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Feminist Movie Friday: The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I wont for this stuff. I never told your Protection
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  Speaker 2: by Heart radio.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because it's the end of the year and we
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  Speaker 1: are approaching the holidays as well as the days here
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia has been really dark and gloomy. Like dark
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  Speaker 1: and gloomy, I have requested for the chance of lamenting
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  Speaker 1: what could have been. I guess in the form of
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  Speaker 1: a movie the making of history. I mean, like I
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  Speaker 1: was so excited and we're talking about the movie The
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  Speaker 1: Mummy three. And I will say when it came out,
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  Speaker 1: originally I didn't know it existed, Like it took me
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  Speaker 1: a long time to realize it was there was a
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  Speaker 1: third one. And actually they don't go buy The Mummy three. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually known as the Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
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  Speaker 1: So if you need to search that, you have to
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  Speaker 1: buy it because it's nowhere. It's not streaming anywhere. And
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  Speaker 1: Ani and I had two very different reactions when we
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  Speaker 1: rewatched this, didn't we And we'll talk about it then,
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  Speaker 1: but I just need a note. Weirdly, there is a
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  Speaker 1: brief mention of child abuse. Yeah, but we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to go into it. But you know, just so you
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  Speaker 1: were in there. This is supposed to be a lighthearted,
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  Speaker 1: what could have been what I wish it had been,
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  Speaker 1: kind of episode about a movie that really is iconic.
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  Speaker 1: And also because we're celebrating the fact that there is
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  Speaker 1: a new reprise of The Mummy supposedly coming through with
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  Speaker 1: the original cast, and at the end, I think we
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  Speaker 1: should do a prediction of that. Oh okay, but that's
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  Speaker 1: just laiter down. But there's all these things. So this,
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  Speaker 1: I will say, is not a feminist movie feature. I repeat,
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  Speaker 1: not a feminist movie feature. This is what I would
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  Speaker 1: call let me have this moment, just let me have
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  Speaker 1: this second.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what I should call the I'm just gonna I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Just gonna just let me have this? Okay? Is it
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  Speaker 1: a good movie? But did it make his profits? Sure?
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  Speaker 1: Did this kind of end the franchise as we knew it? Maybe?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, just let me have this, okay. Anyway, this
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  Speaker 1: is a two thousand and eight movie. Again, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: do awful, Like I think the budget was like one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty million, but it didn't made four hundred million.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, better than some of the other movies
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  Speaker 1: that are out there today that doesn't make back what
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  Speaker 1: they put in, so you know, we got that. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't do great. I think it's like two stars for
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  Speaker 1: the Letterbox, which does a lot of opinions on this.
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  Speaker 1: The reviews go back and forth. If you read some
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  Speaker 1: of the IMDb reviews, you were like, don't judge, go watch,
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  Speaker 1: and the other people like this is awful, don't watch it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's mixed back. I feel like it might could
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  Speaker 1: be up there with the Scorpio King in that level
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  Speaker 1: of like yeah, come backness, But I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I probably am wrong. They did use the same CGI
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  Speaker 1: company as Lord of the Rings, though.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, one day we should do the Scorpion King.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I have not watched that. After the Mummy too,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Watch the actual I think to complete.
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  Speaker 1: This out, okay, I refuse to watch the Tom Cruise movie,
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  Speaker 1: I will.
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  Speaker 2: Say, yeah, that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I refuse to watch that one.
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  Speaker 2: I've already seen it. I can do that for you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, thank you so again. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we were doing this partly because the rumors and the
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  Speaker 1: scene as confirmed. You never know till you never know,
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: because sometimes they do get a shelf though so of
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  Speaker 1: the newest comeback because Brendan Fraser really has really come
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  Speaker 1: back to be celebrated as he should be. Unless something
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  Speaker 1: comes out that's like really dark and twisted, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but we're excited to see him come back. They did
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  Speaker 1: do you know the where the artist on artists or
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  Speaker 1: actor on actor Hollywood thing. They did do an episode
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  Speaker 1: with Brennard Fraser and Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Oh okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they had a Q and A. So all of these
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  Speaker 1: things are wild, Like, we just need to we need
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  Speaker 1: to finish this trilogy, even if it's not to the
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  Speaker 1: height of its glory of what it could have been
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  Speaker 1: because I had some bad actors in it, Amy, Amy,
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  Speaker 1: who are you? Let me? Let me have this? This
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: They did have bad actors. And for listeners who haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen these, they're very like action adventure, they're very fun
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  Speaker 2: and they've gotten There's been a lot of nostalgic bringing
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  Speaker 2: back of them. You can see we did a feminist
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  Speaker 2: movie Friday on the Mummy and some of the Mummy too.
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  Speaker 2: We have a future episode coming up that's also related
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  Speaker 2: to this. But yeah, I mean they were really fun.
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  Speaker 2: I remember clearly. I saw every one of them in theaters,
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  Speaker 2: and even if I don't remember the contents necessarily, which
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  Speaker 2: will discuss later, I did. I loved them. I loved them.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you hated them. That's out left too.
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  Speaker 2: I did hate them. I just what I loved the
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  Speaker 2: first one, and then the second one I was like, huh,
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  Speaker 2: and then third one I kind of just forgot, like legitimately.
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  Speaker 2: I watched it this morning for the first time since
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  Speaker 2: I saw it in theaters, and I was surprised at
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  Speaker 2: how much I was like, Oh, they're yetties. Don't remember
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  Speaker 2: any of this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, you just have me, had me
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  Speaker 1: have a flashback, and I lied. I think I did
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  Speaker 1: see this in theaters because I was the nanny and
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  Speaker 1: I took the kiss to see this movie as an
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  Speaker 1: excuse to see this movie, but paid by someone else. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they really liked it to be there.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a lot of action in it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, okay, okay, all right, So I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: a rough synopsis. I'm not probably not even getting the
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  Speaker 1: whole lot like we usually do. I'm just gonna do
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  Speaker 1: a rough synopsis and you're gonna interject what you remember
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  Speaker 1: here and there. Because also there's a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: Mandarin and like Chinese folklore that I don't know, and Annie,
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  Speaker 1: who got kicked out as band from China, knows way
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  Speaker 1: more than I do.
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  Speaker 2: I have to say, I actually did. I did pick
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  Speaker 2: up on some things. I was like, oh, oracle phones,
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  Speaker 2: I know what those are?
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  Speaker 1: Now, Okay, okay, I see that. I knew it. I
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  Speaker 1: knew you being banned from men kicked out of China
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  Speaker 1: was a good beneficial.
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  Speaker 2: So I could understand the Mummy three you a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, glad, I'm glad that I can introject that into
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  Speaker 1: every episode of China. All right, here we go. So
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  Speaker 1: we start off with the ancient area that's known as China.
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  Speaker 1: Now obviously it's like a whole different territorial time with
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  Speaker 1: lots of wars and battles, and we have the Dragon
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  Speaker 1: Emperor who is jet Lee and he's fighting well everyone
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  Speaker 1: because you know, we've got to take over all the lands.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the whole thing that they do. He is
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  Speaker 1: evil and power hungry, but does as he sets off
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  Speaker 1: to do, like he's got a goal and man is
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  Speaker 1: he doing his thing. We also see his general General Ming,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: who was played by war Russell Wong, who had a
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  Speaker 1: huge crush on in the younger days. We featured him
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: before on when we talked about joy Lut Club, which
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  Speaker 1: yes he was also he was a bad guy in
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  Speaker 1: that one, but he was a player in that one.
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  Speaker 1: But he is a good guy in this one, and
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  Speaker 1: we get to see him once again as a general.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have Michelle Yeo. You know how we
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  Speaker 1: feel about her. We love her playing the sources Zion
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  Speaker 1: and the three of them are and I love tryinggle
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  Speaker 1: except she wants nothing to do with the general with
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  Speaker 1: the emperor because she knows, but he is jealous, and
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  Speaker 1: so things don't go well for them, like ordering of
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  Speaker 1: the general who was his best friend by the way,
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  Speaker 1: because they fell in love. The sorceress and the general.
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  Speaker 1: But all this, The reason they went to find the
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  Speaker 1: sorceress is because the Emperor wants to be immortal. He
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  Speaker 1: has learned the elements of firewater all the power, so
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  Speaker 1: he's already magical, but he needs more. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: live forever, obviously, so he goes and fetches her, who
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  Speaker 1: says she can find the immortality spells or whatever whatnot?
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  Speaker 1: Does a spell on him in Sanskrit, and you know
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  Speaker 1: this is when he kind of pulls up like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna kill your lover because I know what you did
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  Speaker 1: unless you marry me. She's like, you won't keep your promise.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you're right, kills the general and then stabs her.
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  Speaker 1: She runs away. Uh. Oh, it turns out she actually
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  Speaker 1: cursed him and the terra Cotta army if you know
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  Speaker 1: that they actually exist a lot of like bits of
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  Speaker 1: history placed in there. So he turns into fire and
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  Speaker 1: sand and his entire army all get buried. But of course,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: because this is the Mummy franchise, we know things are
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. So at this point in time, we cut
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: to Rick trying to live his retired life by fly fishing.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: It's not good at y'all, not good at it, Evie,
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  Speaker 1: who puts out the line. We've talked about this many
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  Speaker 1: a time, about the fact that when she was doing
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  Speaker 1: an odd book reading because I'm like, this doesn't fit.
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  Speaker 1: Evie was a Cambridge scholar who has wanted to like
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: curate all of these things, all of a sudden is
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: writing romance adventure books. Yeah, that didn't make sense to me,
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  Speaker 1: I will say that. However, on that note, she makes
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: the line that that was a completely different person or
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  Speaker 1: woman than me. Haha, and it's Maria Bello she was
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  Speaker 1: set up to. It really is hard shoes to fill.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, so listeners, if you don't know, Rachel Weiss, who
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  Speaker 2: played Ev in the first two movies, did not come
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  Speaker 2: back for the third one and was played by a
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  Speaker 2: different person, and that was sort of their acknowledging joke
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  Speaker 2: that yes, this is not the same person. And I
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  Speaker 2: have to say, watching it today, I kept thinking, how
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  Speaker 2: odd to act in a that must be strange for
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  Speaker 2: Brendan Fraser as well, right, because it's not the same
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  Speaker 2: very right.
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  Speaker 1: Right, There's so many things for that. All that to
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  Speaker 1: say that they are retired and comfortably living in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming London. But all of this is happening at
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: the same time. We find out Alex is all grown now.
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  Speaker 1: He's twenty something years old, dropped out of college, is
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  Speaker 1: now in China in search of this army and all
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  Speaker 1: about the Emperor and all these things because he knows
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: everything about it. He's kind of seemingly he followed his
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: father and mother's footsteps in discovering new things. He has
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: been sponsored by this guy from the UK, professor who
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: is helping him do all these things. They get into
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of hijinks, lots of traps, which, by the way,
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: apparently is true that they when they were actually digging
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  Speaker 1: up these types of artifacts in China, there are so
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  Speaker 1: many traps that were laid out that they were like
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: it took them years to onefold. I'm like this series
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  Speaker 1: which took a day and a few deaths, no beginning, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A few diths. I was like, wow, how.
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  Speaker 1: Many people died in discovering mo Tip Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so many, so many Okay, sacrifices. Anyway, all of that
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  Speaker 1: to say, okay, we're back to this. We discovered there
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  Speaker 1: as a protector assassin who was also going after Alex.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Alex now has an American accent instead
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  Speaker 1: of the English accent that he had when he was younger.
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  Speaker 1: I'd been moving on all this point. We go back
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  Speaker 1: to Rick and Evy and like the British government is
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: asking them to go take back an artifact the eye
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  Speaker 1: of Shingri law, which always sounded made up to me
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: in my head, but I guess that's the thing. Anyway,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: they go back and even though back and forth happened,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: they decided, Okay, we're gonna take it back to China. Jonathan,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: her brother, who is played by the original actor, is there,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: so they're going to visit him as well. All these
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: adventures because also they're dying to go back onto adventure
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: times and do some discovering. All this is a They
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: go to China, discover Alex's there all unhappy. Apparently things
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: have not gone well for the father's son. A lot
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: of stereotypical things happen, whether the mother is trying to
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: keep the peace and the father and the son don't approve,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Jealousy abounds. I don't know things are happening there. We
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: also have Game of Thrones actor playing the pilot in
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: this one, because they are they need a pilot. I
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: feel like in everyone, whether it's an air balloon, a
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: war or warplane, or this plane which was a cargo
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: plane with the X.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know he was shrimp Game of Stones, but yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I was like, wait, I know him anyway,
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point they go to see Alex's
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  Speaker 1: exhibit that he has discovered. Plot twists. The Chinese government
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  Speaker 1: is trying to bring back the Emperor from the dead
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  Speaker 1: so they could take over the world as intended. Things
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  Speaker 1: happen the Mummy, he's a mummy, but he comes back
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  Speaker 1: as a really weird figure and trying to be Holigan
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  Speaker 1: has to find the immortal pool. Turns out this young
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  Speaker 1: assassin girl was protecting the world from this creature and
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  Speaker 1: it was actually those sorcerers, Zil's younger daughter, who is
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  Speaker 1: also the daughter of the general, and they've been living
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  Speaker 1: for thousands of years trying to protect the world from
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  Speaker 1: this painous thing. Lots of ventures happened, Rick almost dies.
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  Speaker 1: They end up with a help of some Yetti's pilots
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  Speaker 1: so much so many things get to the immortal place
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  Speaker 1: and he gets all healed, and there's a cute, great
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  Speaker 1: great reunion scene. Really awkward love story between Alex and
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  Speaker 1: the daughter Lynn happens, and it's very forced and very
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  Speaker 1: awkward to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of it. I couldn't tell if this was
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  Speaker 2: acting or writing problem, but also like it just felt strange.
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  Speaker 1: It felt strang I do get to like.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she tried to murder me, how hot or
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: people do that in entertainment a lot, But it just
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  Speaker 2: felt like.
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  Speaker 1: She was so ready to sacrifice her mother for this, Like,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I'm I don't you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know him very well. Maybe maybe takes some time.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this dude was like going after another girl in
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  Speaker 1: the bar previously, and then he got his face punched
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  Speaker 1: and be like there's so many things that I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I go on, God, the love story,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'd like to see how they play this.
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  Speaker 1: But we move on, and yes, battle ensues. The emperor
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  Speaker 1: does become a mortal and raises his terra Cotta army,
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  Speaker 1: and if they can go bypass a certain line, then
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  Speaker 1: they will come back to life. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: the end brings back all those that have been wronged
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  Speaker 1: by the emperor, including her love on and only love
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  Speaker 1: General ming to defend against those people, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a big battle, and then it turns out she sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: herself to get to a dagger that could kill this
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  Speaker 1: now immortal emperor. All these things happened, the son and Rick,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Alexan and Rick come together and stab him in the
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  Speaker 1: heart at the same time because they're so great after
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: really bad CGI but three headed dragon Sure Sure Sure
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: has kidnapped the daughter at one point, and then as
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  Speaker 1: everything goes back to play. We see the mother dies,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Goodbye to you, we love you, Michelle Yo, and the
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  Speaker 1: club is now given to that English pilot that we
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: talked about, because Jonathan was he's done with all the Mummies,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: but he's got some treasure somewhere from Shangri La. We
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: don't know what because he know he knows how to
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: get away with things. And everybody's dancing inappropriately like he was.
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  Speaker 1: Alex was wall touching this girl's button. I was like, wow, okay,
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  Speaker 1: interesting choice, and that was the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, and again this is one of those movie
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  Speaker 2: descriptions that for listeners who have not seen this, and
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  Speaker 2: especially who haven't seen any of the Mummy movies, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for coming along with the ride. I know it
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: sounds wild, but that is what happens.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: That a goat oh I will. So I got some
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: fun and not so fun facts, including uh that there
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  Speaker 1: was like when Maria Bellow, who jumped on the chance
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: because she is an action stars like she's chained in
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: muay Thai and I believe jiu jitsu and different types
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  Speaker 1: of martial arts, was so excited to do this type
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  Speaker 1: of film. So she was like, I don't think after
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  Speaker 1: forty I didn't think I would get this type of offer.
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  Speaker 1: I jumped on it and then she was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have so many more. Was so excited, and
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  Speaker 1: then that was a cut short that I know, no,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're not. But the director at the time,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: who has some big things under his name, he got
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  Speaker 1: really excited, who was not the same director as the
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  Speaker 1: original Mummies, was excited because he wanted to film in China.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why he ended up doing it. This was
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  Speaker 1: I think his last movie. Maybe he had a couple
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  Speaker 1: more after, but the last big name movie that he had.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: And after that there were some allegations from his daughter
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  Speaker 1: about child abuse and he has been out of the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: business since, so you know, not so wrong about that.
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  Speaker 1: So we also have Maria thought it was just the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: beginning for her. It was not the people who decided
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: to say no, including Imotep, Artith Bay or Odette Fair,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: who was Artith Bay like. He was only supposed to
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: be in for a quick like and die in the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: first momment, but people loved him so much and he
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: was like too beautiful that they couldn't tattoo his face.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, no, no, no, no, no, he could have
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: one or two tattoos, but he's too pretty. He said
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: no because he did not like the fact that Emotep
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: said no. So both of them were supposed to like
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: come and be a part of this, and imotep Reddit,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the guy who played Imotep Reddit, Arnold Voslou, was like, no,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I'm good. No, thank you. So after that they're like
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: both like, no, they were good, but I know that
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: people were trying to say Rachel Weiss said no because
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: she just had a baby, but she came back to
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: wudn't no. I just didn't like it. Hey, oh they
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: were trying to be politically correct, I think, and she
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: was just like, nah, I just didn't like the do
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and I thought, we also know the rumor. Like the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: first movie she did, she really was really hesitant because
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: she was like, this is gonna ruin my career. Really
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: didn't think it was gonna be good or big, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: turned out it was great for her career, but it
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: did take a minute for her to realize that. So
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the original she was like yes, and the second one,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I think she really had to be pushed into doing
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: so because she also wanted to do a little more
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: action because the first one was too lady in distress,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: So both those things happened, and then this one she's like, nah,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I'm good, I think we're good. Interestingly, it was also
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: part in part because the son that she was playing
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: was only ten years younger than her, and she was
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: like this is absurd, like this is why are you
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: aging women like this? And like it is because in actuality,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Mario Bella was only fourteen years older than this actor,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: so he was supposed to play a twenty one year
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: old he's actually twenty eight and like all these things
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: as well as like he's thirteen years or the Brendan Frasier.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So like, yeah, you know, you know, but we see
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: that all the time where we have a lot older
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: actors playing younger constant in Korea, like they're twenty years
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: older than they're actually they play high school kids, and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: you're like why, but we see that. So that was
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: one of the conversations that was had and need to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: be had in this, like why aren't we making really
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: young women being like middle aged mothers. This is a
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: weird jump, and I think it had like con continuity
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and trying to make the film something like that and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: aging them because of that, even though it really was
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: only ten years after the first film happened, and only
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: what five years after the second film happened, so it
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was like he would only be like eighteen.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think about this a lot. I just
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: see it all the time. I feel like in enfranchise
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: that people love, there comes a point where the characters
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: you love have aged yea, and they have a kid,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and then it becomes about how they're like can't fly
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: fish or they can't they it's almost like a sad
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: they painted as sad when it's really just your aging
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: and it's fine, you don't have to, but they paint
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: it as like a strange mid life crisis and your
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: kid is causing chaos. It's odd to me how often
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: that happens. And I think it's because the creator's age
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: with the franchise that they're going through this stuff too.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I see that that I see it everywhere. Sabouta, I
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: see it all the time.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I could definitely see that like they they they got
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to portray where they are.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: This is what it is.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: For this like and again like this director was specific
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to it, like he wanted to do it because of
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: it being based in China. And wanted to do something
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: in China. I mean he really did have some of
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the biggest Chinese celebrities at the time. Michelle Yo, Russell Long,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: jet Lee jet Ly is like huge and him coming
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he's I don't think he's been any more films for
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the US since, not this, but like in a long time.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So like having those kind of names and also having
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that like notoriety of movies like Crouching Tiger and Dragon
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and as well as Hero, which was one of my
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: favorite movies. Complete communist propaganda by the way, Chinese communists propaganda.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: But it's so beautiful and the artistry of like martial
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: arts and the legends that it's not tapped into in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the US or in like in the wes Western culture.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: To have that being played it could have been amazing
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: because it's also based on the Chin dynasty, the Chin Emperor,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Like this is actually based on history we talked about before,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: as well as the terracotta soldiers that are absolutely in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: display right now, some of the sites that we've seen,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: so some really great ideas in it. Again, the martial
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: arts that we get to see with jet Lee Michelle Yo,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: like the things that they do are beautiful, and the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: fighting scenes are gorgeous. This is where I say it
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: could have been as someone who was starving for any
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Asian love like in cinema, because I really thought at
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a young age that I could be an actor. But
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm fine with all of that. Seeing these
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: faces and seeing these actors being placed in Western media
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: with the power of the Mummy franchise. What could have
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: been is what bothers me so much because these are
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: some of my favorite people. As a person who is
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: again starving and didn't see hardly any Korean representation, to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: have any Asian face of an Asian heritage makes me
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: so happy again. I go back to my love of
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the Brandy Cinderella story because you had a Filipino actor
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: coming in and being a heart throb. You're like what
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and being loved, And this is that same level, like
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I really want this culture instead of being the stereotypes
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that we often hear or hurt. Especially during that time,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: there was this level of infantilizing all of Asian culture
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and it still happens. But like seeing that often where
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: we see if they are only sidekicks or really smart,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: like stereotypes or talkative stereotypes in general, but we get
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to see them in action and being leaders and being
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: heroes and being love interests. It really had so much
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: potential and then it didn't. And this is where you
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and I were not gonna like. I guess I loved.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I wanted to love it so much that when I
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: started watching, I was like, oh my god, this is
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: really cheesy. Oh my god, why did they do that?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, why do they have this? Oh my god?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Why am I watching? Like mm hmm. It just felt
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: so like there was a little bit of a secondhand
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: embarrassment in me saying I love this movie, and I'm
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I will still love this movie. I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: will probably never watch it again after this watch.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I had the opposite experience, Yeah, because I did.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I saw it in theaters pretty much. The only thing
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I remembered was the line when Eve says, it's almost
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: like I can I'm a completely different person. And then
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I knew there was a dragon. I remembered there was
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: a dragon. So I felt like I was watching it
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the first time, to be honest with you, and I
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: was like, Oh, this isn't as bad as I remember
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: it being. So we did have a sort of a
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: different thing. I also want to point out I didn't
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: know this came out in two thousand and eight. That
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: was the year. I could be remembering incorrectly, but I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: don't think I am. That was when Beijing hosted the Olympics.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: That was a big year for American co pros with China,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: co productions with China. That was like the big like
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: we should invest in China year. Oh yes, I believe,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: And that's to be honest with you. That's one of
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the reasons I went to China is because it became
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: sort of this big you should go. This is the
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: time Mandarin.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense because Je Lee is
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: pro China. If nothing else, that dude loves China or
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: is told he has to love China. Some weird rumors
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: going around about him right now that I like this
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: sounds like sci fi level of rumors, and I think
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: if people know what I'm talking about, y'all are in
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the deeps of the conspiracy theory of Chinese government. But
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: all that to say is like, there's some interesting stuff.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: But like I could absolutely because yeah, it was a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: summer Olympics or of in Beijing. So that's Yeah, that
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: makes a lot more sense because they actually had permission
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to film in location, including the museum that was holding
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: all of these artifacts. So I was actually surprised when
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I noticed that, where I was like, oh, they really
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: let them, because I thought maybe I'm wrong. But tell me,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: in the first scenes when they're in the dining room,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: it looks like green screen where they're supposed to be
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: in London. They're trying, like and they're trying to show
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: off that they're okay and everything's fine, and they're eating
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the fish that he shot because he can't fish. Yeah,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: poor Rick, But like it looks like the green screen
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of what should be yeah, a mansion.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: We just explained that they didn't have the budget to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: be in the UK, but they had the budget to
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: be in China.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It's possible. I mean, I just I know that was
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: a big push for a while.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense because they got
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: some they got some leeway and being able to film there,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Like it's pretty tight knit on whose can film it,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: especially in this conversation is not necessarily pro China.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it was interesting that they had I'm
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: going to assume I could be wrong, but they did
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: do like a lot of the the legends and the lore.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Can't believe they mentioned Tibet. That took me back because
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I was like, Chinese government would not uh uh no way,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: but they did mention Tibet and the oracle bones and
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. But they must have had some kind
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: of some presence on set that was like here are
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: our legends go about it this way? Maybe yeah, yeah.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: And I yeah, I don't. I want to say a
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: couple of the actors or would be like Hong Kong
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: things and we know the big like yeah, the controversy there.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: One of the actors would probably call them self Taiwanese
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and then another actor was American. I believe Russell Long
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: is technically American, but Chinese American, Yeah, I think are.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: But like it's pretty interesting because that is a real
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: big issue and we know that it is ongoing conversation
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: about colonialism and all of that, so like in itself,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: so there's a lot to be said in that name.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So for them to come through like that, it is
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: kind of interesting who's representing what in this level. I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: again like I want to love this film so much
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: because I love them so much. I love Michelle yo
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: so much. I love Jete again interesting and controvertical, was like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: what is this because like he was in Romeo Must
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Die and that will forever be one of my favorite movies.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Mmm forever?
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe a future. I haven't seen it, so maybe a future.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I go back and forth because there's a lot of
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: political incorrectness.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, Russell Wong is.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Also in that movie. Okay, But I love Jetlee and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Aliyah together like that made me so happy. I don't
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: know what it was that had my heart singing singing,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and apparently jetly loved Aliyah. My nineties heart just keeps
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: beating higher.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Early ship were you shipping?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that was a thing. I thought it
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: was awkward because it was obvious said they were trying
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to cast them as love interests. He's significantly older than her.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: To me, that was a little odd, but they kept
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: it PG like they weren't shipping them as the like
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet couple. But if I remember correctly, I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: think she was like, I look, you made me on zydequests.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I think myself was I mean myself honest, she was
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: thirty seven, bro was thirty six, thirty seven women, right,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: so yeah, significant difference. I'm not sure why we were
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: all okay with that. I don't think we would again.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: The most that they did was handholding. Yeah, so there
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: was never any kissing. I don't think he has done
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: any kind of he doesn't do romance. But they really
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: wanted this Romeo Juliette title for this, and she was
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: playing someone significantly older than that. She shouldn't have been
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: maybe she was twenty. I think she might have been twenty,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: but still still not good. Still not great mm hm.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't say I was shipping them at any point,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: but I love the fact that they did have the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: cross section and it was especially because again it's supposed
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to be the California based and it was the black
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: community versus the Asian community, and it was gangster fighting.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: So all of these things are like, this is really
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: politically not good, but the movie is iconic and I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: loved it and the soundtrack. Legitimately one of my favorite
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: DMX was in it. I mean, who doesn't love a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: good DMX. He also gets killed in there spoiler alert.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Care about that. Gently really came in with being like
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: someone that the black community loved because he was in
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: movies like that, and then he was in Cradle to
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the Grave like that also is with DMX by the way,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and so he did a lot that was in that
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: level that brought into that like understanding communities because like
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: we know Jackie Chan who is great and fine, then
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: he did you know, all the things the Rush Hour,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: but it was a lot more gimmickey yeah somehow than this.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: So seeing Jente being in any movie maybe very happy,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: very happy because I felt like he was at least
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: respectful in what he was doing. Like even him playing
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: this bad guy, it still was never like he's a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: bad guy. Improd the Dragon Emperor is a bad guy obviously,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: but like Jentlee just seems like someone who did a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: craft that was mixed on martial arts and acting, you
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, and not trying to take opportunities
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and so doing the movie like Romeo Must Die. I
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: do want to know the backstory who thought of this?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: So loving him from the two thousands and yes I
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: had that VHS and then later the DVD. Oh yeah,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of course I think I still have it.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Actually could be worth something some look up. Some things are.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Worth a lot of money that you're not I'm gonna
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: go back, but it's such a great time. And so
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: anytime I saw him and then Michelle yo, who I again.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I love her on everything and anything. Haven't gone to
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: see her in Wicked.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm waiting that one. Oh, I saw the first
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: one that I'm waiting.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: She's in the second one, right, she's Oh, she is
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in both. She hasn't gotten great accolades for her singing.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of criticism because the way they
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: say it that the director really wanted her and so
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: fit her into the role, rather than the role fitting her.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but anytime I see those
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: types of caliber of actors, I'm like, yes, it's gonna
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: be amazing. Like I feel like we expected The Rock
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to not be great because that was his first movie. Yeah,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and also really badly cegied it.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Was notorious sleep very bad.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And by the way, in that interview they talk about it, yeah,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and he says because Brendan Fraser actually said that they
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: never met while they were filming at all, and they
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the first time they met was on the red carpet
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: because the entire time they were filming, he was a
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: stick with them.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like a tennis ball, Yeah with a ball. Yeah.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Now actors have like broken down crying like how can
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: I act with this tennis ball?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: This is right? Like I know Meryl streepis and that
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: we talked about that that's becomes her. She just like,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I'll never do this again because how am I supposed
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to do this? This is ridiculous. But I did find
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: that funny. But he talks about like this advanced his
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: career because that was the first movie that he had
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: ever done, and Brendan Fraser was like, yeah, we should
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: bring him on. Come on, he's a big name type
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: of conversation. So stuff like that is really you know why.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: But the third one I thought would be just a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: little bit better because you had high caliber and Maria Bellow,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: God bless her. She is a phenomenal actor.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't think like you said, she had
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: everything stacked against her. I don't think she did a
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: bad job at all. It was just that she was
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: not not Rachel. Yeah, people were used to and who
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: they were expecting, but she did she degreat.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: So with all of that, this is why I wanted
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to love it so much. And now we're watching I'm like,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: oh god, it was really okay, okay, come back to
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: come back to the new movie. I'm actually interested in
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: how they're going to do this, Like if they're bringing
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: back the entire cast, are they going to bring back
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Alex or are they going to just make them a blip? Yes?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: So listeners, if you don't know that they are bringing
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: back According to rumors, Rachel Vyce and Brendan Fraser and
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Arnold woslu emotep.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Yep, as well as Odette Fair as.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Artist Bay, Yes, uh, I don't.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Know Jonathan's coming back?
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I think yeah, I think so too. It seems I don't.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I honestly have no idea, uh, because so much time
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: has passed. As someone who is getting older myself, I'm like,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: am I gonna go out there beat up on Nies again?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know, But I I don't know who's directing
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: it or anything or writing.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Is I thinks that bringing back the original? So Steven Summers,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: who was the director of this two and then third one,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: He's like, out, but I'll produce it and had nothing.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: He literally says, I really didn't know anything about this movie.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I was just we're done. The way he went about
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: it is like I would love to have come with
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the original actors and if they say yes, And Britain
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Fraser was the same way with his like come back.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Everybody's like, yeah, let's do this, and he's like, I'm
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: down if they're down. I don't see how what that
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: would look like. I think everybody, everybody is seemingly confused
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: of that what this will look like. It's going to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: be under Universal Pictures. I mean that exists. There's a
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: lot of murders happening. Who know. The writers for that
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: third movie, by the way, like lost work for so
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: long until they were able to come back for Wednesday Juice,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and so they have made it back. So for a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: little while though it's not going well for them. They're
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: saying that it could be Matt Beteranelli opened and Kyler
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Gillette from Radio Silence, with the script being by David Coghis.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Sheell ko Shell, kogay Shell. I don't know. And this
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: is from Deadline article of November, so there is I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: guess they have new people. I thought it was gonna
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: be Stephen Summerville. I thought he said that he was
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: down for it, but it doesn't seem like it in
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: this article.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I think a lot of pieces are still moving this. Yeah,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: it got a lot of hype because a lot of
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: us love it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, if it happens and the thing is,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be better than the last one, I think,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and even the new one new reprise would Oh yeah,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: so it's got to be better than those two things, right,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know, But will it be better than the first?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Probably not so, Like that's kind of that level, like
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: we would love it for the sake of loving it,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: but do we love it enough to support it if
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: it's not great?
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I okay, I'm going to say something I said no
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: very quickly there. I like to think I'm an open
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: minded I try to creep a really open mind about
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: these things things and my mind has been changed before,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: so it's possible. I just think that when something I
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: remember seeing that in theaters, the First Mummy, and I
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: loved it, and I think that it's going to be
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: really hard to match me being whoever old I was
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: at the time, like nine, and watching that movie in theaters,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I just think that's going to be a difficult experience
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: to match.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Could it reopen where the younger generations gets to love
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: a newer version?
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think so. I actually have
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: a happy hour about how I've been kind of accidentally
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: learning more about the use and fandom.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: So.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I can't really predict what they're up to, to be honest,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: that's kind of my I don't know.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Apparently there's a another Mummy movie coming out hmmm, but
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: it's not the same. I think it's just using the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: title because it's oh yeah, Warner Brothers and uh it's
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: a horror.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: I ran into this when I was trying to search
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: where I could stream this movie. I found it. Yeah, okay, okay, I.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Feel like we should just tell people stop doing that,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: give new names. No, they're not going to do that.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: They want you to fall into the chap that's their desire.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: But apparently this is under Blomhouse as well. So oh okay,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Okay, but there's a
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: lot happening. Thank you for letting me have this because
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I needed to explore. My bowls kind of popped, I
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: will say, after rewatching, and now I need to reduce.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm gonna go back with Romeo must die for real,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: just to have I will say. Immediately after I watched
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: this one, I was like, I need to first watch
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the first one. I got to cleanse this money mommy
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: taste out of my mouth, out of my spirit. So
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: it's like that I need to watch the first one
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: just to get back into it, because it would. Yeah, look,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: look when you look at childhood memories and what you
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: want to love again, why you want to love things,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and things come crashing down, it's a little disappointing. I
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: do have I do have hopes for a good not remake,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: but a revamp, because I mean, I honestly, I just
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: get really hyped when I see actors that I've seen
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: work together, so we'll come back together and reunite. That
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I would just be hyped for that. So like when
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I see a correlation like these two were in this
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: together and now they're in this, it does make me
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: very happy. So I would just be happy with Rachel
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Byce Brendan Fraser like guest appearance in a random movie
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: or show. That would make me happy, to be honest,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: but you know, I'm interested. I'm excited to see I
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: guess again. I feel like Brendan Fager's comeback is delightful.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: I love Rachel Vice even with all of the personal
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: relationship with you know, leaving her husband to be with
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Daniel Craig, who's a very sexy, sexy man. So I
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: get it, but still, you know, questionable, but you're happy.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: We hope you're happy because she is a gorgeous woman
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: that deserves everybody deserves to be happy. No one likes
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to be in online line with those ways, but all
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: those things we want to see things, all the bad
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: things that I'm like, there's so many things that we
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: are people or corporations that have to be boycotted, and
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: she's just finding trying to find small pleasures, yeah, without
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: wanting to burn one like burn the world down. Also
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: hard to come by sometimes mm yeah, yeah, I'm gonna
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: have to take a pause and go watch the original Anie,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well I think you should.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: And maybe next year Romeo Must Die will happen. Then
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: we have to address all of the big are.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, rough rough yes. I also I've said it before.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I said it in our original Moment episode and it
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: kind of happened here, not to the best degree, but
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: it was kind of evy story and Rick was just
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: supporting her. It was very much like she was leading
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: the way and he was like here are the tools
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: I stole from somebody?
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, here this time is guns, all the guns, which
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the second one was about guns as well, honestly.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well we'll see. I'm sure we'll
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: be back here when the if, when the fourth one
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: comes out, maybe the Scorpion King. I think we should
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: do it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 45:01
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