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Hello, do you want to do it? That'd be pretty spooky.
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Sure, I'll get. I'll do the hello and I'll.
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Do the whole intro. I haven't written it down.
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Hello and welcome to Potato Chip Pictures, the movie franchise
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review Podcast. I am B Sammy Davis.
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Hello again, I am Justin. And for this extra spooky
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episode, Happy Halloween everybody.
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We are doing our wrap up of A Quiet Place, the movie
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franchise. When it is Halloween, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean for you and I recording obviously it is not
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spoiler alert, what don't release this as a live radio
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program, but you in the in our relative future and your present
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might be listening today on Halloween.
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And if not, Boo, I'll take the Halloween to you, whatever time
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of year. Welcome, welcome.
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All right, so quick review of our ratings.
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We've actually got some pretty easy ones.
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Your relative average of all three movies was a 6.30.
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Nice, that seems so unfair. Yeah.
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I feel like that kind of represents how you would felt
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all the way through, where you're like, yeah, it's all
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right, but like I'm not totally into it, yeah.
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The last one. Yeah, well, and then for me, I'm
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at 7.3, so one point higher than you.
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And I feel like my enthusiasm is also one point higher than yours
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where there are things that annoy me to no end.
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But at the same time, I'm like, I kind of like this franchise.
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I'm glad it's around. I think it's a nice different
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what would be the word disaster happening because there's like
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tornadoes, there's asteroids, there's all sorts of stuff, but
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monsters that hear you. Yeah, this feels like a
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disaster. You know, society has to change
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suddenly because it's not. It's not much of A horror
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franchise. It's a mildly I feel like the
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second one maybe had more, the first one just the tension of a
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baby, but then I feel like there's more guts in the second
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one. Yeah, and the the third one, the
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prequel, I don't think they even tried to do horror.
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I think. I think it's a a genre fusion of
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horror and drama. Like we see a lot of horror
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comedies or horror action movies.
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I think this is the first time I could say I have watched
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something that is a horror drama where like they want me to feel
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for these characters. I think they do a fair job on
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this last game. I don't like Eric, but I love
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Sam. She's pretty dope.
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Yeah. All right, and then the final
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thing, relative show average for all three movies was a 6.8.
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You know, yeah, fine, whatever we.
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Like it more than we like the Bond series.
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I think so. And that's so shocking to me to
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this day that like the Bond series that the catalyst for
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this podcast, both of us were averaging at around A5.
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There's just so, so much volume. It just kind of brings it brings
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it back towards average, but. That is true.
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You know, you've got a lot more movies to choose from in that
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franchise with over 25. I think they had 26 maybe like
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there were well over 20 movies. This one has three movies like 3
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at this point. 4th one neck in two years.
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Let me let me let me pull up my information.
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First off, dear audience, I don't know if it if it changed
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recently or if I am just misremembering, but I could have
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sworn there was going to be a Quiet Place part 4.
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But according to Wikipedia, there has only ever been plans
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for A Quiet Place Part 3, which was going to be the conclusion
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of the franchise. They save the world.
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I mean, that seems like the natural next step based on the
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main franchise. The main story arc we had them
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discovering the weakness, then discovering safety, and now like
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why not bring the fight back and weaponize this sound?
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They already put it on the radio so other people can try to
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replicate or use that sound. Man, I don't know why you'd
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yeah, you'd have to just go for the fusion of horror and action
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cause like these two. I would say that Eric made it to
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the island place, but then there's a crisis of the island.
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And I don't remember seeing him. So, I mean, he could be alive.
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He could be, but there was a crisis and a lot of people got
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murdered that day. Yeah.
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I mean, of course Reagan killed the the alien with her blunt
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object. Straight through its head,
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slashed and then merged through, Yeah.
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That that is so funny to me. And so, you know, we've had two
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movies that have promised like a big action sequel and neither of
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them have delivered. So why not?
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Why not give it to us in A Quiet Place part three?
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I doubt they will. I think they're going to try to
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stay with the rest of the franchise.
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But, you know, I'm ready to go to the Navy.
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I'm ready to see the the air carriers that have finally
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figured out the weapon that's going to work.
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Yeah, I, I, I mean, even if it's become the drama, show me the
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day one and two intro of the people that run these
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helicopters in the last one, like show me them World War Z.
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Like I think Part 2 intro did a great job of, you know, family
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seeing the asteroid and all of that prequel to its own show.
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So I'd say take us somewhere else.
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If yeah. I can't think of who would be
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but and I don't think we really even see any.
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We see military presence, but we don't see any sort of command,
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which I was fine within the last one like military's there, but
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nobody's a figurehead of what's happening.
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I'm going to tell you what I think A Quiet Place Part 3 will
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be. I think it is going to be like
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the next day and something destroys the radio.
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They they have to figure out how to make the new cochlear implant
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that has that specific feedback frequency or just anything that
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makes that specific feedback frequency.
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And it's going to have another unsatisfying ending of the kids
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or the family being ready to fight.
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Yeah. Fight off the invaders like,
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well, let's make it happen so we can wrap this up, you know,
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overcome. That's I am, I am 90% positive
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that it's going to be about the family again, because why call
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it part three if you don't follow the same family?
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And who knows, maybe Eric will be the male figure in this
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movie. Maybe.
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Does Killian Murphy, he doesn't die.
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No. He's helping out at the radio.
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I'm trying to. Remember what happened.
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He's alive at the end one. He's getting torn up by the
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monster, like on his leg. Or something.
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He, he well, the mother got a spike through the leg with one
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of the monsters, and then I think Killian Murphy got thrown
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against a wall, maybe. I don't know, I don't remember.
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I know he didn't die because neither parent died, but I think
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the mother looked like she should have had a big wound
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right in the leg. Yeah, medical attention and
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stopping the bleeding is probably not going to go well,
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but we can just disappear that like the other two monsters that
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were racing in, that didn't actually happen.
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Let's get into what we remember about the previous movies
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because I know recency bias is going to help day one.
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But what do you remember about the first movie?
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What stood out to you? What?
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What stays in your mind? What's What's there still?
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The family I think is the point of the movie.
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I think the baby feels like whatever you call those plot
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devices, it it's the arc of it being born and preparing for
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that kind of give it a reason to exist in the movie.
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But at least in the second one it it exists for not many
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purposes of like of the story. Yeah, he's a problem three
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times, and otherwise the baby barely exists.
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Baby, family, and a little bit of grief.
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Remorse. Like in an apocalypse when you
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have these horrible things happen that aren't necessarily
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related to the monsters. Like are you, how do you get OK?
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So I think it was a horror drama like you say.
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You know, I think the thing that stands out to me about the first
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one more than anything else, and it's still the thing that I
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think makes it so special, is the fact that it was a silent
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movie in 2018 where the audience had to read most of the dialogue
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just like they would have had to do 100 years ago.
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And so I, I think about that as being such an interesting
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concept for a movie, but it doesn't have a lot of tension.
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It doesn't have a lot of horror, definitely doesn't have a lot of
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Spooks. And then the second one I feel
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like got rid of the silent movie aspect because they almost never
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use sign language to speak anymore.
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Like they've found a way to just talk for the whole movie.
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She's got to be under the concrete or something, yes.
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Or hanging out with a deaf girl and you don't know how to sign,
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so you can't. It's OK to talk, yeah.
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But at the same time, I feel like they were able to find some
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horror in that movie. And then I think day one was so
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heavy on the drama and almost took it for granted that the
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audience is new what the creature was.
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It's almost like a modern day Alien movie where it it it
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doesn't even try to be scary anymore.
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They're just like, yeah, there's xenomorphs, they're cool.
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Let's watch them like. They'll pop out at places here
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and there. Mm hmm.
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There might be a jump scare once or twice, but what we're really
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into is the special effects and the acid and all that other
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stuff. And I feel like with day one,
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there's not a lot of scary stuff to it, except maybe the initial
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invasion and then after that it's really just a drama about
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these characters trying to survive the end of the world.
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I don't know what about you? What stands out for Part 2 or or
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day one? Let's see Part 2 the I think the
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one thing that I could point to from Part 2 would be maybe the
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annoyance of the family. Like I know Part 2 is meant to
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follow after the first one, so we have to follow this family.
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I think the change to day one where we don't have to follow
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this family helped it because like now they've they've
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successfully made it through 1 encounter when people don't
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really survive any encounters and then they they lose all
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their security and like the the reason of the movies getting
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pushed out of their home. But really like I don't feel
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like it's it. I don't know.
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I guess the girl does bring the cordless amplifier because
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she's. On a no no wireless amplifier.
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Saved the world, but it also felt just like, well, we're
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leaving our safety because we can't stay there anymore.
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Maybe we could have stayed for a little bit.
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I don't know. Yeah.
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Like the house was fine. Yeah.
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There were a lot of things that that were fine.
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Yeah, the wherever that they had the amplifier was fine.
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Yeah, that that's the house. Yeah.
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So I mean, there's not too much that I loved about the second
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one that stuck with me as kind of maybe I enjoyed the fact that
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there was an island that had peace.
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Again, it's unfortunate that they brought the monster with
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them. Kind of a kind of feels good
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that it's, well, you can't escape the apocalypse forever.
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Yeah, you're on an island, but these things can still just show
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up. And 1 is basically invincible.
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So, I mean, you probably should have hunkered down a little bit,
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made a couple more plans of what's going to happen.
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Yeah, kind of put some sort of security in place so you would
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know if if a boat came drifting up.
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Honestly, just put something on the other end of the island that
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constantly makes noise intermittently.
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So lure the stuff over there. Put it.
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Or little buoys that are, yeah, placed outside in the water.
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Some sort of defence, but yeah. So second one, not something I'm
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keen on remembering much from. I think the ending action
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sequence aside from slashing with a blunt object was cool and
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well lit and cool graphics. But I think the third movie
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outshines it with just the scale of the city and we get to see
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more things happening than one person getting chased down and
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horrifically murdered. I love the the sea of people
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trying to walk quietly down the road.
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And like I feel like that would kind of act like a river and
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maybe the monster wouldn't have jumped in.
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Oh, because it's just such a loud same tone.
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But I can see like somebody says one thing and the monsters
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reason enough reason to believe to jump after them so.
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Yeah, I, I don't know what would have caused them to to show up.
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Maybe they've got the memory that this didn't make that noise
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before. But you know, that's me speaking
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in defense of monsters that I know nothing about except that
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they have a sense of hearing and that they eat mushrooms.
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And that's that's all I know about.
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Them fungus. It's orange though, so it's
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otherworldly. Yeah.
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Aside from there, have you? Ever heard of an orange?
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River of people I think I like the ark of someone that survives
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48 hours to to go after the one thing they want to see before
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they die, even though it's in the middle of an apocalypse.
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They. Yeah, push through this one last
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horrible thing, because I imagine they've pushed through
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all of the pain already, and it's like, well, now the world's
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ending. So add that to your plate and
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make it through. And she does like, kudos.
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You did an amazing job. I really like.
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It's so funny to me that she wants the last pizza that
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exists, but every day that she can't get that pizza, it is
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getting grosser. And yet she still eats the pizza
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and she gets it on day 4 or whatever.
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And it's like, conceptually it's so gross, but at the same time
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it's such a victory. It feels like we've won.
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It's about sending a message. Yes, it's the moral victories.
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Aside from that, I'm trying to think of what else did you give
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you shining bits of the third one?
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Yeah, I think I, I mostly agree with you.
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I love the fact that we are not following the same family.
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Yeah, 'cause that family kind of annoys me.
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I'm sorry, I do. And so I was just happy to see
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different characters. I really loved the character of
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Sam, played by Lupita Nyong'o. I think she did a wonderful job
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and she carried this movie. I feel like the character of
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Alex Sachs, and I didn't need him.
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I really like that we had the scale of a lot more aliens to
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contend with. You know, we've got stampedes,
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we've got them crawling over buildings.
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And that clearly comes from having a larger budget, but it's
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not that much larger a budget than the previous movie.
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Huge budget increase from the first movie, but not as big from
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the last movie. And I feel like they did more
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with the budget in the third one than they did in the second one.
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So. Yeah, I think, I think the
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creature effects just keep getting better.
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Yeah, yeah, they looked good. They looked good.
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I think the Stampede is a highlight of the monsters.
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I was much for the fog appearance of them.
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They exist. We know what they are to have to
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hide them. Yeah, I hear you.
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I'm a sucker for some tropes. And, you know, obscuring the
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vision, it allows you to have scary moments.
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But like I said earlier, that's like the only scary moment in
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the whole movie. You just can't hold it.
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You just can't keep scaring people with a concept that they
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got from the first movie. Yeah.
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And if, if we want to expand on the things you like about other
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franchises, I think seen the extra behaviour of these
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extraterrestrials adds to, I guess you would call it the lore
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of what they are. They can Stampede.
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They can't hear regular talking when there's a little lightning
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storm like that one I can get. I don't know that I would still
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scream just because it's like, well, that's if you don't know
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how long or when the lightning is coming.
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As much as I love it because it's such a cathartic moment, I
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do think about the fact that there is almost no way to
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predict when the Thunder will come.
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Like you see the flash of light doesn't tell you when the
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Thunder is going to happen like. I'd almost have loved to see
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some like dead creatures around from the lightning strikes and
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all the Super big noises like that would have been cool
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because. Like one of them climbed up to a
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radio tower and then got zapped. Just got cooked or shaken out by
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the the huge Thunder noise like that would be interesting to add
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but I don't know where you would have put.
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It Yeah, it would it would have to be a cutaway and they didn't
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do a lot of that in the movie. The only times I can really
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think of it are the wide shots, but technically our main
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character was still in those shots.
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Like when they have the helicopters coming to say, hey,
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everybody should go north. Technically Sam is still in the
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shot because, you know, we're shooting from overhead.
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But otherwise, I think every other shot had one of our
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leading characters in it, whether that be Sam, Eric or the
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cat. The cat.
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Yes. Cats would not survive this.
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Nice, quiet cats. I was going to say most cats
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that I have ever lived with have been quiet cats.
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Whether they have been my cats or a roommate's cat, they have
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just, It is rare to hear the meow I've lived, I've, I have
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owned one vocal cat and it was a little bit annoying because it
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was always vocal. But most of the cats that I've
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had or lived with have been just silent, you know, So I, I think
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the cat would have lived as long as there's no bell on the
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collar. I think they've got it.
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Yeah, well, that's my that's my estimation of the three movies.
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Peak Valley Peak. I yeah, and I feel like it's
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mostly level ground for me with a small bump in the middle
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'cause I enjoyed the spookums of the middle.
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But I do think I really do find it interesting that they gave up
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on the silent film shtick after the first movie.
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Like they never come back to that anymore.
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And that was such an interesting concept, and I guess maybe it
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just got too challenging to tell complicated stories with sign
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language. Could have gone there out of
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writing stuff on note papers and whatnot, yeah.
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Yeah, but you know, people feel like whispering is fine and they
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they do it for the last two movies and whatever, that's
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fine. But I'm I'm still on board.
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July 30th, 2027 is the announced release date.
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They had another release date that was July 9th, but Superman
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Man of Tomorrow is scheduled to release that either that day or
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that weekend. So they sorry they pushed it
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back three weeks. Yeah.
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And I, I can totally see where they are coming from.
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Like this is a, this is a big franchise with a fourth movie in
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the franchise coming out. You don't.
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You don't want it overshadowed by a superhero movie.
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Even if they manage to make a reasonable amount of money over
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how much it costs to make it. Do you think that they should
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cut back on the budget? Do you think they should make it
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smaller scale? I think if it did go back to
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following one person, if it follows the family again I could
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see maybe. But I just think that the don't
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blame the baby. But man, the baby just throws a
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wrench into them trying to save everyone.
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Like maybe passing the baton through the radio would be great
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'cause I do like the silent film aspect, 'cause you are there
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listening and watching. And I do think they've muddied
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the water a little bit with how well they can hear 'cause it was
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pretty easy to say in the first movie, this rocket ship that
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makes lights and buzzes would attract one of these creatures
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because it is super loud. But apparently if you breathe
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close to these monsters, they can't hear you or your
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heartbeat. So I would say sure, do do the
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silent movie 1 so that people get drawn into it and maybe do
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flashbacks where people can talk and so you can be informed of
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why someone's heading north. Like I think you could maybe
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work something like that. Can't try to think of any movie
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that would do that, but like maybe they worked at the CDC or
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you know, stuff like that. You really wanna World War Z?
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Yeah. See and I'm I'm looking at the
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two children and Marcus, the the panicky child.
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He's now 20 years old and he looks very different when he was
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in a quiet place. It has been like 5 years since
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the last main entry in the movie.
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So if they're going to keep coming back to the same family,
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they've got to explain either a time jump or I don't know, are
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they just going to be so delusional as to be like, yeah,
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no one can still play a a 14 year old?
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I don't know. I would say no, don't pass the
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baton. Someone else go does it and make
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another movie that I feel like those isn't there like a series
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about the hauntings where they maybe it's the same characters
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but they go to different houses or it's not necessarily the same
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characters, They're like other franchises.
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Yeah, there are. There are a lot of franchises
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that will either switch out the characters or they'll keep one.
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I mean, almost every slasher movie has a an an entirely new
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cast from movie to movie. Even the person playing the
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killer is a different person oftentimes, unless we're talking
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like Jigsaw or Freddy Krueger or Chucky, you know, where it's a
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very distinguishable actor who has to play that part.
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But if you're talking like Halloween, you could put any big
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man in the Mike Michael Myers suit and just have a whole new
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cast. No expectations for what's going
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to happen while making the movie.
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And then, you know, a total surprise for the cast and the
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audience when they come out in the future.
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And why not do that with a part three, You know, whole new cast.
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We know it's going to be John Krasinski directing, screenplay,
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writing and story. And right now he is listed as
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the main producer for A Quiet Place Part 3.
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So it's his name across the board.
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So the question becomes, does he have the courage to not focus on
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his quote UN quote family for the third movie 'cause he can't
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be in the movie if if it's not about his family.
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Yeah, I think just logically I would say yeah, don't, don't go
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the route of the family where everybody's older and changed
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unless you're jumping ahead, like maybe you jump.
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Ahead. Maybe they are.
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Yeah, yeah, maybe we are going to have a a pretty dramatic time
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jump. And you could focus on three
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different stories if she wants to go, if oh, the daughter wants
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to go save the world, maybe she can go do that and the mom
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somehow gets the baby to the island and survives.
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I think it would resolve a couple of the hanging problems
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of the second movie. And maybe Marcus can become an
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action star like his dad wanted him to be.
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He will have the most dramatic change of character, going from
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constantly scared of everything to being like, hoorah, I'm ready
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to go, yeah. Could be they should ask us.
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Yeah, Why aren't we the ones making this movie?
31:24
I I think it is going to be the family.
31:27
We don't know anything about A Quiet Place Part 3 at this
31:30
point. It has a release date, but not
31:35
much else. But Paramount Pictures is not
31:39
typically one to back down from a franchise.
31:42
And I, you know, I talk about how they made less money with
31:45
every movie, but everyone was hundreds of millions of dollars
31:50
profitable. Like the least profitable one
31:53
was one made a profit of $199 million, like it did all right
32:00
or not 99. Sorry, it did 195 million.
32:05
I did bad math in my head by a lot.
32:08
I saw the wrong number entirely. Yeah, Yeah, I think they did all
32:14
right. That's where like, if you shrink
32:16
the budget, maybe you'll do great comparatively.
32:21
Maybe. But even if you don't, even if
32:24
you go up to 70 million and you made like 250 million, you're
32:28
still making over $150 million in profit.
32:32
You got to pay the actors though, man, I don't.
32:36
Know, but that's the thing like that's what the budget is.
32:39
That includes the actors, the special effects, the producers.
32:45
Well, like usually the producers are the ones giving the money,
32:48
but you know, the writers, directors and and actors and set
32:54
and all that stuff gets paid from the budget.
32:55
And then residuals will go out to producers and actors and
33:00
other people who worked on it on a percentage scale.
33:03
So John Krasinski, assuming that he remains the sole producer, he
33:09
will get a percentage, a huge percentage for being a producer,
33:14
then a smaller but still large percentage for being the
33:19
director, then another smaller but still large one for being a
33:24
writer. And then he'll probably get one
33:27
if he appears on camera, and he'll get one for being an actor
33:31
too. So the profits, yes, the profits
33:35
have to be split up, and that's where a lot of people get mad.
33:39
But the fact that there are profits is good.
33:44
Like nobody lost money on the last ones.
33:47
I don't think so. I mean, couldn't have marked it
33:50
that? All of them were all of them
33:52
made hundreds of millions of dollars.
33:56
I don't know. I'm I am hopeful for the next
33:59
one but IA little part of me worries they're like I'm sitting
34:04
here saying we are going to do a review for Part 3 and then that
34:08
never happens. I mean, we'll promise it and
34:12
we'll see if it does happen. Not our fault we're not making
34:16
the movie. Yeah.
34:17
We didn't make the Dang movie. Well, I don't know if you
34:23
remember what our calendar is, but I'm going to spoil for the
34:27
audience and I'll probably put A tag at the beginning of the next
34:31
franchise. We pre recorded the next two
34:36
franchises. Technically we haven't started
34:40
the second franchise in terms of recording, but by the time that
34:43
comes out it will have been recorded for at least a month in
34:49
advance. We're a smaller podcast.
34:51
We we don't have a very large reach at all.
34:57
And when it comes to algorithms, the smaller you are, the more
35:02
dedicated you have to be to your schedule.
35:06
Like you're allowed to try different release dates and
35:09
stuff, but if you suddenly take a break, you get dinged and you
35:15
you don't get to put, you don't get the same reach that you had.
35:19
You don't get to be recommended. And so a lot of people will
35:24
either pre record or they will put out a best of and then take
35:28
their time off. And that's kind of what we're
35:29
going to do, except it is going to be with two new franchises.
35:34
And do you want to reveal what the next franchise is so that
35:38
the audience can at least watch before they hear our reviews?
35:42
I mean. Have you forgotten?
35:48
Well, no, I I think it's the vampires, right?
35:51
It is. It is.
35:51
It is. But there are lots of vampires,
35:54
so let's let's slow feed this one.
36:00
There are vampires and werewolves.
36:02
I mean that like, guess who sort of situation, you know, this
36:06
could be this could be Twilight, we don't know 2.
36:08
Thirds of our audience has guessed what it is now and then
36:12
the 1/3 is like, oh, maybe it is that other one too.
36:16
You know who else is? Vampires and werewolves, I
36:19
think. Yeah, I'm trying to think.
36:21
Vampires and werewolves happens in that zombies Disney Channel
36:24
movie franchise. At least my kids know about that
36:26
one. Yeah, I think I I think I have
36:31
seen a thumbnail for it and those Oh, that's the other thing
36:35
I want to bring up because when we do come back, we've already
36:40
got the next couple of franchises planned.
36:43
But eventually we're going to run into a snag where we get to
36:46
a franchise that puts out a major release as a made for TV
36:50
thing or a direct to video thing.
36:54
And so I think we need to open it up and just say movies like
36:57
no series. That's going to be where I draw
37:00
a hard line. So I'm sorry MCU, but as good as
37:05
Wanda Vision is, it will never appear on this podcast.
37:09
But I do think Prey or the, you know, some of those horror
37:14
franchises that only go to direct to video, I think we
37:18
should include those as franchises.
37:20
I think it gives us more opportunity to not have to focus
37:25
on, well, get to focus on things like maybe the, well, I don't
37:31
know. Did you do we include the
37:33
Animatrix in that suggestion or do we cut that one?
37:37
See, that's where we are still struggling because what do you
37:41
do with an anthology? There are good ones out there.
37:44
The Predator franchise recently had one.
37:48
We couldn't do like, love death and robots, but.
37:52
That's fine, because that's a genuine series, but Animatrix or
37:58
Hunter of Hunters, those are contained in a single thing that
38:04
you press play on and then you watch it from start to finish.
38:09
And even though it's individual stories, you're still meant to
38:13
watch it from start to finish. So I don't know.
38:16
Until we get to The Matrix, I'm going to push that down the road
38:20
and say we'll have to keep discussing it.
38:24
Our next franchise is the Underworld franchise and came
38:31
out initially in 2003, so we're going back 22 years and the last
38:37
one came out 2016, so it does span a good decade.
38:43
Yeah, want. To see what we think of it.
38:49
He says cheekily, knowing full well.
38:55
But yeah, I'm, I'm excited for it.
38:58
There's a lot of people who love the Underworld franchise.
39:02
I remember my strongest memory with the Underworld franchise.
39:07
I think I only saw one of them in theaters.
39:09
And then I think most of them I just saw bits and pieces.
39:14
I might have watched one of them all the way through, but they
39:18
were on television. Like I think TBS was always
39:21
showing it. And so whether I was with my
39:24
roommate or later when I was married and hanging out with my
39:28
father-in-law, we were usually watching Underworld on
39:32
television. Nobody ever bought it.
39:34
We just watched it on TV with commercials.
39:37
Like you would say, a bit of a mainstay on TV.
39:41
So yeah, it'll, it'll be fun to relive this vampire lichen feud
39:48
that everybody loves so much. But yeah, I I don't think I have
39:54
anything more to say about A Quiet Place and I don't want to
39:57
spoil anything for Underworld. Yeah, I'm trying to think of any
40:03
because we covered most of the what's coming up for could be
40:07
coming up for Quiet Place. I do think how you say we run
40:13
into a franchise that has major release coming out, did you mean
40:18
in the sense of like out in theaters while we're recording
40:22
or did you mean yeah? I don't remember when.
40:27
What did I say about it? It was, I think it was around
40:30
when you're talking about expanding what we needed to
40:33
include. But I think I don't know of any
40:37
our current planned franchises have any that is coming out soon
40:42
enough in 2026 to give us any trouble.
40:47
There is one franchise on the calendar and it's the last
40:53
franchise on the calendar because we are we are mostly
40:56
booked up until July, like the beginning of July.
41:04
Nice. You need to pick out a four
41:06
movie franchise. Suggested Tirana.
41:10
Let's see, what was the other one I thought.
41:12
And that was that was it. Because Piranha had some made
41:15
for video movies and it was. Like mostly as this is
41:20
ridiculous suggestion because I'd almost rather watch the
41:24
Predator again because I think I watched the first Predator like
41:30
mostly on TV. So it got a lot of stuff cut
41:33
out. And the second one, I think we
41:35
watched some random place that had it on like VHS.
41:40
So my my father wanted to watch it and I was like, sure, I, I
41:44
like the predators. And then I mean, I don't know
41:47
how many more that's probably not a four, is it?
41:51
I. Think it's at six if we include
41:54
Hunter of Hunters. Kind of cut it down not to find
41:57
one. Yep, no I and.
41:59
You'll have to find one good and I know you also threw out Shrek,
42:03
but I'm going to say the spin off franchise for Puss in Boots
42:07
has to be included because it's the same animation style, same
42:11
character, same actor. Fun to.
42:14
In universe, yeah. Fun to reach that one, that one.
42:18
Brilliant, yeah. I really loved Last Wish so I do
42:23
want to do Shrek when we do Shrek because I loved the second
42:27
Puss in Boots movie. I was like, this movie is
42:30
amazing. Fantastic.
42:33
It is a great one. Yeah.
42:37
So, yeah, I mean, if you are listening right now and you've
42:41
got a four movie franchise in mind, go ahead and drop it in a
42:45
comment. Yeah, let us know.
42:48
You can also hit that follow button or like I don't know
42:53
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43:01
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43:05
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43:09
Find the episodes that you love the most or the franchises that
43:12
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43:17
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43:39
Especially if you've got a four movie franchise that you're
43:42
like, this is the one you've got to check it out.
43:45
We have expanded. We are now allowing made for TV
43:50
and direct to video or direct to streaming.
43:52
So feel free to send the wildest 4 movie franchise you can think
43:59
of. Yeah, I feel like 4, I feel like
44:01
narrows it down to things that kind of petered out and then
44:04
things that are kind of brand new.
44:06
So do whatever, do anything. There are a lot of four movie
44:12
franchises out there and I so I do think that that we will find
44:20
one that's that's good. I booked a four movie franchise.
44:24
I don't want to reveal what it is, but I'm so excited to get to
44:28
it. I'm I'm very excited for the
44:32
schedule that we have. There are some open windows.
44:35
And then as always, if you you know, if you reach out to us
44:39
with a franchise suggestion, we're probably going to be so
44:42
excited that we change the entire schedule just to
44:46
accommodate the audience. Probably 2026.
44:50
Yep, yeah, the next two are locked in because they're
44:54
already recorded. Well, the next 1 is already
44:58
recorded. The next one will be recorded by
45:00
the time it comes out. But then after that you can
45:03
contact us and we are likely to want to incorporate whatever you
45:09
suggest. So I think that's everything.
45:13
I think that's. Oh yeah, I forgot one thing
45:15
that's kind of dumb. There was a Quiet Place video
45:18
game in 2024. Have to pay.
45:21
It I don't know anything about it.
45:23
See if. There's a demo.
45:24
Yeah, See if it's out there, see if it's worth checking out, But
45:28
I never heard of it. I, I was kind of surprised to
45:31
see that it existed. So that concludes every thought
45:35
that I had about A Quiet Place. Yeah, that's.
45:38
That's not fair. All right, well, with that,
45:43
let's see if we can do it together.
45:46
Shut up. I.
45:49
Know I did it alone. Again, I know I did it alone.
45:51
Again, I know you said and then I was like, hey, is he is he
45:55
queuing something up? Wanted us to say shut up
45:59
together, but it's so hard to just time that have a have a
46:06
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46:09
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46:14
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