April 30, 2025

Spoiler-Free Reviews: Sinners | The Accountant 2

Spoiler-Free Reviews: Sinners | The Accountant 2
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Season 6Back To The Box Office

Jeff and Garret discusses several new trailers, and offer their SPOILER-FREE reviews for Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and Gavin O'Connor's The Accountant 2. Ready to go back to the box office?

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You get more out of life when you go out

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to a movie.

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I know on with the show it has been a while,

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but I am happy to say welcome back to the

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box office.

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I'm Jeff Johnson and I'm Garret Gibson and for a Film.

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By podcast, we're here to offer you a quick spoiler

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free review of not one, but two films currently playing

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at your local theater. We've got vampires, accountants, plenty of

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action on tap. But before we get to it, Garin,

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I gotta ask you, we've seen some interesting trailers recently.

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Oh yes, sir, definitely quick.

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Takes on a couple of trailers because I got some thoughts.

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I know what you did last summer.

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Oh now, see that one right there, just the trailer

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and the way it's starting. You get that very nineteen

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ninety six scream vibe from it. You know, you see

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the pool lights kick on and everything.

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Late scream rip off.

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Yep, you see that Casey Becker kind of scenario, and

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you're like, oh, well, hello here from the trailer. Cinema

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photography looks absolutely amazing, and I feel like seeing the

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new faces mixed in with some of the familiar faces.

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Seeing Freddie Prince Junior and everyone pop up at something

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I'm terribly excited about right there.

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Strike one. We're calling it. I know what you did

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last summer Halloween? Did it recently? I just think it's lazy.

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I don't know, but I can move, I can look

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past it. I gotta be honest. I don't care about

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a single character that we like. These new kids. I

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just call them cannon fodder. I don't give a shit.

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I hope they get sliced and diced. I'm not I'm not.

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I'm not a fan of any of them, you know,

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no personality.

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No, no, none, whatsoever. But again, I seeing the Freddie

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Prince Jr. And seeing Jennifer Love Hewett those two things

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I'm excited about. But you're absolutely right. We have seen

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these kinds of things with Scream and of course the

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Halloween series, and it happens every couple of years we

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seem to get one of these. So it's it's going

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a little mixed batch going into it.

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Legacy sequels are cool. Just just do a little work.

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Just just give us a cool title and bridge it

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to the original material. That's all I'm saying. And I

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just I love seeing Jay Love but that I just

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you know, I've got one question, what did you do

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last summer? It's like, come on, that's a little corny.

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I don't know. I'm Jerry's out, man, Jerry's out. You're

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excited for it, so I'm gonna be excited for it.

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We'll definitely get to it. Moving on though. Another one.

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I'm a little conflicted on Predator bad Lands.

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Now. See, with Predator bad Lands, there's a few takeaways

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from that trailer. I'm excited to see more into the

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Predator universe, of course, but the predator that we see,

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that age predator that's not wearing the mask or anything

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like that. I do not like how this predator looks.

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Thank you, Okay.

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It gets so far from the source material that we

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had started with, and I feel like we've lost something

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along the way, especially after Prey, in my opinion, absolutely

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delivered on It. Made me absolutely excited to see this

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film as soon as they announced it, and then I

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see this trailer and it kind of doused my hopes

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a little bit.

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Pray was just awesome. We didn't see that coming, right.

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I'm watching the trailer for bad Lands and my first

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thought was, are you seriously telling me we couldn't get

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Dan Trachenberg to come back and do another movie because

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what he did was awesome. Who's doing but it is?

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It's he is back.

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I just don't understand the look of this Predator, Like

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it's just like a teenage predator, like you know, got

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the hair, the dreads are pulled back. It's like, yeah,

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he's a good guy, like the Predator is the hero

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of the movie. That doesn't work for me. It just doesn't.

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Also, it looks like he's almost got an AI handler,

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is what I'm picking up from the female character in

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that fanning.

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Okay, so let's let's talk something good here. Did you

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notice it's it's blink and you miss it? But she

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is clearly an artificial person. I believe they like the term.

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Her eyeballs have the wayland Utani logo on them, and

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that scene.

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Now I did not notice that. I did see the

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I switch, but I did not pick up on that.

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So you got a freeze frame it and it's there.

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So I'm excited about that because we're kind of bridging

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the alien Predator worlds again, so that could be kind

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of cool. Trailer kind of feels like Predator goes Star

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Wars with like.

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The I'm glad somebody take up.

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A spaceship looking things, and like the the sword that's

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glowing red, that's more like a dark blade. What's that?

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What's that one?

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Like?

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Yeah, dark sabor, Yeah, thank you. Jerry's out. Jerry's out.

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But I want to be excited for it.

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That one I want to be excited for But uh,

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like I said, they just kind of doused my hopes

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and dreams with that first teaser trailer. So hopefully we

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get a little bit more and I'll get a little

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more excited once we get a little closer.

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The Predator has such an iconic look. He was it

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was scary as I'll get out in nineteen eighty seven

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with practical effects and this cgi thing that's going on, no, no, nothing, and.

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The dark eyes looking all that. It's killing me.

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It is, it's it's hurting a little bit. But let's

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let's talk about something. Let's talk about one more and

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then we'll get we'll get to our movies. This new

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uh Jordan Peel thing him. I don't know about you,

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but we're sitting there. I'm like, this is gonna be

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one badass football movie. Until it's not it's it goes

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real sci fi horror, like thirty seconds into the trailer, right,

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what's going on with this this trailer?

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This trailer. At first it kicks off, We're sitting there

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in the theater. I'm thinking we're getting a Gatorade commercial

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or something like that the way it's playing out. As

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soon as Jordan Peele's name pops up, the music changes.

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The whole like music, everything kicks in and you can

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start hearing Marlon Wayne's voice as the trailer is going. Yeah,

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and that movie looks absolutely insane. It's on par with

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the rest of the Jordan Peele universe that he's got

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going on out there. And I've got to tell you,

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I am terribly excited to see Marlon Wayne's performance in

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this because just the whole lead up, during the entire trailer,

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it gives me chills, the way he's speaking, and it

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just seems like it might be one of those roles

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of a lifetime for him, Like this branch into like

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a horror, sci fi kind of flick, and I'm all

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for it.

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I think it's gonna be like the surprise hit of

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the season because it's one of those trailers that you

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are locked in you're loving what you're watching, but you

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don't understand what's going on, and it's it's a good

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teaser because like, I'm like, I don't know what it's about.

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I know there's football, and I know there's murder and

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some other weird shit, but other than that, I'm at

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a loss. But I'm I'm ready to I'm ready to learn, right.

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Yeah, anytime I see Jordan Peele's name attached to project

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like that, I instantly get excited.

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Well, me too, and uh, I'll tell you another one,

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not that you know, kind of revealing my hand here,

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but I'm excited. Let's talk about Sinners.

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We gotta stop them, Smoke, We gotta get them before

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they get away. Ain't you a soldier? Didn't you just

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shoot two men for touching your truck? You just gotta

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stay through the night and what then kill the whole town,

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turn everybody to monsters.

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Now, I ain't gonna talk.

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They're I don't know what.

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Is Sinners ready in theaters?

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Tan oh? Now, Sinners is one of those masterpieces. I'm

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gonna say, Michael B. Jordan knocked this one out of

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the park. Him playing the twin brothers, Smoke and Stack

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are absolutely just phenomenal role. The fact that he plays

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so well off of himself, and this with a newer actor,

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Miles Canton.

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Okay, let's let's talk Miles Canton. He's playing Sammy Moore.

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He's the young cousin to the Twin Brothers. It's his

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feature film debut. Said his audition tape was impressive because

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it looked like he was in his basement with the

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lights out. But he had a quote once in a

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lifetime voice. I mean, the kid knocked it out.

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Of the park, right he did. I could not have

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been more impressed. Rarely do you get a film debut

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by someone that is so extraordinary. I feel like his

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voice in the scenes where he is singing and playing

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the guitar, he kills it. Oh he does.

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He does.

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It takes you back to like nineteen forties nineteen fifties

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blues musicians, and I think he fits that part beautifully.

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I think it was cast like one hundred percent accurate.

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There's no one in mind that could have played that

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role better than him, and that kid killed it.

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I'm watching Miles Cannon and I'm excited to get home

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and look up his other work and see, like what

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else I can watch him in, and then you find

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out it's his future film debut. There is nothing else

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to watch him in. This is it And this guy

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has got a very bright future head. Uh, someone who's

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always had a bright future. I've loved I've loved him

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since Frida at Lights. But uh, you talked about Michael B. Jordan.

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He's playing twin brothers here. What'd you think of his

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performance as as Smoke?

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His performance as Smoke is one of those things where

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he is the calm, calculated and rational thinking brother out

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of the two. And I think the chemistry that he

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had and I'm I'm probably gonna butcher a name, but

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woon me. Yes, Okay, I'm glad I didn't completely butcher,

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but the chemistry between her and him on set through

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that entire film, their storyline to him, it's it's a

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thing of beauty. And how he is truly his brother's

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keeper in that film to kind of keep him on

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the level.

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Is Yeah, he's he's doing it awesome. As as a Smoke,

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another great actor. What do you think of Michael B.

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Jordan as a stack?

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that you can throw him into this role, and uh,

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you see it every now and then to where like

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you'll get to Tom Hardy in Legend, to where he's

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playing the Kray Brothers, and I think this is on

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par with that. I I feel like if you take

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the movie Legend and mix it with From Dust Till Dawn,

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this is the outcome of that film right.

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There, and good call, good call.

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I think they absolutely nailed it. Uh. Now, his performance

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is stack and the way he plays with so well

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with Mile Canton. Why either in the scenes driving in

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the car, it's how.

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About how about taking the drag off the cigarette and

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passing it to himself? That that's things. Yeah, that's it's good.

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You mentioned women musakus as Annie. I've never seen this

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woman in a film before, but like Miles Kitton, we

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need more of her. We need to see more of

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this woman. Phenomenal actress.

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Right absolutely killed the role. Uh yeah, just perfect. Yeah.

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She like a kind of like a a voodoo priestess,

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a kind of a witch, but a good I don't know.

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I didn't know what was really going on there. I

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just knew I liked it.

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I felt like there maybe was more of a backstory

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there at some point in time and maybe they get

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it out of there unfortunately. But what we did see

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of her, and like the past and everything that the

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fans will get to experience when they go see this

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movie or they stream this film, they're just gonna be

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blown away with her performance.

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Yeah, Garrett, I don't know where Delroy Lindo has been,

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but I'm sure glad he's back. He's here playing Delta.

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Just fun to watch man, just fun.

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This is a role that again that del Roy Linde

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is someone that I've not seen in a very long time.

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But this is someone that you know in the eighties, nineties,

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early two thousands, was just any role he was in,

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you believe that role And my favorite role, Todate is

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still him opposite of mel Gibson and Ransom there it is, Yeah,

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fantastic Ransom. Yeah, he is an amazing actor, and I

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feel like any role with him as a detective it's

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just automatically a grand slam.

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Yeah. But he he's like the old he's the old

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blues guy in town.

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He's the old blues drunkard guy that's you know, spent

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all his money on women and wine.

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See now him again with Miles canton I and we

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always come back to this, Miles Canon. Those two together

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is just extraordinary. You get someone that's been in the

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game for so long and this is the other one's

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first movie, and you can't tell where one stops and

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the other begins because I'm with you play so well

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with one another.

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Yeah. Now, Hailey Steinfeld, she's playing Mary. We've watched her

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grow up on screen over the years. She's got a

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foothold in the MCU right now. But I think her

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performance in Centers is her arrival as a star because

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she is. She's a little she's a couple of parts,

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crazy ex girlfriend, she's a good girl, she's a bad girl,

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she's a villain, she's a hero. She's getting to She's

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going to do everything in this movie, right.

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She absolutely is. So this is one of the roles

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that I was terribly excited to see when I saw

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the cast list. Originally, I was like, Harley Steinfeld, why

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does that name sound so familiar? And it goes back

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to her true grit days, when of course Jeff Ridge

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is for that being like one of the starting points

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of your career. You know you're going to be a

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very talented individual getting to work with the likes of that,

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and I believe she's learned a thing or two from

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working with all these greats over time.

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She's an adult now, you know she is.

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Yeah, and she brought all that knowledge to this film.

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Like you said, she portrays the villain, the hero, the

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good guy, the bad guy. He does everything just so

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well in this film. I couldn't recommend her any higher, honestly.

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Garrett, you know as well as I do. You can't

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care about your hero if you don't care about your villain.

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And Jack O'Connell playing the leader of the vampires, this

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guy Remick. How fun is this guy?

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Now? Jack O'Connell is Remick. That is one of those

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people that is such a charismatic villain that as the

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film goes, you actually start to like the villain a lot.

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You're always rooting for the good guys, don't You are wrong?

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But jack O'Connell, like I said, the charismatic nature of

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him in this role. Just the simple things like the

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singing and the dancing in this movie, it's.

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River dancing vampires. I'm in, man, Yes, I'm.

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In one hundred percent. In singing old Irish folklore songs.

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It's just I didn't know what to think about that.

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I really didn't.

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It still gives me chills just to think about this scene.

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Just how far he gets into this role. It's him

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opposite of Michael B. Jordan is nothing short of just magical.

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I'm gonna tell you.

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Now, I'm never gonna root against Michael B. Jordan. I'm

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definitely not gonna root against two Michael B Jordan's. But man,

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it's just fun to see Remick. Just try getting that church,

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that old, that old uh, that old slaughterhouse thing that

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they're they're hold up in. It's it's a good time, man,

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It's a definitely good time. One last guy. I know,

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we got to move on because this is we're trying

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to be spoil we got we gotta be spoiler free,

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and we got we got two movies to talk about.

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But uh, I loved the little the little add on

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at the end, Little Easter Egg. We got it with

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Sammy as an old UH musician at that point, played

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by Buddy Guy. He's this is one of the all

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time great blues guitarists and uh several musicians cite him

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as an inspiration. Garrett. I think you've probably heard about

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a couple of these guys. Uh, I'm talking about Jimmy Page,

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Jimmy Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan just to

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name a few. These are these are guys that looked

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up to Buddy Buddy Guy, and it's just it's cool, Like,

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I love the fact that Ryan Coogler can take someone

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like this, one of the all time great blues musicians

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and and and put him in a movie like Sinners

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Love It.

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I think you're right. And I'm going to tell you

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right now, if they make a movie about Buddy Guy

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growing up younger Buddy Guy, I think I know who

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I'm picking. And Miles, just right now, go ahead and

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do it now.

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Uh, anyone's still the show for you. Any any breakout

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performance in this one.

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I absolutely love Michael B. Jordan. I'm going against myself

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with this one because his role was phenomenal. I don't

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think he did anything wrong in this movie. I don't

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think he had one misstep in this entire film. But

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I've got to give it to my young man, Miles Canton.

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It's hard not to give it to him, but I

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gotta be honest. I'm still I'm I'm looking at Woodman

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Masaka as Annie, and I'm just excited to see her

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in more, more movies moving forward. So not about no,

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there's no wrong answer there. Honestly, with a cast like this,

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there's no wrong answer. I think it's to say, not

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a single bad performance in this movie, right.

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Not at all.

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Brother So this is Cougler's first film since Fruitville Station

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to be shot on film. He went back to film

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sixteen millimeter film. Go back and check out our Ryan

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Kugler episode we discussed Fruitville Station. Dave and I did

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listeners if you missed that one. But I think that

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I think it lends itself to the overall look the texture.

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This film's got a texture to it. Would you would

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you agree because we're in the nineteen thirties, But it's

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just all the colors are so rich.

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They absolutely are. And you can tell, especially with the

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brothers smoking stack as film starts. You know, as soon

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as we get to them. The ones got the blue

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accents to the sudes, the other ones got the red

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accents and just plays so well with that sixty millimeter film.

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And I think Ryan Kugler went the right way with

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this one. I've gotta tell you.

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Plenty of action, plenty of horror. I think, just the

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right touch of comedy, like anytime you get comedy that's

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not it's not like on the page, like the audience

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will laugh at this, but it's just unintentional, so much better,

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I think.

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I think you're right, brother.

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I want to talk about the music. We have to

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talk about the music a little bit. Ludwig Gordonson's score

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is unabashedly brilliant, heavily influenced by Robert Johnson, but he's

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thrusting hints of metal, hip hop, ragtime and the Mississippi Blues.

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I'm going back for another viewing just because I want

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to listen to this movie. And you know, I almost

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I don't want to spoil it, but you know the

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scene I'm talking about, because you and I both looked

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at each other. We're like, what's what's happening right now?

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What's going on? I don't know if we were prepared

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for that. I don't think the audience was prepared for that.

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Honestly, I don't think they were. And I've got to

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tell you, I've seen this film a second time since

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you and I have.

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Went wow, okay, you've already got back and.

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I was blown away so much by the performances that

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the second time through, I could go back and watch

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these little subtle hints and things of that nature, and

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the scene you're talking about it still stands out extraordinarily well.

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The second minding Yes.

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Written and directed by Ryan Coogler. He cites from Dust

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Till Dawn and The Faculty, both directed by Robert Riguez,

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as his biggest influences for Sinners. I think you definitely

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see both those movies in here, maybe a little bit

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more from Dust Till Dawn than The Faculty. But I

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also don't feel like he's just cribbing from it. It

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feels like a nice like homage.

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Would you agree, I would one hundred percent agree with that. Yeah,

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it's got the field to it, but it is its

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own separate entity. So now, if you're trying to set

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up a movie night and you're just trying to run

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a couple of flicks that run great together, I would

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say from Dust Till Dawn and Sinners are a great

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pair for you.

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Now I came across this, I have to share it.

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You know, when we talk about the pacing or the

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editing of this film, listen to this. You're gonna gonna

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blow your mind. Kogler cites Metallica's nineteen eighty eight hit

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one from the band's Injustice for All album as the

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basis for this film's pacing, saying, quote, I wanted the

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film to have the simplicity and profound nature of a

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Delta blues song, but I wanted it to have the contrast,

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variation and the inevitability of a great Metallica song like one.

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It starts off with almost like an easy listening solo,

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you know what I'm saying, and then it just goes

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badshit insane in a way you could never have seen coming.

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At the same time, it feels like it's getting to

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go there all along. And Garrett I found out that

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Metallica's drummer Lars Ulrich is actually credited as a drummer

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in the film scoring orchestra.

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Really, now, that is a bit of information I did

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not know, But for that to be the pacing for

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this film, it makes me love.

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Would you ever expect Ryan Coogler to use a Metallica

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song as like the basis of how he's gonna pace

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a film? That's just that's that's awesome, dude.

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That is something that only he could do right there,

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It's yeah, he could done no wrong with that. I've

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gotta tell you all right.

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Well, listen, uh, Garrett, I know this is your first

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time on back to the box office. This is the

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point where we gotta tell our listeners whether they should

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see it, stream it, or skip it. Obviously, I say

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see it on an Imax screen this weekend, see it

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twice because you got too Michael to be Jordan's You've

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already seen it twice. So I where are you at

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on this one?

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I say you see it on the big screen. And

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then once we go ahead and get the reis for it,

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you go ahead and stream it. You go ahead and

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by yourself a Blu ray copy of this film. Oh yeah,

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it's two thumbs up for me by far.

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Well, Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan aren't the

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only brothers to catch on the big screen. Currently, let's

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talk about Affleck and Burnhal in the long awaited sequel,

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The Accountant Part two on April twenty five. The Accountant

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is back, but this time he brought his brother. That's him.

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It's been a minute.

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Do you like puzzles?

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You can do the talking jacky pants here.

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Wants to scrap. My brother wasn't having a good time tonight,

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but now he wrote, is there anything better than punching

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somebody in the face? Who's got a.

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Comment on the accountant?

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Too greedy dark apl twenty fair? All right, So Ben

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Affleck as Christian Wolf, Garrett, I get that Chris is

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evolving and making an attempt to seem more normal to

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those around him. But did you notice there's like a

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slight inflection in his voice this time out, Like I

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almost wonder if he's still developing the character. Did you

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pick up on that at all?

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I did pick up on it. It doesn't sound like

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the same Christian Wolf we got in the first film. No, Yeah,

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the dialogue it's still written the exact same way, but

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just that way delivered. Yeah, just the way it's delivered.

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I don't know if it's something they're workshopping, they're trying

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to find that exact character. That's something that they didn't

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come across in the first film, So it was different.

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I was not expecting that going into the movie.

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Yeah, I just I feel like in the first film

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we got like Ben Affleck is just playing a cold,

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emotionless Ben Affleck, and in this time out, he's he's

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almost he's almost trying to play a character of that character.

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Like the voice is just there's a subtle thing about

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it that's just a little often. I don't know. I

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don't know. I don't know that I like it. I

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love the character, I love the character in this one,

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but I just don't know that I like it. I

470
00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:54.440
didn't know if that was me. I didn't know if

471
00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:56.640
I don't know if other listeners have picked up on it,

472
00:25:56.759 --> 00:25:58.680
or if you had picked up on it. But just

473
00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:01.240
something a little bit off about the performance this time.

474
00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:06.160
Just a little bit off here, You're right. At first,

475
00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:09.720
it was driving me crazy because, okay, you know, we

476
00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:13.240
get into it and we're hearing him talk and Burnhal

477
00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:16.400
talk back and forth, and it's like, what the hell

478
00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:19.839
was he doing with his voice? Yeah?

479
00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:20.680
He is?

480
00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:23.680
He doing a bad impersonation of what he was doing

481
00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:24.440
in the first movie.

482
00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:27.240
I don't know. I'm not sure. I need to see

483
00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:30.200
it again maybe to really get a handle on it.

484
00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:34.039
But how about the comic relief of this film, which

485
00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:36.640
is John Burnhal playing his brother Braxton.

486
00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:40.680
Now John Burnhal as Braxton. I've got to say, there's

487
00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:43.799
so many scenes in this film where I believe he

488
00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:48.680
just stole it and it's it's that likable from him,

489
00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.359
and it's a it's a side of John Burnhal we

490
00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:56.039
don't necessarily get because a lot recently we get him

491
00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:59.240
as the Punisher, and you know, you don't get a

492
00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:01.880
whole lot of them in the first film. But what

493
00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:06.279
you do is he's a very serious character. In this

494
00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:10.599
time around, we get to see the brotherly love between

495
00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:14.119
almost yeah, and it just brings out that little bit

496
00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:16.920
of humor in John Burenthal. And I think he ran

497
00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:19.240
with it and he absolutely killed it. Man.

498
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.799
Two things that he's doing in this movie. He's being

499
00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:25.960
a little more sensitive than what we're used to seeing

500
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:29.839
can play, and he's definitely being a lot more bratty

501
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:33.359
than we've ever seen him play. And listen, you you

502
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.240
grew up with brothers I did. This is what a

503
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.960
brother you know, This is what a relationship for brothers

504
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:43.160
looks like. I mean, they nailed it, man, I believe

505
00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:44.000
these guys are brothers.

506
00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:48.079
Honestly, I think you're I think you're hundred percent right

507
00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:52.400
here between Ben Affleck and John Burenthal. I don't know

508
00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:55.519
if they spent like a lot more time like preparing

509
00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:56.759
for this one or whatever.

510
00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:58.799
You would have thought they went to summer camp, man.

511
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.640
You really would have, because the bond between them is

512
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:06.200
so believable. Like I don't know if they stayed in

513
00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:09.680
character or what it was, but wherever they were, wherever

514
00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:15.039
they were practicing for this role, they were inseparable. And yeah,

515
00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.640
you can tell that in this film. It just it

516
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.839
spells it out for you. This this is Brothers right here.

517
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.000
Yeah, the whole, the whole, the whole Gang's back. Though

518
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:30.720
pretty much happy to see Cynthia Adi Robinson returning as

519
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:34.079
the Treasury head of the Treasury Department Mary Beth Medina

520
00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:38.119
garrett I dig that she's experiencing the same doubts about

521
00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:41.839
her success as as JK. Simmons character Ray King did

522
00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:42.640
in the first movie.

523
00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.920
I would have to agree with you here. It's one

524
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:49.720
of those things where she starts questioning herself and it's

525
00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:52.440
do I belong in the office that I'm in? It

526
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.319
was my career essentially just handed to me. She's got

527
00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:58.960
all of these doubts that Raymond King was dealing with

528
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:03.519
in the first film, and I think it's eating her life.

529
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:05.920
It's giving her that drive to go ahead and try

530
00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:08.720
and solve this without any of their help.

531
00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:11.680
She doesn't want to use their help, but she's you know,

532
00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:13.880
it's kind of forced to, right.

533
00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:17.720
Yeah, because she's forced into a corner. There's you know,

534
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:21.359
of course, some sort of child trafficking going on in

535
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:26.039
this film, so you know, she ends up taking their help.

536
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:28.440
But it's one of those things where she is so

537
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:32.759
conflicted throughout this by dealing with the two of them

538
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:35.960
that she starts to question herself. And I think that

539
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:39.960
just builds the moral of her character and relates so

540
00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:43.079
much with that JK. Simmons character from the first film,

541
00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:46.079
and it just made me fall in love with her

542
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:47.039
character even more.

543
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:51.519
Yeah. DII Robinson doing a fantastic job here holding her

544
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:56.440
own against both Ben Affleck and John Barenthal. Half this movie,

545
00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:58.079
we're gonna see the three of them on the screen together.

546
00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:01.119
She is holding her own and then some and uh,

547
00:30:01.559 --> 00:30:04.400
I just I love I love that she's back. We

548
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.480
mentioned JK. Simmons as Ray King, it's pretty much a

549
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:12.559
cameo performance. Uh, if we're being honest and really wanted more, man,

550
00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:14.319
I told you like, going into this one, I was like,

551
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:17.720
I know he's I know he's killed immediately we see

552
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:19.759
that in the trailer. I just hope we're gonna get

553
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.599
plenty of him in like flashbacks. And if there's one

554
00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.079
one thing I would have asked for this movie from

555
00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:27.200
this movie, I would ask for a little more JK.

556
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:27.880
How about you?

557
00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:32.720
I would have to say the exact same thing, honestly,

558
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:36.759
because JK. Simmons in the first film, I believe we

559
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:40.640
get enough of his backstory, but I don't believe we

560
00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:44.519
got enough of those trainable teachable moments that he would

561
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:49.519
have had. And I feel like, even though of course

562
00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:51.960
we all saw it in the trailer that he weaves

563
00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.880
the note to the account and the account, I feel

564
00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:58.400
like if we would have had more of him and

565
00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:01.480
a Die Robinson at the gainning of this and then

566
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.400
they do like, hey, two years later, this is where

567
00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:07.279
we pick up. I would have been absolutely okay with

568
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:10.680
this like ten to fifteen minute time frame that they

569
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:13.279
could have just added to that, and I think it

570
00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:16.480
would have added a lot more value to her character

571
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:18.799
and the growth and development of her character.

572
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:21.960
Yeah, give me one more scene where it's a flashback

573
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.079
and he's he's he's putting her in the chair, you know,

574
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:27.240
and she's not she doesn't know that she's ready for it,

575
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.200
and he's like I was. I wasn't ready for it,

576
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:31.640
but you'd be great and like, you know, wishing him well,

577
00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:34.000
and you know she like, you know, because he's like

578
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.599
a private investigator. He's retired but now he's a private investigator.

579
00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:38.000
That would have been kind of cool. I would have

580
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:40.920
liked that. But oh well, one more person I want

581
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:46.079
to bring up, Daniella Pineda playing a nice.

582
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.160
Hey I believe so nice?

583
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:53.319
Yep, yeah, no, no stranger to big action packed franchise movies.

584
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:55.039
I think the last time we seen her, she was

585
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:58.799
she was running from dinosaurs. She played the character Zaia

586
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.200
in the Jurassic Jassic World movies. I think she was in.

587
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:04.079
I know she's in two of them. I don't know

588
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:05.720
about all three, but I know she's in two of them.

589
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.000
Yeah, I want to say it was the second and

590
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:11.920
third if I'm not mistaken there. Yeah her.

591
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.759
Listen, this could have easily been a cliched character. You know,

592
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:20.960
the the assassin who you know, you get amnesia and

593
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.200
all of a sudden you get to all these super

594
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:27.200
skill sets and then now you're lone wolf assassin. It's

595
00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:30.519
an awesome character. I'm gonna ahead and say, like, you know,

596
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:33.680
as far as stealing the show, breakout performances, Yes, this

597
00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:38.400
is Berenthal's movie, but she's a breakout performance here. I'm

598
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:40.440
ready for the account in part three, but I'm hoping

599
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:41.839
for a spinoff about her character.

600
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:46.119
I think you hit the nail right on the head there.

601
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:50.640
Her performance in this film is something that I wish

602
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:53.599
we could have gotten other films like at john Wick

603
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:56.559
or something like that, to where they build these characters

604
00:32:56.680 --> 00:33:00.200
up and I feel like they did it just right,

605
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.160
and the amount of time that they had, the amount

606
00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:06.359
of development they put into this character, the amount of

607
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:09.880
feeling that you get for this character as the film goes,

608
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:14.079
and just her being an utter badass in this is

609
00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:17.759
It's one of those things where you don't want to

610
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.640
miss the second she's on screen, whether it's just sitting

611
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:25.880
there talking politely with JK. Simmons or if we're flashing

612
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:30.319
forward or her just messing some people up all four.

613
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:35.200
I like the the CCTV coverage of her in the hospital,

614
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:37.559
like going on Sarah Connor on the on the Guard

615
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.519
and the doctor like that saw the Man she is.

616
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.359
As far as bad performances, I mean, this is a

617
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:47.279
lot of great performances here. If there's one person I'm

618
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:51.279
gonna single out, though, the uh the bad guy he is.

619
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:55.000
He's got the henchman you know who kind of dials

620
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:56.720
it up just a little too much at the end

621
00:33:56.799 --> 00:33:59.039
when he's trying to round the kids up on the

622
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:01.279
school bus and get him off the school bus. It's like,

623
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:04.480
so settle down, guy, just just just a touch.

624
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:08.800
I've gotta say, you're right about this one, dude. It's

625
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:13.079
one of those things where I did not believe him

626
00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:18.400
as the main henchman for this big time Mike Maddie,

627
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:23.519
and it's like, I, I don't want to say he underacted.

628
00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:25.880
Maybe it's how the character was written or whatever it

629
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.360
may have been. I didn't I didn't believe it. I

630
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.239
didn't buy it. And I feel like we deserved a

631
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:33.679
lot more from this villain.

632
00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:35.400
We could have. We could have had someone better, I think,

633
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:37.360
you know, cause, like I listened, I believe the guy

634
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:43.239
when he's like in sniper mode killing the informant. Okay,

635
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.119
he looked kind of cool, but when he puts on

636
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:49.320
that Hawaiian shirt and he's just like screaming at these kids,

637
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:52.599
Like I just like sound dude, they'll they'll get on

638
00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:54.679
the bus, just like. But he's freaking out, Like I

639
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:56.400
don't know, I think he dialed it up. He's like,

640
00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:59.400
this is my one moment. This is you know, affleck

641
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:01.480
and Burnthrow aren't on the screen. I'm not sharing a

642
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:08.360
moment with him. It's my chance to really Yeah, I.

643
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:12.760
Feel like him trying to take it to ten made

644
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:15.199
it come out as it too. And again he's just

645
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:18.840
not believable for me. I couldn't get behind the character

646
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:22.719
and ultimately the main villain in the movie. I couldn't

647
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:23.719
get behind that either.

648
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.639
It's just nah, well he let's be ho. He's like

649
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:28.480
an eighties cliche bad guy.

650
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.679
You know, you're right, it's it's bad for no reason.

651
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:33.480
He's yeah, Craig T.

652
00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:35.679
Nelson from Turner and Who. Let's be honest.

653
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.360
He's got you know. It's like, well, let's give him

654
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:40.599
a clever you know, let's give him a creepy catch

655
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:44.079
catchphrase or a vibe. You know. He he sings, he sings,

656
00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:46.920
he whistles, pop goes the weasel, which kind of up

657
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:47.199
the movie.

658
00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:49.280
It's just weird, strange thing to do.

659
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.639
Yeah, yeah, listen, we're going We're going down a different path,

660
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:55.639
I feel like, but uh, you know what this this

661
00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:58.679
movie also kind of takes a different path because nine

662
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:02.880
years ago, the excitement of the accountant was immersing yourself

663
00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:07.119
into Christian Wolf's world and discovering his skill sets. Right,

664
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.440
it was a borderline thriller. This time it's more of

665
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:13.800
a road movie meets buddy cop story. But I still

666
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:18.400
think it works. It really works, you know. I know

667
00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:21.440
your thoughts, like, it's this one's fun, right.

668
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:25.719
It's it's a lot of fun. Honestly, It's one of

669
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.280
those things, like you said. The first one, it's so

670
00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:33.800
cool and calculated, and Ben Affleck's character so distant with

671
00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:38.159
his brother hasn't seen him in over a decade, and

672
00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:41.960
you don't get to see too much of anything other

673
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.960
than him being precise, and this one you get to

674
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:50.719
see that side that he probably had and with Jeffrey

675
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:55.480
Oh my goodness, yeah, jeff Yeah, Jeffrey Daber. I don't

676
00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:59.159
know how it swept my mind, but how he had

677
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.239
those moments in that first film. You kind of want

678
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:06.920
more of that because it humanizes the character, and with

679
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.400
him and John Burenthal in this film, I think that

680
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:13.760
is just hit right on the head. I think it

681
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:17.119
humanizes the character. You get to have some really fun

682
00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:20.679
moments with him, and you get to see John Burnhal's

683
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:23.639
blood pressure go up and several scenes which is an

684
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.800
absolute annoyance with his brother, and you're it's that Buddy

685
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:28.480
Cup film.

686
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:31.440
I'm gonna be careful here because no, I don't want

687
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:35.880
to spoil anything, but I really dig what Justine, you know,

688
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.000
the British voice. I really dig what she's up to

689
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:42.760
back at the Harvard Neuroscience Institute, and you know exactly

690
00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:46.000
what I'm talking about. Man, that was an excellent reveal

691
00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:51.079
as far as moving this story forward. Just could not

692
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:53.119
be happier with what they what they're doing there.

693
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:57.880
Honestly, I was so curious about the handler from the

694
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.519
first film, and I was wondering if if we get

695
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:03.760
any closure on exactly who that person is, because you

696
00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:06.960
almost get like a hit man of the aged forty

697
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:10.480
seven vibe from this. You're like, who's his handler? Where

698
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:12.800
is she? What is this? And then they do the

699
00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.599
reveal and you're like, no freaking way, this is too cool.

700
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:19.320
It's too cool. Yeah, And then to come up with,

701
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.719
you know, an extension of that in this movie, even cooler,

702
00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:27.159
and I'm excited, like, where are we going to go

703
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:29.760
with that story? That's what I'm looking forward to. So

704
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:32.840
I think it's safe to say Gavin O'Connor knows these characters,

705
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:36.199
which is why Affleck and Bernthrow are so believable as brothers.

706
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:41.519
The action, it's slick, it's fun, explosive, and let's be honest,

707
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his use of a well placed freeze frame is absolutely

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hilarious in this movie.

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He gets away with this so many times in this film,

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and it just whether it's the bar scene or whatever

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it may be, you're just like, I love.

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This man, Yeah, I love it. As far as the pacing,

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you know, again, Connor isn't trying to make a tense

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thriller with some action this time out. He's making a

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full blown action film with some tense moments but also

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plenty of comedic beats. The movie reacquaints us with these

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characters and then hits the gas for like another ninety

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minutes or so, and it's all just pure fun.

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I feel like you hit the nail right on the

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head there. Again. It's one of those things that once

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this film gets rolling, it never stops. Once the brothers

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get together, and meet up with Cynthia die Robinson. You're

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just gonna have so much fun, whether it's trying to

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solve this case, the brotherly humor between them, or the

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NonStop action that we get there and those last few

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sequences is just amazing.

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So Garrett, I'll ask should the listeners should they see it,

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should they stream it? Or should they skip it?

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I would say, go ahead and put on your best

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pair of Forcet Gump shoes, run out to the theater

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and check this film out.

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Good, good inside joke there. Listen, I say, stream The

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Accountant on Max or Prime and then see this one

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in the theater. That's That's where I'm at with it. Well,

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May is upon us, which means the summer movie season

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is about to kick off, which means it's time we

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all get our asses back to the box office. We

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got Thunderbolts in theaters this weekend, Garrett, Are we gonna go?

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Oh, you're damn right, we're gonna go, brother, because popcorn's

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on me if you buy the tickets.

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Well he doesn't know it, but David is buying the

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tickets because he left his credit card here in the studio,

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so on his behalf we'll be back with you on

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Friday to give you our spoiler free review of Thunderbolts