Milkhouse: Nostalgic Movie Reviews - Blank Check

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Ready for milk house? Yeah. Put the tape in. Okay, here it goes. I'll turn on the TV. Whoa, it's on. Yes! Milk house!

SPEAKER_02 0:16

All right, Steph. Blank check. I watched it last night, and it's been a good few decades since I've seen this, and I am still uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Yes, I read an article just this morning, actually. And this article was from 2014 by a guy named Jeremy Glass, and he said, Blink check was perhaps the most confusing film of the 1990s, and that saying something. It was like, yeah, Jeremy has it right. It's insane.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

Uh it was a definitely an insane movie, and for us 90s kids, we probably saw it on the Disney Channel. That's what I remember.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

I think I remember on VHS.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

You saw it on VHS?

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

So I don't know if it was an actual Disney film. I don't think it was. But I saw it played on the Disney Channel for sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

And oh, go ahead if you're gonna say something.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

No, I was just gonna say it's on Disney Plus, but I don't remember ever watching it on the Disney Channel, like one of their movies. Um, but definitely VHS, probably rented from the library or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

Right, definitely rented from a video store near you.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

But for those who don't know, this movie was popular in the early 90s, and I think this is 1994.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

94, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

And I will read the storyline summary off of IMDB. It says after committing check fraud, Preston Waters lives out his 12-year-old fantasies by spending a million dollars in six days, but he quickly realizes he can't quite handle the consequences. Miguel Ferrer and Brian Bonsell star in this 1994 kids classic that will leave you asking, why didn't this kid get grounded? Now that wasn't my question when I saw this. No, because I'm sure most people have seen the viral ending to this film where there is a kissing scene between a very underage boy and a very adult woman.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

She's 30.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

She's 30, she's super old.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

But way too old for him, nonetheless.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Oh, yeah. And that's wild.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

Yeah. And so we watched it last night, so the night before we're recording this. And like I said, it has been decades since I've seen this. I felt awkward and had anxiety the entire movie. And I didn't remember a lot of it. Yeah. There there were certain things that I don't remember. There's a lot of things I caught. One of them being my wife noticed it takes place in Indiana. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_00 3:17

I did not remember that at all. Or it just went right over my head.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Yeah. I and if you look it up online, there's a there's it says the setting, it takes place in a fictional town in Indiana. And the scene where he goes pressed and goes to the bank, you can see the American flag and you can see the Indian Indiana State flag. That's funny. So it's pretty, pretty interesting how they set it here in Indiana. But I I thought it was very unrealistic, especially when it came to the blank check part. Now the the plot of the criminal, the fugitive escaping prison, he finds you know this case of a million dollars that he had quote unquote saved or stolen. And then he blackmails a banker to give him different bills because the bills he has are marked, and so on and so on. And then it goes to Preston, which he's got some weird tension with his father and mother, which the parents were super oh, what is the word for that? They just weren't very loving.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

No.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

And I feel like they were especially hard on him for not being successful for being 12.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

For 12, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Um, and then Preston in the early part of the film gets his bike ran over by this criminal, and he's uh he writes him a blank check because he forgot to sign it. The kid is clever enough to fill it out for a million dollars, which is exactly what the account will hold. He the banker gives a million bucks, fast forward to yada yada. The kid just fulfills every childhood fantasy one could in the 90s.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:04

A lot of toys and junk food and all those type of things.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

I I just, you know, I will say the realistic part of that movie was the thing at the bank, um, with a guy like, oh, this was really smart that you that you chose a kid to be juice. To be juice. To be juice, yeah. Yeah. I was like, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

I can get behind the you're juice, and he's like, I don't know, I'm good, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Yeah, he's like clever, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

Clever. I like I like his style.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Other than that, um I I don't know, just not realistic at all.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

No, um you have one of the bank tellers is an undercover FBI agent. Yes, kind of sneak into the story.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Honestly, that made everything even more disturbing, especially that last. I'm like, okay. Yeah, it was already bad enough when you were just regular, like a regular person. The fact that you're FBI just made it all the worse.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

Yeah, it just didn't the story wasn't well real well, excuse me, written, but the kid is supposed to be a Kevin McAllister type, where he's just he's a pretty smart cookie, yes, and he makes an alias called Mr. Macintosh. That's how he is able to purchase all these things under this alias, but he buys a house. And did you notice the castle house in the film was marketed at $150,000?

SPEAKER_00 6:40

Say that again.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

The house, the castle house that he buys. Yeah, the original sale price was $150,000. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

Yeah, and then he like I would end up going up to $300,000.

SPEAKER_02 6:53

$300.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Yeah. Okay, already issue one. It's a freaking mansion. Yeah, you're gonna tell me that I believe the story of $150,000. Not at all.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

Crazy, because in today's market, I wouldn't get you much.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

No, no, not at all.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

And then it would get you a castle, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

Which again, I like I would like to believe that you could buy a kit castle for $300,000, but yeah, no, not happening.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

It was interesting how he paled around with the driver all the time, and I can't remember his name.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Well, he was a paid, a paid friend for one.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

A paid friend, yes.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

Yeah, uh Henry.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

Was that his name?

SPEAKER_00 7:42

Henry sounds right.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

Um Ralph. Okay, never mind. It was Henry. Yep.

unknown 7:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

It was Henry, and yes, the FBI agent Shay. And what so we talked about this before in one of the episodes. Her attitude towards him the entire time was I think it it comes off differently because it's a a woman, and you expect more of a male figure to act like this, but it was kind of creepy how she just kind of went along. I know she's supposed to be undercover, wink wink, but how they went out on a date.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Yeah, that was so weird. And then at the was it at the end or the end of the date where she's like, call me in 10 years or something like that. Um, yeah, they could they could go on a date when he turned 18. I'm like yes, it's it's yeah, that was pretty grill. Yeah, it was so weird. And I don't think many parents thought to watch it beforehand because like our parents would watch the movie before we did, because it was such an innocent poster, like and it was Disney, you didn't have to think anything of it, right? But yeah, as an adult, you're watching it and you're like, mmm, um, it's questionable for sure.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

I feel all his spending just gave me anxiety.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Right. For a kid that was so into math and so into numbers and money, how he just in six days was just like, let's spend whatever. And I did get some numbers. I look back because he got he had his driver, his mansion, his go-karts, uh, the pool. He did that big shopping spree. Um, and he was gonna host that big uh big, I don't know, gala or event at the end of the money or at the end of the movie. Um but the guess admit was that the shopping spree alone was 4,000. Just that one day that him and the limo went out.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

In the 90s, that's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

That's a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

And then he just, I'm gonna assume the limo driver just got paid 2,000 for the six days, would be my guess. He couldn't have the the party because he was short, but the house was $300,000, so that's $700,000, which I'm sure this kid did not even think about the taxes, just one and like he's still gonna pay the electric bill.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

So all the utilities involved, yep.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Yeah, all of that. And then I feel like the total was just under a million dollars. So for six days he spent a million dollars just under a million dollars, and still he didn't have enough money to throw the party. Like what a bummer.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

Yeah, I believe his balance when that really nasty woman gave him his bill, she said it was a hundred grand, he had what three hundred and sixty-four dollars or something in his account. And then he had to admit to everybody that he's a fraud, that he's Mr. Macintosh didn't have the money.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Right. And let's be honest, if we were gonna go into business with someone, I think the red flag would be that this businessman man had a 12-year-old be his secretary or his spokesperson.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

That is a major problem. So the parents back to the parents, parents were really bizarre, yeah. You know, they they took his room away in the beginning of the film because his older brothers were starting a business and that was more important for them to have that space than him to have his own bedroom.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

And then when he's just all of a sudden started working for Mr. Macintosh, they were just cool with it.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Like, yeah, that sounds great. He's 12.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:35

Oh, and I think though, a lot of times in the 90s, the parents just didn't ask questions. I mean, because if you think about it, what trouble could you really get into? We didn't have social media, we didn't have cell phones. Like, you know, if you needed to call someone, you had to look it up in a phone book. I think that side of casual parenting made sense to me.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

Yeah, I agree. Not so many questions were asked. What and how are they supposed to think a 12-year-old could do all those things?

SPEAKER_00 12:06

Right. Let's be real too. They probably thought Mr. Macintosh was their neighbor down the street, but they just never wanted to meet. And so they were like, that's probably just nothing. He's just moving some stuff around for Macintosh. I mean, that part I can rationalize. So it's it's the rest of the movie that it didn't. That kid had a great six days, you know.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

And he got away with uh not getting any felonies because in the end the bad guy admitted he was Mr. Macintosh because he wanted to claim.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Right.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Well, and also and then they blamed it all on him, even though it was a kid.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Well, the kid was also dating an FBI agent, so it wasn't gonna go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

A kid was gonna be fine.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Yeah, he's not gonna be messed up or anything.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_02 13:00

Shea needs to be in handcuffs.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Shea should have been arrested.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Oh for sure. And when she kissed him, right? That scene when they're sitting there after you know all the evidence is being collected and everything. Yeah, there are FBI agents everywhere around them.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

And no one said a word.

SPEAKER_02 13:17

You think like they kiss, and then the guy behind it was just like wait a second. What's going on here?

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Yeah, there'd be questions for sure, but no. But at the same time, this is the group of people who have literally been following around a 12-year-old for six days. This is the people who have done business with a 12-year-old and just went along with, oh yeah, we'll talk to Mr. Macintosh on the phone. So well, he was working with a lot of idiots.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

It really did go along that string of really intelligent kids in the 90s that got up to all this mischief.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Yeah. Which, you know, we had to use our imagination more. We had nothing going for us. So you did have to be creative.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

And for anybody listening out there, I don't think this generation now, between the ages, you know, grade school kids, don't even know how to write a check.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

It's true.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Yeah, they if you got a blank check, they wouldn't know how to fill it out. We would.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

We would totally figure it out pretty quick if they watch the movie. So I get it. And then try to walk into a bank and just see if anybody questions it.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

It's just a million dollar check, no big deal.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

No big deal from a 12-year-old. Yeah, I think I would I would give the movie I'm gonna give it a three out of ten. Because there was some plot twists you didn't see coming, so yeah. Again, the the fact that oh my gosh, so many things. Ooh. I think the ending drop in the rating.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

I think the ending just it's it's but to be honest, it's inappropriate for the film and imagine the people on set. People are thinking, this is not how is this allowed?

SPEAKER_00 15:21

That has been such a question that has come up so many times. Like, this is a Disney movie. Like, what were you thinking? How was that okay?

SPEAKER_02 15:34

Like well, let's say Disney does have a lot of uh scrutiny for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

Yeah, but I think that's probably the one movie you're gonna be like Oh, it was blatantly obvious. She's like, um a 12-year-old and a 30-year-old. Because there's no way that lady, Shay, was under the age of 18 when they filmed that.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

And there's I highly doubt it.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Yeah, so there's there's no way to really get around that. That was a weird scene that didn't need to be a part of the movie. But they did it.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Okay, that's one thing I'd look for, because we were all expecting the ending like that. But I thought it would there would be more leading up to that scene where they kissed, like there was a reason. I I thought I could remember one, you know, like why no they could have not kissed and it would have been it wouldn't have changed anything, it wouldn't have changed anything.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

That's why it made it so weird.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

Yeah, it was just completely added to make it you just felt uncomfortable. Yes, and not to mention everything else was weird about you know, we're all adults and we overspend, and even that we're not like that, it still makes us feel strange. And I don't know, I just kind of like as the kids call it now, the ick, you know, just kind of like movies, just it was definitely an ick for sure.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

And I think about it too, like as a kid, you just were given a million dollars without any type of question. Yeah, no one questions that at all. And I think I would be okay with that. If I was handed a million dollars as a kid, I'd be fine. Um, as an adult, I think I'd be like, is this all I'm getting? Like, what am I supposed to do with that?

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Well, I can think a lot of things you could do with it.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

Well, yeah, but if you buy a house your house now, if you're like depending on where you're at, that's 300,000. But then you're thinking of everything in the future, like you can't quit your job for a million dollars, especially after you pay taxes on it.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

If if you had a spouse that could if you erased your debt and you had a spouse that carried insurance, you probably couldn't.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

But it would be right on the line, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Right, it doesn't stretch like it used to, right? So even that, if you're looking at that, it's like, well, I'm still gonna have to keep my job for a little, like it's just yeah, it may open up some doors, but yeah, you you're still kind of in the same yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

So, but back then as a kid, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

Absolutely. One scene I remembered, and I kept thinking it was a different film, was when Henry shows up after the party and he's like, dude, you left me, whatever. He's like, No, I told you I was gonna go get some ice cream, and he had that five-gallon bucket of ice cream. Yes, yeah. I as a kid, I always thought of that. I thought, man, that's a kid's dream to have a five-gallon bucket of ice cream. But I didn't think it was this film, I thought it was something else. Maybe I thought it was from Richie Rich.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

Well, I think Richie Rich had it, but also movie. I think so. No, I have that DVD here. It's been forever since I've watched it, so don't put on that. But I do remember a film, Pippi Longstocking. Did you ever watch that?

SPEAKER_02 18:54

It sounds familiar.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

We have to review that next.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

We can.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

I love that movie so much, but in that movie, they have the five-gallon ice cream that she buys, this young lady buys, and passes out to the kids at the orphanage. So that's kind of where my mind went. But you haven't watched that, so that wouldn't have been what you were thinking of.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

It's got a common uh ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

I think so.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Interesting. Or maybe so maybe I'm not confusing a different film. Maybe it's several films that had that.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

It's very good possibility, but not in Jurassic Park.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

I know that much. Jurassic Park?

SPEAKER_00 19:33

They did not have gallons of ice cream that they just passed out.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

No, they had jello though.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

Yeah, that's not ice cream, that's way worse than ice cream.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Do you remember like the 1960s cookbooks where they'd like take a bunch of like olives and shrimp and put them in jello?

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Yeah. I watched cake. Yeah, I watched one recently. It was like they were making it for Easter, and the the bunt cake was like in the shape of a lamb, but it was the most disgusting ingredients ever. But the guy was making it from a cookbook from the like the 60s or 70s. He's like, I just I want to see what this is.

SPEAKER_02 20:12

I'm like, you can real recipe.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to eat what was in the cell.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

Vermillion, I would, but no cursed jello.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

That should be a thing right now. If we were full-time, we'd have a a TikTok designated to making cursed jello.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

No, yeah, you could do that all day. It would not be me.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

I'll just make sure there's big pieces of raw, raw tuna inside. No jiggles.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

That's so disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

Uh before we end this, what was your favorite part of the film and what was your least favorite?

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Um, well, I think we know the least favorite part of the film. I think we've made that abundantly clear for all the good reasons that should they there's you can do so much with technology, they could go back and take that part out of the film, especially since it's on a streaming service. Surely that's the least favorite part. I do think my favorite part of that film was in the bank with Juice when he just believed of course it would be a kid. That's the most obvious explanation. Give him a million dollars. I loved that part. It was it just so funny. So yours, what's your stake?

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Well, my least favorite was the same as yours, completely inappropriate. Good, and my favorite part was when it was over. I'm serious, Steph. That is the movie made me just all all encompassing uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

That's the thing, though. You knew what was gonna happen from the very beginning of the movie.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

So but it was kind of like watching it for the first time. That's what my wife said, because there was a bunch of stuff I just did not remember. Yeah, but it was very In theme with all the other kid movies where the bad guys are the silly chasing scenes and the right they're slipping and falling all the time.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Right. Well, everyone loves those. Yeah, no, I think it's fair. We knew we were not gonna love the movie, anyways. Again, I'm giving a three out of ten because some of those things, if you hadn't watched the movie before, you didn't know there were gonna be so many plot twists. Three out of ten for suspense.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Oh, there's a big one at the end.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Get excited.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Don't show the reality TV show from federal prisoners.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Yeah, yeah. I bet she did like this so wrong. Oh, yeah. I don't even know how they make that work. That's yeah, it's fine.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

I wonder if they've been interviewed.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

But you know, it was part of our childhood.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

Don't answer those questions.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

No. I wonder what she's doing now. I kind of want to look that up. Surely she's not in acting. We're like working with kids.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

I don't recall seeing her in anything, but she might be on a lot of soap operas or something. You never know.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

That's sure. That's probably what it is. But interesting. Well, which movie would you like to review next?

SPEAKER_02 23:15

What did you call it? Something long stocking?

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Hippy longstocking.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Hippy Longstocking. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

I'll send you the little link from it. I think it is from how the 70s, because there's there's two different versions, so I want to make sure you have the right one.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

It's fantastic. You're gonna love it.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Love it or hate it.

SPEAKER_00 23:38

Yeah, you're gonna love it. Three out of five wouldn't change a thing. I know you'll love it.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

All right. We'll see you next time.