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Speaker 1: I can imagine that when I was coming in today

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Speaker 1: That's what I was wondering if for one of those

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Speaker 1: about creativity. But I'm not emotionally invested in the gaming.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you get these adaptations and there's so many fans

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Speaker 1: or it's like, come on, it's a computer game, tell

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Speaker 1: not Shakespeare. Shakespeare here. Yes, So I went in there

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Speaker 1: But it's not only it's not only that. As well

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Speaker 1: ears at the first of It's in price craziest experience.

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Speaker 1: I would recommend it for this movie in particular. If

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it worked that well for that film,

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Speaker 1: film itself is a pretty basic plot. Jack Black starts

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Speaker 1: He was a former child gamer prodigy called Garrett the

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Speaker 1: It's a little puerile, but I think the kiddies will

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Speaker 1: It is very, very silly, but if you liked the

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Speaker 1: She has this like she has this principal student meeting

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Speaker 1: think he's Swedish. And so that's that gives you an

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Speaker 1: the adults. If you like a bit of silliness. Lisa

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