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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Did

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Speaker 1: you know that only ten movies in history have ever

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Speaker 1: all time? I'm going to tell you what those ten

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Speaker 1: movies are, how they did it, and how some of

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Speaker 1: these movies almost never saw the light of day. In

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Speaker 1: the movie review, The Long Walk, the horror movie I've

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Speaker 1: been waiting for in September. It's about a group of

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Speaker 1: teenage boys who compete in this brutal walking competition. If

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Speaker 1: in the trailer park we'll talk about twenty eight years later,

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Speaker 1: The Bone Temple. How soon is too soon for a sequel?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed.

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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 from the.

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Speaker 2: Nashville Podcast Network And this is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast.

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Speaker 1: These ten movies are the only ones to ever hold

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Speaker 1: the title of the highest grossing animated movie of all time.

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Speaker 1: So I want to go through all ten movies, how

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Speaker 1: and then the movie that came after them that took

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Speaker 1: that title from them, so let's go all the way

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Speaker 1: back to the beginning. The first movie to ever hold

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Speaker 1: this title was from nineteen thirty seven, Snow White and

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Speaker 1: was the world's first ever fully animated feature film. You

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Speaker 1: think back to animation back in the early thirties, it

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Speaker 1: was just cartoons, and I called them cartoons. And I

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Speaker 1: hate it when people refer to animated movies now as cartoons,

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Speaker 1: because that implies that they are so simplistic, they are

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Speaker 1: just for children. But at the time I would accept

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Speaker 1: the term cartoons because when you think about the thirties,

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Speaker 1: you think about cartoons like Betty Boop, very early Mickey

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Speaker 1: cartoons that you would often see before you went to

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Speaker 1: as being something ridiculous. Before it even came out, critics

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Speaker 1: were referring to this movie as Disney's folly. They thought

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Speaker 1: it was going to bankrupt his studio because Walt Disney

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Speaker 1: put up his own money too fun this film. He

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Speaker 1: ended up costing them one point five million dollars, which

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Speaker 1: That's about ten times the amount that a typical short

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Speaker 1: but even people inside of Disney also thought the ideal

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Speaker 1: only was it financially successful, but it also won an

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Speaker 1: two on the list, Aladdin, which came out in nineteen

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Speaker 1: twenty eight million dollars, Aladdin went on to make roughly

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Speaker 1: This came as a part of Disney's Renaissance era. The

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Speaker 1: thing I did not know about Aladdin is there was

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Speaker 1: but that was the second movie to ever hold the

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Speaker 1: Only two years later and the number three slot was

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Speaker 1: The Lion King, also from Disney, had a budget of

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Speaker 1: It's all the same to me. Everything is just Disney.

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Speaker 1: But the original deal started back in nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 1: used to the same formula, especially when it comes to animation.

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Speaker 1: For me to see this same medium but it feel

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Speaker 1: completely different unlike anything I've ever seen, is exciting to me.

436
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Speaker 1: And it was a movie that I continue to see

437
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: popping up on these lists, and I was so confused

438
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Speaker 1: by it, and at times I wanted to write it

439
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Speaker 1: off because I'm like, oh, that's a movie from China

440
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: that has no relevance to me here. But when I

441
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Speaker 1: see it now as the number fifth highest grossing movie

442
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Speaker 1: of all time, that is a force to be reckoned with.

443
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Speaker 1: That needs to be not just brushed off. Is that

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Speaker 1: that has to be a mistake. There's no way this

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Speaker 1: movie should be on this list. That should be a

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Speaker 1: justed somehow. No. Instead, I went and watched one. I

447
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Speaker 1: went in theaters and watched two. Even though when I

448
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Speaker 1: went to go see it, I was the only person

449
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Speaker 1: in that theater. It felt like I had my own

450
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Speaker 1: private screening. It was awesome. So if you love animation

451
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Speaker 1: like me, which I think if you've gotten to this

452
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Speaker 1: point of the episode, you are, check it out. Part

453
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Speaker 1: one is on Netflix. You can rent part two now

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Speaker 1: at home, but I'm sure in a little amounts time

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Speaker 1: it'll either be on Peacock or on Netflix as well.

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Speaker 1: So that is the list of the only ten films

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Speaker 1: to ever hold the title of the highest grossing animated

458
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Speaker 1: film of all time. Let's get into it now. A

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Speaker 1: spoiler free movie review of The Long Walk. Stephen King's

460
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Speaker 1: first ever novel that he wrote, actually one of seven

461
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Speaker 1: novels that he put out under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

462
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Speaker 1: But what this movie is about, and they always change

463
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Speaker 1: things from the book version to the movie version. But

464
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Speaker 1: here we have fifty teenage boys embarking on this long walk.

465
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Speaker 1: They all entered into a lottery. They were randomly selected.

466
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Speaker 1: They start at the starting line and then just continue

467
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Speaker 1: walking because there is no finish line. The walk is

468
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Speaker 1: not over until there's only one person who remains walking.

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Speaker 1: They have to maintain a speed of three miles per hour.

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Speaker 1: If they don't maintain that speed, they get a warning.

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Speaker 1: If they don't pick up the pace, they get a

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Speaker 1: second warning. If they don't pick up the pace, after that,

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Speaker 1: they get a third warning. And then they get what

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Speaker 1: they describe in the movie. They get their ticket, which

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Speaker 1: means they get taken out. And I was expecting this

476
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Speaker 1: movie to be a lot more focused on the brutality

477
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Speaker 1: of the walk. By watching the trailer, by watching Mark

478
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Speaker 1: Hamill's performance as the person overseeing all the boys, I

479
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Speaker 1: thought it was going to really lean into the brutality,

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Speaker 1: the repercussions if you do not maintain that speed, and

481
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Speaker 1: overall the wear and tear that it takes on these

482
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Speaker 1: people because they're not allowed to sleep, they can't stop

483
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Speaker 1: to use the restroom. I was going into this thinking

484
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Speaker 1: it was going to lean more into the horror elements,

485
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Speaker 1: being that it is a Stephen King story and just

486
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Speaker 1: the way this movie was marketed. But I feel like

487
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: I got something better because this movie was way more

488
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Speaker 1: dramatic than I was expecting, and I really enjoyed that

489
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Speaker 1: you really get to know these characters, because if you

490
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Speaker 1: think about it, the entire movie, all one hour and

491
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Speaker 1: forty minutes of it, is just these people walking. How

492
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Speaker 1: do you make that interesting? But what you really got

493
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Speaker 1: was seeing all of these young men bond in a

494
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Speaker 1: way that I have not seen on screen in a

495
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Speaker 1: really long time. It kind of reminded me of watching

496
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Speaker 1: all the kids in the Sandlot who just formed this

497
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Speaker 1: really strong relationship, where sometimes it is hard for men

498
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Speaker 1: in movies and in real life to show and express

499
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Speaker 1: their feelings. I allowed my brain to process and put

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Speaker 1: myself into this situation where you are starting to meet

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Speaker 1: these people that you were bonding with, that you were

502
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Speaker 1: having this unique experience that nobody else is going to have.

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Speaker 1: But then in the back of your mind, as you're

504
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Speaker 1: forming these relationships, you have to know, well, only one

505
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: person can win, and you think about these friendships, you

506
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Speaker 1: start to form, these alliances you form within the group.

507
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Speaker 1: How much they helped out each other and were there

508
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Speaker 1: for each other. That part of it I was not expecting,

509
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Speaker 1: because if you think about how exciting can you make

510
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: fifty boys walking down an empty road, you have to

511
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Speaker 1: focus on the dialogue. You have to focus on their backstories,

512
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Speaker 1: capturing how they bonded and how they grew stronger as

513
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Speaker 1: their bodies started to grow weaker and everything just started deteriorating.

514
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Speaker 1: And then of course you have the politics as to

515
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Speaker 1: why they are doing this. It is a dystopian future

516
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Speaker 1: where the country is trying to give people just a

517
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Speaker 1: shimmer of hope, saying that if you do endure this,

518
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: look at the results of it. One person gets to

519
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Speaker 1: be victorious and make that wish and take all the

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Speaker 1: riches and get to give that back to the people

521
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Speaker 1: who mean the most to them. It gives people hope.

522
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Speaker 1: They talk about how inspiring it is right after the

523
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Speaker 1: Long Walk and you have that victor and how it

524
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Speaker 1: fuels the country. And if that starts to sound familiar

525
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Speaker 1: to you, you're probably like me, because it really reminded

526
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Speaker 1: me of The Hunger Games. And the director of The

527
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Speaker 1: Long Walk actually directed a lot of the Hunger Games franchise,

528
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Speaker 1: pretty much everyone except for the first one. He also

529
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Speaker 1: directed I Am Legend. Because when you start to think

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Speaker 1: about all the mechanics of this story, even though The

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Speaker 1: Long Walk the book came out way before Hunger Games

532
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Speaker 1: the book, a lot of those things really started to

533
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: parallel each other. You have all these young people pitted

534
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Speaker 1: against each other. Some are stronger, some are weaker, some

535
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Speaker 1: are smaller, some are younger. And what this Long Walk

536
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: really proves is you don't have to be the fastest,

537
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Speaker 1: you don't have to be the strongest, you don't have

538
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Speaker 1: to be the youngest or the oldest. The intensity and

539
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: how long this contest goes along really levels the playing field,

540
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: making it a possibility for anybody to win. Everybody thinks

541
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Speaker 1: that they have the potential to do it, and everybody

542
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: wants their wish to be cast. I'd say the biggest

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Speaker 1: standout in the cast was David Johnson, who I really

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Speaker 1: loved an alien romulus in this movie. He has the

545
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Speaker 1: number twenty three, which they are all assigned numbers at

546
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the film. I think him on screen

547
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: was so powerful and how inspiring his character was, because

548
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: really it's him and Cooper Hoffman keeping everybody in line

549
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: who Cooper Hoffman is also the son of late actor

550
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Speaker 1: Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He was also great in Licorice Pizza,

551
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Speaker 1: and while the story at the beginning focuses more on

552
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Speaker 1: Cooper Hoffman's character, I really think David Johnson overall stole

553
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Speaker 1: the show because I was going into this movie thinking

554
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Speaker 1: it was going to make me feel really uneasy, which

555
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: at times it did. There were some scenes that were

556
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Speaker 1: hard to watch, but I wasn't expecting to go into

557
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: The Long Walk thinking I'm about to watch one of

558
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Speaker 1: the saddest things I have ever watched. I was not

559
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Speaker 1: expecting it to hit me so much in the gut,

560
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Speaker 1: to feel so sad for all these characters, and at

561
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Speaker 1: times wanting to shed a tear like a lot of

562
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Speaker 1: these contestants did, because how much you felt for them

563
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Speaker 1: and how much you wanted all of them to win.

564
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Speaker 1: You see them become such great friends and bond and

565
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Speaker 1: help out each other in ways I really wasn't expecting.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a little bit

567
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Speaker 1: more like The Hunger Games. But I think this story

568
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Speaker 1: was a big message on the good in people and

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Speaker 1: how when people are in a position of not really

570
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Speaker 1: having a whole lot of hope, just having that one

571
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Speaker 1: glimmer of seeing better days, how much that can push

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Speaker 1: you to extremes in ways that you never thought your

573
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Speaker 1: body could be pushed. That is what is driving everybody.

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Speaker 1: That is what is filling all of their shoes with

575
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Speaker 1: blood as they walk miles and miles and miles to

576
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Speaker 1: try and achieve that. The part I thought was kind

577
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Speaker 1: of the weakest was Mark Hamill, which I like him. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Luke Skywalker has done some really fantastic work and voice acting,

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Speaker 1: but I thought his character, who was known as the

580
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Speaker 1: major who was overseeing the entire thing, was really one dimensional,

581
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Speaker 1: and I think if he would have been more of

582
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Speaker 1: a villain, which obviously, if he wasn't in the book,

583
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Speaker 1: They're not going to change it a whole lot. I

584
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: think his character was more a representation of power and authority.

585
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: But just from the trailer and just given some of

586
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Speaker 1: the dynamics of his character, I wanted him to be

587
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Speaker 1: more of a villain, which I know Mark Hamill has

588
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: that in him. I was expecting him to be more

589
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: of a jerk, more of a force to be reckoned with,

590
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: but he was kind of just there and existing. Something

591
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Speaker 1: I thought about as I was watching The Long Walk

592
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: is if you took just the audio from this movie

593
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: and just listen to it as if it were a podcast,

594
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: I think it would work one hundred percent, because in

595
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: this movie, it's not so much about what you see

596
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: on the screen, the shocking images, the violent imagery. It

597
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: is about how these characters make you feel. And if

598
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: you were just to listen to these conversations, I still

599
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: believe you would feel that character development. You would still

600
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Speaker 1: feel the horrors of it at times. I feel like

601
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: it could be even scarier just to hear these exchanges,

602
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: to hear some of the shots ring out and not

603
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: know exactly what is happening. I think a podcast version

604
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: would be a really interesting way to take in The

605
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: Long Walk, because I think every actor's performance is so strong.

606
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: The Stephen King writing is so powerful that it would

607
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: work even in an audio medium. Overall, a really entertaining

608
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: and engaging movie. I still don't think it's one of

609
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: the best movies of the year, but for The Long Walk,

610
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: I give it four out of five boots. It's time

611
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: to head down to movie Mike Trey, Lar Paul. How

612
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: do we feel about fast sequels? Because twenty eight years

613
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: Later came out earlier this year on June twentieth, and

614
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Speaker 1: twenty eight years later The Bone Temple is coming out

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Speaker 1: at the start of next year on January sixteenth, twenty

616
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Speaker 1: twenty six. This entire franchise is moving pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: What we have here is they actually film both of

619
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Speaker 1: these movies at the exact same time, so they're loaded

620
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: up and ready to go. But twenty eight years Later

621
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Speaker 1: came out in theaters on June twentieth. It is coming

622
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Speaker 1: out now on Netflix for you to watch and the

623
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Speaker 1: comfort of your home for free. Ninety two days after that,

624
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: on September twentieth, you can watch that movie at home.

625
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: So say you didn't go see it in theaters, you're

626
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Speaker 1: gonna see it in September. Crazy to me that just

627
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: a few months later you can go see the sequel

628
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: in theaters. In this situation, I love it. And I

629
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: think as a society we become more and more impatient,

630
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to movies. When it comes to

631
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Speaker 1: TV shows, we can devour an entire franchise or an

632
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: entire series in a weekend, and then we're itching for

633
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: that next hit. We want the next installment, and here

634
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: they kind of figured it out. Now. Sometimes I get

635
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,239
Speaker 1: annoyed by this. And I know I've been talking so

636
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: much about things that annoy me recently. Oh believe me.

637
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: I've been reading in the comments how I'm so annoying

638
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: with some of the things that I find annoying. And

639
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: I get that. But a thing that I don't like

640
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: is whenever a franchise is coming to an end and

641
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: they have the final installment and they decide to split

642
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: that movie into two. I think these two situations are different.

643
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: If you film one big movie at once, and you

644
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: have clear, defined story in between both of them, and

645
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: you decide, I'm gonna split this up into twenty eight

646
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 1: years later and into twenty eight years later. The Bone

647
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 1: Temple and they both feel independent from each other. I'm

648
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: okay with it because in this situation, I love twenty

649
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: eight years Later, had waited so long for that legacy

650
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: sequel that now we're getting this other one so quickly.

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Speaker 1: But then you have situations like The Hunger Games or

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Speaker 1: Harry Potters of the World, or most recently the Last

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Speaker 1: Mission Impossible movie where it really felt like they had

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Speaker 1: one movie that they just decided to have a stopping

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Speaker 1: point in order to split it into two to get

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Speaker 1: more money out of one entity. And that I don't like,

657
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Speaker 1: but I do like that sense of urgency when it

658
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Speaker 1: comes to getting things and striking while it's hot. I

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Speaker 1: think our attention spans are going getting shorter and shorter,

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Speaker 1: and also as consumers, we don't see how long it

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Speaker 1: takes to make these things. That is why we're like, man,

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Speaker 1: we got a way two sometimes three years in between

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Speaker 1: movies or between seasons of a TV show. But I

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Speaker 1: think if you can organize these productions in a way

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Speaker 1: where you can just gather all these actors to get

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Speaker 1: the director, and you film all these things at once,

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Speaker 1: and then through the master of editing and storytelling, you're

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Speaker 1: able to get two very clear defined movies and get

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Speaker 1: them out back to back. I think that is a

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Speaker 1: pretty good move. It is a little risky because at

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Speaker 1: the first one comes out and doesn't do so well,

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Speaker 1: then you're just sitting with this other product, kind of

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Speaker 1: like what Kevin Costner in the situation he found himself

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Speaker 1: in with the Horizon movie, where he had all these

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Speaker 1: seguells planned and now he doesn't know what to do

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Speaker 1: with him. So it is a double edged sword. But

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Speaker 1: I think that's going to be the key in the

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Speaker 1: future to keeping audiences engaged. I do want to get

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Speaker 1: into more of what this story is about, but essentially

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Speaker 1: it takes place right at the end of twenty eight

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Speaker 1: years later. This is also where we get into some

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Speaker 1: weird territory because that movie already exists. But I can't

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Speaker 1: really talk about that ending quite yet, even though it

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Speaker 1: takes place right at the end, and there are things

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Speaker 1: in this trailer that I can easily reference what is

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Speaker 1: happening in the first one. But since it's so fresh

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Speaker 1: and it's not out on Netflix yet, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: walk the line very delicately. I'm only going to talk

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Speaker 1: about the details that are out so far about the

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Speaker 1: Bone Temple and not reference exactly what happened in part one.

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Speaker 1: So before we get into that, here's just a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the twenty eight years Later the Bone Temple trailer.

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Speaker 2: Trying to predict the future. Is it discouraging and hazard

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Speaker 2: as occupation? In fact, it may not even exist at all.

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Speaker 2: Many of the things we take for granted, well one

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Speaker 2: day pass Away completely aisle.

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Speaker 1: These so kind of like we got in the twenty

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Speaker 1: eight Years Later trailer, which was such a fantastic trailer.

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Speaker 1: I believe when that came out, I awarded it Trailer

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Speaker 1: of the Year, and a lot of the same elements here,

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Speaker 1: that music, that voiceover, they pulled a really old recording,

702
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Speaker 1: and it just gives you these glimpses of how this

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Speaker 1: movie is really good to ramp up the action more.

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Speaker 1: To me, this one feels a little bit less like

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Speaker 1: a drama and a little bit more of just okay,

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Speaker 1: here are more the elements that we got to know

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Speaker 1: in the first twenty eight Days Later movie, because although

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Speaker 1: there was a good amount of action in twenty eight

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Speaker 1: Years Later, I feel like there was more emotional development.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot more world building, some psychological here

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Speaker 1: at least what we see so far in the trailer,

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Speaker 1: it looks like we have some more people running for

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Speaker 1: their lives. But here is what I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: from the official synopsis of twenty eight years Later, The

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Speaker 1: Bone Temple. It says it is a continuation of the

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Speaker 1: epic story. In it, we will see Ray Fine's character

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Speaker 1: who finds himself in a shocking new relationship with consequences

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Speaker 1: that could change the world as they know it. You

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Speaker 1: also had the continuation of Spike's character, who was the

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Speaker 1: son to Aaron Taylor Johnson's character in the first part

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Speaker 1: of this movie, and he apparently gets himself into a

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Speaker 1: situation that he can't escape. Killian Murphy is not shown

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Speaker 1: in the trailer, but the story came out after the

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Speaker 1: last one came out in theaters that he is confirmed

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Speaker 1: to reprise his role as Jim, which everybody was speculating

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Speaker 1: whenever the first trailer to twenty eight years Later came

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Speaker 1: out that he was one of the infected that you

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Speaker 1: saw in the trailer that was basically just the sack

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Speaker 1: of Bones because it kind of had a similar face

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Speaker 1: structure as him. I thought that would have been a

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Speaker 1: weird way to reintroduce him. Like, oh yeah, it finally

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Speaker 1: got him, and here is a quick little cameo from him.

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad that he is actually going to be

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Speaker 1: in this movie, and I cannot wait to see his

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Speaker 1: on screen reveal. So I hope they keep him out

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Speaker 1: of all the trailers. I hope there are no press

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Speaker 1: photos released, because I think that's going to be a

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Speaker 1: pretty cool moment, the way they tie these two stories together.

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Speaker 1: And I could really see this franchise just branching out

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Speaker 1: into all different levels as you build these other side stories,

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Speaker 1: as you build what is happening in different parts of

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Speaker 1: the world, because I think the possibilities here are endless.

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Speaker 1: But I'm so glad that Killy and Murphy is coming back.

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Speaker 1: It looks like ray Fin's character is going to get

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Speaker 1: even more weird. His will is going to be tested

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Speaker 1: in this movie. I just love the way he looks

747
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Speaker 1: because he is entirely covered in blood, almost looks like

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Speaker 1: he is painted red and yellow. And I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see if he gets some kind of Oscar nomination

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Speaker 1: out of this, because he is that good in this role.

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Speaker 1: But here's another line from the official synopsis. It says,

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Speaker 1: in the world of the Bone, Temple. The infected are

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Speaker 1: no longer the greatest threat to survival. The inhumanity of

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Speaker 1: the survivors can be a strange and more terrifying thing,

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Speaker 1: which is interesting to me that it's going to be

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Speaker 1: less about the fear of being infected, which for the

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Speaker 1: most part, if you've watched any kind of zombie movie,

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Speaker 1: which this not really a zombie movie, even though they

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Speaker 1: do turn into zombies. I think in twenty eight years later,

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Speaker 1: that was the first time they even ever used the

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Speaker 1: word zombie, But in that sense, I think it was

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Speaker 1: more of a slang term. They didn't really use it

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Speaker 1: in a way of identifying the infected. That's the word

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Speaker 1: they use, and I feel like that's a more accurate

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Speaker 1: representation because these people don't feel like zombies to me.

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Speaker 1: They're infected. It's this rage virus that allows them to

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Speaker 1: be so much faster and smarter than your average zombie.

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Speaker 1: And they took it a step further by introducing alphas,

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Speaker 1: who are these huge, ripped up infected with the ability

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Speaker 1: to run and crush your skull. So the fact that

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Speaker 1: we're getting away from that of just trying to survive

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Speaker 1: and not become infected to now dealing with these people

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Speaker 1: who have created these organizations, created these societies that are

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Speaker 1: more terrifying, because really the biggest threat to man is

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Speaker 1: man and people trying to survive, people trying to restore order,

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Speaker 1: and with order comes power, and with power, what comes corruption.

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Speaker 1: And I think that is what we are going to see.

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Speaker 1: So I still am holding on to hope that this

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Speaker 1: movie will have a little bit more action. I just

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Speaker 1: want to see things go down a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: But I think we have a lot more action in

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Speaker 1: store in The Bone Temple. So I was all in

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Speaker 1: on twenty eight years Later. I'm all in on the

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Speaker 1: Bone Temple. I hope I'm alive somehow. Somebody keep me

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Speaker 1: frozen if they ever decide to make twenty eight decades later,

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Speaker 1: because I will be there in that theater. Just to

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Speaker 1: give you all these timelines again, twenty eight years Later

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Speaker 1: will be available to watch on Netflix on September twentieth,

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Speaker 1: But the movie we've been talking about, The Bone Temple,

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Speaker 1: will be out in theaters on January sixteenth, and then

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Speaker 1: I have to imagine in three months after that, it'll

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Speaker 1: be on Netflix already at that balls. This week's of

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Speaker 1: movie line Frame or par and that is going to

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Speaker 1: do it for another episode here of the podcast. But

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Speaker 1: before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out

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Speaker 1: of the week. How do you get a listener shout

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Speaker 1: out of the week. You can tweet me, you can

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Speaker 1: DM me on Instagram. You can comment on my tiktoks,

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Speaker 1: which you can find the link in the episode notes

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Speaker 1: I don't know my username is still kind of screwed up.

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Speaker 1: Or you can also go over to YouTube dot com

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Speaker 1: slash Mike dshro individual movie reviews over there. I also

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Speaker 1: post some of the things that I normally post on

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Speaker 1: TikTok over there. So depending on where you like to

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Speaker 1: get your bite sized videos, go to TikTok, go to YouTube.

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Speaker 1: I would prefer YouTube right now, just because for the

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Speaker 1: most part, nobody really knows me over there, because I'm

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Speaker 1: still building out that channel and most people are mean,

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Speaker 1: and I can take most of that. I like to

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Speaker 1: respond with funny things. It never really gets to me.

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Speaker 1: I think the only thing that is a little bit

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Speaker 1: disheartening to me is it doesn't matter if I love

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Speaker 1: a movie or I hate a movie. I get the

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Speaker 1: hate from every sign on YouTube. So this week I'm

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Speaker 1: actually going over to X and shouting out Matthew who

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Speaker 1: tweeted me with the screenshot of him listening to an

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Speaker 1: episode Bright and Early on a Monday, and he said

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Speaker 1: listening to the pod and having a Topo Chico, and

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Speaker 1: it was the screenshot next to a cold bottle of

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Speaker 1: my favorite drink, Topo Chico. That is the perfect combination, Matthew.

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Speaker 1: That is also saying you know a little bit about

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Speaker 1: me and knowing what my favorite drink is. Watching a

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Speaker 1: movie and having a Topo Chico is pretty peak for me.

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Speaker 1: I wish more movie theaters carry Topo Chico. The only

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Speaker 1: place I can find that is when I'm in Texas,

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Speaker 1: and is because there they also have the screwcat bottles,

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Speaker 1: because most of them are the ones you have to

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Speaker 1: use a bottle opener for and they're not doing that

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Speaker 1: at the movie theater. So Regal, I'm a big fan

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Speaker 1: of you, but if you added Topo Chico, I would

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Speaker 1: love it even more. So appreciate you Matthew for tweeting

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Speaker 1: me or listening on a Monday. That's why you are

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Speaker 1: a part of the Monday Morning movie crew. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to everybody else who listens on Release Dagg shout out

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Speaker 1: to everybody who has subscribed over on YouTube, and until

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

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Speaker 1: will talk to you later