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we both saw old guy Allan tell me the
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story of old guy okay Kristoff walz
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plays Danny delinski who is a who is a
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Hitman for the mob uh he has just
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recovered over carpal tunnel syndrome uh
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his right hand his shooting hand is
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still very sore but he needs to get back
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to work uh and then reclaim his spot as
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the top assassin for the mob uh speaking
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of the mob uh they want to uh let's just
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say they want to move in a younger
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Direction so in comes uh is it will
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wiborg played by Cooper Hoffman um he
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they want Danny to basically tail go
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along with him on the next kill and give
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him hints and pointers Danny won't have
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anything to do with it Danny says he
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wants to be back and starts um basically
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starts you know just go runs rough shot
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over the new Assassin uh and to much
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dismay because the hand is not
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completely healed and so he's he starts
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botching a few jobs uh and so Danny has
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to come in and rescue this whole movie
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is just about this relationship between
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the old guy and the new guy set around a
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conspiracy between mob gangs that wants
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to kill the two along with the people
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who have hired him and Lucy Lou is uh is
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hot yes is hot and involved Kristoff
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Waltz is amazing in this as the I'm fine
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I'm fine he's got the his hand in a
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sling or whatever because of the you
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know carpal tunnel which affects his
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shooting and I Cooper Hoffman I love
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this guy he was in licorice pizza so as
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the young upand cominging assassin and
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they have this like genz like Boomer
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relationship with that's really tense
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they effing hate each other but they
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need each other and uh Danny is
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constantly questioning his younger
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Protegé who doesn't need his help and
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it's that Dynamic that makes the movie
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work um and it's it's also short 90
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minutes in and out an action comedy and
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I I've always loved Kristoff Waltz from
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beginning when I first noticed him in
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Quinton Tarantino's uh in glorious
2:23
bastards where he kind of first I don't
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even I me I'm sure he acted before that
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but that that role that opening scene
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he's so amazing he has that gravitas he
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uses that here and Cooper Hoffman if you
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have not seen licorish Pizza he has a
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charm and also he's what I like about
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Hoffman is he's not a traditionally
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goodlooking Hollywood type so many
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Hollywood actors there's a samess about
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them a sameness that is annoying and
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he's uncharacteristically goodlook and
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he's a great foil for Kristoff Waltz I
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love that kind of you know that like you
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you know young guy the jenzy annoying
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kid and then the he's sort of Boomer is
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like older seasoned and they kind of
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learn from each other whatever it's um I
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mean it is kind of a story we've seen
3:21
before he's being forced to retire but I
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have to say I love it and Lucy Lou is
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very Charming very still sexy how is she
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Asian yeah yeah yeah she is uh she's
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amazing wow that makes me feel what
3:45
because I'm now I'm a year older than
3:47
her oh my God oh my God anyways uh I for
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what it is for the type of movie it's
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it's aspiring to be an action comedy I I
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had a good time and the main thing that
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works is the dynamic between you know
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Kristoff walz and Cooper Hoffman are
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great together that's when the movie is
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at its best so give it a a solid
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recommend six and a half or you know six
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and a half I'd say is a fair uh number
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rating do you recommend it Allan I don't
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no uh oh no okay clearly you like this
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movie better than I did I like it I had
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fun with it yeah you know what it is
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it's the Cooper Hoffman character uh and
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and my fear is that this is going to be
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the new Trope uh of of of Hollywood
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films and it's it's this it's this focus
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on gen Z and the narcissism of gen Z you
4:46
know they they experience anxiety you
4:48
know they need to be treated differently
4:50
they're you know they need to be coddled
4:52
and that's just the even the way the the
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you know there's a point in the end
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where he has to rescue him it just feels
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I I don't like the direction if this is
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the direction of movie making where we
5:05
have to lean in and and embrace genen Z
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anxiety and narcissism uh we're in for a
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rough rough time over the next few years
5:14
and and this kind of exemplified it I
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think you know it's not that this movie
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is is Gen Z for Gen Z because you know
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it's really about the Kristoff walls
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character who has to deal with it yeah
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um and I don't know that I necessarily
5:28
felt like they dealt with it well I
5:30
think they just began tolerating each
5:31
other but you know it just started the
5:36
movie the introduction of the the Cooper
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hoofing character just started the movie
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in the wrong direction for me and I
5:41
don't think uh it bailed it was able to
5:43
bail itself out because it just then
5:45
becomes a standard um standard uh action
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action comedy uh a lot of guns a lot of
5:52
shooting lot of uh people dying in this
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one um but uh just that one element just
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kind of says I think we're moving in the
6:00
wrong direction and so uh you know I I
6:04
would defend it and say this is the kind
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of 90s independent film that got made
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all the time there's nothing woke about
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it it's it it has a sense of fun I do
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think it's a little predictable it a
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little predictable for me but um I I I
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it just it it reminded me of a type of
6:26
movie a type of independent movie they
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made in the 90s and I liked those movies
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so yeah I mean you're right it's not
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woke but I don't know I I guess my
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intolerance for geny nonsense is coming
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through with this one
