Hate Watching Steel: Super Shaq or Super Lame?

About this episode

The hosts rewatch the film Steel and critique its balance between camp and seriousness.

Send us Fan Mail Shaq in a DC Comics superhero suit should be an automatic good time, but Steel (1997) somehow lands in the uncanny valley between Saturday afternoon fun and “please take this seriously.” We rewatch it scene by scene and call out the exact moments where the movie could have leaned into camp, tightened the story, or just admitted the premise is ridiculous. Instead, we get tanks creeping through the LA hills, a sonic weapon demo that goes sideways, and cops who treat chasing a s...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

• film review
• comedy
• superheroes
• camp
• nostalgia

Keywords

• Steel
• Shaquille O'Neal
• DC Comics
• film review
• comedy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DC Comics

Books & works: Steel

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