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Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben o'she good enough. I could

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Speaker 1: be a bit longer like another person more book columns.

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Speaker 1: I just got going.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about what they're calling The Dry Too. People

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Speaker 2: know the connection.

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Speaker 3: Force of nature, and so just to rewind a little bit,

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Speaker 3: because the studio and the directors and the filmmakers and

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Speaker 3: Eric Banner hoping everybody thinks when they hear Dry Too,

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Speaker 3: they think of The Dry which came out on January one,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, and it was a huge hit, one

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Speaker 3: of the biggest opening weekends for an Australian movie in

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Speaker 3: the domestic bodel Well. It was a huge book top

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Speaker 3: five top five opening opening weekend, best selling book by

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Speaker 3: Jane Harper, starring Eric Banner as a special agent Aaron Folk,

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Speaker 3: who goes back to his hometown in regional Victoria and

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Speaker 3: there's some demons from his past that he has to

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Speaker 3: the whole thing comes together in kind of pretty spectation

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Speaker 3: killer fashion.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was a good movie, Like I think, it was

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Speaker 3: a very solid movie. Justice Did the Bank Are Justice?

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Speaker 3: Thanks to Eric Banner, you know, it's just phenomenal it's

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Speaker 3: great to see big Hollywood stars like him come back

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Speaker 3: to Australia and make movies locally.

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Speaker 1: We don't see it all the.

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Speaker 3: Time, and part of it, part of it was probably

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Speaker 3: because of the pandemic, well, I think the timing. And

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Speaker 3: the film is directed by Robert Connolly, one of Eric's

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Speaker 3: best mates. They actually share office space in Melbourne and

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Speaker 3: Robert Connelly is a director behind Balibo, paper Planes, The Turning.

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Speaker 3: He did Blue Back just recently, so he's one of

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Speaker 3: those Australian directors who's very consistent and always delivers like quality,

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Speaker 3: quality stuff and you could see that with the Dry,

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Speaker 3: like some beautiful landscape shots of the really dry Victorian

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Speaker 3: outback in the middle of a drought. Like it was

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Speaker 3: a stunning film and it did so well partly because

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Speaker 3: there was really nothing else out at the time, you know,

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Speaker 3: the box office, and so it did really well because

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Speaker 3: of that, and so there was.

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Speaker 1: Well so it had been a hugely popular in the book,

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Speaker 1: the book.

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Speaker 3: Successful, and so there was always going to be sequels,

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Speaker 3: especially because Jane Harper had written a couple more books

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Speaker 3: featuring this Aaron Folk character. And now, as we were

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Speaker 3: talking off air, the books are not really direct sequels.

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Speaker 3: They're kind of standards of recurring. It's a character that books.

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Speaker 3: And that's the same with The Dry Too. Like it's

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Speaker 3: funny calling it The Dry Too because it's set in

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Speaker 3: the extremely damp Victorian helps like he could not be

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Speaker 3: more rainy.

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Speaker 1: Get what they're doing it they want people's marketing right now,

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Speaker 1: otherwise they just hear force of nature. Yes, standalone, So.

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Speaker 3: This is definitely a standalone movie. And it's more about

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Speaker 3: his his job, you know, sort of as a federal agent.

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Speaker 3: And in the story, he's worried about the safety of

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Speaker 3: one of his sources in an investigation of a big

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Speaker 3: company that launders money for arms dealers and drug dealers

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Speaker 3: and who knows what. The head of that organization is

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Speaker 3: played by the Great Richard Rocksborough and so his source

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Speaker 3: in Mind Hunt as well, great Australian actress. She is

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Speaker 3: on a corporate retreat for this company that she works for,

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Speaker 3: but she was supposed to be gathering intel on Richard

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Speaker 3: Roxborough and some of his dodgy dealings. And the last

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Speaker 3: thing that Eric Banner's character heard was she was getting

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Speaker 3: this thumb drive of secret documents. But then she goes

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Speaker 3: Jaqueline Mackenzie, who doesn't really do as much as she should.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to see her on the screen more. They

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Speaker 3: go up into the Alps and it's a race against

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Speaker 3: And then there's really very little chance of her survival

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Speaker 3: All this stuff happens, and it's kind of like almost

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Speaker 3: Hugh Jackman's ex who have to say not very good

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Speaker 3: And now the issue for me with this film, I'll

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Speaker 3: start with the good things. So the good things are

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Speaker 3: And there's a great young cast as well of actors

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Speaker 3: that people probably not that familiar with, really really good performances.

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Speaker 3: Robert Connolly's direction is great, like he's he really makes

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Speaker 3: the landscape one of the characters of the film, just

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Speaker 3: like he did the drought character in.

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Speaker 1: The first Dry movie. And so all of that is great.

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Speaker 1: Where it falls.

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Speaker 3: Down is like I'm just not sure about how they

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Speaker 3: gone about adapting the source material. The plot to me

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Speaker 3: felt you know, like quite basic, like really quite rudimentary,

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Speaker 3: verging on cliche. Like there's only so many times you

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Speaker 3: can see like Jacqueline Mackenzie's character say to Eric Banners,

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Speaker 3: Aaron Folk, you know, we've got to do things by

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Speaker 3: the book. That's the job, Like she literally says that

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Speaker 3: exact line twenty times in the film, and it is

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Speaker 3: just it's very unimaginative, the dialogue and so, and it

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Speaker 3: kind of wastes the talent of a really good cast

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Speaker 3: and it's it does. It definitely doesn't live up to

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Speaker 3: the first film. And so yeah, from that perspective, I

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Speaker 3: have to say it was probably a bit of a disappoint.

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Speaker 2: Because I actually liked this folk like that better than

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Speaker 2: the fan Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Because of that, you would have been really looking forward

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Speaker 3: In respect, It's not terrible, it is it is good

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Speaker 3: luckily for them again, Like there's not much else being

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Speaker 3: quite a bit of marketing especially, it's got a bit

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Speaker 3: of marketing behind it. Yeah, ultimately probably a bit disappointed.

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Speaker 3: Very solid film though, and thanks to the performances. If

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Speaker 3: you go along and watch this, I don't think you know,

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Speaker 3: like I don't think you hate it. I think a

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Speaker 3: lot of people watch and go, yeah, it's pretty good,

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Speaker 3: but it's not going to rock your world.

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Speaker 1: All right, how many Aaron fak is not Colombo's Are

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Speaker 1: you giving it not the whole gum Sho, quite the

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Speaker 1: same character. I'm going to give it three stars. OK. Solid,

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