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  Speaker 1: I want to I just had a stroke. Mean, I
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  Speaker 1: want to review a movie that I have been dreading
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  Speaker 1: to see. I've talked about it on the radio, but
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it on the Film Real podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be reviewing Happy Gilmore Too, and Woo. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people like this one. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: they're watching, because this is one of the worst films
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  Speaker 1: I have seen in quite some time. It is just
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  Speaker 1: a poor excuse for filmmaking. Adam Sandler is on autopilot
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  Speaker 1: these days, and I know that's a running joke that
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  Speaker 1: he makes movies as an excuse to go on vacation
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  Speaker 1: and hang out with his friends. But this is so
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  Speaker 1: much worse because Happy Gilmore from nineteen ninety six is
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  Speaker 1: one of my absolute favorite movies. It's in my top
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  Speaker 1: three favorite comedies of all time. And the character of
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  Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore is thisetic fireball, a Tasmanian devil. And we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get into some spoilers with this review, so if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to know anything about Happy Gilmore Too,
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  Speaker 1: you might want to not listen to this episode of
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  Speaker 1: Film Reel. But basically, the movie starts off with Virginia Vennett,
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  Speaker 1: Julie Bowen's character from the first movie, dying in a
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  Speaker 1: horrific tragedy where Happy Gilmore shoots a golf ball and
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  Speaker 1: it kills her. And it's not funny. It's actually very disrespectful.
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  Speaker 1: To the establishment that we have with that character. And
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  Speaker 1: I know, the first Happy Gilmore starts off with his
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  Speaker 1: dad getting killed by a slap shot, so they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do the same joke, which is a running theme
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  Speaker 1: with this movie. It's the same fucking thing over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. But that was a throwaway joke for a
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  Speaker 1: character we have no established relationship too. We have never
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  Speaker 1: really met Happy Gilmore's dad. You just see a point
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  Speaker 1: of view of him filming. This character played by Julie Bowen,
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  Speaker 1: is beloved, she's you know, a weatheart in that first
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  Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore and to have it just be a punchline
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  Speaker 1: that she gets killed I think as a slap in
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  Speaker 1: the face or a golf shot to the face. So
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  Speaker 1: already the movie's depressing. And then you have Adam Sandler,
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  Speaker 1: who's just on autopilot for this entire movie, but specifically
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  Speaker 1: the first half. He's playing a depressed character and it's
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  Speaker 1: just not interesting to watch and it's depressing to watch.
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  Speaker 1: He's sad and he's an alcoholic. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: watch this with a Happy Gilmore movie. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be depressed for the first half of the movie.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to AA meetings, he goes bankrupt, he's living
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  Speaker 1: in a shitty house with his kids. It's just, why
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  Speaker 1: is this the route we're going with a Happy Gilmore sequel. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't need a Happy Gilmore sequel. We don't need anymore.
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  Speaker 1: The movie had a booke und finish and it's done.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously Hollywood wants to make money, and Sandler wants
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  Speaker 1: to make money for Netflix because he signed that huge
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  Speaker 1: deal with them. So basically, Happy Gilmore has given up,
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  Speaker 1: but he needs money to help pay for his daughter,
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  Speaker 1: who's played by Israel life daughter who has the charisma
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  Speaker 1: of a wet towel. She needs to go to ballet school.
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  Speaker 1: So he needs to pick up the golf clubs and
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  Speaker 1: get over the fact that he killed his wife with
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  Speaker 1: a golf ball. So that's the basic premise of the
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  Speaker 1: movie is that, you know, Happy Gilmore needs to get
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  Speaker 1: back to golfing, but there's a rival golf company sort
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  Speaker 1: of playing into the Live Golf company, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabian golf company that the PGA Tour has sort
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  Speaker 1: of been feuding with the last couple of years, and
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  Speaker 1: they want to sign Happy Gilmore to you know, participate
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  Speaker 1: in their brand new wacky golf tournament. Happy Gilmore's loyal
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  Speaker 1: to the PGA Tour, so he doesn't want to sign so,
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  Speaker 1: and then eventually this leads to a match up between
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  Speaker 1: the best of the PGA Tour versus the best of
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  Speaker 1: the Maxi Tour and some sort of tournament that takes
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  Speaker 1: place at the end of the movie, but we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that in a little bit. At this point, this
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  Speaker 1: is where Shooter McGavin is introduced into the sequel. Shooter
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  Speaker 1: McGavin is the best part of this movie. He actually
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  Speaker 1: has energy. Christopher McDonald is not phoning in his performance
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  Speaker 1: like Adam Sandler is. I honestly would have preferred just
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  Speaker 1: a full on Shooter McGavin movie. So Shooters in a
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  Speaker 1: mental institution due to the events of the first movie
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  Speaker 1: and the Maxi League that's the name of the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the parody of the live golf tournament. The head honcho
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  Speaker 1: over the Maxi League, who is just so over the top.
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  Speaker 1: This this head honcho of Maxie League. He's not funny. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not funny. We'll get back to the story in
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  Speaker 1: just a second. This movie is not funny. The ultimate
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  Speaker 1: sin of this movie is. It does not make me laugh.
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  Speaker 1: It's sophomoric type of humor, which I don't even mind
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  Speaker 1: that much. I don't mind a good dick joke. I
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  Speaker 1: love the Jackass movies. I love Dumb and Dumber, I
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  Speaker 1: love Beavis and butt Head. I don't mind sophomoric humor.
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  Speaker 1: It's just something about this seems so Nickelodeon. And what
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  Speaker 1: I mean by that, this seems like something that would
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  Speaker 1: air in a twenty ten Nickelodeon sitcom. It is so
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  Speaker 1: corny and so not funny. There are scenes involving I
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  Speaker 1: haven't even gone to the celebrities yet. I haven't even
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  Speaker 1: got there. There's so much wrong with this movie. I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually getting angry thinking about it. I'm getting angry thinking
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  Speaker 1: that people actually like what they saw. So before we
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  Speaker 1: get back to the plot, I just want to go
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  Speaker 1: over the cameos that take place in this movie. And
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  Speaker 1: it's one cameo after another, after another, after another, after
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  Speaker 1: another after another after another. It is unheard of. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a SNL reunion of Oh my God, there's that guy,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, there's that wrestler, there's that actor, there's
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  Speaker 1: that athlete, there's that singer. Cameos need to be special.
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  Speaker 1: I said this before, I'll say it a million times.
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  Speaker 1: Think of the original Happy Gilmore. Think about when Bob
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  Speaker 1: Barker shows up. It is so impactful. When Bob Barker
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  Speaker 1: is the celebrity that Happy Gilmore is assigned to play with. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that would have such little impact if before Bob Barker
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  Speaker 1: was on the you know, the big screen, we had
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  Speaker 1: Maury Povitch, Jerry Springer, Shaquille O'Neill, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Saggat, Dave Coolier, John Stamos, Mickey Mouse, Macaulay Culkin,
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  Speaker 1: John Hughes, Sigott from Street Fighter. The cameo needs to
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  Speaker 1: be special. And that is one of the worst parts
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  Speaker 1: of Happy Gilmour Too. Is we are constantly seeing celebrity
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  Speaker 1: after celebrity and it's not special. It's like eating ice
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  Speaker 1: cream every single day. You only want to have ice
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  Speaker 1: cream once a month because when you have that ice cream,
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  Speaker 1: you go, wow, that is good ice cream. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're eating it every day, you're just a big fat
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  Speaker 1: guy with diabetes. And that's what Happy Gilmore Too is.
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  Speaker 1: It's the diabetes of movies. So you have all these
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  Speaker 1: endless celebrities that appear because Adam Sandler needs to droke
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  Speaker 1: his ego and say I have friends. I'm friends with
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  Speaker 1: Bad Bunny, I'm friends with Travis Kelsey, I'm friends with
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  Speaker 1: Jack Nicholas. Oh, we get it. You're very, very, very wealthy,
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  Speaker 1: and you have a lot of famous friends, and your
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  Speaker 1: famous friends want to be in this movie. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that's not how movies operate. Most of these people can't act.
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  Speaker 1: You have all these golfers that appear, and they come
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  Speaker 1: across as autistic. And I could say that because I
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  Speaker 1: have autism, and it just they are wooden. They are
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  Speaker 1: wooden actors. And I don't even mind the golfers appearing
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  Speaker 1: because it's a golf movie, so you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: some golf cameos, that's fine. But to have the endless, endless,
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  Speaker 1: endless stream of cameos is not what we need. And
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  Speaker 1: then I do promise we'll get back to the actual plot.
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  Speaker 1: Another terrible thing about this movie is I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who this movie's made for. Wouldn't you think that everybody
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  Speaker 1: that's seeing Happy Gilmore two would watched the original movie.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they thought that because they keep on
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  Speaker 1: showing scenes from the original movie. I've never seen this
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  Speaker 1: done in the history of cinema. I've never seen a
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  Speaker 1: movie have to show clips from the original movie. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you watch the original before seeing the new one? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that why they're making the new one? Because the original
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  Speaker 1: so popular? They don't make sequels thirty years after the
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  Speaker 1: original one comes out. Unless it's an established movie with
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  Speaker 1: established characters, with established scenes that we already know from
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  Speaker 1: top to bottom. There's no need to actually show scenes
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  Speaker 1: from the first movie. It's not like they do it
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  Speaker 1: once or twice. It's around five, six, seven, maybe eight times.
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  Speaker 1: They show previous scenes to remind people of oh remember
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  Speaker 1: this character. You might not remember them, so let's actually
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  Speaker 1: show the scene. The only thing that's making me want
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  Speaker 1: to do is watch the original fucking movie. I go,
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  Speaker 1: why am I watching this piece of shit when you're
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  Speaker 1: showing me scenes from an actual good movie. There's also
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  Speaker 1: quite a few of acts that have passed away that
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  Speaker 1: are no longer allowed, you know, able to appear in
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  Speaker 1: Happy Gilmour Took because they're dead, which is probably the
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  Speaker 1: benefit for them that they didn't have to appear in
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  Speaker 1: this piece of shit film. And instead of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing something to honor their legacy, they just have other
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  Speaker 1: actors play their kids. They go, oh, I remember the
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  Speaker 1: guy who had the nail in his head. Uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be played by a basketball player who also has
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  Speaker 1: a nail in his head. Oh remember Chubbs, he had
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  Speaker 1: a wooden hand. Well, his son also has a wooden hand.
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  Speaker 1: What the fuck? How does he also have a wooden hand.
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  Speaker 1: You're so uh just starving for any idea. You go,
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  Speaker 1: Thom's had wooden hand, son also has wooden hand. The
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  Speaker 1: guy who says you jackass, he's played by Eminem. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, it's so funny. I can't believe they got Eminem.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, I can believe because before Eminem there was
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  Speaker 1: a million other cameos. If Eminem was the only cameo
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  Speaker 1: in this movie, think about the impact that would have
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  Speaker 1: had They go, oh my god, they got Eminem. But
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  Speaker 1: you're just expecting them to get somebody on the level
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  Speaker 1: of Eminem, and he's doing the same stick. That's all
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  Speaker 1: this comedy is. It's regurgitating the same jokes that we
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  Speaker 1: had in the original, just to a lesser extent. So
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  Speaker 1: those are some of the major issues I've had. I
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  Speaker 1: also mentioned how they show the scenes from the previous movie,
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  Speaker 1: and what that also does is it just shows how
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  Speaker 1: ugly this movie looks. Because the original Happy Gilmore shot
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  Speaker 1: on film and it's got a nice look to it.
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  Speaker 1: But there's something about all modern movies, particularly the ones
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix that have this I don't know, they look
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  Speaker 1: like a T mobile ad. There's just something with the
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  Speaker 1: cameras that they use, and the filters and the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the lenses that they're using in the post production work,
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  Speaker 1: and the lighting that they use. It just looks like
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  Speaker 1: a Nickelodeon or a Disney show or like I said,
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  Speaker 1: a T mobile head. So it's not funny, it's lazy,
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  Speaker 1: and it's ugly to look at. Let's get back to
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  Speaker 1: the plot. Shooter McGavin. He's in this mental institution. He
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  Speaker 1: gets coarced to help this Maxi league and then he says,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not gonna help them anymore and
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  Speaker 1: does a complete baby face turn that's a wrestling terminology. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: he turns into a good guy and he meets Happy
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  Speaker 1: Gilmour at Virginia Vennett's gravesite. They get into a fistfight
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  Speaker 1: and then they're best friends. They're best friends. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have a conversation, they don't say, hey, my bed. This
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  Speaker 1: guy was just in a mental institution for thirty years
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  Speaker 1: because of what he did to him. And then in
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  Speaker 1: the previous movie, you know, Shooter McGavin tried to steal
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  Speaker 1: his grandma's house, he made fun of his friend dying,
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  Speaker 1: he hired somebody to kill him, you know, by hitting
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  Speaker 1: him with a fucking car, and then they just get
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  Speaker 1: into a fight and then they're friends. This is as
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  Speaker 1: disrespectful as killing Virginia Vennett. You're taking an established character
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  Speaker 1: who's a great villain. You're turning in babyface. But there's
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  Speaker 1: no real reason why. There could have been a much
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  Speaker 1: bigger build up to this. Think about the Copra Chai series.
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  Speaker 1: That's the perfect example of taking a villain and then
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  Speaker 1: making them a good guy and you find out their
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  Speaker 1: backstory and you can actually have some sort of respect
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  Speaker 1: and reasoning it as to why they're a bad person. No,
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  Speaker 1: they did none of that. They're just yucking it up
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  Speaker 1: after getting into a fistfight. So then they joined forces
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  Speaker 1: and they have to compete against the Maxi League. And
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  Speaker 1: this is where people say this is when the movie
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  Speaker 1: turned bad. No, the whole movie's bed. This is just
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  Speaker 1: when it gets off the fucking wall. Stupid. So they
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  Speaker 1: have this tournament and it's not a typical golf game.
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  Speaker 1: There's you know, fireworks and rotating greens and just special
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  Speaker 1: effects and lights when they shoot the ball. It's just
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  Speaker 1: like I mentioned a Nickelodeon show. It looks like a cartoon.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like I'm watching a fucking cartoon while watching Happy
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore too. And eventually, obviously the good guys win. They
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  Speaker 1: prevail and she gets to get the money to go
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  Speaker 1: to ballet school. Gilmore to everybody, did I mention he
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  Speaker 1: has another daughter that's in this movie, and she's in
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  Speaker 1: the AA meetings with him, and she looks exactly like
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  Speaker 1: his wife who's also in the movie. And she also
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  Speaker 1: looks like her sister. So she appears in this AA
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  Speaker 1: meeting and I go, why is the daughter in this scene?
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  Speaker 1: Why she had in the AA meeting and not sitting
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  Speaker 1: with her dad. I realize after five minutes ago, that's
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  Speaker 1: another daughter. That's his other daughter, not playing his daughter,
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  Speaker 1: just playing another person that happens to be in the
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  Speaker 1: AA meeting. The AA meeting is run by Ben Siller's
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  Speaker 1: character because of course he has to appear also, and
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  Speaker 1: then she's actually like an FBI agent. Does any of
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  Speaker 1: this make sense? The first movie is just about a
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  Speaker 1: guy who plays golf to win a house for his grandma.
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  Speaker 1: This has ballet school, a rival club, and then say
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  Speaker 1: in asylum, fifty million different subplots the FBI, what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? It could have just been a simple story.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want a sequel. But if he made a sequel,
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  Speaker 1: you just have a rematch. You just have Shooter mccalvin
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  Speaker 1: versus Happy Gilmore too, make them older. It could be
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  Speaker 1: funny watching like them on the Senior Tour. But they
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  Speaker 1: had to go this just abstract route. Again, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't get what people are watching. I how, why, when? Who? What?
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  Speaker 1: What did you watch that I'm missing. There's a scene
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  Speaker 1: where because they have to repeat everything from the first movie.
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  Speaker 1: So in the first movie he goes to the batting
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  Speaker 1: cage and he gets hit by the batting you know,
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  Speaker 1: the baseballs, and they have to repeat that with the
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  Speaker 1: PGA tour team sort of doing a montage and going
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  Speaker 1: through all the training things that Happy he used to do,
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  Speaker 1: and then bed Bunny enters the batting cage and he
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  Speaker 1: does like a flip and catches the ball. Bad Bendy
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  Speaker 1: plays his caddy in this movie. He's you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: spins and splits and catching the ball and punching in
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  Speaker 1: And who's laughing at this? Who watched that scene and said,
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  Speaker 1: ha ha, that is funny. Let's have this in our movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's a completely different tone of comedy from the first movie. So,
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  Speaker 1: just to recap, it's ugly, it's not funny. It's completely
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  Speaker 1: different sort of vibes from the first movie. Endless cameos
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  Speaker 1: and nonsensical bullshit. Anyone involved in this movie should be ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone that enjoyed this movie should honestly go to an
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  Speaker 1: MRI and get their brain scanned because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's properly working. So that's my review of Happy Gilmore Too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm missing other things in the movie that
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely hated. I'll never watch this movie again. It's
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  Speaker 1: a slap in the face to everybody that worked on
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  Speaker 1: the original movie. So long, everybody, this has been film.
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  Speaker 1: Real jackass.