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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. If you listen to this podcast,

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Speaker 1: you know I am obsessed with box office numbers. So

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Speaker 1: Deadline just came out with the report of the most

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Speaker 1: and least profitable movies of the last year. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to dive into these numbers because there's one studio

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Speaker 1: in particular that is really in trouble. In the movie review,

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about If starring Ryan Reynolds, and in

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Speaker 1: the trailer park a look at the brand new m

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Speaker 1: Night Shyamalan movie and why I think it could be

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Speaker 1: his best movie ever except for one detail really keeping

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Speaker 1: me from being fully invested in this one. So thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to the Monday Morning Movie crew. He Now, 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: much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking IMTV with

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Speaker 1: Is this movie Mike? Movie Pas Deadline just came out

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Speaker 1: with the reports of the most profitable and least profitable

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Speaker 1: movies of the last year. We're gonna break down these numbers,

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Speaker 1: talk about why some of these movies did so bad,

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Speaker 1: whether or not they're even worth your time because they

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Speaker 1: are all available now for you to watch at home,

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Speaker 1: and what leads to the success of other movies that

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Speaker 1: comes down to return on investment based upon how much

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Speaker 1: money these movies spent on production and advertising and how

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Speaker 1: much they were able to make back. So let's get

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Speaker 1: But at number five on the list is Haunted Mansion

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Speaker 1: from Disney, which had a net loss of one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventeen million dollars. I think the biggest reason this

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Speaker 1: Disney also faced some criticism because this was the one

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Speaker 1: like an advertisement. Disney has a history of making movies

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Speaker 1: watch and not have to have my older brother claim

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00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: that he's my guardian. So I have a bit of

437
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 1: a soft spot for any PG thirteen horror movie that

438
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: can do it right and still scare you without having

439
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 1: a vast amount of blood and language. But overall, as

440
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: much as I love the first one and chapter two

441
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: has its moments, Insidious is a franchise. I believe really

442
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 1: fell off, especially after number two three. I don't really

443
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 1: remember much that happened in The Last Key, which came

444
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: out in twenty eighteen, so I didn't really have high

445
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: expectations going into Insidious the Red Door, and I would

446
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: say overaul still very underwhelming. So I would say skip

447
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,959
Speaker 1: this movie altogether. But props to them for making a

448
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: net profit of ninety two million dollars and at number

449
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,719
Speaker 1: one on the list. It's not a horror movie. It's

450
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 1: a movie I saw last year, really enjoyed, gave it

451
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: a four at a five, and now you can watch

452
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: it on Netflix. It is anyone but You from Sony.

453
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,919
Speaker 1: Columbia Pictures had a net profit of one hundred and

454
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,879
Speaker 1: three million dollars. This movie is all marketing. It was

455
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: Glenn Powell and Sidney Sweeney really leaning into their alleged

456
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 1: romance before this movie was released, which they both have

457
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: admitted that they did that on purpose. They weren't really

458
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: a thing at any point. They were both we at

459
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: least at the time Glenn Powell I think was in

460
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: a relationship. Sidney Sweeney isn't a relationship now still, But

461
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,400
Speaker 1: they kind of knew to get a buzz around this movie.

462
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: They had to play off their chemistry that they had

463
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: so well on screen, and they took that and did it.

464
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: In all the promotional material. They were literally inseparable while

465
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: promoting this movie, which really added to the hype because

466
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 1: it allowed us to all build up this fantasy in

467
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: our heads that they were going to be a thing

468
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: in real life and therefore, hey, I want to see

469
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,199
Speaker 1: how that plans out in the movie, which is one

470
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 1: of the best rom coms I've seen in theaters in

471
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 1: a long time. I think the other movie I would

472
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: put close up to this one would be Ticket to

473
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 1: Paradise with Julia Roberts and George Clooney. Who I mean

474
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 1: you put them together. They are legendary actors and they

475
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: can still sell a rom com. But I think Glenn

476
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: Powell and Sidney Sweeney might be that new rom com

477
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: power couple to see both of their careers really kicking off.

478
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: Glenn Powell is about to be in Twisters. Sidney Sweeney

479
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: is taking every single role being thrown at her right now.

480
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: I did see her recently talking about addressing some of

481
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 1: the criticisms that she got from Madam Webber, which is

482
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: also a Sony movie, and she was clarifying the timeline

483
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: of when she did that movie. It was long before

484
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: she did Anyone But You, and that was really her

485
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: establishing a relationship with Sony. From making that one, it

486
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: led her to making Anyone But You, which she believed

487
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: a lot more in. So she wasn't directly dragging the movie.

488
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: I know at times she made some jokes about it

489
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: how everybody thought it was awful, But I think she

490
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: probably got less heat from that, not being the star

491
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 1: like Dakota Johnson, whoof It's gonna take a little bit

492
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 1: for her to recover from that. But I feel like

493
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: it was more of a business decision from Sidney Sweeney

494
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: still being an actor on the rise, to establish good

495
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: relationships and not burn bridges with Sony that led her

496
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: to doing this movie, and there probably, if it hasn't

497
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: been announced yet, going to make another Anyone but You.

498
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: But the movie did really well in theaters. And it's

499
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: hard to get audiences out to watch a rom com

500
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,239
Speaker 1: because it feels more like something you would watch at

501
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: home on a Friday night. But people were going to

502
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: see this movie. And then it was re released again

503
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: this year for Valentine's Day, so you had more of

504
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: a boost there. It is doing really well now on streaming.

505
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: Now that Netflix has it, it's going to introduce it

506
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 1: to an entirely different audience. So once they make this sequel,

507
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 1: there's going to be this big fan base waiting to

508
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: see the continuation to this story. So that shows you

509
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: if you want to make money in movies, make a

510
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: horror movie or make a really great rom com and

511
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: create some buzz. And for comparison, I do want to

512
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: share overall the top five most profitable movies of all time.

513
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: They're not the highest grossing of all time, but like

514
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: we've been talking about, these are the ones that have

515
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: had the top five return on investment. At number five

516
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: is Titanic, which had a three times return a budget

517
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: of three hundred and thirty seven million dollars and ended

518
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: up having a profit of one point four billion dollars.

519
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: But that's also due to VHS sales, and also they

520
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: re release that movie in theaters probably every couple few years,

521
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: and every anniversary they kind of shove it down our

522
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 1: throats again. It has also had a fantastic life on streaming.

523
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 1: At number four is Gone with the Win from nineteen

524
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: thirty nine, which had a twenty five times return on

525
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: their investment. It went on to have a profit of

526
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: two billion dollars. Crazy. At number three from nineteen seventy

527
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: seven is Star Wars, with a budget of forty seven

528
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: million dollars, went on to have a net profit of

529
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 1: one point three billion. At number two with a four

530
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty times return on their investment is the

531
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Speaker 1: Blair Witch Project from nineteen ninety nine, with a budget

532
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: of sixty thousand dollars. It went on to profit two

533
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight million dollars at the box office.

534
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: That is crazy, That was the number one movie for

535
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 1: a long time until two thousand and seven. Paranormal Activity

536
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 1: had a seven hundred and ninety one times return on

537
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: their investment. The movie costs fifteen thousand dollars to make

538
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: one five zero zero zero. To make a movie for

539
00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: five figures is unheard of. It went on to have

540
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: a profit of one hundred and seventy million dollars and

541
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: also created an entire franchise where they kept that same format.

542
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: Still were able to make them for a relatively low

543
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: budget and make millions of dollars at the box office.

544
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: So there you go, Well, come back I'll give my

545
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: review on If, and then we'll talk about the new

546
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: m Night Shyamalan movie Trap. Let's get into it now.

547
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: A spoiler free movie review of If from writer and

548
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 1: director John Krasinski, who you would know from the office.

549
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: He's also directed movies like A Quiet Place. And this

550
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: may surprise you, but I am not a kid, and

551
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask, why is this thirty two year old

552
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: going on about a kid's movie? Why is he so

553
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: passionate about it? As a former kid, I hold these

554
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: movies to a high regard anything in the family and

555
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: kid category, because really, childhood movies were my first love.

556
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,239
Speaker 1: They were all of our first loves. It was the

557
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: reason I fell in love with movies initially. Later down

558
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: the line, when I was probably like sixteen, two thousand

559
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: and seven was the year that really defined my love

560
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: of not just movies, but quote unquote film or I

561
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: started to really develop my taste and that was really

562
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: what solidified me in wanting to watch and also discuss

563
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: movies with other people. But there is a moment in

564
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: time that you can't get back as a kid, and

565
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: it's all those movies I remember from watching when I

566
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: was five to eight, maybe even ten years old, that

567
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: have stuck with me over my lifetime that I can

568
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: go back to now as an adult and want to

569
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: relive my childhood and experience that again. I have these

570
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: great memories from great movies that I either went to

571
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,959
Speaker 1: see in theaters or watched on DVD. I think that

572
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: is such an important time in kids' lives, and that

573
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: is time you can't get back. So I don't want

574
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: any movie to rob any kid of that experience. You

575
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: can rip me off as an adult, you can sell

576
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: me a bomb. I go watch a movie and I

577
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: hate it, that's fine, I'm an adult. I can take it.

578
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: But for a kid to go to a theater to

579
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: experience something that they want to take them out of

580
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,239
Speaker 1: this world, or to help them understand maybe something that

581
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: they can't learn from their parents, or they're struggling, maybe

582
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: don't have a parent, A movie can do that, and

583
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: a movie can be powerful in many ways. So that

584
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: is why I hold these movies to such a high regard.

585
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: I don't review these as the thirty two year old me.

586
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: I review them me as a kid sitting in that theater,

587
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: but also taking the cues and the emotions that I

588
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: feel in the theater. So that is just my little

589
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: preface here, But what the movie is actually about. You

590
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: have this girl named Bee who is going through a

591
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: traumatic experience. She just lost her mom and now her

592
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: dad is in the hospital. And during these times, as

593
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: she is interpreting all these emotions, she's twelve years old,

594
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: she starts seeing other kids, imaginary friends. She has this

595
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: ability to see them, no one else can see them.

596
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: So it is her mission now throughout the movie to

597
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: pair up these imaginary friends who no longer have kids

598
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: to play with, and find new kids for them so

599
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: they can continue to live on. Kaylee Fleming plays Be,

600
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: who really dominated this movie my favorite performance from a

601
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: young actor, probably since Violet McGraw and Megan who also

602
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: carried that movie. I feel like we've gotten a little

603
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: bit away from letting kids lead movies, and I feel

604
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: like her performance in this surpassed Ryan Reynolds and even

605
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: surpassed the als voice actors that were voicing all the

606
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: characters in this movie. So what she is struggling with

607
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: even though she's twelve years old, she doesn't want to

608
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: be called a kid because she's experienced life. She's experienced

609
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: heartache and loss, and she acts so much more mature

610
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: than she actually is. Meanwhile, in this time, her dad,

611
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: John Krasinski, who's in the hospital, is doing all these

612
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: really playful things to keep the spirit really a light,

613
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: to kind of keep her mind off of why he

614
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: is actually there. She's like, Dad, stop doing that. I'm

615
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: not a kid. I don't need you to coddle me.

616
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: For her to have that kind of emotion really reminded

617
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: me of me as a kid, because as far back

618
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: as when I was in elementary school, I remember my

619
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: teacher telling my mom that, hey, this kid acts way

620
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: more mature than he actually is. He doesn't really like

621
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: all the more childish things. And I had a real

622
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: hard time just being a kid because I was always

623
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: more mature. I had a brother and a sister who

624
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: were seven nine years older than me, so I think

625
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: it was me always trying to be cool in their

626
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: eyes that I didn't allow myself to be a kid.

627
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: Probably past like eight or nine years old, I always

628
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: wanted to be like them, so even at eight or nine,

629
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: and I was probably acting more like a late teenager.

630
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: So that part of the movie really resonated with me,

631
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: because there are kids who have to grow up faster

632
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: because of the things they experience in life, and I

633
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: really haven't seen that represented in a movie yet, so

634
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: I think kids now being able to identify with a

635
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,239
Speaker 1: character like that is really important. The other thing I

636
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: identified with, which is more of what the movie focuses on,

637
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: is having an imaginary friend. Because Bee is connecting with

638
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: all these imaginary friends, they all have different personalities, and

639
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: I think seeing this as an adult reminded me of

640
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: my imaginary friend. I created him because I was really lonely.

641
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: I grew up in a trailer park and it was

642
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: it was really hard for me to make friends. I

643
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: had two really solid friends in the trailer park that

644
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: I made on my own. I also had a cousin

645
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: who was like a built in best friend. And in

646
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: the trailer park I lived in, everybody would eventually just

647
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: move away and you would never see him again again.

648
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: This was late nineties early two thousands, where internet wasn't

649
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: as prevalent as it is now. Once somebody left the

650
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: trailer park, they were gone. My first best friend moved away.

651
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: And the ultimate move away from a trailer park is

652
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: you get a house. That was the ultimate goal to

653
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: go from living in a trailer park to having a

654
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: brick house was the dream, so Zach was the first

655
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: one to do that. My other friend Eric moved away,

656
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: my cousin moved away, and it was just me by myself.

657
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: It was hard for me to make new friends. When

658
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: more kids would move into the trailer park, I always

659
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: felt like they were younger than me, so it was

660
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: hard for me to find kids my age. And I

661
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: was also just really awkward and more mature. So I

662
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: created an imaginary friend. I don't really remember a whole

663
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: lot of details about him, probably because it was created

664
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: at a trauma or something, but I remember the last

665
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: time playing with my imaginary best friend. It was raining.

666
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: We were sitting on some steps and I think he

667
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: just evaporated, and that was me saying goodbye to my childhood,

668
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: I guess.

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Speaker 3: So.

670
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: I think watching this movie as an adult will transport

671
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: you back into your childhood, especially if you had an

672
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: imaginary friend. The big problem I had with IF is

673
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: it felt really unoriginal, and it also took a really

674
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: long time to get going. It was probably forty five

675
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: minutes until anything really big happened, and that is hard

676
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: to do in a kid's movie. I felt the audience

677
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: getting a little bit restless because you need those big,

678
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: fun moments that kids are gonna get invested in, and

679
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: I think that was overall what this movie struggled with.

680
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: It very much felt more like an adult telling the

681
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: story to kids and thinking, oh, this is probably what

682
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: kids like instead of what I like. In kids and

683
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: family movies, you forget that an adult is even involved

684
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 1: in the process. It feels more like it's a kid

685
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: at the helm calling all shots, and it feels like

686
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: a kid movie being told from the perspective of a kid.

687
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: I think that is when a movie like this truly shines.

688
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: It reminds me of watching Nickelodeon as a kid, and

689
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: that channel very much felt like there was no adult influence.

690
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: It felt like cartoons being made for kids by kids,

691
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: and all the adults were lame. A little bit of

692
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: that memory has been tarnished with quiet on the set now,

693
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: but I'm choosing to remember just the animated chosen, the

694
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: really early Nickelodeon stuff. So overall, I felt like it

695
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: was more of a movie made for adults. The overall

696
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: message of the story was don't let yourself forget to

697
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: be a kid, don't be afraid to be a kid,

698
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: and it felt like it would resonate more with adults

699
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: watching it than it would kids. The characters themselves weren't

700
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: really anything that you would grasp on to Aside from

701
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: Steve Carell's character, who is the big purple character named Blue,

702
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: which is a joke in the movie, all the other

703
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: characters are really forgettable. The movie comes to us from Paramount,

704
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: which it almost felt like they were all placeholders for

705
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: different characters they were going to use later on. Maybe

706
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: the thought was, hey, we could use some characters that

707
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: we have the rights to from Paramount. Maybe you throw

708
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: a Ninja journal in there, but it all just felt like, hey,

709
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: this isn't Many Mouse, this is Winny Mouse. And overall

710
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: they were so forgettable that I don't think a kid

711
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: is gonna watch this movie and grasp onto one specific character.

712
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: It just felt like all the imaginary characters never really

713
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: bonded or went through anything together and never created this

714
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: big team effort. And another thing was this movie felt

715
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 1: inherently sad for no reason, which was another emotion hard

716
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: to process. And again, not every kid's movie needs to

717
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: be shining rainbows and fun all the time. I can

718
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: respect a movie that goes on an emotional level to

719
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: really teach kids that, hey, things get hard. Sometimes life

720
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: is hard. Sometimes you're gonna feel sad and it's okay.

721
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: But even me watching this as an adult had me

722
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: feeling pretty sad because you don't really have a lot

723
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: of moments of triumph. It takes a very long time

724
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: to get there, so it is a really high investment

725
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: to get to feeling good. For me, it wasn't fully

726
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: enjoyable until that last hour. But that being said, it

727
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: was a really strong last hour. All of the movie

728
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: really paid off in the third act and it hit

729
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: me in those emotional feels. And the thing about a

730
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: movie like this and really any movie, is you always

731
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: remember how it left you feeling. At the end. That

732
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: last bit of emotion is so important because it can

733
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: eclipse everything that came before it. If it leaves you

734
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: feeling really warm and fuzzy inside and feeling good about life,

735
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: and you leave that theater thinking, oh, I feel good now,

736
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: you kind of forget that it was slow in the

737
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: beginning and that it took a long time to get

738
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: there because the payoff was so important. But another thing

739
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: I also hold to a high standard when it comes

740
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: to kids and family movies is rewatchability, because I think

741
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: that is so important to go and see a movie

742
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: in theat and want to go and rewatch it more

743
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: and more times. That is the sign of a true hit.

744
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: I think this one is just gonna really scrape by

745
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: as being an overall mediocre movie that maybe we forget about.

746
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: It doesn't really have any appeal to me that it's

747
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: gonna build a big franchise, even with having a pretty

748
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: soft opening of thirty five million dollars. Isn't the best

749
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: and I think this movie is kind of right there

750
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: in the middle of the road, and the characters themselves

751
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: aren't really that appealing to sell this movie, which I

752
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: think was the big struggle of the marketing of this movie.

753
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: None of the characters feel unique to it. The story

754
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: doesn't feel unique. It really feels like Toy Story three

755
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 1: had a challenger situation with Brave Little Toaster and inside Out,

756
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: and somehow through that challenger situation they had a Muppet's baby.

757
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: That is what this movie ended up being. It felt

758
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: like it was doing an impression of another good kids

759
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: movie and the result of that was a mediocre kid's movie.

760
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: There weren't really funny moments throughout that I feel you

761
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: really needed to win those younger kids over. There was

762
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: maybe two or three times that I actually heard other

763
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: people laugh, and one of those was a fart joke.

764
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: That's the easiest thing you can do. Kung Fu Panda four,

765
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: did it? You throw a fart joke in there and

766
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: everybody is going to laugh. That's a really cheap laugh,

767
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: especially coming from John Krasinski, who was also accused of

768
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: ripping off a Quiet Place from a novel called The Silence.

769
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 1: Even though A Quiet Place came out first in theaters,

770
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: The Silence came out on Netflix and everybody thought The

771
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: Silence ripped off a Quiet Place, But that was based

772
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: on a novel that came out before it. Not that

773
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: The Silence was a good movie at all. Pretty terrible

774
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: Netflix movie, but still can you have an original idea?

775
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: So overall, for if I give it three point five

776
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: out of five Big Purple Monsters, it's time to head

777
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: down to movie.

778
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 2: Mike Traylor, Paul.

779
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: M Night, Shyamalan movies are hit or missed for me.

780
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: Last year would not get the ca That was his

781
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: first good movie in a really long time before that

782
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: old bad Glass was bad. He had a run of

783
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: bad films, but that movie made me think he still

784
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: has something left in the tank. He's not a one

785
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 1: trick pony. He doesn't have to make these movies that

786
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: just have some kind of weird twist at the end

787
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: to get us all to go, oh, I see what

788
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: he did there. That one showed me he was a

789
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: really great filmmaker. And after watching the trailer for his

790
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 1: new movie, I think this could be his best film yet.

791
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: There is a major red flag that I'm going to

792
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: get into when talking about this movie. But what trap

793
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: is about what I love. First of all, it has

794
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: such a simple premise that you learn so quickly by

795
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: watching the trailer. But his father played by Josh Hartnett,

796
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: and his teen daughter go to a concert by this popstar.

797
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: They realize then that they are at the center of

798
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: some weird, dark, sinister event. Turns out, Josh Hartnett's character

799
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: is a serial killer, and he has people hidden somewhere

800
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: in his house, and this entire thing was set up

801
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: by the police because they knew he was going to

802
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: be there. But by the looks of the trailer, they

803
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: don't even know exactly who they are looking for. They

804
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: just have some kind of tip that the butcher is

805
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: going to be there. Great premise and I think also

806
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: one of m Night Shaumalan's most simple premises. So I

807
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: want to dive into this trailer because I think it

808
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: is M Night just getting back to the basics, just

809
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: making an all out, really good horror movie. I'll give

810
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: you my full thoughts in just a second, but right now,

811
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 1: here's a little bit of the trap trailer.

812
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: Cooper, Jamie, what's on plice trucks, outside, the cameras everywhere, Jamie,

813
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 4: you know, the butcher, that freaking nutshot that goes around

814
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 4: is jumping people up the fens or whatever.

815
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: Heard that he's gonna be here today. So they set

816
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: up a trap for.

817
00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 3: This whole concept. It's a trap for the watch and

818
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 3: all the exits check it. Everyone that leaves, there's no

819
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 3: way to get out of here, and.

820
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: That is where the trailer leaves us. After that, you

821
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: see Josh Hartnett go back to meet his daughter who

822
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: is watching this pop star perform. He has this glazed

823
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: look on his face as he realizes that, oh man,

824
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: not only is my daughter going to find out that

825
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm a serial killer, but I'm probably not going to

826
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: leave this place by my own will. I'm probably gonna

827
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: get arrested, and then my entire operation is going to

828
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: be found out. I think probably the hardest thing for him,

829
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: given the fact that at the beginning of the trailer

830
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 1: paints him out to be this really nice guy, even

831
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: more so than him having any regret towards his victims,

832
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: I think the thing that is really good away on

833
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: him is disappointing his daughter and finding out through him

834
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: getting arrested that he is a monster. And I find

835
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: the way that just in this trailer that Josh Hartnet

836
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: is playing this character is interesting. He almost has this

837
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: dead pain delivery that he seems to be acting a

838
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: little psychotic and very dry. So I think Josh Hartnett

839
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: is a great actor who got his start in horror

840
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: movies actually and became the heart throwbu of the late

841
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: nineties and early two thousands. His first movie ever was

842
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: Halloween h two O and is actually one of my

843
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 1: favorites in the franchise, even though at times the movie

844
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: has some really awful cgi and overall probably not the

845
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: best representation of the Halloween franchise at the time. When

846
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: that movie came out, it was really significant to me,

847
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: and among all the movies and the Halloween franchise, aside

848
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: from the first one, it's probably the one that I

849
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: revisit the most. He went on to do movies like

850
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: The Faculty, Thirty Days of Nine forty Days, and forty

851
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: nine's Black Hawk Down and has kind of had a

852
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: bit of a comeback. He was also in a really

853
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: great episode of Black Mirror recently, so I feel like

854
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: there is kind of a resurgence of these people who

855
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: were famous and the late nineties early two thousands now

856
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: being able to step back into the spotlight and can

857
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 1: do a little bit more of refined work.

858
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 2: Now.

859
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 1: Seeing him as the father figure in a movie is

860
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: a little bit different because he was always like the

861
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: hot honky guy, but especially after seeing him in that

862
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: Black Mirror episode, I think he will do a fantastic

863
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: job in this movie. Also in this movie, you have

864
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: m Knight Shamalan's daughter, Selika Knight Shamalan, making her acting debut,

865
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: and in real life, she is actually an artist. She

866
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: did some of the music for his movie Old also

867
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: his TV series on Apple TV Plus. So she is

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Speaker 1: playing the character Lady Raven that you see throughout the

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Speaker 1: the night Shamalans are actually taking over because his other daughter,

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Speaker 1: Ishana has a movie coming out later this summer on

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Speaker 1: June seventh, called The Watchers. Maybe you've seen the trailer

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Speaker 1: for that one too, And there's actually an easter egg

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Speaker 1: in this trailer. At one point where you see all

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Speaker 1: the police cars coming to the venue, there's this little

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Speaker 1: banner across one of the overpasses that says the Watchers.

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Speaker 1: So he has his daughter in the movie and also

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Speaker 1: his other daughter's movie featured in the trailer for his movie.

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Speaker 1: A great connection there, Nepotism at its best, we Love Ourselves,

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Speaker 1: and Nepo Baby. This movie was filmed entirely in Toronto,

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Speaker 1: actually at the Rogers Center where the Blue Jays play.

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Speaker 1: Actually been to Toronto, beautiful city. I remember driving in

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Speaker 1: and seeing this stadium by the Big Tower. Had a

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Speaker 1: great experience in Toronto because everyone there is so nice.

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Speaker 1: But I do love the trend of horror movies that

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Speaker 1: take place in one location, which I feel like has

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Speaker 1: re emerged a little bit since COVID. Back when well

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Speaker 1: you couldn't really have a big production. You wanted to

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Speaker 1: scale back not only the cast but also the crew,

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Speaker 1: So I feel like this trend has kind of re emerged.

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Speaker 1: M Knight also did it with Knock at the Cabin.

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Speaker 1: He also wrote the story for Devil, which all takes

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Speaker 1: place in an elevator. And I am a fan of

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Speaker 1: movies set in one location. I think they are probably

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Speaker 1: extremely hard to do for a director because you rely

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Speaker 1: so much on your leads and then it all comes

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Speaker 1: down to the pacing of the film to keep the

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Speaker 1: audience's attention because you can't go to other locations to

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Speaker 1: break things up. But when it comes to horror movies,

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Speaker 1: it also creates that claustrophobic feeling for the viewer, so

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Speaker 1: I think it's a really powerful tool. So it forces

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Speaker 1: you to get really comfortable with your storytelling skills as

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Speaker 1: a director. Now, looking historically at some of my favorite

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Speaker 1: movies that take place in one location, oftentimes what happens

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Speaker 1: is these movies tend to have shorter run times because

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Speaker 1: you probably have less of a budget that you're working with,

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Speaker 1: which is another big reason to set a movie entirely

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Speaker 1: in one location, because you can do it for cheaper

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Speaker 1: and if you're able to have success at the box office.

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Speaker 1: Therefore you have a greater profit, lower risk, higher reward. Devil,

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Speaker 1: which I mentioned earlier, has an hour and twenty minute time.

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Speaker 1: The Guilty with Jake Jillenhall, where he plays a nine

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Speaker 1: to win to one operator, has a run time of

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Speaker 1: ninety minutes that not only takes place in one location,

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Speaker 1: but for the majority of the movie is just Jake

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Speaker 1: Jillenhall's face on the phone. But to be able to

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Speaker 1: keep my attention and really have me invested in that

918
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Speaker 1: story for ninety minutes was a feat within itself. That

919
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Speaker 1: was one of my favorite movies to come out of Lockdown.

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Speaker 1: That is how you do it. Another movie called Buried

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Speaker 1: with Ryan Reynolds, where he is literally buried alive, has

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Speaker 1: a run time of ninety minutes. Phone Booth with Colin

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Speaker 1: Farrell was one of my first favorite movies that took

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Speaker 1: place in one location. That movie has a runtime of

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Speaker 1: one hour and twenty minutes. So why I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: all this is because Trapp has a run time of

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Speaker 1: two and a half hours, and I was all sold

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Speaker 1: on the idea of this movie until it came to

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Speaker 1: that runtime. Because the trailer looks really solid. It also

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Speaker 1: really kind of tells us the entire story that is

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Speaker 1: going to unfold. I don't know how, just based on

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Speaker 1: this trailer that is going to warrant a two and

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Speaker 1: a half hour runtime, making it M Night Shyamalan's longest

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Speaker 1: movie to date. Knock at the Cabin was an hour

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Speaker 1: and forty minutes, and I think that runtime led to

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Speaker 1: me really enjoying that movie because it left me wanting more,

937
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Speaker 1: got into the action, quickly, ramped up, had a resolution

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Speaker 1: before I knew it it was over. That is what

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Speaker 1: worries me that it's going to get to that final

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Speaker 1: maybe forty five minutes or even that last hour, and

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Speaker 1: it's maybe gonna go on a bit more of an

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Speaker 1: existential ride. And this is giving my history of M

943
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Speaker 1: Night shyamalan movies, which I hope is in the case.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it is Josh Hartne's character finding these different ways

945
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Speaker 1: to throw the police off of his trail. Maybe he

946
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Speaker 1: starts framing other people at the concert. Maybe he finds

947
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Speaker 1: a way to escape and we actually do get away

948
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Speaker 1: from the venue towards the end of the movie. But

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Speaker 1: with such a great premise, with such a great lead actor,

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Speaker 1: all M Night Shyamalan has to do is Land the

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Speaker 1: Plane on this movie. And if it wasn't for him

952
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,760
Speaker 1: having so many misses in the later half of his career,

953
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be as hesitant. But still this is one

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Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to again. This movie is coming

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Speaker 1: out on August ninth later this summer head.

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Speaker 2: That was this link's edition of movie Mi Tramer.

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Speaker 1: Par and that is gonna do it for another episode

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Speaker 1: here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta

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Speaker 1: give my listeners shout out of the week. How do

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Speaker 1: you get a listener shout out of the week, Well,

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Speaker 1: you can send me an email movie Mike dat Gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com, dm me on Instagram, comment on my Facebook page,

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00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: on TikTok go, subscribe over on YouTube and leave a

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Speaker 1: comment there. You can always find all the links to

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Speaker 1: all my social media and YouTube channel in the episode

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Speaker 1: notes of every single podcast. And this week I'm shouting

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Speaker 1: out to Nicholas Ramer, who is Bell's Old Glory Shop

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, listener of this podcast and a listener of

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Speaker 1: The Big Show, The Bobby Bone Show, and as somebody

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Speaker 1: who outside of these shows I've connected with and been

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Speaker 1: able to DM and talk with and through me talking

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Speaker 1: about on this podcast. Of my recent love and hobby

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Speaker 1: of collecting comics. I've been doing it now for almost

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Speaker 1: two years, and it was something early on that I

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Speaker 1: was a little bit hesitant to share because it is

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Speaker 1: a bit of a nerdy hobby, and as much of

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Speaker 1: a nerd as I am and I'm comfortable with sharing things,

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Speaker 1: I felt that was going to another level for me,

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Speaker 1: and I've never been cool with my life, but for

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Speaker 1: some reason, I felt like sharing the fact that I

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Speaker 1: collect comics and I'm so into researching them, finding out

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Speaker 1: different values, finding key issues, and just spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of my time now collecting and reading them. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was going another level, But what I found is

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Speaker 1: I'm connecting with other people who also love collecting comics,

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Speaker 1: and it's been a really great tool for me to

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Speaker 1: just be able to talk about the thing I'm really

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Speaker 1: passionate about outside of movies and find this other little community.

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Speaker 1: So it kind of reminded me of whenever I really

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Speaker 1: first got into reviewing and talking about movies and discussing

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Speaker 1: them with other people and finding other creators on TikTok

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Speaker 1: and Instagram and having like this instant bond. So that's

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Speaker 1: why I decided to share it here on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I posted a lot about it on my social media

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Speaker 1: and Nicholas was so nice to send me this entire

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Speaker 1: package of really awesome comics, including one that, if you're

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Speaker 1: not familiar with comics, may make no sense to you,

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Speaker 1: but it is a secret Wars number one, a graded comic,

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Speaker 1: and I only have one of those so far that

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Speaker 1: Kelsey got me for Christmas, and now I have too,

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Speaker 1: So it was really unexpected and just felt like a

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Speaker 1: reminder to me that always talk about the things that

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Speaker 1: you are passionate about, no matter how nerdy they seem,

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Speaker 1: because there's probably somebody out there who is into the

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Speaker 1: same things that you are. As long as you're I'm

1006
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Speaker 1: not hurting anybody. There's nothing you should be ashamed about.

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Speaker 1: But that was super awesome and if you watch my

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Speaker 1: reviews on YouTube you will now see it featured in

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Speaker 1: the background where I have all my coolest comics behind me.

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Speaker 1: It was so cool I instantly put it up on

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Speaker 1: the wall. So thank you Nicholas, Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Hope you all have a great rest of your week,

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

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Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later.