 Adam Does Movies Live Friday night. We're pretty much right on time. What's the time, 10.33, a little intro. Yeah, I'm good with this. Hope everyone's having a good night. It's, you know, we're early August. We're just kind of kicking things off. Kids are going back to school soon. Parents are having a little bit of a celebratory dance. It's, you know, it's all good. I have a Coke. I just poured myself to get into the spirits, into the mood. I don't know if there's another Coke can back there. I don't really like that. Let's just get that out of the shot. Just kind of keep things clean around here. Hope everyone's well. Today, we're not going to be doing a movie feuds. That's kind of what I want to do on Fridays, but sometimes you're just a little too tired to set things up. And that's where I'm at tonight. So I'm hoping to keep it light. I have a couple of news stories to go over. We'll do a Q&A at the end. Of course, super chats are always the name of the game here. As you know, YouTube doesn't pay out well, especially if you've tried your hand, if you dabbled in creation on YouTube, making videos, taking the time to edit them, watch movies, interact with people, make thumbnails, do descriptions, do titles, do keywords, try to engage, try to keep people excited. It is a full-time job. And for me, I already have a full-time job. So it's a job on top of a job on top of being a father, which is a full-time job. There's a lot of jobs going on here and none of the good ones. Let's talk about a little house cleaning first before we get started with a couple of news topics we're going to be doing today. First things first, I'm a realist. Drop this and watch my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem review. It went up just a couple hours ago. Spoiler, I really like the film. If you saw the film, well, we'll chat about it at the end here. We'll compare notes. So, yeah, that review is up. I also, if you haven't watched, I'm very proud of this one. We have the roast for Ghostbusters 2016. They have no dicks is the tagline there because that's a reference to the original Ghostbusters film. It's a quote. Bill Murray says it. It's very funny. It's a lot funnier than anything in this movie. I spend a good 25 minutes just completely dismantling this thing. If you haven't watched it, I highly encourage you check out my roast playlist. I have six of them on there now. Cats is a favorite of mine. Ninja Turtles 3, I'm sorry, not Ninja Turtles 3. I need to get Ninja Turtles 3 on that roast list. Ninja Turtles, the Michael Bay produced one from 2016 is on there, Indiana Jones 4, Kingdom of the Crystal Skullfuck, lots of goodies. And if you are really interested in having me do one of these roasts, there's a Patreon tier called Mithril. You could also do Unobtainium if you really want to go for broke. But at the Mithril level, you could sign up for one month, get your name on the queue, and become a producer for one of these roast videos. There's a big lineup here to choose from. You get access to this link. I mean, you can have access now. You can just go on to my Letterbox account, Adam Does Movies. You can follow me there and just check out this beautiful list. And as a side note, I don't necessarily hate some of these movies. And a couple of them on here I really do enjoy. But there's no denying I have a lot of material out of all of these films that I can produce. And I'm excited to do that for people because I have a good time making them, writing the jokes. It's a lot of fun. Last thing I want to say, let's see, what other piece do we have here? The next roast that is on my list, producer Matt Sclero picked this one. Pretty good timing because this is going to segue into the first piece of news we're going to go over. That's Gal Gadot's starring flick Wonder Woman 1984. An abysmal film, I think on all levels, not many people that I know like it. I can't, I don't actually personally know anyone that likes it. There's maybe one or two somewhere, but who knows. Okay, let's get to it. The first piece of news, which I just alluded to, why is this not sharing? Chair. Chair. There we go. The first piece of news is that Gal Gadot is back, baby. Question mark. Apparently, James Gunn and Peter Saffron are going forward with Wonder Woman 3 without Patty Jenkins who directed the first Wonder Woman films. Wonder Woman films? That's a hard thing to say in plural. She's not coming back for a third Audi and then probably for good reason that second movie was Atrocious that she directed and I don't think she has anyone to blame but herself. This is weird because last we heard from Gunn, everything was getting burned to the ground. Everything post Blue Beetle was going bye-bye. No more Ben Affleck. No more Batflick. No more Henry Cavill. No more Aquaman, Jason Momoa. All going by the wayside but now we're hearing mixed things so he also said that Blue Beetle might continue? That character might continue on past that film? What? I personally think this is a terrible idea and I like Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. I don't think she's a great actress but I do think she has the look and she has the at least personality and charm to pull this character off. Everything else I've seen her in has been pretty terrible but here she works for me. All right so let's see what they say. Gal Gadot is keeping the hope for Wonder Woman 3 alive despite a big change going on in DC studios in an interview with comicbook.com while promoting her upcoming Netflix action movie, Heard of Stone, never never heard of it of course, Gadot alluded to hearing from new DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Saffron about developing a third Wonder Woman movie together. I love portraying Wonder Woman. This is me doing her voice. Gal Gadot said when asked about the third movie, it's so close and dear to my heart. From what I've heard from James and from Peter is that we're going to develop a Wonder Woman 3 together. Gadot originated, originated? Gadot originated the role of Wonder Woman? Is that is that proper English? Whatever. Originated the role of Wonder Woman in Zack Snyder's DC University viewing in Batman v Superman Don of Justice. Yeah we know all this. This is just this is filler for the SEO engine. Blah blah blah okay. Okay last December news broke that Gadot and Jenkins, Wonder Woman 3 had fallen apart after Warner Brothers leadership passed on Jenkins treatment for the sequel. Jenkins publicly exited the project. The news hit shortly after that Gunn and Saffron took the reins and announced they were overhauling the DC universe. Okay Jenkins says I never walked away. Listen I never fucking walked away. I'm ad-libbing now because I feel like she would be more angry. Jenkins shared this on a post on Twitter. I was open to considering anything asked of me. It was my understanding there was nothing I could do to move anything forward at this time. DC is obviously buried in changes they are having to make so I understand these decisions are difficult right now. Roughly an hour after Jenkins posted her statement, Gunn supported her on Twitter replying, I can attest that all of Peter and my interactions with you were only pleasant and professional. Also your movie sucked and we will not be using you at this time. Again I added that but that's what he's thinking in his head. Saffron and Gunn's new DC universe is kicking off with Superman Legacy in 2025. Corrin Sweat, weird last name, takes over the role following Henry Cavill who played Superman. Yep. Get Out was asked by comicbook.com to weigh in on the new Superman casting to which she replied, I saw that they were testing doing different screen tests but I don't know who got it but it seemed like everyone was super legit and talented and like great so I'm happy for them. It's such a huge take on and it's such an exciting beginning for any actor and I wish whoever it's going to be the best of luck and enjoy the ride. Very well said. Heart of Stone streams August 11th. Wow. Certainly will be in line not to watch that. It might be good. I have no idea what it is. Thoughts? I'll give you a couple. I don't care for this idea at all. I say just start from scratch because we've established that there's these cinematic universes. Now I'm also kind of in favor of just letting all these things do their own thing. Snyder has a fan base. It's pretty big. It's very vocal but they seem to not even like when something's done in his universe that doesn't have Snyder's stank on it. Well I guess it can't. Snyder seems to be cool with all the stuff but if it doesn't have his name somehow on the screen they're not good with it so I guess there's no really there's no pleasing them unless Snyder is returning and he's not returning. He's got his own thing going on on Netflix. I don't know. I just don't see a win for this. Wonder Woman 2 was so bad and it really it put a lot of people off and Gal Gadot since then has just kind of been randomly cameoing and it's awkward every time when she shows up. Every time they play that terrible music. It's terrible. It doesn't even make sense when they use it and it was over used to begin with. I don't care I guess is really the takeaway from this whole thing but good luck James Gunn. He hasn't let me down with the single film but he's taking on a big mammoth of a project. Not only does he somehow have to curry favor with the fans of the Snyder he also has to kind of swoon general audiences to come back to the theaters for these DC movies which are bombing left and right. Some of that sure is going to be because audiences know that whatever is happening right now with the DCU isn't meant to be. I don't think a lot of people do though. We're giving the general audience a lot of credit here. Some people still including my wife still think Flash is an MCU character. They don't give a shit enough to really pay that much attention but you are talking about a fraction that does and that splits off the Flash. Then you have another fraction that's like oh Ezra Miller is insane and I'm not going to support him so you take them off the list and next thing you know the Flash is bombing hard and then we have Aquaman in the mix coming up. We got Blue Beetle in the mix. These movies don't look good. Well I guess I can't say anything about Aquaman. We haven't seen shit on it yet but I know that it's not testing well and they've gone back for reshoots several times. Shazam too bombed. I don't know. I really don't know how you make this work. It's going to be a mess. It's going to be a bloodbath. Okay let's go to the next piece of news. Again feel free to super chat. We can talk about this stuff afterwards when I get all the news articles done. What do we got here? What's the line? I got to look up the line before I segue into this. Give me a second. I want to really get this right. I think I got it but actually I think I know what it is. Okay the next topic is let me bring it up. God's children are for sale. See what I did there because in the movie it's God's children are not for sale. I don't know why it's God's children. It's all children I think. I don't think we have to really segregate. All children shouldn't be for sale. Sound of freedom in the news today but not for the positive spin they've been getting lately which is shedding light on child trafficking and all horrible it is in case you know there was someone living under a rock that didn't already fucking know that. People are being aware and people are going out and supporting this movie it made a ton of money. That's perfectly fine but we do have a problem. Sound of freedom funder Fabian Marta arrested for child kidnapping. Not a good look but I'm going to be honest with you when I saw headlines and all the articles and stuff flying out and people were tweeting at me and sharing this on my socials I looked into it and it's not near as devastating or horrible for Angel Studios and the people that made this movie as meets the eye. In fact it's kind of a nothing burger. Now this person Fabian Marta sounds like a real winner. Real pile of shit but the involvement this person had with the movie is very scarce. So let's read. Let's read on and learn. One of thousands of patrons of the crowd-funded anti-child trafficking film Sound of Freedom was recently arrested and charged for child kidnapping according to a court filing and social media posts. Fabian Marta was charged with felony child kidnapping in July while since removed Facebook posts appear to show the same person revealing their pride in funding the film. Marta's name appears in the movie's credits among the investors. Have you ever heard Wolf in Sheep's clothing ever heard the term? It's appropriate here. A lot of times people will pretend something that they're not when they when they actually are. I know that was a very profound sentence and came out very clearly. What I'm getting at is a priest for instance who's practicing the word of God and being loving and then being you know just one of the greatest creatures on the planet is actually molesting a small altar boy. I was an altar boy back in the day. Thankfully I came out unscathed on the other side but what they'll do is they'll get in positions of power and they'll hide behind things that seem very obvious like oh this guy's supporting child trafficking. Clearly he's not going to be a child trafficker himself but that's exactly what they want you to think and you almost got away with it too Marta. The word for those pesky crowd funders. I don't know. I don't know how they found out. My takeaway though is just because there's one bad seed in the mix doesn't mean we paint everyone that funded this movie as child traffickers. That's the bullshit that they tried to do to me when I reviewed this movie and said it was pretty weak. This is good message but we don't review movies based on if the messages are good then we wouldn't give bad reviews out almost ever right. Everything just gets a pass if it's a war movie if it's a war a movie about abuse if it's a a movie about you know whatever pretty much everything would get a pass. I was reviewing it based on you know the visuals the the audio the acting the pacing you know things that you kind of look for in general movies. Anyway I was called a pedophile I was called a trafficker check my computer this guy's part of the Hollywood elite blah blah blah blah. That's the kind of ugly crap that the internet has really brought amongst us all. It's just a great place to be sometimes. So what's happening is we always go extreme on the other side right. Oh they push you now we have an opportunity to knock them down and say oh it turns out the people making this movie are the sex traffickers. No no that's that's not even remotely yet at least not based on what I'm seeing here. For all we know Angel Studios and all the people were actually very well intended. I have no reason to think otherwise outside of Jim Caviesal who is kind of a crazy Q and on supporter dude but he's just one guy and he's also an actor and actors are crazy already so we're all we're lumping all of them into the same boat right. We're all in agreement on that. Okay sound of freedom dramatizes the story of anti-child sex trafficking. Yeah yeah yeah yeah okay what do we got what do we got here. St. Louis Metropolitan Police confirmed to Newsweek that Marta 51 from Chesterfield Missouri was charged on I don't know why over pronounced Missouri son of a bitch I have relatives in Missouri good people at least I think well now Missouri has a whole different meaning for me unbelievable. He was charged on July 21st and was arrested on July 23rd. Police also provided a booking photo of Marta that's nice which appears to show the same person pictured on Facebook. We got him we got him. The sound of freedom movie tackles a very tough subject it does. He says I'm proud to have been a small part of it if you see the movie look for Fabian Marta and family the very end of the credits and he's right Fabian Marta and family appears on a list of funding contributors in the film's credits are on the 129 minutes and 30 second mark okay that's very specific Marta's next court date is listed in records as August 28 his bail was set at 15,000 but he was released on personal recognizance I don't know what that word is following an initial appearance on July 24th okay it found guilty Marta could face 10 years to life in prison imagine getting 10 years imagine only getting 10 years for trafficking children yikes okay well um not quite the bombshell that social media made it out to be is it it's this one creepy dude that had his name you know in the bottom of a fucking credit screen great yeah okay um let's move on so yeah that's the scandalous sound of freedom nonsense I don't think there's really anything much here but again I was called a lot of really horrible things by supposedly a lot of really good people on the internet or who pretend to be good people so it is kind of in the nature of not me but someone like me definitely me if I was in having a really bad day to look at an article like this or just read the headline and be like oh yeah well boom boom look at this you supported the thing that you claimed you were against no not what's going on here sound of freedom still is a great a great message sound of freedom still tackles a very awful subject matter and and we'll leave it at that everything else is uh you know everything else is whatever you make of it all right let's go back oh dcu the gift that keeps on giving us disappointment dwayne johnson thinks black adam was a victim of the changes in the dcu's leadership I got a hot take on this in a second what are you doing get out of there stupid pop-up ads everywhere I got ad blocker it wants me to disable ad blocker it's a nightmare all right let's get to the article that's buried in this bullshit all right black adam star dwayne no no no there's something with kevin hart on his podcast here we go okay while speaking with his friend kevin hart on his talk show heart to heart I like puns I like puns johnson answered what he thinks happened answered what he thinks it happened god there is just no quality control anymore on the internet while speaking with this friend kevin hart on his talk show heart to heart johnson answered what he thinks it happened come on come on it's not hard it's not you should have someone that's proofing this shit and believe me I make mistakes all the time at my real job on youtube I make mistakes I don't have a proofer I don't have an editor I'm doing all of this so yeah there are mistakes for sure I will I'll be the first but at my real job where I get paid real money and not fucking participation award money I have someone that I answer to as a web designer and developer who will then say hey adam you made a spelling error here you made it you have a typo here let's get that fixed put it on the staging site look over it again what I see on the internet on these these websites like movieweb.com is there's no quality control that's disgusting fix your shit you want to be taken seriously says the guy in his corner office in his house with a crappy webcam and a light fucking blinding me drinking a coca-cola classic at 10 55 p.m on a friday night subscribe okay black adam says dwayne johnson says not my black adam I think that black adam got caught in a vortex of new leadership and at this time as we were creating black adam developing it shooting black adam we got knocked down a little bit because of covid and the shutdown got back up there were so many changes in leadership and as you know anytime you have a company but especially that size and magnitude that's a publicly traded company and you have all those changes in leadership you have people coming who creatively fiscally are gonna make decisions that you may not agree with philosophically so I think that black adam was one of those movies that are caught in the web of new leadership that was all one sentence that was a that was a long sentence dwayne but it was very well said very uh eloquently stated okay here's the thing dwayne well let's just let's just read on and then I'll tell you what's actually happening here black adam managed to earn 393 million dollars worldwide which may seem like a lot and it is but the movie budget when which initially was 190 million raised to 260 million oh that's awful it costs 260 to make because of the reshoots and even when it made more than that it is not considered a financial success yeah 260 million dollar budget the movie has to make six two carry the one five hundred and 20 uh that double that is what five twenty and then you have to do like another half off of that so really it needed to make like 700 around 700 to be profitable because as I've stated many times but people still get confused the marketing budget is not part of that 260 million that 260 million does not include marketing marketing is a massive amount tens of millions 50 million 60 million 100 million they're spending a lot on fucking marketing also the profit that the theater makes the 393 million they don't get all that profit theaters have to make money even though they don't make a ton of money on ticket sales most of it's from concessions which is why you're paying 12 dollars for a coke really you're just paying 12 dollars for the cup and then you go out to the machine and fill it with some of the syrup yourself you don't even you don't even get the luxury of having them fill it for you that's where the bulk of their money is going or where it's coming from I should say yeah here's the here's the hot take from white adam the reason there's no more black adam movies is because it bombed because it failed and because it wasn't very good it certainly wasn't a film that they could put their hat on had james gun come in and saffron which would have happened I think that had to have been in talks for years probably six months to a year maybe longer these negotiations aren't happening in a week they would have probably had an option to keep going with black adam had it made like a billion dollars had this been a really big movie I didn't knocked it out of the park there's absolutely no chance in hell james gun and saffron and any of the upper execs that warner brothers would have said yep we're scorching black adam that's game over hell to the no dwayne johnson only has himself to blame and warner brothers for putting this shit out in the form that it was in and that's just that that's the cold that that's the gospel truth really okay that's it for the news again at the end of this super chat you can super chat now I have a list of them they show up start on the side I'll go over them we can chat further about these news topics let's get into the last two things which are reviews for uh t hb ninja turtles and mag via rotten tomatoes everybody's favorite site let me take a drink of water you know a can of coke I hate can't drink it straight can of coke is disgusting you put this bad boy on the rocks you throw in a cherry maybe some grenadine it is it's like my favorite thing in the world it really is it's really the only way I can achieve climax anymore if you watch the ghost busters review the roast you would get that joke and if not I'm sorry for your loss all right let's get to it gross look at this giant fucking ad rotten tomatoes you suck okay we have a 96 tomato meter for this boy and 94 from the audience so these critics they're in line and you know what old adam bear I can actually add a review myself as a certified rotten tomatoes critic isn't this fun hey this is actually really fun you guys please tell me what other movie critic out there is giving you backstage access I don't even know if I am legally supposed to be able to do this if this might be this might be sacrilege by the rotten tomato gods right now but I am giving you a peek inside how you as a certified critic gets to add your score to the tomato meter so look at this there's just this shitty little link ad reviews just just buried hidden this is only for me it doesn't show up for non-specials I click on that beep beep beep beep beep beep and it takes me to a secret area where I can give it either a fresh or a rotten it's just that simple and I love this movie so I'm gonna give it a fresh I don't do the rating stuff that's optional I can do a pull quote oh I have to do this on the fly um the heroes in a half shell are back baby certified rotten tomatoes critic there's just no quality control the heroes in a half shell are back baby this new these turtles sound great they look great and they still love great pizza well maybe not because it's always pizza hot but still the movie is turtle riffic turtle tastic tubular radical bodacious gnarly cowabunga lacious oh we'll just say the movie is is here uncut turtle power oh fuck yeah okay the heroes in a half shell are back baby these turtles sound great they look great and they still love great pizza well maybe not because well maybe not well maybe not it's always pizza hot well maybe not because it's always pizza but still the movie is pure uncut turtle power okay I'm good with that all right let's uh oh I have to post the link so I can't let me grab the link quick for it pizza power they're gone in the half an hour pizza power I don't know why hang on you gotta get the link right I have like a tape cassette that people under like 25 don't know what I'm talking about I had a tape cassette that had a bunch of ninja turtle songs on it I don't know where I got it from it might have been from pizza hut honestly it had all these ninja turtle songs and one of them was called pizza power and the the lyric it was like pizza power again in the half an hour pizza power I might be butchering the lyrics but that was the beat and I liked it a lot so you're welcome okay we're gonna paste the link kaboom this is an english review publication Adam does movies youtube and we submit it and just like that and just like that it's up for people to relish you can see my previous reviews oh if anybody was wondering I did put people on pins and needles for a little while on barbie I changed my barbie score tray times on the website no two times I started rodin and then the very next day within 24 hours I switched to fresh because the movie stayed with me and there was enough good moments in it that outweighed the bad I actually tweeted that out or I x'd it out whatever Elon musk has done to this damn platform on twitter x x twitter's dead whatever you call it I tweeted out and said barbie is the only movie I've ever really struggled to give a fresh or a rodin score before because it genuinely is like there's so many high highs and so many really low lows for me that it was a tough balancing act but at the end of the day I thought to myself you know what I can I can rewatch the movie pretty much no problem I'm sure my wife and kids would like it so and I think it does enough it does more right than wrong so it got a fresh Oppenheimer fresh sound of freedom sorry it just it was close the first half of sound of freedom very very solid but man it was too long and a meandered and it got nonsensical and it just lost the plot and couldn't do it a lot of freshes though recently really really liking stuff mag will not be fresh we can tell you that mag is not gonna be a fresh one okay I submitted that which I don't like because you know I hit submit it says review updated it's not a really good everything about this is kind of trash I'm not gonna lie to you all right let's get back to the reviews turtles all right let's see what people had to say about this movie really quick oh god I'm probably gonna get copyright flake for that that's good okay we got 162 reviews on this let's see what the top critics say Stephen Thompson if you've stayed away from TMNT over the years whether because of cowabunga or ninja wrap what or Michael Bay or whatever don't be afraid to break out your swords shout something that sounds cool and leap back into the fray if you stayed away from TMNT over the years whether because of cowabunga I get the ninja wrap and Michael Bay but cowabunga why would you stay away because of that I don't get that he just he just had to find a way to throw that in there Peter Travers I didn't have much hope for this um team take on the 1980s comic book relic about rowdy teenage sewer rats but Seth Rogan and his team of Mary pranksters have turned this animation version into a giddy goofball delight cowabunga baby okay so he threw a baby in there we're not all over in good company the filmmaker oh this is like Katie Walsh the filmmakers managed to balance the contemporary feel of the writing and innovative visual style with their own nostalgia for childhood cultural touchstones Katie Walsh you stupid stupid person I picture Katie with the with like the martini the filmmakers managed to balance the contemporary feel with the writing innovation visual style then okay Kyle Smith wiki wile wiki Kyle wiki Kyle wiki Kyle Kyle Smith Kyle Smith Wall Street Journal nana nana nana okay born in the 1980s they're now the middle-aged mutant ninja turtles yeah I that was so lame I had to move on and by the way Saturday Night Live already made that parody Adam Graham says it's not heedy or heady it's not heady heady it's not heady I know that word or weighty but there's a little more substance here than in your average turtles film okay Justin Chang says they lurk leap and soar across the neon streak New York City that for all its digital rendering feels as fresh and handcrafted as a made-to-order Brooklyn pizza I like that okay a couple negatives John says simply being better than past failures does not make something good while mutant mayhem does several things right from its likable voice cast to its refreshed version of the turtles origin story it also gets stuck in the same gunk as its forebears all right really I don't actually know what that means Maya, Maya, Philips there's little complexity to the characters and no surprise to the plot and even the messaging about tolerance good intentions and outsiders finding their brood is so unimaginatively expressed that it feels cliche I guess Audi, Odie, Odie Henderson the problem is that the teenage mutant ninja turtles have been reduced to dull shadows of their former selves the personalities described in their theme song are almost non-existent here teenage mutant ninja turtles teenage Leonardo leads Donatello does machines that's a fact Jack Leonardo does lead in this Donatello does machines Raphael is cool but rude give me a break Michelangelo is a party dude I will give them Michelangelo Raphael is cool but rude absolutely these turtles shine in this film voice acting is great personalities are through the roof I thought it was turtles are awesome Michelangelo yes he is lacking the party dude persona there is a moment where he finds a skateboard in a pile of rubble I thought for sure he was going to bust that out and do a little Tony hockey and off of it but he didn't and yeah I would say Michelangelo out of the four definitely feels a little bit neutered in this one but that's what the sequels are for we'll get them there we'll get them a Hawaiian shirt you'll throw some anchovies on a pizza it's going to be a Calabunga all night long but no the turtles have a ton of personality it shines through this was a fantastic film I can't wait to watch it again honestly I really enjoyed it it does do some things with the villains that I was not expecting and I'm honestly not sure what they're going to do with them in future installments so no it's not really by the numbers stuff there are some definite twists that I think makes it fresh and different all right let's go to the last movie on this list Meg too it sucks movie sucks all right thanks for watching it's at 28 on the tomato meter and only 69 audience score that's a pretty low audience score for anything that's not an 824 film people were expecting giant sharks causing havoc they got it but not in the greatest sense let's see what the comments say I can't put a review in yet because my youtube review is not up yet I only have the short up which I I explain I do not like this movie but let's see what people would say fun side note someone posted on twitter I don't remember the name or on the x I'm sorry on x he said some bullshit about Ron tomato's critics he said and I'm gonna paraphrase like crazy but it was to the effect of and I can't look it up and I'll tell you why in a second he posted a screenshot of the 20 some percent that this movie has Meg too and he said what were movie critics expecting like some high art story with top of the line acting they're so out of touch blah blah blah bullshit in which I replied um a good story and good acting you know are kind of part of a movie but like I was the target audience for this film and it did not work for a myriad of other reasons in which case he replied back he said dude that's not what I'm saying you didn't read what I was saying properly it's about the critics and not about the movie itself in which I replied finally this only went back and forth one time because then he blocked me and I was it was like incredibly tame pushback all I said was um listen this I get what you're going for movie critics and on Ron Tomatoes sometimes come off like they don't understand who the target audience is for the movie and they're maybe looking for things that's not a priority for a film like Meg too but oftentimes the the like things that like for instance this guy was criticizing Ron Tomatoes critics for was looking for some high art some 824 you know like layered storyline I don't think there was a single person on Rod and Tomatoes who criticized Meg too for not having a Hamlet's worth of material for not being some profound thing but not even having a competent story not even having characters that seem remotely plausible or that or even that fun outside of maybe one dude and not having a setup that's schlocky enough to be charmingly dumb or impressive enough to be excitingly like worth watching fast the period fast 10 is a perfect example the movie's garbage for all intensive purposes script is so bad the actors for the most part really are just kind of like stock cars they don't have much personality but the movie understands the audience so it goes over the top it goes over the top of over the top dams are blowing up cars are getting shanked by helicopters it's ludicrous and ludicrous is in the movie so it's double ludicrous and so a lot of critics will give a movie like that a pass I didn't even review fast 10 or I reviewed it I'm sorry I didn't like it I didn't give it a Rod and Tomatoes score because I know that the audience loves this kind of shit and I have fallen away from that kind of you know entertainment I'm not gonna say I won't lie and say that the movie doesn't have entertainment factor but I needed more than a two and a half hour loud noisy pile of shit Meg two doesn't have either of these approaches it just swims in the middle it's dumb but also not very fun and so what's that what's that leave critics with right it's not a good movie so fuck you but I didn't say any of that to him I just said the little bit but then he blocked me all right so that's all that conversation was me just pushing back and saying yeah you're criticizing critics for things that they're not even criticizing the movie for blocked okay let's see what the top ones had to say here Richard Lawson liked it Meg two is confident in its schlock I don't think so piling on one ridiculous conceit after another as such a pace that the audience can't help but be swept up in it that is a harder needle to thread than many filmmakers seem to think not just it's not enough just to be stupid stupid I would have liked AA Dodd says it makes the original look well jaws by comparison ouch and I don't fully disagree with him I don't really like Meg one I think that also completely misses the mark but Meg feels way more competently directed and produced than this one there there seems to be at least somewhat of a plot and I don't character motivations are there like things are kind of in a narrative storytelling Brian Lawry says Meg to the trench doesn't overly mess with the formula but it does mock up but it does muck up the simple strengths of the story with all kinds of unnecessary side plots in the process the film goes from shark week to shark week oh god I love that joslin there's more more and more more mags more problems more ludicrous plot points more cartoonish villains and more dialogue cheesier than over ripened Brie wheel left out on a picnic table that metaphor got away from me but also in the film saving grace more Jason Statham Jason Statham plays a hollowed out husk of Jason Statham the guy has no personality in this film he's really just there to kind of breathe and meander from scene to scene he doesn't have a presence of like a Sylvester Stallone in say daylight where Stallone can make lighting up a glow stick seem like he's punching a fucking brick wall remember the scene I'm talking about in in daylight there's always a chance pulls up the glow stick snaps it on his arm he's so good Statham in the meg movies is not I want Jason Statham transporter that's the state of my life that's the state of my know or Jason Statham uh snatch that guy had some personality that guy had some smooth style to him kind of love snatch let's see Meg too often fails on a basic molecular level sometimes leaving us unclear as to who's doing what to whom on screen yeah there is a good chunk of the trench and to the meg's credit or meg's credit there's no the it's called the trench they are in this trench for half of the movie to the movies discredit they're in this trench for half the movie it's very ugly they try to brighten things up here and there but you are 25 000 feet under the sea 25 000 leagues under the sea and it's darkness pretty much and really shitty debris or debris if you say things dumb like I do sometimes and occasionally megalodon show up or eels or something else but it's hard to like understand heads or tails of any of it and there's tails in the movie so you can see how that's very confusing okay a couple more the dialogue is truly dire the heroes say stuff like we're a strong group we can do this a baddie glopes we're making so much money it ceases to have meaning yeah I didn't care about the dialogue like that's the least of the problems Meg too by design is a completely anonymous bag of lukewarm McDonald's it's hard to be mad at it but only because nothing in it stands out enough to get mad at exactly robbie cullen gets it robbie cullen or cullen totally get daily telegraph uk of course uk they're just smarter than us americans that he understands it it is so mid as the kids say it's a it's a mid meal from me from mid donald's okay so that's the mag I'll have my that's mag two the trench not great not great at all and I guess that's the live let's do super chats I'm open for some q&a for a little while if people want to fire away some questions comments concerns lay them on me I'm here the world is your oyster right now whatever you want to ask let me let me get powered up full screen look at this here today is just completely disheveled zoey disheveled really we have a couple that are starred let me just a couple that's disappointing we do have a beautiful one from life is good but let's do johnny's first since he was first johnny with a 199 super chat says a lot of showings at empty purchase seats this is in reference to sound of freedom well sound of freedom had to pay it forward thing where basically you could purchase tickets for anyone else and I don't actually know entirely how it worked I just know that that was a big part of their plan so you could buy like 100 movie tickets and then essentially give them out on facebook or something I or someone could say hey I want to go to this and then someone else could buy the ticket for them and send them the stuff I didn't look into it enough to care but I know that there were a lot of empty seats because of this pay it forward scheme or system or whatever you want to call it I don't see anything upfront shady about it I could see how it could be abused and kind of treated as some sort of a celebratory win if the studio was purchasing these tickets themselves with some of the fan funding that's all speculation that's pizza gate nonsense and I don't do that I don't get into that stuff this really is no different johnny than when they said the same thing about captain marvel when captain marvel came out and made like a billion dollars there were so many posts and articles saying disney paid for all the seats or empty theaters everywhere like I didn't see any proof at all of that outside of anecdotal evidence which doesn't hold up in court so same with sound of freedom at the end of the day what what does it matter you know the the sales are sales it looks like profit on paper it's a success story let's move on with our day there's no way to prove any of this unless you know people were scouting all these theater locations and they have camera phones and they're going oh my god look at the another empty seat another empty one it's everywhere all right life is good thank you johnny life is good thank you for the 20 super chat very very fun nice friday night prize you keeping a level ahead and not judging an entire group of people by the actions of one or a few is why i love your channel i'll watch you shit on terrible movies any day buddy thank you very much that's awesome to hear and that yes that is absolutely the name of the game i don't care what walk of life you come from i don't care your religious backing i don't care if you're a republican a democrat a centrist a socialist communist uh i don't care for nazis you're gonna have to walk away if you're not as long as you are level headed have good intentions aren't harming other people let's talk movies that's what i want to do here is talk movies that feels fair that feels honest in a dishonest world you know lindsay my wife who's been on here a couple times actually said that to me just today we were having a chat i can't remember the the context of it but basically it was oh she has a friend i'm not going to go any details but basically the the person said has has uh kind of made things up about maybe some successes and um i'm like and then when approached he or she said yeah everybody does that everybody lies to get ahead uh on youtube on tiktok on facebook on twitter it's all just bullshit everybody does it to to make money to sucker people to join a program or to subscribe to a channel or to do this or do that and then i turn to her point blank and said i don't and she said to me and this hurt this stung but it's honest she said and that's probably why you're not more successful and she's not wrong she's not wrong but it is what it is at least i can die knowing that i didn't sell out because i wasn't offered enough to bubba 199 disney's elements somehow disney's elemental i believe is what he's referring to disney's elemental somehow made 400 million is that all it made i think it made more than that elemental box office let's see what box office mojo says we can share this that comes up working on it why aren't you sharing why aren't you sunny and sharing here we go all right here we got elemental the domestic gross was 147 million international 250 million for a total of 397 million dollars and 957 than and then said okay 900 397 million 957 thousand 306 i don't think that's a win what was the what was the budget on this i think the budget of elemental was almost 200 million where does it say the budget give me the budget elemental budget 200 million oof yeah so 400 million off a 200 million dollar budget is not a success story however disney does work a little bit differently than most because they have merch they own everything associated with this movie it's a Pixar film so all the t-shirt sales all the merch all the puzzles and coloring books and games and app purchases related to elemental goes into disney's pocket they find ways outside of just the movie alone so if they can you know break even as far as the initial budget's concerned the marketing can be made up elsewhere the marketing price and some of the other accoutrements can be made up in post good point though elemental was not a success story little mermaid i think barely squeaked by as well so not not great for disney disney's been having a bad run and i think they're just kind of being outclassed honestly there was a time and place when disney was synonymous with just quality films the golden era of course you know little mermaid Aladdin fucking bambi and 101 Dalmatians and they were they were just shooting out left and right great stuff beauty and the beast the lion king and somewhere along the way they just started doing remakes constantly and reboots and the live action rehashes and people i think are getting a little sick of it we're definitely getting sick of it and while that's happening you have dreamworks who's over the year is freaking stepped up their game they made the awesome kung fu panda series the how to train your dragon series then you have sony with their animated studios putting out those into the spider verse films that we got this ninja turtles movie coming out and honestly and obviously illumination love them or hate them they're making bank they give us simple stupid movies that the whole family can like mario dominating you have the lego movies coming out by who the hell may sows i don't even know warner brothers i think so disney's kind of like the last place winner now the kind of the loser as far as these movies and obviously disney losing is still winning regardless of what most say they're still making money on most of their shit and you know whatever but i don't like most most of it that's coming out the star wars stuff's garbage the tv series are almost entirely bad the movies straight to streaming are fucking embarrassing yeah they need to get back to the quality content we remember them for slow their role on all this stuff the releasing and just focus on good storytelling without writers because the writer strike is going on and the actor strike well which is another reason and a good way to i guess end out the night to really uh support the show if you can via youtube join or on patreon at patreon.com slash adam does movies there's a one dollar tier there's a twenty dollar tier and that thirty dollar membership that you can cancel anytime after 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couple more that just came in oh there he is master sergeant almost never disappoints twenty dollar beautiful super chat sup i think we are at the beginning of an animation revolution in the ways of spider-man and turtles i totally agree with you i would not be surprised maybe this is just wishful thinking hopeful thinking that disney might go back at some point to their 2d roots even if it means leveraging the the hybrid 3d 2d model of into the spider verse and the ninja turtles and really going for it getting back to that 2d animation style again they have to do something because this stuff they're putting out is all looking the same it's all boring even elemental which i liked i didn't like love by any means it was just a good fine film i want to be blown away again by these guys i want disney to come out and say this is what we do this is what we're not the fucking wal-mart here we're the target all right we're the we're the nicer chain we're the chain you go in you're gonna you're gonna put down a little bit more money but you're not going to get shived in the toilet paper aisle that's what i want that's what i want from disney again thank you master sergeant i appreciate it and then we got maddie kamat maddie kamaccio i say that right maddie kamaccio he's got a pop i icon i like that 499 super chat i don't know if you touched on it yet but i'll trust whatever james gunn does when it comes to the direction of dc also a big fan of your channel man love it thank you maddie i really appreciate that take a drink quick yeah that's good uh uh james gunn yes i i love all of his films um i think i've seen all of them i always run down the list but you got super which is the weaker of them but that's kind of an indie project i didn't see any of his stuff when he was doing the weird crap you know like the uh i don't even know what you call that genre it's very off the beaten path very avant-garde kind of stuff but as far as his more mainstream stuff like slither i really like slither i like some of the movies he's he's written like don of the dead the remake obviously i love guardians all three of those movies are really freaking good i like the peacemaker series i thought that was a good first season um and of course i like uh the suicide squad or is it suicide squad whichever one he did i like that one what i like most about gun is he just seems to get characters he he makes you care for characters i mean i'm well i'm welling up watching a raccoon almost die in guardians three that's powerful writing it really is that the voice acting the animation the director's job is to kind of bring it all together and so hopefully james gunn can do that on a much grander scale and he's gonna have to with the dc universe because what it sounds like's going on and i don't i'm not huge on this idea but he wants to not only make the movies a shared universe he wants to bring in the tv shows specific comic books video games it's all gonna fall under this umbrella and that's kind of what the mcu tried to do and i believe is failing miserably at nobody wants to keep up with all that bullshit we don't have time to watch seven different freaking mcu shows on disney plus just give us some movies give us one or two movies a year i don't even need that many it used to be an exciting event when a new marvel movie would come out but when you have three a year it starts to lose its sheen the paint starts to turn starts to come off right get back to the good stuff good writing good characters good direction then it doesn't all feel the same doesn't have the lame guardian jokes sprinkled through thor and all these other properties keep them separate but keep them connected james gunn has the power to do it i just don't know if it's enough for one guy to handle maybe instead of coming to these grand universes i almost wish james gunn would have said listen this stuff's all connected sure but we're focused on individual projects one at a time and then there might be some sort of a connective tissue later but for now let's really get these characters working in their specific properties individually later down the road we'll start meshing them together but for the time being i want people to at least enjoy one movie without thinking about four other movies in tandem marvel's coming out the free larson and the gals you you kind of have to have an encyclopedia is worth the knowledge going into this you need to have watched a couple mcu shows like three or four movies it's stupid even my wife just watched guardians three she loves the first two guardians movies she liked the christmas special she's seen infinity warren endgame and most of the mcu stuff but after having a long break and then coming to this movie finally she was confused why gamora was there she's like wait gamora died and i said yeah she died in endgame don't you remember she's like no i don't remember obviously and then she said why is she back then i'm like well it's past gamora she's back she's like well why did the other people die and i come back i'm like i listen i don't know magic okay stone magic who cares just watch the damn movie it's not the same gamora and then we fought and then it was over so thanks for bringing that up maddie subscribe all right if there's no other super chats i can power down for the night i should end with let me add one more thing you're to the stream i don't think i brought this up before but if you haven't noticed every single monday and i've been true to my word i've been putting out a podcast usually 35 to an hour depending on how spicy i feel how comfortable i am talking for that long of a time period without screwing up which is easier said than done i tried to not have to edit them at all it's really just me uh you know off the cuff uncaged untethered unedited unscripted giving my thoughts about anything from you know the writer's strike i want to talk about the actor's strike coming up i've talked about movie 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have a sandwich they can listen to me and they can almost feel like they're chatting movies with a friend that's the idea behind it oh we got one more last second from mike hunt two dollar super chat i'm just tired of james gun juvenile humor juvenile humor yeah mike i get that i've heard that before i don't like disagree every every director though has their style right they all have their approach zack sniders very much the dark gritty over dramatic over uh everything's very extreme with him the humor is sometimes there but it's pretty much just a brooding experience very melancholy experience through and through and people were really getting burnt out on that as well if i'm willing to give james gun some credit because the guy can pull back when he wants to guardians of the galaxy three was i thought way more somber of an experience way more dire there was definitely humor here and there but man i mean he dropped it like 50 from the previous two entries i think he can handle superman the right way without making dick jokes i'm hopeful that there will not be a single dick joke in the next superman movie let's give him let's give him the opportunity i think i don't think uh we have really anything to worry about i guess is what i'm saying the dcu has pretty much been in shambles for a while now let him take the reins and see where he can go with it we can always start over again warner brothers seems to have no problem doing that thank you for the final super chat mic i'm gonna shut her down we uh yeah adam does movies podcast look again look for the wonder woman 84 review and them i'm sorry look for the wonder woman roast i still have to watch this movie it's two and a half hours long this is going to be torture i'm really hopeful that you guys share this roast around not seeing a lot of love sharing the jaws the revenge roast or ninja turtles or even the new one i did i was i was thinking man these one of these is gonna blow up one of these has to blow up i'm going to make them as funny and as solid as possible and they just have to get shared and people have to enjoy them right i can't see any other way around that so maybe someday maybe this is this is the one wonder woman 1984 roast is coming the meg review will be up tomorrow and there you go thank you guys for tuning in this is always a good time even if uh even if it's not my forte we're getting better at it the lives i think are getting a lot more solid a lot more a lot more streamlined and uh yeah i appreciate everybody who watches who who joins who super chats it's a good time and i will see you on tuesday for the next live 10 30 p.m eastern time and until then check out the roast and the review coming up take care