :
How about logging?
SPEAKER 04 :
They got it all. Oh, my gosh. I mean, it’s such a big state. They have so many different things going. Yeah, to your point, Andy, if they would drop some of this nonsensical things they do along those lines, it would be, if they did what a DeSantis does in Florida, it would be like Florida, only on the West Coast.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, so let me ask you, is Florida, do they have no trees there anymore?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, they have a lot still.
SPEAKER 09 :
Is the climate completely destroyed in Florida?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it is not.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, okay. Is it just smog everywhere you go in Florida?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it is not.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, that’s weird.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it’s not. I mean, amazingly enough, Andy, no, it’s not.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s just some of these things that – and we get into this even in Colorado where our own governor and legislatures here – get off on some of these tangents that at the end of the day all it’s doing is driving up prices, period. There is not going to be a net gain, Andy, at all. The other thing, just a side note, and then we’ll talk more Tuesday, but this whole idea that something can be carbon neutral, there’s no such thing, folks. No, it’s a myth. That term is a lie, period. It shouldn’t be spoken because it’s a lie. There’s no such thing.
SPEAKER 09 :
And you know what the next lie is? That you need to be carbon neutral.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. Even bigger lie. Yeah. There’s no benefit to it at all. There’s no such thing. So how are you going to be something you can’t be?
SPEAKER 09 :
You can’t.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s stupid. It’s unattainable.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, no such thing.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. You look at Nate. Now, don’t get me wrong. There is such a thing, especially we see it in China where they do it poorly. Right. There is such a thing as beating the living hell out of Mother Nature. I agree.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
And misusing it. And in that way, I’m glad that we have the environmentalists to give us the conscience on that. Hey, when you’re going to do coal, do it right. When you’re going to do oil, do it right. But we do it right. So what’s the problem?
SPEAKER 04 :
We do.
SPEAKER 09 :
And how about nuclear?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, that’s the best. Yeah. We should be doing way more of that. So anyways, we can talk more about that on Tuesday. But Cub Creek coming up next, heating and air conditioning, which your air conditioner, Andy and I were talking before the show today, maybe haven’t been using it a lot as of yet, but you will be coming up. Going to be a warm weekend. Going to be 90 next weekend. A warm week, I should say, ahead of us. So if you have any issues at all with your air conditioner, please give Cub Creek a call. Find them at klzradio.com.
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. All right, we are back. Got a minute left. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Some of you already giving us suggestions for teen movies coming up next hour, which we appreciate. Also, some of you reporting in the weather from up north, which it looks like it’s much worse up north than it is where we are down south. But what I noticed this morning, according to the predictions, is it’s going to move this way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep, I agree.
SPEAKER 04 :
And he’s going to move his car.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I’m going to. Really quick here, John. Best decades for teen movies. I’m going to say 80s and 90s. And the reason is, when Woke came in, the quality of teen movies went down.
SPEAKER 04 :
Am I right? Yeah, you couldn’t do the same things anymore. Even though it was funny, we thought it was funny. The world thought it was funny. They stopped making them. Right. Couldn’t do them anymore.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, because if you want to use teen movies to preach, you’ve lost it. That’s not what they’re for. No.
SPEAKER 04 :
We have no interest in that. We’re there to have a good time. Yeah. That’s kind of why you do them in the first place. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Teen movies are supposed to be escapism.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Take you back in time, all that. Absolutely. Yes. And they, again, it’s funny. Give something to the left. And they’ll screw it up. Sort of like government. If you want something screwed up, just give it to them and they will. All right, we’ll be back in a moment. Don’t go anywhere. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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