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smile 2 is the followup to smile a film
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that was surprising and very good it was
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originally intended to go on uh
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streaming they released it theatrically
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um I was mixed on it I thought the film
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was okay it was all right a great
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concept and an average film but the con
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concept is interest interesting
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basically passing on a curse or a demon
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to another person who then sees horrible
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things manifested in their world mostly
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involving people smiling in a way that
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is uh demonic it's directed by Parker
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Finn and for this movie they went all
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out the first film was kind of a really
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clever concept done on a very low budget
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this movie they pulled out all the
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stops everything about this film and we
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I'll get to the brief broad Strokes of
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the story in a second but um the sound
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design the the the way the story is told
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the moments that any other horror film
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there might be Wall toall music there
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are moments of Silence where there's no
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music no sound and it is
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haunting so kudos to Parker Finn for
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stepping up this movie on a on a I mean
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it's a bigger budget than the first one
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but my God what he did with this budget
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was $28 million holy wow uh the the um
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from the makeup effects which are
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practical some some digital um just
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creepiness he really really pulled out
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all the stops um now by the way on the
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gore side it's no terrifier 3 it's it's
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it just isn't this is a studio horror
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film but having said that the moments of
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horror are awesome some really earned
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scares uh some moments where you don't
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really know what's going on what's real
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what's not what is the logic of the
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universe it is ultimately answered I'm
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glad it is I won't say what it is but um
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you do get answers to your questions and
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it does pick up where smile the first
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smile movie ended with Kyle gner which
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I'm so happy they did um Kyle gner of
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course we saw in the recent film strange
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darling he is really um come into his
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own as an actor uh so the story really
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briefly you've seen the trailer uh Naomi
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Scott plays Sky Riley a pop star on the
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level of like sort of an upand cominging
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Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga she has fans
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all over she famously um got in a car
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accident where her boyfriend an actor
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died he had to go to rehab for drugs so
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she had a Fall From Grace but her fans
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love her in spite of that social media
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plays a big part of it um but she has an
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encounter with a high school friend
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where she inherits this curse now she is
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Grizzly events play out in front of her
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um Naomi Scott is amazing my she was in
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the Aladdin movie yeah she was Jasmine
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in Aladdin sh okay I I did not love that
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movie I thought the liveaction Aladdin
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was me she is amazing in this film I
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don't know if she did the singing
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herself but my God they build up a whole
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thing of Sky Riley and music videos and
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her fans and what her messages and
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different albums and and they have this
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whole lore about her as a character and
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her fall from grace um having been in
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this car accident and then her just drug
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addiction and struggling with that she
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drinks water I don't know if she did it
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I'm watching this going did she really
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um Naomi Scott the actress drinks full
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glasses bottles of water in like a Gulp
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and I'm thinking did she really do that
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like it it it doesn't look fake and it's
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part of her character dealing with Sky
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Riley dealing with her addiction she
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kind of just she wants control she
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drinks full bottles of water and she
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does it throughout the film they had to
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have I don't know maybe that was
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enhanced but it's very realistic so um I
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I I want I don't want to get into the
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specific scares or any spoilerish I'll
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just say um see this movie with an
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fun really great jumps I actually think
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Allan as a I know you're not a horror
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fan but as a non horror fan this isn't
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terrifier 3 it's not it doesn't
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fetishize the grizzly Gore I mean there
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there is stuff that's gory there are a
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couple moments that are wow you know I
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did look away once first of all most
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films are not terrifier 3
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yes of films are not terrifier it's not
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but it is a little over two hours I
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thought it was a little little long
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could have been shorter but but I was
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never bored I was never bored and the
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way they they're more layers to the
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story which I appreciate um it's not
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just as simple here's the curse you're
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stuck with it you learn more about Sky
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Riley and she's dealing with while she's
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dealing with the demons from the curse
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she's dealing with her demons from the
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past an exceptional horror movie not the
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best of the year but if I was going to
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make a top 10 horror of the Year this
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would be on the list um one of the best
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so uh I recommend smile to giving it a
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seven and a half you're saying it's
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better than the first one way better I
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did not love the first one the first one
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was well that was okay but also by the
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way the first one had a much lower
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budget and was a streaming movie that
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they just will put it out and they put
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it out this they they said let's put a
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lot into it but on a $28 million
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budget she does a stadium show she does
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I mean they really put the money on the
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screen and even the style of Parker Finn
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I got to give him a lot of
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credit the way he uses the camera
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to set the mood not just in the horror
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scenes but the camera Turns Upside Down
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it's he uses it in a subtly unsettling
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way along with the sound
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design really someone to look at uh uh
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and the fact that they connected the
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first and second in a clever way not g
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to ruin it um I I yeah I did not expect
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to like this and really walked away
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impressed so recommend for smile to like
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I said for me seven and a half out of 10
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and one of my favorite if not on the top
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horror films of the year um so there you
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go check it out yeah you will not and
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also fun to see with a crowd a movie
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like this like you want to see it in a
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packed audience with people reacting
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people going H and and you know it it
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yeah I won't be saying it come on you
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know it's the part of the horror films
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part of horror that I don't like is it's
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this idea of nightmare inducing imagery
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the yep yep it does I I I believe you're
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right look it's it's this is a great
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horror film for normies and as hardcore
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horror fan you will also you also find a
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lot to like so and also one last thing
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before we get to comments Jack
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Nicholson's son is in this movie he's
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amazing he is amazing he can do that
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that that Jack smile you know he does it
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great so so he's an imitation of his dad
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no he's very good okay let's go to
