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bird eater bird eater yes uh so bird
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eater is Australian film that is
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currently playing at the Alamo Draft
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houses Across the Nation and it's on VOD
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um I would liken bird eater to let's say
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uh if uh if The Big Chill was a cabin in
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the woods Thriller that's what bird
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eater is uh the story surrounds these
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two characters Lou and Irene uh they are
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getting married uh they're planning the
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uh the wedding and uh you know there's
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just something a little bit odd about
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their relationship uh each night when
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Louie wants to go out and hang out with
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his buddies um Irene suffers from a
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severe uh social anxiety or no U
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separation disorder that's it separation
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anxiety and so when he leaves she takes
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a pill to knock her out uh and then when
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she wakes up you know Louis back back
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home and she feels great uh which is
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kind of odd but uh there you go um so
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they're about to get married and uh
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Louie decides that or Louis's friends
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decide that it's time for a bucks party
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do you know what a bucks party is I
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don't know what a buck party is yeah so
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a buck is basically a stag so it's a
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stag party it's it's the bachelor party
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um and so they're going to go off into
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the cabinet of the woods to have this
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bucks party and because of uh Irene's
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situation her separation anxiety because
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he's been gone for a couple days Louie
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decides let's bring we'll bring Irene
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along to the bachelor party another guy
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fiance and uh so they can they can be
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together and uh what what happens that
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so he's out with his best mates from
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from high school and uh not much has
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changed in terms of their maturity and
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so this be just comes this becomes a
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wild frat boy type weekend uh topped off
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by some top quality ketamine and um so
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as this party goes on and as uh as the
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craziness goes on as a drugs start
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taking in uh the truth starts uh starts
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coming out uh not only about uh Louie
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but about the other guys and this truth
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just begins to uh you know kind of
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infect the way uh they view each other
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and and uh I should just stop it there
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because it just gets crazy at the end
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first half of the movie is just this set
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up this tension they played this
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interesting game called paranoia I don't
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know if you're familiar with it uh but
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uh you know it's a party game where you
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whisper uh you you ask yourself a
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horrible question about someone in the
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room and what you do is uh after you ask
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the question you reveal the answer who
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is that person person and then you flip
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a coin heads you have to reveal what the
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question was tail um tails you don't and
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Louie seems to be get getting called out
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in these questions and he keeps flipping
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Tails so he doesn't know what what
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everyone's saying about him that's kind
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of the first half the second half just
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becomes this drug fuel uh Nightmare and
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uh I I actually like this movie it's
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just interesting um and I interviewed
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the directors actually on our interviews
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Channel and while I didn't see the film
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I did watch the trailer it looks really
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good and it's it's another Duo it's a
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directing Duo from Australia kind of
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guys yeah and you know because it's
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Australian there there are two things
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and I mentioned this at the Palm Springs
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International Film Festival but you know
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it's not hung up on American cultural uh
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political correctness um so it goes in
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certain areas uh you know it is a stag
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party so there are strip there there's a
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stripper um and then also it's
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unburdened by celebrities I don't know I
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have no clue who any of these actors are
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and so you're watching a story that just
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plays out uh you have character
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development because you need to
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understand who they are character
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development is amazing in this movie um
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and because there's no no one you know
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you know it's not like oh well uh you
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know George Clooney is about to uh to
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take ketamine what how's that going to
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work out no it's just uh you know you
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just get to enjoy a film for the for
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story sake and that's what that's what I
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like about Indies 2 is unknown actors
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there's no preconceived notion about who
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they are if it's Brad Pit or whatever
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you know or certain actors you go well
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they're not gonna this actor is not
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gonna do that Nicole Kidman's Not Gonna
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Get Naked although you know
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um in herent movie baby girl she does
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not bad but um no well that's good so
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you recommend bird eater I do I mean it
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has its flaws it's not the the most
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perfect movie but it does remind me of
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like the um you know the 80 sex comedies
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where where just it's locker room talk a
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lot of it and uh you know I kind of wish
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we go back in that direction all right
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you convinced me I I definitely am gonna
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see it and it is out in theaters in
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limited release yes it's at the Alamo
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Draft houses yeah and it's also and VOD
