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Send Help · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday. We are back with our probably
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our favorite guest, and that's no offense to any of the other
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guest, but we got Rob Peetz, the movie guy, back with us to
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discuss a new movie that just came out at the time of this
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recording. Anyway, Sam Raimi directed Send
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Help and we're going to get into that.
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But before we do, let's introduce the real master of
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this program, and that is Jason Riley.
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Jason Riley, good to see you, buddy.
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It is I'm excited to be here along with our favorite guest.
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I want to get reaction from being called favorite guest
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because you were you were going to say something well.
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I don't know that I'm. I don't feel that way.
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I don't feel like a favorite. I feel like you guys are
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constantly putting me down when I'm not looking.
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I'm hearing things. Yeah, I'm hearing shit out
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there. It's not good shit.
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I'm going to be honest with you, it's not good.
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So I don't know what this is all about, but it's all bullshit as
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far as I'm concerned. But it feels social media, yeah,
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we have. To get a great start.
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We have to post shit on social media.
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Social media is about shit talking, so that's what it's all
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about. Sorry, it's the rule.
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Shit posting. It's true.
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Yep, Yep. It's true, all right.
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It's. True, we have a format.
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So before we get into this exciting movie that the two of
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you have seen and I will experience secondhand, but we're
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going to start with. As is the case.
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Shot, yeah, yes, Barry, what's what's shot #1 on your plate?
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I'm going sober tonight because you may have guessed from my
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tank top that I'm getting a workout in immediately following
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this record. So as you know, that requires
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sobriety. It's not my preferred or default
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setting, as we all know, but I will do it tonight because I
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have to. I got some pre workout.
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It's called Bryze and it's Godzilla flavor, Jay.
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It tastes like Godzilla's Wiener apparently so, which is
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surprisingly fruity. Check it.
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Out nice. I always thought so.
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Rob, what have you got tonight? Well, I mean, first of all, I
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think Godzilla's a woman, but what do I know?
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I could be wrong. I am not.
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I'm drinking a fact. Check that one.
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Yeah, I'm drinking. I'm drinking a a glass of water
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straight from a Star Trek 3, an original Star Trek 3 Search for
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Spock glass. It's just in honor of the it's
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in honor of the movies really is what it comes.
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It's got Christopher Lloyd on there is Krang is the character
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I think he was called, Yeah. Yeah, Kurt.
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Kurt Krug. Krug.
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Krug, Yeah, yeah. Krug.
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Krug. OK, I am in solidarity
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gentlemen. A nice tall glass of water here
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for you. Well.
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Chin, chin to that. Look at this three sober people.
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This can't be good. Cheers.
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That's. That's rough.
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How do we start it, Barry? You just take us away.
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Yeah, I will. Rob, at the time of this
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recording, we saw the movie just yesterday in the VIPJ, which I
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know is when you do get to the movies, is your preferred way to
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enjoy a movie. The only it was.
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Pretty good. The VIP experience that is.
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But when we got into it, this film, I was going to say one
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word that comes to mind, and this is not a knock.
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This is just my own personal thing.
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It's gross, but it's amazing. Rob, maybe you want to take us
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from there. I don't even want to say
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anything because any spoiler would just not be nice.
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But let me just tell you, there are, there are, there is
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nastiness around every corner, Rob.
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Yeah, so I thought we were talking about the Melania movie.
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That's what I went and saw on the weekend.
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So I'm pretty sure that lines up with what I was thinking.
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So I think we're good review 005, we're good.
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Done. Nice, all right, topical,
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topical humor there. Topical.
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All right, Yeah, yeah. All right, first.
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Before you get into the movie, I want to hear about the VIP
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experience. Like, how was that as you went
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in, sat down, took your seats? Everybody's probably been there,
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but I still want to hear about it.
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I don't know what do I care? OK, great.
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Thank you. Well, that's classic Rob that
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that certainly is classic Rob. I mean, I thought it was cool 11
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knock. It's a tiny thing.
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It's just my own thing. They didn't they do not have the
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additional fake butter dispenser available in the VIP concession
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area. Now, I guess that that means
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that the VI PS are perhaps a little more elevated in their
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tastes and to to put fake butter on popcorn is absurd.
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But for me, I like to do both. I get the real butter, but I
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also like a little extra of that stuff from the canister.
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We don't know what it is, care what it is, but it is good.
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I had to go back down to flights of elevator or escalator rather,
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to go to the lobby to get the, the, you know, the fake butter.
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And then I tail it back upstairs.
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I did. Yeah.
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Yeah. I'm not going to let this movie
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I went. I went with no.
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No, before we sat down. Yeah, boy.
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OK. Rob, what do you think?
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Yeah, Rob didn't. Want the bucket?
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Rob didn't want a bucket format. Well, he wanted a bag of
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popcorn, so we had to go back. Down.
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It's a whole, you guys. It was a whole.
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Not even. Done if he experienced like the
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hillbillies. Coming in at night, everybody
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the. One, I'm not I'm not the one.
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It's it's all him. It's not I'm not the one.
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So basically in the in the view of.
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The bag I'll. Explain it.
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I'm about to explain. He did it.
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In the first of all, I don't eat the entire large bag of popcorn
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when I go to a theater. I just don't do it.
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I have no interest in shoveling that down my gullet.
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So what I do is I crumble the bag up and I put it in my bag
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and I take it home and I might eat some later.
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That's that's it, no big deal. But with the box that they give
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you in the VIP thing, it's a giant box.
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There's no way to crumble that up.
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So what am I left with? You can, I'm left with that.
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I'm leaving in the the theater that no, it wouldn't have
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worked. I know it wouldn't have worked,
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no. It wouldn't have worked.
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I thought about it. It would have been chaotic so.
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You do really have no business being in a VIP because between
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we don't. We're a bunch of rubes.
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Yeah, we don't. Harry takes care all that.
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Is it's just like. Sunflower oil that they pour in
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there and you're like, I got to go down 6 elevators to get to it
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that that's not AVIP. And then meanwhile, Rob's
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crumpling up bags, picking garbage off the ground.
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All right, gentlemen. So you, you sat in the VIP
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experience and sort of took advantage of it I guess and kind
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of. Now started to hurt by by hour 2
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my my ass was hurting. Hour 2 How long is this movie?
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Hour and hour and a half, I guess.
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An hour and. 1/2 will you stay? Longer, it's nice and.
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Finish your popcorn. No, okay, all right, let's hear
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it now. Let's dive into this thing and
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then we'll do shot #2 Rob. Buddies.
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It's a, it's the return kind of of Sam Raimi doing his own thing
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and the kind of being allowed to do his own thing.
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And it's a fun movie. It's basically about a, about a,
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an employee at a company who's kind of getting ready for some
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sort of a promotion to like a VI, like I don't know, I don't
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know, I don't know what. The VP position.
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Probably AVP. Yeah, Her name is Linda Little
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and she's played by Rachel McAdams, right?
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So. And actually I thought she was
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kind of there's a little bit because it kind of had a bit of
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a Francis Mcdormand vibe to her from time to time, which was
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kind of weird from the sort of Fargo and yeah, even and a bit
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of. Kathy Bates.
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Kathy Bates, of course, Little later, little later on.
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OK. All right.
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So basically the the boss is the boss that she was working for.
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The owner of the company passes away and and his son is put in
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charge. I don't know if you noticed
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this, Barry, but the the original boss, who you never get
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to meet because he's dead, is actually hanging up in in the
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son's office, a portrait of him. Yeah, it's Bruce Campbell.
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It was, you know, I really, I didn't see.
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I didn't. Notice that.
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Didn't pay attention to the Easter eggs.
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Barry got to pay a little. Maybe you're.
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Maybe you're chowing down on that.
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Strip shoveling down corn. I was shoveling all the corn
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down. I'd never leave corn on the
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table. Jay and I sure as hell wasn't
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going to start last. Yesterday.
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No. Anyway, OK.
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Back to you. So that basically they, they,
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she, she kind of, I don't know, something happens where they go.
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She's kind of brought on this flight with them to go talk to
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some clients or something like that, some big deal overseas.
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Yeah, it's like a merger. They're going to close a deal
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and they're flying on a private jet to Thailand.
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That's nice. That's the whole thing.
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Yeah, OK. And the boss's kid, the new boss
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really doesn't like her because she's kind of a gross person.
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She like, has like little bits of egg salad on her face while
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she's trying to talk to him. And she's, she's a quirky,
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unusual character who's to be honest with you, they're both
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kind of a little bit unlikable there.
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There's something odd about both of them really.
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But he doesn't like her. He doesn't want, you know, So
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he's trying to just, but he kind of just takes her along because
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she is the one that does get a lot of the work done there.
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So the plane goes down. They end up being stranded on an
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island, him and her. And that's, that's basically the
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plot. I'm not sure that we should get
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into spoilers because it's such a new movie, but.
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Yeah, I know. It does go South pretty quickly
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from there. She's she's also a survivalist,
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so that that'll give you some hints as to where this might go.
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He is not. He's a rich boy who has no idea.
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He plays golf. That's all he knows.
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And the two fall in love. Well, you do not, right?
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You could, they could. But yeah, a lot of things
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happen, a lot of gross things happen, a lot of twists and.
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Turns, twists. Just what you think.
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You kind of, yeah, a lot of twists.
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For two people stranded on an island, there is a surprising
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number of twists. And they're, they're all good.
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It's like there's nothing. They were like, oh, come on, At
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least I didn't feel that way. I don't know whether you felt
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that way, Rob, but. No, there there was some great
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moments. It was tight storytelling, yeah.
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Did anyone? I was trying it dragged a little
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bit, but it was it was good overall.
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Did anyone climb up? I'm sensing a bit of slight
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different opinion on this movie from the two of you, so that's
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great. Let's dig into it.
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Did anyone climb up a palm tree and knock down coconuts?
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Or attempt to? Because that's a classic when
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you're trapped on a desert island.
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No, when they missed that. Eh, that would have been a.
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Don't think they had. To They had coconuts, but we
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didn't see them retrieving them, Yeah.
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That would have been a nice though.
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Like there's there's a, there's a plot device as well in here
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that that becomes exposed later on.
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But let's just say there's a mysterious side of the island.
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Like 7 seasons of lost or 6? Seasons, yeah.
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We don't know. We don't know.
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I'm not going to tell you, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
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OK, well since you're not going to tell me, I think we should do
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shot #2 see if any of these sober shots will loosen some
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lips. Barry, what have you got this
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time all? Right, the same thing, my
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friend. It's more Ryze Godzilla
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flavored. I don't know where they come up
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with this, but it's good. It's just like a light mango, I
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suppose. Well, that makes sense
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considering what we just saw, right?
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So yeah, I'm going back to the Kurt Kurge Kurge drink.
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Kurge and I got just plain old glass.
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Right. Cheers.
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Well, OK Chin, Cheers. So I guess we can say a couple
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of things and one is Rachel McAdams, obviously very
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attractive in person. Did you see that?
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Very thirsty. Sorry, Glass.
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Very. That's on island.
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I need, I need water, yeah. Hydrated.
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It's very important. Impressive.
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OK, sorry. They were able to make Rachel
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McAdams look pretty dumpy and which I thought was impressive
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and they didn't really do. They didn't add any prosthetics
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to her face. It's still her face.
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But her hair looked like a mess. Like Rob said, she had food
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caked on, food around her mouth. She just wore dumpy clothes.
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She just looked not what you'd expect.
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And Rob also mentioned the survivalist angle.
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I will say one thing. As they're in the private jet,
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it's revealed that she had auditioned or sent in an
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audition tape for the show's survivor.
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OK now her Co workers are all laughing and making fun of her
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while she's working her ass off in the back of the aircraft.
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So that's something just she's working.
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She's like. She's the back.
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She's the only one working. Yeah, she's like the.
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She's like the Comptroller, She's like in charge of all the
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finances. She might as well be the CFO,
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but she's not. But there's this guy in.
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The troller. I just love saying Comptroller.
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I know you like hearing it, Jay. Me too.
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So anyway, so that's revealed and so they're making fun of her
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and then of course bad things happen, but.
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The plane, the plane basically gets into some major turbulence
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and it kind of breaks up. But there's there's a guy that
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gets the guy, there's a guy that is going to get sucked out of
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the plane, but he kind of crawls over to her and tries to hold
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onto her leg and she's getting pulled with him out this hole
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that's in the side of the plane and then someone.
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Else gives me your seat. Remember that?
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Yeah, give. Me your.
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Seat. And then he grabs a rich guy.
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Yeah, he's a rich guy. He doesn't give a shit about
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anyone, right, But that's you know, but so another one of
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these like kind of rich young guys gets and starts pulling on
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the other guys leg. Now there's two on her and he
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gets sucked out. Then the second guy, the
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original guy gets sucked out as well.
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Is this is so such a Sam Rammy moment.
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His tie gets caught on the edge of the outside of the plane.
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So he's now he's now stuck to the side of the plane and his
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head is slapping against her window, which is yeah, so fuck.
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He's getting. So fucking good.
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And bloodier and bloodier. And what does she do?
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She does. Closes the window.
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Closes the. It was like it.
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Was amazing. It was a.
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Lot of humor, a lot of really good humor.
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None of it really fell flat. It was all quite good.
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The acting was great. Yeah.
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Dylan O'Brien I think is the guys name that plays the, the
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kind of Snooty rich kid. He's injured as well.
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So when they when she washes up on shore, she finds him down the
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shore a bit, but he's injured. So she kind of nurses him back
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to health. And that's kind of, you know,
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the beginning. He kind of seems grateful, but
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he's also he's just they they're both kind of like they both have
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these. I'll turn your motives and
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you're not really sure what's what.
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You know who they are exactly. And some stuff, stuff kind of
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comes out as they kind of hang around and and get to know each
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other a bit. And it ends up that she really
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is in control of this whole situation for the most part.
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And I won't get into how that all sort of opens up in the end.
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There's also a great scene where where she goes, she she knows
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there's a a wild boar out there somewhere.
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So she's like, I know I saw it. There always is.
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I'm going to go hunt for it. So she goes and hunt swimmers.
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It's one of the best scenes in the movie.
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I think it's very gory, but is this bore?
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Yeah, it's so good. She tries to kill the bore, but
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the boys like what? What?
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What the fuck? No way, man.
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And that bore just starts charging her.
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It's a oversized for sure. And she kind of takes it out
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with a lot of blood just spraying on her.
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It's it's. Yeah, but it's not just blood.
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The the boar is also coughing snot all over my face in
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addition to the blood pouring out.
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So it's like it's just a delicious, it's all over her
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face. Yeah, Oh my God.
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Well, Rob, before, before we go to to star ratings and final
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decision or final thoughts, I want to you mentioned it dragged
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a little bit, Barry didn't. So I'm curious to hear with that
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disconnect where without spoiling things, where did it
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drag for you or was it very? I think it was, I think it was
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honestly like end of the first act into the second act.
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It was a, it was kind of repeating itself.
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I'm not repeating itself, but we were lingering a bit.
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Also, I found the intro a bit long.
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Like we spent a lot of time with her and her nerdiness.
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We spent time in her apartment with her.
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Not that that was bad, but it did take a bit of time to get to
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the plane. Probably 1520 minutes, I guess
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maybe, you know, somewhere in there. 15 minutes.
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I don't know that we needed all that exposition.
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I think it was, it was fine, it worked, it was all good.
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But maybe they could have trimmed some of it.
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I think, I'm not sure exactly how long the movie was, but
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maybe an hour and 45 minutes, 50 minutes or something like that.
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They probably could have trimmed 10 or 15 minutes out of the
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movie and it would have been the same movie.
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So whereas primate was too fast, this was a little too slow
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getting set up. Barry, what's your thoughts?
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It was just right. An hour.
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Yeah, OK, got it. Yeah, in and out.
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I didn't notice any dragging and I don't think 15 minutes chopped
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out because, well, in the beginning when we're with her in
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her apartment and she's, I don't know, there's there's something
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that in her apartment that comes back at the very, very, very
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end. It's kind of a sweet throwback
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to the beginning. It kind of ties everything up.
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And the ending is one of the best, most satisfying.
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And people were clapping in the theater.
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That's how good it was. And now some of them were drunk
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because it is VIP and they're getting, they're getting
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margaritas and whatever at the VIP, which is great.
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But people were clapping and it was really satisfying.
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I was like, OK, this is there was no cop out here.
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This was a very well told story and I really do recommend it.
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It was well put together and. Yeah, the only disconnect.
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And I do know Barry for sure, he likes to not just go to a movie,
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he likes to settle into a world. So I can see where you would
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appreciate that set up. If there's one thing I've known
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about you, it's all online and that's, you know, some nice
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things that are said. You like to settle into a world.
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And that's I do. Thank you, Chuck.
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You do. All right, let's do final
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thoughts and and star rating. We'll start with our guest, our
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favorite guest, the movie guy, Rob Peetz.
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No offense to other guests. No offense, I'm not going to
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show this is true. Just so we all know.
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It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So overall I thought it was
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great. I don't think it was quite as
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good as Drag Me to Hell, which was one of his, which I think
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you would compare this movie to, which was a kind of a 15 years
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ago or something like that. I think that was a little more
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interesting, a little more fun, but this was still quite fun.
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I would say maybe 3 1/2 out of 5 for me.
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OK. So.
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Barry, your star rating, final thoughts.
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And then sing us out. Yeah.
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I agree with Rob. This did have a lot of
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similarities to Drag Me to Hell. Drag Me to Hell was yeah,
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perhaps a little better. But they both have one thing in
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common. They have fantastic finales.
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The endings for both of those movies are are just great, very
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satisfying. And so that's what I would say
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very. Classic.
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Very classic. It's like you kind of get the
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rug pulled out a little bit and you're like shit, wow, that's
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kind of cool. 4 out of five. It was a four out of five for
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me. I enjoyed it.
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I would just say one thing for anyone who is like me is maybe
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touch on the queasy side when it comes to too much gore and barf
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and snot on screen. There is no shortage of any one
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of those three things. So just know that going in.
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That's about it. Fantastic, but.
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See it? See it?
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I think we'll leave it there. You heard it here first.
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Folks, it's fun. See it?
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And Rob, we will see you next time when you're here to review
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whatever that next movie is. I know you've probably already
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got it lined up. I think we know already.
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Soon, Oh yeah, it will be on a tell our listeners.
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Probably, probably the bride. What's it called?
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The bride, right? OK, Barry, enjoy your workout
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tonight, Rob. Enjoy the rest of your evening.
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And to our dear listeners and viewers, rush out there and see.
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Send help and we will see you next week.
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