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okay let's talk about the monkey which
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is directed by o good Perkins who is OSG
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good Perkins well you remember he is the
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director behind long legs with Nicholas
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Cage which is a movie that I quite
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enjoyed by from the tone it was very
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very uh tonally I thought was great it
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does not stick The Landing in the third
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act OSG good Perkins is also Al Anthony
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Perkins son so he has his family has a
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legacy in horror so uh the monkey is
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about an actual monkey okay it is a
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monkey that drums and these two kids
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young uh twin brothers get this they
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kind of find it among their father's
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belongings and what this monkey does is
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when you wind it up and it starts to rat
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dies it's a horror comedy and probably
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leaning more into the comedy in the
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first half of the movie which I really
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I'm not g it's it's it's what this is is
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Final Destination with a monkey and the
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deaths are gruesome I mean gory but
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funny because they're so overthe toop
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and ridiculous I'm not going to ruin any
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of them they are hilarious and
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horrifying and uh tatiani manani plays
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their mom as a you know when they're
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young boys and this monkey is literally
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monkey trouble to anyone and the deaths
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are so Final Destination they're like a
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a rub Goldberg like thing happens and
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then some and then somebody SU how dies
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by a series of weird things occurring
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which must have to do with the monkey
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well the two brothers um they they bury
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this thing they throw it down a
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well to get rid of it years later uh
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they're grown and uh one of the twins
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has he has a son with a relationship
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also Elijah Wood is in this I barely
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recognized him he looks so different but
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now the mon has somehow resurfaced and
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strange deaths are occurring one of the
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i c I'm glad I saw this with an audience
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people bursting out loud laughing it was
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ew which I love if you like the Final
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Destination movies this is like those
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movies what's great about Final
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Destination is everyone can see the
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death coming you see it you're like oh
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my God don't drive behind that truck
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filled with giant logs you idiot you are
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going to die and that's what ends up
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happening the more this goes on I do
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think it gets a little tired and
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ridiculous by the end so like his last
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um kind of doesn't stick The Landing but
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the concept I loved and I could not
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believe how many people I saw at the
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screening I was at had the monkey
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buckets they they were everywhere all I
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was Allan I was tempted I was tempted
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you should have I should have gotten it
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because it will be gone although they
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had plenty of Captain America buckets
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everywhere you could those were in they
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those were not in limited Supply yeah um
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so if you like Final Destination if you
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like this is more of a comedy long legs
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was not as much of Comedy it had its
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moments but um this is definitely more
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leaning on the comedy um I think
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conceptually they've created what will
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franchise and I I have to admit I had a
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really good time you know I'm just
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sitting here laughing through the whole
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thing it was insanely over the
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top there's there's a series of deaths
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in the third act I can't even tell you
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obviously I'm not spoiling any of the
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ways in which people die they're just
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stupid they are so stupid and overthe
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so I I you know I got sucked in this is
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I would say I enjoyed this better than
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long legs I I think they're also trying
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know I recommend it but look if you are
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Gore don't see this do not it is some of
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those most gruesome deaths I've seen in
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and very creative too just like Final
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Destination so a recommend for the
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monkey it's fun but the I like the first
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half of the movie probably better than
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the second half but um and probably has
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has a great marketing tie in and I can
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see the monkey to more monkey trouble
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coming to theaters so I I actually think
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you would like this Allan just because
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it's so you you like comedy I do like
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you're a comedy guy the comedy intrigues
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me I just feel like I'm gonna spend most
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of my time cringing at all the death and
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but that's part of the experience yeah I
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know believe me I know but I mean it's
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reminiscent that I mean that's why back
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in the 80s people WI into horror films
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it's the screaming at the screen saying
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don't go don't open that door I'll tell
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you what it is it this came from just
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having covered horror for a long time a
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lot of this comes from a best thing
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about horror especially seeing horror
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movies when you're in high school going
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on dates right like a horror movie is a
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safe bet to go on a date because um it's
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it just it's it's uh it's the the ch of
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can you take it MH and that came from
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like movies about like driver's ed that
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would be gruesome to kind of scare you
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into wearing your seat belt that's where
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this kind of genre of the over-the-top
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gore came from those kinds of movies the
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purpose of those educational films in in
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high school that they would show these
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movies that basically would scare you
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into being a safe driver and wearing
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your seat belt and this genre of
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over-the-top Gore owes itself to these
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old you know educational driving movies
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asphalt yeah yeah red asphalt all these
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movies they they you know this movie The
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Monkey owes a debt to those because the
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whole thing is watching it on the big
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screen with in a theater with a bunch of
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people experiencing it and can you take
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it do you look away from the screen do
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you watch what's happening and uh the
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reaction people screaming I mean the
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theater I was at people screamed laugh
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and then also like where you'd hear the
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recommended and like this one death near
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the end of the film it it's I I can't
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it's it's all I'm saying is the very
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creative ways of seeing lots of people
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and there you go it's a new it's a new
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Final Destination type of film so there
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you go yeah which is why I think I like
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long legs I was more willing to see long
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legs than than this one and I think long
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legs is more about the the Nicholas Cage
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character than anything well this is
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comedy and we could use a good comedy
