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Sleight
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Our annual spotlight on black superhero movies returns by spotlighting a black superhero movie you've probably never heard of. Perry and Derrick discuss 2016's Sleight, which has shades of Unbreakable and some truly memorable performances, including a side of Dulé Hill that surprised them both.
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Introduction and Promotion
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Anyone you want. All right? OK. I want you to sign your name on that card. You don't need to hide it from her. We all should know which one is yours. OK. Shuffle your card into the deck. Get it lost in there. Perfect. And there's a lot of things in our lives that can trap us. It could be a person, a problem. There's so many things that can wall us in. But these barriers only exist if we let them. You know, we can do whatever we want if we just believe we're able to. There's a card in here with your name on it, right? Uh-huh.
00:02:26
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Let's say 51 of these cards are too scared to trust themselves, too afraid to believe that they can do whatever they want. For your card, your card knows there's no wall, no limit, no barrier. Is that your card? No, it's a card. No. It's a card. I live. It's insane.
00:02:57
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Welcome to the Superhero Cinephiles podcast. I am half of your host, Perry Constantine. And as always, I am the other half, Derek Ferguson. How you doing?
Weather Talk and Superman Discussion
00:03:06
Speaker
I'm doing well. How are you doing today? I am doing fine. Thank you very much. Nice weather here in Brooklyn, considering it's winter, but you know, we had a little bit of snow, but it didn't stick. So I'm a happy camp. As long as it doesn't snow, I'm fine. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:23
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Yeah, I've been catching up on some comics lately. And one of the things I've read that I bought on one of these holiday sales that Comixology had last month was Superman Smashes the Clam. Oh, okay. So it's based on the old radio serial that- Yeah. Eventually Superman did. Because during that time, there was a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and they were getting some positive press coverage.
00:03:53
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And a bunch of the people involved in the show, they're like, we got to do something about this. So they used they had a reporter who had done extensive research on the Klan. They used his his information as a background. They wrote, I think it was a 16 part series. They did. And all about like Superman.
00:04:13
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They couldn't use the actual name Ku Klux Klan because it was actually incorporated. They would have gotten sued for copyright violations or whatever, or trademark infringement. So they called it the Klan of the fiery cross instead. It's the same thing.
00:04:34
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in Marvel Comics when they did a thing where the Black Panther, you know, fought the Klan, but they couldn't use the name. They couldn't actually call it the Klan. They called it something else. Yeah. So that was interesting because I was reading the story and I was wondering like, why don't they just call it the Ku Klux Klan? Because everybody knows what it is. And I couldn't understand why. And then afterward, after I finished reading the book, I went and I'm like, oh, that's why they couldn't do it. Okay. But yeah, so it was, and so it was this, and it basically like, you know, it's funny because they, this,
00:05:04
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children's radio show basically stopped the Klan from when it was regaining prominence, like right at the heart in the 1950s. People forget, and when I tell them this, I say, well, listen, if you go to YouTube and use it for something else, then looking up porn, you will see that the Klan had actual parades in New York. They had a rally in Madison Square Garden.
00:05:28
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right yeah one time and they were holding parades in washington d.c there are pictures and you know newsreels of the clan holding marches in washington d.c you see the capital in the background yeah so you know yeah so i mean at one time the clan was of quite the formidable force in the united states still is yeah i mean they are they still are yeah but um so yeah that was one thing that um and so then uh so this writer uh uh
00:05:58
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Gene Luen Yang, I think his name is. So he, with all this stuff, with all this resurgent stuff, he decided, he went to DC and, you know, he said like, you know, I kind of want to do this, I want to do this as a story and adapt it to graphic novel. So it's really cool. It's, first off, it's a children's story. So it is, but it's very well done. Like it's, the focus is on this Chinese family that moves out of Chinatown and into like a white neighborhood in Metropolis.
00:06:28
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And the Klan comes after them. And in the original serial, it was mostly focused on the son of the family. He was like the central character. But in this one, it adds, because I think in the original serial, he had a sister in the original serial, but she wasn't really named. She was just part of the family. But this series, it puts the focus on his sister. And she's like the central character of it. But it's cool because they said it back in the 1930s.
00:06:57
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So and it's got and they do a nice little thing where they show Superman at the time Because you know people don't remember but in the Golden Age in the early comics Superman didn't have the powers that he has now No, and so it showed him and they work in how his powers change and how he becomes more powerful in that story And it's just it's really well done. The the artwork is phenomenal. It's like this very
00:07:21
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not kind of, it's this very like animated-esque style. And it's kind of like this fusion between, you know, the Bruce Timp type stuff and like, you know, more of an anime influence. And it's this nice little fusion the artist did. And it's really clean artwork. It's really well-written and it was just a really impressive story. And I just finished reading that last night. And so if anyone's interested, I definitely recommend checking it out. So, because it was a great read. Yeah, ComiXology.
00:07:50
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You know what, they got enough of my money. Oh my God. I hate to tell you how many graphic novels I have on my Kindle I haven't read yet. Oh God, yeah. Yeah, but I got it because as we have said before, we were talking about it, the prices that they have, you almost feel guilty for not buying it. Because you say, damn, where else am I going to get at this treat?
00:08:14
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Yeah, I've been holding back on pulling the trigger on the Hellblazer collection, because it's like 20 books. And the lowest they get is like six bucks on DC. So that's like, you know, like 120 bucks. I'm just like, oh.
00:08:32
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Same with the Suicide Squad, the Ostrander stuff. When I see those come up from time to time, I'm always like, oh, should I get them now? Because they always seem to coincide with sales of other stuff that I want to get to. Exactly. Well, that's how to get you. That's exactly how to get you. But also, I saw the third episode of WandaVision last week. How'd you like it? Oh, I loved it. It's really cool. Each episode, they're ratcheting up the tension and making it
00:09:00
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and making it more surreal in each one. Like it's making, it's bringing the, this, cause it was like, you know, in the first episode, it was just that little bit at the end with the boss choking. And then the next episode, right? They had the beekeeper, they had the Jimmy Woo's voice coming through the radio, the splash of red when she started bleeding and the chopper and the toy helicopter and all that. And then the third episode, they took it even further.
00:09:27
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Yeah. Yeah. I really liked the scene where they had the two net where it was Agatha, where was Agatha or you know Agnes. Yeah. Yeah. Agnes and she's talking to the black guy and she's telling him, listen, pull it together. You know, I said, Oh shit. That was another, like when vision comes out and he sees him there and the guy's cutting through the wall.
00:09:46
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Yeah. And he looks and Vince is like, are you okay? He's like, he's like, yeah. And he's still talking while he's still cutting through the wall. Yeah. Cutting through the wall. Like I do this every day. It's, it's, and of course the ending where, you know, I mean, the chick just gets flown outside. Yeah. You know, and then you're saying, okay, now what's this all about? Yeah. You know, and
00:10:08
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because I yeah because my thought was like I thought she was there to spy on them or something or she was there to monitor something but then you know the the authorities come on her at the end so I'm just like what's going on here now this is interesting and oh wait a minute wait a minute and how about when she you know says oh yeah well your brother got killed you know yeah yeah yeah and one that looks at her like
00:10:30
Speaker
You know, she gives her that. Yeah, because she's talking about, she's like, I was, you know, I liked how they worked Pietro into that, because he hasn't been mentioned since Age of Ultron. Which is such a shame. Yeah, yeah. So I really like, yeah. And so we watched it, my wife and I. And after that, she wanted to go on and she's like, well, I want to watch it. Let's watch a Marvel movie. I'm like, OK, well, let's watch Age of Ultron since we just saw this episode. She watched Age of Ultron. That's what I did. I watched Age of Ultron.
00:10:58
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It's, you know what, it's really so well, and I, again, I really don't understand the complaint. I'm hearing a lot of complaints. Oh yeah, yeah. You know, and I'm saying I really don't understand what people complain about because
00:11:14
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It's not like you didn't know, they didn't tell you what you were getting into. They didn't, it's not like Marvel did not tell you what this was gonna be about. They did enough publicity to let you know you were not gonna get a punchy, punchy, run, run action series. It wasn't gonna be that type of series. And for me personally, I'm glad it's not. Every Marvel series that they're doing should be its own separate thing, according to what,
00:11:41
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Oh, it's according to the character that are involved. Yeah. I remember when they first announced it and they said they were going to call it WandaVision. I remember thinking like, well, that sounds, why don't they just call it vision in Scarlet Witch? And now, you know, seeing what they're doing with mine, I'm like, Oh, well now I understand why they did this. Yeah. Listen, I'm enjoying it. I don't, I really don't know what people expected out of it or what they wanted or what they thought. But again, people,
00:12:06
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want to see the TV or movie that they've got in their head they don't want to see the one that that people are actually making because they've already gotten their head how the movie or TV show well this is how it should be in my head and that's what i want to see you know so yeah i'm loving it i'm and i get annoyed at the end of every episode because i'm like damn it now i gotta wait a week
00:12:28
Speaker
I know, right? But it's kind of fun. It is kind of fun, yeah. It is kind of fun saying, oh shit, I can't wait till next week. I haven't had that anticipation for a long time when it comes to watching TV. Because now we binge watch. We just watch it. OK, cool. And it's over with. But now it's like, during the week, at odd moments, I'm saying, damn.
00:12:52
Speaker
Okay, well, is it Friday yet? I can't watch more on the vision. And I was the same way with the Mandalorian. So yeah, kudos to Disney, which is another streaming service. I just thought now, yeah, I can't give that one up now either. Yeah, I mean, I've got Netflix, HBO Max, Disney, and Hulu are gonna be like the ones I definitely hold on to. And me and my wife earlier today,
00:13:17
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I was talking to, and we were going through all of the lists of all of the stuff that we, you know, that we're subscribing to say, okay, we get rid of this, we get rid of that. No, we can't get rid of this. No, we can't get rid of that. Because really, I mean, realistically, you know, you can't keep up with all of them. No, no, you definitely can't. You can't keep up with all of them.
00:13:38
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And so we was just trying to figure out, okay, well, we really don't watch this one. So, and I was saying to her, well, you know what? Just cut it. Because if we decide, I said, because it's not going anywhere. If we decide that we do want to pick it, we'll just subscribe to it again, that's all. Yeah, yeah. But for now, let's cut it and see if we can do it without it. And you know, most of the time we usually subscribe to just watch one or two things anyway.
00:14:05
Speaker
Right, exactly. And like, once this current slate of Marvel stuff has kind of run its course, I might like pause my Disney Plus subscription for a while. Right. Yeah. And then see, until like, you know, something else comes on there, and then I'll re-up it. Or until, you know, Helena starts getting old enough to start being able to pay attention to stuff, then we'll probably have to keep it nonstop. Well, see, there you go. See, now it's all, see, it's always something else, my friend. It's always something else.
00:14:31
Speaker
All right.
Superman and Lois Series Excitement
00:14:33
Speaker
Let's see. Any big news this week? I wasn't really paying attention because I was so fond of writing this. I wasn't paying attention, Dave. There was a little fake moon night trailer going around, I noticed. Oh, I hate when people do that. Yeah, and I was telling people, I said, well, can't you tell that's fake? And they said, no, how do you know it's fake? Because I have eyes, I can see. Yeah. And I can see, well,
00:15:02
Speaker
I don't know, because I recognized the scenes from other movies that were spliced in there to, you know, make it look like something. No, it's not, it's not real. You know, and people, it says something about the character of people that have nothing better to do than sit at home and
00:15:18
Speaker
do shit like that. You could spend that time being so much more productive doing something original and that people would actually enjoy. I honestly do not understand the satisfaction that comes out of making a fake trailer.
00:15:37
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, same here. I mean, well, I understand that if you wanna practice, I understand that like from a film editing perspective, you wanna practice your, I get it, I get that, but don't advertise it as a regular. Like make, let people know it's a fake trailer I did for fun or something like that. Right, exactly. That stuff I'm cool with, you do that, fine. But when you start putting up and you're like, oh, this is a, and I'm like that, now you're just being a dick.
00:16:01
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Yeah, and they had like the Disney logo on it and everything, you know? So a lot of people did actually think that it was, well, of course, if you see the Disney logo on there, you say, oh, well, it must be Disney. Right, yeah. There's a lot of creative people out there who unfortunately squander their creativity. Yeah, yeah. So if there's anybody out there who makes fake trailers who I have offended with this, tough.
00:16:26
Speaker
Everything. You're not coming to Brooklyn to get me, so what do I care? Exactly. Well, actually, one thing I did see was they had a new trailer for Superman and Lois.
00:16:35
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which is premiering at the end of February. So I saw that, do you see that in your trailer? Yes, I did. What do you think of that? I'm looking forward, the more I see this show, the more I'm looking forward to it. Well, we've been waiting to see this cat play Superman, ever since the first scene, he was a Supergirl. Yeah, so yeah. You know, we've been waiting for this. Yeah, yeah, like I've been, ever since he, that first episode, he was in Supergirl, I'm just like, this guy's got to get his own Superman TV show. Exactly, so yeah, so I have,
00:17:06
Speaker
I'm looking forward to, again, I'm looking forward to it with anticipation that makes me feel good about superhero stuff again. And the thing I like about it is it's a take that we haven't seen on Superman before. Not only in TV, but even to a certain extent in the comics. We got a little bit of it when they had the
00:17:31
Speaker
Lois and Clark comic book that Dan Juergens did when they introduced their son, right? And then they had that continued into the Superman rebirth stuff. Like we got a little bit of it, but this is like, but he knew his father was Superman, like ever since from the day he was born, basically. But this right there, these kids are teenagers and there's two of them. And to top it all off, you know, Lois and Clark have lost their jobs, the Daily Planet. So they're moving back to small though. So it's a really,
00:17:59
Speaker
a really interesting, I'm really curious to see how they handle it. Yeah. I mean, it's different. It's not the same old status quo, which we've already seen, you know, Superman working at the Daily Planet and trying to keep his secret identity from Lois. Okay. We've had decades of seeing that, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Let's see something different. And apparently that's what they said we're going to do. You know what? Let's do something different.
00:18:22
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And I will give, you know, slim bit of credit to Man of Steel. One of the things I actually like that they did is they did away with the whole, you know, him trying to hide his identity from Lois and they just revealed right from the start. No, she knows who he is.
00:18:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, because that, well, you know, it was a different time and they got a lot of mileage out of that hole. I mean, they got a whole series but Lois Lane had her own comic book that ran for years based on that one premise. Yeah, like her and Lana Lang trying to fight over Superman and trying to prove that Superman was Clarkette.
00:18:53
Speaker
That was the sole premise of every single damn issue. It was a fantasy story, well, they called it an imaginary story about she would like dream she was married to Superman. Or the one where there's the really weird one when she becomes Black for a day or something.
00:19:13
Speaker
Oh yeah, I'm curious, Black. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's definitely a milestone in DC comic history. I mean, but you know what, I give them credit for at least making the attempt to try to, you know, at least say, okay, well, we see this as the issue and we're going to deal with it the best way we know how. You know, did they succeed?
00:19:38
Speaker
Well, you know, but it was based on the actual book at that time, you know, that came out about a guy that, you know, he was white and he got makeup and himself and everything like that to pass for black to see. So it was a big thing at the time. Yeah. Yeah. It was the thing to do. And it's still doing it. We had that chicken. What, uh, what's in the Rachel? Yeah. She passed for black for, you know, like,
00:20:04
Speaker
You know what? She was like leading a chapter of the NAACP or something like that, wasn't she? Okay, here's the thing. People asked me about her and I said, you know what? I really don't have a problem with her. I said, really? I said, because it's not like she made a ton of money doing this. You know, she just lived as a black person and she, you know, and
00:20:28
Speaker
You know, she didn't do it for financial gain because nobody in their right mind who's white is gonna pretend that they're black unless there's something in it for them. She didn't do it. She did it just simply because she felt she was a black person. She didn't defraud anybody. She didn't, you know, so it's a strange case, but it's- That was my thing. Like I didn't really know what to think about it. I'm just like, this is just really weird.
00:20:56
Speaker
I mean, if she was, you know, I kept reminding me of that is Chris Rock stand up when what he says, not no one in here would trade places with me and I'm rich. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's what I was trying to think of. Who said that? Because that's what came to my mind when he said, yeah, he said, there's not one white person here that would trade places with me.
00:21:19
Speaker
And I'm rich. Yeah. And he apparently hadn't met Rachel Dolezal. Yeah. But I mean, this woman pretended to be black for no other reason than she wanted to be black. It's not like she did it to get any financial. She certainly didn't gain any monetary. No, no, definitely not. Yeah. Because there's not a lot of money in being the local, you know, the head of the local chapter, the NAACP. Yeah. There was no money in that.
00:21:46
Speaker
So yeah, it's a very weird, very weird case. But again, and I know about 28 y'all say, okay, well later for him, he don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not gonna watch this shit again. I didn't have a problem with it myself. I really didn't. I really did. But yeah, so that Lois and Clark show, just taking it back, that is something I'm looking forward to.
00:22:08
Speaker
That like all, and it's, I'm glad that we're getting some more superhero stuff now, because we've had like a year in the desert, right? With nothing.
00:22:17
Speaker
And it seems to me that because my gut feeling was that, especially when I heard about a whole bunch of the CW stuff was gonna be canceled because we're losing Supergirl, we're losing Black Lightning. And I was saying, well, you know what? We already lost Arrow and the spin-off, Green Arrow and the Canaries, they didn't pick that up. Yeah.
00:22:38
Speaker
because my gut was that, okay, well, you know what? They're just gonna move everything over to HBO Max. And they're gonna do all their superhero shows on HBO Max. But apparently not because they've got this show on the CW. But they haven't really announced anything new. Well, they've got something we talked about a few weeks ago, if you remember, that they're doing a Wonder Girl series. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah.
00:23:06
Speaker
with, what's her name is developing it. She's also doing New Gods. Oh, Ava DuVernay. Ava DuVernay, yeah, she's apparently involved in that. Oh, okay. And that's based on the new Wonder Girl that they're introducing in future state. So they got that and then Stargirl, which is, I think it was originally for DC Universe or was it for HBO Max? One of the two, but they are also airing the episodes on the CW.
00:23:33
Speaker
I'm trying to remember what is it? Yeah, because I think that she, yeah, I think she was for DC Universe. Yeah, yeah. And then she moved over to, you know, the CW. Right, right. Well, they, it's on HBO Max and it's on the CW at the same time. Oh, okay. Yeah. And so, yeah. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that because now I can, I can watch the, because now I got my, my VPN working right on my Apple TV. So now I can actually watch CWC and all that. So.
00:24:00
Speaker
Oh, okay, cool. Day after it airs, I'm gonna be able to watch the Superman. And it's a two-hour premiere. They're doing back-to-back episodes for the premiere. So it's gonna be like a full movie. Oh, cool. Yeah. It's gonna be nice. It's been like, you know, what, over 10 years since we had a good Superman movie, so. Yeah, yeah. Good. Well, I have to tell Patricia, don't bother me that much. Yeah, yeah. All right. So...
Spotlight on Black Superhero Movies
00:24:25
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Now, the whole Rachel Dolezal conversation is actually a nice way to transition into today, because we're doing, just like last year, we did a spotlight on black superhero movies for Black History Month, and we're continuing the tradition this year with the first movie you picked, which is this little independent film from 2016 called Slight. Yeah, this is a movie, and I have to thank my wife Patricia, because,
00:24:52
Speaker
She found this. I didn't know anything about the movie. Didn't know what it was about. But usually, she's the one she'll say, OK, well, let's go see this movie. And I went to San Jose. Well, what do you want to see that for? She said, well, I don't know, but there's Black people in it. Because that's her. If there's Black people in it, she'll go see it. Me?
00:25:15
Speaker
Again, we're going to lose visitors. You is here. Me, I'm a little bit more discriminating. And so then we will go and I remember distinctly we were driving on the way to see this movie. She said, well, don't you want Black people to support you in what you do and your writing and stuff like that and blah, blah, blah? I said, I want anybody with a dollar to support me.
00:25:40
Speaker
necessarily have to be black, you know. Yeah. So, so anyway, so we go see the movie and we went to see it and about 45 minutes into the movie, I was pleasantly surprised because this reminded me a lot, believe it or not, well, you've seen the movie, so either you disagree with me. It reminded me a lot of Unbreakable. Yeah, yeah, you're right. In that I realized I had been suckered
00:26:07
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into seeing one type of movie and what I was actually watching was a superhero origin story. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And it was, it kind of reminded me of
00:26:20
Speaker
I can't remember what the movie was, but there was one movie where we looked at, maybe it was A-bar, I think it might've been A-bar, where I was sitting there and I'm watching it and I'm thinking like, is this really a superhero movie? And then when you get to the part where you see like the magnet and stuff in his arm, like, oh, okay, now you got my attention. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And for those of you who haven't seen the movie, I know a lot of people haven't seen it, little short,
00:26:44
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summary of five. We are introduced to a young man named Bo who is a street who is a street magician. Played by Jacob Lattimore. Thank you. And his parents have passed away and he's taking care of his little sister and he's doing the street magician thing by day and he is a low-level drug dealer by night.
00:27:06
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He's selling, you know, selling drugs with the intention that he wants to move to another city and provide a better life for his sister, right, you know, are in the course of doing this he gets embroiled further and further in in the drug world.
00:27:24
Speaker
because the guy he works for, Angelo, played incredibly by Dulay Hill. Dulay Hill, yeah. And if you've only seen this guy in the West Wing and in Psych, you're not gonna recognize him. No, I mean, I've watched this, when Angelo came on screen, I'm like, wait a minute, I know this guy. I'm like, I know I know this guy. And I look him up, I'm like, Dulay Hill, why is that name so familiar? I look up and start by, holy shit, he was the guy from the West Wing. Yeah, yeah.
00:27:52
Speaker
And I mean, he is full blow. He's not Al Pacino Scarface, but he's going in that path. So what happens is that eventually it comes down to a showdown because of course Bo wants to get out of the game because he only got into it just to get a certain amount of money and get out. But Angelo has other plans for him. However,
00:28:18
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Bo has two aces up his sleeve, most appropriately, him being a magician. One, he's very good at magic. And two, he has, and I have no idea how he did this, but this kid has implanted an electromagnet in his arm.
00:28:34
Speaker
So therefore he can manipulate metal. Now we're not talking about Magneto here, but he can do enough just to throw other people off. He can move certain objects and he can, and then later on he gets the help of his high school science teacher who helps him soup it up. And then that's when the plot really gets. And one of the nice things about that, one of the things that really impressed me how they did that is
00:29:04
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They don't come right out and make a big deal about the fact that, oh, this is what he did in high school and all that. They keep it, they don't say anything about it directly, but they have these little hints in the background.
00:29:16
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Like you see the picture of him with the science award, and then you see him messing with electronics and that kind of stuff. And then also when he's talking to Holly, who's played by Seychell Gabriel, who we last saw in The Spirit, she played the young version of Eva Mendez's character. And when he's talking to her, he's talking about
00:29:42
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he wants to get his sister into a better school. And he says like, yeah, he's like, I went through that school system too. And there was only one teacher who cared, right? But so they do a good job of like giving us these little, little bit of drips so that when it happens, like it's not out of left field, but it's also not something you expected to happen. Yeah, yeah. And I liked how, yeah. And like everything in this movie,
00:30:05
Speaker
is low key there's the neighbor that lives across the street and it's never explained how they met or you know what's going but they have a nice relationship you know they have a nice friendship that's going on she comes over and you know she babysits
00:30:21
Speaker
Yeah, or his sister when he's out doing his drug deal thing and one thing I like about this movie that she knows he's doing the drug dealing, but we don't get that obligatory scene about oh well you shouldn't be doing this and oh my god because you never see any of them kind of hysterics.
00:30:37
Speaker
doing it and she understands and she knows he's a good guy, which he is. The actor that plays this character, he is extremely likable. Right from the first five minutes of this movie, we're rooting for this guy. Now he's also been in Detroit. I don't know if you saw that movie. No. Okay, I haven't either. I heard it. I haven't seen anything, or if I did, I didn't know it was him.
00:31:03
Speaker
Yeah, it seems like he was in that and he was also in The Chai, which looks like it's a series set in Chicago, which I'm gonna have to check out, look up now. Okay, well Patricia watches that. Yeah. Oh really? I've never seen it, but yeah, but she watches that show. And apparently they're making like a reboot slash sequel of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's in post-production now and he's in that. So. Yeah, just what the world needs.
00:31:32
Speaker
That's what the world needs. But yeah, but okay, going back to the low key. Yeah, everything is like low key, even when
00:31:40
Speaker
you know, he has the girlfriend. He doesn't hide what he does from the girlfriend, so we don't get none of the BS scenes about, you know, later on, oh, why weren't you honest with me and everything? No, he tells me right up front, listen, this is what I'm doing, you know. I do this and do that. And she says, oh, okay, well, you know, these are people that live in a real world where people do this stuff and they understand that because anytime you see a movie about, you know, drug dealing or something like that, people, and then they find out that the main character is a drug dealer. Oh my God.
00:32:10
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you know, the people that live in this world understand this is something that goes on and people do it for various reasons. Now, the Doolay Hill character, he does it because he's psychotic. He's such an interesting character because at the beginning,
00:32:25
Speaker
It does seem, he doesn't seem like a bad guy. No. Right. They do a really good job with him. Like he, he's very charming. He's very, very approachable and everything like that. And even, you know, Beau even says, you know, like I, I got into this with him because he wasn't like the typical gang banger. And so like, I thought I was just going to be selling to, to kids who want to, you know, rich white kids who want to party, basically.
00:32:49
Speaker
which is mostly who we see him selling the most to in this. We see that there's a little running gag that is this guy that's always buying drugs because he wants to impress girls and stuff like that. And he tells them, you don't buy drugs to impress girls. Just shut up and give me the Molly's.
00:33:07
Speaker
You know, but yeah, but that's what we see him mostly selling to it's not like he's hanging out He's not and you know, he's driving to his appointments because these people are calling him to make an appointment, you know Yeah, yeah drop when he goes by this club, you know, and he's so yeah, so it's not like
00:33:27
Speaker
you know, he's selling to kids in the schoolyard. Right, right. Well, I'm glad you mentioned that thing about the guy he says to like, you know, you shouldn't do this to impress girls, like, and that's a that's another hit. It's a really good, you know, bit about shows us a little bit more about what kind of person he is that he is a good guy. And he's just, you know, he's selling to people who
00:33:48
Speaker
who aren't really like, you know, drug actors. You're just selling people who are, you know, looking to have a fun time or something like that. The recreation of drug use. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The recreation of drug use, you know. And I know some of y'all out there saying, oh, I don't care. There's no such thing as horrible as all drug use is horrible. Well, you weren't around during the 80s. And just let me leave that with you. Well, just like also as someone who has known people like, like there are lots of people who,
00:34:16
Speaker
they'll go out, they'll get drugs for like a party or something like that. And then they won't use it for like, you know, months on end. Like there are people who do that who are like these casual drug users who use it for like, you know, social reasons. And, you know, you can get into the morals, but it's not like he's going around selling to the...
00:34:35
Speaker
to meth heads who are living in squalor, anything like that. In the interest of full disclosure, and we'll be very honest here with you folks and my friend here, during the 1980s, your esteemed co-host did his share of indulging in recreational pharmaceuticals as well. And let me tell you first here, there were plenty of people, yeah, people would just use drugs just when they were going out to party. Yeah.
00:35:01
Speaker
They wouldn't touch it, wouldn't touch it. Other people, yeah, they, you know, they went down that slippery slope. But I think because at that time, the 80s, that's how it was looked upon. It was looked upon as something you did when you went to party. It wasn't a lifestyle, like, say, like, crap. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, you know, being a crack addict or a meth head, see, that's a lifestyle.
00:35:26
Speaker
It becomes your lifestyle. I understand the morality and everything like that. And I know that people will watch it where they say, oh, well, you're just making excuses for him. He's still a low life drug dealer. Well, and that kind of mentality, it dismisses the economic realities for a lot of people in his position.
00:35:51
Speaker
Yeah. And that's really why these, why people like him, like Bo, they get involved in this stuff is because that's, that's the best job they can get. Yeah. And, and I mean, there are people, again, back in the day, I knew people, there were people that just did it just for a certain reason. Like, okay, they wanted to buy a house. Right. They would sell drugs until they achieved their goal.
00:36:15
Speaker
And then that's it. They would stop. They would, you know, because that's what they wanted. Other people continued doing it just because they liked the money and they liked the lifestyle. Right. You know, everybody had different reasons for doing it. You know, there was this there was a lot of Bo that reminded me of this other movie that came out a while back called The Hate U Give, which I think I've mentioned this before. And this is a movie where
00:36:39
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You got this girl who, black girl living in the projects, but her parents have made sure to send her and her brother to like a fancy prep school type thing so that they could get it. So they, and she's, and you know,
00:36:56
Speaker
The young actress is a great job of switching back and forth between those two worlds. She's a wonderful young actress, but anyway, that's not the point I want to make. The point I want to make is that she's got this friend who's from her old school, who's from the neighborhood, and he's a drug dealer. And he's a drug dealer because his parents are gone, his grandma's got cancer, and there's nobody else to provide. They don't have insurance, they don't have anything. He's got no other way to provide other than selling drugs.
00:37:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And I mean, for a lot of people, that's the reality. It is, unfortunately, that's the reality. It's a, it's a fast way to make a lot of, you know, I mean, you know, to make a lot of money. And I know that some people will say that Bo's situation in this is set up so that we will sympathize, you know, with him, even though he's selling drugs. Okay.
00:37:54
Speaker
My argument is that this is, okay, he's selling drugs. The reason why he's selling drugs is very clearly,
00:38:03
Speaker
laid out and there is a definite effort on the parts of the actors and the director and the writers to show the difference between him and like Angelo. Yes. Yeah. You know, and even the other people that are using drugs, we're not dealing with people. Okay. We're not dealing with criminals except for Angelo. And the two guys who works for him. Right. And the guys he works with. One of them is played by the rapper Fat Joe. Oh, okay. Yeah. Who I like, who I always liked seeing in a movie.
00:38:32
Speaker
But yeah, and then of course we get it to the superhero angle, which like I said, 40 minutes into the movie, that's when I realized, okay, I'm watching the superhero origin story. Especially, okay, no one I realized it when he was giving his girlfriend the lion bed and they're having this conversation about magic. And to me, that sets it up.
00:38:59
Speaker
for what we see later on in the movie because there are certain things that Bo does. I don't know. And I'm not an expert in magic and ledger domain and everything like that. But to me, there's a definite hint that he does have
00:39:14
Speaker
some kind of other abilities, because there's some things he does in this movie, you can't explain it any other way. Yes, I was thinking the same thing, like when they revealed that it was all because of this, it was all an electromagnet, like and he explains to his teacher that, you know, he's got the wire, which I don't know how he had the wires running through his arms too, like that was nothing. He's got the diodes in his fingers, where it's like, and that's how, you know, they got the positive and some fingers negative and the other, that allows him to control like the direction of it and everything like that.
00:39:40
Speaker
That stuff made sense. The more I'm thinking about it, I'm like, wait, because we only see, we see it in his arm. But I'm kind of thinking like, how did he get the wires running all the way down to his hand without cutting open? How did he get it in his arm in the first place? Yeah, yeah. And so like the first time I, when I'm watching it, and when the first time we see him, you know, when he's dabbing it with he's cleaning out the infection and everything. Yeah. And also they had the medical bills, right? Like my first thought was human experimentation.
00:40:09
Speaker
Right. That was my first thought. Like, oh, maybe he was like experimented on or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, obviously he couldn't have done it to himself. Yeah. Somebody had to do it, you know, to him, even though he came up with the idea of implanting the electromagnet in his arm, but still, you know, cause it looks like it's been, you know, crudely, yes, but it's been, but it's been surgically implanted in his arm. I mean, it's not going nowhere. So.
00:40:39
Speaker
To me, that was like a setup, okay, well, we're gonna find out in a future movie if there's a sequel. And even though this was made like back what, 2017? 2016, yeah. And I've heard nothing about a sequel yet. I hope to God, if the makers and the directors and writers see this, please, if you don't,
Film 'Slight': Superhero Elements and Success
00:41:00
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do a movie, at least do a graphic novel or do a series or do something to explain what happened, how he got that thing in his arm and his- Well, no, but they have a huge cliffhanger at the end, right? When they- Again. They move into this new place in San Diego and he's working in the bathroom or something and she comes in to check on him and there's like this light, the lights are like humming and everything like that. And she was really surprised. And then it just cuts the credits like, what the hell was he doing in there?
00:41:26
Speaker
which again leads me to believe that he's got, cause he does tricks and they're like, remember when he goes to the club and he talks to the two guys and everything. Now he never touches them. And then when he's coming back out, they say to him, Oh, well you always do a trick for us. You know, you know, where's the trick? He said, Oh, here. He throws one guy his wallet and another guy his cell phone. And they said, well, how did he do that? He said he never touched us. Well, like other things too, like when he's making like these cards disappear and he makes it appear like the girl's purse or something like that. I'm just like,
00:41:56
Speaker
And the whole time I'm thinking like, I thought he had like some sort of teleportation ability or something. Right, yeah, right.
00:42:04
Speaker
That's what, yeah, because apparently there's something else going on with this kid. It's not just the electromagnet in his arm. There's something else, like you said, it ends on that cliffhanger where, and she's not scared, mind you. She's actually smiling, she's delighted. She says, oh my God. And then there's that light and then boom. And you're sitting there, you said, wait a minute, that's it? Yeah, and right before that, cause they've got the shot of his desk and they focus in on this big like toolbox thing with the lock on it.
00:42:33
Speaker
Yeah there's something in there that he's working on and I get that ties into the end. And if you notice he has that big honking poster of Houdini as well who also was
00:42:46
Speaker
reputed to have abilities, because they said there's some stuff that Houdini did. They said there's no other way to explain it than the man actually had some kind of superhuman abilities. That's the only way he can do it. So that's why I took it to, that's why they had that poster up on the wall. They didn't spend a lot on this movie, but
00:43:09
Speaker
But it looks like a more expensive movie than what it is, but what they really concentrated on. And again, we always go back to this again with the superhero movies. The casting is excellent and everybody's got good chemistry with each other. And it doesn't take a lot for you to get invested because the characters are so likable and the actors are so good. It doesn't take a lot for you to get invested in this story. Yeah. Yeah. So it had a budget, because you mentioned they'd spent a lot of money. So yeah, the budget was only $250,000.
00:43:39
Speaker
And it made almost $4 million worldwide. Well, actually, no, no, that's just in the US. So I guess it was probably only released in the US then. But yeah, so it definitely made its money back.
00:43:56
Speaker
Cause I know the theater that we went to see it to, the theater we went to see it to, we had to catch a matinee because that was the only showing. It was only one showing a day and it was the matinee. That was it, yeah. And this director has, the only other thing he's done is, oh no, nevermind, he's got a bunch of stuff coming up. I was looking at the wrong thing, I was just known for. But it looks like he's doing an episode of,
00:44:23
Speaker
the new Twilight Zone that Jordan Peele is behind. And he did another movie called Sweetheart. He's doing another movie. Now it's in pre-production called Devotion about some Navy fighter pilots in the Korean War.
00:44:48
Speaker
But yeah. So he's still working. He's still working. Yeah, yeah. Good. He should because he's a good director. I like this one. I mean, after I saw this movie, I ran home and I wrote a review right away, which I usually don't do. I usually wait like a day or two and let it marinate in my head before I write a review. But I wanted to get this review out to as many people as I could to, you know, because I said, well, I can see the handwriting on the wall. This isn't going to be repeated very long. Yeah. I wanted to get the word out to as many people. Listen, if you define this movie,
00:45:17
Speaker
go see it you know what you know disappears and a lot of people that did read my review they you know they contacted me oh man thank you I wouldn't probably never want to see that movie and now of course now that's on HBO Max it's like a whole new audience is finding it now yeah I understand you know because it's on them so hopefully uh we will get a slight part too because I definitely would like to see how this young man's story um you know continue yeah very
00:45:47
Speaker
very good movie. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Yeah. And one of the things you mentioned, which, you know, I wanted to, you know, um, what's reinforced, I guess, or whatever, like, or sign onto is the whole, the whole fact that these do feel like really, like this, it's not preachy. It's not, it feels, it's presenting like all the
00:46:11
Speaker
aside from all the fantasy elements, when you get into the sci-fi stuff and the magic and all that, it feels very, that stuff, I was talking about the, we were talking about how to get the wires in there. When you start thinking about that stuff afterwards, you start to wonder, but it gives you just enough of that stuff and it's surrounded and it's so well grounded.
00:46:31
Speaker
in the characters and this very real life situation, right? This is the kind of lives that a lot of people in this situation are living. And it's very honest about all of that. And so it makes you buy that stuff a lot easier. Yeah, yeah. It's not like going back to unbreakable because unbreakable. I think the reason why that movie stuck with me is because
00:46:55
Speaker
Okay, just like with this movie, we don't get the melodramatic bombast that we get from a lot of other movies. It's very, everybody talks in even tones of voice and everybody's very redo, except of course, when they're chopping off people's hands and putting bullets through their heads then of course. Matter of fact, I think Doolay Hill is the only character that yells in this old movie. Yeah, probably.
00:47:19
Speaker
everybody else is like you know but it's not the bombast of your usual superhero movie that announces well this is a superhero movie you know this movie does nothing to announce itself that okay you're gonna be just stick with it for a while and you're gonna realize you're watching a superhero movie yeah you know and i'm saying oh okay and of course by the time you get to the fight scene
00:47:43
Speaker
where we really see him use his powers, then it hits you, you say, okay, that's what this is. Yeah, I mean, I can't get over how good, and I watched it today, and I hadn't seen it since, well, no, I've seen it one time since then, but that was long enough that I felt like I was watching a brand new movie. It's a very fresh,
00:48:07
Speaker
feeling movie if you, you know, if you haven't seen it for a while. That's why I think it's going to be around for a while. It's going to be one of those movies that keeps getting rediscovered. I think, yeah, I think so. It definitely has that feel because it does such a good job of really sucking you into this world and you just kind of like go with it for everything.
00:48:32
Speaker
It's never boring. Like I was never checking my watch or to see what time it was or anything like that. I was completely intrigued the whole time. Yeah, yeah. And you never feel like, you know,
00:48:46
Speaker
you're watching something that, you don't feel like you're watching something that's contrived. It's very natural performances, like I said, from everybody. Very natural performances. There's a wonderful scene where they're having dinner and they're around the table. And I love that scene because they're just sitting there. And sometimes the scenes where people are just talking, it's harder to pull off
00:49:10
Speaker
than the ones where people are having fights and they're throwing into the wall and there's action and there's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But to just have people sitting around a table talking and you're enjoying listening to their conversation. Yeah. And that's what I was doing. I was enjoying listening to the conversation that they was having. Very, very nice, small, intimate scene until of course we get Angelo with his bullshit. He comes knocking on the door and I was like, okay, here we go.
00:49:35
Speaker
But even still, they do such a good job of playing that scene because you know there's something, because now he knows about what kind of person Angelo is. Yeah. And so you know there's something bad is going to go down, which makes it even all the more unsettling because Angelo is so nice and personable to everybody else. He's so charming. He's so polite. It is three women of different ages sitting at that table, and he charms all of them. Yeah, yeah. You're like, bam, 10 seconds.
00:50:03
Speaker
you know, he charms all of them, which to me is the true danger of that character. Oh, yeah. Because he's so charming. Yeah. You know, before you know it, you know, you're in love with this guy. You say, well, Angelo couldn't do that. He's such a nice guy. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, and that, and it really comes to a head when you see, well, even in that scene when they go to the, the, the poker game with the other, you know, drug dealers trying to muscle in us territory.
00:50:31
Speaker
Even then, he remains almost reasonable, right? Because he's telling him, he's like, look, you want to sell here, then you got to sell my stuff, give me 30%. Otherwise, you can leave.
00:50:43
Speaker
But he he's he actually he actually they do a good job making him seem pretty reasonable. And even though you know, this is like a freaky situation and more than what both thought he was getting involved in. But even still, he seems kind of reasonable. And it's not until later when he comes in, they bring they capture the guy and, you know,
00:51:01
Speaker
the tells any hands on the budget. I was like, he's like, all right, go ahead, make sure you make sure you take it off. And I'm like, and Beau's like, wait, wait, what? And they tell him, he said, listen, it's either his or your hand or yours. Yeah, yeah. You know, and
00:51:17
Speaker
And by this time, we realized that Angelo is capable of anything. So now we're scared for both. Yeah, you're right. I love how he sits down. Because he's a businessman. He's negotiating. Yeah. He's saying, listen, I don't care if you sell. It's fine. Yeah, you can sell. I don't know. But you just have to sell my product.
00:51:38
Speaker
And you have to kick back 30% or whatever. It's not like he's running. It's not like he's telling him he's got to get out of town by sundown. Yeah, yeah. Because he's saying, I can make money. You can make money. There's enough money out there for everybody. Yeah, yeah. And the guy, instead of sitting there and negotiating, no, he won't sit there. He won't be a bad ass. So hey.
00:52:04
Speaker
Not to say he deserves what happens to him, but if you notice, Angelo didn't go in there with guns blazing right away and start killing everybody and everything. He escalates it. Of course, he beats up the guy's chief henchman. What's the guy's name? Marcus. He beats up his chief henchman. But that's because the guy, he throws the poker chips at him. And if he knew anything about Angelo, he would never do that.
00:52:32
Speaker
He never did that. But that's it when they chop off the hand, like that was a really harrowing scene. Like even though they don't show anything, right? No, yeah. But it's just the way they show like the close-ups of, you know, Beau's face, the close-ups of Maurice's face and just like the sound, right? And then you got Angela going like, oh, you didn't quite get it. You got to hit it again. And you're like, oh, wow. Yeah. But you hit a point. It's more effective for us
Character Depth and Realism in 'Slight'
00:53:02
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seen Bo's face because really this is like the first, probably first real violence Bo has ever had in his life. He's experienced. You can see it on his face. This shit ain't fun anymore. Yeah. And that's all the more credit to Lattimore that he does such a good job portraying that.
00:53:25
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, and matter of fact, after he goes outside, throws up. Yeah, yeah. Well, he almost throws up in the room. Yeah, yeah. But also when they go into the poker game, the way he's holding the gun, he's like so nervous about it. Well, he's never held the gun. He's never held the gun. Right, exactly. And they do such a good job of showing the reality of that situation. Well, what it is is that Angelo is gradually sucking him into
00:53:52
Speaker
you know, that world so that he always has something over his head. Right. Yeah. You know, that's what it is, you know, instead of, you know, he's, uh, cause there's a part in the, in the movie where he said, you know, this is such a shame. He said, because I really liked you. Yeah. It's a bunch of bullshit. You get to feel Angela on like nobody. I did believe him when he said that, like that, cause I did believe that he actually did like this kid, but this is,
00:54:18
Speaker
this is the way that Angelo does business. This is the way that business is done, right? I did get the sense that it was kind of like, you know, take it back to breaking bad, right? Even though he's a total bastard to him, Walter really does care for Jesse. Oh yeah, yeah. And it's very, yeah. And I think that was kind of, it was a little hint of that as well with Angelo and Beau as well. Yeah, because you're right.
00:54:46
Speaker
going back to that scene where he goes to Angelo's house and they're sitting there. And he's almost like a big brother. He's asking, well, how you doing? You got a girl yet? And everything like, yeah, well, I met this girl, I'm going to tell her, oh, well, here. And he pulls out a bunch of money. He says, here, you know, dates on me, man. And they're talking back and forth. And it's like, okay, well, you know, and.
00:55:06
Speaker
we're getting, as the audience, we're getting sucked in too. We say, yeah, Angelo is, you know, for a drug dealer, he's a pretty cool guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Until, but as the movie progresses and we go on and on and on and on. And I think that also,
00:55:21
Speaker
We said this earlier, part of the reason why it's so shocking is because we've seen this guy play such nice guys before. We've never seen him play anybody, at least I haven't. I've never seen him play anything like this before. So it was even all the more shocking. It's like if you've only seen Andy Griffith in the Andy Griffith Show, and then you watch a facing crowd.
00:55:46
Speaker
You said, holy shit, is this the same, is this the same actor? You know? Yeah, yeah. Ah, yeah. No, yeah. And another thing too, I really like is the, there's a, the, the, the, the chemistry between Beau and T is also really well done. His, his, his sister. Oh yeah. Like, they have, they have me convinced they were brothers. Right, right from the start.
00:56:12
Speaker
He comes over to her and she's sitting on the bench reading. He's like, what are you reading? She says, oh, I'm reading Hatch. He's like, oh, he's like, I read that last year. He's like, I nearly cried. And she's like, don't tell me anything.
00:56:25
Speaker
I like is that, again, they didn't go for the thing and make her like this bratty little sister. You know, they work together. He tells, you know, they come to the house, they say, okay, listen, don't leave your stuff around, you know, laying around in the room. She doesn't give any backtalk or any lip. She goes ahead, she picks up, she said, oh, here, you've got the mail. And he said, okay, see, that's very natural. That's how two people that are living together, you know,
00:56:46
Speaker
Whereas in something else, she'd have been a little smart mouth kid and stuff like that, giving him a hard time. And then you'd have a scene where he's saying, oh, I'm doing the best I can trying to do this. We don't get that here. None of that. None of that. Five for that. Yeah. Oh, you know what's interesting is the actress who plays her, Storm Reed, she's going to be in the Suicide Squad.
00:57:09
Speaker
No fooling. Yeah. She's playing Tyla is the character's name. I don't know who that is, but, but yeah, she's going to be in the Suicide Squad. I can't wait for the Suicide Squad. Oh God. Yeah. I'm just, I'm getting, I'm getting anxious for that, for that first real trailer that we get. HBO Max. Yes. Cause it's a Warner Brothers movie. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be on HBO Max. Speaking of digressing, but I also saw the Godzilla versus Kong trailer too. Oh, what'd you think? Oh, that looks awesome.
00:57:40
Speaker
It's gonna be, you know, two big monsters fighting. Exactly. As you know, I'm a huge fan of Skull Island. Yeah, me too. I love Skull Island. I love Skull Island, yeah. That was, oh man, fantastic movie. So yeah, so I'm looking forward to this, you know. I wasn't too crazy about the other Godzilla movie. What was it, Godzilla King of the Monsters? Oh, you didn't like that one?
00:58:03
Speaker
It's not that I didn't like it, but I felt that the monsters were too big and too powerful. Because Godzilla is powerful, but he's capable of being defeated. Godzilla that's in that movie, it's like there's no way you could beat him. And you say, OK, well, these creatures were around. Why didn't they destroy the Earth? Long ago, because then they got Ghidra, the three-headed monster.
00:58:31
Speaker
Mothra, who is my favorite? I love Mothra. Only thing is they don't have the two little girls. That's in the box, remember them? I never saw the original Mothra, but I know what you're talking about. Listen, any time the two little heifers started singing, you knew shit was about to get real. They said, ooh la, Mothra, ooh la. I said, oh, y'all. All right, this movie's got about another 20 minutes to go.
00:59:02
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She's about to get to you. Now going back to slight, like you mentioned Seychelles Gabriel, last thing we saw her in was The Spirit. And if you remember, we talked about that. She did a really good job in that movie. She had a very small part, but she really made you think that she was a young Eva Mendez. She looked exactly like her. And I was like, oh my God. And as we've said before,
00:59:25
Speaker
And as people are getting sick of me here to say that, it's one of the things that bugs me in movies is that when they give us a younger version of a character that looks nothing like the older version, or when they give us characters that are supposed to play brothers or sisters, and they look nothing like each other.
00:59:45
Speaker
So I always appreciate it when the casting director or whoever goes that extra mile and gives us a character that actually does look like, you know, and yeah, I liked her. She was one, she was one of the few things that was good about that movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was one of the few good, few good things that stood out.
01:00:05
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And if you want to hear more about that, you have not heard our spirit episode. After you're done with this, go listen to it. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's the first time we actually both hated a movie that we talked about on this show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was the first time. Well, I mean, you know, me and you.
01:00:25
Speaker
we don't like talking about things we don't like. Right. We were just on the, we were just on the pop DNA podcast. And that was one of the things we talked about with them is that we want to focus on, we want to, even if it's a movie that we don't like, we still want to try to find something that we liked about it. We don't want to just, we don't want to be those guys who just sit there and just trash everything. Like that's. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what's the fun in there? Yeah. Yeah. There's no fun in there and no, no fun in there. And I would much rather,
01:00:52
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As I've always said, I would much rather turn people on the things that I think that they will enjoy rather than a waste my time to tell, well, you shouldn't see this. This is a horrible movie. Unless it really is a really, really horrible movie that you absolutely should not see. Yeah. And the spirit was probably definitely fits that category.
01:01:12
Speaker
And you know what, I actually watched about half of it, you know, like the other day. I was flipping channels and Spirit was like, don't ask me why I stopped and watched it. And I said, okay, probably, oh, I know. It was seen with Scarlett Johansson. And I said, oh, what's this? And they said, oh, Spirit. And I watched, I said, oh, yeah. But no, but she was really good in this. And looks like she was, I didn't know this, but she was also in Falling Skies.
01:01:40
Speaker
the TV show. It was a TV series, right? Yeah, from 2011 to 2014. The alien invasion thing. Right, yeah, yeah. She played Lourdes Delgado in that. Okay, never saw it. I think I saw maybe like the first episode or something, but I never, but it's on HBO Max now, so I think I might actually have to go actually sit down and watch it.
01:02:03
Speaker
You know what's on HBO Max? And here comes another digression, folks. I promise you, we're going to get back. It's like something that is on HBO Max now. I saw the news all over Facebook about it. And I said, OK, I'm finally going to sit down and watch it and try to get through it. Babylon Five. Oh, yeah, I saw that, too. I added that to my list because I've never seen that either. I've never been, you know, and I know there's a lot of
01:02:27
Speaker
guys that we know like, you know, Bobby Nash and Van Allen, Plexico, who for him, that's like the greatest TV series ever. Cause he owns it in like three or four different formats, you know? And I don't know, I've never been able to get past first season. Okay. Never. It just doesn't turn, well, maybe because I'm, you know, like Star Trek.
01:02:50
Speaker
I'm in the Star Trek, so maybe that's why. But I said, you know what? And it's like remastered and everything like that. So I said, you know what? I'm going to make a definite effort now to try to get through the whole series, simply because there's so many people I know who love it so much. So there's got to be something to it. One more brief digression. This kind of ties back to what we're talking about. They also have, I saw a preview for something else that's coming out on HBO Max.
01:03:18
Speaker
What is it, Judas and the Black Messiah? Oh yeah. About Fred Hampton. Now that I'm really looking forward to. I want to see, yeah. I saw the trailer for that and I'm just like, that looks really good.
01:03:30
Speaker
Like I said, I got to keep HBO Max. Yeah, yeah, they're doing a good job of keeping my money. But I already, like I said, last week when you were in Wonder Woman 84, right, when I went to sign up so I could watch Wonder Woman, they hit me right away and they said, hey, you know, if you pay 60 bucks upfront, you get six months subscription, which is, you know, a discount. And I'm like, okay, sure. So they got me for at least six months.
01:03:54
Speaker
probably longer because I'm pretty sure Suicide Squad doesn't come out until after those six months, so. Yeah, well, I mean, now that they got the thing with that, oh, they've got all the Warner Brothers movies for, you know, I mean, the whole year, you say, hey, why wouldn't I keep it just to watch all these movies they were gonna release in the theaters anyway? I mean, I mean, if anybody has showed that they know how to get people's money, it's HBO Max. Yeah.
01:04:23
Speaker
And it's nice that they're finally figuring it out because for a while they didn't really know what they were doing. They had like two different HBO subscriptions. There was one that was a streaming service and then there was one that was only if you had an HBO cable subscription and then they had DC Universe as well. And so now it looks like they're finally getting their shit together.
01:04:45
Speaker
Well, they consolidated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause yeah, you're right. They had like three or four different stream HBO streaming services. Right. And they just like kind of said, you know what? We're confusing it. Let's just consolidate everything in the one, which makes, which of course makes more sense. Yeah. You know? And yeah. And apparently it has worked because I know myself a lot of people that said they were never going to sign up for another streaming service. They signed up for HBO. I was one of them. I was one of them. Yeah. A lot of people I know they sat.
01:05:16
Speaker
But hey, I mean, you know, what are you going to do? Yeah. Yeah. And they've got stuff. I've been enjoying what I've been finding on there. But anyway, one of our friends, he's been overdosing on all the DC stuff. He said he had no idea all that stuff was on there. In fact, speaking of DC, you know, I watched a Superman bread son the other day as well. Yeah. I keep meaning it away. Oh man. See, there's not enough hours. There's not. There's so much stuff on there. I want to see.
01:05:43
Speaker
All right.
Realism in Superhero Powers: 'Slight' and Beyond
01:05:44
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Anyway, back to slight. Finally. Finally. Just the
01:05:50
Speaker
Now I want to talk about that final battle scene. Well, and it's, you know what was kind of weird is that when he's talking to the teacher and he's, you know, the teacher, there's this weird thing because, you know, he's, you know, he's like, you know, you shouldn't be putting that in your arm, but then he, then he agrees to help him upgrade it. Yeah. Yeah. And they go out and I'm thinking like, well, maybe there's something in there that he, he's told the teacher why he needs it. But then they go out and they use it on the car and the teacher's like, this is not for a tool.
01:06:18
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Bitch, if you thought it was for a trick, why were you doing it? I mean, there's a little something weird going on there because I know if somebody came to me and they had an electromagnet implanted in their arm, the first thing I'm saying, well, we're calling, you know, like a doctor, we got to get you to the hospital. Especially when he noticed that it's infected. Yeah. But he goes along with it.
01:06:45
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pretty rapidly, which seems to me indicates that there's a scene missing where he explains to him what's going on, because we never see that. We never see it like explaining to him, well, listen, these drug dealers have got my sister hostage and, you know, this is, well, why don't we just go to the cops? All of that is like, we never see any of that. It's like the teacher just says, okay, well, I hope you, you know, boost it. Now, is that because
01:07:09
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There's more to this teacher that they're not saying that maybe we were going to see in another movie, or was it just scenes cut out? I'm leaning toward that there were scenes there that were cut out that we didn't see. Maybe, but it is weird because when they go out and they test it on the car, right? And then he says, well, this is not for a trick, is it? And know what I like too?
01:07:33
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when he's trying to pull the card to him, he moves. He moves, yeah, yeah. Right, because he does not have the mass of body strength, you know, because of course, if this was a typical superhero movie, he would pull the card to him. Right. But he can't do that because, and matter of fact, he grabs his arm because, you know, yeah, because he doesn't have the mass and the strength to pull that, pull that card, which I say, okay, see, somebody knows how superpowers work. Yeah, yeah.
01:08:02
Speaker
Yeah, he can't just pull, you know, like a one ton card to him, you know, because he doesn't manipulate the magnetic fields. He just creates a magnetic field. Right. So he has he doesn't really have any real control. Like, like you said, is not Magneto who he can control the magnetic field. So that's why he can stay still and move stuff that's like heavier than him.
01:08:21
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. So, the screenwriter understands how superpowers work. Right. He's just basically a magnet in his hand. That's all it really is. It's a magnet in his hand. Yeah. It's like because... Okay. I've always said that every superhero who has superpowers, who has super strength. Okay. Okay. Every superhero who has super strength.
01:08:51
Speaker
they have a certain measure of invulnerability. They have to have it because the first time they try to pick up something, they tear themselves apart. So that kind of like goes along with it, a certain degree of invulnerability because if you try to pick up a car,
01:09:10
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you know, this is what would happen to you. So it's understanding when he's trying to move the car, it's understanding of how physics work and how the human body works and everything like that. There was one scene in, I think it was Global Frequency, was the name of the comic. And there's one scene that always stood out to me is when there's this one character who had cybernetics. And she was talking about like the limitations of it. She's like, you have to reinforce it. Cause otherwise you're hooking up a metal arm to bone.
01:09:38
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and it's going to break off the bone. Right. Because it's just too heavy. So you need like extra reinforcement there just in order to have it affixed in the first place.
01:09:46
Speaker
Right, because even, okay, you remember the $6 million man? Okay, now I remember reading the book that it was based on, Cyborg by Martin Caden. I remember reading that book and I remember distinctly reading in that book that they explained to Steve Austin. Well, listen, there's only so much that you can lift because the bionic arm is attached to, you know, your bone and you're gonna tear that out if you try to, yeah, you can pick up
01:10:13
Speaker
stuff and you can mostly in the book what he never did like in the tv series he was doing all kinds of stuff like picking up airplanes and stuff like that but in the book he was using it more like a battering ram or stuff like that because he picked up anything over a certain weight or he would risk
01:10:32
Speaker
you know that interface between the bionics and the flesh do a risk tearing that which to me was very fascinating you know yeah yeah yeah that kind of stuff to me fascinates the the actual physics behind having superpowers and stuff like that because i remember arguing with a friend of mine that we were arguing about invisibility for like
01:10:55
Speaker
three hours about, well, how do you see if the light is going through your eyes? Because that's the vision depends on you. Yeah. How do you see? That was, that was a, there was a, there was a Marvel novel way back in the day. It was a, it was a Spider-Man Fantastic Four novel. It was, it was like part of the, there was a, they did a Spider-Man team up trilogy. It was called Doomsday.
01:11:16
Speaker
And each book he teamed up with a different hero. Like the first one was the Hulk. I think the second one was Iron Man. And the third one was the Fantastic Four. And there was this one scene where they had, where Spider-Man was crawling up the side of the building and the Sue Storm had turned him invisible. And that was his interior monologue. He's like, how does this work? How am I seeing anything? And it was all explained. And I was reading this and I was like, you know, I was a kid when I read this and I'm just like,
01:11:42
Speaker
I never thought about that. That actually makes a lot of sense. Makes a lot, exactly makes a lot of sense. So that one scene where he's trying to pull the car to him, see that rang true to me because in any other movie, yeah, okay. He would have did like that and the car would have came to him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, and, and going along with that, like he's, it shows like when he goes into that, into Angelo's house at the end for that, that final confrontation.
01:12:11
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He doesn't try to manipulate anything that's too heavy. Exactly for that reason. Right. He tears out the guy's, you know, metal teeth. He stops the bullets and he pushes one of them back into Angelo's head. But he's not like trying to, you know, throw a car at him or anything like that. Right. Exactly. Like when the guy comes at him and he's got the aluminum back and he stops the back. He's able to stop the back.
01:12:32
Speaker
Yeah, like you said, when he stops the bullets, there's little small things. It keeps his superpowers in the realm of, okay, I can see that. Right, right. I can see that. Again, this kid is not Magneto. He's not lived in Yankee Stadium, you know, stuff like that. It doesn't go the Chronicle route where it starts out small and they just keep building, building, and then they're having a whole huge battle in the city, right? This all stays extremely rounded.
01:12:59
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which some people looking at this might think is like kind of similar or something like that. No, it's not. This is about as different from Chronicle as a Big Mac is from Sirloin steak. Well, Chronicle was much more about like how much humans suck. Well, yeah. This movie gives you more faith in humanity, right? Because he's got this power, but he's only using it because he's trying to get out of the situation. Yeah.
01:13:29
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's a much more, dare I say, it's an optimistic movie. It is, it is, it is. It's an optimistic movie, you know, which is another reason why I want people to see this and why I'm recommending it. Because again, I like superhero movies where, you know,
01:13:50
Speaker
superheroes like being superheroes. And this kid likes being able to do all these magic tricks and likes being able to lift up stuff and mess with people's heads, which is basically, he does that one trick in the coffee shop. I said, you know what? This guy's gotta have real magic powers. I have no other, there's no other explanation for how he was able to do that. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff that I'm just like, wait a minute. Yeah, but then again, I've seen other guys do it like,
01:14:19
Speaker
David Blaine, David Blaine does that thing where he levitates and he has people standing around him and he's on the street. Now, how does he do that? They say it's a trick. Well, I don't know. I see a man floating two or three feet off the ground. It's both his feet. There's nothing supporting him. I have to come to the conclusion that he's actually levitating. I don't care how much you tell me it's a trick, especially when there's people standing around him.
01:14:47
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I have to conclude that, yeah, the cat's actually levitating. And people say, well, you don't believe that, do you? Well, sure, why not? There's a lot of crazy shit out in this world that have yet to be explained. Why couldn't he be levitating? Yeah. And going back to something you said, too, about it being optimistic, because a lot of people might go into this movie thinking that because there is this impression that
01:15:16
Speaker
grounded superhero movies, like, you know, are going to be like, you know, depressing affairs, dark affairs, but this is not, like, it's very grounded, but it's very, it is very optimistic. It is, it is, it's not, yeah, and
01:15:34
Speaker
OK, when you say grounded, and I think that you're absolutely right. People have a different expectation when you say, well, this is grounded. But that's only because just like, OK, there are different types of dramas and different types of comedies. Well, there are different types of superhero movies.
01:15:50
Speaker
You get your Avengers Endgame, which has got a thousand superheroes and the fate of the universe at stake. And then you have this movie where it's just about a kid with an electromagnet in his arm and some magic tricks trying to stop a drug dealer from killing his sister. It's different degrees of superhero movies and there's room for all of them. Right. That's something else I was thinking. Watching this is
01:16:18
Speaker
Because that is one of the things that annoys me with, say, a lot of the Spider-Man movies that were before Homecoming. It's always got to be someone's about to destroy the city.
01:16:34
Speaker
And it, same thing, the Batman movies had that same problem too. It's like, there's gotta be some, someone's trying to destroy the city, right? And Batman Begins, it was, Raish Al Ghul was trying to tear the city apart with the fear gas. The Joker was trying to basically blow everybody up. The Maine was trying to set off a nuclear bomb in the city. It's always gotta be like some, the whole city is going to die unless we do something. But you don't have to do that.
01:17:00
Speaker
Like, and you can do a Spider-Man movie where, like Homecoming, where he's just trying to stop the Vulture from stealing a bunch of technology. And it can still feel really epic and it can still be really satisfying. I think what happens is that they think that, okay,
01:17:17
Speaker
And okay, well, and one of our favorite film series, the James Bond film series. Yeah, that's a perfect example, yeah. You know, film to that trap too, where every James Bond movie had a supervillain trying to take over the world, you know.
01:17:33
Speaker
No, every, until now we got to the Timothy Dalton movies and then, you know, well, in one he fought a drug dealer and another one he was just trying to get revenge for, you know, his friend being fed to a shark. Right. You know, it was, you know, not every James Bond movie had to have him facing a super villain trying to take over the world. Yeah. And like you said, every superhero movie doesn't have to be about the fate of the world. Well, that was one of the reasons why Casino Royale was such a breath of fresh air because it was just him trying to stop this terrorist through a poker game.
01:18:03
Speaker
And that was, that was the whole plot. That was the whole, that was, she's whole master plan was I'm going to get a whole bunch of money to pay off these terrorists who are trying to kill me by playing poker. That's it. Yeah. And know what? That's all you need. I mean, you don't need to have the fate of the world at stake in every movie. Now I understand why
01:18:26
Speaker
in some of these bigger movies, okay, say like the MCU. Okay, well, we've got all this money and we've got all this talent, why not use it? But yeah, but you can also make smaller superhero movies that are about, which is why I've always appreciated the fact that
01:18:45
Speaker
Like I may have told this story before, I probably have. I remember in this comic book, it was the Avengers where Spider-Man had disappeared and the Avengers were looking for him. And it was somebody I don't remember who, but they say to Iron Man, they said, well, does it work all this effort to be looking for Spider-Man? Why are we bothering? And Iron Man says, because Spider-Man is necessary. If he's not out there on the street, on the down street level crime, then we gotta do it.
01:19:11
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And we're supposed to be looking out for Thanos and Kang and all them other cats that want to carry on Cranky. And he went on, he said like Spider-Man and Daredevil and Luke Cage, they perform a useful function. They keep down the street crime. And yeah, you can have characters like Spider-Man. And the Netflix series illustrated that perfectly.
01:19:32
Speaker
with their series, with Daredevil and Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. That's what these guys did. They weren't the Avengers. They concerned themselves with street level, because that's what they know. That was one of the things that always annoyed, that's why I didn't like those guys being Avengers. That's why I didn't want Daredevil or Spider-Man or Luke Cage being Avengers. And everybody says to me, it's like, why? You don't think they're good? No, it's not that they're not good enough. It's that I think they work better in this other setting.
Streaming Services and Superhero Content
01:19:59
Speaker
Oh, I get that all the time. Yeah. And I tell people, I said, Luque should never been an Avenger. What are you telling? Oh, so you don't think he's good enough. No, it's not that, but that's his niche. Yeah. Yeah. He knows. I remember there was a great issue of the Avengers where, uh,
01:20:16
Speaker
They made the Falcon and the Benjamin just to fulfill a quota. And the Falcon said, well, you can take that and show it up your ass. Yeah, yeah. I don't fulfill anybody's quota. I got Harlem to look after, you know? Because that was his thing. He said because listen, and I believe he might even said that in a comic book. He said because listen, Daredevil's Spider-Man is going to come to Harlem and take care of these people. Somebody's got to look out after them. So that's what I do. There is nothing wrong with knowing you have a niche
01:20:45
Speaker
And seeing a position that you can fulfill, and you do it very well. Well, if you take all the police officers and make them FBI agents, now you got no police officers. Yeah.
01:21:00
Speaker
You know, and I always liked the idea that, you know, like these various superheroes had their own neighborhoods that they looked after. Right, yeah. And then you had the Avengers that looked after the whole planet. But, you know, you had, okay, Luke Cage was in Harlem, Spider-Man was, you know, in Midtown Manhattan, Daredevil was in Hell's Kitchen, you know, Shang-Chi was in Chinatown. You know, I kind of liked that idea that everybody had their own little territory they were looking after. Right.
01:21:30
Speaker
You know, and also it made for different types of superhero stories. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anything else we want to talk about with slight? Only that if you have not seen it yet, and if you don't have HBO Max. Now, I realize we're in the middle of a pandemic, money is tight. I understand that. Trust me. But if you have not yet subscribed to HBO Max,
01:21:58
Speaker
if you can squeeze out a couple of dollars to do so, let me just say it's worth it. It is. I'll definitely second that. Like a lot of times, you know, I get it too. There are a lot of these streaming services and I know like every Netflix don't know price increase soon, I saw. And I know people are like, oh, they're making, like as far as I'm concerned, like
01:22:20
Speaker
Like I said, I got four streaming servers. I got Netflix, I got HBO Max, I got Hulu, and I got Disney Plus. But even still, the price of all those four combined is still less than I'd be paying for a cable package, and I get access to more content, and I can watch it anytime I want. Exactly. Matter of fact, me and my wife were talking about, we were going to cut Netflix until she got hooked on Bridgerton.
01:22:46
Speaker
oh yeah yeah she got hooked up really so now we got to keep that place but we were yeah but we were obviously thinking about cutting that but then again now because of the price increase they're going up on their price increase yeah yeah for me it's insane as a lot but but then again i hear that they're losing a lot of yeah yeah i mean i don't know oh there's a lot of competition i think it'll
01:23:12
Speaker
But I think they'll go through these phases where they do start, because HBO Max is just so much stuff right now. And it's the new thing. So everybody's going over to there and they're going to try it out. But I think after people kind of like, you know, get bored with it, they might be, they might switch back over to Netflix. I think things will even out.
01:23:31
Speaker
Oh yeah, they usually do. Yeah. But yeah, so as I was saying, so, but if you can watch like any other way, I don't know what else is available. Well, it's also, it's on Amazon. It's, you can rent it for four bucks on Amazon, probably on iTunes as well. Pretty sure you'd be able to rent it there as well. So yeah, so you can rent it, you know, on demand for like four bucks. Oh, okay. But if you can afford the HBO Max, I would strongly advise you go that route.
01:23:58
Speaker
I agree. Yeah, simply because of the tremendous amount slightest on there and the tremendous amount of other content that's on there, as we've said before, especially if your biggest superhero fan as Perry and I are
01:24:12
Speaker
Am, R, well, you know what I mean. You know, you will be more than delighted with the, especially now they're talking about they're gonna bring back Batman in the animated series. Right, yeah, yeah. They're gonna do the new version, yeah. Well, that's the rumor. I don't know if that's been, there's been any confirmation on that, but that's the rumor. Yeah. But yeah, they've got the whole Batman in the animated series is on there. They've got Batman Beyond is on there. They got all the animated movies and they've got, you know,
01:24:43
Speaker
They got Titans on there, they've got Doom Patrol, they've got Young Justice. The only thing they're really missing is they're missing the Batman 66 series and the animated movies they did. And they're missing the Justice League animated series, like Justice League, Justice League Unlimited. They're missing Batman, Brave and the Bold, and they're missing
01:25:10
Speaker
Oh, what was that? Like Lewis and Clark in Smallville, but you know. I love the brave and the bold. That was that was a great. I was hoping it would be in there because because you've been talking about this show, so I want to check it out, but it's not.
Underrated Films and Conclusion
01:25:21
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But yeah, but going back to slide, if you anywhere you can see it, I would highly recommend it. It's a black superhero origin story, one that definitely slipped under the radar. A lot of people didn't get to see it. And I'm just hoping that
01:25:38
Speaker
Now, a lot of people will rediscover this and it'll become popular and the world will spread and maybe we'll get a sequel in some sort of way. And you don't usually hear me saying, oh, I can't wait till the sequel. But this is one movie that, yeah, when it was over, I definitely wanted to see a sequel.
01:25:57
Speaker
Well, you know, and this was, and like you said, this was so under the radar, whereas this is the first, I'm pretty sure this is the first movie we've covered on this show that I did, that I heard nothing about before you suggested we watch it. No. Like when you say that, I'm just like, wait, what was that title again? I'd never heard of this movie before. I heard of A-Bar, but I didn't hear of this movie. Thank you. Thank you. People have heard of A-Bar. This is a movie that was made back in the 70s and you would figure,
01:26:24
Speaker
And never got a proper release. They've never heard of it. But like I said, this movie, when we went to see it, it was only one showing a day. There was a man named like 11 o'clock in the morning. And that was the only way that we saw it. You get to see one showing a day. Yeah, yeah. And it was only at the theater for like two weeks. And that was it. Yeah. So it's a movie that deserves to be rediscovered. And I hope that
01:26:50
Speaker
you good folks out there that you will do so. And if you enjoy it, spread the word because that's how it happens. Word of mouth is the best advertising, as far as I'm concerned. So that does it for our coverage of Slight, which means we're going to pick up our next movie. And so, you know, based on what we talked about, like the list of movies we were talking about a little bit last week, I kind of want to cover and, you know, I'm giving you veto power over this month. So if you want to nix anything,
01:27:20
Speaker
That's your option. But I want to do Project Power for next week. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So this is a Netflix superhero movie, came out last year, starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And yeah, I've seen this on Netflix. I've been really curious to check it out. So I think this is the perfect opportunity to sit down and watch it.
01:27:46
Speaker
I listen, I heartily concur. We watched it, Patricia. Again, I didn't know anything about it, but she loved Jamie Foxx. She said, oh, let's watch this. And when I found out that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was in it, I said, oh, I said, that's an interesting period. It is, yeah. That I would never see. Yeah, Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I said, yeah, OK, well, this should be good. And yeah, it was. I'm glad you picked that. As a matter of fact, it gives me an excuse to watch it again.
01:28:14
Speaker
Yeah yeah so i'm looking forward to checking because it's been on the like every time I go on Netflix it pops up in my recommendations and i've always been curious checking it now i've got an excuse to sit down and watch it. So um so that does it for for this week, please make sure you go to superhero cinephiles.com.
01:28:32
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Okay. That does it for this week. Very well said, sir. Thank you. And we'll see you next week when we talk about Project Power. Okay. Good night. God bless. Don't forget to wear your mask. As you said, was it a test negative, stay positive? Thank you. Good night. Good night.
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