Riger Reviews The Bride! and Young Sherlock

0:00Oh, yes, indeed, Rieger reviews it, sponsored by Wigley's famous Eastern Market Corn Beef. Get lucky at Ernie's Grill in Clinton Township. In fact, this March 17th Ernie is turning into McCurney's. That's right, McCurney's, for St. Patrick's Day, enjoy live Irish music and feast on Wigley's made Corn Beef and Cabbage, Rubens and Corn Beef on Grilled Rye. See you at Ernie's 1665519 Mile Road, that's Ernie's, or on St. Patrick's Day, McCurney's, at 1665519 Mile Road. Hello, Mr. Rieger, happy Friday. Hey, Paul W. How are you? I am excellent. Is this a good weekend to go to the movies or not? Yeah. I think so. I think they've got some good movies that are out both on the screen and on the stream. All right.

1:00Let's go to the screen first, The Bride in theaters. Interesting take on a story that has been told over and over and over again, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. This is a story about Frankenstein's monster who's looking for a companion. So they revived the body of Ida, played by Jesse Buckley, by the way, Frank is played by Christian Bale, who I love, and she is a recently murdered escort, and they bring her back to life, and this takes place in 1930s Chicago. The problem is she, when she comes back from being reanimated, she develops kind of an identity crisis because she's caught between her past life as the escort, the expectations of the monster, but she also has the ghost of Mary Shelley who wrote Frankenstein, who occasionally possesses her. And it's kind of a pop punk, gothic romance, if you will, Bonnie and Clyde type story.

2:02It's kind of interesting, it's kind of weird, but it's an interesting take on the story of Frankenstein and the bride of Frankenstein. We could have been a little bit shorter than the two hours and six minutes that it was, but I saw it with Mike Parsons actually, so we both kind of had the same feeling on it. Let's listen to the bride, which is today in theaters, and Mike Parsons will join us with his thoughts with Dave Riger in just a moment. Let's listen. Can anybody help me? Please. I didn't want this. I didn't want any of this. Please. Help. Help. Help. Help! Help! Help! Help!

3:03Help! Help! Help! What happened? You had an accident. An accident, huh? We dug you up. It only brought you back to life. The bride of Frankenstein. No, just the bride. Already, she's causing trouble. Mike Parsons, a quick note from you since you watched it with Dave. Yeah, I thought it would have been a good hour and a half movie at two hours. It was a bit long. I did like the retelling of it, but it was trying to do too many things and trying to, I think it was trying to be weird for the sake of being weird when they could have just made it a good retelling of the story. How many sandwiches? I'm going to give it two with these sandwiches. I think Mike agreed. I think we talked about it. Yeah, I'd give it two. I might watch it again, but I could edit it into a better movie.

4:05All right, let's talk about another movie this one on Prime called Young Sherlock. Let's listen. My name is Sherlock Holmes. I've always been more of a thinker than a fighter. The two are mutually exclusive. There's an act. The fighting. There's not to war. It's lost to me. It's leaving. Those days are really behind me. I'm in Oxford now. You have to promise me something. Anything, mother. Stay out of trouble. Sherlock Holmes. James Moriarty. Sherlock is speaking French. Sherlock never made any friends. What was going on with playing today? What game would you like to play? Don't! Mike Ruff. The bloody hell is going on. You mind telling me why your brother is standing on the scene of the crime? Oh dear. I'm curious as to why I'm being set up for murder. That I need proof.

5:05The other forces of work. I'm sorry to bother you, sir. What is it? A bomb. What do you mean a bomb? A bomb is an incendiary device. I don't want to bloody bomb. Yes. As a 19-year-old at Oxford University, Sherlock Holmes. Young Sherlock is not yet the master detective. He grows up to be. Sounds like a good concept. Yeah, this is cool. You know, nostalgic cells in Hollywood today. And prequels also sell. So this is a... I did not know that he was such a troublemaker. Young Sherlock Holmes is a 19-year-old according to this version. And it's funny that he becomes friends with James Moriarty, his arch enemy, and all the Sherlock Holmes books. So this just tells the story. He's in Oxford. And it's going to be a series. And he's framed for murder. And he's got to solve his first case. What a great first case. Yeah, I think it's pretty... I think it's very well done. I think people will enjoy it. I liked it.

6:05I will give it three Wigglies. I love nostalgia. I like Sherlock Holmes. And I think it's a kind of a cool take on an old story. That's been around forever. Excellent. It sounds... Well, first of all, you can watch it at home on Prime. Sure. So that has it going for it. But three Wigglies, that's a nice... Yeah. I'm picking. If I'm going to watch one, I'm going to watch young Sherlock over going out to the theater to see the bride. Yes. It's interesting that both of our movies this week come from stories that have been around forever and there have been multiple different versions of both of these stories throughout the years. Well, yeah. I don't want to say, unfortunately, but I guess I am saying, unfortunately, if you note, many, many, many, many movies are just going back to their other movies. I mean, the idea of creativity of a brand new idea seems to get harder and harder to come by. It's tough. It's tough to come up with a movie that is brand new,

7:07that doesn't have some sort of background of something else and make it work. It's tough. Hollywood's got a big task ahead of them. Well, we got business people there now who are afraid to take the chances that were allowed in the past. Some were hit, some were missed, but they allowed them. Now everyone's afraid because of the money that's going to be invested and then their head is on the platter. So we'll just get through this period. Dave Rieger, Rieger, reviews it. Take care, Paul. Are you holding up without football? It's thanks. It's not easy, is it? No. Well, it's not that long, or maybe it is. How long is it? Are you keeping track or are you one of those guys? Yes. How long is before the football season gets underway again? It's going to be a long summer. OK. All right, Dave Rieger reviews it right here in focus with Paul W. Smith on WJR.