How Bad is Batman the Movie – 1966

1960's Batman featuring Adam West and Burt Ward as the dynamic duo Batman and Robin, is notoriously campy and tongue and cheek. But what about their 1966 movie? Is it just as campy? Does it make it a bad movie? Join us as our team and special guest (and original member), Kevin Joshua Burnham, tackles this notorious Bat-Film Connect with John: https://linktr.ee/johnharju  Connect with Dallas & Celeste Via Geek Devotions: YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/geekdevotions TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/geekdevotions INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/geekdevotions FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/GeekDevotions/

Episode Transcript

(00:03):
Hello, kitties. It's your old pal John Kaseer,
the voice of the crypt keeper.
And you're listening to
the bottom shelf.
We made it. Oh.
Thank goodness we're out of that.

(00:25):
I have to go to the bathroom. I
do too, but I think I already did.
I'm gonna clean that up. Did you do
it back at the hotel?
Wait. Wait. What? Where am I?
No. No.
I was in Ironwood. I was in a
pub. I was drinking that pipe. What's going
on? Why am I here?
It's Kevin. Kevin. What

(00:46):
am I doing here?
Well, we had a trip with a dumpster.
Oh my
I I left Dungeons and Dragons. I left
your guys. I I didn't want this. I
I did not ask why. Who who's someone's
at me in. We watched some weird movie
called Bad Times at El Royale. So this
is for you to be Bad Times at
the bottom shelf.

(01:08):
And there's the title.
Prepare yourself to discover a world of terrible
movies.
High above the planet Gekari, a group of
intrepid explorers hover over the dangerous planet in
their fabulous super orbital space craft.
Their mission, to conduct a complete analysis of

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movies known throughout the universe as terrible.
So grab your space popcorn, grab your freeze
dried ice cream, and join us for today's
mission of discovery and wonder.
Are these movies better than the galaxy thinks?
Or do they really belong

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on the bottom shelf?
Welcome movie lovers and movie haters and everybody

(02:11):
in between.
Thank you so much for listening to the
new episode of The Bottom Shelf where every
bad movie has a place.
I'm your host. Host.
Am I host or am I just
one of I'm one of the hosts.
My name is John Harju.
With me, as always, my captain,

(02:31):
Dallas Mora. I'm actually John. I'm just a
multiple personality version of him. I'm actually talking
as John in a different body, I think.
And then there is my admiral,
Celeste.
What's up? I am not John with a
different body. I am my own person. I
was a man in a woman's body once,
but then I was born. That's fair.

(02:55):
That's very fair. And then, returning to us,
our science officer,
Kevin
What?
What? Why?
I was having fun. I was enjoying my
vacation. I was on holiday.
What am I doing here? What am I
watching? Wait. Am I what what No. I'm
done.
Go ahead.
I got some Kevin. Hi.

(03:16):
Hi.
Apparently protocol says you to watch Batman 66
with us for bat month, so
And that's a bad movie.
Wasn't? It's on the rating scale somewhere. Plus
we're doing Batman anyways all month long. We're
doing Batman, and quite frankly a lot of
people have a tendency to call this movie
bad
just because it's old and campy. Where's your

(03:37):
Robin? Where's your cat woman? Where's your penguin?
You're not even cosplaying as he's Batman. I
thought you guys were open. Never mind. We
just got back from Keith Con, bro. We
just got back from Keith Con, bro. We
just got back from Keith Con, bro. I,
like, I need to let my pores clear
out from all of paint. That is And
latex and everything else. Very impressive cat woman
costume you had on, John. Hey. Well, you
know, Halle

(04:00):
Halle Berry did it so well. I had
to wear the same outfit. You know, I
really liked the moment where you and the
cat woman from
the,
the Tim Burton Batman returns? Started doing a
song from Josie and the Pussycats. That was
fantastic. And then we got all the rest
of cat women to do the, Cats chorus
line. Yes. Mhmm. Also also a fun time.
I was very confused why Black Cat thought

(04:21):
she was part of the group, though. You
know, DC Marvel crossover. It happens. She wanted
to have fun. Where where is the whole
musical?
It was right after the job was.
But we're not here to talk about Geekcon.
If you wanna hear about that, listen to
our Geekcon review episode
coming out either before or after this episode

(04:42):
depending on how editing goes for me.
But we are here to talk about
Batman
66.
Let's go.
I'm excited about this because wants to tell
us about Batman 66?
We all awkwardly look
at Adam. Why are you looking at me?
Oh, why are you giving me the case?

(05:03):
Okay. So I read off the case, or
should I tell my my memory of Batman?
You get read the case. Read the case.
Read the case. Read the box, man. Read
the box. What's in the box? This is
a box. The memory thing is retro. We're
not on that podcast.
Who are they? Just read the box. Shoot
those people. I don't know those people.
Holy special edition, Batman.

(05:24):
Pow. Whack. Soft, oof. Wow. It's got it
all appraised in the back.
I'm a lot of pee.
Let's see. When Batman,
Adam West, and Robin, Burke War,
get
a tip.
Get Jiggy with it. Yeah. Get get Jiggy
with it.
Hey.

(05:45):
Make sure Will Smith doesn't give me a
slap anyone around.
Get a tip from commando Smalap.
Wow. Okay. This is already starting off a
good strat.
Is in danger, abort his yacht.
They launch a rescue mission, but the tip
is a setup by 4 of the most
powerful villains ever who seek to defeat the
Dynamic Duo, 1

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and for all.
Armed with a dehydrator that can turn humans
into dust,
the fearsome foursome
intends to take over the world.
Can the caped crusaders use their high flying
heroism
and groovy gadgetry?
What?
Gadgetry.
Gadgetry.
Thank you.
To the Claw Catwoman,

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Ice the Penguin, upstays the Joker, and Stop
the Riddler. In time,
196, 105 minute oh, 105 minutes. Wow. It's
not 2 hours. Isn't it glorious for moves
and not over 2 hours long? Here's my
thing. They they just said that they turn
people into into, dries people into dust, and
I'll first thing that went through my mind
was Kansas.

(06:46):
Dust in the wind.
And that's as much as we can play
without copyright issues.
They don't care about us. They don't care
about Novi. Whatever. I don't I don't nickel
and I. Kevin, I don't think we're in
Kansas anymore.

(07:09):
Alright. Yeah. That's the movie. It oh, wow.
They actually gave us PG rating. I thought
these were all g raters.
That well, looks like I copy is the
one on the newer one, so it may
have rerated it for Modern Ages.
Yeah. Because everyone's so sensitive.
To be fair,
they
before they fixed the rating system, it got
pretty sketchy at times

(07:30):
with some of the writings.
No. This was the sixties. Nothing was sketch
ever sketchy in the sixties. Go back and
watch golden Goldfinger,
and then tell me that.
I watched that on the plane ride all
over, man, and I'll tell you, I'm like,
this was PG.
Now that kid Why? Have that kid leaning
over like, what you watching, mister? That's not

(07:52):
the movie we're talking about. That's not the
movie we're talking about. We're talking about Batman.
Yes.
Well, you got some trivia for us about
Batman? You know, you would think I would,
but I sat my phone down when we
tried it.
Nice trivia moment. Nice trivia moments. Man. I
forgot how easy much easier this was when
you were gone.

(08:13):
Alright. So Cesar Romero absolutely refused to shave
off his mustache during filming.
His mustache? And it was covered with makeup
instead. Romero did the same thing on every
episode of the TV series that he appeared
in as the Joker.
Needless to say, this constant decision to do
this every single time fooled nobody.
So he was able to cover up the

(08:33):
mustache under his lip without the cocaine line.
Why does it look better than what Henry
Cavill did in Superman?
No idea.
I didn't watch the Henry Cavill Superman. So
because CGI.
CGI.
Adam West agreed to the agreed to do
the film partly on the one condition that
he would have more screen time as Bruce

(08:55):
Wayne in it. That's fair.
And thus began the age where superheroes had
to have their mask off for half of
the movie just so the actor could have
FaceTime in the movie. I would never know
who they were.
Never.
Originally planned as the pilot film for the
TV series, Batman 66,

(09:16):
the film
was instead released between
the end of the series' 1st season and
the beginning of its 2nd seasons.
The producers took advantage of the larger budget
to have a number of new bat gadgets
constructed, such as the bat boat and the
bat cycle.
Did they have a bat bomb with a
bat,
There was a bomb. There was a bomb?

(09:38):
There was a bomb? There was. Yes. I
There was a bat bomb. The birds are
there.
Yeah. That how copper bat, copper bat.
Alright. And at about 59
minutes into the film, the penguins line, careful,
careful. Every one of them has a mother,
which was said
as he and the cat woman swept up
and collected the dehydrated pirates was ad libbed

(10:00):
by Burgess Meredith Meredith.
I'm gonna exactly time that 50 minute so
I can exactly hear that. Do it.
Hey. You know,
shooting for the film began before Lee Mary
Lee Merriweather was cast for it, and as
a result the Catwoman does not appear
with the other 3 villains in the first
scene that takes place aboard the Penguin submarine.

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And one more time stamp before we're done
with the trivia.
At about 15 minutes in the film, the
penguin's line in the film,
we shall hang together or more assuredly,
we shall hang separately
was a humorous phrase spoken by Benjamin Franklin
when he was in danger of being accused
of high treason by his fellow delegates.

(10:47):
Alright.
Alright, guys. Well, let's get into our expectations.
Ek, greater expectations.
Kevin, since you're back with us this morning,
what are your expectations?
Is it morning? I was drinking the oh,
and what? You were in Ireland. Now you're
on those days. Hours. Goodness. This is a

(11:09):
different side of the fun of geekery than
where you're at.
Alright. What's my expectations?
I remember watching this movie many, many multiple
times as a child, so I have very
great fun memories and enjoyed it. And I
remembered watching this movie with my family, mostly
with my father, and he would I would
request him to read out

(11:29):
the bam, wap, pow, and every time he
came up, he would read it.
That's funny. So, yeah, I sat there, and
I I looked at him. He was like,
pow. Bam. What's up? And it was, like,
okay. It just kept on going. I think
this had more than a television show. I
know television shows were, like, 25, 30 minute
segments, and they hadn't put it as often.
But if my memory serves me correctly, this
was a lot more into the I think

(11:50):
there's a lot more action. Because look at
those so you had to do the premise,
and then you got, like, the, like, the
3 minute fight to and then this is,
like how long was that? A 105 minutes?
Yeah. It was less than 2 hours. Yeah.
So, I mean, there's a lot more action
in this one. And I remembered,
a shark.
Sharknado? There's no no. No. The this one
was the this one came directly from the

(12:11):
ocean. There was no hurricane here. Shark scene.
Hurricanes don't happen in California. Just earthquakes
shaking off all the prosthetics and plastic surgery
off people.
I remember the shark scene so much. But,
you know, it's the shark, and there was
different color powders on on the seats. That's
what those are the 2 biggest things I
remember from my childhood. That's cool. So with
the with the powders from your childhood, did
you want did you equate them to pixie

(12:33):
sticks and wonder what each diplomat tasted like?
No. I didn't.
They never led to Lucky Charters.
I did did not see this as a
child. I saw this as an adult, and
I also had that thought.
Was it your first time when we watched
it with Dana?

(12:53):
No. Okay. I had watched it with my
dad. Okay. Good. Well, Celeste, being as you
stepped in here, everybody, this is this is
one of the few rare times we are
literally recording in the same room. Just to
give you guys a peek behind the curtain
here,
we are you can probably hear it in
the audio, but also,
we we are literally not have not watched
this movie yet. So this is this is

(13:13):
all a giant fun experiment for us. But
being as Celeste has, jumped in, why don't
you go ahead and give us your expectations,
Celeste?
I expect it
to be entertained,
then be bored, and then be entertained again.
Because that's generally how this movie goes for
me. At I'm entertained at the front end

(13:34):
of things.
I kinda get bored in the middle, and
then the end of it picks back up.
So quite quite opposite from the Robert Pattinson
one. Right? Possibly?
You weren't here for that one. No. I've
watched the movie, like, 2 dozen times.
I hear everybody else saying how much they
get bored towards the end of the tunnel.
Wasn't boring. I didn't think it was boring.

(13:54):
But, you know, there's some people here who
just can't, you know, pass a movie and
enjoy anything in life. Bro. We're not talking
about the movie.
It's Batman
expectations.
My My expectations is I'm gonna go on
a wonderful nostalgic trip.
I watched as a as a as a
young man many, many times. We had recorded

(14:15):
off the television on VHS. Same. And we
watched it over and over again as a
kid,
many times. Demara and I, my sister, we
used to, like, have, like, picnics in the
living room, and we'd either watch this or
we'd watch,
we had a VHS tape of the,
Mystery Science Theater 3,000, the movie. Yeah. Yeah.

(14:35):
I had that one. And so we would
watch those, and we would, we would nuke
corn tortillas and put butter on them, and
we'd just sit there and watch these movies.
And so I'm having some nostalgic feelings.
Last time, we did we actually reviewed this
movie for calm talk because we introduced my
other sister, Dana, to this movie. And, ironically,
this exact same kind of situation,

(14:56):
only this is a better microphone, I hope.
Hopefully. I I actually I think I remember
that episode. Yeah. I think it was one
of the ones that you salvaged for us.
That I tried to salvage.
We won't name the server, but they did
butcher some of the early tracks. I did
my best to salvage them. I appreciate it.
We won't name the name the server because

(15:17):
we don't wanna speak ill of the dead.
Because they are. Damn. Do they not exist
anymore? They have disappeared. They just say their
name. Who cares? Those are copyright infringement. They
disappeared with our money. Anyways, so
so What about John? Stonegrass John? I'm not
done talking. So my expectation is to have
fun and enjoy it with you guys and
laugh,
at the campiness of it,

(15:38):
and just relisten the moment. You're sorry. You're
talking about the shark. It's already sent me
down a a pathway. So now, John, tag.
You're it. Okay. So
I didn't know this movie existed until I
was about 13 or 14. Really? Which is
weird because the Batman TV show was my
first experience with Batman. Yeah.

(15:58):
I used to watch the TV show in
syndicate when I was,
between the ages of 6 and 8 Mhmm.
Whenever it was on, and I loved it.
I especially loved it when he would punch
people and the onomatopoeia
would show up on the screen.
However,
I didn't know they they had made a
movie about it until

(16:20):
much later about 13 or 14 when I
was sitting at home one summer, and while
my parents were at work, and I was
flipping through the TV, and I ended up
on HBO, and there was a Batman movie
starting. And it turned out it was Batman
66. I'm like, oh my god. They made
a movie from the old TV show.
And I sat down and I watched it,
and I said, that was very much the

(16:42):
old TV show.
Just longer. Just longer.
But I enjoyed it, and I've I've seen
it multiple times, and I own it on
Blu ray,
although I haven't watched it since I've gotten
it on Blu ray.
And I'll tell you how long I've had
it. It came free with my copy of
the daredevil
Blu ray when that first came out. Wow.
And when I bought it at Suncoast. Wow.

(17:04):
Suncoast.
I miss Suncoast. Speaking of dead servers.
And I still have Batman. I no longer
have Daredevil.
Did you watch the director's cut, the daredevil,
or just the yeah. I've seen both. I
saw I saw it, and I still haven't
seen the director's cut. It's
Nothing. It it brings nothing. I had a
fun soundtrack.

(17:26):
So there's that. I enjoyed the movie for
its campiness from what I remember.
Again, because I haven't seen it since I
was either 13 or 14.
Wait. It's been that long? What? It's been
that long? It was wait. You I thought
you said you got on Bluer. You you
watched it again. Right? No. I didn't watch
it again. I have it. I just don't
haven't sat down to watch it. Oh, my

(17:46):
days. My my wife has an issue with
trying to watch it because it's too campy
for her, so I don't
That's fair. But,
as as far as this concern, I am
with Celeste. I have a feeling I'm gonna
be entertained, bored than entertained.
Outside of the shark
and the,
and the powders,
I remember a big bomb

(18:08):
with a timer on it that lasted for,
like, 20 minutes.
Sometimes you just can't give up the bomb.
And I remember him running around trying to
throw at places, and there's groups of children
over here, and then there's nuns over here.
And then I also
remember,
Robin saying throw it into the bar with

(18:31):
all the winos.
And Batman said, just because people are riffraff
doesn't mean that they don't have a right
to live. And I'm like, wow.
I bet you I know what the inner
right could do with that. Oh my gosh.
But,
you know,
that said, though, it
I'm expecting a lot of

(18:53):
poorly aged social situations
on top of some really campy movie
stuff. And I have a feeling I'm gonna
I'm going to enjoy it for all the
wrong reasons, but I'm still gonna enjoy it.
That's fair.
Alright.
So
that being said,
shall we watch the movie? Let's go. Does

(19:14):
your collection machine still work? Does she play
the movies or he or whoever it is
now? Yeah. Come on. I'll show you where
the where the, extra viewing pot is. And
stay tuned children on the same bat channel
for our
non spoiler follow-up.
Dear listeners,

(19:36):
this is your opportunity to escape.
Our crew has just entered into the media
projection chamber.
What horrors and matters that they consume are
unknown?
Their mental state upon their return is
unknown.
You have been warned.
No. But I am seriously saying they remind
me of pixie sticks, and I wanna know

(19:57):
what the Mexican consulate tastes like if it's
like tacos.
I don't know. I mean,
maybe maybe it tastes like Mazepa.
So we're back from the movie.
Hello.
Hello.
How long does a bomb device takes when
it ends up?

(20:18):
Sometimes you just can't get rid of a
bomb.
What kind of people watch this Batman 1966
movie?
Apparently, we do. Kevin turned into the Riddler,
man.
Although, I'll take this Riddler over the one
that was in the Batman.
Dang.
Alright. Well, it's time to figure out this
one's the bomb. And what these get rid
of.

(20:39):
So, like, real facts, these are the these
are the,
these are the villains that everybody imagines when
you think of Batman, in my opinion. Like,
if they could have gotten the Riddler from
the Batman closer to this Riddler, I would
have been a little bit more appreciative, I
think.
But we're not talking about the Batman. We're
talking about Batman.
Well, this is the Batman.

(21:01):
To some people, this is the Batman, not
Batman. This is true. I mean, if you
look at if you look at our social
medias and the
and the discord where people are talking about
it, there's some people on here like, yeah.
This is my Batman.
Yep. Speaking of which, so we went out
to our our community, and we asked them
for their thoughts. Literally while we were watching
it. Yeah. And good godly, miss Molly, you

(21:23):
guys
came out in droves for this. So,
one person so said, it was my first
introduction to the Batman world. Although, I enjoy
more Batman 89
and forward, Adam West and Burt Ward
will always
hold a special place in my memories. Because
of nostalgia,
it gave me a middle shelf. Alright, it,

(21:45):
it'll give I'll give it a middle shelf.
I rarely get an itch to watch it
on my own, but if someone else watches
Watch again, I'm still down and enjoy it
with them.
One person says, I'm not sure I've actually
seen it all the way through.
Which could speak widely to their thoughts on
the movie.

(22:06):
Another person said,
top shelf. It's a great adaptation of the
Batman of the era.
So if you put it on top shelf,
that means you can't reach for it. Right?
It stays up there.
Yeah. You can't get rid of it. Another
person says, the reality is
for 30 years,
Adam West
was the definite Batman.

(22:26):
Many of us still have fond memories of
the silly adventures,
and we and while the more recent ones
were grittier and
more grounded in reality, using quotation marks, there
is still something innocent about Batman 66.
Plus,
no one has really topped the dignity of
Neil Hamilton and Allen Adam, or Allen Napier,

(22:50):
Commissioner Gordon Alfred, respectfully.
The only thing that could have made it,
better is to have,
Julie Newmar play Catwoman. Yeah. There was
undertones they had in
the baton west. Oh, good lord. Some
Another person completely innocent.
Oh, man. Another person said the fact that

(23:11):
the that they made 2 animated movies in
recent years with Bert,
Ward,
wait. Bert and Ward. I think it's a
typo.
West and Ward. Yeah. West and Ward,
reprising their roles,
decades later speaks volumes. It does.
Genuinely, that that does speak volumes about the

(23:32):
value of this.
So I'm just trying to see if we've
got anything different on the other channels. Same
thing. I have I have I have, some
pulled up here on
your profile when you had reposted
on your personal one because that was the
first one that popped up for me while
the one I was looking for for you.
We got one here that says that all

(23:53):
you need to bring a person dehydrate down
dehydrated down to salt is a bit of
water,
and they will be perfectly fine,
though they may speak a wrong language.
Wonder what kind of water they were drinking.
The Shreveport water.
You can't ask what's wrong with the Shreveport
water? And,

(24:14):
someone else wrote,
just
some days you can't get rid of a
bomb. Middle shelf. Yeah. Fair. Sometimes it takes
over 2 minutes to get rid of that
bomb.
Oh my gosh. Alright. Well, guys,
should we get into our
spoil free thoughts?

(24:34):
I don't know. These people sound like they're
already spoiled by their thoughts on back,
I'm gonna jump in. I'm gonna say this.
I enjoyed the camerawork in this film. Like,
those parts were, like, it was all the
villains, especially the first half of the movie.
Like, how it's all crooked and sideways aren't
like that, given that perspective of, like, these
cats have genuinely lost their mind. I found

(24:57):
that interesting.
Maybe Battlefield Eartha learned his cellular camera.
Oh, no.
I really
I think what I appreciated the most about
this movie, and I can't talk about it
in the spoiler free section,
is the camp. Mhmm. Like,

(25:17):
I understand that there's a lot of people
out there who can't deal
with silliness
in movies or
whatever. And for the most part, I'm in
that same group.
But there was something about the way they
did it in this. And I it's probably
my connection to this source material, not the
comic books, but the actual TV show Right.

(25:38):
That
helps me appreciate the campiness rather than just
being like, this is stupid. Mhmm.
Holy John, how are you? How can you?
Okay.
But I think that
I I did have a thought several times

(25:58):
throughout the movie
that I would actually like to see a
modern reimagining
of this script
Really? Set in 66.
Mhmm.
That would like, with modern storytelling
No. With your with the original script Right.
But with Just with the script. Right. But
with Just with the budget of a nor
of an actual movie, our time, and modern
actors. That would be who would you have

(26:20):
playing this Batman, though?
This Batman?
Brendan Fraser. Oh.
Why does that work?
I'm gonna tell you what this is what
we're gonna do.
When this airs, when this episode drops, I'm

(26:42):
gonna drop a poll
in the,
in the Discord and on
the bottom shelf Facebook page.
I wanna know how you would recast
the this entire movie with modern people. Having
played this version of the character. Are you
saying you want me to say that, or
you want the listeners to say that? I
want the listeners to drop their their opinions.
But we'll we'll put a poll up in

(27:02):
the, on the Discord
and on the bottom of Facebook page. Or
you can just watch the 2 animated movies
they did.
Don't do that. Later.
Don't do that.
Oh my gosh. Okay. So to give you
guys some background on that, Kevin made me
watch the first five minutes of 1 of
the 1 of the Batman
and furface is a toothpaste.

(27:23):
Yeah. And it literally sounds like an 80
year old man when Batman's talking.
It it's hard. Because he was probably literally
80 years old. I still want you to
watch it.
But yeah. No. It there was a lot
I like the use of color in this.
I've always appreciated the call I've always appreciated
the color in the Batman series. So That's

(27:44):
actually a note that I have written down
as I appreciate how color really pops. Like,
it's a vibrant experience watching it. Yeah. It
was a nice opening too to have the
different colors come out. Mhmm. As, as John
was saying as we were watching,
looks like the opening of a James Bond.
Yeah. That was fun. Yeah.
There was a few there was a few
times in the opening sequence where in my

(28:04):
head I was like,
gold
finger.
Celeste, any non spoiler things you wanna say?
Not necessarily.
Just everything's been been pretty well pretty well
commented on. Mhmm. I liked Alfred.
Now I have to ask because I know

(28:25):
know you have opinions
on how women are portrayed in superheroes,
specifically Lois Lane,
as we've heard in previous,
previous,
episodes.
Yes. I don't think I've have I've mentioned
that on this podcast. No. But but if
you listen to this show, but most likely
you probably listen to ComTalk.

(28:46):
But I have to ask, so as far
as the Cat Woman Mhmm. And this movie,
what is your
opinion in that respect? Well, hold on. Would
this fall under a spoiler conversation? I don't
it would fall under a spoiler. Okay. Because
I I thought that I thought just at
a service level, you'd be like, What let's

(29:07):
let's cut to the the spoiler section. It
just gives us the open freedom. Alright. Well,
maybe I should take my back memory pills
before we do this.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the spoiler section.
Alright. Welcome to the spoiler section.

(29:27):
Celeste is about to answer
John's question as to whether or not Catwoman
was a decent portrayal of womanhood.
Well
She was a perfect woman for a movie
from 1966.
That's the way we view women today.
Clearly, the man has just told me how
to feel about women in the movie. That's

(29:49):
what we do.
You guys both get kicked out of my
house. Yeah, he is.
So,
my issue is that she
she didn't really do anything.
That's fair. I mean
Like, and it's not necessarily her fault. It's
the
writing. The they wrote her
to just be there and pet her cat.

(30:11):
Well, to be fair, she did
she she was used as a seductress.
That's fair. She was. And then she did
at one point go, here, here's a cat,
in the middle of a fight. But the
actual cat did more fighting
and more for the progression of the story.
At one point, she goes, Riddler, Joker, do

(30:33):
something.
Like, you can't go over there and push
some buttons. Right? It's been a while since
I've read that era
of comics with Catwoman. But I feel like
she was a lot more active in
in conniving and scheming and and and taking
charge of situations. Even if it was a
they wanted to play it to where she
wasn't a physical character, having her be more

(30:54):
of the mastermind
would have worked.
I'm not saying nothing.
I I just I wanna make jokes by
Ken because this is Babbly channel.
Well, you've been on the show before, Kevin.
You know the rules.
Yeah. You just edit me out. You know
what? Let's let's start let me start rambling
on so we can edit this off right

(31:14):
now.
Oh, my gosh. So
I lost my train of thought.
We are in a spoiler section, so go
ahead. Spoil away. No. It's not that. It's
just oh, yeah. With Catwoman, I can't I
can't figure out why she had the claws
in the movie. She wasn't gonna use them.
You know what I mean? Ever.
What? She didn't scratch anybody. It's a family

(31:34):
picture. You know, that's the thing is, it
is a family picture, but it's also it
1st off, it's the sixties. 2nd off, the
entirety of this thing is a
a kind of poking fun dig
at the comic code, comic authority. That's fair.
It was taking place at the time. And
there were rules about certain things.
And so you couldn't have
excessive gore,

(31:55):
cutting people up and shooting people. Like, if
you notice, nobody really got hurt. You got
people kicked off a boat. That's And there
in the court. Even had her use the
claws, like, had her fly off the boat
and use the claws to, like, claw her
way back up
Right.
Into the metal?
Yeah. Why not? I mean, because that would
be walk

(32:17):
Robin walking vertically
up a side of the building. They got
saved by a porpoise. Her climbing up the
sub with her nails would not be the
most unbelievable thing. And they use a a
a bat bomb to explode the shark right
there in the middle of the bat ocean
with their bat skills, using that bat crap,
bat sprite.
And then they also And a porpoise that

(32:37):
blew up to save Batmans' lives. And they
also just happened to land on a mound
of
The foam. Rubberized
foam.
The whole helicopter just lands straight on it.
Or the bat cycle that just happened to
be off the side of the road next
to where the where So but I have
a question.
The bat boat,

(32:59):
are all boats done with the
from from my perspective with the driver's side
on the wrong side? Like, are they all
British?
Yes. Ma'am. Really? Yes.
Did not know them. Yes.
Go on and you'll find
out. No. Thank you.
I like speedboats. They're fun. So

(33:21):
I we did while we're watching. I said,
if I if we ever get a boat
at speedboat, I wanna be like that. And
I want a a submarine that looks like
the penguins.
Yeah. Get a get a PSP boat to
crash right into the submarine like Indiana Jones.
I I I really wanted I really want,
like, to see
a millennial watch this movie. Like, and I'm
not I'm not being I'm not being a
generation

(33:42):
generational
list here, but
not so much useless because you're you're one
of the older millennials. I'm not talking about
the really young ones or possibly,
The ones that are almost Gen zed. Yeah.
I I wanna watch them see this and,
when they get to the office, when they
start looking up customer accounts, see someone flip
through a rolodex.
Oh, no. That would be like an alpha

(34:03):
that you would want. No. I think Who
do you sell this weapon to? Let's check
this out. I think the younger millennials will
be just as confused by that situation. They're
taught they got they got tick tock. They
they keep their time cannot Somewhere out there.
Stand past 20 seconds of something. Somewhere out
there, someone's asking their parents, what's a Rolodex?
Oh my gosh. I'm sure there's a lot
of things, though. Like, I gotta remember growing

(34:24):
up going, what the heck is that? So
And then, okay,
so something that came up while we're watching
this movie.
Why was it whenever they did their heist,
everybody
wore a mask? Yes. Like, you're in
branded costumes, and you're gonna wear a mask.
It's like we know who the
costumes,
and you're gonna wear a mask. It's like
we know who the penguin is. We know

(34:47):
who the joker is.
Why are those 2 wearing masks while they're
doing this? I mean Well, maybe if they
wear a mask, they can't discriminate them.
It's like
I'm like I'm like the only one who
negatively wears wore a mask in that fight
was,
Thriddler.
And I'm like, what's happening? Catwoman wears a
mask too. But she wasn't in the fight.

(35:08):
She doesn't fight. That's true. But she was
there. Yes. But she was meant to be
a a decoy.
She was meant to cheer the mom. Miss
Kitka.
Kitka. Kitka.
I am sorry, but let's
can we just say that Batman's an idiot?
Yeah. Oh, this one is. I mean,
y'all,

(35:28):
I can appreciate Adam West. He was my
first introduction to Batman, as many of you,
apparently. His acting was phenomenal. Doke. If you
say so Oh, yeah. There's Oscar worthy. It
takes a lot of talent to act that
stupid.
Madam,
I want to tell you there were several
times where I thought I was listening to
William Shatner.

(35:48):
But, again, this is the thing. This is
camp. This was that was the point of
the whole deal. Knew what they were doing.
Like, the script was, like, just do this.
And,
like, the whole, like, the seductive scene where
he's, like, wooing her with his words.
Like, there are points where she herself
I think the actress
it was the actress not the character that

(36:10):
rolled her eyes with, really, we're doing this.
It was just the way the script was
written out for it. They were just intentionally
just looking at you as they're sending their
lines and winking at you.
Yeah. We did that.
Thank you, Paris, for bringing all your children
to the cinema to pay. You gotta wonder
how many outtakes they had of her going,
really? I would like to see outtakes from

(36:32):
this film. I This was this was before
everyone liked the blooper reels.
So
I have to ask a question because I
I'm finding myself in a conundrum here. For
those of you at home,
we did something that we've never done before
with this movie. We literally sat we literally
sat down, recorded the intro and everything else,
and then watched the movie when we said

(36:52):
we're watching the movie. Mhmm. In the same
room together. Yes. So this is a first
for us. So I we can ask some
different questions on this
such as the one I'm experiencing now. Has
anybody else, like, now that we've just got
done watching a movie and you're trying to
think back to something to talk about this
movie and you're starting to realize this movie
is entirely forgettable, and there's not a whole
lot that sticks out in it. I mean,
the shark. Jesse? Just like I said in

(37:14):
the beginning, the shark before we watch the
movie because
it it's just little
highlights that makes the film,
you know, you can remember those, but everything
else, the whole story, everything is extremely forgettable.
Again, I've watched this many times, so I'm
at a disadvantage for what you're wanting. At
the same time, the thing about it is,

(37:34):
this film plays out
less as a
whole film,
and more like one story spread out over
4 episodes of a show. Yeah. Very long.
Like, it it really it really does feel
like it's just a long episode of the
TV show. I wouldn't say episode, episodes, plural.
There's I wanna say episode, episodes, plural. There's
definitely, like, there's always, like, the 3 acts
that are in a film. This had 4
different acts coming together to like, you had

(37:54):
the first act where you're discovering
that it who it is. You had the
next act where it was dealing with with
the miss Kit Kat. And then you had
the other act where they're like, oh, they're
they're,
stealing the,
the the people. And then you have the
4th act where it was
fight fighting the villains and rescuing them. Like,

(38:17):
it was multiple shows in one. I think
that's part of the problem.
This wasn't a movie team writing this script.
This was a TV crew writing the script.
That's fair. And they probably could have turned
this into a miniseries
or a special
for TV or 2 specials rather. Well, then

(38:38):
beforehand
in the tribute, didn't you say this was
supposed to be a
a pilot
movie? This was originally supposed to be the
pilot episode for the, TV show. So that
might explain some of what we're looking at
here. Yeah.
Some of the the writing choices.
Well, they wrapped in all that Batman cash
dollars because,
I mean, it was a strong during that

(39:00):
time frame. Mhmm. Because Adam Westenberg,
worked. Yeah. Worked. He would go out they
would go out in public and just do
the same thing that George Reeves did as
a Superman, and it just was a Batman
craze. Mhmm. I mean Batman. Loved it. Yeah.
Batman
made up made everyone buy more stuff, toys,
and so forth and celebrate them. I would

(39:20):
have loved to see a George Reeves Superman
meet this Batman.
Oh.
Oh, well, you know, he might have to
take a bullet to the stomach, but sure.
No. No. Batman doesn't use guns.
No. Everyone else does, though. Let me okay.
So let me ask you, let me ask
you guys this. This is this will be
an interesting this will be an interesting game
we can play together, being as we're all

(39:41):
in the same room.
If you were to take this movie
and re and just
replace one thing about it to make it
better, what would it be?
Writing
the story. Right? But have our better writers.
Okay.
In what way?
Like, how would you what would you rewrite
specifically? I write better jokes, better comedic undertones

(40:01):
because, you know, a lot of jokes or
whatever fell flat. Right. But the same thing
for that time because you want to make
it for adults
and for children to somehow, you know, sort
of like what early Disney Pixar would do.
They made a joke. See, but the difference
is is that you're thinking of that as
a
a modern No. I was thinking as a
as a as a casual family.

(40:23):
There's no wrong together. To this. No. No.
No. I'm just curious of the the expanse
of it because, like like because people go,
oh, needs better writing, but nobody explains, like,
what does that mean better writing? What would
you have done?
Have a have a a way of writing
it where it would be entertaining for
adults and children to watch together, so that
way if years pass down the road, like,

(40:43):
oh, I never caught him on a joke.
It was a bit of a dance or
I was too young or so forth. Mhmm.
I mean, they did it with stuff like
Back to the Future. They did it with
all the other films, like, sometimes even maybe
something, I don't know. Just
a way of just
writing it in a way where it wasn't
just, cashing on the sensation during that time,
but that if someone was to go back

(41:04):
and review rewatch it years down the road
Mhmm. They could appreciate it as they were
a child or younger Right. Or as an
this one, even though, like, I may have
appreciated it more probably much more as a
child and so forth,
me watching it now, I'm like, man. Maybe
it what you know? I'm not as one
of those people looking, really my child head.

(41:24):
I I I get tired of those people.
I get to be able to choke it
and die. I don't know. You would've you
would've changed the scope of it to be
a little bit more inclusive to an an
older audience.
Yeah. While keeping some of that still childlike
harm and so Yeah. I mean, harm childlike
wonder. Yeah. What about you, Celeste? What would
be one thing you would change about this
movie that you think would make it better?

(41:45):
Probably some of the effects.
There is no reason that we should know
that the shark was pinned to that platter.
Like, they had the weight they had ways
to do it, so it had to have
either been lack of budget or intentional.
But if they had done it
in a less
obvious way,
then it might have worked a little better.

(42:07):
They used all the rubber for the helicopter.
They couldn't have used any more rubber for
that shark. I am curious though, because it
we watched it on a
on a pretty high quality,
copy, DVD,
on a PS 5, on a decent TV.
We're not doing 4 k like John does,
but it's a pretty solid TV.
How wonder how we would've felt about it

(42:27):
if we'd watched this on a,
both CRT? Yeah, CRT TV,
on a, on a VHS
or original broadcast,
if the effects would not have felt
as
abrasive to us?
I feel like that they would have. Mhmm.
Because it's almost like it was intentional. Mhmm.

(42:49):
Like, they intent they wanted you to know,
hey, look, we put this fake shark here.
Like, it was it was part of the
gag. It was part of the making fun
of things.
It's just for me, I would have
have smoothed it over a little bit Mhmm.
And done better with the practical effects. See,
with with me, when I when I start
thinking about that, then the effects that were

(43:09):
in this movie, in the back of my
head and I I could just be pulling
out personal biases on this, but it almost
seems to me, like,
I think about it and I look see
some Hollywood executive mooks sitting behind a chair
somewhere saying, they're kids. They don't care. They
don't know any better anyway. Just use the
cheap crap and then just, let the money
roll in hot. Well and especially if this

(43:30):
was meant to be a
a,
not promo. What's the word we used earlier?
A pilot. A pilot.
Then that would make sense that they would
just be using whatever they had. I'm looking
at the budget right now because now I
need to know. But yeah. Yeah. But, like,
if they if they had done it a
little bit smoother, because you can make it

(43:51):
campy while still
doing all the practical effects justice. Mhmm. Because
let's face it, the only CGI were the
words effects.
And I'm not even sure that was CGI
that might They they would literally hand draw
those. I was about to say that might
have been rotoscoped. I'm fine with how the
style and how it looks on the screen.
That's me, though. Yeah. I'm fine with it.
I don't need

(44:11):
a CRT television or distortion or even a
super high glossy
4 k edition. I was fine with the
presentation. It yeah. It worked for it.
It worked for it.
Mhmm. What about you, Dallas?
I would've tried to tighten up the scripting
for the portion with the penguin in the
middle. That's the portion of the film that
drags for me. We'll get into that whole

(44:33):
thing of getting him back to the the
bat cave and that whole,
like,
you were unraveling a plan of dehydrating everybody.
There's something about the portion that that it
drags. I'm not sure why. I don't know
if there's more, Maybe he needed more henchman
powder. But I guess so. But there's something
about that whole segment of the film that

(44:53):
just
alright, let's get let's get to a point.
So I don't know. Again, that's that's about
the only thing I think off top of
my head right now that I would I
would have changed about this script in the
sixties. Now I am curious how this would
play out using your idea of modern day
re reward you're working.
How it would play out?
Mhmm. It would probably be on level with,

(45:15):
like, sharknado.
I was thinking Velocipastor
that I can see here.
Instead of a shark, it just says Insert
shark here. Insert insert f s f x
shark here.
They shouldn't have just like a
a purestor
bat attack Batman. I don't know. Alright. So
I

(45:35):
my my thought on the on this on
this concept came completely out of left field,
and this is this is the thought I
had that inspired this little round of Just
left field, not center left field? No. This
is way out in left field. Left. What
I was, thinking was I'd wanna see what
this movie would have looked like
if Hitchcock would have directed it. Oh.

(45:55):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't I would be like
I know he wouldn't, so who cares? No.
But if can you imagine, like, we just
it would be like the 19 sixties version
of the Batman.
Yeah. Hitchcock would have if Hitch would have
directed
it.
Yeah.
That would be fun. Sorry. That would be
interesting.
I could rock that.

(46:16):
I just I just need an Elseworlds version
of this movie, basically. Or you can have
Cecil be in the mail.
But then again, it would be My
UN go.
But then it again, no one kills more
people on screen than Sysapiro de Mayo. Oh,
you did crush an entire nation with a
giant body of water.

(46:36):
So
Oh my gosh.
Now people are listening. There's, like, they're like,
who's Sysapiro de Mayo? Get off, Chit Chocket.
Good luck about the movie is. Why do
you sell, like, every angry old man? Because
you know what else? These darn kids on
a dicky dork. I can't tie my shoe
because of you. Okay. I'll show them an
empty light. He wants to program your your

(46:57):
VCR for you, Kevin. That's what you sound
like. Like, you need us to program your
VCR. You're, like, acting like that old guy
old guy. Yeah. I'm trying to sound like
my old guy. Okay?
Of course, I'm sure I'm using less swear
words. Okay?
But all all all the same,
though,
just to kinda bring it back. You okay?

(47:17):
Yeah. I think Just
He's he's just thinking through the laughing.
Okay. We're good. Alright. Why the heck do
you little frickin' kids?
But,
I I yeah. This
I don't know. It's it's pretty
It's okay.
For me, it's okay. I mean, do do

(47:38):
we does anybody have anything to really wanna
talk about this movie? Was anything super impactful
for you at all?
Like, even we even hit the spoiler section,
and it's just, like, there's, like, the 4
parts in the movie that we talked about.
You got the shark, you got the bomb,
you got
the powder people. Again, it's like each act
had its specific
thing, and and then it went on. Mhmm.

(48:00):
The only two things stuck out with me
is coloring
and camera angles. Yeah.
How you shot the film and the colors
on the screen,
everything else, even the music, very mundane, very
television show like. Acting, again, it's because it's
based on television show, very television show like.
Yeah. A lot of jokes. I mean, other
than saying bat everything. Yeah. But, like, it
would have been great if they would have

(48:20):
had the Beatles, not the Beatles, the monkeys
walking walk across the street. Just a cameo.
Just a Yeah.
Yes.
So again but again, also the com this.
The commentary on on life and society through
the the eyes of the comic code, there's
always a lesson. There's always a
remember, Robin, this is this, this is that.
Like, that constant,
like, it was a it was a satire

(48:41):
of the comic code and everything at the
time. Mhmm. It's not still that's like but
if you don't realize that, you missed that
point. And so Mhmm.
It is something that outside of its own
time,
you have to take in the context. Mhmm.
Who was the who was supposed to be
the one mock making or
I like it speaking if
mocking the president because it was both it

(49:02):
felt like it was trying to mock a
president
during his time.
I didn't really see it as a mocking.
I just
the president was so nondescript in this movie.
I had to look up who it was.
Okay. And for, those of you who don't
know who is president in 66, it was
Lyndon b Johnson after the Kennedy assassination. So
Mhmm. Yeah. So Yeah. We're so quiet. It's
like

(49:23):
We had
a moment of silence for president Kennedy.
Indeed. I don't I don't I don't think
there's a lot this isn't really a talk
around the water cooler type of movie. So
let's go ahead and get on over to
our,
our, how we're gonna rate this.
Well, let's, remind the the public of the

(49:46):
rating system, John. Yeah. Remind me too.
You guys change, don't you? We have changed
it since Kevin was on last. We have.
I was actually gonna queue Dallas to do
that as a part of that that,
transition, but Go ahead, John. I thought you
were the one who did it. Thanks for
thanks for stepping on that for me. Wasn't
she your admiral?
Respect your admiral.

(50:07):
I thought you were the one who did
it. I'm sorry. I got it. I got
it. I got it. Alright. Ladies and gentlemen,
we here at the bottom shelf have a
4 part system here. Oh my god. First
off, we have the top shelf which says
I need to own this movie. I want
it on DVD and I want it now.
What about 4 ks or Blu ray? Does
that have a DVD?
4 k DVD I own the social media.

(50:29):
Streaming. Oh, I'm sorry. You can't not you
can't own streaming, you lease it. Thank you,
Sony.
So, alright.
2nd shelf is middle shelf. I'd watch it
maybe if if it was streaming.
Next is Bottom Shelf. Probably won't watch it
again,
ever.
And then Dumpster Fire. I will actively try
to keep people from watching

(50:50):
this
movie.
Nothing's more distracting than just throwing a fire.
That way, you actively stops people. To our
knowledge, nothing has ever made it in the
dumpster fire except for the one movie, The
Fog, and it's because we have the new
evidence of it. So
We do.
We do. We have the new evidence of
the fog going into the dumpster fire. It's
on a a YouTube channel called
the dapper band.

(51:12):
My day. But being as Kevin is our
guest instead of an actual host this time,
Kevo, why don't you go ahead and start
us off with the ratings?
For me, I'll just put it on the
bottom shelf.
Just on the bottom shelf? Nah. I'll never
really have to see this movie again unless
if I
have, I guess what? I wouldn't even be

(51:32):
introduced to my niece and nephew, really. Because
I figured I would maybe one day, and
I was like, they're right now, I'm just
foreseeing their future, their time expanse. I'm just
focusing on something. It's like, nope. Not focused
enough.
Okay.
Alright. Well, Celeste Yeah. How do you feel
about this movie?
It's it's okay. It's not my favorite. It's

(51:54):
not one that I'm necessarily gonna throw in
myself just, you know,
to chill at the house and watch a
movie. But if somebody's watching it, I'll watch
it. So I'm gonna put it as a
middle shelf.
That is fair. That's fair.
For me and and before I do, I
wanna say we've got a couple more responses
through Discord and Facebook and stuff. It's been
a mixed bag of, like, middle shelf, bottom

(52:16):
shelf for a lot of the people. Even
the people are like, oh, this is, like,
you know, the best, you know, this is
what what I grew up with.
But for
me, I struggle.
When we did the review of the movie,
the movies for,
I rated all the bad movies on on
on one of our streams. I put it
as a tier,

(52:37):
because
of what it was. Mhmm.
Yeah. It's not a a or s tier
film, though. It's legitimate. Like, there are parts
where, like, gosh.
But as a fan of the franchise
that I am, I am a Batman fan.
I like Batman for various reasons. Check out
the latest episode of Geek Devotions if you
want a ridiculous reason why I do it.

(52:57):
But,
I own this movie.
And so with our top right thing being,
put top shelf being, like, I want to
own this.
I I can't not say.
Top shelf, I genuinely wanna own this. Is
it one that I pull out all the
time watch? No. It's not.
But when you come to conversation about Batman,
Batman history,

(53:19):
this is when you have to bring up.
Like, this is a big ordeal.
So
top shelf. Top shelf? Really? Top shelf? But
I mean, I understand for history. I mean,
I own it too. I own Blu ray,
but I I think I haven't I haven't
own because I have it because of historical
starting with Batman. Right. I last time I
watched it, it was,
good lord, I think, like, 15 years. Yeah.

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10 or 15 years, and I have it
yeah. It's been 10 years. Right. 22020 is
where right now.
It takes 20 years to go through your
entire movie library you had. I think it
would take 30. So With all the movies
I have. So if you're gonna make the
rounds, it takes a hot minute. Yeah. I
just got more movies through that video store.
Yeah.
Speaking of said movie store, wanna help throw

(54:02):
out a quick plug before I do my,
rant. Oh, yeah. Check it out. We aren't,
we aren't sponsored by this company in any
way. It's just Kevin and I Kevin discovered
a video store in
West Monroe. West Monroe. Like a video store
whisperer. Just a seek it out, and it's
right there.
He discovered a video store in West Monroe,
Louisiana.

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So Hold on. When we say video store,
it's not just a place to buy videos.
No. You can rent. This is a rental
place. For real?
Yeah. You can
rent and buy at the store. So if
you are in the Shreveport, Bossier, West Monroe
area, that place, go check out National Video
Superstore over in West Monroe.

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I was over there today, and I bought
a copy of Cujo and topped them up,
and they were gracious enough to take some,
advertisements for the bottom shelf. So go show
them some love if you can.
But that being said Support your physical media
stories. Support physical
media. Word. So that being said,
my raving on this,

(55:06):
I I too own the Blu ray for
this, and I have not watched it since
I've owned this owned the Blu ray. I
own it, like Kevin was saying, for historical
purposes and because I do enjoy
Batman
as a character.
And until
Ben Affleck became Batman, I wanted to own
every Batman movie.

(55:27):
And then Ben Affleck, as he does with
everything, ruined that.
Oh. But come on. He was a good
Bruce Wayne. Okay.
And
He was a good Bruce Wayne. Concurred.
Thank you, Dallas, for concurring. Now so let's
let them
finish. Yeah. And so I I just I've
never watched it. I don't dislike it, though.
Okay. You know? I it's like when people

(55:48):
put it on, I'm willing to watch it.
Like, I was thinking about this. Would I
watch this again on my own? I don't
think so. Yeah.
I don't think I would wanna watch it
at home. I have it for sentimental and
collecting reasons, and that's about it.
I think I would be more prone to
watching the movie because I where I do
enjoy not the movie, the TV show,
because where I do enjoy

(56:09):
the camp,
I need it in smaller doses. It's it's
it's like when you're a kid, you can
eat more sugar than you can when you're
an adult and not feel sick because of
it. That that's a fair point.
And this and this movie is very saccharin,
and so I would have to say that
I would probably give this movie a low
middle shelf.

(56:29):
Yeah.
Because I you know, I I I'm not
gonna put it on if it's streaming, but
if someone else puts it on or is
interested, I'll go sit through it.
Curious. How would you feel if it was
a m t, Mr. Science 0
3000 situation?
It's hard to say because those those can
be really hit and miss. Or are you

(56:51):
talking about watching somebody else do that or
do it myself? Do it ourselves. Like, if
we were to do it, mister Snyder's studio
2000, I would like
and and I say that, we almost did.
Like, there are a few times where we
were talking on the movie rather than talk
making fun of the movie. Mhmm. But and
this this film falls in that category of
there's certain films that I love to watch
when I'm with people. Yeah. Because we can

(57:12):
laugh, we can talk about, we can make
jokes the entire time,
and the safety of our home, not in
a movie theater because you get popcorn thrown
at you,
but
they make it more enjoyable when you're with
a crowd of people. Like, I enjoy The
Princess Bride. Not as much as Celeste, but
I enjoy it quite a bit. But when
I'm with people, it's even more fun. Mhmm.

(57:33):
Like, a few weeks ago, we had an
opportunity, we watched The Princess Bride with some
friends from Puerto Rico,
and it was hysterical. It was.
I I think it would really depend on
who I was there with. Mhmm.
With the 4 of us, probably, you know,
if you were to bring Bam in here
or
possibly,
Damara,

(57:53):
I would probably Lord. See, a movie like
this is something you have to watch as
a group. You can't watch it by yourself.
Like, let's say for instance, you watch, like,
one of those movies where people are saying,
like, The Vroom. You don't wanna watch that
by yourself. You have to watch it with
a group of people. Plan 9 with a
plan 9 from Outer Space. Yes. Watch it
with a group of people, don't watch it
by yourself unless you're just Or that person
who watched it and was a child nonstop
and grew up. Or the Leprechaun movies. Or

(58:13):
yeah. That would probably be good as a
group of people.
I think Leprechaun had a lot more comedic
tones and much more
fun. I think this one I think it's
more of a locked in time, but, like,
the com we talked about the comedy a
little bit. It's definitely a locked in time
comedy.
Like, it's it's the standard of the comedy
of the sixties.
So Yeah. Yeah. So to to answer your

(58:36):
question as succinctly as I can, it would
honestly just depend on who I was watching
it with. That's fair. Because there's some people
I can I can vibe real well with
and yes and with the jokes and stuff
with, and there's some people who are just
a stick in the mud to try to
do something like that? Right.
That's fair. Some people are bored with more
just sticks in the mud. More gonna stick
up something else, but yeah.

(58:58):
Oh, man. And there's Kevin pushing that envelope.
Alright.
Alright. So there you have it. We have
I think we came in on a middle
shelf on this one, a disputed middle shelf.
I think so. Yeah. Middle, middle.
I was bottom. Bottom. I was top. Yeah.
Disputed middle. Disputed middle.
So there you have it. Rank and file.

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Let's got get on over to the
this is a weird
connection.
Thank you, Matt. Saw you this weekend. Love
you, brother. So thankful we have the actual
audio clip that you can play.
You used you think I'm not gonna put
that on the episode? Oh, it'll be there.
I'm just hoping you cut it to the
real one.
This is a Wii

(59:42):
Connection.
Alright. Welcome to Wii Connection. This is the
portion of the show where we take something,
terrible and make it redemptive. And this time,
we're talking about Batman from 1966.
And, so it is redemptive. Yay. Wow. Okay.
So I'm talking about,
there was a we we kind of joked
about on the front end of the show
where,

(01:00:03):
Robin's like, why did you just let it
blow up in that in that place of
reference? And he was, like basically, he was
saying, look, they still have value. They may
there's a redemptive there's a possibility for them
to be redeemed.
And, it it that whole scene right there
has been cutting at me a little bit
there while we're watching it, but there's this
aspect of
showing partiality to people that we like for

(01:00:25):
one reason or another. And James talks about
this in James chapter 3. Now contextually, he's
talking about people showing preference to the people
who are rich,
but that the the idea,
the the thought process of it continues out
over across the board, not just not showing
partial to rich people, but just people in
general. Just because somebody
is,

(01:00:45):
like in the show, like I said, a
a vagrant or somebody who, you know, we
looked down upon because, you know, this or
that.
First off, you should be looking down upon
them. Like, there's still people. There's still opportunity
for people to be redeemed. They may be
somebody that you disagree with, whether it's because
they're doing something criminal or they do something
that's that they're actively involved in a sinful
lifestyle, that doesn't mean that we should look

(01:01:06):
down upon them and treat like single class
citizens Yeah. And do stuff that harms them.
We need to look at people as people
and love them, care about them.
We are on the back end of
of being at Geekcon, and we started going
to Geekcon to we started geek devotions because
we saw people treating geeks and nerds
like second class citizens. Yep. And show them

(01:01:28):
the grace and respect of actually being present,
loving people where they're at, and walking them
through things in a in an appropriate manner.
We saw people just yelling at people
and degrading them and shouting at them.
And that's ungodly.
And so,
my weak connection, again, point back to Genesis,
stop showing partiality.
There are people who I I like. And,

(01:01:49):
again, there's there's a level of, like, there's
people you just jive with, you click with,
and that that's a thing. That happens. I'm
not saying that it's not a thing. What
I am saying is that doesn't mean you
are disrespectful
and just absolutely just rude to and mean
to
because you don't like them or because they
do stuff that you disagree with. They're still
people. When we're on the con 4, there
are people who they did not

(01:02:11):
like our message at all, but because we
showed them grace
and because we were genuinely kind to them,
they respected us. And when we are we're
able to as Christians, that opens the door
for them to hear the message that we
have. That opens the door from the hear
of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But when
we're jerks and buttholes about things,
when we're just like, ah, just let them
burn,
that closes the door completely,

(01:02:32):
forgetting that they still have the opportunity to
be redeemed just like we did. We were
all sinful and terrible individuals at one point
in time, yet Christ saved us because somebody
opened that door for us. So that's my
weak connection.
And admiral?
Nope. The admiral
at Dallas took the admiral's message.

(01:02:53):
I figured we had the same one. Oh,
yeah. How about you, John? Who's yours? I
don't got one. I don't I said that
already. Yep. You got anything? Sure. I got
one. Come on. Micah 6:8. I'll just read
from the English standard version.
The extra centified version, my brother.
Yeah. I think everyone who's listening to his
podcast speaks and learn understands English. So I

(01:03:13):
wanna speak and do his English.
He he has told you, oh, man, what
is good, and what does the Lord require
of you, but to do justice and to
love kindness and to walk humbly with your
God.
I believe there's just, I know what Michael
Michael was saying to the people of Israel
over there, but Batman was a figure of
his time with this even with this com

(01:03:36):
comedy,
so forth, is always doing the right thing
and also to make sure that,
to love people and so forth, not so
much sharks could blow up a shark, but
who cares?
And porpoises.
Every
but don't blow up ducks with a bomb.
Yeah. He'll he'll kill a shark. I he'll
he'll he'll he'll kill a porpoise,
but if there's a duck

(01:03:56):
or a cat, that's a no go. That
is a step too far. To
be fair,
all he did was punch the the shark
and spray it off him. He didn't know
there was a bomb in it, and the
porpoises did that themselves. He was like, hey,
porpoise.
It told him to come and jump in
front of it. Alright? He's not Aquaman. The

(01:04:16):
porpoise happens to be there. But he was
nice enough to not to the people in
that bar, you know, vagrants live and so
forth, not throw a bomb at them.
Not throw a bomb at them like some
of our current politicians would do with each
other. But, anyway, surpassing that, you know, we
avoid nuns, showing everything else, but, you know,
he was,
reminding
his

(01:04:36):
boy want boy, Robin. So I was trying
to think I kept saying boy wonder. I
was like, Robin,
you know, you you don't you you you
don't have to beat over our head like
a crowbar with Jason. Just, you know, we
know it's Robin. Okay? Oh my god. So
yeah. You know, treat people with love, kindness,
and
do good to others because,
you know, to to walking humbly with God

(01:04:57):
is most important as we have witnessed in
our current events at Geekcon up here in
Shreveport and so forth because
even if people does deny
it, which is often, even myself have done
it before, even if we don't recognize it,
we all need Christ in our lives. Yeah.
And maybe some more of those Irish policemen,
Scottishmans with the thickest accent of our Tokyo

(01:05:18):
luck list button.
Go save the people up there. It's like,
who talks like that? I got officer O'Malley.
That's what I thought I'd know. I really
wanna look up this guy and see if
he acted anything else. And if his accent
was actually something different, like, he talks like
that, but then he's like, gosh. That was
like, I'm not even gonna be, but he's
actually Russian or something like that. That would

(01:05:39):
be hysterical. Still better. It's
still better
than,
the Egyptian guy
being played by a Scottish guy in the
second Highlander.
No. The Spanish guy being played by a
Scottish guy.
I misremember. Yeah. We don't talk about that

(01:05:59):
movie. That's why we have movies like Short
Circuit.
Okay? Well, everybody,
we're going off the rails here. This is
what happens when we're all in the same
room. That's why it doesn't happen very often.
So what are your thoughts on this movie?
Pop in and tell us. Shoot us a
message on any of the socials or on
the emails. Check out the website,

(01:06:20):
not playing games of strangers.com,
but,
geekdevotions.com.
And,
there, you can get in contact with us
or find out how to get on the
discords or the socials or find out about
other shows we have there. Am I missing
anything captain and admiral? I think that's it.
Think you're good. Alright. Well, until next time,
stay devoted.

(01:06:41):
Peace and love. Where's that button that pushed
me about to iron? Get me off the
ship.