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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, your

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Speaker 1: host movie Mike Distro. Today the topic is simple underrated

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Speaker 1: superhero movies. I got my top five on this list.

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Speaker 1: We'll also do some battling movie reviews to horror movies

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Speaker 1: of that on the way on this week's episode, appreciate

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Speaker 1: Without any further ado, let's get started. In a world

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Speaker 1: in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie

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Speaker 1: knowledge piece basically like a walking I MTV with glasses

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Speaker 1: from the Nashville podcast Networking Cases Movie Movie Podcast. So

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Speaker 1: I love superhero movies. I think if you listen to

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Speaker 1: this podcast for any out of time, that's pretty apparent.

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Speaker 1: It was actually a superhero movie that inspired me to

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Speaker 1: even start doing movie reviews in this capacity. The first

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Speaker 1: time I went to go see Batman Versus Superman. That

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Speaker 1: was like the first review I did and decided, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I love movies so much. I love superhero

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Speaker 1: movies so much, in particular, why not review them every

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Speaker 1: single time I go watch one. That was kind of

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Speaker 1: the birth of this podcast. So I'll admit, there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of superhero movies over the years. I think

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Speaker 1: on the genre altogether. But I think right now we're

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Speaker 1: we're coming into two already, I think you kind of

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Speaker 1: have to change how you make superhero movies to keep

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Speaker 1: But but by saying that, I also feel there are

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Speaker 1: But it started off with number five from two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eight, Hancocks starring Will Smith. This one had a

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Speaker 1: He does save some people, and in his past was

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Speaker 1: At number four from t is a movie called kick Ass,

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Speaker 1: I think the Toby McGuire Spider Man series is oftentimes

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Speaker 1: just intriguing to watch. And why I feel this movie

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Speaker 1: works over some other horror movies with the same kind

435
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Speaker 1: of concept, the same kind of idea, is that the

436
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Speaker 1: storytelling was actually really well done. In this movie. You

437
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: go all through the steps of seeing this guy learned

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Speaker 1: about Candy Man, and they kind of retell his story

439
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Speaker 1: in the back story I think really well, which made

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Speaker 1: you kind of connect with him as a character. So

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Speaker 1: I found myself actually caring about this guy and caring

442
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Speaker 1: what happened to him. But I would say it's more

443
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Speaker 1: of a thriller, more of a very intense drama than

444
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Speaker 1: it is a straight up horror movie. So this movie

445
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Speaker 1: is not going to give you nightmares in any way.

446
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Speaker 1: But I think if you go into it knowing at

447
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Speaker 1: least that much about it, you will enjoy. It's a

448
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Speaker 1: really good movie. There's nothing bad about this movie. I

449
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Speaker 1: think I just had different expectations of it going into it.

450
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Speaker 1: And the way the movie is kind of packaged up

451
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Speaker 1: with the trailer and the whole thing behind Indie Man,

452
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: you go into it expecting something different, so you could

453
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Speaker 1: be disappointed in that aspect. And I like the way

454
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Speaker 1: they took the original film and really modernized it and

455
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 1: made it look just beautiful. The special effects and this

456
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Speaker 1: are great. I love to costume design on Candy Man.

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Speaker 1: So if I had to give it a rating, I

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Speaker 1: would give it four out of five hooks easily. So

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Speaker 1: that's first up in our horror movie review Battle. Next up,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about Malignant, which is a brand new

461
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Speaker 1: movie from director James Juan, who has also done movies

462
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Speaker 1: like The Conjuring, Insidious saw An outside of horror. He's

463
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Speaker 1: also done Furious seven in Aquaman, So I think there

464
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Speaker 1: was a lot of hype going into this and him

465
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Speaker 1: kind of going back to his horror roots. And I

466
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Speaker 1: saw a lot of people excited about this one. Take

467
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Speaker 1: a little convincing for me to watch it, but it

468
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Speaker 1: is in theaters and on HBO Max. If you have

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Speaker 1: that before I get into this review and let you

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Speaker 1: know which of these movies is better. Here just a

471
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Speaker 1: little bit of that trailer. As they're happening, he says,

472
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Speaker 1: his name is Gabriel Best. Whatever happened to you before

473
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Speaker 1: you joined our family hurt you in a way that

474
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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine. So what this movie is about

475
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: because woman living in Seattle with an abusive boyfriend, she's pregnant,

476
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Speaker 1: and she's having these really dark, violent dreams that she

477
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Speaker 1: thinks are just dreams. But it turns out that this

478
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Speaker 1: serial killer in her dreams is actually real and the

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Speaker 1: things aren't just happening in her dreams are happening in

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Speaker 1: real life, so it's her trying to figure out why

481
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Speaker 1: she is cursed, what is actually going on. And the

482
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Speaker 1: entire movie kind of tells all the backstory and you

483
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Speaker 1: find out what the killer is all about. And I

484
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Speaker 1: think this movie was a little bit overhyped. And I

485
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Speaker 1: think it's because the director, James Want has had so

486
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Speaker 1: much success in creating some really great horror movies and

487
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Speaker 1: this was an original story for him that I was

488
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Speaker 1: expecting a lot more. And I felt like, first of all,

489
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Speaker 1: the main character felt a little holl oh to me,

490
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Speaker 1: and it was just something about the acting and this

491
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Speaker 1: I felt like I was watching a soap opera. And

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Speaker 1: everything about this movie I wasn't impressed by. I felt

493
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Speaker 1: it was a little bit uninspiring. Now, the serial killer

494
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Speaker 1: in itself was a scary villain. There was some you know,

495
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Speaker 1: creepy things going on, but it was almost too weird

496
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: and wanting to be so like kind of twisted that

497
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Speaker 1: I didn't really find it scary. I found it kind

498
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Speaker 1: of cheesy. I didn't find myself at any point thinking, man,

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Speaker 1: this is a really scary movie. I was just like,

500
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Speaker 1: this feels like a horror fairy tale soap opera that

501
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Speaker 1: I don't even really want to finish watching. So it's

502
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Speaker 1: not scary at least to me. And there was nothing

503
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Speaker 1: in this movie that really made me care about it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't care about the characters, but I also didn't

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Speaker 1: care about the horror itself. And I think that's what

506
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Speaker 1: you have to do in a good horror movie. You

507
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Speaker 1: either have to make it really scary and over the

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Speaker 1: top and you want to just see all like the

509
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Speaker 1: violence go down, or how creepy you know, the killer

510
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Speaker 1: appearing again get me interested in that, or make it

511
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Speaker 1: so fun to where it's kind of cheesy, which I

512
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Speaker 1: think is kind of the reassurgence that we've seen a

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Speaker 1: little bit of movies like Fear Street to where it

514
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Speaker 1: is a little campy, it's a little fun. You gotta

515
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Speaker 1: like want to be in the mood to watch something

516
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Speaker 1: like that. This is really neither of those things. I

517
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Speaker 1: think it kind of for me missed on both of

518
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Speaker 1: those fronts to where I didn't find it scary at all,

519
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Speaker 1: but also didn't find it like cheesy enough to appeal

520
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Speaker 1: to me in that way. So this was an easy

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Speaker 1: battle to me because I only give him Alignant one

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Speaker 1: point five out of five Violent Nightmares. The only thing

523
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Speaker 1: Malignant has over candy Man is that it is available

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Speaker 1: on HBO Max as well in theaters, So if you

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Speaker 1: already have the HBO Max subscription, you can watch it

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Speaker 1: for free. Candy Man, you have to go to the

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Speaker 1: theaters to watch it right now. It will be available

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Speaker 1: soon on video on demand at home. But if I

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Speaker 1: would have paid money to go watch Malignant in theaters,

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Speaker 1: I would have been very disappointed. So those are some

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Speaker 1: early horror movie reviews right now. I think coming up

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Speaker 1: in October will have a lot more to talk about.

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Speaker 1: But if you're just that eager to watch up Ding

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Speaker 1: Scary right now, well that's what I think about those

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Speaker 1: two movies. All right. Let's get into some movie news now.

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Speaker 1: I want to break down what I think about the

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Speaker 1: new Matrix four trailer, and I'll say right at the

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Speaker 1: top of this that I never really got into the

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Speaker 1: whole Matrix trilogy. I've seen all the movies, but I

540
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Speaker 1: was never one to be like, oh, they need to

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Speaker 1: make another one of these. I thought the trilogy was fine.

542
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Speaker 1: I like the first one the best, but I think

543
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Speaker 1: it's kind of Keana Reeves reassurgence with movies like John

544
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Speaker 1: Wick that maybe there is something there for Matrix four.

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Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen the trailer for this yet,

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Speaker 1: here's just a little bit of that. I've had dreams

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Speaker 1: that weren't just my crazy. We don't use that word

548
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Speaker 1: in here, have we met one? So what I do

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00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: like about it is, of course Kiana Reeves is back,

550
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: and they've also brought back some other main characters that

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00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: you see in the trailer. The one that I was

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00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 1: kind of I knew because I read before that Laurence

553
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: Fishburn wasn't asked to be back in Matrix four, but

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Speaker 1: seeing them kind of bring back a newer Morpheus was

555
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: a little bit weird to me, But I think the

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Speaker 1: movie will still work without him, And the trailer doesn't

557
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: really answer a whole lot of questions about what this

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00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: movie is going to be about, but you see him

559
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: kind of going back into the Matrix. The Blue and

560
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: the Red Pill have returned. The cool thing about it,

561
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: though it doesn't look like it takes place right after

562
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: the original trilogy, it looks like it was like now

563
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: in modern day, what he would be going through now.

564
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: The whole idea of the Matrix is in his head

565
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: and he's like struggling as a human because of it.

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Speaker 1: So I actually think this one looks pretty good. And

567
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: I know when Hollywood just goes back and adds on

568
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: a fourth movie to a franchise that was already successful,

569
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Speaker 1: oftentimes it's not that great and it adds nothing to

570
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: the trilogy because it already stands as what it was.

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00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: Movies like Toy Story four, I feel like that was

572
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: kind of an epilogue to Toy Story. It was a

573
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: perfect trilogy, but I needed to make some more money

574
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Speaker 1: wanted to write up another story. I don't think Toy

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Speaker 1: Story four was necessary. So when it comes to the Matrix,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they'll add a whole lot to what

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Speaker 1: that trilogy was because that was years ago already. I

578
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: mean the first one came out, so I don't think

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Speaker 1: they were really making those at that time for like, oh,

580
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Speaker 1: we'll make a four twenty years later, Like I don't

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00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. But the other thing that kind

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00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: of excites me about this trailer, I realized how ahead

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Speaker 1: of its time the Matrix was to come out in

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Speaker 1: the special effects, and now they're just so much better

585
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: that you can take everything that happened in that one

586
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Speaker 1: and just make it look steamless. So I think one

587
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Speaker 1: really kind of lend itself better to the world of

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Speaker 1: The Matrix. So visually, just from the trailer, it looks

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Speaker 1: pretty amazing. If you're bringing back all the same kind

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Speaker 1: of action, I think this movie will work. I think,

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Speaker 1: without a doubt it's gonna make a lot of money

592
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: at the box office. But I think what you're playing

593
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Speaker 1: with here is the legacy that the Matrix has. The

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Speaker 1: other thing I kind of worry about is the title

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Speaker 1: Matrix Resurrections. I feel like that's a little bit uncreative,

596
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 1: and anytime you put resurrection or resurrections in the title,

597
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: historically it's not that great of a movie. Halloween Resurrection

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00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: comes to mind, and that's probably the worst or one

599
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 1: of the worst Halloween movies. And I love Michael Myers.

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00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: I'll watch any Halloween movie, but it just feels a

601
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Speaker 1: little bit kind of uncreative or kind of boring. But

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Speaker 1: I guess it's a step above just Matrix four. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad they brought that carry in Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith,

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Speaker 1: and you have Neil Patrick Harris in here, so I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to see this. It comes out on December two

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Speaker 1: of this year. We'll see how it does, all right,

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Speaker 1: So that's gonna do it for movie News. That will

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