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So anyway, this week on the podcast in 4k spotlight, we have one new movie coming out

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and Rose has a story to share with it.

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And then for our Through the Wall, honestly, I think we're going to be talking about the

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DC shit show that's happening right now.

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Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

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Yeah, so we'll be getting into that.

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And then for this week's headliner, we will be breaking down a Christmas story Christmas.

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close enough.

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As of our recording, we're still in the holiday season.

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Alrighty, first up in 4K spotlight.

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Rose, you want to take this one?

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I would love to.

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So this week, everyone honestly, probably one of the most divisive films in the Halloween

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franchise comes out on Blu-ray and 4K Halloween ends.

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And there's definitely a lot of exclusives, but I got a little story with this one.

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So I was scrolling through Facebook, what was it?

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Monday the 19th, and I follow a Halloween fan's page.

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And so people were like posting that they had already gotten like their copy of Halloween

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ends on Blu-ray.

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I'm like, wait, what the fuck?

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It doesn't come out for another week.

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There's no freaking way.

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And so then all of a sudden I see someone post a picture of like the display that Walmart

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had for it.

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I'm just like, okay, so I guess they already have the display up, but they already have

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the film stocked.

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I'm like, okay, there's no way that they're letting people buy it.

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There's no freaking way that like, you know, companies like have a certain street date

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that they can't sell the movies until then.

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So even if you try to go buy it, it's not going to let you.

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There's no way.

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But everyone on the Halloween page was posting that, you know, they either got the Blu-ray

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or they got the Walmart exclusive 4K cover that has like Michael and Lori facing.

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So it has like the so the Walmart exclusive has the poster where it's like Michael in

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the front and then Lori in the back.

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I don't know if you've seen that poster.

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So that's the front.

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But then it also has like a flap and it's so freaking cool.

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You open a flap and it has Lori on the left and then Michael on the right.

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Kind of like a like a verse like a verse stance.

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And it's really freaking cool.

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It's freaking awesome.

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But yeah, people were posting that they were able to get it.

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Like, there's no freaking way.

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No no freaking way.

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So I say, you know what, F it.

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I'm going to go see if it's possible.

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So yesterday, just because I didn't have time throughout the week just because of work.

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And they had the they had the Walmart exclusive 4K.

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I picked that up, took it to the register.

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Yeah, I was able to buy it.

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So I bought Halloween ends a freaking week early.

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Well, at least that version.

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I bought the steelbook too, because you know, I'm collecting problems.

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But yeah, I have Halloween ends in my hand right now or up in my movie room.

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So yeah, what?

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Yeah, Walmart f'd up apparently.

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Like has anything come out about the early release?

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Because I've checked Target.

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I've checked Best Buy.

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Nowhere else is selling it.

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Just so it's just Walmart.

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Shit, dude.

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Yeah, so I mean, it will already have been released by the time this episode comes out.

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But yeah, if anybody wanted Halloween ends early, go to your local Walmart.

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You might be able to find it.

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But, man, dude, I would I'm going to love to hear if shit comes out of that.

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Yeah, seriously, universal.

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Like they've got to just I don't understand how this is possible, because I swear that

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like when they send out the movies, when they scan them into the system, I don't even think

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they have to do anything.

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It's automatically set to a street day that they cannot sell it or it won't ring through

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the scanner until 1201 that day.

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1201 AM is when you can actually purchase that item.

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So, dude, that's nuts.

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And like there wasn't anything like talking about like Walmart getting like an exclusive

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deal or or anything like that.

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Like it was no, I mean, they're all released a street date.

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I mean, they got exclusive, like like I pointed out.

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But yeah, no, nothing.

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Dude, what kind of bullshit is that?

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Like we we freaking would get harassed with pop figures that were out on the shelves.

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Oh, yeah, seriously.

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But what total shit?

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I was amazed that when I went up, scanned it, all it all it says is, oh, item is rated

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or please wait for an associate.

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And so person decided to type in their code and I was able to buy it.

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I guess I can't I can't believe that Walmart f'd up and released Halloween ends a week

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early.

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So yeah, someone's getting fired.

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Yeah, and I don't know if it's going to be someone at Universal or someone at Walmart.

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Oh, I guess I guess we'll find out.

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Yeah, I thought it was going to be like maybe just like some Walmarts.

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They fluked.

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But I actually went to like every single Walmart in my area just to see like, you know, because

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I am anal about slip covers.

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So you know, I had to get the best one.

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But every single one had it, so Cedar Hills, Cedar Hills Walmart did not have the 4K exclusive,

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but they had the Blu Ray, they had the DVD and then they also had the trilogy on DVD.

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Noice.

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So yeah, they someone f'd up and Walmart was able to put Halloween ends a week early.

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Nice.

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Like I said, this movie is probably the next season of The Witch.

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I feel this might be one of the most divisive, probably the most divisive film in the franchise.

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I will admit it has grown on me the more I watch it.

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But I can understand where the true hatred comes from.

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Because I blame the freaking hatred on the marketing team.

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Because this movie is so hyped up to be oh, all it's focusing on is the final confrontation

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between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers.

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And that's literally the last 20 minutes of the movie.

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Yeah, if that.

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You guys can hear all of our thoughts and opinions about that one on our Halloween ends

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episode.

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But shit, dude.

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But you know, I love the franchise too much not to buy the both exclusive versions.

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So so I already have the Walmart exclusive in hand.

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And I'm just waiting now for my preorder of the Best Buy exclusive steelbook to come in.

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Which getting to the actual like exclusives and you know, the versions of this.

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So like I said, the Walmart exclusive, it's the cover with Michael with Michael in the

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front, Laurie in the back with her back turned to him.

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And then when you open it, when you open the flap, which I love that it has this flap,

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I think it's such a cool exclusive.

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You got Laurie on the left, Michael on the right, and it looks freaking great.

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I love it so much.

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Although the I was I guess I wasn't shocked, but I wish that the the actual like 4K.

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The 4K case had the exact same cover as the exclusive.

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It's just the it's the regular 4K cover where it's just Michael's face from like the teaser

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poster.

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But I'll take what I can get.

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But the steelbook, which is a Best Buy exclusive steelbook shocker, is honestly like really

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cool.

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I actually what sucks is I like the steelbook so much more than the Halloween kills steelbook,

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but I loved Halloween and so much more like what the.

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Why does this steelbook have to be cool?

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There ain't that the shit though.

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Dude, it really isn't that how it always goes.

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It's just like, oh, this is like my least favorite movie of whatever franchise, but

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it ends up being like the coolest freaking cover.

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Yeah, it's freaking bullshit.

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So yeah, I gotta show you this.

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So I hope you can see this that well.

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Can you see that?

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Oh yes.

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Isn't it so cool?

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Oh man.

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That's pretty dope.

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It's such a better steelbook than Halloween kills.

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But yeah, so of course, you know, you guys can't see it, but so the front is like a close

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up of Michael holding holding a knife in front with Halloween ends and the background is

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orange look, which looks like freaking awesome.

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It kind of looks like a pumpkin that's cracking.

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I love it.

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The back is Lori with her back turn holding a butcher knife and then the inside is what

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their fight in the kitchen where Michael I don't know what Michael's Michael's doing.

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Michael's doing he he's like crossing his arms, which I don't know why he's doing that.

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I don't for some reason I'm not remembering why he does this.

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But then you have Lori about to freaking swing.

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Is that a fire extinguisher at him?

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I think that's what it is.

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I know it's not clear for you, but like does that look like a fire extinguisher?

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A little bit.

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It's it's an odd maybe it's like it's definitely one of the more odd choices of

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inside our screenshots to make or to get.

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I agree.

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I'm trying to personally would have gone for like when Michael's choking Lori.

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garbage disposal or that might have been too fast.

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Yeah, I think the choke.

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I think yeah, I think was a little look the best.

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Yeah, then it would have been like a really good clean shot of both of them.

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I would have also I would have really loved if it was the shot where when you actually

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get Michael returning and like he's like peeking behind the tree and you kind of see Lori in

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the background like by her truck.

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I feel that would have been kind of that would have been a cool shot.

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That would have been a really good one.

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But I will I'm going to say this right now.

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No promotional shots on the back covers of the like the physical physical release show

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Corey at all.

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So you can tell that they are really trying to hide that shit because they know that dude

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right and I didn't hate the Corey storyline.

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No, I didn't hate it.

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That's the shitty thing.

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It's like this.

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The Corey shit was good.

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It was out of place.

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I love the idea of the the evil Michael Myers infecting someone else.

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That's a really cool concept.

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But don't bring that shit in when you're trying to wrap up a bunch of other storylines in

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the third movie.

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Yeah and then turn it into a freaking love story.

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I could have done that without that.

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I feel that just ruined Allison's character.

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It did.

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It absolutely did.

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Like we if there was ever a reason to resurrect a dream cast, it would be to talk about our

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ideas for the Halloween trilogy like a rearranged Halloween trilogy.

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Like I will say I do have my problems with the trilogy but I am grateful that it would

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just have one single director unlike the sequel trilogy for Star Wars and even the Jurassic

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World trilogy.

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At least the David Gordon Grains trilogy.

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I'm sorry no it's Blumhouse's trilogy was directed by one person.

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I'm sorry am I boring you?

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Dude I'm freaking beat today.

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So that was.

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Way to freaking call me out dude.

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No one would have known.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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Christina does that every single freaking time that I yawn when she's like telling me

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about something.

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She's like oh I'm sorry am I boring you?

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I'm like kiss my ass Christina.

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I'm sorry I had to see how you would react.

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Freaking bastard.

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So minus those two exclusives you get the bare bones 4K and blue herb release which

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it's they're kind of they went with just what they did with the other with Halloween 2018

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and Halloween Kills.

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It's the teaser poster with just the close up of Michael's mask which I love.

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I love that they kept it uniform for all three so that it's going to look freaking great

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on your shelves.

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I'm going to be buying god I'm going to be buying three freaking versions of this movie.

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Fuck.

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Because I have to have the regular 4K as well to match the other match Halloween 2018 and

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Halloween Kills.

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Now I'll probably wait for that one to go on sale because I really don't have to worry

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about not getting that one because you know we can find it everywhere.

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But yeah even though I did not love this movie I'll be buying this movie three freaking times.

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Sucks to be you.

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It does suck.

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It sucks to be a diehard Halloween fan and also a physical media collector.

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But yeah I went on a rant with that.

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But so yeah that's 4K spotlight.

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Halloween ends.

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So pick it up if you liked it.

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Dude that might be the longest we've ever talked about a single movie in 4K spotlight.

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Dude straight up.

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Straight up.

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Alrighty then moving on to through the wall.

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Like we said we're going to be talking about the DC shit show that's happening right now.

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And I honestly don't think it's DC's fault.

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No it's Warner Brothers fault.

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It's the Rock's fault.

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If it's anyone's fault it's the freaking Rock dude.

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The best meme that I saw, well not meme it was a TikTok, was that summed this whole thing

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up, was the classic scene from Spider-Man where it's Norman in the boardroom.

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And so all the board members are like DC and James Gunn and Peter, is it Safran?

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Yeah.

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Is that who's, you know they're the ones in the back.

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And of course doing Johnson is Norman Osborn.

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It's just like well you can't do this to me.

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Do you know how much I sacrificed?

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I was like yeah I'm sure that's what the Rock is thinking.

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I mean but it seems like there's no bad blood from between James Gunn and the Rock.

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Like from what he tweeted, was it yesterday?

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The 21st?

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What James Gunn posted?

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No what the Rock posted.

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I didn't see what the Rock posted.

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Really?

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Yeah I only saw James Gunn's, like him more or less telling the fans to suck it up.

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No they seriously do.

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Like it's not his fault.

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Warner Brothers had a specific, they saw what was happening with the DC universe.

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It was going really nowhere.

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Okay maybe it was going somewhere but the financial numbers, box office numbers were

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definitely not there.

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So I'm not surprised that they want to hire someone that actually really knows how to

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make a profitable and really good superhero movie.

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Yeah it's not surprising at all.

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I freaking, like just kind of going back real quick to that meme that you saw about him

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being, the Rock being Dwayne, I saw another one that added onto that.

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Because I saw that one and then someone added onto that.

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Remember the scene where he, where the Green Goblin comes flying in and he throws the pumpkin

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bomb and he's just like, out am I?

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I will never forget that scene because of what I actually thought that he said as a

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child.

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Did I never tell you that?

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No?

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What did you think he said?

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Oh my god, story time, story time.

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So for the longest time, and it wasn't I think until my buddy JC told me that, no Jonathan

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that's wrong, go watch the scene.

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And I did and I'm like, I'm a freaking idiot.

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So when he throws the, yeah the pumpkin bomb and says out am I?

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Since I was a kid when I first saw, I thought he was saying howdy there boys.

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What the shit?

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Yeah, I am dead freaking serious.

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I thought Green Goblin was saying howdy there boys as he threw his pumpkin bomb.

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And you know what?

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I made it my mission.

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If Willem Dafoe ever joins any of those like places where you can buy a cameo shit like

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that where you can like pay for them to say something.

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If he ever does any of those, I am paying that man to say howdy there boys in the Green

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Goblin voice because I need that for my life to be complete.

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Dude, that would be hilarious.

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Right?

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That would be freaking amazing.

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So Willem Dafoe, if you're listening to this, you're probably not, but please join cameo

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so I can pay you to do that for me because you would make a sad almost 20, no actually

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when this will know to almost 27 year old man, very happy.

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Okay.

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How much money would you drop to make that happen?

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A couple hundred.

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No shit.

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Okay, maybe not.

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A hundred.

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A hundred.

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What?

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200?

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No, no, like, if like legitimately.

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Like how much I think I would just because like if he was like, okay, 180.

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Would you pay 180?

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Totally.

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Totally.

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I need that closure in my life, man.

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Would you pay 230?

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I think my cap would probably be 300.

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Holy shit.

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Except after pay, right?

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You better hope they do.

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Oh my gosh.

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That's wild.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But anyway, so it was that scene, but when he throws the pumpkin bomb, it's an unfollow

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button.

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Oh shit.

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And then it's just like, it's kind of funny.

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It's Warner Brothers, the Black Adam page, and I think it's just DC in general.

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Whatever the pages that he unfollowed are just standing there and it's like they paused

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it, and then it's just like the flash and then it's just like the people are still standing

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there and just like.

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So just like, oh no.

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That is amazing.

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Okay.

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But dude, how?

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Warner Brothers.

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I can understand like kind of everyone's perspective on this.

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Like Warner Brothers kind of had a Hail Mary and was just like, okay, let's just see if

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this works with the rock.

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And obviously I feel like they may have known that Black Adam wasn't going to perform as

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strongly as it.

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I think they just knew it wasn't going to perform very well.

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Yeah.

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But like whatever you want to say happened, whether it was like the projections or whatever,

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I think they just knew it wasn't going to work out.

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And so then they kind of had this backup plan to hire James Gunn and they just.

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And I think the rock was kind of pissed off where he's just like, oh, it wasn't really

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involved in any of this stuff.

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It's like, okay, you're not an executive.

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You don't have to be.

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Because I remember that TV that a tick tock that he did where he's just like the hierarchy

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of the DC universe is changing.

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I'm like, yeah, just not the way that you're thinking, buddy.

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Yeah.

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And apparently he had a team.

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I don't know if it was him directly or if it was his team of people, but they were basically

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lying about the.

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The success of Black Adam.

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Are you freaking serious?

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Yeah.

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Like they were showing that it was in the black.

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Like it was profitable.

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And yeah, a lot of Warner Brothers executives were like, no, not even close.

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Yeah.

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And then that's when like the whole hiring of James Gunn and everything happened.

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So and I'm sure a lot of people said, well, yeah, but the suicide squad didn't do that

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great at the box office.

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Yeah.

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Maybe you could say that, but that was also an HPL Max simultaneously at the exact same

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time.

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So yeah, that was going to have an effect on it.

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And also look at the reviews for that compared to Black Adam.

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The outcry of support for the suicide squad was amazing.

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I didn't I don't think I saw one negative review for the suicide squad and people are

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still talking about that movie.

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Yeah, because it's a great suicide squad movie.

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Yeah.

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Like I feel like I've heard people discussing suicide squad over Black Adam.

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I would too.

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It's a better movie.

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Yeah.

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But no, like I'm just like saying in in general, like just talking about like I don't hear

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very many people talking about Black Adam because it's like Adam's super average movie

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as we we scored.

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So go listen to that episode, dude, after we talked about it.

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That was probably the last time I talked about it to anyone.

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Yeah, like I think the only reason I want to go back and watch Black Adam is just because

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I feel like there's stuff I missed.

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That's that's fair.

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Did you see it's on HBO Max now?

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Yeah, so I'll probably be rewatching that soon ish.

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Maybe we'll see.

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Yeah, we'll see if I get around to it.

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But yeah, it's just.

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I think the Rock had big plans and he's like, we're going to listen to the fans.

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We're going to listen to this.

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We're going to listen to that.

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The fans I feel don't always know what they want.

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Thank you.

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I'm sorry to say.

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And like, I will say this, where Marvel kind of takes up makes it a point to not hire fans

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because they're just like, we don't want anyone coming in with expectations of what these

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characters should be, which I think is the wrong way to go in general.

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You need someone who understands the character.

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I agree.

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Yeah, I don't like that approach.

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They're just like, oh, yeah, we don't want someone that knows the source material like

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the back of their hand.

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Yeah, but like, isn't that going to make for like a really good movie or show?

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Like someone that knows the character inside and out?

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Yeah, it's just like that.

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It would satisfy fans, someone who's like a good filmmaker.

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Like I'm sure it would actually especially like the actor who's playing the character.

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I'm held.

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They'll probably they could probably even tell them something that they don't even know

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about the character and they'd be like, holy shit, I never knew that.

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That's awesome to know.

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Yeah, like I think if you if you hire someone that's going in blind to any particular character,

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it's what stories are you missing?

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Kind of like the writers for Multiverse of Madness didn't even watch Wandavision.

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Yeah, what kind of bullshit is that?

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Yeah, that was horseshit.

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Like, come on.

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Like you are actually kidding me.

469
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Yeah, it's just like.

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Think about all of the amazing stories that we've missed out on because you guys hired

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someone that doesn't know the character that well.

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Yeah, that just went to a comic book shop, said, hey, get me some Spider-Man comics and

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then came and was just like, OK, here, here's a few.

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And you're not understanding that there's a bunch of different storylines.

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Yeah, like it.

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I will say this, The Rock released a decent movie.

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I don't hate Black Adam.

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Yeah, but compared to like compared to the rest of the DC universe, it's one of the better

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movies.

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Yeah, but it's by no means anywhere close to being like jaw droppingly good.

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Like the closest one was James Gunn's Suicide Squad.

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Like that one was just off the frickin hook.

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So good.

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Yeah, so, so good.

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It's just.

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I understand like.

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I understand why The Rock is all but hurt because he felt like Warner Brothers was just

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kind of putting all their eggs in his basket and then ended up like not really doing that

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when they were like, yeah, we're going to go hire James Gunn.

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But I think The Rock and probably Warner Brothers, too, overpromised on a lot of shit.

491
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Absolutely.

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Because they canceled.

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They canceled all of the cameos from.

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Henry Cavill in the future.

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Like I think he was supposed to appear in Flash or.

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Yeah.

497
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:22,520
Both him and Gal Gadot were Gal Gadot, sorry, were were supposed to appear in the Flash.

498
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,200
The other cameos were cut.

499
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,200
Yeah.

500
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,440
So those were cut.

501
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:34,560
Ben Affleck's cameo was cut from Aquaman.

502
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,440
Yeah, I think I think it was for Aquaman, too.

503
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:40,440
Yeah.

504
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:51,720
And then what's Patty Jenkins was basically like her Wonder Woman three story was completely

505
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,720
scrapped.

506
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,720
Yep.

507
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:59,200
So James Gunn came in like.

508
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,400
Fists of flying.

509
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,920
I mean, but he kind of had to.

510
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,040
Yeah, like.

511
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:13,520
It just like I understand from like his perspective, it's like, how do you take these characters

512
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:18,860
that have been established within someone else's universe?

513
00:30:18,860 --> 00:30:26,000
Like you have like all these characters that are part of the Zack Snyder universe.

514
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,120
And it's just these characters are known for being super dark.

515
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:36,160
And so if you try to go a lighter tone with them, it's just going to feel awkward because

516
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,880
they're like, oh, like this.

517
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:42,280
So that's like all anyone would talk about is just like, oh, like how bright and fun

518
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,040
these like they start they feel now.

519
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,660
And then they start bitching about that.

520
00:30:46,660 --> 00:30:51,880
And it's just like if you start from ground zero, like he's doing.

521
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,280
Like you can build whatever the hell you want.

522
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,920
And I think that's ideal for him.

523
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,040
Yeah, I absolutely agree.

524
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:09,640
Like, it is a bummer that Henry Cavill won't be coming back to play Superman.

525
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,200
But I'm going to miss the guy.

526
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,520
Yeah, it's for the best.

527
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,280
I absolutely agree.

528
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,520
Like if it's a pizza, big bummer.

529
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:19,520
It is.

530
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:25,520
But if people still want to see DC movies on the big screen, something had to change.

531
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,340
Yeah, absolutely.

532
00:31:28,340 --> 00:31:36,360
So I hope that this is the start of a much better DC universe.

533
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,560
I hope so, too.

534
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,120
Really quickly, I just want to get your opinion on the what the Rock said.

535
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,120
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

536
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:48,600
So he said, my passionate friends, I wanted to give you a long awaited Black Adam update

537
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,760
regarding the characters future in the new DC universe.

538
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,080
James Gunn and I connected and Black Adam will not be in their first chapter of storytelling.

539
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,840
However, DC and Seven Bucks have agreed to continue exploring the most valuable ways

540
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,400
Black Adam can be utilized in future DC multiverse chapters.

541
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,800
James and I have known each other for years and have always rooted for each other to succeed.

542
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:14,840
It's no different now and I will always root for DC and Marvel to win and win big.

543
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,400
You guys know me and I have very, very thick skin and you can always count on me to be

544
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,840
direct with my words.

545
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,920
These decisions made by James and DC leadership represent their vision of DC, DCU through

546
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,800
their creative lens.

547
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,760
After 15 years of relentless hard work to finally make Black Adam, I'm very proud of

548
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,680
the film we delivered for the fans worldwide.

549
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,400
We will always look back on the fan reaction to Black Adam with tremendous gratitude, humility

550
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:41,460
and love.

551
00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:42,720
We did great.

552
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:47,840
To my very passionate and vocal Black Adam superhero genre fans, I love you.

553
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:52,960
Thank you and I will always listen to you and do my best to deliver and entertain you.

554
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:59,940
What a hell of a month now we all need some Terra-mana.

555
00:32:59,940 --> 00:33:04,560
Have a productive week and happy holidays to you and your families.

556
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,160
And he posted that December 20th.

557
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:12,280
Okay.

558
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:17,480
So at least from what it says, it doesn't seem like he's too butthurt about it.

559
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,640
Which isn't, yeah, which is nice.

560
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,960
Unlike someone, Ray Fisher.

561
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,680
Yeah.

562
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,920
It was kind of under, like I understand Ray Fisher's issues though.

563
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,140
He was kind of screwed over.

564
00:33:34,140 --> 00:33:38,000
He was, but I hate that he's like attacking James Gunn for it.

565
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000
When Gunn did nothing.

566
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Gunn didn't do shit.

567
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Yeah.

568
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,960
It's like, dude, I wasn't even part of the team there.

569
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:45,960
Yes.

570
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,160
Don't shoot the messenger, dude.

571
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,160
Like, come on.

572
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,160
If you're going to go after anyone, go after, because I know he won't, well, it wasn't

573
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,160
Zack Snyder at all.

574
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,160
But yeah, go after-

575
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,160
That was Josh Sweden.

576
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,160
Yeah.

577
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,680
Go after Josh Sweden or go after the hierarchy at DC.

578
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,000
Don't go after Gunn.

579
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,160
James Gunn literally had nothing to do when you were Cyborg.

580
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,320
Yeah.

581
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,880
So the only thing is just Cyborg was scrapped, right?

582
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,440
That's the only thing James Gunn has done.

583
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:18,440
Yeah.

584
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,000
But, I mean, they're still releasing the Flash.

585
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,440
They're still releasing Aquaman, which kind of gives them a decent amount of time to get

586
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,440
their shit together.

587
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,800
Yeah.

588
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,920
So I'm not upset about it.

589
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:42,840
At least from what he's discussed so far, I'm kind of excited for what this has to,

590
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,960
or what it's going to happen moving forward.

591
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,920
Oh, dude, especially considering that he said a huge inspiration for his universe will be

592
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,280
the Justice League animated show from when we were kids.

593
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,960
Oh, yeah, right?

594
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,360
I'm so excited for that.

595
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:02,640
Dude, I'm excited for that possibility.

596
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:08,600
What just kind of makes me even happier, because it's like, yes, I've always kind of been a

597
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:14,520
bigger Marvel fanboy than DC, but I want them both to be good.

598
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,000
I want both of them to be off the hook.

599
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,640
And if everyone's like, oh, Marvel versus DC, I'm always going to pick Marvel.

600
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,400
But I want DC to have their time in the sun, too.

601
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:31,880
Right now, it just feels like DC's been at a short end of the stick, not knowing their

602
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:32,880
true direction.

603
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:39,880
And then now that they have James Gunn, someone who's worked inside the bubble of Marvel and

604
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:48,120
understands how that place is ran, can start to build an amazing universe for us to see,

605
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:53,920
give us the stories that we want to see as well, and show us sides to these superheroes

606
00:35:53,920 --> 00:36:00,600
that we don't think about or get to see.

607
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,280
This is the shit that I want.

608
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:08,360
I have complete and utter faith in James Gunn to knock this out of the park.

609
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,360
Same here.

610
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:19,800
It's sad that everyone's throwing a big old fit like, oh, Henry Cavill got fired.

611
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,440
Yeah.

612
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,040
It kind of had to happen, guys.

613
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Yeah.

614
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,040
Unfortunately.

615
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,760
I'm sorry to say.

616
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:33,200
I hope Marvel kind of picks up this fumble and gives us something with Henry Cavill

617
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,200
in it.

618
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:42,900
Some people are saying that, oh, they need to give him the Hyperion or Sentry role in

619
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:46,760
Marvel Universe, which is basically the Marvel equivalent of Superman.

620
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,000
And I'm like, no, that'd be lame.

621
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,320
Give him someone cool.

622
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,880
I want a completely different character than what he played as Superman.

623
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,880
Yeah.

624
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,960
Like, he's like, the freaking Captain Britain.

625
00:36:58,960 --> 00:36:59,960
Yes.

626
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:00,960
Absolutely.

627
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,960
Oh, he would kill it.

628
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:04,960
Right?

629
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:10,120
Like, that would be so cool.

630
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:18,040
We've already kind of established that Steve Rogers has lived his life with Peggy, right?

631
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:26,480
So my whole thing is like, pick it up, do some freaking time jumping thing, and make

632
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:34,240
Henry Cavill the love child of Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter that grew up in Britain and

633
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:38,280
became Captain Britain because he has super soldier serum in his blood.

634
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,960
There we go.

635
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,080
That would be the shit, dude.

636
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,320
That would absolutely.

637
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,800
Like, I would love it.

638
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,400
I mean, I don't know how everyone else would feel, but I'd freaking love something like

639
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:54,400
that.

640
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:55,400
I just want Henry Cavill.

641
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,040
He's a great actor.

642
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,040
He is.

643
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,320
He doesn't get enough love, and I hate it.

644
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,840
Absolutely not.

645
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:09,320
So I hope Marvel, like I said, picks up this fumble and gives him something good to work

646
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:10,320
with.

647
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,320
Same here.

648
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,360
Like, no matter what it be, I hope they just don't, as long as they don't waste him as

649
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,360
a character, I.

650
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,800
Yeah, I'd be freaking pissed if that happened.

651
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:21,800
Yeah.

652
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,080
So hopefully they find something cool.

653
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:29,360
Like, obviously Captain Britain isn't the only role that he would fit in.

654
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:35,240
I think that there's a few others that I think he'd be well suited for.

655
00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:40,920
Yeah, like you could go a number of routes.

656
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:41,920
Yeah.

657
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:49,280
I mean, hell, if you wanted to, like, have him be Colossus, like, that'd be pretty sick.

658
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,280
Yeah.

659
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,960
That'd be super cool.

660
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,440
That might be a little funky.

661
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,440
Make him beast.

662
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,440
Yes, there we go.

663
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,440
That'd be cool.

664
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,920
That would be super cool.

665
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,840
I would actually love to see him as beast.

666
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,600
Just like put him in something that we wouldn't expect.

667
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:13,000
Like, there are some people that are making the claim that, oh, he can be the MCU's Wolverine

668
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,160
and like, oh, that's stretch.

669
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:21,440
Yeah, that's a, I want like a comic accurate Wolverine.

670
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:25,720
I want just a short, stocky, hairy dude to be Wolverine.

671
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:26,720
Yes.

672
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:29,160
I absolutely agree.

673
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:36,320
Anyway, I think that covers everything that we can talk about with the DC crap going on.

674
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,440
I got nothing else to add.

675
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,160
All right.

676
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:46,080
Well, let's say we move on to this week's headliner.

677
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,080
Let's do it.

678
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:53,600
All righty.

679
00:39:53,600 --> 00:40:14,160
Like we said, we will be breaking down a Christmas story Christmas, which is currently available

680
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,600
on HBO Max.

681
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:21,520
If you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different categories

682
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:26,640
that we individually score to come to a final Albrows letter grade.

683
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:33,200
The eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,

684
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:38,000
music, costumes, and then we give our own personal score at the very end.

685
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,720
All of those numbers get magically added up, thrown through our algorithm and spit out

686
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:48,280
a letter grade for us to compare this movie to other movies of a similar grade, as well

687
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:53,200
as a percentage so we have a ranking of these movies.

688
00:40:53,200 --> 00:41:00,920
So if you have not seen a Christmas story Christmas, please do yourself a favor and

689
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,320
go check this one out.

690
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:11,760
It is really freaking good and highly, highly, highly recommend.

691
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:16,560
But if you listen past this point and have not seen it, Rose is about to spoil the entire

692
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,480
movie for you.

693
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:24,640
So if you listen past this point, it's your own damn fault that it's spoiled.

694
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:34,000
So yeah, without further ado, Rose, would you like to do our favorite reading with Rose

695
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000
segment?

696
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,320
Yeah, it's probably your favorite and my favorite.

697
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,280
I mean, we could split this like back and forth if you want.

698
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,720
No, dude, I'm totally fucking with you.

699
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:57,920
You want a freaking bitch about it.

700
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:03,120
In December 1973, 33 years after the events of A Christmas Story, Ralphie Parker has moved

701
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,640
away from but is it Hoi Man?

702
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:07,640
Is it Hoi Man?

703
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,640
I think it's Hoi Man.

704
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:10,640
Oh, okay.

705
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,440
Away from Hoi Man, Indiana and lives in Chicago with his loving wife Sandy and two children,

706
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,040
Mark and Julie.

707
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:21,040
Ralphie has been taking the year off from an unspecified rat race job to write his first

708
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:25,520
novel but its excessive length leads multiple publishers to reject it.

709
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,940
As the family prepares for Ralphie's parents to come visit for Christmas, Mrs. Parker calls

710
00:42:29,940 --> 00:42:34,440
to tell Ralphie that his father, aka the old man, has sadly died.

711
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:41,080
The grief-stricken family makes its way to Hoi Man and Ralphie's beat up 1966 Plymouth

712
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:47,960
to be with Mrs. Parker, who has received a large number of casseroles as condolence

713
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,660
offerings.

714
00:42:49,660 --> 00:42:54,160
She gives Ralphie two tasks, write his father's obituary and take up his mantle of making

715
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,200
Christmas special for the family.

716
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:02,120
Ralphie's children befriend one of the Bumpus' kids next door and are bullied by two children

717
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,740
on a snowmobile.

718
00:43:03,740 --> 00:43:07,440
Ralphie reunites with Flick, who now owns a tavern, and Schwartz, who still lives with

719
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,560
his mother and has run up a large tab at Flick's.

720
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:18,240
Why is it that my favorite character from the original gets done dirty in this movie?

721
00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:26,640
Because you like to pick the people that are always like the toss-away characters, more

722
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:27,640
or less.

723
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,880
Yeah, but Schwartz isn't the one that frickin' stuck his tongue to the pole.

724
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:31,880
That was Flick.

725
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,080
Is Flick the bar owner?

726
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,600
Yeah, Flick's the bar owner.

727
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,160
Okay, so he stuck his tongue.

728
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,160
Yes.

729
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,160
Are you sure?

730
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,400
I thought it was the other way around.

731
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:49,800
No, no, it was Flick that stuck his tongue to the pole.

732
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,280
Okay.

733
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:52,840
Yeah.

734
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,000
Beats me.

735
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,440
All I'm saying is some bullshit.

736
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:07,160
He also takes his family out tree shopping and, failing to replicate his father's negotiation

737
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:11,600
skills, ends up with a tree too tall for the house's living room.

738
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,520
While decorating, Julie becomes nervous that there isn't an angel to top it with.

739
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:23,160
Improvising, Ralphie tells her that Santa Claus looks for stars in Hoi-man, not angels.

740
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,640
All the while, he finds his first typewriter in the attic and begins work on the old man's

741
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:32,120
obituary, struggling to find the right words and instead using his makeshift workspace

742
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,280
to write the sequel to his still unpublished novel.

743
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,880
While leaving the house to go ice skating, Sandy slips and sprains her ankle, causing

744
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,240
her to need crutches.

745
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:47,800
As Christmas Eve approaches, the family goes to Higby's where, miraculously, Ralphie manages

746
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,160
to buy everything Mark and Julie ask for while their children wait in line to see Santa.

747
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:57,280
A tipsy Sandy and Mrs. Parker, as well as the store's entire restaurant, are thrilled.

748
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,020
On the way back, the Plymouth breaks down again and the family passes the time needed

749
00:45:01,020 --> 00:45:03,880
for it to cool down by having a snowball fight.

750
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:08,240
Ralphie accidentally hits Julie in the eye with a snowball, which requires a tr-

751
00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:09,240
Like, dad, god.

752
00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:14,320
I don't know the way he- That throw felt personal.

753
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,640
Dude.

754
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:24,760
I lost my ever-loving mind with that scene.

755
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:30,720
It was so freaking funny and so perfectly timed.

756
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:38,120
It was just- It came out of nowhere in the best possible way.

757
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,400
It was fantastic.

758
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,440
It was so freaking good, dude.

759
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,440
Yeah.

760
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,120
It really was.

761
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:51,840
I don't know where I'm putting- Where I'm giving the bonus points, but I'm giving bonus

762
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,960
points for that scene.

763
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,400
So after he hits her in the eye with a snowball, it requires a trip to the emergency room and

764
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,360
a temporary eye patch.

765
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,840
All of the gifts are stolen from the car's pop trunk when the family is inside the hospital

766
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,880
and Sandy has little money left to replace them.

767
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:14,840
Back at Flick's, Flick gives Mark an on-the-spot first job bartending.

768
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:20,440
His patients with shorts worn thin, Flick offers to forgive Schwartz's tab if he completes

769
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:21,720
a physical stunt.

770
00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:22,720
The ramp.

771
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:27,240
Schwartz succeeds after being triple-dog-dared to do it, and his tab is forgiven.

772
00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:32,720
Soon, all of the bar patrons begin sledding, leading to Mark breaking his arm.

773
00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:38,760
Ralphie is then rejected by his final prospective publisher, whom he has been pestering the

774
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,360
whole week to accept.

775
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,960
Disheartened, he throws the second manuscript away and gives up on writing.

776
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:51,640
After some comfort from Sandy and remembering the Christmases of yesteryear, Ralphie suddenly

777
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,640
gains a burst of inspiration and writes a piece that far exceeds the length of a normal

778
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,960
obituary, tearing up at the memories of the old man.

779
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:03,600
However, he leaves it on the desk rather than sending it to the newspaper to prepare for

780
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:04,920
Christmas Day.

781
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,560
Mark and Julie manage to get back at their bullies by building a snowman over a tree

782
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,280
stump so their snowmobile crashes.

783
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:22,120
That night, though, Julie becomes upset after the tree's star falls and breaks.

784
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:26,720
Ralphie, frustrated, goes out against his wife and mother's urging to find a new one.

785
00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:30,240
Since all of the stores are closed, his only option is to borrow the star, with a beer

786
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:34,480
company logo on it, from the tree in Flick's Tavern, breaking and entering the premises

787
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:35,840
to do so.

788
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:40,520
On his way out, he is caught and apprehended by Scut Farkas, now a police officer.

789
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:44,560
Ralphie is terrified of what Scut will do to him, but after some initial teasing, he

790
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:49,640
actually brings him home, saying he owes Ralphie because their fight set him on a better path

791
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,860
in life.

792
00:47:51,860 --> 00:47:57,160
He also unknowingly reveals his own children to have been the bullies of Mark and Julie.

793
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:01,280
As Mrs. Parker and Ralphie reminisce about the old man, the Christmas tree once again

794
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,320
blows a fuse, but the former orders the latter to bed, saying that she needs to learn these

795
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,460
things for self now.

796
00:48:07,460 --> 00:48:11,280
On Christmas morning, Ralphie is confused by compliments he receives about his piece

797
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:12,280
in the newspaper.

798
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:17,080
Sandy, it turns out, had found the obituary manuscript and took it to the local paper,

799
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:22,640
and its high quality led to it taking the front page as a full column and quickly being

800
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,200
syndicated.

801
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:30,680
Ralphie is offered a new job as a syndicated columnist, fulfilling his dream of leaving

802
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,680
the rat race and becoming a full-time writer.

803
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,920
Opening presents, it is discovered that the old man had bought and personally wrapped

804
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,840
very thoughtful gifts for the family shortly before his death.

805
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,600
Much of the town soon comes to the Parker house for Christmas dinner along with Ralphie's

806
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,460
younger brother, Randy, fresh from a business trip in India.

807
00:48:48,460 --> 00:48:53,120
After dinner concludes, the Khor family asks Ralphie to read his story about the old man.

808
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,840
Seeing his father's vacant red chair but realizing that he is still very much there that day

809
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:01,560
in spirit, Ralphie takes a seat and begins to read, fully embracing his new role as the

810
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:02,560
old man's successor.

811
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:07,840
It is revealed that the story is in fact that of Christmas 1940 as Ralphie's narration

812
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:12,600
of it fades and transitions into Gene Shepard's from the original film.

813
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,640
Gosh, dude.

814
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:24,000
There is no other way that they could have ended this movie that would have topped this

815
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,000
ending.

816
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,920
I absolutely agree.

817
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,520
This is just perfect.

818
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:38,200
It's like they built a perfect loop between a Christmas story and a Christmas story Christmas.

819
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,360
It was just flawlessly executed.

820
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,240
It was so good.

821
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:50,960
I didn't even expect until he was sitting down about to read.

822
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:55,160
It was actually like when he started reading, I was just like, wait a minute, this sounds

823
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,160
familiar.

824
00:49:56,160 --> 00:50:01,520
Then it just slowly led into the opening of a Christmas story.

825
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:05,600
Like, dude, this is perfect.

826
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,560
You can't get better than that.

827
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,160
No, you cannot.

828
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:11,160
Gosh.

829
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:20,320
Anyway, so starting off with story, they freaking killed it.

830
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:32,600
This is easily one of the probably one of the most relatable Christmas stories out there.

831
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,240
It really is.

832
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:43,800
I feel that Ralphie says one of the best lines I feel that I've ever heard in a movie, not

833
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,040
only a Christmas movie, but in a movie in general.

834
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,320
It's when he's on the phone with his mom and she tells him the news and he's just like,

835
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:56,720
no matter what you go through life, nothing can prepare you for when someone tells you

836
00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:01,560
of the passing of a parent.

837
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:02,560
He's not wrong.

838
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:10,160
I mean, I know some of us all have our scuffles with our parents.

839
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:16,080
Some of us have better relationships with them than others, but I feel that there at

840
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:20,960
least has to be out of the two, if we're just saying, you know, they're just mom and a dad,

841
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:26,360
I feel there has to be at least one or at least I hope there's one out of those two

842
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:36,120
that it just hits you so hard and you're taken back by it that you don't know how to react.

843
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:44,400
I can't even imagine, but it's especially unlike Ralphie situation, it seems like he

844
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,040
had a good relationship with both of his parents.

845
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:49,480
Absolutely.

846
00:51:49,480 --> 00:52:02,200
And the fact that he had that good relationship and then it's hit with that certain news.

847
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:11,480
I mean, you kind of view as kids, you view your parents as gods in some way.

848
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,720
They're the ones that brought you into this world.

849
00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:23,720
They're the ones that are taking care of you and have taught and guided you in most aspects.

850
00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:30,400
Like I said, as long as you have a good relationship with them.

851
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:39,800
And then just like hearing, you almost view them as indestructible, like borderline immortal

852
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,720
beings.

853
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:48,880
Like you can't imagine the world without them because you've never been in a world without

854
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,880
them.

855
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:57,440
And just hearing like so suddenly to where because you were planning on like, oh, they're

856
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,160
on their way here.

857
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,540
Like there is no indication whatsoever that anything was wrong.

858
00:53:03,540 --> 00:53:12,080
It's just a very sudden turn and that could take anyone off guard.

859
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:13,800
And I absolutely agree with you.

860
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:22,420
The way that he explains it is heartbreaking and just one of the many heartbreaking moments

861
00:53:22,420 --> 00:53:24,320
in this film.

862
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:33,880
Like they did so good sharing this story and I know that we've already talked about it

863
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:43,680
and with me saying that I feel this movie is slightly better paced than the first one.

864
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:50,760
Like it's just anything that like kind of resembles a movie that was made way back when

865
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:54,520
because when Christmas stories were in what the 80s.

866
00:53:54,520 --> 00:54:00,920
I think it might have been so maybe it wasn't the 80s.

867
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:01,920
Let me see.

868
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,840
Oh no, it wasn't the 80s.

869
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:05,840
1983.

870
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,440
1983.

871
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:08,440
But it took place.

872
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,080
When does it take place?

873
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,760
So this one takes place 30 years later in the 70s, right?

874
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,040
Yeah.

875
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,920
So it's just like a 30 year jump.

876
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:24,080
Yeah, 1940 is when Christmas story takes place.

877
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,400
Okay.

878
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:35,640
So yeah, it's like with I think it's just something that just comes.

879
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:41,880
There's a lot of fluff or things that are left in with 80s movies that can easily be

880
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:43,820
cropped out.

881
00:54:43,820 --> 00:54:48,200
And I think not even a Christmas story is safe from that.

882
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:52,920
I feel like there are maybe some things you can crop out.

883
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:59,600
Like specifically, what's coming to mind is when like the kids are walking home from school

884
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:04,280
and then they like get chased and then it's just like the sped up footage of them like

885
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:05,840
running around and doing all that.

886
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,840
And then it's just like, well, okay, what was the point to that other than just like

887
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,800
a little comedic bit?

888
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:13,800
That's the point.

889
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,560
It's just the comedic bit, which makes it so great.

890
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:21,600
Man, you're a freaking sucker for shit like that.

891
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:22,600
I am.

892
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:23,600
Shut up.

893
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:30,680
But yeah, that's what I mean with like pacing issues.

894
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,920
Okay.

895
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,840
So it's just like it feels like they crop some of that out.

896
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,960
The story was like really solid.

897
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:50,200
They were like they were able to keep just the overall feel of the first one really well.

898
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:57,440
There is a lot of sequels out there that need to take a book from this movie.

899
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:02,720
This is how you do nostalgia, right?

900
00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:08,800
Because there are so many callbacks to the first one, but none of them feel, or to the

901
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,760
original, but none of them feel out of place.

902
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:17,680
The one that I was saying like, okay, if they're going to do this, it's going to feel out of

903
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:29,080
place, but it doesn't because it takes place when Ralphie's having like those, not visions,

904
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:35,520
but like what would you call them?

905
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,480
Those are tough to explain.

906
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:42,080
Yeah, I just don't know.

907
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,920
I would almost say that they're like daydreaming.

908
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,280
Almost.

909
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:54,160
So it's like daydreams, but also a little bit of like what Family Guy does.

910
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,360
Okay.

911
00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:01,320
Like they're the Family Guy style jokes where they have a setup and then boom, they show

912
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,800
a little clip of that whole setup.

913
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:08,440
But it is like what you said, more of like a dream scenario.

914
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,320
So I'd say it's almost a dream sequence.

915
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:12,320
Okay.

916
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:21,360
Because this literally just signified, oh my God, I freaking love this sequel.

917
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:25,120
When he's in the back of the police car and he's just thinking of everything that Scott

918
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:33,120
Farkas might do to him and it has the freaking, oh my God, what's...

919
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:39,600
So of course it has the guy that plays Scott Farkas in the original dressed how he looked

920
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:45,200
in the original along with the guy that played his buddy.

921
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,120
Oh my God, what was his...

922
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,080
I forget, okay, I got to know his name.

923
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:55,920
You know who I'm talking about, like the little short kid that was with him in the first one?

924
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,760
Yeah, I don't remember his name though.

925
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:59,720
Okay, that's going to bug the shit out of me.

926
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,760
Sorry, I got to find out his name.

927
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,720
Also was that the actual guy that played Farkas?

928
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:06,720
Yep.

929
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:07,720
Yep.

930
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,200
That is the original guy that played Scott Farkas.

931
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,040
Is he really?

932
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:27,400
Because I know him from a different show, like a show that he was in a lot further...

933
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,840
Like there's no way, hold on.

934
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,640
No, yeah, that's him.

935
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,200
Dude, son of a bitch.

936
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:38,680
That's freaking nuts.

937
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:49,440
Because I know Zach Ward from a show that my favorite comedian did.

938
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:56,960
So okay, so that show took place in the early 2000s, 2000 to 2002.

939
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,000
And then you said this movie took place in...

940
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,000
1970?

941
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,120
Or it came out in 1983.

942
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:06,120
So he would have been...

943
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:07,120
Oh yeah, I'm sorry.

944
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,760
2013.

945
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:13,560
And then he would have been 30 years old in 2000.

946
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:18,640
Okay, that tracks.

947
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:23,000
But anyway, like, gosh, that's freaking nuts, dude.

948
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:28,200
So I love the flashback that yeah, so Zach Ward, Scott Farkas is dressed how he looked

949
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:29,840
in the original as a kid.

950
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:38,480
And then his bully buddy, Grover Dill, played by Yano Anaya, came back to play him as well.

951
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,440
And they're laughing at Ralphie.

952
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:48,120
And then they do exactly what they did in the first one, where Grover punches Scott

953
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:49,120
and then...

954
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,200
Wait, no, I'm sorry.

955
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:58,420
I think it's Scott punches Grover and then Grover punches Scott and then Scott kind of

956
00:59:58,420 --> 00:59:59,420
gets mad.

957
00:59:59,420 --> 01:00:04,520
And so he punches him even harder and he's just like, ah, man.

958
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:09,280
They did the exact same scene where they're all freaking grown up.

959
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:11,920
I was like smiling so hard.

960
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:16,760
I'm like, yeah, this is such a great freaking sequel for replicating that scene.

961
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,800
Dude, they went all out with that.

962
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,720
Even going as far as putting fake braces on him.

963
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,160
Yeah, they did.

964
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:27,840
So freaking great.

965
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:29,340
So good.

966
01:00:29,340 --> 01:00:32,840
So good.

967
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:34,720
That's what I really liked about that.

968
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:36,760
If it still had...

969
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:42,720
It showed that Ralphie still has kind of that childhood imagination about him.

970
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:46,280
Yes, and I love that.

971
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,760
Yeah, it's fantastic.

972
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:53,800
I freaking love when they do stuff like that.

973
01:00:53,800 --> 01:01:02,960
They're able to express that and share it and just giving him the job of being a writer

974
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:08,840
or giving him that's his dream to be a writer where he has to have that kind of imagination

975
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:10,040
works so well.

976
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,760
And it honestly makes a lot of sense when you're thinking back to the first one that

977
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:20,080
that's the direction he went with a career for how excited he gets when his teacher asks

978
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:24,320
them to write a Christmas theme about what they want for Christmas and of course he uses

979
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:31,400
it for letting his teacher know, hey, maybe you can persuade my parents to actually buy

980
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,280
me a Red Ryder BB gun.

981
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:40,320
But I don't know, I'm just remembering how much his eyes light up when he's asked to

982
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:43,120
write a story about what he wants for Christmas.

983
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:47,320
So you can tell that from the very beginning when he was a little kid that writing was

984
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:49,320
in his blood.

985
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:59,760
But they just did a really solid job at giving us the, just guiding us along this journey

986
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:06,640
of grief as well as the holiday spirit.

987
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:13,520
Because I mean, throughout like an underlying tone of this is dealing with the loss of his

988
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:17,280
father, the old man.

989
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:22,760
But it's also trying to fill those shoes, fill that role.

990
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,600
And that's what he's doing.

991
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:30,680
He's attempting to fill that role the best way that he can.

992
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:40,420
And that's going and buying the gifts, all the gifts that his kids want for Christmas.

993
01:02:40,420 --> 01:02:45,760
But he also hasn't forgotten the stuff that he went through as a kid.

994
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:55,400
So he's able to like, remind his children about different stuff.

995
01:02:55,400 --> 01:03:01,320
Like I love, I love just like the small little hints of stuff that he's never forgotten.

996
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:09,360
Like when they were at the, at that store and his kids were getting in line to see Santa.

997
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:14,120
And like right before he leaves, he's like, just don't let him kick you in the face.

998
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:20,560
So great, so great.

999
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:23,120
Friggin loved it.

1000
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:28,400
Where are you sitting at with story?

1001
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:35,400
I'm honestly, I'm pretty high just because it just, it just did everything right when

1002
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:41,440
it comes to a sequel that takes place so long after the original.

1003
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:48,760
So I wouldn't say I'm in the nineties, but I am pretty close I feel.

1004
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:53,920
So I'm going to go in 87.

1005
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:57,560
Honestly I can meet you about there too.

1006
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:06,600
So I think, I don't think it quite cracked into the 90 range, but it was very, very solid.

1007
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:15,400
Because I think where the story fell through, the writing is what really enhanced this for

1008
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:16,440
me.

1009
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:22,120
So I think the writing definitely cracked nineties for me.

1010
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:23,120
I would agree.

1011
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:24,360
I would definitely agree.

1012
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:25,360
Yeah.

1013
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,080
It was just really smartly written.

1014
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:35,080
It gave like, kind of gave it like a modern tone to it in a way.

1015
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:43,160
Like I really liked when he went back home and he was going to the bar and what is it?

1016
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:47,040
What were the two kids that were flicking shorts?

1017
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:48,040
Yeah.

1018
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:52,240
I love their, like how their dynamic really hadn't changed all that much.

1019
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:53,600
It really didn't.

1020
01:04:53,600 --> 01:05:00,040
And yeah, just everything that they did with these characters 30 years later, as much as

1021
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:06,800
I wasn't the biggest fan of what they did with Schwartz, I can see why it makes sense.

1022
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:11,280
None of the characters, the direction that they went felt so out of left field that you're

1023
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:13,680
just like, it's not even the same character anymore.

1024
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:14,680
Yeah.

1025
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:19,520
Like these, these guys genuinely felt like the same characters.

1026
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:23,240
Like they hadn't, like they hadn't aged a day.

1027
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:28,280
Like the only thing that's different is like how they look, but it's like their personalities

1028
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:29,280
are the same.

1029
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,880
It's just like who they are at their core is the same.

1030
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:32,880
Oh dude.

1031
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:36,800
I got so excited when Ralphie walked into the bar and flicking shorts were there.

1032
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,800
I'm just like, yeah, three amigos are back together again.

1033
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,680
It was so great.

1034
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:42,720
Oh dude.

1035
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:51,920
I loved the scene where he had got Triple Dog Dared to go down that ramp.

1036
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:55,760
That's so great.

1037
01:05:55,760 --> 01:06:02,520
Like every, like it's like everyone around was just like, but like the kids were just

1038
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:05,640
like, what, what the hell is going on?

1039
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,560
The best part is when finally Flick is just like, he's going to be okay.

1040
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:10,560
Right?

1041
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:14,200
Ralph and Ralph was just like, you know, we should probably just move out of the way.

1042
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:15,200
Yeah.

1043
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:18,200
Let's just move out of the way.

1044
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:25,720
Dude, cause you know like damn well that, I mean, obviously for us it's not being Triple

1045
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:33,100
Dog Dared or anything, but if someone like dares you to do something like, oh, bet you

1046
01:06:33,100 --> 01:06:38,000
won't and you're just like, I think there's no way I'm doing that.

1047
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:44,320
And that you just bitch like that, like that will get me to do a lot of stuff.

1048
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:49,400
Even when you're closer to your thirties than you are your twenties.

1049
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:50,600
Yep.

1050
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,040
You'll still do it.

1051
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:53,040
Yeah.

1052
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:58,400
Like my brother's thing, like my younger brother, his whole thing is just no balls.

1053
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,840
Oh, I got balls.

1054
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:05,280
And then he does something stupid or I'll do something stupid.

1055
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:10,440
Like one of us is doing something stupid and it all starts with no balls.

1056
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,720
I love it.

1057
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:16,120
That's awesome.

1058
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:22,000
Like I just gave the internet the key to getting me to do stupid shit.

1059
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,000
Yes you did.

1060
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:24,000
Just like, good job.

1061
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,000
It's like, Hey, do this.

1062
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,000
No, that's stupid.

1063
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:30,000
Pussy.

1064
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,000
No balls.

1065
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:36,640
Oh, I got balls.

1066
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:38,600
Shit.

1067
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:48,360
Anyway, like I said, I'm, I'm, I'm cracking nineties with writing.

1068
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:53,880
I might be in, I might be like right out in 90.

1069
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:55,880
I was thinking the same.

1070
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:57,600
All right.

1071
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:59,600
Moving on over to acting.

1072
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,240
I had this up.

1073
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:03,240
Okay.

1074
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:04,240
All right.

1075
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:11,000
So for acting we have Peter Billingsley.

1076
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:15,160
It just seemed like there was way too many like ing's in that, but I think I might be

1077
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,640
a little, I think I might be mildly dyslexic.

1078
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:19,120
No dude, you're good.

1079
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:20,120
Dude, you know what?

1080
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:21,120
I didn't know about him.

1081
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:23,840
He was, he was an elf.

1082
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:24,840
Yeah.

1083
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:25,840
Holy shit.

1084
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:26,840
I had no idea.

1085
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:27,840
Yeah.

1086
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:28,840
No fricking clue.

1087
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:32,920
Like there's so much shit that he that's come out that he's been in.

1088
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:38,920
Like I didn't realize he was the fricking, uh, uh, what's it, the scientists from iron

1089
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:39,920
man.

1090
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:40,920
No shit.

1091
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:41,920
Yeah.

1092
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:47,360
Damn good for you Billingsley.

1093
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:51,600
I know he was the one that was working with Mysterio.

1094
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,960
Oh my god.

1095
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:56,160
And then he's, he's the one.

1096
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:57,160
Yeah.

1097
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:58,240
Then he was the one I got yelled at.

1098
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:03,040
He was the one that got yelled at by Jeff bridges in the first one.

1099
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:04,920
Isn't that fricking nuts?

1100
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:05,920
Yeah.

1101
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:06,920
I can see.

1102
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:07,920
Yeah.

1103
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:08,920
Oh my God.

1104
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:09,920
That is so cool.

1105
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:10,920
Yeah.

1106
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:16,680
So, um, so we got Peter Billingsley who plays Ralphie Parker.

1107
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:25,520
We have Aaron Hayes who plays his wife, Sandy Parker, uh, river Drosh who plays their son

1108
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:31,400
Mark Juliana Lane who plays their daughter Julie.

1109
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:38,680
We have Julie Haggerty who plays Ralphie's mom, Mrs. Parker, Scott Schwartz who plays

1110
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:45,080
flick RD Rob who plays Schwartz.

1111
01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:48,400
I didn't realize the guy that plays flicks last name of Schwartz.

1112
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:49,400
That's funny.

1113
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:50,400
Yeah.

1114
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:51,400
Right.

1115
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:52,400
That's hilarious.

1116
01:09:52,400 --> 01:10:02,560
And then I think that's about it in terms of like characters people played.

1117
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:04,520
Yeah.

1118
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,800
Anyway.

1119
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:17,000
Um, this might be a tough one for me, but who, who's your top three?

1120
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:23,760
Um, honestly, this is actually like really easy for me just because I just loved seeing

1121
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:27,400
these three back together in these roles.

1122
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:34,260
So number number three, I would give to Scott Schwartz who played flick.

1123
01:10:34,260 --> 01:10:38,640
Number two, I would give to RD Rob who played Schwartz.

1124
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,280
Just it was just so great seeing these two back together again.

1125
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:45,360
And like, like you point out, this was literally like nothing had changed between these two.

1126
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:47,520
So great.

1127
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:51,720
And then number one, I would absolutely give to Peter Billingsley.

1128
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,840
He transitioned right back into Ralphie.

1129
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:57,520
I mean, yeah, adult Ralphie.

1130
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:02,400
So of course, you know, like he's going to be be different, but it still feels exactly

1131
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,740
the same, still feels the exact same character.

1132
01:11:05,740 --> 01:11:08,840
And he did a fantastic job.

1133
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:14,160
Yeah, hard to argue with you on that one.

1134
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:17,000
He's definitely my number one.

1135
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:24,200
My number two, I might actually give to Julie Haggerty who plays his mom.

1136
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:32,960
I know so that the role was originally offered to the actress who played their mom, but she

1137
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,140
has retired from acting.

1138
01:11:36,140 --> 01:11:41,320
And so she she considered it like she highly considered it, but she ultimately turned it

1139
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:44,120
down.

1140
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,080
So they gave it to Julie Haggerty.

1141
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:51,840
And I think she she made a really good like fit for the mom.

1142
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:53,280
Like she kind of had it.

1143
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:56,080
She had a new feel to her in a way.

1144
01:11:56,080 --> 01:12:01,920
Didn't like quite match the tone of the original, but I think she fit it well enough.

1145
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:06,360
I feel for the excuse you could maybe give with that is just like she's definitely a

1146
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:08,000
lot older in this one.

1147
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:09,280
So, you know, times have changed.

1148
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:11,320
She might be a little bit senile.

1149
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,680
So I don't know.

1150
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:14,680
Yeah, maybe.

1151
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:16,480
Like you can definitely make an argument about it.

1152
01:12:16,480 --> 01:12:19,480
But I mean, the tone wasn't like off or anything.

1153
01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:23,600
It's just if you're making that comparison, it's different.

1154
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:27,040
Yeah, no, absolutely agree.

1155
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:30,080
But I think.

1156
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:39,040
Yeah, my number three, I think I'm going to give to Aaron Hayes who plays Ralphie's wife.

1157
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:45,160
I loved the dynamic between her and Ralphie.

1158
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:46,160
It was really good.

1159
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:47,480
They were so cute together.

1160
01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:48,480
Did they?

1161
01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:56,240
They had some funny shit when they were like together, like the whole carolers come into

1162
01:12:56,240 --> 01:13:03,680
the door and they're like Ralphie and his mom just frickin hit the floor.

1163
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,280
And his wife is just like, I like to Carol.

1164
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:09,840
She's like, like, you brought one of them into my house.

1165
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:14,000
And he's like, I didn't know.

1166
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:16,080
Like frickin love that whole thing.

1167
01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:23,280
And then when they're all decorating the tree and I think it's like Mark that starts talking

1168
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:26,720
about like this kind of feels like child labor.

1169
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:31,960
And then she's like, oh, honey, it's only child labor if we pay you.

1170
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:36,600
That's such a great line.

1171
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:43,120
I laughed at that for a good couple of minutes.

1172
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:47,040
Like they had some frickin like heavy hit jokes.

1173
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:48,920
They really did.

1174
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,160
God, I loved it.

1175
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,040
Yeah, so frickin good.

1176
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:57,400
So yeah, I'm definitely giving it to her.

1177
01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:59,760
My number three spot.

1178
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:02,200
I love it.

1179
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:07,680
Where are you sitting with your acting grade?

1180
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:13,680
I'd say also like pretty high, like none of I can't think of any extras that really brought

1181
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:18,800
it down because a lot of the extras were returning cast members and they just transitioned right

1182
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:20,080
back into the roles.

1183
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:22,580
And I loved every minute of it.

1184
01:14:22,580 --> 01:14:23,580
One of the biggest ones.

1185
01:14:23,580 --> 01:14:29,120
I mean, I know I've already talked about, you know, flicking shorts, but especially

1186
01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:34,120
Scott Farkas, like the guy I've what's his name?

1187
01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:35,320
Zach Ward.

1188
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:36,320
Zach Ward.

1189
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,880
God feels like he never left the role.

1190
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:41,560
Like he even frickin still has the laugh down.

1191
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:44,480
It's still scary as hell.

1192
01:14:44,480 --> 01:14:45,960
I loved it.

1193
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:55,840
Dude, I laughed so hard when they did that like flashback thing where it's he's dressed

1194
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:59,040
as like he was when he was a kid.

1195
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:01,320
That was the funniest shit.

1196
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:02,320
Right.

1197
01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,320
Oh, so great.

1198
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:16,360
Yeah, you know, actually, I think I'm going to give it the same score as writing a 90.

1199
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:19,320
I might be a little bit lower.

1200
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:23,440
I'm definitely a little bit higher than the story.

1201
01:15:23,440 --> 01:15:29,560
I do feel like overall, the acting was really good.

1202
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:35,840
It did kind of feel like everyone was like lessening their acting ability to kind of

1203
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:40,040
match how their tone was as a as kids.

1204
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:45,560
All right, Touche.

1205
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:52,520
So I'm definitely going to give some props for them about that.

1206
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:58,880
I think some of the extras again, like I thought, and with the original, it's just maybe a little

1207
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:06,280
much like I think the the kid bullies were a tad over the top.

1208
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:08,880
The ones with the snowmobile like beating up snowman.

1209
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:09,880
Yeah.

1210
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:13,440
Like what the hell is that?

1211
01:16:13,440 --> 01:16:16,760
So I think I'm still like I said, I'm still fairly high.

1212
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:20,080
I think I'm sitting at like an eighty eight with that one, though.

1213
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:22,840
All right, fair enough.

1214
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:23,840
All right.

1215
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:24,840
Next up, we got character development.

1216
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:28,840
I'm assuming we're doing Ralphie.

1217
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:30,640
Yeah, absolutely.

1218
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:31,640
OK.

1219
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:34,080
What do you think?

1220
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,880
I thought it was really good.

1221
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:44,040
I love that, you know, you see him first starting off as, you know, like a struggling writer

1222
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:48,040
and publisher because no one wants his story.

1223
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:53,340
And then poor guy, you know, here here's about his father's passing.

1224
01:16:53,340 --> 01:16:56,380
And so, you know, he travels back to his hometown.

1225
01:16:56,380 --> 01:17:02,280
His mother asks him to write his eulogy, his obituary and, you know, try to put together

1226
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:12,920
a classic Parker Christmas and just seeing him the way that he tries to make this Christmas

1227
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:18,720
for not only his kids, but his wife and his mom and his mom as close to his old man's

1228
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:27,360
Christmas is just like shows how much of a caring person Ralphie is, the lengths that

1229
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:29,040
he goes to.

1230
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:33,340
And then finally at the ending, you actually see him.

1231
01:17:33,340 --> 01:17:35,760
He actually gets a happy ending.

1232
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:38,120
He actually he's published.

1233
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:39,860
He gets what he wants.

1234
01:17:39,860 --> 01:17:46,200
He doesn't it doesn't end in like a bad way that, oh, you know, he never got published.

1235
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:49,640
He has to go back to a dead end job.

1236
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:54,240
And even there's that scene like after they finish opening gifts on Christmas, even his

1237
01:17:54,240 --> 01:18:00,240
wife is just like, you know what, maybe a year isn't long enough for you to really start

1238
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:01,240
your writing career.

1239
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:02,240
And he stops.

1240
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:05,160
He's just like, no, no, no, honey, we agreed on a year.

1241
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:10,640
And so I'm going back to my dead end job, but then, of course, after that, you know,

1242
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:13,640
he gets the call.

1243
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:20,480
But no, honestly, for a grownup Ralphie that takes place 30 years from when the original

1244
01:18:20,480 --> 01:18:25,200
Christmas story took place, I feel it's a great character arc.

1245
01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:27,160
It's great character development.

1246
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:30,480
It still feels like the exact same Ralphie just all grown up.

1247
01:18:30,480 --> 01:18:35,120
So yeah, it it really does.

1248
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:40,200
Like they did such an amazing job and.

1249
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:41,280
Like sharing that.

1250
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:48,800
And I feel like they even added like a like a bit of a new life to like the original Christmas

1251
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:50,960
story.

1252
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:52,840
I can definitely agree with that.

1253
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:58,360
Just like with the way that they ended it with like kind of his his story coming full

1254
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:06,080
circle, but now you can kind of go into a Christmas story viewing it as like this is

1255
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:09,680
his his love letter to his dad.

1256
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:10,880
Yeah.

1257
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:17,520
And like, like I fucking love when they do when they do stuff like that, like.

1258
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:19,480
Absolutely love it.

1259
01:19:19,480 --> 01:19:24,880
But yeah, he had some fairly decent.

1260
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:26,280
Growth.

1261
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:32,660
I mean, it's this probably the weaker category.

1262
01:19:32,660 --> 01:19:37,080
It's probably going to for me, it's going to be this in costumes.

1263
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:40,080
That's fair.

1264
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:45,880
But yeah, I mean, development wise, it's like.

1265
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:51,840
He was just it's like he didn't really quite go anywhere other than I think most of his

1266
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:59,360
development was just accepting his role in the family as like kind of taking over for

1267
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,160
the old man.

1268
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:03,000
Yeah.

1269
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,000
And I mean.

1270
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,000
He does.

1271
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:09,720
And it's just he learns a lesson like, OK, it doesn't need to be perfect.

1272
01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:13,280
It just needs to be the best I can do.

1273
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:17,200
At least that's kind of what I thought he was taken out of it.

1274
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:22,000
I mean, I guess you got a point there.

1275
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:23,000
You're not wrong.

1276
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:24,000
But what did you think?

1277
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:25,000
What did you?

1278
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:26,000
I don't know.

1279
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:28,080
I mean, now that I'm thinking about it, you are right.

1280
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:30,800
Like I can't even argue that.

1281
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:37,440
Yeah, it's just I think.

1282
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:43,920
I think this is where the movie suffers because it's not a super important detail within this

1283
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,080
story.

1284
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,240
That's fair.

1285
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:54,240
So it's it's kind of hard to to judge this one.

1286
01:20:54,240 --> 01:21:02,120
Well, yeah, like despite like what we felt of the movie.

1287
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:07,880
So for me on this one, I'll say it was above average.

1288
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:13,280
So I might be in like eighty one range.

1289
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:16,440
See, it's actually exactly what I was thinking, because I thought you were going to do an

1290
01:21:16,440 --> 01:21:17,440
eighty.

1291
01:21:17,440 --> 01:21:19,360
So I was going to go up a little more to an eighty one.

1292
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:23,880
So I'll actually match it with an eighty one.

1293
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:24,880
Nice.

1294
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:26,840
All right.

1295
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:33,280
Next up, we got effects, which I think there was a decent amount.

1296
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:36,000
Like they had some stunt work with the ramp.

1297
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:38,960
Yeah, really good.

1298
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:39,960
Yeah.

1299
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:49,000
I'm trying to think of some other shit, oh, when freaking Julie gets plowed in the face

1300
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,080
with that snowball.

1301
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:54,320
God damn.

1302
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:56,920
Oh, dude.

1303
01:21:56,920 --> 01:22:01,560
I I almost like spit up my water.

1304
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:05,320
I like I choked on my drink watching that.

1305
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:07,760
It was so freaking funny.

1306
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:09,800
It really was.

1307
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:14,040
And then the like and then she has to wear a patch over her eye just somehow made it

1308
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:15,040
even funnier.

1309
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:19,720
Oh, yeah, that was the cherry on top.

1310
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:23,320
Oh, my gosh.

1311
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:33,200
It's just it takes you by such surprise, like I said, out of freaking nowhere, out of freaking

1312
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:34,560
left field.

1313
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:37,960
But it's just the funny.

1314
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:45,440
It's like watching someone slip and fall on like grocery store camera footage.

1315
01:22:45,440 --> 01:22:52,160
It's like something you're not really expecting, but it's just a treat when it happens.

1316
01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:53,160
It's true.

1317
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:54,600
It's very true.

1318
01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:57,680
Oh, so I love that.

1319
01:22:57,680 --> 01:22:59,160
Loved how good that looked.

1320
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:06,160
And then I'd say overall, I think I'm taking cinematography into account, too, since those

1321
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:10,520
were I would say closer to special effects.

1322
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:16,040
But yes, cinematography was great.

1323
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:24,280
They definitely did a really good job recapturing how this time period looked.

1324
01:23:24,280 --> 01:23:33,840
And I can I feel that they definitely bumped up the the day the Ralphie daydreams a little

1325
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:38,880
bit from the original and I loved it just the way that they laid them out.

1326
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:44,840
The frickin dead man walking thing when he winds up in prison.

1327
01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:49,200
That was fantastic.

1328
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:51,480
The frickin snowball showdown.

1329
01:23:51,480 --> 01:23:55,940
Yeah, that was awesome.

1330
01:23:55,940 --> 01:24:01,280
It's kind of funny that they have that scene of him in jail because I don't know if you

1331
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:05,800
ever saw this came out in I think like 2013 or 2014.

1332
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:10,200
But remember when they were doing like a lot of direct to DVD sequels Warner Brothers was

1333
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:11,200
doing?

1334
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:12,200
Yes.

1335
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:14,560
And they did a Christmas story, too.

1336
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:16,520
Did you ever see it?

1337
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:18,200
I did not.

1338
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:20,040
It's not as bad as everyone says.

1339
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:21,040
It's not horrible.

1340
01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:23,440
I actually kind of like it a little bit.

1341
01:24:23,440 --> 01:24:26,720
This is this is definitely the true sequel to A Christmas Story.

1342
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:27,840
There's no doubt about that.

1343
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:30,800
This is this is A Christmas Story, too.

1344
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:34,680
But that one is not as bad as everyone says.

1345
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:42,080
But there is a part even when that in that one, he's daydreaming and he has frickin

1346
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:48,040
Schwartz and Flick leading him to I think he's actually going to get the electric chair.

1347
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:50,400
I forget what it is for.

1348
01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:54,400
But I think it's Flick that shouts dead man walking.

1349
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:57,040
So I don't know.

1350
01:24:57,040 --> 01:25:05,120
I just found that funny that both of those kind of scenes were in both sequels, I guess.

1351
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:06,120
That's pretty funny.

1352
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:10,800
That might have been a like a cameo to that one.

1353
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:14,880
It could be good.

1354
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:21,120
Or maybe just like a nod to it at least.

1355
01:25:21,120 --> 01:25:25,160
Effects were pretty good.

1356
01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:28,760
I might be a little bit higher than character development.

1357
01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:37,080
I might be sitting around eighty five.

1358
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:39,880
I might be just a little lower than you.

1359
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:46,240
Long they were good, but just nothing like really stood stood out to me.

1360
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:49,520
I mean, a lot did, but just you know what I mean.

1361
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:50,520
So I'm going to.

1362
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:51,520
Wow.

1363
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:52,520
Not a you.

1364
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:55,200
I'm going to go an eighty I'm going to go an eighty three.

1365
01:25:55,200 --> 01:26:02,840
I think something that I incorporated in that was my thoughts on their recreation of that

1366
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:07,320
one store where they get everything from Higbee's.

1367
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:14,000
Yeah, I think it was a recreation of that plus the like the Santa situation.

1368
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:16,960
Like it's just they recreated that perfectly.

1369
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:19,720
They weren't the elves wearing like the exact same costume.

1370
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:20,720
Yeah, basically.

1371
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:23,920
Yeah, and then they had the big slide.

1372
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:27,920
Yeah, yeah, it was really great.

1373
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:36,000
Oh, yeah, I want to watch the discussion that the cast has about that because the the younger

1374
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:37,000
brother.

1375
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:38,000
All right.

1376
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:41,640
You know, you talk me into it.

1377
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:44,600
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1378
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:52,160
The the younger brother was talking about that slide and he's like, that was a death slide.

1379
01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:57,920
And he's like, when they pushed me down it, like you can see that I had genuine fear in

1380
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:00,360
my eyes, like going down that.

1381
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:05,480
And then when I realized, oh, it wasn't that bad, I went to the director and said, hey,

1382
01:27:05,480 --> 01:27:08,080
I think I can do it again.

1383
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:09,080
I'm not scared of it.

1384
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:11,520
And he's like, no, we got it.

1385
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:14,840
Like, we got the shot.

1386
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:21,320
Oh, shit.

1387
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:23,120
So good.

1388
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:24,720
Do you remember?

1389
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:30,560
I forget what phone company it was for, but they did a whole like Christmas story commercial

1390
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:35,880
based on it where the kid is, you know, he's dressed as Ralphie and he's like about to

1391
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:41,040
head down the slide and he says he's instead of saying, you know, I want to read writer

1392
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:42,040
B, we got him.

1393
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:46,120
But he's saying like, like a certain phone plan and shit and like everything comes with

1394
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:49,520
it and then fricking Sanis is like, you'll run the bill up, kid.

1395
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:58,000
And then fricking I'm going to have to find this commercial.

1396
01:27:58,000 --> 01:27:59,840
It all said it to you.

1397
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:01,400
Dude, please do.

1398
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:03,200
That sounds hilarious.

1399
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:06,480
I vaguely remember seeing something like that.

1400
01:28:06,480 --> 01:28:08,480
But yeah, yeah.

1401
01:28:08,480 --> 01:28:09,480
Oh, definitely.

1402
01:28:09,480 --> 01:28:11,120
Definitely need to see that.

1403
01:28:11,120 --> 01:28:13,520
OK, yeah, I'll find it out to be finished.

1404
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:14,520
All right.

1405
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:19,800
Next up in music.

1406
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:20,800
It was decent.

1407
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:21,800
Yeah.

1408
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:27,200
I mean, didn't I swear to the opening song was the exact same as the original.

1409
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:31,120
I think the score was just like a modernized version of the original.

1410
01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:32,120
Yeah.

1411
01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:34,280
And I see nothing wrong with that.

1412
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:37,280
Like, yeah, I think that's perfect to do.

1413
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:38,280
Yeah.

1414
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:44,400
But like, still, it wasn't anything that like caught my attention or just like, oh, my gosh,

1415
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:45,960
like such a great song.

1416
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:52,720
It's just like, hey, it worked for what you guys had going.

1417
01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:56,720
Because of that, like, I would give it a seven.

1418
01:28:56,720 --> 01:28:59,240
That's exactly where I'm thinking, too.

1419
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:00,240
Sweet.

1420
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:05,440
We're pretty in a great like the only thing we've disagreed on at all, like even if you

1421
01:29:05,440 --> 01:29:08,480
can call it disagreement, it's is acting.

1422
01:29:08,480 --> 01:29:09,480
Yeah, that's true.

1423
01:29:09,480 --> 01:29:11,480
And that was only two points.

1424
01:29:11,480 --> 01:29:14,080
Yeah, that's that's funny.

1425
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:16,200
All right.

1426
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:17,200
Let's see.

1427
01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:20,840
Next up in costumes.

1428
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:23,320
Classic 70s winter.

1429
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:30,680
Yeah, that I don't know why, but the the jeans that Ralphie was wearing, I don't know if

1430
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:34,000
he wears them throughout the whole movie or maybe it's just the ending, but they look

1431
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:37,940
straight up just like disco pants or some shit like the way that like the cuffs at the

1432
01:29:37,940 --> 01:29:40,600
end of the pants, like how long they were.

1433
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:44,400
Just I don't know why those like caught my attention so much.

1434
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:46,880
That was kind of style in the 70s, though.

1435
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:48,440
Yeah, that's yeah, that's true.

1436
01:29:48,440 --> 01:29:50,880
But I don't know that they caught my attention so much.

1437
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:51,880
I'm like, really?

1438
01:29:51,880 --> 01:29:53,400
That's those are the jeans that they wore.

1439
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:54,400
I love it.

1440
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:57,280
Yeah, they're they're odd there.

1441
01:29:57,280 --> 01:29:59,360
But I mean, I would never wear them.

1442
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:02,480
But you know, kudos to people that were able to pull them off.

1443
01:30:02,480 --> 01:30:08,440
Yeah, I don't think there was anything like completely like outstanding about the costumes

1444
01:30:08,440 --> 01:30:11,440
in this, though.

1445
01:30:11,440 --> 01:30:14,080
Like as much as I hate to say it.

1446
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:20,800
You know what would have made my freaking my whole life was if they did a an homage

1447
01:30:20,800 --> 01:30:25,600
to the original like scene where it's Flick sticking his tongue to the pole when they

1448
01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:27,400
do the whole like ramp.

1449
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:32,680
If Ralphie Flick and Schwartz were all wearing like the clothing that resembled what they

1450
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:37,800
wore in the original, like even Schwartz had his like classic like yellow and brown long

1451
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:39,800
hat.

1452
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:41,480
That would have been pretty good.

1453
01:30:41,480 --> 01:30:47,080
That that probably would have bumped me up from where I'm at.

1454
01:30:47,080 --> 01:30:48,080
Like what are you?

1455
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,080
I'm at like a six.

1456
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,600
Yeah, even I can agree with you there.

1457
01:30:52,600 --> 01:30:59,840
I mean, it's like I mean, there was is above average because our average is five.

1458
01:30:59,840 --> 01:31:05,040
Yeah, like that's like it's just starting off at five and then you go up from there.

1459
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:08,920
Like everything worked for the times like it was good.

1460
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:14,760
But I think it kind of did have like a timeless feel like, oh, like the only thing that really

1461
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:18,040
felt old was like the cars.

1462
01:31:18,040 --> 01:31:21,720
Everything else felt pretty timeless.

1463
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:27,640
I mean, it was nice seeing that, you know, like for that dream or that daydreaming sequence

1464
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:36,680
that Zach Ward and Yano Anoia, I don't know how to pronounce his last name, that they

1465
01:31:36,680 --> 01:31:40,760
had them wear the exact same costumes that they wore as Scutton.

1466
01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:43,360
Oh, my, was it Dillard?

1467
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:46,160
I'm going to butcher this name.

1468
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:48,360
Grover.

1469
01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:51,960
But like that's like the only thing I can think of like, oh, you know, like these characters

1470
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:56,120
wore the classic costume, so it doesn't really bump it up for me.

1471
01:31:56,120 --> 01:32:00,160
Yeah, me either.

1472
01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:04,600
So I'm definitely sitting at a six.

1473
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:12,000
I think if that may have would have been like a bigger role in what was happening, I think

1474
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:16,520
it would have bumped me up to maybe a seven.

1475
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:18,520
But yeah, six for me.

1476
01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:19,920
All right.

1477
01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:22,400
Last up, we got our own personal score.

1478
01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:23,920
So you want to take this one?

1479
01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:25,760
I would love to.

1480
01:32:25,760 --> 01:32:30,360
So yeah, when this was first announced, I honestly thought it was just going to be like,

1481
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:35,560
you know, like the cast, like recalling their memories on it, you know, just reminiscing

1482
01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:38,960
about the good old days with this movie or with the original movie.

1483
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:44,200
I did not expect it to be like an actual sequel, but I freaking love that they did it.

1484
01:32:44,200 --> 01:32:45,800
They did this one right.

1485
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:48,640
They didn't disgrace the source material at all.

1486
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:51,000
They took it seriously.

1487
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:56,760
Every everyone that came back from the original transitioned right back into their characters

1488
01:32:56,760 --> 01:32:58,560
in a respectful way.

1489
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:04,760
Yeah, Peter Billingsley, especially amazing as Ralphie just love seeing him back.

1490
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:07,920
Love seeing everyone back.

1491
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:12,560
And just this was a really good sequel.

1492
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:20,440
So I. I. Hmm.

1493
01:33:20,440 --> 01:33:27,960
Yeah, I'm going to go I'm going to go on eighty eight.

1494
01:33:27,960 --> 01:33:29,960
Nice.

1495
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:31,840
I'm a little bit lower than you.

1496
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:32,840
I'm not by much.

1497
01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:35,120
I'm sitting at eighty four.

1498
01:33:35,120 --> 01:33:36,120
All right.

1499
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:44,560
I had a really good time with this movie and I can definitely see myself watching this

1500
01:33:44,560 --> 01:33:45,560
again.

1501
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:50,400
Like I said, it's in my like if you listen to our top 10 episode, I'm it's in my top

1502
01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:51,400
10.

1503
01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:52,400
Yeah.

1504
01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:53,400
Awesome.

1505
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:54,400
I love it.

1506
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:55,400
Yeah.

1507
01:33:55,400 --> 01:34:00,960
But even though it's in my top 10, it's like my personal enjoy.

1508
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:07,400
I think even Elf isn't necessarily all that high on my like personal rating.

1509
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:14,600
Like, don't get me wrong, it's up there, but it's not like crack.

1510
01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:20,120
I don't even think Elf's cracks like my top 30 movies.

1511
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:21,120
That's fair.

1512
01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:23,320
I get where you're coming from.

1513
01:34:23,320 --> 01:34:28,040
Yeah, it's just it's a good holiday film.

1514
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:35,960
And in ways of rewatch ability, it's definitely something I'm going to rewatch every year,

1515
01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:39,720
just like I'm probably going to rewatch A Christmas Story, just like I'm going to rewatch

1516
01:34:39,720 --> 01:34:45,440
everything else that we brought up in our top 10 list.

1517
01:34:45,440 --> 01:34:46,440
It's good.

1518
01:34:46,440 --> 01:34:54,480
It's good enough for me to want to rewatch in a particular circumstance.

1519
01:34:54,480 --> 01:34:56,080
Yeah.

1520
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:58,200
Fair.

1521
01:34:58,200 --> 01:35:01,480
Overall, I think they.

1522
01:35:01,480 --> 01:35:10,280
I think my enjoyment level of this was way above what I felt for A Christmas Story.

1523
01:35:10,280 --> 01:35:14,240
I know, which is like blasphemy to Rose.

1524
01:35:14,240 --> 01:35:20,480
But yeah, I think I'm sitting at an 84 there.

1525
01:35:20,480 --> 01:35:21,480
I respect it.

1526
01:35:21,480 --> 01:35:22,480
I respect it.

1527
01:35:22,480 --> 01:35:23,480
All right.

1528
01:35:23,480 --> 01:35:31,280
Well, with that, that bring or that is the end of this breakdown.

1529
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:36,840
So going through our scores really quick, starting off with story, we are sitting in

1530
01:35:36,840 --> 01:35:45,920
a very solid 87 writing got bumped up significantly or a decent amount to a 90 acting dropped

1531
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:51,920
down just a single point sitting at an 89 character development was probably one of

1532
01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:56,560
the lower was the lower score.

1533
01:35:56,560 --> 01:35:58,600
Sitting at an 81.

1534
01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:07,000
The effects are sitting at an 85 because it's just average as average can be with a couple

1535
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:11,520
really funny special effects here and there.

1536
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:16,520
Music slightly above average sitting at seven costumes.

1537
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:20,480
A little less so just setting out a solid six out of 10.

1538
01:36:20,480 --> 01:36:24,600
And then our personal score averaged out to an 86.

1539
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:35,880
So that brings our final all bros letter grade for A Christmas Story Christmas to a B.

1540
01:36:35,880 --> 01:36:39,040
All right.

1541
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:40,520
I like it.

1542
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:43,240
Yeah, I like that a lot.

1543
01:36:43,240 --> 01:36:46,240
So it is sitting at an 84.12.

1544
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:51,000
Not bad.

1545
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:52,000
Yeah not bad at all.

1546
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:55,280
It's definitely one of our higher B movies.

1547
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:56,280
That's awesome.

1548
01:36:56,280 --> 01:36:57,280
Hell yeah.

1549
01:36:57,280 --> 01:37:02,800
Let me see where it is.

1550
01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:06,080
Okay there we go.

1551
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:14,280
All right so A Christmas Story Christmas like I said is sitting at an 84.12.

1552
01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:20,100
That puts it let's go above first.

1553
01:37:20,100 --> 01:37:28,440
So it puts it above Free Guy which is at an 84.06.

1554
01:37:28,440 --> 01:37:34,040
Puts it above Thor Ragnarok which is at an 83.90.

1555
01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:36,360
Wow.

1556
01:37:36,360 --> 01:37:46,040
That puts it above Murder on the Orient Express which is at an 83.81.

1557
01:37:46,040 --> 01:37:52,960
It's above Sonic the Hedgehog which is at an 83.81.

1558
01:37:52,960 --> 01:38:00,320
And then finally it puts it above Home Alone which is at an 83.64.

1559
01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:04,120
We're gonna have some angry people at us.

1560
01:38:04,120 --> 01:38:05,120
Probably.

1561
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:11,240
Yeah people are gonna be happy with that one.

1562
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:12,240
Yeah.

1563
01:38:12,240 --> 01:38:14,240
Um go in the opposite direction.

1564
01:38:14,240 --> 01:38:17,640
I'm pretty sure we're not gonna have people very happy with us this way either.

1565
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:19,040
Oh shit.

1566
01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:28,300
So Christmas Story Christmas is sitting below Solo a Star Wars story at an 84.21.

1567
01:38:28,300 --> 01:38:35,280
It's also below Avengers Age of Ultron which is sitting at an 84.37.

1568
01:38:35,280 --> 01:38:41,160
It is below Prey which is at an 84.43.

1569
01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:46,320
It is also below Christopher Robin which is at an 84.56.

1570
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:55,680
And then finally it is below The Matrix Resurrections which is at an 84.70.

1571
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:58,760
I mean what number is The Resurrections?

1572
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:02,080
Is that four?

1573
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:04,520
Resurrections is the fourth one, yes.

1574
01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:06,720
Oh no.

1575
01:39:06,720 --> 01:39:13,640
Christmas Story Christmas is better than that.

1576
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,720
Well guess we don't think so.

1577
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:19,280
Look all I'm saying is-

1578
01:39:19,280 --> 01:39:20,880
Okay listen listen listen listen.

1579
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:25,960
If you want to blame anyone you can blame DJ for basically giving this like a hundred.

1580
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:27,680
That's true.

1581
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:35,400
Because all I'm saying is one I fell asleep halfway through and the first one and the

1582
01:39:35,400 --> 01:39:39,920
other one I was awake the whole damn time.

1583
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:47,760
I'll let you guess which one.

1584
01:39:47,760 --> 01:39:55,960
I'm going to consistently give DJ shit about that one because his thoughts on that movie

1585
01:39:55,960 --> 01:39:59,680
have changed drastically since that breakdown.

1586
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:00,680
Really?

1587
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:05,840
Oh shit that's funny.

1588
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:14,840
So I'm pretty sure it would have been a lot lower if we would have done it like now.

1589
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:17,920
The Matrix Resurrections Revisited.

1590
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:22,600
Oh shit that would be funny.

1591
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:27,640
Or how about The Matrix Resurrections Resurrected.

1592
01:40:27,640 --> 01:40:31,320
But yeah.

1593
01:40:31,320 --> 01:40:36,400
Anyway so that's where that movie is sitting.

1594
01:40:36,400 --> 01:40:39,200
And that concludes this week's breakdown.

1595
01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:46,400
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1596
01:40:46,400 --> 01:40:48,840
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1597
01:40:48,840 --> 01:40:51,440
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1598
01:40:51,440 --> 01:40:55,560
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1599
01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:59,480
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1600
01:40:59,480 --> 01:41:01,040
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1601
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:04,080
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1602
01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:08,960
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1603
01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:11,760
in a hand basket.

1604
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:16,280
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1605
01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:20,920
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1606
01:41:20,920 --> 01:41:22,280
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1607
01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:24,880
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1608
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:32,580
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1609
01:41:32,580 --> 01:41:37,840
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1610
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:45,800
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1611
01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:52,760
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1612
01:41:52,760 --> 01:42:03,320
So next week you guys can look forward to us breaking down Puss in Boots The Last Wish.

1613
01:42:03,320 --> 01:42:07,800
So that's going to be very excited for this one.

1614
01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:12,080
This looks like it's going to be really good.

1615
01:42:12,080 --> 01:42:14,020
And be on the lookout on our social media.

1616
01:42:14,020 --> 01:42:19,480
We will be posting a question of the week before that episode or before we record that

1617
01:42:19,480 --> 01:42:20,480
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1618
01:42:20,480 --> 01:42:24,080
So be on the lookout.

1619
01:42:24,080 --> 01:42:29,960
Anyway, but until then, this has been the All Bros podcast.

1620
01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:31,480
I'm Caleb.

1621
01:42:31,480 --> 01:42:32,480
And I'm Jonathan.

1622
01:42:32,480 --> 01:42:34,640
And we'll catch you guys next week.

1623
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:35,640
Deuces!

1624
01:42:35,640 --> 01:42:36,640
Shalom!

1625
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:38,640
And Merry Christmas!