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uh cleaner Stars Daisy Ridley who also
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produced through her production company
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this is her second film through her
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production company he is literally a
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cleaner who cleans windows on the
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outside of
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buildings it's a very dangerous job
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and uh she she is late for work her life
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is in chaos she wakes up late and shows
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up late and she is she needs to clean a
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very specific glass window where a bird
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has smashed into the glass leaving a a
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mess and she has to go outside and clean
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the windows very dangerous job I'm sure
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it pays well uh Daisy Ridley's character
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has an autistic brother she's very
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protective of her brother who she brings
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to work with her and Joey the name of
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her character is Joey
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lock sort of sets her brother aside to
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go out outside this building to do this
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very dangerous job fly Owen plays a
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character that is going to take
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over the the building or a floor of the
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building where a group of elitists are
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all gathered for a big meeting to Pat
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themselves on the back about how great
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they are and how amazing they are and
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whatnot the environment let let's be
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clear yeah yeah to the environment and
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he shows up with a group of terrorists
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this is kind of kind of they're basing
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this terrorist group on the the kind of
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environmentalist environmentalists in
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England who who do those annoying you
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know splashing paint on
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instead of holding artwork for hostage
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they hold people for hostage yeah
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they're holding people for hostage here
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and it's up to Joey lock played by Daisy
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Ridley to foil these these terrorists
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now um a quick I I feel like we should
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just spoil this whole
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movie because it's so dumb it's di hard
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on the outside of a building it is
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ridiculous she Joey's presented as this
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kind of f up right late to work can't do
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anything right autistic brother brings
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to work she's incompetent but she's
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former Army or special whatever it is
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she was in the Army and so she has a
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certain set of
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skills this is so dumb it is and by the
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way every male character here is shamed
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into being an all misogynist they're all
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misogynist everyone there's like simple
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exchange one of the guys who's taken
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hostage um he's in the elevator he looks
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over at a cleaning woman who's pregnant
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H and he makes like a GH you're pregnant
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GH annoying like every single man has a
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moment where they act like a sexist pig
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every single one except for the brother
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let's just say except for the except for
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the autistic brother and it's so over
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the top
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predictable dumb this is the dumbest
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movie of
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2025 that she this is like a script that
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was written at the height of me too it's
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girl Boss the movie starring Daisy
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Ridley who I can I think we've all
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determined and we'll discuss later she's
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not a movie star she is had she's
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currently experiencing the same career
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Post Star Wars that Mark Hamill did in
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the 70s and 80s which is nothing a
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series of forgettable movies including
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this one it's and look I actually like
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Daisy Ridley as an actress she should
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not be making this kind of
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movie she has I really feel like she's
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Daisy Ridley in everything now I was and
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also by the way uh quick spoiler clyve
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Owen is in one scene in the movie yeah
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they Shan Bean him they Shan Bean clyve
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Owen he's prominent in the trailer he's
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on the poster and he is just gone what
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murdered he's murdered in the first
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murdered by a new heavy who's completely
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forgettable everything about this this
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the script seems like it was written by
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AI it's laughable this I was first of
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all I was laughing out loud during the
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whole film at how dumb and over the top
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it's freaking di hard with Daisy ridle
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and she's
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a I I I was like how much every I'm
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watching it every time they be every
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line is so stupid I was dying watching
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Allan you know what I think of this yeah
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it's it's worst of 2025 so far what did
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you think yeah no I agree I I mean we we
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joke about her being on the outside
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she's she's on the outside of the
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building for over half the movie yes
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she's and um look when I grew when I was
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growing up in the 80s and 90s uh it was
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Schwarz neger
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Stallone uh now it's Daisy Ridley I mean
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that's that's how far uh action films
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have come to where you know you you you
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watch movies you see people who could
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posibly do the things that they they do
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on screen you know yeah Stallone could
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do that sure you know Schwarzenegger
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could do that yeah um but now we have
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Daisy Ridley and uh the these are the
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new action heroes uh and uh I will say
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this more plausible than Sabra from uh
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from Captain America right right um the
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other thing is uh the autistic brother
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is this is this now a
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Trope uh you know is is autism now the
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the the new character in action films uh
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well it's never a female it was it was
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in in Alien ramulus had it right this is
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now a thing the autistic brother and the
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caring sister this is and its heart you
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know what this is It's The Madam web of
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Daisy Ridley movies that's what this is
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it's freaking Madam Webb levels of
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laughable it's so ridiculous from her as
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an action star to like the believability
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of that is stupid her her like just the
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the plot with the bad guys right um and
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they kind of force all the elitists to
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record a message yeah you know publicly
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to shame them it's so stupid to the like
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police chief who's a woman like no I
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trust her like all the women are saintly
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and good and every man is a pig every
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man is they stly good and they know
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exactly what's going on and uh yeah all
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the women they're like they know what's
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going on like um at first the police
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chief they're all telling the police
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chief we can't trust how do we know
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she's not one of the terrorists it's
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like I have a you know like the the
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police uh female police chief has got a
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feeling about this this woman Joey it's
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it's Madam web levels a bad girl bossy
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it's so cringe every part of it it's
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completely predictable because we know
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um we know when you're doing a movie
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that's like this what what is supposed
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to happen right this is supposed to
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happen right and it's uh just cringe
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inducing yeah let me go back to the
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autistic brother yeah because there's no
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romance in this in this movie none at
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all but plot-wise the autistic brother
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would have taken the place of the hero's
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girlfriend
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right it's the the the autistic brother
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is sympathetic we care for him he's
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treated badly and he knows how to hack
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computers yes exactly it's so cliche
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yeah well no it's not cliche because
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this is the beginning of now the
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autistic sidekick uh we are now going to
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start seeing in our action movies the
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autistic sidekick right right who
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basically can do everything on a you
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know can hack any system in the world on
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a computer um
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and and again because there's no romance
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uh this is how we built sympathy for for
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another character uh and uh there is one
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good thing about this movie uh one thing
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I did enjoy about this movie and it was
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just how brutal the killer was the uh
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the main bad guy I mean he doesn't care
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and loves killing people in uh and just
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just uh you know just for the sake of it
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just to do it just because it it FS his
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his uh his blood lust and I like that
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that was just you know no one no one was
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safe in this movie from from this
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villain um but uh you know you got to
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endure a whole lot and you have a hero
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that just you know again uh girl boss is
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the right term because you watch it and
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look you could call you could call us
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misogynist whatever but the reality is
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is our brain tells us that um a person
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of daisley Ridley's character stature
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and
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couldn't do these things um could do it
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to a degree I mean I assume because they
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they look um she's a kid in the
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beginning of the movie she is she runs
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away from home in the next movie She's
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ex ex Army and there's nothing in
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between and so all her skills are
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basically told us because she's ex Army
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uh and so we just have to now accept the
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things that this character can do when
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we need a little bit more of that we
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need we need something along the way
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that says she could plausibly have the
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these skills and this movie does nothing
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to do
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that M I give it a two out of 10 it's
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worst film I've seen this year and it's
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been a bad year so far okay and the only
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way I hate to say that I actually
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enjoyed because I was laughing at the
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movie how bad and unbelievable it was
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Allen your verdict and we'll go to
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comment yeah I'll give it a three just
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cuz I like the villain I like the
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villain's actions let's let's put it
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that way yeah um and then look there's a
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daisy release seems to be on a trend
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because her last movie the young woman
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in the C uh was about misogyny as well
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this is just loaded with misogyny uh
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there there's a theme now there's a
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pattern that is starting to uh to
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develop and so I'm pretty sure uh the Ry
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movie will be all about misogyny
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