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Rip in Time · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today,
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Speaker 1: our fan favorite month of movie reviews continues with Rip
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Speaker 1: in Time, which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on
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Speaker 1: I think you'd be shocked at the time we make
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Speaker 1: to watch and review Hallmark movies. But in addition to
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Speaker 1: the other stuff we watch and read and listen to,
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Speaker 1: I mean, we can dome a lot of content. We do.
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Speaker 1: I have feelings about it to a lot of media.
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Speaker 1: That's about yes, yes, exactly. All right. Let's start with
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Speaker 1: the s anapsis for Rip in Time, when organic farmer
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Speaker 1: Sarah meets a man who claims to be from seventeen
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Speaker 1: eighty seven, named Rip van Winkle Junior. She soon discovers
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Speaker 1: old fashioned romantic feelings that might be just as crazy
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Speaker 1: as his story. Jessica Harmon directed Rip in Time. Jessica
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Speaker 1: has worked as an actor, director, and producer. She has
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Speaker 1: twenty directing it's, including three or T Guarded Mysteries, as
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Speaker 1: well as Tipline mysteries Dial One for Murder. CJ. Cox
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Speaker 1: wrote the teleplay for Rip in Time. Now, we just
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Speaker 1: talked about him recently, which is so I love when
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Speaker 1: this kind of crossover happens. Yeah. He has fourteen writing credits,
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Speaker 1: including the recent The Royal we as well as Love
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Speaker 1: Strikes Twice. He also wrote the screenplay for Sweet Home, Alabama,
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Speaker 1: starring Reese Witherspoon. Yeah, as I was writing these notes,
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Speaker 1: I was having serious DJEVO because I remember you also
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Speaker 1: including the same note. But it was so notable that
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Speaker 1: I feel like we had to mention it twice. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Tory DeVito's stars as Sarah Majors. Tory has forty four
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Speaker 1: acting credits, including a long running role in the series
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Speaker 1: Chicago med for Hallmarks. She's appeared in Love's Greek to
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Speaker 1: Me Right Before Christmas and The Christmas Promise. She was
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Speaker 1: also like a super unhinged stalker on One Tree Hill. Oh,
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Speaker 1: like it's a guest appearance. Oh, a long running role.
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Speaker 1: It was like a kind of a long running role.
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Speaker 1: She was like a nanny that became obsessed with one
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Speaker 1: of the families. Yeah. And then then right before me
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Speaker 1: is a is there One Tree Hill Reunion? Because Chad
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Speaker 1: Michael Murray also stars in that movie? And what right
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Speaker 1: before Christmas? I'm sorry? Oh and oh really, Oh that's
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Speaker 1: so funny. Niall Mader plays and I can't believe we're
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Speaker 1: saying this. Rip Van Winkle Junior. Niall has sixty seven
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Speaker 1: acting credits and is well known on Homewark for his
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Speaker 1: appearances in Holiday Hotline and This Time Each Year, as
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Speaker 1: well as a memorable cameo in the Santa Summit. Can
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Speaker 1: I pause here for a second please? Niall was at
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Speaker 1: our weekend in Kansas City, right, Ye, yes, he was.
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Speaker 1: I remember he was. Was it quiet? Mm hmm? It
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Speaker 1: just it. It kind of floors me. I know he's
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Speaker 1: such a big fan favorite, but I remember him being
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Speaker 1: like so quiet. A lot of big personalities in that
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Speaker 1: that weekend. Yeah, like Plaja kind of like led the charge.
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Speaker 1: And then you have Ashley Williams, who's like so dynamic.
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Speaker 1: But I also think, you know, that weekend, Marcus Rossner
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Speaker 1: was there and that's his first fan event, and I
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Speaker 1: think he was really coming into his own and like
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Speaker 1: really enjoying the moment. Yeah, Rosner stands out to me
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Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, he was very fun. Yeah, so I
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Speaker 1: wish I wish no, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: remember which panel he went to. It is so irrelevant.
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Speaker 1: He just wasn't in the panel that we went to,
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Speaker 1: and the panels I think were a little more intimate
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Speaker 1: in terms of the storytelling and the way. M h.
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Speaker 1: You kind of got an impression of the actors who
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Speaker 1: these people were. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Casey Manderson place officer
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Speaker 1: Ted Casey has appeared in sixty four projects, including Dating
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Speaker 1: the Delaney's and You're Baking Me Crazy for Hallmark both
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Speaker 1: favorite movie Girl's Gone Hallmark. Sorry to interrupt you, this
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Speaker 1: guy looks so familiar to me, not just as someone
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Speaker 1: who has appeared on Hallmark, but like somebody I don't
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Speaker 1: I can't put my finger on it, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: just like right there, Yeah, does this dude look like
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Speaker 1: I can't I don't know. I don't know. Eric. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, Keenley Side God, okay, Eric, Keenley Side plays
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Speaker 1: Calvin Majors. Eric has a whopping two hundred acting credits
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Speaker 1: and so many projects, including Hallmark's The Wish, Swap and
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Speaker 1: a Rape and Raise the Glass Love, but also a
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Speaker 1: ton of non Hallmark projects, including the true crime docu
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Speaker 1: drama Happy Face. I'm afraid to ask what Happy Face is.
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Speaker 1: I believe Happy Face is. It's on one of the
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Speaker 1: big streamers right now. I know. I just saw it.
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Speaker 1: It's about the daughter of the Happy Face Killer. It's
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Speaker 1: giving clown Is it like that? I don't. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: because you know that I'm not going to watch that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was based on true crime. I
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Speaker 1: had seen the tagline for it when I was scrolling,
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Speaker 1: and it was something about that it was the story
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Speaker 1: of the daughter of the Happy Face Killer. I did
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Speaker 1: not know that the Happy Face Killer was a real
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Speaker 1: thing until IMDb told me that it was a true
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Speaker 1: crime crime docudrama, which makes it worse honestly. But yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: of course I have to look for it this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, no good. It is cinepping me out though,
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Speaker 1: just the name alone is creeping me out. Yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: very sorry for your sleep. Joshua Black plays Henry Major's
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Speaker 1: and this is his one and only acting credit per IMDb.
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Speaker 1: Greg Rogers plays Whylan. Greg is definitely a familiar face,
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Speaker 1: as he has sixty seven acting credits, including Hamewark projects
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Speaker 1: like Christmas with the Sings and A Dickens of a Holiday.
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Speaker 1: I believe that's seventy six acting credit. What did I
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Speaker 1: say sixty seven? Oh boy, Let's take a quick break
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Speaker 1: and come right back with our first impressions of Rip
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Speaker 1: in Time. Hey, Wendy, what's your first impression of Rip
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Speaker 1: in Time? Well? I thought I like the time travel genre.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, I know. Don't come for me. Don't don't
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Speaker 1: come for me. My first impression is I judged this
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Speaker 1: movie by its title and its synopsis, and I've never
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Speaker 1: been more wrong. Oh wow, Okay, we're gonna We're not
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Speaker 1: gonna fight, but we're gonna definitely discuss about it because
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Speaker 1: I just have some very like me feelings about it.
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Speaker 1: That is so funny, because when you told me like
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Speaker 1: you still had to watch this movie, I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's such a fun watch, Like it won't feel like work.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't say that, and I'm glad I didn't
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Speaker 1: because I would have set your expectations astray. In my head,
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing like the let's get ready to rumble music.
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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no. Unfortunately we can't play
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Speaker 1: it due to rights. But fun fact, my husband has
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Speaker 1: recently discovered, uh, the plethora of WWF and WWE content
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Speaker 1: available on streaming. Like he's been watching old royal rumbles.
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Speaker 1: There's like a new seems fairly current series called Rivals
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Speaker 1: where they break down some of these like famous wrestling rivalries.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of wrestling content happening. He also has
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Speaker 1: been streaming NonStop jackass content Jackass, where theer like doing
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Speaker 1: stupid things like like yes, stapling their scrotum to stude.
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Speaker 1: The other day, I come downstairs, he's like, I just
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Speaker 1: found Jackass Shark week. No, it's too much. Even our
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Speaker 1: sons like I do know, He's like, what are they doing? No? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I have more jackass commentary, but I'll save it for
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Speaker 1: a pop culture club. All right, all right, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about what we liked. Let me be clear, I did
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Speaker 1: not not like this movie. Okay, okay. My first like is,
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Speaker 1: of course, this is a little it's not that old
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Speaker 1: of a movie. It's three years old maybe, And at
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Speaker 1: the time I have to appreciate that Hallmark is doing
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Speaker 1: was doing something a little different. We're not They're not
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Speaker 1: serving us like the typical Hallmark rom com, right, And yeah,
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Speaker 1: even seeing rom com, I don't even classify Hallmark movies
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Speaker 1: as rom com. There's like a handful that I would
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Speaker 1: classify as rom com. What would you call Hallmark movies
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Speaker 1: in general? Romantic stories? Yeah? Okay, yeah, but I think
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Speaker 1: some try a lot more harder, like, for example, very
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Speaker 1: soon dating the Delaney's I think leans more into calm
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Speaker 1: as opposed to her pen pal leans more into the
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Speaker 1: rem Yes, exactly exactly. But yeah, this is like a
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Speaker 1: almost like a romantic drama for sure, for sure, for sure.
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Speaker 1: And so I had to do a little bit of googling,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, OK, what time What other time
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Speaker 1: travel movies had come out prior to this movie? And
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Speaker 1: I didn't go back very far, but we had and
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Speaker 1: here's the list. A Timeless Christmas which we watched, Love
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Speaker 1: Strikes Twice Great, which we loved, who is also from
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Speaker 1: the same writer here, and Next Stop Christmas, which we
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Speaker 1: also also enjoyed. Yeah, solid movies, so I can see
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Speaker 1: why they wanted to keep this time travel capitalize on that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but this didn't hit for you as much
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Speaker 1: as the others. I didn't find it as enjoyable. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I didn't find it as enjoyable. What I did find enjoyable,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna move on here. I really enjoyed Nilemeter
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Speaker 1: and Tory DeVito, great chemistry. Lori Devido is not one
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Speaker 1: of the Hallmark regulars that I'm like, oh, I must
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Speaker 1: watch her movie, right, Yeah, but didn't you kind of
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Speaker 1: feel like that after today You're like, oh, she elevates
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Speaker 1: this movie so much one hundred percent. I thought she
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Speaker 1: was a I thought she was great, and I thought
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Speaker 1: her portrayal of Sarah was great. She was like tough, believable,
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Speaker 1: Like I really enjoyed her, Like for example, when her
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Speaker 1: kid comes in and is like, there's a homeless man
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Speaker 1: out in the barn, and then we see her call
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Speaker 1: for her dad, but then she's like storming out there
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Speaker 1: with her like rifle. I was like, yeah, girl, yes,
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Speaker 1: I loved it. I love not that like I'm pro
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Speaker 1: gun or anything, but I was like, she was going
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Speaker 1: to take care of business, you know, badass ladies. Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 1: So I really enjoyed that. Niall always impressed me. M M.
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Speaker 1: I loved he played kind of like this, like curious
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Speaker 1: you know this because this is these are all the
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Speaker 1: things we talk about in the way home. Jacob comes
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Speaker 1: back from the eighteen hundreds and he's the next day,
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Speaker 1: he's on the computers. There's no like what is this?
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Speaker 1: But Nile plays this character so well to me that
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a really funny, very a really
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Speaker 1: great mix of funny but like sincere moments, I it was,
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Speaker 1: it was, they were great. I thought they were great
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Speaker 1: together too. Yeah. So for me, for Nile, I thought,
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Speaker 1: as much as I don't think this is a rom com,
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Speaker 1: there were some great comedic moments, particularly he first arrives
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Speaker 1: and he like he calls he calls her a witch
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Speaker 1: and he's like, oh my apologies, you're a spinster and
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Speaker 1: she was like excuse me, and he was like she's
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Speaker 1: forced to wear pants to appear Manna. She's like the
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Speaker 1: pants threw me up. It just was so funny, like
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Speaker 1: he could he just kept digging himself into a hole.
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Speaker 1: Bit he stayed so in character. It is hard for
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Speaker 1: me to believe, and I put it in the show
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Speaker 1: notes like this man is playing Rip van Winkle Junior,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I believe it. He was in character.
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Speaker 1: He was believable as this descendant of this fictional but
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Speaker 1: maybe not actually fictional character. He carries it through like
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Speaker 1: they didn't just drop it. To your point about Jacob,
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Speaker 1: he continued to be be fuddled by this timeframe, as
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Speaker 1: he would be when they go into this city. But
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Speaker 1: even when the officer shows up and he's like, you
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Speaker 1: have a carriage with no horses and he's in I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you notice, but when he's in the
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Speaker 1: police car and the officer is talking to uh, Sarah,
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Speaker 1: let me see your hands or something like that, Is
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Speaker 1: that what we were talking about. Well, no, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about when Nile's in the backseat of the police car,
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Speaker 1: doors closed, the officer and Sarah are talking to other,
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Speaker 1: and you just see Nile like peeking his head between
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Speaker 1: the seats, like looking around at the car. It's amazing.
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Speaker 1: I thought the infusion of comedy was great. Oh it's
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Speaker 1: that same scene. He puts him in the car and
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Speaker 1: he goes, keep your hands where I can see him,
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Speaker 1: And then he puts his hands up in the window
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Speaker 1: like he's showing his hands. That was funny. But then
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Speaker 1: I didn't go I didn't continue to watch him like
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Speaker 1: poke around the car. That's funny, It's very funny. It's
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Speaker 1: really funny. Like you see his head just pop up
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Speaker 1: between the seats and he's just got this wide eyed look.
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Speaker 1: On the opposite end to your point about this being
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Speaker 1: more romantic drama than romantic comedy, there's some real cinematic
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Speaker 1: moments in this movie that I really liked. For example,
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Speaker 1: the dance scene that they cut into slow mo was
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Speaker 1: giving me all the romantic vibes. I was way into
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Speaker 1: the two of them, as well as their very cinematic,
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Speaker 1: notebook esque kiss in the pouring rain. That was an
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Speaker 1: incredible scene. Great, right, yeah, yeah, anything else you liked? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I have two more little comments. One about their romance.
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Speaker 1: It felt like started slow. It was a little slow
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Speaker 1: for me, but like I don't know what I'm expecting
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Speaker 1: at this at these points, like I'm like, are you
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Speaker 1: all in? Are you jumping all in fast forward? Because
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Speaker 1: where are we going to get? What's the ending going?
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Speaker 1: What's the endgame here? Sure? But I did get a
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Speaker 1: real good laugh at the end where he proposes and
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Speaker 1: she's She's like, whoa buddy. Basically we didn't go on
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Speaker 1: some dates and I was like, okay, that's totally realist.
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Speaker 1: That was great, Yeah, we don't get married yet. How
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Speaker 1: about we go out? Yep? Loved it. Ye love that.
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Speaker 1: And I also really liked that this story had them
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Speaker 1: kind of investigating this several possibilities of where and how
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Speaker 1: Rip came to be, especially there maybe and maybe I
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Speaker 1: interpreted it correctly, but we weren't they like were they like,
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Speaker 1: is he mentally unstable? Oh? Yeah, I think that was
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Speaker 1: being insinuated at some point. Yet I think like that.
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Speaker 1: I like that they're like you because you wouldn't just
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Speaker 1: be like, oh, you're from the past. Okay, great, of
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Speaker 1: course the first jump you make is not going to
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Speaker 1: be your two hundred and fifty years in the future. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So I like that they kind of you know, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that scene with the professor when he's like explaining how
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Speaker 1: this is how you could have possibly time traveled. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting with the science is solid, but they
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Speaker 1: sold it to me. I thought that scene was great
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Speaker 1: when he demonstrates the wormhole. I have two thoughts on that.
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Speaker 1: It is in my like and it is also in
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Speaker 1: my wish, So okay, I really like that scene. I
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Speaker 1: thought that was a standout moment, especially like the way
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Speaker 1: that it was shot and how he was like going
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Speaker 1: through all the things like on the board and all
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Speaker 1: that whatever. Right, Yes, I thought that was very visually interesting.
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Speaker 1: But I will touch on it again in my wishes. Okay.
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Speaker 1: The only other comment I have is Calvin Majors played
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Speaker 1: by Eric Keenley Side the dad was just such a lovely,
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Speaker 1: heartwarming character for me. I just found him so comforting
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Speaker 1: to watch. But he was like a he Sometimes we
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Speaker 1: see these adult children living with their parents and there's
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Speaker 1: drama there. He was never any source of drama and
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Speaker 1: conflict for his daughter. He was just they were just
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Speaker 1: a tight, great family. And he was also the first
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Speaker 1: person to come around to kind of accepting who Rip
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Speaker 1: might be, which seemed like the least likely person to
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Speaker 1: come to that conclusion. I just really enjoyed him. I
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Speaker 1: have a super side question for you, okay, would you
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Speaker 1: ever want to live with your adult child child in
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Speaker 1: the future, Like, would you be would you be open
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Speaker 1: to that if you were if your husband had passed
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Speaker 1: or whatever the circumstance may be. Yes, I'm open to
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Speaker 1: the idea. I think I have no idea who my
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Speaker 1: adult children are going to be, and so whether or
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Speaker 1: not that's a good personality fit for us to live together,
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Speaker 1: but I think it makes a lot of sense. You know,
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Speaker 1: in their case, they were they made a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: They worked well together, they were a great family unit.
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Speaker 1: Are you open to the idea of living with your
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Speaker 1: adult child forever and ever? Amen? Yeah? Yeah, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: can I move next door? It may just be the
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Speaker 1: time of life I'm in right now. Sure, Yeah, that
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Speaker 1: would be amazing with a grandchild too. Hell yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: with your grandchild and you just get to experience their life. Yeah, yes, yes, yes, Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, what did you wish for? Okay? So for me,
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Speaker 1: this is where this is where this movie falls apart
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Speaker 1: from me a little bit. Okay. The tone of the
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Speaker 1: movie felt heavy, not emotionally heavy like we talked about
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Speaker 1: in One Summer or North to Home, but I felt
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Speaker 1: like the majority of the scenes were dimly lit, like
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Speaker 1: everything seemed to kind of dark when exception of when
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Speaker 1: they went to New York, and that was done well
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Speaker 1: because she was like don't freak out, don't freak out,
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Speaker 1: and it was like crazy and chaotic, but everything else
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Speaker 1: was kind of like somber to me, just because the
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Speaker 1: scenes were so dark interesting. There was also some music
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Speaker 1: choices that gave it this kind of somber feel. So
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Speaker 1: it made it and I don't want to say less interesting.
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Speaker 1: It made it kind of what is a good word,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for sleepy? Okay to me a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But then here's the other thing. In contrast, we have
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Speaker 1: some very funny moments, very humorous dialogue, and so I
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Speaker 1: was a little bit confused with the overall tone we
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Speaker 1: were going for. That's why it like kind of goes
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Speaker 1: back to my beginning. I'm like, this was Was this
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Speaker 1: a rom com? Or is this a family drama? Is
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Speaker 1: this a what? Yeah? I go back to the conversation
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Speaker 1: we had with Jeff Easley where we talked about, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's directed like a day Spring movie and how, particularly
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Speaker 1: like Miracle and Bethlehem, PA with Benjamin Ayers, how that
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Speaker 1: movie has kind of like a because it's a day
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Speaker 1: Spring movie, has like a real somber tone. But to
21:52
Speaker 1: you have to infuse humor into those movies, like you
21:56
Speaker 1: wouldn't call it a comedy, but it's a drama that
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Speaker 1: has comedic moments. That's what this felt like to me.
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Speaker 1: I I totally hear you. It was dark, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sitting here here trying to process the reason why. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not enough of a cinematic critic to be able
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Speaker 1: to parse that. But I agree with you. At felt dark.
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Speaker 1: It didn't bother me. I really liked this movie. I uh,
22:20
Speaker 1: obviously as it felt like. When people suggested, I was like,
22:26
Speaker 1: there's no way, There's no way, and I really liked it.
22:29
Speaker 1: But I wonder why it is so dark. It's a
22:31
Speaker 1: great question. I don't know. I have a couple other things,
22:36
Speaker 1: if I may. Yeah, let me preface this with saying
22:39
Speaker 1: we live in a world, a post the Way Home
22:42
Speaker 1: world where I have accepted that time travel via pond
22:45
Speaker 1: as possible. Right. But with that said, as much as
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Speaker 1: I like that that scientist scene, his explanation was far
22:54
Speaker 1: too complex for me to fully grasp, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: please dumb it down, Please sumb it down for me.
23:01
Speaker 1: I didn't understand it either. Like the folded paper, I'm like, oh,
23:04
Speaker 1: that's how the wormhole was created. Like the metals in
23:08
Speaker 1: the cave Boom you time traveled. I mean, none of
23:10
Speaker 1: it makes any sense to me. Time travel makes my
23:13
Speaker 1: head spin. But yes, that was definitely scientifically over my head. Yeah,
23:17
Speaker 1: and then the one last thing and then we can
23:19
Speaker 1: go onto your wishes. I didn't like the bullying of
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Speaker 1: Sarah's son Hat. It feels super uncomfortable. I also hated
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Speaker 1: that very much. I don't have a lot of wishes.
23:33
Speaker 1: In fact, I have just one, and it's just it's
23:36
Speaker 1: not even about the movie. It's about Officer Ted. I
23:38
Speaker 1: just wanted him to take a long walk off of
23:40
Speaker 1: a short pair. I hated him so much. Oh my god,
23:43
Speaker 1: really he plays Yeah, I think he's an absolute villain
23:47
Speaker 1: in this movie, particularly when he has that scene with
23:50
Speaker 1: Rip where he's like, you are harming this family by
23:53
Speaker 1: being here. You've turned them into a laughing stock in
23:56
Speaker 1: the community. I you know, Rip did not come here
24:02
Speaker 1: of his own volition. He's done nothing but be helpful
24:06
Speaker 1: and lovely and stay out of their way. And I
24:11
Speaker 1: was so angry with Officer Ted. And I was also
24:14
Speaker 1: as a woman, I would like, read the room. She
24:16
Speaker 1: is sending you the signals that she is not interested,
24:20
Speaker 1: leave her alone and he just tries to. Obviously she
24:25
Speaker 1: has a connection with Rip, and he's like, you're hurting them.
24:28
Speaker 1: Get out of here, you get out of here, officer ted.
24:32
Speaker 1: I see that, all right, But he didn't. He didn't
24:35
Speaker 1: bother me that much. No, I hate, I mean filled
24:38
Speaker 1: with rage. I have those moments too, not in this
24:42
Speaker 1: movie though this do did you see that? I have
24:47
Speaker 1: just two little ones. One and they're not true? Did
24:50
Speaker 1: you see that? But one at the beginning, when they're
24:54
Speaker 1: putting the pennies down in the in the garden to
24:58
Speaker 1: keep snails away, I was like, what this is new
25:01
Speaker 1: news to me. It's real snail heavy right now in
25:05
Speaker 1: my backyard. And I try to like always plant like
25:09
Speaker 1: a little garden, and the snails always eat it. So
25:12
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be putting some pennies down, I think, Hey,
25:16
Speaker 1: I was. I was very excited about that. The other
25:19
Speaker 1: one is on older movies like this. When we re
25:23
Speaker 1: review I like to go into IMDb and look at
25:26
Speaker 1: the at the like uh user comments, uh huh. There
25:31
Speaker 1: are several more than one review that praised this movie
25:37
Speaker 1: for its lack of wokeness and oh good affirmative action
25:43
Speaker 1: that is so common on the hall Mark Today, and
25:46
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, I haven't seen comments like these
25:48
Speaker 1: in a couple of years. Wow. I loved this movie
25:52
Speaker 1: because it was so white. Yes, yike, yeah, yeah, yeah,
26:03
Speaker 1: that's all I got. What about you? First of all,
26:07
Speaker 1: none of mine are true digits. That's but when Sarah
26:11
Speaker 1: and Rip are talking about her past and she he
26:15
Speaker 1: asks her about being married, and she's like, Nope, never married,
26:17
Speaker 1: just baby daddy, and he was like baby daddy And
26:19
Speaker 1: I was like, have we ever heard baby Daddy on Hallmark?
26:23
Speaker 1: I loved that she was never married. I loved that
26:26
Speaker 1: it was no big deal. I love that she's just
26:28
Speaker 1: this happy, centered, grounded woman who's not like recovering from
26:33
Speaker 1: the trauma of not having a partner, yeah, a divorce
26:37
Speaker 1: or a widowed husband. Yeah. Yes, loved it. Life happens. Yep,
26:43
Speaker 1: I did pull a couple IMDb digite. That's just because
26:46
Speaker 1: sometimes people see things that we don't. Uh. And one
26:51
Speaker 1: is that the uh intentional or not? No to back
26:58
Speaker 1: to the future when Rip realizes that he is in
27:02
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and then he faints, the same thing
27:05
Speaker 1: happens to Marty McFly when he wakes up after hitting
27:08
Speaker 1: his head. Oh say he had a horrible nightmare, and
27:11
Speaker 1: then his mother is right next to him and he
27:15
Speaker 1: freaks out again. Another person points out, because they do
27:18
Speaker 1: try and well. Officer Ted I believe looks up his
27:20
Speaker 1: military records and he's like, there's no record of this dude.
27:24
Speaker 1: But someone pointed out if they have his real full name,
27:28
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be that hard to verify his military service
27:31
Speaker 1: even as far back as the Revolutionary War. The National
27:34
Speaker 1: Archives holds records relating to military service during the Revolutionary War,
27:38
Speaker 1: including both continental and state troops. Wow, that's impressive. Yeah, hey,
27:46
Speaker 1: just one more. As we're talking here, I was thinking
27:49
Speaker 1: about it. You know when they take the bullet from
27:51
Speaker 1: his body, his leg or whatever, and then they're just
27:54
Speaker 1: like walking around holding it. Would you just hold it
27:57
Speaker 1: with your hands like that wouldn't put it in jar
28:00
Speaker 1: a jar, a plastic baggy or the guys just like
28:05
Speaker 1: holding it. Yeah, keep from somebody's body. That just seems weird. Agree? Agree?
28:12
Speaker 1: What did you rate RIP in time? You guys don't
28:15
Speaker 1: send your emails. I give it three stars. That's not
28:19
Speaker 1: a bad score. I'm depping on a T shirt. Three stars,
28:24
Speaker 1: that's not a bad rating. I give it four point
28:26
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