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Toy Soldier | Child's Play 3 · Potato Chip Pictures - A Podcast

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I I, I only really started catching on to it felt like just
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a void of reason, like not like logic of the characters, but
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more like a why are we what? Why are we here in this plot
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again? Like Chucky's back, Andy's back
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and like, we're doing this again, but he just beat him so.
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Well, let's get it going then. Queue the music.
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Hello and welcome to Potato Chip Pictures, the movie franchise
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review Podcast. I am B Sammy Davis.
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Hello again, I'm Justin. And today we are looking at
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1991's Child's Play 3. Justin, tell us about this
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movie. It came out in 1991, like you
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said, I guess it changed director.
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I don't know anything about Jack Bender, but that would be the
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third out of three directors for Child's Play, 1-2 and three.
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But they kept on Mancini for screen writing.
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I mean, I learned a fun factor, not so fun fact that I didn't
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Fact Check that this screenplay, I guess you would call it.
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I don't know, this script was started before the 2nd even got
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released. Really.
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So I don't know how true that is, but it might play into why
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it it feels like it does anyway, the producer.
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Well, up until the reboot, Don Mancini seems to be the writer
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for all of these. So it's quite possible that he
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said, yeah, I had already started working on the sequel.
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But he's what he means is he's got every idea that he could
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possibly have. Maybe, I feel.
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Like he could possibly have actual stuff written.
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I feel like it's an odd continuation and I was trying to
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rack my brain for did the 90s have a lot of like war games
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type movies? Because I mean, it's a new place
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for Andy to go. Is it a particularly exciting
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place? Not really.
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Like there's a bully and there's a kid.
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Like that's why it feels so empty.
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But final credits producer is Robert Latham Brown budget again
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of 13 million. They managed to bring in less
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20.5 million. 15,000,000 Less. Yeah.
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Like. This is the whole movie with
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that. Exactly, they they made a whole
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movies worth less with this movie but it was still
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profitable. Yeah.
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I OK, I didn't like this movie. Hey.
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Same here I mean. Yeah, we've we've come.
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Well, my first reason is a little more on the petty side.
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We got done with the last movie and I was sitting here thinking,
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the child actor who plays Andy and the girl who plays Kyle,
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those two were so good together. I would love to see them back
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and see them continuing. And they would.
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They would be roughly the same age.
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There's only a year difference in production.
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But then in the movie, they're like, we're skipping ahead seven
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years. Yes, audience, this is coming
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out a full year later, but we are doing a time jump.
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We heard Justin's future criticism.
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And I mean, I, I'm happy that considering the acting that's in
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this one, I agree that Kyle and Andy in the second were better.
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I was kind of happy to be moving forward, I think 90 to 91 to
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make it jump like that. I feel like they must have
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wanted something else. And I feel like it didn't reach
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farther in terms of the R rating than Child's Play 2, like blood
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slicing death. It didn't go that farther to be,
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oh, a Military Academy. Like you could probably do some
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more things. They even totally failed with
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their one great idea. Like it's towards the end of the
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movie, but when real ammunition is being used, only one person
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gets hit by a live round. And I was like, what a what a
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waste. What a waste, like, what a good
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idea. And we're only one person.
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Only one person will get. Hit it's the worst person that
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you want it well. Yeah, true, it is the worst
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person. But still.
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It is. I was just like, come on, so
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weak, so weak. I I'm going to say I think this
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movie heard your future criticism as well when you were
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saying like not enough locations because even though yes, we are
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only in the Military Academy, we're everywhere in that
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Military Academy and even a carnival for some reason.
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It feels that's where I'm I am so curious.
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I feel like there's another movie that has like war game
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feel that's not the the war Games movie, but I don't
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remember what the movie is called because it just feels
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like AI mean a departure from what they had.
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Not to say that I don't trust departures because like, it was
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again, Foster and police and whatever.
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Oh, the factory in the last one, this one starts off with the CEO
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again. And it's like, well, OK, maybe
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it's a little bit the same. And I know Andy is far, far away
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and I was halfway expecting nobody to die because.
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I'm going to be honest, I kind of like the beginning.
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I think the best part of this whole movie was the very
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beginning. I was expecting a faster death
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like the second movie was immediately.
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Let's introduce you to the guys and one of the workers that is
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Oh, but we'll we don't care about that guy.
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We're just going to get rid of the doll.
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This one, we're going to bring the dolls back.
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I did criticize the fact that they say, oh, we can have dolls,
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we're in shelves by next week, but they're apparently in a
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meeting. That's the go ahead deciding,
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yeah, do this or not like but. They've already finished
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production of dolls. Yeah.
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What? In what world are they going to
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say no? We're going to pull back on
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this. My biggest complaint was, and
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mine is really dumb, so they they're cleaning up the factory
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after seven years of abandonment.
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So many and. Oh yeah, When they're carting
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off the Chucky corpse and it's dripping blood everywhere, it
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drips the blood over that old plastic pool.
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But then they when they restart, they're going to restart with
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the old plastic pool. Why wouldn't they get rid of all
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of that? Too many, too many.
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I was like, OK, that is our justification for bringing
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Chucky back and fine. But then, OK, so that was my
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first complaint. But then my second complaint is
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that blood is getting mixed everywhere.
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Shouldn't every Chucky doll be the real Chucky?
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Like all of them trying to come back to life.
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I want to say in the trivia of the movie somewhere.
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I just read that there were going to be multiple chuckies in
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this one, but apparently that's used in a future 10 fun.
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Like logically, yeah, there should be multiple if the blood
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is what infected the plastic, or at least more than one.
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Like the plastic would be replaced after a couple of go
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throughs of his blood. But yeah, it has a it has
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mysticism and stuff. It has curses and stuff.
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In this movie, we can't ask too much.
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We. Can't.
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Yeah. Just don't worry about it.
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It's about the soul, not the blood.
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Yeah. And the soul can only go to 1
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vessel. Yeah.
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This isn't Harry Potter. This is an underworld.
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We we can only really put it in one person.
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Yeah, I kind of liked the killing of the Ceoi thought it
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was a good amount of tension, especially when the two Good guy
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dolls are talking to each other and I kept thinking like, one of
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them's Chucky, one of them's got to be Chucky.
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And then Chuck, he's he's behind him.
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He's someone else. Yeah.
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I just thought the use of the toys, the use of the dark, I
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felt like this was a a good mood setter and it it really made me
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think that we were in store for a pretty good movie ahead.
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Unfortunately for you, I don't know if in that scene, Chucky
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does his dive bomb, scream, yell.
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He does it somewhere else in the movie.
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And one of your earlier praises of this series was the work by
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Brad Dorff. And I think that if anything is
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Chucky's trademark yell, like, scream and like, it feels like
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it's coming from the doll. That does pretty well.
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I don't know if it's in this scene at all, but it might be.
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It is in the later one, Yeah. And I don't, I don't fully
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remember, but I do think Brad Dorff, he's probably the best
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part of this movie because I don't like teenage Andy.
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I don't like the little kid. I don't like the love interest.
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I don't like the bully. I don't like the Military
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Academy heart attack commander. Oh yeah.
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I don't. I don't like the best friend, I
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don't like the haircut guy. Like I don't like anyone else in
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this movie. If we're ranking them, that
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haircut guy is supposed to be really odd, but I don't.
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It feels like acting if you were at a play, just just a little
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hammy. Doesn't, doesn't feel right.
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Make him weird. But he's going around dropping
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catchphrases once he shaves people's heads and they're not
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actually bald. Yeah.
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He might be my number one of the least favorites, and it's really
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only because of his speech about the Romans.
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Oh yeah. Because I'm going to fail that.
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Like I got long hair, you know, I'm not going to survive in the
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the war. I think I wrote it down because
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it kind of was ridiculous because he goes a long pause
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where he's saying, you know, the Robins invented the military,
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You know why, to keep their hair short.
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And then they pauses for like 2-3 seconds and it's like,
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that's a complete thought. It's incredibly dumb and
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obvious. They invented it.
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To keep it short, it's like OK. Oh.
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So it doesn't come back very much when he's like, oh, so they
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couldn't get grabbed by their hair?
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It's like, I don't know why it took the Romans to do that.
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Yeah, that seems mythological. I don't know anything about the
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Persians or anyone else who had a full time military, but I
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guess if you, if you're the Barbarians and your military are
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the farmers that you can script, then yeah, there are people with
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longer hair that you could pull and get to their neck.
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But who knows, this is this is hardly the movie to point to.
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To be like I got my history from Chucky 3.
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Maybe it's the, maybe it was, what do you call it, mandated?
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And so it became a military cut. Like, sure, but like people
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would have grasped that I feel like earlier than the Romans.
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Oh, pun intended, you know. Well, since we're talking about
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the haircut guy, I saw you messaging in Discord when you
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were watching the movie and you were like, he's got a Steam
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Deck. And I, I was so jealous of that
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kids Game gear. I never touched a game Gear in
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my life. I think I may have seen one, but
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I have no idea where. I don't think my friends had
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any, but I feel like it's that's the that's the form factor.
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It is small because back then you wouldn't had much power, but
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it was still a game machine in your hands.
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Pretty yeah, yeah, it's only for that one scene.
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But yeah, like his dad, this kids dad got him something
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pretty high in I don't think we get anytime with the new kid.
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So I I don't care about him at all.
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Like his dad doesn't write. I guess his mom's not in the
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picture. Yeah, we're supposed to feel it
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from just that little bit. Which, yeah, could, but not so
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much. And then we, you know, Chucky
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reveals himself and reveals his secret.
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And then for the rest of the movie, we barely look at the
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kid, like he's just barely in this movie.
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And so I just don't, you know, since we're meeting him in the
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haircut place, they seem to be setting up what would be an an
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interesting replacement to Andy. And then we're just not going to
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spend really any time with him for the rest of the movie.
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Yeah, let's get interrupted every time we try to transition.
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Yeah, but I, I, yeah, I do think the realization of Chucky was
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enough for me to be on board every time that I am remade.
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Then it's the first kitchen. It's like, I mean, it didn't
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make sense in the 1st place, but you, you make a good argument,
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Chucky. Yeah, Second time hearing the
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argument, it's like, OK, I'm on board.
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I think that's fair. Like, doesn't still, I guess
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that somewhat goes along with the lore that they've
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established in the second one. Oh, he was too late to change
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into another human again, but he's going to keep bleeding
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whenever he gets stabbed even after years of being dead dead.
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So I don't know it it's fast and loose, but unlike Underworld I
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don't think that it relies too much on the lore.
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Yeah, it's it's more of a he's back again.
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This is the reason why this is the new kid and we're otherwise
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it's the same movie. Just have a good time, sit back,
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eat your popcorn, don't ask any questions.
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And unfortunately in this movie, I'm going to ask questions
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because this is the movie that just it draws the most attention
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to itself. And so we get to meet the bully,
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the the bully and the love interest trying.
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To remember, I kind of wanted to look at all the cast members,
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but I didn't earlier because he seems familiar.
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The bully, the main Andy, I just read it.
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He's in something. He's apparently in the older
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Dungeons and Dragons movie, but he was in something else.
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Justin Whelan. He was in Serial Mom.
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I loved Serial Mom and I think he's the son in the family he's.
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Jimmy in Lois and Clark, that's who it was.
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I forgot because I was like, oh, I recognize his face OK from
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that. But struck me as, you know, a
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90s actor. See, and I thought Whitehurst
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had been someone who was in other movies like Newsies.
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There's a kid that's kind of got a nasally voice.
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And I thought, I thought for sure that that was the same kid.
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And now I'm looking at his movie listing and he's like, he's got
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almost nothing. And it's definitely not the kid
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from Newsies. Hang, I can't find this other
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guy anywhere. For the the bully guy, maybe
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he's just got that sort of face. Yeah, yeah, there aren't a lot
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of other movies that these kids did.
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The the one who plays the child, he was in an episode of Save by
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the Bell and an episode of My Wife and Kids and otherwise he's
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not listed for anything else as an actor.
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And then the the only other kid that I thought I recognized.
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Nope, he's he's nobody. We can look up De Silva to see
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who who that is, but she also doesn't look familiar.
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She was in old school, which I know I've seen, but I don't
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remember her in that. And then apparently an
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entourage. But I've never seen Entourage I.
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Don't know the newness of everything, kind of just says.
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OK, Andy and Chucky again are going after each other in a new
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place. It's not a it's not a deep
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criticism because a lot of other things do that.
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But like, take the Toy Stories. Yes, it's Andy and Woody and
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Woody and Buzz and they're getting into shenanigans, but
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generally they're different. Like this one is a new place,
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but he's still just trying to become getting it to a new body.
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Yeah, and he goes after Andy for no reason.
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Yeah. He figures out the yeah, he's
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got a new body, he's got a new target.
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And then for some reason he sneaks into Andy's room to go
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kill him. And he does say, like, I don't
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want you getting in the way, but I'm just sitting here thinking
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like, Andy wouldn't be there to get in the way if you had gone
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straight for Tyler. If you've gone somewhere else,
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yeah, I think yeah. Like, so maybe that's
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contributes to the feeling of the the plot has to revolve
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around Andy, but there's so much more you could do.
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So yes, I'm glad they threw in the war games because it's a
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little difference, a little bit of, oh, what could happen in
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this setting. Somebody jumps on a hand you're
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and somebody gets shot and like, OK, those are those are things.
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Those are actions, Yeah. But so much of the middle of the
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movie is just like, isn't Military Academy so hard for
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Andy? Like, that's really what this
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movie feels like. Yeah, I feel like the yeah,
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'cause the kill kills by Chucky are kind of far between.
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Yeah, I the CEO, the CEO, the first one.
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And then I was going to say the garbage man is the one that kind
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of sticks with me, or at least it used to.
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And then I watched like It. It was something on History
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Channel that included garbage trucks, and I saw that not only
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do garbage trucks not open and condense in the way that the
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movie has it, they don't have a grinder on the inside of film.
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Maybe they will now, you know, that's yeah, it's a good way to
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do it. Yeah, so then there's that kill
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My One of my least favorite parts in the whole movie is the
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night when and he's in trouble and Chucky is after Tyler, but
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Tyler is playing hide and seek. There's so much happening and
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the tension should be there, but nothing happens.
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Like Andy gets caught, so the whole platoon has to March
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outside and the Colonel approves of this torture.
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Then Andy runs away, gets in a fistfight with his superior
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officers and wins and never faces consequences for that.
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The girls are spying on Andy by, you know, checking his files.
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But also Tyler and Chucky are in the Colonel's room.
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And eventually everyone goes to the Colonel's room.
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And I'm, oh, man, I just hate the Colonel's office because of
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him, and I hate the kill in the Colonel's office.
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He doesn't. Die by Chucky.
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Yeah, maybe it was just the CEO kill was delayed like banners
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like 15 minutes into the movie where the other one was like 5
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in the second one. Like I'm waiting for Chucky to
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come back. And then from there, it's
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another 15 minutes until the trash compactor, which I was
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starting to wonder, like I wonder how often these will be
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Chucky based ones because then once the kernel has a heart
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attack, it's like, Oh well, not actually by Chuck, you just
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surprised, but. Yeah, that's another death in
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the movie and it kind of continues the pacing that the
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movie is going for. But you couldn't credit it to
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Chucky. But then again, Chucky scares
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him into the heart attack, so you could.
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But I think this is going to be his highest body count by the
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end of this movie because I think he killed three people,
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Four people in the last movie, The two technicians, 05 people,
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2 technicians, teacher and the two parents. 1st movie, he
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killed his two buddies and the doctor.
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Oh yeah. So only three.
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And now in this movie, we've got the CEO, the trash man, the
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Colonel who he scared to death, the haircut, the bully, the
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nerd, and I don't remember if he got anyone in the oh, and the
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cop. So he's got a a body count of
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seven, 6 by his own hand, 7 for the movie.
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So we are upping the kill count with every movie.
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And yet it felt so sparse at the beginning.
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No. And it also felt kind of empty,
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like I'm adding up all these kills and I'm like, but none of
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them mattered. Yeah, I it's I'm sure that
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there's some sort of thing we could point to, but when it just
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feels empty, it it can't explain what is missing.
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If it's nobody is talking to Chucky yet like I don't know
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that I would say is missing like it's he's he is UN unseen until
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Andy sees him at the place. Like CEO knows about him, but we
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don't know that he's back alive until he.
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Dies, yeah. I don't know, I'm trying to
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grasp at something to explain to us that way.
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And the movie really does try to get us to bond with Andy because
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so much of this movie is following Andy.
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But I don't care about this Andy.
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Like, he does seem like a punk. Like they're talking about how
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he's been bounced around from foster home to foster home
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because no one will believe him. And I'm like, well, you're such
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a jerk that I don't believe you, either.
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Like, I don't think there was a doll ever chasing you.
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Yeah. And I don't know, the love
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interest I don't have that feels tacked on.
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So I don't like that at all. I'm trying to recall if they
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ever were speaking more seriously because the the
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summary of it's like, oh, she becomes his girlfriend, like
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when they were at the shooting range and like I don't remember
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saying anything about. That close to each other
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exactly. The only thing they do is get
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near to one another so that she can teach him how to shoot.
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And I guess now they're dating because when you're close to a
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girl, you're dating. Yeah, well.
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Yeah, it just doesn't work. But let's we can, we can keep
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this train running. There is one more kill with the
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haircut guy, the Barber. He decides he wants to cut
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Chucky's hair. A complete horror scene.
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Yeah, I was going to say like, now I'm going to graduate him to
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a character I like because I actually feel like his kill
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scene was also good for his character.
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Like he's like, ah, you're out of regulation.
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I'm going to cut that hair, ha ha, ha.
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I'm going to ruin this doll. Like he's still playing his
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character. And yeah, he is a a little
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theater, a little theatrical about it.
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But otherwise, I, I think he's committed to the bit and I think
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it works. I'm going to say it works.
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And even his kill works, although again, no consequences
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because Whitehurst is the one who witnesses the kill and
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witnesses Chucky. He runs outside and tells no
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one. I mean, yeah, little Andy was
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telling everybody till nobody could play, but.
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And nobody in this movie talks. Everyone keeps it to themselves.
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So it was very bloody deadly. Chucky gets the last laugh and
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gets to terrorize 2 people and I feel like that is the core of a
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Chucky movie. He.
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Makes you afraid even though he's a doll sized thing.
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So yeah, I, I don't, I still don't like the character, but I
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do think that felt like a, a complete thought was given to
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that guy's murder. Yeah, he actually had a
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beginning, middle and end, unlike most of the other
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characters in this movie. Accidental heart attack.
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Like it kind of lets the air out of Chucky being the killer.
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Yeah, heart attacks. Funny.
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Shot by the the live round. A little bit of justice for
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bullying, but. Yes, it is the IT is the bully
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who takes the round. But the build up to it was so
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disappointing. Like, OK, the red team, they're
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going to shoot rounds that splatter, They're going to shoot
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paintballs that are red. Blue team is going to shoot blue
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paintballs. So when you're hit, the red team
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will or the blue team will get red wounds and the red team will
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get blue wounds. And Chucky is going to trade out
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all of the ammo with live rounds so that red team shoots and blue
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team has red wounds. It's really a brilliant set up.
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It should be good. And then we dance around this
31:24
for like 15 minutes where we're, you know, doing the war games
31:28
and nothing is happening. And then finally, finally, the
31:33
two armies are going to converge on each other and only one
31:37
person gets shot. If maybe a couple had been
31:42
wounded. Yeah, and I don't even think
31:44
that because we we watch the red team taking shots at the blue
31:50
team, but no one else gets hit. It's always the trees or the
31:55
rocks and people like ducking for cover but no one else gets
31:59
hit. They're just real, the bad
32:02
shots, you know? Yeah, they're, they're children.
32:05
They can't. They can't be expected to to
32:08
murder at this age. Yeah, I feel like the Military
32:13
Academy kind of was a well, where else would Andy go?
32:18
And how can we fit ammunition swap death into this like or the
32:24
grenade like it? And then the grenade is the
32:28
thing that is stuck with me for close to 20 or more years.
32:32
I thought that was going to be much more interesting than it
32:36
turned out to. Be he dies, is grieved, and then
32:43
we move on. Yep.
32:45
So let me make sure I got the right count.
32:48
We got. He wasn't.
32:49
A coward in the. Man, Yep, he did.
32:52
He saved everybody by sacrificing himself.
32:58
Colonel Haircut, bully grenade cop.
33:03
Yep. OK, so we are we're still on
33:05
track. Well, for some reason, right
33:10
next to the war games, they've got a County Fair happening.
33:18
So at any time the kids could have sneaked away from these war
33:24
games, had some fun, and then come back to continue playing
33:29
the war games. I guess nobody has imagination
33:33
at the Military Academy. Well, and they're like, they've
33:37
set up tents for the war games. It felt like everybody supposed
33:41
to be in bed. And the carnival is still going
33:44
on. But they're surprised that
33:46
people are not in their tents like.
33:48
But were they supposed to be sleeping?
33:51
Was this night? Does the military have an early
33:55
bedtime because the County Fair is still rocking and rolling.
34:02
So. But then again, logic in this
34:05
current world is not something that's necessary.
34:10
I was about to say, if we talk about logic, then when we OK,
34:16
Chucky finds Tyler, takes him to the fair, there's a cop, cop
34:20
gets killed at some point. It's very, very sad that the cop
34:23
is dead. But Andy catches up and they go
34:27
to a fun house. And this fun house is like as
34:31
big as you would need for like a Disneyland ride.
34:35
It's got a a basement with a foundation.
34:38
Yeah. Man, the final location in this
34:45
movie is hilarious. Not a moving County Fair is
34:49
stuck in that place. They didn't put walls up.
34:53
They did give these tents a concrete foundation and they
34:58
never, you know, thought like it.
35:00
It kind of ruins a vibe if you were to put up walls.
35:04
So they've kept it just a tent based affair.
35:07
But all the tents have a concrete foundation.
35:11
Yeah. Yeah.
35:14
But that that whole roller coaster is just hilarious to me.
35:20
Yeah, I feel like it's, I mean, thanks for another location.
35:26
I appreciate it, but I mean, I, I feel like that one praise of
35:34
mine is saying, Hey, there's, there's merit in the fact that,
35:43
you know, it can be whatever they call it, Devil's lair,
35:48
bunch of monster hell type stuff that kind of works for Chucky
35:54
like. It's.
35:56
It's the feel of this devil toy that just can't die.
36:04
I can't remember if Chucky surprises them to shoot Desilva
36:11
or if they happen upon him. Yeah, I, I don't remember, but
36:18
you are right. Desilva takes a bullet, so she
36:23
cannot be the one to shoot at Chucky.
36:26
She's the the marksman and now she can't shoot.
36:30
Her leg, she can't shoot. Yeah, her shoot your.
36:34
Leg is wounded. Yeah.
36:36
What can you do? Yeah.
36:41
So Andy's got to climb a mountain in this tent once
36:47
again. Size wise, yeah.
36:53
I I don't like any of this final confrontation, but I do think it
36:59
is hilarious that after 2 movies of having Chucky the king of
37:06
comebacks, you know the guy who you can't keep a good doll down.
37:12
He only dies once in this movie. Yeah, that is oh man, you're
37:18
going to make my rating go up by .5 influencing the rating?
37:28
Well, yeah, I I mean, the close myth with the site.
37:33
I think if I were to think of something about this movie, it'd
37:37
probably be that he's got half of his face sliced off with the
37:40
added context that he's he's got blood and guts in him.
37:47
It it's horrific so fits in it works.
37:52
That that was a very good effect and a very good moment, and I
37:57
can't believe I forgot all about that.
37:59
I I got to give the movie its credit for such a terrible
38:04
location and a terrible scene. You are correct to point out
38:09
that having half of his face sliced off was a really good
38:14
touch. Not quite dead.
38:15
So like the other movie he was dead dead several times.
38:19
This one he gets maimed. A lot.
38:23
He's just hurt. He knows it hurts.
38:25
He's yelling about how much it hurts.
38:27
Yeah, but it was pretty visceral.
38:31
The rest of that entire scene is still pure garbage and I don't
38:39
even, I don't even feel like the triumph is all that triumphant.
38:45
Like they they just walk away and who cares?
38:50
I will complain about the piggyback that Chucky does
38:54
because he's lost an arm, but he's trying to strangle Andy
38:59
from like his back and or somebody and gets his arm, his
39:05
other hand that's holding on cut off and he flies forward over
39:09
his shoulders into the fan. I'm like that doesn't like he
39:13
just slide off his back if he couldn't hang on anymore.
39:16
Yeah. Flip forward and get chopped
39:19
into a million pieces. Because he needs to get chopped
39:22
into a million pieces. For the next movie, yes he does,
39:26
apparently. In 1991, apparently we didn't
39:30
put safety greats over those high speed steel fans.
39:34
Yeah, let's. See, this one's going to be 1.
39:37
The next one is 98. Seven years.
39:42
Yeah, we're getting a seven-year gap coming up.
39:45
Not looking ahead, but I think I'll look forward to the next
39:49
one. I, I hope so.
39:52
I, I think, well, I don't know, I don't know which one I have
39:58
seen. It might be Bright of Chucky,
40:01
but I could be completely wrong. It could be a totally different
40:05
one. But I, I'm excited for the of
40:09
Chucky movies because there's four of them.
40:13
We've had our Child's Play trilogy.
40:16
The next are going to be Noun of Chucky for the next 4 movies and
40:23
and I'm looking forward to them. This is the reason this
40:27
franchise is the reason that we are doing direct to video movies
40:32
as part of a franchise because the last two of Chucky movies
40:37
didn't have a box office release.
40:41
Yeah. So that'll be that'll be
40:43
interesting when we get there. But before we get there, I've
40:46
got to tell you that on this podcast we do ratings, not
40:50
grades. The primary difference is where
40:52
you find the average in a grade. The average is a 7 out of 10.
40:56
And so the lowest scores usually get raised up a little bit to
41:00
get them closer to that 7 out of 10 average.
41:04
But we say no, A7 out of 10 is not the average because it is
41:08
not the middle. Instead, we say A5 out of 10 is
41:13
our average. And so if you hear us say that a
41:16
movie is a 5 out of 10, that doesn't mean it's bad.
41:19
It just means it's right there in the middle.
41:21
So with all of that said, Justin, what would you give
41:26
Child's Play 3? I mean, the justifications of it
41:31
are are all there. There's an empty feeling about
41:36
just, I don't know, I feel like Chucky is so important in the
41:42
first two that he's he's connected to every scene.
41:48
This one, the Military Academy and Andy kind of exists solo for
41:55
a bit and we go through a day and a life at the Military
42:01
Academy where a kid finds the the doll and kind of gets
42:04
involved Emptiness. Aside from that, kills are OK.
42:16
I feel like it's kind of a bit until they get going.
42:22
Chucky still loud, still swears like sailor and I kind of
42:29
appreciate that the little kids like, hey, don't do that.
42:32
Not cool. And it's like, well, this is
42:35
this is Chucky. This is a Charles Charles Lee
42:40
Ray, his name name. I'm sitting on a four because
42:47
it's below average. The the monster makeup is kind
42:55
of a good point, at least in the in the the final scene.
43:02
I like it. The melting at the beginning
43:05
intro, the reverse melting. I am a fan.
43:12
I think I'm OK with the authority figure concerned about
43:20
their kid being gone now. Like we don't need Andy's mom
43:24
again. Everybody disbelieves him.
43:27
The one kid that sees Chucky can't help him.
43:32
But it just isn't. It's not great, it's not
43:38
average. It's below.
43:42
All right, I'm actually kind of surprised at your 4 because I
43:48
didn't have a good time with this movie at all.
43:51
I feel like there are times when someone will have all of the
43:58
right ingredients to make something and then it never
44:02
comes together. And that is this movie.
44:05
It has all of the ingredients of a Chucky movie and it never
44:11
comes together. There's never a point where I'm
44:13
thinking, finally we're getting Chucky.
44:17
Like the most fun I had was the very beginning, and then I also
44:22
had some fun with the barbershop kill.
44:27
But the rest of this movie is pure garbage.
44:31
I really like you had to remind me of the cool effect with his
44:38
face getting ripped off. Yeah, like if if I did half
44:43
scores, that would be the thing that would raise mine up by 1/2
44:46
a point because I just I really like I didn't have a good time
44:53
with this movie at all. Like I talked so much.
44:56
I talked such a big game after the last one where I was like,
45:00
this is going to be my franchise.
45:02
This is going to be the one that I love and I'm at a 2.
45:06
I don't think I'm ever going to watch this movie again for.
45:12
A fact I won't watch this one. I think of the three, I would
45:18
probably watch first one if I'm trying to be like, hey, here's
45:23
Chucky, here's the original vision and turn your brain off.
45:30
It's not awful. See, and I feel that way with
45:34
the first two. I still feel like the second one
45:38
has so much charm to it and I had a really good time.
45:43
But this third one, it's got all the pieces.
45:47
It's just they never come together.
45:50
And I, I think it, I think you could skip it entirely, except
45:55
maybe you want to know how Chucky died the last time.
46:00
Because when we get to the of Chucky movies, that's kind of a
46:03
totally new franchise, kind of like they they really were like,
46:10
let's stop being the slasher flicks.
46:13
Like everybody gets the point. They know what Chucky is, they
46:16
know what's going on, let's do something new.
46:20
But they are a continuation of the stories that came with
46:25
Child's Play. It's like the Evil Dead trilogy.
46:30
You do Evil Dead the remake, which is Evil Dead 2 and then
46:35
Army of Darkness, which is the sequel to Evil Dead 2.
46:38
Like that's that franchise and that's the same way it is with
46:42
the Chucky franchise. We're changing titles, we're
46:45
changing direction, but the story continues.
46:49
It is the same Chucky from these movies.
46:54
Hopefully that makes sense. I mean I.
46:56
Think so I I think I look forward to the next one for it.
47:03
The clips of it or clips quotes are all kind of pointed towards
47:11
comedy horror. And like I'm down for that.
47:15
Like let me give me something to laugh with.
47:19
Yeah, I definitely think we are leaving the horror genre behind.
47:24
There might be a couple of jump scares here and there and there
47:28
might be some dark moments that that might up the tension, but
47:34
for the most part we are we are entering a comedy franchise for
47:39
the next 4 movies. Although I would argue that this
47:44
one was more of a comedy movie than the previous 2.
47:47
Like this one tried to tell jokes.
47:50
I mean a heart attack death, that was funny back then so.
47:56
Unexpected. Yeah, exactly.
48:01
All right. Well that's that's going to be
48:03
our nice and tidy episode of Child's Play 3 movie short.
48:09
Review the. Average is a three out of 10.
48:14
That's the average between the two of us.
48:16
It's a pretty easy average this time around, but a pretty sharp
48:20
decline from the previous two movies to this one.
48:24
And that seems to be kind of universally accepted.
48:27
I hadn't looked until tonight when we started recording.
48:32
And then I was like, OK, I'm not crazy.
48:35
Everybody else hated this movie too.
48:37
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I I guess I have nothing else to say.
49:22
So until next time, watch your ankles goodbye.
49:50
Oh yeah, shortest episode ever. I know, I mean we've probably
49:57
got a wrap up that's shorter than than this one, but
50:00
definitely the shortest review that we've ever done I think so
50:04
there's. Not a lot to talk about.
50:06
Explain it. That just feels empty.
50:10
Yeah. A lot of it like like.
50:13
There's there are scenes to fill out, an hour and a half worth of
50:18
movie. They just don't matter.
50:21
Like nothing happens. Yeah, 'cause he tries to get
50:26
into the kids body pretty like the moment he meets him, talks
50:31
to him and like if that's if that's what holds up the rest of
50:37
the movie, it does. Doesn't really.
50:40
Like he didn't really like first movie he learned that he wanted
50:47
to get out of this body and then went after Andy, which was like
50:52
third act. This one's like, oh, I need a
50:55
body. And that's the beginning of the
50:59
second act. Like it just goes so long that
51:06
maybe the tension is missing or something.
51:11
I almost feel like they were trying to make two different
51:14
movies or like maybe someone really wanted to make a Military
51:18
Academy style movie and then they got forced to make a Chucky
51:25
movie and they just couldn't let go of their idea.
51:28
But you said it at the beginning, it logically makes
51:31
sense that if someone was bounced around from foster home
51:35
to foster home, why not try a Military Academy, see if we can
51:39
give him some discipline? Something else because we did an
51:43
entire foster family in the second one so can't really redo
51:46
that one. And he's never going back to his
51:49
mother. That's with.
51:51
That's just out of the question. This is the last time we see
51:55
Andy as. Oh that's sad.
51:58
I was hoping that Andy would return for these of Chucky
52:01
movies. I.
52:02
Have no idea what happens in the Bride of Chucky.
52:04
Like, yeah, it's an unknown which which is good.
52:10
I think it'll be good. Yep.
52:11
Maybe we'll get above average coming ahead.
52:15
I'm excited for it. I'm going to find out tonight.