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I Am All In Minisode: Henry’s Movie Review (S1, E2) - “The Goonies” · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Hey, it's Scott Patterson and this is I
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Speaker 1: am all Mini Sods and we're breaking down our movie
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Speaker 1: review of The Goonies. Here's the stat sheet on The
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Speaker 1: Goonies in film distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. It is
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Speaker 1: a PG rated film in the genre of comedy, kids
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Speaker 1: and family adventure, directed by Richard Donner, Produced by Harvey
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Speaker 1: Bernhardt and Richard Donner, Written by Chris Columbus, story by
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Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg. Released June wide, United States. An hour and
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Speaker 1: fifty one minute running time, surround sound Dolby Stereo. It's
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Speaker 1: starred Shawn Aston, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Carry Green,
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Speaker 1: Martha Plimpton, k Jujuan, John Mattutzak and Ramsey, Joe Pantolion,
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Speaker 1: Keith Walker. Uh. The executive production team is quite impressive,
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Speaker 1: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. This is an Amblant entertainment
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Speaker 1: production in conjunction with Warner Brothers. Dave Grusin did the
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Speaker 1: original music. John Williams, the multiple Oscar winning John Williams,
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Speaker 1: along with about everybody else on this list. Uh did
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Speaker 1: the non original music. The cinematographer was Nick McLean the
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Speaker 1: film editor, beautiful job, Michael con Jane Feinberg, Mike Fent,
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Speaker 1: and Judy Taylor cast to film all legendary casting directors,
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Speaker 1: art direction, Rick Carter, production designer, j Michael Reeva brilliant job.
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Speaker 1: Dan Cole's rude assistant director, very difficult job and well done.
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Speaker 1: Linda Deskenna set direction. Just a brilliant film. And Henry
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Speaker 1: Marken is my partner in crime. Here. Last week we
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Speaker 1: did uh, rose Mary's Baby. Rose there. I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to hear. I love hearing you say that. Say it again,
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Speaker 1: rose Mary's Baby. Nobody ever, nobody says it like that.
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Speaker 1: There you go. So we did that last week. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And now this is episode number two for Henry's movie
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Speaker 1: reviews on I Am All Mini Zodes on I Am
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Speaker 1: All In podcast I Heart Radio and uh, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about the Goonies because it was mentioned, and it
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Speaker 1: was it was episode two where Madeleine said I hate nature.
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Speaker 1: So here's what I did. I was very entertained. I've
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Speaker 1: seen it before, I hadn't seen it a while, but
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Speaker 1: I thought it was Listen, here's what I think of goonies.
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Speaker 1: Hit me with your wisdom. Well, it's just it's it's
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Speaker 1: a combination of At the time it was more modern
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Speaker 1: filmmaking and it hearkens back to Disney type of filmmaking.
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Speaker 1: But with I mean, these kids are so clever, it's
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Speaker 1: so well directed, it's so well written, it's so well shot.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you just do not get this kind of
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Speaker 1: and it just shows how great a director Richard Donner was.
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Speaker 1: He passed away, but he was. He was one of
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Speaker 1: the best. He was as good at what he did
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Speaker 1: in that film as what Spielberg has ever done in
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Speaker 1: any film. Because the the frame was so active and
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Speaker 1: so full, every single scene, every single cutaway, every single shot,
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Speaker 1: every single line delivered by these actors and these kids.
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Speaker 1: And that's the sign of a great director, is how
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Speaker 1: good are the actors and how how much are they
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Speaker 1: filling the frame. It was so active and so busy
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Speaker 1: and so fun, and these kids were so likable. They're
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Speaker 1: good kids, kids, and it's like all the emotional nerves
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Speaker 1: every single time. It's funny you mentioned the you talked
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Speaker 1: about Spielberg, because Richard Donner, we actually had a stacked staff, right,
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Speaker 1: he had Chris Columbus on the screenplay of course he
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Speaker 1: did Harry Potter and the Home Alonees and those weren't
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Speaker 1: successful at all. And then uh, Spielberg was credited as
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Speaker 1: story and executive producing and even shot a couple of scenes.
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Speaker 1: I think he shot the water pipe scene, you know.
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Speaker 1: And so just the fact that, yeah, just the fact
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Speaker 1: that Spielberg was just in in the back, you know,
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Speaker 1: just just telling Richard Donna, who of course it's Superman.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like three guys who know how
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Speaker 1: to make a good movie. You're getting script notes or
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Speaker 1: directing notes when you need them, right, I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: didn't impose himself from Steven Spielberg. Donner can make a
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Speaker 1: phone call like Steve, what do you think of this?
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Speaker 1: What do you think? I mean, just the i Q
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Speaker 1: of those guys in terms of their filmmaking. It was
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Speaker 1: just youdging that writer's room, by the way, the energy
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Speaker 1: and like the combustion, just everyone talking, firing ideas off
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Speaker 1: of one another. It's like a it's like a squash
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Speaker 1: court the balls. I mean, what a what a brilliant
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Speaker 1: set up for um. I mean just really likable kids
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Speaker 1: and and a great journey. Anyway, So if you want
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Speaker 1: to go through the synopsis. Go ahead, and we'll get
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Speaker 1: into this film, even though I only saw half of it. Yeah. Uh,
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Speaker 1: spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen The Goonies. I
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Speaker 1: don't know it's been out since I don't, so you're
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Speaker 1: a little late on the spoilers. But yeah, The Goonies.
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Speaker 1: It is a out a group of kids who live
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Speaker 1: in the goon Docks and they are known as the Goonies.
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Speaker 1: And essentially their house is going to be four clothes
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Speaker 1: and they all we have to move away from each other,
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Speaker 1: and it's really sad, and as we discussed, it strikes
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Speaker 1: all the emotional nerves of why you care about these kids?
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Speaker 1: And they find one of them. Sean Aston's character, he
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Speaker 1: plays Mikey. He uh, he lives with his mom and dad.
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Speaker 1: His dad owns museum, and he finds a map for
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Speaker 1: this one eyed Willie, this pirate, this this mythic legend
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Speaker 1: who had buried treasure somewhere in the goon Docks. So
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Speaker 1: him and his buddies, who are going to lose their house,
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Speaker 1: set out for one final quest to make as much
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Speaker 1: money and buried treasured as possible to basically pay off
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Speaker 1: this wealthy land developer who's this evil figure is trying
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Speaker 1: to buy out all the houses and turn into a
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Speaker 1: big country club. Of course that's just evil, evil, evil.
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Speaker 1: So they go off on this quest. Each kid has
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Speaker 1: his own his or her own kind of like comic identity.
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Speaker 1: It's really just organic with all these people running around,
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Speaker 1: they go in these caves. At the same time they
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Speaker 1: meet this crime family, the Free Tellies just scum of
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Speaker 1: the earth. I mean, by the way, it's it's not
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Speaker 1: cliche because I feel like they're one of the first
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Speaker 1: movies to like create this, Like it's innovative for its time.
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Speaker 1: It's cliche now. But like the they were just like
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Speaker 1: they just looked like evil people. I mean, just with
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Speaker 1: the criminal hat and the the mom the for Telling
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Speaker 1: mother had like this raspy asked, boys, like, you can't
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Speaker 1: love someone like that. It's just gross human being who
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Speaker 1: a jerk. But still at the same time, you still
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Speaker 1: feel safe with them somewhat correct, Okay, correct, you don't
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Speaker 1: feel like I mean, you feel like the kids are
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Speaker 1: in sort of you know, they could get a little trouble,
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Speaker 1: a little danger. I never felt, And I think that's
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Speaker 1: one of the big discussions about the film is we're
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Speaker 1: gonna put these kids in very close proximity and even
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Speaker 1: being held captive either For Telly's Robert Davey plays one
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Speaker 1: of the brothers, and Joe Pantalion brilliantly. I mean, these
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Speaker 1: these guys were great together. Um, and then they have
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Speaker 1: that that uh, I guess another relative, another brother who's
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Speaker 1: he's chained in a dungeon in this house in the basement,
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Speaker 1: and he is how should say figured, He's a disfigured
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Speaker 1: kind of black sheep brother who really they're not letting
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Speaker 1: the sunlight see. And that's kind of the hidden jam
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Speaker 1: of this is when they meet him, just when Chunk
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Speaker 1: thinks he's going to die at the Foretelli's hand, he's
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Speaker 1: just teamed up with Sloth. They become best friends. I mean,
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Speaker 1: just a great Disney you know, too odd ducks together
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Speaker 1: become one great relationship. We're talking about a horribly deformed
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Speaker 1: human being who is who's more animal than human being,
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Speaker 1: and um, just kind of a terrifying character. But still
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Speaker 1: there are comedic elements to each of these characters. So
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Speaker 1: it's that very fine line. This very difficult acting job
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Speaker 1: and a very difficult writing and directing job is to
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Speaker 1: keep these characters somewhat likable and somewhat not terrifying, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, So that the kids I wanted
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Speaker 1: to punch in the face. And it was like he
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Speaker 1: was he was the son of the land developer, and
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Speaker 1: he was he had a varsity jacket on. He was
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Speaker 1: a jock. He was Spielberg love playing around with jocks,
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Speaker 1: growing up as jocks or the villains. And he's just
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was looking up one of the girls.
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Speaker 1: He was looking up somebody's skirt in the rear view
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Speaker 1: mirror of the car. And I mean, I feel like
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Speaker 1: those characters don't exist. And actually that's not true. They
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Speaker 1: exist in real life all the time. I feel like
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Speaker 1: I feel like you sometimes forget that it's easy to
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Speaker 1: write up a really bad person. Uh, And it can
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Speaker 1: be kind of cliche. But as I said, it's not
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Speaker 1: cliche if you're one of the first to do it,
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Speaker 1: you're an innovator. It's only cliche when the next twenty
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Speaker 1: years of filmmaking just copy you. It's cliche. So these
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Speaker 1: guys did it first with creating these characters and these
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Speaker 1: stereotypes that we see and sort of the comic relief,
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Speaker 1: the funny fat kid and the jerk bully in Troy
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Speaker 1: who I really just wanted to ran the kisser. So
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Speaker 1: we've already had the laughter, we've already fallen in love
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Speaker 1: with the characters, but now we've got to really feel
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Speaker 1: for them and fall in love with them to continue
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Speaker 1: on this journey and keep this film at a very
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Speaker 1: high level. And it happens in one scene, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's after Josh Broland gets the paperwork from the
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Speaker 1: guys who are from the bank who are foreclosing and
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Speaker 1: who are soulless and talk about, oh well, this is
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Speaker 1: gonna be a wonderful golf course and it's gonna be great,
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Speaker 1: and get these families out of here, this kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: So it's so hits, so deep and so personally and
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Speaker 1: it makes you so angry. But we're not yet seeing
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Speaker 1: that affect these kids on a level that we might expect.
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Speaker 1: We don't really need it, but we get it anyway.
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Speaker 1: In that one scene where you know, we see that
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Speaker 1: Shaun Aston and Josh Brolin are brother, you know, brought
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Speaker 1: Josh Brolin's the older brother and he's yes, stupid brother,
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Speaker 1: and they're smacking each other and Sean Aston is just
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Speaker 1: such an appealing young actor, right, and you just like him,
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Speaker 1: and we never really see the love they have for
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Speaker 1: each other as as brothers until this one moment where
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Speaker 1: Shaun Ashton just collapses into Josh Brolin's arms because they
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Speaker 1: know they're gonna lose their home, and Josh Brawlin just
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Speaker 1: hugs him and then drags him across the porch in
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Speaker 1: the front house to the back door and they go
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Speaker 1: in and Sean Aston is dragging his feet, he can't
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Speaker 1: even walk, And for me, that was like, Wow, that's
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Speaker 1: great filmmaking. I don't care what kind of a film
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Speaker 1: you're watching. If you can make an audience feel that
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Speaker 1: deeply for those characters, that's as good as it gets.
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Speaker 1: You don't. You can't do it any better than that.
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Speaker 1: So now we're after seeing that scene, we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: strapped in to that vehicle and take that ride throughout
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Speaker 1: the entire film and be completely engaged. Anyway, that's my
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Speaker 1: two cents. Yeah, well, we're talking about emotional scenes. I
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Speaker 1: think you know. A good place for me to resume
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Speaker 1: is my favorite scene was uh when mouth when they're
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the well. So if if you
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Speaker 1: kind of recall where they're going in their quest for
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Speaker 1: paried treasure, their essentially going underground, and so they're right
11:40
Speaker 1: now they're running from the fertilities and there, and they're
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Speaker 1: they got the map and their deep underground and now
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Speaker 1: they're setting up booby traps. So they're going in the
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Speaker 1: right direction for some pari treasure. And essentially they end
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Speaker 1: up underneath a road side well, at the bottom of
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Speaker 1: a well, and they have this point where they can
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Speaker 1: all go up, climb the rope and escape and call
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Speaker 1: all tonight, or they go deeper into the story. And
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Speaker 1: that's um As a writer, I think that's an awesome
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Speaker 1: part where the protagonist basically says double down, we're we're in,
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Speaker 1: We're all in, or let's quit now, and they keep going.
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Speaker 1: But before they do, my favorite part in the movie
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Speaker 1: is actually when they're at the bottom of a wishing
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Speaker 1: well and there's a bunch of coins and mouth basically says,
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Speaker 1: you know, my dreams never came true, so I'm taking
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Speaker 1: it back. Hell, I'm taking them all back. He grabs
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Speaker 1: a coin, he grabs a lot of coins, and really
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Speaker 1: cool moment because there's this level of complexity and deep
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Speaker 1: emotions that come from a fifteen year old kid, and
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Speaker 1: I'm twenty one years old. This movie came out thirty
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Speaker 1: years ago, and yet I still feel something when he
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Speaker 1: talks about, hey, I I threw coins in this wishing
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Speaker 1: well and nothing's come true. I'm taking it all back
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Speaker 1: like that kind of like pessimism from a fifteen year
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Speaker 1: old kid about how the real world works. It's like,
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Speaker 1: holy hell, Like what I mean, what awesome, awesome moment.
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Speaker 1: It makes you angry. It makes you angry at the
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Speaker 1: world and angry what kids have to go through, and
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Speaker 1: makes you love those kids even more exactly. How dare
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Speaker 1: anybody not grant the wishes of these children? How dare they?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so beautifully manipulent. If I love it,
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Speaker 1: I love great writing. It's just so great. And then
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Speaker 1: after that moment, they go and they you know, it's
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Speaker 1: like one or two more booby traps. They come together,
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Speaker 1: the guy with the tools he's got, like he's grappling
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Speaker 1: hook plungers. Like again, very cliche and cheesey now, but
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Speaker 1: at the time, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, loved it. That
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Speaker 1: brought up the comic book Lover and Me, Like it's
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Speaker 1: like a Batman utility belt. Situation. They find this pirate
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Speaker 1: ship loaded with jewels and cash and forever items to
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Speaker 1: be cash in to save the homes. For Tellies catch
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Speaker 1: up with them. There's a little fight. Of course, as
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Speaker 1: you talked about, it's safe. The for Tellies aren't vicious people.
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Speaker 1: They just want the golden stuff. Then here comes Sloth
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Speaker 1: and Chunk, two best friends. Um Sloth has the famous
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Speaker 1: hey you guys line, uh, swings in like a pirate
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Speaker 1: and essentially defends the kids, lets them escape, and there's
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Speaker 1: this great moment. I don't know if you you might
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Speaker 1: have you might have not caught it. I caught it
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Speaker 1: because I'm just I'm just a total superhero nerd. But
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Speaker 1: so Richard Darner the director of this film. He did
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Speaker 1: a Superman one and two with Christopher Reeves. A Warner
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Speaker 1: Brothers distributed both Superman films and this film. Sloth rips
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Speaker 1: open his shirt. Underneath he's got a Superman shirt, just
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Speaker 1: the red and yellow crest on the blue shirt he's ripped,
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Speaker 1: and the Superman theme plays in the movie. I totally
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Speaker 1: forgot about that scene when I watched them when I
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Speaker 1: was like five or six years old, but that that
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Speaker 1: struck me. I was like, oh my god, forgot and
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Speaker 1: my I got the chills, I get the harvest pounding.
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Speaker 1: It was awesome. They escape, they get out of there,
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Speaker 1: they get out of the caves and the landlord. They
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Speaker 1: see the cops, the land developer. Everyone's like, all right,
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Speaker 1: well glad, you guys are okay, but the house is
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Speaker 1: for closed. Right before the dad signs of paper to
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Speaker 1: give it over. Oh my god, surprised. There's like six
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Speaker 1: or seven diamonds in here. The houses are saved. Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: Such a simple premise, such a brilliant premise. How do
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Speaker 1: we get money to save our home? I mean, my god,
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Speaker 1: how do engage kids? I mean, just what a wonderful film?
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Speaker 1: What did you what's your rating of it? What's your
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Speaker 1: what's your rating? Overall? I gave a rating of Rosemary's
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Speaker 1: Baby last week was an eight point one out of ten.
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Speaker 1: I gave a specific decimal calculated rating out of time
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Speaker 1: giving this. I'm giving this a ten out of ten.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it gets better. Oh, it doesn't get
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Speaker 1: better than this. It does not get better than this,
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, even if it is the best. Had
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Speaker 1: me in tears in the first act because Seawan Asketon
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Speaker 1: and Josh Broland dragged a ten a big time. I've
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Speaker 1: given it eleven if I could who great film, greatness,
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Speaker 1: high numbers, but is like tell me what okay, So
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Speaker 1: if you're not going to give it a perfect score,
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Speaker 1: tell me you know how the gymnasts tumbled? Did they
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Speaker 1: drop anything, did they stumble? Did they fall? I didn't
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Speaker 1: see one flaw? And and as I recall, I give
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Speaker 1: it a nine. I give a nine point zero just
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Speaker 1: because I'm so, I'm critical, I'm tough, you know, But
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Speaker 1: but where are the flaws? Point out the flaws? What's
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Speaker 1: wrong with the film? To doctor point, that's a big deduction.
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Speaker 1: That's you're taking away ten from a perfect score, like
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Speaker 1: like a ten is like The Godfather, like just like
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Speaker 1: the Picture of Film, or or like The Dark Knight
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Speaker 1: or Shaw Redemption where it's like the movie. But that's
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Speaker 1: those are dramas. Those are dramas. Stay with the category.
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Speaker 1: The category is is these are not dramas. This is
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Speaker 1: a kid's film. So they kids film has their specific
16:51
Speaker 1: tasks that they have to complete to stay within the genre.
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Speaker 1: They can't just keep crossing genres. I mean, you get
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Speaker 1: confused in the film falls apart. But for me, it's
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Speaker 1: a ten for that kind of it's filmmaking at its
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Speaker 1: finest because that's what you have to suspend the disbelief
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Speaker 1: and also while also letting the audience know that these
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Speaker 1: kids are not going to get hurt. That's hard. I
17:15
Speaker 1: think kids comedies are tougher to do and I don't
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Speaker 1: and there's a ton of them, and they're not like
17:20
Speaker 1: the Goonies. I think they hit it out of the
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Speaker 1: park with that film. In my opinion, thank you, but no,
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Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for you. What are the flaws? What
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Speaker 1: are the flaws in the film that you take a
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Speaker 1: point away? I just think sometimes I was like, all right,
17:36
Speaker 1: you know, we get the point that like there's like
17:38
Speaker 1: one sometimes they say one or two lines trying to
17:40
Speaker 1: force a joke that that you're just like, okay, we
17:43
Speaker 1: get Chuck's hilarious, mouth's grades ever, never shuts up, Mike,
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Speaker 1: he's good as the ambitious travel kids. I think there
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Speaker 1: were just sometimes one or two lines that were extra
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Speaker 1: that you need to cement for the five or six
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Speaker 1: year olds and the seven year olds in the audience,
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Speaker 1: which it's nobody's fault. Nobody's fault. It's still a train
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Speaker 1: out of ten for me, it's a ten ten out
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Speaker 1: of ten for you. I'm just saying it's not perfect
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Speaker 1: because there's always those one or two extras, a little
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Speaker 1: little redundant, Okay, yes, and redundancy. Redundancy just is slight flawed,
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Speaker 1: but by no means hurts the movie. It just means
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Speaker 1: it's not a tent for me. That's that's that's that's fair.
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Speaker 1: That's fair. That's all. I just I just wanted to.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted is fair? Thank you? I got my
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Speaker 1: free trial. Inquiring mindes want to, no want Scott, this
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Speaker 1: was a blast, Thank you so much. Episode two with
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Speaker 1: you the goonies. Can't wait for the next one. All right,
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Speaker 1: Henry always fun. Scott Patterson with Henry markin reviewing movies.
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Speaker 1: I Am all Minisodes, Episode two. All right, everybody, we'll
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Speaker 1: see you next time.