Full Transcript for Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996)

00:04:29.279 There's a reason why this one might be buried in your memory a bit. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:39.199 I was thinking about a couple iconic moments, but I was curious to see how I'd feel watching it front to back as I've gotten deeper and deeper into the leprechaun franchise. 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:41.519 Yeah, I mean I think it it's interesting. 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:46.639 Like, what can you really expect from the movie Leprechaun in space? 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.480 On one end of the spectrum, can you really expect anything short of greatness? 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:56.319 It sounds like it could be a really interesting, wild time, but it could also go downhill really fast. 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:15.920 I was expecting this one to have a bunch of silly one-liners from obviously our beloved Warwick Davis as the leprechaun, but I was also prepping myself for this one to be a little cheesy because outside of Alien sending these horror villains into space doesn't always work out too well. 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:16.720 Agreed. 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:28.879 You know, I like space stuff, but anytime something that's not space related decides to go to space, especially this type of humorous horror, I'm a little bit worried for it that it might just be too cheesy. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:30.079 My expectations are low. 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:37.120 Listen, before watching this for the lineup, I was actually reflecting on how many horror characters in space we've gotten. 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:39.680 The biggest one, obviously, for me is Jason. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:41.759 Jason in space later on. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.079 Uber Jason was a hell of a design. 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:48.560 There's also critters who go to space, but they're also aliens, so that makes sense. 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:55.920 But the biggest thing was trying to scratch my brain to remember how the fuck did this leprechaun get into space? 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:02.000 And when I actually sat down and watched this movie, wow, this motherfucker had no business there. 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:16.160 They really just dropped this in and hit us with a lot of ambition to the year 2096 and said, all right, we'll figure it out sometime between Leprechaun in Vegas and Leprechaun in fucking space in 2096. 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.920 Yeah, I feel like when you're watching this, you have suspension of disbelief in a lot of films. 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.639 This was telling you, look, it doesn't matter while you're watching this. 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:24.879 Why did that thing happen in that scene? 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:26.000 It doesn't matter. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:27.600 Just be entertained. 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.839 That's what this movie is telling you from start to finish is shut up, forget about it. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:32.959 Nothing's important. 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:34.160 Just soak it in. 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:36.240 This movie's soaking something in. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:37.680 What the fuck, man? 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:40.480 Don't think about it too much. 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:42.560 Just let the movie play. 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:44.720 This movie felt like a lot of things. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.839 In some moments, it felt like a typical leprechaun movie. 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.680 Like there was some of that vibe in there. 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:54.160 But in other moments, it felt like I was watching some kind of action movie. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.600 Like a cheesy as fuck action movie, but an action movie nonetheless. 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.399 And it was also giving Power Ranger vibes. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.879 I don't know if any of you picked up on the Power Ranger of it all, but I definitely picked up on that shit. 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.560 Yeah, there's quite a bit of that shit in here. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:10.000 Not in a good way, though. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.399 Power Rangers had its fucking charm, okay? 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:18.160 I was fiending to be the Red Ranger and love the Pink Ranger for a lot of time in my youth. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.079 Pink Rangers, how I knew I was gay. 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.199 Power Rangers, fucking great, fucking iconic. 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:25.120 This, I don't know, man. 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:26.160 Here's the thing. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:31.279 The biggest thing that I felt while watching this was disappointment. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:38.399 Because why the fuck isn't Warwick Davis hitting as hard as he did in the past leprechaun movies? 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.800 And this isn't about Warwick Davis. 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:52.160 This is the direction and the writing of this movie because while there are moments where he's charming as fuck, and this movie starts and he's in a fucking suit and tie, he's in a tux. 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:53.279 There's no rhyming. 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.240 This is a different feeling of fucking leprechaun. 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:01.360 It just felt like it was absent of the charm of leprechaun. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.800 I am 100% with you on that for sure. 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:06.399 I thought the exact same thing. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:15.120 I think the thing that I found most both surprising and a little bit disappointing was that whole thing about don't worry about it, just soak it up. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.120 It just drops us into a film. 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.040 It seems like we're in the middle of a story. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:23.120 And I feel like there was a little backstory we missed out on with some of the characters. 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:24.319 And again, it doesn't matter. 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:25.680 Just soak it up or whatever. 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:26.720 Just let it happen. 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:28.319 Enjoy the entertainment. 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.920 But this movie is totally a parody of another great film.

00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.720 And I feel like there's richness there that they left untapped. 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:35.279 Hmm. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:36.000 Interesting. 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.720 I don't know if I picked up on the film that you're talking about. 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:44.720 So maybe that just went over my head and it's just gonna be like as soon as you say it, it's gonna hit me and I'm gonna be like, oh, I'm so stupid. 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:46.080 I don't know. 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:52.639 Mac, what you're alluding to sounds a suspicious amount like Chris Rojas falling in love with potential. 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.360 This movie is a clear parody of another film. 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.440 Once I say it, you'll be like a well of course. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:59.679 It's a mix of a lot of different films, though. 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:00.559 It is, it is super. 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:06.960 I'm curious to see which one you found to be super fucking overarching because there's a lot of like alien in here. 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.360 There's some Space Balls, there's some Star Wars, there is The Fly. 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.679 There's a but there's a bunch of shit baked into this, and we'll get into that later. 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:24.320 But I gotta tell you, man, the Leprechaun films are not about being scary, but they are about having a good fucking time. 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:32.720 Let us not forget this motherfucker jumped out of a limo and was doing some dance moves next to an Elvis Impersonator one movie ago. 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:38.399 So this shit went from being really, really fun to this place where I was missing a lot of the fun. 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:40.399 Granted, I'm a Star Wars nerd. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.399 You get a nice little green lightsaber in here, and that feels wonderful. 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:52.799 But I found this movie, while it doesn't try to make you scared, it does try to make you laugh, and none of that shit really hit for me. 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:54.720 For sure, it's not a scary film. 00:09:54.879 --> 00:10:03.600 I I think visually there's some really good stuff with the practical effects, but the CGI in this movie was super disappointing. 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:21.679 On one end of the spectrum, like with the practical effects and kind of the stuff that they give you is kind of fun and it kind of adds into what you would expect from a horror movie like this, but then the CGI kind of takes it away and makes it so that this installment is probably one of the least frightening of all the leprechaun films. 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:32.080 Like if you can call any of them truly, truly scary, but there really isn't much for anything in this film tension building, jump scares, anything that's really gonna get you. 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:39.120 So unless you legitimately have a leprechaun phobia or maybe arachnophobia, I don't see anybody getting scared in this movie.

00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:42.080 You know, I also dare think you know his teeth looked better. 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:47.679 Like obviously he has some like black specks on his teeth, but like the rest of it was like pearly white, healthy gums. 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:48.320 Healthy gums. 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:55.840 Warwick's got some amazing teeth, and they just can only do so much to try to monster them up. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:59.679 But I think you're both right that this is not a scary film in any way. 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:07.919 It's mostly, I think, it's set in the horror genre, of course, because of its history, but it's mostly just like a spoofy comedy sci-fi kind of film. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:09.679 Yeah, spoofy comedy. 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.799 It's Rambo in space, it's alien, but a leprechaun. 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:15.600 This is a lot of stuff, man. 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:24.639 And listen, good on the audacity to take a fucking leprechaun from Vegas to space. 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.879 That's ambition, that's drive. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.120 That's don't let your dreams be dreams. 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:38.240 But even though there's a lot of movies that follow this with sending their creatures into space, it's an echo of sci-fi before it. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:43.279 And granted, I know it's homage, parody, etc., but it still doesn't feel fun. 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:51.120 There's something about sci-fi that packs a punch of fun and whimsy and adventure, and I got almost none of that. 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.279 Yeah, it's a tough one for sure. 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:54.320 I agree. 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.720 I want to give this movie credit for bringing this little guy and his pot of gold into space. 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:00.240 You definitely want to do that. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:02.559 Obviously, you were talking about it earlier, Chris. 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:06.000 Like, it's not the first horror movie to be set in space, right? 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:09.360 We've had films like Alien, Life Force, right? 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.279 Like I can think of, Event Horizon, all of which came before this one. 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:21.840 But the ones you mentioned outside of Critters 4 that went into space, there really there wasn't a really a horror icon like this in space yet. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:27.440 So to your point, there was some stuff that followed, Jason and all that shit that came after this one. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:30.639 I think even Hellraiser Bloodline was thrown in there, right? 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.159 The fucking Cenabites made it into space the same year as the Leprechaun. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.960 Jason Pleasure doesn't have to stop with those on there, baby. 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:37.440 Yeah. 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:46.080 But either way, I mean, when you really think about it, you gotta give it some kind of points for you know making an interstellar voyage like this one.

00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:46.799 You know what I mean? 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.480 Like you gotta give them something for that voyage. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:58.320 Okay, so this is where I get to point out that this movie, not in its entirety, but from start to finish, is parodying aliens from 1986. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:07.360 And it is so clear to me when you think about the colonial marines, when you think about the mining operation, when you think about the synthetic that's involved. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.279 It is so perfect. 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:19.679 We get a creature, we get stuff that happens with a creature that is very similar to what happens to the big bad xenomorph in aliens. 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.039 And so it was like, okay, this is very much like that. 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:27.840 But like you said, they're also mixing in stuff from everything. 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.679 You know, the the lightsaber, is it from Star Wars or is it from Space Balls? 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.679 It's just a reference to the idea, I guess. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.919 But there's lots of little references. 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:38.639 Nothing was really delivered like 100% well. 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:40.720 That part is very obvious to me. 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:46.000 But they were like, let's throw in things that we like from other space movies so people kind of get it. 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:57.919 Here's the thing: there's a moment in this movie where Leprechaun is blending some shit, and he grabs a little bit of this, a little bit of that, who the fuck knows what this liquid is, puts it in a blender, then injects that thing into someone. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:13:59.279 That's what this movie is. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.120 It's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.159 Who the fuck knows what this is, but we're gonna try to have fun. 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:06.080 You can tell that fun was had. 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:06.720 Miguel A. 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:11.360 Nunez, who we've seen in a few different films in horror, Warwick Davis. 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:16.320 I mean, there's a lot of charm, sure, that's like attempting to be scratched at. 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:24.879 I think the best parts of this movie kind of come almost from the beginning of this movie where it's like a there's like a difference in the leprechaun's approach. 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:30.080 But undoubtedly one of the worst parts of this movie is the ending. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:36.159 Not even because of how it concludes, because there's a little bit of comedy there that I think tries to redeem it. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:41.120 But by the time the ending comes, I'm just like, fuck, I wish this happened 45 minutes ago. 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:56.320 Okay, but put it in context, compare what happens in the ending, not the quality, but what happens to aliens from 1986, then it starts to kind of add up a little bit more, and it's like, okay, they carried through all the way to the end. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.200 I'm gonna give them credit for at least sticking with it. 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:04.720 It's not about whether or not they executed 100% perfectly, but you know, they at least stuck to it. 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:06.000 I'm piecing it together. 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:06.799 I see it now. 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:07.679 I'm tracking. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:13.600 I think there really isn't anything here that stands out as great in this ending to this movie. 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.879 I I feel like it kind of ends in a very typical way. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.799 I wasn't wowed by anything here. 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:23.200 I wasn't particularly upset with the ending, but I think it was just kind of lackluster. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:28.480 To your point, Chris, the little comedy we get at the end is what I really enjoyed in the final moments we get, right? 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.360 With the certain body part floating out by the window and stuff. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.120 We gotta talk about that later. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.840 But as a whole, the ending was just very blah. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:40.000 Well, I can't wait to see how that blah turn translates into our ratings. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.960 But before we get there, Sean, how would you describe the gore score? 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:52.799 While this movie may have lacked in the special effects, it surprisingly didn't necessarily disappoint in the gore. 00:15:53.039 --> 00:16:02.879 Not saying it's the goriest film, but with all the sci-fi body mutation, face flattening, and severed limbs flying around, it would be only fair to give this one a medium gore score. 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:04.399 Yeah, what about the animal report? 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:08.240 Well, fans of arachnids might be pissed, but otherwise we're okay. 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.720 Let's go ahead and get into our ratings and Leprechaun for In Space. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.879 Was it a hack or a slash? 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.759 I want to start this off because space is cool and that's my thing. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:21.279 But straight up, this is a bad movie, but I love space stuff. 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.120 Question mark exclamation point. 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:29.200 You know, the bits that parody aliens from a decade earlier, I think they were pretty funny, just in concept. 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:35.360 Like you've already mentioned, Miguel Nunes' one-liners were the perfect balance of like super cheese and peak 90s humor. 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:43.039 However, it also contains a type of humor that smells like men's gym locker rooms, but without the attempt to mask it with axe body spray. 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:50.559 Thankfully, that wasn't the primary source of jokes, so I'm willing to look past it considering the age of the film, but you know, it's not a good movie. 00:16:50.720 -->

00:16:56.799 But it scratched the itch for this is not a good movie, but it did scratch the itch for a sci-fi action comedy flick. 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.039 So I'm going to allow it a slash. 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:00.000 Wow. 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:01.279 Wow. 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:02.559 Nice. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:03.679 Because it's sci-fi. 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:06.400 Is an interesting turn of events. 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:06.960 Okay. 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:08.319 Well, I mean, here's the thing. 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:17.039 You know, like sometimes horror franchises take wild and unexpected turns, kind of like sending their villains into space, right? 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:27.119 Even a franchise like Leprechaun, which I think is full of absurdity as it is, it manages to crash land into an asteroid field of bad decisions. 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.079 That sounds like it's all bad, but it wasn't all bad. 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:34.720 The practical effects, I think, and the gore were fun and it had its moments. 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:41.119 There was a certain grotesque mutation scene, which was delightfully nasty. 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:47.200 I think it was allowing for the body horror to really shine through in an otherwise pretty dismal film. 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:55.920 Like I feel like when your leading actor is not on his game for whatever reason and not dialed in as he usually is in these films, it doesn't help. 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:57.759 And then we get to the special effects. 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:08.079 And oh boy, if you've ever wondered what a sci-fi movie would look like if it had the budget of a mid-90s computer screensaver, this is probably your best example. 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:12.960 The CGI in this movie is so bad that you just have to laugh sometimes. 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:25.920 And at the end of the day, Leprechaun 4 is less of a pot of gold and more of a black hole that's just sucking away the charm that made the early installments in this franchise watchable. 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:34.000 So you can call it one small step for horror and one giant step in the wrong direction because this four-leaf failure is a fucking hack. 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:40.799 Wow, I love how poetic Sean is in some of these ratings, and I can't even do that justice. 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:42.799 But let's be very clear here. 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:44.720 This movie is not really fun. 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:53.759 If you squint your eyes just right, and you're the kind of person to be tickled by something that's just shut your brain off, enjoy some bullshit, then this might be that. 00:18:54.079 --> 00:19:00.799 But the problem is I've seen better leprechaun movies, so it's hard for me to really buy in here. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:12.720 Warwick Davis's performance continues to shine as a leprechaun, but this is also a different directorial approach, so it's not even the same level of limerick and whimsy that we typically see. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:17.599 We get dropped in the middle of a plot and we're expected to just kind of go with it. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.880 Even when you just go with it, it's still kind of dumb as fuck. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.920 And movies belong in that space. 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.759 Movies have the right to be just dumb as fuck and you just enjoy the ride. 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:33.200 The problem is that it was also so boring that I couldn't enjoy it being dumb as fuck. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.440 Like that is the struggle here. 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:41.920 Mac, I'm so glad that you got to see a lot of the parody and a lot of the spoof and find this connection to aliens. 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:50.079 I've seen aliens couldn't even have these two movies in the same conversation because it was just that vast of a fucking difference. 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.359 I think the struggle for me again, this movie just isn't fun. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:58.720 While you can find this movie free to stream online, I don't know that it's worth your time. 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:03.119 And even in that, I gave you more of a rhyme than this whole fucking movie has. 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:05.359 And that's what his character is built on. 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.799 So, with that, I'm just gonna rate it a hack. 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:13.759 And Leprechaun 4 in space has earned one slash and two hacks. 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:16.559 I gotta tell you, that's the most shocking part about this. 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:20.240 I really thought this was gonna be universal, but that's neither here nor there. 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:22.720 We have so much to talk about when we get back from our break. 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.880 I want to hear more about the aliens parody and the spoof for Mac. 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:32.720 We have some Space Balls cross-references here that we need to dive into as well. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.160 Now you can join the 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00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:22.880 Why couldn't we see something prosthetic? 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:27.279 Like, listen, if you want to fucking go there, Chris wants the prosthetic dick. 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:28.319 Go there. 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:29.279 Let's see it. 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:30.400 Commit to the bit. 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:31.680 Commit to the dick. 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:32.240 Let's just do it. 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:33.519 Commit to the dick. 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:34.880 Let's just do it. 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:38.319 If you're gonna fucking Just the tip, at least, right? 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:46.880 If you're gonna have the nerve to fucking just have one of your leading ladies flash the camera to say, oh, but it's a death sentence on my planet. 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:48.160 Okay, sure. 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:49.519 Fucking sure. 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:53.519 But this guy's gonna be spared the horrors of a chestburster. 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:54.880 Okay, I get it. 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:59.359 The real crime though, and this is I guess not even really a crime. 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:05.279 How many fucking movies are we gonna get where villain is activated by piss? 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.119 Dude, okay. 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:08.960 It's so prevalent. 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:17.279 I thought it was like a one-off, and then I'm watching these movies and I'm like, fuck, dude, everyone's just taking a piss and shit's fucking hitting the fan because of it. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:17.759 Yeah. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.440 Stop taking pisses, folks. 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:20.160 That's a new thing. 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:20.880 It's a new rule. 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.920 If you take a piss, something bad happens in horror movies, okay? 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:25.279 So just fucking hold that shit. 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:26.559 It's always the dudes. 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:28.799 It's always the dudes pissing where they shouldn't be. 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:29.759 Or dogs. 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:32.319 Well, to be fair, there was there was dog piss, yes. 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:34.480 But to be fair, it was a male dog. 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:35.440 There you go. 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:39.599 Maybe if y'all stop fucking marking territory that doesn't belong to you. 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:43.200 Who the fuck's pissing in space this way? 00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:47.279 In the moment, I thought that he was gonna die right as he peed on, right? 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:50.400 Because I thought, oh, it's gonna turn green and fall off, like immediately. 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:51.440 And then nothing happened. 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:54.720 I was like, okay, so something's gonna happen to that dude later. 00:24:54.880 -->

00:24:55.440 I get it. 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:03.039 Turning green and falling off would have been better than erupting from the crotch area, but hidden. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:05.680 That was a great opportunity for practical effects. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:06.559 That's all I'm saying. 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:07.599 You're not wrong. 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.960 Listen, do I really want a leprechaun bursting out of a dick? 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:11.839 Not literally. 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:14.079 Also, it was underwhelming. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.279 It's not a great kill, but it was kind of humorous in that moment. 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:20.160 So let me tell you what else was humorous. 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:26.720 And I don't actually like this kill, but I want to point it out because what in the cartoon network was this shit? 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:27.440 Harold? 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:29.759 Harold getting fucking pancakes? 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:30.640 So ridiculous. 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:34.640 This was the silliest shit that did not match anything else in this fucking movie. 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:38.000 I would take crotch explosion over pancake face. 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:40.559 It looked kind of fun, you know what I mean? 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:43.200 But it was definitely some Looney Tune shit. 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:54.000 Like it was definitely on a cartoon fucking level to be like what kind of force does it take to throw that fucking metal plate hard enough to flatten the dude's head? 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:55.920 But not combust the head? 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:56.720 No blood. 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.319 We don't want to rupture the skin, we just want to crush the bone. 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:04.000 Flattening the entire head, your skull, everything. 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:08.000 I mean, that's pretty impressive, but also really wild. 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:12.319 Yeah, and again, I know it's dumb bullshit, it's a silly movie. 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:14.000 We're all just having fun. 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:16.880 But also the pancake face didn't even look good. 00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:26.400 But again, it's just so silly, you know, and it's not even a kill that you're like, oh wow, because you're watching it and you're just kind of like, all right, that happened, but at the same time, oh, that happened. 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:26.960 Yeah. 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:30.880 Can I give my actual favorite kill now that I'm like serious business? 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:31.200 Yeah. 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:34.319 I just loved the leprechaun jumping onto a live grenade. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:36.319 It's like, okay, little war hero. 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.279 I will catch a grenade for you. 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:40.480 Yeah, yeah. 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:45.359 So fucking the Bruno Mars over here, man, jumping on grenades for motherfuckers, you know? 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:53.039 Okay, listen, we talked about Smooth Criminal being

a great song to cut Candyman 2 Farewell to the flesh. 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:55.200 This would be Bruno Mars grenade. 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:56.720 Yeah, you're 100% right. 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.559 I think there's a couple of fun kills in this one, I uh all that we haven't talked about. 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:05.440 I think one that you kind of mentioned in appearance earlier, Chris, with the lightsaber. 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:14.319 I think Private Lucky's kill was great that somehow fucking Lubden the leprechaun got fucking Yoda's lightsaber up in here and fucking chop this dude's fucking legs off. 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:26.559 All I really wanted to see in that moment is after the legs got chopped off, I wanted to see this motherfucker like literally just do some backflips into the air and then land in the front and decapitate him or something. 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:37.839 Yeah, I want you to know that if we got Lubden doing Yoda, like Attack of the Clones Yoda, holy shit, this would have been a slash, even if the rest of the movie was garbage. 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:38.480 Yeah. 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:48.160 Or give me a supercut of Yoda passing away, and he says, There is another, and you think it's Leia, JK, it's fucking Lubden. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:52.400 Actually, that would be fucking funny. 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:53.200 Oh man. 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:54.880 That one was kind of a fun one. 00:27:55.039 --> 00:28:22.319 One that I liked visually, I thought was also kind of fun from a visual standpoint was Private Mooch's kill because it's not that like it was super exciting, it was just that after shot, you know, like obviously his suit gets slashed, and so like this flesh-eating bacteria gets in, and by the time you see him afterwards, like hit it, it's just his skeleton and the remnants of this flesh hanging off of it, which I thought was kind of an awesome little moment to cut to. 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.599 Yeah, one of the cooler parts of the movie was that skeleton. 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:26.480 Yeah, it's great. 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:28.240 Too bad it was just in a hazmat suit. 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:30.880 I do love a good melted hazmat suit corpse. 00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:33.519 And then I think, man, it would have looked great if it was Tarman. 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:36.640 Oh, see, they could have made another reference. 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:38.799 They could have made so many references, Mac. 00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:40.960 That's why this movie just ah. 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:43.119 But that's like the whole thing, right? 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:49.440 It's the moments that we get those type of shots that I feel like is probably one of the better parts of the film. 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:53.680 I think the practical effects that we get when they focus on those is great. 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:58.079 And I think that's just about as much as you can truly love with this movie. 00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:12.559 How they played into these practical effects, whether it's this, you know, flesh, this the skeleton with flesh hanging off of it, whether it's this body horror mutation of this arachnid man robot thing or whatever the fuck happened there. 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:13.759 Loved that Dr. 00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:17.279 Mittenhand evolves like that, and I think it looked great. 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:20.400 I loved it, it was gross, it was giving the fly. 00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:21.680 Obviously, you mentioned that. 00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:26.240 It was also not referencing it, but it also brought me back to Monster Alyssa Sue. 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:27.359 It was superb. 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:27.920 Mm-hmm. 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:28.240 Yeah. 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:34.400 Listen, I will say the metal plate and Metal Head's and Sergeant Hooker's head looked fucking brutal. 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:38.079 There is something really gummy about the ridges there, right? 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:39.599 And even when you see Dr. 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:49.119 Mittenhand and the way his head kind of rests on his shoulder, and you get the shots where he's in front of the camera from the back, he's just like a fucking CPR dummy. 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:51.279 There are some some problematics up there. 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.519 But some of those moments are really effective. 00:29:53.599 --> 00:30:01.359 Some of them really hit unlike the opening asteroids looking like a fucking Windows 98 screensaver, just like you fucking said, Sean. 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:14.400 It looks like it's very SD, but also you can edit in progressive or interlaced, like when you're ingesting all of your media and you're like basically recording the tape and putting it into another digital editor. 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.799 And if you fuck up and pick the wrong one, your shit looks pixelated as fuck. 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.960 And it looks like you're editing at a different resolution than what you actually filmed at. 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:25.279 When you export it, it can look even worse. 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:31.759 The problem with this movie, one of the main problems, this is where we actually get into what the shit looks like later. 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.240 Ludnan goes mega-sized. 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.440 He's at a lower resolution than the rest of the fucking movie. 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:53.839 The stuff they did in this visually, first of all, if you're in space, we've had good looking spaceships for at this point in time, back in the 90s, it was like almost 50 years, and all you had to do was use models and get your zoom and perspective and whatever you had to do with the camera magic right, and then it looked real. 00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:55.279 Star Trek did it best. 00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:59.279 I think Star Wars really perfected it when you had those battle cruisers show up. 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:00.400 That stuff was amazing. 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:07.599 You have

miniatures, you can make beautiful things happen, and then you spike in some lasers and stuff like that if you need to with CGI. 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:09.359 But the CGI here was offensive. 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:13.200 Like I think even Babylon V cried a little bit when this showed up on screen. 00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:14.880 Yikes, man. 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:19.680 Sorry, I realize I'm just a hater tonight, but I do promise I have nice things to say about Lupton. 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:27.680 Well, even his gigantic hand at the end flicking them off looked like when they put live action clips into video games in the 90s. 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:29.839 I thought it was a great way to end the film. 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:32.480 Yeah, but that mutant was fun. 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.359 It was great. 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:34.319 That's what I'm saying. 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:36.400 I gotta respect the visuals on that. 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:40.480 Okay, so the mutant is kind of a spider-y situation. 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:48.160 There's like meat webs, it looks like these like red webs that Miguel Nunes' character sticks is just stuck in. 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.799 How do you, as this fucking creature, and this is where I'm also like, ah, what's going on? 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:54.559 I for sure thought he was gonna go. 00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:55.759 I would have been sad if he went. 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:57.359 I'm glad he made it to the end. 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:00.000 But this guy fucking comes through. 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:03.759 There's like this big reveal of like, holy shit, what the fuck happened to you? 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:08.160 Almost like this guy is just hanging there like he's in a hammock the rest of the fucking movie. 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:10.000 Just like, gotta get the password. 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:10.640 I don't know. 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:11.680 He was trying. 00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:14.640 But there were some funny moments in this movie too. 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:24.400 One of the early moments when they're investigating the remains of the leprechaun, and one dude was like, Hey books, give me a hand here, and then he literally throws him a severed hand. 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:30.000 Those are the slapstick, campy comedy moments that kind of shine through a little bit, right? 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:40.720 Obviously, it had its little snippets throughout the movie that gave you some fun, so it wasn't the worst thing in the world, but there were some great moments sprinkled in there. 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:47.119 I think one of my favorite moments of this movie, as silly as this may be, is the opening of the film. 00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:58.000 Once we get past the outer space of it all, and we see him making this proposition of like, okay, you're gonna be my next bride, but he's not in his traditional leprechaun gear. 00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:10.559 He is speaking like a proper gentleman, and by I don't mean he's

actually acting or behaving like a gentleman, but he's speaking completely differently, like he's long matured now in the year 2096. 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:18.880 That energy really carries itself through the entire movie because there were moments where he's like, I am eternal as the sun, I am a thousand demons from hell. 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:27.440 And I'm like, Okay, you really just set the fucking bar in the beginning of the movie and said, This is who I am, and I'm gonna follow through with it the entire fucking way. 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.880 That's true. 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:38.480 It is funny because it reminds me of the Hugh Laurie TV show recently where at some point he has to switch accents and his real accent comes out. 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:46.480 But I love that when they have British actors doing accents that aren't their own and they get to use their real accent, and it's usually a put-on, like, oh, I'll do a fake accent. 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:47.119 Sure, here it is. 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:48.799 And then it's like, oh, that's just how you speak, bro. 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:50.319 That's what it felt like to me at the beginning. 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:53.200 It was like they're like, Yeah, just speak like you would normally for a minute. 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:53.680 Yeah. 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:55.039 But hey, we're all friends here. 00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:56.079 It was also cute. 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:58.079 Again, he's coercing a bride. 00:33:58.160 --> 00:33:59.920 So this moment is not cute at all. 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:05.759 But before he gets into his leprechaun bullshit, it is just like, all right, look, I'm a tired man, I'm trying to settle down. 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:06.799 What you got for me? 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:12.880 Obviously, he's on his quest to become a king and have power, which also feels very inconsistent with who Leprechaun is. 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:15.440 This man's been about his money, this man's been about his gold. 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:17.039 Now all of a sudden he wants to be a king. 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:19.360 Now all of a sudden he needs that respect. 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:20.079 Yeah. 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:24.639 And then he realized that maybe a woman would run off with his money, and then he's like, Well, fuck that. 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:25.519 I gotta kill her then. 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:26.800 I'm like, okay, geez. 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:28.559 I know it kind of took a turn. 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:41.679 Like it went from like, oh, I need to be with this princess so that I could get this status, and then all of a sudden, towards the end of the movie, it was like, I don't need you, like, fuck you, was like a complete 180 for him. 00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:43.840 Yeah, I mean the honeymoon phase was over. 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.760 It was over, it was over for sure. 00:34:45.920 --> 00:35:06.559 I do think I did one moment that I think the the Lovedon, let the leprechaun really shined through in some of the comedy too, was there was the scene that ultimately led to another kill, which was Private Danny's demise, but at the beginning of that whole segment where we get the leprechaun and he gives his workplace safety video chopping his fingers off. 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:08.239 I loved that. 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:10.320 That was some really fun stuff. 00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:12.320 I had a great time with that whole scene. 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:18.559 Obviously, that little workplace safety video was great, and then you know, the whole exchange. 00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:19.599 I gotta love that. 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:24.320 Yeah, workplace safety is something I think he does this really cool thing, right? 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:27.119 Where he tends to just pop in anywhere he can. 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.119 It's kind of like Freddie Kruger in that way, right? 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:35.679 Freddie Krueger can manipulate how he physically manifests, but then also there's a lot of supernatural energy there. 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:35.920 Yeah. 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.440 And with Lubden in particular, he seems to be a fan of two things. 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:44.079 One being in your TV, two, fucking masquerading as a hot naked woman. 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:45.840 He did it again. 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:47.599 He fucking did it again, guys. 00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:49.119 He did it again. 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:50.400 He did it again. 00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:52.079 Man, it's so true. 00:35:52.320 --> 00:36:01.760 Which also makes me think that one of the probably one of the highlights of this whole film was this hilarious like drag queen marine scene that we got, man. 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:04.400 Because like, where the fuck did that come from? 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:05.199 You know? 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:06.639 That was very strange. 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:10.880 That was just thrown in there with the nunchucks, with nunchucks. 00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:12.239 But I was here for it. 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:14.079 It was kind of a funny scene, it was fun. 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:18.960 This seems like one of those, like, let's just throw stuff at ever at them and see what they like, you know. 00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:23.920 So I see either feel like they're making the movie, and then they turn around and they're like, dude, what if you did drag? 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:24.639 Yeah, let's do it. 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:25.119 Why not? 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:26.960 We got a little bit of budget left. 00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:27.760 Let's buy a dress. 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:34.880 I think they really just did that to like completely disrupt, I guess, what you would expect of any of these characters. 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:50.000 And this actually is a great moment because we have this reality that A, he has his whole drag moment, but B, he's then revealed to be synthetic, to be a robot, or just alien, also. 00:36:50.239 -->

00:36:50.639 No, no, no. 00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:54.159 So he's he's a he's a he's revealed to be synthetic just like the movie Aliens. 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:54.880 It's it's perfect. 00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:59.760 However, they still accept him and respect him for who he was. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:05.039 And he's one of these characters that like fuck, I found him annoying a hundred percent of the time. 00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:16.480 But even then, that tenderness, that moment between them, when you realize that you know he was he has this metal plate in his head allegedly because he carried a marine on his back. 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:20.639 I was like, okay, there's some there's some deeper dynamics here that I can appreciate. 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:26.239 And then you realize, okay, well, this motherfucker was also trying to negotiate for their entire welfare. 00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:28.559 It's like, all right, okay, you're doing some good shit. 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:40.400 What's interesting to me is like you watch this and it kind of calls to Starship Troopers a little bit, but that movie I think came out in '97, so it wasn't playing on it, but for some reason it just like seemed really similar. 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:49.599 It's because you got like the whole marine in space kind of vibe, you know what I and you've got kind of like a comedy aspect thrown in there. 00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:55.039 Obviously, not as great as that movie, but like Starship Troopers is its own thing. 00:37:55.199 --> 00:38:07.440 Like it's it's got some really great moments, it's definitely a little cheesy, but it's also like it's got some really good comedy in there, and and it's a good action kind of sci-fi film. 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:22.800 Whereas this one kind of like tried to have the Marines in space, but didn't hit the mark, was a little bit too cheesy in some areas, and it didn't put up, you know, in the areas that we needed to see visually to make it really, really great. 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:25.840 But I will I will also say the the Dr. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:33.679 Mittenhand of it all, when he was showing up on his little TV screen, it was definitely reminding me of Zordon from Power Rangers. 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:34.719 Absolutely. 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:35.440 Yes. 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:37.360 I mean, come on, come on. 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:44.880 Yeah, he also looks like the kind of person who answers a FaceTime call in the car but doesn't have their phone mounted at a good angle. 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:48.960 Not that I guess you should be I'm not saying that we condone this, right? 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:54.880 But it's like they're holding it in their hands and it's just like fucking holding up at the most unflattering angle. 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:55.760 Whoops. 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:59.039 Yeah, it's an awkward like side shot. 00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:03.920 They just bring the phone closer so they can hear, so you only really see like the fucking eyebrow. 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:05.360 You're like in someone's face. 00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:07.119 That's how I talk on FaceTime sometimes. 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:08.320 I'm like, hmm, what? 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:09.840 If I don't have my AirPods, I'm sorry. 00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:11.280 I'm I'm mitten handing you. 00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:12.639 Mitten handing you. 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:13.599 That's wild. 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:14.639 That's wild. 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:22.880 Was I also the only one that thought that Brent Jasmer, the guy who played books, actually looked like he could have been Sylvester Stallone's son. 00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:23.920 I mean, come on. 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:27.039 That guy looked like any and he's taking his shirt off. 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:27.840 You know what I mean? 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.239 Like this guy literally could be the spawn of Stallone. 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:32.239 He wasn't taking the shirt off, honestly. 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.199 Even the leprechaun took his shirt off as a woman. 00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:36.239 Very true. 00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:36.960 Very true. 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:38.719 Yeah, see, here's the thing. 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:42.559 Yes, he's cast because he's a fucking attractive man. 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:47.679 He's muscular, he's got the build, but holy shit, zero chemistry between any of them. 00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:51.360 Miguel Nunes, the only person with chemistry in this movie. 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:51.920 Yeah. 00:39:52.079 --> 00:40:02.559 Yeah, it eked out of him, and every time they gave him a one-liner, I was tempted to write it down because I was like, so basically, for the for good quotes to open the show with, he's he's got almost all of them. 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:04.880 Like, you know, who's driving this, Ray Charles? 00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:10.559 Like, that's just a silly thing that would be funny in the 90s, and it works in this situation. 00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:11.519 Love it. 00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:15.280 But yeah, he just kind of oozed, I don't know, charisma as an actor. 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:16.000 I think he's got it. 00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:23.679 What did not ooze charisma was that moment that she's apparently fucking covered in acid, and then they're like, oh, just take off all your clothes. 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:25.840 It's burning through. 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:28.400 You gotta take off her clothes and throw water all over her. 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:29.599 Ah, shucks. 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.320 Whoa, how unfortunate. 00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:34.320 Yeah, that's crazy. 00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:36.800 No, I'm sure it hasn't already burned your flesh. 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:46.159 It does take me back to the Bruno Mars thing because our leprechaun friend is willing to jump on a grenade for her, but she can buy herself flowers because if she gets damaged, she just regrows. 00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:48.000 So he she didn't need

him to do that. 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:48.559 That's true. 00:40:48.639 --> 00:40:49.039 That's true. 00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:49.679 That is true. 00:40:49.920 --> 00:41:05.920 Also, how fucked up is it that she obviously talks about like having any man she could want, she could have any kind of suitor, wealthy or not, and he's pointing out you're almost perfect, then points out one little tiny blemish, and then gives her a fucking horrific acne. 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:08.079 The fucking manipulation on this guy. 00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:11.840 So he was he already wasn't funny, and then he stopped being cute. 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:13.360 Yeah, got worse. 00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:14.400 It got worse. 00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:16.159 And it's tough, right? 00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:18.559 Because I love Warwick Davis. 00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:23.599 I think he's obviously in my childhood, I immediately think of Willow, right? 00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:25.199 He's so great in that film. 00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:33.599 Obviously, we love him in in some of the other leprechaun movies because he's got some really clever rhymes and one-liners and things like that. 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:40.559 And it's not to say that he didn't have some good moments in this movie, but definitely, as we were talking about earlier, something felt a little bit off. 00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:46.159 I don't I don't know that maybe it was I don't want to speak for anybody, but maybe he wasn't into this one. 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:52.960 It almost felt like he knew that this movie was shitty and was like, I ain't gonna put too much effort into this one because this is ridiculous. 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:53.920 You know what I mean? 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:55.840 Like, could have been that, who knows? 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:56.559 Who knows? 00:41:56.800 --> 00:42:02.719 Yeah, I think if it felt more like just poor direction and vision for the movie. 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:04.239 It felt like that more than anything. 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:13.519 The writing is interesting because, like I mentioned, some of the characters actually have some decent one-liners along the way, and I feel like they stole from the leprechaun to give these lines to them. 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:23.199 That's where all the humor went, is it left him, and they just would give this character a line here and this character a line here, and then they didn't leave very much for him to work with. 00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:24.880 Yeah, that's so true. 00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:31.039 The leprechaun needs, you know, the leprechaun needs his one-liners, and we don't really need it from the other people. 00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:32.639 We just want to see the other people die. 00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:34.480 Like that's the vibe we're looking for here. 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:36.239 You don't have to reinvent the wheel here. 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:40.559 Yeah, apparently he's described Leprechaun 4 in space as a bit of a mess. 00:42:40.880 -->

00:42:49.679 Which makes you wonder about perhaps like the production of the film or the writing or the direction or something, something here definitely definitely feels messy. 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:54.480 It doesn't, it doesn't seem even as good as perhaps the third installment was. 00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.800 I mean, I'm not in terms of film quality, but in terms of like having it together while they made it. 00:42:59.039 --> 00:42:59.679 Yeah. 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:00.559 True. 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:11.599 I also think you know, the the if we could talk about Harold for just a second, because Harold, why why did this guy have to be so fucking rapey? 00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:14.800 He was almost worse, if not worse, than Dr. 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.400 Carl Hill from Reanimator. 00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:18.800 Reanimator moment is a little bit much, right? 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:23.199 But this was like, holy shit, dude, every chance he gets, he's perving on somebody. 00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:26.000 He perved on everybody equally when he said, What did you say? 00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:27.519 Don't touch me unless you mean it, cowboy. 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:30.719 Yeah, he was just perving on everybody, and it led to his fucking demise. 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:32.079 What an idiot, this guy. 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:36.639 Yeah, it was a necrophilia and rubbing up on a corpse that he believed to be dead. 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.400 Granted, the princess came back. 00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:40.320 We get it, but holy shit. 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:41.920 Holy shit, man. 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:43.199 Where are we, by the way? 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:43.920 And you know what? 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.199 I think that actually might be one of the worst parts of this movie. 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:53.039 It's evidence of just how fucking inconsistent and unfunny it ends up being. 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.960 The cowboy moment, okay, maybe a little bit funny. 00:43:57.199 --> 00:43:59.760 The leprechaun in the beginning in the fucking tux. 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:02.320 Trying to really proposition this whole thing. 00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:02.960 Funny. 00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:05.440 Jumping on a live grenade, hilarious. 00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:09.519 However, the rest of this, a complete fucking mess. 00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:21.679 And I think even that, the tone deafness of it, the movie could have been funnier had it done less of this, less of the like sexual teasing or groping, etc. 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.039 Less of just trying to like put naked women on screen. 00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:26.719 This is a horny film. 00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:29.280 It was too horny for a space movie. 00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:30.239 Like what the fuck? 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:31.519 You know what I mean? 00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:35.119 Like, listen, we've seen some horny horror movies that are also fucking hilarious. 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:36.719 Like, don't get me wrong. 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.119 It's not that no movie can be horny. 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.079 However, this just didn't need to be. 00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:51.280 And if that effort was then redirected into shoring up any other component of this movie, it probably would have been a middle of the road slash. 00:44:51.679 --> 00:45:04.320 It's interesting the direction they took because I think had they stuck to everyone in the film being really serious, it would have worked so much better if they really tried to like, I mean, completely like parrot aliens and other films. 00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:09.199 Like have the leprechaun be the xenomorph in this in this movie. 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:11.039 And I think that would have worked really well. 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:15.840 He could have had all the funny lines, he could have provided all the humor, and everyone else could have played the straight man. 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:18.000 And that would have worked out, I think, so much better. 00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:22.239 I'm gonna agree with you that it is the worst part of the movie, that this movie smells like a locker room. 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:27.360 It is very much 15-year-old testosterone-fueled comedy. 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:32.239 And so, like those moments we get that I enjoyed, I'm like, okay, I have to look past the other stuff. 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:44.960 Yeah, one of the worst parts of the film, but I think one of the best parts is just gonna remain that we get that kind of body horror practical effects that's kind of paying homage to the fly, right? 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:46.320 It was great to see. 00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:56.559 I loved especially the moment where he's like keeps like trying to like control the ship, but is getting distracted by his like incessant like need for the flies. 00:45:56.639 --> 00:46:09.760 Like he this arachnid mutated monster is like trying to do what he's supposed to be doing, but also just has this unquenching hunger for flies and finally gets that fly. 00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.719 I wish we lingered in that character a little longer. 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:16.079 I wish that character got to give us a little bit more kills. 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:20.079 That would have been kind of cool if we stayed in that space a little bit more. 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:20.559 Yeah. 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:29.280 You know, I realize that we had so many different antagonists in in this movie, and we had the same thing in Leprechaun fucking takes Vegas, right? 00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:34.559 But let me not escape unscathed without a hard compliment to this movie. 00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:37.199 I love that his lightsaber comes from his cane. 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:38.719 It's very fucking cute. 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:39.360 That's it. 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:41.440 Sorry, I just horrible. 00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:43.599 Listen, he looks so tickled. 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:46.960 It's one of the my fucking favorite images from

this movie. 00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:53.679 He turns, he turns his cane, fucking ignites his saber, and then he looks just like there's so much joy. 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:59.760 And in that moment, I don't think Warwick Davis is thinking about the leprechaun having a lightsaber. 00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:04.880 That's Warwick Davis fucking enjoying pretending to have a fucking lightsaber. 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:05.440 Right. 00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:06.559 Absolutely. 00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:21.280 But I gotta tell you, I honestly think the universe was trying to do me a solid by unintentionally skipping over this one because it's probably the worst installment in the entire franchise, and I honestly cannot see myself ever watching this one again. 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:27.360 Oh, yeah, this is definitely a movie to play video games to, so that you can kind of like choose when you want to watch it. 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:31.280 It's not one that you need to sit down and watch and then watch again in a year. 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:35.039 It's like, oh, it's on, okay, whatever, cool, I'll let it happen. 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.079 That's kind of the most I think I would give it on a rewatch. 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:40.800 I don't have any interest in watching this movie. 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:48.800 If I want to see Warwick Davis in space, I think instead I'll watch a Star Wars film where he stars as an Ewok Wicket. 00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:50.480 That is the move to make. 00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:50.960 Okay. 00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:51.760 Mm-hmm. 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:54.400 But for now, there you have it, folks. 00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:59.920 Leprechaun 4 in space has earned two hacks and one slash. 00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:02.079 Now we certainly had a lot to talk about here. 00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:04.159 The conversation doesn't end here by any means. 00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:08.400 I think we have to feel out Binks' stance on the whole leprechaun in space situation. 00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.559 And there's just a lot more to unpack. 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:13.440 Yeah, there's definitely so much more. 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:16.400 There is so much more at the end of this rainbow. 00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:21.360 And if you want to find out what's at the end of the rainbow, don't steal the leprechauns gold. 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:37.039 Just consider supporting the show because you can find out how to do that by visiting patreon.com slash hackerslash where you can enjoy even more of the show, including bonus content with early access, extended episodes with our B-sides, movie nominations, and live shows. 00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:42.159 If you want to taste the rainbow instead, leave us a five star review wherever you get your podcast. 00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:46.880 This helps us continue to deliver great content for all you horror fiends out there. 00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:48.400 We'll see you next time, folks. 00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:50.719 And remember, always wear a prophylactic. 00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:52.880 What do you do if you want to unload it?