Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr Falcon
A movie podcast for people who grew up in an analog world of VHS tapes and rabbit ears and evolved into a digital landscape. We’re just regular dudes who watch a whole lot of movies, talk about movies, and use them as touchstones throughout our lives.
Episodes
Episodes
Jun 27, 2024
Jun 27, 2024
2hr 6 min
The Crow (1994) turns 30 this year, we were lucky enough to see it in a theater for the first time ever after being way too obsessed with it as angsty teens. It was also the first time Tom had been back in the theater that was OUR theater growing up in about 20 years.
We came to know this movie from VHS copies and DVDs, but never got to see this doom-obsessed teenager's wet dream of a movie on the big screen — we were only 11 ffs. One of the best things about dying movie theaters is that most of them show old movies now, usually for one or two nights, often marking an anniversary of some kind. The Crow was amazing for a lot of reasons, especially when you were around 14.
It had violence, it was dark, it existed in a comic-booky cinema world that forgave so much, it had a rogues gallery of villains, it was a revenge story, it was a love story, and it had tragedy built into it because its lead actor, Brandon Lee, was tragically killed on set near the end of filming. The movie stands as a tribute to him, but also as a tonally and visually unique film that is truly incredible given its budget and the lack of interest in comic book adaptations in the early '90s.
With an already maligned remake inbound from an idiot Hollywood, it seemed like a good time to dig into the good one before we get yet another awful installment. Look, we all know it's a business and studios are going to cash in wherever possible, but could someone at least put a little effort into understand WHY people who love the original do so? Alienating fans of the OG while also not appealing to younger audiences seems, I don't know, stupid.
Anyway, put all that aside and dive deep into the always excellent The Crow (1994) starring Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, and Earnie Hudson, directed by Alex Proyas, and based on the graphic novel by James O'Barr.
Jun 20, 2024
Jun 20, 2024
22 min
A few years ago, a bunch of odd folks thought the Rapture had arrived. Like, the saved would be beamed up to heaven while the rest of us wallowed in hell on earth. Or something like that. Just before the supposed event, Dave saw The Room in its entirety for the first time. And tehre was a moment...just a moment, when he thought it might be the last film he'd ever see.
Jun 13, 2024
Jun 13, 2024
1hr 10 min
Here's the next entry in our Laundry List series, and it's buddy-cop movie time. Dave convinces Tom to watch what he argues is the best buddy-cop movie to come along in at least a decade, End of Watch (2012) starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on one of the best of the sub-genre.
Jun 6, 2024
Jun 6, 2024
9 min
"What are you eating?"
"Donut stuffed with M&Ms. That way, when you finish your donut you don't have to eat any M&Ms."
May 30, 2024
May 30, 2024
1hr 54 min
He's one of the most popular antagonists of all time. Satan, Beelzebub, The Morning Star, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Louis Cypher, John Milton — whatever you call him, the Devil has captured the imagination of storytellers for centuries. Filmmakers are no different. Dave and Tom take a look at some of the best portrayals of the dark one in movies (not TV) and try to zero in on who played the absolute best incarnation of THE DEVIL.
Now this is about THE devil - no devil adjacent characters or general demons. Flicks like The Omen movies and The Exorcists movies don't count here.
May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024
16 min
Did you ever do...lewd things with GI Joes and Barbies when you were a kid? We discuss this important topic and how it really sucks hating a movie that so many people like — we couldn't stand Killers of the Flower Moon...and DiCaprio really pissed Tom off...like, a lot.
May 16, 2024
May 16, 2024
1hr 47 min
It's over. The well has run dry. It's time, for the love of all that is good and sweet in this world, to stop making Terminator movies. Every avenue has been explored, every iteration probed, every avenue trodden. It's. Over. And any further attempts can only get worse. Dave is joined by his old college buddy and extreme movie nerd, Vinnie, who will break down exactly why the Terminator series is LONG past due for a final finale.
May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024
10 min
A lot of people make fun of Tom Cruise, but he might be one of the last true movie stars left who is making consistently good stuff. And his career has been nothing short of amazing.
The Death Rattle Generation and the Meaning of Mr. Falcon
Older millennials have seen the slow death and crumbling of so many institutions once thought to be forever as a brave new world marches over us. We're also the first generation that was able to fall in love with movies by watching them over and over in our own homes, our own rooms — the home video generation. We formed a special attachment with them like nobody before or since. We memorized the cover art on cardboard video tape sleeves and then later DVD and Blu Ray cases and watched movies over and over the way Baby Boomers listened to singles on 45s.
As we get older and everything, including people’s tastes and Hollywood itself, moves on as all things must with the inevitable decay of time, it’s easy to feel lost. Folks born in the early 1980s barely got a chance to get used to all the things that defined their generation before it all changed more drastically than anyone could have expected.
The YKY Mr. Falcon podcast aims to focus on movies through that lens. We don’t do celebrity gossip or participate in cancelling people. We talk about the movies, our experiences with them, and all the trivia that goes along with it that’s cluttering up our skulls until the dementia sets in one day. It’s a cool place to hang out that will hopefully inspire you to dig out some old classics that you haven’t watched since dropping boxes with that blue and yellow movie stub on them in the return slot was part of your regular routine. Let’s go!
--Dave
Inside The Name
If you’re old enough to remember when TV networks would air feature films that had been edited to fit a 4:3 screen, and also for content. Extreme violence, nudity, and curse words were excised. In some cases, when objectionable phrases couldn’t simply be deleted, they were dubbed over with silence or, in some cases, alternate dialog. Every once in a while, an actor would record alternate lines for the TV version of a movie, but most of the time, it was a sound-alike who did the dub.
And every once in a while, that sound-alike sounded nothing like the actor. The most glaring example is the television version of Die Hard 2 (1990). At the end, when John McClane drops what became his famous tagline from the original Die Hard, viewers were treated to a voice that couldn’t sound less like Bruce Willis replacing “Yipee-ki-yay, motherfucker” with “Yipee-ki-yay, Mister Falcon.”
It's a quirk of a system that doesn’t exist anymore and that was unique growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, when your folks would tape movies off TV instead of buying them at Suncoast video in the mall. And it’s also some really funny shit. Now you know.