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WOR Movie Minute guy Joe Neumaier interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So what new movies are coming out? Well, let's check
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  Speaker 1: in with Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WOR, Movie Minute host. Hey, Joe, listen.
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  Speaker 1: In my short stint out in Hollywood, I learned something.
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  Speaker 1: I learned that the big blockbuster movies are put out
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  Speaker 1: in the summer and over the holidays. The ones that
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  Speaker 1: have Oscar hopes, many of them are released at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year. And then there's these dead zones
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  Speaker 1: where the bad movies are. and many of them are
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  Speaker 1: after the first of the year and now, like right
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  Speaker 1: after the summer. So is there something good coming out
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  Speaker 1: this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what? That's absolutely right. It's always been
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  Speaker 2: the case, in fact, Larry. I mean, there was a
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  Speaker 2: time where January was really like the dead time. Now
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  Speaker 2: there's a few things coming out this weekend. I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of surprised. There's this really nice, kind of a gritty
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  Speaker 2: nature film called Heart of the Beast that stars Brad
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  Speaker 2: Pitt as an Army Forces veteran. And he's in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 2: he's in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog. And
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  Speaker 2: they've been partners for a while. They were in Afghanistan together,
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  Speaker 2: and they're fishing. He has a heart attack while he's
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  Speaker 2: flying a plane, and the plane goes down. And he
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  Speaker 2: and the dog, who's this amazing German shepherd, he does
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  Speaker 2: a really beautiful job. This dog's name is Uber, actually,
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  Speaker 2: is the dog in the movie. His name is Odin.
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  Speaker 2: And the two of them have to survive in the wild.
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  Speaker 2: And it's sort of a little like... Jeremiah Johnson or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, The Grey, some of those great kind of
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  Speaker 2: man versus nature movies. But it's really good. It kind
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  Speaker 2: of tugs at your heart when the moment that it
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  Speaker 2: has to. But it's a tough movie. I like movies
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  Speaker 2: about guys fighting the wilderness anywhere, trying to survive, trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out what to do. They get attacked by bears.
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  Speaker 2: They get attacked by wolves. There's a great scene where
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  Speaker 2: you kind of have to fall into a river. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm giving it three stars. It kind of caught me
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  Speaker 2: by surprise. I wasn't expecting it. So it's definitely sort
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  Speaker 2: of a dad movie, as they call it. It's definitely
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  Speaker 2: like a movie where dads can go. You can cry
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. You can sort of feel like you
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  Speaker 2: want to be out there with them in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it does have Brad Pitt, so there's something for
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  Speaker 1: the women.
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  Speaker 2: There's something for the women, exactly, yeah. He looks pretty
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  Speaker 2: gritty and grizzled in here, though, but this dog is really, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, you know, I got a buddy who says, like,
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  Speaker 2: he hates when movies have reaction shots to animals where
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  Speaker 2: something will happen and they'll cut to the dog or
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  Speaker 2: the cat, like, making a tilt of his head. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't like that, don't go to this movie
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  Speaker 2: because this movie is full of reaction shots of the dog.
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  Speaker 2: But he does a really good job. He's a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: German shepherd. And so three stars for Heart of the Beast,
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  Speaker 2: which I was surprised by. You know, it's a good movie.
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  Speaker 3: Reminds me of that Larry David skit where the German
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  Speaker 3: shepherd was named Adolf and Larry David did a jig
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  Speaker 3: high to the dog to prevent the dog from biting him.
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  Speaker 3: That was a great piece by Larry David.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I've got some homework for you.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I was passing three days ago the Kips Bay Theater,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with the 15 movie complexes right near NYU Hospital.
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  Speaker 3: My God, they're protesting continuously out there to save their theaters.
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  Speaker 1: I did not see you, Joe, so demerit points to you.
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  Speaker 3: Because of that, you are going to have to look
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  Speaker 3: at the four-hour documentary on Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 1: Four hours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Can I do anything else? Can I go into the,
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  Speaker 2: can I shovel into the mines or something? Or bring
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  Speaker 2: those folks food? Maybe I could have AI go and,
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  Speaker 2: can AI watch this stuff? Me, Curtis, I thought you
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  Speaker 2: liked me. I thought that, I thought we had a
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  Speaker 2: good thing going. I was going to bring up Harry
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  Speaker 2: and Tonto, the great guy and cat movie. But now
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  Speaker 2: I got to, LM, all right, you know what's coming
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  Speaker 2: out in two weeks? I'll have to bring a lunch
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  Speaker 2: and sit through it. Boy, that thing looks like it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be hard to watch. But I guess it
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  Speaker 2: brings up some new things or whatever, but like I said,
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  Speaker 2: if AI can watch it for me, I'll try it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let me ask you about the reboot, it sounds like,
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  Speaker 1: although I guess there's six new minutes added to it
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  Speaker 1: of the Avengers Endgames that's going to come out. Is
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  Speaker 1: this in reaction to Spider-Man? Because they were upset that
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  Speaker 1: they got knocked off the perch as the top-selling movie
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  Speaker 1: of all time?
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  Speaker 2: That's right, right. It's a fight between the superheroes. No, actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of the studios do this, like
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  Speaker 2: with Avatar and the Star Wars movies. So to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get people, you know, as if you need any
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  Speaker 2: more excitement to get going for Doomsday, which is the
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  Speaker 2: next Avengers movie that's coming out at the end of
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  Speaker 2: December on the same day as Dune 3, I guess
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  Speaker 2: they're calling it Doomsday. So to see if the kids
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  Speaker 2: can spend 10 hours in the movie theaters watching both
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  Speaker 2: Doomsday and Dune. So, right, it's called Avengers Endgame Encore.
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  Speaker 2: There's 60 minutes of like four new scenes and uh...
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  Speaker 2: and we'll see if it if it can't you know
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  Speaker 2: get what the real you know the real uh.
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  Speaker 1: uh.
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  Speaker 2: prize here i think where globally is that avatar is
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  Speaker 2: number one worldwide and endgame is number two independent can
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  Speaker 2: make like a hundred and twenty five million or something
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  Speaker 2: it can take number one globally spider-man brand new day
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  Speaker 2: of number three globally uh... number one domestically of course
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  Speaker 2: yet you know i always thought avengers ending was really
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  Speaker 2: did it well i thought it ended that whole avengers
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  Speaker 2: series really well it was It was kind of heart-wrenching.
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  Speaker 2: It was great action. I thought the time travel stuff
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  Speaker 2: was fun. I'm looking forward to Doomsday. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I can sit through Endgame again because I've seen
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  Speaker 2: it so many times, but it does have four new scenes.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them I've read lead up to Doomsday. Of course.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a little bit of Doctor Doom stuff in there,
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  Speaker 2: of course, right? Of course.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tease for the next movie. That's the only
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  Speaker 1: reason they're putting that in there.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only reason, yeah. That and the cash. I
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  Speaker 2: think the cash they might like, too. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: it's called Avengers Endgame. It's also going to be in
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  Speaker 2: theaters a little longer. Usually these things go away after
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  Speaker 2: a week or so. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the theaters until it plays out. So people will
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to see those extra scenes and just
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  Speaker 2: to get them going.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Joe Neumeier, WR, Movie Minute host. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much. Have a good weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys. You too.