WEBVTT 00:00:01.929 --> 00:00:03.669 You know what that sound means? It's another 00:00:03.669 --> 00:00:06.110 episode of Game for a Movie. I am your host, 00:00:06.209 --> 00:00:09.429 Mike. I am joined by nobody again. It's just 00:00:09.429 --> 00:00:10.949 one of those days where I just want to get an 00:00:10.949 --> 00:00:13.150 episode out there. So I've watched a bad movie. 00:00:13.330 --> 00:00:15.550 I'm going to tell you all about it. And I can 00:00:15.550 --> 00:00:17.309 tell you right now, just to give you a little 00:00:17.309 --> 00:00:19.050 preview, if you haven't seen the title of the 00:00:19.050 --> 00:00:21.329 episode you're watching yet, it's about one of 00:00:21.329 --> 00:00:24.870 the first black superhero movies. One of the 00:00:24.870 --> 00:00:27.309 first. So if you think you know what it is and 00:00:27.309 --> 00:00:29.050 you haven't seen the title yet, because that's 00:00:29.050 --> 00:00:32.700 definitely going to give it away. Stay tuned 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:35.020 and you'll find out what it is later. But of 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:36.679 course, we always start the show the same way. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.979 What are we drinking? I have a Naughty Nurse 00:00:39.979 --> 00:00:43.600 IPA from City Steam Brewing that is in beautiful 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:48.000 Hartford, Connecticut. It is a decent beer. It's 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.399 not bad. I got it for free. Otherwise, I probably 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.380 wouldn't have gotten myself. But it's not a bad 00:00:53.380 --> 00:00:57.530 beer. It's just middle of the road. So if you 00:00:57.530 --> 00:01:00.109 hear me stop talking at certain points, I'm probably 00:01:00.109 --> 00:01:03.810 enjoying a sip or two of that. It was Thanksgiving 00:01:03.810 --> 00:01:05.890 this week, so Andre and Jill were out of town 00:01:05.890 --> 00:01:08.829 visiting family. Don't blame them. Claire had 00:01:08.829 --> 00:01:11.870 to work, so I was here. And so we really didn't 00:01:11.870 --> 00:01:14.709 see anybody, but my parents come this week. So 00:01:14.709 --> 00:01:19.150 I decided that I needed to see a bad movie. Originally, 00:01:19.150 --> 00:01:21.909 I was stuck between two because I wanted to watch 00:01:21.909 --> 00:01:24.670 a Thanksgiving bad movie. But neither one... 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:28.680 really seemed like the right choice. So I've 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:30.819 been doing a lot of horror movies lately. So 00:01:30.819 --> 00:01:34.000 watching Thanksgiving, for example, just seems 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.680 like a little too much because it's just one 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:40.159 of those movies that a lot of people talk about 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.159 and everything. Plus, I've been doing a lot of 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.480 horror this year. I just kind of wanted to do 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.959 something a little different. So I didn't do 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:50.019 Thanksgiving. The other one on my list was Friendsgiving, 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.040 which is a Netflix movie that apparently is boring, 00:01:53.219 --> 00:01:57.079 which is... The cardinal sin of movies, don't 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.540 be boring. You are supposed to entertain. The 00:01:59.540 --> 00:02:01.939 worst thing you can do as a movie is be boring. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.120 But it's one of those movies that I feel like 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.840 not a lot of people are talking about. And not 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.340 that I don't care about listens or anything like 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:14.039 that. I really don't. But I had the opportunity 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:17.180 that I found a movie that I thought more people 00:02:17.180 --> 00:02:20.159 would want to hear about and talk about. So, 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:24.490 it does deal with family. and it is a superhero 00:02:24.490 --> 00:02:27.870 movie, but one of the worst ones from the 90s, 00:02:27.889 --> 00:02:31.889 it is Steel, the movie starring Shaquille O 'Neal. 00:02:32.849 --> 00:02:34.789 I still remember when they were trying to make 00:02:34.789 --> 00:02:37.590 Shaq a movie star. He's definitely a TV star 00:02:37.590 --> 00:02:41.110 now, but just Shaq the movie star was an interesting 00:02:41.110 --> 00:02:45.650 time in the 90s. If you haven't seen Steel, it's 00:02:45.650 --> 00:02:48.930 a product of the 90s. It definitely is. The clothes, 00:02:49.050 --> 00:02:52.650 the catchphrases, the... Everything about it 00:02:52.650 --> 00:02:57.990 is just 90s, 90s, 90s. So, let's get talking 00:02:57.990 --> 00:03:02.990 about this movie. Our character for Shaq is John 00:03:02.990 --> 00:03:07.189 Henry Irons. Yes, John Henry. That is his real, 00:03:07.289 --> 00:03:11.870 actual name. He is a military tech provider. 00:03:12.129 --> 00:03:14.629 He has created these weapons that are like sound 00:03:14.629 --> 00:03:20.020 waves or lasers. All of this stuff that... is 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:23.960 super high tech that him and his partner Sparks 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:26.379 worked on. Sparks is played by Annabeth Gish. 00:03:26.699 --> 00:03:29.419 I hope I'm pronouncing that right. She's been 00:03:29.419 --> 00:03:31.219 in a lot of TV shows, stuff like that, but she's 00:03:31.219 --> 00:03:33.759 also been in things like Before I Wake, Mystic 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:38.460 Pizza, Nixon, as well as other things, including 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:42.039 she's been in Barry, Midnight Mass, and The Haunting 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:45.259 of Hill House, just to name a few. All those 00:03:45.259 --> 00:03:47.680 TV shows. But you've definitely seen her in something. 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:52.419 In this movie, she is the brains behind the operation. 00:03:52.659 --> 00:03:56.419 She's the one that probably is the one that built 00:03:56.419 --> 00:03:59.840 the weapons. No offense, Shaq, but even though 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:03.139 he is a doctor, Dr. Shaq, because he has a few 00:04:03.139 --> 00:04:06.659 doctorates, this is definitely Sparks' show. 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:11.080 So they start the movie off by testing these 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:14.879 weapons by firing at a tank. And originally you're 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:16.459 just kind of like, oh, okay, cool. You know, 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:18.899 they want to see if it stops a tank. Then a person 00:04:18.899 --> 00:04:21.899 jumps out of the tank. There's live people in 00:04:21.899 --> 00:04:24.360 this test where they're firing weapons at. And 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:26.740 the guy yells, my butt is on fire. And the colonel 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:30.579 goes, I thought I smelled nuts burning. Just 00:04:30.579 --> 00:04:33.040 a great start to this film. And that's the first 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:36.970 two lines. It's not even, we're... 20 seconds 00:04:36.970 --> 00:04:38.730 in, those are the first two lines. My butt is 00:04:38.730 --> 00:04:42.350 on fire. Thought I smelled nuts burning. So Shaq 00:04:42.350 --> 00:04:44.930 has created this. Him and his partner Sparks, 00:04:45.029 --> 00:04:48.370 they're very close. They have a connection. They 00:04:48.370 --> 00:04:51.430 also have a lot of sexual tension. There also 00:04:51.430 --> 00:04:55.050 is this guy, Nathaniel Burke. He works with them. 00:04:55.250 --> 00:05:00.250 He is on the opposite spectrum of John Henry. 00:05:00.410 --> 00:05:03.629 John Henry is a person that cares about people. 00:05:04.110 --> 00:05:06.129 He created these weapons to have them at a low 00:05:06.129 --> 00:05:08.709 frequency so that he won't be killing people, 00:05:08.850 --> 00:05:12.389 he'll just be stunning and disabling them. Whereas 00:05:12.389 --> 00:05:15.290 Nathaniel Burke says, let's turn it up, let's 00:05:15.290 --> 00:05:18.670 get it going, let's kill people. And there's 00:05:18.670 --> 00:05:22.629 a senator visiting, seeing these weapons, that 00:05:22.629 --> 00:05:27.810 is really into Burke's style. And so they do 00:05:27.810 --> 00:05:30.069 another test where they're trying to bring down 00:05:30.069 --> 00:05:35.019 a wall of... a building across the way. So they're 00:05:35.019 --> 00:05:36.939 in another building, they're trying to bring 00:05:36.939 --> 00:05:39.879 down a wall of a building that's across the town. 00:05:41.819 --> 00:05:44.680 Basically, John Henry's like, okay, cool, I'll 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:46.560 do the test, you know, same old test as always. 00:05:47.300 --> 00:05:49.839 But Burke asks the colonel if he can do the test, 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:53.560 and he turns up the frequency and fires. Of course, 00:05:53.579 --> 00:05:59.720 John Henry, slow motion, goes, no! And I started 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.259 a counter for slow -mo, because I figured there'd 00:06:02.259 --> 00:06:04.000 be a lot more slow -mo in this movie than there 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.699 was. There's really only two times. But it's 00:06:07.699 --> 00:06:11.939 the cliche yelling, as well as, so the building 00:06:11.939 --> 00:06:14.000 around them comes down because it's too much 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.740 energy. It kills the senator, and Sparks' legs 00:06:17.740 --> 00:06:22.339 are under a wall. Obviously, John Henry, because 00:06:22.339 --> 00:06:24.879 he's super strong and cares so much about Sparks, 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:29.540 lifts the wall off of her, saving her life. But 00:06:29.540 --> 00:06:32.879 in the process, she is crippled for the rest 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:37.279 of her life. Next, we go to a courtroom scene. 00:06:37.899 --> 00:06:40.939 It is John Henry testifying, saying that it was 00:06:40.939 --> 00:06:43.540 Burke. He definitely was the one that did it. 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:50.060 Not a chance that anybody else did it. And so... 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.899 Burke, like, finds him after the trial and is 00:06:52.899 --> 00:06:55.040 just like, this is all your fault. Like, I was 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:57.000 going to rise to the top. I had the senator. 00:06:57.139 --> 00:07:00.019 This is all your fault. I seem to remember that 00:07:00.019 --> 00:07:03.220 Burke fired it. Burke turned up the frequency. 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.720 I don't remember John Henry ever turning it up 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.759 and firing and basically crippling his best friend. 00:07:10.899 --> 00:07:14.339 After this happens, basically Steele feels this 00:07:14.339 --> 00:07:18.240 guilt. steal. Uh, John Henry feels this guilt. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.040 John Henry Irons feels this guilt because his 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.420 best friend's hurt, can't walk ever again, and 00:07:24.420 --> 00:07:26.399 he doesn't want to hurt people. So he decides 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:30.100 he's going to leave the army. Um, of course he 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:33.480 does that. And then he visits Sparks in the hospital 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.980 and she basically is like trying to talk to him 00:07:36.980 --> 00:07:39.500 and everything. And she's like, as soon as I'm 00:07:39.500 --> 00:07:42.600 back on my feet and John Henry looks at the nurse 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.560 and the nurse immediately just shakes her head. 00:07:44.579 --> 00:07:47.300 No. Not happening. She's never going to be able 00:07:47.300 --> 00:07:52.740 to walk again. But it's now a couple weeks, months. 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.120 We don't know the timeline. It's a little bit 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.279 after this. He's gone back home. He's back in 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.459 L .A. He's the guy like all the kids in the neighborhood 00:08:01.459 --> 00:08:03.839 know. It's definitely supposed to be Compton. 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:06.279 They don't ever exclusively say that, but it 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:11.060 definitely gave me Compton vibes. So Shaq's like 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:14.100 walking through the town and he's like, hey, 00:08:14.259 --> 00:08:16.500 how you doing? Good to see you. You know, doing 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:18.899 the finger pointing, that kind of stuff. And 00:08:18.899 --> 00:08:21.060 he comes to a bunch of kids that are playing 00:08:21.060 --> 00:08:24.139 basketball. The basketball rolls to him and Shaq, 00:08:24.139 --> 00:08:27.259 being Shaq, picks it up and shoots a three pointer. 00:08:27.420 --> 00:08:29.639 And this is the most realistic part of the movie 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:31.819 because Shaq comes nowhere close. It's an air 00:08:31.819 --> 00:08:35.779 ball. I just found that funny that they would 00:08:35.779 --> 00:08:37.720 even include that in the movie because I would 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.700 think Shaq wouldn't want it. If he's able to 00:08:40.700 --> 00:08:43.799 laugh at himself, good for him. He goes home 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:50.259 to where his grandmother is and also a kid named 00:08:50.259 --> 00:08:55.779 Martin. Martin, I don't know how they're related. 00:08:55.899 --> 00:08:58.039 I think they're brothers, but they are very obviously 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:03.179 like super different ages. Like Martin's 15, 00:09:03.340 --> 00:09:05.980 about to get his first job kind of thing. And 00:09:05.980 --> 00:09:10.029 Shaq was in the military for multiple... I'm 00:09:10.029 --> 00:09:11.909 just going to call him Jack or John Henry. I 00:09:11.909 --> 00:09:13.889 don't know. It's going to be flip -flop throughout 00:09:13.889 --> 00:09:16.169 the whole thing. But they go to Grandma's house, 00:09:16.289 --> 00:09:20.409 and Grandma is making a souffle. Because she 00:09:20.409 --> 00:09:22.970 is learning how to do French cuisine, she wants 00:09:22.970 --> 00:09:25.210 to start her own restaurant. She's already the 00:09:25.210 --> 00:09:28.450 best character. You know, she takes no sass and 00:09:28.450 --> 00:09:31.149 everything like that. I also realized at this 00:09:31.149 --> 00:09:35.230 point that Martin is played by Ray J. Yes, Ray 00:09:35.230 --> 00:09:39.159 J. Of the fame of the Kim Kardashian sex tape. 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:45.320 So, that blew my mind there for sure. Meanwhile, 00:09:45.620 --> 00:09:49.639 Nathaniel Burke, he has a friend that owns an 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:53.200 arcade store. It's not an arcade per se, but 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.980 people can go play there. Basically, he's selling 00:09:55.980 --> 00:09:59.200 the arcade games to the arcades. The person who 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:03.519 runs this facility also has a secret base that 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:10.360 is selling... He basically outfits the guns for 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:15.299 the gangs of LA. So, Burke goes to him. His name 00:10:15.299 --> 00:10:18.279 is Big Willie, because of course it is Big Willie. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.440 And basically he says to Big Willie, I have this 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.159 prototype. I want to sell it. I think you're 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.919 the guy that can fund me for this. So, they start 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:30.720 going to work. Burke's first prototype burns 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.460 the guy shooting it, testing it out. It burns 00:10:33.460 --> 00:10:36.490 his eye, but... It destroys the target, so Big 00:10:36.490 --> 00:10:39.129 Willie's like, yes, this is exactly what I want 00:10:39.129 --> 00:10:44.169 it to be. This girl, Duvree, she's only in one 00:10:44.169 --> 00:10:48.470 scene. She's like, but what about, like, you 00:10:48.470 --> 00:10:51.049 burned him. This is not okay. You can't be okay 00:10:51.049 --> 00:10:54.250 with this. And basically, Burke, still heavy 00:10:54.250 --> 00:10:57.730 with bloodlust, is like, it's fine. It's just 00:10:57.730 --> 00:11:00.169 a prototype. He'll live. He didn't die. It's 00:11:00.169 --> 00:11:03.379 okay. And Duvree's just like, well. The next 00:11:03.379 --> 00:11:05.320 prototype could go wrong and that should be you 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:10.059 firing. Okay, good for her. So everybody's getting 00:11:10.059 --> 00:11:14.620 ready to leave. Oh, Burke wants to talk to this 00:11:14.620 --> 00:11:17.820 guy, Singer, who's in the elevator with Duvray. 00:11:18.019 --> 00:11:19.940 So he's like, Singer, can I talk to you for a 00:11:19.940 --> 00:11:25.620 second? And Singer walks out. Burke looks at 00:11:25.620 --> 00:11:28.120 Duvray and waves at her and presses a button. 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:32.779 The elevator explodes. and falls down the elevator 00:11:32.779 --> 00:11:35.360 shaft, killing Duvree, we think. We don't know 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:40.159 for sure. And basically, he puts his arm around 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:43.399 Singer and says, Now you know what we're going 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:48.000 to do. You're lucky you weren't involved. Dude 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.320 is, like, the worst villain. Because I actually 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.019 think a good hammy villain would have been great 00:11:55.019 --> 00:11:58.919 for this. Like, over -the -top, person -eating 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.960 scenery, like... would have made this movie better. 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:08.299 Burks is good, but he's not great. So we go back 00:12:08.299 --> 00:12:12.200 to John and Martin. He's also worried that Martin 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.960 is going down the wrong path and is going to 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:19.019 end up in a gang. So John scheduled his ride 00:12:19.019 --> 00:12:24.340 along with Norma so that Martin can see the good 00:12:24.340 --> 00:12:27.039 side of L .A. and the cops and everything like 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.769 that and hopefully go the right direction. But 00:12:30.769 --> 00:12:32.830 Martin's already telling him, I don't need to 00:12:32.830 --> 00:12:37.210 see this. I got offered a job, and it's a legit 00:12:37.210 --> 00:12:39.990 job. It's not a gang thing, anything like that. 00:12:40.669 --> 00:12:43.889 They're doing their ride -along. We get our first 00:12:43.889 --> 00:12:47.169 look at the weapons in action for the bad guys. 00:12:47.629 --> 00:12:50.909 It is a bunch of gang members that are running 00:12:50.909 --> 00:12:54.490 an armed robbery at a bank to try to get money 00:12:54.490 --> 00:12:57.679 to fund the next round of weapons. So they break 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:00.740 in and literally one of the guys has an eye patch. 00:13:01.659 --> 00:13:03.820 I wish I was joking, but he literally had an 00:13:03.820 --> 00:13:06.899 eye patch. He will be a big part of the rest 00:13:06.899 --> 00:13:11.960 of this. Norma gets the call and is like, I know 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.100 I'm taking two civilians, but we got to go stop 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:17.120 this armed robbery. And Martin's like freaking 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:21.460 out because he's so excited. John, a bunch of 00:13:21.460 --> 00:13:24.970 cops get there first. gang members shoot the 00:13:24.970 --> 00:13:27.629 cops, and John runs out of the car to help them. 00:13:28.210 --> 00:13:33.970 Meanwhile, Norma parks her car in front of the 00:13:33.970 --> 00:13:37.610 gang members' vehicle to try to stop them from 00:13:37.610 --> 00:13:41.830 escaping. They use the sound wave, flip her car 00:13:41.830 --> 00:13:44.789 over, and John needs to get her out before it 00:13:44.789 --> 00:13:48.269 explodes. Now, when the car's flipped over, there's 00:13:48.269 --> 00:13:51.690 no fire, no nothing, but it flashes to John and 00:13:51.690 --> 00:13:55.269 Martin. with the cops that are on the ground 00:13:55.269 --> 00:13:58.169 and literally it's like blazing on their faces 00:13:58.169 --> 00:14:00.990 like it's so hot and then we look at the car 00:14:00.990 --> 00:14:04.970 and it's on fire out of nowhere so it just wasn't 00:14:04.970 --> 00:14:09.330 and then it was again uh three of the robbers 00:14:09.330 --> 00:14:11.409 escape in the vehicle but the fourth is still 00:14:11.409 --> 00:14:16.110 there so he runs away and john's like i'm going 00:14:16.110 --> 00:14:19.330 to stop this guy and it's just a test or it's 00:14:19.330 --> 00:14:22.620 just a spot to show us that John is really strong. 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.559 He breaks down like a door, a metal fence that, 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:30.600 you know, the guy had to jump over. He saved 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:34.700 this guy and basically the robber is getting 00:14:34.700 --> 00:14:37.580 away, but all of a sudden John is just next to 00:14:37.580 --> 00:14:40.080 him like, where'd you get these weapons? And 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.779 the guy goes, oh, you know, around and shoots 00:14:43.779 --> 00:14:46.299 him with the sound wave, knocking him over. And 00:14:46.299 --> 00:14:48.740 then he fires the sound wave at a train car. 00:14:49.340 --> 00:14:53.120 sending it towards john john of course being 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.620 the smart guy that he is rolls to the open doorway 00:14:56.620 --> 00:14:59.600 and the rail car so that when the car goes over 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:04.779 he'll be in the rail car protected and not squished 00:15:04.779 --> 00:15:07.860 and then he breaks through the top of the railway 00:15:07.860 --> 00:15:12.759 car because he's so strong he catches the guy 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:17.720 and is about to like interrogate him when the 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.659 eyepatch guy comes out and shoots him from behind 00:15:20.659 --> 00:15:23.799 with the sound wave, knocking him out. So the 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:26.480 robbers are able to escape. John's knocked out. 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.759 Martin's okay. Norma's waiting for an ambulance 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.440 because they're coming and I think the other 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:37.100 two cops are dead. That's what happens night 00:15:37.100 --> 00:15:40.200 one. We haven't even gotten to the fact that 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.340 he is still yet. It's just John Henry's exploits 00:15:43.340 --> 00:15:48.129 at this point trying to stop the weapons. So, 00:15:48.129 --> 00:15:51.710 the next day, John is on the phone with the colonel 00:15:51.710 --> 00:15:55.110 saying these robbers have these weapons. We need 00:15:55.110 --> 00:15:57.330 to figure out how they got them and we need to 00:15:57.330 --> 00:16:00.149 stop them. And the colonel's, well, we can't 00:16:00.149 --> 00:16:02.909 do that. Like, we're not allowed to do that or 00:16:02.909 --> 00:16:05.629 interfere. These weapons are going to get on 00:16:05.629 --> 00:16:11.250 the street one way or another. And he also says 00:16:11.250 --> 00:16:14.259 that everything's accounted for. I can't see 00:16:14.259 --> 00:16:17.940 how anyone would have these weapons. And John 00:16:17.940 --> 00:16:19.980 Henry says, you can't see anything with your 00:16:19.980 --> 00:16:22.600 head up your ass, Colonel. And breaks the phone 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.419 because he slams it so hard. And of course, because 00:16:26.419 --> 00:16:31.379 he's so strong. So John's next intention is to 00:16:31.379 --> 00:16:35.100 go to where the gang members' hangout is. It's 00:16:35.100 --> 00:16:38.919 a bar. Basically, they were wearing purple. And 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:40.960 Martin just happened to know this is this gang. 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.940 I didn't catch the gang's name. But they're all 00:16:43.940 --> 00:16:47.679 like wearing like MC Hammer style clothes. It's 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.659 so 90s. The music is just everything 90s. It's 00:16:52.659 --> 00:16:55.279 ridiculous. It just hurts how much this movie 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:59.279 is 90s. John Henry walks in three feet taller 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.559 than everybody else. And the guy with the eye 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:03.720 patch goes, look, it's the Jolly Black Giant. 00:17:04.779 --> 00:17:07.259 Some of these one -liners were excellent and 00:17:07.259 --> 00:17:11.690 made me laugh and caught me off guard. basically 00:17:11.690 --> 00:17:13.750 John starts asking about the weapons. They're 00:17:13.750 --> 00:17:15.829 not telling him anything. They said you got it 00:17:15.829 --> 00:17:17.509 from your mama's house, you know, like that kind 00:17:17.509 --> 00:17:21.450 of stuff. He holds a guy against the wall, ready 00:17:21.450 --> 00:17:23.509 to pound him. And all of a sudden a bunch of 00:17:23.509 --> 00:17:27.670 guns come onto him. And he's like, all right, 00:17:27.670 --> 00:17:31.369 fine. I know when I'm outmatched, not one person 00:17:31.369 --> 00:17:34.690 fires. I mean, I think he would probably be dead 00:17:34.690 --> 00:17:36.849 in this situation in real life, especially with 00:17:36.849 --> 00:17:40.420 how big he is. And the fact that he is. He could 00:17:40.420 --> 00:17:43.839 probably take a few of you out before you could 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:47.019 kill him. I think they would jump at that opportunity 00:17:47.019 --> 00:17:50.859 when they had it. But they didn't. And so now 00:17:50.859 --> 00:17:53.519 he's trying to figure out what to do. And he 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:57.680 needs to get Sparks' help. Sparks has been moved 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:01.059 from the army hospital to basically... I don't 00:18:01.059 --> 00:18:02.819 even know what to call it. It's like an army 00:18:02.819 --> 00:18:06.339 hospice. She's in a wheelchair. She's staring 00:18:06.339 --> 00:18:10.000 at the window. And basically just not facing 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.759 him at all. He sits there and is like talking 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:16.259 with her. And she just won't look at him. And 00:18:16.259 --> 00:18:19.720 it's so weird to me because the last time they 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.059 were together. Like she was still very like positive. 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:26.319 And you're my hero. You saved my life. I'll never 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.480 forget this. I owe you everything. Now she's 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.279 not even looking at him and blames him for a 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.920 lot of things. I guess because character development. 00:18:35.059 --> 00:18:39.670 I don't know. It's one of those things. So, he 00:18:39.670 --> 00:18:42.349 basically picks up her wheelchair and takes her 00:18:42.349 --> 00:18:44.089 out of there and is like, you're helping me. 00:18:44.190 --> 00:18:47.589 You're coming to LA with me. And the people start 00:18:47.589 --> 00:18:51.230 cheering as he carries her out in the wheelchair. 00:18:53.410 --> 00:18:56.890 I don't know why. They just start cheering, I 00:18:56.890 --> 00:19:01.410 guess. But basically, they set up shop. They 00:19:01.410 --> 00:19:04.569 are in a junkyard. And she's like, why did you 00:19:04.569 --> 00:19:07.099 bring me to this junkyard? And he goes, This 00:19:07.099 --> 00:19:10.039 junkyard is Uncle Joe's, who's played by Richard 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:13.180 Roundtree. Love Richard Roundtree, that he's 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:17.000 in this movie. He's phenomenal. Richard Roundtree 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:20.799 owns this junkyard, and basically the idea is 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.460 they're going to create weapons to destroy the 00:19:23.460 --> 00:19:26.000 weapons they made. Well, it's a junkyard. They're 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.960 not going to have anything. Of course, Uncle 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:34.299 Joe has a bunch of friends, and he puts in front 00:19:34.299 --> 00:19:37.230 of her this computer, and she's like, whoa, where'd 00:19:37.230 --> 00:19:39.089 you get this? And he goes, oh, it fell off a 00:19:39.089 --> 00:19:40.869 truck. And wouldn't you know it? No dings, no 00:19:40.869 --> 00:19:45.250 nothing. And she's like, looks at him and he's 00:19:45.250 --> 00:19:48.369 like, you know, a lot of things fall off trucks 00:19:48.369 --> 00:19:51.210 around here. We can make it happen. Just write 00:19:51.210 --> 00:19:55.349 a list. And basically she starts smiling for 00:19:55.349 --> 00:19:58.730 the first time after her accident and is, all 00:19:58.730 --> 00:20:01.910 right, cool. Let's do this. Uh, we also then 00:20:01.910 --> 00:20:07.319 find out on the other side that Burke is hiring 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:12.119 Martin to work at the arcade store. And one of 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:15.140 the best lines, because it's so stupid, is he 00:20:15.140 --> 00:20:18.339 gets introduced by another person. And Burke's 00:20:18.339 --> 00:20:21.440 like, oh, cool. Like, yeah, I'd love to give 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.380 you a job. You can call me the man. And it's 00:20:25.380 --> 00:20:29.359 just in the background. And it's just so, so 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:34.140 cheesy. So awful, so cheesy, so everything. Obviously, 00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:36.799 you can see where this is starting to go. So, 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:39.819 I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to 00:20:39.819 --> 00:20:41.740 play you a couple commercials because we do have 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:43.660 to get those out of the way. And then we'll tell 00:20:43.660 --> 00:20:46.740 you about the second half of Steel, which we 00:20:46.740 --> 00:20:48.759 haven't even seen Steel at this point. And it's 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:52.720 probably an hour into this Hour 40 movie. Alright, 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.880 I'll see you after the break. And we're back. 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:00.819 So, at this point, Martin's working at the arcade 00:21:00.819 --> 00:21:03.299 store. They're working on a weapon to destroy 00:21:03.299 --> 00:21:06.519 weapons. This weapon's obviously going to be 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:11.180 steel. So they're like doing a montage of their 00:21:11.180 --> 00:21:14.519 plans and everything. And there's a part where 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.500 basically John's not happy with the schematic. 00:21:17.500 --> 00:21:20.059 So he starts rolling a ball and he throws it 00:21:20.059 --> 00:21:23.119 at the trash can and it completely misses. And 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:26.369 he goes, what? I never could make free throws. 00:21:27.069 --> 00:21:30.289 This movie is very self -referential, and I kind 00:21:30.289 --> 00:21:32.569 of like that about it. It's not a good movie. 00:21:32.690 --> 00:21:36.329 None of it is. But I honestly think it's pretty 00:21:36.329 --> 00:21:42.369 good. So finally, we get the unveiling of the 00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:46.130 steel suit. And more specifically, the hammer, 00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:49.970 because John Henry has to have a hammer. So they 00:21:49.970 --> 00:21:53.190 know about John Henry was a coal -driving man. 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:55.660 beat the railway, you know, that kind of stuff. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:59.019 So, they built this hammer that has, like, special 00:21:59.019 --> 00:22:03.079 gadgets inside. It's like a weaponized hammer. 00:22:05.460 --> 00:22:08.920 And Richard Roundtree, Uncle Joe, says, I made 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:12.700 the hammer. I especially love the shaft. And 00:22:12.700 --> 00:22:15.160 Shaq looks at him, and Richard Roundtree's just 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:20.119 like, What? What? So, so far, we've got a shaft 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:23.480 joke, we've got basketball jokes, and it gets 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:26.500 even weirder than that. They slapped a ton of 00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:29.259 metal onto Shaq, and they put a helmet on him, 00:22:29.299 --> 00:22:31.859 and basically the only thought I have in my head 00:22:31.859 --> 00:22:34.579 is Shaq's already slow. Let's put a bunch of 00:22:34.579 --> 00:22:37.240 metal on him and make him slower. That sounds 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.039 like a great plan. So he wants to test out a 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:45.140 suit. There's a punk that starts, he's mugging 00:22:45.140 --> 00:22:48.890 these rich people, and basically... Steel, the 00:22:48.890 --> 00:22:52.329 mugger has a switchblade, Steel has his hammer, 00:22:52.450 --> 00:22:57.029 and basically dispenses the punk real easily, 00:22:57.210 --> 00:22:59.809 gets the stuff back, gives it back to the mugging 00:22:59.809 --> 00:23:02.170 victims. The mugging victims are really grateful, 00:23:02.309 --> 00:23:05.730 say he's very nice, he's very tall, and everything 00:23:05.730 --> 00:23:08.930 like that. This comes back later in the movie. 00:23:10.670 --> 00:23:13.309 So, he's done his test, and he's like, great, 00:23:13.450 --> 00:23:16.849 if you hear about any weapons, I'm going. So 00:23:16.849 --> 00:23:19.529 basically he's gone from this punk with a switchblade 00:23:19.529 --> 00:23:21.569 and now he's going to go take on an entire gang 00:23:21.569 --> 00:23:23.769 fight that's firing like real guns and everything 00:23:23.769 --> 00:23:27.150 like that. All of the guns are like the bullets 00:23:27.150 --> 00:23:29.690 are bouncing off his steel suit and he gives 00:23:29.690 --> 00:23:32.630 the finger wave, the Dikembe Mutombo style. And 00:23:32.630 --> 00:23:38.049 so then he basically does a sound wave out of 00:23:38.049 --> 00:23:41.230 his hammer on the car to stop them and get them 00:23:41.230 --> 00:23:44.960 to run away. And takes care of the rest of them 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.319 with an electromagnet that grabs all the guns 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:50.579 and necklaces and stuff like that and attaches 00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:54.160 it to his suit. And he turns off the electromagnet 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:57.140 and everything shuts off. Or everything falls 00:23:57.140 --> 00:24:01.000 off. And he's like, perfect, now go. Police are 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:06.859 coming. Hot chase. It's this whole thing. He 00:24:06.859 --> 00:24:09.079 gets away from the police to get to the junkyard 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:11.559 where she has basically already made this like 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:14.359 hidden bat cave, essentially the steel cave in 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:17.940 the junkyard. And Richard Rountree says, well, 00:24:18.019 --> 00:24:20.500 I'll be dipped in shit and rolled in breadcrumbs. 00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:23.519 I've never heard that line before in my life. 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.000 I don't think that's a real line. I think that's 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.140 something that got made up for this movie. It's 00:24:29.140 --> 00:24:31.700 ridiculous. Also during this chase, there's like 00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:34.119 nobody on the streets. There's no cars, no nothing. 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:37.880 This is LA. Are there like six people that live 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:39.920 there? We see the same people over and over and 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:43.559 over again. Even when he's being chased by the 00:24:43.559 --> 00:24:46.700 police, John Henry even sees Martin and Grandma 00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:49.740 walking down the street. And it's just the same 00:24:49.740 --> 00:24:58.019 six people. Also, one of the things I was going 00:24:58.019 --> 00:25:00.700 to say is the police officer is played by Tom 00:25:00.700 --> 00:25:04.599 Berry. Tom Berry played James Jordan, Michael 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:08.299 Jordan's father, in Space Jam. So we have another 00:25:08.299 --> 00:25:11.059 basketball reference and a reference to Space 00:25:11.059 --> 00:25:14.319 Jam. So Shaft, Space Jam, and basketball jokes 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:18.279 all are in this. And so Steel apparently exists 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.319 in the Space Jam universe and the Shaft universe, 00:25:21.539 --> 00:25:26.359 which is its own thing. And I also had the question, 00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:28.339 how many seven -footers live in this neighborhood? 00:25:28.420 --> 00:25:30.920 Because it's pretty obvious, the one seven -footer... 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:36.660 is obviously Steele. So how is his secret identity 00:25:36.660 --> 00:25:43.539 a secret? So Burke, after they see that Steele 00:25:43.539 --> 00:25:46.420 exists on cameras and stuff like that, seeing 00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:50.220 him in videos and everything, gets his gang leader, 00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:54.200 who's the guy with the eye patch, they meet in 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:56.980 a park, and basically he gives him a hot dog 00:25:56.980 --> 00:26:00.960 and says, eat the hot dog. Don't be a hot dog. 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:04.539 You can never underestimate your enemy. It's 00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:07.339 so bad. And it also is supposed to be a turkey 00:26:07.339 --> 00:26:10.559 dog because the eyepatch guy doesn't eat pork. 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.220 Cool. All right. Fine. It wasn't that big a deal. 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:16.980 I didn't really make any notes of it. It does 00:26:16.980 --> 00:26:21.839 come back later. So they're doing rounds. So 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:25.299 Steel is doing rounds in the neighborhood. He 00:26:25.299 --> 00:26:29.650 is in a truck with... Richard Roundtree, Uncle 00:26:29.650 --> 00:26:34.710 Joe, and their dog, their dog's name, dog's name 00:26:34.710 --> 00:26:38.109 is Lily. But the thing is with Lily is whenever 00:26:38.109 --> 00:26:40.990 they're in the truck, Lily is just straightforward, 00:26:41.349 --> 00:26:45.150 not moving. And so I'm pretty sure Lily was a 00:26:45.150 --> 00:26:50.230 fake dog every time they are in the truck. It's 00:26:50.230 --> 00:26:55.410 ridiculous because it does not move. Gang members 00:26:55.410 --> 00:26:58.190 that have the high -tech weapons, they are breaking 00:26:58.190 --> 00:27:01.710 into another bank to get more money. So this 00:27:01.710 --> 00:27:05.150 is a big deal. They basically clear this bank 00:27:05.150 --> 00:27:07.869 immediately. So I made the note that I think 00:27:07.869 --> 00:27:10.410 this is some of the best shooting I've seen bad 00:27:10.410 --> 00:27:12.990 guys have in a movie before. And even with steel, 00:27:13.130 --> 00:27:15.849 they do hit him with bullets and everything like 00:27:15.849 --> 00:27:18.190 that, but it just bounces off his suit. And they 00:27:18.190 --> 00:27:20.509 also hit him with the lasers at this fight with 00:27:20.509 --> 00:27:23.079 the bank. Because he realizes that his suit's 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:25.960 taking a lot of damage. He still feels it because 00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:29.200 it's made of the same material. So it's not like 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:33.700 he can just withstand all of these laser hits 00:27:33.700 --> 00:27:36.240 and all these sound blasts. Including there's 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:38.099 a part where the sound blast turned all the way 00:27:38.099 --> 00:27:40.599 up on frequency knocks him flying through the 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:45.299 air. The bad guys get away. Steel is getting 00:27:45.299 --> 00:27:48.140 chased by the police again. So he has to get 00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:50.980 out of there. He gets out of there. But he does 00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:56.279 save the bad guys as they're going. They shoot 00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:59.059 down a helicopter. And he does save Tom Berry 00:27:59.059 --> 00:28:01.539 or James Jordan or whatever his name is. Because 00:28:01.539 --> 00:28:05.299 he's just senior detective in this movie. So 00:28:05.299 --> 00:28:08.259 he saves James Jordan. And that's what I'm just 00:28:08.259 --> 00:28:09.940 going to call him. Or Tom Berry, his actor's 00:28:09.940 --> 00:28:14.859 name. So he saves him. Takes a hit to the chin. 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:19.119 Definitely bleeding a little bit and everything. 00:28:21.189 --> 00:28:24.829 but he's fine for the most part. Now, all of 00:28:24.829 --> 00:28:26.990 these weapons have been seen on the news and 00:28:26.990 --> 00:28:28.829 everything like that, so it starts going around 00:28:28.829 --> 00:28:32.930 that the French want these weapons, the Colombians 00:28:32.930 --> 00:28:35.089 want these weapons, and then a group of skinheads 00:28:35.089 --> 00:28:38.230 are in it too, and they want these weapons. So 00:28:38.230 --> 00:28:41.410 Burke essentially gets all of them together to 00:28:41.410 --> 00:28:43.930 get these weapons by the end of the movie. That's 00:28:43.930 --> 00:28:45.630 all you need to know right now because it doesn't 00:28:45.630 --> 00:28:50.269 happen yet. Steele gets out of his... uniform, 00:28:50.430 --> 00:28:54.549 goes home. Grandma is there and it's apparent. 00:28:54.789 --> 00:28:57.430 She knows he's Steele. Like it's just obvious. 00:28:57.910 --> 00:29:03.269 Martin's an idiot because he hears, he hears 00:29:03.269 --> 00:29:05.670 things and like doesn't realize he's Steele. 00:29:05.769 --> 00:29:07.809 He doesn't realize that John Henry is Steele. 00:29:07.970 --> 00:29:11.269 Grandma, it's obvious. He's tall. He's kind. 00:29:11.470 --> 00:29:14.869 He's polite. You know, it's obvious that Steele 00:29:14.869 --> 00:29:21.410 is John Henry. Burke sends the SWAT to John Henry's 00:29:21.410 --> 00:29:24.609 house to arrest him because they know he's Steele. 00:29:24.750 --> 00:29:28.269 And he doctored the footage to make it look like 00:29:28.269 --> 00:29:31.589 Steele did the bank robbery. So the SWAT comes 00:29:31.589 --> 00:29:35.150 in. They basically are like, you're under arrest 00:29:35.150 --> 00:29:37.730 for suspicion of being Steele and breaking into 00:29:37.730 --> 00:29:41.650 a bank. And Marcus hears this but doesn't think 00:29:41.650 --> 00:29:43.750 about it, I guess, because it doesn't really 00:29:43.750 --> 00:29:47.690 happen. You know, like it does. Nothing comes 00:29:47.690 --> 00:29:50.750 from it right away, especially because Marcus, 00:29:50.809 --> 00:29:53.190 I think he's just trying to like not believe 00:29:53.190 --> 00:30:00.150 it. So. Steel or John Henry gets put into a lineup. 00:30:01.109 --> 00:30:04.970 The mugging victims are there and they're going, 00:30:05.089 --> 00:30:07.069 well, like he was on the right side of justice. 00:30:07.230 --> 00:30:09.609 He helped us get our stuff back. I don't want 00:30:09.609 --> 00:30:13.589 to do a lineup to get him arrested. And so they 00:30:13.589 --> 00:30:17.279 just say as they're looking at him. and the lineup 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:20.500 is two five -footers, two six -footers, and in 00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:23.440 the middle is seven -foot -six Shaquille O 'Neal. 00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:27.339 And they're just like, oh, yeah, he's definitely 00:30:27.339 --> 00:30:32.420 not here, knowing full well who Steele is. And 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:35.299 I love how they just kind of... So then they 00:30:35.299 --> 00:30:38.799 get Tom Berry to come in and look at all of them, 00:30:38.859 --> 00:30:42.920 and... Basically because he got a good look at 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.740 him to decide who Steel is. So he comes in and 00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:47.720 he's looking at all of them. And I love how they 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:52.259 play it up like it could be anybody. But he looks 00:30:52.259 --> 00:30:56.579 at the seven footer and gives him a knowing glance 00:30:56.579 --> 00:31:00.680 and goes, Yeah, he's not here. They still put 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:02.920 him in jail because they've been told that he 00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:05.420 is Steel. And that they have it on good accord 00:31:05.420 --> 00:31:12.490 that he is Steel. Luckily... Sparks can do everything. 00:31:12.789 --> 00:31:17.130 Because she is just... She's a god mode cheat 00:31:17.130 --> 00:31:19.730 code is what I said. She can build weapons, she 00:31:19.730 --> 00:31:22.049 can hack things, and she can create new technology. 00:31:22.390 --> 00:31:27.009 So she impersonates the DA to get him released 00:31:27.009 --> 00:31:31.289 from jail so that they can go and save the day. 00:31:33.069 --> 00:31:38.250 How they do this is basically they get his signature. 00:31:39.180 --> 00:31:45.079 They fax over, fax over a pardon from the mayor 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:49.539 with the signature from the DA. And basically 00:31:49.539 --> 00:31:53.940 they also like took his voice to call and tell 00:31:53.940 --> 00:31:56.119 the police that this was coming and that the 00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:58.859 DA wants him free by one o 'clock or there's 00:31:58.859 --> 00:32:01.880 going to be trouble, damn it. And so the police 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:06.880 just let him go. So. Steel is getting ready for 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:09.039 this big showdown. He knows that there's a meeting 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:10.880 coming together with the French, the Colombians, 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:13.299 the skinheads, and Burke, as well as Big Willie 00:32:13.299 --> 00:32:19.220 and the gang members. So... Steel is basically, 00:32:19.500 --> 00:32:22.660 alright, cool, we're going to... He also has 00:32:22.660 --> 00:32:25.660 broken ribs because of the sound attack. It broke 00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:29.880 his ribs. We... You don't know it for sure, but 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.859 all of a sudden, Sparks goes quiet on the line. 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:35.200 And you're just thinking to yourself, you know 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.039 where this is going. She's been taken hostage. 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.160 She's in a wheelchair. She's been making wheelchair 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:41.000 modifications the whole movie because I forgot 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:45.759 about that part and it comes back later. We're 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:50.420 pretty confident she gets kidnapped. So Steele 00:32:50.420 --> 00:32:53.279 is breaking into this meeting to stop the weapons 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.940 sales as well as to stop Burke. He comes in guns 00:32:56.940 --> 00:33:00.299 blazing with his hammer. And Burke's like, ah, 00:33:00.299 --> 00:33:05.049 ah, ah, not so fast. We have Sparks, and basically 00:33:05.049 --> 00:33:09.990 one of the gang members has Sparks in her wheelchair, 00:33:10.130 --> 00:33:14.029 and she's at gunpoint. And so Steel's like, ah, 00:33:14.269 --> 00:33:18.990 I can't do anything. So he puts his hammer down, 00:33:19.230 --> 00:33:23.109 and he basically lays on the ground. And I don't 00:33:23.109 --> 00:33:26.069 get why he lays on the ground. It's not necessary. 00:33:29.420 --> 00:33:31.579 But he has broken ribs, so it's like one of those 00:33:31.579 --> 00:33:33.859 things where he doesn't want to get into a fight 00:33:33.859 --> 00:33:37.940 and he doesn't want to put Sparks at risk. Also 00:33:37.940 --> 00:33:41.700 at this time, Richard Roundtree slash Uncle Joe 00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:46.200 is walking around looking for them and he gets 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.099 the idea he's going to call the military, the 00:33:48.099 --> 00:33:50.680 army, to get them there so that they can take 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:56.099 care of these weapons. He goes to the car and 00:33:56.099 --> 00:33:59.059 somebody jumps up on him. And is like, alright, 00:33:59.220 --> 00:34:03.039 drop it. And basically, Uncle Joe goes, okay, 00:34:03.259 --> 00:34:07.359 okay. Lily, Lily, Lily! The dog jumps and bites 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:11.099 the guy and takes him out. So I was like, dog 00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:13.780 save the day. That's what happened. Dog save 00:34:13.780 --> 00:34:15.800 the day, Lily's the hero. End of movie, right? 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:21.199 Of course not. So it goes back to the scene where 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.619 Steel is basically surrendering. Sparks is in 00:34:24.619 --> 00:34:30.119 trouble. what what's going to happen next we 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:33.480 don't know what is going to be the next thing 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:38.539 that happens big willie is is basically saying 00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:40.820 like yes we're going to provide this for you 00:34:40.820 --> 00:34:43.800 and burke goes no i and he shoots big willie 00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:47.860 big willie dead gone all six minutes are all 00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:51.900 six lines of his dialogue out the window then 00:34:51.900 --> 00:34:55.480 the gang leaders are basically like whoa whoa 00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:59.289 whoa like What the hell? Because he said that 00:34:59.289 --> 00:35:03.369 they're not needed either. So Burke fires at 00:35:03.369 --> 00:35:05.750 one of them, but the guy with the eye patch basically 00:35:05.750 --> 00:35:10.230 avoids it, gets behind the truck. So Steele sees 00:35:10.230 --> 00:35:12.429 this opportunity and is like, all right, cool. 00:35:14.670 --> 00:35:16.829 Let's do something else. They're behind the truck. 00:35:19.630 --> 00:35:23.010 Burke is talking about how his hammer is like 00:35:23.010 --> 00:35:24.909 he grabs the hammer and he's like, this is going 00:35:24.909 --> 00:35:28.400 to be the next big thing. and Steel's like, yeah, 00:35:28.619 --> 00:35:31.599 you know, like, I can show you how this works 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:34.420 and everything like that. So he tells Burke to 00:35:34.420 --> 00:35:36.920 not push the red switch. Of course Burke does. 00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:39.000 It turns on the electromagnet, and his hammer 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:41.360 goes to Steel, as well as some of the weapons 00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:46.699 the other guns, arms dealers had on them. The 00:35:46.699 --> 00:35:51.019 new weapons are basically, don't have metal in 00:35:51.019 --> 00:35:53.820 them, so they're not coming, but... They are 00:35:53.820 --> 00:35:56.480 also away from Burke at this point, so there's 00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:59.179 nothing he can really do in this moment. Meanwhile, 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:04.139 Sparks hits a button on her wheelchair, and all 00:36:04.139 --> 00:36:07.880 of a sudden it starts firing lasers at everywhere, 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:12.219 including she even hit Steel at one point. And 00:36:12.219 --> 00:36:14.360 I was kind of sitting there going, wow, she doesn't 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.679 care about him at all, does she? She's like, 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:19.599 I'm just going to fire at whoever, and hopefully 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:25.239 I get bad guys. Burke runs away. Everybody starts 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:28.079 firing at everybody. The gang leaders, they are 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:32.039 trying to get Burke, but they can't. But luckily 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:35.960 for Burke, he has an ace in the hole because 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.659 Steel has chased him down. The ace in the hole? 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:42.000 Yeah, he has Martin. He grabs Martin, hides behind 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:46.039 him, has a gun to his head, and Steel doesn't 00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:48.000 know what to do. He's stuck there for a second. 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:52.880 But Richard Roundtree is walking around. and 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:57.400 sees this, grabs a gun, and shoots Burke, knocking 00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:01.420 him out of the fight. So, Steel then is able 00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:04.820 to grab Martin and protect him. They run and 00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:07.679 get locked in a room, and one of the henchmen 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:14.019 tosses a grenade in, and basically, Steel is 00:37:14.019 --> 00:37:15.980 trying to find a way, and Martin's like, we're 00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:18.300 locked in, and then he looks up and he sees a 00:37:18.300 --> 00:37:21.280 hole. In the ceiling. And he's like, you gotta 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:26.519 throw it out of here. And Steele goes, I was 00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:30.340 never good at this kind of shot. And Martin goes, 00:37:30.500 --> 00:37:32.980 just bend your knees and take a deep breath. 00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:35.679 You can do it. So there's a slow motion second 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:38.719 time where he throws the grenade like a free 00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:44.380 throw. And it... Goes through and saves the day 00:37:44.380 --> 00:37:47.099 because it explodes outside of the room, knocks 00:37:47.099 --> 00:37:50.119 out the henchman and opens the door so they can 00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:53.980 get out. They take the vehicle and like the new 00:37:53.980 --> 00:37:58.079 vehicle and basically drive it out of the wall. 00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:01.760 Sparks had rocket boosters to her wheelchair 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:04.239 so she was able to get out and get Uncle Joe. 00:38:04.980 --> 00:38:09.710 And so then they're just all talking and. He 00:38:09.710 --> 00:38:12.429 also, the arms dealers got away at this point. 00:38:12.489 --> 00:38:15.190 They were basically all gone. It was just Burke 00:38:15.190 --> 00:38:19.170 versus Steele. That was the whole fight and everything 00:38:19.170 --> 00:38:22.590 like that. The arms dealers, luckily, they got 00:38:22.590 --> 00:38:25.550 to run into the army because Uncle Joe called 00:38:25.550 --> 00:38:28.829 the army. So the day is saved. Everybody's stopped. 00:38:29.050 --> 00:38:31.110 All the weapons are contained. Everything like 00:38:31.110 --> 00:38:35.409 that. Marcus finally realizes it's John Henry. 00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.599 And goes, oh, my God, like, I can be your Rodman. 00:38:38.659 --> 00:38:41.960 I mean, Robin. And, you know, it's just another 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:47.460 basketball pun on this basketball movie. It goes 00:38:47.460 --> 00:38:51.199 to the next day and the army colonel is trying 00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:55.539 to find Steele. But he's using a scrambler as 00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:57.719 well as he's using a voice translator to sound 00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:01.019 like Arnold Schwarzenegger. So the army colonel 00:39:01.019 --> 00:39:02.840 is just like, I know this isn't your voice. I 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.110 know you aren't in a diner in Cincinnati. I will 00:39:06.110 --> 00:39:08.989 find you steel and I will take those weapons 00:39:08.989 --> 00:39:12.210 back. We can't have you on the run with them. 00:39:12.289 --> 00:39:16.530 He goes, good luck. Bye. And so the day is saved. 00:39:16.809 --> 00:39:19.849 Everybody's happy. Sparks and steel that never 00:39:19.849 --> 00:39:22.849 actually makes it look, or they never actually 00:39:22.849 --> 00:39:24.369 kissed or anything like that, but it definitely 00:39:24.369 --> 00:39:25.789 looks like they're going to have a happy ending. 00:39:26.190 --> 00:39:28.369 Grandma got the restaurant she wanted. We don't 00:39:28.369 --> 00:39:30.929 know how. She also perfected her souffle because 00:39:30.929 --> 00:39:32.989 every time she tried to make a souffle, it kept 00:39:32.989 --> 00:39:36.969 deflating. Days saved. Steals the hero. I watched 00:39:36.969 --> 00:39:40.769 this movie. It happened. Some background about 00:39:40.769 --> 00:39:45.070 the movie. It was directed and written by Kenneth 00:39:45.070 --> 00:39:51.429 Johnson. Kenneth Johnson is also... He's done 00:39:51.429 --> 00:39:55.650 writing and directing for The Bionic Woman, Curse 00:39:55.650 --> 00:39:59.250 of Dracula, The Incredible Hulk. All those 70s, 00:39:59.250 --> 00:40:03.599 80s TV shows. He also was the director of Short 00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:06.139 Circuit 2, which I did not know that Short Circuit 00:40:06.139 --> 00:40:10.579 had a sequel, but apparently it does. You know, 00:40:10.659 --> 00:40:16.139 cool. He's also done some TV directing nowadays 00:40:16.139 --> 00:40:20.900 with... Oh, he was the director for Xenon Girl 00:40:20.900 --> 00:40:24.059 of the 21st Century. That's fun. He was also 00:40:24.059 --> 00:40:25.699 Don't Look Under the Bed. He was the director 00:40:25.699 --> 00:40:30.059 for a couple episodes of JAG. A little bit of 00:40:30.059 --> 00:40:32.659 everything. He's still writing as far as I can 00:40:32.659 --> 00:40:36.579 tell. He wrote the VTV miniseries back in the 00:40:36.579 --> 00:40:39.800 70s. And then he also wrote it when they tried 00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:44.380 to reboot it. He wrote 22 episodes of that for 00:40:44.380 --> 00:40:48.539 the 2009 and 2011. So really he hasn't done anything 00:40:48.539 --> 00:40:54.099 since 2011. But yeah, so that is Kenneth Johnson 00:40:54.099 --> 00:41:00.429 who directed and wrote along with the original 00:41:00.429 --> 00:41:04.909 comic book writers of steel uh steel if you don't 00:41:04.909 --> 00:41:08.210 know any comic book history about it basically 00:41:08.210 --> 00:41:12.349 he was supposed to fill in for superman after 00:41:12.349 --> 00:41:16.650 the death of superman comic book arc so a lot 00:41:16.650 --> 00:41:18.829 of times in this movie they call them man of 00:41:18.829 --> 00:41:23.190 steel um just because i they're making it funny 00:41:23.190 --> 00:41:27.170 on that i guess pretty much so yeah um steel 00:41:27.170 --> 00:41:32.579 90s movie definitely, cheesy, Shaq should never 00:41:32.579 --> 00:41:35.539 act, um, the funny thing is, I actually don't 00:41:35.539 --> 00:41:37.559 think he's the worst actor in it, and it's, it's 00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:41.300 gonna be that, uh, Annabeth, um, Annabeth Gish, 00:41:41.420 --> 00:41:45.179 and not for any other reason other than a lot 00:41:45.179 --> 00:41:48.739 of the time she spent in front of a monitor, 00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:53.059 just, Johnny, Johnny, are you okay? Johnny, is 00:41:53.059 --> 00:41:56.710 it all right? Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, like, Should 00:41:56.710 --> 00:41:58.469 have taken a drink every time she said Johnny. 00:41:58.570 --> 00:41:59.710 I probably wouldn't have made it through the 00:41:59.710 --> 00:42:04.449 movie. So yeah, that was Steel. I will give it... 00:42:04.449 --> 00:42:06.710 I don't know. It's not the worst movie I've seen. 00:42:06.869 --> 00:42:09.389 It's very cheesy, but it can also be a lot of 00:42:09.389 --> 00:42:12.510 fun because it is kind of stupid. I'll say one 00:42:12.510 --> 00:42:20.050 and a half out of five. Let's go... Butt Rivets. 00:42:20.369 --> 00:42:22.889 Because he had to get riveted into his suit, 00:42:23.010 --> 00:42:27.309 so he had rivets for his butt. So one and a half 00:42:27.309 --> 00:42:32.449 out of five butt rivets for Steel. So yeah. That 00:42:32.449 --> 00:42:36.530 was a bad movie I watched this week. Hoping to 00:42:36.530 --> 00:42:40.909 do more episodes with our friends. They get back 00:42:40.909 --> 00:42:44.829 I think later this week. So I'm hoping that we 00:42:44.829 --> 00:42:48.409 can be able to do an episode together. As well 00:42:48.409 --> 00:42:51.909 as I will be stockpiling some episodes. Watching 00:42:51.909 --> 00:42:53.909 some bad movies and doing some episodes on my 00:42:53.909 --> 00:42:57.239 own. Just so there's something always coming. 00:42:58.219 --> 00:43:00.639 So that's Game for a Movie. Where we ask, are 00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:02.500 you game for a movie? We will see you next time 00:43:02.500 --> 00:43:03.639 on Game for a Movie.