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Movie Review Rewind, Ep. 56: Moon (2009) · Nashville Movie Dispatch

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  Speaker 1: Flipping back the calendar to highlight yesteryear's finus while exploring
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  Speaker 1: the vast archives in cinema history. This is the Movie
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  Speaker 1: Review Rewind Podcast on Nashville Movie Dispatch. Welcome back for
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  Speaker 1: another year of the movie Review Rewind podcast. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: we're kicking off the twenty twenty six campaign on today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: talking about a fun little sci fi flick from two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and nine titled Moon. I am your host for
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  Speaker 1: the show, the eic at Sobros Network, Big Natural Stony Keeley.
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  Speaker 1: of course, all of our work can be found at
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  Speaker 1: Nashville Movie Dispatch dot substack dot com. Joined as usual
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  Speaker 1: by my co host for the Movie Review Rewind podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association.
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  Speaker 1: He's a board member of the Music City Film Critics Association.
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  Speaker 1: Our resident film critic here mister big shot himself, Brandon
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  Speaker 1: vic Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 3: How you feeling? Do you have any Do you have
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  Speaker 3: any New Year's resolutions?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, just hoping the Titans make it through the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, The Titans are in the playoffs as the
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  Speaker 3: number one seed in the AFC.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: They've got a bye week coming up, and then they
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  Speaker 3: will be hosting Wow whoever wins between Saturday's contest between
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  Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and really rooting for Tom Cruise's Oscar nomination for
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  Speaker 2: Mission Impossible the Final Well.
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  Speaker 3: You know they're giving it to it's like the Career
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  Speaker 3: Achievement nomination.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. But you know people thought that about Demmy Moore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's true, that's true, and then she didn't win.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's the the Oscar obviously going to uh
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  Speaker 3: Dwayne Johnson for the Smashing Machine. Yes, yes, man, I
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  Speaker 3: love he's getting this Awards season.
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  Speaker 2: A comeback, the comeback Kid, even though I think he's
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  Speaker 2: been making for fifty million dollars per movie for I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how.
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  Speaker 3: Long, but fifty million dollars to make the same.
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  Speaker 2: Which a lot. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that is wasted money. But Amazon, I think
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  Speaker 2: did it. So yeah, well Amazon and Netflix, who knew
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  Speaker 2: that's right? But yeah, So a lot of crazy things
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  Speaker 2: going on in twenty twenty six. But the world's doing better.
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  Speaker 2: People seem to like each other more. Everyone's happy, everyone's happy,
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  Speaker 2: when's feeling good. Gas is at a dollar eighty seven.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, unreal? Yeah, well, we we wanted to do something
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  Speaker 3: for for this January that felt a little a little cold.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that we've we've done that before. We
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  Speaker 3: talked about Gosford Park, Moonrise Kingdom for January episode, so
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  Speaker 3: kind of shifting gears here. This is. This is a
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  Speaker 3: movie that feels quite cold. Obviously it's set on the moon.
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  Speaker 3: It is. It is pretty lonely feeling and uh kind
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  Speaker 3: of I don't know like it. It plays well this
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  Speaker 3: time of year, it felt.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can't kick your year off with some
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  Speaker 2: Sam Rockwell, yeah, what do you even? Don't even listen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm with you man. This we did a
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  Speaker 3: Sam Rockwell trash We did a Sam Rockwell podcast not
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  Speaker 3: too long ago. I don't remember what it was for.
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  Speaker 3: Did we do it for that? Oh gosh, see how
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  Speaker 3: they run whatever? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's one of the last ones
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  Speaker 2: that I saw him in. He was in The White
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  Speaker 2: Lotus last year with a very memorable scene. Yeah, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I probably it was two years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I think so something like that.
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  Speaker 2: And what's even more Weirds. I'm pretty sure it came
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  Speaker 2: out on my birthday. I think that's why I remember.
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  Speaker 3: But we talked about Sam Rockwell's career, and I had
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  Speaker 3: not seen this movie at the time we did our
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  Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore's. But I can I can safely say this
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  Speaker 3: would be Sam Rockwell Mount Rushmore. Oh yeah, what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: do you consider it his greatest performance? H Because I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that I've seen every Sam rock Well you've seen.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen quite a few.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's up I think it's up there. Performance based,
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  Speaker 2: I would say so. Especially yeah, I would say so
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  Speaker 2: it's in the top two or top three. I think
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  Speaker 2: the Three Billbirds were three billboards where he won in
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  Speaker 2: the Oscar Oh yeah, I saw that. It is still
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  Speaker 2: it's still I mean, he did win for Supporting Actor.
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  Speaker 2: He is basically the only person in Moon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's almost essentially the same only person you
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  Speaker 2: really see.
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  Speaker 3: There's a cat, There's a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot more to Moon and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it could be if I go based off
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  Speaker 2: performance of what like I enjoy Moon A lot more
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  Speaker 2: than this other movie. But he is great in Clooney's
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  Speaker 2: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind replaces Chuck Berry from the
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  Speaker 2: host of The Gong Show, but also supposedly like this
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  Speaker 2: like secret Agent. Yeah, but I I really after watching this,
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  Speaker 2: he like he's just so damn good. He's acting off himself,
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  Speaker 2: like it's it's it's really just him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you see, like the greats do that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like you try to pull off like multiple characters
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  Speaker 3: in the same movie. It's Eddie. It's no easy task,
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  Speaker 3: it's not. Yeah, but but Sam Rockwell pulls it off
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  Speaker 3: in this one. For those that might need a refresher,
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  Speaker 3: this synopsis comes Curtesy.
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  Speaker 2: Do we say the name? Is it just because it's
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  Speaker 2: in the title of our podcast?
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  Speaker 3: No? I said it to an We can't be talking
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  Speaker 3: about a fun little movie from two thousand and nine
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  Speaker 3: called Moon Oh Okay. Astronaut Sam Bell's three year shift
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  Speaker 3: at a lunar mine is finally coming to an end,
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  Speaker 3: and he's looking forward to his reunion with his wife
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  Speaker 3: and young daughter. Suddenly, Sam's health takes a drastic turn
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  Speaker 3: for the worse. He suffers painful headaches and hallucinations, and
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  Speaker 3: almost has a fatal accident. He meets what appears to
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  Speaker 3: be a younger version of himself, possibly a clone. With
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  Speaker 3: time running out, Sam must solve the mystery before the
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  Speaker 3: company crew arrives.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot how there was So there's the scene where
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  Speaker 2: he talks to his daughter. Yeah, that's the one I remember,
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  Speaker 2: but I forgot how we got there. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 2: definitely forgot the kind of the switcheroo that they do
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  Speaker 2: where you think he's waking up from the crash, but
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  Speaker 2: they're waking up the.
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  Speaker 3: Like in general the other one yeah for life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he because the one that you thought
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  Speaker 2: you had been watching, he actually wasn't, So I.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot about that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It is very it's very smart. And and then they
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  Speaker 2: kind of play off each other. There you know what
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  Speaker 2: I saw like little similarities with that Mickey seventeen does.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say the same thing, like there
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  Speaker 3: is kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of like realize it until we watched Moon, but oh man,
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  Speaker 2: there is. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it was like the duality of man kind
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  Speaker 3: of deal. It's like, yes, we saw it in Mickey
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  Speaker 3: seventeen where it's like these are the same like from
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  Speaker 3: a genetic biological standpoint, they're the same, but they're they're
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  Speaker 3: very different in terms of their their personalities. Yeah, kind
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  Speaker 3: of is reflective of the multitudes within us all and
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  Speaker 3: how each clone kind of represents a different feeling, a
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  Speaker 3: different emotion, or different.
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  Speaker 2: People that they both have a one that's like this,
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting answers like I'm not putting up with this, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know what I mean, Like there seems like
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  Speaker 2: there's always the one that's like has to take charge,
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  Speaker 2: and then it gets the other one going because the
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  Speaker 2: one that we are introduced to at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the film, as his health declines, he starts to push
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  Speaker 2: it together. And it's very heartbreaking at the end, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: because you care about these people, even though it's actually
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  Speaker 2: like everybody was doing okay except for the people who
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  Speaker 2: thought they were the one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which I think, you know, could be kind of
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  Speaker 3: I kind of felt like it raises some really interesting
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  Speaker 3: ethical questions about the advancement of science. Yeah, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: do you consider like clones people kind of deal and
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  Speaker 3: and they this company that sends them on this mission
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  Speaker 3: obviously does not. And even you hear like the original
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  Speaker 3: Sam on the phone when one of the Clones is
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  Speaker 3: talking to his daughter. It's just like, oh, hang up
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  Speaker 3: the phone, hang up the phone, like almost like no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: we don't we don't acknowledge that. It's to me, that
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  Speaker 3: was one of the saddest aspects of the film. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: you feel so bad for the two sam Bells that
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  Speaker 3: are that are stuck I mean abandonment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it really is. And the only thing
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  Speaker 2: up there to console you is Kevin Spacey's voice. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: which is you know, that's a.
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  Speaker 3: I recognize that voice right off the bat too, And
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  Speaker 3: it was it was a little jarring. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I guess he was still making movies then.
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  Speaker 2: Two thousand and nine. Yeah, yeah, he was alright in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. Well to movie audiences, he was
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's I think the film kind of the
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  Speaker 3: way it explores the relationships between the Clones and uh,
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  Speaker 3: it does kind of highlight their desires. I think it
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  Speaker 3: is a testament to like the innate human nature, like
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  Speaker 3: long community, to long for loving that sort of thing,
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  Speaker 3: like it doesn't matter who you are, all humans, like
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  Speaker 3: it's a base trait of ours. Yeah, that you you
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  Speaker 3: long for that and.
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  Speaker 2: Strike nobody's you're not absent from from any of that,
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  Speaker 2: even if you even if they're classified as non human.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it just I don't know, man, I thought
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  Speaker 3: it was a it was a powerful way to express that.
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  Speaker 2: And it's such a small film, like there's nothing really
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  Speaker 2: flashy about it, and maybe like when it goes outside
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  Speaker 2: and on the moon, like you know, but honestly, they're
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  Speaker 2: just really within like the confines of you know, what
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  Speaker 2: would be a spaceship. But I mean, if you think
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  Speaker 2: about it, they're not. There's nothing real tricky about it.
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  Speaker 2: But I was watching on how they would film it,
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  Speaker 2: like when they talk to each other and when they
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  Speaker 2: fight each other. Yeah, a couple of times where it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like, oh that we could have we could
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  Speaker 2: have covered that up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, hey, listen, but the.
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  Speaker 2: Duncan Jones did damn good.
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  Speaker 3: The budget was five million bars for this film, and
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  Speaker 3: not only that, which you're right, you do kind of
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  Speaker 3: notice some of those things in the film.
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  Speaker 2: It's not I mean, listen, I've seen worse in a
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  Speaker 2: in two hundred million dollar movies. But I but I
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  Speaker 2: really I agree. There's just that part where like it's
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  Speaker 2: almost like society says, you're not supposed to feel for
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  Speaker 2: these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you do because.
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  Speaker 2: What you know, they're they're as human. They seem and
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  Speaker 2: act and feel as human as you and I watching it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's but that the thought of the life that
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  Speaker 2: you had is not real.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't think of a of a of a
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  Speaker 2: more tragic.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just the realization of like this is what
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  Speaker 3: they're going to do with yah is just that I'm
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  Speaker 3: just literally just to do that. I'll never I'll never
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  Speaker 3: have what the original Sam Bell has.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Mickey seventeen kind of thing. Yeah, they don't
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  Speaker 2: give a shit about you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which I thought also was kind of a nice
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: little jab at corporate greed and corporate structure in the way.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that the man, so to speak, just puts
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  Speaker 3: its boot on your throat. Yeah, And it's like it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't doesn't take into account these sorts of things.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know man sympathy to be it's so
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  Speaker 2: cold and yeah, and there's no sympathetic nature to it.
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  Speaker 2: But and I think that's almost how they see these clones.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not but it's not true.
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  Speaker 3: But to get all of that across in such a
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  Speaker 3: small film that's basically just the Sam Rockwell Show ninety. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just I mean to me, like you tip your
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  Speaker 3: cap to the guy to Duncan Jones, like this is
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  Speaker 3: just this was a fantastic effective storytelling to do on
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  Speaker 3: five million dollars, which I don't know if you knew
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  Speaker 3: this about it, like they use models for the sprawling
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  Speaker 3: outside shots of the movie, opting to save the cost
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  Speaker 3: of VFX. But I did notice it because I remember
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  Speaker 3: this being like a really small film. I didn't look
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  Speaker 3: up the budget or it's run at the box office
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that before watching the movie. But watching it,
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  Speaker 3: I kind of wondered, I'm like, I wonder if they're
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  Speaker 3: using model for this because it didn't look to me particularly.
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  Speaker 2: It fits so breathtaking and what they're and what they're.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like an endearing sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like it doesn't look cheap, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: And Duncan Jones has talked in interviews about how like
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  Speaker 3: he wanted this movie to kind of be an homage
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  Speaker 3: to some of the science fiction.
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  Speaker 2: Films the seventies that he grew up.
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  Speaker 3: Watching, which I kind of thought, Yeah, that's a nice,
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  Speaker 3: nice little touch for this film. It made nine point
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  Speaker 3: eight million during its box office run. Wasn't even going
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  Speaker 3: to get a run at the box office. I remember
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  Speaker 3: court this was supposed to be like a direct to
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  Speaker 3: DVD kind of thing, and then it debuted at I
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  Speaker 3: want to say Sundance. I didn't jot it down.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might have that sounds. I think that
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  Speaker 2: could be right. But it won a bunch of stuff too.
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  Speaker 3: Two thousand and nine Sundance Sundance Film Festival. Yeah, in
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  Speaker 3: January of two thousand and nine. And after that, Sony
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  Speaker 3: got a hold of it and was like, yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: is going to get a theatrical release. And then I
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  Speaker 3: mean to just a about double your money. You know
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  Speaker 3: that's good business. You can't go broke making a profit.
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  Speaker 3: Uh really you You mentioned this earlier, and I think it's
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  Speaker 3: really interesting to look at where Duncan Jones went after this,
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  Speaker 3: because this is a this is a good movie. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean that as just like it's not just
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  Speaker 3: good for the genre. It's not just a good sci
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  Speaker 3: fi flip, but this is this is one that I
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  Speaker 3: think says a lot. We've talked about some of the
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  Speaker 3: things to come out of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's thought provoking and provoking, and it's and it's not
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  Speaker 2: all well I'm sorry, A lot of it is in
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  Speaker 2: kind of subtle ways.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's others where it's like boom, But then there's
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  Speaker 2: other things where it's just quietly getting to you. Yeahs
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  Speaker 2: as it's getting too as it's getting to them.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastically acted from Sam Rock. Well, yes, I mean just
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  Speaker 3: a great to think like, this is his directorial debut.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to say, and that is David Bowie's son.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah? I didn't know that. I did
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  Speaker 3: not know that. So Baby Nepo. Baby would go on
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  Speaker 3: to direct twenty eleven, source Code twenty sixteen's Warcraft, twenty
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  Speaker 3: eighteen's Mute, which is technically a sequel to Moon, and
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  Speaker 3: then has an upcoming film titled Rogue Trooper, upcoming animated
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  Speaker 3: science fiction film. So I never I never saw Mute
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  Speaker 3: because it wasn't like Build as a sequel to Move.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it is a Netflix movie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Alexander Scarsgard, Paul Rudd, Justin Thurreau. Yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: Name didn't really get good reviews.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not good.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's a constant across a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: films that he did after Moon as well. What do
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  Speaker 3: you think of his filmography Moon I.
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  Speaker 2: Had, I actually enjoyed Source Code Jake jillnholl movie or
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  Speaker 2: you can't. He kept having to go back to basically
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  Speaker 2: the same thing, but again a sci fi kind of
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  Speaker 2: action thriller this time.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly he got a bigger budget, But I actually liked
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  Speaker 2: that one.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the last time I've liked a Duncan Jones warcraft.
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  Speaker 3: I never I never saw it kind of feels like
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  Speaker 3: capitalizing on the ip obviously from what I I from
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  Speaker 3: what I read, it is like just a hot mess
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  Speaker 3: of a movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very it looks ugly, stories awful, and I mean,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe there was trouble behind the scenes too. I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. But it ended up being a failure
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  Speaker 2: on probably every front because as you can see, they
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  Speaker 2: nothing else happened. Yeah, I mean, I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: a big old popular I.
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  Speaker 3: P Yeah, it is. And you know, it's one of
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  Speaker 3: those things that.
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  Speaker 2: But I had no idea Mute was considered a sequel
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  Speaker 2: to Moon, and that that even that's more frustrating because
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  Speaker 2: it it's nothing of the sort with Moon and it's
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  Speaker 2: a again, it's a it's I just remember thinking it
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  Speaker 2: was a stylish kind of want to be a Blade
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  Speaker 2: Runner kind of thing. Yeah, but it just was not
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  Speaker 2: it it it fell flat on on on probably every
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: aspect of it because it just it wasn't good. And
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say that because it does that cast,
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  Speaker 2: but it did them no favors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, Sam Rockwell has a cameo in it as
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  Speaker 3: Sam Bell.
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  Speaker 2: I don't maybe that. I don't even remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm curious where he fit in, but he maybe he
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: knew somebody, which Sam Bell.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Well, that's the question.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I did not realize Warcraft made four hundred and thirty
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: nine million at.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: The box office guys on.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: One hundred and sixty million dollar budget.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Wow, I guess that's why Duncan Jones got to make mute.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: I'm maybe, yeah, that's gotta be. That's got to be
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: overseas though.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm sure it is.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, because what I was reading was like
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: financial disaster, disappointing that stuff.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: No, I think, Yeah, you can always count on the Bolsheviks.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: So yeah, a couple more notes that I wanted to
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: get through. You mentioned it a second ago. Moon had
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: some really good run with critics associations, various film festivals,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. It was kind of one of those
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: hot underground movies. Back in two thousand and nine. Duncan
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Jones actually won a BAFTA for it for Outstanding Debut
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: by a British Writer, director or Producer.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Good for him.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: So got that BAFTA for Moon, and I, you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the maybe I could. I'm going
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: to look and see what the other nominees were back then.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: But but especially for like that, like you said, this
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: little sci fi drama.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Really yeah, that's.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Really impressive.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I have not heard of any of the other
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: films that were nominated in this category. But we're gonna
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: let We're gonna let Duncan Jones have his film.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Let me let me maybe I might know a couple.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Exam British psychological thriller film Stuart Hazel Dean.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with that one.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Mugabbi and the White African Okay documentary Nowhere Boy. Oh yeah,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Sam Taylor John.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I like that one. He played Lennon, a young Lennon. Oh,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that was a good one.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Who who was in that? I don't see it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Aaron Taylor Johnson, Oh okay, he played John a young
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: John Lennon very well, someone famous I thought played his mom.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: But that opened the Nashville Film Festival that year.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I had no idea.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: And then Shifty by Aaron Creepy.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, no, nowhere Boys only one that instantly exam
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: sounds familiar, but I'm pretty sure I didn't see it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: So another thing that I thought was interesting. You've actually
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: kind of already brought this up a little bit too,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: talking about Duncan Jones kind of wanting to pay homage
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: to grades of the genre with this film. The voice
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: of Gerdy Kevin Spacey is actually meant to be an
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: homage to the voice of hol from two thousand and
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: one of Space.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I feel like two thousand and one Space Odyssey is
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: basically that's what everyone tries to do. Still have not
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: seen it all.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it's a long, it's a it's
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: a sleepy Kubrick.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: We've got a complicated relationship.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to I need to watch that one again.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I need to give it back to you.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot. I've got the.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Intention of watching it, and then I end up watching
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Moon and Ferris Buehler, Well.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: We got to do these podcasts. Maybe that's what it takes.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: We just need to do a podcast on that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Kubrick Barry Lyndon.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Oh that's true. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, well we'll get
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to that at some point. The last thing I've got
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: in my notes. Okay, did you know that this film
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: has a very special plate place in the heart of
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans fans?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: No?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Do you know why? See if you remember it?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, is it a football game he's watching.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: No, when he wakes up, he gets out of bed,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: he raises up and there is a poster on the
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: wall that has the Tennessee Titans logo. Oh really, he's
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Titans at the bottom. So Sam Bell is a Titans fan.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Oh what was it? There is a poster on there?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Now I forgot. I think it was of a band
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: that I noticed. I did not know notice the Titans
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: poster in there. So that was extraly odd because I
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: don't even think he can't be from Tennessee.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: The next time you watch it, just pay attention to that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: The scene when he's getting out of bed and like
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: putting on his clothes or whatever.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: There is a Titans poster on the wall, and that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: was in two thousand and nine, so we were what
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: ten years old, so something like that. Yeah, that's a
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Titans team, not us.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was yeah, yeah, okay. Now that was the
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: year after they were the number one seed in the playoffs.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: With Carrie Collins at quarterback. The Baltimore Ravens purposely tried
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: to injure Chris Johnson in the playoff game. They did
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: so he wasn't as effective, and then Algie Crumpler fumbled
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: the ball and the Ravens won the game, costing the
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Titans probably their best chance to get to a Super
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Bowl since was it ray Lewis? Ray Lewis was playing still?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know he killed someone.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Well allegedly. I don't know if we can be exposed
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: to legal issues.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Well didn't he go to court?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't want to. I don't want
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: to meet ray Lewis.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: So he he might have he might have killed somebody.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: We don't know. I don't know whether he did or didn't.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: No, Algie Crumpler could have killed someone.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for all we know.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know where he went after. But yeah, I'm
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: glad you finally got to see it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I'm glad that has slipped through the cracks for me
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: for quite some time.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I am I'm glad because and I'm glad that you
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: really enjoyed it, because I feel like I have built
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: it up because I just even even kind of like,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I'm glad I rewatched it, But I just remember thinking,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: what a what a tremendous one man performance from some
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I mean well, and what he's able to do and
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: keep you just engaged the whole time. But also the
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the the opposite of what the acting opposite of yourself
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: with two distinct personalities, and on top of like you said,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the brilliant storytelling and those little homages are nice though,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: like I now thinking back on the like exterior parts
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: and everything, that makes a lot more sense. But also
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: they did a nice job that the whole crew, because
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: again it doesn't come off as cheap or anything like.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: And even the times where you know it's not Sam
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: rock I mean, you know Sam Rockwell is not fighting himself.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: It's I've seen a lot worse. Like I don't want
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: people to think like, oh man, it's not they they
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: they did a terrific job. But man, if you you've
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: got to, I mean, I did a thing last year
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and I feel like Sam Rockwell is kind of there.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: He's not as insane. But I talked about Nicholas Cage
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: and a movie called The Surfer. It came out last May,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: and one of the things I said was that you
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: he's in he's in it to win it, and Sam
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Rockwell is and it does it. He's not off, like
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: totally goes off the rails like Cage can, but there's
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: just an energy and there's also a brilliance to him
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: that I think has always been there, but I think
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: more and more people have now discovered it. And I
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: know there's been like things like whole videos of just
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: like in every movie he's dancing. Yeah, so I love it,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: but you want to see some of his finest acting.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Moon is it? Moon Is Is definitely it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Do you want to take a stab at the Rotten
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Tomatoes rating the Tomato meter?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Who do you think loved this film? More critics or audiences?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I think critics did. I want to say, I think
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: it's high eighties, eighty seven is nineties okay.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: And eighty nine for eighty fan so, I mean, it's
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: pretty pretty unanimously beloved film, which is again so crazy
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: to think what Duncan Jones would make after this movie.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now source Code seemed like a kind of maybe
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: a natural progression. Yeah, and then I guess it's kind
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: of like you give somebody who's got a couple of
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: good ones under his belt, you're a BAFTA winner, why not? Warcraft?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Fair enough? Fair enough?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I didn't prepare a lot of letterboxed reviews for this one,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: but just scrolling through, there are a couple of good ones.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Best Actor in a leading role, Sam Rockwell. Best Actor
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: in a supporting role Sam Rockwell. Yeah, pretty fucked up
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: that the actress that played Sam Rockwell's daughter got paid
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: to call him daddy a couple of times when I
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: do it for free every day of my life. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: really thought the two of them were gonna fuck at
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: some point. Sam Rockwell was so good in this episode
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: of Black Mirror.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've I kind of see that one coming. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: feel like that's what it is now, now that Black
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Mirror has become. Yeah, this surreal thing is that that's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: that's what it's compared to. But but yeah, I'm just
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: glad you got to see it. I'm glad I rewatched
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: it and it just reaffirm just how good that movie
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: is and just how great Sam rock Will is.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, man, I will I will drink to that
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: happy New Year. Kicking off the new year on a
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: high note with Sam Rockwell's Moon from two thousand and nine.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: If you haven't seen it, go check it out. That's
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: gonna do it for my notes here, Brandon, you got
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: any parting shots? Nope, Yeah, there we go. We'll we'll
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: keep this train rolling next month. Don't know what Trenkan.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Jones peaked at the First peaked at the First film.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: At the time of this recording, we don't know what
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: we're doing for February, but we'll be back with an
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: episode for February, So you guts nice check us out.
• 28:44
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• 28:47
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• 29:01
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• 29:14
  Speaker 2: MHM.