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let's talk about it here the best of
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2024 and these are are this is our P
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probably our I should little cave on
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personal
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taste right I like things maybe that
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types of movies that Allen does not like
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yeah especially especially one through
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eight it's it's just okay I kind of like
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that one I kind numbered them yet how
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are we we didn't even talk about how we
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were going to do this but I see that
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Allan already has I have a PowerPoint a
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PowerPoint I just made a Google doc and
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I didn't even number them so I'm gonna
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be doing my homework at the last minute
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it reminds me of a high school in
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college when I would get up at 5:00 am
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to write an essay for school but Allan
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tell me about your best of
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2024 look at this look at that how
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professional okay let let's just say for
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2024 uh the last two years uh I have had
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films that I became an advocate for
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where I said you need to see this film
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this film to me is the best movie of the
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year last year was American fiction uh
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the year before it was everything
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everywhere all at once this year is the
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first year where it's I I just I don't
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care about any of these films I you know
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I have my favorites but it's not
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something I would go out of my way and
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say you need to see this movie movie
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right so this is this is the the
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preamble to my list uh so things I this
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list will probably change next week or
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the week after but let's let's can I
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just say up front that you are totally
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this you're you're leaning into your
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Asian is yes you want to get an
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A++ as far as I can I just tell you
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right now you already won you beat me I
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I concede I concede I know it's like oh
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I can do a Google duck how
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I did this in 10 minutes I don't know
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how you clearly I'm using a uh a a
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template that doesn't matter you already
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beat me you already beat me but let's
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see I'm curious okay here we go number
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10 music by John Williams documentary on
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Disney plus uh yeah I mean this is uh my
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second favorite documentary of the year
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it's just full of member berries uh you
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know and and you just you know the John
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Willams the man is is amaz look when he
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first worked with Stephen Spielberg on a
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movie that no one remembers and no one
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knows uh he was 45 and that was the
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early
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70s uh this is 45 that's when you're
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that's when his career took off uh when
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he transitioned from doing television uh
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as Johnny Williams to doing films now as
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John Williams uh this is a great M uh
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great
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documentary it's going to hit in all the
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fields uh Disney plus the only reason to
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subscribe to it here we go uh number
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nine is unsung hero this is the
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faith-based movie based on the uh oh I
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forget the name of the family but uh if
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you're familiar with Rebecca St James um
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this is this is my favorite faith-based
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film in a long time I cried at the end
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of it uh very touching and its message
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in terms of God's uh Providence in your
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life uh the way he uh he makes miracles
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happen in your life uh that's unsung
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here I'll go and see it and I believe
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it's Lion's gate who actually put this
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out um number eight is mild
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ass uh this one just kind of snuck up on
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me uh the first half of this movie was
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uh a gen Z girl droning on and on and
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then when she takes uh takes pills take
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some uh psychedelics oh yeah she takes
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mushrooms and meets her future self this
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movie just really takes off and has
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again has a very touching ending number
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seven is better man um just came out
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weekends yeah I look this one I will
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watch over and over again uh it's a
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musical from the director of the
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greatest showman uh we talked about this
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one it's a very typical story about a uh
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a talented singer rock star who gets
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thrust into celebrity way too early in
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life uh gets into drug sex uh everything
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and uh it but at the same time it's very
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self-aware uh and uh you know the Robbie
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Williams you know he's had to come to
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grips with the person he was compared to
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the person he is today and it just plays
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out in this movie the music is great
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there's a uh there's a music video uh of
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the song DJ rock that is amazing in
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terms of crafting a music video uh I
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love everything about this movie uh I've
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seen it three times already uh maybe
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I'll yeah okay number six a complete
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unknown uh wasn't planning on liking
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this movie Timothy shalamay does an
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amazing job portraying Bob Dylan uh it's
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got Dylan music all throughout look
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we've gotten the comments not everyone's
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into Dylan but this is a good one uh and
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a great story uh to go along with it
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number five Amir racist wow yeah wow
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shocking maybe this is the movie I
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advocate for
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yeah yeah uh but we talked about this Ed
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nauseum this is a great movie it just
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like I said my the reason I have never
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been a liberal is because I've I'm far
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too well uh I I understand far too well
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the hypocrisy of liberalism and what it
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can become and we've seen that happen
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over the last few decades uh and this
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just calls it out in a humorous and
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funny way well I like liberally putting
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like uh gravy on my mashed potatoes like
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to liberally cover it and the turkey
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Thanksgiving so yeah exactly um and
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there's look there's hpoc on both sides
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but it's more funny when it's done to
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the
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left number four the substance wow I'm
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shocked that's on your list a horror
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yeah I mean horror movie
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boobs everything uh look this is a
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grotesque movie it's a body horror movie
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uh but there's a message behind it and I
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think that's what really put it over the
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top uh so for me you know look if you're
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G to do this stuff what happened okay uh
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if you're gonna do this kind of movie uh
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you know if if you don't have something
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to say I'm I'm gonna tune out uh but
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this movie has something to say and and
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I stuck with it throughout I mean it
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gets really gross at the end it gets
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really disgusting at the end but again
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there's a message behind it there's the
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filmmaker has something to say
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number three Anora wow yeah I yeah again
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this is another one that I didn't expect
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to like uh and I
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think you know again a lot of these
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movies that I like it's all about the
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ending and for me this the the ending
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just kind of nails it in terms of to
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write a great ending uh Anora has it uh
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the the events leading up to this ending
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is uh wacky crazy out of control uh
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Mikey Madison here uh a very interesting
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character to create and again um that
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ending okay number two here we go number
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two
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Wicked all right sorry I love
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musicals uh to have done not only to
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have done the musical right at least the
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first half uh but to add to it and to
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make it more interesting to make me to
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make me appreciate the musical more uh
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and the fact that um
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it's weird but I like alphabet in this
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and I don't know who the person is that
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is doing the Press tour they've they
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seem like two completely different
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people and I've been able to divorce
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myself of that um look uh I wouldn't say
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it's the perfect movie but in terms of a
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musical adaptation it's one of the
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better ones it's probably in my top five
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of musical
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adaptations and uh like I said I can't
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as much as my wife wants to go to the
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singal along I can't wait to go to sing
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along oh my God okay wait wait wait
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number one number one let's hear it
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let's hear it all right here we go I
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don't know what's going on with X right
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now but uh here we go number one
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Deadpool and
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Wolverine wow I would not have expected
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that I mean it's very main it's
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mainstream but I saw that movie four
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times and had a great time every time
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yeah I mean that's that's just it it's
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look I mean ultimately when it comes
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down to it it the your favorite movies
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are the ones you see over and over and
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over again right and to me it's Deadpool
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and Wolverine well I think it's also
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like because you and I do get to see we
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should say we get screeners we get to
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see movies for free so it says something
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when you know you and I will pay to see
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a movie again or even multiple times
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yeah so yeah let's see I we saw I saw it
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as a screener uh then we saw it again at
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San Diego Comic-Con because that was the
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Channel yeah uh then I took my daughter
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to see it then took her and her
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boyfriend to see it and then we went to
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see it in
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4dx WoW we've seen this I think for my
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daughter and I the the record is still
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Marvel's of sorry the the first Avengers
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the the first Avengers movie we saw that
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seven times in the theater wow this one
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this one I'd seen five so there you go
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wow and then we could do honorable
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mentions uh let's see you oh you already
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have it prepared yes I do gosh okay what
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we just go making me look bad all right
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so origin this is technically last year
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but I didn't see origin until January I
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think had this movie come out now I'd
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probably be advocating for this movie uh
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The Apprentice as controversial as it is
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I still liked it uh sing sing the you
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know to see to see uh a a kind of a docu
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drama in a way it's a true story and to
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see how you can rehabilitate prisoners
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uh convicts uh through through drama uh
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to me is you know this is an important
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movie to watch uh strange darling just
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the just the inventiveness of the it
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storytelling and then the storytelling
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itself uh you know I wish I could have
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put this on my top 10 and then finally
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The Beach Boys documentary been a big
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Beach Boys fan from from my very start
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in life and uh this is the definitive
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Beach Boys movie
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and let's be clear I've mentioned two
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films music by John Williams and the
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Beach Boys uh directed by uh the husband
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of Kathleen
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Kennedy so there you
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go of course well yeah you got uh you
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get an A++ and I look I can debate you
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and we have reviewed these films over
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the the past year and I'll say that um
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you know it's our taste is is different
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I have movies on my list that probably
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won't surprise you because you know me
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but yeah I know I can think of two
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movies that I know is on your list have
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not having seen your list that I would
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never put on my list yeah well and vice
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versa vice versa but I think you'll be
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surprised so in fact while you were
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doing that I made changes to my list
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that's what's great about having a
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Google do yeah so um go to your I should
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we I should mention two years ago
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Babylon was in your top 10 list and
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Babylon was on my bottom 10 list well
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maybe your worst of the year yeah worst
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of the year so we will um we will get to
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my list here I'm gonna show you mine
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which um I think next time what I'm
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gonna do is I'm gonna send you my list
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and have you make me a uh I'm gonna have
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you do my homework actually Lori Lori
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offered to do it for us a I should have
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taken her up on it any here's my list
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and you're going to see it all at once
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very anticlimactic but you'll see where
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we intersect okay I got my it's my best
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24 the substance number one Dune part
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two number two three Deadpool and
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Wolverine four nasru five Anora six am I
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racist seven strange darling eight the
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coffee table nine of violent nature and
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at number 10 Wicked I do have some
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honorable mentions by the way what is
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your favorite uh what is your number
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one well I I it's going to be the
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substance is also this is an order I
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this in general order I might move
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things around if I if I had time to do a
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PowerPoint I would have probably made
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some changes but I do see intersecting
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here's my my honorable mentioned chfire
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3 The Apprentice different man things
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sing and touch I don't know if I don't
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think you saw touch it came out early I
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did see touch but I wasn't that touched
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by it it's uh you know what I I like
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romantic films I like romance what can I
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say I'm a romantic so but sing sing I
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don't think you've talked about Sing
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Sing well I saw it late in the year and
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I really loved it it was especially
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knowing the behind the scenes of that
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movie and it's it's it's how art is used
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as therapy in the
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system and how these these inmates
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become actors and writers and how it
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like heals their soul I mean I was
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really taken with it and so many people
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who worked on that movie are former
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inmates and I was confused when I saw it
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I thought is this a documentary but
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Coleman Domingo's in it so yeah Sing
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Sing not on my top 10 but in the
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honorable mentions so um so there you go
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there's my best uh best of 2024
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