Well, this was fun! I thought it would be fun to try to catch up on the podcast with a three-fer of The Unholy, Silo, and Scoob!
*Producer of Silo is Sam Goldberg, not Goldman, sorry sir!
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The Transcript
Sometimes I don’t have a whole lot to say about some of the movies I see, not that they’re not enough to speak about dumb sometimes. But if a movie truly doesn’t speak to your heart, are you really gonna remember it? And on this episode of Movies Are Dumb Sometimes we’re going to call this 48 FPS because as you all know, film rolls at 24 frames per second. But here we’re going to talk about – so it’s kind of rapid fire some of the movies that I seen recently, the whole point, as you may know, of Movies Are Dumb Sometimes is to talk about movies that are currently in theaters.
But sometimes, I just might not make it. But fortunately, of the three movies we’re going to talk about today, The Unholy, Silo, and Scoob!, I believe Silo is still kind of making its rounds in theaters, they got a whole separate thing going on. So without further ado, let’s roll at 48 frames per second.
The Unholy (2021)
Now, it was kind of funny watching The Unholy, shortly after watching The Girl Who Believes in Miracles because there were so many similarities, like there are tropes in movies, and I guess, that you don’t really notice the tropes when you don’t see movies kind of back to back. But the thing is, is that this was a scary movie. And The Girl Who Believes in Miracles was obviously a faith based family film. But there were so many similarities between these two. In both movies, the girl who is the chosen one, I guess you would say, they’re both like people are trying to hold them back. They’re like, in The Girl Who Believes in Miracles, the family’s telling the daughter, “Hey, stay in the house, don’t go out there.”
And then in The Unholy the father, who is the father of Alice, the main character in the movie is telling her “Hey, don’t go out there,” and she just walks out. And just like The Girl Who Believes in Miracles just walked out and they both walked out and just started healing people. I was like, “This is so weird!” But as you if you’ve seen both movies, you know what I’m talking about!
Movie Introductions
This movie though, I’ll just back it up a little bit, it did opened up with one of the little shocker intros from my educational background I was taught that scary movies pretty much are not scary movies, like slasher films, which were movies that teenagers would go to to make out, basically. But that genre spawned the whole, immediate like, “Oh, no, somebody’s dying right away,” kind of like intro to movies.
Whereas most, I guess what they call good storytelling, from what I was told in college of film, was that the first 25% of the movies should be status quo, where everything’s like normal, and then something happens. And then the rest of the movie, or rest of the story is, you know, the whole reason you watch the movie, but I just if you have some time, let me know what you think.
Do you like these little shocker intros, like in The Unholy, where they ended up just burning a witch right away? Or would you rather have had that come back later in the movie? So you just started the movie, like it was every day. And when I learned about the whole 25% thing, I was a little like that this mean, that’s 25-30 minutes of just quote unquote, early, it’s not 25-30 minutes, about 15 to 20 minutes of normalness. I’m just like this, isn’t that can that get boring pretty quickly?
But you know, if you tell it right, it’s it, you can keep it entertaining. I can see why some people may have followed that formula. And then people hated then quit watching the movie right away because they just didn’t make something interesting.
The Unholy Doll Hidden for over 175 Years?
Now, one big dumb thing about this movie was that this whole, supposedly the witch, the lady, or the team, the bad guy, spoiler alert, if you haven’t figured it out already, the demon devil thing, the evil thing in the movie was captured into a doll. That’s why the witch was burned alive. And this doll has been in this tree, which is kind of in the middle of the field by itself since 1845.
So that’s about 170 years or so ish, that this doll has just been sitting there. And no kids went over and explored the tree and nobody ever thought about going and checking out the tree. And this doll was just sitting kind of like covered by a little bit of dust. Ah, sometimes you got to make things a little more believable, because I know kids would have found it by then.
It took a journalist or he was not even a journalist. he’s a he’s a dirty journalist and a goofy farmer man to find this little doll. One thing I noticed about this movie is that it was not an action film, but it was cut like it. I wrote that down for notes…
So if you’re going Do movie reviews you shouldn’t write down your notes and then not do it for like a month and a half. But I do want to talk about the movies. And if you have any notes, please compare them to mine and let me know because Movies Are Dumb Sometimes in Hollywood needs to know how bad they do sometimes, for example, drone shots, overuse majority of the time. And it wasn’t that bad, I guess I don’t know, I just didn’t see the point in having a drone shot when Alice walked out of the church, or somebody walked out of the church to the tree.
Something happened in the beginning of the movie, and they decided to go with a drone shot for that, which was it’s a cool looking shot. But I felt the story could have been told better from the ground. Maybe the drone shot at the end of the movie – near the end of the movie – at the climax of the film, when everybody’s running out of the tent. That would have been a much better drone shot, but don’t use so many drone shots. People!
The Unholy’s Best Quotes
Dang, there were two great quotes in this film. I didn’t know if I was going to, you know, for this 48 frames per second. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to talk about quotes, because I mean, I’m just kind of, we’re just having a simple, quick little talk about the movies. But Dang, listen to this quote:
“When God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel next door.”
Dang that, that kind of goes with that. good versus evil. As long as there’s evil, there will always be good. Or whenever – wherever there is good, there will always be evil. That’s a fancy way of saying that. And then there was another quote said,
“Fame. It’s like a drug.”
I think Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character said that Mr. Fenn, Gerry Fenn. I saw something recently that was kind of the same thing and they’re like, once you get a hold of that fame, you need more of it. And I don’t know, how would you feel about being famous?
Don’t Reference Trailer Park Boys!
Before you make a movie, make sure at least for me, make sure none of the characters in your movie represent any Trailer Park Boys characters because it kind of makes it a little harder to focus on the movie. For example, in The Unholy there was the bishop that came in to investigate the whole Alice situation and what is his name Monsignor DelGarde? I forget his I forget the name of the movie that’s me trying to sound Spanish.
But the bishop that went with him, sounded and acted so much like the salesman, the Bible salesman, from Trailer Park Boys, the one with the stripper. It was Season Two, Episode Five titled The Bible pimp go, look, go watch it on (Netflix) – if you don’t watch Trailer Park Boys. You’re missing out on so much life.
This Bishop sounded like him. He looked like him. And the movie kind of surprised me. I thought he was gonna be like the evil one in this movie. But he wasn’t. But he wasn’t the nicest guy. For example, at the end there, they’re having a ceremony around this tree because they think they’re oh my gosh, it’s actually good. And the bishop tells the one security guard, “Hey, make sure this guy doesn’t come in.”
Or there’s two there. And I’m like, I don’t know. I don’t know something about that scene didn’t really speak to me. And sometimes, you know, I think “Am I looking at this too hard?” And then I think, “Well, this movie had a $10 million budget.” They could have tried a little harder. Which is good news. The movie did make $30 million. It’s always good when a movie makes money because then that allows filmmakers to make another movie however they need to learn because if Escape Plan 2 ever comes out, boy howdy, I will tear that movie to shreds if it’s half as bad as the first!
Jumpscares – The Unholy’s Cheap Thrills
Scary movies jump scares. No! Why do they keep doing it? I don’t know. It’s boring. What? If the jump scare is correctly done, then I get it. But what is correctly done? What is a good jump scare? This is all subjective because movies are art. But if you just have a super loud noise just to have a super loud noise, it’s not good filmmaking, not to me anyways.
But I think one of the dumbest things in it….I mean, you could sit here and “Oh, it was evil did it.” In this movie at the end at the ceremony that the bishop is having up the tree with Mary and Mary is about to infect the whole world will not Mary the devil that has inside of Mary.
So the devil, the demon thing starts coming out and sets the whole tents on fire and everybody starts running out and that was it. Like only Gerry and Alice were in there. The demon thing killed the bishop, and everybody ran away. And then nobody, like, nobody bothered to come back to look. And it’s one of those things well, “the demon put a protective shield or somebody put a protective shield” like, I don’t buy that they didn’t explain it. Somebody somewhere had to have been curious enough to go look at what was going on and nobody did.
That’s about all I have to say about The Unholy. Like I said, I have some notes written down, I have no idea what the notes were. I did watch the trailer. And unfortunately, the dumb moments that I have written down didn’t trigger a lot of what I thought was dumb in the movie. But would I recommend to see it in the theater? Well, you can’t see it now. So you don’t have to. But if you saw, I would say, if you have the chance to sit in a theater, watch The Girl Who Believes in Miracles first, or at least listen to my podcast about it. Because then you hate…I don’t know it just if you love religious horror, then I guess you would go see it.
Silo (2021)
Up next, we have a little film called Silo, I think it barely….I’m not sure what the feature film cut off is I want to say it’s 70 minutes. I think that’s what I remember learning. But this movie like barely makes the cut off.
This movie, it turns out is based off of a short film documentary that was made about people who die in silos. Well it was more about two guys, a 29 year old and an 18 year old that like work on the farm. I don’t know the documentary is on Vimeo, you can check the link in the description, I’ll link to it. It only has 97 views. I would think that a movie that inspired a feature film would have more coverage. And maybe it does. The reason I found – how I found – the short film was I was looking up Blood Orange Pictures, logo animation, you know how every movie the other production companies got to act all cool and they play their logos and stuff before the movie starts. It was awesome.
As far as logo animations go, it’s by far one of my favorite logo animations.
Blood Orange Picutres, Silo, and the Documentary
So I went looked them up. They are too cool to have anything on YouTube. But luckily, I thought oh, well, these people probably are on Vimeo. And they are well, not a whole lot on there. But they have their logo animation without sound, I think. And they have the short film or short documentary Silo if you want to go check it out.
Blood Orange Logo Animation – https://vimeo.com/317391971
Silo: https://vimeo.com/232874740
But I will say if we want to pick a favorite quote from the Silo documentary, I’m not quite sure I grew up in South Dakota, but I didn’t grow up on the farm part of it, which is like 98% of it. But one of the guys in the short film says,
“It was like the coolest thing to do is to go to the farm and work.”
And I was like, that’s definitely a small town mentality and thing to say. But you can go to the website and see where this movie is still playing. So if you want to learn a little bit about these people that grow your food, and how they sacrifice themselves.
Critically Thinking with Silo’s Stat
I’m gonna just say it now. So they said at the end of the movie, they showed this movie, and then they do the one stunning fact – said that there’s been like 1,200 deaths since 1964 due these grain bins, but I’m gonna teach you how to think critically. Because after then it says like that’s approximately one death every 15 days, which is pretty shocking and alarming.
But where is – there’s no timeline of those deaths. I find it kind of hard to believe that 1,200 people have died due to one single thing, and nothing has been done to improve the situation. Which it may be it hasn’t I don’t know. But if you’re thinking about every 15 days, somebody dies from this, there should be more effort put into – especially like in the short documentary. One of the guys says, “Yeah, there’s less people working on the farm because of machinery.”
So if one of your workers die, then you’re short! Then it’s like in that movie The Hell or High Water. There’s a scene. Oh, by Taylor Sheridan (who did Those Who Wish Me Dead), oh my God.
There’s a scene where the two Rangers are they get stuck behind a cattle herd going across the road. And one of them they’re talking to one of the Cowboys. And the cowboy says something like they’re like, oh, why don’t you get more people or young people do this? And he goes,
“Do you think young people want to do this nowadays?”
It’s like, I can totally understand that. And if this is such a big killer of people, how have not more safety – maybe They have had more safety measures, but okay to rewind it a little bit. I’m kind of rambling here. But to put in the critically thinking part since 1964, about 15 people have died every, er about on average one person dies every 15 days.
Think Critically, Ask Questions!
But over the years has that slowed down? Was it…did it start off with one person every four days? And then it has tapered, you know, to one person every 60 days, which it could be – it could not be, but it’s things like this in which movies try to shape opinion. I mean, it’s not just movies, trust me. The news does it every day. But these facts like this need to be looked into more and I could be wrong.
I could be totally wrong, but I don’t know how everybody, especially after the cove wrong. Cove Rona Coronavirus, thing like how can nobody look at anything anymore than below the surface. They’re just presented with facts and then they just go with them, which I guess people can do it because they’re lazy, and they’re not taught how to think critically. But anyways, on to Silo, the first thing we have to say about this movie is that it was done by Blood Orange pictures, and they left their mark through the whole movie, because this movie is orange.
There was a movie, I think on Netflix, it was on Netflix, I watched it like seven years ago or so. It was a post apocalyptic type film. And it had the same feel as far as the cinematography, slash look of the film goes. I want to say the movie was called the “Heat”, but I don’t think it was and I want to say it was a German film. I want to see the movie again, after seeing this movie.
I want to say it was better than I remember it because I really don’t remember the movie mostly because I just remember the fact that the movie looked really hot. Like it was always like the had this heat look to it. Maybe that’s why I think the movie is called Heat. But if you could, somebody could let me know what the name of this movie is. So I can look it up again. I would be most highly appreciative.
Silo’s Mis En Scene (or Some Fancy French Cinema Term)
Now this movie shows just some shots of farm. And it has a voiceover which this voiceover is then repeated at the end of the movie. I like that if it’s not long, but this was like a long thing. But the first actual clip of the movie, what’s the movie like gets into the movie…there’s a woman who opens up, let her dresser – er her closet.
And she appears to be naked because of the framing. And then it cuts away and you see a shot from behind her and she’s not naked. She’s wearing a towel. I don’t like this and filming. And it’s not that I wanted to see this woman naked. I just don’t like movies, because sometimes they’re dumb to me…it’s dumb. Maybe to you it’s not.
But don’t present to me – don’t put the world inside the frame. Like I wouldn’t have cared if you showed some of the towel. You didn’t have to shoot it like (that) because then I thought oh, something’s gonna happen. You’re leading my mind down a direction where – “Why is she naked?” I mean, maybe it could tell a lot of the character.
But you didn’t do that filmmakers! Samuel Goldman [Goldberg], I think the producer was like – he did produce the short documenty.
Okay. Anyways, yes, it’s it happens a lot in movies, horror movies, like I just complained about The Unholy things are happening off screen, but you’re not presenting them to us in it. Give me the entirety of the scene. Don’t just give me the entirety of what is on the picture. Because to me, then you’re not really trying to tell a story. You’re just being lazy.
I say that, like I’m Spielberg. Yes. But filmmakers out there, please make movies and I, I might be harder on this film. Because it is I’m pretty sure it was a low-low-low budget movie, it obviously isn’t going to speak or resonate to city folk at all. They’re not gonna care about what happens in the silos that much. But sometimes you got to be a little more strict with the underdogs. So the underdogs you can become the “overdogs!”
Silo – Still out in Theaters?
And the movie’s – is still apparently it’s being it’s still in theaters that are releasing the movie Silo. But I did read on the website that the movie does come with like educational materials, and I was never given anything at the movie theater. I just walked, in saw the movie, walked out. I didn’t see any display or anything which is unfortunate because movies.
Ah I’d love it if movie going – and that’s where I think theaters will fail because going to the theater should be an experience. It shouldn’t be just going to see them movie and the Star Trek marathon that I drove down the Phoenix from Las Vegas to see kind of ruin that because they kind of made that into an event.
And I’m not saying every movie needs to be an event. And I understand it’s expensive to print materials and stuff. But the website says that there would be learning things for me to get, I think, I don’t know, I just made it sound like there was something like I could have learned more about maybe they could have told me. Maybe they could have showed me the graph of the 1200 deaths since 1964. But I digress.
Favorite Quotes from Silo (2021)
Dang, and now we’re gonna get into my favorite quote, oh, there’s actually two quotes I should say, from Silo, not including the one in the documentary. So there’s one point when Sutter, I think that’s guy’s name. He’s the one who – spoiler alert – he’s the one who dies first before the kid. You see in the trailer, he’s stuck in the silo. He’s talking to one of the kids. And he says…
“You know what the difference between young and old is young think they have a choice.”
It was like, dang, that’s pretty pessimistic for an older person. Hopefully more older people aren’t thinking like that. But who knows? I’m getting kind of old. I haven’t gotten there yet. What do you old people think? Do you think that the difference between young and old people is that young people still think they have a choice, and that old people just have realized that whatever they try to do ain’t going to work.
I mean, how many celebrities do you see come out and their older days? Not nearly as many in the younger days? I guess. So maybe he is right. But there is another quote!
“They say lightning doesn’t strike twice.”
And then Val said, I think it was Val. She said…
“They say some stupid things.”
I like that quote, I’ll probably use that a lot.
Dementia Patients around Dangerous Potential?
Now this movie, see, like, when I watch movies, I try to pull life lessons from them. And this movie had a – one of the main character’s dad who used to like run the farm, but now he’s, he’s like old and got dementia – he can’t do it anymore. He’s sick. And they keep them around the farm.
And I’m not one of those people who think that nursing homes should be the answer for everybody. But it’s kind of hard. When – why would you keep somebody who could potentially ruin a lot of things in that kind of situation? I mean, I can see both sides.
But the reason this kid in the movie and get sucked down the grid, the silo stuck in the green or the corn, was because the dad went out and he was telling his son “Oh, we got to do something with the silo.” I can’t remember but he had to pull the switch. And when he pulled the switch, that’s when the kid got sucked kid and – the kid and Sutter got sucked under the, into the silo parts here. There’s a lot of things here – Shouldn’t have checked first? But if you went and checked would have mattered to the dad probably would have just did it anyway.
Yes. Like in real life in your life in a life situation – would you want somebody that that’s that’s that sick, hanging around a whole bunch of dangerous equipment?
Female Power!
Now there was a female cop, she must have been the sheriff because she got to the scene after the kid got stuck. And she was in charge. She was barking orders, which is cool. But then I don’t want to say she had two male subordinate cops, deputies. But this is one of those things where it feels like, “How real is that? Is that just the movie?”
But it could be I don’t know, this is one of those things. I should just shut up. I’m like I said, I’m complaining about stupid things now. But I will say I skipped it over at the beginning. At the beginning in the movie, the kid who gets stuck in the silo who has asthma.
Apparently him and his friend are trying to start a metal band. This kid is singing into his microphone, like HARD! and he doesn’t have a pop filter and it didn’t look like he had a filter over his microphone. He was just like screaming. And I i’m not i’m not a musician. I’m not an audio expert or anything. But I know without my pop filter in something else covering up my microphone, I wouldn’t have a lot of pops like this. Listen, pops. I have to push hard to get pops. Imagine that without coverage. But yeah, I know. I saw that. I was like, how does he have all of this fancy equipment.
He’s got padding up in his room. He knows all this stuff. But pop filter? No. But I mean my most expensive microphone I have is only 100 bucks. So maybe I don’t know, I probably don’t know what I’m talking about there.
Frank’s Late Introduction in Silo
So Frank – there’s a character in this movie. His name is Frank he’s introduced after the kid gets stuck into the silo. A little late, because everybody seems to not trust Frank. And this whole time I’m like, okay, you can tell us why nobody trusts Frank. And I just for me, it took too long.
You know that it’s coming. This movie I didn’t, it wasn’t gonna spawn off a bunch of sequels. Yeah, who knows? Maybe it will. If you’re trying to tell a story. I think one of the worst things you can do is leave your audience guessing. Unless it’s like a true big reveal. Like there’s a big secret or something but Frank – something happened with the kids dad, and his mom’s…it was her his mom’s husband, which they started saying the word named Avery. Avery to me as a male or female name. So it took me a second to try to figure out who Avery was. But yeah, the whole time. I was like, until we found out which I felt like was too late.
Why? Why are we worried about Frank? I didn’t feel like that was something that needed to be held back. But Valerie, Valerie, the mom and Frank both have their own little monologues in this film, and they were good monologues, they were delivered quite well.
I just I felt like they could have been broken up at some point. Or maybe rewritten some way so that they didn’t, they were pretty much back to back to me that took away from the effectiveness of both of their dialogues because I think Valerie’s was first and then less than a minute later, Frank’s giving his monologue, which were they both were good. But I forgot about Valerie’s because they didn’t have time to soak in. Maybe that’s just me.
And then Sutter died. He was the old man that went in first. And then like he’s mentioned a couple times, but like nobody comes for him. I ended up feeling like really bad for Sutter, cuz he was like an afterthought. He’s like, he was a statistic. He was like, look at this one. Look at this guy. He’s one of those 1200.
Scoob! (2020)
Anyways, so, let’s move on to Scoob! Which in this in this episode of movies are done sometimes I’ve talked a lot more than I thought I would. Which is what the problem was Scoob! was – how come Scoob talks so much – was it because Frank Welker, I think this probably is his last time playing Scoob he’s been playing Scooby Doo characters for a long time now. But he’s getting old. He’s his could be his last hurrah. Maybe that’s why he talked so much. But I don’t think that was the right thing to do.
Sometimes less is more. And Shaggy. I did read a lot that in the trailer, he doesn’t say like, at all. And I don’t really – I wasn’t paying attention in the movie, but I feel like, there we go. Like, I say like, I feel like he would have been, he should have been saying like more. Like if he didn’t say it, then I didn’t notice it at all.
In kids movies, of course, will rewind to the second here. You can’t really attack these movies as much. These movies are not meant for adults. But like I’ve said before, in the past, I not on Movies Are Dumb Sometimes I think but like, give these kids movies, the same amount of effort and storytelling that you would give to regular movies because these kids could learn especially young, budding filmmakers. You just show them things that don’t make any sense. Yeah, that makes them laugh now.
But, the parents, you have to entertain the parents to which a lot of these kids movies do through innuendos, and very shortly, but these parents you should cater to as much as the kids. Because these parents are footing the bill. These kids aren’t making 40 bucks to go see a movie with the family – the parents are. So don’t leave the parents in the dust!
The Bullies In Scoob! Get Away Scott-Free!
Anyways, at the beginning of this movie, if you know about movie history, any movies that were made like early, early early, and I remember like Cecil B. Demille. He wanted to make these movies were like, ooh, bad people do bad things, but he couldn’t make it unless the bad people were punished for it. And there’s bullies at the beginning of this movie who go and steal Shaggy and Scoob’s candy. And they throw the candy. They don’t even keep the candy. I thought that was kind of weird. Like, bullies just stole the candy. So they’re like really evil bullies. These aren’t just your regular bullies. Who want candy. They were stealing kids. candy in this, discarding it, and then these bullies never get their due! They just get to be rude and mean and they got to they got away with it.
Anyways, they throw the candy in this house and they go into – kids go into the house shaggy Scooby, Freddy, Velma and Daphne. And they have this one of them has their cell phone on and the beam is like a focused beam. I’ve never seen a (cell phone) flashlight have a focused beam before. So where do they get that?
This is something like it’s a hit or miss. They recreated the original Scooby Doo theme intro with and of course, they had to change it a little bit because the kids had to turn into adults, they ran into a room and came in adults. Which is okay.
They pretty much frame by frame kind of copied the original. And that you know, I think it’d be a better mix of the two. I guess for the adults this maybe this was done for the adults, because the adults go “Oh, I remember seeing that my childhood!” but I feel like they didn’t need to do it almost shot for shot.
Empty Bowling Alley?
And there’s one point where Scooby and Shaggy separate from the gang because they’re not allowed to be in the gang – in Mystery Inc, because Simon Cowell doesn’t see any use for them. And they go to the bowling alley. And they’re like there all by themselves. Except for one girl who’s like, you know, running the bowling alley. I was like, “How is there nobody else at this bowling alley? I’ve been to bowling alleys. I’ve been to plenty of bowling alleys. And yeah, sometimes it’s slow. But I don’t think I’ve ever been the only one in there with my dog.
And if anybody can point me to at any point when Velma has been Hispanic or spoke Spanish – I mean, it’s this is one of those things. It’s today’s age. I believe a lady of Hispanic descent played Velma. So I guess one of the things in her contract was to have Velma speak a little Spanish when she said “Incredincredibly cache? I can’t say it. But maybe I said I don’t. But I don’t know. I just and I get it’s up to the director. But if you it’s like, I don’t know, I’m one of those purists. I don’t think characters and movies should be changed dramatically. If you’re going to do that just create your own character because other than otherwise, why are you using these characters when you’re just changing who they are?
This movie did show me that it’s incredibly hard to dog nap because Scooby was like impossible dog nap. And there’s one thing like there’s one dog in this world that after hundreds of years, if not 1000s whenever I think it was, was it Alexander and Peritas – I don’t remember. But the dog from ancient times. To this day only had one surviving descendant. And if dogs I don’t know that it seems like that’s kind of a trope that’s getting annoying with me in films that somebody – their one descendant – there’s only one left all was Mortal Kombat was a recent one, where one person after hundreds and hundreds of years and generations and generations and generations, which with a person is a little more understandable, but dogs tend to have like four or five puppies at a time. So the chances of there being more ancestors are incredibly higher, but not in this movie.
Scoob!’s Collar of Laziness
So one thing about this movie was shaggy giving the collar to Scoob when they were young and Scoob hasn’t taken it off this whole time. But Scoob becomes the chosen one and they’re gonna put a new superhero suit on him. Shaggy’s looking at him like, “Are you going to dare take that collar off?” because the machine that was putting on Scooby superhero suit, couldn’t put it on because the color was in the way.
They showed Scooby he’s sad. They show Shaggy, sad. They show Scoob this arm that has I don’t know how it was going to do it, which is why they didn’t show it. But it was going towards the collar this robotic arm and then it cut to Shaggy and then you hear it getting removed and you see the collar getting pulled away. And I was like – couldn’t you just like, physically impossible, physically impossible! And, yeah, that’s one of those moments where it’s like oh, Okay, you could have figured something sat down for 10 to 20 minutes with your people, director, and figure this out. And that’s so lazy.
Dang. And then there was a big dig at American men and Freddy is white. And I was like this Hollywood just taking a crack at the American white male, because Freddy knew about superheroes, but he didn’t learn about the metric system. And in America, unless you’re in a specified career, you don’t really deal with the metric system too much. So why go out of your way to learn it?
It’s like, the Europeans they learn other languages because so many people right around them speak many other languages, so they usually tend to learn another language. But in America, in this big giant land, we all – everybody here speaking English, for the most part, so we don’t really have a reason to learn another language. So why is she – Why is Velma getting on Freddy? I mean, that wasn’t part of his curriculum. I’m sure in high school. It’s not his fault.
The Worst Solvers Ever!
Anyways, so Freddy, Velma and Daphne are the worst solvers ever. There’s one scene where they are in Dastardly’s ship after that little scene about the American male line. They get captured by Dastardly. They’re in his ship. They break free of their jail cell. They go and find a room with a transmitter in it. And they’re sitting there trying to figure out the transmitter to contact Scooby and Blue Falcon and all them.
This hole – they’re in there for a couple minutes. And then Freddy looks to the left and sees this giant like crazy person, conspiracy theory type map, they see this conspiracy type theory map that dastardly is put together to get his dastardly plans all done. I’m just thinking, “How…why would you go into a room and not at least look around the room?” Or my dumb for thinking that?
It’s not like they turn on a light or anything and then there was. The only light in the room was the transmitter. But they at one point are all looking at the maps – the crazy conspiracy map looking thing. I don’t know how did they all not see that when they got in there? That’s all I want to know.
Captain CAAAVVVEEEEMAAAAN!
The Captain Caveman scene was great. I’m not gonna tell you who played him. You’re gonna see the movie it wass fun. I enjoyed that sequence very much.
But at the end of the sequence, Dastardly comes in and he’s going to steal the skulland Scooby Doo. And I get it – Blue Falcon is not a superhero in this. It’s his son. He doesn’t know the heroic ways or anything. He’s already proven that by now on this point movie but his little sidekick, girl and Dyno-mutt both have proven their worth.
And Dastardly is holding us some sort of shocker thing to Scooby and he’s pulling him to the skull so they can steal it. And nobody’s doing anything. Like, I don’t think so. I mean, they did release a whole bunch of robots, the Dastardly released a lot of robots down. But I can’t remember if Blue Falcon or Dynomutt or the sidekick girl was doing anything about anything. I just remember them staring like “Oh, no!” And you’re a hero. You do something right? I don’t know. Maybe I don’t know. Maybe I just probably…no…
And Muttley, when they finally get to Muttley whenever they open that portal thing and he doesn’t seem to be upset very much about Dastardly locking him away for possibly eternity.
And then Shaggy gets back so easily. I was kind of…I mean, Scooby, he was so Shaggy gets sent to the underworld, which, wherever he got sent to, and then a statue pops up, and then Scooby goes, “Come back, please!”
And then Shaggy came back. And like, I was like, “Wow, that was easy!” Like, I don’t know. I mean, I get it. It’s movies for kids.
They’re probably trying to teach kids something about friendship, but Scooby just went “Come back, Shaggy!” And I was like, oh, like, ah!
Final Thoughts on Scoob!
And then the final thing I’ll say I didn’t like about this movie was the final cut from that scene basically. There was a shot of the airship and you had this slight panning – this diagonal panning – and then it cut to Venice Beach. And then you had the panning going the other way. I am well, I mean one thing that people probably think I’m done for I love frame by frame transitions like similar frame transitions, like if you have a circle in one shot and then you’re going to another place and I think transitions are a whole art of their own.
But this one it was just, ah, they could have done better. I’m just saying Hollywood = Shame on you for being lazy!
And that’s it for this. What ended up being a much longer episode of Movies Are Dumb Sometimes I could have talked about all these movies separately, but I felt like well Silo I talked a lot about because there is more background on that one. But thank you for listening to this episode of movies are done sometimes. I’ll try not to group movies up that much anymore. Unless y’all like this. I could do less podcast episodes and more just kind of longer episodes talking about more movies.
I want to do more research and stuff for movies. Unfortunately sometimes life gets a little busy but I have fun doing this. I haven’t spent like a few weeks since I’ve done an episode and that’s a shame on me. Shame on me! If you enjoy viewing something people you should go do it. Why are you holding yourself back?
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