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Sean Means Movie Reviews for December 20th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, well, well, well, Sean Patrick Means is here. Happy Christmas, John,
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  Happy Christmas to you. Thanks for the card. That's very nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's rat card.
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  Speaker 1: And Sean is here to talk about the movies. He's
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  a reporter and editor at the Salt Lake Tribune sl
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  trip dot com. He's also the movie cricket and you
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  can go to movie cricket dot net to find his
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  past reviews going back many years.
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  Speaker 2: Right yep.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're curious about a movie, go look and
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  see what Sean said about it.
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  Speaker 3: We've got quite a few to get to today, so
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  let's begin.
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  Speaker 4: We've got two children's movies that are opening today, and
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  then we've got three movies for grown ups that I
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  can recommend that are opening on Christmas. All right, we
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  will start with Mufasa the Lion King. This is the
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  prequel to the twenty seventeen computer animated version of The
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  Lion King. That's where the animals were supposed to look
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  real even as they were singing Elton Johnsng's yes. And
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  what we learned then that Disney didn't learn is that
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  a cartoon warthog is cute, but a computer animated, real
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  looking war hog is terrifying. Yes, yeah, uh this movie
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  leans heavily in the new one leans very heavily into
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  the Timin and Humba as comic relief. Raviki is narrating
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  the story of Simba's dad, Mufasa and how he he
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  he He.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't always royalty, He wasn't always the king. Yeah you
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  earn it.
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  Speaker 4: He was an orphan. He was a cub that was
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  snatched away from his parents in a flood. And he
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  gets adopted by a new pride uh uh and and
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  brothers with the air apparent Taka Scar.
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  Speaker 2: We will find that out later.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Irons was in.
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  Speaker 2: The movie in the original animating. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So while while is this happening, though, there's a new pride,
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  new group of white lions that from the outside that
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  is stomping through all the all the prides, all the
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  all the territories, and only only uh Mufasa and Taca
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  survived this and they they you know that, and you
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  know the white lions are bad guys because the leader,
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  because the lead, because the leader is voiced by Matts Michaelson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how you know.
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  Speaker 4: There you go, and so they meet up with a lion,
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  it's Sarabbi and they go looking for a mythical place
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  where they can live free, and there's a love triangle.
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  Speaker 1: And so on.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, this is a mishmash of old storylines, Moses Shakespeare
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  and it's just a slog.
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  Speaker 2: It's two hours long, and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 4: And instead of out in John, we've got lim Manuel
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  Miranda and I mean it's not one of his best.
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  Speaker 1: It's now they have the realistic looking ward log. Yeah,
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  who farts, they all all the things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's stupid. Yes, and it's.
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  Speaker 4: Voiced by Seth Rogen. So yeah, two and a half stars.
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  I mean technically it looks good. But otherwise two and
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  a half stars from Mufaster The Lion King.
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  Speaker 2: But you give a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit better rating to Sonic Hedgehog three.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, either these movies are getting better or my resistance
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  is breaking down.
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  Speaker 3: And they've already a green lid of fourth one.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and they set up what the fourth one is
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  gonna be, and and the and the the The Sonic
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  fans in the audience, including the two that I brought with.
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  Speaker 3: Me, uh, were like, oh, they were very excited when.
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  Speaker 2: They saw that.
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  Speaker 4: When they saw the teaser for the for the next one.
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  So in the second movie, you remember, we had Knuckles
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  joining up as a villain, and then he turned into
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  a partner a friend and it's on and uh and
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  so so they're now Team Sonic with Sonic and Tails
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  and Knuckles. And this time we start with a new
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  character who is a villain, Shadows. He's essentially Sonic if
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  Sonic was raised by an evil corporation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Sonic has been raised.
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  Speaker 4: By evil never mind, and and Knuckles was voiced by
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  Sonic is voiced by Keanu Reeves.
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  Speaker 2: So well that the new guy.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the new guy, and so Sonic and his friends
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  uh have to try to stop Shadow. And then they
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  realized they can't do it alone. They need to bring
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  in somebody very smart and who knows how to stop aliens.
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  So of course they have to partner up with Dot Doctor. Yeah,
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  my enemy is my friend.
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  Speaker 2: So Jim Carrey is back and uh.
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  Speaker 4: And then the new wrinkle or really lots of wrinkles
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  is that Robotics. You've reunited with his grandfather, another evil scientist,
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  also played.
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  Speaker 3: By Jim also played by Jim Carrey, So you're.
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  Speaker 2: Double double your Jim Carrey. Fun. This is fun. It's
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  not demanding. I mean, you know, it's a very and.
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  Speaker 4: And if if you have people in your life who
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  play Sonic and bring them along, they will enjoy it
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  more than they will enjoy it more than you will.
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  Speaker 2: And they will explain the stuff that you didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't fun to see Jim Carrey, though, it is fun
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  to see Jim Carren. Yeah, yes, I hear, he's quite
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  quite quite good.
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  Speaker 2: He's always I mean, he's always good.
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  Speaker 4: So three stars for Sonic the Hedgehog. All right, baby Girl, Yes,
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  so three three on Christmas Day? Quickly here baby Girl.
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  Nicole Kimmen as a CEO who starts an affair with
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  a much younger intern played by Harris Dickinson, and they
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  they trips to hotels get pretty kinky because the intern
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  starts bossing around the boss and she may be enjoy No,
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  this is a very central, supercharged movie by a woman director.
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  And and you know, as a guy, I will say
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  that I've never realized how prevalent the male gaze is
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  until you watch an erotic drama like this that doesn't
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  have it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh icy, it is, it is. It's really good. Three
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  and a half stars for Baby Girl.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Is that based mainly on Nicole Kidman's performance.
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  Speaker 4: On that, on that and the and the way the
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  way it handles, like the power dynamics of of this,
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  of this relationship.
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  Speaker 1: So and you should caution people perhaps it's quite quite sexy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all three of these are very are rated. Yes, okay,
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  so yeah, No.
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  Speaker 4: Saratu is coming up. Well, he is coming. You keep seeing,
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  you keep seeing all the ads and he is coming.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: This is a remake of the classic nineteen twenty three.
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  It's one hundred years old.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, the silent film.
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  Speaker 2: The classic silent vampire movie.
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  Speaker 4: Good cast here, Bill scars Guard as Counterlock, the vampire,
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  Nicholas Holt as his his first intended victim who's a
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  young attorney, William Dafoe as the Van Helsing type character.
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  And best of all, I'll tell you this, Lily Rose Debt.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, she plays Holtz Bride who senses Orlock's presence.
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  Speaker 2: Long before he ever gets near. No.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is the thing about the thing about those
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  fratu is it was it was breaking the copyright on
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  Bram Stoker's Dracula, and it was it was it was
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  like it was like a ripoff, initially a ripoff to
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  the point where it went to court and all copies
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  of the of the original were supposed to be destroyed,
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  and somebody, somebody didn't follow that.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody somebody didn't get that memo. That's why we have
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  those frau to this day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They couldn't get the rights to Dracula, so they made
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  their own and they got sued and that was the
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  That was what happened a hundred years ago. So Robert
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  Eggers directed this. He did The Lighthouse, he did the Northman.
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  Dark and creepy is like right in his like it's
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  like him doing is just the most natural thing you
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  could possibly pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: But this isn't a throwaway horror film.
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  Speaker 4: This is really good. And seriously, Lily Rose Depp is
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  the reason to watch this. Scars Build, Scars Guard is good.
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  And one thing I like about it is how they
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  they change up the look for for for Nou.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's very big and hulking and has this.
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  Speaker 4: Like Nick Offerman mustache and stuff and and part of
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  the reason they do that is because if you look
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  at the original twenty three, which is very good by
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  and hook nose and every bad, any semitic stereotype you
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  possibly have.
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  Speaker 2: And they they they they definitely steer in the other directions.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what they've been hiding what he looks like
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  in all the trailers. Said yeah, okay, yeah, but he's
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  because we all have a predetermined idea.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah this is this is different, but it's really good
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  and yeah, but like I said, Lily Rose Depp is
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  the is the main He's going to watch three and
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  a half for all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and then a complete.
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  Speaker 4: This is l This is the biographical drama about the
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  life of Bob Dylan, and it only takes a chunk
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  from sixty one to sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: The beginnings.
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  Speaker 4: The beginnings starts starts with him hitchhiking to New York
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  and then going to visit Woody Guthrie in the hospital
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  after he's had a stroke that was like.
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  Speaker 2: A like a legendary He plays uh Scoop McNairy.
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  Speaker 1: And I, I guess he doesn't say a word, but
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  it's a great because.
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  Speaker 2: It's he's he's, because he's he's he's.
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  Speaker 4: Had a stroke and so he's wordless, but it's a
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  great performance. And there he meets Pete Seeger who introduces
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  him to the New York folk scene and he just
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  takes it on storm. And Edward Norton plays Norton plays
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  a Seager and that's really good. The thing here is okay,
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  Timothy Challame plays Dylan, and the thing about Dylan is
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  that he he was and.
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  Speaker 2: Remains an enigma. Yeah, and you know he's.
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  Speaker 4: And trying to nail down, nail him down for a
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  biographical uh move, you know, to drama like this is
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  like trying to nail Jello.
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  Speaker 2: To the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's called a complete unknown.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and that and that was the thing and and
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  he played on that.
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  Speaker 4: He used that as as part of his part of
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  his whole shick.
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  Speaker 2: So the movie is really seen through the women in
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  his life.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's a there's a there's a composite girlfriend played
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  by Elf Fanning who mostly is Susie Routtolo but a
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  little bit of some of the other women he dated.
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  Speaker 2: And then h Monica Barbaro really good as Joan Biez.
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  Speaker 1: Really now she she sings her own songs. Timothy Shallam
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  sings yep, Dylan songs yea. And there I understand. They're
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  both really good, both really good.
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  Speaker 4: You get the soundtrack and it's it's not He's not
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  left sacking Bob Dylan.
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  Speaker 2: He is singing. It is Timothy singing. He's really good.
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  The movie is great.
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  Speaker 4: It is showing this era of the early six sies
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  and how Dylan rose to fame and then chafed at
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  the expectations of being this folk music hero. It ends
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  with the moment where it all blew up. If you know,
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  if you know Dylan's history, you know what I'm talking about.
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  I do, all right, h three and a half stars, Wow,
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  far completely unknown. Uh, It's yeah, it's really good. And
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  and and Little Tenny is great. That's that's cool. Three
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  different kinds of movies for Christmas Day and all good,
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  all very good too.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Sean, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Anything to look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: Uh my top ten list will be coming out next week.
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  Speaker 3: Okay and when you and when we come back, we'll
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  have you talk about that talk about cool.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Thanks, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Sewan means everybody