They used to air this movie quite often on tv in South Africa. This, and the Care Bears movie. I was convinced that I would have to battle the evil forces of magic at some point in my life. Turns out it was just alcoholism and depression. The 80s lied to all of us.
@@thatonea-hole We’re all slaves (to one degree or another) to the inherent subjectivity and fragility of our brains, so yeah it’s all in our minds - but so is literally everything else we experience, interact with, influence, and get influenced by - so while the intention is to minimize the impact of that which can’t be seen or touched, the conduit by which we perceive such things is still the filter between our ears - making everything subject to the geography of our cognitive make-up. “Brains in glass jars” and all that crap. Reject the natural inclination towards believing in the empiricism of one’s own memories and experiences and instead embrace the magic that is intentionally leaving a 20 dollar bill under a couch or bed and forgetting about it so you can be pleasantly surprised every time you have to look down there.
Zack Snyder took a lot of inspiration from this film for Man of Steel. The obnoxious product placement, the father figures hilariously dying by a tornado, and the hero being an irresponsible idiot. The film was a real trailblazer.
Eerm... Actually as someone who has a fairly in depth knowledge of superhero lore I can honestly tell you that most of this movie really made no sense.
The Witch of Endor is a woman who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was consulted by Saul to summon the spirit of prophet Samuel in order to receive advice against the Philistines in battle, after prior attempts to consult God through sacred lots and prophets had failed
Between this and Mommy Dearest, it's really no wonder Faye Dunaway is so beloved in camp circles. Peter O'Toole's line delivery for the Phantom Zone bit just kills me, I love it. Also Allison, I love your shirt, it's so cute.
The tiger mat and “wholeass pineapple” picnic... what a summer vibe bruh 🍹 Despite being from the 80’s, there’s something very 70’s about this movie, with the nonsensical plotlines and weird AF pacing.
It's released in 84', which was likely written and even filmed during 83', so lots of 70s cultural vibes were still pretty strong. The "personality" of a decade doesn't really evolve until at least the 5th year. That's why it's really late 80s movies that feel the most "80s"
@@metalgrinch Yes that makes a lot of sense! Nothing ever changes immediately when the number goes from, for example, 7~ to 8~. Because of this I think Stranger Things series 1 got the aesthetic just right.
I felt a very 70s vibe from this, mostly from the cinematography and costuming. Also it seems like a lot of 70s movies used to look like the focus was way softened, and I see some of that here, too
there's a reason , women go through their sexual prime in their 30s, whereas men go through it earlier? so Morgana? is horny as hell and he just happens to have the junk she wants
"Oh yeah, all the evil people are over that hill." "And...they just hang out there? They haven't splintered into warring factions or something?" "Nah, they're chill. They have great parties by the giant red toilet on weekends."
Dolly Parton revealed she was offered a huge $7 million to play Selena, but she also turned it down claiming that she couldn't play a witch, no matter how much money was offered.
except magic isn't just invisible kryptonite. All it means is that Kryptonians don't have any special resistance to magic. It's irritating when bad writers do things like disable Superman with magic and then have Batman just POWER THROUGH it and save the day. Magic should affect them both the same way. Wonder Woman would be a different story, she's descended from the Greek gods, she should have innate resistance to magic.
No thats typical Roman legion centurion battle outfit , she did lose her helmet somewhere :-) Centurion battle outfit , shirt , skirt and a cape , bigger cape was more power .
When Peter O’Toole’s character got sucked into the vortex,I thought The toilet flushing sound you added was funny.Too bad the whole movie didn’t get flushed along with it.
I'm about 90% convinced this movie is one of those deals like Star Trek II, where Kirk and Khan never actually meet in person. I think they had Faye Dunaway for just 10 days or something, and she was never on the same set at the same time as Helen Slater.
@@knmlover True, but they're all special effects scenes or ones where it looks like a stand-in could have been used. I posted this earlier but for some reason it's not here: I looked for interviews, and one with Helen Slater refutes my hypothesis. It seems they were at least on the set together, though it sounds like the two didn't interact much and Dunaway kept to herself. O'Toole was apparently a genuine mentor to Slater, though, which is cool.
You know... I rather loved Supergirl when I was a kid. I think it was the nascent gay boy that I was, appreciating the overall ridiculousness of it, plus Faye Dunaway as a man-hungry witch who lives in a fairground ride? She was like a role model for me.
The best things in life together at last: Movie Nights with Allison and Phelan, and Popeye's Chicken. Throw in an A&W Cream Soda and it would have been perfect.
On the upside, the landscaper went on to get his business degree, got a high position in a successful company, got hooked on cocaine, and nearly succeeded in selling out John McClain at Nakatomi Tower.
I was ten when this movie came out. I was ALL about Supergirl! I had the storybook (still do), the coloring books, trading cards, even had a poster on my wall, first girlie poster I ever had. Sadly the one thing I didn’t get to do was see this movie in the theater! It just wasn’t out long enough!
I watched this movie on TV when I was two or three, and only recently saw it again. I think I remembered almost every scene, but thought I had forgotten the connective story tissue. Turns out I hadn't, there just wasn't really anything there!
“It’s a mountain, Lucy! …Isn’t it?” Very good, Jimmy! With a razor-sharp intellect like that, no wonder you secured your position as the most respected photographer the Daily Planet’s ever had. Yet still smarter than most of the Kryptonians.
Not going to lie, Selena sparked something in me from a very early age! One of the most seductive characters ever and Faye Dunaway looks stunning in this era
Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway, Simon Ward, Hart Bochner, Peter Cook, and Mia Farrow (with cameos by Matt Frewer and Stacy Keach) in a movie together... I DON'T CARE IF THE MOVIE IS HILARIOUSLY BAD, I'VE SEEN "SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND", THERE'S NO WAY I'M TURNING DOWN A MOVIE FEATURING AN ALL-STAR CAST LIKE THAT! Unless it's "Movie 43".
Ethan the Landscaper is actually extremely important to the overall mythos, because later, he's sent forward in time to the 30th century and joins the Legion of Superheroes as Chlorophyll Kid.
He's also another alien, from a planet called Madru, but they completely gloss over that. If they hinted at it, I missed it, so did just about every reviewer. It would have been silly to have them hiding it from each other, but it also would have been interesting.
I love watching you two do reviews together like this! You look like you're both having so much fun. Also, I hope you enjoyed that Popeyes, Allison. It looks like you found a location with good biscuits. Most of their biscuits nowadays are like little hockey pucks.
I kid you not, the CW brought that plot device AND the Selena character for Supergirl. She's now an ancient Kryptonian witch. For real. They're persistent.
Was really looking forward to this one. Bizarrely great cast for such a weird, terrible movie. It's kinda like watching Exorcist 2 again. Real talk tho, if I could, I would totally live in that haunted house.
"It's never established why she needs an Earth persona." It's because every movie with an alien, time traveler, or person from another dimension that comes to modern Earth has to be 50% hackneyed fish-out-of-water shenanigans.
I remember seeing this at the cinema when I was like 10. Even then I could see how stoopid it was and all that got me through it was the fact I have a massive crush on Helen Slater at the time :)
I remember watching this on TBS in the afternoon back in the mid 90s...never understood it back then. But now I know it's because the movie really just DIDN'T make sure!
Catwoman and Electra in the '00s didn't help either. The Quest for Peace DID kill Superman films for thirty years, and then Returns almost did it again if not for WB being too stubborn/scared of irrelevancy/desperately wanting an MCU competitor to force Man of Steel. Nonetheless, it's not like a heavily misogynist Hollywood needed an excuse to ignore female superheroes.
That’s kind of how executive think trough. We did not get any superheroes movie staring a female for 20 years because they taught. Female superheroes don’t sell they think, while it’s more because the movie was bad...
@@oliviawilliams6204 The films being terrible is an excuse. The real reason is that they don't believe those stories are worth being told (and that also influences the amount of effort that goes into those stories they do produce).
Popeye's was a stealth Lex Luthor cameo. The restaurant chain was supposedly named not after the cartoon sailor, but "Popeye" Doyle from The French Connection, played by Gene Hackman.
Weirdest treatment of a time pressure/ticking clock scenario ever. "I must retrieve the power source ball thingy or my city is doomed - I think I'll enroll in a school, make friends, and play with the bunnies in the forest for a while..." Apparently, David Odell is not a good screenwriter when he doesn't have Jim Henson telling him _what_ to write? How did he go from "The Dark Crystal" to this?
The Salkinds last wish for Superman and his family on the big screen and they completely fucked it up with a witch, Ellis from Die Hard, and epic product placement. Least Matt Frewer went on to do Trek, Max Headroom and other note worthy stuff.
I remember finding this movie on a weekend and decided to watch it. I had seen other bad movies before, but I don't think I watched a movie that left me as confused as Supergirl did. Nothing made sense, nothing was established and they just tried to find excuses to make things happen for its whole runtime. It was just a weird mess of a movie.
I'm not trying to 'um akctually', because Kryptonian weaknesses/attributes change all the time, but the thing with magic isn't that they're especially weak to it, their invulnerability just doesn't do anything to stop it. It won't hurt them more than it would a human, it just doesn't hurt them any less. Kryptonite is specifically radioactive in such a way that (in more modern comics) disrupts their ability to use the yellow sun radiation that fuels their powers.
The fatal flaw which eventually crippled her Army of the Night was that they were all usually in bed by 6 PM. An “Army of the Early Bird Special” might’ve seen more success in the field, playing to their inherent strengths.
AXE-CHEW-ALLEY, the spinny omega ball thing is something completely invented for this movie and is just the writers being hacks. "Indistinguishable from magic" the DC wiki says- fancy talk for "fuck you, it's magic". EDIT: #notallkryptons
I watched this movie when I was a child. I was not a hug comic nerd at the time so when I was talking to my friends that are comic nerds about it they said I had a lot of info wrong about super girl. Like I actually thought she came from inside the water, like there was a part of krypton inside a lake on earth. I mean that is what it looks like in the movie and that is where the goes back to at the end.
"Can Kryptonians do that?" Little known "fact", Kryptonians actually only have one power: the power to resolve whatever the narrative problem is by use of a Kryptonian power. Since most things can be solved with a good punch, that pretty much covers it most of the time.
I would love to see the Brightburn version of the truck stop scene. Humans kicked in the nuts by Kryptonians really should split in two like a Mortal Kombat fatality.
Don't mean to actually you guys, but just because you were wondering, "Endor" seems to be a reference to "The Witch of Endor", a character from 1 Samuel in the Old Testament. Lucas probably got the name from here as well.
Actually, Landscaper Man plays an important part in the comics, in Supergirl Vs Plants issue #561 they have to stop an army of giant cannibal pineapples, with help from Nigel The Warlock (canon in continuity for Earth-2-Side-B).
As a lifelong Superman comics nerd, I can confirm that nothing in this movie makes any sense. The Silver Age story where Jimmy Olsen introduces Beatlemania to ancient Palestine is more coherent.
Anyone who isn't familiar with Supergirl (the Kara Zor-El version) now has the option of going to HBO Max & watching some of the animated films & shows where she's a main character or watching the live-action TV show. It's too bad that she wasn't part of the DCAU due to DC Comics SUPPOSEDLY wanting to make Superman "unique" as Krypton's sole survivor for some weird reason. Personally, I think that's a stupid reason & I'm glad Supergirl is getting a fair shot nowadays!
"Hey, I just killed us all, send me somewhere where I'll have all eternity to think about how all of you died. *Or* , just spitballing here. What if, what if all of *you* go into the Phantom Zone, and I'll find the MacGuffin, and then bring you all back." They made this movie that didn't appeal to Superman fans, and ignored the source material that Supergirl fans enjoyed And then because they made a movie that appealed to no one, they decided that no one wanted to see a superhero movie with a female lead.
"Batman: We've tried human ingenuity, we called on the lanterns but there is one option we haven't tried yet. Constantine: Magic. Batman: *Sigh* Magic, and there is a good reason we haven't gone down that road yet. Aside from it generally being unreliable and unpredictable there is someone, or something on the board that's definitely in Superman's camp. Now Detective Chimp believes.... Bullock: Fuck it! I'm out, I didn't sign up for talking monkeys" Injustice Year 3 On Kryptonians and magic.
Seems Endor is a Bible reference! Now there's no need for anyone else to tell us this 👍
You might say it's the Endor discussion.
Hey, ROTJ is my favorite Star Wars movie, so I’m fine with that,
Well, it's not the Endor be-all of references so that's not really important
So Jesus was an Ewok. Got it.
I just LOVE when you guys collab!
"I must be sent to the Phantom Zone" has similar energy to "I have to go now, my planet needs me".
Peter O'Toole died on his way to the Phantom Zone.
They used to air this movie quite often on tv in South Africa. This, and the Care Bears movie. I was convinced that I would have to battle the evil forces of magic at some point in my life. Turns out it was just alcoholism and depression. The 80s lied to all of us.
Alcohol and depression are magic evil forces. :(
@@PanAndScanBuddy
The magical part is that it's all in our mind.
that's dark but hilarious.
@@thatonea-hole We’re all slaves (to one degree or another) to the inherent subjectivity and fragility of our brains, so yeah it’s all in our minds - but so is literally everything else we experience, interact with, influence, and get influenced by - so while the intention is to minimize the impact of that which can’t be seen or touched, the conduit by which we perceive such things is still the filter between our ears - making everything subject to the geography of our cognitive make-up. “Brains in glass jars” and all that crap.
Reject the natural inclination towards believing in the empiricism of one’s own memories and experiences and instead embrace the magic that is intentionally leaving a 20 dollar bill under a couch or bed and forgetting about it so you can be pleasantly surprised every time you have to look down there.
I hope you’re over your alcoholism and depression.
Zack Snyder took a lot of inspiration from this film for Man of Steel. The obnoxious product placement, the father figures hilariously dying by a tornado, and the hero being an irresponsible idiot. The film was a real trailblazer.
"Needs a lot more carnage. Too much color, too"
And both Supergirl and Man Of Steel are godawful shit.
I'd take man of steel anyway over this garbage
Eerm... Actually as someone who has a fairly in depth knowledge of superhero lore I can honestly tell you that most of this movie really made no sense.
A Popeye's ad came on TV while I was watching this.
They're watching us. They're watching us all...
The Witch of Endor is a woman who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was consulted by Saul to
summon the spirit of prophet Samuel in order to receive advice against
the Philistines in battle, after prior attempts to consult God through
sacred lots and prophets had failed
Between this and Mommy Dearest, it's really no wonder Faye Dunaway is so beloved in camp circles. Peter O'Toole's line delivery for the Phantom Zone bit just kills me, I love it. Also Allison, I love your shirt, it's so cute.
I am SO happy she followed Gene Hackman and Terrence Stamp in the scenery chewing tradition. Loved her scenes.
I thought she looked familiar 😊
NO KRYPTONITE HANGERS!
The tiger mat and “wholeass pineapple” picnic... what a summer vibe bruh 🍹
Despite being from the 80’s, there’s something very 70’s about this movie, with the nonsensical plotlines and weird AF pacing.
I definitely felt the 70s vibes
And something about the fashions and the delivery of the acting. Major "The Apple" vibes.
It's released in 84', which was likely written and even filmed during 83', so lots of 70s cultural vibes were still pretty strong. The "personality" of a decade doesn't really evolve until at least the 5th year. That's why it's really late 80s movies that feel the most "80s"
@@metalgrinch Yes that makes a lot of sense! Nothing ever changes immediately when the number goes from, for example, 7~ to 8~. Because of this I think Stranger Things series 1 got the aesthetic just right.
I felt a very 70s vibe from this, mostly from the cinematography and costuming. Also it seems like a lot of 70s movies used to look like the focus was way softened, and I see some of that here, too
That poor landscaper - he spends the whole movie getting drugged and kidnapped for no damn reason
And ends up getting shot by Hans Gruber. 😮
He's a damsel in distress, whose only fault is being the love interest 😁
He's still in love with Supergirl because of magic drugs, right?
I would pay good money to be drugged a kidnapped by Selena in this movie!!!
there's a reason , women go through their sexual prime in their 30s, whereas men go through it earlier? so Morgana? is horny as hell and he just happens to have the junk she wants
Zaltar: "The criminals, the corrupt, the evil... They're here, over the hill there."
Superman: "Over the hill there has to stand for itself."
"Oh yeah, all the evil people are over that hill."
"And...they just hang out there? They haven't splintered into warring factions or something?"
"Nah, they're chill. They have great parties by the giant red toilet on weekends."
@@johnalogue9832 Sounds like people that Peter O'Toole would drink and party with.
That's why he let Kara take care of it: Earth was "over there"
Over there needs to take care of its own problems.
Don't be too harsh on Selena wanting to get with that landscaper. He went on to become a highly successful businessman at the Nakatomi building.
HANS, BUBBY!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Dolly Parton revealed she was offered a huge $7 million to play Selena, but she also turned it down claiming that she couldn't play a witch, no matter how much money was offered.
Now _that's_ dignity!
Love Dolly but I’m gonna press X to doubt on that “refuse to play a witch” answer, I’m betting it’s more of her desire to avoid burning any bridges
Weird
Well, Dolly is quite religious, so I'm not surprised
She's already been working 9 to 5, she's got enough trouble on her hands.
I love the evil witch voice. It's a wonderful reminder of Piper Sucks from Charmed reviews.
"SHUT UP AND GET ME THAT GARDENER LEO"
Helen Slater comes back to the DC world as Eliza Danvers in the Supergirl series and as Marth Kent in DC Superhero Girls.
She was also Lara in Smallville.
Good to know.
"I... caaaaaan't...."
"YOUUUUU CAAAAAAAAN!"
That about sums up this movie.
Sailor Jupiter is also my favorite Sailor Scout.
On Free Comic Book Day 2011, I had my DVD copy of Supergirl signed by Helen Slater herself, and I still have it in my DVD/Blu-ray collection.
She was trying so hard to make her character work that I can’t help but admire her. I’d treasure that autographed copy!
In the comics, Kryptonians can be affected by magic. That would explain why Kara couldn't fly over the magic floor.
Well, yeah, it's just they never explain this.
I remember in the Linkara/Nostalgia Chick review, Lewis actually bring it up that a witch is a good opponent for Superman and Supergirl
@@SwiftNimblefoot Definitely. They don't really explain why.
except magic isn't just invisible kryptonite. All it means is that Kryptonians don't have any special resistance to magic.
It's irritating when bad writers do things like disable Superman with magic and then have Batman just POWER THROUGH it and save the day. Magic should affect them both the same way. Wonder Woman would be a different story, she's descended from the Greek gods, she should have innate resistance to magic.
Explain movie! Explain!
Even in this segment about Supergirl, Mitch just can't stay away.
"Did someone say A&W Cream Soda?"
Mitch: *Pushes Supergirl out of the way* MY SAVE!
He heard the word fried chicken and was summoned
@@Tareltonlives *plays the theme music*
@@gracekim1998 Pretty crunchy, huh folks?
If ever a movie was MADE for the Movie Nights treatment, it's this one.
And maybe "Grease 2," but this one for sure.
Did.... did Peter O’Toole just do the Poochie exit?!
"I must go now. My liquor needs me"
Peter O'Toole died on his way to the phantom zone.
BUT ACTUALLY SUPERGIRL'S COVER WAS A GEORGIAN DRESS!!!
No thats typical Roman legion centurion battle outfit , she did lose her helmet somewhere :-)
Centurion battle outfit , shirt , skirt and a cape , bigger cape was more power .
When Peter O’Toole’s character got sucked into the vortex,I thought The toilet flushing sound you added was funny.Too bad the whole movie didn’t get flushed along with it.
I'm about 90% convinced this movie is one of those deals like Star Trek II, where Kirk and Khan never actually meet in person. I think they had Faye Dunaway for just 10 days or something, and she was never on the same set at the same time as Helen Slater.
That...could be true...i don't remeber a scene where they both ate on screen at same time.
That sounds so plausible. I mean, how they manage to gaslight a major Oscar winning star like Faye to this train wreck is beyond me.
They’re in several scenes together.
@@knmlover True, but they're all special effects scenes or ones where it looks like a stand-in could have been used.
I posted this earlier but for some reason it's not here: I looked for interviews, and one with Helen Slater refutes my hypothesis. It seems they were at least on the set together, though it sounds like the two didn't interact much and Dunaway kept to herself. O'Toole was apparently a genuine mentor to Slater, though, which is cool.
@@56postoffice Well, money often does the trick. And Selena is probably a fun role to play.
Gotta say I’m impressed by how Alison manages to eat Popeyes the whole time but not sound like she’s talking past a mouthful of food
You know... I rather loved Supergirl when I was a kid. I think it was the nascent gay boy that I was, appreciating the overall ridiculousness of it, plus Faye Dunaway as a man-hungry witch who lives in a fairground ride? She was like a role model for me.
I always wanted to be the man that Selina was hungry for!!
The best things in life together at last: Movie Nights with Allison and Phelan, and Popeye's Chicken. Throw in an A&W Cream Soda and it would have been perfect.
And a nice ass cold pepsay
I've never tasted any of these products but I loved the rest. Great stuff yis ones!
Aw it sounds so good
man, I wish *I* was a witch who lived inside a still-functioning haunted house attraction with a snarky girlfriend who does my taxes for me.
Sounds reasonable to me!
I *adored* this movie as a little girl. Loved it. Watched it over and over. I think even then I knew it wasn't good, but I just loved the magic of it.
Yeah me too.
On the upside, the landscaper went on to get his business degree, got a high position in a successful company, got hooked on cocaine, and nearly succeeded in selling out John McClain at Nakatomi Tower.
And got shot by Hans Gruber. 😐
@@randalgraves6979 that's a little dark, isn't it? 🤣
It was the 80s bro. 😐
@@randalgraves6979 yeah, I was there. 😅
I was ten when this movie came out. I was ALL about Supergirl! I had the storybook (still do), the coloring books, trading cards, even had a poster on my wall, first girlie poster I ever had. Sadly the one thing I didn’t get to do was see this movie in the theater! It just wasn’t out long enough!
Love this futuristic space outfit that Zordon is wearing.... A sweater.
In the climax of the movie, Mitch throws some Popeye's chicken at Selena to save Supergirl
I watched this movie on TV when I was two or three, and only recently saw it again. I think I remembered almost every scene, but thought I had forgotten the connective story tissue. Turns out I hadn't, there just wasn't really anything there!
“It’s a mountain, Lucy! …Isn’t it?”
Very good, Jimmy! With a razor-sharp intellect like that, no wonder you secured your position as the most respected photographer the Daily Planet’s ever had.
Yet still smarter than most of the Kryptonians.
Technically, it's just a really big hill. Don't think it's large enough to be classified as a mountain.
Not going to lie, Selena sparked something in me from a very early age! One of the most seductive characters ever and Faye Dunaway looks stunning in this era
Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway, Simon Ward, Hart Bochner, Peter Cook, and Mia Farrow (with cameos by Matt Frewer and Stacy Keach) in a movie together... I DON'T CARE IF THE MOVIE IS HILARIOUSLY BAD, I'VE SEEN "SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND", THERE'S NO WAY I'M TURNING DOWN A MOVIE FEATURING AN ALL-STAR CAST LIKE THAT! Unless it's "Movie 43".
Love the Jerry Goldsmith score
I remember watching this movie as a kid. I know this movie is trash, but I still have fond feelings about it.
I loved it as a kid too. I kinda lost my fondness for it though. But it was nice as a kid to have a female superhero movie.
Same. Wore out my vhs copy lol
I kind of knew it was awful, even when I was seven years old. But, I liked it well enough. It’s a good guilty pleasure so bad it’s good movie.
Ethan the Landscaper is actually extremely important to the overall mythos, because later, he's sent forward in time to the 30th century and joins the Legion of Superheroes as Chlorophyll Kid.
He's also another alien, from a planet called Madru, but they completely gloss over that. If they hinted at it, I missed it, so did just about every reviewer. It would have been silly to have them hiding it from each other, but it also would have been interesting.
I thought he was sent forward in time and became Owen Wilson.
And his story tragically ends when he gets high on coke and gets shot by a German terrorist in Nakatomi Plaza.
@@Moonhermit- thank you! I knew that slimebag from somewhere and it was driving me crazy ha!
He turns evil and is killed off in the New 52
I’m just impressed by eating Popeyes biscuits and still able to speak and review without choking on that dry brick
You really find them dry?
@@starsiegeplayer depends on the chef. I had some really good biscuits from them but often times they had the texture of an oversized cracker
"Mommie Dearest Seduces Landscaper" = Faye Dunaway's casting call description.
I love watching you two do reviews together like this! You look like you're both having so much fun. Also, I hope you enjoyed that Popeyes, Allison. It looks like you found a location with good biscuits. Most of their biscuits nowadays are like little hockey pucks.
Yes, the movie is garbage, but Jerry Goldsmith's music is ON FIRE!!!
Omega Hedron sounds like an 80's band.
And can we talk about Kara's womanspreading while making the dragonfly?
I kid you not, the CW brought that plot device AND the Selena character for Supergirl. She's now an ancient Kryptonian witch. For real.
They're persistent.
@@JoeChillton This is why I no longer watch that Supergirl show.
@@jackdubz4247 it's completely dumb now. Agreed
Womanspreading you say? ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ
Allison looks so comfy. I'm jealous.
Was really looking forward to this one.
Bizarrely great cast for such a weird, terrible movie. It's kinda like watching Exorcist 2 again.
Real talk tho, if I could, I would totally live in that haunted house.
"It's never established why she needs an Earth persona." It's because every movie with an alien, time traveler, or person from another dimension that comes to modern Earth has to be 50% hackneyed fish-out-of-water shenanigans.
It’s the law
I remember seeing this at the cinema when I was like 10. Even then I could see how stoopid it was and all that got me through it was the fact I have a massive crush on Helen Slater at the time :)
I remember watching this on TBS in the afternoon back in the mid 90s...never understood it back then. But now I know it's because the movie really just DIDN'T make sure!
And ABSOLUTELY...Faye Dunaway and Brenda Vaccaro; doin the "Scissor-Nasty!"?
Awwww yeah!
Now THAT would make a great movie
...how old is that landscaper guy, especially since Kara is a teen? This is really creepy...
Who doesn't love a movie starring drunk Peter O'Toole?
Hell yeah, Man of La Mancha is one of my favorite musicals.
They did a few animated Sherlock Holmes...things...where O'Toole voiced Holmes, and he sounds heavily sedated.
I don't want to think about Caligula.
There's another kind of Peter O'Toole?
And his sweater. Don't forget that
Now this landscaper? HE is a himbo.
To be fair, Helen Slater was pretty good as Kara.
Alison's eyeshadow matches her Popeye's dinner...
Now I want her to request a Popeye's themed makeup pallet endorsed by Popeye's. All the greasiness included.
I also noticed the Eve Cigarette billboard, which was a cigarette company targeted towards women.
Oddly, Zordon was originally called Zoltar in the Power Rangers unaired pilot.
Idiots: Supergirl is why we never got female superhero movies because it was so bad.
Me: So after Quest for peace we never got movies ever again?
That's not how it works. I wish it was, but it isn't.
Catwoman and Electra in the '00s didn't help either. The Quest for Peace DID kill Superman films for thirty years, and then Returns almost did it again if not for WB being too stubborn/scared of irrelevancy/desperately wanting an MCU competitor to force Man of Steel. Nonetheless, it's not like a heavily misogynist Hollywood needed an excuse to ignore female superheroes.
@@jordanthejq12 Thank you.
That’s kind of how executive think trough. We did not get any superheroes movie staring a female for 20 years because they taught. Female superheroes don’t sell they think, while it’s more because the movie was bad...
@@oliviawilliams6204 The films being terrible is an excuse. The real reason is that they don't believe those stories are worth being told (and that also influences the amount of effort that goes into those stories they do produce).
When I first saw the cover on Netflix I was confused on why I never heard of it before, then I actually watched the movie and it all made sense.
Nigel was not only a warlock and a computer science teacher, but was also a pretty impressive clergyman.
I am fascinated by the gorgeous but inexplicable checkered corset on Allison's shelf. I am distracted by trying to glimpse it and solve its mystery.
It's a lamp!
@@AllisonPregler Ooo, super cool!! - and I did not think of that 😂 thanks for illuminating that enigma! (i'm so sorry)
Still more subtle about Popeyes than Little Nicky shoving it in your face.
Popeyes fries are underrated. same with their apple pies, which are like if a Cinnamon Toast Crunch was giant, and stuffed with apple pie filling.
Popeye's was a stealth Lex Luthor cameo. The restaurant chain was supposedly named not after the cartoon sailor, but "Popeye" Doyle from The French Connection, played by Gene Hackman.
As we know, played Lex Luthor.
Weirdest treatment of a time pressure/ticking clock scenario ever. "I must retrieve the power source ball thingy or my city is doomed - I think I'll enroll in a school, make friends, and play with the bunnies in the forest for a while..."
Apparently, David Odell is not a good screenwriter when he doesn't have Jim Henson telling him _what_ to write? How did he go from "The Dark Crystal" to this?
He accidentally predicted going on nothing but side quests in games like Skyrim.
Morrowind is better.
The Salkinds last wish for Superman and his family on the big screen and they completely fucked it up with a witch, Ellis from Die Hard, and epic product placement.
Least Matt Frewer went on to do Trek, Max Headroom and other note worthy stuff.
Wait, the landscaper's Ellis from Die Hard!!!???
@@56postoffice clean shaven. Yes. Also Arthur Reeves from Mask of the Phantasm
The era of "Faye Dunaway Needed a Better Agent".
I remember finding this movie on a weekend and decided to watch it. I had seen other bad movies before, but I don't think I watched a movie that left me as confused as Supergirl did. Nothing made sense, nothing was established and they just tried to find excuses to make things happen for its whole runtime. It was just a weird mess of a movie.
This kinda made me want to live in a haunted house attraction.
I'm not trying to 'um akctually', because Kryptonian weaknesses/attributes change all the time, but the thing with magic isn't that they're especially weak to it, their invulnerability just doesn't do anything to stop it. It won't hurt them more than it would a human, it just doesn't hurt them any less. Kryptonite is specifically radioactive in such a way that (in more modern comics) disrupts their ability to use the yellow sun radiation that fuels their powers.
this always came off like a fever dream... and it seems about right
12:06 Is that the minister from The Princess Bride? "Mawedge! Mawedge is what brings us together today!"
So many great moments in this video, thanks for the fun time!
The fatal flaw which eventually crippled her Army of the Night was that they were all usually in bed by 6 PM.
An “Army of the Early Bird Special” might’ve seen more success in the field, playing to their inherent strengths.
I'm usually in bed by 9.
Buttermilk biscuits from Popeyes and Hardees/Carls Jr. are perfect fast food nearly impossible to make bad.
A&W, Popeye's, Frosted Flakes, and a Dollar Tree version of Luke Wilson.
AXE-CHEW-ALLEY, the spinny omega ball thing is something completely invented for this movie and is just the writers being hacks.
"Indistinguishable from magic" the DC wiki says- fancy talk for "fuck you, it's magic".
EDIT: #notallkryptons
I watched this movie when I was a child. I was not a hug comic nerd at the time so when I was talking to my friends that are comic nerds about it they said I had a lot of info wrong about super girl. Like I actually thought she came from inside the water, like there was a part of krypton inside a lake on earth. I mean that is what it looks like in the movie and that is where the goes back to at the end.
"Can Kryptonians do that?"
Little known "fact", Kryptonians actually only have one power: the power to resolve whatever the narrative problem is by use of a Kryptonian power.
Since most things can be solved with a good punch, that pretty much covers it most of the time.
I would love to see the Brightburn version of the truck stop scene. Humans kicked in the nuts by Kryptonians really should split in two like a Mortal Kombat fatality.
Why do all Kryptonian men wear Cosby sweaters?
Wait a second, does Wilford Brimley actually says FUCK in Ewoks The Battle of Endor?
It's a bit indistinct, but yeah, really seems like it. RLM showed it too. Not much else it could be...
I'm adding this to IMDB.
He gave a review of the Sequel trilogy since he knew he'd be dead before it
Don't mean to actually you guys, but just because you were wondering, "Endor" seems to be a reference to "The Witch of Endor", a character from 1 Samuel in the Old Testament.
Lucas probably got the name from here as well.
It's also a name for Middle-earth in one of Tolkien's languages. I believe it's Old Entish?
Another popular reference to the Witch of Endor is Endora from Bewitched.
I was thinking that, but why is she then the "Siren of Endor"
@@natsmith303 Nah it's one of the Elf languages, and I believe it translates to "Middle Land"="Middle Earth"
@@garthst.claire3459 It's more than likely the writers just plugging witch-y references in to make her feel connected to some sort of legacy.
Already know where this is going and I disagree!! Its pure 80's girl cheese with a side of deep fried magic and ah love it!
The first thing I think of when I hear the word witches is magical trains.
James Read (Victor Bennett aka Dad #2) on OG Charmed was also Jack Olsen, Jimmy’s dad on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Everything always ties back to Charmed
I love this movie. Legit guilty pleasure.
Actually, Landscaper Man plays an important part in the comics, in Supergirl Vs Plants issue #561 they have to stop an army of giant cannibal pineapples, with help from Nigel The Warlock (canon in continuity for Earth-2-Side-B).
As a lifelong Superman comics nerd, I can confirm that nothing in this movie makes any sense. The Silver Age story where Jimmy Olsen introduces Beatlemania to ancient Palestine is more coherent.
Anyone who isn't familiar with Supergirl (the Kara Zor-El version) now has the option of going to HBO Max & watching some of the animated films & shows where she's a main character or watching the live-action TV show. It's too bad that she wasn't part of the DCAU due to DC Comics SUPPOSEDLY wanting to make Superman "unique" as Krypton's sole survivor for some weird reason. Personally, I think that's a stupid reason & I'm glad Supergirl is getting a fair shot nowadays!
To quote Rich Evans: "what the @#$& is she doing? Is she looking for the thing or what?"
I love how Phelous is still purple here🤣
It’s fun to know that you guys covered this movie.
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Wow, so the current Wonder Woman lore of her not understanding basic human interaction was ripped off from Supergirl. Who knew?
how dare you make fun of landscaper guy, my favorite character in all of dcu
"Hey, I just killed us all, send me somewhere where I'll have all eternity to think about how all of you died.
*Or* , just spitballing here. What if, what if all of *you* go into the Phantom Zone, and I'll find the MacGuffin, and then bring you all back."
They made this movie that didn't appeal to Superman fans, and ignored the source material that Supergirl fans enjoyed And then because they made a movie that appealed to no one, they decided that no one wanted to see a superhero movie with a female lead.
"Batman: We've tried human ingenuity, we called on the lanterns but there is one option we haven't tried yet.
Constantine: Magic.
Batman: *Sigh* Magic, and there is a good reason we haven't gone down that road yet. Aside from it generally being unreliable and unpredictable there is someone, or something on the board that's definitely in Superman's camp. Now Detective Chimp believes....
Bullock: Fuck it! I'm out, I didn't sign up for talking monkeys"
Injustice Year 3 On Kryptonians and magic.
The opening title sequence is so perfect.
Okay I can't blame the villains though, that landscaper is FIIIIINE.
Niiiiiice, I sure do luv me a good ol’ fashion Lupa & phelous review, those 2 sure do make a great team