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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, and today I'm bringing in

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Speaker 1: my friend, producer Eddie from The Bobby Bone Show, and

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Speaker 1: we're breaking down a movie from nineteen forty eight called Rope.

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you exactly why we both watched this movie.

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Speaker 1: I'll also share with you my top five Alfred Hitchcock

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Speaker 1: movies of all time. And then I'm hitting you with

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Speaker 1: a double feature movie review. I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Lawrence and No Hard Feelings. Did it live up

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Speaker 1: to my expectations of wanting it to be a revival

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Speaker 1: of the two thousands raunchy comedy? And then I got

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Speaker 1: to talk about Wes Anderson's Asteroid City. Did I love it?

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Speaker 1: Because he's one of my favorite directors. So we'll do

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Speaker 1: a double feature movie review instead of the Trailer Park

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Speaker 1: this week because there are so many movies and I

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Speaker 1: just got to talk about all of them. So thank

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Speaker 1: you for being subscribed, thank you for listening every single week.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now

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Speaker 1: let's talk movies.

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Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,

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Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like

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Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast, a man with so

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Speaker 2: much movie knowledge, he's basically like.

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Speaker 3: A walking IMTB. What's glasses?

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Speaker 4: From the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast.

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Speaker 4: All right, I'm in studio now with Eddie.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good, Mike E.

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Speaker 4: This is like the exit interview from the Bobby Bone Show.

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Speaker 4: Movie Club.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but look, here's the deal. I'm a little butt

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Speaker 5: hurt about this. You have never asked me to be

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Speaker 5: on your podcast, and I love movies.

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Speaker 4: You have been on the podcast when we talked about

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Speaker 4: love Amba.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's true. All yeah, you know what, I'm no

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Speaker 3: longer about her.

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Speaker 4: You're returning.

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Speaker 4: So we have this cinema club going on.

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Speaker 1: We're all watching a movie that we draw out of

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Speaker 1: a hat and we come on and review it, and

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Speaker 1: now we're gonna talk about it because I ended up

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Speaker 1: really liking this movie. And the movie is called Rope.

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Speaker 1: It came out in nineteen forty eight from Alfred Hitchcock.

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Speaker 1: I want to start first before we get into We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go full spoiler.

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Speaker 4: On this because it's an old movie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, does you really matter.

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Speaker 1: But if for some reason you still want to go

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Speaker 1: and watch this movie, we'll just get into a little

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Speaker 1: bit what it's about and why you pick this movie.

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Speaker 4: So that's the first question, Why did you pick this movie?

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Speaker 5: This was a movie that well, see, first off, all

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Speaker 1: Is that I love old movies, but you specifically go

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Speaker 3: I think it goes back to my childhood there.

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Speaker 3: This is never seen before in my life. It's kind

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Speaker 1: I definitely feel that going into watching this movie, I

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Speaker 1: So he is in this movie, yes, all right, Now

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Speaker 5: And I'm not one hundred percent sure I know he's

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Speaker 1: I could maybe think of places I could possibly go

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Speaker 1: But the movie is about these two guys and they

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Speaker 5: It's like so bizarre that you think, like this is

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Speaker 3: Everyone that's invited is like what are we doing here?

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Speaker 5: And the guy's like, Hey, we're just celebrating, you know,

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Speaker 3: And they're just like, Okay, that's kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: Basically, one guy feels bad about it and is struggling

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Speaker 3: Like it's not a bad thing, yeah, murder and get

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Speaker 1: And I thought that was like I've never really thought

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Speaker 5: And even the way that when the professor's talking about murder,

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Speaker 5: he's talking about me, Like I just I just murdered someone,

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Speaker 1: And a couple of things happen in this movie that

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm watching the whole time.

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Speaker 5: But they taught you that because Hitchcock did that for

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Speaker 1: And what it kind of gives the movie a feeling

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Speaker 1: It's all happening in the moment because it's just going

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Speaker 1: just love that idea. Barispieler's day Off, Yeah, Friday, Friday,

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Speaker 4: You have to have such great writing for a movie

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Speaker 3: Did you like the writing in this movie?

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Speaker 5: Did you like the way they talked, which is, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's hard, we don't talk like that.

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Speaker 1: But I love it though, because it transports you back

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Speaker 4: And it didn't feel like as data is.

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Speaker 5: But see then you'll see another movie in nineteen forty

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Speaker 1: If this movie came out right now with this concept

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Speaker 3: What director would you hire to do this movie?

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Speaker 1: I would probably put that top ten. It's been a

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Speaker 1: And he was the director that before Alfred Hitchcock, all

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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: But Mike, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: I'm now going to go deep dive into any other

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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, dude, it's best.

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Speaker 1: I would say, what do you have to promote now,

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Speaker 1: but you're not on any other podcast, so we just

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Speaker 3: The Bobby Bone.

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Speaker 4: Hey, listen to Bobby Bone Show, all right, Monday to Friday.

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Speaker 4: Producer Ready, Yeah, all right, thanks.

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Speaker 3: Dude, all righty, thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into our first spoiler free review

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Speaker 1: of the episode. I want to start with Jennifer Lawrence

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Speaker 1: and no hard feelings. I was excited going into this

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Speaker 1: movie because by the looks of the trailer, it looked

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Speaker 1: like it was going to be very reminiscent of early

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Speaker 1: two thousands raunchy comedy, and I have been on the

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Speaker 1: quest for a new original comedy that isn't a part

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Speaker 1: of any franchise. It isn't a revival or a sequel,

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Speaker 1: which I feel like that's really the only things people

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Speaker 1: get excited about now, and I just wanted to go

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Speaker 1: watch a new original story with Jennifer Lawrence, who hasn't

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Speaker 1: done a comedy ever in her career, which is surprising

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Speaker 1: to me because I feel like she is a very

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Speaker 1: funny person in her interviews, but has not done a

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Speaker 1: full on comm so I think it's an interesting time

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Speaker 1: for this movie to come out for her career. But

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Speaker 1: what this movie is about. Her character is named Maddie.

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Speaker 1: She is on the verge of losing her childhood home

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Speaker 1: and she has a job working as a bartender and

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Speaker 1: also a job working as an uber driver, and the

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Speaker 1: movie starts out with her car getting repossessed. She's lived

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Speaker 1: in this small beach town her entire life, and now

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Speaker 1: a great part of her income has to do with

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Speaker 1: the people who come and visit during the summer, but

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Speaker 1: since she doesn't have a car, she is not able

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Speaker 1: to make any money driving for Uber, and she is

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Speaker 1: running out of time because she owes all this money

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Speaker 1: in taxes on her house. So now she's out of

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Speaker 1: a car, her home is about to get repossessed. She

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Speaker 1: needs to find a way to make money, and then

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Speaker 1: it gets really ridiculous really quickly. But I like the

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Speaker 1: commitment to it because her friends stumble on this Craigslist ad.

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Speaker 1: It's from these parents of a nineteen year old who

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Speaker 1: is very socially awkward. Basically he's a huge nerd, which

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Speaker 1: I highly related to that part of it, and he

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Speaker 1: hasn't really had any luck with girls or really meeting

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Speaker 1: any friends. So they want to hire somebody to date him,

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Speaker 1: really date him, if you know what I'm saying. Given

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Speaker 1: this as a R rated, raunchy comedy in order to

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Speaker 1: give him some experience going into college so he doesn't

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Speaker 1: get eaten alive. Really, they are very just helicopter over

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Speaker 1: protective parents, and they are also very wealthy, so they

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Speaker 1: have a lot of money. So you learn about this character, Percy,

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Speaker 1: who's nineteen years old and has had everything in life,

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Speaker 1: kind of handed to him and controlled by his parents,

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Speaker 1: and that is where we find our characters. They set

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Speaker 1: up this plan for Jennifer Lawrence's character to go and

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Speaker 1: meet him at this animal shelter where he volunteers, with

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Speaker 1: the idea of just being they'll go on one day,

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Speaker 1: they'll hook up, and then she'll get her car.

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Speaker 4: But obviously it's.

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Speaker 3: An entire thing.

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Speaker 1: When they start forming a relationship, they start hanging out more,

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Speaker 1: but really the underlying reason that she doesn't want him

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Speaker 1: to find out she's only hanging out with them because

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Speaker 1: she wants that car in order to be able to

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Speaker 1: save her house. So, as far as crude rom coms go,

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Speaker 1: I felt like this one did a pretty good job.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's kind of hard to market a

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Speaker 1: comedy in twenty twenty three, so I can't ignore the

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Speaker 1: fact that the concept is really ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Almost dumb really if you think about it.

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Speaker 1: So it's not something you need to go into and think,

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Speaker 1: oh man, this is going to be side splitting funny.

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Speaker 1: I don't really think comedies are that anymore. I don't

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Speaker 1: really think you will feel that by watching a comedy

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Speaker 1: movie unless you are still in your early developmental stages.

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Speaker 1: And after watching this movie, I realized that some of

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Speaker 1: the most formative comedies were in my early years when

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Speaker 1: I was a preteen teenager. That is when I found

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Speaker 1: movies like this to be the most funny. So I

516
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Speaker 1: don't even think it's now that comedies aren't funny anymore

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Speaker 1: or it's just not the way it used to be.

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Speaker 1: I think we just all got older, and this movie

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Speaker 1: made me realize that in many ways. So I actually

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Speaker 1: think if I had watched this movie in like six grade,

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Speaker 1: it would have been one of my favorite movies because

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Speaker 1: it had exactly all the things I was looking for.

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Speaker 4: So watching this.

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Speaker 1: Movie it did make me feel nostalgic in a way

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Speaker 1: of with such a big A list star like Jennifer Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: who has really impeccable comedic timing and delivery. But not

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Speaker 1: only that, is you realize how good of an actor

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Speaker 1: she is because there are moments in this movie where

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Speaker 1: it gets a little bit more emotional. Her character actually

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Speaker 1: has some pretty good character development throughout the entire movie.

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Speaker 1: It starts out with her really being kind of ruthless

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Speaker 1: and mean, and over the tomp and over the time

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Speaker 1: of hanging out with Percy, she softens up just a

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Speaker 1: little bit here, a little bit there, more and more

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Speaker 1: throughout the entire movie, and you start to care more

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Speaker 1: about her as a person. So I think that actually

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Speaker 1: took some real acting ability. So as ridiculous as it is,

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Speaker 1: as dumb as some of the jokes are and some

539
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Speaker 1: of the physical comedy aspect, there is some real talent

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Speaker 1: there that kind of brings it all together. So if

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Speaker 1: you watch this movie and maybe in the first twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes you don't think it's that funny, no, that it

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Speaker 1: goes on this entire journey that ends up really paying

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Speaker 1: off in the end. And I credit that so much

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Speaker 1: to Jennifer Lawrence, who I feel like really carried this

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Speaker 1: movie and she brought a lot to the table. And

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Speaker 1: then you also have Percy, who is played by Andrew

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Speaker 1: bart Feldman, who is really charming in his own way.

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Speaker 1: And what I really enjoyed that they did is they

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Speaker 1: didn't really just always make fun of the fact that

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Speaker 1: he is a nerd, And as a fellow nerd, I

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Speaker 1: respected that because you could easily just make this like, ah,

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Speaker 1: look at this idiot. He's such a loser. He's never

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Speaker 1: been with the girl. He spends all of his time

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Speaker 1: in his room, and you could have really played to

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Speaker 1: all of the nerd stereotypes, all of the nerd cliches,

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Speaker 1: and really just made him a laughing stock. But I

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Speaker 1: feel like they did a pretty good job at giving

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Speaker 1: Percy some real good qualities.

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Speaker 4: And even though he hasn't.

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Speaker 1: Really flourished, he is a late bloomer, he's not really

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Speaker 1: seen as a loser. It really just showed how misunderstood

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Speaker 1: he is. And also, it's not so much his problem.

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Speaker 1: It's the fact that he has these really overbearing, protective

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Speaker 1: parents who have tried to control every aspect of his life.

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Speaker 1: And underneath all that, there is something inside of him

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Speaker 1: that wants to flourish and wants to be a normal

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Speaker 1: person and have friends, but it's almost been suppressed by

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Speaker 1: this little bubble that his parents have put him in.

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Speaker 1: So it really isn't his fault that he is as

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Speaker 1: big of a nerd as he is. And when he

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Speaker 1: is able to show his true self and open up

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Speaker 1: to other people, he shows that he has a lot

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Speaker 1: to offer. He just needed someone to really break him

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Speaker 1: out of his shell. And that is what Jennifer Lawrence

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Speaker 1: does in this movie. In a really, really ridiculous way.

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Speaker 1: So overall I thought their character development and their chemistry

578
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Speaker 1: was really good throughout the entire movie. Was it side

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Speaker 1: splitting funny? Nah, it was a little bit more slapstick

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Speaker 1: than I was expecting, And I would say some aspects

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Speaker 1: of Jennifer Lawrence's character didn't really add up. And then

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Speaker 1: she also did a few out of pocket things that

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Speaker 1: I felt they wrote in for the sake of them

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Speaker 1: being more comedic, but they didn't really add up to

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Speaker 1: her character. And in a way, this movie made me

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Speaker 1: feel old for the first time watching a comedy like this.

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Speaker 1: Final watch this movie ten years ago, I would have

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Speaker 1: related so much with Percy's character. I was probably in

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Speaker 1: a similar position when I was just graduating high school

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Speaker 1: going into college that he was in this movie, But

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Speaker 1: instead I found myself identifying more with Jennifer Lawrence's character.

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Speaker 1: I went to go see this movie on my birthday

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Speaker 1: when I turned thirty two years old, and Jennifer Lawrence's

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Speaker 1: character makes a reference to being thirty two years old

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Speaker 1: and what she experiences in the movie going to hang

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Speaker 1: around Percy's pears, who are all ten years younger than her,

597
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Speaker 1: making fun of her for being.

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Speaker 4: A quote unquote old lady.

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Speaker 1: It really for the first time made me think, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: I have shifted a generation, and I'm now identifying with

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Speaker 1: the older character in a movie. So I felt old

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Speaker 1: in the sense that I had shifted perspective. It kind

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Speaker 1: of reminded me also when I went to go see

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Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid and I not only saw it from

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Speaker 1: the Little Mermaid's point of view, but also her parents'

606
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Speaker 1: point of view, which I feel like a lot of

607
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Speaker 1: people had that shift being a fan of the original

608
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Speaker 1: movie and then going to rewatch the remake. So maybe

609
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Speaker 1: it's just a rite of passage that you start identifying

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Speaker 1: with the older characters and the older generations and movies.

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Speaker 1: My real beef with this movie is that it kind

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Speaker 1: of fell apart in the third act. I feel like

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Speaker 1: they almost wrote themselves into a corner and thought, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how are we going to get out of this, How

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Speaker 1: we're going to wrap this up. I didn't really think

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Speaker 1: we would get this far, but now we have to

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Speaker 1: bring this story on home. And again I don't want

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Speaker 1: to spoil the ending, but some of the actions and

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Speaker 1: reactions didn't really end up at the end. I didn't

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Speaker 1: really have that good feeling once this movie was finally

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Speaker 1: over that I thought it was going to leave me with.

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Speaker 1: But I did enjoy the fact that it was only

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Speaker 1: an hour forty five minutes, so by the time it

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Speaker 1: was actually over, even though I wasn't completely satisfied, I

625
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Speaker 1: felt like it didn't waste any more time than it

626
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Speaker 1: needed to. So overall, this movie did decent at the

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Speaker 1: box office. I don't really think a movie like this

628
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Speaker 1: is gonna be a blockbuster like it was ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: When comedies can still pull in those kind of numbers.

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Speaker 1: I think that is kind of going away now. I

631
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Speaker 1: do think this movie will have a second life once

632
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Speaker 1: it goes out onto streaming services and people give it

633
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Speaker 1: a chance then, which I've seen with rom comms, which

634
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Speaker 1: I've seen with comedies. But I almost credit that to

635
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Speaker 1: the marketing, because it's hard to sell something as this

636
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Speaker 1: is gonna.

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Speaker 4: Be so funny and hilarious.

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Speaker 1: You build it up in your mind and then you

639
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Speaker 1: go watch it, and if you don't leave in stitches,

640
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Speaker 1: you think that was a waste of time.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna rate that poorly.

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Speaker 1: I would say overall, it's a fun movie, not the

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Speaker 1: funniest movie I've seen in the last five years, but

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Speaker 1: I did enjoy their commitment to having a good number

645
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Speaker 1: of jokes throughout the entire movie, combined with physical comedy

646
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Speaker 1: and also having a little bit of an emotional aspect.

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Speaker 1: But I just think the overall premise of this movie

648
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Speaker 1: is pretty ridiculous and kind of a hard sell. And

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Speaker 1: when you get into all the dynamics of the deception

650
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Speaker 1: that his parents did and how weird this would be

651
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Speaker 1: if it actually happened in real life, you get into

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Speaker 1: this whole other conversation of why does this movie even

653
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Speaker 1: exist right now? So you have to go into it

654
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Speaker 1: with pretty low expectations, have an open mind, and just

655
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Speaker 1: want to watch something completely dumb and mindless. And the

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Speaker 1: other thing that I felt like was the kiss of

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Speaker 1: death and the marketing of this movie. They did a

658
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Speaker 1: thing that I tell you guys to look out for.

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Speaker 1: If ever a movie uses Twitter reviews to sell it,

660
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Speaker 1: that's a bad sign. That is the kiss of death

661
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Speaker 1: to movies to me. Whenever they just start pulling out

662
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Speaker 1: tweets of random reviews that make the movie look so

663
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Speaker 1: much better than it actually is. That's telling you something,

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Speaker 1: because obviously this is a movie that critics are gonna

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Speaker 1: rip to shreds. If you don't go into it wanting

666
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: to have a good time, you're gonna have a bad time.

667
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: So did it revive the two thousand's raunchy comedy. Not quite,

668
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: but I think it is a step in the right direction.

669
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: I think if more movies can pull in an A

670
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: list star like Jennifer Lawrence, who has some really great

671
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: commedy timing but also acting ability, I think we could

672
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: have one. It is still possible, and that's what this

673
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: movie proved to me, even though it didn't get it

674
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: completely right. So for no hard feelings, I give it

675
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Speaker 1: three out of five Craigslist ads. I'm going to get

676
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Speaker 1: into another movie review. It is a movie Mike double feature.

677
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: Like if you would go to a drive through movie

678
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: and get not only one, but two movies for the

679
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,479
Speaker 1: price of one.

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Speaker 4: That is what's happening right now.

681
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Speaker 1: Another movie review for you, because there's so many movies

682
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: to review right now. I thrive in the summer, so

683
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: I actually watch these movies both on the same weekend.

684
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: But now I want to get into my review of

685
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Speaker 1: Asteroids City, one of my most anticipated movies of the summer,

686
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: because for me, Wes Anderson is a top five director,

687
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: but I get that he is not for everybody, and

688
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: his movies have such a unique style, such a unique tone, cinematography, dialogue,

689
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: that I can see why you either love or or

690
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: hate his work. It is just always spoke to me

691
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: from his very first early movies. He had my heart

692
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: at Bottle Rocket, and I'll go into every West Anderson

693
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 1: movie now feeling like it is an event. And that's

694
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: where I want to start when talking about Asteroid City.

695
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: What the movie is about the way the movie is

696
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: described anyway in its tagline is world changing events spectacularly

697
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: disrupt the itinerary of a Junior Stark Aser slash Space

698
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: Cadet convention in an American desert town circa nineteen fifty five.

699
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: That is essentially what this movie is about. You have

700
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: Jason Schwarzman character who is a dad with his son

701
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: and three daughters. They break down in this small, little

702
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: desert town called Asteroid City. So you have all the

703
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: other really smart kids, their parents, and the people who

704
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: live and work in the town. All the events connect

705
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: back and to the characters being there for that convention.

706
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: But of course, in true Wes Anderson fashion, it also

707
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: pulls back from that and you learn other things about

708
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: what's going on with these characters, and really it's almost

709
00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: like a play coming to life. And there's a very meta,

710
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: overarching theme and overarching message that this movie was trying

711
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: to make. But really, for me, I just love the

712
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: story that carried out in Asteroid City and every time

713
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: it was there, and the colors were so vibrant and rich,

714
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: and all the camera shots and positions were just perfect.

715
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 3: To me.

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Speaker 1: Aesthetically, this movie was exactly what I needed in my

717
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: life right now. It is the best looking Wes Anderson

718
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: movie he has ever done. And when I say going

719
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: to a Wes Anderson movie, to me feels like an event.

720
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: That is exactly the experience I had. So I went

721
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: to go watch this movie at the Bellcourt in Nashville,

722
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: which is a historic theater that has been here for

723
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: almost one hundred years, and I'm so glad I went

724
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: to see it there, picking it over my normal regal

725
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: theater because it felt like going to a concert. I

726
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: think Wes Anderson is a type of director to have

727
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: a really passionate fan base, and this movie was never

728
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: going to be one that was going to dominate at

729
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: the box office. Despite Tom Hanks Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie,

730
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: Jason Schwartzman and all these other ales actors inside of

731
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: this movie. That's just not exactly how this movie is

732
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: going to perform. It doesn't have the same kind of marketing.

733
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: It's a very niche audience going into it, So in

734
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: no world was this movie expected to make a lot

735
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: of money. But the crazy thing is he has such

736
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: a passionate fan base that this entire theater was sold out.

737
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: I've never seen a movie completely sold out where there

738
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: was a butt in every single seat in the.

739
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Speaker 4: Theater and the lobby was alive with people buzzing talking

740
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 4: about the movie.

741
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Speaker 1: Explaining Wes Anderson to maybe somebody who got Druggle along

742
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: to this movie and didn't know what to expect, which

743
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: is exactly what the situation I was in. Because Kelsey

744
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: really isn't a big fan of wes Anderson's work. She

745
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: thought she really wasn't gonna enjoy this movie, but ended

746
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: up really liking it. So I think if you haven't

747
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: been into his work before, if there were any movie.

748
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Speaker 4: To really get you into it, it would be the one.

749
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Speaker 1: Because there are even some of his movies that I

750
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: don't fully enjoy I was coming off of rewatching a

751
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: lot of them, and I rewatched The French Dispatch, and

752
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: I still don't really get that movie. It was hard

753
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: for me to stomach that a second time. So even

754
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: for me being as big of a fan of his

755
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: that I am, I still think at times he can

756
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: be hit or miss when things get too meta and

757
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit too arsy Farsi for even my taste.

758
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: But I don't really think that was the case with

759
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: Asteroids City. There are some elements of that where it

760
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: kind of pulls back the curtain so it's like a

761
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: play inside of a movie. But I really enjoyed that

762
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: aspect of it, and I feel like, unlike some of

763
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: his other movies, it was really it was a lot

764
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: easier to pay attention to all of the changes and

765
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: figure out exactly what he was trying to say and

766
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: exactly what was going on in the entire movie. Sometimes

767
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: even myself, I get a little bit lost. So overall,

768
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: I still feel like his movies are a bit of

769
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: an acquired taste. It's like drinking coffee or beer for

770
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: the first time. You're probably gonna hate it upon that

771
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: first sip, but take another chug, take another swig, and

772
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: eventually I think it'll grow on you, and if it doesn't,

773
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: probably just not for you whatsoever.

774
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 4: And that's fine.

775
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: But what I really love about Wes Anderson is his

776
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: attention to detail and filmmaking. In twenty twenty three, I

777
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: feel like some things are a bit of an afterthought

778
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: when it comes to soundtrack, when it comes to visual effects,

779
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: really when it comes to just cinematography and framing the

780
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: movie in a way to give it a distinct style,

781
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes those things just kind of go

782
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: out the window and people are just trying to crank

783
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: out movies, get them in theaters and make money. But

784
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: with every single scene, every single shot, I feel like

785
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,479
Speaker 1: there's intention to give you something on the screen that

786
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: you haven't seen before or from an entirely different perspective.

787
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: And that is what I love, and you guys know

788
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: I talk about it all the time. I love color

789
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: palettes in a movie. One of my favorite things to

790
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: do in my free time is to study scenes and

791
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: just look at the different color palettes used and the

792
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: decisions to pick these certain colors to invoke different emotions

793
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: in the audience. I just love that, and every single

794
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: detail in The color in this movie was magnificent, and

795
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: I love that he committed to this saturation look to

796
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: give it a very fifties old school retro vibe, and

797
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: it just kept my eye on the screen the entire time.

798
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: I also love the wardrobe in this movie, which is

799
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: another really great thing about Wes Anderson movies, so much

800
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: so that I dressed up going to this movie, and

801
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: I normally go as comfortable as possible to the movies,

802
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: but again, I felt like this was an event, like

803
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: I was going to a concert, so I wore close

804
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: to this movie that I would where if I was

805
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: ever cast in a Wes Anderson film. So you have

806
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: his attention to detail everything from whenever Jason Schwartzman and

807
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks are having a conversation on the phone, that

808
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: their audio is panned from left to right, so say,

809
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: Jason Schwartzman's character is on the left side of the screen,

810
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks's character is on the right side of the

811
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: split screen. Their dialogue matches up, so in the theater

812
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: you will hear Jason Schwartzman's audio only coming in on

813
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: the left speakers and Tom Hanks's audio will only come

814
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: in on the right speakers. I don't really think I've

815
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: seen that utilized in a movie before. I know I've

816
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: heard it like on albums and records, but never before

817
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: in movie dialogue.

818
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Speaker 4: I thought that was a really good touch.

819
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: This movie had so many great performances of people who

820
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: get his quirky style and quirky delivery in lines, but

821
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: hands down, Scarlett Johansson for me, stole the show. I

822
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: really loved the dynamic between her and Jason Schwarzman's character

823
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 1: in this movie, who he's been in basically every single

824
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: Wes Anderson movie. And although this isn't a straight ahead comedy,

825
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: I don't think any Wes Anderson movie I would really say, oh,

826
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna make it laugh. But there are some funny moments.

827
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Speaker 1: There was even a movie quote that I remember and

828
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: still say after watching this movie, and it makes me laugh.

829
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Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, Ricky.

830
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: There's also another moment where a character asked them to

831
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: dare him to climb a I thought that was funny too,

832
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: So again, it's not really trying to be funny. It's

833
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: more quirky than it is just straight on in comedy.

834
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: But what added to the comedic nature of this movie

835
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: was seeing it in a sold out theater, and I

836
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: think the reason I had such a great experience with

837
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: this movie is because I saw it with a lot

838
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: of like minded people who are all there wanting to

839
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: have a good time. And I think that really adds

840
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 1: to the charm of this movie. When you see other

841
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: people laughing at things and reacting to things, it makes

842
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: you want to pay attention more because you want that feeling.

843
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: So this is definitely a movie that needs to be

844
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 1: seen with people. I think if I watched this movie

845
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: alone on first watch, I don't think I would have

846
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: enjoyed it as much. So there are some movies that

847
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: I say require the big screen because of the visual aspect,

848
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: because of the action that some movies like the Mission

849
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: Impossible movie coming out this month, I think that is

850
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: going to require the big screen for a different reason.

851
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: Same thing with Oppenheimer, same thing with Barbie, or really

852
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: any more of a movie. But the reason and I

853
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: feel that Asteroid City demands an in theater experience is

854
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: because I think movies like this are much better when

855
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: they are experienced with other people. So say, even if

856
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 1: you just go watch this movie with your best friend

857
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: or family, or you just go to a busier showtime.

858
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: I think that will greatly add to you enjoying all

859
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: the aspects that Asteroid City has to offer. I don't

860
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: think everyone will love or quote unquote get this movie,

861
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: but I just think it is a fantastic film. I'm

862
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: so far into enjoying this movie that, for the first

863
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: time ever, I saw it out listening to a movie soundtrack.

864
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: This entire week, I've been listening to the Asteroid City soundtrack.

865
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Speaker 1: Some of my favorite tracks used in the movie was

866
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: the Last Train to San Fernando by Johnny Duncan and.

867
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Speaker 4: The Bluegrass Boys.

868
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Speaker 1: I also love a song called Eider Read by Bob

869
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: Willis and his Texas Playboys, or another song called Jingle

870
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: Jangle by Tex Ritter. This movie kind of had a

871
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: setting of an old school fifties Western, and these songs

872
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: specifically just really said it in that time.

873
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 4: Specifically with setting.

874
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: The tone at the very beginning of the movie in

875
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: that opening sequence, I thought was another great visual treat.

876
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: So I think it was the fact that I had

877
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: really high expectations going into this movie. Mainly I just

878
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: didn't want it to suck because I was so excited

879
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: for it. I'd been hyping it up so much in

880
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: my head. Just a couple weeks before this, I actually

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Speaker 1: met Tom Hanks, and everything about the movie, from the

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Speaker 1: is everything I look for in a movie. I would

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Speaker 4: In that list.

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Speaker 1: At number five would be Bottle Rocket, the movie that

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Speaker 1: started it all. That movie will always just have a

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Speaker 1: start in Texas, which is where I am from, and

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Speaker 1: Bottle Rocket being placed and filmed in North Texas, which

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Speaker 1: is where I grew up.

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Speaker 4: I will just always love Bottle Rocket.

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Speaker 1: And him working with Luke and Owen Wilson, which surprisingly

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Speaker 1: they weren't an Asteroid City, but they've been in a

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Speaker 1: I would put Asteroid City. Then at number three, I

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Speaker 1: would put The Royal Tenenbombs. At number two, I would

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Speaker 1: put Fantastic Mister Fox, And depending on the day you

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Speaker 1: I feel that Wes Anderson's style really does well with animation.

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Speaker 1: I also love the message of that movie. Mister Fox

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Speaker 1: But at number one, I would put the Grand Budapest Hotel.

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Speaker 1: It has his signature style, but I feel out of

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Speaker 1: any movie. So when you have the style, when you

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Speaker 1: that is easily going to be my number one. But

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Speaker 1: with it living up to my expectations and making its

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Speaker 1: way into my top five Wes Anderson movies of all time.

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Speaker 1: For Astoid City, I give it four out of five

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Speaker 1: UFOs and that's gonna do it. For another episode here

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Speaker 1: of the podcast. Before I go, I gotta get my

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Speaker 1: listeners shout out of the week, and this week it

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Speaker 1: is going out to Ricky Douglass on Twitter, who is

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Speaker 1: the only person who noticed I didn't have a secret

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Speaker 1: emoji last week. Because every time I do an interview

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Speaker 1: here on the podcast, I always give you a secret

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Speaker 1: emoji to go and comment on that week's video.

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Speaker 4: Last week, I didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure if you were paying attention,

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Speaker 1: Ricky Douglas, you were the only one who caught on,

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Speaker 1: and you are this week's listener shout out of the week.

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Speaker 1: So now the secret emoji is if you want to

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Speaker 1: go back a couple on my feed and comment on

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Speaker 1: that video or comment on that TikTok, use the zombie emoji.

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Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed this week's episode and until next time,

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Speaker 1: go out and watch good movies and I will talk

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Speaker 1: to you later