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you and I both saw a movie called Death
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of a unicorn we both saw it last night I
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saw two movies back toback this was uh
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this was one of them Allan tell us the
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story of death of a unicorn the basic
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Strokes yeah so my screening was at
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10:15 I didn't get out until after 1:00
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oh my God so uh Unicorn death of unicorn
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is the story of Elliott and Ridley uh
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kittner played by Paul Rudd and Jenna
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Ortega uh Paul has to uh mother died
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Paul has to take his daughter to a work
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Retreat where he potentially is gonna
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make a lot of money uh but and he's the
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lawyer of the The Man In Charge um along
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the way they hit a unicorn probably The
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Last Unicorn and um and uh the before it
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dies Jenna grabs the horn the the the
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horn and uh it's a connection but then
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Paul red kills it they throw the the
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body into the car they go to their
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meeting uh at that meeting they run into
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Odell Shephard and Belinda Leopold
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played by Richard E Grant will polter
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and tia Leone uh they uh Leopold is
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dying of cancer uh he's hoping to find
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one last final cure uh because he likes
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uh Paul Rudd and Jenner GA he's going to
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put them in the will um but Shenanigans
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begin happening and lo and behold that
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dead unicorn in the trunk uh may not
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actually be dead and uh there may be
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more to it that may not be The Last
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Unicorn uh and um and maybe unicorns are
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not as cute and cuddly as we thought
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they were well it's all based on a
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there's a a Jenna Ortega's character um
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she she uh her mother introduced her to
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this uh tapestry the Unicorn tapestry
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which tells a folk tale of a unicorn a
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acquired and and taken away from its
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family and then the basically family of
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unicorns comes to attack and murder
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everybody and the tapestry basically
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predicts the events of the movie this is
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comedy that is neither horrific only in
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its like scares the CG unicorns oh my
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God are bad they're just playing bad the
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physics they do not look real um the
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concept is kind of interesting that the
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the unicorn horn which you can grind up
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it can be has healing abilities it cures
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uh Ridley that's Jenna's character it
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cures her acne Paul Rudd um he had used
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to have allergies he doesn't he used to
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glasses his his eyes adjust so you know
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getting in proximity with unicorn blood
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or um ground up horn has healing
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powers so it's becomes valuable and the
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family this Rich family sees an
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opportunity to capitalize on unicorn
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horn right but then it becomes a sort of
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horror film where one by one they're
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killed off it's just you know what it is
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the tone of this movie did not work it
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was they it was like I and I like horror
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comedy but you need to serve both
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Masters the horror was not aspect was
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not great because it was
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unrealistic very fake looking it was
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kind of dumb at times and like the fact
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that like the characters in the movie
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didn't take the event seriously it was
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kind of goofy reactions so would get
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gored by a horn and then it would
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there'd be like a laugh line it's not it
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was the tone of this film is the thing
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that made it not work thankfully the
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movie is 90 minutes but um my God I
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really it's directed by Alex
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sharfman so uh he did blow the man down
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Resurrection a movie called
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Lyle the heart machine and other movies
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that are familiar to me um but it was
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really the thing that killed this for me
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was the tone it was it couldn't do
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horror well it did not do comedy well
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and even Paul Rudd was so annoying he
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was like goofy Paul Rudd and uh Jenna
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Ortega who I normally like was just
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annoying at times she plays the
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Trope it's such a boring old Trope she's
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trying to warn them and they don't
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listen to her cuz she's the young girl
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M how many times have we seen that we
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already know what's going to happen
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Allan what did you think yeah uh
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everything you said uh I think the the
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peel of this movie is the gore uh it is
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pretty the the way the uh the way people
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die is pretty horrific
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um yeah I I just the story the story
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itself you know she's Jenna Orga is a
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girl boss and by that what I mean is she
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has no character Arc well she's final
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girl in a horror movie It's the final
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girl right but yeah but the thing is
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she's the same at the beginning of the
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movie uh she's as she is at the end of
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the movie the difference is she loves
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her father at the end of the movie and
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not at the beginning of the movie um you
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know it's it's it it's just one of these
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movies just just feels like a narrative
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just one piece of narrative with no real
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character arcs yes they're evil the bad
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people die the people good people live
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um you know but there's no you know you
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just can't connect with these characters
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yeah uh you you want to have a weakness
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you know maybe Paul Rudd is the more
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sympathetic because he's trying to make
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life better for his daughter uh but the
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daughter hates him and it resolves at
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the end thanks to killer unicorns uh but
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that to me that's just so weak and the
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story is just they do this then they do
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that then they do this then they do that
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then they yeah it's just one action
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after another and you're right the
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character Arc for Ridley um Jen Ortega
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is not very good even will polter who I
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normally really like was terrible in the
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movie oh I actually liked him in this
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movie well he was taking like ground
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unicorn horn and you know sniffing it up
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his nose Like Cocaine it was it was
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becomes addicted to it it's it's it's
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just dumb in not in not good ways mean I
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I say it's a pass it's maybe a four or
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five out of 10 for me like a four I
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would say but really just pass on this
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not worth it um clever title clever
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interested so but wow did it like just
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really not fulfill my expectations yeah
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um what are your final thoughts yeah uh
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Tia Leone still still pretty hot yeah
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tone was was she's the one highlight but
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um yeah it's it's more gory than one
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would expect so there you go
