The Michael Knowles Show - 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

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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. 0.98

00:07:07.680 And the white people have gone extinct. 0.90

00:07:10.520 This is the new Toy Story. 0.95

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, 0.53

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 0.99

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

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