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Speaker 1: Great to flick with Ben o'she.

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Speaker 2: Now let's talk our guy, this new spy comedy from

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Speaker 2: Matthew Vaughan. So, Matthew Vaughan is the British director who's

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Speaker 2: made a name for himself. His first movie was Layer

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Speaker 2: Cake with Daniel Craig. Oh, that was so good, criminally underrated.

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Speaker 2: Help propel Daniel Craig to you know, his double O

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Speaker 2: seven status, really and then from there he did the

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Speaker 2: Kingsman movies, which brilliant yet brilliant as well, so snappy

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Speaker 2: and slick and innovative, visually so interesting. He did Kick

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Speaker 2: Ass with Aaron Taylor Johnson, which was very fun, It's

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Speaker 2: very good, a very fun film, and did X Men

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Speaker 2: First Class, which some people would say is one of

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Speaker 2: the best X Men movies. And so now he's turned

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Speaker 2: his attention back to, you know, the espionage genre. But

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Speaker 2: what I would say off the top is whatever you've

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Speaker 2: seen about this movie listeners, if you've watched the trailer

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Speaker 2: and you think, okay, this is going to be Henry Cavill,

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Speaker 2: who looks like a James Bond, he's made for it.

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Speaker 2: Ivean Fleming basically ripped him from the pages of the

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Speaker 2: book and put him into real life. And so if

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Speaker 2: you're thinking you're going to see Henry Cavell as a

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Speaker 2: super spy, not really, that's kind of not really what

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Speaker 2: this movie is about. Certainly the first ten minutes that's

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Speaker 2: what it's about. You see Henry Cavell a classic kind

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Speaker 2: of cold open from a Bond movie where the super

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Speaker 2: spy has to complete this dangerous mission before the credits

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Speaker 2: roll at the start of the film, right, and it's

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Speaker 2: this sprawling action sequence in the Greek Islands, and in

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Speaker 2: classic Matthew Vaughan's style, you know, it's so over the top.

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Speaker 2: He's a more is more kind of director, and so

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Speaker 2: you know that's the case. When you see do Aleipa,

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Speaker 2: the pop princess, she's sort of sitting astride a dirt bike,

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Speaker 2: holding a machine gun and just firing a ridiculous number

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Speaker 2: of bullets at Henry Cavell in a cocktail dress.

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Speaker 1: It's excessive.

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Speaker 2: And then Henry cavill is jumping a minimoke across buildings

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Speaker 2: down to the harbor to try and capture do a Lipa.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot going on there, but quickly you

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Speaker 2: realize and I'll be watching a lot of people watch

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Speaker 2: it and go, do you know what? This is so

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Speaker 2: over the top, like maybe even two over the top

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Speaker 2: like it is it is really too much shockers. And

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Speaker 2: also Henry Cavill has a flat top, one of the

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Speaker 2: most egregious flattops since Ivan Drago in rocky form. So

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Speaker 2: and you'll be watching it, this can't be legit. Surely,

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Speaker 2: surely someone's taken you know, sort of taken a piss here.

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Speaker 2: But then you realize that actually there's more going on here,

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Speaker 2: and there's maybe without getting too many spoilers away, there's

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Speaker 2: maybe some connection between Henry Cavill's character and this sort

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Speaker 2: of really down to earth spy fiction author played by

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Speaker 2: Bryce Dallas Howard, who writes these best selling spy books

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Speaker 2: that maybe are eerily similar to real life. And so

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Speaker 2: there's some sort of connection there between the two, and

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Speaker 2: you know, maybe what she's writing down on the page

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Speaker 2: is maybe sort of coming to life almost, if you

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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. It's one of those kind of

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Speaker 2: and what happens is because her books are so close

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Speaker 2: to this kind of real life spy organization, this spy

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Speaker 2: organization is like, hang on a minute, maybe she has

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Speaker 2: some information that we need and so they put a

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Speaker 2: hit out on Bryce Dallas, and the only person standing

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Speaker 2: in the way who can savor is a real life

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Speaker 2: spy played by the great Sam Rothwell. God, and so

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Speaker 2: you have this kind of cool juxtaposition between Henry Cavill's

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Speaker 2: ideal spy and then Sam Rockwell, who is just the

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Speaker 2: master of being cool. He's just effortlessly cool. We'll also

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Speaker 2: kind of seeming a bit sort of disheveled, and you know,

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Speaker 2: he gets the absolute but Jesus beaten out of him

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Speaker 2: at various points in this film, and he's so cool

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Speaker 2: while doing it. And so you've got So You've got.

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Speaker 2: That's basically the premise of the film, and it sort

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Speaker 2: of unfolds from there across a variety of different locations.

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Speaker 2: And Bryce Dallas Howard is great as this author who

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Speaker 2: is embroiled in this dangerous situation. Sam Rockwell is amazing

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Speaker 2: as always, Brian Krantzt and plays these mastermind and Katherine

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Speaker 2: O'Hara from.

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Speaker 1: Shit's Creek is in it as well. You've got a

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Speaker 1: really really good cass Samuel Jackson. Samuel Jackson is in

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Speaker 1: it too.

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Speaker 2: Some favorites from previous Matthew Vaughn movies, and of course,

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Speaker 2: but the real star is Matthew Vaughan's direction. Like you've

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Speaker 2: got these action sequences that are very different from any

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Speaker 2: other you'll see on the big screen, really cool use

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Speaker 2: of music. There's a there's this insane train fighting sequence

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Speaker 2: where the action cuts between Sam Rockwell doing a fight

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Speaker 2: has done so cleverly. There is this sort of smoke

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Speaker 2: grenade fight scene that turns into a dance routine. And

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Speaker 2: there's an even an ice skating action sequence you have

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Speaker 2: to sort of see to believe, which involved a cameraman

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Speaker 2: skating backwards at full speed while filming you know, the

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Speaker 2: the ice skating action. So technically really quite brilliant. Twelve

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Speaker 2: or Dean would yeah, yeah, but which one the film is?

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Speaker 2: The film is so meta that I think some people

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Speaker 2: might struggle to go along with it. Like, if you're

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Speaker 2: not a Matthew Vaughan fan, I think you'd come along

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Speaker 2: to this film and you'd be like, what is actually

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Speaker 2: going on with these plot twists with this kind of

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Speaker 2: meta element to it. And so if you're looking for

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Speaker 2: a traditional spy comedy or a spy thriller. This is

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Speaker 2: not the movie for you. You'll find this a real struggle.

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Speaker 2: But if you're a Matthew Vaughn fan, of which met

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Speaker 2: people are, it's so much fun.

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Speaker 3: You can tell he worked with Guy Ritchie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah produced Matthew Vorn produced Lot Stocks or Snatch,

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Speaker 2: a very very similar kind of aesthetic, except Matthew Vaughn

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Speaker 2: always kind of skews more towards the fun element. Guy

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Speaker 2: Richie kind of you gets maybe a bit more edge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you leap the act or does she have

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Speaker 1: to act?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: The fun fact about this film, right, So we saw

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Speaker 2: her in the Barbie movie, but this film was shot first,

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Speaker 2: so technically is do a Liepa's first cinema performance. And

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Speaker 2: she's great. She's also she's really good. Sam Rocall is amazing.

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Speaker 2: It written in his contract. I'm sure that he has

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Speaker 2: to have a dance sequence in every film that he does. Man,

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Speaker 2: that guy's got some moves, and he does. He does

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Speaker 2: in this as well. He's if you like, if you're

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Speaker 2: a Sam Rockwell fan, like this is. This is one

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Speaker 2: of my favorite performances of his for a while. The film,

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Speaker 2: if I'm being honest, probably a bit too long. Like

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Speaker 2: I think Matthew Vaughan is, like he loves these action secrets.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what twice wrap it up.

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Speaker 2: Probably could have edited a couple of them out, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it can probably could be twenty five minutes shorter

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Speaker 2: and it would be a better film. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's tough when you're more as more kind.

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Speaker 1: Of director, and sometimes I feel like they're just showing

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I question, as I said, I question, like how

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Speaker 2: how audiences will be able to switch their perspective going

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Speaker 2: in thinking it's a Henry Cavill film and then realize

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Speaker 2: it after ten minutes it's not at all. But I

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Speaker 2: think if you if you take that all into account

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Speaker 2: when you go and see it, this is a very

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Speaker 2: fun movie and it's definitely worth seeing.

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Speaker 1: So after all of that, it sounds like it works well.

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Speaker 1: I think it does.

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Speaker 3: How many Sam Rockwell is a big, dirty hunk. Are

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Speaker 3: you giving it?

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Speaker 1: I'll give it three and a half alright, alright, thanks Ben,