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Speaker 1: What Up Movie Crew, Welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am your host Movie Mike. If you are new

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Speaker 1: to the show. What this episode is. It's a bonus

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Speaker 1: episode where I do a spoiler review of a movie.

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Speaker 1: I always keep all the reviews on the podcast spoiler Freeze,

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Speaker 1: so you can listen to every single episode without worrying

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Speaker 1: about having a movie ruined for you. But when major

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Speaker 1: movies come out, I like to do a full dive

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Speaker 1: into the entire movie, so that's why I do these episodes.

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Speaker 1: So if you've seen Top Gun, continue listening to this

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into all the major plot points. Or

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Speaker 1: if you just don't mind having a movie ruined for you,

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Speaker 1: then keep listening as well. But I have to say

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Speaker 1: this is probably the most requested spoiler review I've had.

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Speaker 1: This is a movie I've seen people who haven't gone

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Speaker 1: to the movie theater in a very long time, even

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Speaker 1: pre pandemic, go out and make it a point to

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Speaker 1: watch this movie. Even at the time of recording this,

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Speaker 1: almost two weeks that the movie has been out. Now

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Speaker 1: I will see people going every weekend talking about going

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Speaker 1: to see Top Gun, and that's exciting to me. As

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Speaker 1: a movie fan. It's cool to see a movie have

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Speaker 1: that kind of impact and have that kind of interest

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Speaker 1: in audiences. Makes me feel pretty good knowing that I

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Speaker 1: do a movie podcast, and it's just fun to see

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Speaker 1: all different levels of movie fan collectively enjoy Top Gun.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like that's exciting to me to know

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Speaker 1: that a type of movie like this can still exist.

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Speaker 1: And at the time of recording this, it's made three

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Speaker 1: million dollars in the US alone, about seven fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollars worldwide, So that's just telling you. I think it's

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Speaker 1: all because of the power of nostalgia. It came out

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Speaker 1: had an opportunity to dominate. But also I feel like

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Speaker 1: it's a movie that really adds to the value being

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Speaker 1: able to watch it on the big screen. So let's

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Speaker 1: like the movie even more, and I wasn't even expecting

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Speaker 1: worked really hard on this and made it a point

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Speaker 1: this from maybe one or two other movies where an

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Speaker 1: But it felt personal to me, and it's just a

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Speaker 1: nice little touch that I would like to see other

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Speaker 1: A list actors do a very subtle thing that just

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Speaker 1: makes me feel a little bit more connected. As I

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Speaker 1: watched the movie, and then you get into it, and

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Speaker 1: the movie had me at the opening scene whenever you

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Speaker 1: bringing back all those old memories in my theater. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: which was an interesting thing for me. So and then

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Speaker 1: from that opening scene where he is there to prove

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Speaker 1: confirmed everything for me. It almost felt like an action

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Speaker 1: And why I really think even now that Top Gun

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Speaker 1: that point, it was also just great to see Maverick's

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Speaker 1: consequences in Maverick Dying. I think that would have been

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Speaker 1: a very impactful thing. But of course they were also

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Speaker 1: to hear him. Hit me up on Instagram at Mike

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Speaker 1: Destro or shoot me an email movie Mike d at

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com and I will talk to you next time.

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Speaker 1: Until then, go out and watch good movies later