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Hamster Extra - Freebie! Hamster at the Movies · A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast

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Hello and welcome back to Hamster Extra.
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At the movies. Thank you.
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I didn't know what to call it. It's been a little while since
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we last did this, but this is just a recap of the movies that
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have been watched lately. Some recommendations or
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otherwise as to what certain people thought of it.
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What do you think? Yeah, it's always good to watch
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a film that you haven't seen before you know nothing about.
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Maybe just to try new things, new genres perhaps.
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And so maybe we can recommend something that you might not
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have thought of. And can you please say the
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highly scientific way that we are choosing these movies?
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Or we both wrote some, each on a bit of paper and we Chuck it in
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a box and then just pick them out at random.
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So could be your choice, could be my choice.
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I don't think we've seen each other's choices before, so
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that's quite good. We are watching new films
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together. Now, I have to say, this doesn't
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just work for couples. It works for, you know, if you
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live with your family, or if you live with a roommate or one of
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that. It's a nice way of exploring
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things that you might not otherwise watch.
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There's a load of movies up there I wouldn't watch unless we
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was doing this. I know.
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Yeah. And you know when usually when
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you're stuck looking at the shelves going, oh, which one?
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Oh, I don't know. And yeah, it forces you to make
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a decision. It forces you, Yeah.
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You shove them all in there. 40 movies and there's Potluck where
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there's going to be something. Shit, that's Mark picked.
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OK, well, OK, so we've got quite a few here to go through.
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So the first one we watched was Coco.
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Oh yeah, Disney. Pixar.
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Yeah. What did you think of that one?
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Yeah, I knew nothing about this. I I don't know why.
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I'm not a fan of Pixar films. Really.
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What a story. Well, yeah, yeah, there's like
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Toy Story and stuff, But then I feel like Modern Times, Like Toy
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Story was like 1996. The first one.
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Yeah. But like Modern Times, they they
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come out. I just don't, I don't know.
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I don't see them advertised. I don't know when they're out.
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I know nothing about them. I don't really follow them.
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So I had no idea going into this and it was amazing.
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It was brilliant. It's sort of Mexican.
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Yeah. Mexican themed, isn't it?
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Day of the Dead. That's right.
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Themed sort of fantasy. About this lovely little kid.
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He wants to play music but he's not allowed to play music
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because his dad was a wrong man that left his mum and he played
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the guitar. So he goes on a a long spirit of
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adventure across to the Day of the Dead, doesn't he?
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And finds his dad. And it turns out his dad wasn't
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a wrong man. At all?
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Give spoilers do we? Sorry, I won't say too much.
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Edit Edit Anyway, no, it's really.
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It's got all your what a Disney film does or Disney pixel film
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does. It's got that great song.
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It's a great family adventure. It's not a musical musical
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though, is It's got songs in it, but it's not like a music.
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It's got a beautiful sound. It's got it's funny, it's just
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got all the the grandma. And the animation model was
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just. Sitting there in the chair all
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throughout the whole movie. But when he goes over into the
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what is it the sort of dead, dead world like?
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A whole city. It's so amazing the detail.
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In the animation. Animation.
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Yeah, yeah. Because the characters are sort
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of it's that Pixar really. They've got big eyes, big Ed
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like animated anime type thing. But for a modern one that I
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haven't really seen many of, I really liked it, yeah.
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I think it educates you quite a lot on Mexican tradition.
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Yes, Mexican culture and stuff, Yeah.
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Which is really nice. It's nice when Disney does that.
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When they did Pocahontas, that was quite a nice one as well,
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which educated you a little bit. Every now and again they do
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something. They go to another culture.
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I think this is more like more modern.
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It's more actually set in the culture and blades.
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I think Pocahontas was very testy fired and I don't think he
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was very nice to her. I think she was a slave and was
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buried in Westminster Cathedral. Never mind.
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I think so that's Pocahontas, so I wouldn't take that one.
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Exactly true. Where?
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She talks to the singing tree. I I don't know.
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I haven't seen it anyway. I think we've moved on.
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It's more sort of grounded in actual culture.
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Do you know which is my favorite song in Coco?
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What? It's the one, he sings at the
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end. Proud caught us on.
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Do a melody play anyway. Anyway, yes.
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That is a huge recommend for me because I actually cried at the
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end of that night, and I don't cry a lot at the end of the
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movies, but it's that sort of sentimental nice crying, you
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know? Yeah, Coco, what?
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So do you recommend that one? Yes.
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Are we doing them out of hamster wheels?
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Let's just do that 10. Out of 10 hamster popcorns.
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That's a nine I strong recommend for.
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Me. Yeah, I'd give it an 8.
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Yeah. OK.
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Well, it's pretty good, pretty strong.
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OK, Next up we've got. I'm very happy using legal terms
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in real life. Oh, nice tits.
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I object. OK, so Legally Blonde?
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That's my choice. Classic was that?
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Your choice. Yeah, I think that was my
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choice. Oh, OK.
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That was one of my OK, fine. You put very worthy movies in I
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the fun ones. It's funny because I first
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watched Legally Blonde Two at the cinema.
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I'd never seen the first one, which was strange.
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I think they're both brilliant. Very.
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It's early 2000s, so we've just come out.
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You know, we did the sweetest thing in that last time.
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There was all of that slow of those 90s films.
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This is what sort of one of the last great of the early 2000s,
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that style of film? I mean.
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Everything went away after that after.
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Everything's up a lot from the sweet but.
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It's much better. It's much better.
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Stylish. It's well edited.
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It's much. Better than those late like 90s
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ones but it's it's sort of from that mould but it just elevates
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it a bit more and she's it's from a book I think.
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Oh, is it OK? I.
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Think. What it's got all those people
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that you recognise from the time, the girl.
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Reese Witherspoon. Well, can we talk about Reese
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Witherman for a second? Because I think, really, on the
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page you should find her fucking annoying.
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And she's delightful. She just about managed to swap
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that fine line. Doesn't she have been cutesy,
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cute and being super smart? She's quite well unknown at this
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point. This is what what made.
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Her. Yeah, I think it's.
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Brought her up a bit. This was her bigger.
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What's the name? Of the actress who plays the the
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girl. Who's in the sweetest thing,
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wasn't she? I can never remember her name.
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She's got dark hair. She always looks like she's.
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Sucking on her level. She's always the villain, isn't
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she? And then by the end, she always
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goes good. Yeah.
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And what was the girl? What was the legally blonde's
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name in this? Elwoods.
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Elwoods El had two best friends. He's 2 bimbos who turned up in
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court at the end. I mean, the whole thing is
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absurd, The bit at the end where she solves the whole court case
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just because she knows the poor attendance.
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Game. It's very.
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I think the script and the lines are very witty and clever.
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It's not just your sort of gross out comedy at that time.
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It's very it's actually, it's a it's a proper mystery story.
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It does work out, but it's just got it's very fast, quick pace,
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just the way that the dialogue goes back and forth, especially
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in those court scenes, especially at the end when like
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it just works. It's so like, fantasy so.
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If it's if this isn't like your kind of thing, if you're like,
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oh, I'm never going to watch some like American trashy thing,
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give this a go. Because actually there's a bit
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more to it than that. Even though it's got all those
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trashy things. And it starts out like you think
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it's going to be like a, you know, high school, college, you
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know, it's one of those kind of things.
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But it's not. It's.
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I think the moral of the story is beautiful people can be
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smart, too. Well, I mean, some people have
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got everything, But the only bit that really made me throw out
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comfortable. The only time the real world
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ever intruded on this movie was when the man tried to touch her
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up. Yeah, I know that she's working.
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For but there's nothing else has really sort of dated badly in it
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as well, where I think some of the others around that time have
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dated quite badly, that's true. Yeah, I just thought this was
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super well done. It was.
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It's that sort of entertaining watch, like My best friend's
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wedding. You know, there's nothing too
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deep about it. There's nothing that's going to
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attach to your brain. But it's a really.
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Great soundtrack as well. It's got a really good
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soundtrack. I like the bit where she goes to
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the party and they told her it's a dress up party and she went as
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a Bunny girl and and then no one else was dressed up and she
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didn't care. I really like this.
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We've got to do the sequel at some point.
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I really like the sequel. Or is it better?
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I I it didn't get as good reviews, but I I quite like the.
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Sequel. I'm there for it.
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So come on, how many hamster wheels I'm.
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Going to say 9. Oh, I'd give that eight.
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We reverse there, but it's still good.
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It's still strong, strong. Recommend.
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OK, Next up is obviously very serious.
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It's one of yours, the Aviator. All.
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Directly by Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese, Leonardo
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DiCaprio It's the story Why? Have you gone very camp talking
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about this movie? It's the story of Howard Hughes.
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Howard Hughes, Yes, it's Howard Hughes, isn't it?
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Yes, Yeah, the director. I get it mixed up with Howard
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Hawks. The director.
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I mean the thing I've learned from this movie because I knew.
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Who knew the story? It's like a biopic.
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The director was the least he did in his whole career.
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Yeah, he literally revolutionized airline.
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Hells Angels and he, Yeah, And he's.
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Wasn't the most expensive pick. Actual aviator.
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But he also directed Jane Russell in The Outlaw.
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So he was like a Hollywood director.
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But in also he had this other life of building aeroplanes and
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getting involved in the war in in that way, in terms of getting
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aviation up and running and stuff.
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And then this is all it goes through his whole life.
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It's a long film. It's like over 2 hours.
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Yeah. Now, can we talk about that for
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a second? All right.
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But you need to because there's so much.
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You need a bloody good excuse to try and keep my attention for
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three hours and. He's got all this sort of like,
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well, I suppose it's undiagnosed OCD, which probably wouldn't be
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recognized at the time. So he goes, he ends up being a
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bit of recluse. He has to keep washing his hands
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and then he has like a stutter and everything and he's trying
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to do all this. Paranoia.
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But he's also the very rich, powerful man as well in
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Hollywood at the time, and he goes out with Ava Gardner.
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There's Katherine Hepburn, played by Cate Blanchett.
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Her. Performance.
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Excuse me. Do not skip over that.
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Yeah, she's her performance as the eccentric, if you see,
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Unpredictable Katherine if you've seen.
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Katherine Hepburn in bringing up babies.
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Exactly that. They pretty much recreate.
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There's a wonderful scene where Katherine Hepburn takes Howard
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Hughes back home to meet the family.
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I was on edge throughout the whole thing.
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And I've always loved this film. I don't know why, because I
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remember going to see it at the cinema.
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It was called The Aviat. I didn't know anything about it.
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I thought it was a sci-fi film. And I went in and sat down and
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just watched. I think when you just go in and
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watch something that you have no idea about, I had no idea what
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was going on. And I loved it.
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I thought it was great. I had no idea where it was
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going. I never heard of this guy.
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But yeah, The Life of Howard Hughes, very, very interesting.
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I and Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Sorry, I keep interrupting you. Oh, great duo.
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And they have made lots of brilliant films together.
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This is just because you're. Passionate about it.
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It's great to hear, I thought, the middle of the movie where
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he's really sort of leaning into Howard Hughes's mania and yet
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his long, long scenes of him in his home cinema, you know,
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storing up piss in a bottle and screaming at people through the
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door and things like that. Those went on a bit too long.
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But then I suppose it's all to make you think that actually
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he's going to lose this court case and his career is going to
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go down the pan. He makes a spectacular heroic
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performance in court where he takes them down, doesn't he?
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The people from the other airline.
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And then it turns out, actually, that this movie is still only a
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fraction of his career. He went on for decades and
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decades and and built basically a business empire.
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So if you like sort of classic Hollywood, if you like biopics
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or if you like aviation, this is a film for you.
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If you like mental health, then this film ticks all those boxes.
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I would say it's half an hour too long.
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Yeah, I don't think it did well at the box office.
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I don't think it's a it was a draw, but it's a theme.
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Beautifully, mate, Yeah, Absolutely.
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Stunningly directed. OK, Next up then.
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I wonder if we didn't give it our hamster.
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Wheels. Oh, I'm going to say 10 because
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I love. It I'll give it seven.
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It's good. I read up well above average
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Okay, The Secret Life of David Copperfield.
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Oh yes, so this was the most recent film version 2019.
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I think this one was Dev Patel starring Dev Patel and Peter
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Capaldi. Oh, if Peter Capaldi had played
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the Doctor like this mad eccentric in this movie, we
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would have loved him in seconds instead of two seasons.
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Oh, and who's the lady that plays the aunt?
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Oh, what's her name? The aunt with the donkeys.
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Oh, the one should be the Doctor.
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Yeah, Tilda Swinton. Oh, she was hilarious.
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Oh, and you got Hugh Laurie in there.
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It's got brilliant cast. No donkeys, no donkeys.
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But it's a it's a Dickens tale and you need all these eccentric
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actors to bring all these over the top characters to life.
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And that's exactly what it does. But it's it is Dickens as told
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via Hollywood. So whilst it does chart the
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highs and lows like Dickens does through someone's lives, it's it
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never goes. Like you remember.
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When we watched the Oliver Twist, the old 70s one, it's not
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that brutal. BBC drama adaptation version.
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It's the Hollywood costume, everything sort of clean, clear
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and tidy version, but very colourful.
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I think, I think what works best in this movie is the
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performances, the humour. And yeah, it is just the
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characterisation as well it's it's well made again, which
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shows us some pretty expensive movies on this list.
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We're not playing for him. But I've I watched this first
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with Jack Shahanny insist I'll watch this with him over Zoom.
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And we had a grand old time and I loved it again.
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I. Saw the cinema when it came out.
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This is an easy 9 for me. I thought it was hugely
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entertaining. I liked it.
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Yeah. I do like my Dickens I've I
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probably prefer BBC adaptations. I'm going to give this A7.
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OK, that's fair. We're doing all right so far,
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aren't we? So Next up is another Martin
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Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio combination.
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I've started to think you fancy one or either of them because
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you've put plenty of their movies in this box, and that's
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not a euphemism. Shutter Island.
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Shutter Island. Yeah.
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Based on a novel, it's This is also OK, so we've got my my
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favorite duo. Your favorite duo duo making.
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This film mines Corsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Great film, but also it's my favorite genre of this story
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with A twist or there's something you don't know, or
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there's that that moment at the end where it all makes sense.
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It's that mystery that is my favorite genre.
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So this takes even more boxes for me.
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What did you think? I love horror movies, but in
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particular I love psychological horror movies.
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This is both. It's got some really scary
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imagery in it, this sort of mental asylum on an island.
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So you've got all these horrible scenes of these prisoners and
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that escaping out of the cells and going after people and all
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of this very, very visceral horror.
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But then that brilliant psychological horror of Leonardo
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DiCaprio, this upstanding detective, come on the island to
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try and figure out all the mysteries that are going on
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there. So setting up the 40s, he goes
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to Shutter Island and he's, yeah, he's a detective, that is,
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someone's escaped on the island and he's been brought there to
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try and like find what's going on with his partner and things
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aren't what they see. Well, all for the movie, they're
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saying who is? Is it the 64th, 63rd prisoner?
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Maybe 69th? Well, basically there's a
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number. They're like, there's this many
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prisoners here. And then there's a note that
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says, who is the last prisoner and, well, who is it?
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Who is it? And then of course, the twist at
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the end of the movie is you're not going to tell.
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Everyone, what the oh. This movie you?
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Know what have ruined it if people haven't seen it anyway,
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Things aren't really seeming. We're not really sure what is
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happening. As it goes on, it's getting more
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and more. I'll say this the twist at the
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end of the movie. It makes sense.
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You can figure it out as you go along because there are some
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movies where you know you're not given the clues and the twists
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are a bit of a cheat. And actually the flashback to
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why what's occurred is so horrific and so well filmed.
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It made me feel very uncomfortable watching it.
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Yeah, this is a very good horror movie because I felt horrified.
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Yeah. I'm giving this 90.
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Yeah, yeah. I thought.
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I thought it was. I'm going to give it an 8.
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Oh, I do like it. Oh boy, now we're in trouble.
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I mean, I barely remember a thing about this one.
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It's halfway through the list. Cry of the owl.
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What was that? About this is the one you didn't
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like because it was too above you.
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Basically, Mark thinks every time I don't like a movie he
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recommends. What?
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You was on your phone. But I can't figure.
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Out what you are so this cry of the owl.
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It's based on a Patricia Highsmith book, and Patricia
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Highsmith wrote Talented Mr. Ripley and All The Ripley.
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Books and stuff, so. That's her genre.
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She, I, I need to read more of her, actually.
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So this is again, a story, sort of a psychological thriller with
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A twist very similar to Shutter Island.
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I don't think you've got a particularly big release.
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I don't think it's particularly well known.
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It bombs, but it starts off, I can tell you like the the basic
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concept, but without spoiling things.
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So there's this man and he's sort of stalking this woman and
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he's in the middle of the night watching her for in her house.
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He's sort of outside, hanging around this, yeah.
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Looking through the window, just looking.
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It's. Katherine Heigl, she's plays the
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woman. She's brilliant in this.
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And then she sees him one day and comes out of the house and
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starts talking to him and they strike up a bit of a friendship.
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And then as it goes on, you're like actually who is stalking
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who she is because. She.
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Starts becoming what? And he's trying to get away from
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her, so then the roles are reversed.
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But I can't really say any more than that.
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But if you like like Patricia Highsmith stuff, then I'm I'm
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sure you would have heard of this.
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But if not, again story of the twist, psychological thriller
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Very slow burn. It's the twist.
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I think it's a very slow, slow burn.
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I'm not. I can't say any more.
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We can't talk about these movies, you.
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Should have been watching a bit more closely and not being on
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your phone, not paying attention.
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OK, now I'm going to tell you I didn't like this because it was
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dry as dust. It's a slow, but it's supposed
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to be. Slow burn.
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And there's slow burn. And then there's the skids on
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right at the start. No, the trouble is, I didn't
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like any of the characters. I didn't like any of them.
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I didn't like him. And he's supposed to be the
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victim throughout this. So the idea of this movie is
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this fella, he he goes to this woman's house and it wait, it's
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like a domino rally. It starts a series of events
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start to happen, which then throws a terrible light on him.
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People start being murdered and all this and throughout the
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whole movie he's trying to make himself the innocent person and
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the more he does, the worse he gets into it.
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Till right the end of the movie lots of people are being killed
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and it's all going horribly wrong for him.
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But I didn't like him and I think that's the big problem is
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if if that character was likable, then you'd be invested
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in this movie. But because everybody's a bit
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horrible in this or weird. Catherine Heigl, the stalker.
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She was very old, I don't know, and it didn't have much pace to
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it. No, I think.
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I think there's more to it than you see.
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But anyway, we'll see if if. Mark thinks they.
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Have such a Let us know if. You ever watch?
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Cry of the owl or no cry of the owl, Maybe the book is better.
19:34
Can I ask all of you? You're going to give it?
19:36
Hamster extra people watch cry of the owl and then not say if
19:40
me or Mark is right. I'm going to give it A7 four,
19:43
OK? Just below average.
19:45
It wasn't truly abysmal, but now we're back on form with the next
19:52
film, Camp Rock. Oh.
19:55
My God. I think it was.
19:57
I love to sing and dance. So it was a Disney original
20:02
movie Camp Rock. I think this was in the wake of
20:05
High School Musical being very popular.
20:07
So we're going back to the early twenty 10s.
20:12
This is Camp Rock, So it's the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato
20:15
kind of one of them. And I mean, if you know high
20:17
school music, well, they're. Not too barely appears.
20:20
The songs and stuff. So Demi Lovato, she gets to go
20:23
to Camp Rock. She's always wanted to go there,
20:26
where you all sing and dance from.
20:28
Her mum is the cook. Her mum is the cook.
20:30
But because she wants to hang out, she wants to hang out with
20:32
the rich kids. It's High School Musical meets
20:34
Cinderella, basically she. Tells, she tells the rich
20:38
bitches, and there's this one blonde girl as a tale bitch.
20:41
She tells them that mums this famous person and all this, so
20:45
she has to spend the first half of the movie trying to make them
20:47
avoid her mum who's the camp cook.
20:49
It's fun, but the problem is it's not as great as a High
20:53
School Musical. The songs aren't very memorable,
20:55
unfortunately. The.
20:56
Last couple of songs are pretty good the.
20:58
Characters aren't when don't really stand out very much.
21:01
They sort of blend in. Demi Lovato does her best.
21:03
Jonas Brothers are terrible actors.
21:05
Her name was Poos Lovato. That's that's the meme that long
21:08
lost system in by going to pooke Lovato.
21:12
But Demi Lovato. This is probably like her first
21:15
big role. I'm not.
21:16
I don't know. She must have done some other
21:17
Disney stuff anyway. Can I just say as?
21:19
Not just memorable. The Cinderella part of the story
21:22
is because that the beginning of the movie, obviously she she
21:24
writes her own songs but no one's ever heard it before so
21:27
she's in the kitchen. So OK, I wish I could be your
21:30
singer and one of the children's brothers hears her voice and
21:34
goes, who is that girl. And then he spends the whole
21:38
movie going around the camp going everyone sing for me,
21:41
that's the girl I'm going to sing with with my next album.
21:44
And then obviously at the end there's it all conspires that
21:47
she she's on the stage singing and it's like, you're that girl.
21:50
And then they sing a song together and they all get happy
21:53
in it. The thing I didn't understand
21:55
was how the blonde girl, you know, the bitch.
21:57
Yeah, there's a rich bitch girl who was really making her life
22:00
difficult. She's a reformed character.
22:03
Scenes in the climax, she goes, Oh yeah, I'm so sorry.
22:06
I was such a bitch. And then she's in the girl group
22:08
at the end. It's a Disney film that all
22:10
reformed characters at the end. Oh, OK, it was, it was OK, but
22:14
just not to the heights of high school music, unfortunately.
22:16
And if the songs were better then I would have enjoyed it a
22:18
bit more. But they weren't that.
22:19
Great Hamster World would. You give this, I'm going to give
22:22
it a six. OK, I'm going to give this no,
22:26
I'm going to give this eight hamster.
22:28
But. I'll tell you for why.
22:30
I'll tell you for why. I watched this on the same day
22:32
that I watched Cry of the Hour. I might have been feeling kind
22:36
watching this, but I mean, after that boring film, it was so
22:39
lovely to watch something Camp. Well, Camp Rock and fun and
22:44
silly and childish and much more my bag.
22:47
So Camp Rock 8. OK, Next up.
22:50
Oh. My another of my choices.
22:53
OK, so guys, if you ever fancied watching 2 1/2 hours of a woman
22:58
walking across countryside, then the Wall is the film.
23:02
Again, this is based on a book. I think it's a German film.
23:07
I can't remember who it's by. Should have had that ready, but
23:10
never mind. I first heard of this right when
23:14
it was on the big Finnish magazine in Vortex when somebody
23:20
was writing about their Survivor Series.
23:23
And they said this is the sort of star we're going for.
23:25
You know, people out in the wilderness trying to survive.
23:27
A bit like the wall, The film The Wall.
23:31
They can't do a survivor's audio like that movie 2 1/2 hours of
23:34
nothing. And again, this is sort of my
23:36
kind of genre. Something weird's going on.
23:38
It's not really explaining the story with a bit of A twist, but
23:40
this is very different in that, I mean the books probably quite
23:45
famous, so probably people know it.
23:47
There's women out in the Australian Alps, Australian,
23:50
Austrian. I mean, I'm being sarcastic, but
23:53
it's beautiful. She's out there in a log cabin,
23:57
middle of nowhere, with her dog and the people that she's with
24:03
don't come back. So she's like, OK, we'll walk
24:05
out to the village to find them. And in big invisible wall she
24:09
can't get. It's just invisible wall.
24:11
You don't see anything. It's invisible.
24:13
She can't get across and she finds out she's basically in
24:16
this valley on her own outside world.
24:19
It's sort of frozen outside. She tries to crash the car
24:21
through. She can't get through.
24:23
Nothing will get through into this lot.
24:25
So it's her then narrating this story.
24:28
It's just one actress. She does brilliantly on the
24:30
film. She narrates it in German and
24:32
you can have it narrated in English as well, which is quite
24:35
handy because it's just her and the animals surviving in this
24:42
within this wall. She's got to, you know, get
24:45
food, she's got to do the crop. She's like, she doesn't know
24:49
what's going on, what's happened to the outside world.
24:51
There's all these questions, but she's still got to survive.
24:53
So it's her survival story. For 2 1/2 but it's.
24:56
Brilliantly shot. And it's quite I just.
24:58
I'm happy she walks. Across the pastures, she goes
25:01
and gets the cow. She goes and gets, takes the dog
25:04
out for a walk. And then, I mean, my issue with
25:08
this movie is it's a very interpretive movie.
25:12
I this whole survival story of this woman.
25:16
It's got very deep themes to it that, you know, you sort of have
25:20
to look beneath what's in the movie as to what they're trying
25:24
to get AT. And I like a literal movie.
25:27
I like I want a movie to entertain me.
25:28
I don't want 2 1/2 hours of oh, I mean.
25:32
Oh, she finds a cow. The biggest problem with this
25:35
movie is you don't find out nothing about this fucking wool.
25:39
Well, you might don't. Be like that other movie we
25:41
watch, that movie we watch when they went to the island and they
25:43
were trapped on the island and they were all getting older very
25:46
fast. Imagine if that ended and we
25:48
never found out why. I know.
25:50
It's. It's not about that, though.
25:51
Yeah. It's about her survival and her
25:53
questions of, like, life. And, you know, because she sees,
25:57
oh, she sees a fox. She's a cow.
26:00
She has a dog. Oh, she finds a cat and a cat
26:02
has a kitten. And there's a white.
26:04
Eagle or something. Can I say something to you
26:06
though? Like if I want to do that, I'll
26:08
go to Austria and walk across the countryside and see all the
26:11
animals. And then she's got I.
26:12
Don't need to watch it on my TV, she doesn't.
26:14
Want to have to shoot the animals and skin it, but she has
26:16
to because to survive and things.
26:18
Anyway, let's move on. If you don't like it, you don't
26:20
like it. Don't like it?
26:21
Don't be shitty. Just like the movie you
26:24
suggested. I mean, I'm surprised you like
26:28
this. Do you normally like a fast pace
26:31
or no? I.
26:31
Don't. I like things like this.
26:32
It's just, it's a weird thing. What attractive.
26:34
I was like, OK, it's like survivors a lot.
26:36
Survivors. And this is weird.
26:38
There's a wall. There's a weird thing.
26:40
Yeah. What was that?
26:42
I like that. What was the wall?
26:43
I don't know. Was it an experiment?
26:45
I'm going to read the book and see if there's any more.
26:47
Please do and enlighten me and I might enjoy it some more.
26:49
I'm going to give this to seven. Five.
26:52
I think it's very well directed and beautifully acted.
26:57
It was the whole production was gorgeous.
26:59
The narrative was so boring, though.
27:01
I'm sorry Okay. Next up, we've got, oh, the most
27:06
controversial film of all time in terms of production, Doctor
27:12
Doolittle. Oh, so this is the 70s one,
27:15
isn't it? Late 60s, I think.
27:17
Is it late 60s? The late 60s with Rex Harrison?
27:21
Harrison the Musical Extravaganza.
27:24
Yeah, I was talking about the behind the scenes.
27:27
Who's the guy who's the Irish guy?
27:28
He went out with Annika Wills. I can't remember.
27:30
His name? I can't remember his name.
27:31
Anyway, I don't think it did very well did it?
27:34
It bombed. I mean, to make Doctor Doolittle
27:37
into a film, it's a very difficult thing.
27:38
I mean, I didn't like the. Animated.
27:40
I mean they use real animals throughout the whole thing.
27:43
There's like 1 instance of a fake animal.
27:44
Everything is real. So they've got all.
27:46
I mean it's just amazing just to watch Rex Harrison in the studio
27:50
with a million different life. Squirrels, rabbits, Guinea pigs,
27:54
There's a horse, there's a monkey, there's duck, pig,
27:58
everything all real together in A room.
28:00
When you say 1 instance of fake animals, there was a 2 headed
28:04
llama. Oh yeah, apart from the.
28:06
Push to call you and annoying there's a huge snail coloured
28:11
pink. But I I I didn't like the Eddie
28:14
Murphy versions. There's the Robert Downey Junior
28:16
one, which I didn't really like either.
28:18
A Ventura pills. When you start doing to CGI and
28:22
stuff, it's not as great. At least here you have real
28:25
animals most of the time. I'll tell you behind the scenes
28:28
in this one. Yeah, OK.
28:29
Well, so Rex Harrison was apparently a massive racist, and
28:33
obviously his Co star's a Jew, so he's saying terrible things
28:36
throughout. Apparently the animals, none of
28:39
them behaving, they was shitting all over the place and biting
28:41
Rex Harrison all the time. So his acting was actually
28:44
pretty good. He looked like he loved being
28:46
there with him. They went to an island, No,
28:49
sorry. They went to a village in
28:51
England to film those early scenes and they tore up off off
28:54
the grass and everything and made a a fake harbour there.
28:58
And the villagers were so appalled by what they were
29:00
doing, they all started revolting and sabotaged all the
29:02
filming. They couldn't finish it.
29:03
They had to go and shoot the whole lot back in Hollywood.
29:06
And then they went to this island where, you know, they
29:10
filmed the it's like a desert island where they filmed the
29:13
giant snake and a snake snail. And apparently the inhabitants
29:18
of the islands all had a fear of these awful snails that killed
29:22
people, thought the snail was a massive portent of disaster and
29:25
attacked the snail in the climax.
29:28
By all accounts, it was a really abysmal.
29:31
Shoot. I mean, it's quite a long film
29:32
as well. I thought it was quite fun.
29:35
That the songs aren't particularly.
29:36
That's the problem. It doesn't fit in with your
29:37
classics, you know, like your Mary Poppins or your Bedknobs
29:40
and Broomsticks or anything around that time.
29:42
It's not as high quality, it just.
29:44
Doesn't have because it's not. It's not Disney, is it or is it?
29:47
I think it is, yeah. Yeah.
29:48
I mean, it just doesn't. Do the.
29:50
There's like one song that's all right, but all of the rest are
29:52
all a bit. My thought I.
29:55
Forgettable I don't even. Think it passes the time?
29:57
It's entertaining enough. It's entertaining, but you
30:00
started looking up about Rex Harrison halfway through, and
30:02
then I just kept seeing him being like that.
30:05
When I was watching the films, I was like, oh, they're having a
30:07
miserable time. Hauling, you know the bit when
30:09
they're all on rafts on the water and he wouldn't shoot it
30:13
and he kept pushing his raft away from the camera, wasting
30:16
hours and hours of time because he was a bastard.
30:19
He didn't want to be there and it made like 2/3 less its budget
30:25
in the cinema. So not a success overall, but I
30:29
think any movie where the hero flies into London on the giant,
30:34
what was it? Moon moth or something at the
30:36
end? I don't think it was terrible.
30:38
I'll give it A5, I'll. Give it A5 as well.
30:40
It was, yeah. It's certainly not a highlight
30:43
of the 60s musicals. OK, three to go.
30:47
So the Next up is a particular favorite of mine.
30:50
But I don't think you were too impressed.
30:52
The usual suspects. Well, I've heard of it.
30:55
I've never seen it Is one of the great British cinema films,
30:59
isn't it? It's always in a in the lists,
31:01
you know, films to watch. Oh, OK.
31:04
Sorry, I'm. Getting full of American.
31:05
Actors. Well, you see at uni I did
31:06
British gangster at uni, I didn't do the American ones.
31:08
That's. Why?
31:09
I see I studied this in media when we were talking about
31:12
narration because this has an unreliable narrator in it,
31:15
right? I I got to admit I was watching
31:17
it this time. I think it is a a very robust
31:20
script. It's plotted to the hill.
31:22
I like it because it's got that twist.
31:24
OK. It was all right, yeah.
31:27
It's not. Again, it's not the sort of
31:29
genre that I would particularly choose, but I still enjoyed it.
31:32
I mean, I don't really. I enjoyed the movies, I enjoyed
31:34
the mystery of it and like trying to work out actually what
31:36
was going on. It takes.
31:37
It took me a bit more time to get into it, but once I did I
31:41
was invested. But I guessed the twist quite
31:44
early on, because I think. He's guessed that he was making
31:47
up the whole story from the details around the office.
31:49
Don't think that it's one of the most.
31:51
It's one of the most known twists ever.
31:53
Is it a scary movie? I guess the twist Who?
31:56
The person they were trying to work out who it was was.
31:59
I guess. That much.
32:02
But it. Yeah, it's all right.
32:02
The usual suspects. What's his name in it?
32:05
Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey.
32:06
We're not allowed to like him anymore because he's all.
32:08
About that director. Isn't that director Bronzinger
32:12
anymore? Because he's a terrible pervert,
32:14
so we're in a bit of trouble with this movie, enjoying it,
32:17
but actually it is widely recognised as a classic.
32:19
But you suspect I can know what? I can understand why it's a
32:22
classic the. The direction is fabulous.
32:26
And I think the suspense around the Kaiser Jose character.
32:28
And then when he turns up in the ship, you know, and the fellow's
32:31
there in the room going, it's Kaiser Soze.
32:34
He's coming for me. Oh my God, I get so tense.
32:38
I'm going to give this 10 hamster wheels.
32:42
Out of 10. I think this is my favorite one
32:45
on this list. I'm.
32:45
Going to say 5. Five, Really.
32:49
Right. OK, here's your opinion.
32:51
I'll respect it. OK, Next up is 2 months ago from
32:57
hell. Oh, you've done those beaches
33:00
next been a month? Oh yeah, we'll do beaches after
33:03
this, come from hell. From hell, OK, One I've never
33:06
heard of. This is Johnny Depp.
33:09
Try investigating the murder. It's basically Jack the Ripper
33:11
investigating Jack the Ripper. What year was this again?
33:15
Early 2000s. Yeah.
33:16
Yes. All of those British character
33:18
actors. So it's it's one of these
33:20
American made, but they've got all the British actors in.
33:22
So you've got Robbie Coltrane, Robbie Coltrane, you've got Ian
33:25
Holm, you've. Got Leslie Sharp.
33:28
Yes, Leslie. Sharp.
33:29
And Joanna? Paige the weird thing is the 2
33:34
leads, which is Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, who are but he's
33:38
an English inspector and an English prostitute, are both
33:41
American. Yeah.
33:42
Why do they do that? I mean, this is the world of
33:45
Jaco and Lightfoot, but with a bit more gore, like 18 more.
33:49
This is 18 certificate, Jaco and Lightfoot at the end of the day.
33:52
Yeah, that's all it is, but it's pretty.
33:54
You know the bit where Ian McShane is this very sort of
33:58
weak stomachs Mortuary person? You can imagine that being life
34:02
for, couldn't you? But just for being more
34:03
reformed? Ohh what?
34:05
What's life for say, oh, Oh, my dear Jago, they're.
34:09
Taking out her uterus. How funny.
34:13
And all that. And you could have Lisa Bauman
34:15
as in the book. Down the red top.
34:17
With all the With all the prostitute, oh, Lisa Bellman
34:20
should star at least Starring Lisa Bellman and Johnny Depp in
34:23
From Hell, Oh my God, please. I can.
34:27
Imagine. One thing I would say watching
34:29
it this time was the cinematography was out of this
34:33
world. It's come from a graphic novel
34:35
and there's also there's all these shots of London with a
34:38
blood Red Sky and Johnny Depp's had taking drugs.
34:41
So there's lots of, like, hallucinatory direction during
34:44
those scenes. I think you're right.
34:47
When you compared, it's like Sleepy Hollow, but it's not as
34:50
stylised. It is more grounded in reality.
34:55
It's not Hollywoodised Victorian.
34:57
They do trot well. It's dirty.
34:58
They try and make it the scummy, dirty London.
35:01
I think they. Succeed to a point.
35:02
There's a bit not Hollywood Apple pros.
35:05
He's pushed up against the wall by that fat man.
35:07
He goes, Is it in? Is it in?
35:09
No. Between your legs.
35:10
Come here. I was like, oh please, I don't
35:12
need to say that on a. Saturday night, Lisa Berman
35:15
needs an award for that scene from Jacob Lightfoot Series 3.
35:19
Ellie the Bombay? No.
35:21
Stop being a. Probably.
35:22
Oh my God. Then you need Louise Jameson.
35:24
There's Lisa Leela to turn up and sort out the prime.
35:28
Oh my God, it's. Right myself.
35:29
Doesn't it? It's that kind of world.
35:31
I would say that was fun. I was absolutely.
35:34
I thought Ian Holm was superb in this.
35:37
Without giving anything away, I think he is superb.
35:39
He used to be married to Kenny P Wilton.
35:41
Did he really? Well, that's the talented
35:45
marriage there then, isn't. It.
35:46
But they got divorced. No longer.
35:48
I would give this eight hamster wheels out of town.
35:52
I'd give it 7. Oh, why, a little bit down.
35:56
I don't know if I would watch it again and again.
35:58
OK, it really scared me when I was.
36:00
Younger, I mean, it's not a scary story.
36:02
It's quite gory. Because obviously whoever Jack
36:05
the Ripper is is revealed at the end of the movie, and when it
36:08
happens, suddenly his eyes go all black, don't they?
36:11
And he's like the Devil. And I had this long corridor
36:14
where I lived in my house and I was absolutely convinced that
36:18
coming in the front door, going down that corridor track, the
36:20
Ripper was going to come round that corner and got me.
36:23
And I don't know if it's because I was a bit of a hooker back in
36:25
the day, but it did it really scare me back in the day.
36:30
So I'll give it an A OK, Well, what about this?
36:32
You ready? You got to win a little, lose a
36:36
little. And I was seeing the Blues a
36:39
little. That's the glory of That's the
36:41
story of love. Right.
36:44
So next is Beat. I've never seen this before.
36:49
Again, really famous film. I think a lot of people
36:51
listening would have watched Beaches.
36:53
And no beaches. It's kind of like, do you reckon
36:55
it's the one that your sister or your wife forces you to watch?
36:59
What is it? From the 80s, isn't it?
37:01
It's the late 80s. Late 80s, Yeah.
37:04
I'm I don't really. I'm not too keen on 80s films,
37:07
to be honest. I know, I know.
37:09
There's a lot of class. Low.
37:10
I'm going to put lows. That's why I wouldn't have
37:12
probably watched it, because I don't go for 80s films again.
37:16
I had no idea where this was going, what type of story it
37:19
was. It started off with Bette
37:20
Midler's pop star woman singing this song and then it went back
37:24
in time and it was her meeting this.
37:26
These girls. I'm CC Bloom.
37:28
Yeah, I had. No, I don't think I've ever
37:30
watched a Bette Midler film before.
37:31
And. Yeah, great.
37:33
She's a great actress, isn't she's?
37:35
A great singer. Really good story.
37:37
It's based on a book, I think as well.
37:39
I feel like it. I think I saw that it was.
37:41
Based on a book every film. Well, that's where all the best
37:44
stories come from. So yeah, I'd liked it.
37:48
I just, yeah, it was that sort of, I don't know, you could
37:52
you'd probably watch it at a hen party or something.
37:55
Like, could I be serious? I like this for a second because
37:59
I actually think it charts friendship in a really
38:01
interesting way. It shows you when you have a
38:03
friendship that lasts a lifetime because they meet as kids.
38:06
And then one is very poor and lives in the Bronx and is a
38:12
singer and the other one is this comes from a very rich family,
38:16
goes to all the best hotels and is training to be a lawyer, an
38:20
absolutely best friend. Then she's one day she just
38:22
decides to leave her life and she has a lawyer and go and stay
38:25
with her in the Bronx and they live in this shitty old
38:28
apartment whether the bang the radiator to get the heat up and
38:31
she goes, for once in my life I'm free.
38:33
Free at last. And and then it charts their
38:37
friendship. They'd absolutely have the best
38:39
time living together for sort of five or ten years.
38:43
And then men come into their lives and they fight over that
38:47
and then family members die. So they have to move apart.
38:51
And it just it goes to show that you can have that period of your
38:54
life where you're so close with somebody and those friendships
38:58
do last, but they they sort of evolve and change over time.
39:01
And then one of them as a kid, and the kid doesn't like the
39:04
other one so much. And they always write into each
39:07
other and stuff, even all these ups and downs throughout life.
39:09
When you couldn't do this now because social media and phones
39:12
and mobile and stuff, it just wouldn't work.
39:14
You wouldn't be able to tell the story now.
39:16
Do you think the songs were good in this?
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Not really nothing. Oh, industry.
39:23
Whatever would be cool. No, I didn't really like the
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songs. Particularly, what about this
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one then? It's not a musical really
39:29
though, is it? It's just.
39:29
A tizzling inventor and crowd, he didn't get very much to get
39:33
excited about. Do you remember that one?
39:35
Yeah, yeah. But they're more like songs that
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happen in the film rather than it's not an actual musical.
39:40
Oh, would you buy a Brazil? I think the best thing about
39:45
this movie is it's funny. Yeah, it's got low rate
39:47
comments. She's got this really dumb boxer
39:49
dog, Bette Midler, and she realizes after he dives how much
39:53
she absolutely loved him. It's, it's is.
39:56
She really famous before this film.
39:58
She had a a reasonable career, but this?
40:01
Just is this what made her more. Oh, I see.
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OK. Like.
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Yeah, I think this is the rarest of things.
40:07
I think this is a chick flick which is genuinely funny and
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genuinely moving. That's what I meant my hen part.
40:14
I meant chick flick when I said about hen part.
40:18
Like our pride at the end of this one as well, I think, I
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think where they're sitting on the beach together and she dies,
40:22
it's really quite. You spoil the ending.
40:26
Edit that out all these bleep. Just put a bleep over that.
40:29
These films are 30 years old. I know, but we're recommending
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them people for the first time. OK, well then the very last film
40:36
on our list. Oh wait, how many wheels?
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I'll give that a noise. Seven.
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Oh, really? As low as that.
40:42
Is it because? There's too low.
40:43
No, no, it's just all it's all right.
40:46
OK, I need to be so defensive about your scores and finally
40:51
the Glass Onion. Yeah, so this was the 2nd Knives
40:56
Out. Is it Knives Out or it's a
40:58
sequel to Knives Out or From? Daniel Craig is the Southern
41:02
detective who I think might be gay.
41:04
He's living with Hugh Grant. That's.
41:05
For sure. I don't.
41:06
I don't know what's going on there.
41:09
So clever mystery, Murder mystery.
41:12
This is your modern murder mystery.
41:14
I think this is how murder mystery film should be consumed.
41:19
Now Netflix is just doing the the great thing with these,
41:22
aren't they? Or making me like original.
41:24
I don't think they're adapted. From anything, this is an
41:26
original script. This is an original thing.
41:29
It's always very up to the date. There's lots of sort of modern
41:33
references in it. I think they made it just post
41:37
COVID, but it's sort of set in 2020 with COVID and stuff and
41:41
there's just lots of. Sort of donated doesn't.
41:43
It and there's lots of sort of references.
41:44
The type of characters are sort of the type of people in sort of
41:47
pop culture today. So it does fit very well and
41:50
you've got a very clever murder mystery.
41:52
But the way that they do it, I think this is the first one.
41:54
You watch it all sort of play out, then you go back and
41:58
actually what every what you've all seen is not how it and then
42:02
you see it from a different angle.
42:03
Yeah, that's very clever. Because I actually thought at
42:07
the at the end of the movie where it's all revealed who did
42:10
the murders, I don't think that was.
42:12
That I see it's not. Sort of functional.
42:14
The clever thing is, like you said, it's everything you
42:17
presented with is a lie. And then it goes back and slots
42:20
in all the bits that you weren't seeing whilst you were watching
42:23
the original lot. Yeah, very, very clever.
42:27
This is effectively doing. And then there are none, and
42:29
then there were none because it's taken a load of characters
42:31
that I'm invited to an island. It's the same thing exactly and
42:37
I thought there was an impeccable cast, whoever.
42:41
What's that lady's name? The singer?
42:42
Oh. You've forgotten Chanel Malone,
42:47
yeah? Her She was amazing.
42:49
She's playing a dual role and she's very good in that.
42:51
Daniel Craig hilariously good throughout.
42:55
I think he might be gay, and we started wearing cravats in this
42:58
one. It's very stylized, isn't it?
43:00
All the costumes though. And I wondered if the whole
43:03
island would end up utterly destroyed.
43:05
And Kelso Priest it was. Oh, let's forward the ending
43:09
again. Well, streaming on Netflix now
43:11
if you want to watch something a bit more modern.
43:14
He didn't think it was as clever as the first movie, but I
43:18
thought it was vast. But again, a bit like the David
43:21
Copperfield, it's the cast they assemble, yeah, the the
43:24
characters that they play. I feel like sometimes they get
43:28
find the actor and then they write the script some of these.
43:30
More modern ones, but I don't. Feel like it's Who can we get in
43:34
this? But this was less about the
43:35
introduces of the plot and more about how it was put together as
43:38
a piece of entertainment. I think on that level it scores
43:41
high and I would easily because I was having a blast with the
43:44
second-half knowing hamster wheels.
43:46
For that one I'm. Going to say 8 for this one I.
43:49
Probably would give the first one at 9 as well, but for
43:51
different reasons. There we go.
43:53
Oh. That's all it.
43:53
That's all our movies we've watched recently.
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So many more were left in the box.
43:57
Or maybe recommend some if everyone's got anyone wants to
43:59
recommend us some. Oh.
44:01
Yeah, as well. Send in your recommendations and
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we'll put them in the box. Put them in the box, Yeah,
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because we like going in without knowing anything.
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Or in the box. Yeah.
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Well, once we've watched 10 more movies, we'll be back to give
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you our. Recommendations.
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More than 10. You know what do?
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You do? 23456789101112.
44:23
And we we don't want anyone to say what?
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We're too predictable. We've got thrillers, Disney
44:28
movies, chick flicks, the whole works.
44:31
Wow. Until next time.
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Goodbye.