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

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  Speaker 1: Well, well, it's Joe Neumeier on the line, our movie guy.
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  Speaker 1: And Joe, don't give me the excuse that the dog
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  Speaker 1: ate your homework.
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  Speaker 2: A while back, I said, hey, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Movie Reviewer, a lot of attention to this must documentary.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, wow, the Academy Award winning director, Alex Gibney,
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  Speaker 1: four hours. I even said you could bifurcate it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: look at an hour each time. And, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: did Bupkis, right?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Curtis, it meant so much to me and
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  Speaker 3: it was so important to me that I put it
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  Speaker 3: off until very late last night. And I know you
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  Speaker 3: gave me the assignment a couple of weeks ago, but
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  Speaker 3: I saw all four hours and I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about every minute of it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: He's born a poor child.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: So, yes, I did watch all four hours. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't think I learned much about the
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  Speaker 3: guy that I didn't really know before, except it's a
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  Speaker 3: little deeper, a little creepier.
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  Speaker 4: He thinks we're all.
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  Speaker 3: Living in a video game simulation. Sadly, not Donkey Kong
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  Speaker 3: or Pac-Man or one of the fun ones. He seems,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as nuts as you sort of think he is.
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  Speaker 3: He's in the news today. I don't know if anything
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  Speaker 3: needs to be four hours. I mean, he's not Lawrence
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  Speaker 3: of Arabia, so I don't really think he needs four
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  Speaker 3: hours to figure this clown out. It does have an intermission,
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  Speaker 3: like Lawrence of Arabia. So if you want to, you
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  Speaker 3: want to sit and watch it. It's in theaters now.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be streaming on Amazon in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure when. You can pre-order it. But it's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it does have an intermission.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think it really tells you much.
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  Speaker 3: I think that it kind of goes into depth a
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  Speaker 3: little bit about him.
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  Speaker 4: Like, oh, you know, he is as weird.
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  Speaker 2: How many stars would you give it?
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  Speaker 3: I would give it two, but I also think that
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  Speaker 3: it could have gotten, if it was two hours, it
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  Speaker 3: really could be 90 minutes. But if it had been two,
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  Speaker 3: Alex Gibney goes in depth on these things, and he's
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  Speaker 3: a good documentarian. But I really don't think you need
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  Speaker 3: all of the levels that it goes to. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't care listening to his ex-girlfriends, his baby mamas talk
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  Speaker 3: about his kids. Yeah, I don't need that.
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  Speaker 2: How often were you cursing Curtis as you were watching it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do that anyway, but I was like, ah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, while you were.
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  Speaker 4: I did that while I was watching Clayface.
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  Speaker 1: Ah! Now, Joe, while you were talking, your voice was
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  Speaker 1: frazzled for a second. Are you sure that wasn't Starlink
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  Speaker 1: interfering with your communication because you dare even.
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  Speaker 4: I think it might... there you go.
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  Speaker 3: See, he's messing up with our stuff already. He knows
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  Speaker 3: when people are good because we're living.
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  Speaker 4: In the simulation.
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  Speaker 3: He actually thinks this, this was something I didn't know,
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  Speaker 3: which is that he does think that the simulation we're
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  Speaker 3: living in, I hope I don't, I don't fuzz out now.
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  Speaker 4: Cause this is important is.
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  Speaker 3: Created by future people, creating a simulation that we're all
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  Speaker 3: living in based on stuff from the, from humanity's past.
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  Speaker 3: So he's not just sort of thinking it's like the
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  Speaker 3: matrix or something. He's really thought this out. So he's
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  Speaker 3: really got it figured out. So he thinks that it's
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  Speaker 3: from the future people and, are creating the simulation we're
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  Speaker 3: all living in, which I don't know, maybe that explains why.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm definitely watching it now, man.
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  Speaker 4: He totally is. And they do talk to that. You
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  Speaker 4: know what?
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  Speaker 3: The one thing I'll say, they talked to his dad
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  Speaker 3: and you, you know how you can really kind of
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  Speaker 3: figure people out when you talk to their parents, when
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  Speaker 3: his dad comes on, you go, Oh, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Like the, The nutsy runs deep. And so.
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  Speaker 2: You'll see it.
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  Speaker 5: Nutsy, but also, yeah, you give him some credit. The
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  Speaker 5: guy's a genius. I mean, the things that he's been
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  Speaker 5: able to create.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He's a little odd, but still.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. But yeah, it's, I'm not sure at what cost,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: At what cost or how much it makes him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, it's made him a lot of money. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying like, you know, at what cost? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: is that does the cons outweigh the pros? And I
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  Speaker 3: think that's one thing that this movie tries to get into.
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  Speaker 3: It tries to get into, you know, it does talk
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  Speaker 3: about everything that he's kind of done in terms of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Teslas and the self-driving cars and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: which which just killed somebody else in California just yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: So are there advances that he makes?
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Are they worth the cost? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I think you should have recused yourself from going ahead
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  Speaker 5: and being a critic on the documentary. It doesn't sound
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  Speaker 5: like you like him at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but that's an interesting point because you can go
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  Speaker 3: into a documentary and think, well, I don't really like
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  Speaker 3: this person. But you can learn things that maybe change
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  Speaker 3: your mind about him. And there were things that I
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  Speaker 3: thought in the documentary I found. They show a lot
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  Speaker 3: of his early days in the 90s at startups and
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  Speaker 3: things like that. And he really sort of seems to
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  Speaker 3: have a purity of vision. And I think that's sort
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  Speaker 3: of gotten for whatever reason, I'm not a sociologist and
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a politician, but it seems like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's sort of has gotten, he's like a James Bond villain,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like they all think they're doing the right thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: a colony in space, an underwater world, you know, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, beware of Starlink.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be, it's going to be shadowing.
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  Speaker 4: That sounds like a James Bond film.
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  Speaker 1: My other homework assignment is, My other homework assignment to you,
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  Speaker 1: I loved Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious
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  Speaker 1: Nation of Kazakhstan by Sacha Baron Cohen, also known as
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  Speaker 1: Ali G.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a new movie out. It's being promoted everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a chance to check out the flick?
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  Speaker 4: I sure did.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it, and I like it, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's not as good as the second one, Borat, the
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  Speaker 3: subsequent movie film, which we'll just show.
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  Speaker 4: We'll just call it that.
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  Speaker 3: That Borat subsequent movie film is like the Citizen Kane
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  Speaker 3: of those movies, the one from 2020.
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  Speaker 4: It's fantastic. This one's really good, too, though. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's really... I didn't really.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I find the character fine when he was on HBO.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 4: He really... Like, this is really good, though. I think
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  Speaker 4: that the.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta say the full name, you know, Ali G,
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  Speaker 3: who is I, is fun. And if you like that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff, where he really kind of... does a
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  Speaker 3: candid camera thing and gets people who are not aware
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  Speaker 3: that he's playing a character. He, there are also sequences
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  Speaker 3: in here guys that you don't even understand how he
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  Speaker 3: does them where he's like three characters all at the
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  Speaker 3: same time. And it's sort of a magic of editing
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  Speaker 3: and filmmaking. They really do an amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Job of it. So I, yeah, I, I liked it
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  Speaker 4: a lot. I give it a solid four stars for allergy.
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  Speaker 4: Who is I? It's really funny.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a, and it's a, for what he, this
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff that he does, it's not Borat to
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  Speaker 3: Borat subsequent.
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  Speaker 4: Movie film, But it's really good. So I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: He's such a good actor. He could do the remake
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  Speaker 1: of Sybil, right? Multiple characters and personalities.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. The Sally Field TV film. Exactly. He could
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  Speaker 4: do 16 characters in one.
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  Speaker 5: So after the huge success of Spider-Man, are superhero movies
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  Speaker 5: back now?
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  Speaker 4: Well, this Clayface movie that's out now is not a success.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like it. But I mean, it's sort of
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  Speaker 3: this thing that they're trying to do, which is create
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  Speaker 3: movies around villains. I think they want it to be
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  Speaker 3: like Venom, like the Venom movies, who is a villain
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  Speaker 3: of Spider-Man. So Clayface was a villain of Batman, and
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  Speaker 3: I remember him from reading comics when I was eight
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  Speaker 3: years old. The character actually goes back to the 40s,
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  Speaker 3: but this film is not good. It's kind of body
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  Speaker 3: horror stuff, but it's a guy who's an actor whose
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  Speaker 3: face gets messed up, and he goes to a a
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  Speaker 3: shifty scientist which is always we should know this you
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  Speaker 3: don't go to the shifty scientist the you know like
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  Speaker 3: the joker did that in the first batman movie you
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  Speaker 3: don't go to those guys they're like in a dark
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  Speaker 3: alley and uh and he gets stuff injected into his
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  Speaker 3: face and his face starts melting i don't know i
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  Speaker 3: give it i give it one star it's got some
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  Speaker 3: good special effects but uh but i wouldn't i wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: rush out to see clay face we'll see if it
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  Speaker 3: makes any money i think people go for it for
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  Speaker 3: the halloween time stuff right it's a scary movie essentially.
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  Speaker 5: We're running out of time, but I'm sure you want
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  Speaker 5: to say something about Tom Skerritt, who passed away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: He's one of those actors that you see when you
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  Speaker 3: were watching movies as a kid. The original MASH film,
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  Speaker 3: he's great in.
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  Speaker 4: Alien.
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  Speaker 3: Top Gun, he's in charge of the Top Gun program,
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  Speaker 3: and A River Runs Through It, which is a really
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  Speaker 3: wonderful film. So, R.I.P., 93 years old, great character actor,
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  Speaker 3: and really terrific in so many movies of the 70s
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  Speaker 3: and 80s, and early 90s. Really great actor, I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Nice character actor.
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  Speaker 5: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, W.O.R., Movie Minute host. We'll see
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  Speaker 5: you again next week. Thanks a lot, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Take care, guys.