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wolf
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man we're talking wolf man from
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blumhouse uh Allan and I have both seen
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it I have seen Wolfman movies since I
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was a kid the original with Lon
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sheney uh I've seen those black and
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white films the makeup kind of
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established that type of character I
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think American Werewolf in London
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changed everything about wolf Man movies
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what wolf a wolf man film could be that
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that is a brilliant horror film that
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holds up today um films like wolfen
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we've seen uh many different takes on a
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Wolfman film and this one also is a very
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different take it's from the it's it's
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from the same director I believe of um
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invisible invisible woman Invisible Man
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movie yeah
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I I from 2020 which was the last film I
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saw in a theater before the pandemic I
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was in a theater alone for the last
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screening at the arklite cinema saw
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invisible man I thought it was it was a
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very interesting take Wolfman so I had
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some expectations that this will be kind
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of different and fun Allan tell me about
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Wolfman yeah so Wolfman um so I just
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want to get the characters here Wolfman
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is a story about a f family uh a young
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man with his wife young man uh Blake
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played by Christopher Abbott his wife
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Charlotte played by Julia Garner and
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they have a daughter uh daughter
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Ginger um they're having a little bit of
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marital problems but uh the the the
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husband is you know the man of the
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family he's there to protect the family
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he has to go back uh to his uh his
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father's cabin out in the woods because
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uh he died uh and along the way on this
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trip back to that c
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uh they he almost hits a person drives
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the U-Haul truck off the road and uh
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they almost die uh a passenger they had
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is killed by a mysterious creature and
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when they run to the oh and he gets
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swiped by the mysterious creature they
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go back to the house and uh that that
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that Swipe by the creature begins to
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infect him and he begins changing and he
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begins dying or feels like you can get
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most of that from the trailer I mean
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I'll add a little bit to it he has a a
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really um actually a very good
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relationship with his daughter he asks
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you know can you what am I thinking and
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he tells her what she's thinking it's
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that's very sweet um the the woman who
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plays the wife is the actress who is
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gonna play It's the Silver Surfer J
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Julia Garner uh so and I like
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Christopher Abbott is very good in this
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role he's very good so it's a typical
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uh
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Wolfman you know story in the sense that
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this is someone I love turning into a
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monster and I'll talk a little bit about
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the no spoilers a little bit about the
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transformation is
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slow so after the the event that you
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discussed
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the the transformation happens it's not
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an instant I'm a wolf man now it happens
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extremely slow which I think is actually
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more realistic take on that his teeth
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are getting he's body horr there whole
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body it's body horror but it happens
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gradually not in an instant in addition
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his perception of the world changes so
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he can't understand words you see his
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point of
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view and he doesn't understand English
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anymore he sees the world and he could
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be in a completely dark room but
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everything is like like light to him he
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can see perfectly with no
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light the the way his hear and smell he
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can hear smell so we get different
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perspectives you know we get his wife
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and daughter and then we get his
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perspective but he still is sort of
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halfman half
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Wolfman what didn't work for me was the
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makeup he looks like a I just looks like
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a deformed
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hobo a deformed hairy hobo it's not like
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American were An American Werewolf in
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London or a cool design and there have
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some some leaks of um the uh design
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leaked online and it's it doesn't work
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there's not a final
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form of what the wolf man is now it he
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sort of went body horror with it and
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then of course the uh conflict of these
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are people I love but I'm changing into
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this monster what do I
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do um I this is a miss this is bad I
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mean four out of 10 tops I I was really
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disappointed it's very predictable once
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they establish he's he's slowly changing
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it PLS along I did not like this pass
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and look I I'll see anything blumhouse
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I'm good I'm good I I like they take
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risks but blumhouse is hit and miss this
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one is a Miss for me and um the B like
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some interesting ideas which was also
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Invisible Man had some interesting new
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ideas to add to this monster I like that
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but didn't didn't stick the landing and
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the the transformation is like it's not
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impressive Alan what did you think yeah
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I liked it better than you um and I
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think it had to do with the interesting
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ideas that you speak of um the there are
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there's a scene where um Chris where uh
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where Blake let me let me where the
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where the two main characters are in the
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same room uh he's turning into a a
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werewolf she's kind of uh in endangered
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and what Lee juanell does is it it he
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puts you in the position of you know
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what is going on in in the the the
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father's uh mind what is he seeing what
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is he looking at how how does the world
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look around him and then the camera
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Swirls and then you see things from the
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wife's perspective uh that's very
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interesting to me um I maybe not enough
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to give it a full recommendation but
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it's interesting I there are things I
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appreciate it but you are right it is
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highly predictable um you are ahead of
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the game there's a reveal that happens
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that I called Almost instantly uh when
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when they arrived when they first see
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the the creature I'm like oh it has to
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be this uh and of course it's right um
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the other thing is there's some
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inconsistencies let me pull up a a
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screenshot here um this this is this is
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what uh the mother Julia Garner's
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character looks like at the end of the
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movie um notice how how her hair is
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still perfect yeah how how her uh how
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her shirt is uh is uh glamorously
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stucked into her jeans just like at the
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start of the film um you know for
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someone who had been through what she
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had been through throughout the entire
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film she looks exactly the same there's
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nothing well that's the uh that's the
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Wardrobe Department really doing its job
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and the continuity person but yeah look
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I I look I have no problem with the
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actors I actually think the lead actor
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uh Christopher Abbott was great and the
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the young girl Matilda fth who plays
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Ginger daughter she was very no problem
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with the actors but you're right there's
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a big
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reveal about a wolf man and I go I
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guessed it yeah I guessed it it was so
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easy like oh okay yep I I KN so total
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disappointment for me sounds like you
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liked it a little better than me yeah I
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mean leean Nell it's kind of interesting
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because there he you know an invisible
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man there's kind of a a uh a feminist
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tone to it and I think he he kind of
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brings a little bit of that to here but
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at least the father is a is a good
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loving father right you know and so you
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know I there's there's things I
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appreciate this m about this movie that
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I would give it a bare recommendation
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but there there's certainly flaws this
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is not a perfect movie well dude it's
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January we take what we can get and like
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January it's a thin month thin month oh
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yeah so I I say
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pass you say I say bare
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recommendation if you like ible man I
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think you're going to like like this one
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