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Allan let's talk about Mickey 17 it is
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from bong John dun ho the Oscar winning
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director of the movie parasite this is
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his follow-up movie uh delayed by a year
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or so because of strikes it stars Robert
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patson as Mickey who
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is not gonna lie he's kind of a loser
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it's kind of a loser sort of a jersey uh
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sort of low you know blue jersey Jersey
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blue Cola accent uh who is going on a a
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colonizing mission to another
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planet they're going to populate this
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other planet the ice world of nil felm
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and there is a there's the the
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Expedition is being led by the
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charismatic leader played by Mark
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Ruffalo
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who is Kenneth Marshall a failed
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politician and his wife played by Tony
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Colette they're leading this Mission a
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religious mission to another planet to
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colonize it and Mickey Barnes signs up
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to be an Expendable what does that
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mean his body can be destroyed through
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experiments through accidents they kind
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of send Mickey out in the field to do
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all the dangerous jobs and when he is
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killed they take his memories transfer
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it to a new body that they print out it
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is a great science fiction
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concept that they play to the
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humor and things happen during this
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Mission we will get into the story he
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meets Nasha barage a security officer
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played by Naomi
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Aki and he falls in love with
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her he's kind of protective of Mickey
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because they have a lot of sex during
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the mission which uh Kenneth Marshall
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forbid uh I'm not going to go blowby
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blow with the story but it leads to a
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conflict on the planet where some alien
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life forms are discovered which may or
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may not have good intentions for
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Humanity and it comes to a showdown with
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the aliens with Mickey at the center and
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things get even more complicated when
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Mickey 18 emerges there can be no
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multiples you cannot have two of one
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person existing at the same time so one
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has to go how this is resolved I won't
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reveal so no spoilers here for the
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moment we will probably get into more
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spoilers later to discuss aspects of the
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movie so you have been warned um I have
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a lot of problems with this movie but
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Alan I want to know what you think yeah
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uh it's that this is the second 2our
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15minute movie I saw and it's too damn
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long uh the third act goes on
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forever and uh I just I just want this
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movie to end I'm so tired and I'm so
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uninterested in this forget forget that
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long aspect what are the problems with
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well that I mean that's a big problem is
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this third act that just will not will
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not end in any way the the best part of
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this movie is the first 20 minutes where
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it just kind of goes into the whole idea
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of Mickey and and the 17 iterations of
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him and why and all that that's
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interesting and then it gets us to this
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middle the second act where you know
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where they're going off into the future
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there's the multiples going off into
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space there's the multiples you deal
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with that um but the problem with this
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movie the biggest problem is character
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development um especially the Mark
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Ruffalo Tony kette characters Mar
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Ruffalo Mark Ruffalo plays this uh
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insane dictator type leader um and
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that's all it is is just a guy who's
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insane and a and a dictator there's no
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Nuance to it there's nothing to it than
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other than that we're supposed to hate
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the guy yes and and by the way Mark
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Ruffalo his performance and Tony Colette
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it's like they're in a different movie
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yeah and to be clear we'll do a separate
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news story on this later he is Trump it
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is very clear he is Trump
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but wait a sec wait a sec let me let me
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cl let me clarify let me cl I'm gonna
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say the thing he is a parody of trump
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that the left thinks what Trump is and
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I'll say
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this the right understands the left
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better than the left understands itself
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so their the left's vision of trump this
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is how the left sees Trump as this manic
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horrible figure they make fun of people
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they're his followers at the beginning
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of the movie are all people in Red Hats
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and they're rabid followers in Red Hats
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it's a little too on the nose a little
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too on the nose and I will say this like
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this is what's I find crazy about the
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left versus the right people on the
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right don't like the policies of the
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people on the left and people on the
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left don't like people on the right
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yeah personally personally it's listen
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to this distinction right it's like look
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people on the right don't hate people on
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the left they just don't like those
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policies that you know cre rampant
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homelessness
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lawlessness uh a lot of
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crazy yeah crazy policies but they don't
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hate the people but the people on the
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left hate the people on the right in
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spite of the policies and that is made
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very clear in this movie now in fact I
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I'm kind of the audience I was with
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didn't laugh so much at the Mark ruffo's
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over-the-top performance he was so
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smuggy as trump it was infuriating and
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the third Act of the movie with uh the
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female lead which uh Naomi Aki Nasha
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barage the character Robert patson is
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great in the movie that's the best thing
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about this movie it's the one reason to
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see it is is Robert as Mickey in the
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multiple different versions of Mickey
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the Mickey 18 is hilarious very
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different than Mickey 17 and they Mickey
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18 has a different character Arc so well
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done Nasha barage is just so girl bossy
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it's insufferable in particular in the
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end of the movie It's So lecturing and I
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feel like this movie I feel like this
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movie because there's an on the- noose
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line in the movie where it's like he's a
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failed politician who lost his last two
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elections this movie was assuming
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certain things would have
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happened in the real world and they did
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not this I I I think this movie will do
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okay in the end it will not have legs
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and it will bomb but uh this on the nose
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this on the nose way that the left looks
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at the right right it doesn't resonate
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why does it not resonate let me tell you
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why it's not true it's not authentic
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it's not authentic it's not true Allan
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you know about comedy you perform it
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often what gets the biggest laughs it's
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the thing it's the thing people connect
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with Dell close wrote a book called
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Truth in comedy tra comedy has to find a
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foundational nugget of truth that we can
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all relate to in order for it to be
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funny yes that is absolutely right and
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because the left's assessment or mocking
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of the
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right is inauthentic and not accurate
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not true doesn't get laughed that's why
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they say the left can't meme that's why
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SNL has not been
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funny since 2016 maybe longer you didn't
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find the uh State of the Union Address
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funny and hilarious with signs and with
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all the the you know sitting down what
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on your phone while the president is
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speaking you didn't find that hilarious
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I find it
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disrespectful and which is what this
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comedy is in coming from the side that
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says they're the the adults in the room
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they surely didn't act like adults put
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this aside it ruined the movie yeah Mark
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ruffo's character which they could have
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cut down ruined the film and this was
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probably shot at a time when people
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thought things were going to go a
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different
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way when um they they the movie
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assumed history would play out
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differently the co the comedic aspects
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related to that character weren't funny
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even with the audience I saw with in
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Burbank amc16 did not find it funny it
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wasn't funny now Robert patson did he's
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so good so good
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amazing a great and and such a great
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concept for a film um I like those
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aspects of it in the end I can't
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recommend it five out of 10 for me it's
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a it's a an it's a maybe see it on
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streaming but science fictionwise
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presented some fascinating issues like
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what what does it feel like to
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die and the question is never answered
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it should have been explored this movie
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could have been profound and it could
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resonated with everybody but as it is it
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was used as a vehicle to attack half of
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the voters in the US more than half
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so I'm really sad the trailers were
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looked really funny I was looking
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forward to it huge colossal
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disappointment Allan your assessment
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yeah I I look uh there are nods that
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Mark ruffle does to Trump uh part of it
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is the dance you know the red hat goes
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like this yes I know I know I saw that
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and um come on but I'm gonna say I'm
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gonna say I don't think I don't think
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it's as bad as you're saying it is but
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at the same time you're right because
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this what science fiction is supposed to
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do is it's supposed to be a morality
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play and this and it poses a question
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what if you could never die but in in
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never dying you're constantly dying and
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that question is always being asked of
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what's it like to die and does you know
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does
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really like dying does he see uh you
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know does he find Hope and comfort in
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the fact that he'll come back again
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those are great questions those are
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great questions to ask and as you say
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it's never answered all the great ideas
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are never explored the the third see the
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the the question that's asked is that
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third act with this conflict between the
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humans and the aliens you know because
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and the thing is it's so predictable and
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because that third act goes on so long
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you know exactly where this story is
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going uh there's no real surprise at all
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in that third act and because you know
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where that third Act is going you're
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bored because you're waiting for the
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movie to catch up to you and that's what
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I found myself the position I found
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myself in watching this of just get the
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story over with I I don't know why the
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third act occupies over half the movie
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that that's my biggest issue with this
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um Robert penson yeah I mean he created
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a good character um but everyone else
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yeah know
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uh it's it's just a failure in
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storytelling failure in uh in in
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character development and failure in
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telling saying something about humanity
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and I think that's what we really wanted
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and I think had it said something about
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Humanity as you say this would have been
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a a deep and profound movie uh because
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it had it had everything there to ask
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the right questions and find a way to
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answer it and it failed to do it a and
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the all the
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Trump the Mark Ruffalo As Trump
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dates the movie this will not uh stand
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the test of time and it had the
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opportunity to make some profound some
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profound statements on life uh are and
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meaning that would relate to everyone
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and ultimately a dud Allan do you
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recommend it we'll go to com no no
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absolutely not no save save your two and
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a half hours uh because literally I had
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a half an hour of commercials and
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trailers leading up to this movie
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