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Joe Neumaier, WOR Movie Minute host, interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let's get to Joe Numeier, a film journalist and wo
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  Speaker 1: R movie minuted host. Joe, this may end up being
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  Speaker 1: the most profitable summer for the movie industry in history.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It's right? What's that great quote? It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: rumors of my demise have been a little bit exaggerated.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what the case is here with the box office,
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  Speaker 3: Erry and this is the biggest since twenty nineteen. It
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  Speaker 3: hit that four hundred billion mark. Spider Man is the
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  Speaker 3: fastest movie to ever hit seven hundred million domestically. I
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  Speaker 3: think it really shows a couple of things. One is that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of people say, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it kind of changed the habits that people had
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  Speaker 3: because of COVID. That's true. Possibly, you know, obviously people
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  Speaker 3: kind of fell out of it there. But there's another thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's that people love going to good movies and they
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  Speaker 3: love seeing big event movies. And whilst you like, streaming
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  Speaker 3: has kind of become a way of life, and we
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  Speaker 3: all know what's on Netflix. We all know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: something new is going to drop or there's gonna be series.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's actually kind of wet people's appetite for
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  Speaker 3: going back to movies in a big way. And you
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  Speaker 3: can look back at the fifties with three D and
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  Speaker 3: it was the same kind of thing where they kind
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  Speaker 3: of were worried that television was gonna was gonna kill
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  Speaker 3: the movies. Turns out it just makes people want to
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  Speaker 3: go more. But also, I mean, these are all great,
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  Speaker 3: big movies that people want to see. Spider Man the
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  Speaker 3: Odyssey coming up, We've got the third Dune movie and
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  Speaker 3: Avengers Doomsday. These are all movies that people want to see.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that that the box office is back,
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  Speaker 3: and I hopefully it won't.
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  Speaker 2: It won't go away.
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  Speaker 3: I think Hollywood will take the message and say give
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  Speaker 3: people good stuff and they'll come.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Joe Neumeier, I got a bone to pick
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  Speaker 4: with you.
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  Speaker 2: You gave the Spider Man Return movie.
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  Speaker 4: After five years of globe trotting away, He's come back
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  Speaker 4: to New York City. He gave me like three stars,
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  Speaker 4: and then Larry nudged you and made you feel guilty
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  Speaker 4: between the have shrikes. So the next time you go
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  Speaker 4: to a movie review, if I happen to be shitting
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  Speaker 4: next to you with my twenty dollars box of good
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  Speaker 4: and plenty plenty good.
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  Speaker 2: You ain't getting none of that. You couldn't have been
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  Speaker 2: a little bit popcorn. A Yeah, you couldn't have been
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  Speaker 2: more hopelessly wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Apologize, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say I was hopelessly wrong in that I didn't
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  Speaker 3: think that it was that good of a movie. I
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  Speaker 3: will say I've seen it again. It's still a three
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  Speaker 3: and a half star movie. But because I can't tell
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  Speaker 3: you guys, I watched the first one, the first Tom
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  Speaker 3: Holland movie. I just watched a couple of nights ago.
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  Speaker 3: It's so great. I like the other ones more. This
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  Speaker 3: one's fine. But you know, the reality is that people
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  Speaker 3: love the character and it had great buzz and right
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  Speaker 3: he was gone for five years.
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  Speaker 2: The last movie.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was terrific, so people really wanted to
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  Speaker 3: go to this one. I still think it's a three
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  Speaker 3: and a half star movie, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that in relation to other Spider Man movies,
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man other related to the other Spider Man, I
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  Speaker 3: think that that Spider Man brand New Day is a
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  Speaker 3: little weaker, but it's still fun and I love that
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  Speaker 3: people have gone, you know, but I won't take any
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  Speaker 3: good and plenty. No, I won't take any good plenty.
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  Speaker 1: It's got like a billion dollars in positive reviews right now.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay, that's okay. You can do.
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  Speaker 1: You can make up for it right now because I'll
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  Speaker 1: point out to you list The End of Oak Street
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  Speaker 1: is out this weekend, right eighty five.
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  Speaker 2: The reviews on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, eighty five percent of the reviewers and Rotten Tomatoes
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  Speaker 1: love the movie, and.
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  Speaker 3: You goah, I don't one star.
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  Speaker 2: I know right now going through a dark period or something.
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  Speaker 3: It's a dark period. That part knew Meyer's dark period
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  Speaker 3: is what this is. I gotta say, though, guys, this
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  Speaker 3: is not like Spider Man. I will say. Okay, So
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  Speaker 3: just a quick recap on this movie, if any. It's
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  Speaker 3: all in the trailers. There's dinosaurs stopping around a suburban neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: Anne Hathaway and you and McGregor and their kids are
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  Speaker 3: running around. Nobody knows what's happening. The fun of this
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  Speaker 3: movie and that's the only thing they give us it
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  Speaker 3: one star is is why there are dinosaurs there. So
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  Speaker 3: if you don't don't read any reviews, some reviews have
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  Speaker 3: spoiled it. If you want to see it don't read anything,
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  Speaker 3: because that's the big thing. And if I were teaching
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  Speaker 3: a film class, I would actually teach this film about
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  Speaker 3: what goes wrong, what could be done better, because it's
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  Speaker 3: really it does nothing with its idea. It kind of
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  Speaker 3: wants to be like Jurassic Park, right, but it reminds
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  Speaker 3: me of the land that time for God or Line
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  Speaker 3: of the Loss or something, you know, Marshall Willet Holly
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  Speaker 3: on a routine expedition. If if it was, if it
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  Speaker 3: had more to it, I would give it more stars.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm giving it one star because it ends up
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  Speaker 3: being bad acting running around, not enough dinosaurs, not enough
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  Speaker 3: creatures going around, and it doesn't do enough with its
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool idea. So the cool idea gives it
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  Speaker 3: one star, but it needs to do more. It's a
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  Speaker 3: shame that it didn't. It didn't kind of take it
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  Speaker 3: into crazy areas. As I said to somebody, this is
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  Speaker 3: the kind of movie you walk out saying, oh, they
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  Speaker 3: should have done this, Oh it would have been cool
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  Speaker 3: if they would have done that. And those movies are
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  Speaker 3: you know, those are not four star movies. Those forestar
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  Speaker 3: movies do things right.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, you mentioned the Magic World Jurassic Park. I thought,
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  Speaker 4: coming into this summer, I saw Billboard's Plackards video punch
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  Speaker 4: just going through you know my cell phone, Oh, Disclosure Day, Spielberg.
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  Speaker 2: Disclosure Day, Spielberg.
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  Speaker 4: Did that end up becoming a buffo box offish movie.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was right in the middle, actually, Curtis, I
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  Speaker 3: think that critics liked it and audiences kind of went.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of hit the right moment. There was a
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  Speaker 3: lot of ufone news and going on, so people were saying, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know UFOs and look here's Disclosure Day, and I
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  Speaker 3: think his name got people in there, but it didn't.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't hit the stratosphere as I think people wanted to,
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  Speaker 3: or other Spielberg films have. Jurassic Park. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: if anybody cares, is on Disney Plus and Hulu right now.
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  Speaker 3: And that's all. The Jurassic Park is always great. That
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  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety three original was terrific. So No, Disclosure Day
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  Speaker 3: was not let and I thought it was. I liked
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  Speaker 3: the how solid he did the directing. I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was a solidly told story. But it didn't. It didn't
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  Speaker 3: do anything new. It didn't get it liked. This movie
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  Speaker 3: didn't do enough with its with its main idea, which
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  Speaker 3: is a shame.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about great dinosaur movies,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that the list begins and ends with
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  Speaker 1: Jurassic Park.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of does. It begins and ends with with
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  Speaker 3: that first dress of Park. I don't mind the third one,
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  Speaker 3: which is okay, you know the second one, or was
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  Speaker 3: the other one that he directed. There's also you know,
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  Speaker 3: this movie was also making me think of like monsters
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  Speaker 3: in suburban areas or something when some people thought this
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  Speaker 3: movie might be a clover Field pequel or prequel because
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  Speaker 3: it takes place in nineteen eighty two. That's the other
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  Speaker 3: good thing about this movie. It takes place in the
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  Speaker 3: great Summer of nineteen eighty two. You know, the great
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  Speaker 3: movie Summer, all the great movies, all the great the
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  Speaker 3: best summer movies came out summer of ninety of nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty two, So this movie takes place then. So it
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  Speaker 3: were kind of reminded me a little bit of like
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  Speaker 3: clover Field or Gremlins. You know remember Gremlins, which is actually,
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  Speaker 3: yeah that's on Peacock. Yeah, that's a great one. So
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  Speaker 3: if it had a little bit more to it because It's
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  Speaker 3: kind of like Stranger Things, you know, it kind of
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  Speaker 3: has that Oh remember how the eighties were such a cool,
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  Speaker 3: fun time for fantasy movies. It just needed to do
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more. And also, I don't think you
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  Speaker 3: can really shoot a dinosaur with a gun or hit
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  Speaker 3: him with a hammer and he'll fall back. I think
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  Speaker 3: they were a little stronger. I think they had a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more too.
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  Speaker 2: Just don't happen in this movie. Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: It does happen in this movie.
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  Speaker 3: They get up, but they're like, you know, really your hammer.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're probably okay, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you're.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you now, I okay, if they if they're
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  Speaker 1: if they're fighting dinosaurs with the hammers, I understand your review.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Neumeyer, film journalist, w o R Movie Minute host,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot
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  Speaker 3: Joe, Thanks guys,