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Ben O'Shea - The Dink - I'd Be Amazed If He Ever Works In Hollywood Again After This · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Spite the flick with benow Shade. Good morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: I have watched the trailer for this and what's jumped
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  Speaker 1: out at me straight away is that Aaron Chen is
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  Speaker 1: in it. Yes, exactly, exactly, So tell us about the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just start with Aaron Chen. He's also one
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  Speaker 1: of the worst things about this movie. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to burst a lot of bubbles out there.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a there's heaps of people who play pickleball,
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  Speaker 1: and there's another there's another version of it. I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember what that's called. It's paddleball. Maybe that's the one
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  Speaker 1: that's not copyright conflicting names. Yeah, and so it's I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's it's popular with older players and sends people
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  Speaker 1: to the emergency. A lot of people do their knees
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  Speaker 1: playing pickleball. And so this comes from producer Ben Stiller,
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  Speaker 1: who obviously is a superstar. And so you might be thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, this is going to be a bit
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  Speaker 1: like Dodgeball, that very funny, cold comedy years ago based
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  Speaker 1: on a niche sport, and they're going to do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with pickleball. What's not to love about that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of this movie, the Dink on Apple TV.
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  Speaker 1: Plus everything is not to like about this movie. So
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  Speaker 1: it tells the story of Dusty played by Jake Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: who's an actor who most people probably won't be familiar
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  Speaker 1: with the name, but you look, oh yeah, that guy,
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  Speaker 1: that guy, he's one of those actors. And so he
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  Speaker 1: plays a former child prodigy who was pushed into tennis
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  Speaker 1: and elite tennis by his dad, who's played by Ed Harris,
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  Speaker 1: the Amazing I love Ed Harris, who could do no wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And then very early on in his tennis career, he
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  Speaker 1: gets his first big break in a pro tournament where
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  Speaker 1: he faces off against a young Andy Roddick and just
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  Speaker 1: absolutely beefs that. He just capitulates completely runs off the
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  Speaker 1: court in disgrace, and so that's basically the end of
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  Speaker 1: his tennis career at the age of sixteen, disappoints his
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  Speaker 1: dad and he's spending the rest of his life trying
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  Speaker 1: to win back his dad's respect. So when his dad's
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  Speaker 1: beloved tennis courts tennis club is under threat from the
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  Speaker 1: encroachment of pickleballs, so the pickleball side of the tennis
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  Speaker 1: club wants more and more courts at the tennis club
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  Speaker 1: and Ed Harris is trying to battle that and the
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  Speaker 1: only way to resolve it at the AGM is they
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  Speaker 1: come up with this idea of a duel. So the
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  Speaker 1: tennis side has to come up with a champion, the
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  Speaker 1: pickleball side comes up with a champion. They have to
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  Speaker 1: play each other. Whoever wins gets control of the courts.
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  Speaker 1: And so Dusty wants to be that player. His dad
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  Speaker 1: doesn't believe in him, so it's his journey of sort
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  Speaker 1: of figuring out who he is, what's important to him.
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  Speaker 1: He starts playing pickleball on the side with a group
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  Speaker 1: of older women led by Mary Steenbergen, Ted Danson's wife,
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  Speaker 1: and so on the surface, that all sounds pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And the name the Dink comes from the sound pickleball,
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  Speaker 1: a little drop shot tennis exactly. They say, you're dropping
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  Speaker 1: it into their kitchens if you make it like the
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  Speaker 1: service line in tennis. Yeah, and then you've got the
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  Speaker 1: what do you call it, the edge of the service box,
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  Speaker 1: So that's like forms the kitchen and you're not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to step in there to hit it on the full
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. And then there's this weird kind
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  Speaker 1: of romance between Jake Johnson and Mary Steenberger and she's
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  Speaker 1: like probably thirty five years older, and she's not very
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  Speaker 1: sure about what's going on there, and the movie is
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  Speaker 1: not very sure about what's going on there. It's quite awkward.
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  Speaker 1: There's an Andy Roddick cameo and a John mackra cameo
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty funny, but it's just not funny. And Aaron Chen,
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  Speaker 1: I swear to you, this was a role that they
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  Speaker 1: originally wrote for Rebel Wilson. She mustn't have been available
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  Speaker 1: because of the various legal issues, and they've gone, who
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  Speaker 1: else can we get? Let's get Aaron Chen because he
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  Speaker 1: is playing Rebel Wilson. It is so terble, so cringe worthy,
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  Speaker 1: like I wouldn't be I'll be amazing if he ever
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  Speaker 1: works in Hollywood again after this. She's been so bad.
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  Speaker 1: This sounds like something that's going straight to streaming. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: And so it is straight. So don't sign up to
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  Speaker 1: Apple tv plus to watch the Dink. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of other good there's lots of
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  Speaker 1: stuff on Apple tv plus has and that's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to because the hit rate is incredible. To
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  Speaker 1: some of the other streaming service. This is one of
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  Speaker 1: the worst movies they've ever had on Apple. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: So they won't be they won't be hearing this. They
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  Speaker 1: won't be hearing this sound. No, they might need the raspberries.
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  Speaker 1: How many rebel Wilson can ruin a movie without even
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  Speaker 1: being in it? Yeah, yeah, so true, so true. One
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  Speaker 1: one one. I would rather be whacked by a pickleball
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  Speaker 1: than ever watch this again. I think I want to
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  Speaker 1: watch it now just to see how bad it is.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, the job