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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today we are talking Eighties movies.

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Speaker 1: It's a genre I often overlook, but there are so

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Speaker 1: many essential eighties movies I wanted to dedicate an entire

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Speaker 1: episode depict some of my favorites. In the movie review,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about a new A twenty four film starring

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Speaker 1: Pete Davidson called Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. It's being described as

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Speaker 1: a gen Z slasher, so i'll give you my thoughts

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Speaker 1: on that and in the trailer park we'll keep it

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Speaker 1: in the film productions. And we'll talk about a new

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Speaker 1: movie that just came out called Funny Pages that I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see because it looks very nostalgic. So

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Speaker 1: that is what we have coming up on this week's episode.

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Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday

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Speaker 1: Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies. In a

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Speaker 1: world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one

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Speaker 1: man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never

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

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Speaker 1: movie knowledge, he's basically like walking audio. David's Glass from

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Speaker 1: the Nashville Podcast Network I was asked recently, what are

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Speaker 1: some of your favorite eighties movies? And I think unfairly

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Speaker 1: think I tend to associate them with very cheesy rom

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Speaker 1: coms or teen movies. That is just kind of what

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Speaker 1: I think about when I think about eighties movies. But

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Speaker 1: the decade before. In the seventies, we had our first

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Speaker 1: biggest movies. So I decided to put together a list

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Speaker 1: go very personal on these. It would be easy just

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Speaker 1: And a lot of these movies I just in my

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Speaker 1: have included more of these on my list. So now

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Speaker 1: with number ten. I'm going with from five, The Breakfast

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Speaker 1: many movies in the eighties, so many essential eighties movies,

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Speaker 1: and he went on to write even countless more iconic movies.

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Speaker 1: But in the eighties, not only did he do Breakfast Club,

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Speaker 1: action movies, I'm going with Honey I Shrunk the Kids

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Speaker 1: Richard Donner, the movie costs nineteen million dollars to make

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Speaker 1: film is just eighties perfection. The iconic imagery of him

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Speaker 1: longer films, and that is why I put Scarface at

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Speaker 1: were Beetlejuice from This Is Spinal Tap from four, which

433
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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite comedies, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, RoboCop,

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Speaker 1: The Shining die Hard, Dirty Dancing Footloose Bill, and Ted's

435
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Speaker 1: Various Bueller's Day Off, Beverly Hills Cop, which Eddie Murphy

436
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Speaker 1: had an incredible run at the box office in the eighties,

437
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest stars in all of Hollywood during

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Speaker 1: that time. Full Metal Jacket, which is one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite movies. You know, so that some other great horror

440
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Speaker 1: movies like The Evil Dead. I was never the biggest

441
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Speaker 1: Indiana Jones fan, but Raiders of the Lost start came

442
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Speaker 1: out in one The Outsiders big. We didn't even get

443
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Speaker 1: into any Tom Hanks movies on this list, who also

444
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Speaker 1: had a great run in the eighties, The Karate Kid Airplane,

445
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: some people said The Little Mermaid, which came out in

446
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Speaker 1: I still think this wasn't that great a decade for

447
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Speaker 1: the eighties Disney movies. They were still in that xerox

448
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: era where everything kind of looked photocopied over the top.

449
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: From Sylvester stallone top Gun. I may have said that

450
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Speaker 1: one already in the movie I couldn't quite put on

451
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Speaker 1: my list that people will rip me up for was

452
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Speaker 1: et From Night two. I love that movie. I think

453
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Speaker 1: it is an important and iconic movie, but when it

454
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Speaker 1: comes to my favorites from the decade, I never really

455
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Speaker 1: had that emotional attachment to ET I think that was

456
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Speaker 1: one I needed to experience earlier on. I was born

457
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Speaker 1: in nine one, so that movie felt really old to me,

458
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Speaker 1: which is weird for me to say. But the one

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Speaker 1: that did make my list was a movie that came

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Speaker 1: out three years after Et From five, and it is

461
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Speaker 1: Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zamakas, who also

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Speaker 1: did Forrest Gump, who framed Roger Rabbit, and did the

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Speaker 1: entire Back to the Future trilogy, actually from parts one

464
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Speaker 1: to part three. The movie costs nineteen million dollars to

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Speaker 1: make and went on to make three d eight million

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Speaker 1: at the US box office. And even though I discovered

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Speaker 1: this movie much later in life, this is truly a

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Speaker 1: movie that defies the eighties. I think it is timeless,

469
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Speaker 1: even though it is dealing with predicting the future and

470
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Speaker 1: a date that we've already passed, which is weird to

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Speaker 1: think about, but I just think it has all the

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Speaker 1: best elements of what makes a great movie, of what

473
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Speaker 1: makes something spectacular to watch. It has comedy, it has action,

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Speaker 1: and has a love story, and it has that sci fi.

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Speaker 1: So we just talked about last week of movies. I

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Speaker 1: would recommend to somebody just coming out of a tenure coma,

477
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Speaker 1: this is a movie in that same kind of vein

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Speaker 1: that I would recommend to somebody who has never seen

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Speaker 1: a movie before, say an alien just dropped into Earth,

480
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Speaker 1: and you're trying to explain to them what a movie is.

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Speaker 1: I think this is the movie I would show them

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Speaker 1: because it has all of those elements, and it is

483
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Speaker 1: a movie me that I struggle with it ever being remade,

484
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: because I selfishly would like to see how much this

485
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: story would benefit from having the technology that we have today.

486
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Speaker 1: And I know as much as we hate having movies

487
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: rebooted that we know and love, and I think they

488
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: don't need to be touched because they are perfect. I

489
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Speaker 1: think if I had to pick one and was able

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Speaker 1: to handpick the director and hand pick the movie studio

491
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Speaker 1: that would go on to make the remake, I would

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Speaker 1: want to see a new Back to the Future. Well

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Speaker 1: maybe that's just me, but those are my top ten

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Speaker 1: eighties movies. If you have more that you want to

495
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Speaker 1: submit to the conversation, hit me up on Twitter or

496
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Speaker 1: Instagram at Mike Distro, shoot me an email movie Mike

497
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Speaker 1: d at gmail dot com. Let's get into a movie

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Speaker 1: review now. I want to talk about Bodies, Bodies Bodies,

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Speaker 1: which is a horror comedy movie from It follows a

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Speaker 1: group of rich, twentysome things who throw this elaborate and

501
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: somewhat odd hurricane party at one of their mansions, and

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Speaker 1: they play this game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, where one

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Speaker 1: person is assigned the killer and everybody else has to

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Speaker 1: figure it out. But then some people start getting murdered

505
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Speaker 1: and they try to figure out who the real killer

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Speaker 1: is outside of this game. So before I get into

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Speaker 1: what I think about this movie, here's just a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the Body's Bodies Bodies trailer. Who wants to

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00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: play Bodies Bodies ties? I get so stressed out every

510
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Speaker 1: time we play that someone always has a crime. So

511
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: how do you play? Well, I'm not coming to say

512
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Speaker 1: that if you draw the tiece of paper that has

513
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: the X on it, you are the murderer. Our friend

514
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: is dead. So if you could just like not escalate

515
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: the situation that I'm not escalating, you're holding the knife

516
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: and you're moving your hands while you talk. So this

517
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Speaker 1: movie has a cast of a lot of fresh new faces,

518
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: which I found pretty refreshing. The most recognizable face, though,

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00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: you have, is Pete Davidson. He is one of the

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Speaker 1: rich kids in this movie. So where the story starts

521
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: is you find one of the characters who has a

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Speaker 1: new girlfriend and she is introducing her to all of

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Speaker 1: her new friends, who are all these rich twenty year olds,

524
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Speaker 1: and they're all getting together at one of their parents

525
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: mansions where they're going to drink and take drugs as

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Speaker 1: they await this hurricane that is about to hit. So

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00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: one night where they're all partying, they decided to play

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Speaker 1: this game called Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, where everybody draws a

529
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Speaker 1: card and on one of those cards marks that that

530
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: person is assigned to be the killer, and they all

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00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: have to figure out who the killer is. They turned

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00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: the lights off, that killer taps one of them, and

533
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: that person is now dead in the game, and they

534
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: keep trying to guess and make all these kind of

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Speaker 1: accusations and reasonings of who they think the killer is,

536
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: while the killer is trying not to be revealed and

537
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: be able to take out as many people as possible.

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Speaker 1: So that's the game they're playing called Bodies, Bodies Bodies.

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00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: But then one of them actually dies, so suddenly it

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00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: gets very serious as they realize there is a killer

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Speaker 1: among them. So what the movie is really about is

542
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: how well do you know your friends, how well do

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Speaker 1: you know the people you hang out with, and what

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Speaker 1: happens when you start accusing them of killing people. So

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00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: it goes from them trying to find out who done

546
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Speaker 1: it in the fictional game, to them throughout the entire

547
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: movie really trying to find the killer. So it is

548
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Speaker 1: a fun modern twist on that who Done It genre.

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Speaker 1: And I do think this is a pretty important film.

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Speaker 1: And even though I didn't love it, but I did

551
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: enjoy it. I felt this movie was very fresh and entertaining.

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00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: It is the first real gen Z slasher I have seen,

553
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Speaker 1: and it was a little bit more horror slasher than

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Speaker 1: I was expecting. I was kind of inspecting a full

555
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: on comedy. It kind of felt like the movie Spring

556
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: Breakers meets like a scream. I guess I was just

557
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: expecting a little bit more ha ha comedy, and it

558
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: was a little bit more of a clever satire on

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00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: the genre and also poking fun at rich kids. But

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Speaker 1: I think the thing I really enjoyed about the movie

561
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: is it was very well written. I love the dialogue

562
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: in this movie, how it really tried to capture what

563
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: people in their early twenties are like right now. So

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00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: I think this will later be looked at it is

565
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: one of the most quintessential gen Z movies made. I

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Speaker 1: think for my generation from millennials. I kind of felt

567
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: represented this way back in with a movie called Unfriended,

568
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: which is also a horror movie. I felt like that

569
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: really kind of came out at a time when I

570
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: was going through the things that the characters were in

571
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Speaker 1: that movie. That movie took place entirely over Skype, so

572
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: the technology was very set in that period of time

573
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Speaker 1: that I have really seen a movie really captured that sense.

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Speaker 1: And even though Unfriended isn't the best movie ever, I

575
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: just go back and watch that movie a lot because

576
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: it reminds me of that time. So I do think

577
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: that Bodies will be that for people probably here in

578
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: another eight or ten years, and why I do think

579
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: that dialogue is so important because it is so easy

580
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: to make a bad horror movie, and where horror movies

581
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: really kind of get it wrong, I really kind of

582
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: miss out on is that dialogue of really creating a

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00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: story and creating something believable, which I think Bodies did

584
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: do really well, because it's not enough just to rely

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00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,479
Speaker 1: on the horror elements, to rely on the kills to

586
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: create a great horror movie, because there's a very kind

587
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: of delicate balance when it comes to that. If it's

588
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: just killing all the time, it loses all of its appeal,

589
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: it loses all of its dramatic effect, But if there's

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00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: not enough of it, it just becomes kind of boring.

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00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: So where you really need to kind of focus on

592
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: in a horror movie is creating great dialogue, creating memorable lines,

593
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: creating funny moments. In this movie, it is pretty subtle.

594
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: But even if you stripped out all of the kind

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00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: of shocking jump scares out of this movie, I still

596
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: think it's just a great written comedy. And the other

597
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: thing that this movie does pretty well is that it

598
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: does keep you guessing along. So the entertaining part of

599
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: this ninety minute movie is that you'll find yourself guessing

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00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: all the way through. I think I changed who I

601
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: thought the killer was two or three times, and it

602
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: is very rare that a movie keeps me guessing till

603
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: the end, but this movie really did that and something

604
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: else I kind of found funny. I know it was

605
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: kind of a satire, but it did poke fun at

606
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: gen Z lingo and just gen Z interactions. And then

607
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: as the first time I've seen that done in the

608
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: movie before. As a millennial, I feel like we've been

609
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: getting a lot of heat lately. Is now what we

610
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: are seeing as the older uncool generation. I'm not sure

611
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: when that happened. I felt like as millennials, we had

612
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: a really short time to one be just criticized by

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00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: the generation that came right before us, the people calling

614
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: us entitled, And I felt like for that reason, we

615
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: never got to make fun of anybody. We got it

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00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: so quickly of being hated on, and as soon as

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00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: we got to the point that we could make fun

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Speaker 1: of the older generation, the younger generation started taking stab

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00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: at us for being cringe e And I think this

620
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: movie showed me that their time will come too. It's

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Speaker 1: just weird us creating all these barriers, like we're so

622
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: different as generations were really all the same, we just

623
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: say words differently. So so what I'm just saying is

624
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: we shouldn't scrutinize people based on what decade they were

625
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: born in. And it took me watching this movie to

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00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: be a reminder of that. And I think when it

627
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: comes to recommending this movie, I think it is skewed

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00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: towards the younger generation, and I'm cool with that. I

629
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: think that is who this movie was made for. I

630
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: think it's supposed to be this generation scream and a

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Speaker 1: new take on horror, which I'm on four. I'm all

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00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: for keeping this genre as fresh as it can be.

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00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: So if you're just a fan of slasher movies, if

634
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: you're a fan of some dark and twisted humor, I

635
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: think you will enjoy it too. But I don't think

636
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: it's the movie for you. If you're wanting to watch

637
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: something that will make you laugh out loud continuously, and

638
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: you won't really be moved by some of the horror

639
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,720
Speaker 1: and violence in this It's pretty subtle, it's pretty straight

640
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: to the point. But I still think overall it is

641
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: a pretty entertaining movie, and I found myself still thinking

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00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: about it days after I watched it, and that's all

643
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: I'll say about that. But if I had to rate

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Speaker 1: Bodies Bodies Bodies, I would give it three point five

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00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: out of five. Rich kids, It's time to head down

646
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 1: to movie Mike La Paul. I want to talk about

647
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: a movie called Funny Pages. It just came out in

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Speaker 1: very select theaters this past Friday and is available now

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Speaker 1: to rent on Amazon. You can watch it at home

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Speaker 1: for seven bucks. But it is a movie that you

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Speaker 1: could have convinced me. Came out back in the nineties

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Speaker 1: and I just missed it. This is one of the

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Speaker 1: trailers that came on before I went to go see

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Speaker 1: I immediately thought to myself, I have to watch this

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Speaker 1: movie when it comes out, and I wanted to share

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Speaker 1: it in the trailer park first before I even get

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Speaker 1: a chance to watch and review it, because maybe we

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Speaker 1: could experience this movie together. But what the movie is about.

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Speaker 1: It follows the story of this kid named Robert, who

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Speaker 1: is a high school student and aspiring cartoonist. He is

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Speaker 1: then finds this guy who used to work as a

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Speaker 1: comic artist and kind of wants him to take him

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Speaker 1: of being a comic book artist. It's said to be

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Speaker 1: a really twisted coming of age story. Here is just

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Speaker 1: a little bit of the Funny Pages trailer. Robert meet

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Speaker 1: our friend Wallace. So it's just here. You worked for

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Speaker 1: a company Cold Image, Year Image Comics. I work in

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Speaker 1: an artist nobody get all recur. What would I say

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Speaker 1: for a drawing lesson? Honestly, you consider yourself a cartoonist? Right?

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Speaker 1: I'm paying you how much? This is really crazy for me.

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Speaker 1: I've just never met the professional cartoonists before. That's a

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Speaker 1: big deal, I know. So while watching this trailer, I

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Speaker 1: felt away I haven't felt since the nineties. If you

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Speaker 1: ever remember putting in a VHS and having to watch

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Speaker 1: all of the trailers leading up to the movie you

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Speaker 1: were going to watch, this is how I felt watching

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Speaker 1: the Funny Pages trailer. It had that feel to it.

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Speaker 1: From visually looking like it was being played from a VHS,

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Speaker 1: kind of this low budget nineties quality filming style. You

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Speaker 1: almost have to convince me a little bit that this

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Speaker 1: movie came out now in two. I also love that

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Speaker 1: there are no big recognizable faces in the trailer or

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Speaker 1: looks pretty ordinary, and I feel like that provides a

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Speaker 1: level of authenticity that you don't really get in movies anymore.

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Speaker 1: When you're telling a story like this and the characters

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Speaker 1: look real, they look like people you would encounter at

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Speaker 1: the grocery store or encounter living in your apartment complex,

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Speaker 1: that is what I want to see. So above all,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of just excited that a movie can be

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Speaker 1: made like this in two and look like this, and

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Speaker 1: feel like this, and be a story that feels like

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Speaker 1: maybe a cross between Napoleon Dynamite and super Bad. It

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Speaker 1: also kind of reminds me of the movie Jonah Hill

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Speaker 1: directed mid nineties of Being One to kind of subtly

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Speaker 1: capture the energy of that decade. The only person I

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Speaker 1: recognize from the trailer was Andy Melanochis, who I find

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Speaker 1: hilarious on TikTok and just from that trailer. It contains

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Speaker 1: some very dry humor. I love the dead pant style

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Speaker 1: of comedy that reminds me of Yeah, watching Napoleon Dynamite

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Speaker 1: for the very first time, where maybe your first run

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Speaker 1: through you don't entirely get it, but the more and

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Speaker 1: more you think about it, the funnier you find it.

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Speaker 1: And I think maybe if this were a movie they

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Speaker 1: came out back ten twenty years ago, it could be

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Speaker 1: a movie up to that level. At least that's the

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Speaker 1: impression it's giving to me now. But that movie is

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Speaker 1: from out in select theaters now where you can rent

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Speaker 1: it on Amazon for seven bucks. Not getting paid to

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Speaker 1: say that anyway. It's just the movie that I know

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Speaker 1: I'm going to sit down and watch pretty soon. And

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Speaker 1: if that sounds appealing to you, we can watch and

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Speaker 1: experience this movie together and then talk about it in

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Speaker 1: the movie review. But again, that movie is called Funny Pages.

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Speaker 1: This maakes edition of movie, and that's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for another episode here on the podcast before I hop out.

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Speaker 1: You know what I do every single week my listeners

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Speaker 1: shout out of the week, where I just show my

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Speaker 1: appreciation to you for tweeting me at Mike Destro sending

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Speaker 1: me a d M, tagging me in your Instagram story,

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Speaker 1: taking a picture of your car's dash as you listen

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Speaker 1: to that week's episode, or send me an email movie

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Speaker 1: Mike d at gmail dot com. But today the shoutout

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Speaker 1: is taking me to Twitter in a tweet I got

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Speaker 1: from Kira, who tweeted me and said, in my family,

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Speaker 1: when we discuss a new movie, we always ask what

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Speaker 1: did myke D say about it? So keep those movie

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Speaker 1: reviews coming. You never steer us wrong. So I appreciate that, Kira,

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Speaker 1: and that you and your family do that. I do

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Speaker 1: try to lead you and steer you in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: And I truly just share movies that I am passionate

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Speaker 1: about and that I like, and that I hope you

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Speaker 1: will like to all of my reviews or just straight

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Speaker 1: from the heart and straight from how movies make me feel.

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Speaker 1: And there are some movies that I know that I'm

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Speaker 1: going to love and you probably won't, So I do

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Speaker 1: try to give you that objective look of what kind

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Speaker 1: of a movie fan you have to be to enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: And when I do rate something so incredibly high, I

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Speaker 1: know that sometimes it's not going to live up to

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Speaker 1: those expectations. So as this line, I in a battle.

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Speaker 1: Every single review I do to give you my most

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Speaker 1: honest opinion and also recommend things that won't waste your time.

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Speaker 1: So just know you're always getting my honest, true opinions

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Speaker 1: without any outside agenda. I don't have to say anything,

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Speaker 1: but I don't want to say so again, appreciate that, Kira,

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you for listening to this week's episode. And until

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Speaker 1: next time, go out and watch good movies and I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you later