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Ben O'Shea- Resident Evil - He's Just A Guy With An Eski · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Rate the flick with Ben O'Shea. We're off to the movies.
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  Speaker 1: In a very mixed bag of late. Yeah, something for everybody. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, I was like the Thompson twins
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  Speaker 1: in the cinema last night saying, hold me down to
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  Speaker 1: the person next to me watching Resident Evil. It's pretty scary.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty scary. Lots of jump scares. So, now, if
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  Speaker 1: people saw Weapons, the horror movie that came out last year,
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  Speaker 1: it really... blew up the box office, and the supporting actress,
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  Speaker 1: Amy Madigan, won the Oscar. I was going to say
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  Speaker 1: that had Oscar nominations. She won an Oscar. She won
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  Speaker 1: the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for a horror film,
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  Speaker 1: which tells you that Weapons was a sort of elevated horror.
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  Speaker 1: The sort that you see now from Jordan Peele and
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  Speaker 1: Ari Aster and some of these other sort of new
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood players, these young directors who are really making a
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  Speaker 1: name for themselves. And we saw Back Rooms, Obsession. These
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  Speaker 1: films are doing very well in Hollywood. Things are changing.
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  Speaker 1: Widow's Bay just cleaned up at the Emmys in the
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  Speaker 1: comedy section and it's horror. Exactly. And so the director
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  Speaker 1: of Weapons, Zach Kreger, he was so successful. He was
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  Speaker 1: kind of anointed as, okay, you're the next big thing
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  Speaker 1: in Hollywood. And so when that happens to a young director,
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  Speaker 1: eventually you get given– you know, big studio intellectual property.
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  Speaker 1: So you get one of these franchises. It could be
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  Speaker 1: a Marvel movie. It could be a horror franchise. That's
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  Speaker 1: how it usually goes. And so he got attached to
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  Speaker 1: the Resident Evil franchise, which people who've watched these movies
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  Speaker 1: might go, oh, geez, is that really a good thing?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's been seven previous Resident Evil movies. They have
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  Speaker 1: all been terrible. Starring Mila Jovovich. Yeah. And directed by
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  Speaker 1: Paul W.S. Anderson. Based on an iconic Japanese horror video
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  Speaker 1: game of the same name. They're nothing like the video game.
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  Speaker 1: And the movies are just really unwatchable almost, to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you. And Zach Greger agrees. He didn't watch
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  Speaker 1: any of them. Can you believe? So he's directing the
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  Speaker 1: eighth film in the franchise, has not watched a single
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  Speaker 1: one of them. That may be wise. It's a good tactic.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good tactic. But he's a big
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  Speaker 1: fan of the computer game. And so he's kind of.
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  Speaker 1: He's grabbed one of his actors from Weapons, Austin Abrams,
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  Speaker 1: cast him as this medical courier. So you heard in
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  Speaker 1: that little clip before, he's bringing like a little esky
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  Speaker 1: full of organs into a hospital and he gets sent
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  Speaker 1: on another job to a hospital in sort of up
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  Speaker 1: in the mountains, sort of in the middle of a snowstorm.
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  Speaker 1: Unbeknownst to him, there is a sort of a bioweapon
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  Speaker 1: leak from a laboratory that which is turning people into zombies.
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  Speaker 1: But it's such a slow burn sort of movie where
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  Speaker 1: you don't see, it's not like one of those zombie
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  Speaker 1: movies where there's just like hordes and hordes of zombies everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's really just this one bloke versus a couple of
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  Speaker 1: zombies every now and then. And it just ratchets up
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  Speaker 1: the tension and the fear factor. Honestly, as you said, Lisa,
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  Speaker 1: you watched it and you said you thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a comedy. It is funny. At first. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: trailer does exactly what you just said. It slowly ratchets
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  Speaker 1: up what's happening until you think, oh, okay. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: pretty accurate. But throughout, from start to finish, it's actually
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  Speaker 1: very funny. It's a funny, funny movie. Until it's not. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the scare comes. There's jump scares. It lulls
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  Speaker 1: you into a false sense of security. And then bang.
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  Speaker 1: Is it possible for zombies not to be funny? They're
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  Speaker 1: pretty funny creatures. They're pretty funny. They're sort of stumbling around,
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  Speaker 1: bumping into things. And you just sort of knock them
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  Speaker 1: on the head and down they go. But this dude,
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  Speaker 1: who's the lead actor... He's a bumbling buffoon. So he's
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  Speaker 1: not one of those people in a zombie film who
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden somehow becomes like an action hero
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  Speaker 1: capable of saving the world. This is not the guy
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  Speaker 1: you want to save the world. He is just a real...
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  Speaker 1: Just a guy with an esky. He's a guy... He
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  Speaker 1: carries the esky the whole... I'll tell you what, if
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  Speaker 1: you wanted someone to go down to Dan Murphy's and
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  Speaker 1: come back with a six-pack, he's the guy. Guaranteed. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't let it out of his sight the whole movie.
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  Speaker 1: And so, but it is funny. There's really no one
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  Speaker 1: else in the movie apart from him and the zombies.
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  Speaker 1: But it's, look, it's very enjoyable. This is a really
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  Speaker 1: good film. Okay. Really good. School holidays are coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a school holiday kind of film? Or is
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  Speaker 1: it one more for older kids? If you have kids
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  Speaker 1: that are like 14, 15, 16, they will love it.
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  Speaker 1: This is certainly up their alley. This is up their alley. Yep. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So how many kidneys in an esky are you giving it?
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to believe this. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: it four. Oh. Really? Yeah, this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most fun films you'll see all year. That is surprising. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pleasantly surprised. The director. I'm scared. The guy is
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  Speaker 1: likeable in it. And this director is a genius. All right.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Thanks, Ben. Thank you, Ben. Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 1: 17 past 8.