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Y2K is here this is the film directed by
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Kyle Mooney about why 2K is coming
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what's going to happen on New Year's
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Eve
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1999 will Humanity be destroyed will
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there be an apocalypse or will
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absolutely nothing happen which is
0:28
actually what in truth happened Allan
0:30
tell us about Y2K yes so Y2K is a story
0:34
of Eli young teen Eli who has a crush on
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a on a popular girl named Laura played
0:39
by Rachel zler um but that's just a side
0:43
plot uh really this is about the
0:44
friendship between Eli and his best
0:46
friend
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Danny I yeah Danny played by Julian
0:50
Denison from uh from Deadpool 2 uh so
0:54
they go to a party uh try to be you know
0:58
the the the parents of Eli say you know
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it's it's it's New Year's Eve you should
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go out go go meet some friends and kiss
1:05
a girl when when the bell rings they go
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to a party uh with with h Danny Danny
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weirdly becomes very popular at this
1:15
party and Eli is kind of cast to the
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side and uh and Danny's having a great
1:20
time but Eli's not and then New Year's
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Eve happens the the clock strikes 12 the
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power goes out and suddenly all the
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power all the appliance and all the
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electronics with processing chips in
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them uh they begin attacking the
1:35
partygoers uh death and Mayhem occur uh
1:39
Danny uh Eli and Laura they they escape
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and they must figure out how to stop
1:45
this appending apocalypse and and I will
1:48
call this I think the best way to
1:49
describe the movie is this is The
1:51
Breakfast Club but during the
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apocalypse uh so uh you know here what
1:57
what did you think of Y 2K that's that's
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the premise which you get from the
2:01
trailer um I did not like this film it's
2:06
not for several reasons and it's not
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Rachel zler she's the least of its
2:12
problems but to be clear let's talk
2:15
about her off the bat she is
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weightless she is a very good
2:20
singer I think she's a very good singer
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and that is the extent of her talent I
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think um seeing her in Westside Story
2:30
seeing her in the Hunger Games uh Hunger
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Games she is weightless she adds nothing
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as an actress she might as well be a
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background character a side character
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she she is nothing special when I think
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of like Jenna Ortega and what she has
2:49
done with her roles she adds something I
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think Rachel zegler is not a very good
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actress Jen or a presence she she has a
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presence in the F Jenna or is a presence
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Anya Taylor Joy a presence Rachel zler
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is weightless I don't say this because
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of comments that she's made on social
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media about politics she can say what
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she wants doesn't help her case because
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I don't think she's very good and she
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was one of the weakest aspects of
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Westside Story a a movie where I love
3:22
the original by Robert Wise the
3:25
Spielberg remake was not great did not
3:29
love it and she did not I feel like she
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adds nothing to a role now does she ruin
3:35
things she's
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in maybe because of comments on social
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media but she's not the reason this
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movie fails this movie this movie tone
3:46
is so weird it sort of has all the
3:49
checkboxes of coming of age you know uh
3:52
we gonna drink alcohol or we gonna do
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drugs and smoke pot are we gonna you
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know what if I get laid there's a whole
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subplot where
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Eli's friend has um a condom that he
4:04
keeps trying to give him to use which
4:07
comes into play at a pivotal scene I W
4:10
won't ruin it but it's just it didn't
4:14
build the world when suddenly there's a
4:16
change after Y2K killing in Mayhem
4:20
happens right after midnight but how did
4:23
these devices like they needed to show
4:27
me more
4:30
so I would buy the premise the premise
4:33
the premise is dumb I know it's dumb and
4:39
um it was just it just and I like a good
4:43
dumb premise but it didn't sell it it
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didn't sell it and suddenly you've got
4:49
these walking Terminator like robots
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that are forcing Humanity have chips
4:55
installed in their brain so they can
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just
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you know log into the net in their minds
5:02
right jack in um it's and it's typical
5:06
you meet a ton of teenagers at this
5:08
party they're killed off one by one
5:11
getting down to a small group Kyle
5:12
Mooney the director is actually in the
5:15
film as a Char he's like a stoner named
5:19
Garrett who works at the uh works at the
5:21
video store I like Kyle Mooney a lot he
5:25
was one of the standouts on SNL he also
5:28
in the early 2000s did these like videos
5:32
where he would go to like a wrestling
5:35
convention and interview people he I
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think Kyle Mooney is a talent I think
5:40
he's funny in this as director I feel
5:43
and I feel like the movie played it safe
5:45
in some ways the kills are kind of dumb
5:49
and like I saw it by the way I saw it
5:52
with a packed audience the very first
5:56
screening AMC Burbank 16 it was full and
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people were laughed here and there but
6:02
it did not get a big reaction and they
6:05
passed out when we went there um they
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passed out these this right here this
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thing of like the filmmakers want your
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feedback on
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Y2K so scan that tell them what you
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think no actually watch the movie you
6:21
could get a $5 gift card or whatever um
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I was colossally dis appointed because I
6:30
like and and Rachel did not bother me
6:33
I'm like all right put that aside she's
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playing a part I'll go see
6:39
it but she's not the reason the movie
6:42
doesn't work it's the tone it's that
6:44
they kind of held back I think it would
6:46
have been um there's there's a whole
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thing about 90s a lot of 90s stuff you
6:52
know the movie opens with the sound of
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logging on to AOL I laughed but like
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these are weird berries maybe we're not
7:00
ready for early 2000
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Nostalgia um and this movie is the first
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I I I just
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um yeah it's his I think the first movie
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he directed he was in a movie he was in
7:15
a movie did not direct it but very good
7:19
called Briggs be's be brigsby Bear yeah
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I love that movie brigsby Bear he didn't
7:26
direct that one but man that's good so
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love Kyle Mooney I think he's funny um
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and his character gets a lot of screen
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time he's as a side character is is
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funny but did not work for me I I can't
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recommend this film five out of 10 for
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me but a not recommend Allan what do you
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think yeah I think we have a night [ __ ]
7:52
situation I think I liked it a lot liked
7:54
it better than you oh wow point where to
7:58
the point where I give it a very bare
8:01
recommendation I thought it was I
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thought it was okay I my my big issue
8:05
with the film is is the story in the
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sense that I don't think it goes far
8:10
enough in terms of the horror uh from
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from the the it doesn't go far enough
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from the apocalypse standpoint um also
8:18
you know it would been nice to kind of
8:20
make this somewhat of a teen sex comedy
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uh because when the goal is to kiss a
8:25
girl versus what you normally associate
8:27
with teen sex comedies it's like oh
8:29
we've you know you just sense that
8:32
limits are being placed on this story uh
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that you can't go far as far to um
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because the the entire goal is for for
8:41
Eli to kiss Laura that that's that's it
8:44
um and to Rachel Z's credit I I think
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her performance is great sense of um she
8:51
I disagree I dis hold on hold on let me
8:53
let me just say this I think she's great
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because she passes off as a as a normal
8:57
pleasant person in this movie and I
9:00
think I think that portrayal is just I
9:04
mean it's like you you look at her and
9:06
it's like oh that's a nice person you
9:09
know she can yeah in real life she is a
9:13
night [ __ ] yeah and in this she can
9:15
come off as kind yes she's she's showing
9:19
off her acting chops as being normal
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yeah so so good job there
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um yeah uh I I liked I honestly I did
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like
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the when I walked in I thought it was
9:33
just going to be a a Y2K teen teen drama
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and it really didn't dawn on me until it
9:39
happened that this was no this is a
9:41
horror film uh with with but the horror
9:44
the horror is not a horror is played com
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yeah it's it's uh it's light it's very
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it's very light horror and I'll say this
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I can confirm that a friend of mine saw
9:53
this over a year ago at at a test
9:56
screening you know this friend yes and
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said it was way
10:02
raunchier a
10:04
gorier it had a lot of humor that was
10:08
anti woke and they cut it all oh my God
10:13
he said the original cut he he convinced
10:15
me he goes we gotta see it it's so funny
10:19
it's so funny and we both sat there
10:21
going like when does it get so funny
10:25
apparently they held back so that my
10:29
point when this comes to digital they
10:33
need to release the original that cut
10:36
the original cut because yeah like yes
10:40
it should have been raunchier it should
10:42
have been gorier like so stupid gory we
10:46
it's ridiculous and then it should have
10:48
been kind of like a comment not being so
10:52
anti- but a comment on how we're kind of
10:54
dumb now with the woke [ __ ] so we we we
10:58
we were different people
10:59
in 1999 so by contrast show that
11:04
commenting on the present well that I
11:07
mean that was my point when the goal is
11:09
to kiss a girl the movie is playing it
11:12
safe even as a horror film it's playing
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it safe and that's the problem that's
11:16
the that is why wokeness killed Cinema
11:19
is because it places limits and when you
11:21
place limits you don't get to push
11:22
things as far as you want to and make
11:24
the film that you want to a film that
11:26
people remember think about and talk
11:28
about I mean now I'm not surprised that
11:31
this movie was Ranier and and grow
11:35
gorier and the thing is to be clear this
11:37
movie this movie is not really woke in
11:39
any way at all no it's not it's not it's
11:42
zero but it it had an
11:46
opportunity to be funnier it blew it
11:49
blew it it I mean it's not like it was
11:53
there uh they filmed it uh you know and
11:57
in terms of directing I thought konei
11:59
did did fine I mean the movie doesn't
12:02
have faults you know the movie doesn't
12:04
have what I would call considered
12:06
directorial faults um but again it
12:09
played it safe and now you're telling me
12:11
all this and
12:12
realizing uh they they had it sounds
12:15
like they had a good movie on their
12:16
hands yeah and um for and and wokeness
12:21
killed it well I'll say if I read the
12:24
script I would think this is brilliant
12:27
and the execution did not I feel like
12:30
they needed to do a little bit more
12:32
about when the turn happens with the you
12:36
know with with the all the I mean no
12:38
that turn happened when Fred Durst leads
12:40
the Rebellion yes there is Fred Durst
12:43
has a cameo that's supposed to be really
12:46
funny but I don't know if there were
12:48
like I'm sitting in the audience it
12:51
should have been a big moment the
12:52
audience is like the audience you could
12:56
feel was like who the [ __ ] is Fred Durst
12:59
no that's what I was thinking they
13:01
seriously it was like this is supposed
13:03
to be and they play it so big and in the
13:06
audience no reaction and the audience I
13:10
saw it with a full theater nearly sold
13:14
out screening of this movie on a
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Thursday in Burbank and no
13:21
reaction
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see if if everything your friend told
13:25
you is true I mean Kyle Mooney doesn't
13:29
come off as great as
13:31
he uh I like like you I like Kyle Mooney
13:34
I like Kyle Mooney a lot and but who
13:36
knows what this is a24 and I'll see
13:38
anything a24 puts out because I really
13:41
they put out Midsummer right or yes I I
13:44
like I like
13:46
a24 takes risks and with this well no
13:50
they don't take risks here no I a lot of
13:54
the movies takes R take risk I feel like
13:56
this needed to take more risks and go
13:59
way over the top and it failed so I I I
14:04
do not recommend it it's a pass for me
14:07
Allan I'm yeah now that I've heard this
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I don't yeah I'll just go to my original
14:13
thoughts before ever hearing this
14:14
amazing news that it was a better movie
14:16
um it's it's
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okay uh nothing inherently wrong with it
14:21
it's just it should have been better and
14:23
apparently it could have been better if
14:26
if they released an unrated cut I would
14:29
watched it but yeah this absolutely the
14:32
version of this movie that they chose to
14:34
release is uh fails to live up to the
14:38
promise of the trailer so there you go
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yeah so if they release the Ranier and
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gorier cut I will I will watch this
14:46
movie again
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