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Allan let's talk about a movie called
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the critic it's playing in limited
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release yes I don't know anything about
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movie stars it stars Ian McKellen so I'm
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curious uh what what is the critic about
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okay well can you guess what Ian
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McKellen is in this movie I assume he's
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the CRI he's the critic yes uh takes
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place I believe in the 1930s 19 19 40s
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uh Ian McKellen plays a Critic he's a
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drama critic um and in the beginning of
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the movie uh he describes the role of a
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Critic as a judge a judge in a way that
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his words has meaning his word has his
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word has influence and his word has
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power and uh he attends a play uh
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starring uh starring let me get the name
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playton uh she's not a very good actress
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and uh for the last several Place she's
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been in uh he's just kind of lambasted
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her uh she he calls her a you know
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basically a just he he can't stand the
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tone of her voice the sound of her voice
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uh and he's just Ro Ruth ruthless on her
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uh so that's that's the basic uh basic
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story of Ian McKellen's character but
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what's going on is he works the paper
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that he's work working for the owner
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uh he's been working there for decades
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and uh his son comes in played by Mark
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Strong and uh decides that changes need
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to be made everybody that we need to uh
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we need to reduce the budget and that
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means people are going to go and so e
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McKellen's character hangs out with his
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other older critics and older older uh
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reporters and uh realize that they're
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they're on the chopping block and
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everyone of that group is fired except
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is the character's name uh and then the
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owner the new owner says uh you're
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you're on you're on probation right now
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uh you need to be nicer in your reviews
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because he's very horrible in his
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reviews and he needs to stay out of
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trouble well immediately uh we find out
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that Jimmy is gay and he's making out
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with his boyfriend and he gets caught
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and uh owner comes in bails him out and
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says well here's your here's your notice
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and so what begins is a plot by Jimmy to
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get his which involves nah uh to seduce
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the owner uh now to blackmail him and
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what winds up happening is uh more
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blackmail comes in uh suicides are at
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play or sorry unal living is and um and
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this is basically I I would call this a
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very polite version of Dynasty uh
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because near at the second half of the
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movie everyone is being really mean to
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each other every everybody's being
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conniving to one another everyone is
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plotting against one another but they're
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doing it in a very polite British way um
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yeah is the tone of Comedy or is it like
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drama and I'll tell you why the reason
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it's not a comedy and the reason it's
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not a thriller is the stakes are very
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low you know we're we're talking about
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people's jobs here uh we're not talking
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about um you know uh millions of dollars
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we're not about drugs we're not talking
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about that we're talking about an old
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man who's trying to keep his job and the
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links that he'll go to to doing that the
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people he involves and then this uh this
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kind of web of blackmail and Intrigue
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and and I use the word Intrigue very uh
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you know I'm overstating the word
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Intrigue here because it's very polite
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and look uh great actors every everyone
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in this movie is a great Leslie Manville
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uh Mark Strong um great actors but this
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movie is just the the stakes is what
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keeps this movie from being anything
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great because the stakes are very low uh
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even though there's unal life because of
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uh Jimmy's actions uh very low and uh so
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um look if you if you want to watch Good
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acting watch the movie but this is this
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is one that's just gonna be forgettable
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we'll never talk about this movie again
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so what do you rank it out of 10 I give
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it a five five I mean look you get that
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it's you know you got a great cast
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together and but but the movie is just
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Unworthy of their talent yeah I noticed
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it wasn't playing it was like playing in
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one theater and the times were limited I
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mean I'm surprised a movie like movie
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like this got released it looks more
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like a streaming film so yeah anything
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with Ian McKellen has me in interested
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immediately yeah he's very good I mean
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it it falls into a few tropes and it
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doesn't you know it's like Ian McKellen
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is a is a day writer uh they don't play
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it up as much as you think they would uh
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and then he's essentially the antagonist
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and the protagonist He's the bad guy in
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this movie and um yeah and and again the
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only reason I knew this knew this movie
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existed was uh one day I was looking for
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a movie to watch and uh this was on the
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AMC uh list there so I saw
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it all right let's go to so you do you
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recommend it no non- recommend from
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Allan there you go a Critic gave the
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recommend thumbs down I I would say I'm
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not the only one I wouldn't be the only
