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Speaker 1: and you have never seen Betty White better than the

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Speaker 1: role she has in the next movie on our horror

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Speaker 1: hit list. Yes, Betty White plays a woman who has

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Speaker 1: a pet crocodile that's eaten everything insight. And with that,

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Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ's we continue

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Speaker 1: on our Halloween Horror hit List. We got number twenty

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Speaker 1: three on the list. This has been a longtime favorite

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Speaker 1: of mine and my favorite role robes. I have ever

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Speaker 1: seen Betty White.

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Speaker 2: In Yes We're Talking Lake Placid from nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this runtime an hour and twenty two minutes.

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Speaker 2: It's rated R and it's a horror comedy. The comedic

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Speaker 2: writing in this and the acting is an amazing through

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Speaker 2: line of what is a crocodile horror movie? And you've

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Speaker 2: loved it for so long? I mean, you own this

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Speaker 2: on DVD Blu ray.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's not even a Blue ray.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's just DVD.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm just only say that, I say how long?

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Speaker 1: How old this thing is? We watched it there the

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Speaker 1: other night. I had to pull out the DVD player.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe you still have a DVD player.

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Speaker 1: Keep one handy for emergencies, just like last night. But

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Speaker 1: this is it possible. I know we're not revealing a

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Speaker 1: couple others. This is certainly the funniest one so far

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Speaker 1: that we put on the list. It might be the

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Speaker 1: funniest one of all thirty.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's actually almost comedy forward horror in

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Speaker 1: That's a good one, you know.

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Speaker 2: And so it's just it's an entertaining movie. So if

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Speaker 2: you don't want to be scared to all hell basically,

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Speaker 2: and you just want to have fun and have a

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Speaker 2: few thrills, I would say this is the movie for you.

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Speaker 1: It's an adventure, it's fun. It's almost a camping movie

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Speaker 1: to a certain degree. With these you got this band

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Speaker 1: It is a fantastic ride from startivinsh Okay.

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Speaker 2: Here is the actual official synopsis. When a mysterious creature

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Speaker 2: violently kills a man in a main lake, Jack Wells,

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Speaker 2: the local game warden, looks into the bizarre case along

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Speaker 2: Cuff Keo. Sheriff Hank Keo and visiting palaeontologist Kelly Scott,

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Speaker 2: looking for clues in a tooth that the beast left behind.

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Speaker 2: Kelly and the others eventually locate the monster, a massive

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Speaker 2: and vicious reptile eager to devour anything in its path.

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Speaker 2: Can the crocodile like creature be stopped?

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Speaker 1: It's so you read it, you know you read it

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Speaker 1: in a more dreadful way than you actually feel. Throughout

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Speaker 1: the movie. The movie sets a tone of fun and

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Speaker 1: adventure and some playfulness and campy that's a good word

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Speaker 1: for this one in a lot of ways. But the

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Speaker 1: performers in here have accolades of the highest. This is

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Speaker 1: another great cast.

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Speaker 2: So just to give you a little insight into the

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Speaker 2: script itself, and then yes we'll tell you who the

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Speaker 2: Kelly if that sounds familiar. He was the I think

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Speaker 2: quick back and forth comedic timing you see all throughout

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Speaker 1: And does he have a horror background at all, Not

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Speaker 2: So he is known for his comedic writing, and he

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Speaker 2: back in the nineties. This is It all clicked when

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Speaker 2: into research this movie. So yes, the cast Bill Pullman amazing,

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Speaker 2: He's got that like sheepishly sweet boy necks door good

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Speaker 2: him as while you were sleeping with Sandra Bullock. So yes,

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Speaker 2: Bill pull One is amazing movie. All right takes away, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Bridget Fonda, who, of course I love from Single White Female,

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Speaker 1: She plays the New Yorker, the New York paleontologists, coming.

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Speaker 2: From the one that everyone hates. Betty White. Of course, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Maybe the funniest character besizes Betty White.

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Speaker 1: That's the dude. If you don't know his name, you

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Speaker 1: have seen him everywhere. This guy has won baptist Emmy's

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Speaker 2: And then Mariska Hargate Boom, it's not SPU. Now she's

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Speaker 2: I should actually say, this is one of Lake Placid

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Speaker 2: is one of your absolute favorite movies. I must admit,

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Speaker 2: I just passed over this in ninety nine. I guess

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Speaker 2: I've probably seen it ten times in the last three

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Speaker 2: they had it was great. They really had a good

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Speaker 1: What a movie you haven't seen yet I've been talking

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Speaker 1: this movie I've been telling you about a lot of

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Speaker 1: In Blackface, the Old Hire movie.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well then I'm gonna go ahead and reiterate I

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Speaker 1: And Harvard, it's ridiculous you're recommending this movie. I recommend

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Speaker 1: it to everybody. It is absurd, and it was one

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, okay, So now we've just told

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Speaker 3: you how much we love this movie, how great this

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Speaker 2: So here's the Rotten Tomato score forty seven percent, even

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Speaker 1: The movie was before it's time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's funny you should mention that, because I am

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Speaker 2: now going to go through some of the critics, and

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Speaker 2: at some of these its people with streaming services now

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Speaker 2: new appreciation. So here's the overall critic consensus. Betty White's

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Speaker 1: It's not supposed to You're right, this is more it's

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Speaker 1: It is a hilarious movie that throws in a few

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine. Clocking in at under ninety minutes, Lake

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Speaker 2: wondering if it's a bad monster movie or a clever

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Speaker 2: Goes davidy Kelly, the film feels like an offbeat cousin

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Speaker 2: to his work on Ally McBeal, with sharp jokes about men, women,

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Speaker 1: What was the line in there you said about the

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Speaker 2: This moving quirky and fun and snarky, but in this

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Speaker 1: how much I mean, seventy ninety foot crocodile. It's not

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Speaker 2: There was a scene where the creature throws Bridget Fonda's

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Speaker 2: saying it's sometimes it's funny, but in a good way.

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Speaker 1: For sure. I didn't think it was foun you know,

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Speaker 1: And it's not again, it's not overly vulgar. And how again,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening though to this episode of Amy and DJ.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Roboch alongside DJ Holmes. We will talk to

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