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Allan you did not see this movie did you
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no I did not but it's in theaters it's
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from vertical entertainment uh your
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monster is directed by Caroline Lindy it
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is the story of a young woman Laura
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Franco who is an actress and her
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boyfriend uh Jacob is a kind of a jerk
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he's kind of a jerk and he is a
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playright making a play inspired and
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starring her uh Laura is played by
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Barrera and she's so excited to be the
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focus of this play but things go south
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when their relationship goes south and
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suddenly she's no longer sto starring in
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play so strangely enough I don't know
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how to describe this but a monster
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in her place played by Tommy Dewey is
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the monster who looks like basically uh
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the Beast from Beauty from Disney's
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Beauty and the Beast kind of actually
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attractive he looks like a a metal a
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lead singer of a metal band oddly enough
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he's not that ugly of a monster and
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she's she's uh basically recovered from
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cancer show show she's dealing with that
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the monster is sort of a uh you know it
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it's like an allegory it's it it sort of
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mirrors her battle with cancer and also
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battle with the a-hole boyfriend so this
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is kind of a lowbudget
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anti-romantic comedy retelling of Beauty
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and the Beast and I I I I gotta
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elements oddly it's boring it's kind of
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boring I mean the budget was showing
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there are ideas there but I don't think
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they really had the money to pull it off
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in an in an ambitious way and the fact
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that the monster is kind of played by
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Tommy dwey is actually appealing he's
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actually like cool and chill compared to
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boyfriend you know they're not really
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they're on a break right
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um it that that like it it's so obvious
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it just telegraphed everything happening
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with it it all builds up to the play
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debuting and the performance and so
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everything is kind of predictable uh
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they go to a Halloween party and Laura
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brings uh Laura brings the monster as
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her date but everybody thinks he's in
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makeup but he actually is the monster
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and there's a lot of Fish Out of Water
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stuff and awkward roommate stuff and
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just a lot of messy ideas but oddly I
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found myself kind of bored with it so I
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I you know I didn't have a lot of
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expectations but it's an hour and 42
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minutes and felt long so um give it a I
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I can't give it a recommend it's
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probably a five or a six but I can't
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recommend it it's like a streaming movie
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only it's not a horror film it's and it
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it's very much focused on you know the
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lead character Laura and dealing with
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you know all the monsters in her life
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some real others things like uh cancer
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and an awful ex-boyfriend so make of
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that what you will it's a pass for me on
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your monster sounds like uh the better
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alternative is a different
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man yes that's the better the better
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version of that story
