Fall 2: Fall Harder - Recap

About 25 years ago, a movie hit the theater called Fall. It was about two ladies against all odds climbing a radio tower to prove who was the dumbest of them all. And us fans really got a treat cuz it was a small little, you know, fun flick. I know it didn't come out 25 years ago. I'm being a little dramatic. I know it's crazy for a YouTuber to be dramatic. Regardless, it felt like it came out a long time ago, but now here we are with a brand new fall film, a movie that screamed, "I do not need a sequel." And I'm honestly here for it. The movie's bigger. It's dumber. And it leads to something possibly entertaining as all hell, which I plan on getting into in this spoiler recap video. I call it a recap because I'm going to point out all the dumb things in the movie and I'm going to do a poor job of it and hopefully you laugh along the way as I try to rack my brain remembering what I watched over a week ago. It's getting harder and harder. Let me tell you that I did enjoy this movie. I would say it's worth watching with the note that it is very dumb and it does a lot of twists that don't really have any reason to exist. [music] All right, let's get into it. Fall two, fall harder. Okay, what we have with Fall 2 colon Deadpool is a movie about two different ladies. Apparently, in the fall cinematic universe, these movies always have to have two female leads and nothing more. There cannot be four or five people climbing a mountain or skydiving or or going extreme mini golfing. I don't know what extreme mini golfing is, but I feel like it exists already. And if it doesn't, it needs to. We open with a completely unnecessary intro to this mountain of doom that the ladies will eventually climb on where we have two guys in the pouring rain in the middle of the night trying to cross deadly gaps in the side of the mountain via these little wooden planks. Well, something goes wrong. The guys get in a little scuffle and next thing you know, they're both off the side of the cliff. Now, I'm being a little vague because I truly do not remember this beginning at all other than it looked kind of bad and really set the stage for a bad film. Thankfully, that's not what happens afterwards, but this felt like a scene that was rushed out after the movie was shot and they said, "Oh, we really need to hit the audience with something exciting out of the gates to get them hooked." And so, they just like threw this [ __ ] together. It's possible it ties into the later twist reveal. That's really stupid, but I'm not so sure. After the title card hits, Fall to Cruise Control, we're now with our new strong female lead protagonist. Her name is Hunter, and she is the sister of Shiloh. Shiloh is the the chick with the big boobs in the first movie that falls into the satellite and dies. The cool thing about Fall was the twist reveal that comes later in the film. The two ladies are at the tippy top of the tower. One of them falls. Big boobs McGee. She hits the satellite, dies, but her friend does not know that at the time or has blocked that out of her noggin and convinced herself that her friend is still with her. And so in the final moments of the movie, she's going to snap out of it and realize I I'm getting like height visions or something [laughter] due to lack of water and and sleep. And so I've imagined my my friend was alive and with me the whole time. Well, she's kind of here in spirit as well because there are going to be flashbacks with the sister. This is going to be uh something that we see several times via both Hunter's memory of her sis and through a a shitty little camera that we see Hunter on the monkey bars and she's trying to get Shiloh's attention. Shiloh. Shily. Shy dog. I'm trying to go ACROSS THE MONKEY BARS. LOOK AT ME. YEAH. SHILOH AND BECKY were two peas in a pod for the longest time. And it seems like Hunter maybe has a little bit of uh [groaning] animosity towards her. Adamosity. It's my name with oity at the end. Subscribe. She's going to be rumaging through her sister's old stuff and finding out she really doesn't want to remember any of the the things that used to remind her of her sister, such as uh photos, such as, you know, her vibrator, such as I don't know if that was in there, but I I in my head cannon that was in there. and a journal that has not only the places she has been but the places she wanted to go obstacles she has accomplished such as the tower I imag well the tower didn't get a I mean the tower defeated her so I don't know if that made the scrapbook or if they just you know [snorts] ripped that page right out of there [laughter] and crumpled it up threw it in the basket I mean her friend accomplished it again this is a spoiler recap video is in the house she is in this movie in a couple flashback scenes and oh my god, the big reveal at the end is just it's all the chef's kisses combined. Let's get down to business, though. Outside of Becky, I assumed Shiloh had no other people in her life. Certainly didn't know she had a sister. Was never mentioned once in the first movie, so we had to make her estranged a little bit, right? We had to keep her in the keep her in the shadows, her sister's shadows. But it turns out Shiloh actually had a college friend named Loose. And look out folks because the loose is loose. She comes by the house and she sees Hunter rumaging through the box of goodies and she stops her and says, "You know what? I knew your sis. We were good friends. You don't know me. I know her. You might remember me. Um, I know you haven't seen me in a while. I am black and since you have natural racism on you, you probably think I'm the one black friend she had from uh the past." And Hunter is like, "Yeah, I mean, I'm convinced. I don't need to look into this any further. And that that worked. So, she's actually pretending to be a girl that she's not. What? Yeah, there are a lot of twists and turns in this movie. Try to keep the [ __ ] up. This reveal is not going to hit until a good hour plus into the movie. And when it does, I sat there and thought to myself, why? Okay. Because who what what's the point? The reason she lied was because she's a super fan of Shiloh's from her YouTube vlogs and whatnot. She Shiloh got her through some tough times. And so to repay the debt, she wants to go on a climb in her honor. One last ride for Paul Walker. It's been a long day without you, my friend. So, she convinces Hunter that she's this loose chick. Maybe it's Lucy. It's l Uce E. Google tells me it's pronounced loose. I don't know. I Maybe it's Lucy. We're going loose. Okay. Again, it's been over a week since I've seen this and I don't remember names where [ __ ] I barely remember my name. I think it's Aaron. She says, "Listen, the next thing on her little scrapbook is to climb this mountain." I think it's mountain death or mount you're going to die if you try to climb this or mount hey dumb [ __ ] don't climb this mountain especially if you have zero experience that's enough to convince Hunter to go along with this ride and that's what they do they head on over to Thailand and they meet the local Thai folks who introduce them to their way of life at a bar playing some pool listening to music just real salt of the earth individuals actually they they don't really care for these two young chicks coming into their establishment. They think, you know, they see these tourists, they see these vacationers from time to time, trying to climb the mountain, trying to make a name for themselves. It it's a been there, done that, old hat thing. They go over to the local bartender and they say, "Sir," as people often address him, tears in their eyes, of course, "Sir, we're looking for someone to take us up to the top of the hill." And the bartender, cleaning a glass, of course. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking about going up to that hill over there, right? You're thinking about honoring your dead one. Well, let me tell you something. Sometimes dead, it's better. You don't need to go up that honor. You can go you can go over to a jungle gym and do the same thing. In fact, I don't know why these dumb ladies think they need to climb to the top of this mountain. Just honor her. You know, sprinkle some sand in the ocean or something. Go down a kitty slide. There's no reason to risk your life for this this woman that apparently Hunter could never get the attention of. Anyways, apparently Hunter and her had a falling out because we're going to get flashbacks sprinkled throughout this thing of not just old footage on the camera where they're singing bad karaoke at a club, but also of them on their skydiving trip. This was Hunter and Shiloh's one time to really make a mark together, really bond as sisters. Could it have led to maybe something more? Perhaps a a playful push, then a shove, a kiss, pillow fight in the room, stripping down, and maybe making ancestral love. I That's a movie we'll never get to see. Unfortunately, that does not happen. In my mind, it did, but not in the film. Subscribe. Uh, instead, [laughter] I think I blacked out. Is it hot in here? They're about to go skydiving. Hunter freaks out. She's like, "No, not like this. Not like this." She doesn't want to go out of the plane. But Shiloh says, "We're going whether you like it or snot." And then she jumps out with her. They're flying through the sky and instead of ripping the cord like she's supposed to because they're, you know, they're tandem. They're tandem falling. She passes out. Or at least she pretends to. God. Classic Shiloh. Vintage shy hunter, you [screaming] suck. [snorts] And as they're slowly making their descent, all I can think is, "Kiss her. Kiss her." But they don't. Instead, they fall down. They get in a big fight. HUNTER'S LIKE, "I HATE YOU. I HOPE YOU I HOPE YOU CLIMB UP A RADIO TOWER AND FALL TO YOUR DEATH." ODDLY specific threat. Turns out that's exactly what happened. Fast forward a year or two later. And we are now finding a person to take THEM UP TO THE MOUNTAIN. Enter John Platt. This is the guy you want to get behind when you go up a cliff. John Boy's been up this thing. mount, you really are going to die if you try to climb it Muvius or whatever a million times. All right? He knows when to go. He knows when not to go. And he specifically knows that the passage they want to take has been closed for like 3 months. The only way to get up there is to go through some back alleyway of the mountain. Go past the seedy underbelly of characters. Slide between some bolt cut it up fencing. climb these shitty janky rungs of a ladder stuck into the mountainside and then walk the plank like they're going to their death on a [ __ ] pirate ship. The interesting thing about all of this is that John Platt, who already seems sketchy just on his face, is really sketchy come the end of this film. I'm going to save that dumbass reveal for then though. I just want to point out that when having this whole bartering thing, he's like, uh, two unexperienced climbers in this time of the year, offseason, off trail, Oregon on trail, other words. Uh, I'm going to charge you five grand. All right, that's 5K large, fam. The girls are like, "Oh, we do not have that kind of coin. I don't know how this is going to work." And they try to negotiate with him a little bit. that he's not budging. And so they agree to the 5,000 large. And once the end of the movie comes around and the reveal happens, all I'm thinking is why are you why why are you even charging them anything? Like you you actually need them. So why the whole song and dance? Why the pony show? Another thing I want to point out about this actor that I actually really enjoyed is the amount of times he just does this kind of like he does this like weird smirk subtle head acknowledgement constantly throughout the movie. I liked it. Now every good movie, every good story has foreshadowing and we have a lot of it here. One of the big foreshadows is that they have a laser pointer in the bar that can shoot all the way across the world to that giant mountain. This laser pointer is important because the girls are going to have it later and they're going to try to signal for help. They don't do Morris code, which would have been kind of cool. They don't even do Zach Morris code, which would have been really cool. By the time I grab my books and I give myself a look, I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by. Things go remarkably bad at first. They start to climb up the ladder. Our boy John goes first. Then we have Loose, followed by Hunter. Hunter is a frail, timid little mouse. Oh, I don't want to I don't want to go up there. She touches the ladder rung. Oh god, MY SISTER DIED THIS WAY. And you know, by the end of this film, she's getting a glow up. She takes off the shirt. She rocks the tight six-pack abs. She's got the form fitting pants and she's ready to play. She's ready to pounce like a cat. Anything that needs to be done, she can outdo it. Cuz all it takes is a she's all that moment where they take off the glasses and boom, they're 50 times hotter and a thousand times more capable. But for now, she sucks. [laughter] [crying] I'm doing it. I'M DOING IT. UH, your feet are still on the ground, [ __ ] They're going to start walking the planks, which are literal planks on the sides of this mountain that are no no wider than like a person. You can only go one at a time widthwise. And they're just shimmying across this thing. Move along like I know you do. All American rejects. The big thing this expert climber really wants to drive home to these gals is that there are two hooks. You got the hook that you snap in and you got the hook that you're going to go to next. So, snap it, skirt, snap it, unhook, clip on, clip off, clip on, clip off, and then eventually make their way to the devil's vagina or whatever it's called, devil's elbow or something on the mountain where they kind of shimmy skirt around it. And that's when chaos is going to really set in. An earth shake is a brewin. The mountain is a quaking and a stewing. And pretty soon, rocks are tumbling down on them. This separates John Boy from the other two gals, smashing right through those pieces of wood, thereby creating a large gap in its wake. There's no way for this party to reconnect. Jon possibly dead. We don't even see what happens to him. Out of the picture completely. The ladies are going to have to try to go back the way they came. But mother nature has other plans as more rocks go down, smashing the other side. I've played video games like this, but thankfully my characters always have double jumps or they have some sort of a hook shot that you can just swing across. So I feel like if I was up on that mountain, that's all they need to do. Quick double jump, throw a hook, Indiana Jones my ass across. These ladies don't have that luxury. Instead, they're just going to kind of sit tight for a night. And quite frankly, that ain't right because they're going to be stewing in the elements. And this is a problem with the movie. It does not do a good job, unlike the first fall, of showcasing those elements. The rain pouring down on them, the sun baking them into a crispy taco. No, they're just up there kind of like mildly annoyed. A little chilly in here. Did someone leave a window open? It's kind of a draft. Kind of a drafty day. There's not like a lot of scenes where they're almost falling off because of wind and it's just it was just kind of Disney afternoonish. The only real obstacle these girls have to overcome from time to time is shortness of breath. But luckily for them, John gave them each their own little oxygen container. They just take a quick hit of that [ __ ] and they're off to the races. So, I'd like to think that it's just them huffing paint. So, they're getting a little bit of a high, but it's it's probably some sort of oxygen tank. Because of this whole fiasco, their backpack, which contained a walkie to communicate with John, has gotten thrown aunder, and it is now hanging by a moment off of the side of one of those little rungs. The the planks completely gone, but the little pieces of polling are still sticking out. And this is where Loose is going to have to put up her shut up. She is going to attempt to tippy toe teeter totter her ass over to that bag, grab it, and then somehow do the same thing on the way back. Well, doesn't quite work out that way. But before we get to that point, the big reveal hits. It's the middle of the night. Hunter's looking at that old video camera of her sisters. She sees that karaoke night where Loose was with only Hang on a second. Ah, my eyes are open for the first time. This black chick ain't this black chick. THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. HOW IS that possible? Did she get facial reconstructive surgery or is she just a great big phony? And then she turned to Loose. You're not loose at all. You're just a great big phony. Yeah. Yeah, I am. I'm not who I said I was. But your sister wasn't going to give her shitty ass truck to a fan of the show. She wanted to only give it to close friends and family. And so I pretended to be a close friend. And I wanted the truck. I wanted a piece of her. I wanted a part of her to be with me. Okay. I wanted part of her inside of me. No. Now I'm thinking of something else again. Thinking of something else. We got to stay focused on this movie. Hunter begrudgingly forgives her, especially after the heroic attempt that she makes and completely botches. The very next morning, Loose risks it all to go get that backpack. And I get it. She's kind of feeling like she owes that much to Hunter. And since she's dying anyways, who really cares, right? I mean, it's it's better for her to go out in a blaze of glory since she has really nothing to lose. She's got a dead friend that wasn't even her friend to begin with. She's got cancer, so she's probably going to be dead in 6 months how it is. And oh, did I forget to tell you she has cancer? THAT'S ANOTHER [ __ ] REVEAL. THAT'S RIGHT. This movie's reveal after reveal. Buckle the [ __ ] up. Hunter doesn't want Loose to do it, but she says, "Yeah, I'm dying." And and then it leads to that whole thing. Anyway, the goose is loose. She hops across these things. doesn't quite make it work out. Falls backwards and is now dangling by her legs. She's doing the whole like upside down thing that girls do where their hair is dangling and it's really cute. Uh not so much here though. And now it's time for Hunter to become the the hunter [laughter] strong female lead. Yeah. [screaming] This time I'mma LET IT ALL COME OUT. THIS TIME I'MMA STAND UP AND SHOUT. I'MMA DO THINGS MY WAY. YES, my way. My way or the far away. She performs her heart out, jumping out of those pipes, [laughter] doing like six spins, going into a triple axle, winking at the camera, going onto another one, and then balance beaming herself on the final piece, grabbing the backpack. See you later, [ __ ] Pulls the cord [gasps and laughter] and parachutes to freedom. No, that's not what happens. Let's rewind that tape. This film is a masterpiece and it has more foreshadows than any other movie in the history of film. when our huntress is swinging across those bars. The film beautifully and eloquently flashes back to that video recording of her as a little girl on the monkey bars trying to get her sister's attention because she has mastered the art of swing. She has mastered the art of balance. And so here it is years later on full display in her sister's honor. She barely makes it to the bag which almost falls. So, she has to one arm grab it, pull it back up, and then she just pounces on top of that pole like a gargoyle. But don't worry, she got herself that walkie. John Boy could really use your help right now. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Could use a little lift out. If you bring that bird on by and fly us home, that would be great. Over. All right, John. I'm getting a little pissed off right now. I'm putting my neck on the line for you. You use a gun, I use a fountain, pen. Diehard Ellis reference. Subscribe, Hunter. This is John. I'm making that noise with my mouth. Can you hear it? Does it sound like static or something? Anyway, [snorts] yeah, I'll be over there in two shakes of a lamb's dick. Over. And really, with very little time going by, there he is. You miss me? I'm actually the bad guy of this film. Well, we'll get there in a second. He helps the two ladies up who both miraculously survived, but they're not out of the woods yet. After paying their respects to some statue goddess lady at the top of the mountain, who of course reciprocates by tipping the hat, they make their way across a tiny little bridge, which is just a foreshadow of the massive rickety one they're going to have to cross sooner than later. This is like the Indiana Jones Temple of Doombridge. This is like the Emperor's New Groove Bridge, only they're not going to be able to go back to back and shuffle each other up the mountain. Now, this is far too wide. Far too, far too treacherous. They make it across this thing one at a time, but it's very clear that only a couple kicks are going to break this whole some [ __ ] down. And once across, another foreshadow is going to come to the surface. All good stories have good foreshadowing. Well, Lucy Goosey is going to take another hit of her oxygen tank only to find out the bottom unclasps and inside are freaking drugs. The worst kind of drugs, opiids. GOD, [screaming] I I DON'T KNOW. IT'S LIKE fentanyl or something. I don't do drugs. I do movies. This is just me, but being thousands of feet uh from the floor of civilization up in a mountaintop with a with an expert climber, the last thing I would probably try to do is push any sort of buttons, but um we we each walk our own walk. We each have our own path, right? And so Luc is going to start running her mouth. Are you out of your [ __ ] mind? You are using us as drug mules up this cliff because the local authorities won't pay us any mind. A couple tourists we go by a notice. They look the other way. So, we're the perfect sheep for you to herd around. John Boy, I would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids. Listen, I got a chopper coming to meet us at the top of the mountain. You help me get him the drugs. We all get out of this. No problem. Okay, but there is a problem. There's push back and a fight breaks out to which point To which point Loose runs her mouth one too many times AND SAYS, "THIS IS MADNESS." And then John looks at her. MADNESS, kicks her in the chest, launching her off the side of THE CLIFF. THIS IS SPARTA. I [laughter] don't know the theme song for 300. I think it was doing like Sin City. She flies off of that thing like she's a Mortal Kombat character in the pit. Hunter trips over her own patheticness, falls down, but she's badass now. So the patheticness that's intentional [laughter] and she's just playing him like a fiddle. He walks over ready to beat the [ __ ] out of her. Actually starts punching her. It's my kink now. And then she says a forshadowed line of dialogue that he said to THEM EARLIER IN THE MOVIE. THIS MOVIE IS PERFECT. FORESHADOWING. Hunter doesn't want to meet her maker yet, though, so she goes across the bridge again. Bad guy follows. Before she does the final blow, she says the thing back to him that he's been saying to them all movie. Clip on. Clip off. She kicks the bridge, which causes the thing to break. He flies down to his death. and she was hooked on like a good girl. Thank you for paying attention. She thankfully still had her tank full of drugs, so we don't have to deal with that confrontation or the awkwardness of the fact that they for some reason don't kill this white [ __ ] and leave her for dead. Uh, she just got out of it. She's like, "I GOT YOUR DRUGS." YEAH, bring her on. Sure, bring her on. I don't think it usually works like that. But again, I don't do drugs, so maybe maybe it does. All right, happy ending. She went back to the bar. The pool table lady that kind of gave her some guff earlier now respects her because she sees that she's all cut up and had clearly a bad week. The bartender still cleaning the same glass. He's never going to finish it. Gives her a nod of respect. And then she heads home. But her mission that she has chosen to accept is not over. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Quite the contrary. She's just getting started. and so is the fall franchise. Even though I'm pretty sure this second movie bombed at the box office because no one knew it came out, that doesn't stop the movie from continuing. She sends out a nice little love letter to none other than the survivor from the first fall. That's right, BECKY CONNOR IS BACK, BABY. BECKY, who's working on her fence or something, she's rocking a tasteful tank top. I I can't help but appreciate the tank. She stops doing her powerful female stuff for a second, checks the mail. She reaches in, pulls out a surprise postcard from none other than [ __ ] Hunter herself with a special invitation to go meet her in a location I don't remember to honor Shiloh. But it comes off as more of a threat than a fun girl's weekend out because remember Hunter does not care for this chick. In fact, she actually blames her for Shiloh's death. It's pretty dark stuff. And so, I'm I'm thinking that fall three, it's going to be a story of revenge. And maybe we do get that make out session after all. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. If they can make Negan somehow get in a relationship with Maggie after he bashes her freaking husband's face in, anything's possible, right? Let a guy dream. Fall two dead ass title card hits. And I have to tell you, I am [ __ ] wet right now with anticipation for this third outing. I I really hope it it sees the light of day. All right, there you have it. Fall uh to new beginnings, right? We we out with the old, in with the new. 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