The Michael Knowles Show - July 08, 2026


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


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00:00:50.260 Supergirl is officially Hollywood's latest bomb. It is a real big bomb indeed. We are now looking
00:00:57.540 ahead to see if Christopher Nolan's transgender and transracial version of the Odyssey is going 0.86
00:01:04.300 to bomb as well. I have more faith in Christopher Nolan, so I'm kind of hoping it doesn't. But this, 0.97
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00:01:24.180 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:27.540 welcome back to the show i'm michael knowles hoping you're all having a lovely fourth of
00:01:48.980 july week i am certainly i don't i'm not big on vacation i don't do it a lot but i'm doing it this
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00:03:35.720 no intention of seeing. Supergirl bombed. It's a really big box office bomb. It's probably going
00:03:40.260 to lose $100 million, maybe up to $125 million. That's a pretty bad one. And everybody is blaming
00:03:49.060 Millie Alcock. Millie Alcock, whom I had never heard of before this movie. Mr. Davies is really
00:03:56.100 up on all this stuff, especially the young women I'm noticing. He's like, he's really into all of
00:03:59.960 them. He's very pro Millie Alcock. He has some kind of weird crush or whatever. But he said,
00:04:04.040 Michael, it's not all her fault. So I said, let me examine the evidence. We already covered it
00:04:07.980 on the show a week or two ago millie alcock talking about how it's great because the new
00:04:13.580 movie is not really about a man so you get a little tinge of that wokeness here's another one
00:04:18.040 in which uh millie millie alcock says that uh the the movie is breaking down gender limits for women 1.00
00:04:26.380 i think because she doesn't live inside the binary of what we think a woman should be
00:04:32.160 that that is what makes her so special and so exciting and so new can i say can i just say
00:04:39.500 i hate to agree with mr davies by the standards of hollywood that's not that bad it's annoying
00:04:44.920 it's kind of lib it's a little it's like ah it's whatever but it's not that's not that bad compared
00:04:51.960 to like rachel ziegler who played sand beige it was in that live action of snow white but
00:04:57.340 given the DEI casting, as we call it, sand beige.
00:05:01.040 Compared to that, this woman is totally normal.
00:05:04.060 So I don't think that the reason Supergirl bombed
00:05:07.360 is chiefly because of Millie Alcock.
00:05:09.900 She didn't help, but I don't think she's the reason.
00:05:12.700 I think Supergirl bombed
00:05:14.540 because the film itself is super lib and woke.
00:05:19.360 I mean, just the premise of Supergirl as a character
00:05:21.920 really undermines the Superman story.
00:05:24.720 What makes the Superman story so great
00:05:26.900 and resonate for people is that Superman is Jesus. That, you know, it's fine. I don't know
00:05:32.620 anything about Superman. And that's like the one thing I know about Superman is that Superman is
00:05:37.240 supposed to be a version of Jesus. Do you remember even in the Superman movie that came out 20 years
00:05:41.620 ago, one point he's floating. You can't tell if he's dead or not. He's in outer space and he's
00:05:45.440 floating as a cross. You know, it's a little, a little bit on the nose. He's sent to save the 1.00
00:05:50.480 earth, from the heavens. He's the sun who comes to, anyway, when you introduce Supergirl, you
00:05:58.280 really start to undercut the Christian imagery and the analogy. So you've got that right there.
00:06:04.860 And then it's this whole thing about, you know, girl power. Think about the biggest box office
00:06:08.340 bomb in the last 10 years. Biggest bomb is the Marvels. The Marvels is the worst performing
00:06:14.080 Marvel movie ever. It lost over $200 million at the box office, and the Marvels is just a bunch
00:06:21.560 of chicks. It's all the worst features of the Marvel universe turned up to 11 and compounded
00:06:29.000 all together. But what are the other big box office bombs, even beyond the superhero movies?
00:06:33.720 It was Wish, Disney's Wish, which I also didn't see, but just looked up the description of it.
00:06:38.780 disney's wish is about a 17 year old teenage girl of color on sign look i'm not like i like i love
00:06:47.440 17 year old women of color and i know that's going to sound really weird and someone's going
00:06:51.360 to clip that out i'm just saying i'm not i don't have anything against any of those demographics
00:06:56.300 but when every single movie is just a chick instead of a guy especially in a hero's story
00:07:04.880 It's like a chick playing a guy, but it's a chick.
00:07:07.680 And the white people have gone extinct. 0.80
00:07:10.520 This is the new Toy Story. 0.85
00:07:11.920 Because the franchise is kind of old, all the toys are white.
00:07:14.780 They couldn't get rid of them. 1.00
00:07:16.160 But all the people are just not white. 0.99
00:07:18.140 And it's like every person who should be a boy is a girl. 0.99
00:07:21.920 And it's just, when you do that, it's really tedious. 0.99
00:07:24.800 And the audiences don't want it anymore.
00:07:26.740 This is why people are worried about Christopher Nolan's Odyssey movie.
00:07:29.740 Christopher Nolan is a great filmmaker.
00:07:31.280 I hope it's good.
00:07:32.480 But Lupita Nyong'o, lovely actress though she is,
00:07:35.680 very talented actress, she's not Helen of Troy.
00:07:39.120 She's not Helen of Troy.
00:07:40.640 And Ellen Page is not a guy. 1.00
00:07:43.900 You know, she's just not a guy. 1.00
00:07:44.820 It was reported that she was playing Achilles.
00:07:46.300 I guess she's not playing Achilles.
00:07:47.400 And again, she's not a guy.
00:07:48.140 And so people just find that all very, very tedious.
00:07:52.460 I think they've just released the final trailer
00:07:54.500 for The Odyssey.
00:07:55.540 So we have, you know, some of the reporting
00:07:57.420 is changing day by day on exactly what this movie is about.
00:08:00.440 Here is everything we know.
00:08:03.020 A little snippet from the Odyssey trailer.
00:08:30.440 well you god start speaking ways we understand who doesn't understand pain
00:08:41.320 of blood the gods told you then i defy the gods
00:09:00.440 Okay. Movies take a little while to make. So you think, okay, maybe this is the hangover of peak
00:09:05.060 wokeness, which is 2022, 2023. But we're past that now. Movies generally don't take four years to
00:09:10.260 make. So they keep insisting upon this. And that is what turns people off. In a way, I wish that
00:09:17.560 we could blame the decline in the box office just on the genres. I hate the superhero movies. I'm so
00:09:24.280 sick of them. It's the only thing Hollywood wanted to make. But the superhero movies still do very
00:09:28.100 well. The biggest grossing films of the last 10 years are the superhero movies. They still perform
00:09:32.140 well. What people hate is what South Park said about Kathleen Kennedy, which is that they make
00:09:37.080 it gay and put a chick in it. So even if you look at the Star Wars sequels, you see a just constant,
00:09:42.940 very serious decline movie to movie in the box office. From the second movie to the first,
00:09:50.520 down 36%. From the third movie to the second, you're down 19%. So they keep declining. Okay,
00:09:58.100 what is the answer to that? Hollywood has it so easy. Hollywood could still make the kinds of
00:10:05.640 movies that it wants. It could still make the superhero movies. It could still even resuscitate
00:10:10.840 the corpse of Star Wars, which they should have let lie in rest after like 1983, but they won't.
00:10:16.860 They don't have a lot of new ideas. On the rare occasions that there are new ideas,
00:10:20.040 not coming out of Hollywood, but coming out of independent movies like the horror movie,
00:10:23.320 was it Obsession? Which was great. It was a terrific little movie. Those do really,
00:10:27.460 really well. That is dollar for dollar. They're basically the highest performing movie ever,
00:10:31.400 but Hollywood could still do all their stupid dead franchises. They could still have all the
00:10:37.140 lazy writing. They could still, they just need to let men play characters that should be men 0.92
00:10:44.720 and let white people be in the movies, you know, to like a reasonable degree. And if they just 0.51
00:10:50.760 did that, if they just eliminated even the most basic aspects of woke, wokeism, which died in
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00:14:35.500 And then I look who the couple is, 0.80
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00:21:55.720 yeah
00:22:00.860 that's pretty good
00:22:01.700 is that Rich Voss
00:22:04.400 is that Rich Voss
00:22:05.280 there on the end
00:22:05.720 wow
00:22:08.400 that
00:22:08.720 these are
00:22:09.260 yeah anyway
00:22:09.860 that was a funny bit
00:22:11.040 he's got the character down
00:22:12.360 the set didn't totally land
00:22:14.420 but the
00:22:15.160 let's find the characters kind of funny that's great so the whole show is just that
00:22:20.300 should I go do it I could tell my killer jokes a horse walks into a bar and the bartender says
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00:22:37.080 about the French philosopher René Descartes but if I had told you that part first I would
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00:23:02.040 can you do the clothes again just say see you next time on your great content guys
00:23:07.120 can you can you just give me a you know because i was talking over program i'm not sure if the
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00:23:17.360 face see you next time yeah what's up you talked over program when i didn't hear you at all i
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00:23:33.900 in studio on monday i'm michael noles this is michael noles show see you then
00:23:41.320 Thank you.