The Dark Truth about The Wizard Of Oz + Movie Review: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2  + Trailer Park: Supergirl

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today we're diving into one of my favorite movie topics of all time, the dark truth about the Wizard of Oz. All the crazy things that happened behind the scenes and the blood, the sweat, the tears, the people being burned alive that went into the making of this classic movie. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Five Nights at Freddy's. I hated the original, how did I feel about the sequel? In the trailer park, I will be blind reacting to the new Supergirl trailer it's coming out next year, and we'll dive into what is going on with the DC universe now that Netflix has bought Warner Brothers. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike's Movie Podcast. One of my favorite movie topics to talk about of all time is the dark truth behind the Wizard of Oz. I have been infatuated with this movie since I was a kid. Gave me nightmares the first time I watched it. I always found the ten Man to be really creepy. The scarecrow was creepy as well. And when you look into the history of this movie, so many crazy things happened on this set that if I could go back in history to any time period and experience one thing, I would want to go back to the making of The Wizard of Oz and see how many of these things were actually true and how many of them were just legend. Because when you hear about the things the actors, the extras, all the dogs involved in this movie had to go through to get this film made, it is wild. Also the fact that this movie is almost one hundred years old now, and when The Wizard of Oz first opened in theaters it was a flop. It actually lost one point one million dollars in its initial run. But when you look at how famous this movie is now, argue I would say the most famous movie of all time, being that the most people have seen it in some form or fashion now. And even if you just make a reference a movie quote, for the most part, everybody knows exactly what you are talking about. And a movie like this just could not happen today. But whenever it first came out in theaters, did not do well. There was actually another Tree Garland movie that came out that same year that performed better. But now flash forward to twenty twenty five. People are paying between one hundred and twenty to upwards a four hundred dollars to go see this and now makes over two million dollars a day when it is shown at the Sphere in Vegas. And I am one of those people. I would love to see it in Vegas on that big screen. How they expand all the scenes, the things that fly out at you while you're watching it. You get the fog, you get the fire effects, the falling leaves, the falling butterflies, They throw apples at you, monkey props. That would be amazing. And the that it did become famous is because, like I was mentioning, it did not do well at the box office. The movie cost two point eight million dollars to make, which was the most expensive movie that MGM had ever made at the time, but it lost one point one million dollars at the box office. But it was all due to the movie being shown on TV. The Wizard of Oz had its first broadcast on CBS in nineteen fifty six, and the television showings were so successful that it actually turned a profit for the studio, and then its profitability was cemented after it was re released ten years later in nineteen forty five and saw even more success whenever it was finally released on home video when that became a thing. Let's talk about our cast of characters in this episode and in the movie. Judy Garland played Dorothy Gale, of course, the heart and soul of the entire movie. Ray Bolger played the scarecrow and hunk back in Kansas. Which I know this sounds stupid, but as a kid, I didn't put it together that all the people in Dorothy's life at the farm in Kansas were all the people that she encountered in The Wizard of Oz. Again, I watched this movie when I was really young. For the first time. It freaked me out. I didn't fully get that. But Ray Bulger was the Scarecrow. He was also hug Jack Hayley was the tin man, and Hickory back in Kansas. Bert Laar was a cowardly lion, and Zeke back in Kansas. You have Margaret Hamilton as the wicked Witch of the West and also Misses Gulch and Frank Morgan plays the Wizard and Professor Marvel, a couple of other people in the movie as well, and Terry the Dog played Toto. The movie was based on the book by L. Frank Baum, published a nineteen hundred called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which if you hear that name and think that sounds really familiar. L. Frank Baum was the inspiration behind the name Alphaba that we see later in Wicked, which is also kind of the catalyst of why I become so infatuated again with this movie, went back and rewatched it on HBO Max. But that is the connection between the original writer of The Wizard of Oz and Wicked and the movie we all know. Wasn't the first ever adaptation of the book. They came out with the movie in nineteen ten. It was the early silent film. They came out with a bunch of different versions. Actually, there was also The Land of Oz in nineteen ten, Dorothy and the Scarecrow in nineteen ten, The Patchwork Girl of Oz in nineteen fourteen, and another silent film released in nineteen twenty five, also called The Wizard of Oz. And there are some differences between the book and the movie In the book, Oz is a real place, but in the movie it is a dream and revealed to all be fake. And in the book the slippers are actually silver, but they changed them to ruby in the movie because they really wanted to emphasize the use of technic color in The Wizard of Oz, which I think some people think that The Wizard of Oz was the first ever movie to use technicolor, or maybe even the first ever movie in color, because it as a real big part of the movie whenever it goes from black and white, even though it's not really in black and white, it's a Cefia tone, which is it's like a rich, warm, reddish brown, but it's made to look really old, almost like if it's on a pirate map or something. But the reason they changed the slippers from silver to red is because they wanted to really utilize the color in the movie. And how they actually film that scene is everything you see in Kansas. In that scene specifically, you see a fake set that is that cfia color, so they actually painted it that color, so when they filmed it, it looks like it's lacking all color. And in that scene you actually see a stunt double for Judy Garland, and you just see the back of her. She opens the door steps away, and the real Dorothy played by Judy Garland, walks through, and as she opens the door, you see the colorful world of Oz inside there. So that was all done in one shot, no special effects, no green screen. I think that is why I'm so infatuated with the making of this movie, because it is a technical triumph seeing all these things and how they were actually made without the use of any commuter's way back in nineteen thirty nine, another one of those things that kind of blew my mind when I first found out about it, I was like, how did they create this tornado? So they actually built this contraption with like this big long tube and they made it spin around and they blew a lot of things around it, and they just filmed that scene. So it's essentially a giant thirty five foot cloth cone wrapped in chicken wire, suspended from this big crane, and they attached it to a moving car to give it that spinning effect, and then they filmed like a bunch of debris and stuff spinning around, and they just filmed that scene, just the tornado, and then they put Judy Garland in front of it and just blasted that footage on a big screen using another projector, so the background is what you see in the movie that was already all filmed. They just have that projected and then they have Judy Garland on an actual set with the wind still blowing to add that effect. So if you go back and rewatch it, it's a little bit easier to understand how they did that because they don't have green screens. There was actually something being projected behind her, and then when you add in all the other little effects, it makes it look like she's actually running from a tornado, but she's really just in front of some projected footage. That is an awesome achievement in filmmaking, which a lot of the stuff from the movie is actually copywritten, and even though the original story of The Wizard of Oz is now public domain, the Ruby Red Slippers are copywritten. The Wicked Witch's appearance are also copywritten and owned by MGM, as well as the Yellow Brick Road, the Munchkins, and specific songs like over the Rainbow. You can't use those without getting permission, which they actually wanted to cut Over the Rainbow out of the movie because the movie had a bunch of different directors. I think it was about five six that had a hand in this ten plus riders I think twelve total, And in a cut of the movie, they thought it was so slow and it was going to lose the audience by keeping that song in there, that that song was almost cut. Could you imagine that movie without over the Rainbow, one of the most famous movie songs of all time. All right, that's some history of the movie. Let's get into the dark stuff. Now. It has to do a lot with the actors put in really harsh conditions, starting out with something as simple as the snow. Whenever Dorothy, the tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow all are trying to make their way to Oz. Dorothy gets tired and decides to take a nap in the middle of his field of flowers. Cowardly Lion gets tired as well, and then it starts snowing, Except that fake snow was actually asbestos. In the mid nineteen thirties and nineteen fifties, they were still using asbestos. It wasn't until years later that they actually discovered how hard harmful it was. But then it was too late. Because all these actors were exposed to this carcinogenic snow. I mean you see them completely covered in it, probably ate a lot of it, and just inhaling it. There was all these things that they did that they did not know how they were going to affect the actors. The Wicked Witch of the West, the paint that was used on her ended up staying on her face for weeks because she had to be just caked in it while making the movie, and then they couldn't get the stuff off. There were actually two different actors who played the tin Man, and the first original tin Man was played by Buddy Epsen, and he was hospitalized because he inhaled pure aluminum dust from this makeup. It cost severe lung inflammation, making it almost impossible for him to breathe. It put him in the hospital. He was there for two weeks and on an oxygen tent, all because of this makeup that they used that they did not know how it was going to affect him, should never have been put on his skin. He was later replaced by Jack Haley, whose makeup was reformulated into a safer paste. You think they would have thought about that before they put it on the first guy, but still Jack Haley still got an eye infection from the makeup. And they also did a really weird thing with the horses whenever they first make it to Oz and you see them getting that little carriage thing and they're so blown away by this horse. I think the first one is painted red and every time it changes scenes, the horse is changed to a different color. So I think it's like red, yellow, and green. But they used jello to change the color of the horses. And again it wasn't done with special effects or post production. They dyed these horses a different color using jello. There were no reports on what happened to the horses after the fact if they were okay, hopefully because it's just jello. But again, they had no idea what they were doing. They were just slapping things on people, whether it was humans or whether it was animals. The Wicked Witch of the West also got burned on the set twice. She was trying to escape from munchkin Land. And then it all went south. When the Wicked Witch escapes and you see this plum of smoke where they use this trap door, so you just see the smoke. She goes under the door, and then you see the fire immediately, which you would go back and rewatch that scene. It's actually done really well the version that they used in the film, but that was the time it went right, because it actually went wrong. It was set off too early, causing Margaret Hamilton's broom, hat and makeup to catch fire. It scalded her chin, the bridge of her nose, her right cheek, the right side of her forehead, her eyelashes, and her eyebrows were all caught on fire and burned off. Her upper lip and her eyelid were also badly burned. Not only that her face, her hands were also badly burned, and medics had to use alcohol to remove her toxic makeup again, because then, not only have you suffered all these burns, you have this makeup still on your skin that you won't be able to get out for weeks. They had to get it off her. It was all extremely painful, and after she actually came back to work, she was asked to film the Surrender Dorothy scene, which also requires smoke effect. Could you imagine going back on set where you were just badly burned and then having to do another scene that also involved smoke effects. I wouldn't do it. I would not knew it. So she refused and her stunt double, Betty Danko, took over and she also suffered a similar injury during the scene and she was ultimately hospitalized. After her time in the hospital, she said, I felt as though my scalp was coming off, and she said she could only eat liquid foods after the making of this movie, so a truly terrible set. You have people being poisoned by makeup, being burned. It was also a really hot set because the fact that they were using Technicolor, they needed to have a lot of bright lights to make sure everything was really vivid and highly saturated. But what it turns out happens whenever you have a bunch of bright lights, it starts to get really hot, and the studio made it up to one hundred degrees in there. Because of these lights. You had people passing out and fainting because it was so hot in there from the lights. They actually constantly had to stop production just so the studio could be aired out. Because some of the people who were in costume, like the Winged Monkeys, had these big, heavy costumes. They struggled so much in the heat and they were passing out, they were having heat strokes all because they had no way of cooling down the studio from these big giant lights making it so hot in there. One person who suffered a lot in their big costume was the Cowardly Lion. Bertlar played the Cowardly Lion, and in order to make his costume, they made it really authentic, so authentic that it was made of real lion pelts. It allegedly weighed ninety pounds and produced a really bad, unpleasant an odor because again it was made from real lion pelts. And he had to be trapped in that thing all day. So you have these big lights making it one hundred degrees, you were in this really heavy suit, doing a lot of physical things, just sweating in that thing. Could you imagine how bad he's smelled by the end of filming, and they couldn't wash the thing. How would you wash that thing without completely wrecking it? So this movie I believe took over six months to make. That entire time just sweating in this thing, just Marin hating and all the Burt Lars just juices and sweat. That's disgusting. And not only that, he also spent three hours a day in the makeup chair. Him, the Scarecrow, and the tin Man all had to go through three hours of makeup, and during those three hours of makeup, they were not allowed to take off the rest of their costume. They had to be fully in it while getting that done. And like I was mentioning earlier, how much this movie freaked me out as a kid, I saw it to be a horror movie. I could only imagine if I saw a scarecrow and a ten man come to life in a really creepy fashion, I would be freaked out. But it also freaked out the people on set that it would scare people when they went to go eat lunch together. So all those three main actors had to eat their lunch on set to not freak anybody else out. All right, So all that stuff was really bad, But now we're getting even darker, and I wanted to save a little bit of time to get into this heavier stuff because when you talk about Judy Garland and how this movie made her career but also ruined her life and all the things that were forced upon her in order to get this character right where she was not seen as a human whatsoever, Judy Garland was forced to look younger because they originally wanted Shirley Temple to play Dorothy. And again, Dorothy is a twelve year old girl, Which why didn't they just change it? When I was rewatching this movie, I was thinking, it really doesn't change the fact if she's twelve or sixteen or closer to Judy Garland's real age when she was filming this movie, which was seventeen, why not just make her older instead of trying to force Judy Garland to look younger. But they did things like force her to wear a painful corset to flatten her chest so she would look younger. They gave her a really strict diet that included cigarettes. What diet includes cigarettes? And I know this was back in the nineteen thirties, where like they didn't know the harmful effects of asbesos, they also didn't know the harmful effects of cigarettes. But could you imagine telling a seventeen year old here's this strict diet and here is a pack of smokes wild And because of that strict diet, she ended up developing a eating disorder in order to maintain that weight. It was incredibly traumatic. There were studio execs that referred to her as a fat little pig in pigtails. That is what they first told her when she tried to enter show business. And this was the diet that she was handed immediately after she sign with MGM. That at times she would go reach for a plate of food and they would swiftly take it away from her, and while filming, she would try to sneak away to have a snack, and the other execs would inform each other of what she was doing, and they would write about her in memos about how she was breaking her diet. So that's why she started developing this addiction to cigarettes, smoking upwards of eighty cigarettes a day. She was even forced to pop pet pills to keep her awake during filming and also to control her appetite, so she was given uppers during filming and then downers so that she could shut down and get some rest. But it was this cycle and this addiction that she formed because of this movie that eventually led to her death. And that is awful, And it wasn't even the things that were surrounding her diet, but she was treated awful on set from some of the directors involved in this movie, they would slap her in the face if she started laughing during a set. There's one in particular where it's an interaction between her and the cowardly line, and during filming she couldn't help herself from laughing. It's that actual exact same scene where she slaps the cowardly lion because he's beating up and bullying the tin man and the scarecrow, and she broke character a little bit. And Victor Fleming, one of the directors on the movie, slapped her during that scene. After several ruined takes, he was exhausted, he was getting annoyed with her. He took her aside, slapped her on the cheek and told her, now go in there and work. He apparently did feel terrible after this, like how could you not feel terrible? But also don't do it, and he suggested that someone should punch him in the face. In return, Judy Garland overheard this. She did forgive him, gave him a kiss on the nose. But again, she was sixteen, seventeen years old. What was she going to do? There was a power dynamic here that she could not probably not forgive him, but there is that moment if you go back and watch it, where she's kind of trying to keep back a smile, breaks character just a little bit, And that's all surrounding what actually happened on set. Garland was not only treated bad by the directors, she was also treated bad by some of the actors on set, particularly some of the Munchkins, which were actually a part of a singing group and they were hired, but they were all adults, which they were also treated unfairly. While you had the dog Toto, which was actually paid by a dog named Terry, making one hundred and twenty five dollars a day, all one hundred and thirty five Munchkin actors only made fifty dollars a week. But apparently they had a lot of crazy antics that went on both on set and OFFSET because they were actually a part of a singing group and they were getting screwed by the guy who managed them. He was taking all the money, what little money they were actually getting. On set, they were completely rude and inappropriate towards Judy Garland and then Offset they would go all stay in a hotel, party, do a lot of adult things, and also aggressive and drunken behavior and gambling and then come back to set and still be crazy there as well. I really wouldn't know that while watching the movie, Toto also suffered an injury. Not that dog, but it was played by a female terrier named Terry, and during filming, one of the Wicked Witch's Winkie guards actually stepped on Terry and broke her paw. Terry had to be replaced for the next four weeks of filming, which if you actually look how good of an actor this dog is, I could see why they had to pay one hundred and twenty five dollars a day because there are moments where Toto is on screen for an extended period of time and having to do a few different movements like running down the street is one thing on the dirt road in Kansas, but there are other moments that Toto is a big part of moving the action forward, and Toto does it effortlessly. So I guess worth one hundred and twenty five dollars a day. And this is quite possibly one of the most famous urban legends surrounding the Wizard of Oz. It is probably the first urban legend I learned about, and maybe something that contribut did to me having nightmares and negative thoughts around the story of the Wizard of Oz and seeing this as a horror movie. But this is one that actually didn't happen, and I'll explain why. But the urban legend is one of the Munchkin actors hung themselves and you could see it in the background of the movie, and they left it in because they didn't notice it at the time. This rumor started when the movie was released on VHS in the nineteen eighties, So, like we went through the history earlier, came out in theaters, wasn't a success, was shown on TV. Ten years later it was re released in theaters, and then once VHS became more prominent in the nineteen eighties, got put on a VHS and that is where you started to see a lot of people start to notice things in the background, where if ever somebody was making a movie and thought, I'll put this in the background, nobody will notice it because you can't pause in a movie theater. Well, once VHS came around, people were watching things and pausing things at home, and all these little hidden Easter eggs were starting to be discovered. So the people who would put hidden messages or hidden things, or maybe adult things in the background thinking this is a joke for me, and nobody else is ever going to see it, because it's like half a second, it's one frame. Nobody's ever going to hit Oh, now, you can hit pause. Now these things are going to be revealed. So whenever this movie was released on VHS in the eighties, the rumor was that you saw something in the background that appeared to be something swinging down from a tree, and people were saying that this munchkin hung themselves, that supposedly they were going through some issues with love and somebody not loving them back, going through a lot of hard times, that they hung themselves on set, and that was all captured on film and made the final cut of the movie, which you can't see some mistakes here and there in The Wizard of Oz. It's not uncommon you see a mistake get left in the final cut of a movie. That being that you see this figure in the enchanted forest during the scene where Dorothy the Scarecrow and the tin men are singing We're off to see the Wizard. What is actually going on in the background is in order to make Awez seem more like this magical place, in order to make the forest feel like it was alive. They had cranes, the animal African cranes, these wild birds walking around, and you can see that in other parts of the movie because they wanted it to feel like the set was alive. And what you actually see is one of these cranes in the background. And when I rewatched this scene on HBO Max, it wasn't even a question for me, because now the movie has been restored, it's crystal clear. It doesn't look like it was made in the nineteen thirties, and you can tell so clearly now that it is a crane. Now some people may say, well, they went back and fixed it. They digitally took out that because they didn't want this dark thing associated with the classic movie. But I saw clear as day this crane that they borrowed from the Los Angeles Zoo to make the set more authentic. That higher resolution allows you to see that. But this nineteen eighties grainy version on VHS that wasn't restored the way we have it now. I could see if you go watch it on YouTube, it does look like something swings down a little bit, but there's no way that would make the final cut of a movie. But it is a good urban legend to have. The claim is also further disproven because that scene in the forest was actually filmed months before any scene involving the Munchkins were even shot, meaning that none of the Munchkin actors were on set during that time. So urban legend debunked. So that is a dark history of the Wizard of Oz. But in order to not go out on such a low note talking about death and all these crazy things that happened on set, here is just the strange coincidence. There is a coat worn by Frank Morgan, who plays the Wizard of Ouse and a few other characters in the movie. The story is that during the filming of the movie, the wardrobe department bought a coat from a thrift store because they needed a coat for the Wizard of Oz. He also played Professor Marvel, and while filming the movie, they found the name L. Frank Baum sewn into the coat's inner lining that Sam L. Frank Baum we were talking about earlier that wrote the original Wizard of Oz, which L. Frank Baum was born on May fifteenth, eighteen fifty six, in New York and he died on May sixth, nineteen nineteen in Hollywood, California. He suffered a stroke at the age of sixty two, so we never got to see his vision truly come to life in The Wizard of Oz in nineteen thirty nine. But what a crazy coincidence that they went to a thrift store to just get a coat for the Wizard of Oz and found out it belonged to the actual author. MGM ended up contacting his widow, maud Gage Bomb and the Chicago taylor who made the coat, and they confirmed that it was authentic and it did belong to him, And the studio was just as mind blown as you and I are right now that they actually kept this quiet because they thought it would be so unbelievable and that people thought they were only using it as a publicity stunt, which they ended up doing eventually. But what a wild coincidence, And now seeing his movie go on to inspire so many of their films, and now with Wicked being so at the center of pop culture. Now, if they said this about Wicked and they're like, we wait to go get this coat for the Wizard of Oz, and can you believe it that his name was also written in this one? Then I would start not believing things. But there it is the dark history of the Wizard of Oz. Let's get into it now. Oh boy. Spoiler free movie review of Five Nights at Freddy's two. This movie was torture. I feel like if I would have had my head smashed in with the mallet before going to see this movie, I would have been joyed it. Because I don't understand the appeal of this. I really don't. I tried after I went to go see the first one and came on here and said, not for me, this movie was bad, and I got so much backlash from that of people saying I never played the game, I don't understand the lore. I went back and revisited it all, and I thought, Okay, maybe there's something I missed here. So many people love this so much that maybe I am the one who is out of touch and don't understand Five Nights at Freddy So I was actually going into this movie with the good heart. I had a little bit more expectation now that I understand what this movie was trying to be, which I wanted the first one to be more of a horror movie. I thought it was going to be a little bit scary wasn't that at all, but I was at least interested by the premise by the characters, which it's animatronics that come to life. They are haunted. Josh Hutcherson's character in the first one is a security guard, which if you haven't seen the first one going into this one, you're gonna be a little bit lost because they do a really bad job at re establishing anything. They make all these weird like allusions to the first one that if you didn't see that one, you have no idea what is going on here, And I thought maybe in the sequel they could get at least something better, something rreat, make it a little bit more scary. The only good thing about this movie was Matthew Lillard. That's it. If he wasn't in this movie, I would have left so irritated. And I wasn't even going to see this movie. I'll be completely upfront with you. I was going to go watch SpongeBob, the new SpongeBob movie. I was going to a screening, which I don't really go to those because the movie doesn't come out until this Friday. But I knew going into the holidays my time was a little bit limited with traveling that, I was like, Okay, they're having a Saturday showing at eleven am. I'm gonna be the only single adult there to go see the SpongeBob movie. But I love SpongeBob. I went and the Regal had a power problem, was completely dark. When I got there, people outside waiting and they said the screening was canceled. I was so bummed, but luckily I was like, I'll go see five minutes at Freddy's too. There happens to be a showing at another movie theater about fifteen minutes away. Hit my ticket. I got there right on time as the last trailer was ending, and I sat there and watched the movie. So maybe I was a little bit not irritated but bummed out going into it because I wanted to see Patrick and SpongeBob. I even wore my SpongeBob vans that I haven't woren in a really long time. I did not get to see that, and I just could not believe how wooden all the acting was. It had some of the worst dialogue I have ever seen. I think, quite possibly my worst theater experience ever, because the interactions between all the characters were awful. Awful. Everybody in this movie was so bad. Josh Hutcheson's character is insufferable, along with all the adults that live in this town. And what this movie is about is basically, there is this big fos fest happening now. There is a reason that these animatronics are back, and Josh Hutcherson is trying to protect his sister in the movie, Abby from finding out the truth. He's trying to keep these things from her. You have the love interest from the first one back. Elizabeth Hale plays Vanessa, who actually enjoyed her. If the movie was just about her character, maybe I would be a little bit more interested. But I could not believe the interactions between her and Josh Hutcherson's character in this movie did not make sense whatsoever. There is a point where I thought, Dude, this girl is so hot, so out of your league, and you are being awful to her. If that was me in that situation, I'd be like, you're so hot, I don't care what you tell me. Right now, I'm gonna believe you. Let's go forget about my sister, Let's go hang out. The teacher. Abby's teacher in this movie was so insufferable and it made no sense. The intro was boring and it tried to be so chilling. And I know this movie is PG. Thirteen, and I think the message here was supposed to be like be nice to your parents or value your parents, because it makes these weird kind of statements towards adults and protecting kids. Nothing in this movie landed whatsoever. The horror elements were bad. The updated animatronics did nothing for me. I wanted them to take out every adult in this town because they were so bad. So maybe it's supposed to be like inspiration to kids that adults suck, kids rule, We should listen to kids more. There was no redeeming quality of this movie. The only thing I am happy for is that some of these people are getting work on this scale, Like Josh Hutcherson as a person and as an actor. I root for him. The announcement of him and Jennifer Lawrence returning to The Hunger Games is exciting to me. I'm just happy he has worked because after those movies ended, he was like, man, Hollywood really choose you up and spits you out. I went from my entire childhood of being able to land every role. After that, I couldn't get any work. So the only good thing I could say about this movie is that got Josh Hutcherson out of a bad spot and it gave him some work. But could we get the guy some better dialogue? Could we get him some better action? The only interesting sequence was what I have to assume was the best interpretation they could do of the video game, where his character actually does something. Of note, this was essentially a lifetime horror movie where I don't know who this is for. I don't understand the purpose of this sequel, and I think they just killed the franchise altogether by making another movie. What is going on with Blumhouse? Why can they not make a good sequel? Look at what they did to Megan earlier this year. They killed that franchise because they took what made the first one great, the horror elements, the scariness of Megan, leaning in a little bit to the humor, but still at the core of that movie, it is a horror movie. Megan two was so bad. I could not finish it on Peacock. I just couldn't. I tried two to three times to finish that, but they thought, Hey, the first one was so good. Let's just do whatever we want. Let's not make it a horror movie anymore. Let's make it an action movie. Why can they not make a good sequel? This was supposed to be their flagship franchise. It had every horror movie trope you can imagine. The one I hate the most was in this movie. I won't even say it because I guess it's kind of a spoiler, but there is a trope that they used in Five Nights at Freddy's Two that every Blumhouse movie uses. Does Jason Blum just come out of his producer chair and say, Hey, guys, you know what this movie is missing? This trademark thing that this studio is so proud of. Awful? Was this movie written with Chad gbt? Because that's what it felt like, where there was just an answer for everything. All the way throughout this movie, I could not believe it. I won't get into specifics about the plot, but here is an example of a problem. Within Five Nights at Freddy's Two. Hey, there's no key to this door. I sure wish I could get in this door. Oh there's a key over here, Let's open the door. Now. That was the entire movie. Anytime there was a problem or any kind of friction, there was an easy solution right there waiting in the corner. That's why I feel that Chad GBT wrote the script of this movie, because it's like, hey, create a problem, create a solution. Here's the problem, here's the solution. Oh, it's so easy. And I don't want to hate on child actors, so I won't. I don't think it's the child actor's fault in this movie. It has to be the direction because some of the weakest performances I've ever seen on screen. I was so let down and I don't even know why I had any kind of expectation going into it. But like I mentioned earlier, I wanted to go see the SpongeBob movie. I did not get that. And the entire time I had that SpongeBob character in my head. Oh brother, this guy stinks. That is how I felt from beginning to end. There were moments where these actors were talking to themselves for no reason. I'm like, who are they talking to? Overstating things for no reason, like, oh, that must be where she is? Who are you talking to? Bro? Goodness, this is hands down my worst in theater experience of the year. Normally I take some time to collect myself whenever I get back from watching a movie, but I sat down immediately. I don't even think I looked at my notes that I made, Like why do I even need them? Week Opening The Adults suck worst dialogue Blumhouse is just bad. Josh Hutchinson's character is a terrible guardian, like he's supposed to be watching his sister and he's just awful at that video game s dialogue, which maybe that is what they got right. It felt like just cut scenes from a video game, and I just can't imagine them being on set and delivering this dialogue. Seriously, like, how did they do that? Did they think there was a good movie in there? How was this even made? How has this approved? How did this go out into the world. I feel so bad for the people who were actually excited for this movie. And I know people are gonna sound off in the comments and say how wrong I am, how boomer I am, how dumb I am for my opinions on this movie. But I don't get it. I wish I got it. Do you think I want to waste my afternoon watching a movie that is so bad. The only redeeming thing I can say is that next time I go back to the theater, I am going to watch the SpongeBob movie for five nights at Freddy's. How low can you go? I mean, I didn't leave. I watched the entire thing. By the time the credits rolled, I was like, this could not have come soon enough. At least it was under an hour and forty minutes for five nights Freddy's. I give it one out of five animatronics. Get it out of here. It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor, Paul all right, it is time to blind react to the Supergirl trailer. At the time of recording this, it was posted on YouTube one hour ago. I literally just got home from work. I didn't open up Instagram, I didn't open up TikTok. I didn't want to see a single second of it until I sat down right now, because the last time I did this was for the Superman trailer. I just wanted to give you my raw reaction of me seeing David Corn sweat in the suit for the first time. And the only reason I'm moderately excited going into this one is because I don't know a whole lot about the Supergirl character and her origins, but I am curious to know more Millie Adcock is playing Supergirl. I feel like most people know her from House of Dragon. I can never get into that show. Sorry out so slow. I never got through season one. I primarily know her from Sirens, which was a Netflix show she did with Megan Fahi that started out really good and interesting and kind of went nowhere. But the thing I took away from that show is she is a good actor. There are a lot of things going on now with Warner Brothers being bought by Netflix, which James Gunn is saying that it's not affecting their plans, and then putting out this trailer now which we did know we were going to get it before Christmas came that it looks like, at least now they're going to be separate and we're not going to see anything too crazy. I wonder if that is going to change over time, because obviously when you have these two things merging, Warner Brothers, HBO Max and Netflix becoming one, what is going to happen. Some people are worried that it's not going to come out in theaters. Traditionally some people are saying if Superman came out straight to streaming, it would have been just as big. So we'll get into more of that. But now I want to hit play on this trailer. We'll watch it, I'll talk about it. I'm looking at the runtime now. It is two minutes and three seconds, so I'm just gonna let it run. You'll hear my little commentary in the background. If something big happens, if we see some characters that maybe we're not expecting. But we'll watch it together. Here, I'll come back. I'll get more of my thoughts on what is going on with DC, how we see this playing into their first chapter. All right, I'm clicking into it. Now, turn it up. Let's full screen this thing and let's watch the Supergirl trailers. Be crypto. Here. I manage to get most of it on the paper of this sign. Let's catch up, buddy, Hi, cars are out here by. It is clear the twenty three will be the best year at Let's be honest, babe, it's not a very high Barty clear, I didn't know any of you was still alive. What was it like, Sluice? Everything in the day her time didn't die to day gods are not that kind. Okay, this does not look like this is gonna end well for you guys. Okay, house like you. No, it's a pretty small group of two. A vision. He sees the good in everyone, and I see the truth. Ooh. The suit he sees the good, She sees the truth. Okay, okay, all right. A media thing that sticks out to me is the suit. It looks fantastic just in the thumbnail alone. It greatly mirrors the David Cornsweat suit, but it stands out so much of anything we've seen from a female led superhero movie that that is exciting to me. The fact that she has the same powers as Superman, and even what she said in the trailer of Superman sees the good and everybody she sees the truth, that just tells you the difference in their personalities. You see what her character has gone through, why she has troubles with alcohol. Beginning of this trailer, you see her basically looking dead in the eyes, lifeless. There's that scene where it looks like she's sitting down at like a train station or like a bus station, and you see like the wind blow in her hair and she just doesn't react. To it. You just see her shades, which that is a fantastic visual. And then in this trailer we are learning about her history, which seems to be pretty dark. She is responding to the evil things that she has experienced in her life and the awful things of the gods destroying her home. In that trailer, we heard them say losing her home in one day. She's like, no, the gods wouldn't be that nice. So it seems to be that the people who destroyed her home did it slow and painfully. And immediately I'm getting a lot of Guardians of the Galaxy vibes, which I think anytime you have a character like that who maybe likes to party a little bit, maybe is a little bit messy, has a bit of an edge to them, and you put them in this cosmic universe that looks very play and while she is so I don't want to say upbeat, but a little bit comical, and you see the villains that she is going after are so serious and big and dead pin and bulky. There is that contrast that you create that just lends itself to looking just like what James Gunn did with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and if you're gonna rip off something, rip off the people who did it the best, and also rip off the person the director James Gunn, who knows that universe, which he isn't directing this movie, but he still has a big hand in it and can give our director here, Craig Gilepsi, some insight on that. But I'll go through the YouTube description now. When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara zor l aka Supergirl reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic interstellar journey of vengeance and justice. That is what I'm getting the sense of here, where she starts out maybe not caring about life, not care about herself, which we see that a bit from her character in Superman, kind of being one that just kind of stumbles into a room, doesn't care about timelines, doesn't care about anything. But just because she doesn't have her life together does not mean that she is not powerful, because I know there's going to be that moment in this movie. We see a little bit here from one of the fight sequences where she really turns it on, and that is going to be a moment where heads start to roll. And not only am I excited for this movie, I don't want to get too ahead of myself, but I can't wait until we go next level and it is Superman and Supergirl fighting together because they contrast each other so much, where they both come from similar backgrounds. But maybe it's just one day or how your life is determined by how you react to situations where if they both had something really traumatic happen to them, like their home planet being destroyed, which they are cousins, one of them reacts in a way like Superman, I'm still gonna find the good in people. I'm still going to do what is right, and one of them responds like Supergirl, who says, no, people are awful and I want to expose the truth in people, and it exposed them for the true villains that they actually are. I am gonna go out and defeat those people. I can't wait to see those two forces join up and start beating people up together and having differences in how to go about doing these things. I would have to imagine Superman has a no kill policy. He's not gonna kill anybody. He'll hurt people, he'll throw people every now and then if he gets really mad. Someone tells me Supergirl wouldn't mind seeing some people go down and maybe doesn't have those same morals of it really awful. I'm gonna kill you. But alongside Lily Adcock as Supergirl, we also have Jason Momoa is gonna be in this movie. He is gonna be Lobo, who is an alien mercenary and a bounty hunter from another planet. Alongside this cast you also have supergirls father, Supergirl's mother. We didn't get any unexpected that cameos. I don't think David Cornsweat is going to be in this movie at all, even though in this trailer you do see her or at least in front of her a newspaper, so she is still getting news stories about her cousin doing good things, about him stopping a nuclear reactor and also saving cats and trees, so he's still saving the little animals, but her, on the other hand, is still a cynical drunk. Supergirl in this movie is also going to be twenty three years old, so that also gives you kind of a state of mind, or at least where she is in her brain development and how a twenty three year old with superpowers would act in the situation, and I think that is great, that is important. I think we haven't seen a character like this in a really long time, especially one to have such a big movie coming out that is really going to be one of the major tent poles of DC and Warner Brothers next year. We got to look at our villain, Krem, who is going to be the main protagonist in this movie. Aside from the suit, I really love it. They actually showed her heat vision in this, which is something I wish we would have had a little bit more of in Superman. There's a lot of flying, but I need more heat vision. And I also imagine at the very beginning of this and throughout the trailer, they kind of hint towards something not great happening to Crypto. I don't even want to say it, because I think he was a big part of the comedic relief and just the heart aside from Superman of course, but something that I think a lot of people were drawn to in that first movie. If they wanted to go next level and do something memorable but tragic, I have to imagine it is going to be pulling in our heartstrings and something happening to Crypto. I don't want to see that, But this is a character who has already dealt with a lot of loss by losing her home. If they take away Crypton, could they take away Crypto? I think I just love that level of cynicism. And maybe it's just because I'm becoming a little bit more cynical as I grow older. I kind of see it from her perspective of having a cynical outlook on the world, especially when destructive things are going on at this level. I'm in. I'm all about it. Supergirl is coming out next year on June twenty sixth, twenty twenty six. Thanks for joining me on this blind reaction. And that was this week's edition of Movie Li Famer Bar and that is going to do it for another episode of the podcast. But before I go, I got to give my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm shouting out my buddy Sean Stenson, who tagged me on his Instagram story that I was his most listened to podcast of twenty twenty five. So appreciate that. Sean. Shawn and I actually go way back, I think to maybe two thousand and five, two thousand and four. The fact that that was twenty years ago now about it be twenty one years ago is wild. But Sean and I were both members of the Alkalan Trio fan Club back in the day. I still remember the day I got in the mail my official fan club card. I still have it in my wallet. It's kind of broken into pieces now, But there was a core group of people that I only knew from the internet, and Sean was one of those people who I've kept up with now over the years, and I think we've only met and hung out once. And I'll be honest, Sean, seeing you tag me in your story, that was the first time I even knew you listened to this podcast. So thank you for making your number one podcast and telling other people about the show. So really appreciate that. If I made anybody else's top podcast of the year, tag me in those stories and I'll repost those and make you next week's listener shout out of the week. So thank you all for listening, whether you listen on release days, which is Monday, or if you listen on the weekend when he gets added to the Bobby Bone Show feed, I appreciate you, And until next time, but make sure you're subscribed. That way, you get brand new episodes every single Monday, and you get them right when they come out overnight. So thank you for being subscribed, and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later