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Speaker 3: Off your chair. I was in shock. I didn't think

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Speaker 3: Exactly, hopefully not like goose hit my head on the

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Speaker 3: old goose. But no. So the film, the original film

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Speaker 3: came out in nineteen eighty six, so nearly forty years ago.

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Speaker 3: And I watched it again a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 3: it was only made for fifteen million dollars, which is

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Speaker 1: The closing titles of that movie went on forever because

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Speaker 3: Now and you go back to that original film and

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Speaker 3: No, he just walked straight in there. And so it's

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Speaker 3: sequel comes along nearly forty years later, incredibly with Tom

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Speaker 3: And so we find Maverick like a bit over thirty

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Speaker 3: But the great thing about this film is the director,

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Speaker 1: Fara crazy. That is crazy. There's some walking on them

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Speaker 3: It's unnecessary, unnecessary, and no one is coming to this

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Speaker 3: So fans of the original will be like, there's a

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Speaker 1: To it's a big build up.

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Speaker 1: It's got what everyone's saying about it, and he's been

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Speaker 1: Three and a half. Thanks Ben, seeing the cockpit