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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, your
go to source for all things movies, and I'm your
host movie Mike Distro. Today the topic is simple underrated
superhero movies. I got my top five on this list.
We'll also do some battling movie reviews to horror movies
out right now, Candy Man and Malignant. I'll let you
know which one you need to spend your money on.
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I'll also talk about the trailer for Matrix for all
of that on the way on this week's episode, appreciate
you being subscribed, to appreciate you listening every single week.
Without any further ado, let's get started. In a world
where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man
stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before
in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie
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knowledge piece basically like a walking I MTV with glasses
from the Nashville podcast Networking Cases Movie Movie Podcast. So
I love superhero movies. I think if you listen to
this podcast for any out of time, that's pretty apparent.
It was actually a superhero movie that inspired me to
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even start doing movie reviews in this capacity. The first
time I went to go see Batman Versus Superman. That
was like the first review I did and decided, you
know what, I love movies so much. I love superhero
movies so much, in particular, why not review them every
single time I go watch one. That was kind of
the birth of this podcast. So I'll admit, there's been
a lot of superhero movies over the years. I think
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Hollywood has greatly just cashed in on the profitable formula,
leaving some of us probably a little bit burnt out
on the genre altogether. But I think right now we're
seeing the ones being really successful. Are ones have been
able to kind of reinvent the formula, especially now that
we're coming into two already, I think you kind of
have to change how you make superhero movies to keep
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us interested, at least the people who haven't checked out already.
But but by saying that, I also feel there are
some hidden gems out there that have kind of been
lost in the oversatur aition of superhero movies. So I
wanted to share with you five movies that I think
are underrated and just overlooked in the genre. Some of
these are movies I felt that were a little bit
ahead of their time and that if they came out
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right now would probably be an overall more successful movie.
But it started off with number five from two thousand
and eight, Hancocks starring Will Smith. This one had a
really great premise for a superhero movie, kind of the
anti superhero movie, to where it's the superhero who is
an alcoholic and he's just kind of a bad superhero.
He does save some people, and in his past was
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probably a greater superhero, but now is just kind of selfish,
self centered, doesn't really care about all the damages he
does in saving people, and that has led him to
have not the greatest reputation overall, just be hated by
the public for, you know, his drunkenness and his careless acts.
And what I also love about this movie is that
it kind of showed for the first time the consequences
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that you would have for being a superhero. Like, yes,
you save a person, but you also took out three
bill holdings in the process, or crash some cars. It
shows what those repercussions would be like in the real world.
I feel like this movie was a little bit ahead
of its time coming out in two thousand and eight.
We've seen how the success of the TV show The Boys,
which is about superheroes that on the exterior appear like
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they're saving the world, but when you peel back, it's
kind of a dirty your business, And just because you're
a superhero doesn't mean that you're a great person. So
I don't think this movie is particularly a perfect movie,
but I do love the different take on the genre,
and it's a movie I feel like I would have
loved to seen a sequel to, like I feel like
Hancock Too could have fixed the problems in Hancock one
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and made it even better. But I still think it's
a really enjoyable movie, a really fun watch. From Will
Smith to Charlie sirone you know have Jason Bateman, It's
just a great team combined along with a great story.
So it's one that I feel just gets a little
bit overlooked. So I'll put that one at number five.
At number four from t is a movie called kick Ass,
and it's a story about a kid who loves superhero
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so much that he wants to become one despite not
having any superpowers of his own, if which I feel
highly relatable to as a kid, I just wanted to
be a superhero so bad and The only time I've
ever come close to having developed any kind of superhero
powers was as a kid. I was probably like two
or three years old, and I still have this scar
on my hand to this day. I got bit by
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a black widow. Spider almost died, almost took me out,
And from that bite, I was hoping that at some
point in my life I would develop some kind of
superhero powers like Spider Man, but I never did. All
we got from it as a result was this scar
on my hand and my parents got a very high
medical bill. But I would have loved to turn into
a superhero at some point. And I think that's what
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kind of kick Ass does. So is this guy who
teams up with these other kind of misfit vigilantes. They
go on to fight crime against this mob. And stylistically,
I think kick Ass just has a really cool feel
to it from the cinematography. But what I really loved
and I think really shines in this movie and the
sequel is the costume design. Fantastic. Like if I were
designing superhero characters, I would make them look like this,
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And it gives me that feeling of me when I
was a kid wanting to be a superhero and I
would kind of draw my costume of what I would
look like, it would look like this. They're very bold,
very bright, very colorful, and very fun. So I just
love the world that's created in kick Ass. I love
the action, I love the commitment to violence, and like Hancock,
I also felt like kick Ass was a little bit
ahead of its time in twos, which now it's kind
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of the norm to put out an R rated superhero movie,
and all superhero movies now don't have to be made
for kids. But at the time, they were in the
heyday of The Avengers and Iron Man and all those
movies coming out at that time. I think that's why
kick Ass was a little bit overlooked. It was in
the superhero genre when superhero movies are really only being
marketed towards families and kids and teenagers and of course
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nerds like myself. But now really superhero movies have no
limits on who they can appeal to. So I'm putting
kick Ass on the list at number four, And the
sequel is just as good. So if you end up
watching kick Ass, there's also a sequel to it with
Jim Carey, whose character I love. In the sequel, both
very over the top, but it's very violent, but I
think just great superhero movies. At number three is a
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movie I've mentioned before because it's from director James Gunn,
who just did The Suicide Squad. He's also the mind
behind Guardians of the Galaxy and there's a movie in
two that he did called Super And if you've ever
wanted to see Rain Wilson from the Office, who plays
d White as a superhero, then well this is the
movie for you. And the story behind Super is Rain
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Wilson plays his character who his wife loves him for
this other guy played by Kevin Bacon, and he decides
to transform himself into a cost to Vigilanti, much like
also kind of the story behind kick Ass. We're starting
to see a theme here, But he goes to comic
book shops, he watches TV shows to kind of get
an idea of what he needs to do to be
a comic book superhero. So he's just a normal guy
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who puts together this costume and then goes out into
his town and just waits for crime, waits for things
to happen, and then hops in to try and save
other people's lives. And in itself, it kind of pokes
fun at the super hero genre at the same time
kind of bringing it to a real life situation with
some very kind of dry humor dry situations, and also,
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you guessed it, some brutal violence. But I think I
just love the idea of a normal guy wanting to
be a superhero without any superpowers, and it's a dude
whose middle age had some bad kind of luck in
his life and wanted to do this. The movie also
has a great cast I already mentioned Rain Wilson and
Kevin Bacon, but also Elliott Page and Lift Tyler, and
I think with director James Gunn kind of gives this
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movie a feel of its own. It feels very indie
and low fi, so it's not your typical big explosion
superhero movie, but at the core of the story and
through the art of his filmmaking, it makes for a
really fun watch. So a fun take on the genre,
and one I would put at number three. At number
two is one I'm probably gonna get the most hate for,
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or the one that you are probably going to disagree
with the most. But I just love the incredible Hulk
and I think he just hasn't been done justice when
it comes to having his own solo movies, it just
haven't been well received by audiences, and I think it
was kind of cursed from the two thousand three version
of The Hulk, which no one should watch, Like, just
don't watch that movie. I don't love that that movie exists,
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but I think it kind of left a bad taste
in people's mouth when it came to The Hulk, and
when this one came out in two thousand and eight,
I feel like people didn't give it a chance. And
I loved the two thousand and eight incredible Hulk with
Edward Norton. I thought they had a fantastic take on
the story. I loved what Edward Norton did with Bruce
Banner and really kind of made him seem like this
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tortured individual who really didn't want to be the Hulk.
But I think for some reason, people just didn't really
gravitate towards Edward Norton, or maybe he wasn't as believable,
even though I thought he did a really good job.
So I think take this exact same movie and put
Mark Ruffle back into it now, I think it would
be a hit. And this was very early on in
the m C U. This was coming right off of
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Iron Man, led right into Iron Man Too, and it's
the first time they ever mentioned in the post credit
scenes anything about the events. So I think it's a
very important and overlooked movie in the entire m c U.
But I think due to the lack of box office
performance and overall just not great reception from critics, it's
kind of led to Marvel not wanting to take a
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chance on another solo movie. He's been a great presence
in all the Avengers movies. I think anytime the whole
appears on screen, it's a big treat. But for some reason,
he just hasn't worked in solo movies, even though I
really love this one, and if you haven't seen it,
I think it's a worthy watch, and if you have
seen it, I think maybe it's worth a second look.
All Right, So we're gonna come back here and talk
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about what I think is the number one most underrated
superhero movie also gives him honorable mentions after this, So
let's roll through some honorable mentions. Now. I gotta say
I think the Toby McGuire Spider Man series is oftentimes
the most overlooked and underrated for what the Spider Man
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movies did when they came out, Like, those movies aren't
just great superhero comic book movies, They're just great movies
on their own. And I think, aside from Batman in
the eighties and nineties, that's really what set the stage
for Marvel to have success later on. Those are the
movies that really kind of set the stage for Marvel
to have his success later on with the X Men
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and then the Avengers. And I know everybody loves Tom
Holland now as Spider Man, but I really think Toby
McGuire is an underrated Spider Man. Another honorable mention I
want to say is Batman Returns. I think Handsdale Michael
Keaton is the best Batman and I think this is
his best Batman movie. I thought Tim Burton did such
a great job on this movie to create the larger
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than life comic book feel. I like how he put
his kind of eerie stamp on it where it has
a little bit of like a a spooky feel, Halloween
type feel, but still feels like a comic book movie
at its core. And this one has one of the
greatest casts out of every Batman movie, with not only
Michael Keaton, but Michelle Peiffer as Catwoman, Danny DeVito as
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the Penguin, and Christopher Walkin all just nailed their performances
in this movie. So I know we give all the
credit to now Heath Ledgers Joker as being the greatest
villain in any Batman movie. I just think Catwoman and
the Penguin or Overlooked and that of every Batman movie,
this is probably one I've rewatched the most times, so
I gotta give it to Batman returns. And then another
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honorable mention I have is a movie from twelve called Chronicle,
and this was during that trend of all the lost
footage movies. And what I mean by that is there
was a whole period of time to where these movies
would come out and it's all put together by footage
taken from like video cameras or old VHS tapes. We
saw it with movies like Paranormal Activity clover Field, and
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Chronicle was one of those as well. But this was
a lost footage movie based on these teenagers who accidentally
stumbled upon superpowers. And it's this teenager who's this just
socially awkward kid, but now has this ability to flow
and crush things with his mind. And it starts out
with them all just having fun and doing, you know,
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things you would do as a teenager when you discover
you have superhero powers to suddenly becoming a bigger, bigger
issue as they become more powerful and their lives start to,
you know, spin out of control. So it turns pretty dark.
But all of this is done through the lens of
the main character who just always filming everything. So it's
them and they're telekinetic powers, and one of the teenagers
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is actually Michael B. Jordan's So it's a really fun
movie and not a full on superhero movie, but when
I feel that people don't really talk about So if
you haven't seen Chronicle and that sounds interesting to you,
definitely check it out. So those are my honorable mentions.
Let's get to number one. Now. It's a movie I
actually just recently watched on HBO Max and kind of
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inspired this entire list because I loved it so much
and I think it's, without a doubt, one of the
best movies that d C Comics has ever made, and
you can actually watch it now on HBO Max and
it's called the Death of Superman and fair warning it
is animated, and I don't know why I feel the
need to warn you about that, but I think one
of the reasons I waited so long to watch it
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because it was animated, and I thought to myself, why
am I gonna sit down and watch an animated movie.
I'm not going to be interested in that. I'm not
gonna be entertained by that. But within about twenty minutes
into this movie, the whole idea of it being animated
kind of went out the window because it's done so
well that you forget that you're watching, you know, animated characters.
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And it's weird to say, like you associate animation with
being a kid's movie when that's not the case anymore.
With Animal just being so well received now, I think
a movie like this should have had a lot more
attention to it, especially when it comes to d C.
And you know, really the hate, sometimes unwarranted hate that
they get on their movies just overall not being the best.
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I feel like I would have put this movie like
at the forefront of like, but look what we made here,
Like DC should have done that. And why I think
the animation works so well this movie is because it
lends itself perfectly to the story. I feel like the
downfall DC has sometimes they try to do too much
with their movies, whether it be too many layers to
a story or the overuse of special effects and c
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g I to where it just becomes very apparent to
me that I'm watching these actors that are just basically
behind a green screen the entire time, and it really
kind of keeps me from connecting with a movie because
I'm so distracted with all the c g I computer
generated graphics. But when it comes to the Death of Superman,
the animation is pretty basic. It is what it is,
and the great thing about that it allows you to
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focus in on the characters, focusing on what's going on,
and really just makes for an easy watch. Also, since
it's animated, it's less than an hour and a half,
so it doesn't even feel like an over commitment to
watching a usual DC movie. That's probably to twenty. And
my favorite thing about this movie is the title and
the movie poster, because I love that it essentially spoiled
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itself with the title and the image in the movie poster,
because you know exact actually by reading it what the
movie is going to be about, and what's ultimately going
to happen. Like, that's not a spoiler in me saying
that the Death of Superman is about the death of Superman.
It's in the title. You can't be mad at me
for spoiling the movie. The whole time you're watching it,
you know what's going to happen, and you're kind of
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waiting for it to happen. But that doesn't take away
from the ending. It makes it, if anything, more impactful.
So the movie is based on a comic book, and
it stays pretty true to what happens in the actual
comic book, with a few key changes. It's about Superman
in the Justice League basically meeting their ultimate match. This
big alien creature that's very powerful falls into Earth and
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just starts wreaking havoc, like just straight up killing people
limb from limb, and they show all that. Of course
it's all animated, so it's all just cartoon blood, if
you will. But that's the kind of movie it is.
And I just think that's such a great villain. It
just comes never says a word, but through his actions
you know exactly that he's here to mess things up,
terrorize things. Almost wanted to curse there, but I won't.
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And there's no overcomplicated evil plan. It's just this creature
that wants to destroy things and kill anything that gets
in its path, and it just so happens to be
the Justice League and Superman, and I felt like this
was just the most fleshed out real life version of
Superman that I've ever seen in any movie. There's no
origin story needed. They do assume that you know some
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things about Superman, and it really just made me excited
for the character again, because oftentimes I just felt like
Superman was overrated superhero and just happens to be one
of the most popular ones because that's the one that's
just most recognizable. But this movie kind of made me
realize how cool his superpowers are and how much of
a force he is, and it kind of just makes
me sad that all of his movies haven't been the
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best and it took this animated one to really make
me a Superman fan again. So one of my favorite
superhero movies from d C that I've seen easily top five,
if not top three, And I just feel kind of
the same way about animation that I do about subtitles
like don't let That stop you from watching a movie
like this because at its core it's really good. So
there it is. Those are my top five most underrated
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superhero movies of all time. If you have one you
want to suggest or think I got something wrong, well
let me know in a d M on Instagram at
Mike Destro or send me an email movie Mike d
at gmail dot com. I'm gonna get into a couple
of movie reviews now. I'm doing battling movie reviews this
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week too, horror movies that are out now, and I
want to tell you which one you should spend your
money on, because there's two different ways to watch these movies.
I feel like right now we're getting back into wanting
to watch something scary as Halloween approaches, which I have
a bunch of ideas planned for next month with Halloween
and all that kind of scary movies. And I wasn't
really in the mindset yet to watch something scary, But
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these two movies came out and I was like, all right,
I'm gonna step my foot into the horror genre a
little bit earlier than I wanted. And I think these
movies are a little bit ahead of like people wanting
something scary right now, unless you're a big horror fan.
So I myself love a good scary movie. I feel
the idea of horror has changed a lot over the
recent years. These two movies are a perfect example of that.
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So let's get into these reviews, starting first with Candy Man,
the brand new version, picking right up from the old
n movie. If you haven't seen the trailer for this
one yet, here's just a little bit of that. And
the legend is if we say his name five times
while looking in the movie, we could summon f summon
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the candy Man. Candy Man, Anthony knows. I don't want
to get creeped out in my new apartment before the
candy Black people don't need to be summoning, you see,
is candy Man. I was really excited about this movie
one because it's written it by Jordan Peel, who was
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the mind behind movies like Us and get Out. And
I know he didn't direct the movie, but just by
watching the trailer, I felt like he gave me the
same vibes to some of his movies. The trailer I
thought was thrilling in itself, so I was like, all right,
I'm not gonna watch anything else going into this movie,
I want to see if it's actually scary. Now. I
do think that the idea of candy Man itself is
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bigger than this movie has ever been. Because you probably
remember the old saying of if you say his name
five times, he appears in the mirror. I think we
probably all tried this out as kids. That idea alone,
and that scary concept transcends the entire movie itself. The
movie is what it is, the original I'm talking about,
but I think that whole idea is scarier than the
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idea of candy Man himself. This movie, I felt like,
took it a bit further in I just didn't really
feel like it was a scary movie. It's a horror movie,
but I don't think you should go into this movie
wanting to be scared. What I think this movie is.
It's kind of a drama with horror elements. I think
that's what this movie is, And maybe within the first
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half of it, I was a little bit disappointed in
a way that I wasn't as scared as I was
expecting to be. But once I kind of realized that
the message this movie was trying to get across and
what it was going for I found myself enjoying it
a lot more. You won't go into this and be like,
oh my gosh, that's the scariest thing I've ever seen.
And I jumped out of my seat a lot. I
did it. I really didn't. But through this telling of
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this story, which is about this guy who essentially is
working on an art project and he goes to study
this neighborhood and learns about the history of candy Man,
and through his kind of artwork, he inadvertently brings back
Candy Man. So this movie is kind of just his
fall into madness, if you will, and him trying to
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convince his girlfriend that Candy Man is real. And I
thought the horror scenes in this movie, the kill scenes
were pretty graphic. It's you're pretty straight ahead slashing and
killing and law of blood. But what I think this
movie did a really good job of It had a
stylistic edge going into it, and it made it really
just intriguing to watch. And why I feel this movie
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works over some other horror movies with the same kind
of concept, the same kind of idea, is that the
storytelling was actually really well done. In this movie. You
go all through the steps of seeing this guy learned
about Candy Man, and they kind of retell his story
in the back story I think really well, which made
you kind of connect with him as a character. So
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I found myself actually caring about this guy and caring
what happened to him. But I would say it's more
of a thriller, more of a very intense drama than
it is a straight up horror movie. So this movie
is not going to give you nightmares in any way.
But I think if you go into it knowing at
least that much about it, you will enjoy. It's a
really good movie. There's nothing bad about this movie. I
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think I just had different expectations of it going into it.
And the way the movie is kind of packaged up
with the trailer and the whole thing behind Indie Man,
you go into it expecting something different, so you could
be disappointed in that aspect. And I like the way
they took the original film and really modernized it and
made it look just beautiful. The special effects and this
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are great. I love to costume design on Candy Man.
So if I had to give it a rating, I
would give it four out of five hooks easily. So
that's first up in our horror movie review Battle. Next up,
I'm gonna talk about Malignant, which is a brand new
movie from director James Juan, who has also done movies
like The Conjuring, Insidious saw An outside of horror. He's
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also done Furious seven in Aquaman, So I think there
was a lot of hype going into this and him
kind of going back to his horror roots. And I
saw a lot of people excited about this one. Take
a little convincing for me to watch it, but it
is in theaters and on HBO Max. If you have
that before I get into this review and let you
know which of these movies is better. Here just a
little bit of that trailer. As they're happening, he says,
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his name is Gabriel Best. Whatever happened to you before
you joined our family hurt you in a way that
I can't even imagine. So what this movie is about
because woman living in Seattle with an abusive boyfriend, she's pregnant,
and she's having these really dark, violent dreams that she
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thinks are just dreams. But it turns out that this
serial killer in her dreams is actually real and the
things aren't just happening in her dreams are happening in
real life, so it's her trying to figure out why
she is cursed, what is actually going on. And the
entire movie kind of tells all the backstory and you
find out what the killer is all about. And I
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think this movie was a little bit overhyped. And I
think it's because the director, James Want has had so
much success in creating some really great horror movies and
this was an original story for him that I was
expecting a lot more. And I felt like, first of all,
the main character felt a little holl oh to me,
and it was just something about the acting and this
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I felt like I was watching a soap opera. And
everything about this movie I wasn't impressed by. I felt
it was a little bit uninspiring. Now, the serial killer
in itself was a scary villain. There was some you know,
creepy things going on, but it was almost too weird
and wanting to be so like kind of twisted that
I didn't really find it scary. I found it kind
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of cheesy. I didn't find myself at any point thinking, man,
this is a really scary movie. I was just like,
this feels like a horror fairy tale soap opera that
I don't even really want to finish watching. So it's
not scary at least to me. And there was nothing
in this movie that really made me care about it.
I didn't care about the characters, but I also didn't
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care about the horror itself. And I think that's what
you have to do in a good horror movie. You
either have to make it really scary and over the
top and you want to just see all like the
violence go down, or how creepy you know, the killer
appearing again get me interested in that, or make it
so fun to where it's kind of cheesy, which I
think is kind of the reassurgence that we've seen a
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little bit of movies like Fear Street to where it
is a little campy, it's a little fun. You gotta
like want to be in the mood to watch something
like that. This is really neither of those things. I
think it kind of for me missed on both of
those fronts to where I didn't find it scary at all,
but also didn't find it like cheesy enough to appeal
to me in that way. So this was an easy
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battle to me because I only give him Alignant one
point five out of five Violent Nightmares. The only thing
Malignant has over candy Man is that it is available
on HBO Max as well in theaters, So if you
already have the HBO Max subscription, you can watch it
for free. Candy Man, you have to go to the
theaters to watch it right now. It will be available
soon on video on demand at home. But if I
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would have paid money to go watch Malignant in theaters,
I would have been very disappointed. So those are some
early horror movie reviews right now. I think coming up
in October will have a lot more to talk about.
But if you're just that eager to watch up Ding
Scary right now, well that's what I think about those
two movies. All right. Let's get into some movie news now.
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I want to break down what I think about the
new Matrix four trailer, and I'll say right at the
top of this that I never really got into the
whole Matrix trilogy. I've seen all the movies, but I
was never one to be like, oh, they need to
make another one of these. I thought the trilogy was fine.
I like the first one the best, but I think
it's kind of Keana Reeves reassurgence with movies like John
Wick that maybe there is something there for Matrix four.
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So if you haven't seen the trailer for this yet,
here's just a little bit of that. I've had dreams
that weren't just my crazy. We don't use that word
in here, have we met one? So what I do
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like about it is, of course Kiana Reeves is back,
and they've also brought back some other main characters that
you see in the trailer. The one that I was
kind of I knew because I read before that Laurence
Fishburn wasn't asked to be back in Matrix four, but
seeing them kind of bring back a newer Morpheus was
a little bit weird to me, But I think the
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movie will still work without him, And the trailer doesn't
really answer a whole lot of questions about what this
movie is going to be about, but you see him
kind of going back into the Matrix. The Blue and
the Red Pill have returned. The cool thing about it,
though it doesn't look like it takes place right after
the original trilogy, it looks like it was like now
in modern day, what he would be going through now.
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The whole idea of the Matrix is in his head
and he's like struggling as a human because of it.
So I actually think this one looks pretty good. And
I know when Hollywood just goes back and adds on
a fourth movie to a franchise that was already successful,
oftentimes it's not that great and it adds nothing to
the trilogy because it already stands as what it was.
Movies like Toy Story four, I feel like that was
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kind of an epilogue to Toy Story. It was a
perfect trilogy, but I needed to make some more money
wanted to write up another story. I don't think Toy
Story four was necessary. So when it comes to the Matrix,
I don't think they'll add a whole lot to what
that trilogy was because that was years ago already. I
mean the first one came out, so I don't think
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they were really making those at that time for like, oh,
we'll make a four twenty years later, Like I don't
think that's gonna happen. But the other thing that kind
of excites me about this trailer, I realized how ahead
of its time the Matrix was to come out in
the special effects, and now they're just so much better
that you can take everything that happened in that one
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and just make it look steamless. So I think one
really kind of lend itself better to the world of
The Matrix. So visually, just from the trailer, it looks
pretty amazing. If you're bringing back all the same kind
of action, I think this movie will work. I think,
without a doubt it's gonna make a lot of money
at the box office. But I think what you're playing
with here is the legacy that the Matrix has. The
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other thing I kind of worry about is the title
Matrix Resurrections. I feel like that's a little bit uncreative,
and anytime you put resurrection or resurrections in the title,
historically it's not that great of a movie. Halloween Resurrection
comes to mind, and that's probably the worst or one
of the worst Halloween movies. And I love Michael Myers.
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I'll watch any Halloween movie, but it just feels a
little bit kind of uncreative or kind of boring. But
I guess it's a step above just Matrix four. Yeah,
I'm glad they brought that carry in Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith,
and you have Neil Patrick Harris in here, so I'm
excited to see this. It comes out on December two
of this year. We'll see how it does, all right,
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Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, your
go to source for all things movies, and I'm your
host movie Mike Distro. Today the topic is simple underrated
superhero movies. I got my top five on this list.
We'll also do some battling movie reviews to horror movies
out right now, Candy Man and Malignant. I'll let you
know which one you need to spend your money on.
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I'll also talk about the trailer for Matrix for all
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Without any further ado, let's get started. In a world
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knowledge piece basically like a walking I MTV with glasses
from the Nashville podcast Networking Cases Movie Movie Podcast. So
I love superhero movies. I think if you listen to
this podcast for any out of time, that's pretty apparent.
It was actually a superhero movie that inspired me to
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even start doing movie reviews in this capacity. The first
time I went to go see Batman Versus Superman. That
was like the first review I did and decided, you
know what, I love movies so much. I love superhero
movies so much, in particular, why not review them every
single time I go watch one. That was kind of
the birth of this podcast. So I'll admit, there's been
a lot of superhero movies over the years. I think
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Hollywood has greatly just cashed in on the profitable formula,
leaving some of us probably a little bit burnt out
on the genre altogether. But I think right now we're
seeing the ones being really successful. Are ones have been
able to kind of reinvent the formula, especially now that
we're coming into two already, I think you kind of
have to change how you make superhero movies to keep
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us interested, at least the people who haven't checked out already.
But but by saying that, I also feel there are
some hidden gems out there that have kind of been
lost in the oversatur aition of superhero movies. So I
wanted to share with you five movies that I think
are underrated and just overlooked in the genre. Some of
these are movies I felt that were a little bit
ahead of their time and that if they came out
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right now would probably be an overall more successful movie.
But it started off with number five from two thousand
and eight, Hancocks starring Will Smith. This one had a
really great premise for a superhero movie, kind of the
anti superhero movie, to where it's the superhero who is
an alcoholic and he's just kind of a bad superhero.
He does save some people, and in his past was
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probably a greater superhero, but now is just kind of selfish,
self centered, doesn't really care about all the damages he
does in saving people, and that has led him to
have not the greatest reputation overall, just be hated by
the public for, you know, his drunkenness and his careless acts.
And what I also love about this movie is that
it kind of showed for the first time the consequences
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that you would have for being a superhero. Like, yes,
you save a person, but you also took out three
bill holdings in the process, or crash some cars. It
shows what those repercussions would be like in the real world.
I feel like this movie was a little bit ahead
of its time coming out in two thousand and eight.
We've seen how the success of the TV show The Boys,
which is about superheroes that on the exterior appear like
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they're saving the world, but when you peel back, it's
kind of a dirty your business, And just because you're
a superhero doesn't mean that you're a great person. So
I don't think this movie is particularly a perfect movie,
but I do love the different take on the genre,
and it's a movie I feel like I would have
loved to seen a sequel to, like I feel like
Hancock Too could have fixed the problems in Hancock one
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and made it even better. But I still think it's
a really enjoyable movie, a really fun watch. From Will
Smith to Charlie sirone you know have Jason Bateman, It's
just a great team combined along with a great story.
So it's one that I feel just gets a little
bit overlooked. So I'll put that one at number five.
At number four from t is a movie called kick Ass,
and it's a story about a kid who loves superhero
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so much that he wants to become one despite not
having any superpowers of his own, if which I feel
highly relatable to as a kid, I just wanted to
be a superhero so bad and The only time I've
ever come close to having developed any kind of superhero
powers was as a kid. I was probably like two
or three years old, and I still have this scar
on my hand to this day. I got bit by
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a black widow. Spider almost died, almost took me out,
And from that bite, I was hoping that at some
point in my life I would develop some kind of
superhero powers like Spider Man, but I never did. All
we got from it as a result was this scar
on my hand and my parents got a very high
medical bill. But I would have loved to turn into
a superhero at some point. And I think that's what
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kind of kick Ass does. So is this guy who
teams up with these other kind of misfit vigilantes. They
go on to fight crime against this mob. And stylistically,
I think kick Ass just has a really cool feel
to it from the cinematography. But what I really loved
and I think really shines in this movie and the
sequel is the costume design. Fantastic. Like if I were
designing superhero characters, I would make them look like this,
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And it gives me that feeling of me when I
was a kid wanting to be a superhero and I
would kind of draw my costume of what I would
look like, it would look like this. They're very bold,
very bright, very colorful, and very fun. So I just
love the world that's created in kick Ass. I love
the action, I love the commitment to violence, and like Hancock,
I also felt like kick Ass was a little bit
ahead of its time in twos, which now it's kind
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of the norm to put out an R rated superhero movie,
and all superhero movies now don't have to be made
for kids. But at the time, they were in the
heyday of The Avengers and Iron Man and all those
movies coming out at that time. I think that's why
kick Ass was a little bit overlooked. It was in
the superhero genre when superhero movies are really only being
marketed towards families and kids and teenagers and of course
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nerds like myself. But now really superhero movies have no
limits on who they can appeal to. So I'm putting
kick Ass on the list at number four, And the
sequel is just as good. So if you end up
watching kick Ass, there's also a sequel to it with
Jim Carey, whose character I love. In the sequel, both
very over the top, but it's very violent, but I
think just great superhero movies. At number three is a
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movie I've mentioned before because it's from director James Gunn,
who just did The Suicide Squad. He's also the mind
behind Guardians of the Galaxy and there's a movie in
two that he did called Super And if you've ever
wanted to see Rain Wilson from the Office, who plays
d White as a superhero, then well this is the
movie for you. And the story behind Super is Rain
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Wilson plays his character who his wife loves him for
this other guy played by Kevin Bacon, and he decides
to transform himself into a cost to Vigilanti, much like
also kind of the story behind kick Ass. We're starting
to see a theme here, But he goes to comic
book shops, he watches TV shows to kind of get
an idea of what he needs to do to be
a comic book superhero. So he's just a normal guy
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who puts together this costume and then goes out into
his town and just waits for crime, waits for things
to happen, and then hops in to try and save
other people's lives. And in itself, it kind of pokes
fun at the super hero genre at the same time
kind of bringing it to a real life situation with
some very kind of dry humor dry situations, and also,
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you guessed it, some brutal violence. But I think I
just love the idea of a normal guy wanting to
be a superhero without any superpowers, and it's a dude
whose middle age had some bad kind of luck in
his life and wanted to do this. The movie also
has a great cast I already mentioned Rain Wilson and
Kevin Bacon, but also Elliott Page and Lift Tyler, and
I think with director James Gunn kind of gives this
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movie a feel of its own. It feels very indie
and low fi, so it's not your typical big explosion
superhero movie, but at the core of the story and
through the art of his filmmaking, it makes for a
really fun watch. So a fun take on the genre,
and one I would put at number three. At number
two is one I'm probably gonna get the most hate for,
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or the one that you are probably going to disagree
with the most. But I just love the incredible Hulk
and I think he just hasn't been done justice when
it comes to having his own solo movies, it just
haven't been well received by audiences, and I think it
was kind of cursed from the two thousand three version
of The Hulk, which no one should watch, Like, just
don't watch that movie. I don't love that that movie exists,
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but I think it kind of left a bad taste
in people's mouth when it came to The Hulk, and
when this one came out in two thousand and eight,
I feel like people didn't give it a chance. And
I loved the two thousand and eight incredible Hulk with
Edward Norton. I thought they had a fantastic take on
the story. I loved what Edward Norton did with Bruce
Banner and really kind of made him seem like this
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tortured individual who really didn't want to be the Hulk.
But I think for some reason, people just didn't really
gravitate towards Edward Norton, or maybe he wasn't as believable,
even though I thought he did a really good job.
So I think take this exact same movie and put
Mark Ruffle back into it now, I think it would
be a hit. And this was very early on in
the m C U. This was coming right off of
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Iron Man, led right into Iron Man Too, and it's
the first time they ever mentioned in the post credit
scenes anything about the events. So I think it's a
very important and overlooked movie in the entire m c U.
But I think due to the lack of box office
performance and overall just not great reception from critics, it's
kind of led to Marvel not wanting to take a
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chance on another solo movie. He's been a great presence
in all the Avengers movies. I think anytime the whole
appears on screen, it's a big treat. But for some reason,
he just hasn't worked in solo movies, even though I
really love this one, and if you haven't seen it,
I think it's a worthy watch, and if you have
seen it, I think maybe it's worth a second look.
All Right, So we're gonna come back here and talk
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about what I think is the number one most underrated
superhero movie also gives him honorable mentions after this, So
let's roll through some honorable mentions. Now. I gotta say
I think the Toby McGuire Spider Man series is oftentimes
the most overlooked and underrated for what the Spider Man
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movies did when they came out, Like, those movies aren't
just great superhero comic book movies, They're just great movies
on their own. And I think, aside from Batman in
the eighties and nineties, that's really what set the stage
for Marvel to have success later on. Those are the
movies that really kind of set the stage for Marvel
to have his success later on with the X Men
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and then the Avengers. And I know everybody loves Tom
Holland now as Spider Man, but I really think Toby
McGuire is an underrated Spider Man. Another honorable mention I
want to say is Batman Returns. I think Handsdale Michael
Keaton is the best Batman and I think this is
his best Batman movie. I thought Tim Burton did such
a great job on this movie to create the larger
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than life comic book feel. I like how he put
his kind of eerie stamp on it where it has
a little bit of like a a spooky feel, Halloween
type feel, but still feels like a comic book movie
at its core. And this one has one of the
greatest casts out of every Batman movie, with not only
Michael Keaton, but Michelle Peiffer as Catwoman, Danny DeVito as
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the Penguin, and Christopher Walkin all just nailed their performances
in this movie. So I know we give all the
credit to now Heath Ledgers Joker as being the greatest
villain in any Batman movie. I just think Catwoman and
the Penguin or Overlooked and that of every Batman movie,
this is probably one I've rewatched the most times, so
I gotta give it to Batman returns. And then another
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honorable mention I have is a movie from twelve called Chronicle,
and this was during that trend of all the lost
footage movies. And what I mean by that is there
was a whole period of time to where these movies
would come out and it's all put together by footage
taken from like video cameras or old VHS tapes. We
saw it with movies like Paranormal Activity clover Field, and
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Chronicle was one of those as well. But this was
a lost footage movie based on these teenagers who accidentally
stumbled upon superpowers. And it's this teenager who's this just
socially awkward kid, but now has this ability to flow
and crush things with his mind. And it starts out
with them all just having fun and doing, you know,
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things you would do as a teenager when you discover
you have superhero powers to suddenly becoming a bigger, bigger
issue as they become more powerful and their lives start to,
you know, spin out of control. So it turns pretty dark.
But all of this is done through the lens of
the main character who just always filming everything. So it's
them and they're telekinetic powers, and one of the teenagers
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is actually Michael B. Jordan's So it's a really fun
movie and not a full on superhero movie, but when
I feel that people don't really talk about So if
you haven't seen Chronicle and that sounds interesting to you,
definitely check it out. So those are my honorable mentions.
Let's get to number one. Now. It's a movie I
actually just recently watched on HBO Max and kind of
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inspired this entire list because I loved it so much
and I think it's, without a doubt, one of the
best movies that d C Comics has ever made, and
you can actually watch it now on HBO Max and
it's called the Death of Superman and fair warning it
is animated, and I don't know why I feel the
need to warn you about that, but I think one
of the reasons I waited so long to watch it
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because it was animated, and I thought to myself, why
am I gonna sit down and watch an animated movie.
I'm not going to be interested in that. I'm not
gonna be entertained by that. But within about twenty minutes
into this movie, the whole idea of it being animated
kind of went out the window because it's done so
well that you forget that you're watching, you know, animated characters.
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And it's weird to say, like you associate animation with
being a kid's movie when that's not the case anymore.
With Animal just being so well received now, I think
a movie like this should have had a lot more
attention to it, especially when it comes to d C.
And you know, really the hate, sometimes unwarranted hate that
they get on their movies just overall not being the best.
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I feel like I would have put this movie like
at the forefront of like, but look what we made here,
Like DC should have done that. And why I think
the animation works so well this movie is because it
lends itself perfectly to the story. I feel like the
downfall DC has sometimes they try to do too much
with their movies, whether it be too many layers to
a story or the overuse of special effects and c
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g I to where it just becomes very apparent to
me that I'm watching these actors that are just basically
behind a green screen the entire time, and it really
kind of keeps me from connecting with a movie because
I'm so distracted with all the c g I computer
generated graphics. But when it comes to the Death of Superman,
the animation is pretty basic. It is what it is,
and the great thing about that it allows you to
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focus in on the characters, focusing on what's going on,
and really just makes for an easy watch. Also, since
it's animated, it's less than an hour and a half,
so it doesn't even feel like an over commitment to
watching a usual DC movie. That's probably to twenty. And
my favorite thing about this movie is the title and
the movie poster, because I love that it essentially spoiled
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itself with the title and the image in the movie poster,
because you know exact actually by reading it what the
movie is going to be about, and what's ultimately going
to happen. Like, that's not a spoiler in me saying
that the Death of Superman is about the death of Superman.
It's in the title. You can't be mad at me
for spoiling the movie. The whole time you're watching it,
you know what's going to happen, and you're kind of
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waiting for it to happen. But that doesn't take away
from the ending. It makes it, if anything, more impactful.
So the movie is based on a comic book, and
it stays pretty true to what happens in the actual
comic book, with a few key changes. It's about Superman
in the Justice League basically meeting their ultimate match. This
big alien creature that's very powerful falls into Earth and
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just starts wreaking havoc, like just straight up killing people
limb from limb, and they show all that. Of course
it's all animated, so it's all just cartoon blood, if
you will. But that's the kind of movie it is.
And I just think that's such a great villain. It
just comes never says a word, but through his actions
you know exactly that he's here to mess things up,
terrorize things. Almost wanted to curse there, but I won't.
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And there's no overcomplicated evil plan. It's just this creature
that wants to destroy things and kill anything that gets
in its path, and it just so happens to be
the Justice League and Superman, and I felt like this
was just the most fleshed out real life version of
Superman that I've ever seen in any movie. There's no
origin story needed. They do assume that you know some
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things about Superman, and it really just made me excited
for the character again, because oftentimes I just felt like
Superman was overrated superhero and just happens to be one
of the most popular ones because that's the one that's
just most recognizable. But this movie kind of made me
realize how cool his superpowers are and how much of
a force he is, and it kind of just makes
me sad that all of his movies haven't been the
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best and it took this animated one to really make
me a Superman fan again. So one of my favorite
superhero movies from d C that I've seen easily top five,
if not top three, And I just feel kind of
the same way about animation that I do about subtitles
like don't let That stop you from watching a movie
like this because at its core it's really good. So
there it is. Those are my top five most underrated
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superhero movies of all time. If you have one you
want to suggest or think I got something wrong, well
let me know in a d M on Instagram at
Mike Destro or send me an email movie Mike d
at gmail dot com. I'm gonna get into a couple
of movie reviews now. I'm doing battling movie reviews this
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week too, horror movies that are out now, and I
want to tell you which one you should spend your
money on, because there's two different ways to watch these movies.
I feel like right now we're getting back into wanting
to watch something scary as Halloween approaches, which I have
a bunch of ideas planned for next month with Halloween
and all that kind of scary movies. And I wasn't
really in the mindset yet to watch something scary, But
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these two movies came out and I was like, all right,
I'm gonna step my foot into the horror genre a
little bit earlier than I wanted. And I think these
movies are a little bit ahead of like people wanting
something scary right now, unless you're a big horror fan.
So I myself love a good scary movie. I feel
the idea of horror has changed a lot over the
recent years. These two movies are a perfect example of that.
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So let's get into these reviews, starting first with Candy Man,
the brand new version, picking right up from the old
n movie. If you haven't seen the trailer for this
one yet, here's just a little bit of that. And
the legend is if we say his name five times
while looking in the movie, we could summon f summon
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the candy Man. Candy Man, Anthony knows. I don't want
to get creeped out in my new apartment before the
candy Black people don't need to be summoning, you see,
is candy Man. I was really excited about this movie
one because it's written it by Jordan Peel, who was
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the mind behind movies like Us and get Out. And
I know he didn't direct the movie, but just by
watching the trailer, I felt like he gave me the
same vibes to some of his movies. The trailer I
thought was thrilling in itself, so I was like, all right,
I'm not gonna watch anything else going into this movie,
I want to see if it's actually scary. Now. I
do think that the idea of candy Man itself is
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bigger than this movie has ever been. Because you probably
remember the old saying of if you say his name
five times, he appears in the mirror. I think we
probably all tried this out as kids. That idea alone,
and that scary concept transcends the entire movie itself. The
movie is what it is, the original I'm talking about,
but I think that whole idea is scarier than the
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idea of candy Man himself. This movie, I felt like,
took it a bit further in I just didn't really
feel like it was a scary movie. It's a horror movie,
but I don't think you should go into this movie
wanting to be scared. What I think this movie is.
It's kind of a drama with horror elements. I think
that's what this movie is, And maybe within the first
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half of it, I was a little bit disappointed in
a way that I wasn't as scared as I was
expecting to be. But once I kind of realized that
the message this movie was trying to get across and
what it was going for I found myself enjoying it
a lot more. You won't go into this and be like,
oh my gosh, that's the scariest thing I've ever seen.
And I jumped out of my seat a lot. I
did it. I really didn't. But through this telling of
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this story, which is about this guy who essentially is
working on an art project and he goes to study
this neighborhood and learns about the history of candy Man,
and through his kind of artwork, he inadvertently brings back
Candy Man. So this movie is kind of just his
fall into madness, if you will, and him trying to
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convince his girlfriend that Candy Man is real. And I
thought the horror scenes in this movie, the kill scenes
were pretty graphic. It's you're pretty straight ahead slashing and
killing and law of blood. But what I think this
movie did a really good job of It had a
stylistic edge going into it, and it made it really
just intriguing to watch. And why I feel this movie
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works over some other horror movies with the same kind
of concept, the same kind of idea, is that the
storytelling was actually really well done. In this movie. You
go all through the steps of seeing this guy learned
about Candy Man, and they kind of retell his story
in the back story I think really well, which made
you kind of connect with him as a character. So
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I found myself actually caring about this guy and caring
what happened to him. But I would say it's more
of a thriller, more of a very intense drama than
it is a straight up horror movie. So this movie
is not going to give you nightmares in any way.
But I think if you go into it knowing at
least that much about it, you will enjoy. It's a
really good movie. There's nothing bad about this movie. I
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think I just had different expectations of it going into it.
And the way the movie is kind of packaged up
with the trailer and the whole thing behind Indie Man,
you go into it expecting something different, so you could
be disappointed in that aspect. And I like the way
they took the original film and really modernized it and
made it look just beautiful. The special effects and this
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are great. I love to costume design on Candy Man.
So if I had to give it a rating, I
would give it four out of five hooks easily. So
that's first up in our horror movie review Battle. Next up,
I'm gonna talk about Malignant, which is a brand new
movie from director James Juan, who has also done movies
like The Conjuring, Insidious saw An outside of horror. He's
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also done Furious seven in Aquaman, So I think there
was a lot of hype going into this and him
kind of going back to his horror roots. And I
saw a lot of people excited about this one. Take
a little convincing for me to watch it, but it
is in theaters and on HBO Max. If you have
that before I get into this review and let you
know which of these movies is better. Here just a
little bit of that trailer. As they're happening, he says,
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his name is Gabriel Best. Whatever happened to you before
you joined our family hurt you in a way that
I can't even imagine. So what this movie is about
because woman living in Seattle with an abusive boyfriend, she's pregnant,
and she's having these really dark, violent dreams that she
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thinks are just dreams. But it turns out that this
serial killer in her dreams is actually real and the
things aren't just happening in her dreams are happening in
real life, so it's her trying to figure out why
she is cursed, what is actually going on. And the
entire movie kind of tells all the backstory and you
find out what the killer is all about. And I
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think this movie was a little bit overhyped. And I
think it's because the director, James Want has had so
much success in creating some really great horror movies and
this was an original story for him that I was
expecting a lot more. And I felt like, first of all,
the main character felt a little holl oh to me,
and it was just something about the acting and this
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I felt like I was watching a soap opera. And
everything about this movie I wasn't impressed by. I felt
it was a little bit uninspiring. Now, the serial killer
in itself was a scary villain. There was some you know,
creepy things going on, but it was almost too weird
and wanting to be so like kind of twisted that
I didn't really find it scary. I found it kind
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of cheesy. I didn't find myself at any point thinking, man,
this is a really scary movie. I was just like,
this feels like a horror fairy tale soap opera that
I don't even really want to finish watching. So it's
not scary at least to me. And there was nothing
in this movie that really made me care about it.
I didn't care about the characters, but I also didn't
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care about the horror itself. And I think that's what
you have to do in a good horror movie. You
either have to make it really scary and over the
top and you want to just see all like the
violence go down, or how creepy you know, the killer
appearing again get me interested in that, or make it
so fun to where it's kind of cheesy, which I
think is kind of the reassurgence that we've seen a
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little bit of movies like Fear Street to where it
is a little campy, it's a little fun. You gotta
like want to be in the mood to watch something
like that. This is really neither of those things. I
think it kind of for me missed on both of
those fronts to where I didn't find it scary at all,
but also didn't find it like cheesy enough to appeal
to me in that way. So this was an easy
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battle to me because I only give him Alignant one
point five out of five Violent Nightmares. The only thing
Malignant has over candy Man is that it is available
on HBO Max as well in theaters, So if you
already have the HBO Max subscription, you can watch it
for free. Candy Man, you have to go to the
theaters to watch it right now. It will be available
soon on video on demand at home. But if I
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would have paid money to go watch Malignant in theaters,
I would have been very disappointed. So those are some
early horror movie reviews right now. I think coming up
in October will have a lot more to talk about.
But if you're just that eager to watch up Ding
Scary right now, well that's what I think about those
two movies. All right. Let's get into some movie news now.
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I want to break down what I think about the
new Matrix four trailer, and I'll say right at the
top of this that I never really got into the
whole Matrix trilogy. I've seen all the movies, but I
was never one to be like, oh, they need to
make another one of these. I thought the trilogy was fine.
I like the first one the best, but I think
it's kind of Keana Reeves reassurgence with movies like John
Wick that maybe there is something there for Matrix four.
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So if you haven't seen the trailer for this yet,
here's just a little bit of that. I've had dreams
that weren't just my crazy. We don't use that word
in here, have we met one? So what I do
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like about it is, of course Kiana Reeves is back,
and they've also brought back some other main characters that
you see in the trailer. The one that I was
kind of I knew because I read before that Laurence
Fishburn wasn't asked to be back in Matrix four, but
seeing them kind of bring back a newer Morpheus was
a little bit weird to me, But I think the
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movie will still work without him, And the trailer doesn't
really answer a whole lot of questions about what this
movie is going to be about, but you see him
kind of going back into the Matrix. The Blue and
the Red Pill have returned. The cool thing about it,
though it doesn't look like it takes place right after
the original trilogy, it looks like it was like now
in modern day, what he would be going through now.
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The whole idea of the Matrix is in his head
and he's like struggling as a human because of it.
So I actually think this one looks pretty good. And
I know when Hollywood just goes back and adds on
a fourth movie to a franchise that was already successful,
oftentimes it's not that great and it adds nothing to
the trilogy because it already stands as what it was.
Movies like Toy Story four, I feel like that was
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kind of an epilogue to Toy Story. It was a
perfect trilogy, but I needed to make some more money
wanted to write up another story. I don't think Toy
Story four was necessary. So when it comes to the Matrix,
I don't think they'll add a whole lot to what
that trilogy was because that was years ago already. I
mean the first one came out, so I don't think
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they were really making those at that time for like, oh,
we'll make a four twenty years later, Like I don't
think that's gonna happen. But the other thing that kind
of excites me about this trailer, I realized how ahead
of its time the Matrix was to come out in
the special effects, and now they're just so much better
that you can take everything that happened in that one
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and just make it look steamless. So I think one
really kind of lend itself better to the world of
The Matrix. So visually, just from the trailer, it looks
pretty amazing. If you're bringing back all the same kind
of action, I think this movie will work. I think,
without a doubt it's gonna make a lot of money
at the box office. But I think what you're playing
with here is the legacy that the Matrix has. The
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other thing I kind of worry about is the title
Matrix Resurrections. I feel like that's a little bit uncreative,
and anytime you put resurrection or resurrections in the title,
historically it's not that great of a movie. Halloween Resurrection
comes to mind, and that's probably the worst or one
of the worst Halloween movies. And I love Michael Myers.
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I'll watch any Halloween movie, but it just feels a
little bit kind of uncreative or kind of boring. But
I guess it's a step above just Matrix four. Yeah,
I'm glad they brought that carry in Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith,
and you have Neil Patrick Harris in here, so I'm
excited to see this. It comes out on December two
of this year. We'll see how it does, all right,
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So that's gonna do it for movie News. That will
do it for this week's episode. Appreciate everybody for listening
being subscribed to the podcast. Before I go every single week,
I give a shout out to one of you guys listening,
and some people ask, well, how do I get a
shout out? It's really easy. All you have to do
is send me a d M on Instagram. You can
tweet me at Mike Destro or comment over on my
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me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com.
I'm getting a lot of emails over there, some of
you even inspiring me with some possible topics that I'll
do later, some themes I'll do later, so I always
appreciate those emails. So this one actually comes to me
from Instagram. I got tagged on Instagram story from at
Sweet Eats by v. It was a screenshot of the
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Top five Disney Soundtracks episode and said I literally l
o lad, I'm convinced this movie doesn't exist anymore. And
that was a reference to the Top Gun sequel being
delayed again, So appreciate that that's from Vanessa. Actually looks
like her business account. She makes some sweet Eats over there,
so if you're living in Long Beach and want some
cookie cake or cake pops, you can go over to
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sweet Eats by v And know that she is a
fellow movie Mix movie podcast listener, so I appreciate that
if you're listening on release day, hope you have a
good rest of your week and until next week. Later
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