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Speaker 1: Bread the flick with Ben O's on ninety six AM.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Band, Good morning guys, Lisa. How excited are

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Speaker 1: you every time you hear that there's a new Marvel

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Speaker 1: movie hitting the cinemas? Just bursting out of my bursting

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Speaker 1: whatever that you burst out Supergirl suit. Yes, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like a superpower. Yeah, well it's I don't blame you.

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Speaker 1: There is a bit of superhero fatigue creeping into the

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Speaker 1: movie industry at the moment. We've seen a couple of

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Speaker 1: high profile flops in recent months, including the Shazam sequel,

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Speaker 1: which was a disaster. Blue Beetle didn't make a lot

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Speaker 1: of money. The Flash didn't make a lot of money. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Blue Beat, she probably didn't even hear about that. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't sound very impressive, Blue. Clearly, we've got enough hero

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Speaker 1: and even and even the Marvel movies, which have usually

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Speaker 1: been so bankable, have been a bit hit or missed lately.

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Speaker 1: In the last couple of years. They had Eternals, which

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Speaker 1: was a commercial flop and the critics hated it, Black Widow,

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Speaker 1: which was a better movie but didn't make enough money,

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Speaker 1: and Shang Chi and the Ten Rings also didn't make

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. The exception was this year's Guardians

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Speaker 1: of the Galaxy Volume three, which made a motza. So

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Speaker 1: it's hit and miss, and there's certainly not what it

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Speaker 1: once was, where you just had to throw an actor

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Speaker 1: and you'd be guaranteed hundreds of millions of dollars. That's

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Speaker 1: not the case anymore. And so along comes The Marvels,

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Speaker 1: which is the thirty third movie in the Marvel Cinematic universe,

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Speaker 1: and it features Brie Larson, Oscar Winner Amazing Actor, reprising

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Speaker 1: the role of Captain Marvel, and so she got her

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Speaker 1: origin story back in twenty nineteen with the movie Captain Marvel,

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Speaker 1: which was sandwiched in between Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame,

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Speaker 1: and both of those movies made over a billion dollars,

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Speaker 1: and Captain Marvel was kind of a teaser for Endgame,

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Speaker 1: and so a lot of people went along to see

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Speaker 1: Captain Marvel. That was the first introduction of the character,

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Speaker 1: and that film I think made one point seven billion

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Speaker 1: Australian dollars at the box office, was the first time

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Speaker 1: a superhero movie with a female lead made more than

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars, so it was a huge success for

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Speaker 1: the studio, so this long awaited sequel has been in

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Speaker 1: development for some time. The interesting thing about it is

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Speaker 1: they tapped Nia DaCosta, who became the youngest female director,

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Speaker 1: the youngest director, the first black woman to direct a

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Speaker 1: Marvel movie, so all of these groundbreaking first as a

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Speaker 1: director in the Marvel universe. And then they gave a

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Speaker 1: more than two hundred million dollars to make the movie,

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Speaker 1: so no pressure, Nia. And what they've done is instead

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Speaker 1: of just having it about Captain Marvel bre Larson's character,

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Speaker 1: they've made it about two other female superhero as well,

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Speaker 1: So this is the first time a Marvel movie has

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Speaker 1: had three female leads. You've got emman Velani, who played

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Speaker 1: young teen girl from Jersey City, Kamala Kahan who kind

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Speaker 1: of inherits superpowers, she is in the film as Miss Marvel.

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Speaker 1: And then you've also got Tyona Paris, who people who

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Speaker 1: watched mad Men might remember her. She played the secretary

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Speaker 1: Dawn Chambers in mad Men a few years ago. She

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Speaker 1: played superheroes women that dealt with men in the advertising

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Speaker 1: industry in the sixties and fifties exactly. Not all superheroes

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Speaker 1: wear capes and pandy hose exactly and deal with a

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Speaker 1: lot of sexual harassment. That was It's different these days.

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Speaker 1: It's all about female empowerment these days, and that's what

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Speaker 1: this movie is about as well, with its three female leads.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of talk before the film came

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Speaker 1: out today that it was going to be this big

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Speaker 1: flop for Disney, that it was going to be terrible,

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Speaker 1: that Disney was kind of stopping people from seeing the

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Speaker 1: film so they could review it before its release. Now

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Speaker 1: that I have seen it, I can say that those

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Speaker 1: fears are mostly completely unfounded. The movie is really good.

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Speaker 1: It takes a different view to the kind of very

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Speaker 1: classic cliche superhero film. It's not they're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: They're supposed to be fun. They're not supposed to be

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Speaker 1: dark and brooding and serious. They take themselves too seriously

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Speaker 1: these days, and this is, you know, I think what

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be a bit of a fun romp,

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Speaker 1: really good message about family and belonging and you know,

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Speaker 1: the things that we do that impact others and maybe unintentionally,

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Speaker 1: and it's also just hilarious. There are some great references

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Speaker 1: in this film. There's one scene which I would love

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Speaker 1: to tell you about, but it just be such a

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Speaker 1: huge spoiler. But let's just say but let's just say

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Speaker 1: that there is a sequence in this movie that uses

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Speaker 1: a song from a famous stage musical and it could

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Speaker 1: be one of the best things I've ever seen in

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Speaker 1: the Marvel cinematic universe. It is hilarious. It's so hilarious.

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Speaker 1: It's not perfect. The ending, you know, probably doesn't really

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Speaker 1: hit with the same impact that a lot of these

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Speaker 1: Marvel movies do. It kind of just goes ends and

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Speaker 1: you go, Okay, that's it. But what you'll really appreciate

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Speaker 1: about this movie, lease, is it's short. It's the shortest

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Speaker 1: movie Marvel has ever made. It's like one hundred minutes

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Speaker 1: or something. Honestly, that is so true. They're getting ridiculously long.

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Speaker 1: Some of these movies are now pushing up towards three

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Speaker 1: hours and may take themselves seriously. Haven't they ever seen

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Speaker 1: Adam West in the original Batman walk up a wall exactly?

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they spend so much money in

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Speaker 1: the car because people are walking out. That doesn't get

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Speaker 1: any more gold than that. It's all to the SAHF,

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Speaker 1: isn't it the superhero fatigue? That's that's what's again. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: So the thing I worry about with this film though,

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Speaker 1: is I think it is a good movie. I think

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Speaker 1: it really has a lot to like. I just question

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Speaker 1: what the market for it is because you know, we

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Speaker 1: saw with The Matilda's they did a great job of

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Speaker 1: bringing young boys and blokes along to watch women's sport.

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Speaker 1: The Marvels is going to have to do the same

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Speaker 1: kind of thing because you know, young boys, you know

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Speaker 1: that maybe you're not going to look at some of

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Speaker 1: these characters and go, okay, well, I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: a figurine of Miss Marvel. I'm going to get an

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Speaker 1: outfit of Monica Rambo in the same way that they

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Speaker 1: do Thaws, Hammer and Ironman's mask and that sort of

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Speaker 1: thing and the incredible hulks green fists. So I think

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Speaker 1: there's some challenges there about how the film is sold

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Speaker 1: to traditional superhero movie audiences, but they really should check

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Speaker 1: it out. I reckon it's worth a look. All right,

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Speaker 1: how many bam palthwas are you giving it? I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give it three and a half. Okay, it sounds

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Speaker 1: are you liked it. I like it. I like that

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Speaker 1: it's not taking itself seriously, and I like it. It's

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Speaker 1: capped it an hour and a half, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: five minutes. Thank you very much, Ben. Next week, thanks mate,