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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR Back now to the

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Speaker 1: wr Saturday Morning show wit Larry Minty.

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Speaker 2: A movie called The Bride is in theaters this weekend.

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Speaker 2: It's a horror romance with a great cast. So is

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Speaker 2: it any good? Here's WOR Movie Minute host Joe Numeier.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. When I first heard there was

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Speaker 2: a romance comedy coming out, I kind of rolled my eyes.

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Speaker 2: And it's called The Bride and made me roll my

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Speaker 2: eyes even a little bit more. But when I look

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Speaker 2: at the cast of this, it's like an all star cast.

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Speaker 2: Is it any good?

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Speaker 1: It's not good at all, Larry. In fact, this movie

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Speaker 1: is atrocious and it's getting really terrible. Yeah, it's getting

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Speaker 1: really terrible reviews. We'll kind of get into the into

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Speaker 1: the whys of it for a second, but I think

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Speaker 1: it is. It's getting a lot of zero reviews. I

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Speaker 1: know Johnny over the Post gave it a zero star.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting it one star. I hold my zero stars

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Speaker 1: for I mean, look, Screen seven made a lot of

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Speaker 1: money last week, but I didn't like it. It's sort

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Speaker 1: of this big, corporate, soulless thing. This movie at least tries.

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Speaker 1: It's taking a big swing to try and be a

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Speaker 1: lot of things. It's trying to be, yeah, like a

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Speaker 1: horror romance. It's also trying to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: of like a horror social commentary, a genre riff. It

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Speaker 1: kind of combines things. It's maybe even a horror gangster flick,

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Speaker 1: if that's what you're looking for. So it's it's a remake,

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Speaker 1: as it were, of the Bride of Frankenstein, but it's

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Speaker 1: set in the nineteen thirties Chicago area, and in this

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Speaker 1: instance the bride is played by Jesse Buckley. He's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna win an oscar next week for Hamnet. So she

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Speaker 1: plays a woman a gangster's mall's who's killed. And then

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Speaker 1: the Frankenstein monster shows up, which is always a problem,

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Speaker 1: and looking looking for a bride, of course, and he

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Speaker 1: goes to a mad scientist. They dig up this gangsters

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Speaker 1: girl who has now is sort of become like, you know,

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Speaker 1: she's she's feisty, and she's feminist, and she's you know,

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Speaker 1: she's not necessarily you know, the quiet one at the table,

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Speaker 1: and she and the frank and Stein monster who's been

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Speaker 1: wandering around for one hundred years, go on a crime spree.

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Speaker 1: Then it becomes a little like Bonnie and Clyde in

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Speaker 1: case anybody wanted that. And so then they go on

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Speaker 1: like a Money and Clyde crime spree. Uh, they sort

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Speaker 1: of become folk heroes. They make their way to New York.

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Speaker 1: They're being followed by, you know, some detective. So it's

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Speaker 1: sort of like a little like a film noir, like

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Speaker 1: a detective story. But it none of it works. There's

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Speaker 1: even a dance number in here that that is put

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Speaker 1: putting on the writs of all things from Young Frankenstein. Right,

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Speaker 1: how dare they? How dare they insult Young Frankenstein? Take

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Speaker 1: Young Frankenstein out of your mouth? Uh? That they that.

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Speaker 1: So it goes for all these different tones and all

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Speaker 1: these different things, and it really fails on a lot

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Speaker 1: of different fronts. The only thing that that sort of works,

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Speaker 1: and this is why I'm giving it one star, is

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Speaker 1: Jesse Buckley's performance, I think is really out there and

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Speaker 1: nutsy and sort of wacky. And Christian Bale plays the

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Speaker 1: Frankenstein Monster, and unfortunately his makeup looks a little like

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Speaker 1: Herman Monster, so it doesn't really you know, you're kind

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Speaker 1: of looking at him like, you know, really, we're still

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Speaker 1: doing this. But unlike the Frankenstein movie that came out

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Speaker 1: last Fall, which is great, the Germo del Toro film

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Speaker 1: that's nominated for some Oscars. So it's got a good

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Speaker 1: cat and Peter Star's guards and their Penelope cruise, you know,

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Speaker 1: and at Benning is the mad scientist. But none of

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Speaker 1: it really works. But Bail and Buckley, you know, give

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Speaker 1: it their all, and they have some powerful energy in there.

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Speaker 1: But man, like you're watching this and you're just sort

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Speaker 1: of like your mouth is sort of hanging open, and

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Speaker 1: you're sort of wondering, are parts of my brain falling

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Speaker 1: out of my head? Because this is really that awful

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Speaker 1: of a thing. But it's trying. It's trying for something.

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Speaker 1: It's got some messages to it. Like I said, but

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Speaker 1: and and but one Star. I mean, it's really it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna go down as probably a lot

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Speaker 1: of people's one of their worst of the year, and

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Speaker 1: and it deservedly. So let me go through this cast.

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Speaker 2: This has got a cost of fortune. You've already hit

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Speaker 2: a couple of them, you said, Jesse Buckley, Christian Bale,

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's sunning, right, and Jake Jillenhall, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Jajon Lopeza, he plays a nineteen thirties sort of Hollywood

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Speaker 1: star that the that the that the monsters are or

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Speaker 1: oh great, yeah that really that really fits in here.

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Speaker 1: Really well. It's it's trying all these different things, and

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Speaker 1: it's trying. Nothing sticks on the wall. All the brains

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Speaker 1: it reminds me, though, I will say, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's trying for something and and so you have

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Speaker 1: to give it a little bit of that. And it

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Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit of like Poor Things from

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, which got Emma Stone Best Actress,

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Speaker 1: Oscar actually, which is sort of a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the same idea. It's about a you know, a woman

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Speaker 1: a mad scientist. And but it's really hard to make

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Speaker 1: this kind of thing work when you when you mix

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Speaker 1: in this horror genre with something that's trying to have

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Speaker 1: some some social commentary, and it it works a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Sinners is a little bit like that, you know, which

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Speaker 1: could win some Oscar next week. So Sinners has got that.

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Speaker 1: It's a vampire movie, but it's also got something to

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Speaker 1: say and the substance was a little like that a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, remember the Demi Moore film. Has

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Speaker 1: got that and get Out and even things like American Psycho,

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Speaker 1: which also is a great Christian Bale performance. That's a

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Speaker 1: really scary, creepy, freaky movie, but it worked. And so

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Speaker 1: you've got to really know what to do with a

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Speaker 1: lot of people like Jennifer's Body. I don't really like it,

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Speaker 1: lot of millennials really kind of grooved on that and

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Speaker 1: movie called They Live from the from the nineteen eighties

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Speaker 1: that John Carpenter did with Roddy Rodney Piper about people

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Speaker 1: the ruling classes are all a bunch of aliens. So

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Speaker 1: you've got to really kind of taint. You got to

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Speaker 1: really find the right tone with these things and all

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Speaker 1: these movies that I just mentioned.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you something. Let me ask you something

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Speaker 2: for a second. Is this so bad with a great

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Speaker 1: Well that that's a really good question, because I think

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Speaker 1: like when you go to like, you know, you see

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Speaker 1: things like you know, Conan the Barbarian or something, or

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Speaker 1: or if they show up on cable and you watch

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Speaker 1: them is because they're nutsy. And that's what this is.

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Speaker 1: This is a very nutsy movie. So it could be

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Speaker 1: the kind of thing if midnight movies were still around,

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Speaker 1: for the for the sake of it. It could be

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Speaker 1: a cult hit, yeah, or a cult favorite. Let's not

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Speaker 2: When Rocky Horror Picture Show was first out right, did

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Speaker 1: No? No, it was crashed. It was Crashing seventy five

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Speaker 1: And it also took obviously the audience participation of people

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Speaker 1: lines back and everything like that, which could be the

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Speaker 1: case here. I mean the makeup on the on Jesse

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Speaker 1: Buckley as the bride. She's got this kind of black

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Speaker 1: about a year or so from now, people going with

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Speaker 2: I had to attract all of these actors to this film.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what it could be. The money, I

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Speaker 2: mean that could they just paid them a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And the director, Maggie Gillip Hall, she's a smart,

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Speaker 1: cool filmmaker. She knows kind of she had her last

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Speaker 1: and so people kind of trusted her, I think, and

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Speaker 1: but it just I think everything just didn't like like

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Speaker 1: That was fun.

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