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I I don't know the tone of the rest of the chuckies after this
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one, but this one is different than the ones before.
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It's a comedy slasher where the main characters are kind of an
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afterthought and that's not bad. I think Katherine Heigl and
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What's his face don't really need as much screen time as Brad
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Dorf and Jennifer Tilley. Well, and even then, it's only
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their voices. Yeah.
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Getting most of that screen time.
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Yeah, I I agree. I think this is quite the
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surprising turn for the franchise.
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And some people argue that it's not even part of the franchise,
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that it's a whole new thing. Like the noun of Chucky is a
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different franchise, even though it's the same character.
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You shouldn't watch them together.
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But I don't know, I I think it's the same franchise that thus the
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reason why we are here. It's the same Chucky and the
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same voice. Like unless it's supposed to be
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a different universe, but I think they talk about.
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Do they talk about him at all? Oh, she goes to get the stuff
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from the the horror movie locker room and I think that just
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leaves it there. I do think I was very confused
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by the timeline. She's been looking for him for
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10 years, but the events of the third movie happened six months
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ago or like one month ago. I'm not sure who has the right
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information. Hello and welcome to Potato Chip
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Pictures, the movie franchise review Podcast.
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I am B Sammy Davis. Hi, Justin again.
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And today we are looking at 1998's Bride of Chucky.
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Justin, tell us about this movie, please.
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No, I refuse to tell you about the 1998 Bread of Chucky film
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directed by Ronnie Yu but still Screen Rotin by Don Mancini
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producers David Kirchner and Grace Gilroy.
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I guess David skipped the third movie somehow, but came back in.
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I think he'll be with us for a while.
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They had a budget grew 5 million more than the previous return of
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Child's Play 3 at 25,000,000. They managed to double.
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It bit of a gamble. I mean, they had made what, 5090
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almost 100 million by then, but that was over the course of ten
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years. And three movies, yeah, but all
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of those movies had a budget of 13 million and now we're jumping
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up by 12 million. Nearly double, yeah, going to
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25,000,000. So yeah, like I think it's no
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small thing that they doubled the return, which I think I
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spoke over when you were. I wonder if they've like, I
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guess they had to make $2.00, but I don't feel like that would
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double the budget. They didn't really have any big
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names. I I kind of don't know what else
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Tilly is in. Yeah, it was.
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I'm, I hate to say it, but it does feel like a lot of B movie
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actors. Yeah, like Heigl has since gone
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to be a big name. Feel like this is probably
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really early. Maybe spent it all on John or
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Ritter. All 60 seconds of them.
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You know, combined, Yeah. Well, and it's, it's interesting
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you mentioned it earlier. They they really leaned on
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comedy and arguably at least Chucky one and two I thought
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were pretty funny. Chucky 3 just kind of sucks.
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Like it's just bad. The comedy comes from what you
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deliver, the punch lines you give it.
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And this one, I don't know, I feel like they said let's let's
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use the horror to add to the punch lines.
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The jump scares are going to be in service of a joke.
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Yeah, the antagonists would rather, I mean make silly word
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play and then kill people. The whole point is them plot
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getting to a necklace that he was wearing quote UN quote in
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the first movie. I'm like, I feel like this is
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misinformation. I don't think he was wearing
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that at all. But also as AB movie.
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Why I care? Yeah, but there's definitely,
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there's definitely some historical revisionism going on
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with this franchise in this movie.
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Like they acknowledge the sequels, but the joke is it'll
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take 3 or 4 sequels to properly tell this story.
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There were only three sequels, this being the 4th 1:00.
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But there was a moment where I jumped online to be like Child's
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Play 4 just to make sure that we didn't miss like it.
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One in between. There or something?
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Yeah, I don't. I would not know.
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So I think in terms of following the plot, the plot is in the
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background of Chucky and oh, I lost her name.
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Tiffany. Yeah, Tiffany becoming, they're
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full-fledged monsters and killing people who think that
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they aren't alive. I try trying to think they I end
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up kidnapping Katherine Heigl, so I feel like they show them
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that they're alive. Mostly just those two.
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They, yeah, they show those two, but it's very late in the movie
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and the only other people who ever see them alive are the
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people who are about to die. And I, I really like that.
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I've, I've got to say the biggest charm to this franchise
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is the fact that dolls can't kill people.
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They're they, they're dolls, they're plastic.
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They don't kill people. And so why would anyone ever
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believe someone who says this is a killer doll?
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Like it? I can put myself in this
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universe and be like, yeah, who's going to believe that this
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is a killer doll? Yeah, where some dolls are
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unnerving to look at, you still don't quite think that they're
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going to murder you. I was about to say maybe we'll
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get emails from people who are like, no, I swear, I swear.
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And Speaking of unnerving I, I got to say 10 out of 10 on both
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puppet designs. But obviously the first one we
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get is the reconstructed Chucky who obviously went through those
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blades, the fan. Like that's how he gets his
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battle damage. I feel like it's a it was a nice
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way to remake the doll a little creepier and kind of go along
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with the fan dismemberment because he got chopped up to a
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lot smaller pieces. But this is fine.
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We. We.
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She's using a lot of new parts, like we do see her grab a doll
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arm, a brand new one. So there are some parts that
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were unaccounted for. Oh.
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Boy. Oh, man.
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And yes, I also have to agree with you on the very opening
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with all of the Easter eggs of the other horror franchises
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having the same evidence Locker. Yeah, that's a cute touch, and
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it is a wink and a nod to the audience to be like, this is
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going to be a different type of horror movie.
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Just go on this ride with us. We promise you'll have fun.
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And frankly, I did. Yeah.
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They're not wrong. I think it is a fun movie that
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I'm OK with it trying, trying something new, taking out the
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suspense of oh, who are they going to kill to be like?
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Well, technically they're going to try and kill everybody that
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comes across them. Other than that, those people
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don't know they're alive. I was wrong.
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They did. Chucky did reveal himself to
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someone who is still alive when he decided to flip off a Stoner
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for no reason. Oh yeah?
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So even if they're not killing you, they're still mean.
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Oh yeah, that's oh, we don't even get to the side characters
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for a while, like. It does take a well no, I'm
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going to disagree with you because I watched this a second
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time and I remember thinking Justin must love the fact that
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we're we're getting 2 scenes happening simultaneously the
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same night. We've got the resurrection of
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Chucky and the murder of Damien going side by side with Jade's
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date with Jesse and their gay friend David.
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So both of those things are happening like they're cutting
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in between them. And so I think you might be
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separated in your head. Yeah, definitely.
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I was like to that I guess because they don't depend on
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each other immediately. Like Damien has to die in order
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for Tiffany to ask what's his dudes face to take him out to
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the cemetery where they need to go.
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But Tiffany is still not doll for him.
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Yeah. I think it's an interesting
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introduction to these kids that don't really drive too much of
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the the need they're they're a way to get to the cemetery.
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And it's so funny that you say that because I think they are so
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charming in this whole movie. I think this movie depends on
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these kids because, well, this is jumping way ahead.
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But every time a murder happens in this movie, both of them
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suspect each other. And it gets better and better
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throughout the movie because, again, dolls can't kill people.
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Somebody's killing. Them has to be somebody.
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Yeah. So it is.
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I'm. Yeah, I got to push back.
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And I got to say I love Jade and Jesse.
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I think. I think both of them are
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terrific foils against our murderous couple.
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They are lesser than the stars of the show, but I think they
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are well developed side characters.
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I I feel like I know them and. It's a odd jump to go from and
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let's go out. Let's sneak out on a date to
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well, I got some money, let's leave this place.
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It's 500 bucks. You know how much that can get
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us, can buy us a house. We're going to get 1000 if we do
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this job. We'll never have to work again.
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So go in and getting married and she's, he's like, oh, you can't
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get married until you're 18. I'm in charge of you, says John
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Ruder. She's not 18 yet.
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I'm like, who are these kids getting married?
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And then they end up at this shady hotel or whatever, and
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this other couple comes into the honeymoon suite.
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I was like, what happened? Did I lose track of where we
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went because we went to get married?
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And then it's like Kabam. This is a.
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Little jarring. The honeymoon suite was brutal.
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It was rough. It was.
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I mean, I like the kill that comes from it, but that was a
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scene that that was rough. And you know, frankly, I've got
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to speak to the really the two things that are going to bring
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my score down when we get to the end of this.
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I do feel like the introduction, the opening is a little bit on
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the slow side. Getting, getting too Chucky
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takes a long time. When he's alive, the movie takes
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a turn and it starts to get really good.
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But it is a little bit hard to pay attention at the beginning
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because it's kind of a slow build up.
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And then the other thing is that this movie is very 90s.
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Oh man, they want you to know how 90s it is there.
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Are. So many things that you had to
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be there. You just had to be there to to
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understand some of these references and others of them.
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They don't matter, but whatever. Like those are just the two
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things that early on I was like, oof, man.
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Otherwise I was having a great time.
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Yeah, I think the goth admirer as the wiki Colosseum was a
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little bit like a guy got caught in the crossfire of this really
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crazy Tiffany sews back together and murdered all.
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And because he's done apparently, like blood and
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whatever makeup on himself in a picture he gives her.
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And she's like, oh, you didn't actually kill anybody.
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And he's like, I'm working up to it.
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And it's like, that sounds like someone that's not really
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committed to the bit where Tiffany is like, I'm going to
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let this dollar murder you because he came back to life
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from the magic I did. So I feel like he was in the
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wrong place at the wrong time. I'm trying to deduce whether
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we're made to expect him to die or like.
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Oh, I, I fully like, I thought he was going to die as soon as
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Chucky was not in his ritual spot.
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When the camera pans down and Chucky is gone, I was like, Oh
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yeah, he's going to die. He's not going to make it.
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This is the end of Damien. So I was, I was just waiting for
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Chucky to show up. I like at that point I knew he
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was going down and I just was waiting for for Brad Duriff's
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voice to come in. You know, well, I think it's, I
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guess in that case it sets up Jesse as being, oh, the next guy
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that she's going to use until she needs to kill him.
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Like, well, she's, that's her, her method of operating.
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So we're going to go ahead and expect her to betray or kill
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anybody she needs to. Yeah, she is not a good person.
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She used to be part of the serial killer ring.
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Like she was into it. She just wasn't in the first
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movie that you know, she just exists now.
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But she was there the whole time.
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Yeah, this this. Press releases and news stories
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of Chucky were simultaneously widespread but also pretty
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local. Yeah, And then I to me, the the
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biggest surprise, even though I knew it was coming, they even
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had the Bride of Frankenstein playing on the television when
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Tiffany was murdered. I was, I was just like, wow, I
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guess Chucky really loves her because he brought her back to
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life for some reason. I don't know if it's really put
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out there is like I can only imagine he hates being a doll.
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And so he was so mad at her because she like boxes him up
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and locks him up and it's like, OK, this is this is a one to one
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for one. He's he's killing her and
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bringing her back as a doll so she can be miserable like him
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because she was mocking him so badly And like, OK, I guess he
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doesn't say it that I'm aware of.
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But I did enjoy the fact that Tiffany was not frightened of
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him and locked him up. Oh, this lady is.
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Maybe she's beyond Chucky like she.
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I mean. Becomes her own doll so.
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Yeah, I loved Jennifer Tilley. In her brief moments on screen,
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I was like, this character rules.
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She is awesome. And yeah, once we get both the
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dolls in this movie, I I love the movie from that point on.
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Like it's kind of slow at the beginning.
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Then we get Chucky back and it's kind of building up and it's,
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it's OK. Like there's still some
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weirdness going on, but we're getting some good character
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interaction and now we've got 2 dolls and they're awesome.
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They're ready to kill everybody. I guess since she had him locked
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up maybe that would be like she's wouldn't be down to get
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him out of with his amulet go to the cemetery.
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But she wants to get out of the doll body so then she can be his
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accomplice again to interesting little cycle of.
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I mean, I think she would have forgiven him anyway, right?
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I don't think he would have stayed in the box forever.
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I I think they're destined for each other.
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That's a good way to tell about her character, that she deserves
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Chucky and you know, they, they technically make up and give us
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a monster baby. That's that's way later.
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But yes, they do make up. That's that's like a huh,
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interesting. Choice.
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I haven't done a count in my head, but this might be the
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highest body count so far. Probably.
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I mean, if we go total body count, we've got Damien well
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before Damien, we've got the deputy.
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Who else do we have? I'm.
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Trying think of all the characters that show up on
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screen. Yeah.
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Yes, technically Tiffany, Yeah. We got to put her in.
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Then we got the sheriff and the other deputy.
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So now we're at 5:00. Then we've got both of the
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honeymoon peoples. We're at 7, which matches
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Child's Play 3. Then we got David on the
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highway, then we got the grave digger.
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And then, I mean, we don't see it happen, but it's suggested
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that the detective at the end is getting his face eaten.
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So that's 10. It's a body count of 10 for this
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movie. If, and I might even be
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misremitted. Oh, there were two.
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The couple who had the camper, the old people.
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We didn't see them get killed, we just see their corpses. 1212
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bodies. There's probably more the wiki.
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The wiki has more, but I can't remember who these people are.
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Yeah. And I like those are the 12 that
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I remember. And yeah, there could be more.
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There could be others that I'm forgetting.
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Because does he, he doesn't actually kill Jesse.
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He just throws a knife, stabs in the back, and then they trade.
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I'm like, hold on, hold on. You're not allowed to do that.
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Oh, man, it's silly. Yeah, but he he survives the
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movie. In fact, he's better when the
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knife is pulled out of his back. I'll better.
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And then Jade never takes any hits except the RV accident.
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So she survives. David doesn't make it.
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The dad doesn't make it. I'm trying to think of anyone
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else. I mean, the motel maid made it.
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The lady from Hocus Pocus. She survived.
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Hocus pocus. Oh yeah, Yeah, that Lady.
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How could you forget this cameo? Well.
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I actually didn't recognize her till you said that.
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I know that I recognized her, but I did not place her in hocus
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pocus. Sounds like.
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Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't remember her face
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watching the show. Well I mean that 1 is probably
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the most, what would you call it, prop design specific murder?
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Because I assume they it's not CGII assume they put all those
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things onto 2 actors and got it all set up, got it all placed
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and it looks impressive. I will give it that.
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I feel like I usually find the blood and guts props department
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as a favorite. Like that looks really meaty and
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bad. Good job.
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Excellent. Yeah, I really liked a lot of
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these effects. I'm glad that we had a human in
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a Chucky costume, and a human in a Tiffany costume, for that
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matter, for the shovel fight. That was a nice touch.
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I think I recognized the Chucky one.
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I didn't remember the the shovel fight one, but yeah.
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The overhead shot had two people in rubber masks and yeah, so I
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really liked that we had people in costumes.
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And yet. And yet, when Chucky is crawling
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towards the cop car, that is a puppet and it doesn't look very
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good. Yeah, I'm sure that they made
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strides and I'm curious when if we drop any puppeteering by the
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end of all this. Oh.
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Because. Yeah, especially with the new.
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One it adds, it adds to it like it's there in the scene, like
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it's a good thing to have. But the way I think I only
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watched a couple of minutes of one of the behind the scenes and
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they look really complicated, but they do really good job.
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I I didn't watch any of the behind the scenes, but yeah,
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like there are times when Chucky's trying to blink and his
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really scarred eye closes in a kind of a weird way.
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But at the same time, the fact that they did anything with it
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is kind of impressive. Like that's so much work that
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they had to put into these faces.
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And man, Chucky's hair, the stapled on hair really messes
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with me. Every time I look at a picture
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of it, I'm like, oh it's so gross.
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Just a evil spirit stuck in this apparently anatomically correct
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doll body. And since when?
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Since when? Yeah.
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You don't ask questions, man. Yeah.
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What a reveal. Oh my gosh.
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I mean, I feel like it's it's there where this is called Bride
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of Chucky and all of the weddings and things.
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It just still feels so awkward to see the silhouettes of dolls
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and they apparently everything works to make it a a baby
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monster. So that's what we get in.
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I don't know if this was like a set set thing.
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They decided after the movie to be like, yes, we're going to do
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Seed of Chucky next, but. Oh, I'm sure, I am sure like
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what was planned. From here, OK.
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Oh yeah, Oh yeah. I think that was one of those
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things where they were like, we got to we're going to make 2
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movies and even if this movie bombs, we're at least going to
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show them a baby Chucky. Like that is we're going to
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guarantee a sequel by at least teasing baby Chucky.
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And so yeah, I think, I think this was written with a sequel
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in mind, even if it wasn't greenlit.
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I imagine that. Who is it?
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Dan Mancini. Don Mancini, I think he was.
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I think he was scribbling down notes, at least for Seed of
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Chucky. That's that's where I stand.
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I can't imagine what they get up to in that one with.
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Many of them, Well, yeah, in be a family affair.
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In this one, I feel like we really the plot is to get bodies
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back. They hitch a ride with these
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kids. There's kind of not too much
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more to it. It's just the vehicle for the
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the slayings like yeah and the Skate Rd.
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Trip Movie. The Jump Skate Rd.
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Trip movie just like any other road trip movie.
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Trying to get somewhere like yeah, they.
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Get stopped and these are the adventures that happen along the
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way they. Got to blow up the.
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Current adventures, Yeah, their adventures involve explosions
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and glass shattering and a lot of murder.
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I think maybe for the future ones, and I mean this one, what
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I enjoyed, I do mostly enjoy the jump scares where they're you,
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you're expecting them to show up and there's a couple of beats
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and they finally show up and they generally are terrifying.
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So it's effective. And even though it's the trope
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of, oh, they're gonna pop out of the dark oven, wait for it, and
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there they are. Yes, scary.
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And there were sometimes when the jump scare would be late,
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specifically the oven. Like you keep expecting it to
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happen and it doesn't happen. And then it finally happens.
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And at that point I was like, oh, come on, you're late.
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Like you were supposed to be here seconds ago.
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I don't know if that's meant to be funny.
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I don't know if that's meant to be anything.
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But it was what popped in my head where I was.
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Just like this movie keeps trying to lead me in One
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Direction and then steer me in another direction.
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The the death of the stepdad, the sheriff, when Chucky grabs a
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knife and Tiffany starts making fun of him for it.
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I was like, this is hilarious. And then for her to be like, you
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got to improvise. It's the 90s.
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I, it was fun. I enjoyed it a lot.
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And I, that's how I feel about so much of this movie is like
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even the jump scares feel funny at times.
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It's really only the RV that kind of dips back into horror
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territory where it's like, let's try to be scary again.
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But building up to it. I don't think there was a single
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moment where anything got close to scaring me.
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I thought everything was funny. Yeah, compared to scary, yes,
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I'm trying to think of any scary ones.
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I think. I think that I, I thought that
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John Rudder was dead, dead in the seats.
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Like sure, he dies pretty soon after that, but like all that
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blood and stuff, I thought he had died and I thought it was
30:47
such a quick use of that actor. So that part was a effective
30:53
jump scare because I did thought that he was dead.
30:56
But yeah, I'll agree on the most of the rest are just comedy.
31:03
I think David's death is the funniest of them.
31:06
All. I think the and that one is a
31:08
CGI death. Because I feel like it's like
31:12
the color and camera work that makes it funny.
31:15
Oh yeah. It's like bright sunny day.
31:18
The amount of guts that come flying out like, oh I laughed so
31:25
hard. I was just like, that is top
31:30
tier 90s over the top death. Like it's around the time so
31:35
good final destination, right? I feel like that I.
31:38
Think so. I think we're getting into final
31:40
destination territory. Like it fits in that group.
31:44
Oh yeah, and we definitely, well, I don't know the year, but
31:47
we've got later stage Jason who is getting more and more
31:54
ludicrous with his kills leading up to 'cause I think Jason X
32:01
happens in the early 2000s, but that one is one of my favorite
32:07
Jason movies and it it's equally over the top with its kills and
32:12
the so I'm, I'm just like, yeah, we are in that period of time
32:17
where they're like, whatever you can't do with real special
32:20
effects, we'll add digital. We'll get more.
32:23
Don't worry about it. We got it covered.
32:26
Yeah. That's a series I have also not
32:29
watched, but maybe, maybe off the air.
32:34
You know, I feel like we'll we'll hit some good horror
32:37
stuff, but. I was going to say like we don't
32:40
have to rush into it, but I do eventually want to get to that
32:43
because I've only seen maybe 3 movies.
32:46
And I assume Jason X is 10. Yeah, I don't even know if it's
32:51
ten. It's it's called Jason X because
32:54
it's the one where he goes to space and it's the future.
32:59
OK, I guess X. Is it is ludicrous and I love
33:04
it. It's one of my favorite bad
33:07
movies of all time. I'm always willing to sit down
33:11
and watch Jason X, and I'm probably going to say the same
33:16
thing about this movie when we're done with it.
33:18
I'm going to be like, this is a movie I will always sit down and
33:21
watch with anyone. This one is pretty good.
33:26
I I don't know what it would feel like watching just this one
33:34
coming from the other three without knowing anything else.
33:38
I think you would still be surprised and happy like the
33:42
other ones if you're there for the murders, which it feels like
33:46
you're not really there for the plot, especially after the Army
33:49
one. If you're just for the murders,
33:52
guess what? We got Bride of Chucky and it's
33:54
going to knock your socks off. Like, yes, OK.
34:02
Now I just realized the other thing that's going to kind of
34:05
keep my score down, and that is the finale.
34:10
I while I do enjoy the RV crash, I do feel like the movie turns
34:20
towards being more serious from that point on.
34:25
That's where we get Tiffany in the oven.
34:27
That's where we get the explosion of the RV.
34:33
But I do feel like the movie takes a pretty dramatic turn in
34:39
shit or a shift in tone. And I'm just like, I don't know,
34:44
you were doing pretty good. You didn't need to go into like
34:48
full horror. Yeah, they're trying to turn put
34:53
their bodies in the other guys bodies.
34:56
And. Now I'm trying to remember the
34:59
cycle of events because how does Chucky actually die?
35:04
Does he get burned or stabbed? Shot.
35:08
Yep, He gets shot and he says what I thought was actually a
35:15
pretty great line where he was like, I always come back, but
35:21
then he's like with dying sucks like that.
35:23
That's the part that I don't like doing.
35:25
But he he is going to return. And I was like, OK, that's fair.
35:30
You know what screwed what Justin said?
35:33
He will always come back. Now that I read, I'm remembering
35:40
that Tiffany has a change of heart and goes after Chucky
35:44
because she's just horrified by being a monster.
35:47
Like now. This is, at this point, too
35:51
much. All the way at the end when
35:54
you're burned beyond recognition and barely able to walk.
35:59
But at least we got a cool shovel fight out of it then.
36:03
That was fun. Also, props to the grave digger
36:09
for apparently being able to get this whole thing dugout before
36:16
Jesse and Tiffany could show up. Seem like a very fantastic hole.
36:21
Oh my gosh, yeah. It's like perfectly flat along
36:25
the edges. Yeah, I do think it's funny that
36:29
Chucky gets thwarted by being tossed in somewhere and the
36:33
ladder taken up after him or before he can get out, because
36:38
he's been kind of able to escape most things.
36:42
But we'll hit him with his physical limitations so that
36:46
he's stuck. Stuck.
36:48
Yeah, I have a little bit of a beef with Tiffany and her wildly
36:59
oscillating energy levels. Like when they get there, she
37:04
can't. She can barely stand.
37:06
And so when they do the hostage trade, she's like limping over
37:11
there, but then she's got a surge of energy for a full
37:14
shovel fight and then she's weak again until she gets stabbed
37:20
through the belly. And I was just like, man, lady,
37:25
like what happened? Like, can't you even this out?
37:28
Can't you find a level like a level zone to play in Got?
37:33
To fight because we need to fight one more time, yeah.
37:37
It it's an awesome shovel fight. I'm not going to complain about
37:40
the shovel fight, but you know, she's not really dead.
37:48
Oh, and then the unsung hero of this whole movie is the
37:52
detective who has appeared in every single news alert that has
37:58
been shown throughout this whole movie.
38:00
Charge of the investigation. And he gets rid of his partner
38:04
because he shows up alone to the the cemetery.
38:09
It's not going to go well. He's yeah.
38:13
Well, feels like the child will loose ends.
38:17
He makes it a happy ending for the happy couple whose uncle is
38:22
still dead somewhere on the road and but they their names are
38:29
cleared over the radio. The Lieutenant.
38:32
Oh, they're fine, don't worry about them.
38:35
Does he say that Chucky is alive?
38:37
Because that would actually help.
38:40
No, no, he doesn't say. I was.
38:42
When I came away from the movie, I was sitting there thinking,
38:45
there is no evidence that those kids are cleared, like for all.
38:50
Like if they show up to the cemetery and the detective is
38:55
there dead, then of course the first people they're going to
38:58
suspect are the people that he called to clear.
39:01
Like maybe he was being held under duress.
39:03
Maybe that's where it starts, I don't know.
39:08
Yeah, we don't know what's what's in the next one.
39:11
It could be anything. Overall, I think this movie is
39:16
really special. I there are some small things,
39:20
but I got to say I kind of liked it a lot.
39:24
I I really did. I think it sits pretty close to
39:29
the first one. The first one was new and this
39:36
one they did another new thing to the character.
39:42
So it's well to the to the way that the movies work for this
39:47
character. Yeah.
39:49
And so then before we get to the to the reviews, I just have to
39:53
ask you your opinion now that we have experienced the Child's
39:58
Play trilogy and we are stepping into these movies beginning with
40:03
Bride of Chucky. Are you what camp do you fall
40:08
in? Is this a reboot into a new
40:11
franchise or part of the same franchise as before I.
40:18
Can understand the arguments that I haven't read because it's
40:26
the genre has changed. It's the same character, but
40:33
we're kind of just loading all of the characters to be killed.
40:37
And I'm sure that it's going to just be what different ways can
40:42
he invent and improvise to get out of a jam or get whatever he
40:49
needs. Overall, I think it's still
40:54
Chucky universe. I I think this is the same
40:58
voice. It's the same doll, it's a
41:01
different time and we don't have to focus on Andy anymore.
41:08
Yeah, I hate to say it, but good riddance.
41:14
Oh, I feel a little bad for it, but you know, like he had his
41:18
time. He he killed that doll thrice.
41:22
Oh yeah, let's have some new blood.
41:24
Always comes back. Yeah, definitely going to come
41:27
back. Yeah, I still kind of miss Kyle.
41:32
From child's play to the the big sister type.
41:37
Character. Well, Andy needed her.
41:40
I don't know that we need her. Yeah, I I just enjoyed her
41:45
character. But you're right, she wouldn't.
41:47
She would have no place in this particular movie except for the
41:53
fact that she lives in the same small town that all the other
41:57
murders live in. Yeah, it's like.
42:01
Dairy or something? Yeah.
42:05
But you know, with all of that said, on this podcast, we do
42:10
ratings, not grades. The primary difference is where
42:13
you find the average in a grade. The average is a 7 out of 10.
42:18
So you kind of raise up all of the lower scores to get them
42:21
closer to the average, but we say no, no, the average is not a
42:27
7 out of 10, and it must be the middle, which is a 5 out of 10.
42:32
So if you hear us say that a movie is a 5 out of 10, that
42:35
doesn't mean it's bad, it just means it's average.
42:37
So with that said, Justin, what would you give The Bride of
42:44
Chucky? I I like it more than the other
42:49
3. So it's above it's above 6.
42:54
I mean it's it's a comedy slasher film because they just
43:01
get to kill whoever they want and it's kind of funny that the
43:06
other people are getting blamed for it.
43:10
I will go with 6 1/2. I like it more than Child's Play
43:16
1. This is your highest one.
43:20
I I had and I'm like, it's not an average movie.
43:24
Like there's some dull parts, sure, but like I can't give it a
43:30
5. It's higher than a six.
43:33
Is it 7? Is it for me almost?
43:42
That's the 6.5. Yeah, just just fine, you know,
43:47
because I want to come back and say Seed of Chucky's two, like,
43:53
yeah, Bride of Chucky was so much better than it or something
43:57
like that. I am a little bit worried, I'm a
44:00
little bit worried about the next one because I had a lot of
44:04
fun with this movie and you know, I, I was really flirting
44:10
with a higher score at one point.
44:13
I was flirting with a lower score at one point because I was
44:16
just like oh this movie is so 90s.
44:21
But after watching it twice, especially the second time, I
44:26
was like, this is a movie that really I don't know it it does
44:32
better on further viewings. I think about the movie Napoleon
44:36
Dynamite. I hated it the first time I saw
44:39
it and every time I've watched it since then, I have liked it
44:43
more. And now it's one of my favorite
44:46
movies. And I imagine the next time I
44:49
watch it, I'm going to be like, this movie is brilliant.
44:52
And that's how I felt about this one.
44:54
I, I watched it the first time and I was like, that was, that
44:57
was pretty good. Then I watched it a second time
44:59
and I was like, that was really good.
45:03
And so there's the danger that my score will go up overtime.
45:07
But right now with its slow beginning, its time capsule of
45:14
some of the worst parts of the 90s and it's kind of weak
45:18
ending. I'm going to give it a 7.
45:22
But that could go up personally in the future.
45:26
Like one day I might watch it again and be like, this is a
45:28
nine. This is an incredible movie.
45:31
But for now, I think 7 is fair and it captures where I'm at for
45:36
me, for real. Very nice.
45:40
I think that's fair. And that gives us a show average
45:44
of 6.75, which is the highest in the franchise right now.
45:50
So we. Deserved it there, yeah.
45:53
I mean, this was such a shocker of a movie.
45:56
The the box office returns agree.
45:59
People were really having a good time with The Bride of Chucky.
46:05
It was such a good return of a beloved character and I'm glad
46:12
we watched it. I'm glad I got to experience it.
46:17
Yeah, I think there's many things that I can understand My
46:23
parents saying, yeah, you're what, 11 years old?
46:28
That's not that's not something I'm going to have you watch.
46:31
Fair, fair play. Yeah, I, oh, man, it's so hard
46:37
for me because my son loves horror movies and I've watched a
46:42
couple where I've been like, that might have been too much
46:45
for him. We're going to have to go back
46:47
and watch some Godzilla to kind of erase that out of his head.
46:52
And I think I'm going to hold off on Child's Play.
46:55
I think that's going to be the one where I'm like, let's wait
46:58
until you're done playing with toys and then watch it.
47:02
It's a little different than Toy Story.
47:07
Same basic concept, much harder to handle as a child.
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And I guess until next time, watch your ankles goodbye.
48:08
Thanks, I am happy I enjoyed that one
48:24
because it's kind of AI. Never watched this before and I
48:28
feel like it's the reputation is that it's a nutty movie and yeah
48:34
it was. This is kind of wild.
48:39
Make a comedy one where the dolls kill people and blame it
48:42
on some of the teenagers feel like the teenagers kind of only
48:47
necessary for that because it felt a lot like oh, here's a a
48:53
trope teenager getting out of the house from a dead parents
49:00
uncle's overbearing like all of this.
49:03
You could put any character in there and it'll function the
49:07
same, so they're expendable, but they survive.
49:11
So I'm like. They just need to be likable
49:15
enough for them to survive. But you know, I, I got to say,
49:22
and I feel kind of bad that we didn't talk about it enough in
49:25
the episode proper. I genuinely loved every time
49:31
when they were blaming each other for the murders.
49:34
Like you said you were going to vaporize him in front of 100
49:38
people. I was like, oh, that's so great.
49:42
Yeah, their friend shows up to be like, hey, you're both
49:45
talking crazy, like. And then kind of discovers a
49:49
body and he's like, you're both crazy.
49:54
Oh, so good. Yeah.
49:56
I, I loved it. Loved this movie.
49:59
Like I said, if I watch it again, I'm probably gonna end up
50:03
thinking I gave it a low score. 8910.
50:07
Yeah, this movie is perfect.