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Why Do Sequels Suck So Much? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Why do sequels suck so much?
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  Speaker 2: It's one more thing I'm strong, one more thing. You
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  Speaker 2: know more about spring riding than I do. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: have an answer for why sequel suck. But uh, that
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  Speaker 2: conversation just second. First, as we continue to wrap up
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  Speaker 2: the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and on the final day of the game, Serbia
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  Speaker 3: be Croatia to win gold and men's water polo. But
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  Speaker 3: I noticed that the goalie for Croatia had a pretty
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  Speaker 3: interesting last name. Check this out well, marking old Pah
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  Speaker 3: now in golf for Croatia and that's him right there.
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  Speaker 4: Bach. The goalkeeper Bax shuttles things down off the post
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  Speaker 4: behind Pia.
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  Speaker 1: Great Josh Bis get back in there, Bach. No more goals, b.
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  Speaker 3: Just I mean the NBC censor was like, what do
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  Speaker 3: I do?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what to do?
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  Speaker 1: I have imagine winning.
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  Speaker 3: At the Olympics, then hearing here's your metal, Bach, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Marco Biac. Forget his last name. It's
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  Speaker 3: crazy that his name is Marco and he plays polo.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Michael in Serbia defeating Croatia is a little uncomfortable too.
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  Speaker 4: Fans of warfare in the nineties, I feel like.
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  Speaker 1: They could have changed the pronunciation just to tad to
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  Speaker 1: avoid that whole problem. That's boch.
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  Speaker 4: The name's Biac, it's Biach. Biach's say the guy's name Biach.
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  Speaker 1: That got me. Some of the announcers were clearly enjoying
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  Speaker 1: it too much.
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  Speaker 4: Right, nice at the shop.
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  Speaker 1: That's some pretty childish humor right there. Oh, serious thing
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  Speaker 1: before I get to my way.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're they're they're Europeans, so you can make that joke. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if you make a joke about like an Asian name
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  Speaker 4: like Wang, then you're eurracist and might lose your career, absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: you know, crowder.
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  Speaker 1: But if it sounds like something funny and it's European
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  Speaker 1: or Western civilization, right then yeah, full on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and certainly there are words in English that are
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  Speaker 4: obscenities and references to poop and or genitals in other
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  Speaker 4: people's language, and they have fun with that. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that is funny that our word for that is
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  Speaker 4: your word for that.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't for a single second think think I'm
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  Speaker 4: a victim of anything.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, most claim.
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  Speaker 4: A victimhood is a quest for power. It's cry bullying.
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  Speaker 4: It's become very effective in the modern world.
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  Speaker 5: I once knew someone with the unfortunate name of Harry Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. See was he a radio person?
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  Speaker 5: No not, it's an average guy.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you go by Harold or your middle name?
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  Speaker 5: I always wondered why why not Harold?
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  Speaker 1: But nope, was Harry Johnson? Was he like? Did he know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, was he doing that because he kind of knew, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: my name is Harry Johnson. No wicky.
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  Speaker 5: He'd get pissed when people would say his whole name.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't I you know, I'm not really sure
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  Speaker 5: what the whole logic was behind it. I just know
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  Speaker 5: that it was funny.
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  Speaker 4: How did that affect his life? I mean, the fact
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  Speaker 4: that he would get pissed means it kind of it
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  Speaker 4: having stuck in his craw if you will, having h
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  Speaker 4: or being named that.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know that different.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's God's sake.
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  Speaker 5: Doing great now, so seeming it wasn't too harsh on him.
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  Speaker 5: But I just remember when we were.
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  Speaker 4: Kids, toughened him up. The boy named Sue syndrome something
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know, dirty eggsucking dog that named me Harry Johnson. That's
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  Speaker 1: exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Bianca's is there something else we were going to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: I want to mention this. This is serious.
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  Speaker 1: We don't usually do that much serious here, but I
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  Speaker 1: just saw it on the San Francisco Chronicle. Latest car
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  Speaker 1: theft data is out. This is from Oakland, one of
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  Speaker 1: the crimiest places in America. Data shows one vehicle per
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  Speaker 1: thirty people was stolen in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: What doesn't shock me? What if I have like a
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  Speaker 1: medium sized circle of friends, I know a couple of
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  Speaker 1: people who've had their car stolen last year. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that seems crazy if I'm living in Oakland.
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  Speaker 4: I moved to Porto Prince because it's safer, it's less crime.
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  Speaker 4: Moved to Haiti.
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  Speaker 1: That's stunning. Anyway. I started with the Whitey sequel, suck
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  Speaker 1: so much, and I was my son's making his way
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  Speaker 1: through all the Marvel movies as he ends summer with
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  Speaker 1: a bang. School starts in a week, and he had
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  Speaker 1: the First Captain of America on the other night. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen have you seen that, Katie?
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  Speaker 5: See?
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  Speaker 1: If I didn't have kids, I wouldn't have seen any
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see any of these movies. Most of them
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  Speaker 1: are made before my kids were born or when they
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  Speaker 1: were a little little Have you seen it, Michael, No,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. Most grown ups. If you don't have kids,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna watch this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Judy and I watched it more or less in a lark.
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  Speaker 4: It seemed like some good escapist entertainment years ago. When
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  Speaker 4: it first came out, I thought it was terrific, really enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: First Captain Marvel movie is absolutely fantastic. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: Captain in America. Captain America. I'm sorry, Captain Marvel's horrible.
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  Speaker 1: That is a horrible movie. That's what the chick?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, really bad Captain Marvel or something Marvel. It's something
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  Speaker 4: miss Marvel or an adult. Can we talk about fiscal.
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  Speaker 1: Any Oh please, I'm glad you said that. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I they will make they will not watch a superhero
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  Speaker 1: movie if the chick is the starn But just in
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  Speaker 1: just on sequels in general. And I've seen this with
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  Speaker 1: lots of kid movies, grown up movies, that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Why do they take the first movie of everything is
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  Speaker 1: like a good kind of rich, good human story and
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  Speaker 1: then they make it like unbelievably fan like it's got
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  Speaker 1: to be so let me give an example, like the
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  Speaker 1: first story you got, man meets woman, falls in love,
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  Speaker 1: they have a kid, whatever, good movie. If they make
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  Speaker 1: a sequel to that, they're gonna have to decide to
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  Speaker 1: be a race car team and go up against the
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  Speaker 1: French in the like I mean, why is it always
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  Speaker 1: like that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, part of the problem is as you sit
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  Speaker 4: down to write a like a screenplay, you're gonna come
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  Speaker 4: up with a character or a few characters or whatever
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna have them go through something changes people in
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  Speaker 4: an interesting way that keeps people's attention, and come to
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  Speaker 4: a satisfying conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Having done that.
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  Speaker 4: When you're gonna do a sequel, you say, okay, now
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  Speaker 4: I got to come up with another arc of that
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  Speaker 4: sort from where they are right now and strike gold again.
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  Speaker 4: Because there are fifty thousand scripts written for everyone that's
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  Speaker 4: produced and five thousand produced movies for everyone that's worth
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  Speaker 4: a crap.
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  Speaker 1: Because so the Marvel movies got worse and worse and
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  Speaker 1: worse until they were just laughable, and I couldn't understand
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  Speaker 1: why you wouldn't. And they do this with all different
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  Speaker 1: kind of movies. When I'm not specifically talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Marvel movies, but so like if you had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of guy buddy cop movie. They start as like they
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  Speaker 1: kind of don't like each other, and then they become
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  Speaker 1: friendly and then they solve a crime and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he saves his wife. Whatever. Good movie. Then the next one.
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  Speaker 1: You liked him in the last movie, but this time
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  Speaker 1: they're doing it in space, And it's always something like that.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't understand why.
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  Speaker 5: Like trying to reach a different audience, maybe the same.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It weren't the last I would think you'd do more formula,
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  Speaker 1: like basically do the first movie again, like Cars another
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  Speaker 1: kids movie, but number two just sucked out loud.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's why the Toy Story franchise is so beloved.
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  Speaker 4: Each one of those movies was the first three were fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: A good example of them not doing that. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good example of them not doing that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they had the framework of as the toys lives changed,
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  Speaker 4: as Andy got older too. But that helped Godfather movies obviously.
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  Speaker 4: But that helped that. It was a large cast of
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  Speaker 4: characters and they were going through generations. But like Buddy
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  Speaker 4: Coop movies, repeating the formula over and over again, that's
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  Speaker 4: what was the Mel Gibson back before he was kicking
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  Speaker 4: the Jews and Lethal Weapon. Yeah, those were, you know,
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  Speaker 4: fairly similar. It was like it was practically a TV series,
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  Speaker 4: but they'd come out once a year and they'd have
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  Speaker 4: better production values. So that's what y'aught to do. Just
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  Speaker 4: make it, make it formul like.
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  Speaker 1: I always hated that as a kid, when they would
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  Speaker 1: bring back Gillian's Island or the cast of Andy something.
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  Speaker 1: They'd bring back the cast of some SHOWY liked, and
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  Speaker 1: then this time again it would be in space or
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  Speaker 1: underwater or whatever. Night Jack didn't choose the Jaws three
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  Speaker 1: in the movie theater. I think I did Jaws three D.
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  Speaker 5: Did you really spend money on that?
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  Speaker 1: I believe I did. Yeah, I got what answer too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I refused to see it because I just knew it
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  Speaker 5: was going to be crap. I kind of did that
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  Speaker 5: with Dumb and Dumberer as well, because I love Dumb
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  Speaker 5: and Dumber. The original movie made me laugh so hard
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  Speaker 5: multiple times. And then I saw they were redoing it,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm like, nope, yeah, this.
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  Speaker 1: Time they were on the original. This time they were
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  Speaker 1: race car drivers, or this time he runs for president
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  Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, Well, I guess that's it.