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We should probably talk about it, speculate wildly as to why this is happening. I'm going to go over some blue beetle comments because those are always fun. We haven't done that in a while kind of looking back and seeing what people are saying on YouTube. This time it's YouTube last time it was TikTok or Mag2 the trench. Those were those were fantastic comments. Blue Beetles a little bit more thought out. They're not just it was good. It was a good movie 10 out of 10. There's a little bit more thought put in but I got to correct the record on some things. I got to set things straight. Yeah. Lastly, we'll be doing some movie news just a couple articles that kind of tickled my fancy. Again, Super Chats is the name of the game. When I do these lives, they're the life blood, the life force of this channel right now. They drive in I'd say I'm going to throw out a number out of my ass. I'm going to say they pull in 70% of the actual revenue this channel makes. 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I have the bug still. And that's the Pokemon go bug. I've been off and on the game for many years. It's been going on seven years I think. My family, you know, I have a daughter and a son, and they play it. And now we're kind of we're kind of back in the mix. And my wife Lindsay's even like kind of timidly timidly going into the game. It's a little overwhelming for new users. But I just want to throw that out there. I am on Pokemon go. Do you want a friend request? It's Adam Olinger. You can find me and you can throw out a friend request, I think somehow. Or, you know, there's probably a way we can make that happen. Maybe on discord. You hit me up discord. Adam does movies. Let's get into the movie news. I just want to throw that out there grown man 40 years of age 40 years young. Still playing pogo, which is what the what the kids call Pokemon go. I shouldn't have gone all in on the sprite. I need a coke right now. Really need a coke right now. Yes, Bubba, I do get the bug the other bug, which is there's so many glitches in the game right now. Since an update was made, where my entire character is just a silhouette just a shadow really kind of speaks volumes about the quality of the game seven years later. Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of quality control issues for sure. I let's get to the main event. Let's get to the main event. Alright, I grabbed from 123 four different articles about what they have for biggest flops of the year. So I'm not I'm not, you know, being partisan or anything. We're looking all over the place. So this one comes from CBR. I don't know what that stands for. Comic book reviews or something. I can't that can't be right. What we have here, 10 biggest flops of the summer. And the first up is the little mermaid budget of 250 million grossed 563 million. How's that a flop? You might ask. If you're ignorant, don't know how money works 250 million. That's that's what the movie costs to make. You're going to throw on another probably $100 or so million dollars for marketing, maybe even some people say that marketing can be almost as much as the damn budget itself, depending on how hard they go into it. Regardless, the theater takes a cut of the movie of the movie sales, not much mind you. Most of the theaters make all their money on popcorn and soda or pop or whatever you Coke, whatever you call it in your neck of the woods. But the rule of thumb is two and a half times the budget. So two and a half times 250. I mean, we're at I mean, just double that is 500, right? So we're looking at like 650 for this is that math sound? I think it is 650 is what it needed. It hit 563 now. Let's see if they say anything. In order to break even 63 million profit as far from what Disney would have wanted. So they are saying it made a profit of 63 million. I mean, that's profit. I don't really know how they're considering that a flop. Disney's kind of a unique situation where a lot of people will say, Oh, this movie didn't do the numbers they wanted it failed miserably. You have to remember that Disney is not just movies, their theme park, their their merchandise, they got toys, they got t shirts, they got lunchboxes, they got posters, they got all sorts of crap, you can't even imagine pencil sharpener you want to you want an aerial pencil sharpener, you better believe you can find it at the Disney store. They will make money off of their project in other ways than just the fun theater release in more ways than fun, as they say. So a flop, I guess, or maybe they just wanted to use the pun because she's a mermaid when she flops. All right, fast 10349 million grossed 719 Oh, my I'm sorry, I forgot to speculate on the reason why this didn't do as well as they thought it would. I think for starters, people might be getting a little sick of the live action movies. I know I certainly haven't liked them really at all. They have a really kind of bland color palette, a drab look. Now, we're not gonna shy away from pointing out the obvious aerial here is black. She's not the white aerial from the animated movie. I have zero issues with this. My issue is the fact that why are you remaking these things shot for shot. I think it would have been better to make a brand new little mermaid story within the aerial universe. This can be a completely different little mermaid, different name, different adventure. But instead, what they did is they Frankenstein monstered the situation. They took 85% of the animated film, slapped on the same music, slapped in the same characters, but then gender swapped one race swapped one scuttles a girl it's aquafina bleeding my ears dry, then you have aerial in the mix by Halle Bailey fantastic performance in a completely unremarkable movie. And by fantastic performance, I mean, she can sing well, and she looks pretty. And that's really all it takes to be aerial because the character is pretty much a boring kind of, you know, useless. There's nothing to the character. It's essentially an NPC with a beautiful voice. So I think yeah, I think you you put on some of the the obviously there's going to be the racist crew. I don't think that I don't think that that accounts for much. I don't think the racist crew is that big of a number. But I think there are there is a bigger faction of people that just roll their eyes at this stuff. And they say we get what you're doing. You're trying to like conjure up some outrage you're trying to keep the buzz. And then by saying that even I'm saying, maybe they just were going for the maybe they just wanted the best person for the job and I'm insulting Haley Bailey by saying this by even bringing up the fact that this was a stunt. So you see, there's no win in this conversation. So all you really can do is just say, well, you made $63 million and we all move on with our lives. End of the day, the problem I always have with these live action movies is they take away talent and they take away creativity from the people at Disney. They could have been working on something else. Another thing is, we can't deny the fact that more people are waiting for things to come home. Disney more than anyone else is at fault for their own failures in the theater. They are putting so much out on their Disney plus platform. And it's coming out pretty quickly to the platform. I mean, how can they expect people to keep going out in pain? They're harder in cash to see something they've already watched in a colorful animated film 20 or 30 years back that's available on the platform. Doesn't make sense. I'm honestly surprised. What did it make 650 million? I'm honestly surprised it grossed as much as it did. All right, Fast 10, let's get to it. God, that budget $350 million budget. It made almost 720 million. This is another one where it's like, why is a Fast and the Furious Movie costing this much? Why does it cost this much to make a Fast 10 movie? Insanity. Fast text. Fast text. Fast text. That's the next franchise with Vin Diesel. So you think you can type fast? He turns on the NOS. The camera goes inside the keyboard and under the keys. All right, I'm done. Fast 10 is the first part of a proposed three part conclusion to the long running fast. And it's not a conclusion to anything. They're going to keep making they're gonna they're going to mind this shit until there's nothing left. They're gonna bleed the stone dry. Alright, the film is also already available. What do we got? After paying theater owners and any other fees, Fast 10 likely lost money in its theatrical run. It's a wild thing to say that a movie that made $719 million is a financial flop. But yeah, you take 350, you multiply that by two, you're at 600, right? No, you had some sorry, you had 700. And so yeah, that is not two and a half times. We need to be in the 850, 900 range to really, to really set the world ablaze here. This thing maybe if it's lucky broke even and that's not enough. That's not enough. Alright, we got a couple more super chats. The one for $5 theaters keep half domestically and more in theaters keep half domestically and more internationally 60% is a good estimate. Also, yeah, marketing goes on top of the budget to make the film. Thank you on for the FYI. That's interesting to know. It's a good note. Master Sergeant, Super Chat, the sequel. I like it. That's the sequel we all wanted. You should have said so really, Master Sergeant, you could have you could have done like part one and then part two. Although I noticed that the the movies that are coming out now are pretending like they're not part ones. That's the mistake Tom Cruz made with the last mission impossible. They called it part one. Fast 10 did it. They're like, this is a full movie. And then at the end, they hit you with a cliffhanger into the spiderverse to or whatever across the spiderverse to the same thing. At first, they marketed it as a part one, but then they're like, oh, shit, people might be put off by that that they're not getting a full movie experience. So let's just let's just get rid of that. Let's just call it across the spiderverse. Okay, ninja for $4.99. How do you like how Elemental came back and beat Spider-Man in the International box office? I don't mind it. I mean, I think across the spider, I think across spider versus better, but I liked Elemental. It definitely had a comeback story. And if anyone's gonna do it, it's gonna be Pixar. We'll get to that, though. That's on the list. Let's on the list. Okay, so fast 10. My my speculation here is you're just there's no speculation. It made $720 million. The thing just cost too damn much money to make. Yes, there's a lot of, I guess you can say stars in it. There's a lot of stars of this own movie in their Vin Diesel. Who's in these Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris. Are they making that much money per movie at this point? I mean, fuck, I can see Vin Diesel, but is Luda pulling in 15 million a fast movie? That seems unlikely. That just seems ludicrous. Brie Larson is in it, of course, any of Charlie's their own. There are some obviously bigger Oscar winning characters, actresses in these things. But they're smaller roles. And whatever, this is so silly. I just I can't believe they're they cost as much to make. Alright, Transformers Rise of the Beast, 195 million gross 427. Okay, here, honestly, 427 million, I'm surprised it made that much. This is like the 35th Transformers movie. It looked like the Michael Bay movies. But I know it was its own thing. It's the sequel to Bumblebee. It's not a prequel anymore to the Bay formers. It's it's kind of like branched off into its own universe. Most regular moviegoers don't understand that they don't give a shit about that. They're here to see Optimus and Bumblebee. Genuinely surprised that it made 427 million. That is a flop though, I guess, because almost a $200 million price tag. I don't think it's as that bad of a flop as they're saying, though, I don't know if that belongs in this list even I would consider that kind of a win. Especially when you're that far in to the Transformers films. Then again, if you look at some of those early ones, I think those Bay formers, the first few, they got close to a billion. They might have surpassed a billion. I'm not I'm not in any right mind to go check right now. But I would imagine that's the case based on me just pulling that out of my ass. Elemental, here it is. Ninja budget of 200 million gross 423. Upon its release, Elemental seemed as though it would become one of the biggest bombs in recent history. However, the film has demonstrated surprisingly strong box office legs holding its ground to earn 423 million and may still add to this number in the next few weeks. It will it'll keep going up. Kids movies are kind of a sure thing. That I feel like those are the least unsafe types of films to make. And Pixar can make them remarkably on the cheap side, considering what they're bringing out, considering the like, the quality that's on the screen. I don't think Elemental had that big of a Okay, I did have a $200 million budget. For some reason, I thought this was a cheaper movie to make. I was gonna I was gonna say 100 million. Yeah, 200 million. Okay, I see I see you. And this was a fine movie. I wouldn't say it was anything amazing. It didn't live up to Pixar standards for me, but I hold them in pretty high high regard. Even their newer stuff is pretty good. I always go to Luca because I think that was just a charming, really smart film for all ages. Really, really good stuff. A lot of people didn't see that because they shouted out to die on Disney plus. They these movies have legs, though. These movies have legs. The machine. This was a comedy budget 20 million gross 10 million. Yeah, I, I didn't see this one. I had no desire. I don't even know who this dude is. I think he's maybe a stand up comedian. The machine is an ill fated comedy loosely based on a routine by stand up comic Bert Christian, Chrysher. Despite turning heads with the casting of Mark Hamill and Chrysher's father, the machine wasn't able to do any substantial work. Yeah, comedies are really freaking hard that if anything is the most unsafe bet in theaters, it is the comedy unless it is a tried and true sequel to something already proven like an Austin Powers or a scary movie, I guess you're just you're gonna have a hard time pulling in and out. I mean, I honestly. Yeah. Again, I didn't even know who this dude was. So you're putting a lot you're resting a lot of steak on one comedian's shoulders. This guy's not Jim Kerry. This guy's not Bill Murray. He doesn't have the the worldwide appeal. Mark Hamill, that's cool, though. Good for Mark. Mission impossible dead reckoning part one. This was a shock to me. Budget 290 million gross 491. Yeah, this is not a profitable film. It sucks. The movie was good. I enjoyed it. I like the mission impossible movies. I have a soft spot for them. I do think this is one of the weaker of the franchise though, somewhere towards the bottom I would put it. But even a bottom tier mission impossible movie is still running. Things are still blowing up. It's still entertaining. But again, I mean, the whole digital key thing and just constantly going on fetch quests and red herrings and muffins and other terms people overuse online. It got a little stale fast. And the fact that it was only a part one doesn't help anything. Because when people ask, this is where word of mouth and this is where something like elemental really, you know, gets to run with it because it's a completed film. It's short enough for all audiences bring the kids to it. Parents ask their neighbors. They say it's a wonderful lovely little flick. Your daughter will love it. Your son will love it. When people ask about mission impossible dead reckoning part one. You'd be amazed how many people still go into a movie with the part one on there and think they're going to get a completed film. Not a cliffhanger. Not a cliffhanger. Putting part one was a huge mistake. It which is which is funny because you know, we had catching fire part one. We had Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part one. Of course, those have much larger broad appeal. But we have Tom Cruise coming off of Top Gun Maverick which did insane numbers. So you thought maybe some of that heat would reflect into this. I just I don't know. I don't know. I don't think mission impossible ever pulls in huge numbers. So you already have a little bit of a segmented fan base. I think they do very well. But fuck that budget's huge. You're putting a lot out there. So the word of mouth on something like this. Hey, how was it? Well, it was fun. It was good. It was two and a half hours long. And there's not an ending. That might not rub your your neighbor the right way. That might they might kind of push them out of going to the movie. And that's where word of mouth has the opposite effect that theaters want. Oh yes, let's also not forget the major factor, Barbenheimer. This movie didn't have an opportunity to get legs because those legs were cut out from under them. We have the biggest marketing. I don't mean biggest marketing event in a decade or so. I can't think of the last time there's been a campaign that hit so freaking hard, where you have two movies that are complete opposites coming out on the same weekend and absolutely piggybacking off each other, caring each other over the finish line. And every single person celebrated that even people that maybe you know, are like the anti woke crowd that's not going to see Barbie or do a 45 minute cry fest online about it. Even they were kind of having some fun and bringing up Barbenheimer. So even the people that are against some of these movies are still adding to the marketing campaign. They're still saying that they're still bringing it up. And this thing was just a powerhouse that steamrolled everything else in theaters, including Mission Impossible, which I remember reading articles saying Tom Cruise was trying to get more IMAX theaters to show it, but they're getting pulled out for Barbie, for Oppenheimer. Would it have done better if Barbie and Oppenheimer didn't have this thing? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I don't think there's any question about that to a degree like how much better it would have done though. That's where we can argue 10%, 15%, 30%. I don't think it has the appeal that like Top Gun Maverick did. Ruby Gilman Teenage Kraken. Jesus. Let's see if there's super chats before I even jump into that disaster. We do have some. Bring it up. Oh, I saw Ninjas. Ninjas get a little bonus one. Here we go. Jan Rose, $5. Thank you, Jan. Barbenheimer beat Mission Impossible out of the park unfortunately. It took all the attention and money from it and it was an awesome film too. I got there, Jan. I got there and you're absolutely right. We're absolutely right. Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken. Budget 70 million, gross 40 million. This movie looked terrible. I don't think there's really any other conspiracy to say about it. Again, I'm amazed it even made 40 million. You could have told me this movie made $30 and I would have believed you because there was very little marketing. I saw the trailer a few times in front of random movies and it couldn't be over soon enough. I just, the appeal wasn't there for really anyone. It didn't, I think it was going for more of a young girl audience but there was nothing to really latch onto because it went so far into the supernatural Kraken shit and not enough time was focused on the high school, high jinks of the girl or middle school, whatever she's in. Yeah, bad trailers, bad idea, I guess. I think this is based on a book or something. Teenage Kraken was one film that was completely lost in the summer movie Shuffle, barely standing a chance, what do they say? The only saving grace is its relatively low budget of 70 million. Yeah, no, it's, it didn't look very good from a visual standpoint. It looked even worse from a story standpoint. People didn't go to see it and here we have The Flash, the biggest colossal failure of all time. Budget of 200 million, only brought in 260 million. Another thing I didn't point out yet that's paramount to the conversation and something that used to be a saving grace for some of these movies is the at-home release. 10 years ago you could release a movie that doesn't do well in theaters. It could flop, it could lose 40-50 million dollars. Ouch, right? Well, wrong sometimes. That movie can come home to DVD. Movie can come home to Blu-ray. Movie can come home to VHS or whatever the medium was at the time, you know, if we go way back time machine and they could make up some of that lost profit. Some of them even become cult classics and end up making money in the long run four or five years down the road. They're playing the long game. Where is that opportunity anymore? That is completely gone. Sure, some people still collect them. They go for the 4k, the steel book, whatever, but this is a niche market now. If you go into a Best Buy, if you can find a Best Buy, there is a tiny little Mcap often or they put the movies in the far back corner in the, you know, like where Kelly Kapoor is working and Ryan Howard from The Office. You go back there in the Annex and there's cobwebs, there's an old janitor, an old timey guy, like there hasn't been anybody back in this section for 40 years and he shows you where that copy of lost on fucking DVD is for $75, all complete season two. I remember buying second season of lost for like $70. That's, times have changed. Times have changed. It's the last season of lost I bought. So the flash doesn't really have an opportunity. As far as I know, people can please correct me. Maybe there are other ways to to pull in revenue. I just, I don't know. Ahead of time, sure, there might be deals made where they will get exclusive rights to a streaming service. Maybe Netflix is like, hey, we want to get your movie on the streaming platform within 60 days. We'll pay you this much money. They pop up in the brief case to show them. But now the problem is most studios have their own child app, their own stream. So Paramount's not going to give that big movie, that big summer block, summer blockbuster to Netflix are going to put it on their own platform. Amazon's in the movie business. They put movies in theaters. So obviously they're going to come home to, to their streaming service. Netflix is the same. They're actually putting some of their stuff in theaters, comes home. Warner Brothers is part of Max. Remember HBO Max? It's, it's Max now. A lot of really shitty rebranding this year between X and Max. And I hate it. I hate it all. All right. So Flash, you know, cards on the table. I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Not, you know, it's not amazing by any means, but I had a fun time with it. It's about 20 minutes too long. CGI is absolutely atrocious. A lot of Bollywood movies are fun and dumb with bad CG too. We kind of overlook it because of all the shenanigans on screen and, and whatever the story is putting forth. And I found the Flash story to be compelling. I'm not a fan of this actor, but in this film, very, very good job in my opinion. It was the first time I really had any interest in Flash as a character. Some good world building there. Good cameos. Very forced cameos. Very cringy cameos towards the end. I rewatched Flash for the second time. So I guess it's just the first time I rewatched. Doesn't make sense. I, I watched Flash again with my kids. They hadn't seen it. They wanted to go in theaters, but movie prices are expensive. Okay. There, there are a lot of money. And again, I mean, I'm doing live streams till midnight hoping, I'm begging. I'm out here with my hat dancing for super chats. That's where we're at in our family. The kids really liked this movie. They had a freaking blast. We watched it on the couch on a Sunday afternoon. Just everybody, even my wife who had no interest kind of popped in once in a while and was like, oh, that was fun. That was cool. No one really cared about the, the shoddy effects either. They were pretty much engrossed in the film and, and the story. And that was enough. But the real story of today is how badly this did. Reasons why? Well, we can kind of, we can look to the little mermaid for that again. There's controversy with this actor. A lot of allegations came out, running from the law, stuff with cults. It's hearsay. Is it real? I don't know. That's not my forte. I don't jump into the tabloid gossip bullshit. I say, let the authorities handle it, not the online sleuths. You know, we're just, we're just kind of a lynch mob on the internet. I don't, I don't pretend to, to, to care or like fain, fain outrage over that kind of stuff. That's not what I'm here for. I'm here to talk movies. I'm here to have fun and hopefully provide some laughter and entertainment once in a while. But that definitely hurt. You know, again, I don't think it's a huge percentage, just like the races. I think it's probably, you know, 10% maybe less 5% of people said, I'm not seeing that. I don't support this person. I think the DCEU going into shambles didn't help. Shazam 2, Shazam 2 came out fumbled this to a lot of people probably looked a little bit like Shazam 2 again. A very colorful, a lot of large scale stuff, explosions. Again, basic people need to be pulled into a movie like this because they need huge box office numbers. The hardcore fans going is not going to be enough to generate seven or eight hundred million dollars, which is what it needed. So instead, you get 270 million dollars. Just, just really sad. And there is a massive burnout over comic book films in general. DC has a bad name now. They're going to clean up. They're going to get their act together once James Gunn takes over, or the ship is just going to go down fully. Who knows? Time will tell. But also Marvel, who's kind of been, I think, helping to prop up comic book movies in general, has been so sad lately too. Like their movies are pretty miserable now. Paint by numbers, ugly affairs, half-assed. And I think people are just kind of fed up. So the, the normies out there, like my wife couldn't tell you if Flash is DC or MCU. She doesn't care. She's just, she's actually doing it the right way. She's looking and interested in movies that are interesting and engaging and have a fun story to tell and have an interesting twist or spin, or at least are competently well executed. If it's just another superhero movie, or at least looks like another big-budget blockbuster explosion of GANZA, they're not going to go see it because they've seen it 500 times. And so I think that's one of the many reasons why this just did not work. Also, the movie was leaked early, like months early, by the hardcore Snyder cult. I'm talking again, like the 5% of really hardcore weirdo Snyder fans that spend day in and day out looking up dirt on everything James Gunn and everything Warner Brothers and anything they can do to kind of help salt the earth of the DCEU remains. They will. So one of the big things they did was they leaked this movie all over Twitter. The full movie was up months ahead of time and then I was seeing pretty much every day tweets come in of just full shots of the film, like three-minute clips at a time, and I was having to just like fucking scan through this crap because they were putting all the spoilers up front. It was pathetic. It's like the lowest level of trolling and just like shitty attitude you can have. I mean it's a movie. Let the movie at least play out for people and let people have fun with it and form their own opinions. I hate this crap. Pathetic. Alright, number two, Indiana Jones and the Dialogue Destiny. Indiana Bones is back. Spry, young, 80-year-old Harrison Ford, Dustin Off That Whip. One more time for one last ride. 300 million dollars. Gross. 368. I don't think Disney is going to get the little mermaid pull from the merchandise that it typically does. Indiana Jones isn't going to be selling toys up the shelf. I know my son Connor, who's 11, is going to be running the target in that toy aisle looking for an 80-year-old Indiana Jones. Dad, this Indiana Jones comes with the couch and his boxers. So when he gets back from his action adventure, he can strip down to his heart briefs and sit down and watch the TV and look at his baseball bats there, too, so he can hit on the door and say, keep it down, you kids. And there's a little basketball that I can roll in the front yard and say, hey, get your ball off my yard. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Yeah, no, he's not doing that. He's not, he's in the Dragon Ball Z, okay? Connor would be like, hey dad, call me when Indiana Jones can go Super Saiyan. Call me when he can go Super Saiyan fucking four or whatever the hell they do now when he's all blue, super instinct or something. I don't know, I don't know what the hell's going on with Dragon Ball. Anyway, this movie, again, it's two and a half hours long. It's way too long for an indie adventure. We have a very old, very weathered Harrison Ford. I love Harrison Ford. I think most people do. He's an icon. He's a treasure. But sometimes you've got to leave the past in the past, which ironically is kind of the plot of this film. So it's self-referential in a way. I don't think it takes a brainiac to figure out why this movie didn't do well. Again, 368 million on paper sounds like a pretty big win, especially if your film only costs a hundred million to make, which let's be honest, that's how much an Indiana Jones movie should cost to make. Hundred million dollars. I can maybe push 140 if I'm being generous. These should be films with practical stunts. Real actors. We don't need CG anything. All right, we don't need these fake ass digital backgrounds with chase sequences that go 20 minutes or longer. Nobody's asking for this. We just want a classic swashbuckling adventure with our with our favorite hero. But again, Indiana Jones at 80 isn't our favorite hero. He's 80. Okay, this is time. He should have hung up the hat 40 years ago. This is a young man's game. It's not being an agist. It's being a realist. There are some things that don't translate well on screen, and one of them is seeing a very old dude trying to jump on a horse, whip a bunch of guys, swing from a chandelier out a window, into the back of a car, drive down the street at high speed. It doesn't translate because we know there's too much separation. So yeah, not good. Not good. Movie itself wasn't great either. I know some people enjoyed it. That's fine. Haunted Mansion. Remember this? It came out like last month for some reason instead of in October. It came out last month. Makes sense. Budget $157 million. Why? Gross. $59 million. Gross indeed. I don't recall any of the actors. I think Danny DeVito was in this and a bunch of actors I'd never heard of. There's probably a couple other big names, but they keep trying to make Haunted Mansion a thing. You know, it's still one of the best rides at Disney, to be fair. Funny enough, I think when this came out in the theaters, the ride wasn't even up. So they didn't even get the the double dip. Like go to the movie. Experience the ride. Rides down. Movies and theaters for like a week. Movies and theaters for like four showings and it's out. Don't go to the movie because it's out of theaters. Don't experience the ride because it's closed. Check it out at Disney Plus in a couple months. That should have been the marketing for this. I don't know who wanted this. There, you know, they tried again, I guess. They saw probably the success of Jungle Cruise with Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Emily Blunt. I think they greenlit a sequel to that, but who knows? I still don't understand why there's not a new Jumanji movie. I'm pretty sure both of those Dwayne Johnson movies made a lot of money, but Dwayne Johnson's maybe the highest, most prolific Hollywood actor who has yet to have a trilogy. I don't think he has a trilogy under his belt, which is crazy because he's the big action star. He's the Arnold of the generation. I mean, not my Arnold, but that's kind of what he was always presented as. Arnold's got trilogies. Arnold's got franchises. That was probably what Black Adam was supposed to be, but I think Jumanji was a safe bet. I don't know what happened there. I do know what happened here. Hunted Mansion, they keep trying to make it this kiddie scary thing. You're losing a lot of your audience when you even put ghosts in it because there's parents out there that aren't going to let their kids see it because they don't want them to wake up in the middle of the fucking night with nightmares. I've been there. I want to take in my little ones to haunted mansion even if it has a colorful, playful vibe because there are elements in there that are still scary to kids inherently. You got a vampire in the mix. You got a werewolf. You got a ghost. Hell no. And so then you have to almost think, well, maybe we should maybe go hard with this. Maybe we should present it as an actual scary movie. Let's make it R. Let's make it PG-13 and dark and gritty and really set it apart from everything else we do here at Disney. Well, they're not going to do that either because that's not their way. So this is just like a lose-lose. And they already did this movie with Eddie Murphy. And I don't even think that version did very well. And Eddie Murphy when that came out was one of the biggest names in comedy, in theaters. Like, that dude was coming out with movies every week. Dr. Doolittle. Holy man. Dave. Whatever the fuck that was called. This guy used to do so many. The Beverly Hills cop franchise. I haven't watched that trilogy in a while, but I remember enjoying those quite a bit. I remember liking those ones quite a bit. Yeah, this isn't a surprise. Okay, these are the big ones here. I know a lot of these are going to be redundant, but there are a couple that we didn't touch upon. And the first one's Dungeons and Dragons. Honor among thieves. Let's see if there's more Superchess before I continue. We do have some new ones. Mike Hunt. $5 Super Chat. Thank you, Mike. The real disappointment is not having Dean Morgan as Thomas Wayne. We wanted the actual Flash Point. They should have just used Keaton for Batman Beyond. I don't know what any of that means, Mike. I'm not a comic book person, so maybe that's definitely part of it for some fans. I don't know any of that. I just wanted a good movie and I was pretty happy with what I got. Mike's back. Zack Snyder Justice League was also leaked early. Dudwell. Zack Snyder Justice League was also leaked early. Dude, well, I'm not sure what that means. Or did well. Okay, I don't whatever. I mean, the Zack Snyder Justice League, we don't know how it did, right? It went to HBO Max exclusively. They never released those numbers from what I could understand. Maybe they did, but I mean, I would need information on that because I didn't see any. I think it did well in the fact that it was watched a lot, but it was also during COVID and it is a huge superhero movie day one going on there. I know that Mortal Kombat also streamed well. I know Wonder Woman 84 streamed well. Pretty much everything that went to HBO Max when it released did well because these were big movies like Kong vs. Godzilla and they went straight to the streaming and into theaters on the same date. In Justice League's case, it only went to Max. Kyle Nelson for $5. What is the biggest movie disagreement you've ever had with a family member? Oh my God, I just had one. This is this is actually really funny. So I went home. I might have brought this up on stream. If I did, I apologize for the redundancy. But I went home recently for my wife. We had a bunch of hospital visits. She is fine. People have asked. Thank you. We don't really have any news as to what's actually going on outside of the fact that she has Crohn's. There's clearly other stuff at play. But we went to the Mayo Clinic. They're one of the best in the country. I think they are the best in the country. And it also happens to be where I used to live in Minnesota. So we saw family. We saw friends when we could. It was we were all over the place. Anyway, at one point I was with a relative. And he's like, Adam, you review movies. Did you see Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3? I said, yeah, of course. He's like, what'd you think? Oh, I thought it was great. I really liked it. A fitting conclusion to the trilogy. And he goes, that movie was fucking awful. I'm like, really? How so? He goes, it just sucked. I go, okay. Well, like what sucked about it? It was just not good. Okay. Man, maybe you should have a movie channel where you critique films because everything you're telling me right now is very eloquently stated, very kind of on the nose and I can really digest. Like, give me something, dude. You can't just say it sucks or it's bad. I need, did you not like the character arcs? Did you not like the dialogue? Do you not like the story in general? Was the tone off for you? Was it too long? Was it too short? Give me something to work with. And finally it broke down to him where he said it was too silly. Everything was a joke. Everything was played for laughs. Which I replied, have you seen The Guardians of the Galaxy movie? They're all, that's the style. And also to add to that, I would fully disagree and say Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 is far more serious, far darker than the other two. In fact, I thought Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, which I really enjoy, was way more colorful, way more over the top of the jokes. He disagreed. He's like, they were dancing at the end, Adam. They were fucking dancing. At some point, I don't even know how to communicate with people. I just said, dude, they won the day. They were celebrating together as like a family, as friends. Have you ever gotten to a get-together in the backyard and a barbecue? Had the music playing? Have you ever been to a wedding? Have you ever been to a celebratory situation where there's music and you're dancing and you're happy? That's what they were doing. Also, in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 1, they defeat the final boss in a dance-off. Do we remember that? There was an actual dance-off for a second where Star-Lord was trying to confuse him. I mean, I don't even know what to say, but yeah, that was a hilarious exchange. We did not agree. We did not agree on that one. Thank you for the question. Oh, God, the Guardians of the Galaxy. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't bring up the right... Someone probably called me on this and I didn't notice. Okay, here we go. We have Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves. Another movie I quite enjoyed. I was pleasantly surprised. I took my kids to this one. We all went in a little bit. This looks like a Thor Ragnarok situation, which we really liked that film. So it was like, this looks like a Thor Ragnarok situation. I dug this. It was very fun. It was very energetic. A lot of jokes. A lot of kick-ass action. I thought Rodriguez was great as the hunter. I thought Chris Pine was really humorous and jovial as the bard. It was just a good time. What was the budget? They don't give a budget on this. Okay, here we go. It only grossed 190 million and the budget was 150. Yeah, that's definitely a flop. What site is this? Movie Web. Okay. I like how CBR presented this budget thing, but not a good thing. And again, this is one of those situations where Dungeons and Dragons is definitely a popular board game. I don't know. I don't play it. I'm sorry. It's a tabletop, whatever. Choose your own adventure. It's an all-hands-on-deck situation with role-playing and whatnot. I've never played it. It looks like a lot of fun. I'd be interested to know from fans of it what they thought of the presentation here. I have a feeling that a good amount of them were probably like, no. This is not how we play. This isn't how we envision it. We're more serious. We're more Lord of the Rings, unless Thor, Love and Thunder. This is not Thor, Love and Thunder, by the way. This is much better. So that might play a part, but again, I don't know how big that community is either. I think it got more popularized, obviously online, but I still think it's pretty niche as far as it's not Monopoly. Right? I'll play Monopoly at the family outing. Surprise I haven't made a Monopoly movie yet, to be honest with you. And so yeah, it's a brand new series for a lot of people like myself. That's always a risk. Studios are doing less of it, especially with these big budgets because you have to convince people to get to theaters and plop down their money. And they already have a bunch of money saved up to go to the 30th Marvel movie. So that's tough. Shazam, Fury of the Gods, this one honestly didn't surprise me at all. What did we get here for a loss? A film made $133 million. So it only made $9 million in the end, which is a loss because, God, this is a shitty breakdown. I'm sorry. I don't like this at all. Shazam 2 lost a good chunk of money. We know that. You can go to Box Office Mojo. I'm not going to do that and see the hard figures if you want, but it did not do well. But it did not do well. The first Shazam was good. I wouldn't say it was amazing by any means, but it did a nice job of introducing the character. The second one, this is one of the few times where I look back on a review and I say, you know what, I was actually very generous to this film. I didn't hate Shazam, Fury of the Gods, but this is about as basic bitch of a movie as you can get. And it definitely has a very formulaic, all too familiar feel to it. And I think a lot of what made the first one charming and different was the out-of-body experience, Billy turning into an adult. You have the big situation put in the superhero world that works. That's interesting. It's different. But a lot of that's not really even part of the second movie. Part of, you know, the pervert Emmy thinks, you know, the women were very attractive. That helps. That goes a long way for me. But yeah, this out of all the movies that reviewed this year, Shazam, Fury of the Gods is definitely a one that I was way too soft on. Now, Ron Tomatoes, I gave it a positive. Would I turn that to a negative? I could at any time. But I still think it is, it does have enough going for it where I would say it's better than it is worse. And I could watch it again because I still think the cast is pretty likable. Magic Mike's last dance. Okay, we're going to move on. Who was asking for that? Oh, this one's interesting. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant. I did not see this. The last movie I saw of Guy Ritchie's was Rock and Rolla. And I said, I've never seen a Guy Ritchie movie again in theaters because that movie was so bad. It was just so bad. I heard really good things about this film. And I was meaning to get out and see it in theaters, but it was already gone before I had the opportunity. Fifty-five million budget. Let's see, box office earnings, 20 million. Oof, Jake Gyllenhaal vehicle. He can usually bring it. He can usually bring it. This is a marketing snafu. I didn't even know this movie existed until I heard from a couple people. Hey, you going to The Covenant? What's The Covenant? Is that like a scary movie? Because that's what it sounds like. No, it's a Guy Ritchie film. Okay, that kind of has me interested, but call me when Sherlock Holmes 3 gets made. Sixty-five million worldwide on a $45 million budget. That would be a flop, folks. That would be a flop. Sixty-five was fine. Another one that I went in with pretty low expectations. I thought it was a nice 90-minute clip in and out. It does have a very dire kind of somber feel to it. It's very bleak. Very few moments of humor, which can help release some tension in a scene. This wasn't bad, though, for me. It just wasn't anything great either. I gave it a fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. I stand by that. It is an easy watch, I think, and it's a movie you'll never really think about again. It's a one and done. But it's also one that you could watch again. Like if my son Conner said, hey, dad, can we watch Sixty-five? I'd say, sure, I'll watch that with you. Because it's an easy and quick. In fact, I did watch the second half of it with my wife. She checked it out. She thought it was fine. All right. So Sixty-five. Let's see if we have any more. I think there's just a few others. Yeah, we got Elemental. We got Dungeons. The Flash. Sixty-five. Shazam. Magic Mike. Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. Okay. The thoughtful coming-of-age story made less than $22 million at the Global Box Office, despite the budget being $30 million. People aren't going to movies like they used to. They want to spend their money because movies are expensive as shit. It can cost 50, 60, 70 bucks if you have a family going. And this is a movie that's definitely geared towards a couple of people going. This is a family flick. And so I think because it is not really a popular property, as far as I know, I think it's based on books. They're probably decently popular, but obviously not going to pull in a massive amount of people. I just think that moms aren't going to take their daughters to something like this when they don't have the funds or they're saving it for a bigger blockbuster, which is what a lot of people do. They don't go out to the movies to go to these smaller TV show-type films, especially when those things get put on streaming in like a week anyways. A lot of this stuff is VOD. And I don't know if this is part of that. This is box office revenue. You could assume that video-on-demand numbers are pretty decent at this point. I would imagine there's a 15, 20% bump on a film like this when it comes to rentals off Amazon or something. It may be I'm being too generous, but I have to imagine that's how a lot of people watch a movie like, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. They rent that thing for four or five bucks or whatever it is when it first hits VOD. Operation Fortune, Ruse de Goer. I'm sure, I don't know how you say it. Ruse de Goer. One of the most abysmal box office performances so far. What is this movie? You're gonna hear to this. Aubrey Plaza, Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, and Josh Hartnett. Josh Hartnett's back. He was in Oppenheimer. This is like the summer of, this is the summer of Hartnett. Wait, is it Guy Ritchie movie? Again? Operation Fortune made $27.5 million with a $50 million budget. Is this another guy? Did I not just say the Covenant was Guy Ritchie? He had two bombs in a single year? That can't be good for business. That can't be good for anyone. Okay, I'm gonna stop with that. I think I've seen enough. Let's see if there's more super chats to kind of get me back into the spirit of things. That was just, that's just disheartening. We have Shadow Humor with a $5 super chat. Thank you, Shadow. I remember laughing and rethinking my life after watching Matrix Resurrections in theaters. What an abomination. Why'd you have to bring that up, Shadow Humor? Shadow Humor, Matrix Resurrections. That's the fourth one if I remember. I blocked it from my memory. That is one of the movies on my roast list on Letterboxed. Should bring that up. We'll take a break here and bring that up. We're gonna switch over to some fun movie news real quick anyways. There's just a few items that I wanted to tackle. Sign in. You know, what I don't like about Letterboxed is it's constantly signing me out. I don't like that. I don't like that it does that. Where's my list? All right, here we go. Share this tab. Movies to make epic roasts about. Look at this list. I'm presenting Mithril members. Let me actually share it with you. Here we go. We have a cavalcade of just abysmal things. Alien covenants on here. Oh, covenant, not to be confused with the covenant. We have AVP, Requiem, Anaconda, Ballistic, X versus Sever. Battlefield Earth is in here. And keep in mind, not all these movies I dislike, but I think they would be fun to roast. And if you've seen any of the roast videos I've done, I think I've done six or seven. I stand by those. Those are some of my pride and joy. But in this mix somewhere, we do have alien resurrections. Alien resurrections. We do have the Matrix resurrections, I believe is in here somewhere. It should be an alphabetical. Why am I not? Did I pass it? Fuck is it? Where is it? Matrix. What's this thing called? Revelations, resurrections. Here we go. Oh my God, it wasn't even in the list? Okay, well, I'm sorry. It is now. We have to sort this by name. There we go. Save. I don't like the special AE spelling on it. That bothers the shit out of me. As I was slaying, now that I've corrected myself, shadow humor, Matrix resurrections is now on this list. And that's something that I would probably spend a good 30 minutes going through the entirety of the film, taking a lot of script notes, and just completely destroying the fuck out of that movie. Of course, that would require me to set aside like a full day to watch the movie and then ponder and think about my life. But yeah, that's for Mithril members. If you're a Mithril member or you're a YouTube join member, 30 bucks, that'll get you a movie roast. Some people say it's too good of a deal. I'm one of those people. Thank you, shadow humor. Mike Hunt's back with a $2 super chat. What's your favorite? Serious. Rated R movie. Serious. Like the first thing that pops to my mind is seven. Because I don't think you would consider Fight Club a serious movie. It's a little too maybe dark humor-ish. I would say Fight Club if you let me, but I would say seven is probably my favorite Serious R-rated movie. Just the top of my head, but you could easily convince me of a different R-rated movie. It wouldn't take much, because I like a lot of movies, believe it or not. Jan Rose says, $5. Thank you, Jan. I'd love for a movie roast soon. Are you up to date on things or is there a wait list? I'm excited for showgirls roast coming up. Jan, you're more than welcome to reach out on Patreon or YouTube. I can't remember where you're supporting me at. If you're a myth roll over on Patreon, just send me a message. Pick out what movie you want from the list. If you have one that's not on there that you want to recommend, we can definitely go back and forth and decide if that's roast worthy for me or not, and we can get it on the list. Please, if you are a myth roll currently and you've been quiet for a while or if you haven't had anything come out for a while, just hit me up there and we'll get something in the queue for a roast. Thank you, Jan. Matt Sclero for $10. The original Jurassic Park was recently returned to theaters in 3D for its 30th anniversary. Were you able to go see with the family? Matt, I was not and I'm honestly really bummed about it. The plan was to go, we didn't want to go Sunday because that was like the $4 theater tickets and everybody and their mom was going to go and it's a miserable experience, but we wanted to go. It was either like the Thursday night showing or the Friday. I had like four days blocked that I wanted to try to get to this movie, but because of Lindsay, and that's the reason we were there, again, it's my wife's fault as all things are, we had to go to Rochester to Mayo and her appointments were scattered in a way where we couldn't just like back to back see all these different specialists. We actually had to drive to Rochester, which is a two and a half hour trip, then come back home because the kids were staying with the grandparents, then drive back down like two days later, come back. We did this three or four different times. A few of them we stayed at a hotel just so we didn't have to keep driving back home, but yeah, long story short, Jurassic Park was supposed to be on the agenda, but we got called back to Rochester, so it didn't happen. And I'm honestly really bummed about it, so thank you for bringing it up, Matt. Seriously, I am bummed out. I wanted to go with my kids and have that experience at the theater with them. They've of course seen Jurassic Park a bunch of times, especially Connor who loves it, but it is not the same as going to the theater and watching it. So I am bummed. Maybe we'll get to it for a 40th anniversary or a 50th when movies are hovering in the sky and we're at full body suits and we can actually go inside of Jurassic Park and sit in the vehicle with Malcolm and the gang. That would be fun, as movies were intended, of course. And Dwayne Johnson's there too, because why wouldn't he be? All right, let's get to the movie news. It's just a couple of things. Here's something depressing, fam. Adam Sandler's highest rated comedy becomes a Netflix hit. More like a Netflix shit. Jump to number one on the charts. Adam Sandler's You Are So Not Invited to My Bot Mitzvah is the highest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes at 95%, beating out dramas like Hustle and Uncut Gems. Odd summary statement, because You Are So Not Invited to My Bot Mitzvah is not a drama. It's a teen bopper comedy. I guess it's got drama. Like it's about as much of a drama as Mean Girls, but also it's about as funny as, I guess, the least funny thing out there. I went to Rotten Tomatoes. It's now at 96%. This is actually interesting, because the user score, the audience score is 65%. It's rare when you see the audience score dip lower than the tomato meter, let alone 30% lower. I got a review on here. To be fair, there are only, what do we got? 68 critics as opposed to the hundreds, sometimes thousands you get on movie reviews. But there's 64 fresh and only four Rotten. Let's look at some of the comments for some of the positives. Open your heart and turn off your logic meter, and you're going to enjoy You Are So Not Invited to My Bot Mitzvah. Crying epitism, all you want, but the entire brood acquits itself quite well. And they seem to be having an infectiously good time together. It helps a great deal that the film is energetically directed and written. No, it's not. This movie was fucking garbage. I don't care. You know what else, you know what other movie looks like the crew's having a fun time? Ocean's 12, that movie's atrocious. But oh, look, George Clooney and Brad Pitt get to be out on a yacht having fun. Well, yay, what did he do? What did he don't? Freaking 96%, are you out of your mind? Here's what Adam had to say. I actually posted this today because it was so pissed. I'm absolutely floored by the tomato meter on this. Over 90% fresh. Are you kidding me? You are so not invited to my Bod Mitzvah is one of the least funny movies I've ever watched. This has a better score than Austin Powers, Dumb and Dumber, and Zoolander. Sad, very sad. I actually changed this originally said, you are so not invited to my Bod Mitzvah is one of the least funny movies I've ever watched. Semi-Colon. And I've seen a good collection of, I'm sorry, and I've seen a good chunk of Adam Sandler movies. I know I ruined that, I undercut what I said, but my point was this is worse than the worst Adam Sandler movie, and that speaks volumes. Obviously comedy is subjective. Movies are subjective. I just cannot wrap my cock around 96% of the critics thought this movie was better than it was worse. This is like a no-brainer to put a rod and score on. This is one of the easiest, I've talked about this at length a couple of times with guests on this channel, how when I go to submit a rod and or fresh, it kind of is tough for me because I want to be fair. I want to step away from myself and think, what would general audiences think of this? Is it hitting the mark with this group? Is it like landing here? Is it innovative? Is it different enough to stand out from all the content? Like I really get at this, content. I really get at odds with some of that. But a movie like this is like the easiest rod and I can throw out. Much like what was the recent one I saw? Gran Turismo was such an easy fresh for me to throw out. When you leave a theater and you're just energized and you had a good feeling from the movie, you didn't want it to end. So simple. But there are a lot of movies that kind of are in that middle ground blue Beatles one. Where I go back and forth like it's kind of crappy, but there's some decent humor here and there. The characters are likable enough. But then the action is not good. The CG is pretty trash. It doesn't look good visually. It seems like the odds are kind of more stacked against than four. Plus, do I want to sit through this movie again? No, I don't want to watch this again. So then that helps me make my decision. But there is a process going on. I don't understand a world where this gets a positive. And the nepotism comment is because there are three sandlers in this movie not counting Adam. There's two daughters and I think his wife is in it at some point or grandma. I don't know. There's the third one in there. At the end credits is like, a charming and often very funny film. That's not just another celebrity family gathering but one that shows respect to modern analysts. It absolutely is a family gathering. I can't. I can't. I won't. Kyle Nelson for $2. Is it worse than Jack and Jill? No. I don't know. Kyle, I have not seen Jack and Jill. I've only seen clips of Jack and Jill and that was enough for me to not watch Jack and Jill. However, I saw that YouTube scene of a Dunkechino, Al Pacino going into the Dunkin Donuts and I had a good chuckle. It felt like a Tim and Eric skit. Absolutely cringy and awkward in my favor way possible. So for that one moment alone out of Jack and Jill, I'd say that Jack and Jill is better because I at least got something from that shitty film in that one moment on YouTube. It stands there. It stands there for me. There's nothing like that in you're not invited to my Bod Mitzvah. There's not even a crumb of a moment in that where I laughed. I just posted my review of that today actually. So you can watch that if you want. Alright, other news. Last news thing actually and then we'll do some fun Blue Beetle comments and wrap this thing up. John Wick, Chapter 4 director confirms that Keanu Reeves wants to make Chapter 5. This is going to be a Harrison Ford situation eventually. John Wick, Chapter 12 Keanu's 80, still looks like he's 55. That might actually work. This isn't much news, but I just thought it was funny that the director was asked earlier and he said that Keanu remarked fuck yeah but then he'd look and go well what is it? I have no fucking idea it's not like we're going to figure it out today. We have a lot of set pieces. We have a lot of ideas. We have a lot of things we didn't go or didn't get done before. I have no doubt that we'll come up with something. What's the main threat? We're about myths. It's like a fable. What's the message in the fable? What's the moral of the story? What is the moral of the story? What is the fable? That's the thing that's listen, I like the John Wick movies. I don't love them like a lot of people. I love John Wick chapter one or just John Wick I guess. I love that one because it's a very contained film. It is grounded in a lot of ways obviously no man except for the boogeyman of course could survive half of what John Wick even goes through in the first film. Oh my god I'm probably going to get some sort of copyright because this dumb commercials playing let me get off of this but I do find it kind of comical that they say like what's the story we're going to go for? What's the threat? What's the everything past one and John Wick is just comically silly. There's really nothing. There's no stakes to any of it. There's no real emotional piece to it. You really are just watching a video game for a couple hours. It is a very cool Let's Play. It's a very cool Let's Play with an incredibly likeable main hero. Keanu Reeves is one of the most beloved actors in Hollywood because he seems like such a caring well-mannered just full of life type of person that you can easily rally behind and want to see succeed and I know he gives huge amounts of his money to charity and he's like the most non-Hollywood dude in the world and so that is definitely something that people latch on to and they root for and in that sense hell yeah keep making these movies that's great but in a larger sense I don't really have any investment to him I have a good time and then I just think afterwards what are we doing with these movies? Why are we in a world within a world within a world in John Wick now they're they're paying with funny money it's like fucking Willy Wonka sometimes they go through these hidden places there's dudes with katanas and with guns and I don't know they're falling down stairs for 35 minutes how long is John Wick chapter 5 gonna be 5 hours? We're gonna be Lord of the Rings territory with this thing? I would be surprised if they did can you imagine John Wick's has this like 3 part Lord of the Rings scale to it where we see Wick going through the mountains and he's traversing New Zealand and he goes to these different high rises and buildings that are in the sides of mountains and under waterfalls and he's talking to these crazy hit men trying to get to the high table or whatever's above the high table the high chair the dinner table whatever it doesn't matter now I'm kind of selling myself on this John Wick what do you call it Parabellum is still easily the best title in John Wick movie John Wick Parabellum is unmatched we gotta come over like John Wick the journey to Middle Earth or John Wick the journey to Elysium John Wick Elysium Part 1 John Wick Chapter 5 John Wick Chapter 5 Part 1 Elysium there we go market one more super chat in from Troy McClure I'm Troy McClure you may remember me so Sandler used this one for a family reunion a personal vacation that's the thing Sandler you gotta love him you gotta love the guy he he knows how to make a movie so that he can get the most out of the movie not only does he financially gain but he also gets to go on a lavish trip he gets to bring his family and his friends with his whole crew at Happy Madison gets to go out for a couple months I mean fuck props to him I think I missed a super chat oh I missed a couple oh no I'm an idiot I just highlighted Troy and he didn't give me any money Troy got a freebie because I was looking at the wrong tab you win this round Troy McClure oh I said McClure so weirdly Troy McClure okay let's go to the final crescendo of this night Lou Beatle comments are mean and that ain't right why can't I oh god I left the presentation share the screen Blue Beatle I got a jack up my volume because we're gonna listen to it we're gonna listen to it off my computer and I think I'm already like halfway through conversation just let's listen here's the out of theater reaction to Blue Beatle getting out of DC's Blue Beatle you're not sick of superhero movies yet you might be after this one it's unfortunately something we've now seen a million times over now the big separator in this one is it follows a Hispanic family of your first Mexican superhero which for some people is gonna be enough to differentiate it it wasn't enough for me although I did love the family dynamic and all the characters are incredibly likeable some really fun moments but overall it felt like a CW movie production value, the color grading all that stuff is really bad it really did feel like a TV movie music is great I'll give music props overall though I've seen so much of this it's really getting stale and unfortunately this did nothing new I'll have the full review of this up on my channel Adam does move it so there you go I don't know why it's running like a mouse is on a wheel and took a break but the actual short isn't so choppy and shitty anyway the comments are gold we'll read some of them sorry but I call BS the color grading is fine and the CGI is leagues better than the CW this guy replied Superman and Lois is on par with the CGI and cinematography in this movie okay so we have mixed opinions on the color grading and the CGI I don't know how you can like the color grading though because the colors I know color theory well enough to know that putting like mustard orange hues on top of a film does not translate to a pretty film and then throwing a lot of neon in just kind of randomly doesn't pop when you have orange over everything the neon does not glow right it doesn't look good and there's lots of that there's lots of stale neon that's not doing its job properly okay let's see oh this is great average Marvel fanboy can't handle the fact that this movie movie biz far maybe movie is this movie is far better than shitty Marvel movies oh he got me oh we oh Marvel fanboy that's good that's good 1v1 anyone says you sir have never read a blue beetle comic book in your life and literally have no idea what you are saying or how to take you seriously you say I literally no I didn't the movie was excellent go see it don't take my word for it on this YouTube short that I didn't ask you to watch or force you to come to definitely listen to 1v1 anyone a guy that doesn't know how to construct a fucking sentence definitely and over uses literally I and literally have no idea what you're saying thanks for clarifying jackass someone's being racist it looks like a standard superhero origin story it is someone saying weird religious stuff dude your video has the worst colors and it's glitchy laughs I mean yeah you didn't have to pay for it it was free build the wall another shitty comment let's see I'm looking for the gold I'm looking for the gold to mine DCU starting out strong and it's not DCU boo take your review somewhere else this movie was great okay that's fine oh here we go Mary Jane's ho something like that you like the flash but not this movie your taste in movie sucks I would like to know why the flash wasn't the breaking point for you the flash didn't make you hate CBMs but this movie did suspect many replies to his own comment oh you were able to overlook the heinous special effects of the fucking flash but you are harsh on blue Beatles visuals I can tell you are biased biased to what they're both DCU movies what's the bias also I don't disagree the flash has bad CG at times I think it has some pretty impressive CG too but yeah there's definitely some very ugly parts the difference is the flash did do some things I haven't seen before and I felt some emotional stake I did feel some connection to the character it was far more grandiose in scale than little blue beetle was I can explain my reasons and no they don't have to be because of some bizarre bias that you come up with oh here we go I like this one and I reply I'm gonna check out the reply we'll save it Miniax TV I'm sure he's doing well Adam here's the thing here is why you are not a good movie reviewer this movie has everything a good superhero movie needs to be good they have to do a backstory because people are going to want to know where it came from what it is why it does what it does and so on everything in this world is becoming the same or is feeling the same because everything has been done action movies, horrors, comedy so on so when it comes down to it you're just done with superhero movies because you really don't like them or there might be another motive hmm don't want to snuck that in at the end I give him a pretty long reply oh my god this might be too long here's why I'm an effective movie reviewer I let people know what they can expect from the film and give my personal thoughts I'm upfront and honest Blue Beetle is a very mediocre film watchable, sure however it's doing absolutely nothing very well it's very by the numbers run of the mill superhero film most people are getting sick of this stuff and it's not because it's comic book movie it's because the formula has run thin we expect more from these movies in 2023 horror films have tons of tropes yet still I enjoyed them the same with sci-fi action thrillers etc Blue Beetle needed to be more than another mediocre origin story it's tired, the effects aren't great, the action is subpar it has some fun comedy and characters but that's about it your last statement about must be another motive wasn't well thought out you can disagree with my thoughts on the movie but don't discredit yourself by insulting some stupid conspiracy jab very cordial very civil I thought damn bro you hate DC movies what do they say nah just getting sick of the formulaic superhero stuff it wasn't bad but definitely not great for me bad review nah bad you strong hispanic leads it's about time trash take honestly maybe it's you over loaded with superhero content it's what the genre is after all ok I wonder what Shang-Chi did differently I thought representation was important asking a movie to redefine the genre is asking a lot Marvel hasn't done anything new since Endgame and spider-man is carrying them right now ok I don't really disagree with any of that thanks for stopping by movie with straight up ass here we go and it was better than spider-man homecoming and to be honest anything Marvel's doing now but when it's Marvel you'll shill it right I love people I love people look at this one not surprised at them someone asked what do you mean they're calling me racist I assume I don't know what other it's either I'm racist for not liking blue beetle or it's because I'm a Marvel shill you can tell this dude is just going off what other youtubers are saying how is the CG bad like did you see the movie I replied I watched and reviewed at day one I was going off my vision this is a lot I'm not reading all that that's too much we'll do a couple more this guy is part of the people who dislike movies he can't spell others like to not be part of the majority from what I have seen a lot of people are lifeing the movie this is a shitshow I can't such bad English such bad grammar film was great oh god film was great this the same kind of that will watch fast 11 or 12 but say superhero movies are getting stale he missed a few words in there I think he was saying this is the same type of person that would like fast 11 or 12 he didn't see my fast 10 review I guess I had there was a couple in here I wanted to get to that were really funny but there's like 500 comments the way you thought flash was incredible but this movie isn't is insane I'm guessing I corrected because I never said the flash was incredible I love when people are 0 and 100 like it's one or the other it's either the best thing ever the worst the flash was better than it was bad I enjoyed the flash I didn't think it was an incredible movie there we go when you can make your own fucking movies making your own money and others love them then you can talk about it so film critics shouldn't exist I say noted we should get rid of food critics judges really just anything that measures quality grow up there was one in here where I just straight up told to do to shut up because I just couldn't anymore I usually try not to be so like petty but I was there I was Tom Petty little in the bomb list because I'm pretty sure that movie is not doing too hot either the blob beetle was good almost every he said was a lie almost everything he said was a lie I'm bummed out I wanted to see there was like one or two oh this movie if you were sick of superhero movies why did you go watch this and on top of that give a review that's a question he made it like a statement that was a question hopefully people don't let this affect them and go watch it for themselves good movie hopefully people don't let the good movie affect them and go watch it for themselves okay there's nothing exciting there it's not for you it's for the Hispanic community and they will all love it when they see it Jesus there we go that's where I said shut up can't stand that shit it's not for you it's for it's not for you it's like oh all the white people movies aren't for you guys I'm gonna break fuck it's so embarrassing to say that here we go I'll tell you this I'm gonna end on this one if you're Hispanic Latino you will love all the Spanish references and you will definitely know who's Spanish or not in the movie theater and then this person says yeah dude is just mad he didn't get any of the jokes with all the other while all the other Hispanics loved it and this is where I hit hard that's true when the giant beetle vehicle spun in circles with fart sounds coming out I wasn't able to really grasp the brilliant commentary on the Hispanic culture and we'll leave it there those are just a taste of some of the amazing comments that you can see if you go to the YouTube short on blue beetle it's so good oh god oh Troy McClure came with the $2 super chat me one Adam zero this one don't count I'm gloating thanks Troy I appreciate that okay well you know what that's gonna do it for the news and that's gonna do it for the blue beetle comments and all the movies that bomb this year it's been a doozy if we have any final super chats anything you wanna ask if you want me to jump up and down kind of spin in circles I mean I just did it so maybe don't ask that any movies I'm excited about anything movie related feel free to ask or you know if you wanna know what I do in my free time spoiler not much throw it a super chat I'll give you a couple minutes while I quickly rattle off what's coming out the rest of the week it won't take long because I think the only thing I currently have on the schedule is a roast tomorrow for howling seven if you haven't heard of howling you're not alone I didn't even know these movies exist until like a month ago and there's eight of them there's eight howling movies and they're all low budget crap from what I can gather but seven is just absolute perfection so please please be excited for that tomorrow it's it's gonna be a good time I'm curious to see obviously I've roasted some pretty popular prominent movies like Suicide Squad Ninja Turtles the Michael Bay one Just Justice League Indiana Jones 4 Crystal Skull these are all popular mainstream movies I'm very curious to see how a roast for some very youtube ask kind of completely in its own space with the howling is gonna do on my channel it could get 200 views for all I know but these roasts have been doing pretty well the numbers are decent for them I get some pretty good subscriber growth from them so I am happy to see that and I'm hoping that the jokes and the effort I put in will bring people to the yard hoping this milkshake shake brings them to the yard but who knows it's anybody's guess alright thank you guys for the support again check out patreon patreon.com slash Adam does movies or become a member right here via youtube do that join button there's different tiers I'd like to see at least 100 patrons it'd be nice to get the number to 100 that seems out of almost 72,000 subscribers to just get 100 people to head over to patreon and say you know what Adam keep it going you're doing a great job that would be fine that would be at least somewhat respectable and then I can just keep doing these lives and we can have a great time alright thank you guys very much have a good night and I will see you for a Friday live and hopefully you'll see me for a roast tomorrow or Friday God I hope I get it out tomorrow yeah it's Thursday tomorrow we gotta get it out alright take care ending the broadcast