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74.2: You know who's Kick-ass? Mr. Bitey. · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: Okay, you cunts.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what you can do now.
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  Speaker 3: The following feature has been rated R by the Motion
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  Speaker 3: Picture Association of America. It is intended for mature audiences
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  Speaker 3: and parental discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 4: It's showtime, folks. Enjoy the show. Playtime's over, kid.
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  Speaker 1: I never play.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, this is Catherine Mary Stewart, and you're listening to
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  Speaker 5: Movie Meltdown.
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  Speaker 4: Get more out of life. Go out to a.
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  Speaker 6: Movie.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, there's a dude dressed like a superhero out there
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  Speaker 7: fighting a bunch of guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's fucking awesome!
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm Kick-Ass. Welcome to Movie Meltdown's Out on the Town.
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  Speaker 1: I am, once again, Brian.
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  Speaker 7: Roger?
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  Speaker 8: I'm Roger.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Misty.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Jay.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Rod.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Roger is... Actually, he's been asleep during that whole
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  Speaker 5: first segment.
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  Speaker 7: He was licking the alcohol off his shoes.
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  Speaker 8: Showing the tasty beverages.
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  Speaker 1: That does not seem like somebody who just came from kick-ass.
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  Speaker 8: Now I'm jazzed. Let's talk about this more.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: This week, as we said, is kick-ass. The year is 2010.
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  Speaker 1: The director is Matthew Vaughn. And I guess our plot,
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  Speaker 1: as they put it on the IMDb, Dave is an
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  Speaker 1: unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one
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  Speaker 1: day decides to become a superhero, even though he has
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  Speaker 1: no powers, training, or meaningful reason to do so. That
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  Speaker 1: all sounds pretty right to me. How come nobody dressed
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  Speaker 1: up for this movie?
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  Speaker 7: He wanted to. He's like, dude, we should all dress
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  Speaker 7: up as superheroes.
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  Speaker 1: I would have been up for that.
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  Speaker 7: Do you want to sit by me?
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  Speaker 9: Because if you do, you're going to forfeit this.
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  Speaker 8: Who would you have dressed up as?
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  Speaker 7: I'll make my own shit.
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  Speaker 1: We'd have to be like they did and.
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  Speaker 4: Make up our own.
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  Speaker 7: I make my own shit, man. I got part of
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  Speaker 7: a Fred Flintstone costume.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 10: I got a motorcycle jersey I got in the mail
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  Speaker 10: the other day.
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  Speaker 1: We had an Ultraman mask at home. What are you
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  Speaker 1: calling this character? I don't know. Fred Biker?
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  Speaker 5: Biker, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Biker Flintstone. Motor Flint.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: How do you like that shirt?
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  Speaker 8: Motor Flint.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 5: We should have all wore Mexican wrestling masks or something.
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  Speaker 5: That would have been fun.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to pass.
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  Speaker 1: I do have mine, but I quit wearing them.
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  Speaker 7: I got my ET mask.
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  Speaker 11: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I kick ass.
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  Speaker 5: So, kick ass.
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  Speaker 1: Kick ass.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, that's what the best part of the movie that
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  Speaker 9: I will acknowledge was the girl because she was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Hit girl.
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  Speaker 7: Hit girl was fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: Can you imagine in Halloween the next couple of years
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  Speaker 5: how many girls are going to be hit girl?
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  Speaker 1: Not even necessarily girls.
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  Speaker 7: There's going to be dudes dressed up.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely. I will give you that.
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  Speaker 7: The pigtails.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 8: She was the best thing about the comic, too.
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  Speaker 5: I love this movie.
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  Speaker 4: As far as.
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  Speaker 5: Characters this was my second time seeing it i still
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  Speaker 5: think it's like the most fun movie i've seen this year.
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  Speaker 10: It's awesome yeah it's funny that uh was it ebert
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  Speaker 10: gave it one star.
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  Speaker 12: What did he really yeah he hated it uh well
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  Speaker 12: he's insane yeah he's not insane i respect roger i
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  Speaker 12: didn't know he gave it one star i hadn't heard
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  Speaker 12: that um i think there is going to be a
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  Speaker 12: pretty serious split between people between liberals and conservatives.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah because There's a guy that I saw this
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  Speaker 5: with at Buttnomathon. He's a good guy, but he's very conservative.
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  Speaker 5: We were all coming out and we loved it. He's like, man,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. This movie crossed the line.
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of parents that were going to boycott it.
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  Speaker 7: It's just offensive.
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  Speaker 9: The only complaint that I heard most parents complaining about
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  Speaker 9: was she said cunt.
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  Speaker 7: That's the biggest thing. Nobody cares about the violence.
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  Speaker 5: That's very American. They could have raped her in the
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  Speaker 5: ass and people would still only complain about her cussing.
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  Speaker 7: It wasn't even the cussing, just the fact that she
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  Speaker 7: said cunt.
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  Speaker 1: She said cunt. Well, it's funny.
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  Speaker 4: She said fuck.
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  Speaker 7: That didn't bother anybody.
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  Speaker 1: They don't care about fuck.
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  Speaker 8: Nobody cares about that.
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  Speaker 1: You get in trouble when you say cunt. That's just
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  Speaker 1: trouble every time. But what's funny is, like, I just
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  Speaker 1: found out today, that's what sold Matt Vaughn. Like, they
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  Speaker 1: presented them as this project, and he got to issue
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  Speaker 1: three when she says cunt, and he was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this has potential. I want to see what this movie becomes.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny that that's also the turning point for
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  Speaker 1: most people.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, oh, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind. I don't want anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 5: There's a breed of people, but I doubt that they're
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  Speaker 5: the people that listen to our show that really won't
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  Speaker 5: enjoy this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I think the people.
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  Speaker 5: In this show will... This is an awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, I'm going to throw
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  Speaker 1: out a big spoiler alert, but I'm assuming everybody who
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  Speaker 1: listens to our show has probably already seen it, so...
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  Speaker 1: you know we'll throw it out there but i'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you've all seen it won't like.
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  Speaker 10: This movie or people that enjoy dancing with the stars
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  Speaker 10: that's about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah your mom will not like this no your mom
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  Speaker 1: will not like this.
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  Speaker 5: You know what this movie reminds me of is when
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  Speaker 5: i saw galaxy quest and i knew it was like
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  Speaker 5: a spoof of star trek movies but then if it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't almost it was better than the other star trek
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  Speaker 5: movies that were out at the time and this is
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  Speaker 5: like This is kind of a spoof of comic book movies,
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  Speaker 5: but it actually is a pretty straight up comic book
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  Speaker 5: movie at the same time. And it's almost one of
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  Speaker 5: the best.
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  Speaker 1: It's got great action in it. Lots of blood.
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  Speaker 7: Very violent.
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  Speaker 9: One of the things that impressed me most was that
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  Speaker 9: I did not hate.
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  Speaker 7: Nicolas Cage in this movie.
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  Speaker 5: No, the characters are all very likable. And that's another thing.
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  Speaker 5: Nicolas Cage is awesome.
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  Speaker 7: Because usually I hate him. I cannot stand him. He
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  Speaker 7: makes me angry.
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  Speaker 5: He hasn't done anything really worthy in a long time.
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  Speaker 5: And then this year he did this in Bad Lieutenant,
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  Speaker 5: which I haven't seen yet.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard pretty good things.
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  Speaker 5: But he's awesome in this movie. He was cracking me up.
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  Speaker 5: And when he finally put on the Bad Daddy costume
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  Speaker 5: and suddenly was doing that Adam West thing, I was like, stop.
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  Speaker 5: Every couple words. And it was just so funny, I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't stop laughing. I mean, it was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: That's such a character performance. I could have almost seen
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  Speaker 1: him doing that. Because I heard early that was his
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  Speaker 1: direction he was taking, his character. I'm like, okay, he's
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  Speaker 1: such a weird, quirky guy. Anyway, I can see him
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  Speaker 1: pulling that part of it off. The part that impressed
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  Speaker 1: me was when he was his normal self. He was
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  Speaker 1: still a likable guy. He's ridiculous and kind of crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time.
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  Speaker 7: That laugh is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: He's still a real guy. He's not ridiculous and terrible
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  Speaker 1: like he is in a lot of his other movies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the switch is that's thrown in
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  Speaker 1: his head that makes him a good actor.
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  Speaker 5: He had several layers in this performance. One was the
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  Speaker 5: crazy dad character. who loves his daughter but just wants
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  Speaker 5: her to be the ultimate killing machine because he's had
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  Speaker 5: this terrible past. Then there's the other character. When he
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  Speaker 5: confronts his old partner, he almost seems a lot more normal.
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  Speaker 5: He's not talking to his daughter anymore. He's talking to
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  Speaker 5: another adult, and he's almost a different person. And then
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  Speaker 5: when he puts on the big daddy costume, outfit there's
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  Speaker 5: another character that comes out.
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  Speaker 1: You know he's that's that's what's so weird about him
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  Speaker 1: is there's still that core of a good actor in
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  Speaker 1: there and what is it like why is it he
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  Speaker 1: can't tap into that for every movie.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe it's just because there were no bees in this
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  Speaker 7: one that's why it was okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah but even in other stuff that's not a terrible
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  Speaker 1: movie like he's what was that other one that just
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  Speaker 1: came out it's.
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  Speaker 5: The material a lot of the stuff he's making doesn't
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  Speaker 5: require him to do very.
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  Speaker 7: Much Or maybe he's just not as excited about it.
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  Speaker 10: And this may be one that he wholeheartedly was just
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  Speaker 10: really on board for.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe.
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  Speaker 10: You have a tendency to put out a little bit more,
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  Speaker 10: put a little bit more effort into something that you
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  Speaker 10: really enjoy as opposed to something that you just don't
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  Speaker 10: really give a crap about, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I thought he was good in it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought all the performances were good in it.
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  Speaker 5: I think people are going to love Hit Girl so
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  Speaker 5: much that it's almost going to overshadow Kick-Ass.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Completely.
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  Speaker 5: That kid's great, too.
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  Speaker 4: He was.
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  Speaker 5: He's such a likable everyman character. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He's definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was really good. It is one of those, like,
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  Speaker 1: the story is his, so it's like you are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to take, like, what the movie's trying to
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  Speaker 1: say from him. But performance-wise, I mean, Hit-Girl deserves to
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  Speaker 1: overshadow him. I mean, every scene that she's in is
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  Speaker 1: fucking amazing. Like, not even just the action stuff. She's just,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: that kid is an amazing actress. And, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she owns that screen when she is on it. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's... And she's just so cute.
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  Speaker 4: That, too.
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  Speaker 7: Little pigtails.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it works so well.
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  Speaker 4: So.
• 9:09
  Speaker 13: Have you thought a little more about what you might
• 9:10
  Speaker 13: want for your birthday?
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: Can I get a puppy?
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: You want to get a dog?
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a cuddly, fluffy one.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: And a Bratz movie star makeover Sasha.
• 9:21
  Speaker 5: I'm just fucking with you, Daddy.
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  Speaker 2: I love a Benchmade Model 42 butterfly knife.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, child. You always knock me for a loop.
• 9:29
  Speaker 5: The structure of a lot of it, I think, is
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  Speaker 5: a lot of it's taken from Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man movie,
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  Speaker 5: at least the kick-ass story. I mean, that character, Dave,
• 9:38
  Speaker 5: lives in a house that looks like Peter Parker's house. Yeah.
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: He goes to the high school. It kind of looks
• 9:44
  Speaker 5: like that.
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  Speaker 8: Uncle Ben's kind of there.
• 9:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of. His mom dies real early on, which
• 9:49
  Speaker 5: Peter Parker's parents were dead. You know, it's like if
• 9:55
  Speaker 5: Spider-Man were real. um, And Dave's story is pretty realistic.
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: It's when you get into some of the stuff that
• 10:02
  Speaker 5: Hit Girl does that the movie does, you know, edge
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  Speaker 5: into comic book territory. And then at the end, too,
• 10:07
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to say that.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: But again, I mean, it's still essentially a comic book movie.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's literally a comic book movie. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it needs to have that element. It needs to tap
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: into that. And that's the thing. So many comic book
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: movies over the last 10, 15 years have really just
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: dropped the ball when it came to that. It's like
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: they could do the setup of the story and make
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: it perfect to what was on the page, but when
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: it came time to do action or deliver the goods
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: at the end of the movie, they screw it up.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: And this one, every time it comes through.
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: You really start to like Dave. And when he goes
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: out the first time... I think, you know, he's confronted
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: these bullies before that have taken his money and everything.
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: And when he goes out as kick-ass, you're kind of jazzed.
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  Speaker 5: You're like, oh, he's going to get some payback.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: You're jazzed and you're just as nervous as he is.
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  Speaker 5: And then we find out what it's like to be
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  Speaker 5: a real superhero. A guy pulls a knife out and
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: stabs him. He's like, oh, my God. And then he
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: rolls into the street and he's hit by a car.
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  Speaker 8: And the guy just leaves.
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: But it all works out because he gets all these
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: metal implants where his bones are and makes him like
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: Wolverine or something. And it also kills his nervousness, so
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  Speaker 5: he can't really feel pain that much anymore. So he
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  Speaker 5: does kind of become a superhero.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: He's a minor superhero.
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: In a weird kind of way.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: He's got his own special superpower.
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  Speaker 10: But I'm wondering how much this movie will be blamed
• 11:21
  Speaker 10: for comic book kids picking up costumes and running out
• 11:25
  Speaker 10: in the street and trying to become superheroes.
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: Jumping off buildings.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think any of them will go that far.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Some of them are pretty damn dumb.
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know. How can this be blamed any more
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: than any other superhero movie?
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  Speaker 1: It happens. I mean, I did it after I saw Batman.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Come on. Didn't you guys put on a cape and
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: run out into your street in the night?
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: Maybe I was just me. It is going to be
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: number one this weekend, but it's fallen below expectations. Which
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: doesn't surprise me. These kind of geek movies never really
• 11:51
  Speaker 5: go over with a modern audience. I've seen the trailer
• 11:54
  Speaker 5: with people and they were like, those look shit, man.
• 11:57
  Speaker 5: Those costumes look terrible.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you just don't get it.
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: You don't understand. You don't understand the concept. Or other
• 12:04
  Speaker 5: people say, that looks like Watchmen. You know, and I
• 12:07
  Speaker 5: knew that wasn't going to do well either and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: For that same reason, you know. It's another one that, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's comic book oriented, but it's not at
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  Speaker 1: all going to have crossover appeal. It's nothing but geeks,
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: and that's it.
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: It's just too.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's just too tapped into that world.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: And it's like geeks kind of understand what they're going for, that...
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: That it's sort of a no-holds-barred kind of thing, and
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: they're not going to pull back like most cheesy Hollywood
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: movies do.
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: You know, Grindhouse.
• 12:33
  Speaker 10: Their minds have all gone to that place. Yeah, they
• 12:36
  Speaker 10: expect Spider-Man, you know. Every comic book geek's mind has
• 12:39
  Speaker 10: gone through this movie.
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: The same thing happened to Grindhouse. I mean, people were
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: watching it and going, man, that looks terrible. You're like, well,
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: you just don't get it.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: That film looks awful.
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not paying $ 10 for that. I'll rent it
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: or something. I'll pay to see Transformers, man. They spent
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: some money on that.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: That's got HD.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: That's high quality.
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: Got good graphics.
• 12:59
  Speaker 8: She was buying.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: She was buying. I think I was standing next to
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: him at the fireworks.
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: What I'm hearing from journalists is a lot of people
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: are comparing this phenomenon to snakes on a plane because
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: snakes on a plane had a lot of internet buzz.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: But the truth is, Snakes on a Plane never looked good.
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: It looked like your Sci-Fi Channel movies, and we were
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: laughing because they got Samuel L. Jackson in on this.
• 13:21
  Speaker 7: But I love me some Snakes on a Plane.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a joke at its very core.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: It's a joke, and they knew it was a joke.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: This was never a joke. This was a legitimate property,
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: and it had something to work with.
• 13:32
  Speaker 10: Even if you take the schtick away from it, it's
• 13:34
  Speaker 10: still a good movie, you know?
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: Snakes on a plane? It's a ridiculous idea.
• 13:40
  Speaker 7: I love it. It's a good time.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it was awesome.
• 13:42
  Speaker 7: I'm just saying, it's still goofy.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: People didn't want to go to the theater and spend
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: their money.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: I was there opening night.
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  Speaker 4: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: It was awesome.
• 13:50
  Speaker 9: It was awesome because you were there and everybody, opening night,
• 13:53
  Speaker 9: first show, and everybody was quoting along with the movie
• 13:55
  Speaker 9: while you were watching.
• 13:56
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, that's how you know.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: It was a party in the theater.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: You know, I don't hate Snakes on a Plane, but
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: it really, as far as living up to all the
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: fun hype it had, it didn't really... And Kick-Ass does.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Kick-Ass does more than does. It delivers beyond that, because
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect going in, and it
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: more than delivered on those.
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: Loved it.
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: Loved the cast. I loved everything about it. I thought
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: the directing was good. Now, I saw it on a BNAT,
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: and some of the music has been changed, but basically...
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: It still works.
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: I loved the use of American Trilogy. That's my only complaint.
• 14:35
  Speaker 10: Was that our movie theater dropped the ball.
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: On this movie.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, they did.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: They cut the sound out during the climax.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one of them.
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: It was pretty pivotal.
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: But then it came back, and they were playing Elvis'
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: American Trilogy, and I was like, hell yeah.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Which is awesome.
• 14:48
  Speaker 10: But still, we missed probably a good, what, two seconds
• 14:52
  Speaker 10: of the movie and probably about ten seconds of audio.
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: I was afraid they were going to have to take
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: out the Joe Jets song, Bad Reputation, but that stayed in.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: I'm glad about that. There were some other songs that
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: stayed in that I thought were good. Most of the
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: music that changed was the score because they had taken
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: pieces of scores from other comic book movies and used them.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Like the guy up on the building at the beginning,
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: they were playing the music from Superman Returns. And then
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: when the Red Mist was driving his car around, they
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: were playing the Dark Knight music.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Actually, that was my favorite use of another song was Crazy.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: That scene is fucking hilarious.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: That is funny.
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: I was just excited because... Kick-ass dance is pretty much
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: the same way I do.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, see?
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: That's what everybody was doing this weekend. That's what I'm
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: calling people out for.
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: You've seen me in the car.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Yay, yay.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: Kick-ass does do a pretty good dance there.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: That's me. I'm going.
• 15:41
  Speaker 12: Seizure.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Shush.
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: There were no thumbs involved, so at least.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: I got that going.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: But there are lots of slacks at the comic stuff. Like,
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: with no power comes no responsibility. The Red Mist uses
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: that line, wait till they get a load of me.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: His story is the making of a supervillain.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Which, again, I was surprised. I didn't know he was
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: going in as the plant. He's the mole, as it were.
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: I think he was my least favorite part of the movie.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: That was the thing. Everybody had talked him up so
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: much that I was expecting a lot more of a
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: likable performance out of him. And I didn't realize he's, A,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: not that character.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: He's not likable.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And even then, he's, I don't know, he's just not,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: he just, even as a villain, he doesn't come off saving.
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: You can't be a villain with a speech impediment. It's
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: just not believable.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: A little bit of the problem is he's just Christopher
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Mintz Plaza.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: It's kind of the same performance he's given in two
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: or three other movies recently. And that's what they hired
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: him to do.
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: I'm just not a big fan of him.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: Because he was in Superbad, and we tried to watch that,
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: and I couldn't do it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, just like a superhero, he's going to
• 16:40
  Speaker 10: be a bumbling supervillain.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, what better way to even it out,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: Still, he had no charisma. I didn't care.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't like him. See, that was the thing. I
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: wasn't even calling him out as the actor. I think
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: even just the role itself didn't lend itself to being,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: He's not the main villain. really good job because the
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: villain in comic books is always ends up being at
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: least partially the best friend.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Of the hero i mean they didn't.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Set it up he does become friends with kick-ass yeah
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: at one point even though he doesn't plan on doing
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: yeah so.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: And they set it up i mean it really is
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that setup to then be able to tie it in
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: and have him be the super villain somewhere down the
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: line but but the real.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Villain in the movie is played by mark strong and
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: He's a good villain, man.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an evil bastard.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: He's the new Alan Rickman for this generation. He was
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: the villain in Sherlock Holmes. He's the villain in this.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: He's been cast recently as the villain in Green Lantern,
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: I think. He's kind of going to be the villain
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: for everybody, I think, right now.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Probably.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I think this just does a good job. And it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: kind of what we were saying before of, of presenting
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: what it is to be a superhero. And it, and
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: it does take this realistic thing. I mean, it takes
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the structure of like, you know, Spider-Man, but then it's like, okay,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: what if you don't have powers? Like it really has
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: that setup. It's like, that's kind of the saving grace
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of all these other amazing superheroes is they have this
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: power that whatever it is, it kind of saves their ass.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: And he doesn't have that. Like he can't walk the
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: streets and, And without people potentially just beating the hell
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: out of him because he has nothing to say to him.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: It's different when you throw yourself into this situation and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: you're helping somebody, but it's him walking the streets and
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: people are high-fiving him, but at the same time, your
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: villain could get out and kick his ass at any
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: given moment and he has no problem. powers just he
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: has no spidey sense no he has.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: No you know you know big daddy and hit girl
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: have taken up the same mantle of responsibility but they
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: know that they don't have power so they're gonna carry
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: as much weapons as possible well they're hard-blooded killers they're
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: like the punisher.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And they but they also don't put themselves out among
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the people they are completely hidden from society you know
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: they're basically assassins you know.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: This is naive enough to kind of walk down the
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: street and ask everybody if they need.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Help Which is actually endearing. Mr.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: Bitey was my favorite.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Mr. Bitey.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: It's why you like that character so much is because
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: he's so naive and he's so wholehearted going into this.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to save a cat.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Eventually he ends up looking for a cat, Mr.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Bitey. Mr. Bitey.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Here, Mr. Bitey.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: Damn it, Mr.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Bitey.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: Fuck you, Mr.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Bitey.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: That was funny.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: That is awesome. Whoever owned Mr. Bitey at home, probably.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. It took like an interesting look
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: because we have so many superhero movies now and they
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: always have this power that just saves their ass. And
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: they're just like whatever they you know, they can kind
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: of live this normal life. But he doesn't have that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It's like he's walking the streets in any given moment
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that somebody can just annihilate him because he doesn't have anything.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But again, that's kind of why you end up liking
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the character. It's almost that nobility that, you know, the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: fact that he's he's saddled himself with his responsibility to
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: go protect people even though he has nothing to offer.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Them they even sets up an email account for people
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: to email them with their problem.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And i don't know it's one of those you that's
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: i think what sells this character so much is is
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: number one he's a nice guy in his real world
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: but the fact that he just assumes this responsibility to
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: take on, you know, anybody at this point, whatever wrongdoing
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: is going on. What the fuck is wrong with you, man?
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: You'd rather die for some piece of shit that you
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: don't even fucking know?
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Three assholes laying into one guy while everybody else watches?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You want it all strong with me?
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'd rather die. To bring it on!
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: He does it, like, it hits that point where, like,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: when he's protecting that guy in the parking lot, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he delivers that line, that's a hard line. Like, I
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: was going, that could be really cheesy at this moment,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and it's not. Like, it was actually pretty heavy. Like,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: there was that moment of, you know, I'll give my
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: life for this guy. I don't know who he is,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: but against three idiots in a parking lot, you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that's pretty noble, and it's like you have to give
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: him credit for it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: That's why this movie is great. Not because it's a comedy,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: because it works as a drama at the same time.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: You actually invest in the characters and you care about
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: whether he gets killed or beat up or not. And
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: there's some pretty severe violence that happens later on in
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: the movie. And it's fairly disturbing and upsetting.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Well, even right off the bat, like, you know, going
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: into any superhero movie, you don't expect them to get stabbed. Yeah,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I didn't expect that. And almost died.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: In that car.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as that happened, I was like, holy shit, this
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: movie has taken a turn that most superhero movies will
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: not do.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: So they're going, he doesn't have any body armor.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: No. No.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: He's covered in blood throughout this movie. He's covered in
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: blood throughout this film.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: You know, being a superhero is not easy.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And again, that, and that's kind of what you take
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: from it. It's like, that's the hero aspect is he's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: getting beat to hell, but he comes back every time
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and he still does the right thing every time. It's like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: he sets out to help people regardless of the fact
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: that he has no powers and he's probably going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: get his ass kicked.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I like how he like sort of accidentally ends up
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: with an alter ego too, because like, The girl that
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: he likes at school ends up thinking he's gay.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: That's funny.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: And he just plays along. And then suddenly it's like
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: that's his Peter Parker.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's living this dual life of a fake gay guy.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Which is kind of really funny. It's just bizarre.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Again, that's another subtle comic book touch there. It does
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: give him this dual life, even though he doesn't even
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: need one, really. He's walking the streets as kick-ass. But
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it works in one in his real life, which is
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: kind of funny.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: How do I get a hold of you?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: You just contact the mayor's office.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He has a special signal that shines in the sky.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: It's in the shape of a giant car.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Still, in the end, Hit Girl. It's what makes the movie.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I think the reason that I haven't been talking out
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: the ass about Hit Girl is because that's what everybody's going.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: To be talking about.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know. But it's one of those... She's pretty amazing.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I can't not. It's like... And it was just those scenes.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It was like the way... Her performance and piece together
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: with some of the best... action scenes ever. The people
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: that I've talked.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: To that this movie bothered me, it didn't really bother
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: them until Mark Strong started beating her up.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: That was hard. That's hard to watch.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: She's killed 50 or 60 people before.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: Well, it's just the whole idea of one grown man
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: against a little girl.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: But that's why there was this exhilaration as I'm sitting
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: in the theater, though, because basically it is like a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: dream project come true, because for years... I have loved
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: The Professional. And it's finally like, what if Matilda actually
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: got good and got to kick people's ass? That's what
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: this is. This is basically Matilda annihilating dudes for half
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of this movie.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: The bad guys are just beating the crap out of...
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: kick ass and big daddy and they're going to kill
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: him here real soon. When she comes to the rescue,
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: that's just pretty exhilarating.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: That scene is amazing. And that's what it was. All
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of a sudden I got this, you know, that, that,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you know, feeling from, you know, watching professional years ago
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and liking this character so much, but she's, you know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: she's so naive. She doesn't even know, what to do
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: in this situation. She's still got that in her that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: she wants to destroy people that are just evil, but
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: no training to do it. This is a good life
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: of training.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: There's a good example of Nicolas Cage just being awesome
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: in this movie. In the scene where she's come to
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: rescue him and he's been half burnt alive and all
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: this kind of stuff. He can make me laugh and
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: actually pull my heart strings at the same time where
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: she comes up and she says, getting shot hurt a
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: lot worse than when you shot me. And he's like, well,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: that's cause I use lower velocity bullets, honey bunny. It's funny,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: but it's like sad at the same time. Yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: It's a good scene.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it works.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: It's, I don't know.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I think, I don't know. He's so good at playing
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that version of her.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: If you're not shocked, the first time he shoots her.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: It's another. It's an amazing thing.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: And then she asks if he gets to shoot her
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: twice more or if she can go get a hot
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: fudge someday.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, go bowling. Stop by the bowling alley.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: They just have a great dynamic in the movie. It's
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: like between the two of them and their home life together.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It's like everything that comes into play with her character,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: but even with him. It's an amazing thing. to see
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: him at work being this good again.
• 25:08
  Speaker 14: I liked it because having read the comic book, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 14: think that this is one of those comic book movies
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: that it's.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: Actually a little bit better.
• 25:16
  Speaker 14: You get that dynamic in the comic book, but for
• 25:19
  Speaker 14: some reason it just seemed a little bit better.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: It was more poignant or something.
• 25:23
  Speaker 14: It was more heartfelt almost in the movie than what
• 25:25
  Speaker 14: I got out of the comic book.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know how you feel about it. That's how
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: I felt about Sin City. I actually liked the movie
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: better than I liked the graphic novel. And I had
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: read the graphic novel. There was something about bringing, it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: almost an exact translation, but there was something about bringing
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: it to life that made scenes like funny that I
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: didn't realize were funny or dramatic that I didn't really
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: realize were dramatic. And I guess like the scene where
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Marv gets electrocuted didn't strike me as funny when I
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: read it. But then in the movie, it's hilarious.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, totally. Totally.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: It's definitely tied to that type of thing. I mean, it's,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you know, pretty close to that. And they're getting to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that point where they can actually do good versions of it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: And this was kind of an interesting project because they
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: started making the movie before the comic was finished.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: Before it was finished, yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: So they had to come up with an ending when
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: they didn't have one yet. And so the comics borrow
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: from the movie that way.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That's kind of bizarre. Which is cool, actually. I kind
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of like it. Because people are usually such whiny bastards about, well,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I like the way the original ended. I'm like, well,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: fuck it. This is the original. So if you don't
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: like the comic, it's your own fault. Because the movie
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: came up with it first. So, yeah, I don't know.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: People just like to whine about whatever they change on anything.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: It's kind of annoying.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: They took the squid out.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, where's the squid?
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: What?
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's a.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Watchmen.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've seen Watchmen.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: That's extra level of geek. I've seen the Watchmen, yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: But in the comic, there's a giant squid.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: There's a giant squid.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: There's a giant squid.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, figure that out.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: That's from another dimension.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's why they took it out.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: There's a giant squid.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: At the end.
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: Nobody's going to get on board with that.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Like, hmm?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I agree with that call. That's not the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: dumbest thing I've ever heard.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: I don't want to compare this movie to Watchmen, though,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: because even though I kind of liked Watchmen... the movie.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: It had a lot of faults and stuff to it.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: It was kind of a mixed bag for me, but
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: I thought overall it was very successful.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: This is not like that.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: This is a good one.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there was no big blue mane junk in this
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: one whatsoever.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Well it would have been you know big daddy junk
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and you don't want that so just be glad there
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: wasn't I don't want to see the junk of anybody
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: involved in this movie.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Why does Nicolas Cage put on that what do you
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: call those what do you call the molestash yeah he
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: puts on the fake the wings or whatever.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah maybe that's part of his secret identity.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah but he's wearing the mask I mean he has
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: to go to the full extent yeah he's hardcore he
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: changes his voice yeah yeah.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: Good times.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Because I noticed that when I was watching it. You know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: the first time I was watching it, and I was like...
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Why does he have that biker beard mustache thing going on?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: But he doesn't have it when he's... And then they
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: show him glowing him on.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, God. Well, I like the voice change.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Half of that, the director said he left in because
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: he was so annoyed with Christian Bale's voice change. But
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he was like, no, go ahead. Keep going with that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. Well, he was there.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: And I told this story before on the show. But
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: they had that reading. Because he didn't have to read
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: for this part or anything. Because he's a cascade. And
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: they're all reading around the table, and they got to
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: that part, and he started doing the Adam West thing.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: And nobody wanted to say anything, and Matthew Vaughn was like,
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: this guy's the worst fucking actor. What is he doing?
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: And he didn't get it at first.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Every once in a while, he makes
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a good call. It's unusual, I suppose.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's nice to have Nick Cage back. We'll see.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Sorcerer's Apprentice.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: He's got 30 movies coming out in the next year
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: because he's having all those financial problems.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Because his house didn't sell.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: I guess it's because of that. Maybe he just likes
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: to work.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: He does.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: He's in like a zillion movies.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: It's been pretty steady for years.
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: I've never been a big fan of Nicolas Cage. Which
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: is why I'm more surprised about liking him in this
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: than I would.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Have liked him in Valley Girl.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: I've never seen Valley Girl.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: I thought he was pretty awesome at first. And then
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Con Air was the turning point. That was the movie
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: where you're like, I can't believe Nicolas Cage is doing
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Con Air. And then you want to forgive him. You're like, oh,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: he just wants to do the acting hero thing. Once
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: he gets this out, he'll be all right. And face off, okay,
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: we'll let him have this. But then it just got bad.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: Real bad.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It got ridiculously bad.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: He's just one of those that just looking at him
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: kind of pisses me off.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I didn't like him for years.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: I liked Raising Arizona.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And then that changed it for me. I liked him
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: in Raising Arizona.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: He's great in Leaving Las Vegas. It's a great drama.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, he's got potential to do drama,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: but it's so hard. to watch, especially now in these
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: last 10 years of slaloming downhill. It's like it's even
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: hard to take him seriously. in anything and that's why
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: it's so impressive in this movie because I buy him
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in every sense it's like I buy him as the
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: dad I buy him as the crazy vigilante cop I.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: Got a friend that's like he's like oh it's Nicolas
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Cage he's always Nicolas Cage you hire Nicolas Cage that's
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: what you're gonna get but I don't agree with that
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: really there are different Nicolas Cages and you know sometimes
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: lights are on and sometimes they're not yeah very.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Minor do you get the good one but I mean
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it's in there still obviously I mean those National Treasure
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: movies are okay for what they.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Are but he's there's nothing that he has to do
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: as far as acting goes in movies I mean anyone
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: could have been in that part you know pretty much.
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: This to me, this whole movie is just kind of
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: like a big screw you to the Hollywood system. And
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of it for getting out there, period.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Because not only did, you know, the creator of this
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: comic got turned down by like every studio, basically. I mean,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: in one week. And it's not like they had to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: stop and think about it. They were just like, no,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. So they turned him down and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: he finally got Matthew Vaughn on board and they went
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: out and had a dinner party, raised the money independently
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: through friends of theirs and put this together. And if
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you would have stuck with the system, the only notes
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: he ever got back from people were, lose Hit-Girl, or
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: make Hit-Girl 25, make her not kill anybody, or if
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: she accidentally does, she has to feel bad about it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That movie would suck. And I would not.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: This movie has an edge. It's a little subversive.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: That's why this movie works.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Usually a lot of people not like us won't pay
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: for that they want to see this straight up then
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: they want to see iron man 2.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah which there's nothing wrong with iron man 2 the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: trailer looked good it was the first thing on yeah.
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: But it doesn't it doesn't if they had done that
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: it wouldn't have tied in her whole upbringing with nicholas
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: cage yeah you got that point where she comes in
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: and basically saves kick-ass's life and he's like almost appalled
• 31:40
  Speaker 10: the fact that she's killing yeah blood spraying everywhere and
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: What does he bring?
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He brings two sticks and a taser.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: She's got this huge blade.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: His taser can be traced, but he does shoot a
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: guy in the head with it, so that's pretty good still.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: But it's, I mean, she, like, just all of that stuff. Like,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: even without her, they would have also pulled all the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: realism out of Kick-Ass' role as well. I mean, it's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: like he would have been reduced to being a, it
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: would have been a fucking superhero movie, you know? It's like,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it would have been a joke, and they would have
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: played the jokes, and there would have been no drama
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: behind it or no reality with people getting killed.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: No way.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: It's getting an audience in the seats for this movie.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: The biggest enemy this movie has is there are a
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: whole bunch of other movies that look just like it.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: There's Mystery Men. Even Watchmen you could probably count. Yeah,
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: Mystery Men.
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: Come on, really.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You can't compare.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: It sucks.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: No, but I could see watching the trailers and thinking
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: they were in the same category.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Rob Lowe was in. I can't remember what it was called.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Comic Book Heroes or something like that. And then there's
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: one Woody Harrelson has coming out called Defendor and all this.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: There's just too many other movies that look like this,
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: and it hurts.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: And I think that's the difference, though, is that all
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: of those are a joke. And this one has its
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: level of looking. I mean, it really does look at
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the funny end of what's going on. I mean, what
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: if I decide to be a superhero? That's a ridiculous idea.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: So you kind of have to mine that for comedy.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: But what's great is it hasn't really been done. And
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: I bet there's not a person in this room that
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: hadn't thought of that before.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I told you. I put a cape on after Batman.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: I don't tell anybody.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I was out on my street protecting it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: Putting on a black outfit. I'm not sure you were
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: ever going to do it.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I did. Nice, nice.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did too. See, there you go. I had
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a katana.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: There is a crazy katana.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I had a katana.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: These people really exist.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: If you go on the internet, you can find them.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: There's one in Nashville, I think.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: I can't remember what his name is. There's a couple
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: out in New York. There's one in New York. There's
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: a couple in New York. I watched a short documentary
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: on it one time. There's Mr. Mysterious and there's some
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: guy with a silver mask. They go around doing what
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Kick-Ass was doing. They walk down the streets and they
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: ask people if they need help and stuff. They're probably
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: all dead.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Probably.
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: See, it didn't work for me because we lived out
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: in the middle of nowhere in the woods. Yeah, nobody
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: needed help, so it was just me walking around the woods.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: There was no Mr. Bitey for you? No, there was
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: no Mr.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Bitey.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: There was nobody on my street that night at all.
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: Are you waking back up for a second?
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Mr. Bitey is awesome.
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: Is that your favorite part of the whole movie? Is
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: that all you have to say about it?
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: When houses are four miles apart, there's not a whole
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: lot of action going on.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Not really.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: There weren't any mass slasher serial killers in the woods?
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: No, no.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: I always looked for them, but I never did find them.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: See, when I was a kid, we didn't play superhero games.
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: We played Jason and chased each other around with fireplace tools.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: You were out in the woods, though. It made sense.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: My grandma wasn't happy when we told her what Jason
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: actually was.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see why.
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Probably because you were going to fall and actually stab
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: each other.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, those sharp tools really aren't the best.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not the best for letting children play. You
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: shouldn't run with those.
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: Lesson learned.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: There's another story right there.
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: There's a scar to go with it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's another thing I thought this movie did that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: was so well done is it tapped into our culture
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: pretty well. Like the fact that immediately... There's a fight
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: going on outside. Go call the police. But they don't.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: What does he do? He runs in, gets all his friends,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: and busts out the cell phones and starts recording it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And within minutes, it's on the internet. And it's already
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: a viral thing. I thought that was cool.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: The guy runs in there and he's like, there's a
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: guy outside dressed like a superhero fighting these guys. And
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: it's awesome.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: And it's awesome. Well, that was my thought exactly.
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: I was like, well, it is awesome, actually.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: But call the cops for fuck's sakes.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I don't think that's... I mean,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: our world is in that place now. So the fact
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: that it is existing in this reality, I think that's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: part of it. If it were a cheesy comic book movie,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you know, people would run out and try to help
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: them too, maybe. But not now. They all stood around
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and watched and they got their video cameras out and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: they recorded it on their phone and they uploaded it
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: immediately to YouTube.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: So.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I think it tapped into that, you know, the fact
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: that everybody is willing to record things and put it
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: on the Internet. And he used that to his advantage.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: He immediately set up a profile online as a superhero.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: And that's how he, you know, put the word out
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: about them and, you know, found all his cases to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: go work on.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: He goes back to the comic book store that he
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: normally frequents and suddenly there's all this kick-ass stuff.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Kick-ass cappuccino.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: And costumes and figures and all that stuff.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I think it's just, yeah, it did a good job
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: tapping into the real world that we actually exist in, which, again,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: is what makes it so much more realistic when they
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: start just annihilating people. Again, I think it needs that violence.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's what separates it from the other stuff,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: is the drama and the violence that it kind of
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: delivers on. Because by the end, yeah, I was kind
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of welling up. Sadly, it wasn't at the dramatic moment
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: as much as when Hit Girl was just taking out
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: those guys in the hallway. I was welling up with.
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I could have watched like two hours of that.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I could.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: A violence that just really hit me, like the scene
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: where she cuts the guy's leg off in the hotel room.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: And the one that really got me was the one
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: where Big Daddy and her put the guy in the
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: car smasher.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: There's a shot of that guy getting squashed. It looks
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: like a watermelon exploding. It's just, oh, it's horrible.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: What about the microwave?
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: Oh, that was the bad.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Guys, but yeah.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: But still, you know.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: He's violent.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was something else, too.
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: Does it work, just like a big microwave?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: He's like, oh.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: The worst of money.
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah. As he's pantomiming, what did you do with our code?
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: The guy's like holding his head.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: It's awesome.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Basically, that was the director going, screw you, Last House
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: on the Left. You think your scene's a big deal?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Watch this. I'm putting the whole motherfucker in the microwave.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this movie has so much energy to it that
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: I think it kind of reminds me of Zombieland last year.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: But this is actually even better.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I prefer Zombieland still.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: Give me Zombieland.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: It's a fine line, but I would almost put this one.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Just because I think it delivers a little more to it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Zombieland was just fun. Zombieland had Twinkies. Twinkies were awesome.
• 38:01
  Speaker 10: Really fast paced yeah but yeah it was it was
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: a shot in the arm to zombie movies yeah the
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: same as this is a shot in the arm to
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: comic for all superheroes yeah it's one of those things.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: You've gotten dull both of these movies are the kind
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: of movie that I think you could watch over and
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: over and just never get tired of you know definitely I.
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: Would but my mom borrowed Zombieland and she hasn't given
• 38:19
  Speaker 9: it back I like that I.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Like that some of your old niece watched Zombieland I'm
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: not sure that she needs to see.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Uh no kick ass really she'll be calling everybody cunts laughing.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Um, but it is that kind of movie. And again,
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: I do think there's going to be a split in
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: the audience based on what your moral fiber is, I guess,
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: or whatever. If you can laugh at this or if
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: it just offends you, I suppose.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I think so. But again, I think even more than that,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I almost don't care if the people that don't like it,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: don't like it. I think what's more important is the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: fact that it got made. The fact that they said,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: screw you to every studio they went out. And it's
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: not like it's a little, you know, million dollar independent movie.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: This is a big budget movie with real stars and
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: a hell of a look to it. I mean, it
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: looks good. Every scene in it looks good.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: But it's still going to be number one, so that's something.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, just the fact that it's out there and
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the fact that they made the movie that they wanted
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: to do. They didn't compromise anywhere along the way. That's
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: fucking awesome.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: This doesn't feel like a compromised movie.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: When I saw it, I thought we were literally the
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: first audience who had seen it, and I can tell
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: you that nothing was changed.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Other than just the music, they didn't cut anything. It's
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: all there.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: See, that's the problem with a lot of movies nowadays
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: is they go through and change shit.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Everything.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: They just leave it alone.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah. You know?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Before they even shoot it at the time. I mean,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: they're giving you notes from the studio from day one,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: and you've changed. You're working on an entirely different movie
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: by the time.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: You shoot it.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the director's mom doesn't like this scene. You need
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to change it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Know that's bullshit and that this is an example this
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: is like what you get without studio screwing things up
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: without studio involvement changing everything along the way because there
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: was no studio they finished this on their own and
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: took it and said okay who wants to distribute it
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: we got this movie that's gonna make a good amount
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: of money and all you got to do is put
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: it out there and obviously somebody was like okay we
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: like money sure we'll go do that so I that's
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: what i think people need to do it's like fuck
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the studio system start making your own movies find these
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: independent producers because they're.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Out there it's really hard you know the studios own
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: everything the the distribution the I mean, the finance, they
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: own everybody. So it's hard to make these movies outside
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: of this.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: But I think that's why I'm so proud of this
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: one because I think this can kind of change the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: game a little bit. You've at least got one thing
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: to be like, look at this. It's like this made
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: its money and we gave it back to them. So
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: we need somebody else to back us on this next project.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Watchmen, they didn't really– they didn't– They didn't cop out
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: with Watchmen. They left all the violence.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: And everything in.
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: And all the man jokes.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: But I just knew that was going to hurt our
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: kind of films because people weren't going to go see it.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: And then the studios would go, look, see? We let
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: you have Watchmen and nobody cared. So let's make Transformers 2.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Stupid.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, I still like Watchmen, but that one I
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: think suffered from it probably didn't need to be a movie. Yeah,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: that was almost impossible. Well, no, everybody I hear talk
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: about it, and I almost agree. In this day and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: age of cable television, it should have been an HBO project.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you can make all these other things,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: if you could have made it as long as you
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: wanted and you could have worked in all the stuff
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: they had to cut out... I think it would have
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: made people happy because they still could have been violent.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: They still could have had the language. They could have
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: done whatever they wanted. And it would have not had
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: to shut it down and, you know, chop it up into, like,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a three-hour little window.
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: At least they didn't make it a sci-fi miniseries.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: God, no. So it should have been, yeah, HBO or
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Showtime because they let them do whatever the hell they want.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: And you get a little more leeway. So I think
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: that's probably what they should have done with that. I
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: still think the finished project is pretty good, but it
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: does have its issues, so.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: I would probably call it a noble failure, if nothing else.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say failure. I think it's a good movie,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: but it's not perfect. That's where that one went wrong,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: is it was just trying to do too much. This
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: one didn't have that problem. It's got a very set story.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great runtime. It moves at the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: right pace, but yet it gives you just enough time
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to get invested in the characters, and I think that's
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: why this one works.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: It still happens in Oranges, though, because Watchmen is not
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: a fun movie to watch.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: It's kind of hard to watch. This is a much
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: more fun movie, but still has enough dramatize to it
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: to make it not seem just like feather light.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I think this has got a lot of weight
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: to it, but it does make it fun. It works
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: in enough of a comedy that it kind of carries
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the rest of it through.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: It kicks ass.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know what else to say.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: It's one of the best movies I've seen this year.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's way more than I expected, really. All right.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: I'm done.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Done?
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Yay.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Kick ass, kick sass.
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: Kick sass.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: Two thumbs up.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Awesome.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: All right. We will take a break and be back
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: with the rest of the show. Two Mr. Bitey paws up.
• 43:02
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• 43:19
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• 44:00
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• 44:03
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• 44:18
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• 44:50
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• 44:53
  Speaker 4: Hi, this is famous Hollywood producer Robert Evans.
• 44:57
  Speaker 15: You know, I've made a lot of powerful enemies during
• 44:59
  Speaker 15: my time in Hollywood.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Like the time I.
• 45:01
  Speaker 15: Pushed Steve McQueen in front of a moving car on
• 45:03
  Speaker 15: the set of The Getaway because he was macking on
• 45:06
  Speaker 15: my lady, Allie McGraw. But I've made one great friend,
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  Speaker 15: a boffo friend, if you will.
• 45:12
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• 45:33
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• 45:35
  Speaker 1: All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: And now, on with the show.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: All right, we are back and we've got feedback. Yay!
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: This week is from Fozzie Bear. Now, I'm missing last
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: week's drag queen half of the show. Well, you may
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: consider yourself lucky because, yeah, we watched Less Than The Dust. So, yeah,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: you may consider yourself lucky, but to some, they seem
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: intrigued by my choice last week. So, yeah, this week
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: is Fozzie Bear.
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm glad I missed that episode.
• 46:35
  Speaker 16: Hey guys, this is Fozzie from Twitter. I just wanted
• 46:38
  Speaker 16: to call and comment on the Lust in the Dust episode.
• 46:41
  Speaker 16: I've never seen Lust in the Dust, but I'm going
• 46:43
  Speaker 16: to now because I consider myself a bit of a
• 46:45
  Speaker 16: connoisseur when it comes to drag films. A couple that
• 46:49
  Speaker 16: you might not have seen but you might want to
• 46:50
  Speaker 16: check out is the pinnacle of this is Girls Will
• 46:53
  Speaker 16: Be Girls featuring three of the best drag queens you've
• 46:57
  Speaker 16: ever seen playing roommates in a Hollywood. The other that
• 47:03
  Speaker 16: I always reference and make people watch is Psycho Beach Party,
• 47:06
  Speaker 16: which I'm sure you've seen, but that's the great thing
• 47:09
  Speaker 16: about drag queen movies when the drag queen or the
• 47:13
  Speaker 16: cross-dresser or the man in a woman's dress is playing
• 47:17
  Speaker 16: an actual woman in the movie, it always makes it
• 47:19
  Speaker 16: that much funnier and that much more hilarious. So if
• 47:22
  Speaker 16: you haven't seen those movies, check it out. And also,
• 47:24
  Speaker 16: I'm a new fan to the show. I've been listening
• 47:26
  Speaker 16: to you guys for a couple months. We missed each
• 47:27
  Speaker 16: other around the weekend, but hopefully you're going to be
• 47:29
  Speaker 16: at the next one in Cincinnati, and we'll have to
• 47:31
  Speaker 16: say hello. Also, I want you to come on my show,
• 47:34
  Speaker 16: The Podcast Podcast, and we'll do an interview. Okay, thanks
• 47:37
  Speaker 16: so much. I'll talk to you guys later.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: I love Psycho Beach Party.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: That movie is fantastic.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite movies is Psycho Beach Party.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: The other one you mentioned I haven't seen, so I'll
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: have to look it up, I guess.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: If you guys are up for it.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: I'm all about some surf.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: The Big Kahuna.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: Big Kahuna.
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: Lauren Ambrose.
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: I'm not much of a drag queen critic, per se, but,
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I just like Divine. I can't even explain why. He's
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: just entertaining.
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: You lost me on that one.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: We actually discussed that. I knew about 30 seconds in
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: on the movie, you would have been out. You would
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: have already been annoyed by it and pissed off. I
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: don't know. You can watch it somewhere down the line.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: It's got Tab Hunter.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: No, I'm good.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Tab Hunter.
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: I'm good.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Damn.
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: I do need to get the complete series of Buzz
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: and Buddy.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: You just want to watch the one with, what's his name?
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: What's the Lex Luthor movie where he's a chick?
• 48:29
  Speaker 7: Michael Rosenbaum?
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: I forget what that one is.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: That one looks terrible. Just one of the girls. That's
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: a whole different one. That's the other one.
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: No, it's up for sorority.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Sorority boys.
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: Sorority massacre.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Sorority boys.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: Yikes.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: That one looks terrible.
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: Just one of the girls is the Corey Hamlin.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Which also seems like a bad idea.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: He's a cheerleader.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: Hot. I mean.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, Lord. But, yes, thank you, Fozzie. Yeah, we did.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Fozzie was at the weekend. I think we just missed him.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: I think he showed up to eat when we just left.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: So we just missed him. But Fozzie is very cool.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I actually kind of met him in passing at the
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Cincy show. And I am up for doing the show.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: He does the podcast podcast where he actually sort of
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: highlights different podcasts and talks to the people making it
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: and kind of what it is that they do. And
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: it's it's pretty cool i listen to most of them
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: so far and a lot of them are people that
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: we know from the other shows but um a few
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: of them are ones that i haven't heard their show
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: and it's kind of interesting to find out about it
• 49:29
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• 49:33
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• 49:36
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• 49:39
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• 49:41
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• 49:51
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• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Alright, so as for the updates and announcements, just wanted
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: to say we did not win a rondo.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: I voted for us.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I did too.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: We didn't have a chance in the head.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: No, I know.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: I know we didn't. I mean, we lost to like
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: dread central and rumor of radio.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: It's nice to be nominated. Cause when, when I saw
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: that we were on the ballot, I was like, Holy shit.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: I know. I couldn't believe it.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: That's, and that's kind of what I wanted to say.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to thank all our fans and friends
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: who bothered to vote for us. Cause that's awesome. And
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: that kind of means it's not really over. I mean,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the fact that you voted made a huge difference and
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I think kind of put us on the radar. We're
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: on the geek map, so to say. So, uh, I
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: don't know. It's just a thank you for doing it,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: but I think it makes it a lot more likely
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: for us to turn up on something like that in
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: the future. Sure, absolutely. Yeah, the more you guys kind
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: of get the word out and get behind us on
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: these projects, it helps the show as a whole. So
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: I just thank you.
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: Now that we've been nominated, I think we actually have
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: to be good now.
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: Wow. I don't know about that.
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: Why start now?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: That means Roger needs a quick fall asleep. Not a
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: chance of that.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, really. Sorry, guys.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: Beatty.
• 51:40
  Speaker 10: I'll hit him with a taser in the forehead every
• 51:43
  Speaker 10: once in a while just to wake him up.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: But yeah, just wanted to send a thank you out
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: to everyone who voted for us. And if you didn't, nah,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: screw you.
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know.
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, kids, get out your decoder pins. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: For you members of the Secret Circle.
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: What time is it, you?
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: It is time.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: What time?
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Time for the movie lockdown Secret Circle reveal of the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: next two features.
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: Holy shit.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: And they might even be right. They've been off for
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: several weeks now, so. All right, so next week, we
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: will try to.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: I'm traveling back to the 80s.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Pick up where we left off two weeks ago. So
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: next week is the Wraith.
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: Hopefully.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Hopefully, we will get back on track and pick up
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: where we left off. And the following week, we may
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: have to head back out into the world.
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, God, not again.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Get some more rolling rock thrown in our feet and
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah please we'll bring our own and just throw
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: it at people yeah i don't want to drink stuff
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: just throw it at.
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: People well we were we were kind of the art
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: theater this uh this week uh so we're gonna probably
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: be heading to the multiplex for this one.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: If we're unlucky so yes the following week will be
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: nightmare on elm street.
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: I wonder if Mr. Bitey will be in this one.
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: I don't know. That's the only way to catch Roger's attention.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Mr.
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: Bitey will be in it.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what did it to Freddy's face. Mr.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Bitey. Mr. Bitey.
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: I got my nose pierced by a cat once. That
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: was fun.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: That saved you a trip to the mall.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Piercy.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: With Nightmare, I'm open-minded but not really expecting anything. I
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: got a feeling it's just not going to faze me.
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: I probably won't hate it. I probably won't like it.
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: It's like just another remake. But we'll see.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Pretty much. I'll try to stay open-minded. I want to
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: at least see what they've done with this. I haven't
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: been on board really with the idea forever. So we'll
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: have to see what they do. But I guess we
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: will cue the kick-ass music and get on out of here.
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Otherwise, that about does it. We will return next week.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Same geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening.
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: See you later.
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: Hey, girl.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know a damn about my reputation. You know
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: that in the.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: Past it's a new generation.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: And a girl can do.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: What she wants to do.
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: Not me And I.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Don't give a damn about my reputation I never said
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: I wanted to improve my station And I'm only doing
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: good when I'm living for me Don't have to please
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: no one And I don't give a damn about my
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: bad reputation Not.
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: Me Not me Not me.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: And I'm never gonna care about my bad reputation Not
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: me Not me Not me.
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: Not me.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: No communication And everyone.
• 55:24
  Speaker 10: Can say what they want to.
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: Say It never gets.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Better anyway So why should I care about a bad reputation?
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: Anyway, I knew it.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: And I only feel good when I got no pay
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: And that's how I'm gonna stay And I don't give.
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: A damn about my bare reputation Not me Not me
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: Not me Not me.
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: Not me On a kick-ass and red mist, who do
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: you think would win in a fight?
• 56:20
  Speaker 16: I don't know I.
• 56:21
  Speaker 7: Think Kick-Ass is cuter.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 56:23
  Speaker 10: Everyone would definitely fuck his brains out if I got
• 56:27
  Speaker 10: the chance.
• 56:28
  Speaker 11: This show is a production of Movie Meltdown, produced and
• 56:30
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