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The Ultimate 4K Rewatch: What Works? What Doesn't? · Brainwaves

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  Welcome to an episode of Two Shot Tuesday.
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  You don't want to miss. You certainly don't want to be
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  there telling your friends you missed it because this one is a
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  huge one, As are all of them. My name is Jason Riley with me,
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  a man who if you had bumped into someone, a stranger on the
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  street and they overreacted and wanted to get into a fist fight
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  with you, you would want this man here to help de escalate the
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  situation. Barry T Nixon.
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  Thank you very much. That's what I'm known for is
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  taking the air out of a situation.
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  You slate it, bring it back to zero.
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  It's perfect. What might you say if we kind of
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  bumped on the street and somebody turned around?
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  I was like, you got a problem. It wasn't you that bumped, it
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  was me or somebody else. And you would immediately leap
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  in and you would jump in and you would say.
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  I would just say hey sorry man my bad like so many people do
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  and move on because you know what?
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  A street fight is the last thing a middle-aged man needs to
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  involve himself with. I think he'd say that and they
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  would say they would agree with you in that moment.
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  They would be like, you know what, I need to make some
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  different life choices. I think so.
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  Because you're convincing. I'm not into that kind of thing,
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  Jay. You know, maybe look a certain
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  way and people maybe assume that, but I'm just, that's the
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  last thing that I would want to do is get involved in some kind
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  of a street altercation. I get it rocket scientist from
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  you when I see you, especially in the tank like you got going
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  on today, rocket scientist. Oh dude.
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  Huge rocket scientist. By the way, yeah.
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  And Artemis 2. We were going to talk about that
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  later, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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  Yeah, yeah. Where do?
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  We have on. This baby format.
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  Yes, we do. For now, we certainly do because
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  big things are coming, but we can't say anything more about
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  it. But until they do, Jay, because
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  it's a clean day for me and you know what that means?
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  I'm hitting the iron immediately following this record.
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  My shot today will be some pre workout and I took my trainer's
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  advice and made it more like an espresso, you know what I mean?
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  Way less water and a lot more powder.
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  And I tell you something, your earlobes start to tingle when
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  this stuff starts taking effect. It's actually kind of cool.
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  So that's what I'm having. What about yourself?
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  Well, I am in support of you. I am going with water with some
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  orange kool-aid squeezy in it. Plenty of water in this class.
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  Yeah, I see that. Yeah.
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  Cheers, Jay. Cheers.
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  See, that's one question. Gun to my head.
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  If they were going to say, what is Jason going to drink tonight
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  and it was a clean day, I I would have guessed some kind of
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  squeezy because that seems to be your default.
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  I was like I I might get the flavor wrong, but I would know
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  it's got to be some kind of squeezy because that's what you
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  do You deliver. If I don't gun to my head, I'll
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  be all right. Yeah, if I don't squeeze
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  something into my water, I'm not as happy about it.
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  I'll drink it and I'll enjoy it as much as I can.
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  You know, plain water. But water with a squeeze of just
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  about anything is a real delight.
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  Barry. Speaking of real delights.
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  Yes. Let's talk about the just the
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  influx of packages that have come to to The Newsroom this
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  past week. You've had to consume your fair
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  share of 4K bit content, and if you could just share some
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  highlights with our listener. Will viewers?
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  Yeah. It was basically like a month
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  worth of four KS that just happened to arrive all at the
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  same time. I watched Hard Boiled.
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  It's a Hong Kong action film starring Chow, Young, Fat and
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  directed by John Woo. Yeah, I think it's the very
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  early 80s or like, maybe the lady, maybe even late 70s.
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  Like, it's certainly older. Chow looks like he's about 17
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  years old. OK Yeah.
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  Anyway, that was fun. I enjoyed the killer more.
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  Now, they're not a direct sequel, they're not really
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  related, but they're under that same umbrella of Hong Kong
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  action John Woo and Chow Young Fat teaming up to work together.
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  Yeah, it looked, it looked better than the Killer.
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  I will say Hard Boiled, the restoration is like truly
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  stunning. It looks like it was shot
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  yesterday. Sound is great.
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  I'd prefer to watch it with the English dub.
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  Yeah, I think a lot of people would disagree, as, you know,
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  that being the preferred way to watch a Hong Kong actioner.
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  But if you're not in the mood to read, you just want to enjoy the
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  gunplay, and there's plenty of it.
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  Yeah, I just want to sit there and enjoy the gunplay.
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  You know, it doesn't matter if Chow has an Australian accent of
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  a white guy, you know what I mean?
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  It's it was a bit of an odd choice why they decided to, you
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  know, that is, of him. It was a little odd.
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  Only him with the Australian accent or was it Australian dub?
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  It wasn't a full, no, it was mostly him.
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  Everyone else sort of sounded like they were maybe from the
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  region, but they weren't. They didn't have that sort of
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  Sydney swagger like that. He did.
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  It was, it's worth it just for that.
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  Actually, it's kind. Of funny mates.
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  Did he say mate at all or like any did Australian other shrimp
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  on the Bobbie and like no totally.
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  Wasn't like that. That OK, OK, so you could
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  definitely tell to the dub, yeah.
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  Yeah, exactly right. So that was an interesting
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  choice. Pretty good movie.
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  I say 3 out of five, 3 1/2 out of five.
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  It did take me a couple of viewings, though, Jay, I had to
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  do what you normally do, which is get up and stretch my legs.
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  And now I live in a much smaller place than you.
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  So that didn't take very long at all.
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  And the next thing I'm like, that was only three minutes.
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  I need more. I need more time, but eventually
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  finished it. But if I'm comparing it to the
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  killer, which I know that's not the point of this, but I can't
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  help but I would give the the edge to the killer.
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  And the killer has a fantastic ending.
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  This one is just, you know, OK. Yeah, yeah.
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  And I could see how you would do walks around because those
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  movies can be very repetitive. Like the they, they tend to go
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  over the same kind of lot of, you know, the kicking and the
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  this and the that. Like there's, they get into a
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  lot of fights. That's the whole point of them.
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  They're cool fights, but I could see needing a bit more of a
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  break than they give you with some of the dialogue.
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  Yeah. And but one thing is like the
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  Hong Kong actioners are not like they're not Kung Fu movies.
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  There is fighting, but it's mostly guns and shooting.
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  That's that's the hook of these movies.
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  It's mostly the gunplay. There is some like hand to hand,
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  but not nearly as much as say, a Jackie Chan film, which is
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  pretty much all that. OK, now, now you were so excited
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  about red Sonya and so like, I can't even begin.
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  I've I'm imagining you're going to just keep nothing but pure
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  gold back on me. I would just.
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  Say the love of it. So red Sonya.
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  Let's do a quick review of that. It's like it it, It definitely
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  earned its two out of five on blu-ray.com for the review.
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  It looks fantastic. Let's just get that out of the
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  way. But the rest of it, it is one of
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  the toughest slogs. I I thought people were
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  exaggerating. It can't be that bad.
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  It's got Arnold in it, but Arnold is very underused, even
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  though it's his name right under Red Sonia.
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  And then it says after introducing Brigitte Nielsen, it
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  says her first screen appearance.
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  But Arnold is underused. And the fact that he's not
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  playing Conan, he's playing some other guy.
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  Also, because I think it was a rights issue.
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  They didn't have the rights to use the Conan character.
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  So he's basically Conan, but his name is now, like, you know,
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  Doug Smith or something stupid. It was like, what's going on
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  here? It's supposed to be Conan.
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  Yeah. The acting is atrocious.
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  The story is just nonsensical. And it doesn't, like, some of
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  the scenes are so painful to watch.
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  Like, it's excruciating. However, it looked great.
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  I keep coming back to that. That's the only saving grace for
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  this. You have to like every part
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  particle of sand, every boulder I'm sure Styrofoam every.
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  Particle of fact, you can tell there's a scene where they're
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  fighting this, like, metal dragon monster in a very obvious
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  set that was like, half filled with water.
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  And Arnold's like, the only way to kill this thing is we got to
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  get its eyes. You got to pry its eyes out.
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  So they pry the eyes out and it starts thrashing around and
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  that's the end. And then they're able to climb
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  to safety. But every time that Arnold was
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  like wrestling with this thing, you could just hear, like, the,
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  like, the sound of metal just being clunked around.
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  It just sounded like somebody was throwing cans around a room.
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  And it was just like, what is happening here?
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  Yeah. So anyway, there are, of course,
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  as you know, a lot of 80s movies, it does feature some
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  boobs. So that was nice, but again, too
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  few boobs to save this movie, Jay, I'm afraid.
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  Too few. OK.
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  And this came out after the second Conan the Destroyer I
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  believe, right? I'm not sure exactly where it's
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  where it nestles between those movies, but I'll tell you.
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  They should have just stopped. This should have been just
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  killed in utero. I'm sorry.
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  It just, it didn't need to be made.
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  It was just it's so painful. You this would take you the rest
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  of this year to get through, I think.
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  So I think you could do it in two-minute increments.
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  That's like, Oh my God, yeah. It's pain.
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  We. Tried, we tried watching it
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  years ago and it was on a streaming service or something.
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  We didn't even make it through. We just abandoned it.
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  It's really not that good. And it and I just because the
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  other, you know, the female version Supergirl was also a
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  movie of that ilk where it was just not right good like you
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  want to enjoy it. And it's just not it's an
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  extension of a franchise. It's it just does not hold up.
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  So yeah, too bad for Red Sonia. I think you're right about the
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  rights issue thinks even in the comics, I think Robert E Howard
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  is the name of the creator of both Conan and Red Sonia.
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  But somewhere the rights split off.
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  They used to appear in Marvel Comics together, and now they're
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  owned by different companies and yeah, it's a whole thing.
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  Yeah, OK, well there you go. Shall we get to shot #2?
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  Was there any more 4K or do you want to do?
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  Yeah, there's two more we can show.
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  Let's let me settle two more. Should we do a shot to get us
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  through? I think we might need to.
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  I think we need to after the Red Sonia review.
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  By the way, I'm still keeping it.
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  It looks great on my shelf. I showed you the artwork.
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  It's got all this non disc swag that Arrow was known for.
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  It's got the booklet that I can't read without glasses.
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  It's got the fold out poster. It's even got stickers.
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  Jay, you. I like that.
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  It'll look nice, It's nestled right below the Conan Chronicles
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  on my shelf, and it'll never, ever see the light of day again.
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  What I've learned is it's got to be really terrible to come over
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  to my house permanently. It's not near Crow or Godzilla,
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  Shin Godzilla or. What was the other one?
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  The first one? Battlestar.
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  Galactica, Galactica, Yes, Thank you.
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  Appreciate all those happy home taking up space on the shelf.
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  And here's a squeezy in your honor, Sir.
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  Thank you, Jay. OK.
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  Yeah, carry on. This is huge.
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  Next one. You don't want to watch an
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  interesting movie? We've got the the pick for you.
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  Oh boy, this one was pretty cool because it was a miniseries
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  originally from 1979 and you and I talk texted a little bit about
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  this and it's Toby Hooper's Salem's Lot, based on the
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  Stephen King novel. I actually have nothing but good
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  things to say about the miniseries other than I tried to
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  watch it as one complete film. You actually have an option.
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  You can watch Part 1, Part 2, or you can build sandwiches
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  together into one like big old movie.
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  I was feeling a little extra ambitious on that Friday.
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  When we got to at least the midway point, I was like, OK,
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  I'm out. It's just a little too much for
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  one sitting because it's it's over 3 hours, right?
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  So if you're watching it, I'd recommend do it the way it was
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  aired, Part 1 and then Part 2 right a little bit later.
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  But the acting is amazing, really good, good story.
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  But it's like watching a novel because there is so much going
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  on, like there's a lot of characters being introduced,
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  there's a lot of back story. So it is much more a deliberate
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  pace than say a hour and a half feature film.
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  So you got to have the patience for which I like I said, I
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  thought I would have the patience for the full thing.
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  I didn't. But I did get back to it and
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  finish it up and it was pretty cool.
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  The ending was a bit weird though.
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  It's kind of, it doesn't, it's not as satisfying as I was
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  hoping because it's a little bit open-ended.
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  Spoilers. Right.
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  Yeah, I did read the novel, and it's not a thick novel, so they
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  gave it some room to breathe by making it a four hour miniseries
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  type thing. Yeah, that's what it was, 4
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  hours, Right. Two parts.
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  Yeah, just over without commercials.
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  Yeah, I guess. Yeah, that's right, over three.
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  I don't remember the movie. It was the book.
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  It was a long time ago, but I know the concept.
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  But I'm not sure how it ended either.
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  So, well, the star rating. I would say that's 3.5 out of
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  five. I'd loan that too if you wanted
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  to watch the miniseries. I know you're a fan of 70s
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  television and it does have some of those hallmarks that you've
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  talked about like the freeze frame at the end to indicate
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  that we're going to commercial and we'll be and but some of it
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  was pretty funny. It was just like a quick zoom
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  and then the guys was just like frozen.
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  Zoom in on the commercial too. They'll do that for some reason.
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  Yeah, and it's inconsistent. It's not like it's not done at
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  everyone. It's just done sometimes.
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  That's how the $6 million man is famous for doing that.
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  I don't know if it's famous, but they do it a lot.
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  Okay, right, one more to go. What else have you got?
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  Is the final 4K? This one was an absolute
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  delight. This one is definitely the.
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  Actually there is another one after this.
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  If we have time, I'll be very, very quick.
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  We're calling this the 4K episode.
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  Then I think we have this is to line up your viewing and kind of
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  from worst to best you seem to be doing it.
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  So this is great. Yeah, well, these two are
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  amazing, these next two, but I'm going to start with a classic
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  comedy, Spaceballs. I hadn't seen it in ages.
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  Holy shit. The rest the restoration looks
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  incredible. The scene with Pizza the Hut now
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  is actually more gross than ever before because you're seeing
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  every dripping piece of sweaty pepperoni and cheese and just
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  like it. It really looks like this guy,
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  whoever is under there is literally covered in in pizza
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  toppings. And then the when his helper,
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  the silver guy, takes a bite out of him at the end, he says
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  you're delicious and he takes a bite and now you see the sauce
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  around his silver mouth. That's like, Oh my God, dude, I
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  didn't need that. But it was, you know, some
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  people will be pleased to see that level of detail.
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  And I know you're a man who appreciates a good level of
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  detail. So you'll definitely that movie
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  holds up amazingly well. I laughed all the way through it
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  and yeah, fantastic. Really, really great.
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  That's easily, you know, like a 4.5 or A5 out of five in terms
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  of like holds up but also endless repeatability.
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  Makes you excited that Rick Moranis is coming back for
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  Spaceballs too. Like you.
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  Know and they've finished filming it.
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  It's wrapped, it's in the can. It'll be out next year.
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  Nice, awesome. OK, so that's a huge like 4.5 to
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  5. Now take us through your final
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  entry into the 4K experience for our viewers and listeners to
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  rent this weekend. And I think and by the way,
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  these are all except for Hard Boiled, these are all Arrow film
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  releases. And we know Arrow always does a
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  great job. They do.
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  The last one is the best one of the bunch and that is the Usual
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  Suspects. That is absolutely one of the
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  best movies of all time. You can watch it anytime.
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  I've watched it, I don't know, countless times, probably over
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  30 in my life, and yeah, it is. It just holds up so well.
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  Those scenes are so well executed, the music, everything
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  about it. And it looks absolutely stunning
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  in 4K. It really does.
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  They did a hell of a job. That's Bryan Singer, right He.
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  Directs Bryan Singer. I remember seeing it the first
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  time, just the the shock ending at the time.
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  Oh my God. Really gets you.
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  Yeah. Everyone's jaws on the ground.
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  Yeah, when the camera is on Kevin Spacey's limp leg and it's
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  limping, limping. And then all of a sudden it goes
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  normal. And he continues.
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  Like, holy shit, dude. Unbelievable.
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  Only the time was done so well was in Forrest Gump when he
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  breaks free of those shackles, I'm.
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  Not sure if those two things are they're.
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  Not the same. They don't line right up.
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  Watch him back-to-back. I guarantee you, you're going to
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  see echoes of the usual suspects in Forrest Gump.
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  Echoes of it. Yeah, echoes.
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  OK, I'm sure. Humans in both movies, Musical
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  soundtrack in both movies, Locations in both movies.
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  The need I go on? I'm pretty sure there's some
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  Plaid pants in both movies. I'm sure there is.
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  I wonder if the leg brace scene made it into Foreskin Gump,
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  which is a different movie altogether.
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  Different brace? I don't know.
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  Different brace all together, but let's hope it breaks free in
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  the same way. I think that'd be cool.
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  That should be great. We should arrange a screening of
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  that sometime. I can't.
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  I can't think of a better way to end than really mention of the
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  elusive foreskin. OK, take a.
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  Second, OK, that's great. That's that's 4K corner
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  everybody. Thanks for sitting through it
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  all. Every one of the movies I
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  mentioned is worth a look. I don't know if they're worth a
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  buy. It's certainly not red Sonya.
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  Please avoid that one unless you are just foolish like me and got
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  caught up in nostalgia and we're, you know, happy to spend
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  40 bucks. And the first one, what would
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  you buy that? The Chow young, fat.
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  Hard boiled. I did buy that and I am happy
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  with my. Would you recommend to be it be
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  purchased? I guess it depends if you've, I
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  don't know, question. I'm not sure if I'd recommend
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  unless you are really into Hong Kong action.
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  But like I said, the killer that is 1 you should definitely own
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  because it just has such a it's got a better story, better story
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  and a much more satisfying ending and a nice little twist
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  as well, which is kind of cool. OK, right.
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  So that's what I would say. But the other ones, usual
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  suspects, Spaceballs, you got to get those in your collection if
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  you don't already have them. What are we doing here?
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  You know what I mean, Jay? Exactly, I'm telling you.
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  Exactly, Yeah. And Salem's Lot.
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  Salem's Lot if you're a 70s miniseries fan like you, RJ.
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  All right, well, thank you, Barry, for bringing the goods on
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  4K on another exclusive 4K corner episode.
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  It's lots. Check it out.
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  And we will see you back here next week when we've got all
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  kinds of great things to talk about.
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