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
Aug 29, 2024
Aug 29, 2024
17 min
The improbable success story of an underground comic about giant mutant turtles who lived in the sewers of New York City, who are also teenagers, and also ninjas just will never not be popular. Ever since they hit the big and small screens in the late 1980s, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been everywhere in one incarnation after another. As the new, dark TMNT Ronin is inbound, we fondly remember the turtle toys of our youth, like the Turtles van, and the Pizza Shooter, and do you remember that sweet Bat Cave playset they came out with? Hell yeah, you do.
Aug 22, 2024
Aug 22, 2024
1hr 34 min
We thought the Alien franchise had jumped the shark and crossed into Terminator territory as a franchise that should just stop having new entries, because all they did was water down the great installments in the franchise. But, it turns out there's a bit more story, and fear to wring out of the ol' double-jawed xenomorphs. And if you thought facehuggers were scary before....
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
Check out Dave and Tom's post-theater reaction to the new Alien: Romulus and get hyped up for the upcoming Alien: Earth series on Hulu.
Aug 15, 2024
Aug 15, 2024
1hr 19 min
There's a new take on the Universal Studios classic The Wolf Man (1941) coming out for Halloween 2024. With that in mind, we take a look at the previous remake of this horror classic from nearly 15 years ago, The Wolfman (2010) starring Benicio Del Toro in one of his most forgettable performances alongside Anthony Hopkins. And we see how it stacks up against an unofficial Wolf Man remake from the 1990s, Wolf (1994), starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer. We also get into what we dig about werewolf movies in general and what we'd like to see from the new Wolf Man directed by Leigh Whannell and slotted for a January 2025 release.
Aug 8, 2024
Aug 8, 2024
37 min
Longlegs. People talked about how scary it was, how original, how inventive, how amazing Nic Cage's performance was. It will rattle your bones inside your meat suit and make you pass out from sheer terror. Well, Dave thought it absolutely sucked. And he's gonna tell you about it.
Aug 1, 2024
Aug 1, 2024
1hr 21 min
The character of serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter is so pervasive in pop culture that he might as well be real. Anthony Hopkins blew audiences away with his portrayal of the killer psychiatrist in Silence of the Lambs, but did you know that wasn't the first portrayal of Lecter in a feature film? Can't forget about Manhunter from the '80s. Dave and Tom get into all that and more in the second part of their Hannibal Lecter breakdown, going from Red Dragon to Hannibal Rising and a bit about the Hannibal TV show as they try to figure out who was, in fact, the best Hannibal Lecter.
Jul 25, 2024
Jul 25, 2024
1hr 17 min
The character of serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter is so pervasive in pop culture that he might as well be real. Anthony Hopkins blew audiences away with his portrayal of the killer psychiatrist in Silence of the Lambs, but did you know that wasn't the first portrayal of Lecter in a feature film? Can't forget about Manhunter from the '80s. Dave and Tom get into all that and more in the first part of their Hannibal Lecter breakdown, going from Manhunter (1986) to Hannibal (2001) and everything in between as they try to figure out who was, in fact, the best Hannibal Lecter.
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024
55 min
We started talking about it, and then decided to go movie by movie through Tom Cruise's filmography to see if the man has ever actually made a movie that was a dead flop. Even the biggest movie stars have had duds, some more embarrassing than others in retrospect, but when it came to Cruise, we couldn't think of one off the top of our heads. And I'll tell you what — we had a damn hard time finding one at all.
Jul 11, 2024
Jul 11, 2024
1hr 46 min
Baseball movies are special. They're a genre within the sports movie genre, and no sport lends itself to the drama of the screen quite like baseball. They range from ethereal and sincere, like The Natural and Field of Dreams, to fun comedies like Major League. Some tell isolated stories, tiny chapters within the sprawling history of the game, like A League of Their Own and 61*. Others focus on the heartbreak that the game and the life associated with it can bring, like Moneyball and Trouble With The Curve.
And yeah, there have been a few lousy ones, too.
So, how about it — what's your favorite movie about America's favorite past time?
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.