Matt Hagen

And that especially the first act, I was like, what is going on? Like the first act is edited so thin that it's like every scene is like a minute long and it's only there to like deliver everything.

plot point so that the story can go forward and I was getting a little worried I was like oh my god is the whole movie I was like he's already transforming like what's going on like is the whole movie just gonna be this like really quick progression from like scene to scene and then it does eventually like slow down because he goes through this first sort of transformation and then he like actually becomes Clayface and I think the movie gets better from there when he has this ability to like change into other people but i do think that there's some stuff that got must have gotten cut out of this because i don't know if you saw this but actually uh who's the guy who plays jesse in breaking bad aaron aaron paul aaron paul aaron paul He was supposed to play Matt Hagen's abusive father in flashbacks that they filmed, but they got cut out of the movie completely.

And I just feel like the movie overall... doesn't have a strong tonal identity, even though all of it is this very dark, it's doing the fly, it's doing all this other stuff.

But I also feel like I didn't get a good idea of who Matt Hagen actually is and why he's doing all the things that he's doing.

And I think that really... hurt the movie for me um so like i liked all of the body horror stuff i think there are a couple good scenes i really love the nightclub scene where like the big set piece where he's transforming into people and killing all the mob guys but there wasn't any sort of like emotional catharsis or like satisfying part of his arc to me because i feel like i didn't get why he was behaving the way that he was because i didn't really understand who he was as a person and so the whole thing just ended up falling kind of flat for me and you know i think If Mike Flanagan wrote this script, you can't really tell.

That's what I'll say.

But I agree with Sydney in that I don't think it really, has like a strong identity as a whole as a film, which is kind of a bummer.

I agree that.

the right

time for me but yeah and Feet of Clay maybe is Matt Hagen he is an actor he gets disfigured in an accident not because of his own stupid actions but then he goes for some reason the mafia has like a serum that will help him you know heal his face and it's gonna cost you though exactly he's gonna do some favors if you know what i mean yeah uh so he does he kind of gets sick he doesn't want to do that anymore uh when he tries to back out of it they like kind of overdose him on the serum so again it's kind of more of a tragic thing it's much less his fault in the in the series and then he becomes this big muddy looking clay face guy and then they didn't they didn't bring him back for one more episode called mudslide uh wherein he dies Not to spoil it.

It's kind of bleak.

Yeah.

So many times.

So it's kind of cool to see them backdoor their way into more fantastical Batman.

And this movie kind of follows the Feats of Clay thing, but the actor, Matt Hagen, in this case, sleeps with the wrong woman, pisses off the mafia.

They cut his face up.

Yeah.

Anyway, so that's when you got the second version of Clayface, which was Matt Hagen, because when they started having Batman in the 60s, all light hearts like that, you can't have a serial killer with a butcher knife, you know, in the comics.

So they revamped Clayface into a goop glop monster that can just basically evil plastic man.

know this is matt hagen

yeah

if you're matt hagen like i said he's just a goop glob monster batman and robin fought him he was not a serial killer he just did and they just got him and that was pretty much it so that's clay face too other clay faces between them we're gonna skip that we're gonna go to clay face in the 80s who they also revamp here and this is sandra fuller lady clay faced yeah like they were woke in the 80s Yeah.

Those

hips don't lie.

well, that was the one thing too, where I was like, cause at the end they cleared the thing out and they're like, we checked all the footage and we checked all this stuff.

And Matt Hart, Matt Hagen is not on there.

It's like, he would have been popping up.

He's a hundred percent in there.

I think so, because that's when you see that the blade— The last kill is where he crosses the line.

That's the worst kill, dude.

That's where it's impossible to tell anymore if there's any Matt Hagen left.

Right.

Look fear in the face.

Matt Hagen's meteoric rise from Gotham Street Kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss's actions leave him horribly disfigured.

Abandoned by his team with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting-edge treatment that miraculously returns him to his former self, but also unexpectedly affects his grip on reality, spiraling him down a destructive path of all-consuming revenge.

Such a long fucking synopsis.

I do think most of this movie is just the most running down a checklist of things that they need to hit.

And I do think every character around...

What's his fucking name? Matt Hagen.

Every character around him is just a lifeless pawn, essentially.

It'd be cool if he was, but I think after the solo movie, that just means he's not going to be.

I said this in my review, but this movie would be a great B-plot, villain plot to a really good Batman movie where Matt Hagen is accidentally or on purpose killing people, and then the other side is Batman investigating.

I'm sure there's some way to

do that.

There's two episodes of the animated series I want to give you.

Yeah exactly there you go yeah there's like two ways to do it where like you know the first couple we don't see who it is or something or like no I think don't even do the mystery just parallel story show Matt Hagen you know becoming Clayface and Batman tracking him down and then they come together in the finale.

Or even then you'd have like Hush involved in the movie too just to give another villain because Clayface isn't enough for a full movie.

Yeah yeah Clayface is like Deathstroke versus Bane or whatever.

A lot of them, a lot of villains were invented for the animated series.

And I just want to say, as a fan of the animated series, I think they did a really good job being very true to the character of Matt Hagen, you know, who is Clayface.

Oh, no,

he's been around since 1940.

But it was just very well written.

Acting all around was pretty damn good from everybody.

Who is the guy that played Matt Hagen? I've never seen this guy before, and if I have, I wouldn't know, and I feel bad for not knowing him since I'm just kind of praising the

movie.

And as you guys listen to this, the Clayface movie is in theaters.

So who would have thunk it, right? Of course, it's Matt Hagen, but still, it's Clayface.

I still want to go see that.

Oh, I

on an estimated budget of $44 million, according to Variety.

The film acts as an origin story for Clayface, as we follow Matt Hagen, an upcoming actor who slowly turns into a horrifying monster following an experiment gone wrong.

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with an estimated $19.5 million earning.