Latest / Notable Nostalgia / 89. Jack Frost (1998)
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- 0:00Maybe we as the audience is expecting too much of Jack Frost and maybe maybe
- 0:07like just shitty people get riding weird substance. What Yeah, like maybe maybe
- 0:14just shitty people do get reincarnated and don't learn their lesson, Like what if,
- 0:18like you know, he was somebody who's like embazzling a bunch of money.
- 0:22And I'm Ali, I'm Andy, I'm Jeff, and I'm Ria And
- 0:29this is notable nostalgia. I get confused, baby, I get confused and
- 0:35so upset nostalgia nerds. I got Riah, Jeff and Andy with me,
- 0:41and we're talking the nineteen ninety eight classic Christmas film Jack Frost. Woo,
- 0:49here we go. Who's excited? Yeah, I'm excited. Yeah I am
- 0:55too. So before we started this movie, though, I was one two
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- 1:10released on October twenty ninth in nineteen ninety four. It's a classic Mariah Carey
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- 1:52right? So before watching this movie, I, for some reason could have
- 1:55swore that Bruce Willis was in this movie. I was gonna watch with my
- 2:00girlfriend last night, and I was like, Hey, just to prepare you,
- 2:02it's like a Christmas Bruce Willis movie, so don't expect me. The
- 2:07character Jack Frost is like very Bruce Willis an So I must have made that
- 2:12weird connection at some point as a child. I have no idea. All
- 2:15right, well, let's talk about it. So when was the first time
- 2:16we all saw this? And you know, did anybody watch it when they
- 2:21were young? Where are we at? I saw it for the very first
- 2:24time last night. I saw the case a bunch growing up in like Blockbuster,
- 2:29walking past it. But it didn't ever seem like something I wanted to
- 2:31watch. Yeah, because I knew it was about death and I was right
- 2:35around the age of my mom passed aways, I was like, oh,
- 2:36this might be a little too much for a little landy, but uh am,
- 2:39I glad I watched it last night. I guess you'll find out nice
- 2:44the Jack Frost movie. I watched this I think one time as a kid.
- 2:49If that was the question one time as a kid, and I was
- 2:52like, man, but I had nostalgia for it. But then after we
- 2:54watched him like, okay, man, like I liked it. I was
- 2:59I was jamming. Was that the question you asked? Fine, Jeff,
- 3:04I did find it. That's a past. That's it. It was so
- 3:07much. I love that movie, but it was so much better. We're
- 3:10talking about this yet it was so much better than it was in my head.
- 3:15Well, that's good and your dream Rhea. Yes, I grew up
- 3:21watching this as a kid. I don't remember, like if I saw it
- 3:25when it first came out. What year did it come out again? Ninety
- 3:31eight? Okay, so this would have been two years after my grandpa died.
- 3:35I bet I probably did see it when it first came out. Okay,
- 3:38I saw it for the first time, what a few years ago?
- 3:40And you made me watch it for the first time? Watch it? Yeah,
- 3:45so, but watched year since we've watched it together. That is very
- 3:49true. So that's there's something to say about this film. Oh so is
- 3:53this a staple for you Ria every year? Yes? This is. It
- 3:58does remind me of that soup commercial from Theties. Remember the little boy who's
- 4:00like in a Snowman that comes in? Oh, I love that. That's
- 4:03a that's a Christmas commercial right there? Yeah? Is this a okay?
- 4:06No, it takes placed during Christmas? Is this a Christmas movie? It's
- 4:11interesting, like there's no real like Christmas element, Like they don't celebrate Christmas
- 4:15or anything in this. But I mean, when else are you going to
- 4:17watch a Snowman movie. I mean they do talk about like going up to
- 4:20the cabin for Christmas, but they don't actually do any really Christmas. And
- 4:27this was released on December eleventh, nineteen ninety eight, so I'm sure what
- 4:30the intention was to capture Christmas spirit audience of some kind? You're right?
- 4:34Do you think like people in Australia watch it in like August? Right?
- 4:42Yeah, Like that's weird, Yeah Australia people. Well some some info.
- 4:50Rhea is going to do the synopsis, but I got some some numbers,
- 4:55some factoids, okay, So yeah. I was mentioned released December eleventh,
- 4:59nineteen ninety eight. It had a budget anywhere from forty to eighty five million
- 5:04dollars. That's the only film. It's It's like there's there's two things that
- 5:09say otherwise. I did a quick Google search on that last night too,
- 5:13and I could not find an accurate number, So I'm like, I'm not
- 5:15even gonna bring it up forty million either way. The box office had thirty
- 5:20four point six million, So this was a flop big time. It seems
- 5:26like a popular movie, like a well known movie, for being such a
- 5:29flop. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's super weird. Yeah,
- 5:31sort of cult thing going. Yeah. So it's written by Mark Stephen Johnson,
- 5:35who also wrote Grumpy Old Men, Simon Birch, and then the two
- 5:40thousands uh superhero films Daredevil and Ghostwriter. It's directed by Troy Miller, who
- 5:47also directed Dumb and Dumber, err and countless stand up specials. Taglines for
- 5:55this film included, He's the world's coolest day and he's going to prove it,
- 6:01damn it, okay, or Jack Frost is getting a second chance to
- 6:05be the world's coolest dad if he doesn't melt first. Yeah. That's really
- 6:13dark, so and really long. Like yeah, I'll save trivia for after
- 6:16the review and also ratings, but I have some of that too. Singing'd
- 6:20be fun if we all thought of like a funny little call thing for this
- 6:24movie. But mine is going to be a really cool dad. So Jack
- 6:29Frost, it'll melt your heart or something that's not a good It seems like
- 6:32he's gonna die that way he does die. Yeah, yeah, this is
- 6:36a good movie to watch with your kids. I mean, there's a line
- 6:40in the film that's like the perfect tagline. I don't know why they didn't
- 6:42ye, yeah, it's now dad better than no Dad. Yeah, I
- 6:46don't know what that well, Okay, when we get there, I'm so
- 6:49confused on that part. I don't understand why they said that. I just
- 6:53you know, somebody wrote that, right, I have this genius line right?
- 7:02Any other things before we want to talk about before diving into this,
- 7:05uh, this film. I didn't want to sign any adjectives yet. I
- 7:13can't really think of any. I just remember as a kid, the scary
- 7:15Jack Frost was always right next to this. So I wonder if maybe that's
- 7:17the reason I watch it too. That came out a year before this film.
- 7:21Oh see, so yeah, maybe some conscious I was like, I
- 7:24don't know, I don't want to get the wrong one. Maybe I don't
- 7:26know, but I've never seen this movie it's crazy. Yeah, yeah,
- 7:29yeah. I also was always trying to avoid like which one, but you
- 7:33could tell because the other one had a like that cool hologram cover. It
- 7:40really worked out that his name was Jack Frost like that if it was like
- 7:46like Bobby Miller whatever right now, like that wouldn't or like name was like
- 7:50I don't know, Hank Child Moluster, A whole different story would have been
- 8:05this sound he was smoking. He was plotting these two Fast the snow Man
- 8:16this is a Southern side. He was red snow, reddy n alright.
- 8:28So we start with the band uh and the opening song goes. It's pretty
- 8:33much just a traditional rendition on Frosty the Snowman, but in the style of
- 8:39blues he was. The lyrics as follows, Frosty the Snowman was a jolly,
- 8:45happy soul. He was smoking his pipe. Baby. His two eyes
- 8:48were made of coal, and Frosty the Snowman is a fairy tale. They
- 8:52say he was made of ice and snow, then he came to life one
- 8:54day. Frosty the Snowman was bad as bad he could be, and the
- 9:00children say he could laugh and play just the same as you and me.
- 9:03There must have been some magic in that air that night, or that old
- 9:05silk hat they found for when they laid it upon his head, he began
- 9:07to hoochikoo around and then Frosty this snowman is a fairy till they say anyway,
- 9:16apparently this was just like the best rendition of Frosty the Snowman ever,
- 9:20because some guy was like, they're jegging it, they're loving it. We
- 9:26gotta sign these guys. And I don't barely understand that. That ar guy
- 9:31was like, hey, you know how every blue song does like basically the
- 9:35same riff. Yeah, these guys are doing that same riff. We have
- 9:37to sign them. In nineteen ninety eight, when blues was really big,
- 9:43I was telling Ria like, white people, blues is the worst genre possible,
- 9:46Like it's so embarrassing, like secondhand embarrassment, cringe. I hate it.
- 9:52And then also that guy, that guy is Dweezl Zappa. Yeah,
- 9:56yeah, crazy right, yeah, yeah, who's the friend is he that?
- 10:01They were like, hey, do you want to It's like fine,
- 10:03okay, So that's the first scene. Then we go to Medford, Colorado,
- 10:09which actually does not exist, and we get our first snowball fight.
- 10:13After the ending of school, and for some reason we have like D Day
- 10:18sound effects, like there's a helicopter and bombing noises. Yeah right, all
- 10:28right, the phrase here, what's going on? Seventh graders have us pinned
- 10:31down and now they've pulled out the heavy artillery. So so we get the
- 10:35fight between the seventh graders and the rest of the general, a great rest
- 10:37of the grades. Charlie, who's our protagonist, is sent to help Alexander,
- 10:41and he says, if you want to stop an army, you have
- 10:43to stop the general. Which is this an actual saying? Do you know?
- 10:48I have no idea where this is. They're like, He's like,
- 10:50uh, this we learned this in class, like class. That part did
- 10:56make me laugh. That goes, do you guys remember what we learned in
- 10:58history now? Uh? Uh no, that part there was a few parts
- 11:03I actually maybe laugh remember than a history class? Right? No, not
- 11:07really. Ah, if you want to stop an army, stop at general.
- 11:13And up until this point, if I was a child, I'd be
- 11:16like, this movie's gonna fucking rock because that was a fun scene for like
- 11:18a kid, like that snowball fight all the kids like, because that doesn't
- 11:22really happen well maybe in places where it's snow snows, but there's like forty
- 11:26or fifty kids all playing together, like that would be a blast if you're
- 11:28a child. Yeah. True, I saw it as adult sadly. Yeah.
- 11:31So Rory is the general and he confronts Charlie, but he ends up
- 11:35with a snowball to the face. Overall, it's an underwhelming setup between these
- 11:39two nemeses hanging with the second graders. Now, get off for I got
- 11:46a present for you. Good. I like presents, you say, fee
- 11:58Freeze reading out Charlie at the end of it, rock you okay, yeah,
- 12:22goodness, Thanks Charlie, You're amazing, no problem, And then we
- 12:30get hands in betrayed Me. We cut to Charlie's house and why is Chester
- 12:41the dog outside? It's really oh yeah yeah yeah, the dog is just
- 12:48lives outside in the snow. It's not good snow dog. Also, the
- 12:54scenes when Charlie's walking home, like how far away? How how long is
- 12:58that trek home? Yeah? Right, because then they have the second snowball
- 13:01fight that's like literally two feet behind his back. Yeah, I don't know.
- 13:07So Jack arrives home late, and Jack and Charlie and Chester because he's
- 13:11outside make a snowman and they have a family snowball fight. Jack gives Charlie
- 13:16a harmonica that he got on the day Charlie was born. He says it's
- 13:20really old, but Charlie is only eleven, so it's not that old.
- 13:24All right. You gonna know where I got it. I got that Good
- 13:28Morning you were born, Harry yep, little music store right across the street
- 13:33from the hospital. Walked out in a great mood, bought myself that harmonica.
- 13:37And I've never had a harmonicause I played better than that one, my
- 13:41favorite one. That it's yours. Thanks, You're welcome. I go to
- 13:48sleep, so won't you go to sleep. Charlie asks him to go to
- 13:56the hockey game against their art tribals, The Devil at four pm. Jack
- 14:01says he'll be there after the band record in the studio. He says he'll
- 14:05be there. He never promises him he'll be there. He just says,
- 14:07I'll be there as a promise. I'll be there, like that's a commitment.
- 14:13As was right, it's his favorite harmonica. Yes, So as he's
- 14:20leaving, he tells Charlie that the harmonica is magical and whatever Charlie plays it
- 14:24wherever Jack is, he'll hear it. Jack and Gabby have a little intimate
- 14:28moment. She asks him to sing her smile, bring me the other one,
- 14:33my son, time I die, take off your boots, which is
- 14:50dumb. And so the lyrics are every time we say goodbye, I die
- 14:56a little. I've never heard of this song in my entire life, and
- 15:00I just blows, I've heard it, but yeah, it's weird. The
- 15:03best part of it is that he cannot sing. Oh no, he he's
- 15:07about to be signed. Yeah, anyway, So what do what do we
- 15:11think of this seventh? The U singing about the Snowman is kind of I
- 15:16know it was intentional, but that's like, whoa, that's like gonna be
- 15:20about I bet he's in turned of the Snowman. I didn't know that they
- 15:22were singing that Snowman song, Like, I didn't know it was about it.
- 15:26I wasn't. Yeah, I just thought of some blue song there played.
- 15:28I had no clue, So you read the lyrics, just nothing.
- 15:30And then when I saw the opening credits, I was I said one of
- 15:33it. I looked up because I was doing something and I looked up and
- 15:35it said Andy Lawrence, and I was like, I hope that's Andy Lawrence
- 15:37and it was and one of the Lawrence brothers, not my favorite, least
- 15:41favorite, but whatever, he stole Lawrence brother And then and it's funny that
- 15:45Rio said D day when it comes to that snowball fight, because I literally
- 15:48was. I wrote that was more intense than the opening of Saving Private Run.
- 15:52It was like, I mean, they should have like it would have
- 15:56been funny if like kids were like carrying another kid on a gurney or something.
- 16:00Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, go ahead, you go out,
- 16:03you got things. No, I was gonna say, like, just
- 16:07Charlie needs to calm the fuck down. Don't go into a snowball fight and
- 16:11just act like a little bitch, like go hardcore. The other guy who's
- 16:15the bully, he's it's a snowball fight. I don't know. I just
- 16:18a little morey with that. Yeah, And I've only been in like a
- 16:21few snowball fights. And they're with Gabe's older brother and his older brother's friends,
- 16:25and they used to pack that shit. Yeah, so fucking tight because
- 16:27they were like four or five years old, and so they're kind of picking
- 16:30on that's fine, but I hated that ship. It was not fun.
- 16:33Are not fun? Yeah. What I don't get is like this band needs
- 16:37to be signed and picked up. But they have like the most elaborate stage
- 16:41set up with that massive Jack Frost banner. They have like weird merch like
- 16:45all throughout the movie, like they're apparently very big, So I don't yeah
- 16:51exactly. And then a little bit I'm not sure if we actually touched on
- 16:53it yet, but oh, well, did he come back from missing yet
- 16:56from the recording? No, we're not there yet. But there's like a
- 17:00scene later where Charlie's like looking at this shovel and it's wrapped in like Jack
- 17:03Frost tape, like Jack Frost band tape, Like what what? What are
- 17:07they? Like? What kind of merchants? Oh? I saw that,
- 17:11but I saw Frost. I thought it feel like they're selling shovels at the
- 17:14concert, so like, what else would that be? So this is what
- 17:17I thought. I thought he got mad when his dad died, so he
- 17:19cut his hockey stick into a shovel, and I was like, all right,
- 17:26sticks either way, very elaborate merged for like an indie band or like
- 17:33a local band. Yeah, I mean the radio announcer does say like Denver's
- 17:37best kept secret or something, but it's just like, yeah, yeah,
- 17:41what's going on in Denver? Like that, I'm worried about Denver? Yeah,
- 17:44yes. Also, this is like not anywhere close to what like Denver
- 17:48would look like. I know, this is Medford, Colorado, and it's
- 17:51not like a place that exists, but like I think it's supposed to be
- 17:56adjacent Denver. Jason, I'm like, there's no way this looks like I
- 18:00always I kind of picture, like, you know, a smaller town like
- 18:03outside of Portland, so like maybe like a Kaiser, That's what I was
- 18:06picturing in my head. The Kaiser doesn't even look like that, right,
- 18:10yeah, yeah, but it looks like eleven Worth, like yeah, oh
- 18:14yeah, oh yeah, beautiful little Yeah. Uh does he have to do
- 18:18this every time he plays a showy? Has to like get a gift,
- 18:22fucking sing to the wife, do a man in the midnight, like every
- 18:25fucking time like that. That's exhausting. Yeah, like that's insane. Yeah
- 18:30yeah, I don't know. Yeah, maybe just like around the holidays,
- 18:33like he should be home, but he's he's he's busy, you know,
- 18:37but he tours a lot I mean like on his sanat Jack Frost tour bus
- 18:42or wherever they were, like twenty dates on there. To be fair,
- 18:45the wife does like say like I don't care if if you if you have
- 18:49to do all these things, but don't like tell him you're gonna be there,
- 18:52you know, like don't make commitments like that's reasonable. Yeah. Yeah,
- 18:56but she is also kind of to blame though, because if he's a
- 19:00eleven, that means was that ninety or eighty seven he was born pretty sure
- 19:04pro choice was around in eighty seven. He didn't ask to be alive,
- 19:07So she is just as much to blame just saying speaking of ages. So
- 19:15I did the research. So Kelly Preston, who plays the mom beautiful,
- 19:18I didn't know who she was, Like, yeah, she passed away,
- 19:22Oh really in real life? Yeah, she had breast cancer, super sad.
- 19:25She was married to John Shivolta. Yeah, she must have been face
- 19:30touched face waterfall. Well she was. So she was only thirty six when
- 19:34this movie, when this movie came out, and then Michael Keaton was forty
- 19:38seven. Oh damn, that's too much of an age difference, I think,
- 19:42in my opinion. And that was all I had really had to say
- 19:45about that, But is this kind of all the downward trend of Michael Keaton?
- 19:51Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, like for a while, right
- 19:52like until Birdman basically, but like this, he he had a resurgence like
- 19:56that, who's that other U? That really disgusting old man that I don't
- 20:00like? The rock No in that movie? Wait, hold on, hold
- 20:06on, hold on, hold on, hold on, he's in that movie.
- 20:10I can't remember. I don't like him anyways, Okay, I can't
- 20:14remember his name, Okay, anyways, and then oh when they okay,
- 20:18last other thought was when Michael Keaton and the little boy are doing the snowman,
- 20:23like making a snowman. I was just imagining. So Jackson was kind
- 20:27of in and out watching this, which is this is a great movie to
- 20:30watch with your kid to like guilt them into loving you more. Like me
- 20:33and him make like inappropriate like we make like uh snowman with snow people with
- 20:38like big old titties and stuff like that, so that'd be so great.
- 20:42And then uh, the scene with him and uh Kelly Preston felt like softcore
- 20:48porn. Like the beginning of it. I was like, wow, yeah,
- 20:51that's you had this when you had the thought because I was like,
- 20:52well, watching it, I was gonna say, like, it's weird doing
- 20:55like kids movies when like they imply that the parents are gonna hunt because like
- 21:00it's just in a little bit, you know, you're just like, oh,
- 21:03weird, Like you know, do they use protection? I don't.
- 21:06It's so fucking weird. I don't. Yeah, I mean they have they
- 21:08have very little actual screen time with Kevin or Michael Keaton right in the in
- 21:15these opening scenes and then he's he's not he's nowhere in the movie, but
- 21:18their voice acting. So I'm sure they had to drive something home that,
- 21:22like you know, he does actually love his wife, even though like later
- 21:25on, like it really but the scene fell out of place. It was
- 21:32like two yeah, yeah, I didn't connect. Not amazing set up.
- 21:37Yeah, I do love. He doesn't make much money being in a band
- 21:38because like the Mighty Mighty Bostones, they stopped touring because there's like nine of
- 21:41them in the band, which it looks similar to the blues band, right
- 21:45they have a fiddle player, like why yeah, and then Mighty Mighty Bostones
- 21:48stopped playing because they can't make money on tour because there's too many of them,
- 21:52and they had like number one hits and they were on Warped Tour,
- 21:55you know what I mean. They were a pretty big band, and so
- 21:56this band, I guess he's still trying to make it big. But anyway,
- 22:00yeah, yeah, I did love the setup of his relationship. He
- 22:03seems like he has a really good relationship with his son. Yeah, Like
- 22:06I love how he's like really intentional speaking like talking to his son, like
- 22:08comes in and like sits on his bed and it's just very friends like and
- 22:14I appreciated that. Charlie, Yeah, yeah, But going off of that,
- 22:21Jack doesn't know who Charlie's hockey coaches, so like, even though he
- 22:25may have real conversations with him, like, he has no idea what his
- 22:29life is like. So Jack shows Charlie the j shot, but doesn't have
- 22:33any time to teach him. We cut to the hockey game sis Sid says,
- 22:40Sid says that the first period is over, but then tells him to
- 22:44have a good game, which I thought was really odd, like, uh,
- 22:48they lose eight to zero. And between this, we're cutting back and
- 22:51forth to the studio that Jack is at, and these are the lyrics to
- 22:56the song that they're singing. I get confused, baby, I get confused
- 23:02and so upset. I get scared, Baby, I get so scared I
- 23:06start to sweat. Ooh, I'm somewhere in the middle, not remotely in
- 23:10the center of it all. Don't lose your faith in me, baby,
- 23:12Just lean a little my way. You know, sometimes it's going to get
- 23:17dark. Baby, Wrap your arms around me. I got a big strong
- 23:19neck, hold on tight. Here we go. Don't lose your faith in
- 23:23me, baby, Just lean a little my way. And that's like also
- 23:29paired with the hockey montage the game, right, Yeah, so it's just
- 23:33it doesn't really make sense for hockey. Yeah, it's like a love song
- 23:37between him and his wife like it should have. There should have been more
- 23:40like a montage of like her, like around the house, like alone,
- 23:44you know, comparatively to that song. Some trivia, Michael Keaton co wrote
- 23:49the intro and that song. Well it shows and it's Henry Wallins as the
- 23:56fucking coat. Yeah yeah, yeah, that coach is amazing. Love that
- 24:02his little speech was like pretty amazing. Yeah, Okay, first periods behind
- 24:08us, forget about it. God knows I'm gonna try. Look, I
- 24:14know you're just kids, and we're really here to teach you about fair play
- 24:18and sportsmanship and all that crap. But I am so tired of looking up
- 24:23at that scoreboard and seeing that we're behind the devils again and again and again,
- 24:33leaned up dead. History is made by winners, conquerors, barbarians.
- 24:45Now I want you to go out there and wipe the ice with their filthy
- 24:49boss. All right, play clean, have a good game. Uh yeah
- 24:57like that. He nails his role in this film. Yeah yeah, all
- 25:00right. So Jack gets home from the studio past six point thirty again,
- 25:04the dog is outside. Gabby yells at him for promising to come, which
- 25:10he didn't do. He didn't promise again last night? Oh why'd you go
- 25:18and do that? Jack? Look, I don't know how many times if
- 25:22I told you, if you're not going to be there, don't say you're
- 25:25going to be there. Do you know how I knew you promised him?
- 25:27He kept looking at me up in the stands, and after about I don't
- 25:30know the fortieth time, I realized he expected you to be there. Jack.
- 25:37I don't care if you get too busy or you flake out on me.
- 25:41Well I care, but you know I chose it. I married you.
- 25:45I'll deal with it. He didn't choose this, Jack. One of
- 25:48these days, Charlie's going to score his first goal and you won't see it,
- 25:52just like you never saw him with the measles, or or the time
- 25:56he jammed the figmutes into the fly projector you know. Those things all happened
- 26:00once then they're gone, don't Jack? You said enough? Jack apologizes to
- 26:04Charlie for missing the game and explains that his dream has always been to be
- 26:07a great musician and to make a nice life for his family, but that
- 26:11comes at the expense of him being a selfish jerk. He then throws out
- 26:15the idea of going up to the cabin at Pine Top for Christmas if they're
- 26:18suppor I don't understand how they own a cabin. You know you always wanted
- 26:25to be the next Wayne Gretzky. Well, I always had a dream too,
- 26:30ever, since I was about your age. I just I really wanted
- 26:33to be a great musician. I just wanted to be a real player.
- 26:37I wanted to be able to make a living doing what I love, and
- 26:41I really want to make a nice living for you and me and Mom.
- 26:47Okay, here's an idea. I'm thinking about this one before all. You
- 26:52me, Mom. We go to the cabin at the Pine Top. We
- 26:56have a real Christmas vacation, just us, no phone, TV, no
- 27:00band, nothing, Three Thigs really yes. But as they're getting ready to
- 27:04leave the next morning, Jack gets a call from Kaplan and says that says
- 27:10they have to play this set in Aspen on Christmas at the like at the
- 27:15music producer's house. Yeah, for like a party. Yeah yeah. So
- 27:21he figures he can drive to Aspen and make it back to Pine Top Christmas
- 27:25evening. There are one hundred and forty seven miles from Aspen and one hundred
- 27:27and ninety nine miles from Denver. When Jack makes the decision to turn back,
- 27:32so roughly like a two hour two three hour drive, So it doesn't
- 27:36seem that terrible. I feel like he could have I don't know, I
- 27:40feel like he could have just made the drive or stay the night or gone
- 27:44that night before or something like it. Just it's not great. Uh.
- 27:47So he takes Max's car when he turns around, but he gets caught in
- 27:52a snowstorm without windshield wipers, which, like I was just really I was
- 27:57really disappointed because I felt like he could have just pulled over and waited the
- 28:02storm out, but he doesn't. He just dies. I want to go
- 28:04back, just to Tad. And I think both Gabby and Charlie are being
- 28:08unreasonable for being mad at him. It's not like you have to play a
- 28:12whole set. They can tell what you sound like after a few songs.
- 28:15Get out of there. Well, maybe I could borrow Max car, I
- 28:18could drive back that way. I can back by Christmas night. But you
- 28:22know what, I'm gonna miss Christmas Day for sure? What's this? I
- 28:30guess I don't want because this is the break, Like this is the thing
- 28:40that they've been like at least eleven years trying to make happen, and like
- 28:45if he, if he nails this gig, then their lives are forever changed.
- 28:51And I just like, you know, like they're like Charlie throws the
- 28:53biggest fit over this, and like, yeah, I got of course Gabby's
- 28:57upset because Charlie's upset, But I mean, like, like this is it,
- 29:00Like we could we could spend Christmas like two days later and just celebrating
- 29:04the Yeah, Christmas doesn't have to be on Christmas. And I thought for
- 29:07a moment that when Charlie gave where ever there yet. Yeah, when Charlie
- 29:11gave the harmonica to his dad, I was like, good for you kid.
- 29:15I thought he was like, use this magical harmonica for good. But
- 29:18I wasn't thinking, like I know the Indians of this movie, that's not
- 29:22how it's gonna go. But now they were being a little bitches. I
- 29:25agree with you. I can see both ways because especially being eleven years old,
- 29:29the day before he missed your like big game, you know, after
- 29:33he didn't promise, but he said he'd be there, So I could see
- 29:34why he's upset. But being eleven years old, you should also know like
- 29:38like and my dad just had this conversation with me that this is his goal
- 29:42in life, and you know what I mean. So yeah, it's right
- 29:45on the fence of the age to where I do think he was acting like
- 29:48a little kind of looks spoiled, but I can see why he's upset.
- 29:52And speaking of goals, Charlie's never made a goal, so that like if
- 29:56he was like an all star, this is his championship. No he's not.
- 30:00He's gonna stuck and embarrassed the dad. So no, I think that
- 30:03no, I think Charlie is an embarrassment. I think, uh, the
- 30:07mom Kelly Preston, I think that she's gonna go on to better things,
- 30:11not the whole dying thing, but like she's gonna go on and marry John
- 30:14Travolta. So we're good. Yeah. And then when Michael Keat comes back
- 30:18from the studio, he keeps lugging around this guitar case, but he's not
- 30:22playing guitar. Why he just plays Yeah, you don't need it unless he's
- 30:26like, hey, guys, I brought an extra guitar guitarist one. I
- 30:30mean, he reasonably like could he be the composer of the band, and
- 30:33he just writes songs on his own? Yeah, I guess, yeah,
- 30:36yeah, borrow somebody. I don't know. I'm gonna wait. If he's
- 30:40like that, probably musician, he probably should own a guitar. Yeah,
- 30:42but if you're at the studio, maybe it's an observation. If we have
- 30:48only seen him play one time though, so maybe there's other songs where he's
- 30:52like, you know, if the prop person's listening, you really fucked up.
- 30:56When Kelly Preston is like ripping him a new one and about missing all
- 31:00the blah blah blah, Like how she mentions like that he got like the
- 31:03measles and like he missed that. I like that, like you weren't here
- 31:07when he got the measles, like these only happened once, Like like,
- 31:11oh my god, what's he going to do? And they're trying so hard
- 31:15because it's I feel like it's really close to making us care about these characters,
- 31:18but they just didn't. Like when Michael Keaton's talking to his son like
- 31:22going like, hey, this is my I'm like that's really cool because he's
- 31:25being open with him. He's telling him like, hey, this is my
- 31:26goal in life. I thought that was really cool, but it just wasn't.
- 31:30They just they were close, they just did not hit it. I
- 31:32feel like, yeah, I think that. I think that's that was an
- 31:33interesting I thought he was like a fucking asshole when I was watching it for
- 31:37saying that. But just because you're a parent doesn't mean that you're non children
- 31:41goals, yea, Like look at Ali and Rhea, they have five kids.
- 31:47You've never heard one thing about it. We never heard about them.
- 31:51Well we do. Cut when it's like yeah, all right, so fast
- 32:00forward a year. We're reminded again that Charlie's rival Rory doesn't have a father.
- 32:05Charlie has a breakdown while he's shoveling snow, and his mom tries to
- 32:07cheer him up by dumping all the marshmallows on Charlie's hot cocos. Yes,
- 32:12sorry, oh we passed. Like probably the best line of this whole film
- 32:15was that, so when he's like leaving school and there's another snowball and those
- 32:20kids like Rory and the bullies are like, they like go to pick on
- 32:23him, and then they stop. And what that kid says, bro,
- 32:28your big butt? Heead forget it, Rory. He's not going to pick
- 32:32on anymore. It's so Amanda, Yeah, time he gets over it.
- 32:37I never even met mile Man. Yeah what then the bullet goes, well
- 32:45he has to over it because my I don't. I've never even met my
- 32:49dad. So was so was the bully bullying on Charlie to get him over
- 32:53like this the morning of his dad? Which then I'm like, was he
- 32:57doing something bad for a good reason? They? That's like how like that
- 33:02line delivery is like kind of how you know my dad is dead? Because
- 33:07like you know, like this the car crash, like maybe he's still alive,
- 33:08but he's like like para, I don't know. But yeah. Now
- 33:15it's a year later and Charlie's sad, and then the kid goes, yeah,
- 33:16he's no fun that his dad's dead. Like that's how we find out
- 33:21that he actually died. Yeah, the only time I've been in Denver.
- 33:23Actually they're a blizzard started on top of a mountain when I'm working my way
- 33:28down and you couldn't see shit, and I was completely out of washer fluid,
- 33:32so like we were afraid to pull over because so many cars are coming.
- 33:37We're like, well, if we pull over, we might get hit
- 33:38from behind because everybody's going to a certain a mound. It was really hard
- 33:40to see. So then we're like, well, let's pee in our fucking
- 33:44windshield wiper thing to get some kind of and we finally made it down to
- 33:47Denver. But it was probably the scariest moment, Like it was so fucking
- 33:51scary. How did you get the pee in the windshielding? Oh you had
- 33:53to stand and like try to do the best you can. You should have
- 33:57used to cop and pete into it and then pour dead. I don't know
- 34:00if we had a cup, But that would have been a great idea.
- 34:02We might have had a cup. I don't know. Yeah, it was
- 34:05a while ago, but it's really scary. Oh yeah, that's not the
- 34:07point of the story. You were sorry, I get it. Side,
- 34:13I wish that. I think it's spoiler alert. But like Jack Frost turns
- 34:16into a scare not a scar for snowman. It would be cool if like
- 34:21he got into a car accident his body went through the windshield or whatever and
- 34:25hit a snowman and then the harmonica played and then that turned him like e
- 34:30merged him and a snowman together. Okay, because I don't I don't understand
- 34:37why he turns into snowman. I think it's because I don't know why did
- 34:43he turn into the snowman though, Yeah, I think it's because his hat
- 34:45and his scarf and they put it on there. And then when Charlie remade
- 34:50the snowman, he used that same material. Yeah, oh all right,
- 34:55I get But still, even Jack Frost, the character goes man, good
- 34:59thing. My name is Jack far you know. That's why it's not like
- 35:00not like like like like douche or yeah, Doug Douche. Uh So Mac
- 35:08is in charge of watching Charlie while his mom goes to do some Christmas shopping.
- 35:15Mac falls asleep, and so Charlie and Chester again go out to make
- 35:20a snowman to Landslide, which I don't really understand that music choice. Poor
- 35:25Chester looks like he's freezing. Uh. We get some slow most shots of
- 35:30Charlie putting Jack's scarf and hat on the snowman. At the bottom of the
- 35:34box of snowman supplies, he finds the harmonica, which I don't understand how
- 35:37that harmonica got back either, since he gave it to Jack to go,
- 35:42so I don't I don't know what happened anyway. Uh, he plays it
- 35:45and will ah Snowman alive. Jack says he's home and doesn't really seem to
- 35:50have an awareness that he's dead. But then he says that it's enough that
- 35:53he got his ticket punched, but to come back as a snowman is embarrassing.
- 35:58So I'm not really quite sure if he knows what he what happened or
- 36:00not. But then he has a run in with said Gronik, which was
- 36:06a really weird scene, and he talks about like going through the stages of
- 36:09denial of stages of grief, and it didn't really make sense because he says,
- 36:15like, I got upset with Sid and so that's my anger period.
- 36:19But he didn't really take it out on Sid or do anything. It was
- 36:22just a weird thing. Yeah, okay, Yeah, he's he's describing the
- 36:27stages of grief, which would go way over the head of a kid,
- 36:30right right, Like he doesn't even he doesn't even like specify that he's talking
- 36:32about this five stages of griefs. He just immediately starts with, well that
- 36:36was denial now and now yeah, anyway, Yeah, the whole thing's kind
- 36:39of strange. There are some like one liners though that he's hitting right now,
- 36:45And up until this moment, I'm still really liking this movie. Not
- 36:49really, it's all my favorites, but up until his mom like alright,
- 36:52like I'm enjoying it. When he goes just that casual when he's like the
- 36:57snowman, I thought that was funny, Like I thought that was like,
- 37:00okay cool, just you know, just that casual. I thought it was
- 37:00funny, and I was like, was that c G I at first,
- 37:05I don't know how they made that snow That snowman looked real sh Jim Henson
- 37:12Studio. Oh, because there's times where I'm like, is that Like I
- 37:15was like, it kind of looks animated, but it doesn't. And there's
- 37:16some scenes where it looks just horrible, but there's somewhere looks really freaking good.
- 37:22Yeah. Andy, did you catch the voice on the TV? I
- 37:27have a whole thing about that guy. Yeah. So it's David Cross.
- 37:30Yeah. And then Jay Johnston is the weather man in there. Paul F.
- 37:32Tompkins is an audience member in there. So why is like half of
- 37:37Mister Show in here? So the director of this also directed Mister Show.
- 37:40Aha, that's why in this film in some capacity he was arrested for the
- 37:47January six riots. The weather man isn't that crazy? He's all crazy right
- 37:51wing? Now? Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, Max babysitting, Charlie
- 37:57builds a snowman. Max leaps to the whole thing, snow man comes to
- 38:00life, Charlie freaks out, and yeah, and then that's exactly what I
- 38:06just said. I'm just recapping reaping. My RecA goes downtown and goes around
- 38:14the town and then comes back and except that he's so we should do we
- 38:17should do a bonus episode where Ali recaps this episode and then well and then
- 38:22we'll have the Jeff version after that. I was really high recap. Yeah,
- 38:27like the beats aren't like, oh my god, this is you know,
- 38:31the Landslide's a weird choice. I just like, I'm not like to
- 38:37engage with this film at this point. I think I think if they would
- 38:39have I'm super super protective of Fleetwood Macy, like I think, I think
- 38:44every time they're the bessest band in my opinion. And I remember watching this
- 38:49when I was little and I was like, oh, fuck this ship and
- 38:52then off or however I talked back in and but now we're watching I think
- 38:55if they would have, uh edited a little bit different under the storytelling and
- 39:00better because the song is about you know, changing and going to the next
- 39:04stage of your life. Like if they would have added more about him becoming
- 39:07like the mayor of the house or something like that, that would have been
- 39:10maybe. But I was super fucking crying though, when uh, I don't
- 39:15really cry, like maybe shaved a couple of tears, that's as much as
- 39:17I did. But when he's like shoveling the snow and his mom and they
- 39:22were holding each other was like, oh my god, and it said I
- 39:24teared up a little bit when he was doing the Snowman, or when he
- 39:28was inside and he saw the other family doing the Snowman and like yeah,
- 39:30and he was kind of happy, but he was also that sense of loss,
- 39:32like when he lose a parent, and I was like, oh fuck.
- 39:35They portrayed that pretty damn good. Yeah, And then if I this
- 39:37happened to me the more realistic movie I come back as a snowman, the
- 39:42whole time, I'd be like screaming, like I'd be so terrified. Like
- 39:46snowman, he is so chill with it, chill, but he he's like
- 39:52automatically like reincarnated or whatever. And it's like set with like a bunch of
- 39:57puns about being a snowman. I think, yeah, some of them are
- 40:00funny, but then it starts getting too much. I think he accepts it
- 40:02because he realizes he messed up, like he sees I like Jack Frost,
- 40:08the character sees it as a punishment for his life. His really mess up
- 40:14in my opinion though, Sure, but he also missed Charlie's game, like
- 40:17he was he was kind of a you know, he wasn't there for everything
- 40:20for Charlie, and so like I think he like feels bad and it's like
- 40:22he feels like this is his atonement for that, but it's also really shitty
- 40:27because it's like because it's like like, yeah, parents are shitty, like
- 40:30parents generally miss important. Mind, he's also dead and this is like they're
- 40:37they're you know, like he's like, if I were to come back somehow,
- 40:39like I guess this is how it's gonna have to be. Like he
- 40:43he seems to like come to terms with all of that and accept it pretty
- 40:45quickly. But that my fly, is that he doesn't, at least unless
- 40:50I completely missed it. He doesn't really like help Charlie through anything or accomplish
- 40:54anything. And he definitely doesn't like make amends with his wife or like a
- 40:59try to connect with her. Well that's the thing that was kind of confused
- 41:02about why he didn't. At first, he didn't want to talk to anybody,
- 41:05but then he decided to talk to Sid for some reason. I'm like,
- 41:07well, why don't you talk to your son and your wife? At
- 41:09first, Charlie, but Charlie freaks out. But at the very beginning he's
- 41:15like, Okay, I can't do anything, so then like, so,
- 41:16yeah, I talks Charlie a little bit. Then he goes to town and
- 41:19talks to Sid but won't talk to his wife until the very end. But
- 41:22at this point I thought his wife was actually on a date, and I
- 41:27thought the movie was going to be high jinks of him trying to like mess
- 41:30up the date between them. I thought, oh that Mac was going to
- 41:34be his new dad. Yeah, yeah, oh so I kind of got
- 41:37that near the end. But then I thought the movie was going to be
- 41:38like, uh, it turns out the guy that she's dating actually is a
- 41:42really good guy. And then he's like, you know what, I can't
- 41:45be there for her. At least he's going to be a good dad.
- 41:46That's where I thought it was going. But the plot is he's she's dating
- 41:50as a scarecrow, and then and then there is a I know, there's
- 41:57not a whole like a lot of connection between Michael Keaton and the husband and
- 42:01wife, but I did read that. I did read that there's some deleted
- 42:06scenes where he does see his wife as a snowman and he takes a carrot
- 42:12near his crop and just like funcks the shit out of her. He makes
- 42:15a stew In that PoCA comes up. Yeah, I just want to know
- 42:20what everyone thinks. The setup was too long? Yeah, I want to
- 42:23know what everyone thinks. Is Charlie a good kid actor? Yes? Yeah,
- 42:28Yeah. There's moments where I'm like, pretty good, but there's awesome
- 42:30moments where I'm like, well he is a kid. But for a kid
- 42:32actor, I'll give him like a seven out of ten. For children normal
- 42:37acting, I'll say probably like a four. Oh, Bill Murray, That's
- 42:38what I don't like. I think he was. He was like usually kid
- 42:44actors, I'm like, oh my god, I hate that, don't want
- 42:45to kill them. But but this guy, I didn't want to like.
- 42:47He was fine. She was so so I don't think Kelly Press what what
- 42:52was she known for? She was in Jerry Maguire, Oh that's it.
- 42:55I mean, she's Battle scar. She doesn't have to do much for this
- 42:59film, like they could have had anybody play her. That's what I'm saying
- 43:04though, Like it's not like a huge role. Yeah, I think Charlie
- 43:07the actor really carried this movie. Like he well, he should be the
- 43:10focus, right right, But I'm but I mean, like everybody else kind
- 43:14of phoned it in yeah, and and I think he really like I like
- 43:19this movie because of Charlie's reactions and his perspective versus like Jex I thought the
- 43:25dad's friend to get to the English student. I like that actor. Yeah,
- 43:30yeah, he's still standing show I watched for a little bit. It's
- 43:34like, well, there's like a like a chubby guy and like a like
- 43:36a hot girl. But she looks the actress who this doesn't matter. The
- 43:39actress who plays the wife in that show is like an ugly Terry Hatcher and
- 43:45she's the she's the fiance real will know, uh the fiance and twister.
- 43:52Oh okay, yeah, this has nothing to do with said Terry Hatcher.
- 43:54My my head was like for Margaret Thatcher and I was like what. I
- 44:00was like, whoa, that's a crazy jump. Alright, No, but
- 44:05this movie, I think to this point, I'm I'm fan of it.
- 44:07Yeah, as of right now, I'm still enjoying. I'm chilling it.
- 44:10Jeremy was over like bit shocking the whole time. And this is a good
- 44:15movie. It's not like it's not al Capone Jill Frost. That could be
- 44:21the fucking sequel, like The Mom and the and then the Mom ends up
- 44:25till Frost. You know, they have Jacket off and Jill off. When
- 44:30when Jack Frost came back, he shouldn't he should have just like held charged.
- 44:40They can't take me back if you're with me only the entire time.
- 44:46Okay. The next morning, Charlie threatens Jack with a hair dryer. Jack
- 44:50reveals himself as Charlie said, and Charlie flees like five ft out of his
- 44:54backyard to a huge mountain where the kids are once again having a still moll
- 44:59mite. Natalie tells Rory that seventy five percent of our prison population is made
- 45:04up of bullies, which I was flabbergasted by that. Do you think it's
- 45:08like nine percent of people in prison are religious? And I think ninety three
- 45:13percent of people who are scientists in America are not religious. So do as
- 45:16you will. Is it a stereotype that bullies are in prison? I never
- 45:21heard that tell this movie. Yeah, I've never heard. This was a
- 45:23very like Pete and Pete fact toy kind of yeah thing. Jack inserts himself
- 45:28into the snowball fight without Charlie's consent, which was I think a really dick
- 45:32thing to do. When Jack runs out of snow, which again I don't
- 45:37understand how that's possible. There's snow everything like a foot Yeah, you got
- 45:44more snow by the old Wizard could use a little knack, Charlie. I'm
- 45:49out of gas yet. He and Charlie flee on a sled. A very
- 45:55bad CGI chase scene occurs. It has come up and and I can only
- 46:00assume a very bad concussion. He like nails, gets nailed with his X
- 46:07Games montage. Yeah uh. And Charlie is finally convinced that Jack is his
- 46:13dad when he calls him Charlie boy. And so it turns out Medford is
- 46:19in for a warm Christmas. When Gabby hears that Charlie has quit the hockey
- 46:22team, she asks Mac to talk to him. Jack and Charlie bond over
- 46:27the j shot. Jack lectures Charlie about his responsibilities now that he's a man
- 46:31of the house, including telling his mom to hang up Christmas lights. Yeah.
- 46:36I thought that was like such a petty thing, Like a single mom
- 46:39has to work full time and like she doesn't have time to hang the Christmas
- 46:43lights. Like what a dick. I was like wanssed off by that comment.
- 46:47I'm like, fuck you, man, because like, my favorite thing
- 46:50to do is I decorate the house pretty big for Christmas every year when everything
- 46:52fucking works. I'm saying that to myself and when the big fucking Sanna doesn't
- 46:57come down every day anyways. So but if I died and then somebody came
- 47:01back and they're like my daughter's like hey, wait no, that makes no
- 47:06sense, and you came back. Yeah, But then I like decorating confused
- 47:10if it wasn't done. I just thought it was like a way fucked up
- 47:13thing, like yeah, yea, she has to like work full time and
- 47:15take care of Charlie on like on a teller's salary. Now like yeah,
- 47:20she has timed like hand Christmas lights and she's probably fucking depressed. It's only
- 47:23been a year, right, and they don't have that sweet bar money anymore
- 47:28from playing bar shows exactly when? So when the when? When the when?
- 47:36The kid? I don't learn their Charlie is like not believing that the
- 47:39snowman is his dad, Like what fucking snowman would be Like you're trying to
- 47:45convince kids that they're doubt like snowmen do. Yeah, and then uh,
- 47:52what would his reason not to trust them? I would be more confused about
- 47:55why he's a snowman talking to me. But and then I don't forgot your
- 48:00apartment. Kelly Preston when she comes home and sees the snowman, and she
- 48:04was like fucking horny for that snow y. Wow, I guess it's been
- 48:09a year, but she's probably blinking. The best friend though he talks about
- 48:13his butt a lot as a snowman. Every notice like constant butt tog is
- 48:16like it's good to have a big but it's like, oh my butt's looking
- 48:20real like weird like comments like or like scenes or like in the in the
- 48:24fight scene he gets boobs for a second and like, yeah, yeah,
- 48:30it's interesting. It was. I don't know this is all these scenes are
- 48:34just really I mean, I get like, yeah, okay, big snowball
- 48:37fight's fun for kids, sledding scene like X Games montage, it's all it's
- 48:42all fun for kids, but it like inexplicably just happens, you know,
- 48:47like Charlie just goes along with it and just like everything's so convenient, and
- 48:52Jack Frost just assumes he's great at snowball fights, like but there's no background
- 48:57for that. Why would he be so good? Correlation is because you're a
- 49:00snowman, you're very good at throwing snowballs. Like what right, that'd be
- 49:02like me throwing like human meat around. Yeah, I guess like it would
- 49:07be like if a like a is a leper throwing their arm. I was
- 49:14just like, I think it's really shitty that he just like started this snowball
- 49:19fight with Rory and like didn't ask Charlie at all, like, hey,
- 49:23do you want help? Do you want to stand up to this guy?
- 49:25Like yeah, Like he's just showing off. He is, He's just showing
- 49:30off. I feel like that's a lot of what these scenes are, like
- 49:32the c g I Chase Chase scene, like he's just showing off. I
- 49:37think to like impressed Charlie, like hey, I am an actual cool dad,
- 49:43but it just doesn't seem to like connect on a personal level. There
- 49:47the scene with the with the skiing when they're fleeing, like I was like,
- 49:52damn, I'm really impressed with that. But I was also thinking this
- 49:53came out in the nineties, and in the nineties we had you know,
- 49:58two deaths that were famous people that died from skate and Natasha Richardson, who's
- 50:05piece himself all the time. That was in the nineties. I think it
- 50:07was on the I think no, no, no, no, because she
- 50:09was made in Manhattan, so she died in the early two thousands and made
- 50:13in Mantan. She's wearing a social distortion shirt. Really, and then also
- 50:16stars Everyone's Treasure Jaylo Manhattan maybe, and then the guy I don't know if
- 50:22he's Britney Murphy. Isn't she married? She died but didn't she Wasn't she
- 50:27married to someone? I believe. I bet she was dated. Well,
- 50:31there's a movie with Brittany Murphy where she's wearing a social distortion shirt. I
- 50:35don't know what that is. How did we get there from this movie?
- 50:38Okay, that Bully was really good at snowboarding, though he should focus more
- 50:44on that instead of Bully and Charlie. Charlie's better at ski skate scorting.
- 50:51So the issue that I had was jarring was they made Jack Frost have like
- 50:57eyeballs. Yeah, that was a little like creepy. They just had coals.
- 51:01Yeah, it was freaky. I didn't really notice that. Yeah,
- 51:07like you mean like he his eyes move, Yeah, so he had he
- 51:12didn't have like white in his eyes, but he had like it was like
- 51:15black and then brown, so you could see like his that middle I don't
- 51:19know what the part of the eyes are, ye iris. Yeah, yeah,
- 51:23you could like see he had like human eyes. They look like I
- 51:29guess I'm gonna have to rewatch it then, because I didn't. Yeah,
- 51:30I didn't at all. Yeah, he did say to his to the kid
- 51:35though, he's like, hey, no one can see me like this.
- 51:37But he spoke to Sid and he attact a bunch of children. But he's
- 51:39like, I'm not gonna talk about wife though I know nobody else, so
- 51:45everybody can see him except for his wife. Is what he should have said.
- 51:47While on the subject, let's just talk about how Jack Cross looks as
- 51:51a snowman. Yeah, just in general, right, like a very like
- 51:54grumpy kind of you know, frumpy face through like not a lot of expression,
- 52:00like his eyebrows move a bit, his mouth moves a bit, but
- 52:04it's like a very interesting face choice for these for these puppeteers to make him.
- 52:10Yeah. Yeah, sometimes he looked like really cute, like it like
- 52:14a kind of a mean old man that sometimes he didn't so I don't know.
- 52:17Also, like sometimes his his head was really disproportionate sometimes, like sometimes
- 52:23it looked like he had this really like sloped back of the head, and
- 52:29then sometimes it was more like a ball shaped. But like it just it's
- 52:32really it was really wide. It feels like it was like they didn't I
- 52:37don't. I don't understand what they were going for. This is probably a
- 52:40good time to just bring this up that, Like, the film was originally
- 52:44supposed to start George Clooney, right, and then they made this puppet after
- 52:49George Clooney. But it looks nothing like George Clutey. I think it looks
- 52:52a lot more like George Clooney than it does Michael Keaton. Yeah. Sure,
- 52:57but it doesn't really look like any human. I think again, I
- 53:00think the eyebrows he has George Clooney's eyebrows. Okay, I don't know,
- 53:06I did. I just the whole thing is a strange is just a strange
- 53:10choice for the whole thing. Yeah. Like, and this is one of
- 53:15the situations where I think practical effects, I think I'd rather have a c
- 53:20G. I snowman for this whole film. Some some of the scenes I
- 53:23feel like, but yeah, yeah, but I think it would have been
- 53:27hard to do both and have them look the same. That's true. So
- 53:35yeah, the only cgi I think was during the snow Chase. Yeah,
- 53:38yeah, why do why do snowmen wear scarves? But like, I don't
- 53:49know, it just didn't seem right, like they don't have any form of
- 53:52clothing though, Jeff, Like it's just like a morphous blob of snow,
- 53:55you know, yeah, the scarf like kind of like accents and like creates
- 54:00Like yeah, I couldn't wrap my head around that. Last night when I
- 54:04was watching me, they just put shoes on though, they're like what oh?
- 54:08And then Kelly Preston is like rambling on about something and she's like,
- 54:14I'm gonna go Caroline, And I just thought that was so annoying because who
- 54:17does like I would go Caroline and do like it like satirical. I've always
- 54:22wanted her to try it, But I like, like, do you just
- 54:23call it? Like no, how do you decide which house is? You
- 54:27just knock on? How? One time I was at someone's house and there's
- 54:29years ago when I was a kid, and the carol kill what they're called
- 54:34Carollers were there like outside, and that's so uncomfortable. Yeah, I could
- 54:38see it being uncomfortable, but it'd be a lot of fun. But then,
- 54:42like, what if it's just me by myself and I can't sing either.
- 54:45You're just like, hey, that those aren't the words. I'm like,
- 54:47okay, I'm just gonna sing funky town, but I live sing here
- 54:51me out? Yeah all right. So Charlie is back on the hockey team
- 54:54and they have a game that day at eleven thirty. Jack and Listicester to
- 54:59help him get to the rink again, why is this dog just roaming?
- 55:04For some reason, they have live organ music at the hockey game, which
- 55:07I didn't understand. Jack makes it to the game just in time to see
- 55:10Charlie score the winning goal using the j shot, but Jack is in trouble.
- 55:14It's just too hot for him. Charlie rudely cuts the line at his
- 55:17mom work Mom's work, to beg her to drive him in the snowman to
- 55:22the mountain. Gabby dismisses him, and he runs off. Mum, Charlie,
- 55:29Hey, no cunning. Oh it's okay, ma'am. He's my son.
- 55:31Mom. You need to drive us somewhere right now, Honey, I'm
- 55:35working name. You've got to what's wrong, sweetie? He's melting. Who's
- 55:38melting the snowman's melting. Snowman melt, Charlie. That's just the way it
- 55:43is up to the mountain, and he's not. I am not driving you
- 55:46and your snowman anywhere. I know this has been really hard for you.
- 55:51You don't understand, Mom, Dad's the snowman what. I'm sorry, but
- 55:59he made me must not to tell you, Honey, he died a year
- 56:04ago. You're just gonna have to accept that. No, Mom, you
- 56:07don't understand, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. Shortly afterwards, she really She
- 56:15realizes he has run away and enlisten Mack to help her search for him.
- 56:19Charlie spots a truck that's headed up to Pine Top Mountain. Rory decides to
- 56:23help him because snow Dad is better than no Dad. Snow Dad's better than
- 56:30no Dad. Let's go. We get a driving montage. Shout out to
- 56:35Jars of Clay for this awful song. Uh. Gabby and mackfile a missing
- 56:40report with the police, which brings to me the only legitimately funny line.
- 56:45Mac is asked to describe the snowman. He says white, and the officer
- 56:49writes down Caucasian. It was the snowman looked like like a snowman. He
- 56:55looks like a snowman. Three bulls too to COM's a cute colp nose.
- 57:00Here's a stone and day. What do you think he looks like? Look,
- 57:01I'm just trying to do my job. That's all I'm trying to do
- 57:04here? Can he help me out? Five eight? Okay? White Caucasian.
- 57:14The stock eaves well built. I'd say five hundred and five fifty pounds.
- 57:22Guess I made an age. Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah.
- 57:25Charlie and Jack jump off a truck going at least fifty five miles an
- 57:30hour and land unharmed at the cabin. Jack calls Gabby and tells her that
- 57:37Charlie is asleep at the cabin in to come get him. Hello, Gabby,
- 57:42did you find him? Charlie's sleeping? Gabby hit one heck of a
- 57:47day. Wh where's Charlie? He's right here at the cabin. Why don't
- 57:58you come get him? Jack? At Christmas dawn, Jack tells Charlie it's
- 58:07time for him to go because Charlie needs to move on with his life.
- 58:12There's no logical explanation for him to leave. You know what, I think
- 58:15this is the best Christmas I ever had. You know that night you came
- 58:21back, it was because I played Joe Monica. I wished it. I
- 58:25wish that you would be here for Christmas. Hey, Charlie, thanks for
- 58:30giving me a second chance of your dad. Now there's something I have to
- 58:34tell you. It's time for me to go. I am shocked that he
- 58:37planned on leaving without even speaking to Gabby, But here we are. Luckily
- 58:43Gabby gets there just in time. As he begins to fade, he transforms
- 58:45back to himself for a few minutes and sings her smile. Sparting words to
- 58:49Charlie are I will always hear you. I will always hear you. Cut
- 58:55to later. I guess the next Christmas maybe, Yeah, we don't know.
- 59:02Yeah, it does feel like the next year. Yeah, Matt gets
- 59:06his groove back. Charlie is playing hockey with Rory and the team in the
- 59:08driveway, and then they choose to end it by following Chester as he once
- 59:14again roams the neighborhood with no supervision. Yeah, we didn't talk about like
- 59:17how he gets to like the hockey game, because like he he commandeers Chester
- 59:22to just carry him to the arena. Yeah, without any regard to how
- 59:28that dog is getting back like the house again. I just I really,
- 59:35you can't bring you can't lock Chester in h You might be able to food
- 59:37your nuts, but you drop the gate. Chester's jumping right over Chester's wild
- 59:42man. You're not supposed to think about him in this film. But it
- 59:45drives me nuts how this dog is like portrayed and then like all this stuff,
- 59:50you know, like it's so uh anyways as a pet owner drives me
- 59:53nuts. Anyways, Yeah, I would be calling a SPCA every day.
- 59:59I there's I do want I want to talk about, like the cabin scene
- 1:00:04and then like they're they're reuniting. But I think there's a couple of scenes
- 1:00:07I wanted to touch on that so the I do like the scene where Charlie
- 1:00:12is like trying to get back in the good graces of the hockey team and
- 1:00:15the in Sid is like trying to avoid like looking at the snowman. Yea
- 1:00:19yeah, and then like the kids are talking about it. I thought that
- 1:00:22was pretty funny. I have when goes, there will be no mention of
- 1:00:24snowman. Line nailed this role, like he didn't have a big part,
- 1:00:30but he nailed the role. The other scene I thought was kind of important
- 1:00:34and I thought it was gonna lead to more was when they're like at the
- 1:00:37they're like at a holiday party of the shiver Fest and he's like hanging out
- 1:00:42with Mac and getting to know Mac a little more and like you know,
- 1:00:45yeah, like Mac lost his groove and like because his best friend died,
- 1:00:49and like I just thought more was gonna come of that. Yeah, Well
- 1:00:52then I thought so sad too, because the bully was watching the snow Oh
- 1:00:57God, father son Snowman thing was the funny thing of this whole movie.
- 1:01:00But could you imagine if you're that little kid and you're like, oh,
- 1:01:04I don't have a father, I guess I'll go watch like this. This
- 1:01:06was so like stupidly poignant for like like it's so forced and it's like and
- 1:01:10there's like a big announcement like come of the father Son Snowman build and it's
- 1:01:15just like the funniest thing of this movie is and it's so unintentional, Like
- 1:01:19I was dying laughing about That's what I'm saying. Like they keep almost getting
- 1:01:23there, but it's like forced or it's like like him we're gonna build the
- 1:01:28Snowman together. Like yeah, it really felt like Max like the new Dad.
- 1:01:30But then nothing happens. That's what maybe like the journey of Jack Frost
- 1:01:36returning is to like tie up loose ends and make sure his son's okay and
- 1:01:39his wife's okay and his best friend's okay. But instead he just like does
- 1:01:44a bunch of Yes, his whole mission is just to make Charlie like him.
- 1:01:46Like that's that seems to be it, Like it's not really like he
- 1:01:49doesn't really care about Charlie's growth or like it's really just like, hey,
- 1:01:52I died, I just want to make sure you don't hate me. That's
- 1:01:55really what this all feels. Lightly well, I could see how somebody would
- 1:02:00say that, you know, having hate in your heart is not a good
- 1:02:02way to grow. His name is Henry Oak, Okay, Dungeons and Daddys,
- 1:02:07And I'm real listening, and I slept on Henry's character. But oh,
- 1:02:13I was gonna say living in the nineties was the fucking worst because remember
- 1:02:16having to go to the bank with your parents and you would just fucking wait
- 1:02:22in line for like two hours. Everything sucked. Yeah, but the snow
- 1:02:30dad is better than no dad. What in the why I don't understand.
- 1:02:34I don't understand what that means. Why did say that? Well, so
- 1:02:37he doesn't have a dad, and he's saying that, like helping him out,
- 1:02:42helping Charlie to have a snow dad is better than not having any dad,
- 1:02:46any dad, So he's going to help him. But like if he
- 1:02:51was just a normal non dad or a non snow person, if his dad
- 1:02:54was just really hurt and needed to go to the hospital with with the bullies,
- 1:02:58still help Well, probably yes, But I mean, like because the
- 1:03:00whole point is he doesn't have a dad, and he's just like, I'm
- 1:03:04gonna help you have that relationship. Like they bond a little bit in that
- 1:03:07moment, yeah, because like you know, like he understands that Rory has
- 1:03:12never had a dad. He now knows what it's like to have not have
- 1:03:15his dad. So they they are they're reconciling their differences, and then Charlie's
- 1:03:21like, look, I need help. Can you help me get this is
- 1:03:23my dad? And then can you help me get him? And like,
- 1:03:27yeah, it's no dad is better than no dad. Makes sense. That's
- 1:03:29a line, but like should be everyone's everyone's okay with with this snowman being
- 1:03:35alive, Like, it's not everyone, there's only a few people like who
- 1:03:38No, he's dragged him around the entire town, like there are a multi
- 1:03:43perspective. They just think Charlie's crazy and he just has a snowman and he's
- 1:03:46talking or having like he's having a hard time morning issue. Yeah. I
- 1:03:51mean it's portrayed as like him his own version of grief. Right. So
- 1:03:55the the one of the lines I really liked was from Kelly she said,
- 1:04:00I'm so sorry I didn't believe you. I was like, what the fuck,
- 1:04:04Like that's an okay thing to like not believe When they said, well,
- 1:04:10I put that out too, because do you think Charlie is going to
- 1:04:12misuse that when he gets older? Like, Charlie, uh, who'se meth?
- 1:04:15Is this under your bed? It was the bullies? I don't know,
- 1:04:18Charlie. Seems far fetched. Yeah, so did the soul of my
- 1:04:21dadman. But here we are. You're like, I guess it, right,
- 1:04:27Yeah. I do feel like there is like zero growth of Jack Frost
- 1:04:30character, like even up to the point where they get to the cabin,
- 1:04:33because he's encouraging him to just jump out of like a like a forty five
- 1:04:38mile per hour truck and he died on a mountain. Yeah, connect that,
- 1:04:44thank you. Yeah. And then they like just like they happen to
- 1:04:46know exactly where the cabin is, Like they're up in the like it's freezing
- 1:04:49and they have to walk like, you know, a long way to get
- 1:04:53to the cabin. Yeah. He's not well dressed. Yeah, like just
- 1:04:57the worst parent ever. Yeah, just calls him to just be it just
- 1:05:00calls Gabby, hey, come get your like doesn't even provide any explanation or
- 1:05:05just like get yourself even to be like, hey, it's really good to
- 1:05:09hear your voice. Say something fucking nice to your wife. You ask right
- 1:05:13here? Yeah yeah, And because then it sounds like he kidnapped the kid
- 1:05:19up by yourself. Don't bring anybody with you of the the rewatch the ending.
- 1:05:25Anyone's listening to you guys too, Like it's like when he when Jack
- 1:05:29Frost is saying goodbye to his family, It's like the writers didn't know how
- 1:05:31to end that because it went on way too long. It was like,
- 1:05:34okay, bye, I put Wow, what an abrupt ending. Hey,
- 1:05:40Charlie, this is my favorite Christmas. Ever, also, I gotta go,
- 1:05:43what right, So he's he's he's ready to leave without saying goodbye to
- 1:05:49his wife. Yeah, really fucked up. And then the not the interaction
- 1:05:55that they do have is so short and so abrupt. He could have stayed
- 1:05:59alive for as long as he needed to up there, Yeah, they could
- 1:06:03have. There was no like curse or like yeah, or like time period
- 1:06:09that he was given to be here. It was it seemed like as long
- 1:06:14as Charlie had played the harmonica, he would have survived as long as he
- 1:06:20was cold. So yeah, so at least spend Christmas together and like except
- 1:06:26make those memories like have a little snowball fire, yeah, you know whatever.
- 1:06:29So I guess like they fixed the sink that's been broken forever and like,
- 1:06:33to me, like that's the only connection that like Charlie's independent enough to
- 1:06:36like not need his dad anymore. I don't know what. I don't know.
- 1:06:41They did so terrible of a job like showing like the moral of what
- 1:06:45Charlie needed for him to like move on from his dad, right, yeah,
- 1:06:50like yeah, there was nothing. They gave us nothing, Yeah,
- 1:06:54I mean, because all we got was the lecture about your grades, and
- 1:06:57it's like, yeah, had had there been a scene where it just seems
- 1:07:03like he went from hey I'm really cool, Hey you're really shitty. Still,
- 1:07:09hey I actually really love you and you should move on. But there
- 1:07:12was no like there was no connection between those things. So it wasn't like,
- 1:07:16hey, I really care about you and this is I know, this
- 1:07:19is hard and this is why you should you know, be able to It
- 1:07:23just was toxic maxculinity of like you're the man in the house now and it's
- 1:07:27like, yeah, So between the poor riding and then like the very small
- 1:07:30scenes we get of the snowman doing some antics, they either should have done
- 1:07:34like way more antics, like more silly things happening, or really driven the
- 1:07:40point home of what the moral should be. Either one. If it's just
- 1:07:44a bunch of shilly shit with the yeah, chillly shit with the dad snow
- 1:07:48dad and his son and they're like terrorizing the town or like you know,
- 1:07:51picking up bullies or anything, but they just don't do a good enough job
- 1:07:57on any of this. Yeah, it's like they want to do two types
- 1:08:00of movies, but they weren't sure which ones. They just do both and
- 1:08:02then we'll just have a quick, abrupt ending. I have some ending the
- 1:08:05ending speech though, they keep cutting back to like the family, but then
- 1:08:09they keep cutting back to Jack Frost's fucking hands. Oh no, no,
- 1:08:14Jack Frost keeps like touching the boy like you can do it, and he's
- 1:08:16like, but they keep cutting back from the face to like a stick touching
- 1:08:20the boy. That seems like, like so touched the man and kisses his
- 1:08:24forehead. Is so awkward. Yeah, I have some trivia about like why
- 1:08:30maybe this was written so poorly, but I just I just hate the choices.
- 1:08:35I mean, here's the thing. I've grown to like love this film
- 1:08:40because it's so cheesy and like it's so absurd in so many ways. But
- 1:08:44yeah, like I just hate Jack Frost as a character, Like I hate
- 1:08:47the dad. I think they could have made it way better. Yeah yeah,
- 1:08:53and to like not even just be like while Charlie's sleepy, not have
- 1:08:57a scene where him and Gabby connect something. Yeah, anything they could and
- 1:09:02to make the movie drive a little bit better. I think if Michael Keaton
- 1:09:06didn't feel bad right at the end before he died, and then he was
- 1:09:11just like, hey, I'm gonna go focus on myself and then he comes
- 1:09:14back and we're like, oh, okay, because he had to focus on
- 1:09:15himself, he has to clear up that last final Christmas. Sure, but
- 1:09:19it's like, well he's a good guy, he's coming back to try to
- 1:09:21do it. So then we're like, you didn't meet. I don't know,
- 1:09:25it just they were close. They just didn't get there though. I
- 1:09:28don't know. Maybe it's one of those things though, is like maybe maybe
- 1:09:30we as the audience is expecting too much of Jack Frost and maybe maybe like
- 1:09:39just shitty people get riding weird. Yeah, like maybe maybe just shitty people
- 1:09:45do get reincarnated and don't learn their lesson. Like what if like you know,
- 1:09:48he was somebody who was like embazsling a bunch of money and you know,
- 1:09:54selling drugs and he came back as a snowman after passing away and then
- 1:09:58continued to sell drugs and money or something. Hell yeah, he's like uh,
- 1:10:03He's like, it looks like you have no myth, Like I'm some
- 1:10:05snow myth. Yeah. Yeah, I was just gonna say like, yeah,
- 1:10:10I mean cocaine is called it's called snow, like there's a whole oh
- 1:10:15yeah or not Bee fifty two. Yeah, this whole movie felt like it
- 1:10:19was like it was up to his family's job. It was his family's job
- 1:10:24to absolve him with all his guilt. Yeah, and that's it. He
- 1:10:27was definitely teaching his son some like kind of sexist, like macho whatever,
- 1:10:30because it's like played for fun. When he assumes that his dad's working on
- 1:10:34the stink, it turns out to be the mom. Like that's so crazy
- 1:10:38that a mom could be a woman could be doing. I mean, I'm
- 1:10:41with you, Jeff, that is crazy, all right, So I'm getting
- 1:10:45the wrong message. I still I mean I still cried. Oh god,
- 1:10:49no, yeah, I cried. I want to shed a couple of cheers
- 1:10:51because I'm soulless. But I love that. I thought this movie was great.
- 1:10:56I really enjoyed the movie. Ah why why, I don't know why?
- 1:11:01There's person awesome? I really I like, Okay, I want to
- 1:11:05say I love this movie, but I was actually enjoying myself up until the
- 1:11:09snow chase scene. Then I'm like, okay, it's getting a little much
- 1:11:13with these constant fucking like one little one liners like oh I'm really slimming down,
- 1:11:16like oh I got sticky. You know. It's like okay, every
- 1:11:19every twenty seconds, do we need another joke? The man, you know,
- 1:11:23I'm the snowman. That's that's his way of coping because instead of like
- 1:11:29the awkward silences between and yeah, they got just like awkward conversation. I
- 1:11:34watched that movie that was not like so dad, how do you pee?
- 1:11:38Or if there's like really no talking, so that just in the truck each
- 1:11:42other for like forty five seconds and then Yeah. What I don't get that
- 1:11:45they couldn't have done is that this is just a year later, the band
- 1:11:48is probably still relevant in the town. Why don't we just put him in
- 1:11:51the recording studio and like record that album mark it off of them? They
- 1:11:56would, Yeah, they would, do you know what I mean? Or
- 1:11:58like live converse on the Yeah, you know, like come see an actual
- 1:12:01live snowman like singing blues. I don't you know. It was. The
- 1:12:05whole thing bothers me is like he didn't The thing that bothers me the most
- 1:12:09is like he did not have to go. Yeah, he simply did not
- 1:12:12have to leave, Like they could keep him on that mountain year round.
- 1:12:16Yeah, it's Colorado, there are are mountains, can just live forever.
- 1:12:21Yeah, and the very beginning the movie, there's three feet of snow at
- 1:12:24the house, and then a year later they're still like, so there's probably
- 1:12:27it's pretty cold for the most part. But was the point of him,
- 1:12:30and they didn't say this at all, was for him to have it,
- 1:12:32because it goes, this is the best Christmas I've ever had, all right,
- 1:12:35I gotta go yea, So it was the point for him to just
- 1:12:38have himself any sense, it's wild. Yeah, I think I don't think
- 1:12:45that he should have stayed a snowman the whole time, Like he shouldn't indefinitely
- 1:12:47be a snowman because that's gonna get old pretty quick for the family, like
- 1:12:51a couple of years. Like yeah, that's fine, we're doing the gimmick
- 1:12:55thing. But then like when the kids like going up to college, my
- 1:12:58desk, I wish there. He's like he's like Charlie after life is awful.
- 1:13:06He's like, it's sucking. There's demons everywhere. I'm just constantly getting
- 1:13:12raved and I'm in a hot water. I don't want to go back to
- 1:13:15Charlie. And then Charlie goes to college and like Arizona, so like he
- 1:13:20puts his dad like a. Yeah, he's like, Hell is better than
- 1:13:25this. I wonder why he just they could have technically bought it like a
- 1:13:29storage freezer and just put his head in there. He could what kind of
- 1:13:30life is that? I don't like he's like every day like, hey dad,
- 1:13:34how you doing? All Right? I gotta go, you know,
- 1:13:36Like, I don't know, but I wish that, Yeah, we could
- 1:13:43know what happened to Jack Froster in that year. I'm like, yeah,
- 1:13:46right, he doesn't know, right, Isn't there a moment where he says
- 1:13:50like, I I really don't know how this has happened. Yeah, he
- 1:13:53said, like the last thing I remember was like it went black and yeah.
- 1:13:57Yeah, So this movie just said there's no heaven or hell based on
- 1:14:00that. So this movie figured it out. So should do a quick rating
- 1:14:08on this? Yeah, okay, do you want me to go over what
- 1:14:11the like the public thinks about this film? Yeah? Yes, all right?
- 1:14:15So ratings IMDb, this is rated five point four out of ten.
- 1:14:19It is a nineteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Man Roger Ebert gave the film
- 1:14:26one out of four stars, saying it's possible for the Jim Henson folks in
- 1:14:31the industrial light and magic to put their heads together and come up with the
- 1:14:33most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects. And I am not
- 1:14:38forgetting the Chucky Doll or the Desert Intestine from Star Wars. Wow, what
- 1:14:42a terrible thing to say about the effects of that film. That's hilarious.
- 1:14:46Well, Jake fifteen thirty one in the year two thousand gave it a one
- 1:14:49out of ten and he said, who butchered this film? I've rented this
- 1:14:54I rented this film based on the trailers that I have seen. I thought
- 1:14:57this film might be a cute family film. Not this film lacks the Genny
- 1:15:00Wine warmth similar to films of this genre that films of this genre have.
- 1:15:05I could not feel anything for this kid or his mother. The director fails
- 1:15:10to capture the audience and make us feel something. The kid's father dies and
- 1:15:13I just didn't care when he came back as a snowman. The sun is
- 1:15:16more flabbergasted than happy. This film needed a major rewrite before production began.
- 1:15:23What is so Roger Ebert like? Why is he? Why is he the
- 1:15:29person to go to with all of this? Well, because back then they
- 1:15:31just didn't have internet, really, so I guess who ever made the biggest
- 1:15:34stink out. He was probably the seventh platform job but too bad he wasn't
- 1:15:41Mary Anne Johnson, who gave it a flick. Philosopher is her nickname.
- 1:15:45If Jack Frost doesn't prove that Hollywood is not only uh creatively bankrupt, but
- 1:15:49actually in the hands of minions of Satan, then I don't know what does
- 1:15:54uh but they But Mary gave it a three out of ten the worse movies.
- 1:16:00Yeah, and that was in two thousand and as well. I don't
- 1:16:03think that I wouldn't go. I probably go the kid was the best,
- 1:16:06then the Jack Frost, and then the mom because like all I said,
- 1:16:11like the mom didn't have much going on anyways. But I wouldn't say that
- 1:16:14the mom did a better performance than the sun who carried the movie. I
- 1:16:16would say the best friend. I think at like was the best actor in
- 1:16:20the movie. Yeah. We also didn't have a line, so I don't
- 1:16:25know. I don't know. I just think anybody like, like, if
- 1:16:29you really hate this movie, like it's just not for you, because it's
- 1:16:33like a you know, a movie that's like it does its job of like
- 1:16:38you know, I hah, And then yeah, yeah, there's there's quite
- 1:16:43a few laugh out loud moments which I enjoyed. And and not every movie
- 1:16:45needs to be good because like some movies need to be stupid, because there's
- 1:16:48a lot of fucking stupid people out there. Way no here, all right,
- 1:16:51what are we writing this? What are you personally writing this? Uh?
- 1:16:55So out of a gingerbread man cookie, I'm gonna give it two limbs,
- 1:17:01I think out of two out of four, I'm including the head head.
- 1:17:05Would I think I think out of seven? You got only two out
- 1:17:11of five? Yeah, yeah, out of seven. I would give it
- 1:17:15like probably a five or six, honestly, six out of seven sor right,
- 1:17:21great out of five sugar cookies, I would give this a four.
- 1:17:28I just I mean, it's just for me. It's nostalgia, and it's
- 1:17:32it's just corny. Yeah, and it's corny enough to be I don't know,
- 1:17:43Okay, Yeah, it's just I would say four out of five.
- 1:17:45Yeah, objectively, this is like, yeah, one or two out of
- 1:17:48five. But I do love picking on this film, like especially especially Michael
- 1:17:56Keaton's singing and lyrics, and yeah, it's just silly. I wish it
- 1:18:02was better in any way, But like I watch it every year now,
- 1:18:08and I'd say, like, you know, four, three, three point
- 1:18:12five out of five, you know, it's still fun to watch in some
- 1:18:15way. I'm gonna watch it again, not soon. I was just gonna
- 1:18:17say, like I won't turn it off if it's on TV. Like it
- 1:18:20wasn't like I didn't hate the movie. It was just its okay, yeah,
- 1:18:24But I mean, for you know, out of ten to me,
- 1:18:26is it like I have a weird rating system. So it's the worst movie.
- 1:18:30But I do think I would recommend it, especially if you have kids
- 1:18:31to watch it, not just to guild them into stuff like Jess. I
- 1:18:35just think kids would really make yourself look better by comparison. Two facts I
- 1:18:43have about this All three of Frank Zappa's children appear in this film. Interesting.
- 1:18:47And then so the film, as I mentioned, was supposed to originally
- 1:18:50star George Clooney. It was also supposed to be like an actual adaptation of
- 1:18:55Frosty the Snowman. Sam Raimi was also the original director Rain but dropped out
- 1:19:00when George Clooney dropped out. So I think why we are picking on the
- 1:19:04writing so badly is I think it was like just butchered through the whole process
- 1:19:09and this is the result. Yeah, so but yeah, Sam Raimie,
- 1:19:15isn't he horror sometimes? But he also did like Spider Man and some other
- 1:19:20you know. Yeah, it's interesting if if it was starred George Clooney and
- 1:19:27it was supposed to be actually like Frosty the Snowman and not like just some
- 1:19:30kids dad died and this and that, Like maybe it would have been a
- 1:19:32better film. What do you think, like, how do you think that
- 1:19:34script would have looked? Like? What do you think the story would have
- 1:19:39been? Some kids find a magic hat, put it on a snowman,
- 1:19:42they have fun. So just so take all all the emotional elements out of
- 1:19:46it essentially, but that hmhm or maybe the kids all have something missing from
- 1:19:54their lives and they learned learned through it through Frosty. I like that.
- 1:19:59I like that. Yeah, because some kids found the hat magic hat someday
- 1:20:01and for ust he came to life like that's the song. So so is
- 1:20:04it just like more of an action? I really I have zero Well I'm
- 1:20:11just what I know. I know, But like, what would you make
- 1:20:14it more? I guess all of you, what would you make it more?
- 1:20:17Like if you could write this, I like, I think that's cool.
- 1:20:23I hated. I'm just kidding. No, I mean I'm trying to
- 1:20:29think of way to stretch it into like an hour and a half, and
- 1:20:30I think you would have to have multiple kids have something, you know what
- 1:20:34I mean. So yeah, yeah, I mean that would probably be the
- 1:20:38only way to do it. And then yeah, there's no man helping each
- 1:20:40child figure something out. Yeah, probably, And then like he'll like be
- 1:20:44still if like a parent comes around and the kids are like, look,
- 1:20:45he's real, and then like so he's only real with the kids or something.
- 1:20:49Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that would work because like at
- 1:20:53the so, one of the buttons that he uses to put on him is
- 1:20:58is the Jack frost pin. So it's like each kid had something, like
- 1:21:02one had a hat that yeah yeah yeah, so and each kid then that's
- 1:21:08what makes thee could be some like kids who get bullied and they're just like
- 1:21:12kind of outcasts. They put their gun in snow. Frosty like helps them
- 1:21:20with their challenges and then after that he has no more. He starts to
- 1:21:24reflect that he doesn't have a life, and then that's when he like goes
- 1:21:28he goes after that, like like the essence, we could rewrite Price and
- 1:21:35Snowman. It wouldn't be hard. Yeah, yeah, I would just write
- 1:21:40what the movie like that Frosty cartoon. It is interesting that they haven't tried
- 1:21:44to make that happen. Yeah, us do you think they do in the
- 1:21:47studies, Like we tried that, this is what we try to rewrite it,
- 1:21:53but it's just this movie. Again. I just think this is so.
- 1:22:00But it is interesting how, like you know, Rudolph, like all
- 1:22:02those like old timey Christmas, you know, classics have not been like rebooted
- 1:22:09or cannibalized by like the studios. It's interesting there are some things that are
- 1:22:13sacred all. I mean, I'm glad to see it. I'm glad to
- 1:22:15hear and see that. It's interesting clamation of Rudolph versus like the but I'm
- 1:22:21talking about like how like Disney does like live action Lion Kan and like those
- 1:22:26kind of like reboots, Like it's interesting that those haven't happened. Does Disney
- 1:22:30own the rights to those? Maybe public domain you're actually looking at? Yeah,
- 1:22:33like any studio DreamWorks own owns Frosty? Who is it the DreamWorks studio?
- 1:22:41Eventually it becomes public domain like Winnie the Pooh and some Mickey now is
- 1:22:45published. I think it's like seventy years. Like it's a long time I'm
- 1:22:47gonna make. I cannot wait for like like Desperate Housewives to like be that
- 1:22:51because I'm going to rewrite Desperate Housewives and fix all the plot holes so we
- 1:22:56know what we gotta write. Frost and Snowman will add some Desperate Housewives house
- 1:23:00and we'll send it to DreamWorks right done. If if they're listening right now,
- 1:23:03the probably gonna steal our ideas the whole podcast. We're not having a
- 1:23:09podcast this week. Delete the whole thing. Is there any other any other
- 1:23:14final thoughts on this movie and these scenes that maybe like to retouch on or
- 1:23:18anything about it? Not really, I felt like it went by pretty quick.
- 1:23:23There was a few moments where I'm like, man, I feel like
- 1:23:25like but they like I just like some scenes felt like they were going for
- 1:23:29kind of a long time, like that snow chase scene. But overall the
- 1:23:30movie was entertaining. I enjoyed it. It was pretty quick, and I
- 1:23:34do, like I said, it's it's not really Christmas y, but there's
- 1:23:38snows, so it feels like it's a Christmas movie, I guess, so
- 1:23:41I would recommend watching it around this time of year. I don't know what
- 1:23:43for August if you're in Australia. Yeah, I don't know what this had
- 1:23:45to do with the movie, but I did make some notes. I'm sure
- 1:23:49that they mentioned somewhere like the Hollywood Walk of Fame or something, because I
- 1:23:54started making notes and doing research about that, and I found out that the
- 1:23:59Rugrats have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Do you all know
- 1:24:01that? No, but it costs a lot of money to get You have
- 1:24:03to pay for it yourself, and like the ruggrass is like the Simpsons,
- 1:24:08Yeah, you have to, like you have to be approved to through like
- 1:24:11a vetting process and you have to pay for it. Trump has one because
- 1:24:15he would like you have to buy one of those, and he like has
- 1:24:18made like a cultural impact, I suppose, but like they don't have who's
- 1:24:24like a horrible person in America? Trump? Well, here he has.
- 1:24:29But anyways, but so I found out that the Rugrats, which I thought
- 1:24:31was interesting because they're not very relevant anymore, I don't know, And there
- 1:24:34are a cartoons anymore, what what do you mean anymore? Like they're not
- 1:24:39like, they're not the Simpsons, they're not coming out with like new movies.
- 1:24:42I don't think. Yeah, they did get everybody, but yeah,
- 1:24:46yeah, And then I heard that on Internet that Thomas Edison has a Hollywood
- 1:24:53Walk of Fame star. That's a piece of yeah, because he wasn't a
- 1:24:57good man. Apparently it was a pretty bad I don't know why that came
- 1:25:01up in the movie or in my thought processed with watching this. Yeah.
- 1:25:04Yeah, I don't think they talk about it at all. No, that
- 1:25:08would kind of right. Maybe Michael Keaton has one. Maybe he does.
- 1:25:11I don't know. I hope, I hope Kelly Preston doesn't. Not that
- 1:25:14I like her, but like I don't think she's deservant of it. Her
- 1:25:16line, like her only line pretty much. I remember from Jerry Maguire is
- 1:25:20never stop fucking me, and then Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise goes gotta stop
- 1:25:27sooner later, and that's the scene that I remember from Jerry Maguire. One
- 1:25:31thing, one thing we didn't mention that I like that bothered me in the
- 1:25:36film was the set when they're doing the hockey stuff. Did you know did
- 1:25:42you know this? They're like on this like pristine like ice rink, like
- 1:25:45it's clearly like plastic cave behind them. It looked so bad. Yeah,
- 1:25:53about midway through I was tackling like a plate of nachos. So I don't
- 1:25:57remember, but but I I just want to remembering. Like, probably the
- 1:26:01funniest thing that I've heard in a long time in general is in recreating what
- 1:26:09like hell is like for Jack Cross this episode that's amazing, Like that would
- 1:26:15have been more of a realistic that would have given I would have given seven
- 1:26:18out of seven stars, like that would have been Charlie, you could never
- 1:26:21die. Please don't let me know, Charlie, I can't go back,
- 1:26:26like you don't know what it's like. All right, That's all I have
- 1:26:31to say. All Right, So I'm again this is a staple. It
- 1:26:39just is. Yeah. Yeah, I thought this movie was gonna be way
- 1:26:43worse than so I went in thinking it was just gonna be real bad.
- 1:26:45So like I said, though, yeah, I wasn't gonna even show up.
- 1:26:53Oh love, I like it, okay, so up until the snow
- 1:26:56chasing thing, I'm not joking at all. Is like when I say I'm
- 1:26:59liking like I kind of like Munchie. I know, they're going to think,
- 1:27:01but no, it was really I like but and then and I got
- 1:27:04a little old, but okay, I still like Munchie. So yeah,
- 1:27:06another improvement that Christmas Munchie, Why don't we have that? Another improvement would
- 1:27:12be if no one ever saw Jack Frost yip yap in and it was just
- 1:27:16like a psychology. Yes, I thought about that, yeah, yeaheah yeah,
- 1:27:19and then it's like did he really was? Was he really? That's
- 1:27:23like that movie like we needed to do eventually and Jeremy no drop dead Fred?
- 1:27:28Yeah? Yeah, have you seen that? Right? I haven't,
- 1:27:30but I know about it. Yeah, yeah, I was a little kid,
- 1:27:33but it like maybe you feel grossy, it's fucked up, but carry
- 1:27:35Fisher's in it, So what's up? All right? All right? Cool?
- 1:27:44Well, uh, this wraps up the year for us in twenty twenty
- 1:27:46three. We want to thank you so much for any of you who've been
- 1:27:49listening. If you want to leave us a little Christmas present, maybe leave
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- 1:27:58But otherwise, have a wonderful holiday and New Year. And when we
- 1:28:01come back, it's episode ninety. No, we got something cool planned.
- 1:28:06What do we oh you just wait. Listener, Andy, what would you
- 1:28:15like to promote? Just the Averagers? I am working on it again.
- 1:28:20We've got some episodes going again, which is awesome. And then that was
- 1:28:25so funny. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah with with
- 1:28:28Joey, but Joey, it was a lot of fun. So yeah,
- 1:28:30check that out. Check out the Averagers and just send me a message on
- 1:28:32Instagram at notably underscore Andy. Yeah, and Andy needs food hacks. Oh
- 1:28:40oh, never mind, my time Double Decker's back, Double Deck will be
- 1:28:43gone. It's only out for two weeks, right, it's it's out while
- 1:28:46this while we've been recording this podcast. Yeah, and it was I got
- 1:28:50it. Three nineteen is delicious. Great, yep, Jeff, anything to
- 1:28:55promote, No, but if you want to look pictures of my dog,
- 1:29:00Guscus, follow him on Guscus Underscore the Dog. And then I had to
- 1:29:04have a grievance. I guess it is. And it's happened to me because
- 1:29:09I've been eating out a lot and getting food from my family. It's me
- 1:29:12and two others, and I'm sick of it of people saying, uh,
- 1:29:16is this for here to go? When clearly I'm ordering for more than one
- 1:29:20person, and there's no one else in the restaurant, so there's no confusion
- 1:29:26that they're sitting over there over there. So then the other night I was
- 1:29:28getting cal zones, and I was like, I'm just gonna yeah, I'm
- 1:29:31just gonna sit here and watch y' all while eat. And then in the
- 1:29:34industry, hopefully, I know it's a funny observation. We don't really think
- 1:29:40that, right, Like you don't I really, I think it's a habit.
- 1:29:45Yeah. I think it's just like when they when I say, like
- 1:29:46when they like, enjoy your meal, and I'm like, YouTube, you
- 1:29:48know that kind of thing, Like I know that they're probably not eating.
- 1:29:53But and then so I was sitting there because they make their cow zones fresh,
- 1:29:57like fresh to order, like they're known for cal zones, and and
- 1:30:00so as I was I was looking at col zone jokes, and so I
- 1:30:03went up to the guy and I was like, hey, I have a
- 1:30:04cow zone joke. And he was like okay, And I was like,
- 1:30:09I don't know if it's appropriate or not, but we'll see. I said,
- 1:30:12uh, on Google's it's not my fault. And I said, like,
- 1:30:15why do cal zones look so weird. He was like why, and
- 1:30:17I was like, because they're in bread. I didn't even let I didn't
- 1:30:27enjoy the laughter. I just turned around and walked away like it was so
- 1:30:32delicious. It would have been great if you just stared him in the eyes
- 1:30:35until until until you got your Yeah, the colzones are bomb. Yeah from
- 1:30:42where it's called a doco and it's down Eugene. Yeah what Oh it was
- 1:30:48for a work thing, so I would have I'm just gonna get real well,
- 1:31:00not yeah, I'm gonna get political here real quick and do it.
- 1:31:04I would just like to promote mask wearing again and keeping yourself safe. And
- 1:31:12I am now almost a month after having December twenty fifth, Christmas Day will
- 1:31:19be a month since I've had COVID and then bronchitis on top of that,
- 1:31:24and then I was diagnosed with long COVID today. So I'm having trouble breathing.
- 1:31:30It is almost impossible to take a shower. I want to pass out,
- 1:31:36just insanely fatigued. And this can all be not easily prevented, but
- 1:31:41we can take steps to protect each other. And I would just really like
- 1:31:45people to do that because it matters. It matters. When you are the
- 1:31:51only person in your family to like be around, you know, for the
- 1:31:57holidays, because everybody else has died from COVID or died from the effects of
- 1:32:03COVID over time, multiple infections creates multiple systemic issues. So just please please
- 1:32:10take care of yourself and take care of each other, people of each other.
- 1:32:14CITC is recommending masking again, right, yes, so you know,
- 1:32:17maybe just wear a mask while you're shopping. Yeah, get vaccinated, Like,
- 1:32:21I'm fine with that. Right? Is the vaccination cool? Now?
- 1:32:25Still? Yes? I got? I mean I got, But I grew
- 1:32:28up as a military baby. What's that called a so like I've never been
- 1:32:32afraid of that. Like every time we moved I had to get fucking vaccinated.
- 1:32:35So I've never been afraid of them. I don't know. I don't
- 1:32:38know why people are like I completely forgot about it, and then Taylor Swift's
- 1:32:41boyfriend reminded me on so I was nice. I love that Taylor's boyfriend,
- 1:32:47I don't know his name. Promotions. Tell us about your comedy all that
- 1:32:57me? Me? Uh, I don't know you all heard it before.
- 1:33:01Just follow me on Allie J is gay? If you want to keep up
- 1:33:03with me, and see some ship posting in my stories. It's barely about
- 1:33:08it. So you're dominating the fucking world, or at least the like Oregon.
- 1:33:14What's that you're doin like Oregon? You're always like doing shit. That's
- 1:33:17awesome. Yeah, yeah, fucking yeah, fuck you? Uh well until
- 1:33:25thanks time the stelling to nerds. Thanks for listening. I'm Ali. This
- 1:33:29is a double on Tundra, but I'm Andy Rollins because the guy who wrote
- 1:33:31the song Fricist Snowman was Walter Rollins and Henry Rollins was in the movie.
- 1:33:38That's not a double on tundre. You know. That's a double thing,
- 1:33:43double fist. I'm Jeff and I'm Ria Frost. Oh Man, that's cute.
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- 1:34:44Media a few minutes, just so you know, I was fucking wasted last
- 1:34:51night when I watched this movie. So it's like, I don't know why
- 1:34:55you warn us, or like every single time we do review, you're like,
- 1:35:03I would not next time be like I did. I actually did not
- 1:35:06smoke weed or get drunk this time for the review, so that would be
- 1:35:10we just hear we go. I took. Yeah, I going forward.
- 1:35:15I think twenty twenty four is my year. I'm gonna take ship more professionally.
- 1:35:19Sure, that's like drug taking. I'm gonna I'm gonna take drugs,
- 1:35:23but I'm gonna do it more professionally. I'm gonna wear a tie when I
- 1:35:26were doing so. Yeah, I don't know what professional people. Okay,
- 1:35:32let's get to started. We have something to do, all right, hold
- 1:35:38on, god fucking damage, thank you? All right, there we go,
- 1:35:42Ready, ready, ready, Yeah, it would have been funny or
- 1:35:48if you would have came back as like a like a reindeer. Yeah,
- 1:35:53but like like gets stuck and like you sucking like restaurants. Get him out
- 1:36:00of here. He's going around. He's like, I don't know, I
- 1:36:02don't know how to use Charlie's He does a budget, another Christmas or holiday
- 1:36:10object that comes back as a minora. Yeah, like a fire everywhere.
- 1:36:15I don't know, it's just Santa. Oh my god, that just be
- 1:36:19like it'd just be him, but fatter Santa Claus. Yeah, okay'll be
- 1:36:24the Santa Claus. Yeah. Oh yeah, I guess he comes back as
- 1:36:28Tim Allen. Yeah. Oh god, he's like, but Tim Allen's still
- 1:36:30alive. This is real confused. I can't stand him Allen, but I
- 1:36:32do think he's hot though. You think he's hot, yeah, we talked
- 1:36:36about this before. He's like amazingly unique chest hair. It gets like Allan
- 1:36:44Yeah, and look at this. You see his chest hair on Home Improvement.
- 1:36:46He was like Charlotte sometimes and he has a very interesting chest hair,
- 1:36:50and that's what makes him hot. I don't know something's hot about him.
- 1:36:54I don't know. I think the I think the photo of him where he's
- 1:36:59arrested, I think he actually looks pretty attractive. Yeah. I don't like
- 1:37:02such a I don't like his politics or his like. I don't think he's
- 1:37:06particular funny. Yeah, but like if he was like if I was single,
- 1:37:10he was like you want and I'll be like, yeah, I was
- 1:37:13pretty slutty when I was thinking about, like