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Vick's Flicks, Ep. 188: The End of Oak Street Review (with Spoilers) · Nashville Movie Dispatch

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  Speaker 1: Reviews, news, deep dives into filmographies, and really whatever the
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  Speaker 1: This is the vix Flicks Podcast on Nashville Movie Dispatch.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back for another episode of the vix Flicks podcast
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  Speaker 1: my co host for the show. He is the man
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  Speaker 1: whose namesake it bears. He is a board member of
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  Speaker 1: the Music City Film Critics Association. He is a member
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  Speaker 1: of the South Eastern Film Critics Association. He's our resident
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  Speaker 1: film critic here at Nashville Movie Dispatch. Mister big shot
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  Speaker 1: himself Brandon Vick. Brandon, how you doing today, my man?
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  Speaker 2: Sweaty it is It is real, sweaty.
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  Speaker 1: Intensely hot outside today, which I mean you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: mid August in Nashville, Tennessee. And unlike most of our
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  Speaker 1: shows where we joke about what month it is, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is real time. We're recording this in mid August
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  Speaker 1: to release in mid August, and it is I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how else to describe it than brutal. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just you. You you're outside and it feels like
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  Speaker 1: the heat is a force acting against you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think we've had a heat advisory for like
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  Speaker 2: two and a half weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That's like what the real feel is like one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen. Yeah, with that humidity and it just you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm used to you know, we're listening, we're used
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  Speaker 1: to that, but geez, and there's nothing worse than having
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  Speaker 1: that kind of weather.
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  Speaker 2: And then you go into stores and it's like fall
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  Speaker 2: and it has Halloween stuff and it's like, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't there. And there by a long shot.
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  Speaker 1: Was just telling you my YouTube ambiance algorithm is starting
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  Speaker 1: to starting to show, like the Halloween videos, the Fall
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  Speaker 1: videos and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're at a Scottish We're at a Scottish prophet.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's a pub that looks a little fancier,
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  Speaker 2: but I see the candle, that fire going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's nice. It is nice. It's
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  Speaker 1: nice to be here too. On the Vick Flicks podcast, Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about the end of Oak Street, which
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  Speaker 1: you told me the other day you kind of felt
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  Speaker 1: like this might be the last like hourah of summer,
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  Speaker 1: so I speak about the summer blockbuster season, so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: But that, but then I found out Jason Stadium's got
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  Speaker 2: a movie coming out, so it ain't over yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, stupid of me, stand correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I do. I think this is kind of
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  Speaker 2: the last. This is kind of the tail end of it.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of like the last big one that
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  Speaker 2: people didn't maybe quite know what to expect or how,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how's it going to be because honestly, between
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  Speaker 2: Odyssey and Spider Man, it dominates kind of been left
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  Speaker 2: in the dust.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this was getting some some pretty fun reviews.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it. I think I just looked and
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  Speaker 2: it's I think it's now like certified fresh at eighty
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  Speaker 2: something eighty four eighty five percent.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of crazy to me. I mean, we'll we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into our thoughts on the film. I I have
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  Speaker 1: a hard time giving it a positive review.
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  Speaker 2: I think, without getting too much into it right now,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's almost sort of being graded on a curve.
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  Speaker 2: I think the way that it makes you feel and
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  Speaker 2: what it reminds you of. Yeah, it has kind of
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  Speaker 2: taken a hold more than maybe like what you know,
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  Speaker 2: the movie really is.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like that feeling. And I would say I
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  Speaker 1: would agree with this. It's like they don't make many
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  Speaker 1: movies like this anymore, No, they don't. It is like
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  Speaker 1: summer Blockbuster, popcorn flick. Absolutely, They've got some really good
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  Speaker 1: names attached to this thing. And it's a unique story.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it is if nothing else, this story is
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  Speaker 1: quite original.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's I mean, like you said, it's got
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  Speaker 2: a great cast, but in and I get the feeling
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  Speaker 2: because the movie takes place in early eighties and it
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  Speaker 2: does have that feel of sort of like like the
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  Speaker 2: old school kind of Spielberg stuff that you know, it
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  Speaker 2: was almost like it was it was goofy, but it
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  Speaker 2: was fun and it was exciting. And end of those
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  Speaker 2: Street has that Yeah, but not maybe quite like you know,
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  Speaker 2: the classics of Spielhagen, those like you know, even like
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  Speaker 2: I would even throw in Indiana Jones and stuff like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just kind of this like freedom of hey, let's
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  Speaker 2: just go on this grand adventure or hey, something bad's happen,
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  Speaker 2: whether you believe it or not kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of leave that shit at the door, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: just ribe with it and like, you know, I hope
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  Speaker 2: they survive.
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  Speaker 1: How do you how do you want to approach this show?
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  Speaker 1: Do we want to put spoilers on it and warn people?
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  Speaker 1: Or do we want to stay a spoiler free Because
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  Speaker 1: I will say, there's like my critique of this film
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  Speaker 1: comes down to one moment that kind of kind of
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  Speaker 1: took me out of it and ruined the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the experience for me.
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  Speaker 2: I think, but I think.
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  Speaker 1: I can do it in a way that doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: anything away.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. It's out now, right, so it's done,
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  Speaker 2: it's out, and people probably have already shared it on
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  Speaker 2: social media. So I mean we could just throw up
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  Speaker 2: a spoiler warning and just kind of go for it. Say,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't want to know anything else.
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  Speaker 1: About it, yeah, just stop the podcast now.
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  Speaker 2: When you get back, because there there might be a way.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the conversation would be more I think
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  Speaker 2: it would be more fun if we could just.
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  Speaker 1: You could flush things instead of speaking in vague.
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  Speaker 2: Generally trying to tiptoe around it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, uh where do you where do you
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  Speaker 1: want to start with this one.
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  Speaker 2: Then, well, first, and I brought this up to you
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  Speaker 2: after the movie because we had stopped to get some
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  Speaker 2: drinks before we went in, and the bartender said, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about what, like, Hey, we're going to go see
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  Speaker 2: this dinosaur movie. And he's like yeah, He's like, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: at least it's not another one of those Jurassic Park ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, we have companies.
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  Speaker 2: And I get and I get, I I get what
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  Speaker 2: he's saying. But then I thought, you know what he's
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I can't think of that many live action,
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  Speaker 2: well dinosaur movies that don't have Jurassic at the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: And I.
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  Speaker 1: Told you the only one I could think of was
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  Speaker 1: that that Adam d I don't want to call it
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  Speaker 1: shitty because I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not very good, but it's called sixty five.
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  Speaker 2: Movie is a kind of a sci fi futuristic Dino.
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  Speaker 2: But so I'm like, you know, I guess it is
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  Speaker 2: kind of tough to try and have a movie and
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  Speaker 2: again live action, because I also took my son to
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  Speaker 2: see Paul Patrol the New the Paul Patrol New Movie,
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  Speaker 2: and iOS are in that, but live action, because one
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  Speaker 2: you're you'll never not get compared to Jurassic part, so
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  Speaker 2: that's part of it. But it's also kind of a
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  Speaker 2: bit ambitious because you're also kind of reminding people of
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  Speaker 2: Spielberg's movies by doing this. So yeah, so I almost
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  Speaker 2: just appreciate that someone said, hey, let's do this, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this doesn't give anything away, but obviously you know,
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  Speaker 2: this neighborhood is basically transported to the time of the dinosaurs.
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  Speaker 2: How and why it doesn't really matter. They sort of
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  Speaker 2: try to get it to it, but it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, like, if you're into science fiction and
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  Speaker 1: like some of the fringe fringe theories out there, I
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  Speaker 1: did think that the end of Oak Street does try
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  Speaker 1: to like give a plausible explanation for things and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, recently what the study researchers came out
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  Speaker 1: and said, actually, we think the dinosaurs might have been
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  Speaker 1: covered in fur, covered in feathers. Yeah, like the dinosaurs
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  Speaker 1: in this movie have have their feathers. So it is
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, Okay, it's a wink and a nod
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  Speaker 1: to some of this. Like I don't know if you'd
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  Speaker 1: call it pseudoscience, but like theoretical physics that sort of
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  Speaker 1: thing wormholes and portals and time and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess that's also a way for to have
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  Speaker 2: some kind of distinction and separation from what we know
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  Speaker 2: and grew up. As far as what dinosaur movies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I I feel like they did just the
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  Speaker 1: right amount of explaining without bogging down where where the
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  Speaker 1: entertainment value is in the story. It's like, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: throw this in there, and it explains what's happening to
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  Speaker 1: a certain extent, but we still kind of want to
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  Speaker 1: focus on these characters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And honestly, for the type of movie that it is,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it really I don't think it really
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  Speaker 2: does matter. Yeah, I mean you have to bring it
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  Speaker 2: up because if these characters just act like, well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we just got to kill these dinosaurs, maybe like you
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  Speaker 2: have to acknowledge something strange is happening. Yeah, and they try,
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  Speaker 2: but honestly, it is just about surviving. And I asked
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  Speaker 2: you because this is from U David Robert Mitchell, who
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  Speaker 2: did it follows.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty four ten. Not an extensive filmography for David
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  Speaker 1: Robert Mitchell, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then he did an Andrew Garfield movie called Under the
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  Speaker 2: Silver Lake which I don't think went really well. So
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  Speaker 2: now he's back with with this one, a totally different
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  Speaker 2: kind of movie from the other two.
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  Speaker 1: What was it follows? I don't remember that one, but
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  Speaker 1: was it also horror?
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  Speaker 2: It's it is straight up horror, straight up horror, and
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  Speaker 2: it's about like basically it's it's almost like a virus
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  Speaker 2: and like it it goes from person to person and like,
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: am I remembering this right? What's this? Basically it was
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  Speaker 2: like a metaphor for having sex well and like STD
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  Speaker 2: because if I forgot how you got it, but then
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  Speaker 2: like an only way to stop because like they keep
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  Speaker 2: coming after you, so like they don't run, but you
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  Speaker 2: could be like down the street and there's just someone
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  Speaker 2: that's always approaching and they never stop no matter how
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  Speaker 2: fast you are going. And I think the only thing
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  Speaker 2: was to basically, you know, break the cycle and have
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  Speaker 2: it be turned on someone else. I'm not doing this
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  Speaker 2: movie any favors, but it was good, but it's great.
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  Speaker 2: It is one of the best horror movies of like
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  Speaker 2: the past ten years at least.
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  Speaker 1: So Under the Silver Lake is classified as a black
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  Speaker 1: comedy thriller.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember too much about it and in
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  Speaker 2: parts of me thinks I don't even know if I
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  Speaker 2: watched it all the way through because it's almost two
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  Speaker 2: and a half hours, And even though I love Andrew Garfield,
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  Speaker 2: it I just remember thinking it was kind of weird
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  Speaker 2: and kind of like boring, but also just like, uh
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  Speaker 2: just meanders like you don't even know, Like it's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be kind of this Detective Grace's store. Well, never mind,
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  Speaker 2: take it back, I take it back. Yeah, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and it is supposed to be kind of this like
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  Speaker 2: La Noir thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I had a budget of eight million dollars and
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  Speaker 1: made two point one million at the box office.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't go well.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just I'm I'm fascinated then by how does
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  Speaker 1: the end of Oak Street getting made?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And he wrote it too. Yeah, this is an
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  Speaker 2: original yeah film, original story. And I don't know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: is this there's the appeal of dinosaurs anytime you mentioned dinosaurs, there's.
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  Speaker 1: A but like this, this had a budget, has a
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  Speaker 1: budget estimated between eighty to ninety two million.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, almost one hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, And like is it enough that well JJ Abrams
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  Speaker 1: is a producer and this is produced through Bad Robot
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers is distributing it. You get Ewan McGregor and
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  Speaker 1: Anne Hathaway like it. Just it's so funny to me
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  Speaker 1: to look at Mitchell's previous films and think, like, true,
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  Speaker 1: where where are you looking at this and saying, my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: let's give this one hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Think is that he made them believers? You know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Because at the end of the day, this
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  Speaker 2: could have been released in January.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind it doesn't. So I don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: there's been a big marketing push for this move.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't have cable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just think back to when we were kind
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  Speaker 1: of pitching ideas what's going to be the August episode
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  Speaker 1: of You're like, well, there's this end of Oak Street
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  Speaker 1: movie and I don't know, it's like Anne Hathaway and dinosaurs,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh whatever, Like if we've yea, if
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  Speaker 1: we've got an episode we can plan around, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: Sounded the most interesting of what August had to offer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was you didn't know, like I'm going
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  Speaker 1: in completely dark on it, and I mean started seeing
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  Speaker 1: like stuff on social media within the last week or
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  Speaker 1: so but it just it just kind of confuses me
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  Speaker 1: as like, I like, why why am I not hearing
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  Speaker 1: about this until right up near it? And it got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of word of mouth publicity. Early reviews
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  Speaker 1: were pretty kind to it. But it kind of feels like,
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  Speaker 1: in a way, this film just kind of popped up
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, like, oh yeah, don't forget this is
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  Speaker 1: a summer blockbuster season, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Think one being at the tail end of this summer
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  Speaker 2: blockbuster season and people, I mean, you're still having to
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  Speaker 2: wait in line for tickets to see Odyssey. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it it's easy to be overshadowed because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the people that probably would go see a dinosaur movie
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  Speaker 2: would also see a Nolan movie and a Spider Man movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: question is how many times have they already seen those
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  Speaker 2: two to come see your movie? But I do think
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  Speaker 2: like a word of mouth could help, And I also
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  Speaker 2: do think the reviews have have been pretty positive, and
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  Speaker 2: it is it's a it's kind of the last one
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  Speaker 2: of the summer where it's you can enjoy it for
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  Speaker 2: what it is. Yeah, and there has been at least
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a time of people have already
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: seen those Spider man Obnesty. Probably least two or three times.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this, this is a damn good movie.
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  Speaker 1: To go drink a couple of gen and Tonics at
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  Speaker 1: the theater bar and then.
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  Speaker 2: Most yeah, yeah, I was slipping on a cold beer
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  Speaker 2: and it was nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun, it's it's I'm movie.
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  Speaker 2: It came out at a good time, like I'm actually
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  Speaker 2: glad it came out at the at in the summer,
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  Speaker 2: like like around this time, yea, in the summer. So
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  Speaker 2: it does all perfectly placed within the movie season. And
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  Speaker 2: it is a fun movie. And there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: tense moments, there's a lot of thrilling moments, and there
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  Speaker 2: is some humor in it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's let's dig into the strengths of the films.
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  Speaker 2: First. Let me just say, because I because this, I
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: don't know if anybody's had quite a year like Anne
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  Speaker 2: Hathaway has of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's been Uh. I think she's the pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's the best in the film. I really
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  Speaker 2: liked what she did as the mother trying to keep
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  Speaker 2: it together. But also she's not hiding in closet. She's
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  Speaker 2: not she's she's out there doing it and getting blood
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  Speaker 2: on her hands. Gott gotta carrying around a shotgun ready
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  Speaker 2: to blow Dino's away. Yeah, but for people keeping track, So,
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  Speaker 2: she's been in a movie called Mother Mary, which was
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  Speaker 2: a David Lowry movie. She's fantastic in. It's probably the
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  Speaker 2: least watched of all of her movies of this year,
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  Speaker 2: but it's great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She was in Devilwaar's product, which she's big hit yep,
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  Speaker 2: which she's fun in that can't do that without her.
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  Speaker 2: I think she gives one of her best performances in
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  Speaker 2: the Odyssey. I can so see her being nominated for
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  Speaker 2: Supporting Actress. I could see her winning it. She's just
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  Speaker 2: she's great. And then there's this one, which again strongest
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  Speaker 2: performance by far, and she's a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit different from it.
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  Speaker 2: It is, but and you know what what's kind of
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  Speaker 2: crazy is is that each of these performances are vastly different.
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  Speaker 2: It's a it's a different movie, some different time period everything.
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  Speaker 2: And then she still has one coming out that's based
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  Speaker 2: off a popular book that has Dacoda Johnson and Josh
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  Speaker 2: hartn It in it. I think it's called Verity.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a Coho book. Colleen Hoover, and it
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  Speaker 1: is called Verity.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is called Verity.
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  Speaker 1: That's announced this to my wife a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: and she's just like old news. Everybody knows.
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  Speaker 2: But Verity is not the name of the book. It's
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  Speaker 2: the book. Is name is different.
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  Speaker 1: I think now, I think the book it is according
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  Speaker 1: to Wikipedia.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind, I must be thinking about a different one.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's uh that what's her real name? Called
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  Speaker 1: Colleen Hoover.
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  Speaker 2: And she did the Blake Lively movie, right.
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  Speaker 1: It ends with us? And then there's another one that
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  Speaker 1: came out, Reminders of him, Reminders of him. I never
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  Speaker 1: watched it, but I didn't either. I thought it ends
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 2: Was watched that?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Fine, you're not missing it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like this is like Nicholas Sparks.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is like there's there's a there's a cult
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of Coho, so to speak, like we have. If you
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: go down to our living room after we record, there's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: probably sixteen of her books in our living room.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, well she's not. I mean, your Why's not
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the only one. It's a booming business. But yeah, I
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: just wanted to start things off by just saying Anne
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Hathaway I feel like she has. I don't know what
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: kind of break she was on or if she was
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: just filming all these and everybody decided twenty twenty six
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: was just it and now she's about to become a
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: mom again. Yeah, she's done enough to last another ten years.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I mean she's been active pretty much twenty
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: twenty three. She's she's been in a couple three.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Movies Amazon Prime movie.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: What was that? Are you thinking?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Idea of you?
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: The idea of You? Yeah? Rom Com that was pretty good.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I loved her and Eileen Oh that was that was
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: just a few years ago. Yeah, making a bit of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a comeback, would you say, or did she ever really
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: go away?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe she's just in higher pro foul movies. Right, You
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: got a heck of a sequel twenty years later that
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: ends up grossing hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Odyssey's passed a billion. Like I said, Mother Mary honestly
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: is probably the best because one she's co starring in
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: it with what's her name, Mikayla something. She's also in
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: The Christopher's with uh In McKellen. But they're great together.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: But that performance is probably her best. But I mean,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: my guy compared that. I mean, but I think into
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Volke Street and Odyssey put those together, and then she's
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: also again, she's a devil. War's Product two doesn't work
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: without her, yeah right, I mean, I know this, Meryl Streep,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I get it, but so I'm just amazed. But then
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you and McGregor, I don't know the last thing I've
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: seen him. Man, listen, because I didn't watch no Disney shows.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: If if you're here for some hoochy daddy Ewan McGregor,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: oh you get it. In the end of Oak Street. Yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: those short shorts. Yeah, swinging a baseball bat around, swinging
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a sledgehammer at dinosaurs.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yep, at dinosaurs. That's right, yep.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I thought he was fantastic in this.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I like it. I really did like him, and I
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: like them them two together. I thought they made an
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: adorable merried couple.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: The family is good, the kids, the two kids are too.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're the and they're and I remember telling
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you as much as like, there's things that might kind
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: of throw you off a bit. This movie would not
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: be as good as it is if those performances weren't
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: so stellar. Yeah, it like it would not work. You
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: got some real pros in there.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I am looking at Ewan McGregor's filmography for the last
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: couple of years, and I I have not heard of
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: any anything since Birds of Prey in twenty twenty six
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: years ago. The only film that I've heard of since
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: then that he's been in is Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but he's in something called The Land of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Sometimes this year out like maybe maybe not? Yeah. Mother
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Couch Bleeding Love is American drama film starring real life
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: father and daughter Ewan and Clara McGregor. Pinocchio was in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. By the way, there's a gap from
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six in his filmography.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Was he doing TV or something?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Well, he does do and I don't know if it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: between these years, but he does do an Apple TV
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: series like where him and a guy go driving. They
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: go riding motorcycles around town.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: There is a oh yeah, is it this long way home?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: But and then they unrefurbished into motorcyclics yep.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. And they've done a couple of versions of that.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He did the series adaptation of the Amoor Towels novel
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: A Gentleman in Moscow, which I never watched, but I
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: got the.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Books that I watch it, but I do remember that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And then he did the Obi Wan series, Yeah, in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. That's four years ago, so like.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I think he did a series before that that got
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: him where he played Twins. I thinking of the right thing.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's a gentleman in Moscow that that I'm thinking of.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Chris Rock played Twins in the Fargo Show. Maybe that's it,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: that's it. Yeah, but yeah, the Gentleman in Moscow. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: never watched that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I wanted to though, So yeah, have you heard of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Raymond and ray Yes, you and McGregor and Ethan Hawks.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, that was an Apple TV movie.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: That was twenty twenty two. Yeah, the Birthday Cake and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: then Birds of Prey, Star Wars, Doctor Sleeve, he Ain't
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Ann Hathaway, Zoe Christopher Robin like he was on a roll.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: We we get into the twenty tens and yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Now we're talking the Island.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: What a strange what a strange turn, because I remember
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I remember, I don't know, maybe we're forgetting some like
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: people are going to be listening to this pounding the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: table like he went to rehab idiots or something.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I think he's had his life together for quite a
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: while and maybe he's just a family. Maybe he's just
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: like the hell of this could be? But he have
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: a new did and his wife have a new baby
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: or something?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. We should have researched.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He started in.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Corpet with his pregnant belly out.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: He could have been, could have been.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: He wasn't paying attention. But yeah, no, he he's great
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: in this. I really like the dynamic between him and Hathaway,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I think part of it. So when the movie starts,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: we kind of get a little bit of an introduction
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: of sort of kind of where this family's at in
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: their lives, as far as their son, who's kind of
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: in trouble for breaking the kid's arm and the brother
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: wants to kick his ass.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: The daughter hers kind of comes later as far as
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I think, kind of but coming into her own and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a certain kind of identity I think. And then there's
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Hathaway in McGregor, who is kind of their marriage is
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: their marriages is on the rocks, and he's kind of
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: been lying about being laid off and he's he's a
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: pizza delivery guy, but clearly there's other things, and she
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: keeps saying he wants them to be honest and things
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: like that, And at first I I like that aspect
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: of it. I like where like, Okay, I see like
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: we're gonna this is kind of where they're at in
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: their lives, and things are about to get a lot worse.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But this is what you know. It's it's a familiar
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: trope as far as like they're gonna work this shit
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: out because of the Dino's wreaking havoc and they're gonna
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: find their way. The only thing that I kind of
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: found a little disappointing is that they don't really ever
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: capitalize on what is initially told to us, especially about
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the marriage, Like there's kind of the argument that happens,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and then there's kind of a rekindling of sorts in a.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Car they I go ahead, finish your well.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: That was it, like, but but it seemed like we
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: kind of started to give up on that, and then
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: by the end it's not the reunion of sorts is
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: not that it doesn't feel earned to me.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I felt like a lot of the emotional checkpoints in
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: this movie, if you will, were things that were just
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: kind of presented to us in brief moments and passing.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It's like, we're gonna show Greg taking a sneak and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a drink of whiskey in the garage when no one's around,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and now you know, oh well, Greg's got a drinking problem.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: And we're going to it all rags things is honesty.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: They beat that. They beat that drum pretty loud most
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: of the time.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like like, we're just gonna show you
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this so you get the idea. But let's get back
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to the tents moments with the dinosaurs, and I think
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: it prevents it puts up a barrier like we can't
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: really is connected with that because you're not seeing those
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: things acted out.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: And to your point about the kind of brief explanations
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: is she talks about how she smells it, and she
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: does she needs him with her, and that's when he
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: kind of confesses about the job and stuff, and then
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: that's kind of it, like, yeah, like that's supposed to
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: kind of fix it in a way, and I and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I just don't. It doesn't. It doesn't feel that way.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: It doesn't come across that way.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: It doesn't it that style of storytelling. It doesn't have
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: by the time you get to the end. It takes
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: away from the emotional impact of what is supposed to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: be like a happy end. Yes, because you didn't really
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: go through the lows of the relationship with them, right
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: You're you're just aware that the lows are there, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: our characters may be feeling certain things, but we as
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the audience don't really feel them ourselves. It feels like
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: more of a you know what, we'll throw this layer
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: into our tense dinosaur movie.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of like you want to just kind
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: of underlying thing about like a reason to care, but
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: also showing like real problems that happen. But there's not
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: enough attention put on it because in the end, it
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: is this dinosaur movie. And even though you might sprinkle
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: it throughout, it's it's the foundation is never there, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: so if you're going to build on top of it,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: foundation it's not there. I mean, it's it's it's bound
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: to be wobbly almost all the way through, and it is,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: and the and you are kind of robbed of that
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: happy ending at the end because of that, and what
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: happens that I'm gonna let you talk about because it
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: it does take you out of everything else that as
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: far as tone and vibe this movie has. Yeah, and
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: if it doesn't happen, I still think there. I still
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: think you can kind of still get there. Yeah, obviously
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: different means, but it also just kind of it kind
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: of stinks because it's just not as effective as it
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: should be if you're going there. Yeah, so go ahead,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: well again spoiler, spoiler and spoiler.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is your last chance to stop. I will
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: give I will give David Robert Mitchell credit for this.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: He did something in a movie in twenty twenty six
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: that genuinely shocked me. And I don't mean like it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: so scary or anything like that. I mean literally, just
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: from a narrative standpoint, something that I did not see
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: coming that really flips the end of Oak Street entirely
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: on its head.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Here I am thinking, I hope the dog lives when yeah,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I know somebody.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Else, so like credit for that because it is an original,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: an original idea that not.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: As iconic as the example I'm about to say, but
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: it's sort of the you know Janetly in the shower
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: in Psycho.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I never saw a psycho.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, well a famous person getting it in the middle
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: of the movie. Yeah, this one's not so much in
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the middle of the movie.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore at the beginning of screen.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and it's like, wow, they so that's the choice.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: We've made, the decision to kill off Greg in the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: manner where he's swings a sledgehammer at a dinosaur, correct
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to get it away from Denise. Correct saves her life
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and then.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Knocks the dinosaur down with the sledgehammer.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: And then the dinosaur gets up, grabs him by the legs,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: slings him around, throws him onto the dirt, and then
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: eats him. And it's all like a very like matter
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: of two.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: You see Greg missing a leg and then the dinosaur's
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: mouth goes in.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, and it is. It is so jarring because
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: up until that point I'm with it on the old
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: school Spielberg vibes, the summer blockbuster popcorn movies. Yeah, it's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: just so sudden and violent, and I get that. Like
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: to go back to what I said earlier about you know,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: putting a a sprinkle of realism in this movie, where
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: we're gonna put feathers on the dinosaur and we're going
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to entertain the idea of actually explaining how this is
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: possible through wormholes and time loops and all that stuff.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I get that, like, if you're attacked by a dinosaur
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: in real life, it's probably not going to be very dramatic.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: It's probably gonna be you getting slung around there.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Probably wouldn't have even made it this long.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. My problem is is that tonally the scene
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: is so visceral and just raw an instant, just like
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that it's over that it's it's jarring to the point
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: that it takes me out of the film because it
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: is a definitely drastic tonal shift from fun summer popcorn
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: movie to like, this is kind of a fucking bummer.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I did not want to see that.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: The familyctions are kind of obviously shocked and sad, but
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: then even when it's kind of like time to remember it,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: it's it doesn't spend a whole lot of time on
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: any of that. I just imagine like watching Et and
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: like an hour into it, Et killed Eliot. Yeah, yeah, like,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: oh my god, I thought they were I thought this
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: was going like it is jarring and it's shocking, and
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: it's almost like, hey, good for you, mister Mitchell, to
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: have the balls to do it.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Also don't really know. I don't really think it benefits
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the story.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's my real shocking twist confusion is that
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: now I'm not saying there is a piece of it
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: at the end that is very much a reunion.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't think you even.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Need to go specifically down that route to do it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: So if you're gonna do that, I wish it was
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: for some like for the greater good, And I'm I'm
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: having trouble seeing that.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think it's one thing if you want to have
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: some sort of tonal shift where we get into the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: end endgame of this film and it's like, well, this
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: is something completely different than what I thought it was
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: going to be. Yeah, if you're going to remind everybody
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: of natural dominion and humans place on the food chain,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing, like the real Like, if you
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: want to make that change in the movie that way,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: And you and I were talking about it, like I
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: thought once they killed Greg that it was going to
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: be a thing where maybe the kids get back, but
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Denise gets eaten too sacrificing. Yeah, and I'm thinking, Okay,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: maybe that's you know, where this thing is going. But
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: then it Denise kind of takes over. She gets the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: kids back to nineteen eighty two and we get this
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: reunion at the end, and it's almost like we've circled
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: back for this to be that like Summer block By
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: or Popcorn Flick. And I'm like, in my brain has
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: burned the image of Greg Platt missing a fucking leg
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: in his front yard. You can't change the stakes like
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: that and then go back to what it was.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: But see, and that's it is that it it. It
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: kind of shifts back into the gear it was before,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: and it's almost like we're not It almost comes across
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: as not really acknowledging the shift you just done. And
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: it's almost like that like it's for the surprise. But
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: that's it, And I think it it needs to be
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: more if you're gonna do something like that. If I
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: could go back to Psycho, that shower scene meant something
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the movie. It was meant to be.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: And so I just don't think. I just don't think
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: there's enough there to justify it. But it does. It
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: does take you out of it because then and again,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: not that there's not cool scenes before and after it.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: But you you just kind of like pulled the rug
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: out from us. Yeah, but why, like what's the what
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: was the real payoff? Because what we do get I
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: think I just don't think it's quite good enough.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. Uh, it's been a while since
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I've seen a movie that I was really vibing with
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: that had one of those rug pool moments where like
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: my negative feelings about the end of Oak Street are
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: pretty singularly based, like it's that one decision, the one decision.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: To do that, but it's a big decision.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Kind of unraveled the rest of the movie for me.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: And by the end of it, I was just thinking, like,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's I didn't fucking lame.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't mind. I didn't mind the ending, but it
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: doesn't it's it. It does not feel the same because
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: of that creative choice. I was more pumped about the
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: dog coming back.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very happy they did not kill the dog
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: because I thought that's where I'm like, well, what's next,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: They're gonna just rip the dog's head off.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, rip that leg off and just keep on going.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: But yeah, but yeah, so and and we forgot to
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: mention that Denise was also she's kind of playing the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: type of like her husband is out and he's kind
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: of providing, and she wants to be a writer. She's
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: hidden that from him. That kind of comes full circle
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: at the end and it references why the movie's titled
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: what it is. But it's but even that is not
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: fully explored, you know what I mean, It's almost like
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: we're it's it's I think so many things I think
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  Speaker 2: are just left. Like I just feel like Mitchell assumes
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  Speaker 2: some things because he has to get to what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: really people are going for, which is the dinosaurs, But
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  Speaker 2: he also is he's kind of letting those other parts
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  Speaker 2: that we kind of that we get introduced to at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. He's kind of letting that stuff fall to
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  Speaker 2: the wayside. It and it is it is a bit
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  Speaker 2: disappointing because you know there's more there. Yeah, like you
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  Speaker 2: you it's one of those lashes of it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a really good book in this story.
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  Speaker 2: Well Denise wrote.
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  Speaker 1: It well too che Tooche, Where did you? Where did
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  Speaker 1: you land that? On a star rating?
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  Speaker 2: You know, this one's tough because it really kind of
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I went back and forth between like a two and
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  Speaker 2: a half and three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I will.
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  Speaker 2: Say I loved I loved its setting. The dinosaur stuff
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  Speaker 2: is cool, there are some there are some funny moments. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's also I mean, it is goofy, but it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's I can't deny that a lot of it is
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  Speaker 2: exciting and entertaining, and it's what you want from a
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  Speaker 2: movie like this, and that means that goes a long way,
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  Speaker 2: and especially in this day and age, like if this
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  Speaker 2: even remind you seventy seventy five percent of some of
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  Speaker 2: those like fun, crazy movies from the eighties and nineties,
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  Speaker 2: then I'd say Mitchell did alright, so fair enough, I
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  Speaker 2: think with I think I could, I could give it
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  Speaker 2: a three out of five.
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  Speaker 1: I gave it a two and a half, two and
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  Speaker 1: a half yeah, yeah, But I was kind of in
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  Speaker 1: the same boat like I was. I was firmly like,
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  Speaker 1: this is probably a three and a half. Yeah, and
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: then Greg gets eaten and I'm like, fuck this movie.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah for the rest of the yeah time. But there's
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: so many little things like performances mean a lot in
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  Speaker 2: in a movie like this, and there's no issue with that. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I think Hathaway is is.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Is the strength of the film to me, Hathaway number one,
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  Speaker 1: Ewan McGregor, Hucci Daddy Shorts number two, right right.
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  Speaker 2: I But I really liked how Anne Hathaway was kind
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: of always seemed to be played in the role that
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  Speaker 2: and a male actor would have been in during that time.
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  Speaker 2: She's the one that is carrying a gun. It's not
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  Speaker 2: Ewan McGregor. She's also kind of like, oh, she's a
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: stay home mum. But if you notice, she's always seems
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  Speaker 2: she's the one that is sort of like, she's more aggressive,
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  Speaker 2: she's more kind of thinking about stuff, doesn't want to
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: bullshit the kids about what this may be and how
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: their lives may be from here on out. I think
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: one of the best things is that what I think,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: especially during a certain time period which this movie is
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: based in, is the father slash husband would confront the neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: But Denise even says, my husband might not do it,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: but I'm telling you, so there's that confrontational part of it.
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  Speaker 2: I really like that, and I almost feel like I
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  Speaker 2: could see the attraction of that role for Hathaway too,
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  Speaker 2: and also to be in a pretty entertaining dinosaur movie
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't come obviously that doesn't come across that often
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  Speaker 2: unless it's a Jurassic World thing. So, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: I there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy about it, but I'm with you. I can't
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  Speaker 2: say it's like the greatest, And I also feel like
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: there's things that that could have been done better. And
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: then there is that one that one decision and you
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: and it just it can never fully come back from it.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: And I can't remember another movie that like it's definitely happened.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't think of one right now. We're like
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: that one thing was kind of.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Like ahh yeah, yeah, pull out of it quick note
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: before we get out of here. I could not, for
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: the life of me place where I knew Mazie Stella
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  Speaker 1: from who plays Audrey the daughter in this Yeah, so
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: looked it up. She is the younger Elliott in My
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Old Ass from a couple of years ago, another fantastic movie.
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  Speaker 1: She's done some good stuff.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: She has done some good I love that movie. That
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: was funny with Aubrey Poser.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked it a lot too. So the kid,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: the son, I mean the son. I don't know Christian.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he was a younger kid in something
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: very he like grew up really fast.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Let's see what his uh filmography is in. Oh, he
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: was in a deleted scene in Venom.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Probably is like a young player.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: He played Henry and Cocaine Bear.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: He was in The Monkey Okay. Oh, he was a
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: young Victor Frankenstein in Giermo del Torro's Frankenstein.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Was it? Maybe though? That's probably what I remember him
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: most because he probably looks somewhat the same. I knew
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: he looked familiar. Couldn't couldn't place him, couldn't place him. Yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say I think the summer movie
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: season could have ended worse, and it has ended has
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: ended worse. So usually it ends with like some expendables movies.
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  Speaker 1: I was just about to say another Hobbs and Shawl.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, So you know it's a it's a fun time. Yeah,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: and it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay, there we go.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: I'm fine with it.
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