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Sean Means Movie Reviews for December 13th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well here. He is a member of the fifth es State.
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  Sean Patrick means he's a an editor at the Salt
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  Lake Reerbune.
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  Speaker 2: He's a writer. He's uh, you're all over that paper.
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  Speaker 1: Sean is also a movie reviewer and you can find
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  his movie reviews at movie cricket dot nat, yep and
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  uh Salt Lacribune of course sl trip dot com.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what's going on the press? Is the fourthest
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  oh it's the FOURTH'SI.
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  Speaker 3: That was the joke about that. That was the title
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  of the movie because it was like wiki leaks and
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  the new media.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. Okay, that's right, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we got a couple of art house movies and
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  a couple of mainstream movies to talk about. We will
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  start with Queer. This is Luca Guanino. It's the late
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  newest movie he's He did Challengers earlier this year and
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  he did Call Me by your Name a few years ago,
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  so it will be a sexy movie. We have Daniel Craig,
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  so he's sexy. But this is not James Bond. Daniel Craig.
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  He plays William, an expatriot American in Mexico City in
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  the nineteen fifties.
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  Speaker 4: He's very lonely, middle aged.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of you know, looking for the right guy to
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  take the bed. He finds an American student, Eugene, played
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  by Drew Starkey, and a relationship begins. Part of the
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  movie centers on William taking Eugene around South America because
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  William is in search of a powerful drug the locals use,
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  which he thinks will give him telepathic powers. There's a
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  local name for the drug, but most people call it ayahuasca. Yes,
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  this is surreal in parts, sometimes a little too much so,
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  and it doesn't always pay off in the best ways.
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  It is fascinating though, to watch Daniel Craig in his
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  post James Bond fase is long hair he has. It's
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  a great character portrait of loneliness and longing.
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  Speaker 4: So if that's what.
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  Speaker 3: You're in for, and he has long hair, and he
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  has long hair, three stars for queer and it's opening.
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  Speaker 2: It a few places, and it's pretty pretty explicit.
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  Speaker 3: It's based on a William S Burrow's novel, so the
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  sexuality is fairly explicit. I was joking that in Two
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  Nights Running, I got to see Daniel Craig having sex
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  with a younger hot guy, and the next and the
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  night before that Nicole Kevin having sex with a younger
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  hot guy in Baby Ground.
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  Speaker 4: Which we'll talk about it yet next week.
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  Speaker 1: It's based on William Burrows, I mean loosely based on
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  his own life and stuff that he did.
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  Speaker 4: As many Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Burrow's books were yes, all right, three stars stars.
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  Speaker 4: So next we have the end.
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  Speaker 3: This starts with a super rich family and what looks
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  like their mansion, fancy furniture, lots of expensive paintings on
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  the walls. We find out shortly that the family is
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  actually an assault mine, hiding out from the apocalypse.
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  Speaker 1: This is how the chill the Swinton movie. I thought
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  that the other one was okay.
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  Speaker 4: And they've been down there for like twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Mom is Tillda Swinton. She spends her day.
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  Speaker 3: Hanging up art and taking it down and putting it
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  up again. Dad is Michael Shannon. He's working on his
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  memoir about life as an energy company CEO. And the
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  book has nothing at all about whether their dad's company
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  might have caused all this.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, leave that part out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so so, and they have a son who was
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  born in the salt mine. So he's twenty played by
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  George McKay uh. He sees the first other human he's
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  ever seen in his life outside of his family and
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  friends and the servants that they brought down with him.
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  She's played by Moses Moses Ingram, and she knows what
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  the son doesn't know, which is what's happening up on
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  the ground, which is why she wants to stay down
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  there with them.
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  Speaker 4: I should mention this is a musical. Why does everything
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  have to be a musical?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Why? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 4: No? No, the proper question is why isn't everything?
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  Speaker 5: Why is everything?
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  Speaker 4: You go?
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  Speaker 2: He forgot to mention Queer as a musical.
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  Speaker 3: The song well, I mean there's some Kirkirka bait songs
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  in Queer. Yeah, which, considering all the heroin being used,
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  makes perfect sense. Yeah so yeah, so so the end
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  is a musical. It's very downbeat musical that since it's
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  you know, the apocalypse and all, but it's a fascinating
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  way to get into the characters and their emotions and
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  performances are really great, especially Tilda and Michael Shannon as
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  the parents who are just oblivious to what got.
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  Speaker 4: Them down in the coal mine and in the salt mine.
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  Speaker 3: To begin with three and a half stars for the end,
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  and it's at the Broadway and maybe a couple of
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  other places, so.
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  Speaker 4: The mainstream stuff.
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  Speaker 3: They did not screen Craven the Hunter for Salt Lake
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  City critics. And I didn't have the energy last night
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  to do a double feature because I had to see
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  Lord of the Rings last night. So good luck, good
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  luck to daylor Aaron Taylor Johnson and his abs.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm just gonna wait to see him in twenty
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  eight years later.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just wait for or.
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  Speaker 3: Just wait for whichever streaming service picks it up in
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  about a month. You know, it's just and you can
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  watch it. You can watch his abs in the play
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  in the in the privacy of your own home.
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  Speaker 4: I did see. I did see Lord of the Rings, War,
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  The War of the ro Hi him.
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  Speaker 5: Why do I feel like they haven't advertised this a lot.
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  Speaker 4: You're not watching the right channels.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, meant for you. This is an animated musical geno.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is This is an animated If it's not,
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  if it's a non musical, it's animated, and if it's Disney,
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  it's both. This is an animated movie based on the
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  Tolkien books. Happens in Rohan, the central kingdom of Middle Earth.
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  This is about two hundred years before, as they refer
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  to the War of the Ring. I didn't realize it
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  had a name, but that's what it is.
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  Speaker 4: It starts with Harah, the headstrong princess.
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  Speaker 3: He can, who can ride faster and shoot a narrow
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  farther than her older brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: She She arrives in court where when a riot, when
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  the king, her father Helm, is being confronted by a
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  rival king.
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  Speaker 4: And because the rival.
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  Speaker 3: King wants his son to marry Harah, as his son
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  is a wolf, well, to marry Harau, to to to
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  unite the to unite the kingdoms. But but Helm knows
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  that it's because the rival king wants to just take over.
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  Speaker 4: And they have they have.
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  Speaker 3: A fist fight outside, and Helm is Helm. Helm's full
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  name is Helm Hammerhand. Of course, well, don't want to
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  get into a fist fight with Helm hammer Hill, because
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  you know, you get a name like that, you earn
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  a name like.
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  Speaker 4: That, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And and so in one punch, boom, guy's dead. And
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  so the son of Wolf vows revenge, and.
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  Speaker 4: He disappears for a while.
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  Speaker 3: He comes back and he's still he still wants revenge.
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  He's he mounts an attack with his private army and
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  King and and King Helm and Harris's brothers defend the city.
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  King Helm doesn't want Harra to be out there, you know,
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  he's protecting his daughter and all.
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  Speaker 2: That she can take care of herself.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what she keeps saying. And he's not
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  gonna buy it, so Harra. So so while that's going on,
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  Harry evacuates the city with all the villagers.
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  Speaker 4: And they go to the fortress called Hornberg.
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  Speaker 3: That's and that's where Wolf mounts the siege to starve
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  the townsfolks out, and it's up to har to save everybody.
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  This is done the director kenji U kami Yama, very big,
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  very He's a veteran of of Japanese anime. He his
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  first one of his first jobs was as a background
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  artist on a Kira Well, so he's been he's been
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  at this for a while, and he worked on Key's
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  Deliverery Service and you know in his younger but and
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  he's and he does a lot of Japanese TV and
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  Japanese goes from the Shell, Redos and so on. Really good,
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  uh subtle Japanese style anime. Uh, you know when when
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  some of the some of the some of the background stuff,
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  it's difficult to deletermen story. The back between live action
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  and animation is just beautifully done. And then and the
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  animation I think makes the movie. The look of the
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  movie is the real reasons. See the story is uh,
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  it's it's okay, it's fine, it's serviceable.
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  Speaker 4: Harah harah haarah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I wish it was a little more rousing
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  and that Harra didn't remind me of Mereti from Brave
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  So but yeah, it's stunning. Look three stars for the
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  Lord of the Rings, the.
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  Speaker 4: War of the Role hero right and get all that
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  on a marquee.
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  Speaker 2: And is that was that from the original books or
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  was it from like the I think it isn't.
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  Speaker 4: I think it is more sort of loosely inspired by
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  it all.
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  Speaker 3: And there is you know, in the last five minutes
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  you get like bits of fan service to tie you
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  back to the to what you know, and it's it.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little annoying really.
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  Speaker 3: Because like these guys, these guys took all the trouble
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  to do their own story. They don't need they don't
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  need to tie back to what.
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  Speaker 5: You know, all right, three stars for them, Okay, well,
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  then three stars for queer, three stars for the end,
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  three and a half for three and a half for
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  the end. Craven, you're on your You're on your I
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  have yet to read anything positive. Lord of the Rings
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  War three stars?
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  Speaker 2: What have we got?
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  Speaker 4: Next Friday, we have Mufasa the Lion King.
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  Speaker 2: And now what so we already had the Lion King?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is another. This is this is another. This
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  is another computer animated to look real the way.
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  Speaker 2: It's the James Earl Jones Lion.
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  Speaker 3: It is the origin story of Okay, yes, but it's
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  but it's like real lions move.
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  Speaker 4: Fast and scart while they look like real liance. But
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  it's all c G. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You also have, speaking of CG looking things, Sonic the
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  Hedgehog three.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Carrey said he did that because I bought a
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  lot of stuff and I needed some money.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So those are the ones next week, and then
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  Christmas just.
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  Speaker 4: A few days after that, we have a complete unknown Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's everybody who's seen it is just little.
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  Speaker 3: Little Timothy Shallome as as Bob Dylan is on Christmas
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  on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 4: And then also a baby Girl with Nicole Keivin and.
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  Speaker 5: Which apparently people are raving about as well.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the people that work with Timothy Shallomey everybody calls
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  him Timmy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's Jimmy, Little Timmy shallam Well, when you're, when you're,
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  when you're, when you're in that.
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  Speaker 4: Travel size packaging, you know that's what you did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Sean