Spawn (1997)

This week on Hollywood Hangout. David reviews Spawn from 1997, Starring Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, and John Leguizamo.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, down to business.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I got my wild cherry dying PEPSI and uh, I
got my blackjack come.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Here and I got that feeling, Yeah, that familiar feeling.
Something rank is going down out there.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm funny, how I mean funny like I'm a clown.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I amuse you.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
I make you laugh.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
I'm here to fucking amuse you.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
How the fuck am I funny?

Speaker 5 (00:42):
What the fuck is so funny about me?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Tell me?

Speaker 6 (00:44):
Tell me what's fun Oh my, sir, God damn it.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Brothers, don't shake care.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
Brother who's got a fuck? Come over to the coast.

Speaker 7 (01:05):
We'll get together, have a few lifts you.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted
to be a gangster.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Speaker 7 (01:24):
Fuck away?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Can anybody move out?

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Blow your fucking head off?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
And the Medica doc said, oh my god, I'm a huckleber.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
My advice to you just start drinking heavily.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Put that coffee down.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Well, any of this cost fu, old Billy Bruel.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Have a huge vince.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
The Royal penis is clean, your highness.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Hey, where are the white women at.

Speaker 8 (02:03):
Gi me?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Kay, motherfucker, it's over Johnny, It's over.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
All right, all right, all right, what is going on, folks?
It is a Monday night. I know it's the holiday.
I'll tell you the truth. And I was supposed to
this last night, but I usually these on Sunday. But
I'll tell you the truth. My kids were up, they
were screaming, they were loud, and truthfully, if there's a holid,
if it's a Monday holiday, I'm probably gonna just end

(02:47):
up doing the show on a Monday, so my kids
are sleeping and go to school the next day. It
was way too loud to try to do this last night,
so I decided to do it tonight. I know I'm
starting late tonight when both my kids had homework my computer. There, computer,
I apologize, but I did not let you down. I
am still here and I am going to be talking
a pretty decent movie. I enjoyed this movie. I'm not

(03:12):
gonna lie. I actually like this movie. I'm gonna be
talking Spawn from nineteen ninety seven once again. I am
David Richardson. This is Hollywood Hangout. You can see that
right up there. Please subscribe if you guys are starting
to like this show. Like I said, I've changed up
the format a little bit. And even more for YouTube.
I actually have it changed up a little bit even
more tonight. Actually, if you're on YouTube watching this, you're

(03:35):
gonna have a much better, much better viewing. I'm gonna
actually be sewing some gifts, playing some clips, and doing
these a little different. So we'll have to, uh, you
guys just have to bear with me on that as
we go through that right there. But that's gonna be
pretty pretty easy. So we'll definitely get those. And I've
got a couple of there's my audio. I forgot to

(03:56):
load up my audio, but I do have some when
we get started actually talking about the movie itself, but
gonna be talking spawn from nineteen ninety seven. Now, this movie,
Like I said, I enjoyed this movie. I really did.
I do not think it was a bad movie. A
lot of people said it was a really really bad movie.

(04:18):
I don't feel it was a bad movie honestly. As
later it actually became I'm not gonna say a cult following,
but it kind of got a better following later kind
of later in its inception, if you will. There's been
many talks about a sequel to this movie right here.

(04:42):
As of right now, they've all fallen through but a
lot of I think even Jamie Fox has said that
there's gonna be another one, but he wasn't even happy
with the original script. So I don't know what's going on.
But this one was not bad. It was I think
it was. It was not rated very well. It was

(05:05):
actually one of the worst movies of the nineties, this
one right here. I believe this was like Thirteenth, which
was bad because Michael GI White is in this, and
Michael Ji White was also in the fourteenth or sixteenth
worst movie of the nineties, which was Universal Soldier too.

(05:27):
Now let's put some of that blame on Goldberg because
that was the Goldberg one also, so we can put
some of that blame on Goldberg too. Matter of fact,
I think we should put some of that blame on
mister Goldberg there. But like I said, we're going to
be talking spawn. Like I said, I've got this obs thing.
Figured out how to get the pictures where they're supposed

(05:48):
to be. Like I said, I tried to do this
last Wednesday. Didn't remember to tick the pictures, you know,
kind of little slide to the right there, and now
I'm remembering. So I apologize for that. But I'm gonna
be talking Spawn. Give me one sec. I'll actually switch
this one back up right there for the poster. Here

(06:08):
we go right there to click over to you guys.
There we go. Spawn. Got some really good actors in
this movie. I'll be honest. This was a I mean,
there are some powerhouses in this movie. I mean Michael
Jay White, like I said, we had Martin Sheen, we
had John Leguizamo, a comedian playing a comedical part. But

(06:30):
this was a little bit of a different part for him,
but definitely definitely a good part for John Leguizamo being
like I said, just the fact, you know him being
a comedian and this was a bit of a different
part for him. He did better. He's done different parts
also in the night. I mean, this is the guy

(06:51):
who made a movie called The Pest, and my god,
the movie was just as annoying as the title, to
be honest with you, So it really was. The movie
and the it was both annoying. But uh, all right,
So here's what we're gonna go ahead and do. I'm
gonna do my usual. I'll start talking about the actors

(07:12):
a little bit, and we'll we'll start with that right
there and I'm gonna go ahead and start right out
with Michael Jay White. I don't think we have done
a movie or talked about Michael gy White before on
this show. Maybe just in passing, but I don't remember

(07:32):
ever talking about Michael Jay White ever. So here we go,
we can go ahead and talk about him a little bit.
Michael Jy White not only an actor, but a martial
artist proficient in many, many different styles taekwondo, Brazilian jiu jitsu,

(07:55):
and a couple others. But he is a very, very
talented martial artist, and he's been in some really good movies.
Like I said, it's I mean obviously spawned exit wounds.
If you ever saw that he was in that movie
The Dark Knight. He was a gamble in the Dark Knight.
But I mean he goes back. I mean he was

(08:16):
in the New Dead Zone that came out this year.
But I remember him back in Ringmaster, that Jerry Springer
movie back in the nineties with Jamie Presley. M I
love Jamie Presley, not gonna lie, but this guy has
been on I mean so many shows. He's been on

(08:36):
Saved by the Bell, He's been on Renegade, on Deadly Ground,
Martin Living Single. He was in the Tyson movie. He
was actually Mike Tyson in the Tyson movie. And he was,
of course, of course, in a couple episodes of NYPD Blue.
He actually played Lieutenant Fancy's brother, Reginald Fancy, and a

(09:02):
couple episodes he was in not didn't really do much,
you know, police work at all, basically just him pissing,
moaning and complaining. But he was in a couple episodes
of NYPD Blue. Once we get out of the nineties,
I mean in two thousand, he was in the Wonderland
TV series, actually did the Justice League Unlimited. He was
Doomsday in that TV series. So there you go. Like

(09:28):
I said, he was gambling the Dark Night and just
keeps going from there. The guy has been in a ton,
a ton of films and even uh, Swat under Siege,
which was kind of swat too. I want to check
that out. It's actually on my list of things to watch,
so I definitely want to check that out. But Michael
Ji White tons of stuff coming out, pre production, post production, filming.

(09:54):
He's uh, I mean, he's pretty much You're an action star.
When it comes down to it, it's exactly what you're looking
at when it comes to Michael gy White, and rightfully so,
a lot of his movies, I'm not gonna lie, a
lot of his movies do go directly to DVD or streaming.
Netflix has a bunch of his movies on it, to

(10:14):
be has a ton of his movies on it. A
lot of those streaming services have a lot of his
movies on it. So if you're looking to check out
some Michael gy White, that's definitely the place to go
and check out some Michael gy White right there. But
he is actually Spawn in this movie. He plays the
lead role of actually Spawn. Now, this was the second
time a feature film had a black American as the

(10:38):
lead comic book superhero, obviously, the first being Meteorman in
ninety three, So this was only the second one before
we had obviously Blade and then we had Black Panther
come out, which obviously another one, but this one right
here was a pretty big, big deal. Now, the Spawn

(11:00):
is obviously from Image Comics, not not DC, not Marvel,
but Image Image Comics. Todd McFarlane is actually the president
of that company, who was obviously heavily involved in this movie.
It was Todd McFarlane's Spawn, So there you go with that.

(11:21):
But we had, like I said, him in this movie.
Now obviously we've like I said, they're a third in
line under the other two Big Marvel and DC. So
you know, but still this was a pretty good Like
I said, I enjoyed this one even the first time

(11:42):
I watched it. Again, I do kind of like mindless
action that I don't need to really think about or
you know, get deep into. I would just like to
kind of watch the film and be happy just watching
and not worrying about anything else. So, I mean, I'm
a wrestling fan, so I can really take myself out
of a lot of I can suspend my disbelief very

(12:05):
very well for movies also, so it just kind of
goes hand in hand. You suspend disbelief for I mean,
I don't believe a lot of the stunts that they
do and the fast and furious movies can be done
in real life. I don't think you people do either,
So you know, it's just kind of the way it goes.
But you know, that's just how we work here though. Anyway,

(12:26):
let's go ahead and get Michael Jy White out of here,
and let's start talking a little bit about Oh the man, Oh,
Martin Sheen. Actually, you know what, I can talk a
little bit more about Michael Jy White with a little
bit of just a few facts from this little movie here.
I don't need the picture. I already got rid of it,
No big deal. But Michael Jy White actually found this

(12:50):
Al Simmons character Al Simmons before he was killed with Spawn,
and he described Spawn as the most tragic character I've
ever encountered in any cinematic production. He says it was
a challenge to make audiences sympathy with a government assassin
who comes back from hell. White had to endure two
to four hours of makeup work, including a full glued

(13:15):
on body suit, yellow contact lenses that irritated his eyes. Now,
if you listen to Lost Boys, you guys know what
a lot of these movie contact lenses can do to
your eyes. They restrict oxygen from your eyes, which hurts.
And they said the mask really restricted restricted his breathing.

(13:36):
I said, I was a wrestling fan. The luchadors will
tell you masks do mess with your breathing a lot.
And he said that this long time experience with martial
arts definitely helped him endure some of the uncomfortable prosthetics
just kind of making him sort of strong and able
to concentrate a lot better than most people might might have. Now,

(14:01):
there was a scene where he was obviously really set
on fire, which is usually what a stuntman does. This
would have been the death scene in this movie. And
I guess I can go ahead and play it. I
don't see where it's a big deal. I'm gonna actually
try to play some clips in YouTube in YouTube, then

(14:22):
talk about him. Hopefully I don't get in trouble if
I do. If I get kicked off, I apologize. But
I'm gonna do this a little bit out of order.
I'm not really gonna do this in order, because we're
gonna get into the movie a lot. But I'm not
gonna do the scene by scene thing right now for
this movie. This movie's twenty five years old. I believe

(14:43):
if you haven't seen it by now, you don't want to.
But hopefully I'll make you want to see it. If
you haven't seen it, ah, there you go. So anyway,
let's go ahead and dive in. I will go ahead,
and you know what, let me go through a quick
synopsis of the movie, and then we can go ahead
and get it into a lot of this stuff with
the actors. I'm sorry, I should have done this first.

(15:05):
We've got a movie here. Basically, it's a we've got
like I said. Al Simmons is played by Michael Jy White.
He's basically a marine government assassin. He's a marine who
turned CIA operative government assassin. And he's signed by his
superior Jason Wynn obviously played by Martin Sheen in this movie.

(15:30):
And he's supposed to go into this weapons plant in
North Korea. He didn't really want to do it, but
he went in anyway, and Jessica Priest who was played
by Melinda Clark in this and Jason Wynn Martin Sheen
go to murder him, and we're gonna play that scene
in just a minute here, and he's set on fire

(15:50):
by them, a pretty fucking brutal death, to be honest
with you. And basically what he's what Spawn is sent
to do, if you know the story, He's sent back
to Hell to become the army leader, the leader of
Hell's Army and Armageddon and he was, you know, taken
from his wife played by Melinda I'm sorry played by

(16:12):
Teresa Randall and it's you know, he comes back. He
didn't realize it'd been five years, didn't feel like it.
Wanda's now married to his best friend, Terry, played by d. B. Sweeney,
also an NYPD blue alum, was in one episode, and
basically he comes back and he's, you know, taking care

(16:35):
of his daughter. And now this is where it comes into.
They find the clown played by John Leguizamo and we
find out basically he was sent there to bring him
in and Spawn basically just is down to do whatever
it takes to try to get his life back, not
realizing his life will never be the same, and he
goes after him in a couple of parts in the movie.

(16:57):
We'll get through that too. And he also has this
guy named Cagliostro. I'm winging that one. I believe that's
his name. We're gonna play it anyway. And he also
once scaled, was called for the same thing to lead
Malbolia's forces. I'm not good with names. But we get

(17:20):
to see John Leguizamo as the violator and some other things,
and this basically sticks. As a lot of people have said,
this stick's pretty close to the comics. Now, not completely
because in the original comics. Terry Fitzgerald is actually African
American in this one. He is not in this movie.

(17:41):
He's obviously dB Sweeney, which we'll get into all that
in a minute. But I do want to just say
one thing. This movie could have been a completely different movie.
The first person besides Mark A. Z de Pay ended
up being the director for this movie. But this may
shock you, Tim Burton. Tim Burton was actually up to

(18:07):
direct this movie. I think this would have been a
much different movie had Tim Burton been the director of
this movie. I definitely think it would have been. So
there you go. But all right, let's go through. There's

(18:30):
kind of what the film is, and we'll go through it.
As we kind of go through some more, we'll play
some more scenes throughout the movie. What I'm going to
start out as though, I'm gonna start with this scene
right here, like we just mentioned it. It's gonna be
the scene where he's dead, dying about to die. Hopefully
this all comes through on YouTube. Last time I did this,
I had some echoes. Let's let's hope I don't this time,

(18:54):
and let's uh, let's see what happens here.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
I'll take good care of her. You touch her, and
you're a dead man.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
You are the dead man.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Seeing hell.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Al, all right, that's seemed to work.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
I'm gonna have to control the volume a little better, obviously,
I see that, and I got that all figured out
right here, I believe. But that was his death again,
I said, it was a pretty goddamn brutal death. I
wasn't fucking around set on fire. This guy just also
told him, yea, I'm gonna take care of your wife Mary,

(20:13):
and set on fire, blown up in a bio plan.
Also had this yellow goo, no slimer, not even a
slimer on there to help him out. But all right,
I watched Ghostbusters this weekend, let me alone. But anyway,
there you go. That was one of the scenes right
there in the movie though. But yeah, definitely a brutal,

(20:36):
brutal death right there. And I'll tell you what. We
can explain a little bit more about the movie when
you know what. Let me play the first two audio
clips here, and I got some gifts to go along
with those, and we can play those right now. We
slide this over just a little bit. Let's play the

(20:58):
first audio clip real quick and we'll go from there.
So give me one second me click that.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
The battle between Heaven and Hell has waged eternal. That
army is fueled by souls harvested on Earth. The devil Malbolgia,
has sent a lieutenant to Earth to recruit men who
will turn the world into a place of death in
exchange for wealth and power, a place that will provide
enough souls to complete his army and allow Armageddon to begin.

(21:36):
All the dark Lord needs, now it's a great soldier,
someone who can lead his horse to the gates of
Heaven and burn them down.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
All right, So there we go, and you see how
if you're watching on YouTube, you're lucky enough, you can
see the kind of the way the it was going
there where it had Malbosa there, it had the clown,
and it had Jason Wynn just kind of sitting there,
all melded together. Now, there's another little part in that

(22:09):
beginning right after they play a little bit of the
beginning part, and I'll go ahead and get rid of
this and pop that up for you guys too, and
play that second part and we'll get that done. And
here is the second part.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Like him, I killed in the name of good, but
the violence of my life pulled my soul towards the darkness.
But I fought and freed. Now I watch for others
like me. Men are the ones who create evil on earth.
It is the choices they make that enslave their souls.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
The hell this is the test, all right, So there
we go once again. All right, all right, so there
you go. Like I said, this sort of gives a
little more explanation of what's happening. And obviously we get
to meet a couple of the characters here, and we'll

(23:08):
get into who they're played by in just a second. Here.
I don't know why I have volumes, so looks low tonight.
Crank it up a little bit on my microphone. I
don't know why it looks low, but for some reason
it does. It's probably not, it's probably just me. But anyway,
let's go ahead and get rid of this other gift here.
We've got both of those that we've been used, which

(23:28):
means I can get them out of my friggin way,
which I will do right now. All right, So now
we're gonna get into a couple more. We're gonna get
into a little bit of talk, a little bit of
Martin Sheen. You want to talk about a bad motherfucker boy.
Here we go Martin Sheen. Right there. You see the picture.
You should see the picture. You do see the picture.

(23:50):
There is Martin Sheen. Now, obviously he's done a very
decent amount of movies, Martin Sheen, and let's go ahead
and talk a little bit about him. Here. Been in
some great, great, great, great movies. I'm talking that Departed.
If you haven't seen that, that's a great one. I
actually just watched it the first time a while ago. Apocalypse. Now, Wow,

(24:14):
what a goddamn movie. That bad Boy is right there,
that's a great movie. You've never seen that, go back
to nineteen seventy nine, but still an incredible, incredible movie.
He's in Wall Street with Charlie Sheen. He had got
both of them in there. He was in Dead Presidents
as the judge, uncredited for that scene. But been in

(24:34):
very very very very very very very many many films
Martin Sheen has. But this was kind of a big
role for him. First of all, he was with his
grandson when he find out he got the role, and
his grandson was very happy. Obviously he was. His grandson
was a fan of Spawn. But Martin Sheen basically did
this film because he always wanted to be in a
comic book movie, and this wasn't the first one. He

(24:58):
actually was in another one after that, but it was
still not until twenty twelve when he did The Amazing
Spider Man. So there you go, right there. Now, excuse me.
If you're looking at this on YouTube, you can see
he's smoking a black cigarette. Now, anyone who's ever smoked

(25:21):
or smoked clove cigarettes especially know what this possibly could be.
This is a Samporina extra. I've had these. I'm not
gonna lie. Clove cigarettes are horrible for you. They stink
worse than cigarettes. They stink. But I've smoked a few.

(25:45):
I used to get the old U, the Jaream black,
and the Jarream. They weren't that bad, but they were
still not that great when it came down to it.
They weren't good and they definitely were not good for you.
But that's what he's smoking in a lot of these scenes.

(26:05):
They're they're rough, like I said, there they are rough cigarettes.
Like I said, you're basically smoking a fucking spice. It's
it's tough. I don't like clothes very much anyway, Like
people put clothes on ham I don't like that. I'm
not down with the with with the clothes on ham

(26:25):
so those I don't really do. But we got Martin Sheen,
just a great actor and a great pick for this part.
He just has that evilness to him that was definitely
definitely worth it. And now we're gonna get into the
part with Jesus Christ. I can't remember the guy's name.

(26:51):
Hold on one second. Nicole Williamson, who we sadly lost
in twenty eleven and December sixteenth, seventy five years old.
But he played Cargliostro in this. Again, I'm kind of
going by the name. I think that's how he pronounces it.
It's how I can pronounce it, the only way I
can get it out. So he goes by Caglio's Caggliostro

(27:15):
on this, And let's go ahead and pop this bad
boy up right there there. He is right there for
you guys. And I think another good, good character pick
for this movie. I really do. I enjoyed his his character,
he had not he had kind of that been evil before,
but kind of backing off the evil to kind of
be a mentor thing to him. So I enjoyed this character.

(27:40):
Now he has been around a long time, I mean
movies from ex Caliber in nineteen eighty one to Return
to Oz in nineteen eighty five, back to nineteen seventy six.
He played Sherlock Holmes in The seven Percent, the seven
Percent Solution, so you know, done a lot of things,

(28:03):
but he only did He had one other film he
was going to do after this. No, he only has
forty four credits to his name. He was going to
do another film called Art Pupil where he played a
guy named Kurt Dussander. The film was abandoned and it
never got put out, so Spawn actually turned out to
be the last film that he was in, so you know,

(28:29):
pretty sad. But one thing I want to get to
here now in the animated series, his character actually goes
by Merlin. And what's funny is he played in the
ex Caliber movie Nicole Williamson was Merlin, so makes sense

(28:56):
that he would be Merlin right there. And by way,
this film was released two days before Martin Sheen's fifty
seventh birthday. But there you go, right there now for
being this big killing movie, there really only is a
body count of six. That's it, only six dead in
this movie. That's not a lot, not a lot at all,
but there you go. So there's a little bit on

(29:19):
him right there. It didn't really have much to go
on from there. But that is Nicol Williams. And there's
a character right now we're gonna get to John Leguizamo.
Got it. Yeah, I gotta post him as the clown.
I'm going with this spawn movie, so I gotta post
him as the clown. I don't think the guy's a clown.
I actually think he's very talented. I think he's very funny,
I really do. I wish he would just stick to

(29:40):
comedy personally, but in acting, I actually think he's a
great actor. Been in some very good movies Summer of
Sam Mulin Rouge. But like I said, if you keep
going back and you look through his career, he has
been in some good movie. He was an executive decision,

(30:01):
which I mean, my god, he's there's a movie where
Steven Segaal dies. He was Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way, excellent,
excellent movie. The nineteen ninety three Mario. He was Luigi.
This guy really kind of went from nothing to a
really big, a really big character. He was Burke in

(30:24):
die Hard two Casualties of War. Probably his first actual
movie is Casualties of War from nineteen eighty nine. Excellent movie,
Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, excellent, excellent fucking movie. Diehard
two was another one, and then Out for Justice. He

(30:46):
was just a kid in the alley. But he was
also in a TV movie that I have been fucking
looking for called NYPD Mounted. It was all the cast
of NYPD Blue and I can't find and especially Dennis Franz,
and I can't find this goddamn movie, but he was

(31:06):
in it. I'll look for it one day a little harder,
but he was in that movie. And it just keeps
going up. Mario Carlito's Way Executive, his career just kept
getting better. And he didn't do The Pest till nineteen
ninety seven. Then we got Spawn, then we got Mulan Ruse.
He started doing some more Empire, Collateral Damage, great Arnold movie. Oh,

(31:31):
And I mean his career just kind of took off
from those movies. And he's just been in so many
great movies. I mean, he doesn't even have to do
comedy anymore. The guy. I mean, his movie career has
been one hundred and sixty two credits, and he ain't
fucking done. Actually has an announced TV show called Hypno
coming out, so there you go. And he's got enough

(31:54):
the Power TV series in post production. He's got stuff
coming out between twenty twenty two and two thousand twenty three,
and it looks like he's in a TV show called
Fairfax right now. But he plays this great clown character
in this movie. That's like he was sent to Earth
to basically make sure that the job gets done and

(32:16):
gets done correctly from spawn. So that's basically what we're
what we're getting to here. So there you go. There's
about I'm gonna get into a few things now with
John Leguzamo. Got to get into a few things with him.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Now.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
He said in an interview that when he was shooting
one day, he had to go to the bathroom so bad,
but it took about an hour for him to get
out of the suit. There was a few times he
just went while they were taking the suit off. That
is that is not good. But he said, wearing the
fat suit that kind of felt like probably what a
penis wearing a condom. Feels like very comedic answer. I

(32:53):
like that.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Now.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
He did most of this movie now squatting on his
knees because the character is only four foot tall, so
he was down on his knees for a lot of
these scenes. And again be two and a half hours
of makeup and prosthetics for this movie. And the fat
suit was not light, so you know. But there's one
part in this film where he was he actually ate

(33:26):
live meal worms. Waxworms are what they were. Now, waxworms
don't exactly kind of move around a lot. So what
happened was in between takes, they literally had their bug expert.
I just said those words, bug expert come in and

(33:48):
he would spray them with lemon to get him moving
around the pizza. And I'm gonna go ahead, those like
I said, those of you lucky enough to be on
to be on YouTube, we're gonna see this. Uh, those
of you not, we'll have to go and just check
out this movie for yourself to see this scene. And
here we go.

Speaker 8 (34:06):
I have a few more details to attend to it.
Then we can play yuck.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
I hate ad.

Speaker 7 (34:19):
Choby ahpies.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
Tastes so good. I could kick some puppies, That's what
he said. There by the way, tastes so good, I
can kick some puppies, just so you know what he said.
That's exactly what he said there. Now again, those were
live waxworms. You see if you well, if you were
watching that, you could see he kind of walks away quickly. Well,
who was about to puke? He had done this a

(34:57):
few times and was not very happy. Now we get
good scene though with with him, and I might as
well just go ahead and get a couple more of
these scenes. No, I'll play the scenes a little bit
later as we're going through, and again I'm just gonna
kind of play them. There's not gonna be much of
a Actually, you know what, we're kind of rewind a
little bit. We can go to Michael Jy White back

(35:20):
one more play this scene real quick. Might as well
do that real fast. This is a scene where he
was sent down into hell and had a decision to
make from Malbojia. And here we go.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
I leave my army. You can see Wanda again. What
is your answer? Yes, yes, I'll need your army. Anything
will wander. If you fail me, you will die. A

(36:00):
murder chase a win.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
All right. So, now, if we saw the movie, which
we all did, most of us, I'm sure we know
that in that Jason Wynn had the had something implanted
in his chest that into his heart. If he dies,
it sets off a virus that will obviously kill a

(36:30):
lot of people. So I don't want to do that,
but that right there, So that's why they want him
to kill him, and again he will do anything in
the world for his wife Wanda, played by Teresa Randall.
Right here, Yeah, I probably could have got a better
picture of it, but I think that was a good

(36:50):
one right there. Another has been in some great movies
also Bad Boys, Bad Boys too. She was she's Teresa
Burnette Malcolm X and she is in the new Bad
Boys for Life also that came out in twenty twenty,

(37:12):
Jungle Fever five, Heartbeats King of New York A Different World.
She was on one episode, honestly, not the only thirty
credits to her name. But she's done some pretty large things,
and like I said, she's known for a few bigger
movies that have come out. The Guardian was a great,

(37:33):
a big movie back in nineteen ninety, so she's done
some really big movies. And last thing she was in
though was in twenty twenty, was that Bad Boys for Life.
So there you goes, we got her in there, and
she plays his wife Wanda, who ends up after five
years being married to dB Sweeney or Terry Fitzsimmons in

(37:56):
this movie. And here we go with dB Sweeney. Me
a second, there we go. Sorry, folks, I still haven't
kicked that cough from a few weeks ago. There we go,
We got dB Sweeney right there once again. NYPD Blue
did was in one episode, not that anyone cares, but
this is another guy though, has been in some really

(38:16):
great movies. One hundred and nine credits to his name
goes back to He played in twos and two and
a half Men for a while as Larry Done some
really good things, been in some good TV shows. He
was even in one episode of Empire. He was in
Heist the twenty fifteen, the remake of it, Taken two.

(38:40):
I've seen Taken two. I like Taken too, I like
the Taking series. I actually hadn't seen those ever and
just saw them recently. But he was in a movie
called Stiletto Crash, Leverage, Criminal Minds. He was in three
different episodes with the same character. I've hit a us Marshall.

(39:00):
So been in a lot of things. The one thing
I remember this guy for more than anything in the world.
Is a movie called Fire in the Sky Alien movie,
great alien movie. It's about a group of lumberjacks loggers
go out and they're on their way back and they
get caught in a They see a spaceship and one

(39:22):
of them gets sucked up into the ship. dB Sweeney
does and the town doesn't believe him. They think they're
all bullshitting. Really good movie. If you have not seen
Fire in the Sky, check it out. It's definitely worth
a watch. There's also a kid in the movie who
be friends Spawn, and that is Miko Hughes. Here we

(39:46):
go right there. He's a little older now. Don't have
a new picture of him, but we don't need it,
but that's him right there. Miko's actually been in a
few things too.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
He was in Kindergarten cop.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
I actually just watched that over the weekend too. I
didn't realize he was Joseph Okay, I know who he
is now, pet Cemetery, the nineteen eighty nine one Mercury Rising,
New Nightmare. He's got a few things right now. Out
was in Tropic Thunder. He was the radio DJ. I
didn't know that, but he's been in a few things.

(40:18):
He has definitely been in a few things. But yeah,
he was in the nineteen ninety movie Kindergarten Cop. I
just saw that, another Arnold movie. I guess we're talking
about Arnold tonight. I don't know, but he's in this
just kind of ends up being more of a friend
to Spawn than anything. So we got that, and we've

(40:41):
got Melinda Clark. Me go ahead and get Melinda Clark's
picture up here, if you guys bear with me for
one second. Here Melinda Clark, who plays once again Jessica
in this movie. One sec here, Jessica Priest. She was
in Return of the Living Dead, she was in The
O C Many, many, many, and a few other movies

(41:02):
fifty five credits to her name. Is absolutely a beautiful,
beautiful woman, as you can see right here. But really
I think fit this part very well in my opinion.
So that's the actors right there. That and we'll go
ahead and get through a few more. And we got
a few more things to get into. One thing I

(41:25):
want to get into, and I'll get into it at
the end, though, don't let me forget. I want to
get into the soundtracks at the end. Of this. I
definitely want to talk about the soundtrack, but that is
the actors right there. All right, So we've got a
lot of that going on, and let's go ahead and
get into this. Now. There's a point where one scene

(41:50):
in this movie, we're talking once again about John Leguizamo,
and he says he's not the Vindicator, the Victimizer, the
vac Barisa, or the vibrator. He's the violator. Well, in
the Spawn comics he is the five fleebic Fleebiac brothers.

(42:11):
I don't know much about these, which are the denizens
of hell. They are called the Violator, the Vandalizer, the Vaporizer,
the Vindicator, the Vaacilitator. There's no vibrator. I think you
just do that one in He was close. So anyway,
while we're talking about that scene, I think it was

(42:33):
a definitely a good time to play that scene. So
here we go. I think that is.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Right here, the Violator and all mark crowning around. I'm
not the vindicator or the Victimizer, on the vaporizer or
the vibrator.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
All right, folks, give me a second here. It looks
like that scene is not synced very well. One second,
let me see if we do something real quick here,
let me take that off. Let me see if I
just replay that and no more crowding around.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
I'm not the vindicator.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Okay, uh no, that's not gonna work. I got a
better way to get that scene. Give me one minute here,
I do want to play that scene. I guess I
can just play it. Give me a second, let me
get let me minimize this right here. Let me get
this and I can get this. Just give me a second.
I can get that scene loaded up. Let me hit
mute over here. Give me one second. Let me flip

(43:33):
through this bad boy just gotta find it and I'll
get the scene. Takes me a second. I know it's
taking me a little more time than I should be,
but I'm getting there. And but it was a great
scene when he did this, and I mean it. I
thought it was pretty cool of a scene. So here
we go. We're about to do this. Okay, I am

(43:55):
at the scene. Give me a second here, I'm going
to back it up. Just ten seconds. I'm going to
get obs put back up. Give me a second here,
perfect window. Here we go. We got it now, and
we're gonna go to VLC player. We got it. Okay,
all right, I've got that pulled up. Let me lock

(44:16):
it in. There we go and let me hit play
down with sound would be better. Make sure i've got sound.

Speaker 7 (44:22):
Do it the hard way.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I warn you, I'm just gonna have to take you
a lesson. No more crowding around. I'm not the vindicator
for the victimizer, for the vaporized, or the vivader.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
All right, so give me a second, folks. This is
my fault. I forgot to I forgot to take that
scene over, like I just said, I was not gonna do.

(45:02):
So here, let me replay that scene. I apologize, and
for the YouTube folks, here we go instead of just
sitting there.

Speaker 7 (45:08):
Do you want to do it the hard way?

Speaker 6 (45:11):
I wonder.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
I'm just gonna have to take you a lesson. No
more crowding around. I'm not the vindicator or the victimizer,
or the vaporizer or the vivator. The wild.

Speaker 6 (45:59):
Well thinks we're nasty, I would say, pretty goddamn nasty.
There you go. Once again, I'm sorry about that Fox.
I gotta remember to take that over. I'm just sitting
there taking a drink, not worrying about nothing. Sorry about
that anyway, there's that one right there, and another great,

(46:21):
great little scene in the movie. And you know, I
just thought that was kind of funny that he They
sort of just depicted a lot of cool stuff in
this movie. But that's one of them right there. Let's
go ahead, go up a little more, a little more. Here,
here we go. Now we go to the that scene
that we just saw took eight months to do, from

(46:43):
storyboarding to modeling to everything finally getting to the final render.
Six or eight months to get that scene correct. That's
a lot, man, that is a lot right there. So now,
also in the comics call Itgostro had a beard, Nicol

(47:08):
Williamson refused to grow a beard or wear a beard.
Basically just said no, no, no, no, it ain't happening,
so he didn't do it. So there we go with
that one. Now, if you notice, when I played that
one scene with Malbosa, the mouth doesn't move. The filmmakers
were trying to imply here that it was speaking through hell.

(47:31):
Now I want you to imagine this. I'm gonna actually
pop that gift back up there. If I don't have it,
I believe I still have it in here. I don't
give me one second pop that gift back up in
here because I want to show you something when I
met one second. Please bear with me, you nice, nice people,

(47:53):
all right, Oh one intro gift because we get to
see Malbosa here right here in the beginning when I
clicked that only one sec to get the eyes correct.
Then we can all take a peaksey all right, So
you see we got Malbowser right there, right up there,
the first one. Now, I just want you to imagine

(48:13):
that not being CGI Tim Burton doing this, and that
being a puppet. That was the original plan was that
was supposed to be a puppet. That devil looking creature
was going to be a puppet. Boy, am I glad
that did not happen. That would have been a nightmare.

(48:38):
This movie was already rated bad. This would have been
rated worse. That would not have been a very good thing.
Luckily they did not go with the puppet. We see
what they went with. They went with the CGI. Thank
lord they did. Now again, there were a couple of
sequels nineteen ninety seven after this movie. There were two
sequels on the Car. There was one that was supposed

(48:59):
to come out in nineteen ninety eight, and there was
also a Spawn three the Ultimate Battle in nineteen ninety nine.
Neither of these have come to fruition. Todd McFarlane basically
had a script for a reboot that was slated for
twenty eighteen. Cast is in place that was supposed to
be Jamie Fox right there. That was in that cast

(49:20):
that we've been talking about. Right now, that movie is
just doing nothing, So I don't know, it's just kind
of in the weeds, not doing anything. But now, the
name Cyan, which is his daughter in this movie, is
that's the name of Todd McFarlane's daughter, and Wanda is
the name of Todd McFarland's wife, and Terry Fitzgerald is

(49:41):
actually the name of a friend of McFarlane.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
So.

Speaker 6 (49:46):
Just using the names in all of these, but negotiations
just have fallen through on everything that's been coming up
after this. So and also Al Simmons that was a
former roommate of Todd McFarlane, So there you go there. Now,
this film originally was giving an R given in our

(50:07):
rating due to the violent content, and after a few
edits they were able to get at PG thirteen rating,
and then the film went out on home video and
the original director's cut did get to be rated R
and a lot of people said, not much of a difference.

(50:27):
You can't really tell if you're watching one from the other.
I think it's literally just some not as much the violence.
I mean, I guess they just show a few more scenes,
but not much more.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
So.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
I don't know if that's okay. Here we go. I'm
gonna get one more out here while we're doing this.
Now here's some good. Here's some other characters that were
slated to play Spawn or Al Simmons, Wesley Snipes. I
could see that one Cooper Gooding Jr. Boys would have

(51:02):
been a dramatic movie. Uh Snoop dog I said it
Snoop Dogg. You know, go to IMDb. It's on there,
I promise you. Tony Todd, Candy Man, Alan Payne, g Money,
Denzel Washington would have been great with him. But another no,

(51:25):
Samuel L. Motherfucking Jackson. I think we motherfucking know how
this motherfucking movie would have come out right, motherfucker. Ving Rames, Tupac,
LLL cool J, and Will Smith all were originally considered
for this character. I think when we came down to it,

(51:46):
I think it actually, I mean Ving Rames could have
been this character, but I don't know. Alan Payne I
could see being this character. Tony Todd, I'm not so
sure about Snoop Dogg. No, just no. I I hope

(52:07):
someone got fired for that. I'm sorry. Nothing against Snoop Dogg,
but not for this movie, not for this character. And
Edward Norton was the first one that was actually going
to play Terry Fitzgerald but dropped out to work on
Rounders from nineteen ninety eight, which I'm gonna be going
doing a review of in a couple of weeks. Excellent

(52:27):
movie right there. So that's a part of it too.
But there you go. And now we know the little
dog Spaz Spaz is actually the nickname of the visual
effects supervisor, Steve Spaz Williams, and if you watch the credits,
he is actually credited as Steve Spaz Williams. So there

(52:49):
you go. Now there's one part in this now I
mentioned Apocalypse Now with Jason Wynn Martin Sheen. Clown told
when that he was expecting him to start the apocalyps Now.
Martin Sheen played the lead role on Apocalypse Now. Kind
of funny. Clown had another line, I love the smell
of asphalt in the morning, another reference to Apocalypse. Now,

(53:11):
I love the smell of napalm in the morning Martin
Sheen's line.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
You know, but.

Speaker 6 (53:20):
There you go. That's pretty much now. This is actually
the only movie for Mark Easy to Pay that was
ever released. Theatrically is good or bad.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
But.

Speaker 6 (53:36):
There's that. I'm looking to make sure I didn't forget
anything that I want to tell you guys. Not really okay, Now,
basically it just goes down to now this film has
been heavily This is where you get the nerdy part.
And I love the nerdy people. They're fucking awesome. They've

(53:57):
shared many similarities with this movie. Are you ready for this?
And RoboCop? Uh huh RoboCop, Here we go. Both films
the main character is working for a government agency. Both
films show wrongful, violent, and excruciating deaths. If you remember

(54:17):
in the original RoboCop he was basically gunned down, but
first of all, first had his arms and limbs shot off.
Both films show the main character's death, robbed of a
family and normal life. Both films show the main character
eventually seeking death or seeking revenge for their death. Both
films show the rampant city corruption of the main character

(54:42):
that the main character must contend with, and both films
show the advancement of technology that serves a huge purpose
for the entire story. Okay, h we could pretty much
go with a lot of robot movies and think the
exact same thing. I believe so, but we've got a

(55:03):
few other really good scenes in here that I wanted
to go ahead and kind of play here. There was
one really good scene that I liked. I'm just gonna
play a quick gift with it. Actually just a bam,
a little oh to put that up a little higher,
don't I So it goes over my picture? Sorry about that.
There we go this little on the motorcycle and kind

(55:26):
of gets his cape around there and the motorcycle turns
into a shell. Now, if you guys don't know, there
was actually the stunt rider for this did actually crash
at one point they were doing the scene, being doing
the chase and a piece of fence was sticking out
causing the rider to crash. Minor injuries. Everything was cool,

(55:47):
so no big deal there, But there you go. There's
most of it. I got a couple of clips we
can play, and I think I'm gonna wrap it up.
I know this wasn't the longest stepisode. I'm looking to
trim these down a little bit, you know, but I
definitely got a couple more clips I want to play.

(56:09):
And let's play this one right here. This is the
where he does go for his revenge in the ballroom.
And we'll go ahead and play that clip right now.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
You who are you?

Speaker 6 (56:40):
What's the magic? Yeah? It was get of shit out
of me. I don't know about you, but a man
jumping out of the ceiling with his cape flowing ever
so elegantly, I think that would still scare the living
shit out of me, to be honest with you. Scary,
scary scene of him just coming down. But there you go.
But I mean, once again, we did get to see

(57:00):
the spawn, you know, character of full gear, all his
you know things are At this point, he's starting to
learn how to use the chains and all that stuff.
We see him kind of flip the chains at Jason
Wynn here, so he's learning how to use those and
the other part and the last clip I'm gonna go
ahead and play before we wrap this bad boy up

(57:24):
is this clown in hell here we go?

Speaker 4 (57:30):
I wonder if she's got it in my sash. Funny
is funny, He's our man. If you can't kill him,
nor Jay, Funny ass to the peak to the age
of the Watch.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Ass to the peak to the age of.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
The Funny, Go find it.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
I put you on earth to make sure Spawn keeps
his end of the bargain.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Do you think the army anyway?

Speaker 4 (57:58):
What are you thinking? TV?

Speaker 3 (58:01):
I had to tenure.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
It's not fair. It's not fair. And that's exactly they're
trying to talk.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
You don't tolerate around here, right, Bozzy love On must choose.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
To murder when and release the virus on my army.
We'll be complete time.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Now, lovozz. This is your last chime, sir, Thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 6 (58:29):
All Right, there we go, folks. That's pretty much the
last clip I have to play for the night. Like
I said, I thought this was a really good movie.
I don't know why it got so much hate back
in the nineties. I mean, I guess because there were
a lot of really good movies. If we go back
to nineteen ninety seven, twenty five years ago and see
some of the movies that were out that year, I

(58:53):
think it might have just got kind of swallowed up
nineteen ninety seven movies. Let's go ahead and look through
a little bit. Oh my lord, yeah, I think this
movie just got swallowed up. We had the South Park movie,
we had Devil's Advocate, Paccino and Keanu Reeves. Suicide Kings

(59:16):
reviewed on YouTube. Excellent excellent movie, Goodwill Hunting Gang Related
reviewed with Anthony on the Archives. Check us out on anchor.
Let's see here What the Saint with val Donnie Brasco
nineteen ninety seven Liar Liar. That was probably one of

(59:39):
the biggest movies for that year, as was The Fifth Element.
Jim Carry and Bruce Willis, Hey, look Lolita that came
out in nineteen and eighty seven next to The Clown
made a reference to Lolita the Pest with well, well,
we don't need to bring that one up. But there
were some pretty big movies. The Postman on Air, I

(01:00:00):
know what you did last summer. You can see why
this movie just got swallowed up. It just wasn't Batman
and Robin Oh my Austin Powers. So you can see
what happened here. This movie was just swallowed up by
many other better movies that came out that year. I mean,
I mean Double Team with Dennis Rodman and Jean Claude

(01:00:23):
Van Damn came out that year. Folks, How could anything
survive after that movie came out that year. I'm joking, obviously,
but anyway, I really think that's about all I've got,
folks on this movie Spawn nineteen ninety seven. Again, I
don't need to go through, and it's an hour and

(01:00:44):
thirty six minute movie. If you do want to, go
ahead and check it out. But I really thought this
was a better movie than critics made it out to be.
I don't listen to critics anyway, but I hope I
didn't get in any trouble doing this the way I
did with the gifts and the Jeff I'm not sure
how to say it. I'm old and showing the clips.

(01:01:04):
I hope I didn't get in any trouble. I do
want it really quickly. I want to thank Lionsgate. Last
week we talked about give me one second, we get
this off the screen real quick. Last week we talked
about Beyond the Loft. You guys, remember that's I believe
that's up here too. I think I did that on YouTube,
pretty sure I did. I did, And there was a.

(01:01:29):
They put a block on it, and it was blocked everywhere.
I mean it was blocked in every country, United States, Squam, Vietnam, Columbia, Iran,
it was blocked everywhere, and I disputed it, like, look,
I didn't from what it looked like they wanted me
from thirty minutes into the end of the show, so
it looked like they thought what I did was I

(01:01:50):
talked about the actors and then I played the whole movie. Well,
obviously I didn't do that. I played the movie. I
played some clips with pictures, but I did not play
the whole movie. So I disputed it. And I'm sitting
here like this is gonna take forever because I'm trying
to contact a movie company, well, Lionsgate Films. Little did

(01:02:13):
I know, they got back to me. I have a
fifty minute drive home from work. Before I got home
from work, I had an email come through to my phone.
Good news. They lifted everything. Now I had a few
parts with music on there. I thought they might have
at least been like, yo, asshole, you can't play the music.
They lifted everything. So I want to I least want

(01:02:34):
to say thank you once again. I did Wednesday night,
but on this show. Thank you to Lionsgate for lifting
all of the of the copyrights on me for that
one right there. That was a thank you very much,
great great movie that beyond the law. But I think
this was a great superhero movie, and I just don't
know why it kind of gets lost in the Maybe

(01:02:55):
because it wasn't DC or Marvel. Maybe it just gets
lost in that shuffle because right now pretty much everything
is about DC or Marvel Comics and all that stuff
coming out, mostly Marvel. So I think that might be
a little bit of why this movie just kind of became,

(01:03:15):
you know, like I said, just a little just swallowed
up by so many other, bigger, better movies. Maybe, But
and at this point, right now, basically it's just you know,
like I said, everything now is even Marvel of DC.
So I think even having a reboot at this point
would just be I hate to use an old school word,

(01:03:36):
but it would be moot. It would be a moot point.
I don't even think anybody would give a shit, I
really don't. I think it just would be eaten up
by bigger and better So I don't think it would
matter at this point if they did anything else. But
I really enjoyed this movie from nineteen ninety seven. Excuse me, folks,
I'm sorry about that, but uh all right, I'm gonna

(01:03:59):
go ahead and wrap it up. At end of the movie. Obviously,
you guys know, we get his revenge stay Spawn, which
is a family, happy, happy, happy life. And you know,
like I said, I want you to watch the movie.
I'm gonna start spoiling less, giving away less, showing you less,
and talking more. It's gonna make the shows a little better.

(01:04:19):
I think it's gonna make the shows better in my opinion,
but I guess we'll have to see how everything works.
But there we go for that. Like I said, I'm
gonna go ahead and wrap this bad Boy up. Thank
you guys, once again. Appreciate everybody joining me. Everyone who's
gonna listen to this, everyone who's gonna watch this. I
hope you'll go and join this YouTube. It's just Hollywood hangout.

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Like I said, look for the we have our own
Hollywood star and the little avatar profile picture there. Look
for that and you will find it. On that note, folks,
I am David Richardson. Thank you guys for joining me,
and I will see y'all. Don't forget Wednesday night back
here on Wrestling Outlet. So check out the Wrestling Outlet

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YouTube and we will be live on there on that night.
Note right there, folks, So