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all right so last night I saw elevation
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there was no pre-screening for this
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movie by the way was not pre-screened
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for critics I went and paid to see
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elevation which is a movie that you
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could compare it to a quiet place in the
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sense that Humanity has been wiped out
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95% of the world's population is wiped
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out as creatures these hulking creatures
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that oddly enough kind of look like the
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CG creatures from a quiet place uh are
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roaming the Earth killing everything
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they are killing humans
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only but they stop there's a barrier
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when they get to 8,000 feet so anything
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below 8,000 feet is prone to being
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murdered everything above 8,000 ft that
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is you are safe so uh populations and
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pockets of humans are living above 8,000
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feet feet have found found a way to
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survive there are all these different
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communities and Anthony Mackey is the
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lead in this he is the father to a young
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son who has a medical issue his prob
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he's he needs medical supplies to
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survive so he must go on a journey below
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8,000 ft to get more medical supplies
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to help save his son so Anthony Mackey I
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don't remember the names of the
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characters so he's the lead character
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Mora bakaran bararan from uh the
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Deadpool movies she plays a scientist
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who lost her entire family she is trying
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to find a way to dispense with these
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creatures uh Maddie Hassen plays another
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young woman who lives in the community
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and they go off with guns to find a
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pathway staying below 8 ,000 F feet for
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as little time as possible so they can
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get the medical supplies they need to
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save Anthony mackie's son in the small
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community there are other communities
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all you know above 8,000 feet they stay
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in touch with flags these flags they
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communicate with each other and
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technology is gone they have to use you
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know they have to use candles and
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they're just it's what they can scavenge
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is all they have so they go on this
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journey trying to stay above thou 8,000
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feet an action sequence where they are
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evading the three the trio is
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evading the creatures where they're on a
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ski lift which was pretty cool um but
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it's a 90 minute very
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predictable uh sci-fi story that is
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influenced by other Sci-Fi movies that I
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thought were better movies like a quiet
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place including the most re recent quiet
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place with Leo nango which I thought was
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very good so um this doesn't reach the
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heights of any of those movies it was
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produced by Anthony Mackey uh and I've
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always liked him as an actor as Falcon
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he's great as cap remains to be seen but
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I like him um I've always liked him in
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the role as Falcon and he's turned up in
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other movies where I really like him he
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does have the charm uh the cast is what
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carries it Anthony Mackey marinaa bar
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beckeran and Maddie Hassen although I'll
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say this the two women Marena and Maddie
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just act like dudes it it I feel like
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the script was written with all all mail
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cast and they changed it there's a scene
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where uh you know Marena gets mad at
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Maddie they punch each other in the face
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I've never seen girls fight like that
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I've seen girls fight in real life I've
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seen Tik Tock videos of women fighting
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you know they they were fighting like
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men it was very strange and then they
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had very human moments where they're
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balling their eyes out um I I feel that
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this is like and and the thing is this
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I'm not going to give away the ending
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but it feels like they're setting this
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up to be a franchise and there is a mid
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there is a mid credit sequence but this
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is derivative of better movies uh I
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thought the story was very weak and I
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the the creatures look CG as you pointed
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out earlier the first CG we saw in a
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movie that was used um to make dinosaurs
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Jurassic Park the best and it's like it
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hasn't gotten better sense that what
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made that so great and now CG and movies
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today is just I feel like the these
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standards that were set it's it's you
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know when you when it's really good and
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this it look look CG it really looks CG
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so um this is a bare recommend for this
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if you're looking I mean the one one
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thing that saved it for me the running
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time because it was 90 minutes it didn't
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overstay its welcome it wasn't boring
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the action sequences were legit you know
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tense but I was never scared because the
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creatures look so CG it's it's like a
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Sci-Fi channel movie with good actors
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with actors I like I I in particular
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Anthony Mackey but so a bare recommend
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probably a five or six out of 10 for me
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theaters oh without without a lot of
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fanfare I haven't I barely seen any ads
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I didn't even see the trailer very much
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but I've seen the trailer I've seen the
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trailer other movies the trailer is as
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advertised but but again being so short
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it doesn't overstay its welcome the
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action sequence including in particular
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there's one in a tunnel and there's one
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on a on a a a ski lift those were those
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are really good but all in all it it's
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um and it does World building to present
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like I I did like that they didn't
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completely explain the creatures there
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were theories but no explanation and
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there was a tease at the end about what
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they might be and that was cool but then
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the movie just ends and kind of sets up
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the sequel so bare recommend and a low
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recommendation but it's it's a good
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distraction 90 minute sci-fi that
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honestly I can't say I didn't have a
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good time did have a good time just you
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know very derivative is probably the
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weakest part let's go to your comments
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here I'm I'm just saying I I think I am
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feeling tired of this genre of film um
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you know I think Arcadian as much as I
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liked Arcadian it it's felt derivative
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of a quiet place which I assume would
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you could claim that it's a derivative
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of alien if we go all the way back um
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I'm getting tired of it and and that's
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kind of how I felt about watching the
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trailer for this one I've seen this
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before and we're not doing anything
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necessarily uh to elevate or or upgrade
