The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2011 - The Odyssey Is Set Up For DISASTER After Supergirl Bombs

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Starting point is 00:01:17 Hoping you're all having a lovely Fourth of July week. I am, certainly. I'm not big on vacation. I don't do it a lot. But I'm doing it this week. So I'll be back like live in person with the Crem de la Crem. in the Membrum segmentum on Monday, but I'm not doing that right now. And yet I can't quit you.

Starting point is 00:01:36 I can't leave you. So I had to at least pipe in. I had to do a little like a little pre-tape, a little something because of one of my favorite phenomena that occurs in our culture, which is that Hollywood keeps just totally bombing, keeps screwing up and doesn't learn the lessons. There's a lot more to say first. They'll go to good ranchers.com. Use code NOLES.

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Starting point is 00:03:34 it's not all her fault. So I said, let me examine the evidence. We already covered it on the show a week or two ago, Millie Alcock talking about how it's great because the new movie is not really about a man's. You get a little tinge of that wokeness. Here's another one in which Millie Alcock says that the movie is breaking down gender limits for women. I think because she doesn't live inside the binary of what we think a woman should be, that that is what makes her so special and so exciting and so new. Can I say, can I just say, I hate to agree with Mr. Davies, by the standards of Hollywood, that's not that bad.

Starting point is 00:04:14 It's annoying. It's kind of lib. It's a little, it's like, ah, whatever. But it's not, that's not that bad. compared to like Rachel Ziegler, who played sand beige. It was in that live action of Snow White, but given the DEI casting, it was we call it sand beige. Compared to that, this woman is totally normal. So I don't think that the reason Supergirl bombed is chiefly because of Millie Alcock.

Starting point is 00:04:39 She didn't help, but I don't think she's the reason. I think Supergirl bombed because the film itself is super lib and woke. I mean, just the premise of Supergirl as a character really undermines the Superman story. What makes the Superman story so great and resonate for people is that Superman is Jesus. You know, it's fine. I don't know anything about Superman. And that's like the one thing I know about Superman is that Superman is supposed to be a version of Jesus. Do you remember even in the Superman movie that came out 20 years ago, one point he's floating, you can't tell if he's dead or not, he's in outer space. And he's floating as a cross.

Starting point is 00:05:17 You know, it's a little bit on the nose. He's sent to save the earth from the heavens. He's the sun who comes to... Anyway, when you introduce Supergirl, you really start to undercut the Christian imagery and the analogy. So you've got that right there. And then it's this whole thing about, you know, girl power. Think about the biggest box office bomb in the last 10 years.

Starting point is 00:05:39 Biggest bomb is the Marvels. The Marvels is the worst performing Marvel movie ever. It lost over $200 million at the box office. office and the Marvel's is just a bunch of chicks. It's all the worst features of the Marvel universe turned up to 11 and compounded all together. But what are the other big box office bombs? Even beyond the superhero movies was Wish, Disney's Wish, which I also didn't see, but just looked up the description of it. Disney's Wish is about a 17-year-old teenage girl of color on, and look, I'm not like, I love 17-year-old women of color.

Starting point is 00:06:18 And I know that's going to sound really weird and someone's going to clip that out. I'm just saying I'm not, I don't have anything against any of those demographics, but when every single movie is just a chick instead of a guy, especially in a hero's story, it's like a chick playing a guy, but it's a chick. And it's the white people have gone extinct. This is the new toy story. Because the franchise is kind of old, all the toys are white. They couldn't get rid of them.

Starting point is 00:06:46 But all the people are just not white. There are any, and it's like every person who should be a boy as a girl, and it's just, when you do that, it's really tedious in the audiences don't want it anymore. This is why people are worried about Christopher Nolan's Odyssey movie. Christopher Nolan is a great filmmaker, I hope it's good, but Lupita Njango, lovely actress, though she is, very talented actress, she's not Helen of Troy. She's not Helen of Troy. And Ellen Page is not a guy. You know, she's just not a guy. It was reported that she was playing Achilles. I guess she's not playing Achilles. I guess she's not playing Achilles. And again, she's not a guy. And so people just find that all very, very tedious. I think they've just released the final trailer for The Odyssey. So we have, you know, some of the reporting is changing day by day on exactly what this movie is about. Here, here is everything we know. Little snippet from the Odyssey trailer. I could take this room. They're not giving up power to you or Odysseus. Do you think life goes back to the way it was? That world is God.

Starting point is 00:07:57 If you returned, he'd have to kill him. Let you will. You gods don't speak in ways that we understand. Who doesn't understand pain? Of blood. The gods told you. Then I defy the gods. Okay.

Starting point is 00:08:31 Movies take a little while to make so you think, okay, maybe this is the hangover of peak wokeness, which is 2022, 2023. But we're past that now. You know, movies generally don't take four years to make. So they keep insisting upon this, and that is what turns people off. In a way, I wish that we could blame the decline in the box office just on the genres. I hate the superhero movies. I'm so sick of them.

Starting point is 00:08:54 It's the only thing Hollywood wanted to make. But the superhero movies still do very well. The biggest grossing films of the last 10 years are the superhero movies. They still perform well. What people hate is what South Park said about Kathleen Kennedy, which is that they make it gay and put a chick in it. So even if you look at the Star Wars sequels, you see a just constant, very serious decline, movie to movie in the box office. From the second movie to the first, down 36 percent. From the third movie to the second, you're down 19 percent.

Starting point is 00:09:24 So they keep declining. Okay, what is the answer to that? Hollywood has it so easy. Hollywood could still make the kinds of movies that it wants. it could still make the superhero movies, it could still even resuscitate the corpse of Star Wars, which they should have let lie in rest after like 1983, but they won't.

Starting point is 00:09:46 They don't have a lot of new ideas. On the rare occasions that there are new ideas, not coming out of Hollywood, but coming out of independent movies, like the horror movie, was it, obsession, which was great. It was a terrific little movie. Those do really, really well.

Starting point is 00:09:57 That is dollar for dollar, basically the highest performing movie ever. But Hollywood could still do all their stupid, dead franchises. they could still have all the lazy writing. They just need to let men play characters that should be men and let white people be in the movies to like a reasonable degree. And if they just did that,

Starting point is 00:10:21 if they just eliminated even the most basic aspects of woke, wokeism which died in the public's mind three, four years ago, they could have it all. They could have it all. It's just this one weird thing and they won't do it. There's a lot more to say. First, though, go to helixleep. slash Knowles. Do you want to perform at the highest level? Then you cannot ignore sleep. The data are

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Starting point is 00:12:44 funny. And it was in the early hours of the rally. So there weren't even a ton of people there. And he was telling very funny jokes. And I think he called Puerto Rico a garbage pile or something. There's a lot going on. Like, I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah. I think it's called Puerto Rico. The way he said it was funny. Anyway, he went totally viral for it. They tried to cancel him for it. And this got me tuned in to Kill Tony, which I think is one of the biggest podcasts in the world, right? One thing I really respect is that it's not just a bunch of pros and stuff that he like, everyone's got a wait in line and it's random and it's a lot of amateurs and they can either totally flop or anyway. So I haven't watched a ton of it, but I'm very pro Tony Hinchcliff. So the producers are Kill Tony Pilling me with the very best clips. Take it away. Hello, Austin, how are we? Amazing. I went to the cafe yesterday, sitting there,

Starting point is 00:13:46 and then I overheard a couple having an argument. You know when you hear that sweet nectar of life? You know when you like pause your own music? And they're going at it. And then I look who the couple is. It's two gay guys going at it. Sh-h-was crazy. They, like, both made sense.

Starting point is 00:14:23 Everybody stayed on one topic. Nobody was bringing up old shit. Just two logical, superior brains trying to find a solution. Thank you very much. Thank you. Wow, great. Okay, it started out slow.

Starting point is 00:14:54 I didn't know if the accent was a put on. Maybe it is. I don't know. And then, I don't know, it just wasn't doing it for me. But the punchine was so strong. What a great, what a great bit. Two gay guys have an argument that made too much sense. You know, too, okay, that's, yeah.

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Starting point is 00:15:20 Well, shouldn't call him my son anymore. Now that he's dead to me, uh, they got him on puberty blockers, or his pedophiles call him preservatives. Miracle medicine. The other day of my job, I was explaining puberty blockers to one of the midgets.

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Starting point is 00:16:37 I mean, the only really funny joke was the preservatives. That was pretty funny. I can't tell some of it was just that he's too nervous. And being eccentric looking can work in comedy. The clearest version of that is Rodney Dangerfield. Yes, it is. Who just kind of had his eyes popping out and he kind of moved around like this and it worked because it still seemed like he was totally in control. Whereas that guy just was too nervous.

Starting point is 00:16:59 And he obviously wasn't in control and it wasn't all landing. Enough of this shit will make you invincible. and eviscerate your enemies. So he gets like one point out of ten. Because the one, the preservatives joke is pretty funny, but the rest of it was kind of flat. There's a lot more to say first, though. Go to tachovus.com slash knolls, K-O-W-L-E-S.

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Starting point is 00:19:38 Okay, that's fine. That's like an okay joke. But I don't know. That didn't do that much for me. I'm still on the high of the two men arguing. It was too rational. But that didn't do a lot for me. Next one.

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Starting point is 00:20:10 And then I came back here. And I'm like in this time. I realized how to make America great again, actually. What you do is you go live in Turkey for two years. And then you come back. And it's spectacular again. Yeah, it's kind of funny. Sort of, you know, dry foreigner.

Starting point is 00:20:34 It's a trope. That's, okay. It was fine. I got fired from Chick-fil-A. Apparently, ladies didn't like the way it was saying, my pleasure. You know, I've never been able to coast on the way I look, you know. I was never that hot, but I'm interesting, you know. I can make girls think, I make girls think stuff like, hey, is that guy following me?

Starting point is 00:21:12 One time this girl getting into my car for a day. date she agreed to. First thing she said was just so you know, I have pepper spray in my purse. It's like, just so you know, you shouldn't tell me where it is. Yeah, that's pretty good. Is that Rich Voss? Is that Rich Voss here on the end? Wow, that, these are, yeah, anyway, that was, that was a funny bit.

Starting point is 00:21:40 He's got the character down. The set didn't totally land, but the, that was fine, the character's kind of funny. That's great. So the whole show is just that. Should I go do it? I could tell my killer jokes. A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says, would you like a beer? And the horse says, I think not.

Starting point is 00:22:03 Poof, he vanishes. Now, you see, that's a joke about the French philosopher René Descartes. But if I had told you that part first, I would have been putting Descartes before the horse. Why do bagels saff? Why do seagulls fly over the sea? because if they flew over the bay, they would be bagels. See you next time. Can you do the close again?

Starting point is 00:22:34 Just say, see you next time. That was great content, guys. Can you just give me a scene? Because I was talking over program, I'm not sure if the audio is split or not. That show is actually pretty funny. Can you just do a straight face? See you next time? Yeah, what's up?

Starting point is 00:22:50 You talked over program? I didn't hear you at all. I didn't hear you until you popped in at the end there. See you next time. All right. That's our show. I will be back with you tomorrow, piping in from the outer realm, and then I'll be back in studio on Monday. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Nulls show. See you then.

The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2011 - The Odyssey Is Set Up For DISASTER After Supergirl Bombs

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