Chills, Thrills, and Board Game Spills: Reviewing 'Thanksgiving' and 'Monopoly Dreams' | S02E23

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First on film and entertainment. It
is other light to be with Peter Krauss

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and greg King. Gentlemen, you
both well, Gregory, yes, on

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world yourself. Look, it's getting
closer to the end of the year.

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It's gone very quickly, Peter,
hasn't it. I mean, you know,

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the love in between you and I
knows no bounds. Correct, That

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is absolutely correct. Yes, I
mean you know, so I'm sitting hoping

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that some sense will be talked into
you from year to year. It never

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happens. You and I vehemently disagree
on almost everything. It's wonderful. Look,

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I reckon, I've got a movie
that you're going to like that I'm

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going to like. There we go, and to start off on a really

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positive footing today because we want to
talk about salt Burn. What a bombshell

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of a film that says, gentlemen, firstly, without talking anything further about

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it, did you like it?
Peter, Yes, lovely, Gregory yes,

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fantastic? All right, Cord,
what can I say? This is

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what the world needs one hundred and
thirty one minutes m A rated. I'll

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tell you what the rules have engaged
are constantly shifting in this film, Slow

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Burn yeah, but when the axe
falls it's anything but blunt. And along

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the way some seriously outrageous moments the
writer director Emerald Fennel, and she went

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whack, did she not? With
promising young women? That really made its

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mark as well, and she set
out to make a film about love,

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more specifically the kind of locust,
scorched earth, cannibal love you feel at

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a certain age. So this is
a modern Gothic romance in which class,

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power and sex collide. So you
got Oliver Quick tell you what Barry Kean,

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what a great actor he is.
But what was that movie that he

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made with from the Oscar nominated film
with Brenda Grechees. Yeah, sorry,

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we all spoke at the same time. Then Greg go Agin, the man

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Cheese of instrument. Yes, indeed
he Wasn't he a scene stiller in that

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one? So Oliver Quick, is
that the character he plays here? He

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presents at Oxford University in two thousand
and six as this friendless scholarship student from

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a troubled home. He's very well
spoken, he's reserved. The only one

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seemingly interested in forming a connection with
him is this awkward mass nerd who sort

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of follows him around but Quick is
drawn to a guy who I'll call mister

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popularity, the aristocratic Felix Caton played
by Jacob a Lordie, who is never

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short a company and whom girls line
up to be with, much like you,

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Greg, Yeah, the girls just
line up, correct. I don't

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know about lay. Hey, what
are they missing out on? My friend?

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What are they? You know?
This is you know we're getting towards

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the end of the year. What
a cat you are? Anyway? Well,

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Caton doesn't know that Quick exists.
That changes when a good will gesture

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on Quick's part plays out, and
really it's appreciated by Caateon. So the

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two become friends, and at the
end of the university year, when Quick

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makes it clear that he has no
desire to spend the holiday season at home

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his own home, Kate invites him
to his palatial abode. And it really

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is that beautiful place, let me
tell you. Complete with an abundance of

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hired help. Quick comes face to
face with a series of rather bizarre and

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entitled figures that includes Caton's parents,
Elspeth played by Rosamond Pike and Sir James

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Richard E. Grant, sister Venetia
Allison Oliver and cousin Farley Start Archie Medequi

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Start. Farley Start is at university
with Quick and Caton, but he and

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Caton aren't exactly enamored with one another, so lots of money is spent,

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no expense is spared. Quick isn't
exactly prepared though for the family quirks that

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are part of the equation, some
of their behavior. The family's behavior,

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well, I'd say it's decidedly offbeat
and also provocative. But as the saying

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goes, that ain't the half of
what goes down in Saltburn. The longer

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that this film progress, the more
my mind turned movies like Dangerously Asons and

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The Talented Mister Ripley. In this
case, though, expect the unexpected.

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There is no shortage of that.
Emerald Fennel shocks and delights in equal measure.

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This is a movie in which patience
is rewarded. And look among the

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shops is a bathtub scene that my
wife just absolutely cringed at when there was

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this sort of intake of breath and
oh no, oh no, you can't

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unsee it once you've seen it.
And there's another scene involving an outdoor sexual

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episode beneath Quick's bedroom at the manor
that is known as Saltburn heads the title,

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so we the audience never know what's
next in store for Quick, and

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the movie is all the better for
that approach. The score. I thought

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the music in this Anthony Willis is
responsibilityed Meghan really polished and poised the music.

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Barry Key and Wow, picture of
restraint and conviction in one of urgon

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the roles of his career is kind
of like an animal watching and waiting for

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the right time to strike. Jacob
A. Lordie fundamentally laid back and likable

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as the pretty rich boy shining light
to her mother's are drawn Archie Medequi,

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the manipulative outsider that knows he's onto
a good thing. Rosamond Pike ah loved

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it as a wow of a time
as Elspeth's elegant, judgmental mother. And

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Richard E. Grant plays her aloof
husband and he has breakout joyous moments,

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does he not? And You've got
Kerry Mulligan small role, boldly colored hair.

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She makes a mark as Elspeth's needy
younger friend Pamela. The lure of

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the hunt is positively intoxicating for the
Key protagonist in Saltburn, as it is

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for us the audience and feel's film
leaves this indelible impression. Just prepare for

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a wild and wicked Ryde. That's
all I can say. Saltburn, m

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A rated, runs for two hours
and eleven minutes. What did you think

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of it? Greg Oh? I
like it goes in unexpected directions and you're

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never quite sure where it's headed.
But it's a dark comedy thriller that obsession

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excess, gender, sex, power, privilege, and it's the boys crossed

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between the challenge and mister Ripley and
Bridesaid revisited. I thought Barry Pegen is,

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as you said, really Britennes.
This is probably one of these best

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performances there, and there's so much
going on belieath the surface there while you

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see on the surface as quite as
a sort of sociopathic personality there. And

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he's got this sort of chameleon likability
to inhabit these often creepy and sometimes unlikable

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characters he plays on screen, such
as in the killing of a Sacred Gear,

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and here he uses his slightly shifty
looking features, his sort of hunts

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favorite posture and facial expressions. It
would effect here, and that scene in

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which the dances native to the ULLs
of Saltburn is not as we forgotten id

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Alex, No, that's other seas
you reference there. A Laudie I think

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has a casual, seductive charm,
but his character I thought remained a little

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bit under developed there. I thought
Grant and Quite did really good there,

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and they brought a lot of humane
in the material. And it looks fantastic

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too with the cinematography there. Line
of Sandrine bathes it in oversaturated golden palette

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there, and the production design I
thought, for the sprawling family mansion risk

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great tour and allows family audiences to
immerse themselves into this environment of wealth and

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privilege. This is a step up
from Promising Young Woman. I thought it

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shows that Emerald Fennel has grown in
confidence and has got a lot more ambition

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with this film. I thought,
now, Peter, if you play your

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cards right, maybe you can get
an invite for all of us to this

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particular mansion Saltburn. I reckon there'd
be a nice play that'd be aware of

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a time, wouldn't it if we
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Maybe maybe over the summer, Hey, can you can you organize that

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for us? Yes, I'll deal
with it now, and I expect that

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nothing exactly. That's that's you know, You've got your connections, so you

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know I expect positive results when we
speak next week. So did you enjoy

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the film? Though? I did
enjoy Salt Boon because of its darker nature

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about a character who infiltrates a group
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of people with a very expensive mansion. It's interesting that Emerald Fanelle, who

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won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for
Promising Young Woman, has delved even more

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deeply into the darker side of human
behavior. In fact, this film,

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apart from what Greg said quite rightly
Brighthead we visited and you mentioned calendar,

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mister Rebley, etc. Reminded me
of entertaining mister Sloan and teem. There

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are two films that deal with a
young man who infiltrates a fairly wealthy group

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of people and wants to satisfy all
of them, or does he. It

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deals with sexuality in a very intriguing
sort of way, well bisexuality perhaps,

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and the whole notion of this family
that accepts the character that Barry Kean plays

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and then discover other things which we
won't spoil. I found so interesting indeed

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with Barry Keegan, and I'm I'm
greatly to mention killing him a sacred dear.

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He has this ability to play that
sort of benign character that might have

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underline some issues or concerns or psychological
difficulties. I should also add that one

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of the producers of this film was
Margo Robbie, who was perhaps going to

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be playing one of the characters,
the Rosamond's or Carry's role, but she

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decided not to she was busy with
other things. Built overall, I found

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this a very impressive, darkly constructed
film. I also admired the fact that

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Fanel used Academy ratio four three ratio. Yeah, well, I mean didn't

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think that is. But I suppose
it's to concentrate on character because it restricts

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our view. It's a smaller screen, and so we really have to concentrate

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on people rather than on backgrounded atmosphere
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and all that sort of thing.
So it can be very effective in controlling

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the way we view what is going
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there's a couple of things better which
is interesting. Barry Kean is only thirty

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one, he's got a huge feature. I mean, he's an Irish actor.

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And you know that they're doing the
second version of Gladiator, that they're

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about to complete filming on that or
about to entertain that, because the director

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of Napoleon is directing Gladiator like you
did it too. He did play the

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out of One, of course,
twenty years ago, so he's going to

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be in that one again. I
can imagine that he's going to do a

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wonderful job. And he's also going
to be in the second part of Dune

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of course, so he's got a
really bright future. And as far as

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the director is concerned, I mean
she's only thirty eight years of age.

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Both of the I'm really it's kind
of like, you know, you've got

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certain directors you long for the next
movie that they bring out. I think

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Emerald Fennel has that quality about her, does she? Absolute FEI She already

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has an Oscar to her name,
and I wouldn't be surprised if Saltburn also

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features on the Oscars list for this
year. Even the titles that the coloring

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and the way that the titles,
there's something I don't know what type face.

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You know, it's not Old Roman
or whatever. Even that. Everything

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was really considered and it just when
it all comes together, you think,

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oh my golly. You know,
it's just it's that sort of movie.

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And I kind of on it.
Shout from the rooftops. Folks go along

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and see it and just stick with
it because it doesn't necessarily the best movies

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sometimes take a while to percolate,
and I think Salt Burn's one of those,

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don't you better? Oh, absolutely
right again, because of the darker

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aspects of the story. It's one
of those films that will will get a

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cult following. I think it will
absolutely all right. So let's get a

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score out of ten. Salt Burn, as I said, M rated one

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hundred and thirty one minutes. Peter
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me, and Gregory King seven and
a half and eight for me as well.

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it. Now, let us talk about

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another that there's sort of three different
kinds of movies that were at least they're

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probably more than that this week.
But another one that I wanted to talk

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about. When The Hunger Games first
came out, it really made a massive

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splash. It's hard to believe in
the last of those came out four eight

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years ago now, and this one, the Hunger Games, The Ballad of

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Songbirds and Snakes is two hours and
thirty seven minutes and it is a prequel.

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So the franchise, if you like, refreshers with what is a forerunner

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to what we saw going back?
Well, I think it started about fifteen

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years ago or something, did it
not? But a long time ago.

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Yes, I was invested because I
watched the first three Hunger Games and while

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there was four actually because one was
broken into two parts, thought yeah,

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okay, where are we heading.
Well, it's a story of the evolution

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of the eventual President of Annam,
which was the role that was filled by

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Donald Sutherland in the original Hunger Games, and in this case it's Tom blythe

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who plays eighteen year old Corolinus Snow, and he's seen the family's name fall

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from grace in a post war capital, and he lives with his gentle cousin

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whose name is Tigris played by Hunter
Schaeffer, and also grandmother Grandmother known as

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Grand Grand Grandmam played by Fanula Flanagan. But times are pretty tough for everybody,

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and Songbirds and Snakes looks at the
early days of the Hunger Games,

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exploring the genesis of its showmanship and
spectacle, so it delves into the origins

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of the Panam's authoritarian rule as well. So, with his livelihoods threatened,

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Snow reluctively accepts the assignment to mentor
Lucy gray Bird played by Rachel Zegler,

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who was in West Side Story in
the Tenth Hunger Games, and Baird is

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a feisty tribute from the impoverished District
twelve. He's got a beautiful sing also

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has the ability to capture the eyeballs
of viewers, which is really critical because

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you want people viewing when the Hunger
Games are on. So it's a really

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critical element to this installment, The
Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes, and

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basically prior to that, audience interest
has waned, and it's where Snow sees

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away as carp A DM seize the
day and improve both his and bears situation

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by taking risks and breaking rules.
Unexpected romance follows, but the situation is

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fraught. Snow tries to take the
high road, but troubling episodes see him

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turn and wanting to see him fall. Is the Academy's morally conflicted Dean high

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Bottom, played by Peter Dinkline,
who dresses him black and drinks too much.

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He's the one who bears the burden
of guilt for setting the Games in

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motion, along with Snow's father,
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He was once a powerful figure in
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a joke to devise punishment that was
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how badly they wronged PanAm, and
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idea for the Hunger Games and ran
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into the role of the evil doctor
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also the head games maker. She
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in the Games, and under her
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and mentors are introduced to make the
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job to ensure they continue to serve
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Capital's Experimental Weapons Division, and her
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animals called Mutations, and she's particularly
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snakes. Now. Another in the
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played by josh Andre Rivera, also
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as Snow's fellow academy student and another
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an uneasy relationship. Making his mark
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whether Man, an amateur magician lucretious
Lucky Flickerman played by Jason Schwartzman in previous

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installments that was a role memorably played
by Stanley Tucci as his descendant, Caesar

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Flickerman. It's based on the novel
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as written by Michael Leslie, who
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to the Hunger Games Catching Fire directed
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he directed the previous three movies in
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shift between those chapters. A lot
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would certainly be helpful. I did
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the manipulation involved in the screenplay.
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tom blythe while he does much of
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Zegler asserts her authority, presenting as
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and it ties barely recognizable. Viola
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revels in her character's power. Another
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a very dark edge, as I
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man on the precipice of destruction.
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slimy four under the Stanley Tucci,
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the Games to the masses. Look
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that all of the acting is top
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long film, two hours and thirty
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people who have enjoyed the franchise,
I reckon it'll be reasonably rewarding. I

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mean, obviously, one of the
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role in the original Hunger Games.
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about that it would help if you
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zoo to begin with. So that's
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and Snakes, Peter. I don't
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is not your cup of tea like
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yeah, I've never been a fan
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interpretude of the way it deals with
young people as sacrificial lambs to keep districts

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in this dystopian future happy and not
fighting one another, especially also to increase

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the television ratings, et cetera.
So the underpinning storyline of The Hunger Games

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is something I find quite repulsive.
It's interesting that I think, I think

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you've meant to, but I mean
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eke well, the ek a value, there's a there's a you know that's

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a modern term, but there is
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but well factor. But the franchise
has done alright. You know, they

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wouldn't be making it again unless they
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Suzanne Collins, who's written all of
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on, certainly has made quite a
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But Francis Lawrence also directs. He's
come back back again to direct this

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Hunger Game's prequel. But that I
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that violence, that which young people
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what I find quite objectionable. It's
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Germany. Yes, it will shot
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main hub now for Hollywood to make
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studio complex. It's a massive size
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style of the film, it's not
bad even though some of the CGI is

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a little weak. What I found
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the Shakespearean aspect to the film,
the Coriolanus and his development of a nice

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sort of character and turning into something
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which is very Shakespearean. Even the
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of Yeah, it's all right,
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Look, I found this film over
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little bit obvious and repetitive by the
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I sort of knew where it was
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bit disappointed by it, even though
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But I thought as a prequel I
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character was the only lively thing I
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now, this could have been more
interesting and paid up the whole idea of

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media control and so on, But
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yeah, overall, I was disappointed. Okay, And what about you,

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Greg? Did you agree with a
lot of you didn't? You didn't hunger

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for the games? Greg? No, it didn't make me hunger for more

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either, but I agree it's a
bit overlong there film that sort of in

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two given halves there totally uneven.
I liked the first half basically with the

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Hunger Games, the development the Hunger
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saved she that stadium there was a
lot more gritty and exciting than what came

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later. I liked the Jason Schwartzman
character, the sleazy TV host who is

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obviously Sandy, the father of Sandy
Duch's character in the later ones there,

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but I thought the second half sort
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didn't do much for me, and
they still haven't explained how the young Corielana

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Snow became rest in pan m there. I think they need another episode with

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someone like maybe Keith, for someone
playing a role to see how we walked

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into Donald Subtheron's character. This is
one of those young annult themes that will

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appeal to a certain audience. Those
are like the first couple of hundred Games.

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I don't see anybody else flocking to
see this film A bit ho harm

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I thought somebody answer was quite well
said nothing. None of the performances who

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were anything to write home as far
as I was concerned. I thought Tom

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Bloyd did a good job as the
young Colorlinas, and so did Rachel Ziegler

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as Lucid. But I didn't think
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of the carriages in the first film. Well, I think I'll give it

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at higher school than you will,
then, Greek, So what are you

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going to give the Hungry Games?
The Ballad of Songbirds and Stakes m rated

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one hundred and fifty seven minutes.
I'd give it three stars, mainly for

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the first half. Okay, and
what about you, Peter, I give

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it five out of ten, all
right, so five and six. I'll

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give it a seven because I you
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wasn't what it could have been.
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and I thought funny enough, Greg, I did get more involved as

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the chapters went on, so I
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while, but I thought, yeah, okay, where is this heading?

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though, too. I agree with
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which I'll tell you what my wife
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the trailer, and that was enough
for she thought she'd have a bex and

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to lie down. So in the
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sort of. I mean, it's
a blood and gorefest. This is a

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slash of horror. So it's our
rated for very good reason. One hundred

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and six minutes. There's beheadings and
lots of other things because it rained serial

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killer is on the loose. How
many times have we had that line?

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Eh? Anyway, it's a gore
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And we're talking about Thanksgiving twenty twenty
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which is the birthplace of that national
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for many it's no longer a public
holiday because Black Friday sales now start on

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that day, on the Thursday,
and the public's champion at the bit to

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get their hands on the latest and
greatest bargains that come with the sales.

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It always reminds me remember when it
went out of Things got right out of

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whack at Meyer in Melbourne, and
then they toned things down because there were

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a few specials and only a few
people get get their hands on and it

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was a disaster waiting to happen.
So it kind of Fortunately nobody was killed

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in that, but in this Thanksgiving
obviously extremes up struck pac mentality develops.

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These members of the public crashed through
the closed doors of a department store in

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this sort of open slather stampede,
and in a nightmare scenario, people fall,

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their cut, they're bloody, they're
trampled on, they're scalped, and

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they're killed. A redneck school kid, a footballer called Evan, records the

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riot on his mobile phone, and
a year on, the store is wealthy

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owner played by Rick Hoffman, decides
to ignore best advice and again open up

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the retail on that fateful day instead
of recognizing in a more decent manner that

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it's inappropriate. But those involved in
an innocent bystanders to the freck a year

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earlier are now receiving videos of the
massacre on their phones, and that includes

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Jessica, who's the centerpiece of a
group of teenage friends and the glue that

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holds everyone together, and also in
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A little do they know it at
the time, but a special Thanksgiving

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dinners being prepared and it's their heads
quite literally on the chopping blot, and

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one by one they're being picked off
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fate. The killer wears this John
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Or, was the first governor of
the Plymouth Colony. Sheriff Newlan played by

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Patrick dempsees in this race against time
to stop the brutal slayings, but he's

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losing that battle and to act to
the tension, Jessica's caught in a love

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triangle between a tip the guys who
don't like one another, the l I

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Roth and Jeff Rendell. Roth directs
and the other two of them right the

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thing. It's an ode to the
eighties slasher horror film. In fact,

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Roth's journey to making this film started
back in two thousand and six. His

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friends Tarantino and Rodriguez Quentin and Robert
were working on their double feature Grindhouse,

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and at the time, Tarantino asked
his buddies, including Roth, to create

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fake trailers that would appeal to the
Grindhouse crowd. So the scares in Thanksgiving

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I thought they were real. I
was scared. Brandon Roberts score elevates the

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tension nobody is safe, and the
killer appears to take great pride and pleasure

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in stalking and viscerating his prey.
Quite busied sets there's shade and darkness are

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regular bedfellows for the filmmakers to capitalize
upon, and that they most certainly do.

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I was sitting on the edge of
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of full time. And again,
Dempsey approaches his role as sheriff with empathy

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and determination, trying to calm the
understandable fear that pervades the community. Now

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given what's happening around her. The
key team here, played by Nell ver

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Laqua, remains remarkably calm and level
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and among the male high school students, there's this sort of boyish meathead

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mentality. Of course, as the
plot unfolds, weed the audience try to

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work out who's responsible for the carnage. I reckon it's reasonably well disguised.

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I'm pleased about that. I don't
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with a material should satisfy diehard fans
of this genre. Now, it's not

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going to be for everybody, that's
for sure. If you're not into heads

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rolling around in lots of blood and
gore. Then Thanksgiving is not for you?

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Is it for you? Greg?
I like the first half of this

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role. Again, the opening scene
is one of the best I've seen on

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screen this year. You're talking about
you're talking about the stamp nothing. Yeah,

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that was a great opening scene.
Then after that, though, the

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rest of it's fairly formulaic. We've
seen this kind of thing before, a

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mass killer shorting the streets of the
town, pitting your people one by one.

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You know, everything from Rightmare on
Elm Street, Halloween to Scream has

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done it before, So this one
doesn't do anything different except some of the

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jests, as you said, Alex, are quite glory. There's some inventive

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ways to kill people in this one. It's it's horrible that we're talking that

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way, mind you, Greg,
But yeah, they's a bit of fun.

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You're sort of sort of find yourself
laughing at some inappropriate moments in this

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film. I bought in that regard. Patrick sw Gemisy as the sheriff not

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given a lot to do there,
but he's quite effective doing what he does.

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But yeah, some of the characters
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and the ones you set up the
riot and a couple you don't mind

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them getting picked off. No,
it's a nice thing to say, Peter,

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are you in a blood gore?
Absolutely, and also in the cinema.

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But anyway, really eating may and
we know that about you already and

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you've just reinforced the stereotype. Very
good, thank you. Absolutely, I

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just scream at that comment. But
it is an R rated film, and

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it's O rated for a reason because
it is beingly nasty invited. And yet

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I was as I was watching this, I was wondering if this was a

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film as a training ground for Black
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who I'm sure will wallow in this
film about a retailer who goes overboard.

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I mean, is it giving it
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don't open on you don't have these
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because when you look at the way
the film resolves itself and then the post

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credit sequence, it's almost like,
well you can see it either way.

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that the do you know what the busiest

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trading day of the year is an
American an I would assume Black Friday,

400
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.160
because that's it is so much time
on that, and it is so I

401
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.200
mean, you know that there's again
an opportunity for everybody to race out and

402
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.400
get bargains and trample on one another. It's always no, no, I'm

403
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.200
always fearful of it. Do you
remember in the city a few years ago?

404
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.640
And I really enjoyed going to it, but it was really dangerous.

405
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.680
It was white Night. Do you
remember that when Greek? Did you ever

406
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.400
go to that or not? Did
a couple of times, but as said,

407
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.079
the crowds and everything were enough to
Yeah, but it reminds me because

408
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.960
I mean there was I remember going
one year and we were in the middle

409
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:48.319
of Slender Street and basically I lost
my wife and oh well, no,

410
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.480
this has happened around the world,
I might say. And it's not convenient

411
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.720
in case you boys were thinking that
I've lost her in MW Zealand for example,

412
00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.680
right I I was sore. Oh
yeah, I lost her at the

413
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.799
Lou. I lost her at the
Lou Can you believe that? And she

414
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:09.359
was so angry with me. I
didn't do it, Waiver, I didn't

415
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:15.319
do it, you know. And
so I mean I've now got my card

416
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:20.759
stamped because basically, I've now got
a little bit of a This is the

417
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:25.160
cheeky side of it. You know
how there's six continents. I haven't yet

418
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:29.119
lost her on six continents, so
there's a way to go. No,

419
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:30.599
No, I didn't say that.
I did not say that on air,

420
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:36.519
Peter, I take that back.
No, I love I love my wife

421
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:42.039
dearly. We digress, get back
on a Thanksgiving please. Wow. Well

422
00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:45.519
that is what a what a revelation? All right, yes, back to

423
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:49.079
Thanksgiving anyway. Look, yes,
I agree with Greg. The opening sequence

424
00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:53.160
in the store was very well choreographed, and it looks nice to see Gina

425
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:58.680
Glushon in the film as well.
She's been in many films and she has

426
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:04.000
an interesting fate taxed to her early
on in the film. Look, it

427
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:08.200
is fairly obvious in terms of the
setup that revenge was going to be sought

428
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:15.440
on the people who suffered during that
opening retail stampede, and so there were

429
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:20.319
no particular surprises here and there.
There were some amusing bits and pieces,

430
00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:23.839
if you can call a horror violent
slasher amusing at times, but look I

431
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:29.480
didn't mind it. I thought it
was an okay film with a resolution which

432
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:34.759
was pretty much expected. Although that
as I mentioned that post credit sequence,

433
00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:38.960
well you can interpret that how you
like. Anyway, Eli Roth is very

434
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:44.039
good at making these films, and
he's done another good one here Cabin Fever

435
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:49.720
Hostel. He knows how to grab
an audience by the throat and to do

436
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:53.920
things to them which they may not
possibly appreciate at the end, but nevertheless

437
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.480
he does attract the good audience.
I liked it overall. I think it

438
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:02.839
was well done, and yeahs as
slasher horror movies go, this one is

439
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:07.079
a pretty good one. So ir
rated for very good reason. As Peter

440
00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:12.320
says, I totally agree with that. One hundred and six minutes thanksgiving score

441
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.400
out of ten Gregory, Oh,
look, six to six and a half.

442
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:17.920
I thought it was better than that, but there you go. Okay,

443
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.039
let's know, I found the second
half the slasher a bit formula,

444
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.159
and you know we've seen it all
before. Nothing new. Far from the

445
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:30.079
Blood, Far from the Blood.
What about you, Peter, Yeah,

446
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:32.039
I quite liked it. Seven out
of ten. For me, well,

447
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:37.679
yeah, it's funny again the Dean's
expectations. My expectations were low going in

448
00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:42.079
there, and I thought, for
what it was it did it well even

449
00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.000
though it was Indeed, it is
sort of capitalized upon what we've seen previously.

450
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:47.000
Believe it or not, I'm going
to give this an eight. I

451
00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:52.079
really I thought it did what it
set out to do something and it retrieved

452
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:53.800
exactly what it set out to do. And I dare say that there'll be

453
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.039
more installments as a result, and
I think it'll do well at the box

454
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.840
office, So you know, for
all of those, I'm giving it an

455
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:02.679
eight. So there you go.
Now, I want to go back to

456
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:08.679
your childhood. Are you lying on
a couch Peter issue? Okay, so

457
00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:15.199
if you if I mentioned board games, did you ever play? And what

458
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.840
board games did you play as a
child? What was the what was the

459
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:22.800
most popular one that you played?
Look, Scrabble and Monopoly were probably the

460
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:29.599
two I like the best, excellent
and Greg Scrabble and Monopoly yep, yep,

461
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:34.599
exactly, and they're the ones that
I played as well. There is

462
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:37.960
now something they've taken four years to
get this going, boys, and tell

463
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.760
you what it really I just could
not believe what I was seeing. It's

464
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:47.559
called Monopoly Dreams. It's at Melbourne
Central. They've apparently got a lease for

465
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:52.760
sixteen years, they've taken up ten
retail outlets in the basement of Melbourne Central.

466
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:58.880
And I suddenly got a news release
about this the day before the media

467
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.920
launch, and I said, why
have I never heard about this? Now?

468
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.079
Okay, it's the most popular wood
game it was. Here's a trivial

469
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:10.360
pursuit press and Greek imagine and your
Greek, by the way, folks,

470
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:15.039
is just brilliant at trivial pursuit.
He's won mini competitions around the world.

471
00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:20.079
Haven't you doing this? Haven't you
not? Though? Know y didn't you

472
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.280
go to England and do well in
a trivial note? I thought you did?

473
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.159
There you go, I'm inventing it. I'm fixating on this Greek all

474
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.920
right, So but you have one
in Please don't prove Sydney one through the

475
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:36.079
competition in Sydney, right and Melbourne? Yeah? There you go? Okay,

476
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.559
So when here's my trivial pursuit question
without notice? Don't google it?

477
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:45.159
When was the game patented? Which
yere monopoly? Approximately? Will do you?

478
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:51.599
What do you goes back to the
thirties? Doesn't it well done?

479
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:57.360
Well done? Nineteen thirty five December
thirty First, there you go, Parker

480
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:01.639
Brothers and yeah. Anyway, While
it since morphed into hundreds of localized iterations,

481
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:07.559
the winner take all mentality that underpins
the game has not changed, nor

482
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:12.639
has its wholesome family appeal. And
now it's spawned this delightful, flashy,

483
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:17.719
one of a kind immersive entertainment love
immersive entertainment experience at Melbourne Central. So,

484
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:21.320
as I mentioned, I had no
idea what I was in for,

485
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.199
right, I thought, oh,
yeah, it's throwaway type something, it'll

486
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.760
last a little bit and then go. But it was special. Now I

487
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:32.960
took the In fact, I did
this before a film that we saw.

488
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.840
What was the Wednesday Night film?
We saw it Melbourne seventy Giving pardon me

489
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:40.840
Thanksgiving? Yeah yeah, so that
was the double for me. Monopoly and

490
00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:45.880
Thanksgiving out. Anyway, you entered
the domain of the world's richest fictional little

491
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:51.440
man called mister Monopoly. He's about
nightheight Greek. So there you go,

492
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.719
fictional little man and he started life
as a humble what was it is?

493
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:59.039
He is my trivial BRAZI question,
what do you reckon? Mister Monopoly started

494
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.239
life out as you remember any of
you, either of you. It's one

495
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:07.239
of the pieces in the board game
Nope, started as a humble car mechanic,

496
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:12.880
and you witness how he's elevated his
stationary life. Now you wander through

497
00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:20.159
a series of Monopoly themed installations,
games and adventures. And what I found

498
00:38:20.199 --> 00:38:23.400
interesting in particular at the start you
look at the evolution of the board game

499
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:29.599
with many versions of it and show
and apparently they've borrowed some of these from

500
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:35.960
a Melbourne lady who has got the
third largest Monopoly game board collection in the

501
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.920
world. Some of those, obviously
she's lent to this exhibition. One of

502
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:45.440
those that stood out for me and
I didn't realize this the London Olympic Games,

503
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:52.039
which was held in twenty twelve.
As a gift to every British athlete

504
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:58.039
competing, you could not buy this. They made a special edition of Monopoly.

505
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.960
I think that's lovely actually, I
mean it gives it a special quality

506
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:05.880
about it. So that's one of
the things on show here. Now along

507
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:10.199
the journey, you're encouraged to participate
in several games which win you Monopoly money.

508
00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:14.679
Of course of course it would,
and you can spend that in the

509
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:20.880
Monopoly shop that inevitably is at the
end of the Monopoly dreams experience, and

510
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.440
among the fun things you can do
is try do you know those things where

511
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:30.000
there's air blown into a little sort
of Superman booth and you try to collect

512
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.360
as much cash as you can.
There's one of those there for thirty seconds.

513
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:36.920
It's a lot of fun. Now
the rules allow. I didn't realize.

514
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:38.880
I went in there and I just
grabbed it off for your floor,

515
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:43.239
and they said no, no,
no, you can't do that. You

516
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:47.800
get so I cheated Peter. There
we go. Of course you did well,

517
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:51.320
I mean the beard part. There
was a jail in there, of

518
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:53.679
course, but as there is in
monopoly, so I was sent straight to

519
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:58.199
jaral and wasn't allowed to collect my
two hundred dollars. There you go,

520
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:02.519
right, serves your yes, exactly. I like them all flying around and

521
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:06.719
I grabbed it. There we go. Anyway. You can win more money

522
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.480
at installations named water works in Electric
City, and there's also code you can

523
00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:15.880
try and crack crack out of jail. There's it. Oh, I like

524
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:19.199
this a lot. You can share
the joys of a laser maze. Now

525
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:23.840
what is that? Basically you've got
mister Monopoli's large diamond in a per speaks

526
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:28.960
case, at the end of a
room and before between you and the root

527
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:35.159
and the diamond are red lines which
are the laser right, and you need

528
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:38.519
to climb over them and climb under
them and whatever and get back to where

529
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:43.800
you started from in sixty seconds.
And if you do, if you catch

530
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:46.440
the laser more than ten times,
you're beeped out. That was fun.

531
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:52.360
Now one of the other highlights.
Have you guys both participated in four D

532
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:57.119
movies? Peter, you ever bet
to a four D movie? Maybe one

533
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.320
of these theme parks or I mean, is that where your seat rocks and

534
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:04.400
yeah, you feel as if you're
involved in the Yes, yeah, it's

535
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.800
green. Yeah, yep, you've
done that in greet U two. No,

536
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.880
I remember the Rocky Cinema seats that
Earthquake can filmed like that though,

537
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.440
yeah, okay, well so this
is one of those. But you also

538
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.880
gets you get sprayed with a mist
of water, and also there's also smells

539
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:22.960
and I couldn't figure it out.
I asked them what the smell was and

540
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:25.519
it was grass. So, I
mean, it's only a three minute sort

541
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:31.119
of film, but basically it's a
movie where a bandit tries to steal mister

542
00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:37.519
Monopoly's riches. So yeah, the
seats move and showers, mists and smells

543
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.239
and yeah, anyway, at various
junctures also throughout this, and it's really

544
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:43.800
slick. I mean, the old
thing is done. It's beautifully done,

545
00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:46.519
really beautifully done. You can take
selfies with mister Monopoly. And do you

546
00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:51.159
know what his dog was called?
Greg? I can't remember, Okay,

547
00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:53.360
Peter, you wouldn't remember. No, no, no, I wasn't there

548
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:57.760
at the Lord Well no, no, I mean it wasn't the Lord you

549
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:00.920
well, hey, on a Monopoly
was invented at least a few hundred years

550
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:05.880
after you were born. I mean
you were born in seventeen seventeen hundred my

551
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.239
last last iteration. You know,
it's like a tree. I'm counting the

552
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:13.360
rings on the stump. So Monopoly
came along, you know, you're an

553
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:15.559
old man before Monopoly came along.
I understand that. So his dog was

554
00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:20.800
named Scotty. There you go anyway. You can take terrier, isn't it

555
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.800
a little carrier? Yeah exactly.
Yeah, So mister Monopoly and his dog

556
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:28.079
Scotti, you can take selfies with. You can take selfies that. He's

557
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:30.719
got a news stand, he's got
there's a Melbourne tram in there his tram,

558
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:35.880
and there's a silver helicopter. So
plenty of joy to be had in

559
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:39.239
Monopoly Dreams. Now if you want
it, you can choose an extra expense

560
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:45.800
to play arcade games and you can
win plush toys and key chains and Monopoly

561
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.119
magnets. They're pretty pretty funcky,
actually, I liked a lot of that

562
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.760
stuff. Now the anti pass also
allows you to print out a special title

563
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:54.880
deed to a property. I got
the Gold Coast. I thought that was

564
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.920
fair, fair and reasonable, and
the Dean got the mcg I wouldn't mind

565
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:01.519
the mcg O. I think it's
fair and reasonable as well. So we

566
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:05.840
did well. And you can also
have your Monopoly photo taken in a picture

567
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:08.480
booth, which is worth doing,
and that's part of the price of admission.

568
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:12.960
I was trying to work out how
long, I reckon you need to

569
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:15.840
allow on our at least for the
full experience. Very much hands on,

570
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:21.800
extremely well laid out, really well
organized, so much fun. The one

571
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:25.719
thing that they're negotiating with that they
do need is more signage because it's quite

572
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.679
a large area in Melbourne Central,
I mean various levels and even on the

573
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:34.880
sort of lower ground level where this
is there. It's quite a long walkway

574
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:38.440
and if you enter through Latrobe Street, you have to walk right through to

575
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:44.079
virtually Lonsdale Street to sort of see
it. So the problem is that all

576
00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:46.880
the retailer is what more signage.
But I reckon Monopoly Dreams should have it

577
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:51.840
because it takes up I don't know
any other retailer that takes up ten retail

578
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:54.599
outlets, and especially because they've got
the sixteen year lease, I think that's

579
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:58.639
fair and reasonable. So I'm bidding
on their behalf. But look, if

580
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:00.639
you want to find out more,
go to Monopoly Dreams dot com dot au.

581
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:05.480
I reckon it's going to especially appeal
to teenagers and adults of all ages.

582
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:07.519
You know, yeah, okay,
if you're a five year old,

583
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:09.440
you might get something out of it, but I reckon you're going to get

584
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:13.840
more out of it as a teenager
and as an adult. To give you

585
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:16.039
an idea of pricing, I'll it'd
be interested to see what you think,

586
00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:21.440
guys, of the pricing I give
you. The kids under under three are

587
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:25.920
free, but three to fifteen it's
thirty eight dollars fifty and for adults it's

588
00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:30.519
forty nine dollars fifty So what do
you think of those prices and compare that

589
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:34.960
to going to the footy? Greg
in going to the as well? Yeah,

590
00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:37.400
how expensing going to the forty but
is probably cheapd In going to the

591
00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:43.000
Yeah, not more expensive for me
going to the footy, Greg, I'm

592
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:47.239
I have to pay because I'm at
MCC provisional member and an essence member.

593
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:51.840
I'm playing one hundred bucks a game. Now, mate, it's expensive for

594
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:54.480
going to the footy. So but
so is I mean, hey, you're

595
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:58.519
the one who's paid one thousand dollars
to see that the Boss, haven't you?

596
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:01.400
So you know, but that was
in New York on Broadways, one

597
00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:06.159
of it, so one of experience. That's true. No, that's true.

598
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.920
Look, Having said that, though
Broadway shows, Greg are very expensive

599
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:15.760
that they're in if you equate it
to Australian dollars, it's dearer than Australia.

600
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:20.599
Yeah, but they have something called
the cheap Kicks there and get some

601
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:22.800
really cheap chickens, you know,
like about twenty five bucks some of those

602
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year shows in we had for an
hour or so. We have that too.

603
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We've got half ticks in Melbourne and
located now I'm not sure. Well,

604
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they were hard to send them for
a long time. They they were

605
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at the town Hall. But there's
actually another one that I noticed as well.

606
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I'm not sure. I'm just googling
now half priced theater tickets in Melbourne

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and let's see that there are at
least two outlets when I last checked,

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which is probably about six months ago. Yeah, half ticks is there,

609
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and how does it work? Today? Ticks is another one, ti X.

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By the way, folks, today
ticks is another one. So yeah,

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I mean you can still but the
idea of queueing and all thats of

612
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stuff is, you know, it
won't appeal to everybody, let's be honest.

613
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So anyway, like that, Alex, you're looking out where they're located.

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Which are half ticks or which one
the today of them? Okay,

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well hang on, I'm now today
ticks set an alert for last minute theater

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tickets for Melbourne shows at best prices. Get exclusive access to our digital lottery

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and mobile rush tickets. That's what
it says with today ticks half ticks,

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because you'd go in for some of
these, wouldn't you, greg if you

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if you could get them wouldn't you
one at time and over exactly? We're

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off here. Yeah, okay,
so I'm just looking, ok I'm looking

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at half Ticks Half Ticks Melbourne.
Okay, well this is interesting. Yeah,

622
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it's it seems like a different location
feature featuring events. So mate,

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okay, I reckon you should go
this. One of them is out the

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Hour of the Wolf at the Mall
House Elvis. There you go. These

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are just some of the things that
are on there now. But I still

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can't find the location of events available
about us anyway, the folks, you

627
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can two hundred and eight Little Colin
Street I found there you go. Okay,

628
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so yeah, so people want to
go to the theater. That's that's

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the way going around it. But
Monopoly Dreams, I really I really enjoyed

630
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it, both of it. I
had a great time, but a really

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nice night, you know. Ended
off we start off with sort of family

632
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:29.000
friendly entertainment and when with rated shop
or horror what what? What? A

633
00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:34.440
complete evening? You know, which
is wheat which is where our hours of

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00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.559
entertainment. Yes exactly, so that
was that was great. Now I want

635
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to also mention a couple of other
things that that are on that we I

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don't think we spoke about last week. Correct me if I'm wrong. And

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show last week? Oh, we
didn't have a show last week. There

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we go, Well we replayed last
week's Yeah, so okay, there's quite

639
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a few shows on at the moment
in terms of theater, and one of

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those things that is on his dog
Fight at Chapel Off Chapel. Now,

641
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did either of you ever see the
movie with River Furnish? You did?

642
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:14.079
Okay? I found the subject matter
is really just it made my skin crawl.

643
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:16.280
You know you talked about that with
regards to hunger games, Peter,

644
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but you know this is one that
plays till the twenty sixth of November and

645
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cyber bullying, unfortunately his rife in
society today. Physical appearance is a common

646
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.159
reason why that, you know,
cyber bullies sort of pick on people and

647
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:37.559
dog fight. In the context of
this physical the first of that practice among

648
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:43.679
marines are placing bets on ugly women
and it's the story of Eddie Birdlay is

649
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:46.079
about to turn twenty one. It's
the twenty first of November nine in sixty

650
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three, why is that done?
Significant? Greg trivial pursuit question again,

651
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twenty first of November nine and sixty
three. Well, j present Vanity,

652
00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:00.760
Sorry, Greg, wasn't it canon
is a sattittated both of you got that

653
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right? Yet? The day before
JFK's assassination unfortunate sort of demise, but

654
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having completed his basic training in San
Francisco, Bird lays and a couple of

655
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fellow recruits that you to ship out
en route to Vietnam the next morning.

656
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Before that, it's party time that
involves wagering on unattractive ladies at fifty bucks

657
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a shot, and the winner spot
goes to the marine that brings the worst

658
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:28.719
looking so really really ugly. And
Eddie meets an idealistic waitress called Rose Fenni

659
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in a diner and invites her along
and another of his recruits, Boland or

660
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his mates breaks the established rules of
the dog fight by doing a deal with

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Marsi and Marsi' is a street smart
prostitute and wants Burdo act as his date,

662
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:50.840
but things backfire spectacularly for both bird
Lace and Boland. Despite her disgust

663
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:54.559
when she catches out bird Lace,
the delightful Fenny gives him a second chance.

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I don't know why she would,
but there you go. And even

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though Birdlace's aggression continues to some issues, the peg connects their all two brief

666
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encounter, though is followed up four
years later when Birdlace returns to San Francisco

667
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with the horrors of war edge all
over his face. It's an adaptation of

668
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a nineteen ninety one coming of age
drama, the one that Greek spoke about

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with Rever Phoenix and Lily Taylor.
The book of the musical is by Peter

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Dushan, music and lyrics by BENJ. Passek and Justin Paul. It opened

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off Broadway in July twenty twelve,
and given the fraud nature of the subject

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matter, I Reckon the theater Company
Theatrical has put on a strong production,

673
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featuring several talented performers. From the
opening moments of this Antoinette Davis mesmerizers,

674
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she's just brilliant, beautiful, rich
texture to her voice. She acts up

675
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.239
as Storm and loved what she did. Daniel Naborski has sweet resonance as her

676
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first crush, Eddie, who defintely
straddles the emotional rollerquas required of his role

677
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and also impressing. Jost Arenaho brings
ugly menace to his portrayal of Bowland a

678
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character dimension earlier, and Tristan Sakari
sort of brings this run with a pack

679
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mentality to the uncertain character of Bernstein. Madeline Pratt makes her mark, bringing

680
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attitude and SaaS to Marsi the prostitute
hit Marsh's direction sounded engaging musical direction from

681
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Timothy John Wilson done a fine job
with a six piece band, lighting and

682
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sound as solid, but I wasn't
as sold on the staging. I found

683
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it largely bland and not as interesting
as I would have liked. But what

684
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it does do when they did this
deliberately is allows the lighting to take over

685
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and make its ark to sort of
show different facets of this show, and

686
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that was a deliberate act. So
I also liked the signage though, and

687
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the pendant lighting signage for promoting Uncle
Sam and San Francisco chewing gum and other

688
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:51.639
things and its period signage which does
well. And the pendant lighting is a

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00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:55.880
dozen pendant lights come from the ceiling
which works very very well. The sprawling

690
00:51:55.880 --> 00:52:00.360
set, though, takes full advantage
of the full stage, but there's a

691
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.360
series of low rise stairs built into
the which sort of means that there's a

692
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:07.360
lot of movement up and down,
up uphill and down Dale, so you

693
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:12.360
know that's the staging of the thing. But overall it's it's it's it's got

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it's a good it's a it's a
it's a good musical for those people who

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are prepared to look at look away
from the actual subject matter. But I

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mean that's the point that it is
meant to be. It's like Hunger Games.

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It preys upon the fact the eck
factor. There's that word again.

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So it's got bite, there's no
question, no pun intended. Dogfight has

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00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:37.159
bite as it builds momentum, momentum
to what is a devastating conclusion. And

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it's on a chapel off chapel until
the twenty sixth of November, so you've

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got a week to see it,
folks, if you want to go along.

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And that's our day done. I've
got to say I'm going to love

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you and leave you, Peter,
thank you very much, and Gregory King,

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and we'll do it all again next
week on First On Film and Entertainment.

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Look forward to it. Good idea,