You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie. I am your host,
Mike. I am joined by nobody again. It's just
one of those days where I just want to get an
episode out there. So I've watched a bad movie.
I'm going to tell you all about it. And I can
tell you right now, just to give you a little
preview, if you haven't seen the title of the
episode you're watching yet, it's about one of
the first black superhero movies. One of the
first. So if you think you know what it is and
you haven't seen the title yet, because that's
definitely going to give it away. Stay tuned
and you'll find out what it is later. But of
course, we always start the show the same way.
What are we drinking? I have a Naughty Nurse
IPA from City Steam Brewing that is in beautiful
Hartford, Connecticut. It is a decent beer. It's
not bad. I got it for free. Otherwise, I probably
wouldn't have gotten myself. But it's not a bad
beer. It's just middle of the road. So if you
hear me stop talking at certain points, I'm probably
enjoying a sip or two of that. It was Thanksgiving
this week, so Andre and Jill were out of town
visiting family. Don't blame them. Claire had
to work, so I was here. And so we really didn't
see anybody, but my parents come this week. So
I decided that I needed to see a bad movie. Originally,
I was stuck between two because I wanted to watch
a Thanksgiving bad movie. But neither one...
really seemed like the right choice. So I've
been doing a lot of horror movies lately. So
watching Thanksgiving, for example, just seems
like a little too much because it's just one
of those movies that a lot of people talk about
and everything. Plus, I've been doing a lot of
horror this year. I just kind of wanted to do
something a little different. So I didn't do
Thanksgiving. The other one on my list was Friendsgiving,
which is a Netflix movie that apparently is boring,
which is... The cardinal sin of movies, don't
be boring. You are supposed to entertain. The
worst thing you can do as a movie is be boring.
But it's one of those movies that I feel like
not a lot of people are talking about. And not
that I don't care about listens or anything like
that. I really don't. But I had the opportunity
that I found a movie that I thought more people
would want to hear about and talk about. So,
it does deal with family. and it is a superhero
movie, but one of the worst ones from the 90s,
it is Steel, the movie starring Shaquille O 'Neal.
I still remember when they were trying to make
Shaq a movie star. He's definitely a TV star
now, but just Shaq the movie star was an interesting
time in the 90s. If you haven't seen Steel, it's
a product of the 90s. It definitely is. The clothes,
the catchphrases, the... Everything about it
is just 90s, 90s, 90s. So, let's get talking
about this movie. Our character for Shaq is John
Henry Irons. Yes, John Henry. That is his real,
actual name. He is a military tech provider.
He has created these weapons that are like sound
waves or lasers. All of this stuff that... is
super high tech that him and his partner Sparks
worked on. Sparks is played by Annabeth Gish.
I hope I'm pronouncing that right. She's been
in a lot of TV shows, stuff like that, but she's
also been in things like Before I Wake, Mystic
Pizza, Nixon, as well as other things, including
she's been in Barry, Midnight Mass, and The Haunting
of Hill House, just to name a few. All those
TV shows. But you've definitely seen her in something.
In this movie, she is the brains behind the operation.
She's the one that probably is the one that built
the weapons. No offense, Shaq, but even though
he is a doctor, Dr. Shaq, because he has a few
doctorates, this is definitely Sparks' show.
So they start the movie off by testing these
weapons by firing at a tank. And originally you're
just kind of like, oh, okay, cool. You know,
they want to see if it stops a tank. Then a person
jumps out of the tank. There's live people in
this test where they're firing weapons at. And
the guy yells, my butt is on fire. And the colonel
goes, I thought I smelled nuts burning. Just
a great start to this film. And that's the first
two lines. It's not even, we're... 20 seconds
in, those are the first two lines. My butt is
on fire. Thought I smelled nuts burning. So Shaq
has created this. Him and his partner Sparks,
they're very close. They have a connection. They
also have a lot of sexual tension. There also
is this guy, Nathaniel Burke. He works with them.
He is on the opposite spectrum of John Henry.
John Henry is a person that cares about people.
He created these weapons to have them at a low
frequency so that he won't be killing people,
he'll just be stunning and disabling them. Whereas
Nathaniel Burke says, let's turn it up, let's
get it going, let's kill people. And there's
a senator visiting, seeing these weapons, that
is really into Burke's style. And so they do
another test where they're trying to bring down
a wall of... a building across the way. So they're
in another building, they're trying to bring
down a wall of a building that's across the town.
Basically, John Henry's like, okay, cool, I'll
do the test, you know, same old test as always.
But Burke asks the colonel if he can do the test,
and he turns up the frequency and fires. Of course,
John Henry, slow motion, goes, no! And I started
a counter for slow -mo, because I figured there'd
be a lot more slow -mo in this movie than there
was. There's really only two times. But it's
the cliche yelling, as well as, so the building
around them comes down because it's too much
energy. It kills the senator, and Sparks' legs
are under a wall. Obviously, John Henry, because
he's super strong and cares so much about Sparks,
lifts the wall off of her, saving her life. But
in the process, she is crippled for the rest
of her life. Next, we go to a courtroom scene.
It is John Henry testifying, saying that it was
Burke. He definitely was the one that did it.
Not a chance that anybody else did it. And so...
Burke, like, finds him after the trial and is
just like, this is all your fault. Like, I was
going to rise to the top. I had the senator.
This is all your fault. I seem to remember that
Burke fired it. Burke turned up the frequency.
I don't remember John Henry ever turning it up
and firing and basically crippling his best friend.
After this happens, basically Steele feels this
guilt. steal. Uh, John Henry feels this guilt.
John Henry Irons feels this guilt because his
best friend's hurt, can't walk ever again, and
he doesn't want to hurt people. So he decides
he's going to leave the army. Um, of course he
does that. And then he visits Sparks in the hospital
and she basically is like trying to talk to him
and everything. And she's like, as soon as I'm
back on my feet and John Henry looks at the nurse
and the nurse immediately just shakes her head.
No. Not happening. She's never going to be able
to walk again. But it's now a couple weeks, months.
We don't know the timeline. It's a little bit
after this. He's gone back home. He's back in
L .A. He's the guy like all the kids in the neighborhood
know. It's definitely supposed to be Compton.
They don't ever exclusively say that, but it
definitely gave me Compton vibes. So Shaq's like
walking through the town and he's like, hey,
how you doing? Good to see you. You know, doing
the finger pointing, that kind of stuff. And
he comes to a bunch of kids that are playing
basketball. The basketball rolls to him and Shaq,
being Shaq, picks it up and shoots a three pointer.
And this is the most realistic part of the movie
because Shaq comes nowhere close. It's an air
ball. I just found that funny that they would
even include that in the movie because I would
think Shaq wouldn't want it. If he's able to
laugh at himself, good for him. He goes home
to where his grandmother is and also a kid named
Martin. Martin, I don't know how they're related.
I think they're brothers, but they are very obviously
like super different ages. Like Martin's 15,
about to get his first job kind of thing. And
Shaq was in the military for multiple... I'm
just going to call him Jack or John Henry. I
don't know. It's going to be flip -flop throughout
the whole thing. But they go to Grandma's house,
and Grandma is making a souffle. Because she
is learning how to do French cuisine, she wants
to start her own restaurant. She's already the
best character. You know, she takes no sass and
everything like that. I also realized at this
point that Martin is played by Ray J. Yes, Ray
J. Of the fame of the Kim Kardashian sex tape.
So, that blew my mind there for sure. Meanwhile,
Nathaniel Burke, he has a friend that owns an
arcade store. It's not an arcade per se, but
people can go play there. Basically, he's selling
the arcade games to the arcades. The person who
runs this facility also has a secret base that
is selling... He basically outfits the guns for
the gangs of LA. So, Burke goes to him. His name
is Big Willie, because of course it is Big Willie.
And basically he says to Big Willie, I have this
prototype. I want to sell it. I think you're
the guy that can fund me for this. So, they start
going to work. Burke's first prototype burns
the guy shooting it, testing it out. It burns
his eye, but... It destroys the target, so Big
Willie's like, yes, this is exactly what I want
it to be. This girl, Duvree, she's only in one
scene. She's like, but what about, like, you
burned him. This is not okay. You can't be okay
with this. And basically, Burke, still heavy
with bloodlust, is like, it's fine. It's just
a prototype. He'll live. He didn't die. It's
okay. And Duvree's just like, well. The next
prototype could go wrong and that should be you
firing. Okay, good for her. So everybody's getting
ready to leave. Oh, Burke wants to talk to this
guy, Singer, who's in the elevator with Duvray.
So he's like, Singer, can I talk to you for a
second? And Singer walks out. Burke looks at
Duvray and waves at her and presses a button.
The elevator explodes. and falls down the elevator
shaft, killing Duvree, we think. We don't know
for sure. And basically, he puts his arm around
Singer and says, Now you know what we're going
to do. You're lucky you weren't involved. Dude
is, like, the worst villain. Because I actually
think a good hammy villain would have been great
for this. Like, over -the -top, person -eating
scenery, like... would have made this movie better.
Burks is good, but he's not great. So we go back
to John and Martin. He's also worried that Martin
is going down the wrong path and is going to
end up in a gang. So John scheduled his ride
along with Norma so that Martin can see the good
side of L .A. and the cops and everything like
that and hopefully go the right direction. But
Martin's already telling him, I don't need to
see this. I got offered a job, and it's a legit
job. It's not a gang thing, anything like that.
They're doing their ride -along. We get our first
look at the weapons in action for the bad guys.
It is a bunch of gang members that are running
an armed robbery at a bank to try to get money
to fund the next round of weapons. So they break
in and literally one of the guys has an eye patch.
I wish I was joking, but he literally had an
eye patch. He will be a big part of the rest
of this. Norma gets the call and is like, I know
I'm taking two civilians, but we got to go stop
this armed robbery. And Martin's like freaking
out because he's so excited. John, a bunch of
cops get there first. gang members shoot the
cops, and John runs out of the car to help them.
Meanwhile, Norma parks her car in front of the
gang members' vehicle to try to stop them from
escaping. They use the sound wave, flip her car
over, and John needs to get her out before it
explodes. Now, when the car's flipped over, there's
no fire, no nothing, but it flashes to John and
Martin. with the cops that are on the ground
and literally it's like blazing on their faces
like it's so hot and then we look at the car
and it's on fire out of nowhere so it just wasn't
and then it was again uh three of the robbers
escape in the vehicle but the fourth is still
there so he runs away and john's like i'm going
to stop this guy and it's just a test or it's
just a spot to show us that John is really strong.
He breaks down like a door, a metal fence that,
you know, the guy had to jump over. He saved
this guy and basically the robber is getting
away, but all of a sudden John is just next to
him like, where'd you get these weapons? And
the guy goes, oh, you know, around and shoots
him with the sound wave, knocking him over. And
then he fires the sound wave at a train car.
sending it towards john john of course being
the smart guy that he is rolls to the open doorway
and the rail car so that when the car goes over
he'll be in the rail car protected and not squished
and then he breaks through the top of the railway
car because he's so strong he catches the guy
and is about to like interrogate him when the
eyepatch guy comes out and shoots him from behind
with the sound wave, knocking him out. So the
robbers are able to escape. John's knocked out.
Martin's okay. Norma's waiting for an ambulance
because they're coming and I think the other
two cops are dead. That's what happens night
one. We haven't even gotten to the fact that
he is still yet. It's just John Henry's exploits
at this point trying to stop the weapons. So,
the next day, John is on the phone with the colonel
saying these robbers have these weapons. We need
to figure out how they got them and we need to
stop them. And the colonel's, well, we can't
do that. Like, we're not allowed to do that or
interfere. These weapons are going to get on
the street one way or another. And he also says
that everything's accounted for. I can't see
how anyone would have these weapons. And John
Henry says, you can't see anything with your
head up your ass, Colonel. And breaks the phone
because he slams it so hard. And of course, because
he's so strong. So John's next intention is to
go to where the gang members' hangout is. It's
a bar. Basically, they were wearing purple. And
Martin just happened to know this is this gang.
I didn't catch the gang's name. But they're all
like wearing like MC Hammer style clothes. It's
so 90s. The music is just everything 90s. It's
ridiculous. It just hurts how much this movie
is 90s. John Henry walks in three feet taller
than everybody else. And the guy with the eye
patch goes, look, it's the Jolly Black Giant.
Some of these one -liners were excellent and
made me laugh and caught me off guard. basically
John starts asking about the weapons. They're
not telling him anything. They said you got it
from your mama's house, you know, like that kind
of stuff. He holds a guy against the wall, ready
to pound him. And all of a sudden a bunch of
guns come onto him. And he's like, all right,
fine. I know when I'm outmatched, not one person
fires. I mean, I think he would probably be dead
in this situation in real life, especially with
how big he is. And the fact that he is. He could
probably take a few of you out before you could
kill him. I think they would jump at that opportunity
when they had it. But they didn't. And so now
he's trying to figure out what to do. And he
needs to get Sparks' help. Sparks has been moved
from the army hospital to basically... I don't
even know what to call it. It's like an army
hospice. She's in a wheelchair. She's staring
at the window. And basically just not facing
him at all. He sits there and is like talking
with her. And she just won't look at him. And
it's so weird to me because the last time they
were together. Like she was still very like positive.
And you're my hero. You saved my life. I'll never
forget this. I owe you everything. Now she's
not even looking at him and blames him for a
lot of things. I guess because character development.
I don't know. It's one of those things. So, he
basically picks up her wheelchair and takes her
out of there and is like, you're helping me.
You're coming to LA with me. And the people start
cheering as he carries her out in the wheelchair.
I don't know why. They just start cheering, I
guess. But basically, they set up shop. They
are in a junkyard. And she's like, why did you
bring me to this junkyard? And he goes, This
junkyard is Uncle Joe's, who's played by Richard
Roundtree. Love Richard Roundtree, that he's
in this movie. He's phenomenal. Richard Roundtree
owns this junkyard, and basically the idea is
they're going to create weapons to destroy the
weapons they made. Well, it's a junkyard. They're
not going to have anything. Of course, Uncle
Joe has a bunch of friends, and he puts in front
of her this computer, and she's like, whoa, where'd
you get this? And he goes, oh, it fell off a
truck. And wouldn't you know it? No dings, no
nothing. And she's like, looks at him and he's
like, you know, a lot of things fall off trucks
around here. We can make it happen. Just write
a list. And basically she starts smiling for
the first time after her accident and is, all
right, cool. Let's do this. Uh, we also then
find out on the other side that Burke is hiring
Martin to work at the arcade store. And one of
the best lines, because it's so stupid, is he
gets introduced by another person. And Burke's
like, oh, cool. Like, yeah, I'd love to give
you a job. You can call me the man. And it's
just in the background. And it's just so, so
cheesy. So awful, so cheesy, so everything. Obviously,
you can see where this is starting to go. So,
I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to
play you a couple commercials because we do have
to get those out of the way. And then we'll tell
you about the second half of Steel, which we
haven't even seen Steel at this point. And it's
probably an hour into this Hour 40 movie. Alright,
I'll see you after the break. And we're back.
So, at this point, Martin's working at the arcade
store. They're working on a weapon to destroy
weapons. This weapon's obviously going to be
steel. So they're like doing a montage of their
plans and everything. And there's a part where
basically John's not happy with the schematic.
So he starts rolling a ball and he throws it
at the trash can and it completely misses. And
he goes, what? I never could make free throws.
This movie is very self -referential, and I kind
of like that about it. It's not a good movie.
None of it is. But I honestly think it's pretty
good. So finally, we get the unveiling of the
steel suit. And more specifically, the hammer,
because John Henry has to have a hammer. So they
know about John Henry was a coal -driving man.
beat the railway, you know, that kind of stuff.
So, they built this hammer that has, like, special
gadgets inside. It's like a weaponized hammer.
And Richard Roundtree, Uncle Joe, says, I made
the hammer. I especially love the shaft. And
Shaq looks at him, and Richard Roundtree's just
like, What? What? So, so far, we've got a shaft
joke, we've got basketball jokes, and it gets
even weirder than that. They slapped a ton of
metal onto Shaq, and they put a helmet on him,
and basically the only thought I have in my head
is Shaq's already slow. Let's put a bunch of
metal on him and make him slower. That sounds
like a great plan. So he wants to test out a
suit. There's a punk that starts, he's mugging
these rich people, and basically... Steel, the
mugger has a switchblade, Steel has his hammer,
and basically dispenses the punk real easily,
gets the stuff back, gives it back to the mugging
victims. The mugging victims are really grateful,
say he's very nice, he's very tall, and everything
like that. This comes back later in the movie.
So, he's done his test, and he's like, great,
if you hear about any weapons, I'm going. So
basically he's gone from this punk with a switchblade
and now he's going to go take on an entire gang
fight that's firing like real guns and everything
like that. All of the guns are like the bullets
are bouncing off his steel suit and he gives
the finger wave, the Dikembe Mutombo style. And
so then he basically does a sound wave out of
his hammer on the car to stop them and get them
to run away. And takes care of the rest of them
with an electromagnet that grabs all the guns
and necklaces and stuff like that and attaches
it to his suit. And he turns off the electromagnet
and everything shuts off. Or everything falls
off. And he's like, perfect, now go. Police are
coming. Hot chase. It's this whole thing. He
gets away from the police to get to the junkyard
where she has basically already made this like
hidden bat cave, essentially the steel cave in
the junkyard. And Richard Rountree says, well,
I'll be dipped in shit and rolled in breadcrumbs.
I've never heard that line before in my life.
I don't think that's a real line. I think that's
something that got made up for this movie. It's
ridiculous. Also during this chase, there's like
nobody on the streets. There's no cars, no nothing.
This is LA. Are there like six people that live
there? We see the same people over and over and
over again. Even when he's being chased by the
police, John Henry even sees Martin and Grandma
walking down the street. And it's just the same
six people. Also, one of the things I was going
to say is the police officer is played by Tom
Berry. Tom Berry played James Jordan, Michael
Jordan's father, in Space Jam. So we have another
basketball reference and a reference to Space
Jam. So Shaft, Space Jam, and basketball jokes
all are in this. And so Steel apparently exists
in the Space Jam universe and the Shaft universe,
which is its own thing. And I also had the question,
how many seven -footers live in this neighborhood?
Because it's pretty obvious, the one seven -footer...
is obviously Steele. So how is his secret identity
a secret? So Burke, after they see that Steele
exists on cameras and stuff like that, seeing
him in videos and everything, gets his gang leader,
who's the guy with the eye patch, they meet in
a park, and basically he gives him a hot dog
and says, eat the hot dog. Don't be a hot dog.
You can never underestimate your enemy. It's
so bad. And it also is supposed to be a turkey
dog because the eyepatch guy doesn't eat pork.
Cool. All right. Fine. It wasn't that big a deal.
I didn't really make any notes of it. It does
come back later. So they're doing rounds. So
Steel is doing rounds in the neighborhood. He
is in a truck with... Richard Roundtree, Uncle
Joe, and their dog, their dog's name, dog's name
is Lily. But the thing is with Lily is whenever
they're in the truck, Lily is just straightforward,
not moving. And so I'm pretty sure Lily was a
fake dog every time they are in the truck. It's
ridiculous because it does not move. Gang members
that have the high -tech weapons, they are breaking
into another bank to get more money. So this
is a big deal. They basically clear this bank
immediately. So I made the note that I think
this is some of the best shooting I've seen bad
guys have in a movie before. And even with steel,
they do hit him with bullets and everything like
that, but it just bounces off his suit. And they
also hit him with the lasers at this fight with
the bank. Because he realizes that his suit's
taking a lot of damage. He still feels it because
it's made of the same material. So it's not like
he can just withstand all of these laser hits
and all these sound blasts. Including there's
a part where the sound blast turned all the way
up on frequency knocks him flying through the
air. The bad guys get away. Steel is getting
chased by the police again. So he has to get
out of there. He gets out of there. But he does
save the bad guys as they're going. They shoot
down a helicopter. And he does save Tom Berry
or James Jordan or whatever his name is. Because
he's just senior detective in this movie. So
he saves James Jordan. And that's what I'm just
going to call him. Or Tom Berry, his actor's
name. So he saves him. Takes a hit to the chin.
Definitely bleeding a little bit and everything.
but he's fine for the most part. Now, all of
these weapons have been seen on the news and
everything like that, so it starts going around
that the French want these weapons, the Colombians
want these weapons, and then a group of skinheads
are in it too, and they want these weapons. So
Burke essentially gets all of them together to
get these weapons by the end of the movie. That's
all you need to know right now because it doesn't
happen yet. Steele gets out of his... uniform,
goes home. Grandma is there and it's apparent.
She knows he's Steele. Like it's just obvious.
Martin's an idiot because he hears, he hears
things and like doesn't realize he's Steele.
He doesn't realize that John Henry is Steele.
Grandma, it's obvious. He's tall. He's kind.
He's polite. You know, it's obvious that Steele
is John Henry. Burke sends the SWAT to John Henry's
house to arrest him because they know he's Steele.
And he doctored the footage to make it look like
Steele did the bank robbery. So the SWAT comes
in. They basically are like, you're under arrest
for suspicion of being Steele and breaking into
a bank. And Marcus hears this but doesn't think
about it, I guess, because it doesn't really
happen. You know, like it does. Nothing comes
from it right away, especially because Marcus,
I think he's just trying to like not believe
it. So. Steel or John Henry gets put into a lineup.
The mugging victims are there and they're going,
well, like he was on the right side of justice.
He helped us get our stuff back. I don't want
to do a lineup to get him arrested. And so they
just say as they're looking at him. and the lineup
is two five -footers, two six -footers, and in
the middle is seven -foot -six Shaquille O 'Neal.
And they're just like, oh, yeah, he's definitely
not here, knowing full well who Steele is. And
I love how they just kind of... So then they
get Tom Berry to come in and look at all of them,
and... Basically because he got a good look at
him to decide who Steel is. So he comes in and
he's looking at all of them. And I love how they
play it up like it could be anybody. But he looks
at the seven footer and gives him a knowing glance
and goes, Yeah, he's not here. They still put
him in jail because they've been told that he
is Steel. And that they have it on good accord
that he is Steel. Luckily... Sparks can do everything.
Because she is just... She's a god mode cheat
code is what I said. She can build weapons, she
can hack things, and she can create new technology.
So she impersonates the DA to get him released
from jail so that they can go and save the day.
How they do this is basically they get his signature.
They fax over, fax over a pardon from the mayor
with the signature from the DA. And basically
they also like took his voice to call and tell
the police that this was coming and that the
DA wants him free by one o 'clock or there's
going to be trouble, damn it. And so the police
just let him go. So. Steel is getting ready for
this big showdown. He knows that there's a meeting
coming together with the French, the Colombians,
the skinheads, and Burke, as well as Big Willie
and the gang members. So... Steel is basically,
alright, cool, we're going to... He also has
broken ribs because of the sound attack. It broke
his ribs. We... You don't know it for sure, but
all of a sudden, Sparks goes quiet on the line.
And you're just thinking to yourself, you know
where this is going. She's been taken hostage.
She's in a wheelchair. She's been making wheelchair
modifications the whole movie because I forgot
about that part and it comes back later. We're
pretty confident she gets kidnapped. So Steele
is breaking into this meeting to stop the weapons
sales as well as to stop Burke. He comes in guns
blazing with his hammer. And Burke's like, ah,
ah, ah, not so fast. We have Sparks, and basically
one of the gang members has Sparks in her wheelchair,
and she's at gunpoint. And so Steel's like, ah,
I can't do anything. So he puts his hammer down,
and he basically lays on the ground. And I don't
get why he lays on the ground. It's not necessary.
But he has broken ribs, so it's like one of those
things where he doesn't want to get into a fight
and he doesn't want to put Sparks at risk. Also
at this time, Richard Roundtree slash Uncle Joe
is walking around looking for them and he gets
the idea he's going to call the military, the
army, to get them there so that they can take
care of these weapons. He goes to the car and
somebody jumps up on him. And is like, alright,
drop it. And basically, Uncle Joe goes, okay,
okay. Lily, Lily, Lily! The dog jumps and bites
the guy and takes him out. So I was like, dog
save the day. That's what happened. Dog save
the day, Lily's the hero. End of movie, right?
Of course not. So it goes back to the scene where
Steel is basically surrendering. Sparks is in
trouble. what what's going to happen next we
don't know what is going to be the next thing
that happens big willie is is basically saying
like yes we're going to provide this for you
and burke goes no i and he shoots big willie
big willie dead gone all six minutes are all
six lines of his dialogue out the window then
the gang leaders are basically like whoa whoa
whoa like What the hell? Because he said that
they're not needed either. So Burke fires at
one of them, but the guy with the eye patch basically
avoids it, gets behind the truck. So Steele sees
this opportunity and is like, all right, cool.
Let's do something else. They're behind the truck.
Burke is talking about how his hammer is like
he grabs the hammer and he's like, this is going
to be the next big thing. and Steel's like, yeah,
you know, like, I can show you how this works
and everything like that. So he tells Burke to
not push the red switch. Of course Burke does.
It turns on the electromagnet, and his hammer
goes to Steel, as well as some of the weapons
the other guns, arms dealers had on them. The
new weapons are basically, don't have metal in
them, so they're not coming, but... They are
also away from Burke at this point, so there's
nothing he can really do in this moment. Meanwhile,
Sparks hits a button on her wheelchair, and all
of a sudden it starts firing lasers at everywhere,
including she even hit Steel at one point. And
I was kind of sitting there going, wow, she doesn't
care about him at all, does she? She's like,
I'm just going to fire at whoever, and hopefully
I get bad guys. Burke runs away. Everybody starts
firing at everybody. The gang leaders, they are
trying to get Burke, but they can't. But luckily
for Burke, he has an ace in the hole because
Steel has chased him down. The ace in the hole?
Yeah, he has Martin. He grabs Martin, hides behind
him, has a gun to his head, and Steel doesn't
know what to do. He's stuck there for a second.
But Richard Roundtree is walking around. and
sees this, grabs a gun, and shoots Burke, knocking
him out of the fight. So, Steel then is able
to grab Martin and protect him. They run and
get locked in a room, and one of the henchmen
tosses a grenade in, and basically, Steel is
trying to find a way, and Martin's like, we're
locked in, and then he looks up and he sees a
hole. In the ceiling. And he's like, you gotta
throw it out of here. And Steele goes, I was
never good at this kind of shot. And Martin goes,
just bend your knees and take a deep breath.
You can do it. So there's a slow motion second
time where he throws the grenade like a free
throw. And it... Goes through and saves the day
because it explodes outside of the room, knocks
out the henchman and opens the door so they can
get out. They take the vehicle and like the new
vehicle and basically drive it out of the wall.
Sparks had rocket boosters to her wheelchair
so she was able to get out and get Uncle Joe.
And so then they're just all talking and. He
also, the arms dealers got away at this point.
They were basically all gone. It was just Burke
versus Steele. That was the whole fight and everything
like that. The arms dealers, luckily, they got
to run into the army because Uncle Joe called
the army. So the day is saved. Everybody's stopped.
All the weapons are contained. Everything like
that. Marcus finally realizes it's John Henry.
And goes, oh, my God, like, I can be your Rodman.
I mean, Robin. And, you know, it's just another
basketball pun on this basketball movie. It goes
to the next day and the army colonel is trying
to find Steele. But he's using a scrambler as
well as he's using a voice translator to sound
like Arnold Schwarzenegger. So the army colonel
is just like, I know this isn't your voice. I
know you aren't in a diner in Cincinnati. I will
find you steel and I will take those weapons
back. We can't have you on the run with them.
He goes, good luck. Bye. And so the day is saved.
Everybody's happy. Sparks and steel that never
actually makes it look, or they never actually
kissed or anything like that, but it definitely
looks like they're going to have a happy ending.
Grandma got the restaurant she wanted. We don't
know how. She also perfected her souffle because
every time she tried to make a souffle, it kept
deflating. Days saved. Steals the hero. I watched
this movie. It happened. Some background about
the movie. It was directed and written by Kenneth
Johnson. Kenneth Johnson is also... He's done
writing and directing for The Bionic Woman, Curse
of Dracula, The Incredible Hulk. All those 70s,
80s TV shows. He also was the director of Short
Circuit 2, which I did not know that Short Circuit
had a sequel, but apparently it does. You know,
cool. He's also done some TV directing nowadays
with... Oh, he was the director for Xenon Girl
of the 21st Century. That's fun. He was also
Don't Look Under the Bed. He was the director
for a couple episodes of JAG. A little bit of
everything. He's still writing as far as I can
tell. He wrote the VTV miniseries back in the
70s. And then he also wrote it when they tried
to reboot it. He wrote 22 episodes of that for
the 2009 and 2011. So really he hasn't done anything
since 2011. But yeah, so that is Kenneth Johnson
who directed and wrote along with the original
comic book writers of steel uh steel if you don't
know any comic book history about it basically
he was supposed to fill in for superman after
the death of superman comic book arc so a lot
of times in this movie they call them man of
steel um just because i they're making it funny
on that i guess pretty much so yeah um steel
90s movie definitely, cheesy, Shaq should never
act, um, the funny thing is, I actually don't
think he's the worst actor in it, and it's, it's
gonna be that, uh, Annabeth, um, Annabeth Gish,
and not for any other reason other than a lot
of the time she spent in front of a monitor,
just, Johnny, Johnny, are you okay? Johnny, is
it all right? Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, like, Should
have taken a drink every time she said Johnny.
I probably wouldn't have made it through the
movie. So yeah, that was Steel. I will give it...
I don't know. It's not the worst movie I've seen.
It's very cheesy, but it can also be a lot of
fun because it is kind of stupid. I'll say one
and a half out of five. Let's go... Butt Rivets.
Because he had to get riveted into his suit,
so he had rivets for his butt. So one and a half
out of five butt rivets for Steel. So yeah. That
was a bad movie I watched this week. Hoping to
do more episodes with our friends. They get back
I think later this week. So I'm hoping that we
can be able to do an episode together. As well
as I will be stockpiling some episodes. Watching
some bad movies and doing some episodes on my
own. Just so there's something always coming.
So that's Game for a Movie. Where we ask, are
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