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Speaker 1: Break the flick with ben o'she on ninety six Am

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Speaker 1: The Morning, Ben, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel about the Transformers? Are the toys aren't? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I look, if I had to guess the movie franchises,

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Speaker 1: that probably wouldn't float your boat. Least I would say

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Speaker 1: Transformers to children's on the list?

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Speaker 3: Is it a chair movie? I'm not a child a.

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Speaker 2: Big kids play with them based on children's toys.

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Speaker 1: But the heyday for Transformers toys was, you know, probably

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Speaker 1: in the eighties, So it's it's the kids who are

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Speaker 1: playing with them back then who are watching Transformers. So

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Speaker 1: probably people could probably dudes who are old enough to

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Speaker 1: know better. But the first five films were directed by

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Speaker 1: Michael Bay and look, they made a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: Like we're talking multiple billions of dollars, so you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't take that away from them. But if we're

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Speaker 1: being honest, they weren't that good. Probably mostly notable for

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Speaker 1: giving the world shil of Boff, which I wish she'd

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Speaker 1: come with some sort of return policy giving back. And

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Speaker 1: there was also and also if you've seen those first

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Speaker 1: couple of movies, so many slow most sequences of Megan

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Speaker 1: Fox in short shorts Yeah, she was climbing onto a motorbike.

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Speaker 1: She was leaning into the bonnet of a car. It

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Speaker 1: was like, that was basically all. It was like the

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Speaker 1: robots were in disguise, but there was no disguising, the

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Speaker 1: sort of shameless attempts to attract male audiences with a

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Speaker 1: lot of gratuitous being fox on.

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Speaker 2: She was the new Daisy Deuke here, no doubt. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: very similar.

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Speaker 1: But then along came So after five of those movies

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Speaker 1: that kind of got increasingly worse, then along came Bumblebee

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, which was a spin off based on

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Speaker 1: one of the Transformer characters, not directed by Michael Bay,

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Speaker 1: directed by a bloke named Travis Knight.

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Speaker 2: It was actually like sneaky good.

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Speaker 1: It started Hailey Steinfeld as like the token human and

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Speaker 1: it was kind of said in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: It was a throwback to eighties block class Herby. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was like Herbie.

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Speaker 1: It was like Herbie Herby could transform and blow things up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, Yeah, Herby strikes b yeah exactly so.

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Speaker 1: And so the thing that separated it from the other

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Speaker 1: Transformer movies was that Hailey Steinfeld's character was actually kind

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Speaker 1: of believable because normally the Transformers are more believable than

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Speaker 1: the human characters. And so then along comes this new movie, Transformers,

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Speaker 1: Rise of the Beasts, which is kind of a standalone

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Speaker 1: sequel to Bumblebee, set a few years later. So Bumblebee

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Speaker 1: very much an eighties movie. This one is set in

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Speaker 1: the early nineties, a lot of it in Brooklyn, and

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Speaker 1: stars Anthony Ramos from Hamilton and in the Heights West

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Speaker 1: Side Story He's a legit.

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Speaker 2: Actually, oh yeah, exactly, so yeah, and he's he's actually

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Speaker 2: quite good in this.

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Speaker 1: He plays a character named Noah, a former ex military

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Speaker 1: electronics expert who's just trying to support his family in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: The film is This film has been directed by Stephen

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Speaker 1: Caple Jr. Who did Creed to the Creed sequel in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, which is which is a good movie, made

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Speaker 1: a lot of money, and so he's a black American director,

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Speaker 1: and this is the most diverse Transformers movie that's ever

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Speaker 1: been made in terms of the cast, in terms of

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Speaker 1: the people who made the movie. And as a result,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a lot of early nineties hip hop.

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Speaker 1: It's a very very cool vibe for a Transformers movie.

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Speaker 1: Previous films were you know, Lincoln Park and the soundtrack,

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Speaker 1: so it's a low bar to clear it. And basically,

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Speaker 1: so you've got to Anthony Ramos's character Noah is roped

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Speaker 1: into saving the world after a bunch of terra Cons,

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Speaker 1: which are evil giant robots, have come to Earth looking

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Speaker 1: for this device that will allow their boss to travel

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Speaker 1: anywhere in the universe and destroy planets. The whole thing

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Speaker 1: is more complicated than that, but we don't need to

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Speaker 1: get it too that well, unnecessarily, so.

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Speaker 2: Perhats and so helping him.

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Speaker 1: Helping him is a is a Transformer, an autobot named

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Speaker 1: Mirage voiced by Pete Davidson, which is kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: And you've got all the hugs back Oftimus Prime and

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Speaker 1: all those guys, but this time you've got these beast Transformers,

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Speaker 1: the Maximals, which is a spin off cartoon, spinoff toy

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Speaker 1: range from Hasbro, and so a lot of Transformers fans

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Speaker 1: have been looking forward to them coming to the big screen.

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Speaker 1: They're sort of you know, friendly robots, friendly giant robots

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Speaker 1: that can transform into giant animals. So why exactly a

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Speaker 1: giant robot would want to transform into a giant gorilla

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Speaker 1: is not fully.

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Speaker 2: Explained in the movie. Okay, but like why do giant

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Speaker 2: robots do any of the things that they do? Who

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Speaker 2: can say?

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Speaker 1: But the voice cast includes Oscar Win and Michelle go

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Speaker 1: so that's pretty amazing. Ron Perlman, Game of Throne, STARp,

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Speaker 1: his Dinklage. So there's a lot of big names in

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Speaker 1: the and big, big action set pieces. Like we're talking

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Speaker 1: about a film that probably costs, you know, two hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars. At least you've got a big spectacle for

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Speaker 1: people who like these types of movies. Overall, I would

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Speaker 1: say it's one of the better Transformers movies. Read into

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Speaker 1: that what you will and close. It's certainly closer to

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Speaker 1: Bumblebee than it is to those Michael Bay movies.

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Speaker 2: Okay, much better at the cinema with that soundtrack.

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Speaker 1: By the sound of it, Ben, the soundtrack is actually

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Speaker 1: full of bangers work kind of the cinema just to

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Speaker 1: hear you know, ll cool Jay, you know I'm going

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Speaker 1: to knock you out. Well them said you out while

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Speaker 1: Transformers are beating the heck out of each other.

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Speaker 3: Well, probably not much point seeing it unless you say

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Speaker 3: that the cinema really a movie like this. Okay, So

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Speaker 3: how many coals collectibles.

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Speaker 2: Are you giving it?

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Speaker 1: Give it?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give it a solid three. Okay, all right?

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Speaker 2: For that car star power alone, that's amazing. You know.

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Speaker 3: They pull in the cart, they pull in the car,

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Speaker 3: and they're not going to win Oscars for them, but

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Speaker 3: they get They just flock to.

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Speaker 2: These movies, sell more merchandise, money.

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Speaker 3: Money, talks and not having to sit in hair and

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Speaker 3: make up.

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Speaker 2: And to buy the toys on the way out. Don't

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Speaker 2: take it out of the box, and thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: you guys.