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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is a spoiler edition of a movie review. Today we're

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Speaker 1: talking about Note, which I'm really excited to do because

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Speaker 1: in my normal review, I really just got the chance

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Speaker 1: to explain how that movie made me feel. But now

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Speaker 1: the plot lines, and what at least this movie meant

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Speaker 1: to me. And everybody was pretty divided on this movie.

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Speaker 1: Some people loved it like I did, and some people

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Speaker 1: hated it and thought it was a waste of time,

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Speaker 1: not scary at all, one of the worst movies they've

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Speaker 1: ever seen. And I feel like when it comes to

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Speaker 1: a Jordan Peele movie, they are so polarizing that that

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Speaker 1: is how the audiences are usually split. You either loved it,

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Speaker 1: you did it in that moment, you like to go

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Speaker 1: research later and figure it out and then be like,

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Speaker 1: And that's the type of movie fan I am. Or

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Speaker 1: you watch it take it for face value, and if

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Speaker 1: something kind of rock your world and it doesn't do

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Speaker 1: that so you hate it, which is fine too. I

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Speaker 1: think it's just hard to make something that is in

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Speaker 1: the sci fi horror realm and able to meet everybody's expectations.

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Speaker 1: For me, I just like seeing something made that is

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Speaker 1: completely different, completely novel, even if it doesn't completely nail

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Speaker 1: all those elements. I love a director like Jordan Peel

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Speaker 1: striving to do something different, trying to make something that

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Speaker 1: like I got with Nope, and that's why I left

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Speaker 1: enjoying it so much. But let's get into where this

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Speaker 1: movie started, what it's about, because I never really even

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Speaker 1: got into that in a normal review, because I think

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Speaker 1: lot about it going into it, you enjoy it that

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Speaker 1: much more. But essentially, it is a movie that deals

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Speaker 1: with the paranormal. It deals with extraterrestrials. It deals with UFOs,

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Speaker 1: and I am somebody who loves UFOs. I love all

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Speaker 1: the characteristics of aliens, and just how our society reacts

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Speaker 1: to them. Now, where this movie kind of started and

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Speaker 1: the idea began was with Jordan Peel wanting to create

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Speaker 1: something that was a spectacle. He made and wrote this

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Speaker 1: theaters or movies in general, we're going to be all right,

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Speaker 1: if people were going to go back and watch movies.

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Speaker 1: He thought he needed to create something so large and

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Speaker 1: into seeds in the movie theaters. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: where the idea of Nopes started, the idea of creating

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Speaker 1: and there was no real explanation given. But they had

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Speaker 1: You weren't at a concert unless you filmed it. You

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Speaker 1: And then you also have the TMZ reporter who kind

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Speaker 1: So I didn't love I didn't hate the TMZ character

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Speaker 1: That kind of gave me that feeling I had back

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