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Hello?
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Hi!
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Happy Tuesday.
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Happy Tuesday, welcome back to the Killer Cuties Podcast.
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Yes, we are here today to talk about
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A film.
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The Key.
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Remember?
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Yeah, it is called The Skeleton Key.
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That's correct.
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The Skeleton Key or just Skeleton Key?
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Got it.
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Got it, got it, got it.
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But first...
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It's the last cast of the month.
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So you know what that means.
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New movies.
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February 2026 horror movie releases.
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Kick us off.
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yeah, we're gonna tell you all about them.
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And then we're gonna tell you how excited we are for them, because we didn't want to do news, so that's our replacement.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Okay, first up, February 6th, we have Dracula, another Dracula movie.
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Dracula's been hot the past couple years.
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Little summary.
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When a 15th century prince witnesses the brutal murder of his wife, he renounces God and damns heaven itself.
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Cursed with eternal life, he is reborn as Dracula, who defies fate, in a crusade to wrench his lost love back from the death.
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From the dead?
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From the dead.
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On the verge of reuniting, Dracula is hunted by a relentless priest, sworn to end his immortal reign.
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This stars Caleb Landry Jones and also Christophe Waltz.
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Yep.
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1 to 10, how excited are you?
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three.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I've seen trailers for this and it just it it look it's whatever.
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Yeah, there's been a lot of Dracula lately.
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I sound like I'm drunk.
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There's been a lot of Dracula lately and I feel like I'm kind of, I'm over it.
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It had its little renaissance and now I'm done.
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So I'm gonna give this like a four.
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It's not.
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Okay, yeah, that's one opinion.
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are you still into the Dracula Renaissance?
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Well, I just think that the bar was set so high with Nosferatu that
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I mean, unless it's at that same caliber.
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This is just not going to do it for me.
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But I would be interested in more Dracula at that caliber.
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See, I didn't like No Sriracha as much as you did.
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I liked it, but not as much as you did.
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Yeah, I love nose.
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I think in the past five years we've just had so much that I'm like, okay, now I feel like they're moving on to the werewolves and we'll get that and Frankenstein's big right now
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too.
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They're doing like a classic monster renaissance and I think I'm kind of over all of it if I'm being honest.
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Sorry.
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no, that's okay.
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Alright cool, three and a four, we're not that excited for it.
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Yeah.
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Also on February 6th, are getting The Strangers Chapter 3.
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In the final film of The Strangers trilogy, Maya faces the mass killers one last time in a brutal full circle reckoning of survival and revenge.
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How excited are you?
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a two.
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That's pretty high, actually.
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I'm like a zero, negative.
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I saw the first one of this trilogy and that was enough for me to say I don't need to see anymore.
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So, they've been bad, real bad.
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Well, they can't all be winners.
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Yeah, that one, I can't imagine myself going to see it.
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Yeah, well, we sound really negative right now.
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We promise we like horror movies.
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there.
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We'll get up there.
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You know, you gotta get through the clunkers to get the gems, you know?
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All right, last movie for February 6th.
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It's called Whistle.
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A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec death whistle.
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They discover that the terrifying sound it emits when blowing the whistle will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.
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What do you think?
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Will, say that again.
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Will summon their future deaths?
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to come hunt them down.
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To ha- There- What?
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I think it's just like dead, their death is gonna come after them now.
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Okay.
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That's what I got.
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Like whatever they were gonna die of is coming.
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It's coming early.
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Because the death whistle summoned it.
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Okay.
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I'll give that a four.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It could be interesting.
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Yeah.
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It's kind of giving.
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What's that one said in Mexico?
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With the with the.
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The Ruins?
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anthropomorphized weed.
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That's the Ruins, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, I could see that.
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It's kind of giving that, combined that with that movie, Taro, that came out like two years ago.
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That's what it's giving me.
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I don't think you saw that, but for the people that know, that's what it's giving, and Taro was ass.
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I'm kind of a Ruins Defender, but also not the best movie in the world.
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So I think I'm at like a three here.
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Okay.
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I can't imagine it's gonna be good, but you never know.
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Maybe it'll surprise me.
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All right, next release date is February 11th.
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We're only getting one movie that day.
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And I think we just talked about it a couple episodes ago because trailer dropped, but Gail, Yellow Brick Road.
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Decades after her return, Dorothy, now an elderly woman, is tormented by memories of Oz.
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Her granddaughter, Emily, inherits the curse tied to her family's name.
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Drawn by unanswered questions and visions she can't explain, Emily finds herself pulled into the ruins of a realm once filled with wonder, now decayed and ruled by madness.
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To escape, Emily must confront the terror that consumed Dorothy and the truth about Oz.
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There's also an Oz Renaissance right now.
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What with Wicked and all.
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Not gonna hold ya.
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It's not looking bright for February.
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Yeah, January was a little promising.
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February...falling little flat.
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Yeah.
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I'll give that a three for the wicked of it all.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think I'm at a three as well.
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It feels a little like, I don't know, it's giving the whole...
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We need the poo, blood and honey.
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yes, Peter Pan's Nightmare Land, whatever, like, it's giving that.
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And I don't think those movies are...
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they're not for me.
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So I can't imagine, again, that that's gonna be good, but...
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Yeah, the public domain is a dangerous space for the horror community.
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Yeah, it's rough out there.
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All right, next date, we've got February 13th.
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Things are starting to look up here, I promise, all right?
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We've got cold storage.
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We talked about this in our, what, first episode of the year?
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I think so.
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All right, little summary.
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Tea Cake and Naomi, two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, have the wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes
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from the lowest sub-level of the base.
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With time running out, it's down to them with the help of a retired bioterror operative to contain the fungus and prevent the extinction of mankind itself.
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This is a horror comedy.
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It stars Joe Curie, Georgina Campbell, and Liam Neeson.
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Hell yeah, Aslan the lion himself.
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Yeah.
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yeah, I'm really looking forward to this one.
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Cast alone.
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I give it a nine.
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That's what I was going to say.
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Yeah, this was, I think that we both listed this on some of our most anticipated this year.
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So.
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yeah.
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Liam Neeson doesn't do a whole lot of.
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No, he doesn't.
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I don't think he's like my favorite actor in the world, but my mom loves him, so maybe I'll watch it with her.
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He's kind of a one-trick pony.
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Yeah, and he does it well.
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But is that trick the trick I want to see when I go to the movies?
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Not always.
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But that's...
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So true.
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My mom's actually gonna be in town when that movie comes out though, so maybe we'll go see it together.
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Best of both worlds.
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Yeah.
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Alright, cool.
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And then also on February 13th, we are getting the adaptation of The Mortuary Assistant.
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Rebecca Owens, a mortuary science graduate who takes a night job at Riverfields Mortuary.
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What begins as a routine job soon turns sinister as she faces terrifying supernatural forces.
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And this is based on the video game.
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personally would give it a seven for the memes.
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For the memes?
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I thought you were saying like memes.
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I was like, I don't think so.
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No, for the memories, the memories of our little community streaming it.
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Yeah, I think I read an eight.
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I liked the game a lot.
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I'm curious to know how they're going to adapt it because it's a game where there's multiple different endings, so I'm kind of excited to see which one they choose and what
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they decide to go with.
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So I'm curious.
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And the game was fun.
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oh
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Clue.
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Where every theater gets its own, yeah.
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They really just don't do it like they used to.
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They should.
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Yeah.
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All right, cool, tell us about the second half.
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Alright, in the back half of February, also on February 13th, we have Broken Bird.
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uh
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That's all the more summary we've got of that one.
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Yeah, there wasn't a lot summary-wise for that one.
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Weird.
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Yeah, I think I'm at...
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I want to give this one like a five.
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Because it could go either way.
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Yeah, it does kind of, summary remind me of a different movie, which I really liked.
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So I'm kind of wondering if that will impact it at all or if once I watch it, it won't really be anything like that, you know?
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What about you?
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I'll give it a four, because I just don't feel like I have enough information.
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But Sybil sounds fun.
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Yeah, I feel like I'd be friends with Sybil.
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Yeah, yeah, agreed.
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Last one for February 13th mimics Down on his luck impressionist Sam makes a pact with Fergus a wicked strings attached puppet that holds the promise to propel Sam to stardom
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Unleashing a nightmare that threatens the safety of those he holds dear
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That sounds stupid.
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Yeah, I think I'm at like a two for that.
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I don't really care about puppets and I don't really care about the name Fergus.
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That is my cat's name.
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I was literally going to say it unless it's a cat because I didn't know that that's your cat's name.
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No, I was just rage baiting you.
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Brave.
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I know, I was just teasing you because I know your connections to Fergus.
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Got it.
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Oh, I see.
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Yeah, I was rage baiting you, my dear friend, but- oh
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it didn't work.
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I'm on Lexapro now.
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Damn foiled again.
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hahahaha
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What about you?
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I got two, one, I'll give it one extra point for the name for his.
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Very fair.
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Yeah.
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On the 20th, February 20th, we have Psycho Killer.
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the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator.
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As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than
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anyone could have imagined.
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This one also stars Georgina Campbell.
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She's doing it this year.
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she is.
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It's Green Queen.
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Truly.
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I'm gonna give this one a 7.5.
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Oh.
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I don't know, I feel like...
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I want to say early reviews have been promising.
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It seems like there's a fair amount of hype around this one.
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And you know, it sounds like a slasher, kind of more rooted in reality, not supernatural, which I am always more of a fan of, so I'm excited.
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What about you?
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for this one gave me the same like marketing vibes as the trailer for the first 28 years.
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Have you seen the trailer for Psycho Killer?
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I don't think so.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it's just the same sort of like quick succession clips, kind of like rugged, weird music in the background as 28.
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And it really worked for 28.
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That trailer was really creepy.
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And it worked on this one, too.
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But I don't know how interested I am in like Highway Patrol officer storyline.
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I mean, I don't know how much of it is about that.
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I think that's just what he does, you know?
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Yeah, yeah.
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um
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more how he got taken than plot.
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she is the officer.
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She's the Highway Patrol officer.
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I thought it was her husband, a highway patrol officer.
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might also...
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She is also...
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I'm pretty sure they both are.
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Well, now I gotta look.
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No, you're right.
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Her husband...
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Following the brutal murder...
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No, following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas Highway Patrol officer sets off on a journey.
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You read it as, yeah, yeah.
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But yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But I, so I see where you're coming from, but I, I, I feel like they're both.
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They're both!
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I'm pretty sure they're both.
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I'm pretty sure the trailer shows the moment of death and they're both in uniform.
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I'm pretty sure.
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Yeah.
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you'd think that they wouldn't let two people who are together be partners.
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But also, that was, I didn't know that it was her husband until reading this.
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I thought it was just her partner and she got really upset.
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Like, you know how police do.
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trailer, clearly.
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Anyway, did I give it a number?
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I would give it a six.
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Cool, yeah.
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Three more.
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This is not a test.
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Also on February 20th, Sloan and a small group of her classmates take cover in their high school to escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown.
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As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloan takes matters into her own hands.
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I don't like the name of this film with that summary.
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It feels cheesy.
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yeah.
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So I'm gonna, you go first.
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Hahaha
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Thank you.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, this is another one I feel like that I'm kind of straight down the line.
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I think I'm at a five for this, where it could be kind of a sleeper.
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hit, but it could also just be really stupid.
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But I kind of like the idea that they're trapped in this school and something's going on.
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It feels very isolated, kind the mist, you know, where it's they're just trapped.
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I do like the one location idea, but who's to say?
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What about you?
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I do find the phrase suddenly apocalyptic hometown compelling.
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Sudden, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I don't know, the name's really throwing me off.
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I'm gonna give it a four and a half.
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there.
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Also on February 20th, the last two are they're all from February 20th.
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February 20th is a big day.
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The Dreadful set in medieval England.
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Anne and her domineering mother-in-law struggle to survive on the outskirts of society.
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But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious night and threatens to destroy them all.
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This reunites Sophie Turner and Kit Harrington and also stars Marcia Gay Harden.
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Wow, that's a 10 if I ever heard one.
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This is obviously my first time reading this.
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You getting more and more excited the further along you read was great.
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This definitely sounds like a KD movie.
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Yeah, damn, I'm excited for that one.
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That's a 10.
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Without question, that's a 10.
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Alright, think I'm more at uh a 6 for me.
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I do think cast-wise it sounds interesting.
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I love Marcia Gay Harden.
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ah I've never seen Game of Thrones, the other two don't.
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I don't care.
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Although Sophie Turner seems cool.
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Yeah, she seems like a...
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I don't know much about her, except that she seemed cool after her and Joe split, so I liked that.
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she lived my childhood dream of divorcing a Jonas Brothers.
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It was, your childhood dream was specifically divorcing one?
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Hell yeah.
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That's actually kind of baller.
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I like that.
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Yeah.
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Not that one.
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were you a Nick, girl?
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No.
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Sorry, did we just find the only confirmed Kevin girl in the entire world?
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Dude, I fucking love Kevin Jonas.
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uh Well as a kid to be clear I moved on to Nick in my adulthood But I was I was a Kevin girl
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That's genuinely the craziest thing you've ever said.
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I love that.
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I respect it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I was a Nick girl.
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I don't think I'm any of them now.
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I don't think I like them, but sorry.
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I don't know.
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They give me Trump vibes, but yeah.
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them is.
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Well...
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You know, purity rings, all that kind of stuff.
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They've...
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I don't know.
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Anyways.
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growing up for sure.
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Yeah, anyways...
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It seems like it could be interesting.
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I think I'm more interested in it because of the cast rather than the plot itself, but it could be fun.
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Yeah.
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I guess I didn't think of mother-in-laws as a problem that people had in medieval England.
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thought that was more modern.
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Yeah.
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not like your mother-in-law, but hey.
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transcends time and space.
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Yeah.
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Okay, last one.
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Super short.
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February 20th.
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Diabolic.
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Who or what is blacking out?
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People?
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Well, I the woman, because she's seeking the cure for, well, I mean, I would assume.
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Well, when I first read that, well, the first thing I thought of was the city is blacking out.
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Then I thought a bunch of people, like a pandemic of blackouts.
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And then you said she's the one blacking out.
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It's just very vague.
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Yeah, who's to say?
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It could be any or all of the above.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, this one is hard because I don't know anybody in the cast.
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I haven't heard about this until I looked up upcoming movies, which sometimes not a good sign.
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Yeah.
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The poster also uses the font, I think, from American Horror Story, which is interesting to me.
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So, yeah, but also which?
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And I love a mystery.
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but it's not witch, it's vengeful spirit of a witch latching onto a woman.
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That's true.
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I think I'm gonna go four here.
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What about you?
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I just wish I had more clarity on the blackouts piece.
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Yeah.
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I'll give it a...
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three.
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there.
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I mean, I feel like we were pretty spread across the board there.
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We had some clunkers, we had some middle of the road, we had some excitement.
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Yeah.
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Who's to say?
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Time will tell if those excitement levels.
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coincide with the outcomes of us actually liking those movies or not.
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Yeah, we need to write this all down and compare when we've seen them all.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay, well, good luck out there this February.
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Yeah, you guys let us know which ones you're excited for and which ones sound like ass.
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But until then, we're going to talk about the skeleton key today.
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The Skeleton Key.
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the one and only.
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All right, I'll give us a little rundown.
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The Skeleton Key is a 2005 supernatural folk horror.
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A little summary, a good-natured nurse living in New Orleans quits her job at a hospice to work for Violet, an elderly woman whose husband is in poor health following a stroke.
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When she begins to explore the couple's run-down Bayou mansion, she discovers strange artifacts and learns that the house has a mysterious past.
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As she continues to investigate, she realizes that Violet is keeping a sinister secret about the cause of her husband's illness.
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That's from Google.
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This is directed by Ian Softly.
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It's written by Aaron Krueger.
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It stars Kate Hudson, Jenna Rollins, and Peter Sarsgaard.
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It had a budget of $43 million and made $94 million at the box office.
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Currently has a 6.5 out of 10 on IMDB, a 3.1 out of 5 on Letterboxx, a 58 % audience score, and a 38 % critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Hmm.
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Mixed.
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Mixed reviews also.
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Shame on you for not mentioning Sir John Hurt.
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I'm so sorry.
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I usually just pull the top three build, but you're right, John.
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It is kind of a foursome.
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This cast is very...
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He deserves that credit.
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Apologies.
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Apologies, Mr.
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Hurt.
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For not sir her-
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are hurt.
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Thank you for not having any lines.
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His role sure did have an impact.
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He does say, help me.
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And Caroline.
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So I guess he does have a line or two.
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Help me.
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Fun fact, day one, Softly said that John Hurt, Sir John Hurt, showed up on set and said, well, I've learned all my lines.
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Yeah, cute
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Yeah, I think that's fun.
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em I too have learned all of his lines.
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Mm-hmm, you just said them all.
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Yeah, we just rehearsed, proved it.
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you
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I'll learn all Kate Hudson's lines and then you're ready to go for John Hurt's part.
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And then we'll do a two-woman show of the Skeleton Key.
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Great.
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uh John Hurt, Sir.
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John Hurt, Commissar, was offered the role.
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and accepted because he was excited about the prospect of being able to play someone that didn't have any speaking parts.
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He said, I've always been looking for a part that doesn't have to speak.
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It's got Gina Rowlands in it.
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It's New Orleans.
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It's just got all the makings of a very good film.
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That was a quote directly from him.
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It's Jenna Rowlands.
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Mm-hmm.
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I found that out looking up this movie.
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By the way, I thought it was kind of funny because Gina, it's spelled Gina or how you would think Gina is spelled, but it's pronounced Jenna.
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And then it's written by Aaron Krueger, but spelled.
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E-H-R-E-N, not how you think Aaron is spelled.
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And then it's directed by Ian Softly, but again, not spelled how you think Ian's spelled.
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And I was like, everybody here just needs to figure out what's going on because nobody's name is spelled the way I think it's spelled.
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How do you spell Ian?
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IAN?
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He just adds another I.
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I-A-I-N.
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yeah.
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What's even worse is, God, what's his name?
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Ian Jeering or whatever his name is.
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Where it's spelled Ian, but it's pronounced I-in.
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Do you know what I'm talking about?
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What's his name?
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I'm gonna look it up.
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Ziering.
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Is he dead?
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Oh no, he's not dead.
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He's not gay!
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my God, I'm learning so much about him.
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He's in Sharknado, by the way.
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Oh great!
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And his name is spelled Ian, but it's pronounced I-in.
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Interesting.
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huh.
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He was on the Celebrity Apprentice.
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fun!
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Yeah, that's how I know him.
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Back when reality TV stars were just that.
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for just that.
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His name in the Sharknado movies is Finn.
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That's funny.
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Because Finn, sharks have fins, his name's Finn, that's funny.
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Got it.
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my gosh, they did a crossover with Lava Lanchula.
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What the fuck?
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Like a lava tarantula?
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it's a tarantula that's shooting lava out of its mouth and he reprises his role as Finn Shepard in that.
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That's really funny.
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That's crazy.
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Yeah.
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Wow, that's fun facts about a person who has nothing to do with this movie.
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Well, I mean, you were complaining about Ian being spelled incorrectly.
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His name is spelled Ian.
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But not, yeah.
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but it's pronounced I-it.
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Yeah, well.
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Well, sorry, Jenna.
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That's okay, I was pronouncing a Gina the entire time I was writing all of my fun facts and then I watched an interview with Kate Hudson where they said her name and they were
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like, yeah, Jenna Rowland, she's great.
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And I was like, huh?
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And then I looked it up.
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But if I hadn't watched that, I would have been right there with you calling her Gina this whole time.
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Well, fun fact about Jenna.
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Mm-hmm.
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This is her first horror film.
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And that was why she took it, is because it was her, it would have been her first horror.
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Wow.
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Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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How fun.
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Everybody's gotta do one.
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Yeah.
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at least, right?
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I think I would want to.
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I know that was semi part of the reason Kate Hudson wanted to do it too, because it was a departure of a lot of things that she'd done previously.
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But she also said she got the screenplay while she was filming another movie and they were like, hey, like,
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We kind of need a quick turnaround, so if you could read this quick and let us know if you're interested.
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And she read it on her lunch break and she said she read it in about 45 minutes.
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And she was like, yeah, I'm in.
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Ironic.
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because then she got pregnant and they had to push filming back nine months.
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Yeah.
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But you know what?
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They wanted her.
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They knew what they wanted and they said, we'll wait.
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Yeah.
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fun.
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Yeah, I like the...
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When I read about the pregnancy, they said her character being pregnant would not be appropriate.
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And I was like, yeah, you know, that's fair.
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Yeah, I wonder how that would work.
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Like in the lore of it all.
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I mean, would it change anything?
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I don't, I mean.
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be pregnant?
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Yeah, she would just be pregnant with not her baby.
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What if...
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mean, she's in that body.
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It's hers now.
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But what if she accidentally goes into the baby's body?
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What if they didn't know she was pregnant?
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And the body switching went into her and said, well, I don't know if that would work though, because part of the thing is that you have to believe and the baby can't believe.
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It doesn't know anything.
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So you heard it here first, debunked if she ended pregnant.
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It wouldn't have mattered, she couldn't have gotten the baby.
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Damn.
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You heard it here first.
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Interesting sequel though.
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Try to figure out how to make that.
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yeah skeleton to key to to skeleton to key
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yeah, you could also argue though that the baby
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doesn't know not to believe.
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Yeah, but is not knowing that you could believe the same as believing?
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I don't think so.
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Well, it's not disbelief.
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Yeah, but you could argue that when Caroline arrived, she didn't know anything about it.
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So she could not believe, so they could have just done it then.
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But they had to make her believe.
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So I think that is a key part of it.
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Wow, Skeleton Key lore.
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Kind of fun.
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You know what?
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Yeah, kind of hopping off of this.
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Early in the film, there is a moment where Violet is kind of like, not upset, but like a little bit, hmm, because Caroline doesn't have a New Orleans accent, she's not from there,
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and.
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By the end of the movie, we know that that's because her plan is to take over her body and their accents aren't gonna match, which does that really matter in the long scheme of
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things?
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I don't know.
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Maybe she just felt that that was part of her identity and wanted to keep that.
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But this then made me think, would it matter?
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Or is that a muscle memory?
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Because this is basically your mind inside someone else's body.
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So would that memory of how you move your mouth be connected to your brain?
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or your physical body.
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Because in reality, anybody can have any accent, it's just how we're raised to speak.
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So you would think that she would just move Caroline's mouth in an accent because that's how she knows how to talk.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, you would think that.
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Right?
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Hmm.
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The other little.
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tidbit that in hindsight I was like oh that's why she said that was the tattoo comment.
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yeah.
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Like, you must be trying to suss out where her tattoos were so she would know where her own tattoos were going to be.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, that and then also when Luke and Caroline are talking and Violet like interrupts them and she's like, oh, you guys getting to know each other?
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And Luke's like, you're the only woman in my life, you know?
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First watch you're kind of like, he's just being like a Southern gentleman.
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And then rewatch you're like, no, literally they're together.
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Yep.
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Crazy.
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I also wondered, I didn't see this anywhere, but I wondered if her necklace, Caroline's necklace with like the red.
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Do you know what necklace I'm talking about?
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Like a fine bead necklace and there was like one little slit of like red beads right at her throat.
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I wondered if that was foreshadowing to her being choked.
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Yeah.
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Cause I was like, you know what?
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I bet something's going to happen to her neck and sure enough.
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Yeah.
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I don't know if this movie is big brain enough for that kind of, but who's to say.
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We'll never know.
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Mr.
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Softly, please let us know if that was intentional or not.
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Here's a fun fact about me that ties into the film.
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At the beginning of the movie, Caroline's reading Treasure Island, and in Treasure Island, one of the main characters suffers a stroke.
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And then, obviously it turns out that Ben, you know, she goes to care for Ben with the stroke or whatever.
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In high school,
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Yes.
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I had to read Treasure Island and then we had to do this assignment where we brought like a bag full of stuff to like describe the book.
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Okay, and you-
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a paintbrush.
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because he had a stroke.
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That one was a real hit, I tell you what.
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How clever.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, that's good.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, I've been dying for the opportunity to that story Yeah, basically since high school
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Wow.
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Well, I'm glad that we could be an outlet for that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I have two fun facts about kind of stunt work-ish.
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Not really, I guess just like danger.
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But Sir John Hurt offered to perform the stunt of Ben falling off of the roof.
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They didn't allow him though.
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They said, nope, that's too dangerous.
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We can't guarantee that you won't get injured, so you're not allowed to do it.
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So.
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Not a lot.
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I wonder if that's like something that you would have to work into your contract because I know there are some actors who do their own stunts and that's like part of what they do.
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So I wonder if maybe you just have to work up to that or if there's like certain contract stipulations that you have to put in to allow you to do that.
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Yeah.
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That's the only thing I care about Tom Cruise.
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Yeah, we know you're a big Tom Cruise girl.
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Yeah, she loves Tom Cruise.
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know.
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big fan.
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See you in all those movies.
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Well...
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I've seen his movies, but I just like that he does his own stunts.
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I think that's interesting.
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Yeah, I know, I know you love him in movies, outside of movies.
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I like his little cult that he does.
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think that's kind of interesting.
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yeah, who doesn't love a cult?
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No, I'm just kidding.
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I'm just gonna keep saying that you love Scientology until that's just part of...
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That's just my bit that I'm doing.
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incredibly susceptible.
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My aunt was in Scientology.
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Wait, that's actually scary.
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Is she out?
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Is she okay?
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good.
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Yeah, my great aunt, technically.
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It's genuinely a cult.
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She jokes about it.
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Good, okay.
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She can, you know, she lived it.
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She's allowed.
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Anyways, the other kind of stunty fact that I had was that while they were filming one of the nighttime sequences during a rainstorm, they didn't mention that it was the time that
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he falls off, but maybe it was either that or when General Roland's character is like chasing.
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Caroline Away or I don't know.
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They didn't mention which one, but during one of the scenes at night, Gina Rowan slipped and fell and she broke her hand.
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So she was forced to take a five week break from shooting.
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And then when she had to finish the rest of her scenes, they had to do it in California because they'd already wrapped up filming in Louisiana.
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So yeah.
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You slipped a little Gina in there.
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Did I?
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I tried so hard too.
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Damn, Jenna.
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Change your name.
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It really should be, but I apologize.
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Jenna.
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I have an actual stunt fact.
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great, yeah.
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ah And it goes back to that like contractual thing Kate Hudson did a majority of her stance.
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The only one that she didn't do was the mirror scene towards the end.
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So she must not have been.
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I guess not.
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But I guess.
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I don't know.
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I don't know about that.
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Why they would not let well.
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where they're a little less intense than falling off a building, I suppose.
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Yeah, I'm trying to think of any other stunt that she really did and it was kind of more fighting scenes than real stunt stunt work, but...
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getting choked.
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Yeah.
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Still fun though.
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Yeah, for sure.
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during the scene where, well, I guess maybe kind of stunty a little bit, but the scene where she had to row away on the little boat, they basically went out during the day and
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then waited for the sun to go down to start filming.
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But she's, you know, on this tiny little boat, so she's very close to the water.
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The whole crew is on a pontoon next to her filming and, you know, doing everything that a crew does.
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But she said where she was at, it was basically just like...
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as soon as the sun went down, swarms of mosquitoes, because they're in this swamp on the water directly.
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Yeah.
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And she said at one point she just looks up and the pontoon just has mosquito nets all around it.
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And she's like, hey guys, we can't do this anymore.
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So she said at one point she was just like, I'm happy to keep doing this, but I'm afraid I'm going to wake up tomorrow and look like I have chicken pox.
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And so like.
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what can we do about the situation?
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Because I don't know how, like I don't know what to do.
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And Softly basically was like, we're gonna wrap, we got what we need, we're going in, because they were just getting massacred by mosquitoes.
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I know, I like got itchy just like reading about it.
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Yeah, like Dengue fever.
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Yeah, mosquitoes are dangerous too.
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Nile.
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Yeah, and like that volume of mosquitoes.
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I guess it's not really about the volume of the mosquitoes, though.
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It's more about where they are in relation to the disease.
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But still.
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You'd think that they'd be able to do so, I don't know.
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put a little...
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What is the candles called?
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Citronella candles or something?
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Do something.
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I'm not convinced that that actually works.
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had citronella when our hot tub was up, we had citronella candles all over the place and I don't feel like it ever did anything.
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And they make those like bracelets or whatever.
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I feel like those do anything.
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I just think mosquitoes are put on earth to annoy the shadow of us and there's nothing we can do about it.
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That's true.
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And frankly,
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We probably deserve it.
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Yeah.
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Wanna know my favorite fun fact about this movie?
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Always.
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When Caroline gets to the gas station on her way to Ben's house, Ben and Violet's house, there's a wind chime made of bones.
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Yeah.
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It's made out of raccoon penises.
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It is.
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Fun fact.
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Yeah, that's the most fun fact of all of these.
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Yeah, I think so too, because I have a turtle penis, I do.
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It's hanging on my wall downstairs.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, honestly, we should just go while we're ahead.
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Do you want to rate it?
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hahahahah
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You're just done.
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That's it.
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You all have any other fun facts?
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I got a couple.
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Oh.
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Do you want to say them or are you over it?
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No, I, I.
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Really my only other one is that the swamp is CGI.
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Which generally you I feel like I'm a pretty good eye for that kind of thing.
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But I did not notice any CGI sets.
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No.
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Well, and I think it's because, like, obviously when she's on the water, they are on the water.
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It's just not next to the house.
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So they just had to CGI it in, the background when they were doing the shots of the house with the swamp there.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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But yeah, I feel like it worked enough.
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If you didn't know going into it, you probably wouldn't be looking for it.
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It's just when it's in the background, you're not paying attention to it that much.
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So it worked out.
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A lot of people have compared this to Get Out.
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A lot of people say this movie walked, so Get Out could run.
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Oh, to which one?
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Get Out?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, there's definitely similarities, right?
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There's kind of that...
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a racial element to it, body swapping.
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I get where people are coming from when they see the similarities.
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And apparently a producer at Blumhouse reached out to Safli before Get Out came out and said, hey, just so know, this movie's kind of similar in some ways.
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And Safli just was...
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I don't think he really felt any sort of way about it.
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He said it happens, like that happens all the time in movies where there's going to be similar concepts in other movies.
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And he says that he thinks it's funny that people like get outraged on his behalf for that.
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He's like, it's not a big deal.
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Like, I don't care at all.
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So he's like, I think that that movie is good and there's room for both.
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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Interesting.
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There is also, I found...
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I wanted to look up who it is.
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I found a kind of a deep dive.
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Like, I don't know if it was like a senior hypothesis or something, but basically someone did a whole deep dive into this movie and its look on like race and cultural appropriation
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and all that kind of stuff.
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And it was kind of an interesting read.
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So I feel like I want to link it in the description in case anybody wants to read through it.
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But it was by someone at the
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Heidelberg Center for American Studies or the HCA.
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So I'll link it because I was kind of like reading through some of it.
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just to get a different perspective on how people feel it handles the issue of race and that, but I found it kind of interesting to deep dive into it.
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Yeah.
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I also read it.
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Yeah.
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Because that was my first thought was this feels weird to me.
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And I just wanted to confirm that I wasn't the only one thinking that way.
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Oh, you found that that was painting it in a bad light?
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I mean, I talk about it in my ratings, but it...
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I don't know, did, I did get the vibe of like capitalizing on black culture without showing.
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without showcasing Black voices almost.
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I don't know, it just just felt very weird, especially in the context of plantation.
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Yeah.
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for the white person to be the victim?
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I don't know.
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Maybe I'm overthinking it.
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It just felt weird to me.
00:46:53
Yeah, no, I think that that's fair.
00:46:57
I guess, yeah, it definitely depends on how you view it.
00:47:03
Because I know later in the article, they say they talk about the ending.
00:47:07
And I actually like wrote down what they said, but
00:47:11
Look, this is a direct quote.
00:47:12
said, the ending works both as a type of supernatural justice or revenge for what had happened to Papa Justify and Mama Cecile, and personally against Caroline.
00:47:20
It's established throughout the movie that young African-Americans are not disturbed by what they cannot understand, namely, Hoodoo.
00:47:25
Caroline, as an outsider, however, pushes forward with her informal investigation, another sign of her othering process of Hoodoo.
00:47:32
Jill, Caroline's friend of African-American descent, refuses to involve herself deeply because she is not, or just not going to mess around with it.
00:47:39
But Hoodoo,
00:47:39
to Caroline is nothing but a mystery to be solved, not a part of cultural identity.
00:47:45
So yeah, I guess it depends on if you see them as critiquing Caroline's actions and that's why the ending happens is that's.
00:47:52
kind of her comeuppance or if you view it as a victimhood.
00:47:57
So yeah, you're right.
00:47:59
wrong.
00:47:59
I think I.
00:48:02
I was happy for the characters not on screen.
00:48:07
Papa justify.
00:48:08
yeah.
00:48:11
Yeah.
00:48:12
But I feel like it, yeah, you're right.
00:48:13
It depends on what lens you're looking at it from.
00:48:16
Is like, are we looking at it through that because we are the people that we are?
00:48:22
And would someone else look at it and be like, of course, this white woman just got terrorized.
00:48:28
You know what I mean?
00:48:29
So you're right.
00:48:30
Does the movie make that statement or do we as watchers make that, you know?
00:48:35
Yeah.
00:48:35
what it also made me think of, like really weirdly, is how Disney always puts, like turns POCs into animals is really what it felt like to me.
00:48:49
okay, because they're taking over other bodies.
00:48:52
They're not themselves.
00:48:53
Yeah, like why can't we just have black characters?
00:48:58
Why do they have to be white?
00:48:59
Why do they have to be animals?
00:49:00
You know what I mean?
00:49:01
Well, and yes, I do understand what you're saying.
00:49:04
I think in this context it makes more sense because...
00:49:08
like that's who's living at the plantation.
00:49:11
Like that's their home that they're trying to stay in.
00:49:13
So I think it's just whoever comes is who they're taking over.
00:49:17
Yeah.
00:49:18
Yeah.
00:49:19
It's interesting though.
00:49:21
I feel like, yeah, this is one of those ones where it could go either way and it's kind of like...
00:49:25
did it really make a statement or are you getting the statement that you want through the lens that you're looking at it from?
00:49:33
Yeah.
00:49:34
that you don't have to think about that with Get Out.
00:49:37
No, Get Out is very firm in what it is saying.
00:49:40
uh 100%.
00:49:41
Yes.
00:49:41
No, and I- Listen.
00:49:44
We're never gonna compare this movie to Get Out.
00:49:47
Get Out is a masterpiece.
00:49:51
no.
00:49:52
But yeah, I do see- I get why people compare it to that, and why they say,
00:49:57
I think someone's letterbox comment was like, wow, Get Out's first draft is pretty fun, But yes, no, everything that this movie did, Get Out did a million times better.
00:50:14
Yes.
00:50:15
Yeah.
00:50:16
And just like and more like clearly and like almost sensitively but also not sensitively.
00:50:25
I don't know.
00:50:26
I don't know.
00:50:27
did.
00:50:27
I maybe I don't know.
00:50:29
I don't know.
00:50:30
They're just it just it just made me uncomfortable.
00:50:34
Yeah, that's fair.
00:50:36
mean, context matters.
00:50:38
And like this movie was also made in the early 2000s.
00:50:42
Not the most woke era we've ever had, so.
00:50:45
Yeah.
00:50:47
well, we raid it?
00:50:49
Mm-hmm.
00:50:52
How scary did you think it was?
00:50:55
gave it a one, not because it is scary, because it's not.
00:50:59
However, I first saw this movie at the ripe age of 12 years old.
00:51:03
So I did give it a little bump because I do remember the first time I watched this and boy was I shaken in my boots.
00:51:11
Sure, sure.
00:51:13
Now, zero.
00:51:17
What about you?
00:51:18
Yeah, I gave it a .5.
00:51:20
Usually Paranormal does it for me, but this just sort of, I don't know, I was just taken out.
00:51:28
And I don't know if it's because of the PG-13 rating or because I was just like thinking too hard.
00:51:33
I don't know.
00:51:35
There were a couple of jump scares, but nothing worth bumping it up from a .5.
00:51:38
Yeah, very valid.
00:51:41
How sexy did you think it was?
00:51:44
I gave it a 1 for swamp.
00:51:50
Yeah.
00:51:52
Yeah, swamp for sure.
00:51:54
Yeah, there's just something.
00:51:59
It's just like it's like Shrek is really what it is.
00:52:02
Mmm, yes.
00:52:05
Yeah.
00:52:05
How about you?
00:52:07
I gave it one just for cast.
00:52:10
You know, I'm not into blondes, but hey, Kate Hudson's cute.
00:52:16
Sure.
00:52:17
And also her friend, stunning.
00:52:21
Put her in the movie a little bit more.
00:52:23
Yeah, honestly.
00:52:25
That was the first thing I did.
00:52:27
Pulled it up on IMDB and I was like, who the hell is that?
00:52:29
Because I don't remember her.
00:52:30
Mm-hmm.
00:52:33
Also, speaking of cast, I know this isn't probably who you were talking about necessarily, but Sir John Hurt has been had been playing.
00:52:43
Like decrepitly old people.
00:52:47
For like.
00:52:49
30 years.
00:52:51
Yeah.
00:52:52
He played a young guy in Alien and then played the old man for the rest of his life.
00:52:57
Yes, exactly, exactly.
00:52:59
And there was uh adjacent recreation of his chest-burster scene in this film that I thought was funny.
00:53:07
Mmm, yeah.
00:53:09
That is good.
00:53:12
How fucked up did you think it was?
00:53:15
I gave it a 1 just for, you know...
00:53:21
Again, we just had a whole discussion about whether or not this was handled appropriately.
00:53:27
And I don't think I'm smart enough or the right person to definitively say whether or not.
00:53:34
I think I'm very much seeing it through the lens of my background.
00:53:39
that's, you but yeah, so I gave it a little bit of a point just for that because, you know, you never know.
00:53:46
Somebody who's smarter than me, let me know.
00:53:49
Yeah.
00:53:51
What about you?
00:53:52
Yeah, it just, it, I gave it a one also.
00:53:55
It just felt kind of fucked up to watch.
00:53:59
I don't know that anything in it was the traditional definition of fucked up necessarily.
00:54:03
It just felt off as a concept to be like masking black characters with white characters, sort of.
00:54:11
I don't know.
00:54:15
Alright, overall, what did you think of the skeleton key?
00:54:19
Well, I've said it, something felt not great about watching it.
00:54:25
I just felt uncomfortable with the idea of capitalizing on Black culture without actually showing Black characters.
00:54:31
That just felt really weird.
00:54:32
eh And like, on the other hand, the acting was good.
00:54:36
The twist was very compelling.
00:54:39
eh The setting was amazing.
00:54:43
Love Louisiana, love the like, hoodoo vibes.
00:54:48
But there are
00:54:49
just like had to be a better way to do it.
00:54:51
And obviously there was because it could not exist.
00:54:54
And it's, I don't know.
00:54:58
I don't know.
00:54:59
I keep going back and forth.
00:55:02
I gave it right down the middle two and a half.
00:55:07
The twist in the production alone is what gave it, I bumped it up to that.
00:55:11
I'm just conflicted.
00:55:13
Yeah, very fair.
00:55:15
How about you?
00:55:17
I give it a three out of five.
00:55:19
Okay.
00:55:20
I think, again, I'm seeing it through my lens.
00:55:24
So in my mind, I'm like, a happy ending.
00:55:28
But did the movie really, you know, stand ten toes down and...
00:55:34
make a statement, I'm not sure.
00:55:36
I don't think so.
00:55:38
So, you know, take that for what you will.
00:55:42
But yeah, this is definitely like a quintessential early 2000s movie where I'm like, is this the best movie ever made?
00:55:48
Absolutely not.
00:55:49
But is it kind of fun to watch, especially with like the twist ending?
00:55:54
Yeah.
00:55:54
Yeah.
00:55:56
Yeah.
00:55:57
Yeah.
00:56:01
Yeah, no, just half a point.
00:56:03
It's kind of a mid-movie.
00:56:06
Yeah.
00:56:06
it had potential.
00:56:08
which we saw in Get Out.
00:56:13
Yeah, this is kind of one where I'm like, oh, like, do I want to watch a movie that centers race and body swapping?
00:56:18
Yeah, I do.
00:56:19
What am I going to watch?
00:56:20
It's going to be Get Out every single time.
00:56:23
So, yeah.
00:56:26
Alright, would you survive?
00:56:30
I'm pretty susceptible to belief in the supernatural.
00:56:35
I don't, however, like the thought of leaving the old man.
00:56:41
So I think I'm
00:56:44
But I know I'd keep my head down a little bit more and I wouldn't have gone looking in the attic.
00:56:49
Got it.
00:56:50
I don't know, do you think, do you think that means I live or die?
00:56:54
I don't know.
00:56:56
I mean, if you're not nosy.
00:56:59
Well, did she have to go into the attic in order for all of this to transpire?
00:57:04
I mean, the goal was to body swap.
00:57:07
I think they were very much trying to make her believe, right?
00:57:12
So they were kind of like setting up these things of interest for her, knowing that she's a nosy woman and she's gonna go searching.
00:57:23
So I think they were kind of pushing her curiosity on purpose.
00:57:28
I don't think they would need to do that for me.
00:57:30
I think I would just believe them.
00:57:34
Got it.
00:57:34
So you would show up and be like, whatever you're cooking.
00:57:37
ah Yeah.
00:57:41
So your body swapped.
00:57:43
You're done for.
00:57:45
It's for the best.
00:57:47
Yeah, well...
00:57:49
I can think of less valiant causes.
00:57:55
Yeah, no, if there's a way to go, it's not the worst.
00:57:58
Yeah.
00:57:59
How about you?
00:58:01
I think I live.
00:58:03
I am the skeptic of all skeptics when it comes to pretty much anything in that realm.
00:58:12
Anything supernatural, religion, witchcraft, ghosts, voodoo, hoodoo, magic.
00:58:18
I don't believe in any of it.
00:58:20
And considering it only works if you believe in it, I think I'm okay.
00:58:23
I don't think they're getting me.
00:58:26
I think we go through like six to nine months of me being a caretaker before they're like, nothing is working.
00:58:33
We gotta fire her and find someone else.
00:58:37
So I think I'm okay.
00:58:39
Yeah, that checks out.
00:58:41
It really does boil down to your susceptibility.
00:58:44
you gonna believe or not?
00:58:45
Yeah.
00:58:46
Yeah, and I am and you're
00:58:50
Yeah, well.
00:58:52
Brip to you.
00:58:54
Not uncommon.
00:58:58
True.
00:59:00
Alright, well, next week...
00:59:02
We are going to be talking about Pet Sematary and its remake.
00:59:08
Hmm?
00:59:09
Do you want to tell me what it's about?
00:59:12
I probably have enough context about it to know.
00:59:17
Great.
00:59:19
it's a family.
00:59:20
They move into a house.
00:59:23
This is how all of my predictions start, but this is actually what happens.
00:59:27
That is like half of every horror movie, so.
00:59:30
Yeah, that's true.
00:59:33
And it's like on a cemetery and their cat goes crazy, I think, because it's a pet cemetery.
00:59:42
Got it, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:59:44
Um, and the cat is like trying to tell them, hey, you can't be here because all the pets are going to come alive.
00:59:54
Not alive, but you know what I mean, like ghost.
00:59:59
and chase you out of your house.
01:00:03
I think it's like not one of the more graphic like death.
01:00:08
There's not a whole lot of death in this one other than like all the pets are dead obviously except the cat which is alive.
01:00:18
Right.
01:00:19
talking to all the deadpens.
01:00:21
Yes, so the family is communicating to the dead pets through their cat or the cat's just on its own adventure.
01:00:29
No, the cat's DIY-ing.
01:00:33
eh It's doing its own thing.
01:00:36
Got it.
01:00:37
Okay, so is it more of following the cat than the family?
01:00:44
Of course.
01:00:45
Yeah, but like the family collectively moves to the new home and then they all, yeah, they all slowly realize that they're on top of a cemetery and it's a pet cemetery.
01:00:55
But we get more context from the cat character than we do the human characters.
01:01:00
And um in the end, um they make peace.
01:01:08
It would be very Stephen King of them to just make peace with the pets in the cemetery.
01:01:13
They just live with all their little dead pet friends.
01:01:17
Are they ghosts?
01:01:19
You like spirits.
01:01:22
Sure, sure,
01:01:24
Yeah, yeah.
01:01:27
And the remake.
01:01:29
Shot for shot.
01:01:31
Why they even bother?
01:01:33
That's my prediction for that.
01:01:35
Great.
01:01:36
Mm-hmm.
01:01:38
Cool, can't wait.
01:01:40
Amazing.
01:01:41
Yeah.
01:01:43
There is a pet cemetery.
01:01:45
And there is a cat.
01:01:47
as the name and poster imply.
01:01:49
Yeah, definitely more about the family than the cat, but the cat does have a role.
01:01:55
It plays its role, for sure.
01:01:57
Does it have lines?
01:02:01
No, the cat does not talk.
01:02:03
Oh, that's a shame.
01:02:04
Yeah, sorry.
01:02:05
oh
01:02:07
Is it a real cat or is it a CGI cat?
01:02:11
I think it's a real cat.
01:02:12
in both films.
01:02:15
I'm pretty sure.
01:02:18
It's been so long since I've seen the original.
01:02:22
And if I'm being 100 % honest with you, I was violently intoxicated when I saw the remix.
01:02:35
my memory of that one is shaky.
01:02:41
Yeah.
01:02:42
Yeah.
01:02:43
Two for one margaritas.
01:02:45
Did that for about four hours before I went to see this movie, so...
01:02:50
It was rough.
01:02:52
2019.
01:02:54
Okay.
01:02:55
Wow.
01:02:56
did you think I was like 12?
01:02:57
Just shoot, I'm back.
01:03:00
Weirder things have happened in Iowa.
01:03:03
No, I wasn't even in Iowa.
01:03:05
I was in Los Angeles.
01:03:06
And I got done at my shift in WeHo, walked over to Cabo Cantina, shot back some Margs, ate some nachos, and went to Z-Pet Cemetery.
01:03:21
This was back when MoviePass was a thing.
01:03:23
It was one of my MoviePass movies.
01:03:26
Yeah.
01:03:27
Crazy.
01:03:28
Wow.
01:03:29
We've all had a horror story at a Cabo Cantina, haven't we?
01:03:33
Just one?
01:03:36
I mean, I've personally had several, yeah.
01:03:40
For four years, I had a horror story every weekend at Cabo Cantina.
01:03:46
And you know what?
01:03:47
Can't wait to go back.
01:03:49
Love that place.
01:03:50
Big fan.
01:03:51
Mm-hmm.
01:03:54
Now some people don't even know what we're talking about.
01:03:57
Wow, everybody come to LA, just go to Cabo Cantino and then go home.
01:04:00
Yeah, but the one in Balboa is the best one.
01:04:03
okay.
01:04:04
Yeah.
01:04:05
I loved the one that was right next to my office, but it did get shut down, I know.
01:04:12
I have no idea.
01:04:13
I haven't been back there since I worked remote, so.
01:04:16
Oh, long time.
01:04:18
Yeah, it shut well, I went remote right before COVID and then it shut down during COVID.
01:04:25
it was yeah.
01:04:27
Yeah, rip.
01:04:29
Anyways, thank you all for listening to us yap for an hour.
01:04:36
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01:04:38
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01:04:42
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01:04:50
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01:04:54
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01:04:59
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01:05:02
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01:05:05
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