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

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  Speaker 1: Man all week, I was looking forward to hearing from
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  Speaker 1: Joe Newmeyer, film journalist and w o R movie minted
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  Speaker 1: host because Spider Man Brand new Day has been getting
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  Speaker 1: rave reviews.
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  Speaker 2: I just went to Rotten Tomatoes. Eighty nine percent gave
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  Speaker 2: it a high score. That's for the critics. Ninety eight
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  Speaker 2: percent of the audience loves it, and people are saying
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  Speaker 2: it has emotional depth. Even though it has mature themes,
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  Speaker 2: they say they all work and it's stylized actions. So
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  Speaker 2: across the board positive reviews. So Joe, five stars.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I hate this kind of moment, not from me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not whoa dunk at the garden party on this one, right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, No, people are going to want that trombone
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  Speaker 3: for Spidery. I'm giving I would give I give it
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  Speaker 3: three stars.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say, guys, oh man, all right, thanks thanks
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  Speaker 1: a lot, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Folks are gonna like it. Folks are gonna like it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna make a lot of money. It just doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: It does have emotional depths, it does try and be
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  Speaker 3: more grounded. I was just taking a nap. It's got
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  Speaker 3: like it's got a villain problem, which for me, like
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  Speaker 3: the James Bond movies like these things sort of really
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  Speaker 3: need a crucial villain. This one doesn't. I think folks
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  Speaker 3: are gonna are gonna like it, But I do think
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  Speaker 3: people are gonna walk out and say it's not as
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  Speaker 3: fun or as light as these other Tom Holland ones
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  Speaker 3: that came out, the three previous ones. I wish I
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  Speaker 3: liked it more. I like Spider Man. Who doesn't like
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man? Right, I mean even the the you guys
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  Speaker 3: see that film of the guy in Arkansas coming out
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  Speaker 3: to out of his car to save the guy in
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  Speaker 3: the wheelchair. Everyone loves Spider Man. I just wish this
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  Speaker 3: movie had like a little bit more lightness, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more energy. It kind of it's kind of a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a downer in a lot of ways. I
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  Speaker 3: think little kids might be like, you know why Spider
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  Speaker 3: Man feels so lonely? Yeah, so, Joe, make a lot
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  Speaker 3: of Joe, Joe. You want a villain, you got a
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  Speaker 3: villain of Spider Man right here. It's personal for me.
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  Speaker 4: He's been away globetrotting for five years, right, five years
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  Speaker 4: Spider Man's been away and this is the headline of
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  Speaker 4: his return. No more globe trotting. He's returned to become
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  Speaker 4: a friendly neighborhood vigilante in New York. Again. It's only
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  Speaker 4: room for one vigilanti in New York. And you know
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  Speaker 4: who that is, Joe. That's me, I know.
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  Speaker 3: And as you've got that same color, Kapa, I just
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  Speaker 3: gotta say, if you do this without without spider webs
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  Speaker 3: and without without web slinging, yeah, Joe, it's worse because
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  Speaker 3: I lived where Peter Parker lived on that block. His
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  Speaker 3: house was twenty twenty Ingram Street on Forest Hills. I
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  Speaker 3: lived off of for a while, Ingram Street and Yellowstone Boulevard.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'd be out there with my son's people
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  Speaker 4: will be coming up. Curtis, have you seen Spider Man?
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  Speaker 4: Can you give him this mail?
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  Speaker 3: That would be.
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  Speaker 4: Bad a male, but Peter Parker. Spider Man left at
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  Speaker 4: the post office and at the house, and they be, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta give this to Peter Parker. I said, do
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  Speaker 4: you realize that's not a real person.
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, if anybody would know him, you would know him.
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  Speaker 4: What the hell is going on? I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 4: go do all that again.
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  Speaker 3: See, I would rather watch a movie about Curtis trying
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  Speaker 3: to return Spider Man's mayle Man than some of these
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  Speaker 3: big button no, because honestly, like the fine Tom Holland's fine,
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  Speaker 3: but the like you know, the villain stuff, it just
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  Speaker 3: becomes like, uh, the Hulk shows up great. Good for
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  Speaker 3: the Hulk and those of us who grew up in
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  Speaker 3: the seventies. Oh, Spider Man fights the Hulk. Great, But
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's have let's have Curtis trying to return
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man's Man's like your Flyn thirty fourth Street. You
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  Speaker 3: can bring them all in, dump it all on his desk.
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  Speaker 3: Here you go, Spidey guy. But Tom, I will say this,
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  Speaker 3: Tom Holland is a really good Spider Man, like he's
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  Speaker 3: I liked Tobey Maguire, I liked Andrew Garfield. But as
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  Speaker 3: actors go, like he's he is really good. This might
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  Speaker 3: be his last one, who knows, but in terms of
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  Speaker 3: the way the actors go who play him, he's good.
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  Speaker 3: Zandaia is good in it. I just yeah, I'm the
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  Speaker 3: I'm the guy who who you know says Spidy should
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  Speaker 3: be a little better. Could you give it an extra
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  Speaker 3: half a star?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it goes for three and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe by the end we could get to four. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'll give it three apps the punishers in it. If
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  Speaker 3: anybody knows that character from the TS, he gives it
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  Speaker 3: like three half because he's a lot of fun. John Burnsthal.
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  Speaker 3: There's another character to show up that people who know
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  Speaker 3: him from the comics might say. Wow. The other thing
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  Speaker 3: is you know it is It is a two and
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  Speaker 3: a half hour movie, which is nowadays that's how they
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  Speaker 3: all are, right, But like as opposed to The Odyssey,
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  Speaker 3: which is two forty five, and you really don't feel it.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of goes by fast. I really felt this
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  Speaker 3: this Spider Man movie going like two and a half hours,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm kind of you know, you're looking at your
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  Speaker 3: watch going, you know, come on, let's oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: we got it, we got it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm obset like that. Peter Parker is coming back to
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  Speaker 4: the neighborhood. Is and mayn In and Uncle Ben, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Cliff Robertson and Rosemary Harris, you know, the real life
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  Speaker 4: family that raised them. Did they have a return appearance too?
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  Speaker 3: No, you see briefly Marissa Tomey who died in the
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  Speaker 3: Last one. No spoilers. She died in the Last Spider Man,
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  Speaker 3: which was great. By the way, I love that last
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man. We were all the Spider Man come together.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a Spider Man reunion and they all kind
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  Speaker 3: of come together from the multiple universes. You see Marisa Tomey,
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  Speaker 3: who's great in here briefly in a in sort of
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  Speaker 3: a dream sequence kind of thing. But you know, my
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  Speaker 3: favorite one still remains, like the second Toby Maguire one
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  Speaker 3: with doc oc Spider Man two, like that one came out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the excitement of those Spider Man movies when
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  Speaker 3: they first got to the big screen, because remember in
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and two and two thousand and four, like
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  Speaker 3: the first Spider Man movie does two like it was
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  Speaker 3: this huge thing because Spidey had not been able to
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  Speaker 3: be on the big screen because the legal rights and whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Finally he gets there. Marvel wasn't a Hollywood player yet,
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  Speaker 3: and he had only been on TV in a weird
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  Speaker 3: TV or He's were on the same time as the
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  Speaker 3: Incredible Hulk Show, which was great.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, wait to check, what do you mean weird? I
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  Speaker 4: remember this song a theme song nineteen sixty seven and
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  Speaker 4: seventy on ABC does whatever a Spider can, It's Spider Man,
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  Speaker 4: come on man, What is wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Well that that was so that's the animated one. That's great.
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  Speaker 3: I love that one. There was a there was a
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  Speaker 3: for two seasons. There was a live action Spider Man
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  Speaker 3: in the late seventies at the same time as The
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  Speaker 3: Incredible Hulk, where he essentially like fights a guy who
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  Speaker 3: like robs a shoe store or something like. There's no
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  Speaker 3: big villains and he's kind of crawling up the side
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  Speaker 3: of a building in a weird way. That's the weird one, Curtis.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one from the seventies starring it's a live
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  Speaker 3: action one. We get it. We didn't watch that.
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  Speaker 1: We get it.
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  Speaker 2: You love every other single Spider Man except this one.
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  Speaker 4: We got it.
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  Speaker 2: We understand. Expected to make four hundred and fifty two
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  Speaker 2: million dollars worldwide. Maybe you knocked a few million off
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  Speaker 2: with this review.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, when that, I will say that that what
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  Speaker 3: a great signal for the box office. People are going
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  Speaker 3: back to the movies. You know, this is like they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be the biggest summer since the biggest year since
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  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. I'm so glad people are going back to
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  Speaker 3: movies and having a fun time and going and you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's like, that's that's what makes me happy is watching
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  Speaker 3: the movies be healthy and Hollywood saying let's bring good
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  Speaker 3: stuff to audiencely even you know, if it's small, weird
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  Speaker 3: things like obsession or back rooms or something, or big
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  Speaker 3: things like The Odyssey, get stuff, get people in there.
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  Speaker 3: It's an important thing. They get people into the theaters
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  Speaker 3: and away from their away from their screens, you know,
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  Speaker 3: experience it week an audience.
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  Speaker 4: This is a great way, a great way to end it.
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  Speaker 4: It's what you've been saying for weeks, Larry and Natalie.
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  Speaker 4: It's getting people back into the theaters. We thought after
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  Speaker 4: COVID and the lockdown was over. No, And it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: It's wonderful for the movie industry and especially wonderful for
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  Speaker 4: the theaters. People are stopping. They don't want to see streaming.
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  Speaker 4: They want to see these movies on a big screen.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody seems to love this movie except you, Joe Newmier.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, so three stars, three and a half
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  Speaker 3: as Natalie, I'll give it one that little extra half.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give a little webshoot.
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  Speaker 1: Of a half way to go Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: He got him up to half starts a lot, Joe Newmeyer,
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  Speaker 2: film journalist wo or movie miter host.
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  Speaker 4: Boy did he recover at the end of that interview,
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  Speaker 4: but exactly