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all right Allan can you tell me about
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getaway okay getaway is a British tale
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told in the uh country of Sweden uh it
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is a comedy starring Nick Frost and Amy
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B uh they play the Smith family all four
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of them here and they they have decided
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that they're going to uh go on a getaway
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as you can see the title has two
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meanings uh so they go on a getaway to a
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small Swedish island called VTA where
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every year the stalans uh perform a a
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play about their tree the history in
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which a plague ravaged the island and
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you either starve to death or you turned
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cannibalism um is is that uh no one
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wants them there because this is not a
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play this is kind of a ceremony that the
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uh that the inhabitants of spalted do
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every year and it's really not open for
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the public but one of these Falon
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decided I'm going to open an Airbnb and
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invite uh invite visitors to come and
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see the play um it's uh and and so
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hilarity ensues at this point because
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weird things begin happening uh uh D the
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family starts uh getting these dreams uh
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about death and horror uh the the
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inhabitants don't like them and so they
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treat them in a very odd way um Al let's
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let's put it this way this movie is very
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British in the sense of of it takes dry
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humor to to the extreme level uh because
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you have this contrast between this kind
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of uh funloving Modern Family going to a
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an Island full of uh you know basically
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uh stuck up inhabitants who uh who are
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just you know they just don't want
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visitors in there and
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um uh it's a comedy and it's supposed to
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be a horror and and what I found is that
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when you combine genres uh it doesn't
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Elevate either the comedy or the horror
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but when you combine the genre it
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actually uh uh lessens the impact of it
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so it's not as funny as you hope it
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would be and it's not as scary as you
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think it would be uh and I'll give you
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an example this this happens in improv
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time uh movies are about Stakes stories
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are about Stakes uh so here's an island
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of cannibals let's just put it that way
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and then you bring in a normal family uh
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who's kind of unaware that they're on an
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island of cannibals they they don't
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treat things as as serious they don't
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treat things with any Stakes so the
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story has no seriousness to it the story
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has no Stakes to it and and so when
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horrific things happen and then you have
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the the family just respond as if this
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is normal uh you miss you miss that kind
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of contrast that that needed contrast to
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you know Elevate the horror or Elevate
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this comedy um and so look I'm I I like
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Nick Frost I like anen be uh and this
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one I'm just not I I was pretty much
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bored to it and wanted to get it over
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with uh and and I say the biggest
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problem is the stakes there are high
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stakes in this movie but they but the
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reactions from either from the entire
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cast is not high enough to make it funny
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or to make it uh make it horror um
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there's a few sexy moments I'll give you
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that and there's a there's kind of the
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second half uh is kind of a blood bath
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let's put it that way but but you know
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who cares about a blood bath if you're
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seriously oh man so what would you rate
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this uh I'll i' give it a five I know we
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we gave it a seven I'm just not you know
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if if yeah is your thing uh you'll
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probably enjoy it much more than I did
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oh but I love Nick Frost I wanted to see
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this but we've this week with so many
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small Indie movies we tried to see them
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um You trailer the trailer looks so
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funny Nick Frost has that dry wit I mean
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he's so good and the trailer was like on
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my list going to see it oh you know I'll
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say maybe maybe you should see it and
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maybe I'll have a different opinion uh
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than I did but you know I just want to
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laugh I just want I just want something
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clever I I you know the whole you know
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the whole something horrible happens and
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uh and I'm just gonna brush it off as as
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a as a comic moment that's not the
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comedy I'm into and uh and like I said I
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see this a lot in improv and it's not
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funny in improv uh and it's certainly
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not funny here but take watch it just
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watch it maybe maybe I'm
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wrong H that bums me out because I don't
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know I I I I like Nick Frost so and that
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the trailer had me it's it's it is a
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weird mix of horror comedy dry wit I
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mean I I like that I like salted caramel
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I like things that may or may not go
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together but I can see it going
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derailing and not going right yeah so
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yeah I mean you know I don't think
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people are gonna rush out to see this
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one ah it's too bad yeah all right let's
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I feel like I hurt you and no because
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well I mean we had a lot of we there's a
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lot of films we're reviewing like eight
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films today um but this is one I I I had
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on my list as see this one and kind of
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bums out yeah I mean you know we we gave
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it a seven Alex liked it but I think he
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was he had the same issues that I
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did uh I think he just liked it a lot
