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yeah let's talk about this betterman is
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still in theaters but probably not for
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long yeah it is it is the Robbie
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biopic which they chose the
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weirdest I you know way to tell the
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story which was he is portrayed as a
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monkey but deep down there not only and
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and everything I'm going to say is going
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to make you not want to see it okay the
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trailer which is terrible the fact that
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he's betrayed as a monkey which is
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confusing the um it is a biopic and you
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do get to see some of the real Robbie
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Williams at the end well let's let's
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it's a bopic about a person most of us
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have never heard of who starred in a
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band that no one has ever heard of so he
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he was in a boy band called take that
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then and he he became famous at 15 then
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went on to have a successful solo career
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had his ups and downs with women and
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drugs and battled internal demons and
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it's a Redemption story it's a healing
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Story and there's there's so many layers
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to it I it's one of my favorites of last
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year so and I know it's on your top list
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for next last year yeah so uh will in
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terms of awards it's the only shot this
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movie has is Awards but everyone I talk
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to who's seen it once they see it they
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love it Allan you you wanted to uh have
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some commentary on this and so I I I I I
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really want to hear what you have to say
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so give it I don't say this often I
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don't say it this off but give it to me
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yeah I mean you know I mentioned uh
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several weeks ago that I really haven't
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had a film that I I wanted to advocate
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for and I find myself uh advocating uh
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for a better man uh and I think a lot of
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it had to do with the fact that here
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I'll bring I'll bring this up um the
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fact that uh it's a it's failing at the
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box office uh you know here's here's the
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numbers uh 1.3 million
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uh domestic uh it has shot up
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internationally I think it was at 3
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million on Sunday and it's now at to 10
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internationally um but uh it shocked me
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because this is such a good movie and I
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didn't expect it I I maybe at least
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thought it was going to make 25 million
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and uh because it's it's doing so badly
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you know I feel like I just need to talk
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about it because uh you need to see it
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before it it leaves theaters um and I
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this is one of those movies where you
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know it's like I think what my daughter
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needs to see this movie and uh I kind of
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you know she was like she saw the
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trailer she saw she saw that actually
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the rock DJ video wasn't impressed and
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it just came to the point where I said
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look we we're gonna go see this movie
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you know there there have been few
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movies where I just told her you need to
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trust me uh and that you're going to
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like this movie uh last year it was the
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holdovers and um and and uh American
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fiction and and ironclaw for that matter
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uh and this one was like you you need to
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see this movie so I took her to see it
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late night last night and um yeah she
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liked it she liked it a lot and uh look
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you can I I scoured the internet over
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the weekend I could not find a bad
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review on this one all the there are
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they yeah the the all the reviews were I
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expected to not like this movie and
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wound up loving this movie um then I I
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throw it out on X and uh you know it's
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the typical well this monkey thing is
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weird I don't care about Robbie Williams
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that's fine that's fair but at the same
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time you know see the movie and then
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decide whether you like it or not uh but
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then then slowly but surely people came
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out of the woodwork saying you know I
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took your advice I saw the movie and I
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really loved it um you know so yeah I
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find myself really wanting to advocate
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for this movie because I think it needs
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to do better than1 and a half million
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dollar and so uh look this is one of
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those just trust us go out see this
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movie before before it leaves theaters
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because I don't think TV is gonna do it
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justice no no and I've seen it on the
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big screen three times now yeah and it
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gets very emotional especially at the
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end there are threads that are set up in
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very clever subtle ways and um it's one
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of the best films of last year so um I
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just hope you'll trust us and go see
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this movie and it's all things if you
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heard a list of what's in this movie you
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probably go why would I want to for some
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works yeah I mean I'll liken it to
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Rocket Man I mean because we've seen the
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story before the the uh the naive rock
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star or pop star who gets you know who
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gets thrust into celebrity too soon in
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life and then goes down the path of
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drugs alcohol and women um and I think
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the monkey thing just sets it apart from
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every everything else and and because
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they don't address the monkey thing
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except for the beginning opener um you
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just begin to accept it and that you
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feel sympathy and and credit to weda who
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did the effects the the digital effects
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um you just forget that he's a monkey at
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some point and you get the emotion you
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see the motion his eyes his body posture
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in the facial expressions and um you
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know it it just works and it has and it
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has a point at the end that's uh that
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Catches Up On You by surprise and I will
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say if you're a member of the channel
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there is an interview with the director
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which was done by uh GMO deloro at the
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DGA I was there and and uh he goes into
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the design of the monkey it was sort of
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a human monkey hybrid they're really
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specific about what would make it work
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that sequence that music video about a
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third third of the way into the film is
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like it's I've never seen anything like
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it I mean that and you see the video we
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can't show it because of the music but
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um there's a video online you can find
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of the rehearsal of that scene that is
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shocking that they pulled that off it is
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one of the that sequence is incredible
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so yeah I also posted a video of the
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director from Palm Springs film festival
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and he goes into detail about not only
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how they did that scene but how it
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almost didn't happen right how the
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Queen's death almost ruined that and
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almost prevented that scene from being
