Aug. 18, 2024

S03E15: From the Olympics to the MCU: Deadpool and Wolverine Unite

S03E15: From the Olympics to the MCU: Deadpool and Wolverine Unite

**Host:** Alex First
**Guest Critics:** Jaqui Hammerton, Greg King, Peter Krause
**Episode Summary:**
In this lively episode, Alex First is joined by Jaqui Hammerton, Greg King, and Peter Krause to discuss the latest in film and entertainment. The...

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Season 3

**Host:** Alex First
**Guest Critics:** Jaqui Hammerton, Greg King, Peter Krause
**Episode Summary:**
In this lively episode, Alex First is joined by Jaqui Hammerton, Greg King, and Peter Krause to discuss the latest in film and entertainment. The Timms kicks off with a spirited debate about the Olympic Games before diving into the highly anticipated "Deadpool and Wolverine." The episode also features reviews of the charming French rom-com "Mister Blake at Your Service" and the chilling crime horror thriller "Long Legs." Each critic brings their unique perspective, blending humour and serious critique to provide listeners with a comprehensive review of these films.
**Highlights:**
- **Deadpool and Wolverine:** The critics explore the irreverent and action-packed film featuring Ryan Reynolds And Huw Jackman. They discuss the film's humour, inside jokes, and its appeal to both purists and casual viewers. Jacqui praises its witty dialogue and broad appeal, while Alex highlights the cleverness and hilarity amidst the complex narrative.
- **Mister Blake at Your Service:** A delightful French rom-com starring John Malkovich. The critics discuss the film's charming characters, beautiful setting, and feel-good storyline. While Greg finds it a bit slow, Jacqui and Peter appreciate its lightweight entertainment and the development of its characters.
- **Long Legs:** A creepy crime horror thriller starring an unrecognisable Nicolas Cage. The Timms delves into the film's tense atmosphere, strong performances, and its sinister underbelly. Greg finds it derivative but atmospheric, while Peter praises its unique take on the horror genre.
This episode of First on Film and Entertainment offers a dynamic mix of film reviews, from the irreverent "Deadpool and Wolverine" to the charming "Mister Blake at Your Service" and the chilling "Long Legs." The critics provide thoughtful commentary and lively discussions, making this episode a must-listen for film enthusiasts. Join us next week for more in-depth reviews and engaging conversations.
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First on Film and Entertainment, A very good morning to

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all and sundry. Olympic Games fever has hit and the

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opening ceremony was absolutely spectacular. Spoilt somewhat by the rain,

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but hey, what they achieved, what they did. Yeah, there's controversy.

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There's usually controversy, So okay, if you put that to

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one side, and I'm not dismissing anybody's concerns, I'm simply

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going to concentrate on the positives in the Eiffel Our

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obviously front and center throughout. I just thought, wonderful Celine Dion.

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You know, given what health issues she has to get

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through that brilliant number that she portrayed as well as

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she did. She was back to her brilliant best. I

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was just ecstatic, really really happy, and let's hope for

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a safe games because that's the most important thing. And

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obviously athletes are going to continue to give there all.

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So that is part of the Olympic game fever. I'm

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not sure that any in our crowd, Jackie Hamilton, Peter Krauss,

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and Greg King are really into the Olympics, are you

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Jackie Hamilton or not?

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No, No, I'll pass on that one. Thank you, Alex.

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Not you don't even watch the Olympic swimming well where

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the girls are going to excel. You don't even watch.

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That, Alex?

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Hey, sorry, how the watch a movie? Oh my golly,

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what a sad sec That's not right. You've got to

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do it, Jackie. Come on, yeah, two weeks of the year,

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that's all it is every four years. Come on, pull

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their finger out. But patriotic, Gussie? What do you reckon?

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Can I get you involved? Now? I agree footy with Jackie?

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Oh my golly, So no football.

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You too, Agreg, I don't really give it to Rat's

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about the Olympics now, but it's become professional sports. People

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in there seems like great jameson, Now, what's everybody to do?

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A sport? Well?

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Hang on, hang on. The English language changes over time

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as well, Greg, So you know why aren't the Olympic

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Games allowed? You?

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Going a long boat here?

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Alex?

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You'reupposed to read the best of the Amashurs.

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That's where it started. Command has become corrupt, all right,

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all right, I'm not gonna win this one, am i? Jackie?

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No you're not, Alex. It's three against one.

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Oh god, it's all right. It's nice to be right,

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even if the three of you are wrong. Let's talk

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about something more positive. Let's talk about Deadpool and Wolverine. Hey,

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hang on, it.

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Is his first film and entertainment it is.

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Thank you very much for announcing this. I should have

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done that. And basically I thought that Wolverine was no

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longer with us, Jackie, and obviously I was wrong because

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in an alternative universe, in the multiverse, there must be

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lots of sort of Wolverine's out there. Correct.

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Oh, yes, he actually did appear in the early stage

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of the film, in the very first scene where it's

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actually his skeleton makes an appearance.

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He did. That's actually very funny, quite found please.

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Yeah, was absolutely hilarious.

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Yeah, and only again, you know, putting an arm over

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the skeleton was Deadpooled. So look, it is irreverent to

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rye balled. It's aggressive, most aggressive, and it's full of

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action and lots of laughs. I mean really lots of laughs.

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It's a deep dive into the Marvel Cinematic universe. Greg,

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can you tell me or Peter how many members of

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the Marvel Cinematic universe there are? I've totally lost count.

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There are dozens by now, are they're not? Am I

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only thinking that if you line them up next to

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each other tallest and shortest, there'd be a few dozen,

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wouldn't there, Peter, I suppose so I haven't been keeping track. Well, Greg,

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you know how I like to count members on stage.

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You can count the Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, just just

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to satisfy me. Maybe you can sort of spend the

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next three months doing that for me. Possibly.

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Well, you know you've got give all your avengers there,

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You've got all of someone's off characters, so many to mention,

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and know what about the villains of the universe as well?

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Oh? Absolutely yeah? And I mean it seems to be

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growing at the rate of knots I've got. I'm not

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a cartoon Sorry, what do you call it? Comic book person?

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But I presume that I mean comic book heros come

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and go, and they're revived, and then there there are

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new ones. Are they still doing comic books about new characters?

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Does anybody know within the Marvel Cinematic Universe or does

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it continue to expand as a universe with more characters.

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I've never asked that question, but it strikes me that

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it would as time goes on, no answers there, all right,

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I'll let you ponder that one. But look, there's a

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rivalry and there's a bit of dynamic between Deadpool and

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Wolverine that's been quite fascinating for fans of especially the

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X Men universe. And this one's all about the multiverse,

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the alternatives, and to the realities that exist perhaps in

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times gone by. So yeah, Logan had marked the end

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of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine journey that was back in twenty seventeen.

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But the concept here is that Deadpool looks for a

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live Wolverine in an alternative reality. As Jackie's mentioned, You've

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got skeletal remains, that's all that we see in the

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opening scenes. But I suppose the universe seems to have

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got a hell in a handbasket and the pair of them,

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Deadpool and Wolverine team up to save it from oblivion.

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That's what the concept is. And we're talking about action

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taking place six years after the events. In Deadpool two,

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which came out in twenty eighteen. Ryan Reynolds again plays

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Wade Wilson's the sort of long since retired as the mercenary.

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Deadpool lives this pretty nondescript life. In fact, he starts

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the movie as a used car salesman and he doesn't

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much take to the job. So then he's prevailed upon

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suddenly by a bureaucratic organization which goes by the name

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Time Variant Authority TVA, and he's asked to don the

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red and black again. What this proves, Peter Grouse once

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and for all, is there's nothing as dynamic as the

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Essendon football team, correct visa. Sorry, yes, Greek King, you

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wouldn't understand that. You'd understand that deep seated, heartfelt reference

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to Essendon, wouldn't you.

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I would, but.

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I'm going to ignore it. Al It's not what you

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call entertainment.

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Are agon. It's most entertaining when we went so a

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little it for a while. Yes, that's quite true. Now

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having said that, there there's got to be a way

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that Deadpool can convince a very reluctant Wolverine to join

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him on his exploits, and the pair of them confronts

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a character called Cassandra Nova played by Emma Corn who's

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a mutant with telekinetic and telepathic powers. She also happens

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to be the twin sister of Charles Xavier. So this

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is when we get into the Marvel Cinematic universe. That

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name will meet a great deal to people who have

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seen a large number of their movies, or even some

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of them. So the TVA agent pulling the strings here

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is called mister Paradox, played by Matthew mcfagean. He'd like

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to speed up the death of a universe called Earth

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one thousand and five, and to do that he uses

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what's called a time ripper, a double per It's a

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machine that can mercy kill timelines. As I said, there's

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a multi verse at play here, so there's all sorts

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of timelines that can be killed off and others come

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to the fore. So if you're confused, I was too.

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It is confusing as a narrative feature, isn't it, Jackie?

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That it's not. You don't go along for a cogent storyline,

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do you.

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I don't worry too much about that with this film, Alex.

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As soon as there's an acronym and or or a

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timeline or a ripper, I sort of just faded out.

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But I was quite happy following the story of who

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was fighting who and why.

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That was enough for me.

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Okay, well, so simple pleasure. I suppose you can call it.

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I mean this is there's lots of inside jokes. Look,

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I think this is one for the purists. Those people

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who really have immersed themselves in the MCU are going

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to have a ball with it. And you know you

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you haven't. I understand that, And you still enjoyed it,

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so you know that it sounds like you still enjoyed it,

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so that that's a very very good sign. There are

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lots of inside jokes. There's there's not only inside jokes

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that there's references to the real world. And I'm deliberately

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avoiding any spoilers here. I thought that was extremely clever.

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It skirts the edges of a number of occasions. It's

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pretty risky, isn't it. Jaggie.

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Oh, it's quite foul in many places, but funny, funny, obscene.

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I'm going to disagree with you that it's your comment

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that it's only for the purists, because I'm certainly not

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a purist, and I think that it's witty dialogue takes

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it a long way into a broader audience.

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Well, yeah, I reckon the purest in particular going to

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get the most out of it because they understand all

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of the references, I challenge you whether you understood everything

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when they were. You know that there are so many

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in jokes here. That's I suppose the point I was making.

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But I think that more than there are in jokes,

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but I think more than that, they poke fun at

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so much stuff. And you don't want to give spoilers here,

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but I do.

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Be careful, please.

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I mean, just generally, you know, the sexual indoors right throughout.

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This is not a kid's film.

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They're very blatant but actually really really funny, and they

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have a get everything, not just you know, twentieth century

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Fox and gender is shoes and each other. But there's

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that fourth wall breaking the fourth wall, which really is

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one of the I mean, it's been done a thousand

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times now, but it's still the way Ryan Reynolds does it.

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Dead really is very funny and delightful.

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It's absolutely delightful, notwithstanding that it is incredibly foul. Yeah,

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I would not in any way to agree with that.

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But then you know, even just almost these little one

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line you know, for example, there's a terrible scene going

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on towards the end which is very very gory and violent,

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I might say, in a funny way, but still gory

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and violent with quite good special effects.

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Actually, and.

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Deadpool.

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Instead of saying, you know, get.

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The people are running away, let the people out of

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the way, he calls them extras.

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He does. That's right, that's right. Yes, you know.

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About wolverines.

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Physique, since he stood and maybe referring more to Hugh

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Jackman than to actually to Wolverine.

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I reckon, that's so smart. But also obviously Hugh Jackman

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would be you have to be comfortable delivering those lines.

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Which what was I think I think we referenced this

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last week or the week before when we talk about

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Scarlet Johansen and her husband having a go at it

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once a year on Saturday Night Live. Right, it's almost

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akin to that, isn't it, Jackie?

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All Right?

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But it was brilliant.

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I was in a public screening, Alex, I didn't go

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to a media screening, and I couldn't count the number

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of times not only I laughed out loud, but the

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audience did. You could hear people bursting fourth with laughter

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at these very witty lines that Ryan Reynolds had a

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big hand in doing.

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He was the lead us of the script on this.

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Yeah, there was a lot of joy in the room

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when I saw the media screening of this one as well. Look,

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it's one of those things that it sets out to

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shock and provoke. It it does. There are lots of

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sequences where it does exactly that. And amidst all that

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mumbo jumbo, as I'd like to call it, that's building

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the script to explain what's going down. And it is complex.

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There's a lot of cleverness and hilarity, and it's like

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what the way I described this, Ryan Reynolds has found

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his true calling is just so beautifully manic as this

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motor mounth right, That's what he is, deadpull is a

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motor mouth. And you've got the contrast because Hugh Jackman

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says very little as Wolverine, but he brings a lot

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of fun.

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He plays on man yep do, but he brings.

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A lot of grunt and anger. That faced Jesus, that Jesus.

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There's one one scene there where you're genuinely scared. Extraordinary.

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He's done good. He does not miss a beat, Hugh Jackman,

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both of them are great and they really bounce off

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each other beautifully. I'd like to see them on stage together, Jackie,

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wouldn't that be interesting because I mean I've seen a

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number of interviews, and the interviews have been hilarians as well.

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Well, maybe they put on the show.

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Maybe act you're only wady for Gotoh yeah, he hears,

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Yes they could, they could.

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I just think they are so well paired.

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You know.

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It's one of those, you know guys, some guys form

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an unmistakable bond these guys have. We've oscar to mention

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Matthew mcfageen, what a what a delightful performance as a

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proper English cad. You know, I reckon he stands out

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because of it, don't you, Jackie.

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And Captain America is good too. I don't know who plays.

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Yeah, yes, I've gone blank on off the top. Might

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maybe you can google it while I'm talking. But the

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other one, I kind of like Emma coron as the

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two call for School Cassandra. I thought that worked as well.

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So it's all but but we've got to mention one

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thing here, Jackie. What is it about dogs and movies

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in the past month?

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No, no, I think about it's been cats more than dogs.

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Yes, well, sorry, I mean animals. Oh but he's sorry,

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that's my fault. But yeah, he he you've got a Sorry.

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I just saw a show as well the other day

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where they brought a kvoodle on stage. He was absolutely

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charming and delightful, called Hudson after the Hudson River, and

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he was wearing a tuxedo bib. This dog, Jackie on

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my heart, melted everybody in the theater, which and they

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say don't work with dogs and children. And the dog

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was perfectly performed or but behaved as well as performed anyway,

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getting back to this one. So we've had three three

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movies that have got cats in them. Now we've got

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one with a dog. Now, sorry, this has got to

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be the world's ugliest dog, doesn't it? Jackie?

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Just dog perhaps, but the loveliest name. Its name is

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Mary Poppins.

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Yes, but it's named dog Paul. It's it's aka dog

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Bulls Mary Poppins aka dog Ball. Love it and I

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mean it's got the longest tongue.

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I looked it up because I didn't know what sort

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of dog it was. Did you? Did you have any

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idea when you saw it?

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I thought it might have been a Chinese crested or something,

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but it had too much fur for that, didn't it

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have you.

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Wow, do you know what a Chinese crest it is?

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I've never heard him of it?

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Certainly do well, I'm good friends.

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You're right, Jackie, my golly, there's the first time for everything.

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It's a Chinese crested.

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A Chinese crested dog just until just very very recently

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called Poe and what a dog.

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Was really Brenda, did you say a friend of yours? Yeah, Well,

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this is a Chinese crested crossed with a pug. That's

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why I'm presuming the Chinese crested is more elegant. I

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don't know, is it?

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You know the Chinese crested knowing that the Chinese crested

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is the body of this dog.

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But there's a bit of pug in the face.

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Right, Okay? Well, as I said, the longest tongue that

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I and the tongue in this one, I reckon it's

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more akin to an iguana's tongue, Jackie, which basically Mary

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Poppins uses to deliver deadpool a face bath more than once.

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I think people have got the picture after that, so I.

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Also love mentioned to the dog, Alex.

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We should also give special mention to the Honda Odyssey,

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which has a starring role as the superhero's vehicle of choice,

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and it certainly gets a big role in that. And

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I'd like to give another special mention to Cassandra's fingers.

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Really, okay, I didn't notice her fingers, but there you go.

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You didn't You did notice her fingers? They were right

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through his face?

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Oh well from that point of view, yes, okay, yes

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I did. I didn't notice that. Okay, So hang on,

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hang on, why are we suddenly mentioning a Honda on?

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This is a straight plugs for hondor is it?

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Or what? It was as hilarious as to John?

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Okay, I didn't think it was, but yeah, I certainly

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noticed the guard. Rather, I'd rather focus on the music choices.

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I thought the music was brilliant, did you not?

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Yes? And it was during the during a Honda Odyssey

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particular scene when Greece was well, Greece was playing.

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Hanglaying in a shape up?

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What right?

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It's called? Yeah?

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Sound coming through somebody's answer the plumber's call that anyway?

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So then the okay, So, but it's primarily pop numbers,

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but not only and it was inspired they were hit.

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There was hit after hit after hit, and it was

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all get up and go and you wanted to dance,

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And I just thought it elevated everything by another notch

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or two. And I just highly commend the choices. Music

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can make such a huge difference in a movie. Sometimes

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you don't notice it. This was front and center. Was

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kind of like another character in the piece, wasn't it. Yeah,

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it was great that it was pretty.

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Good, But I wanted to watch the movie.

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Yep, well, okay, dead Pull and Wolverine maybe oh so silly,

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but it's also heaps of fun. And I reckon, As

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I say, aficionados would love it. I reckon others would

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would would potentially enjoy it. I only concern I understand

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that all these superhero movies are long, but yeah, I

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don't know whether it needed to be undred and twenty

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eight minutes. But it didn't seem to trouble.

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You, Jagie, No no value for money for the punters.

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I well, okay, there we go. So Deadpool and Wolverine

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m I rated two hours, eight minutes score out of

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ten from you Jacqueline.

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Eight and a half out of ten, and I'm giving.

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It an eight out of ten. There you go, So

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I hope we've whetted the appetite for you, you lads,

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to go along and see it. Let us talk on

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And there's programming of course, twenty four to seven, lots

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of interesting things to listen to it and some pretty

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good music as well. So yeah, why not give it

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a go and become a member. So in terms of

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films that we've seen that we've all seen, let's pick

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one that all of you have seen. Greg, what's a

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movie that you have seen that we can we can

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chat about.

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You know, if you've all seen as the ones you

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well on your list allis and mister Blake at your

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service and long lebs.

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Okay, well, why don't we go mister Blake at your

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service because that's a really charming film. I mean it's

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I kind of I knew I was being manipulated Greg

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when I was watching it. I could feel the manipulation,

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could you a little bit?

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And I resisted it?

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Did you? And Peter? What about you? You you scallywag?

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Who you know doesn't like certain things that I love.

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Did you find that the manipulation bothered you or did

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you go with the flow? Not particularly.

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I thought the story was well constructed, and some very

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good actors as well.

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And Jackie, you.

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You said added a cat in a central.

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Role, Mephisto. That's right. In fact, yeah, this is where

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we're talking about lots of cats and dogs. I thought Mephisto,

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by the way, we should reference, not just Mefisto. Well,

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it's a beautiful cat. I was going to say it's

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a Persian, isn't it. I didn't think it's a Perot. Yeah,

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and the I just thought the cat showed full entitlement. Right,

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and I'll go I googled who played Mephisto. I hope

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it's a Union member. Noutchka is the cat's name, Jackie,

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So there's your starting point, all right.

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I thought the cat had a winning personality all of

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its own.

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I agree. I agree.

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It's a very good looking cat.

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That's what I was saying. Persians aren't beautiful to look at.

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And yeah, this was terrific. So look it's this is delightful,

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feel good entertainment as far as I'm concerned, mister Blake

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at Your Service, PG rated one hundred and ten minutes.

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Fun filled, romantic romp and John malkovish Now I associate

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John Malkovich. Even though he's played some scoreless roles it

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with a sort of series acting. This is about the

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most fun that I've seen him in the movie. He

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plays Andrew Blake, successful English businessman pining the loss of

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his wife of more than forty years. You've got Diane

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who was his wife, a French woman, and they met

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at a beautiful French manner when they were young, and

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he was love at first sight, so that's lovely. She

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was on Hall's holidays. Andrew Blake, the John Melkovich character,

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was hired as her English teacher, and during the movie

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we see a couple of photographs of her in later life,

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but that's the only sort of apart from referencing her,

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that's the only visage we get of Diane. So they

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went on to have a daughter, whose name is Sarah

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and now lives in Australia. Since Diane passed away four

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months earlier, four months ago, Andrew has been struggling and

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he and Diane had promised each other one day they'd

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returned to the estate where they met or well and good,

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but unfortunately he's now making that pilgrimage alone, really not

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knowing how long he was going to stay for. Only

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he's mistaken for somebody who responded to an online advertisement

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for hired help that was placed by the estate's cook,

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whose name is now I reckon. They called a Missus

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odeal mrs am I correct, Greg.

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I can't remember it would beat mad up.

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Well, yes, but it's interesting. I mean I didn't understand

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why it was missus, Peter. Maybe you can explain this.

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Why was missus when she wasn't married and had no

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suggestion that she had been married? Did you? Yeah? But

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did you? Were you conscious of that?

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Not particularly, but perhaps because she was in charge of

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the manner, maybe she was given that honorific.

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Yeah, yeah, I mean I saw it as an honorific

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that didn't really have credence. But there you go. Anyway,

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I'll just call her a deal d I l e.

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So she's the one who plays the ad played by

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Emily d quinn is de q ue wne. Emily d

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quinn the owner of the property, Natalie Bouvillier played by

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Fenny Arden Is in lots of financial difficulties. She's in peril. Actually,

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he can't pay her bills since her philandering husband died

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four years ago, and she'd like to open up the

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place for guests so she can get some money. But

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for that to work, she needs more staff, and of

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course she's going for to pay them. In fact, her

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baby is pretty eccentric. Really, she's desperately replying through her

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staff to junk mail in the hope of winning a fortune.

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And that's when Odeal, the cook, not knowing anything of

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Andrew's background, who just sort of rocks up one day,

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comes up with a plan. He can become a proper

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English butler for a try period and in return for

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that he can get ruined board. And in quick time,

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with his good natured banter, Andrew changes the dynamic at

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the princely home and also the dynamic of the household

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staff who inhabited because you know, obviously times are tough

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in the finance stakes and things were pretty grim. And

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in the process of doing it, Andrew too finds a

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new lease on life because he thought, basically then it

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was there when his wife passed away. And among those

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that are affected by Andrews straight talking are the stickler

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for detail, the master of all chef who dotes on

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her spoilt cat, the one that we've mentioned, Mephisto, and

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that's of course o'deal, but she's not the only one.

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Andrew Befriend's a man who took a shot at him,

458
00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:48.480
quite literally took a shot at him. He's an odd

459
00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.920
job guy called Meniere played by Philip Bass who works

460
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.880
on the estate and has designs on ideal. And then

461
00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:01.000
there's the maid Manon played by Eugenie and So who's

462
00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:04.319
ruining the fact that she's fallen pregnant and her boyfriend

463
00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:07.279
seems to have abandoned her. So there's all these little

464
00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:12.240
subplots that tickle one's fancy as the movie progresses. It's

465
00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:14.480
been adapted to the screen from a hit novel by

466
00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.400
Giles Laguardian year which was that the book was translated

467
00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:22.880
into seventeen languages, sold more than a million copies across

468
00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:26.000
twenty two countries, no less, and now he's the one

469
00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:31.359
who's written the screenplay alongside Christell Nan. It's I mean again,

470
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:35.480
it's silly, it's far fetched, absolutely, but twists are plenty.

471
00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:37.680
But surely it's going to put the smile on the

472
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.680
faces of even the artist of arts. Maybe not yours Greek,

473
00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:42.279
is that right? Yeah?

474
00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:44.240
No, I found this a little bit too slow and

475
00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.440
it just didn't work on There's as it seems to

476
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:50.119
have done with you. Lot there a lot. John Maldovich

477
00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:53.279
is pretty good, as you said. He offered bass sees roles,

478
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:54.799
but he has found a bit of a sort of

479
00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.920
comedy in the past or lighter roles. I thought he

480
00:26:58.039 --> 00:27:02.160
was quite fine here. Was nicely brought a eligence to

481
00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:06.519
her role as the woman financially struggling to hold onto

482
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:09.359
her home there, and I thought the production design for

483
00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:12.599
the Manshu was quite good as well.

484
00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:15.599
Beautiful green beer. I'll tell you what. I don't know

485
00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.119
whose mansion it is, but I wouldn't mind a piece

486
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:20.400
of it. It's it's a grand estate, isn't it.

487
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:21.759
Yep?

488
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:24.599
And it was really good there, but no, it just

489
00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:28.039
didn't quite within me over there. I like Masisto the Cat.

490
00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:30.839
I thought John Maddowich was good, but yeah, it's just

491
00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.119
something about this film didn't quite work his charms on me.

492
00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.400
Alex Well, I mean I thought they were charming other

493
00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.599
the characters, the way they were played. The surfeit of quips.

494
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.559
They elevate the movie above the ordinary, and I mean

495
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:47.440
there's a sort of John Milkovich obviously is the star.

496
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:50.640
I mean he takes the humor with gusto and there's

497
00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:51.960
a bit of a spring in his step which I

498
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:54.119
really enjoyed. It was a bit of an elegance. There's

499
00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:57.839
a stoicism about Fanny Arden as a proud widow who

500
00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:00.880
fears for the future. And Emily de Quinn, who sort

501
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:04.559
of definitely balances rigid routine with vulnerability. It's quite a

502
00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.279
standout character for me, is ordealed. And there was a

503
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:12.000
timidity about Phelipe Bassar's Menueer, a man who is highly

504
00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:17.079
capable professionally but somewhat lacking in the interpersonal skill department.

505
00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:20.119
You know, So that there's some really nice characters there,

506
00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:23.519
Peter Krauss, Are they not there? Are? Look?

507
00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:27.799
This is quite an effective rom com that the French

508
00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:32.640
are so good at producing, and in particular, even though

509
00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:35.920
the title is mister Blake in Service, which in fact

510
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.519
is not the translation of the original French too, no.

511
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:44.240
I noticed that. Why again, that's not unusual, but I thought,

512
00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.599
what does the original translate to? Do you know better. Yes,

513
00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:52.440
completely burnt that's right. I did look it up and

514
00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:58.720
I've just forgotten. Yeah, I'm not sure that completely burned

515
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:03.000
does it either, quite frankly, because it completely burned out

516
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.000
maybe or burnt out? But yeah, strange title.

517
00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:10.799
Anyway, Yes, anyway, So, but this film is really a vehicle,

518
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.400
even though Malcovich is very good, It's a vehicle for

519
00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.359
Fanny R. Donald, who is such a loved French actress.

520
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:23.440
And I thought the plotting of the story was quite effective.

521
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:27.839
I didn't feel particularly manipulated. I thought, yes, I can

522
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:33.240
see how the story sort of aligned with their backgrounds

523
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:40.119
and with their movements forward. And jull La Gardner is

524
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:45.359
also a good writer who's now become a director, and

525
00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:50.000
he's able to present his characters in a very positive

526
00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:53.559
and pleasant sort of way. I found this one of

527
00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:58.480
the better rom coms from France, and I particularly enjoyed it,

528
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:01.960
especially the way it sort of concludes.

529
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.319
Yeah, Jackie, you're a bit cynical about these sorts of

530
00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:09.839
things usually, did you find it charming?

531
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:17.359
Well, French rom com is often an alternative word for torture.

532
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:17.680
For me.

533
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:22.680
You said that if I was to summon up, I

534
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:24.680
couldn't have summed it up better. Thank you. You and

535
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:28.640
I often have off air conversations about there, and I

536
00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:30.799
got to drink drag you kicking and screaming to the

537
00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:32.599
theater half the time to see things like this.

538
00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.519
Well they are because they're always about extramarital fairs, and

539
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:40.359
they always tell they have the same jokes, and you

540
00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:45.039
always know they're so predictable. This one isn't so much

541
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.799
a romantic comedy though, this is This is a very

542
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:53.599
different sort of vehicle for its comedy, and John Malcovich

543
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:59.319
brings his own wonderful characterization to this and humor and

544
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:07.079
his own slightly halting, careful French speaking voice to this,

545
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:12.440
which I think gives it quite a distinct sort of feel.

546
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.160
I really liked it.

547
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.200
I don't think. I don't think mister Blake at your

548
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:22.680
service quite sustained the pleasure to the end. It got

549
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.240
a little bit silly with a few of the ways

550
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:28.839
that they were making things happen. There's a robbery that

551
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:29.960
doesn't work for me.

552
00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:33.640
But what I did like that.

553
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:40.079
What I did like was the way a not an intruder,

554
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:43.160
but you know, a person from the outside comes into

555
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:48.680
a situation and changes that as you said, the dynamics,

556
00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:53.200
but also each character is then allowed to develop themselves

557
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:57.240
at the same time as the relationships between each of

558
00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:02.039
them develops, and I really enjoyed seeing that progress.

559
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.920
Well, look, Greg, you're going to give us low mark here.

560
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.440
I have no doubt based on what you've just said.

561
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:11.599
But I do think that there's going to be a

562
00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:15.319
lot of people who enjoy the pacing of this one.

563
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:18.200
And I mean, look, one of the other things I noticed.

564
00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:21.400
I'm not sure whether this stood out for you. Peter.

565
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:23.680
You're much better at accents than I am, but some

566
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.039
of the French accents by the English actors may sound well,

567
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:28.960
I think they sounded a bit tortured. Did you not

568
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:34.480
think that a little bit? But you can excuse it. Yeah,

569
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.079
I just noticed it. But there's no doubting what I

570
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:39.880
think is the warmth and charm in What's a Fairy Titler?

571
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:42.880
I mean, that's what it is. So let's start with you, Gregan,

572
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.960
will work our way up. Score out of ten for

573
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:49.400
this movie, which we talked about and which most of

574
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:51.920
us enjoyed, mister Blake at your Service, PG rated one

575
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:52.759
hundred and ten minutes.

576
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:53.519
I'd do it.

577
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:54.519
Five to five and a half.

578
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:57.279
Sorry, it didn't work with it for me. Look, Jackie

579
00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.519
reference to that robbery seen that's when it lost we completely.

580
00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:03.000
I thought, this is so out of character and it's

581
00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:03.599
not working.

582
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:04.759
M hmm.

583
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:07.240
Okay, Jackie Hamilton.

584
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:10.920
I forgave the silliness and the fruit bury a little

585
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:15.720
bit because I enjoyed its lightweight entertainment and charm. I

586
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:20.599
think I think generally audiences who go to a film

587
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:24.799
like this will come away feeling good. I've given mister

588
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:27.160
Blake your service seven mm hmm.

589
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:29.640
I'm giving it a seven and a half. Peter Crowns.

590
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:33.400
Yes, and I should mentioned the manor house. I think

591
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.440
it was shot in and was shot around was in

592
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:38.400
Scotland if I'm not mistaken.

593
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:41.039
Yeah.

594
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:46.000
Anyway, pal, Peter, you've ruined it ruined that rail.

595
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.160
Well, because you know I was I was setting sale

596
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.240
for Parry and was going to try and find this

597
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.559
charming house and I basically I could spend years there

598
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:57.359
and get totally lost and not find it. That's what

599
00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:02.119
you're telling you, Peter, right now. I like the film

600
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:05.200
and I gave it seven out of ten. Okay, so

601
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:08.039
I've got the high water mark there. Wow. Okay. On

602
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:11.360
ju eight eight FM first on Film and Entertainment with

603
00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:14.239
the one and only Gregory King, Peter Krause come on

604
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:20.119
down and Jackie Hamilton now the teacher who promised the Sea.

605
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.679
And we saw this earlier in the It was the

606
00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:27.159
centerpiece of the Spanish film Festival. Was't it better? Yes? Thingless?

607
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:32.280
So we turned back the clock to the it's en

608
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:35.440
emirated one hundred and five minutes. In fact, I wondered

609
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.519
whether it quite frankly shouldn't have been at least an

610
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.360
MIA rating given some of the material in here. But anyway,

611
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:42.920
it turned back the clock to the horrors of the

612
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:47.519
murderous Franco regime. And it's that there's a highly personal

613
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:51.519
search that goes on in the year twenty ten, twenty ten.

614
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:58.239
It's based on fact and this basically searching involves a

615
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:03.920
dying man's granddaughter desperately looking for her grandfather's father, so

616
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.920
her great grandfather, all right, So she's doing that for

617
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:13.360
her sort for her grandfather, but in the process finds

618
00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:15.920
out more about the family history. And it's a hunt

619
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.320
that's going to see this woman, a single mother played

620
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:23.719
by Leiah Costa, travel to a site where mass graves

621
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:27.440
have been uncovered, and it's there that she meets and

622
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:31.679
subsequently liaises with an elderly man who knew her grandfather.

623
00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:37.159
And the film juxtaposes revelations of twenty ten with a

624
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:41.880
dramatization of events that occurred between nineteen thirty five and

625
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:45.920
nineteen thirty nine, and the major focus is on a

626
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:50.360
gentle and caring teacher who dared to defy the establishment.

627
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:56.039
And his name is Antony played by Enrich Algare, and

628
00:35:56.079 --> 00:36:00.159
he's hired to teach in a small isolated village in

629
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.719
a place called Burgos in Spain. So it's there that

630
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:08.719
he establishes quite a delightful, intense and honorable relationship with

631
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:11.760
his students and the kids I'm talking about here, boys

632
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:14.119
and girls age from six to twelve years of age.

633
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.840
Now he is an atheist, an Tony Berney is his name,

634
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.320
and so Varnain's first order of business is to remove

635
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:27.639
the cross from the wall of the schoolroom. Well you

636
00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.599
can imagine how that goes down with the rather surly

637
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:33.440
local parish priest. He is none too pleased about that,

638
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:38.119
parents as well as suspicious of his unorthodox teaching methods

639
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:44.000
which he's brought with him from France. So Bernain creates

640
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:47.639
magic with his students through the use of a small

641
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:52.280
printing press, which enables them to craft their own little books,

642
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:57.920
and to the children's wonderment and excitement, Berne promises to

643
00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:01.079
take them on an end of year trip to quote

644
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.960
see the sea for the first time in their lives.

645
00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:09.559
Because they're inland, so with the best will in the world. Unfortunately,

646
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:13.840
expectation is about to turn to tragedy and it won

647
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:18.920
this film the audience awarded the Goudy Awards, celebrated annually

648
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:24.400
in Barcelona. It's quite an emotionally wrought drama and while

649
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:27.679
an archaeological dig where bones are uncovered, is that what

650
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:32.079
starts the movie, it's the flesh and bones manifestation of

651
00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:36.559
that which tatics won a back much later in the film. Film.

652
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:43.320
The impact is amazing, absolutely, really powerful and heart felt.

653
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:47.239
The political undertones of the movie are apparent right throughout it,

654
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.199
with the arrival of Franco's forces in this sleepy village,

655
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.360
revealing the depth of fear and hatred for what's about

656
00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:58.039
to follow. And I kind of I was watching it.

657
00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:02.559
I want my mind wandered to the extraordinary Academy Awood

658
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:05.599
winning film my favorite movie of all time. I'm called

659
00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:08.960
Life Is Beautiful that is now twenty seven years old.

660
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:14.400
So much promise was taken away with utter brutality. Henry

661
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.880
or Kerr does a really fine job as the idealistic

662
00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:21.360
teacher offers He offers so much, and he brings a

663
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:25.079
sympathetic edge to his portrayal. A Paul hangs over Laya

664
00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:29.119
Costa's role as the granddaughter as she uncovers clues to

665
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:34.079
a dastardly family story. The director Patricia Font brings into

666
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:38.480
sharp focus the shocking history of a nation that lost

667
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:43.559
so many and absolutely appalling circumstances. And it's actually it's

668
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:47.199
one that's still being dealt with today. So you know,

669
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:50.599
it starts out in one way and takes on a

670
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.400
totally different turn. And that's why my mind wandered back

671
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:57.840
to Life Is Beautiful. Peter Krause your thoughts about the

672
00:38:57.880 --> 00:38:58.960
teacher who promised the seat.

673
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:03.599
Was very impressed by this film. It's interesting to note

674
00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:07.840
how a number of Spanish filmmakers are still coming to

675
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:15.159
grips with the dreadful Spanish Civil War and Franco and

676
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:19.159
the impact that his right wing government had on the

677
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.360
ordinary lives of people, and that civil war killed so

678
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:26.880
many people. And of course the framing story of this

679
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:31.880
film is all about the discovery of a lost relative

680
00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:37.119
and trying to come to grips with why and how

681
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:44.000
this situation happened. It's a really nicely told story. The

682
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:51.199
idea of the kids writing their own stories and also

683
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:57.559
taking down the whole religious aspect of the local village

684
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:03.119
and letting the kids think for themselves and be free

685
00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:08.280
from any manipulation or whatever. I think works extremely well.

686
00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:14.360
In fact, symbolically, the father son relationship that occurs during

687
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:19.639
the film, where the father objects to the son being educated,

688
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:24.599
to being given ideas that he shouldn't be thinking about,

689
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:31.400
works extremely well throughout the film. I was impressed by it.

690
00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:35.159
I think it's an excellent film and I certainly recommend it.

691
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:40.599
Yeah, exactly, Greg King, I haven't done are okay?

692
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:41.880
Jackie?

693
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:45.559
Oh yes, I saw The Teacher who Promised the Sea?

694
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:49.599
My first thought was how similar it was to be

695
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:54.920
almost currently running Radical, which was about also based on

696
00:40:54.960 --> 00:41:00.159
a true story about no conventional teacher and he's the

697
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.880
docs teaching methods who gets in trouble. This one was

698
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:08.480
set in Mexico. I mean the similarities were quite strong,

699
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:13.079
and you could add that to the film Parallel Mothers,

700
00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.280
which was about a woman who and that was set

701
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:18.840
in Spain as well. I think Penelope Cruz seeking a

702
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:27.199
relative related to mass Graves. For this film itself, Yes,

703
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:31.280
it certainly impressed to some extent, although it wasn't quite

704
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:35.599
so compelling. I did love the trip back in time

705
00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:39.000
to this beautiful historic village and the old stonework and

706
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:42.199
the laying ways and alleyways, and the people and the

707
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:48.599
way they dressed. I mean it's very well, very well produced,

708
00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:51.400
and that go into a lot of detail.

709
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:53.119
I thought it looked lovely.

710
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:57.000
The characters are great also, the children especially, We can

711
00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:59.519
really get to know their personalities in the way that

712
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.599
they develop. I love the setting of it all, and

713
00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:11.079
as Peter says, the setting of the times is extremely

714
00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:17.679
moving and culminates in scenes that certainly would require I

715
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:20.360
would agree with you, Alex and m A rating.

716
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:21.760
I found it quite distressing.

717
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:27.400
Yeah, I did incredibly so shocking appalling language like that

718
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:31.760
needs to be associated with the final scenes and even

719
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:33.719
some scenes in the back half of that movie. The

720
00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:36.920
Teacher you promised to see. M A rated and it

721
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.920
runs for one hundred and five minutes score out of

722
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.320
ten from you, Jackie.

723
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.199
I'm going to give it a six and a half.

724
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:48.679
The one thing I didn't mention was the downer me

725
00:42:48.760 --> 00:42:52.960
in the film is the great grand daughter who does seek.

726
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:59.400
I found quite a depressing character. I didn't much out

727
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:00.159
of her.

728
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:04.320
I agree totally with that, and it's funny. I'm breaking

729
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:07.760
it down because of that too. That was the prepense

730
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:11.960
that started the storyline, but it didn't really it didn't

731
00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:14.800
have the for me that he should have. What did

732
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:15.760
you think about that element?

733
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:20.639
No? I thought that worked pretty well because the whole

734
00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:28.119
morose nature of the framing story made the past even

735
00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:32.880
stronger in terms of why such devastation could happen during

736
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:34.719
the Spanish Civil War.

737
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.280
Anyway, I really like the film and I gave it

738
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:40.199
eight out of ten. You gave it, hi, Jacme, Sorry,

739
00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:41.480
what did you say? You gave it a six and

740
00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:44.280
a half, six and a half, yes, six and a half. Yeah,

741
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:47.199
and I'll give it a seven. So we're sort of yeah,

742
00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:50.840
well we'll sort of round the mark, but somewhat different.

743
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:58.639
Let's go to a movie called Long Legs, which Nicholas Cage.

744
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:01.280
It's funny sometimes I see HI in a movie and

745
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:04.440
I think, oh, gee, it's not one that I, you know,

746
00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.639
I would really recommend. It's a pretty sort of B

747
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:11.199
grade if if B grade movie, And then I seem

748
00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:14.519
in others and I say, Wow, this guy can really act.

749
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.840
I kind of get torn between the two. How do

750
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:20.360
you feel about that? But in terms of Nicholas Cage

751
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:22.480
as an actor, is it the scripts that he is

752
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:26.400
given or because there's not a uniformity in terms of performance,

753
00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:27.440
I reckon.

754
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:31.920
Well, no, it varies considering the sort of script he's given.

755
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:34.360
But he also produces a lot of the films, so

756
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.440
he knows what he's getting into.

757
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.440
Yeah. Well, and Greg, what's your view of Nicholas Cager?

758
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:43.000
Do you do you think he's an accomplished actor or

759
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:45.519
he can be a bit sp sperelle?

760
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:48.440
Is there a couple of sap he does would performads,

761
00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:51.440
but then he just does some films for the purest

762
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.079
of money that are not very good like that US

763
00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:57.960
just Indianapolis film which was pretty ordinary.

764
00:44:58.199 --> 00:44:59.079
So it does a.

765
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:04.000
Few really elite projects, really good projects allow him to

766
00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:06.760
strad his stuff, but then he does some stuff just

767
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:12.519
purely sort of money which less joyable or less.

768
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:18.320
Yeah, I get get well, Okay, long Legs is m a.

769
00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:22.599
It's one oh one minutes and it's an unrecognizable necklace cage.

770
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.400
I tried throughout this entire movie to make him out

771
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:28.760
and I could not do that, could you, Greg? Could you?

772
00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:32.840
It's under layers of prosthetic. Didn't he make up a Peter?

773
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:35.519
Did you? Did you see any twinkle in his eye

774
00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:38.840
or anything that that manifests itself as linickless cage? I

775
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.840
defy anybody to no. I didn't at first. It took

776
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:46.760
me a long time to recognize a cage. Wow, well,

777
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:50.360
I mean it. Look, he's the effectively the devil incarnate.

778
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:54.840
It's a decidedly creepy crime horror thriller Long Legs. And

779
00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:58.519
it starts as a figure sitting in a car looking

780
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:01.800
at a little girl in a small house and she

781
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:06.320
comes out to see who this figure is. Suddenly he

782
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:09.280
con confronts her, and at first we only see him

783
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.840
from the nose down. Whether that was a really good

784
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:17.480
piece of cinematography. And this is what the figure says.

785
00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:22.760
There she is the almost birthday girl. Oh boo. But

786
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:26.239
it seems I wore my long legs today. What happens

787
00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:30.880
if by at that point the opening credits role, and

788
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:33.199
it turns out that that day was the thirteenth of

789
00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:38.840
January nineteen seventy four, the day before the girl's ninth birthday.

790
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:43.480
Now there's a potency to that which will sort of

791
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.440
come back later in the movie. And after the initial

792
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:49.440
credits we can't to an FBI briefing as a man

793
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:52.559
aren't going on And one of those undertaking a door

794
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:56.679
to door search with an assigned partner is called Agent

795
00:46:56.840 --> 00:47:02.360
Lee Harker, played by Maker Munroe. She's quite a taciturn figure.

796
00:47:03.079 --> 00:47:07.679
Instinctively she chooses the house where the suspect is hold up,

797
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:11.840
and given her psychic abilities, she's got a sixth sense.

798
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:18.239
Hakka is subsequently assigned to a particularly baffling case. The

799
00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:21.480
FBI is on the manhunt for a serial killer who

800
00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:25.679
has instigated the murders of ten families, carried out by

801
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:30.159
their own fathers over a period of thirty years. But

802
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.480
while the dads perpetrated the slayings inside their own homes,

803
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:39.719
they appeared have been driven to do that from the outside,

804
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:42.360
and each time a letter was left with the bodies

805
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:47.239
written in a coded alphabet and not in the hand

806
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:51.280
of anyone connected to the families. So all of these

807
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:55.880
letters were signed Long Legs. So what the families had

808
00:47:55.880 --> 00:48:00.079
in common was they all had daughters with birthdays on

809
00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:03.800
the fourteenth of any given month. Remember the nine year

810
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:07.159
old girl or guilt about Sir nine was on the thirteenth, right,

811
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.000
But all this is what they had in common, the

812
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:13.239
daughters all at birthdays on the fourteenth. So Agent hard

813
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:17.280
Harker goes to work under the auspices of another veteran

814
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:21.039
agent called Carter played by Blair Underwood, and it's work

815
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:26.000
that will uncover skeletons in the younger agent Agent Harker's

816
00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.280
closet that will bring her face to face with the

817
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:33.039
forces of evil, and in the process we uncover she

818
00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:36.199
had a rather uneasy relationship and still does with her

819
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:40.719
god fearing mother, Ruth, played by Alisha Witt, who was

820
00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:44.760
a nurse for eight years. So it's this complex web

821
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:48.199
of a movie Long Legs well conceived and executed, if

822
00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:51.000
your pardon the bun that there's a lot of play

823
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:55.159
with this one, and it's tense throughout. Takes quite some time,

824
00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:59.400
considerable time to piece the threads together. In fact, Arre

825
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.760
against all the because of that. In other words, you

826
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:04.480
really have to work at it as a movie. Some

827
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:08.559
really bloodthirsty imagery and you need to have a strong stomach.

828
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:12.239
But most of it is really suggestive rather than visual

829
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:14.880
or visceral. So it's the work of a writer and

830
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:21.079
director called Oz Perkins and influenced by chilla thrillers like

831
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:26.360
The Silence of the Lambs with Anthony Hopkins and The

832
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:30.159
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It really has a sinister underbelly,

833
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:32.880
and as it progresses, the nurse titans around the neck

834
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:37.800
of Asian Aka and her aloof her aloof methodical character

835
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:41.000
as displayed by makam Unro in the role, where she

836
00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:46.000
really does impress. It's appropriate the material that we are witnessing.

837
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:49.000
I thought blo Underwood was convincing as a natural born

838
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:54.159
leader without that sense of psychological sense, the sixth sense

839
00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:57.559
I spoke about that agent Harker possesses. It is calm

840
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:01.519
but insistent, and then Nick cages off with the pictures

841
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:05.360
in a world of his own. He's deranged, he's demeaned,

842
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:09.280
he's driven as the villain from l Long Legs. I

843
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:13.519
thought the Milk music as well by Elvis Perkins underpins

844
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:17.159
the scary nature of the picture, which really does continue

845
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:19.960
to work away at our psyche and dare I say

846
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:23.280
Long Legs is the stuff of nightmares as it set

847
00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:26.360
out to be great king well.

848
00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:29.280
Some people have compared us to Silence of the Lambs,

849
00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:32.840
which I can see some similarities and a female FBI

850
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:36.440
agent hunting a serial killer. But for me, Chiles of

851
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:40.920
the Lambs films like Seven were much superious to this one.

852
00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:44.960
It's a bit creepy, but there's more the ways put

853
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:48.079
together with the sound design which is very creepy, the

854
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:52.960
claustrophobic setting, the bleak cinematography all adds to the atmosphere there.

855
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:57.840
The film itself is not particularly tense. I didn't think

856
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:00.239
and I was good.

857
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:03.880
Perkins is the son of Anthony Burgins, who starred in Psycho.

858
00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:07.559
I think he's learned a bit from the experiences on

859
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:12.719
that film there. For me, okay Maker Modro plays a

860
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:16.840
sort of tough, viicy German FBI agent, which is good.

861
00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:21.400
But there's as Nicholas Cage who dominates the film with

862
00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:24.159
his performances, not in a lot of scenes, but he

863
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:30.239
is very creepy as an undiginish performance from him and yeah,

864
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.199
but yeah, just wasn't quite a sense as sense as

865
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:37.880
it could have been. But and it's the revet a

866
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:40.840
little bit of quips of a lot of other better films.

867
00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:42.719
I thought, what about you, Peter.

868
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.559
I was quite impressed by it, and I think it's

869
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:51.119
taken the horror story into a slightly different dimension. And

870
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:55.400
it is quite creepy, as as Greek said, but I

871
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:59.519
think it's it's better than that because it has a

872
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:05.119
resolute which causes you to think a little bit about

873
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:09.400
how people can be infiltrated, if you'd like to put.

874
00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:13.760
It that way, and it's very effective. So I liked it. Ah,

875
00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:16.960
good stuff, so score out of ten better. I gave

876
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:21.119
it seven out of ten. Right, you gave it seven,

877
00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:23.440
and I gave it seven and a half and Greg

878
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:27.800
six to six and a half, six to six and

879
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.280
a half. Okay, so we're all around the sort of

880
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:33.159
seven mark on that one. Well, boys, thank you very

881
00:52:33.239 --> 00:52:36.320
much indeed for your participation. Jackie's had to fly away,

882
00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:39.760
so thank you Jackie in absentia, and we will do

883
00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:43.239
it well again very soon on First on Film and Entertainment.

884
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:47.239
Wish you well. Greg, Peter, please at least watch a

885
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:49.400
little bit of the Olympic Games for me. Do it

886
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.679
as mates? Yeah ay, what about it? Folks. Be good

887
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:55.559
to one another, enjoy the Olympic Games and enjoy first

888
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.519
on film and entertainment when we present it. Catch up

889
00:52:58.519 --> 00:52:59.480
with you very soon.